The most ferocious sword of the Imperial City Division

Jing Li listened to the sound of water and raised his torch to shine into the darkness.

A man in his early twenties was holding a boy's head out of the water. He was quite dark, with thick eyebrows and wide lips. He didn't look like a treacherous person, but he looked unusually loyal.

The boy on the back is eye-catching. It's not that he is good-looking, but that he has an extraordinary bearing.

In this life-and-death situation, this boy was not at all confused, and his eyes were as calm as if he had seen through life and death.

Jing Li thought about Gu Shiwei who had just struck a blow with a shocking sword, and couldn't help but secretly cursed in his heart that the world was abnormal and that evildoers could be born like this just now.

Without hesitation, he rowed the boat over.

Seeing this, Chu Liangchen swam towards the direction of the ship. His wounds were bleeding, and his face turned pale every time he swam. But even so, he looked like a thousand-year-old turtle. Carry the child on your back steadily.

"Pick up my brother first. He is too young to bear the cold... You don't care what you want me to say, or you want me to die, as long as you can save my brother!"

Chu Liangchen's voice was a little low, and the river was still very cold in spring, so there was a tremor in his voice when he spoke.

Seeing Jing Li reaching out to pick up the child, Chu Liangchen did not get on the boat, but chased after the bamboo raft that had drifted away.

Gu Shinwei followed his line of sight and looked over, and saw a large bundle on top of the bamboo raft. Some animal hair came out of the mouth of the bundle, so he guessed that it was probably for the sick and weak man. A change of clothes for the child.

She sighed softly in her heart, remembering the ten miles that carried her down from the mass grave, and shouted to Chu Liangchen, "If you die, what use do we have to him? Get on the boat!"

As she spoke, her toes were like a dragonfly touching the water, flying towards the bamboo raft on the sparkling lake.

The moonlight shone on her body, making her figure look more mysterious and ethereal.

Jing Li stared dumbfounded for a while. When Gu Shiwei returned, he came to his senses and stretched out his hand to pull Chu Liangchen out of the water.

"Then, treat his wounds. Don't let Chu Liangchen die."

Jing Li listened to the movement behind him and turned slightly to one side. He reached out and grabbed the bundle that Gu Shiwei threw over. He snorted softly and picked up the sick boy into the cabin.

The Yong'an River is extremely quiet late at night, and the cruise boats have long returned to the port.

Gu Shinwei stood on the bow of the boat and looked into the distance. On top of a dead branch that had fallen into the water, there stood a row of dozing waterfowl.

She shook the oars and rocked the boat farther away from the river bank. The waterfowl, awakened by the sound of waves, flapped their wings a few times and continued to fall asleep again.

"I wonder if I can ask, how did you know that our two brothers faked their own deaths? How did you know that we would come out of the Yong'an River?"

Gu Shiwei listened to the sounds in the cabin and looked back. Chu Liangchen and the child had already changed their clothes and were warming up around a small stove making tea.

Jing Li nodded towards Gu Shiwei, walked to the bow of the boat and exchanged places with her.

Gu Shiwei walked into the cabin and sat down. She glanced at the boy and shook her head, "It's self-righteous and full of loopholes. If it wasn't me who went there today, but Han Shiyan from Yushitai, he would still be able to just rely on listening. , you can hear all kinds of flaws."

"First of all, if someone pays for a murder and then wants to silence him, he will not use such unforgettable killing methods as snake bites and paper money. This is too laborious and you are not worth the effort. !”

Chu Liangchen was silent as he listened.

Is it my fault that I'm so useless?Don't you deserve someone to use weird methods to do it? "If it were me, it would be easy for me to just break in in the middle of the night and wipe your neck, or kill you and throw you into a mass grave while you are out of the city. You are different from Wang Quan. If Wang Quan died suddenly, Someone will pursue it.”

"But in your place of mixed fish and dragons, people die inexplicably and disappear inexplicably every day. No one is surprised at all, and no one will investigate."

"So, someone who went to such great lengths to set up the stage must have a special purpose."

Gu Shiwei's tone was a little calm. She had already thought of all this when she listened to Mr. Jiang's description.

If there really is a murderer who also spends money to pay for his funeral, it may be his first murder and he has never appeared in the world before.Either that, he will definitely be recorded in the small notebook of the Imperial City Department, or passed down from mouth to mouth among the people in the world.

Who took away Wang Quanxin?
That was the murderer behind the weapon-severing case, a powerful figure in a high position. How could he make such a mistake and send such a killer?
For example, the people who came to kill Chu Liangchen tonight, one used a bow and arrow, and the other used a broadsword, which are very common standard weapons.

Even if Chu Liangchen's body was discovered by Kaifeng Mansion, it would be difficult for the old man to get more clues to identify the murderer based on the wounds.

"Why does the snake bite the face? Because you don't want people to discover that the dead person is not Chu Liangchen at all, but a corpse from a mass grave."

"Why do you want to make the death scene so weird? You must think you are smart, right? You figured out how to kill three birds with one stone."

"First, you knew someone would come to kill you and silence you, so you deliberately made a fuss and spread the news of your death;"

"Second, the amount of bleeding after being bitten is different between a living person and a corpse. In order to prevent others from discovering that it was a long-dead corpse, you deliberately sprinkled white paper on it, and then threw red ones on the white paper. Blood……"

"Third, you are preparing in advance to scare away the people who come to occupy the house."

As Gu Shiwei spoke, he took out the piece of money she had secretly hidden at the murder scene during the day. There was an obvious and neat drop of blood on the yellow and white paper.

"It's a pity that you made a huge mistake on this money paper."

"This kind of blood stain can only look like this when the blood spurts out when wiping the neck. The blood stains at the scene are all line by line. I guess you dipped the blood in the brush and then flicked it around the room. Forming."

"Snake bites will not turn the murder scene into that look."

As Gu Shinwei said that, he threw the Ming Coin to the ground. The Ming Coin floated and landed at Chu Liangchen's feet.

"The second thing is the haunting thing. Mr. Jiang said that he would hear children crying at night."

"Unless you are good at ventriloquism, there must be a child hidden in that house. And there used to be a child beside you, who was your so-called younger brother. Mr. Jiang said that you once took a handful of jade Ruyi as a mortgage."

"You came from the Caobang, and your track record is traceable. You are not from the kind of background that Yu Ruyi would have."

"According to Mr. Jiang's description, the jade Ruyi is about the size of an adult's palm. It is not like the jade Ruyi used to give gifts to rich families, but more like an object for the young man and his wife to catch Zhou Zhou."

When Chu Liangchen heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"So you infer that the two of us are not biological brothers... Since you guessed that we were hiding in the cellar of the house and playing tricks, why didn't you expose us on the spot and arrest us?"

Gu Shen chuckled slightly, "Of course it's to lure the snake out of its hole."