As soon as Li Zhiyun entered the room, Cai Hu pointed with his hand and said, "Your Majesty, look!" He lowered his head and saw Lu Sifang lying on the ground, bleeding from the wound on his chest. He was seriously injured and was dying. A guard knelt down and picked him up. Lu Sifang's face was pale and his lips were moving, as if he wanted to say something. Li Zhiyun also squatted down, put his ear close to his mouth, and heard his weak breath: "Qiu...hong..." Before he could finish his words, his neck snapped and he died.
Zhang Zheng chased him all the way, and saw the assassin using his exquisite light skills to jump onto the roof of a nearby house and jump on the buildings in an attempt to escape. Zhang Zheng also jumped up. His Qinggong was even better than that of the assassin, and he quickly caught up with him. He came up with a "big roc spreading his wings", flew in front of the assassin, stopped him, and sneered: "Let's see where you are going to run?"
The assassin was dressed in armor, with a black scarf on his face and a sharp sword in his hand. Seeing that there was no way to escape, without saying a word, he made a "Zhong Kui decision" and pierced Zhang Zheng's eyes with the tip of his sword. Zhang Zheng hurriedly used a "Jade Girl Shuttle" to avoid the sword edge. Seeing that the move failed, the assassin was about to use a "Flying Star" to escape, but Zhang Zheng came towards him with a "Wind Sweeping Plum Blossom"...
Inside the room, the guards placed Lu Sifang's body on the ground, and Li Zhiyun stood up. Cai Hu on the side sighed and said: "This mastermind is so cunning. He always gets one step ahead of us." Li Zhiyun smiled and said: "He is plugging loopholes. The more loopholes he has, the more passive he becomes. When he can't block it, he will surface on his own."
Li Zhiyun ordered the guards to search carefully inside and outside the house. Everyone searched and found nothing. At this time, Zhang Zheng came back from outside. Li Zhiyun asked: "Have you caught the assassin?" Zhang Zheng shook his head and said: "This man has superb swordsmanship, so he escaped."
Li Zhiyun left a few guards to guard the body and asked them to wait for Magistrate Wang to bring someone, and then he left with the others.
When they walked to the street, they saw three unity soldiers coming towards them with weapons in hand. When Diao Dagui saw Li Zhiyun, he quickly ran to his horse, put down his weapons and knelt down to salute. Li Zhiyun stopped the horse and jokingly said: "Diao Dagui, are you checking for contraband again?" Diao Dagui quickly put his hands straight and said: "No, no, how dare you, a villain?" Li Zhiyun nodded and said: "Go back and tell me Zhao Governor, Lu Sifang is the murderer who poisoned Sun Fen, but he is already dead." When Diao Dagui heard this, he was surprised and said quickly: "I understand."
Back at the King of Chu Inn, Li Zhiyun walked into the room, took off his sword and hung it up. Then he sat in front of the desk and studied ink. He spread out a piece of paper and wrote two big characters in willow script: Qiu Hong. Then, he asked someone to find Cai Hu, handed him the paper and said, "Find this person." Cai Hu took it, took a look, and said, "I obey."
In the afternoon of the next day, Cai Hu came to Li Zhiyun's room and said, "Your Majesty, the person has been found."
"where?"
"He's...he's..." Cai Hu squeaked.
Li Zhiyun glanced at him in surprise and said, "Why, you can't tell me the address clearly?" Cai Hu paused and said, "Cuichun Tower." Upon hearing this, Li Zhiyun hurriedly said: "What? Cuichun Tower? She is Fireworks woman?" Cai Hu nodded.
Li Zhiyun thought about it, Lu Sifang was in his twenties and had no family yet, so it was normal for him to associate with a fireworks woman. Before he died, he said this woman's name, indicating that this person was very important and probably knew something. He must personally meet this woman named Qiu Hong. Thinking of this, he said to Cai Hu: "Follow me to Cuichun Tower."
The two of them left the guest room and just walked to the front hall when they met Liu Yinglian coming in from the outside. When Liu Yinglian saw them, she said, "Where are you going?"
"Oh, go investigate the case."
"Are you going to Cuichun Tower?"
Li Zhiyun glanced at Cai Hu. Cai Hu pinched his nose and looked away. Li Zhiyun put on a fake smile on his face and said to Liu Yinglian: "How about you come with us?"
"I'm not going to that dirty place. You can go, but you're only allowed to stay for half an hour."
"As commanded."
Li Zhiyun brought Cai Hu and two guards to Cuichun Tower. As soon as they entered the hall, the madam came up to them, waving his handkerchief and said: "Oh, sir, you are here? How wonderful!" Li Zhiyun stopped. He stepped forward and said, "Madam boss, is there a woman named Qiu Hong here?"
"Yes, yes, we have four girls here: Chun Hua, Xia Qing, Qiu Hong, and Dong Xue. They are all number one. Young Master likes Qiu Hong? Ouch, Young Master has really good eyesight. Miss Qiu Hong has a beautiful face and fair skin, and she can be seen with just a pinch. Can wring out water..."
Li Zhiyun interrupted her and said, "Okay, take us to see her quickly."
"So many of you are going?" the old bustard was surprised, "Miss Qiuhong is weak and weak, and she can't bear it..."
Cai Hu glared and said, "What are you talking about? Take us there quickly!" The madam trembled with fright and said hurriedly: "Okay, okay."
The madam led several people up to the second floor, walked through the corridor, and came to the door of a room. She swayed, opened the bead curtain and walked in, shouting: "Girl, we have a guest."
Li Zhiyun walked in and took a look. It was quite spacious inside. There was a large carved bed with a red gauze curtain placed against the wall. There was a round table in the middle of the room with tea sets placed on it. There were several hollow carved horse stools placed around the table. . A promiscuous woman, heavily dressed in makeup and makeup, was sitting at the table eating melon seeds. When she saw the guest, she spit the melon seed shells in her mouth, stood up and greeted him with a smile on her face.
The woman saw that the old madam had brought in a young man. He was wearing a purple gold crown with hair and jewels on it, a two-color gold butterfly embroidered red arrow sleeves, a multi-colored palace sash with long tassels, and an azure-colored gauze. Wearing a tasseled gown with eight bunches of silk flowers, and wearing green satin and pink-soled court boots, she was born with a face like a powder ball, bright eyes and sparse eyebrows, a nose like hanging gallbladder, and a handsome appearance. When the woman saw how lovely Li Zhiyun looked, her eyes could not help but shine, and she ran forward like a hungry rat. Without any explanation, she grabbed Li Zhiyun's arm and dragged her to the bed. Frightened, Li Zhiyun quickly broke away from her hand and shouted: "Oh, what are you going to do?"
"What are you doing?" the woman asked in surprise, "What else can you do here? Go to bed!"
Cai Hu, who was following Li Zhiyun, scolded: "Don't act like crazy!" The woman then realized that there were several people behind her, and immediately said confidently: "What are you doing in here? Get out!" Li Zhiyun said with a smile: "Miss Qiu Hong, Don’t get me wrong, I’m not here for that, I’m here to ask you questions.”
"Asking? What are you asking?" After hearing this, Qiu Hong walked to the round table and sat down disappointedly.
Li Zhiyun walked over and said, "Miss Qiu Hong, do you know Lu Sifang?" Qiu Hong glanced at him and said angrily, "I don't know about Lu Sifang and Lu Siyuan." Cai Hu came over and took out his pendant. The sword was placed on her neck: "Honestly! Do you recognize me?" When the old bustard saw him, he screamed in fright. Qiuhong was also so frightened that she trembled all over and said tremblingly: "Uncle, you...you let me Think about it." She thought for a long time before saying: "It seems that there is no such person among my guests."
Li Zhiyun saw that the other party did not seem to be lying. After thanking him, he took his people and fled from this place of right and wrong. They left Cuichun Tower, Cai Hu said apologetically: "Your Majesty, there may have been a mistake. I asked someone to look for it again." Li Zhiyun smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, the name Qiuhong is very common. It's okay to find the wrong one." It’s normal.”
At night, Li Zhiyun was awakened by a noise in his sleep. He opened his eyes and saw a red light flashing on the curtains. Is it dawn? He took a closer look and saw that the light was dark red, not like the light of the sun, but rather like the red light of fire. He quickly got up, got dressed, and ran to the yard.
Many people had gathered in the courtyard, looking around and whispering to each other. Li Zhiyun took a look and saw that the western sky was reddened by the firelight, as red as the sunset. Liu Yinglian was also awakened. After she went out, she saw Li Zhiyun, ran over and took his arm, saying, "What's going on over there?"
"It seems there was a fire."
"Fire? Where's the fire?"
"have no idea."
Zhang Zheng happened to be standing nearby and interrupted: "Such a big fire doesn't look like a private house, it should be a warehouse."
"Canglin? You said it's a granary?"
"possible."
The fire burned for more than half an hour before it gradually extinguished. At this time, it was dawn. After Li Zhiyun washed up and had breakfast, he said to Zhang Zheng, "Call some guards and follow me to the fire scene." Zhang Zheng agreed and turned around to make arrangements.
After a while, everyone left the Chu King Inn and rode towards the west of the city. They walked for about a cup of tea and arrived at the scene of the fire. This is a large courtyard. Li Zhiyun dismounted in front of the gate and walked in to take a look. Several adobe houses were burned down, with only ruined walls left. Everything was charred and black, and the beams that had not been burned were still burning. With curls of green smoke.
This yard is an independent building and is not connected to the surrounding houses, so the fire did not spread. Just now, when Li Zhiyun came in, he saw Governor Zhao's carriage with purple curtains parked outside. He looked around and found Governor Zhao standing a hundred steps away, surrounded by several people.
Li Zhiyun walked over, and as soon as Governor Zhao saw him, he came up to him. When he arrived, he cupped his hands and said, "My lord, are you here too?" Li Zhiyun frowned and said, "Where was the place that was burned down?"
"Go back to your lord, it's a weapons warehouse."
Li Zhiyun understood immediately upon hearing this that this was the arsenal of regimental soldiers. Regiment soldiers are civilian armed forces. They must prepare their own dry food and weapons when encountering war. However, they only carry simple weapons, such as swords and spears, while armor and more complex weapons, such as bows and crossbows, are provided by the government. Responsible for providing. These warehouses are used to store weapons such as armor and crossbows.
"Are there any casualties?"
"Yes, three regiment soldiers guarding the warehouse were burned to death."
