The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

This smell came from the room.

Bai Yunquan glared and drew the sword from his waist.

The people around him were startled by his sudden action.

But Bai Yunquan didn't care and kicked the door, which was not strong to begin with, open with one foot.

The room was quiet, with corpses lying all over the floor, all of them had their necks cut.

They were still tied with ropes and had rags in their mouths. At that time, they couldn't move. It can be said that anyone with a knife could kill these more than ten people without making too much noise.

The bandits caught in the back mountain said that they just tied them up and locked them up, but didn't kill them.

When he came, the general who led the troops also said that these people were locked up here, and didn't say that they had been killed.

In other words, there was someone else who killed these people.

This was because he didn't want people to know who the master behind these people was.

"How could this happen?"

The two people following Bai Yunquan were also stunned, and they hurried forward to check.

There is no one alive. The person who killed them was very steady and every strike was fatal.

"These people are the ones we saw that day, carrying things to the mountain stronghold."

"There is no mistake about their identities." Bai Yunquan said: "Someone deliberately killed them and didn't want us to continue to investigate the master behind these people."

Bai Yunquan's face was serious. Now the clue was broken. How should he explain to his husband?

The person was dead. Even if he returned to Chang'an City, he couldn't tell His Majesty about this matter. After all, there was no evidence after death. Besides, there was no one to suspect.

Who on earth wanted to put his husband to death?

There were guards from Huizhou and runners from the governor's office who came to the front mountain. The people who killed these people were hiding among them.

As for the bandits...

Even the three bosses ran away. How could the bandits have the courage to kill these people?

They were scared by the army attacking the stronghold and couldn't run away.

Besides, why did the bandits kill them?

The two people brought by Bai Yunquan counted the number of corpses in the house, and found that it was the same as the number of people they saw going up the mountain and entering the village yesterday, which ruled out that it was their own people who did it...

The minions in the back mountain were cleared on the spot by Li Fu's men, and the three heads were arrested, and the property they carried was also confiscated.

For so many years, they have been entrenched here and robbed a lot of good things, but they have almost squandered them, and there is no way to return them to those who were robbed. After all, even if they come to claim them, there is no proof, and it is difficult for the government to handle this matter.

It just so happens that the government is now working on resettling the people who originally went down the mountain, and they also need a sum of money, so they can pay from the remaining property confiscated in this village.

The three heads have a lot of valuable things on their backs, which were all sent by more than a dozen people yesterday. These things cannot be confiscated. Li Fu still needs to study carefully where these things came from.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't recognize them. He can take them back to Chang'an and ask His Majesty, who is well-informed, whether he recognizes these things.

Maybe some of them flowed out of Chang'an City.

The two groups of people went up the mountain separately, and also went down the mountain separately, and reunited outside Huizhou.

After the mission was completed, the local garrison in Huizhou returned to the barracks. The captured bandits were escorted back to Huizhou City by the government officials and put in prison.

On the way back, Bai Yunquan reported to Li Fu in detail about the killing of more than ten people.

"It's not surprising. There are many people who don't want us to know who is the master behind them." Li Fu said coldly.

His mission in Huizhou this time has been completed. As for who wants to attack him behind the scenes, this matter is not easy to find out. Moreover, he will not stay in Huizhou anymore. It's time to return to Chang'an.

Otherwise, with the military seal and the emperor's decree in hand, someone in the court must be worried about the man who has been out for such a long time.

Let's hand over the three bandit leaders to the local government. They have thought about suppressing the bandits before, but they always returned empty-handed. This time, give them a chance to have a good time in front of the local people in Huizhou.

The three bandit leaders will definitely not survive. As for the old, weak and disabled people in the mountains, even if they are not sentenced to death, they will be imprisoned and suffer, or they will be pulled out to do corvée for the rest of their lives, either dying in the cell or dying of exhaustion outside.

In short, it's hard to live long.

This is also the fate they deserve.

They have never killed anyone, but they have enjoyed everything brought back by those who have killed people.

They are not innocent at all.

And the more than ten people who were killedLi Fu had not mentioned the matter to the generals and the governor.

No matter what he had in mind, it was his business and had nothing to do with others, so there was no need to drag others into it.

Therefore, on the day he returned to Huizhou City, Li Fu said goodbye to the governor and said that he would leave for Chang'an the next day.

That night, the governor held a celebration banquet in the government office, which was also a farewell for Li Fu's departure the next day.

Without mentioning those people, the communication between the two sides was still cordial and friendly.

Li Fu did not doubt the governor, but it was not easy to directly put the blame on him for something that was ambiguous and without evidence.

The next morning, the team set off.

"I have been in Huizhou for so long, and now I have to leave. I really don't want to leave."

In the carriage, Xiao Tao looked outside, getting farther and farther away from the gate of Huizhou City.

"Reluctant? Life here is not as comfortable as that in Chang'an City. The food and accommodation are far worse. What do you miss?" Li Fu asked with a smile.

"I don't have many memories of comfortable days, but hard days are the most memorable, aren't they?" Xiao Tao said, "Just like I still remember the past, when you were not the King of Jingyang, when we lived in seclusion on the farm. Although we were not as wealthy as we are now, there were not so many intrigues about the court. You have left Chang'an, so why do those people come to Huizhou just like dogs when they smell the smell?"

Xiao Tao was indignant.

She also knew that there were several more outsiders in the bandit camp, who came for her husband.

"The dispute between the old and the new in the court is indeed dangerous, but in the past, we did not live peacefully on the farm." Li Fu smiled and said, "We fought for water every spring. Look, this spring, no one dares to bully us anymore? Because we have a higher status and a different identity. This is the convenience brought by the change."

"It's not that there was no intrigue in the past, but it was not exposed."