Zhao Rang and Ximen Dazhuang were sitting in their private room drinking tea.
The tea is still Tieguanyin, and I specially asked the shopkeeper to make it stronger.
Zhao Rang didn't drink much of the tea Yu Xi made last night. When I got thirsty in the middle of the night, the tea was already cold.
Zhao Rang has never been able to drink cold tea...it smells like earth.
"Luoyuelou's Tieguanyin is a little worse than mine!"
Zhao Rang took a sip and said.
Ximen Dazhuang doesn’t understand tea.
Instead, he likes to drink cold drinks.
Because tea that is too hot cannot be drunk and will make people thirstier the more they drink. So he always had a separate teapot, opened the lid, and left it there to dry. After the temperature drops down, drink it all in one go. I think this is the best way to satisfy your cravings.
"Master!"
Yu Xi's voice outside the door sounded a little panicked.
Not even bothering to knock on the door, he pushed the door open and said:
"Master, something happened in Changchun Garden!"
Zhao Rang frowned and asked:
"What happened? Don't be impatient for now. Drink some tea and talk slowly."
"I don't know what happened. There are a lot of people around the gate of Changchun Garden. There are many sergeants there, as well as people from the government."
Zhao Rang and Ximen Dazhuang looked at each other and stood up. They didn't even bother to say hello to the shopkeeper and rushed to Changchun Garden.
"so many people……"
The street where Changchun Garden is located is crowded with people from the intersection.
Ximen Dazhuang randomly asked a few people and got the same answer, they all said they didn't know.
"What's the point of asking them? They're all here to watch the fun. And standing so far back, you can't even see the heat!"
Zhao Rang pushed forward with all his strength, and it took a lot of effort to get to the front of the crowd.
The gate of Changchun Garden was filled with patrol sergeants, armed with long guns, who kept scolding the spectators to prevent them from getting closer.
One of the team leaders recognized Ximen Dazhuang, stepped forward, saluted, and said:
"Master Ximen, you'd better leave quickly, this is a big deal today!"
Ximen Dazhuang asked:
"What happened? I'm still waiting to treat the people inside to dinner!"
The squad leader smiled bitterly and said:
"Young Master, if you are joking, it doesn't matter. If there are really friends of yours here, then you'd better... express your condolences and accept the change!"
The team leader looked around and found that no one was paying attention to their conversation, so he whispered.
"Condolences?"
"Is there someone dead inside?"
Ximen Dazhuang's voice was a little loud, which immediately attracted the attention of people around him.
The squad leader quickly made a silencing gesture, pulled him aside and said:
"Young master, please keep your voice down... The prefect has issued a death order. No one can leak anything about the garden, otherwise you will spend the rest of your life waiting to be imprisoned until you die!"
Looking around guiltily, the team leader said sadly:
"I didn't go in to see the details, but I heard that something is very evil... The prefect has notified the investigation department, so young master, you'd better not join in the fun here. What a bad luck!"
Ximen Dazhuang nodded, gave the team leader a silver ingot, sent him away, then turned to Zhao Rang and said:
"Brother Rang, can we get in?"
With their skills and familiarity with Changchun Garden, it was not difficult to avoid the sergeant and sneak in.
But the premise is to know what is going on inside and whether it is necessary to go in.
If you rush in unnecessarily, you will only increase your risk.
Although the sergeant would not do anything to them, the prefect had given strict orders, so they still had to give them face.
"Let's take another look, don't be in a hurry."
Zhao Rang and Ximen Dazhuang were already standing at the front of the crowd. They looked in from the door but could not see anything.
Suddenly, a young girl walked out, exactly the one who was next to Zhang Zong last night.
She showed a waist badge to the sergeant on duty at the door and said:
"Your Majesty, please let these two in."
The sergeant on duty did not dare to neglect, the girl had the badge of the Investigation Department!
Even the prefect of Suluo City had to be humble and fawning when he saw the shadow guard commander of the Investigation Department, not to mention that he was just a little sergeant captain.
"Thank you girl!"
The girl led the two of them straight in, through the courtyard, and into the hall.
Zhang Zong stood in the middle of the hall, looking down at the ground, frowning, wondering what he was thinking.
"Master, Mr. Zhao and Mr. Ximen are here!"
The girl said softly, and Zhang Zong raised his head and bowed his hands to Zhao Rang and Ximen Dazhuang.
"Excuse me, you two!"
Zhao Rang said:
"You're welcome, Commander Zhang. I wonder what happened here?"
Zhang Zong took a deep breath and asked:
"Master Zhao came to Changchun Garden last night, right?"
Zhao Rang nodded in agreement, thinking that you didn't ask knowingly! He knows better than himself when he came in, when he went out, and whether he went out again.
"Have you seen anything unusual?"
Isn't the biggest anomaly in Zhao Rang's mind that Aunt Shu sold Changchun Garden to Longfanhui? Last night, the Zhongtang newspaper on the first floor also wrote about the Dragon Sail Club.
"Nothing, I just saw a four-truck truck parked in the garden."
Zhang Zong remained silent and then asked:
"Then why did you two come to Changchun Garden now?"
Zhao Rang felt that Zhang Zong today was very different from last night.
Questions that appear to be peaceful are actually hidden in their edges.
Zhao Rang did not dare to answer casually. He thought carefully before speaking:
"I am friends with Aunt Shu, the steward of Changchun Garden. I heard that she was leaving, so I booked a table at Luoyue Tower to see her off!"
After hearing this, Zhang Zong sneered again and again, and asked in a controlled tone:
"Are you friends with Aunt Shu?"
Zhao Rang said:
"Of course! Ximen Dazhuang and I often come to Changchun Garden, and the entire Suluo City knows about it."
Zhang Zong's tone made Zhao Rang a little unhappy.
He obviously knows everything about himself, why is he still pretending like this? Could it be that the sergeants around him were putting on a show? But it’s not necessary…
The Investigation Department is aloof and independent, and cannot even be appointed by the feudal officials, so there is no need to give any instructions to the local sergeants.
"I wonder what happened in Changchun Garden? Commander Zhang was alarmed!"
The more Zhao Rang thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
"Bring it up and help Mr. Zhao recall what happened here!"
The Inspector Si Shadow Guards who were standing around took the order, turned around and walked towards the backyard.
Two of them drove a four-trailer truck out of the backyard.
The car was covered with a black tarpaulin, but it couldn't hide the strong smell of blood and evil spirit.
"Open it!"
The shadow guard quickly uncovered the tarpaulin on the cart, and there was a corpse lying on each of the four carts.
Three corpses had their faces deliberately disfigured, and Zhao Rang could not tell. But the corpse in the car in the middle was very familiar to Zhao Rang.
Aunt Shu!
"How can it be!"
Ximen Dazhuang couldn't help but exclaimed.
"You were fine last night!"
Zhao Rang was also shocked and his pupils shrank.
The first person he suspected was Jiang Lang.
Business is business. Although he, as a pawn of the Longfan Society, came forward to buy Changchun Garden, he must have exposed some details in front of Aunt Shu.
People in the Longfan Society may have felt uneasy, so they asked Jiang Lang to eliminate the root cause and avoid future troubles forever.
"This should be done by the Nujiang Gang. Commander Zhang will find out as long as he calls Jiang Lang for questioning!"
Zhang Zong sneered and said:
"Young master Zhao said it well! It just so happens that I have the same idea as you, so I have already called the deputy leader of the Nujiang Gang!"
After saying that, he gave the shadow guards a look, and they immediately brought someone out from behind. It was the second brother who led the trouble at Laoguang Roast Meat yesterday.
"Lord Commander! My brother was killed by this man named Zhao. Sir, you must make the decision for me!"
Zhao Rang was choked by these words and couldn't breathe.
I've heard that the evildoer complains first, but how can it make sense when things are so far apart in heaven and earth?
After suppressing his temper, Zhao Rang asked:
"Your brother is dead?"
The second brother wiped his nose and tears with his sleeve, then pointed at a corpse on the truck with an unclear face and said:
"This is my brother! He was killed by you. He was killed by you with a black knife. I saw it with my own eyes! Fortunately, I hid at the time and didn't dare to say anything, otherwise he would definitely be dead!"
The second brother said so confidently that he made Zhao Rang laugh.
A corpse with a mutilated face, just because the second brother opened his mouth, it’s not clear who it is?
Besides, if you really want to take action against Jiang Lang, how can you hide from him?
When looking through the files last night, Zhao Rang suddenly felt that his cultivation was a little loose, and it seemed that he was about to completely break through to the fourth level.
The fourth-level realm is also called the Little Grandmaster. After arriving, he can truly be regarded as a figure in the world.
If he hadn't encountered these trivial matters, Zhao Rang would definitely practice swordsmanship behind closed doors, and maybe he could break into the fourth-level minor master realm before the Mid-Autumn Festival!
On the other hand, Jiang Lang could only enter the fifth level for the first time. And his younger brother, this second brother, can't even reach the sixth level. If he could evade Zhao Rang's detection and witness Zhao Rang's murder at such a close distance, then Zhao Rang wouldn't need to practice sword practice.
Yuan Mingkong had practiced the Shadow Guard's Breath Condensation Technique and was even noticed by Zhao Rang, let alone a fool like him.
"Commander Zhang, I have a history with him, so this must be a false accusation."
Zhang Zong said in a deep voice: m.
"Of course I know that you have a feud with him, but don't you and his brother, the leader of the Nujiang Gang, also have a feud? If there is a feud, there will be a motive. Regardless of whether you killed the person or not, you are still suspected, this commander said Is it right?"
Zhao Rang laughed in anger, held down Ximen Dazhuang who was about to explode, and said:
"Of course what Commander Zhang said is fine. When I admit that I had a quarrel with him, it is equivalent to admitting that I have the motive to kill him. The question is how can you be sure that this corpse is Jiang Lang? Do you just rely on his one-sided words?"
Zhao Rang became angrier as he talked.
He didn't know what Zhang Zong wanted to do.
Could it be that he thought Zhao Rang was so easy to bully, that by getting a corpse and finding a gangster to give a few testimonies, he could make him submissive?
"The deceased was his biological brother. The Investigation Department has already investigated. Jiang Lang's parents died when he was young, and he and his younger brother depended on each other for life. An elder brother is like a father. Could it be that, Mr. Zhao, you will mistakenly identify your father's body?" 1
Zhao Rang narrowed his eyes.
Zhang Zong is determined to have trouble with himself.
