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Chapter 312: Cracked! The secrets of the Four Elephants Organization and the Golden Hairpin Family are revealed!

Thinking of this, Lin Feng's eyes suddenly condensed. He looked at Sun Fujia and said, "If it was really because of Ang Su, then they dared to assassinate me so frantically, how could they let Ang Su go?"

Sun Fujia was shocked. He quickly understood what Lin Feng meant and said, "You mean... they will attack Ang Su?"

Lin Feng nodded slowly and said, "Did Doctor Sun hear any news about the accident in the prison when he came here?"

"An accident occurred in the prison?"

Sun Fujia shook his head and said, "No, Chang'an City is much quieter today than in the past. The Donggong case has been resolved, and His Majesty has resumed his regular court session. Xiao Siqing and his team have almost finished their operation to arrest corrupt officials, and all the officials who should be arrested have been arrested. So today is the first day that Chang'an City has returned to normal after the turmoil. Except for the fact that I heard that an assassin came to assassinate you after I came to you, there has been no other unusual incidents in the entire Chang'an."

Listening to Sun Fujia's words, Lin Feng couldn't help but smile and said, "In that case, I am really honored. Am I the only one who is treated specially?"

Sun Fujia did not think this was something to be happy about. He frowned and said, "The Four Symbols Organization is afraid that you will pry open Angsu's mouth, so they want to kill you. But the reason is that Angsu is a greater threat to them. Then why do they only come to kill you and not Angsu?"

Zhao Shiwu, who was standing by, also felt strange.

"Two possibilities."

Lin Feng said calmly: "Or, I guessed wrong, they want to kill me not because of Ang Su, what Ang Su knows may not touch the core, or they trust Ang Su and think that Ang Su will not speak."

"Either..."

Lin Feng looked at Sun Fujia and Zhao Shiwu, narrowed his eyes, and said slowly: "They had already taken action last night, but they failed. Xiao Siqing deliberately suppressed the news so that the accident in the Dali Temple prison was not spread."

Sun Fujia pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement with Lin Feng's inference.

Zhao Shiwu couldn't help but ask, "Which one would it be?"

Lin Feng shook his head: "I didn't even know that someone came to assassinate me last night, so naturally I don't know what the situation is... But this is easy to verify. I happen to have something to ask Mr. Xiao later. After I see him, I will know the answer by asking him."

After saying that, Lin Feng continued to look at the corpses of the other two groups of assassins on the ground.

He said, "Next are the identities of the other two groups of assassins."

Upon hearing this, Sun Fujia and Zhao Shiwu hurriedly looked at Lin Feng again.

Then Lin Feng said slowly: "Although I have a good memory, I have only come into direct contact with assassins from the Four Symbols Organization. So even if there is another group of assassins with calluses on their hands that are also very distinctive, I can't use the same method to identify their identities."

"What should we do then?" Zhao Shiwu was shocked.

Lin Feng smiled and said, "Don't worry. Although their most distinctive feature, the cocoons, cannot be used, there are still things on them that I can use."

"What?" Zhao Shiwu asked curiously.

Lin Feng smiled and walked directly to the corpses of a group of assassins. He scanned them all, then bent down and picked up a weapon from the ground.

"it!"

"Knife?" Zhao Shiwu was stunned. "Is there anything special about this knife? Isn't it just a common machete? Because it is simple to make and can kill people quickly, many bandit forces like to use such knives. This knife is not rare. Can godfather know which force it is based on it?"

Sun Fujia was an educated man and didn't know much about this kind of killing weapon, but after hearing what Zhao Shiwu said, he realized how common this knife was.

As long as it is common, there is no way to use it to determine who its specific users are.

Lin Feng smiled and said, "I have thin arms and legs, and I don't know anything about martial arts, so naturally I don't know what weapons are common and what weapons are rare. So I only know that it is common after hearing what you said... But what I said was not actually this knife."

"What? It's not a knife?" Zhao Shiwu was confused. He thought his foster father's words were very strange. He couldn't help but ask, "Foster father was clearly holding a knife and said it was it. How come it's not a knife?"

Even Sun Fujia, who had a good understanding with Lin Feng, did not understand what Lin Feng meant at this time.

"You are a warrior, so when you see a weapon, you focus on whether it is sharp, easy to use, and common... But I am not a warrior. I am an investigator, and what I am best at is observing details. Therefore... when I see this weapon, I will not know what characteristics it has or whether it is common. I will only observe its details, what characteristics its surface has, and whether it is different from other weapons I have seen."

As Lin Feng spoke, he raised the big knife in his hand. He looked at the knife and said slowly: "You might as well observe this knife carefully. Don't pay attention to its weapon characteristics. Just treat it as a normal iron product. What can you find?"

"Not as a weapon, but as an iron product?"

Zhao Shiwu scratched his head. With his simple mind, he still didn't understand what Lin Feng meant.

But Sun Fujia's eyes flashed slightly at this moment. Under Lin Feng's constant reminders, he seemed to understand something. He hurriedly stepped forward and carefully observed the knife in Lin Feng's hand.

Suddenly, Sun Fujia's eyes fixed on the blade and he said, "The blade is covered in dust!"

Then, he quickly turned to look at Lin Feng and said, "Zide, is there something wrong with this blade!?"

"What? The blade?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Shiwu also hurriedly looked at the blade. Under the sunlight, the blade was flashing with a dazzling cold light, but the blade was a little dull as Sun Fujia said, giving people the feeling that it was really covered with dust.

Seeing the two looking at the blade, Lin Feng stopped keeping them in suspense and said, "Rather than saying that the blade is covered in dust, it's better to say that when the iron ore was smelted, the craftsmanship was limited, so the impurities in the ore were not removed completely. As a result, when the weapons were forged, the colors of these weapons appeared a little dull, not as bright as the weapons in our Tang Dynasty army."

"Ore smelting? Impurities?"

Zhao Shiwu's expression was full of confusion. He had practiced martial arts for so many years and had used at least a dozen weapons, but he had never thought about the sources of these weapons, the smelting of iron ore, the impurities in the ore... Who normally would think about these things?

Even though Sun Fujia was extremely knowledgeable, he also touched upon his blind spot in knowledge at this moment. He read mostly books of sages, but had never paid attention to the smelting of this kind of weapon, so when he heard Lin Feng's words, he felt that they were a bit profound.

Seeing the expressions of the two, Lin Feng knew that they had not considered these things at all. He smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about ore smelting. You just need to know that with the smelting technology mastered by our imperial ministry, the weapons made are definitely much harder and brighter than these weapons. This also proves... these weapons are definitely not made by the imperial court! At the same time, the imperial court has expressly prohibited private operation of 'salt and iron'. What does this mean?"

Before Zhao Shiwu could react, Sun Fujia's pupils suddenly jumped and he asked, "Could it be... that these people are also members of the Four Symbols Organization?"

"What? The Four Elephants Organization?"

After Sun Fujia's reminder, Zhao Shiwu suddenly thought of something, and he hurriedly said, "Yes! We were in Cizhou, and we found that the Four Elephants Organization was secretly mining... They must have secretly smelted the minerals when they mined, so these weapons are definitely theirs!"

"No! It's not theirs!"

But just as Zhao Shiwu finished speaking, Lin Feng shook his head. He raised his chin slightly in the direction of the Four Symbols assassin's corpse and said, "You can go and see the weapons of the Four Symbols assassins. Their weapons are no different from the weapons made by our official court in terms of gloss and hardness."

Hearing Lin Feng's words, Sun Fujia and Zhao Shiwu hurriedly looked in the direction of the voice, and then both of them were stunned.

Sure enough, just as Lin Feng said, there is a very obvious difference between the weapons used by the Four Symbols Organization and the weapons in Lin Feng's hands. If these killers are all members of the Four Symbols Organization, regardless of whether the weapons are the same, at least the materials used to make the weapons should be the same.

"If it's not from the Four Symbols Organization, then whose else could it be? And the Four Symbols Organization did indeed secretly mine." Zhao Shiwu was completely confused.

Sun Fujia also frowned tightly.

Lin Feng said slowly: "There are still two possibilities... Either the ore mined by the Four Symbols Organization is not iron ore, or the smelting technology possessed by the Four Symbols Organization is exactly the same as the current level of the court."

"Which possibility would it be?" Zhao Shiwu asked.

Lin Feng shook his head. He looked at the weapons of the Four Elephants assassins, his eyes deepening. “No matter what kind it is, it’s not a good thing.”

When Sun Fujia heard Lin Feng's meaningful words, he didn't know what he was thinking about, and his expression changed slightly.

Lin Feng did not continue this topic. He said, "Let's talk about this weapon."

He looked at the two of them and said, "From the smelting process of this weapon, it can be seen that someone must have secretly smelted it. However, due to the poor technical level, the color of the smelted iron appears dark... Of course, the dark color does not affect its use, so it can still be used to forge weapons..."

"And this dark-colored weapon happens to..."

Lin Feng exhaled slowly and said, "I've seen it too!"

"What? Godfather has seen it?" Zhao Shiwu was stunned.

Sun Fujia also hurriedly looked at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng nodded slightly and said, "Actually, you have seen it too... but it was pitch dark at the time, and we had just experienced a very thrilling night, so you may not have paid much attention."

"Night?" Sun Fujia frowned and thought, but still couldn't remember which night Lin Feng was talking about.

Seeing this, Lin Feng didn't keep them waiting and asked directly, "Do you still remember our battle of wits and courage with Kui Su when we were in Shenshan County?"

Shenshan County?
Sun Fujia and Zhao Shiwu nodded hurriedly. How could they forget? That night, Lin Feng was like Zhuge Liang in the world. He used the Western Region merchants, the Jinchai family, and Li Shimin's spies as chess pieces to play against Kui Su who was chasing him. They would never forget the thrill and excitement of that night.

"Could it be..." Sun Fujia said, "Did you see this kind of weapon that night?"

"Really?" Zhao Shiwu asked hurriedly.

Lin Feng smiled and nodded. He said, "I have a habit. Whenever I go to any place, I will immediately observe the surrounding situation and be aware of all the people and objects around me. It was the same that night. When everything was settled, we went to clean up the mess. Du Cheng happened to be leading the Du family guards to clean up the battlefield... and that's when I noticed that the weapons of the Du family guards seemed to be darker than those of others."

"But it was pitch black at the time, and I wasn't sure if it was because of the poor lighting. Now that I see the weapon in front of me with my own eyes and think back to what I saw that night, I can finally be sure that it wasn't the darkness. Those weapons were just like this one, dark in nature!"

Zhao Shiwu's eyes widened immediately, and he exclaimed, "So... these killers are from the Jinchai family!?"

Sun Fujia's eyes also shone: "They want to kill you too!"

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes, and after pondering for a while, he looked a little puzzled: "Logically speaking, the Jinchai family should have the least hatred towards me. I have destroyed the plans of the Four Elephants Organization many times, and also ruined the plans of the Western Regions merchants... But I have never dealt with the Jinchai family, and we have a harmonious relationship on the surface. Du Cheng and Chen Miao both came to Chang'an with me, so why did the Jinchai family attack me? And at this sensitive time?"

Sun Fujia couldn't figure it out either.

"Besides, this is not the most important thing."

Lin Feng looked at Sun Fujia, his tone suddenly became serious, and said: "The most important thing is these weapons and these killers!"

"Weapons, they secretly smelted them themselves!"

"The killers were trained by themselves!"

“Doctor Sun…” Lin Feng’s tone was a little low, which made Sun Fujia and Zhao Shiwu feel nervous. They only heard Lin Feng’s tone and said in a deep voice: “Do you know what this means?”

Sun Fujia's pupils shrank slightly. He had lived half his life and had rich experiences, not to mention that he had personally experienced the chaotic period at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. He was more sensitive to certain things than young people like Zhao Shiwu. Listening to Lin Feng's words at this moment, Sun Fujia's thoughts drifted to one thing. He looked at Lin Feng, couldn't help but take a deep breath, and said: "Could it be... whether it is the Four Elephants Organization or the Golden Hairpin Force, have they secretly trained their own forces?"

"What!? Military strength?" Zhao Shiwu's expression changed instantly and he felt his scalp numb.

He quickly looked at Lin Feng, wanting to get a definite answer from Lin Feng.

Then, he heard Lin Feng slowly say: "Under normal circumstances, if they need weapons, they just need to buy them... With the power of the Chen family and the Du family, it is definitely not difficult to buy some weapons. Why do they need to smelt them themselves? The court has expressly prohibited private smelting of minerals by the people. Once discovered, the entire clan may be executed!"

"So, they chose to take risks instead of doing something safer. This can only mean... Either they have a secret that they cannot reveal to others. They are afraid of attracting attention from the court... Or, they need too many weapons, so many that they cannot buy them through normal channels and can only smelt them secretly."

"Whichever the case, or both, it means they have bad intentions and are up to something big!"

"besides……"

Lin Feng looked at the corpses on the ground and said, "I have just analyzed the calluses on their hands and the condition of their skin. The calluses on their hands are the same, which means they have all undergone exactly the same training! And the skin condition is the same, which means they must have lived in the same place far away from Chang'an for a long time."

"Combining these two points, we can know that these two forces have been secretly training some people for a long time in a place we don't know about!"

"If the Four Symbols Organization and the Golden Hairpin Force only trained assassins, it would be fine. At most, they would have only one assassin base that specializes in training assassins... But what if these assassins only account for a small part? What if they secretly mined minerals and smelted weapons themselves because the quantity they needed was too large? I really don't dare to think about the result."

Lin Feng, due to his cautious personality, did not nod his head in agreement with Sun Fujia's words, but the thoughts he expressed in his words were obviously inclined to Sun Fujia's words, which made Zhao Shiwu's face change completely: "If they really have private soldiers secretly, and there are quite a few of them... then what exactly do they want to do?"

"What do you want to do?"

Lin Feng sneered, "What is Ziwei? In the legend of the golden hairpin, what is Empress Lu's will? Fifteen, do we still need to guess?"

Zhao Shiwu suddenly felt a chill running down his spine. He swallowed his saliva and asked, "Are they planning to rebel?"

Lin Feng did not answer. There was no need for an answer.

And in Lin Feng's opinion, this is not important at all. What really matters is what the enemy will do.

He looked at Sun Fujia and said in a low voice: "Doctor Sun, if the people coming to Chang'an were only these assassins, it would be fine... But what if there are more people? How long will Chang'an be able to maintain the peace it has today?"

Sun Fujia's heart suddenly sank and his expression became more solemn than ever before.

Lin Feng said: "They dare to attack me recklessly now, which means that they have basically reached the point where they don't need to hide anymore. Considering that the plan that the Four Symbols Organization has been planning for six years is about to be implemented, the Four Symbols Organization has also arranged for people to gather in Chang'an..."

He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "We really don't have much time left! We must find out their plan within a limited time. Otherwise, if they really have a large number of private soldiers, once they take action, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

Sun Fujia quickly looked at Lin Feng and said, "Zide, what should we do?"

Zhao Shiwu also looked at Lin Feng nervously.

Lin Feng was silent for a while, then said: "The information we have now is not enough to guess their plan. We must obtain new intelligence clues... Ang Su is a breakthrough point, and in the Jinchai faction, Chen Miao and Du Cheng are a breakthrough point."

As he spoke, he looked at Sun Fujia and said, "We have been away from Chang'an for many days in order to search for the secret royal treasures of Emperor Wu of Liang. I wonder if Kui Su has any new actions? Are there any new moves from Chen Miao and Du Cheng?"

Hearing Lin Feng's words, Sun Fujia nodded slightly: "This is exactly why I came to see you today."

Lin Feng's eyes flashed, and he couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy: "What did they really do?"

They just returned to Chang'an yesterday. Logically, Sun Fujia should have to rest for a few days before he could recover, but he came to find him today, and his purpose was for Kui Su and Chen Miao. This was enough to prove that something different must have happened.

Sun Fujia did not answer Lin Feng in a hurry, but turned his head to look outside the yard. He saw some guards standing outside the yard. These were the people Xiao Yu sent to protect Lin Feng after he learned last night that someone was coming to assassinate Lin Feng.

Lin Feng understood what Sun Fujia meant, and he said to Zhao Shiwu: "Shiwu, let these brothers have a rest."

Zhao Shiwu's heart moved, and he nodded quickly: "I understand."

Soon, he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, sent the guards away, and then he stood guard at the door himself.

Seeing this, Lin Feng said to Sun Fujia, "Doctor Sun, you can talk without worries."

Sun Fujia nodded and said to Lin Feng, "First, Kui Su... Our people followed your instructions and kept a closer eye on Kui Su. They recorded in more detail where Kui Su went, who he met, and how often he went."

As he spoke, Sun Fujia took out a booklet from his arms, handed it to Lin Feng, and said, "This is the record of our spies."

Hearing this, Lin Feng flipped open the booklet, and Sun Fujia's voice continued to ring out: "After Angsu was arrested, I don't know if Kuisu was scared. Two days before we left Chang'an, he had been hiding in his residence and didn't dare to come out at all."

"But two days later, he seemed to feel that the limelight had passed and left his residence, but he did not go to anyone else's house again. In the next few days, apart from purchasing daily necessities, he went to a restaurant to drink twice."

Sun Fujia looked at Lin Feng and said, "Kuisu's whereabouts are very simple, but because of this, I find it strange. Logically, Angsu has been exposed, and he was the last person to see Angsu. Isn't he afraid that Angsu will reveal the secret that he is not dead? Doesn't he want to discuss with other accomplices what to do next? But apart from hiding carefully for the first two days, he still had the leisure to drink later. It's really strange."

Lin Feng carefully read the spy's records and said, "He drank twice in the same restaurant and at the same location... This is a bit strange. Have you checked that restaurant?"

Sun Fujia nodded and said, "We have checked. There is nothing wrong with that restaurant. When Kui Su was drinking, there were no other guests near him. No one contacted or communicated with him. He also did not have physical contact with anyone. We can rule out the possibility that he exchanged information with others there."

Lin Feng pondered for a moment, his eyes suddenly flashed, and he said: "Send someone to check the several mansions opposite the restaurant."

"The mansion opposite the restaurant?" Sun Fujia was stunned.

Lin Feng said: "The book records that Kui Su sat twice, both times by the window on the second floor, which is the best place to observe the opposite mansion... So if there is no problem with the restaurant, and he is not exchanging information with others, then he can only be observing the situation of the opposite mansion."

He looked at Sun Fujia and said, "Just as Doctor Sun said, Kui Su was the last person to meet Ang Su. He couldn't help but worry that Ang Su would reveal his secrets, so he must do something... and when we were in contact with Ang Su before, I also judged that Ang Su might have some weaknesses and be controlled by the Four Symbols Organization. So even if Ang Su has already betrayed the Four Symbols Organization in his heart, he still dare not completely betray the Four Symbols Organization and still dare not say anything."

"Combining these two points, I have reason to suspect...what Kui Su is doing now is related to Ang Su's weakness! He is probably confirming whether Ang Su's weakness is normal, and then using this to determine whether Ang Su has betrayed his secrets."

Sun Fujia's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard Lin Feng's words. He clapped his hands and said, "Yes, why didn't I think of this possibility! I'll have someone check it out right away!"

As he said this, Sun Fujia was about to turn around and leave. Seeing this, Lin Feng hurriedly stopped Sun Fujia and said, "Don't be anxious, Doctor Sun. Don't you still want to talk about Chen Miao and Du Cheng? It's not too late to tell me their intelligence first."

"Yeah."

Sun Fujia was so anxious that he forgot the second thing.

He quickly looked at Lin Feng and said, "Chen Miao and Du Cheng have left Chang'an."

"What? Leaving Chang'an?" Lin Feng was quite surprised: "When did it happen?"

"They left yesterday, not long after we returned to Chang'an."

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes: "Interesting... They left as soon as we came back, and then that night they sent people to assassinate me. Are they afraid that I won't die, and that I will find out about them?"

He looked at Sun Fujia and said, "Since they left Chang'an, it means that their purpose of coming to Chang'an has been achieved... I wonder what they did during the time we were investigating the Donggong case?"

Unexpectedly, Sun Fujia shook his head: "It's hard to say."

"It's hard to say?" Lin Feng couldn't help but frown.

Sun Fujia took out a book from his bosom and said, "Take a look. This is the spy's record of their whereabouts."

Lin Feng took the book and opened it quickly. As he read, he heard Sun Fujia say, "Besides visiting relevant people according to the excuses they gave when they came, they just wandered around. Today they went here, tomorrow they went there. It looked like they were just visiting Chang'an. Moreover, the places they went to did not overlap, and the people they visited were completely different. I really couldn't find anything unusual in their whereabouts or what they did."

Lin Feng looked at the places they had been to in the book and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said, "Special Forces-style travel, they have been to too many places..."

Commando-style travel?

Sun Fujia didn't understand this term, but it didn't prevent him from understanding Lin Feng's meaning. He nodded and said, "They have indeed been to many places, but because of this, they are more like tourists, and seem to have no purpose."

"No, it's not without purpose..." Unexpectedly, when Lin Feng heard Sun Fujia's words, he raised the corners of his mouth and said meaningfully: "Their purpose is too clear."

"What!?" Sun Fujia was startled. He quickly looked at Lin Feng: "What do you mean?"

Lin Feng asked: "Did Doctor Sun bring the map of Chang'an City?"

"Map?" Sun Fujia shook his head: "No."

Lin Feng nodded, and he shouted directly to Zhao Shiwu: "Shiwu, go get me a map and some writings of Chang'an City."

Not long after, Zhao Shiwu brought the things.

Lin Feng directly unfolded the map and spread it flat on the ground.

Then he picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, and said, "It's hard to tell anything just by looking at the words, but if you draw their whereabouts over the past few days, some things will be very obvious..."

As he spoke, Lin Feng used a brush to mark the whereabouts of Chen Miao and Du Cheng, and connected their shapes with lines.

Soon, two circles appeared on the map.

Lin Feng said to Sun Fujia: "Please look, Doctor Sun, after drawing the whereabouts of the two of them, we can see that although their whereabouts did not cross, they were both moving around the southwest area of ​​Chang'an City."

"Chen Miao's footprints covered Fengyifang, Changshoufang, Chongxianfang and Daixianfang, while Du Cheng's visits were concentrated in Yanfufang, Yonghefang, Yongpingfang and Yong'anfang. If you connect these squares, you will find that they just form a complete circle. But in this circle, there is only one square that neither of them has touched!"

Sun Fujia stared at the map of Chang'an City. Looking at the circles drawn by Lin Feng, his pupils jumped suddenly and he couldn't help but said, "Jiahuifang! Could it be..."

He thought of a possibility and quickly looked at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng nodded slightly, and the corner of his mouth curled up: "Once we understand their trajectory, we will know that what we should look at is not where they went, but where they deliberately avoided in that area!"

"They kept circling Jiahuifang but refused to go in. If you say that this was not intentional, I don't think Doctor Sun would believe it. In Jiahuifang, besides where the common people live, there is only one most special place!"

Sun Fujia's eyes twitched violently: "Ling'an Temple!"

Lin Feng looked at Sun Fujia and said with a smile: "So, Doctor Sun should know what to do... Just check which big shot in Ling'an Temple was praying for incense and worshipping Buddha during those days, and you will know..."

Facing Sun Fujia's excited gaze, Lin Feng smiled slowly and said, "Who are Du Cheng and Chen Miao, the people sent to Chang'an by the Jinchai family, here to see?"

(End of this chapter)