Yu Xin's words were like thunder, exploding in Ren Yi's mind.
Ren Yi didn't have the courage to look directly at Yu Xin, so he turned sideways, stretched out his hand to stir up the water of the Yellow River, and said slowly: "Mr. Ge, water and fire are ruthless, and they are even more unpredictable. Talking about the transfer of family members sounds like nonsense. Talk."
"Haha, if this is nonsense, you will know after a visit to Yuanwu."
Yu Xin looked at Bei'an calmly.
Ren Yi narrowed his eyes slightly and his heart sank.
After several interviews, Ren Yi was sure that Yu Xin knew some things, but these things he should not know.
Looking at Yu Xin, who was wily and scheming, Ren Yi raised a string of water splashes and said coldly: "No matter where you go, as the prefect of Kaifeng, you naturally need to accompany the adults to see it. Yuanwu is a miserable place, and it is not easy."
A faint smile appeared on the corner of Yu Xin's mouth, but it disappeared in an instant, and he said slowly: "Then let's go meet a few acquaintances."
Ren Yi looked at Yu Xin in surprise, but Yu Xin said nothing and walked out as soon as the boat landed.
acquaintance?
Could it be that Miao Jiwen, the former magistrate of Wuxian County, and Zhang Xing were the chief bookkeeper?
Or is there someone else?
Yuanwu is very backward and can be said to be an extremely poor place.
The great flood in the 24th year of Hongwu destroyed all the production materials here, including most of the population.
Although after several years of population migration, Yuanwu has gained some popularity and the population has reached 2,000 households, which can barely be regarded as a medium-sized county. However, Yuanwu is still dilapidated and poverty-stricken.
The vast majority of the population here is extremely poor.
Absolute poverty is not poverty. Poverty can only be regarded as a lack of money, but it is still more or less hungry, cold and thirsty.
The people from the Niu family next door have to work hard every day, but they can only eat two meals and are not full. It is okay to say that they are poor, but they cannot be classified as abject poverty.
Absolute poverty means really having nothing.
When to eat depends on when the trees sprout and whether there are wild vegetables in the field. If you can guard the post and wait for a rabbit, then congratulations, you can temporarily escape abject poverty for two days.
When to drink water depends on whether there is still water in the pond. If the water dries up, it is best to go to the Yellow River to drink some water.
Go to the landlord's well to get water?
Well, it's not impossible, you just need to be mentally prepared to stay at the bottom of the well forever. After all, the landlord has many wells, and if I give you one or two, you won't lose much.
clothing?
Alas, this is hard to say.
People know that integrity is something that comes after the stomach is solved. The stomach cannot be solved. First, there is no face, second, there is no face, and third, there is no one to give face, so integrity is not important...
It is normal for several people to wear the same pants.
My father is old and can no longer work, so he wears his trousers for his eldest son. When the eldest son came home half exhausted from working, he took off his trousers and lay down on the bed, but his trousers were taken away by his younger brother. It was a bit windy at night, so he had to help. Landlords go to raise wheat.
When later generations describe a good relationship between two people, they usually use this sentence: They are as good as wearing a pair of pants.
The meaning of this sentence is not that they are both destitute and penniless paupers, but that their relationship is like a family.
Because in ancient times, only one family member wore a pair of trousers, from the father to the eldest son, second son, third son and even grandson...
How many people can wear a pair of pants depends on how many children there are and how many can lie on the bed. It is really unbearable, and there are many old people running around naked.
Later, Tang Bohu pretended to be crazy and used the trick of streaking, which was to deceive King Ning at that time. If King Ning had some knowledge, he would go to the countryside and see the poor farmers.
It is estimated that Tang Bohu would not regard him as a madman even if he ran naked for several months...
Yuan Wu was very poor, very poor, so there were not a few people running naked or semi-naked. There were even two naked people nesting in the haystack next to them.
Yu Xin and his men stood next to the haystacks and observed carefully for a long time before sighing: "Master Magistrate, this is the Yuanwu under your rule. The people are so poor that they can only live in the haystacks?"
Ren Yi's face was livid. He looked at the angry Yu Xin and gritted his teeth and reminded: "Sir, there are not two naked men in this haystack..."
Yu Xin looked at Ren Yi and said in a deep voice: "Do you want two men to be in a haystack?"
Ren Yi was speechless.
This clearly shows that a man and a woman are having an affair, so why are they involved? Didn't you see that they just used the old tree and the crow, which clearly shows that they have the power of hatred, which means that the people under their control are at least full.
Inspecting all the way, asking all the way, and exploring all the way.
Many courtyards here are just fences with branches stuck out, and many even have no fences at all, just a lonely thatched house.
"Is this the home of an old man named Yuan Wu?"
Yu Xin and his party stopped by a pond, looked at the small courtyard in front of them, and asked in a deep voice.
"According to what the villagers said, it should be Wu Dazhuang's family."
Song Li replied respectfully.
Yu Xin nodded slightly, and just as he was about to push the wooden door open, Xiong Wucheng stopped Yu Xin and said, "Sir, something is wrong here. Let me go into the courtyard to investigate first."
"What's wrong?"
Yu Xin's old face darkened.
Yu Xin was very dissatisfied with Xiong Wucheng and the people he brought with him. If Xiong Wucheng hadn't had a good attitude towards admitting his mistakes, Yu Xin might not have been willing to use people from the Security Bureau again.
Xiong Wucheng pointed to the poplar tree not far away and said, "Sir, there are crows' nests here, and there are quite a few of them."
"so what?"
Yu Xin turned around and looked. There was a crow's nest built high on the poplar tree. There were also some nests on the trees not far away.
"Five Dynasties Rivers, Mountains and Winds"
Xiong Wucheng narrowed his eyes and said: "When I passed those trees, I threw a few stones, but I couldn't see the crows, but here, I heard the crows."
Guagua.
The sound of hissing crows could be heard faintly from the courtyard.
Yu Xin took a step back, Gao Wei and others quickly protected Yu Xin in the middle, and the people from the security bureau also began to disperse.
Ren Yi looked at all this without knowing why and asked: "What happened?"
Jing Qing stared at the firewood door of the house and said solemnly: "Crows protect their nests and are extremely fierce. If a stone flies by, the crows will be startled and they will fly into the sky and crow. If they don't crow, it only means that the crows are not in the nest." And the sound of crows coming from the courtyard means that the crows are in the courtyard."
"So what in the courtyard?"
Ren Yi asked with a frown.
Jing Qing glanced at Ren Yi and said slowly: "Crows like to eat carrion."
Ren Yi took a deep breath.
Xiong Wucheng kicked open the wooden door, and two people from the Security Bureau quickly entered the courtyard. Xiong Wucheng, Yu Xin and others walked into the courtyard, and their faces became ugly.
The air was filled with a putrid smell, and the crows that were frightened were not just three or two, but dozens of them, a mass of blackness.
"check!"
Yu Xin gritted his teeth and said.
Xiong Wucheng took people to the room to investigate. Within half an hour, he walked back to the courtyard and reported to Yu Xin and others: "Sir, there are sixteen people in this house, old and young, all of them." He was killed, and the time of death was about seven days ago.”
"Seven days ago?"
Yu Xin recalled that this time was the day after he entered Kaifeng Mansion, that is, the old boatman
The day my identity was revealed.
The identity of the old boatman was leaked, which can only mean that he is the old man Yuan Wu. Logically speaking, even if the person in the dark thinks of the flood in the 24th year of Hongwu, he will not use such drastic measures to directly eliminate potential insiders, right?
Going on a killing spree based on just a suspicion?
This is too crazy.
"Any clues?"
Yu Xin looked at Xiong Wucheng and asked seriously.
"Sir, please take a moment to speak."
Xiong Wucheng did not speak directly.
Yu Xin thought for a moment and said, "Take me to have a look. You guys wait here."
Ren Yi, Gao Wei and others had no choice but to stay in the courtyard.
Yu Xin walked into the main room, looked at the body lying on the ground, and frowned.
Xiong Wucheng took a deep breath and said: "Sir, the murderer is about five feet tall, but he is a very powerful double swordsman! Judging from the wounds, it was caused by using both swords at the same time, with a total of twenty-one swords. "
Yu Xin's face became solemn. Being called extremely powerful by Xiong Wucheng showed that his methods should not be underestimated.
"Can you find someone with just these?"
Yu Xin asked.
Xiong Wucheng nodded solemnly and said: "Sir, it is extremely difficult to achieve success with two swords. Even if I have an army of three hundred thousand in the Ming Dynasty, I can't find three hundred swordsmen who can cast twenty-one swords in one go. I can’t even find five of them with deadly knives.”
Yu Xin looked at Xiong Wucheng and felt a little uneasy.
Xiong Wucheng shook his head and said: "The former commander Shi Liu Changge can only use his double swords at most eighteen times at a time, and he is particularly weak compared to the person in front of him."
"Give me a name!"
Yu Xin said coldly.
Xiong Wucheng pondered for a while and replied: "During the Battle of Yuerhai, there were three double swordsmen who challenged us. One of them died in the rebel army, and another one left the military camp. His name was Guo Luan. "
"Guo Luan?"
Yu Xin seemed to have heard this name before, but he couldn't remember it. He looked at Xiong Wucheng and asked, "Did you mention one less person?"
Xiong Wucheng laughed and said: "Mr. Ge, there is no way that the third person can do this, because he is in the capital now."
"Gu Sanshen?"
Yu Xin raised his eyebrows.
Xiong Wucheng nodded and said nothing.
Gu Sanshen's ability to succeed Liu Changge was not based on mere appearances. Once his swords were deployed, twenty or thirty people would not be able to get close to him.
"Where is Guo Luan?"
Yu Xin is not interested in the affairs of the Security Bureau. The current murder case shows that the person behind it is not only extremely energetic, but also ruthless and decisive in his methods.
And this does not seem to be the style of King Zhou.
According to Yu Xin's observation, the King of Zhou may be ambitious, but he is not very confident and needs counselors and advice from others. Such people are often not decisive.
Not being decisive means that King Zhou is unlikely to arrange for someone to kill the old boatman immediately after learning the identity of the old boatman. At least he will wait and observe for a while.
But these people died, they died on that day.
Is their death a coincidence of time, or is there someone hiding deeper, with ruthless determination, Yu Xin needs to know the answer.
PS:
Jingxue wishes everyone a happy New Year in Shandong. I wish all readers a happy New Year, all the best, and hope that we will make progress in the coming year, whether in studies or work.
To live your life, you always need to do something.
I hope everyone will have dreams and live comfortably and happily.
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