Yanping County Government.
Inner hall.
The county magistrate Song Zhili and others gathered here to discuss the case.
A night of fierce fighting left everyone exhausted.
However, Cui Meng's sudden confession made everyone realize that this fierce battle has not yet reached its true climax.
"Li Zhun... tsk tsk..." Chen Houlu muttered an unfamiliar name, "I have stayed in Yanping County all my life, but I never knew that Li Sixiong had such a son? I thought he only had an only daughter!"
There are four major bullies in Yanping County, representing officials, bandits, merchants, and gangsters respectively.
Black is Cui Xiaotian who runs a gambling house, Shang is Qiu Zhennong who runs a restaurant, official is Wei Yulang who runs Wanhua House, and this gangster is Li Sixiong who runs an escort agency!
It is said that Li Sixiong was once a bandit who robbed homes and killed many people. Later, he relied on his martial arts skills, connections in the world, and the wealth from robbery to launder his wealth and came to Yanping County to open the Tianxiong Escort Agency.
If Cui Xiaotian relies on official connections, Qiu Batian relies on his uncle who is the Minister of Civil Affairs, and Wei Yulang relies on official connections, then Li Sixiong relies on only one word, and that is - "Hit!"
Legend has it that Li Sixiong's martial arts was among the best in Songzhou and he had few opponents.
The bodyguards under him all possess special skills, and they never blink an eye at killing people.
Therefore, whenever they encounter any dispute, they will only use their hands and not think about it until they conquer the other party!
Their motto is: Either beat the other party to death or be beaten to death by the other party.
Therefore, relying on such ruthlessness, Tianxiong Escort Bureau became famous and became one of the four bullies in Yanping.
Facing such a bully who is not afraid of death and cannot be beaten, the government has nothing to do with him, and other bullies have to give face...
According to Cui Meng's confession, Li Zhun was Li Sixiong's only son. Because he and Cui Meng were similar in age and had the same family background, the two were good friends.
Cui Meng said that this Li Zhun is the real ghost-faced killer!
"That's because you don't pay much attention to Jianghu affairs," Shen Mingchen introduced to Chen Houlu at this time, "This Li Zhun is a martial arts wizard whose talent far exceeds that of his father. He has been paid attention to by major martial arts sects since he was a child.
"According to rumors in the world, this Li Zhun should be studying at Xihai Palace in Shuzhou now, but... I don't know if this rumor is reliable."
Shuzhou Xihai Palace?
Xu Zhen vaguely remembered that this place was mentioned in "The Way of Demons". It seemed that there were two top Daxuan masters there decades ago.
"This time," Song Zhili sat on the main seat, seemingly speaking to everyone, but in fact he kept staring at Xu Zhen, "You won't make a mistake again, right?"
His meaning was obvious, so he naturally wanted to ask Xu Zhen, now it's the third bully's turn, isn't it arranged by you again?
I only have three days left, so I really can’t afford to play anymore.
"I feel like it's not wrong, right?" Chen Houlu said, "I heard with my own ears that Cui Meng said that he and Li Zhun had a close friendship and were almost inseparable. Sometimes Cui Meng would go to collect debts, and Li Zhun would follow.
“So Li Zhun knows which properties are occupied by the Cui family and are uninhabited.
"Another point is that Li Zhun never goes to drink flower wine with Cui Meng.
"One time Cui Meng found some brothel girls and wanted to play with Li Zhun, but Li Zhun was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic and angrily threw the table away, leaving him baffled..."
"Yes, both in age and martial arts," Shen Mingchen added, "Cui Meng also confirmed that Li Zhun was in Yanping during the period when the Ghost Faced Killer case broke out.
"Of course...I..." Shen Mingchen's eyes flickered and he said, "I still neglected an important thing before. If the person who helped the Ghost Faced Killer dispose of the body was Tang Chou, how could Tang Chou use his unique skills? Where’s the secret skill?”
oh?
Everyone hurriedly listened attentively.
"It looks like now," Shen Mingchen muttered, stroking his beard, "The person who knocked Cheng Xiao and others unconscious and took away the bodies was most likely Li Sixiong himself!"
ah?
Everyone was surprised.
"Looking at the entire Yanping County," Shen Mingchen said, "I'm afraid he is the only one who can imitate Tang Chou's Donghe Mountain Palm, right?"
At this point, Shen Mingchen glanced at Xu Zhen inadvertently, which meant that I could finally tell the truth.
I don’t know if it can be restored without making anyone suspicious.
"Li Sixiong..." Cheng Xiao was quite surprised, "Looking at it this way, no wonder Chen Tiefeng and I have no power to fight back! It's terrible!"
"You're still talking about it," Shen Mingchen complained, "If you had told this story back then, not only would Qi Dalang not have died, maybe I would have been able to figure out who the Ghost Faced Killer was!"
"..."
Cheng Xiao lowered his head in shame, but his eyes were still a bit dissatisfied. He really wanted to ask Mr. Shen, the catcher, even if I told you at the beginning, which one of Cui Xiaotian and Li Sixiong would you dare to touch?
Shen Mingchen seemed to realize the embarrassment and quickly changed the topic:
"It is true that we did not do our job carefully back then. We just thought that those young men from well-off families never lacked women and would naturally not commit such evil acts of harming women, so we never doubted them.
"Now I know that's not the case, alas..."
After the old catcher sighed, the discussion came to an abrupt end and became cold.
"Xu Zhen," Song Zhili finally couldn't help but ask, "What do you think? Is Li Zhun the real murderer?"
With one sentence, everyone turned their attention to Xu Zhen.
Xu Zhen was well prepared and immediately stood up and analyzed:
"Cui Meng said that during the Ghost Face Killer case, Li Zhun had just returned from studying abroad and seemed to be in a bad mood.
"I think, according to the psychology of Jianghu people, if Li Zhun came back from studying art from a famous school, it should be something worth showing off. But both Li Sixiong and Li Zhun behave so low-key, it seems...not Too reasonable."
"Then..." Song Zhili asked, "What do you mean?"
"I suspect that Li Zhun got into some trouble when he was studying martial arts and was expelled," Xu Zhen speculated. "His psychology was stimulated. Once a person with peerless martial arts loses his mind, the consequences will be disastrous. .
"Besides, Cui Meng also said that he has never seen Li Zhun since the Ghost Faced Killer case ended. If Li Zhun really went to the Xihai Palace, wouldn't he come back for thirteen years?
"So, I also think that Li Zhun should be the ghost-faced killer!"
"Oh..." This time, Song Zhili behaved and did not respond.
"I remembered," Cheng Xiao suddenly remembered something and said, "I remember that after the Ghost Faced Killer case was completed, I heard rumors about being possessed by someone from the Tianxiong Escort Agency.
"At that time, we just thought it was Li Sixiong who went crazy. If...if it wasn't Li Sixiong, but..."
"I feel..." Chen Houlu said, "If Li Zhun is no longer the ghost-faced killer, then there really will be no one!"
"Okay, okay," Song Zhili spread his hands and said miserably, "Anyway, we have already offended two of the four bullies, so we are not afraid of one more!
"In that case, let's discuss what to do next?"
ah?
this……
As soon as these words came out, everyone suddenly looked embarrassed.
"What's wrong?" Song Zhili pointed at Cheng Xiao, "Didn't you say before that Li Sixiong was terminally ill?
"Oh... are you worried that Li Zhun is not in Yanping at all?"
Unexpectedly, after saying this, everyone still bowed their heads and remained silent, with expressions of embarrassment on their faces.
"What's wrong?" Song Zhili said, "Can this matter be more difficult than dealing with Cui Xiaotian? What's the big deal... another notice?"
"Sir..." Finally, Cheng Xiao stepped forward and said, "You may not know that the head of Tianxiong Escort Bureau is no longer Li Sixiong! Even if we mobilize the entire city, we probably can't afford to offend this person..."
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