Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 243 What's Your Name?
The little beggar was taken aback for a moment, and then pressed his fingerprints one by one.After that, Ye Chen asked the guards next to him to take him out, and deliberately asked him to stay on the other side, separated from other people who hadn't asked.

In this way, Ye Chen summoned them one by one, questioned them one by one, and pressed their fingerprints one by one.And as long as it is a woman, she will sniff it quietly.

Ye Chen asked the same question, and all the people in the town answered almost the same, and the smell in Ye Chen's memory never appeared.

This process lasted for a whole day. Fortunately, after comparing the fingerprints on He Lei's knife, he also found the person who killed He Lei with He Lei's knife.

This person is called Zhang Fan, and he is the most wealthy and largest landlord and gentry in Heiquan Town, a guardian of Wei Yuanwai.It can only be regarded as a second-rate expert, so without alarming outsiders, Ye Chen led people to easily restrain him on the spot, and feeding him to the Ghost Doctor Research and Development Office can make people lose their consciousness and lose their autonomy, and they can say whatever they ask miracle medicine.As usual, the ghost doctor didn't name this strange medicine, Ye Chen named it 'Interrogation Pill'.

Ye Chen asked, "What's your name?"

Zhang Fan's expression was dull, his eyes were loose, and he said, "My name is Zhang Fan."

Ye Chen continued to ask: "Did you kill He Lei?"

Zhang Fan said: "Yes!"

Ye Chen said, "Why did you kill He Lei?"

Zhang Fan said: "Because he discovered a secret in Heiquan Town."

Ye Chen said: "What is this secret?"

Zhang Fan said: "There is no child under the age of six in Heiquan Town. The number of married women is reduced by half."

Ye Chen's body shook, only to realize that there were no six-year-old children among the townspeople who were all gathered outside.Moreover, there are more men than women in the whole town, and less than one-third of women are women.

Ye Chen said: "Why is this happening?"

Zhang Fan said: "Children under the age of six in Heiquan Town will be sent to live in the Heiquan Grotto under Heiquan Town."

Ye Chen wondered, "Why do you do this?"

Zhang Fan said: "Because..." He didn't finish speaking, suddenly foaming at the mouth, his face turned black instantly, he rolled his eyes, and died.

Everyone's expressions changed, and the soldiers around him quickly stepped forward to protect Ye Chen firmly. Ye Chen waved his hand to let the soldiers back away. Yu Qingyan had already stepped forward to carefully examine the cause of Zhang Fan's death, and said, "It was poisoning." of."

Ye Chen frowned slightly, and said, "Can interrogation pills poison people to death?"

Yu Qingyan said: "The interrogation pill can't kill a person, it's because this person has some kind of poison lurking in his body, and he never poisons it during the day, but the influence of the interrogation pill triggers this poison."

This time, Ye Chen also brought with him the two masters of the rivers and lakes who were included in the intelligence department, named Du Qianqiu and Hu Sanguang respectively.

Du Qianqiu is good at disguise, he is ruthless, nicknamed the wolf with thousands of faces.Now he is the Deputy Envoy of the Reconnaissance Department of the Intelligence Department, and he is an official of the seventh rank. He is one of the more than ten masters who first expressed their allegiance to Ye Chen.

Hu Sanguang is good at intelligence analysis and reasoning and judgment. He is also known in the world for his cunning and wisdom, nicknamed Blue Fox.Also because he expressed his willingness to leave the Jianghu completely and pledge his allegiance to Ye Chen, he is now appointed as the deputy envoy of the Intelligence Analysis Department of the Intelligence Department, and is also a serious seventh-rank official.This time Ye Chen paid a lot of attention to his plan to lure the snake out of the cave.

These two people, like the other fifteen Jianghu masters who expressed their allegiance to Ye Chen successively during this period, were all optimistic about the great money and future of Huaxia Weifu.He resolutely took all his family members to Kaifeng City, and expressed his loyalty to Ye Chen in the form of hostages. The poison of these people was detoxified, and they were even awarded high-ranking official positions to show their trust in these 17 people.Anyway, the Huaxia Weifu has just been established, and Ye Chen has a lot of high-ranking positions in his hands.For example, the other 15 people were all appointed by Ye Chen as envoys of the Department of Operations, and each of them commanded a hundred Huaxia Guards.

And this move made these 17 people put their hearts on Huaxia Weifu even more thoroughly. Although they didn't say they were dead set on Ye Chen, they no longer had any dissent.

At this time, an unexpected situation occurred, and the blue fox Hu Sanguang immediately said: "Master Chief Commander, my subordinates think that the death of this person should not be known to those outside, so as not to startle the snake."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "Exactly."

Hu Sanguang continued: "My subordinates think that we should find a person who is similar in size and head shape to this person from among the commander-in-chief's personal soldiers, and let Master Du disguise his appearance and let him pretend to be this person, just infiltrating him. "

Ye Chen pondered for a while, and said: "It's fine to pretend to be this person, but you only need to go out and show your face. If you break into it, it may be easy for people to see the flaws, and the enemy may see our falsehood."

As soon as the words fell, he turned his head to Du Qianqiu, the wolf with thousands of faces. The latter immediately understood Ye Chen's meaning, bowed and said, "Master Chief Commander, if you just show your face, it will take half an hour for your subordinates."

Ye Chen knew that Du Qianqiu's disguise technique was different from the human skin mask made by Li Siyan. It was far less realistic than the latter and could be faked.Knowing that time was running out, Ye Chen said immediately: "Hu Sanguang hurry up to pick someone, and Du Qianqiu starts to prepare."

The plan went smoothly, pretending to be Zhang Fan's personal soldiers, went out and walked around in front of the people of Heiquan Town from a distance, then left in full view, found a place to change his appearance, took off Zhang Fan's clothes, and Secretly returned to the Black Spring Inn.

After asking all the people, the sky gradually darkened and it was dusk.

"Commander-in-Chief, that Zhang Fan said that all the children in the town before the age of six will be sent to live in the Black Spring Grotto under Heiquan Town. And the mothers of these children should be with them, which is why women in the town There are less reasons. And because He Lei accidentally discovered this secret, he was silenced by Zhang Fan." Hu Sanguang said.

Ye Chen interjected: "Two points can be drawn from the incident. One is that the area of ​​the Black Spring Cave is not small, and it must be more than enough to hide eighty carts with 80 military pay. The second is that Zhang Fan was silenced. It turns out that everyone in this town may be a murderer, and it is not impossible to hide such a completely controlled town with the energy of the temple. It's just that even if the people in the entire town are murderers, it is impossible to be silent Killed the 1000 imperial guards who were escorting the military pay. There must be some key issues. In addition, if there is no sufficient evidence, the more than [-] people in this town cannot all be regarded as thieves and killed."

Hu Sanguang followed Ye Chen this time, eager to show in front of Ye Chen, his mind was running extremely fast, and said: "Master Chief Commander! My subordinates think that finding the entrance to the underground Black Spring Grotto is now the top priority. And Zhang Fan is that Wei Yuanwai's guard, and the Wei family can be regarded as the local emperor in this town, and even the Wei family's yard occupies a fifth of the entire town. Therefore, the subordinates think that this Wei Yuanwai must be a thief, no doubt, And the entrance to the Black Spring Grotto is most likely in the courtyard of the Wei family."

Although Du Qianqiu is famous for his face-changing technique, he is quite witty to be able to get the nickname of a thousand-changing wolf in the world. He saw that Hu Sanguang was showing off in front of Ye Chen, and he was unwilling to lag behind. He said: "Master Chief Commander, that Wei Yuanwai didn't want to invite you to a banquet, why not agree to him, and just happened to enter the Wei family's courtyard to find out the truth."

Hu Sanguang's complexion changed slightly immediately, and he rushed to say: "Master Chief Commander, this is absolutely impossible, this group of thieves can take down a thousand guards to escort the imperial army, their strength should not be underestimated, what is your status, how can you risk yourself. From the point of view of my subordinates, this matter is still a long-term plan..."

Ye Chen interrupted Hu Sanguang with a wave of his hand, and said: "There is no time, not to mention that if you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch a tiger cub. Besides, you all follow me with all your soldiers. If something happens, you can persist if you send a signal." Until the arrival of the five hundred Huaxia Guards. In addition, the thieves will not know that Zhang Fan is dead in a short time, and we have already learned about the Black Spring Grotto from Zhang Fan. And they also know that there are our people outside the town, If something happens to us, they will definitely be exposed and their identity as thieves will be confirmed, so they will not take action against us unless it is absolutely necessary. Also, after a long time, if they can't find Zhang Fan, they will definitely suspect What we have already obtained from Zhang Fan is not good for us."

Ye Chen has already revealed his identity, it would be abnormal if Wei Yuanwai didn't invite Ye Chen to his house as a guest.During the questioning just now, the member Wei knelt down and bowed to Ye Chen, begging Ye Chen to go to his house, so as to give him a chance to show his kindness as a landlord.

The Wei family's mansion is really big, the layout is magnificent but not luxurious, it looks very tasteful, Ye Chen feels that this is even better than most of the high-ranking officials in Kaifeng.To be able to do this is obviously not something that can be achieved simply by having money, it requires the precipitation and accumulation of several generations.This is not the case with the seven clans and five surnames in the church.

Thinking about it this way, Ye Chen realized that although the mansion has undergone many renovations, it can still be seen that it may have a history of two or three hundred years.Does this mean that the Wei family has been the local emperor in Heiquan Town for hundreds of years?

The good wine and dishes are already on the table, but the banquet hall is already full of people.

Ye Chen is a celebrity now, who would miss the opportunity to see Ye Chen.

Member Wei looked at Ye Chen in panic.

"There are no rules in the villain's family, which made Hou Ye laugh. Although they were received by Hou Ye alone just now, when they heard that Hou Ye was invited by the villain, they still came to appreciate his demeanor again. The villain blocked it. Can't stop, can't drive away."

Ye Chen's nose twitched slightly, his heart trembled, he finally found the assassin, and standing three steps behind him, it was a maid of the Wei family serving vegetables and serving wine.Combined with the fact that Zhang Fan is a guard of the Wei family, it is not certain whether the entire Shuiquan Town is a den of thieves, but it is basically certain that the Wei family is a den of thieves.

But now I have entered the den of thieves, even with a hundred soldiers, but if the other party is really the murderer who made the imperial guards with a thousand escorts disappear without a sound, I am afraid that I am not a match for him with a hundred Huaxia Guards.

Ye Chen glanced at the darkening sky outside the window as if nothing had happened. The sky was covered with overcast clouds, and it was destined that there would be no moon tonight, and there were many murderous intentions hidden in the darkness outside.

(End of this chapter)