Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 600 Return Link
"What did you give me to eat?"

Baili Bing pinched Yang Yuan's cheek and pushed the pill directly into his throat.

She let go only after watching Yang Yuan swallow the pill unconsciously.

This woman had no compassion for women at all, and she pinched Yang Yuan's cheeks so hard that they ached.

"Don't worry, it's not a murderous poison. It's just to soften your hands and feet so that you don't have bad intentions to hurt others again."

Baili Bing threw him a wink, looking particularly charming under the candlelight.

She pulled out a piece of steel wire from her hair bun and fiddled with the keyhole on Yang Yuan's shackles. She opened the shackles for him very skillfully and turned around to check on Fei Yuye's condition.

She pulled Fei Yuye's shoulders and made her sit up halfway. After seeing Fei Yuye's appearance clearly, she said with a sigh, "What a pretty girl! Your woman? She really fights for you."

Yang Yuan asked in a deep voice: "Who are you?"

Baili Bing was talking to himself: "I never realized that you are such a popular person with both men and women.

Princess Ping'er, Princess Xiuning, Princess Qinglu and those little girls all miss you.

That silly boy Shangguan Luo is obsessed with you too. Now that you have returned to Song State, you can still attract such a beautiful girl..."

Yang Yuan was immediately surprised: "You...are from Xinjin?"

"To be precise, I am from the Xinjin Yiluansi. I am Baili Bing, and I am considered a worshiper of the Yiluansi."

Baili Bing also fed Fei Yuye a pill that could relieve the force on her cartilage, and then he took out the silver needles hidden in her cuffs, collar and hair bun.

She put the fat jade leaf back on the ground, turned around and looked at Yang Yuan, her eyebrows raised: "Didn't expect it? In Shangguan Luo's eyes, he is the top scholar with great foresight and omnipotence."

Yang Yuan was stunned for a moment, and said: "Even if you are a god, you can't plan everything.

I really didn't expect that the New Jin would send someone to kidnap me. Our two countries are allies, why did you kidnap me?"

Baili Bing snorted and said, "You should thank me. If I hadn't kidnapped you, you would have died on the bridge today."

When Yang Yuan rushed out of the car, he saw a melee outside and had no idea that there were five parties involved.

But he was clear that the constables escorting them wanted to kill him.

After hearing what Baili Bing said, Yang Yuan couldn't help but stare at her and asked, "Do you know that they intend to harm me?"

Baili Bing curled his lips and said, “I’m not a god, how could I know in advance?

You are just lucky. I wanted to rob your prison van, but I didn't expect that someone was trying to kill you, so I just happened to meet him at that time."

She looked at Yang Yuan and smiled, "How many things have you done that angered God and the people? Why do so many people want to kill you?"

Yang Yuan didn't realize that the so many people she mentioned referred to several groups of people. She just thought that Liu Yiguan had arranged a large number of people. Yang Yuan said, "You just said that I am a popular person."

Baili Bing smiled and said, "It's true that you are loved by everyone, and it's also true that you are hated by everyone. Including us, there are four groups of people who want to take advantage of you. You are really amazing."

Yang Yuan then realized something was wrong and asked in a lost voice, "There are four groups of people?"

Baili Bing said: "Yes, I thought I was the only one who wanted to attack you, but who would have thought that there were actually four forces lying in ambush at the bridgehead..."

Baili Bing didn't know that the constable in the car also wanted to kill Yang Yuan, and she thought the cold arrow from the bridge was just a means for one of the other three groups of people to create chaos.

Baili Bing briefly told Yang Yuan about the three groups of forces she discovered when attacking the prison van.

After hearing this, Yang Yuan's heart suddenly moved. From her description, the two women in black and the woman with the straight sword should be Ji Xiang, Hanane, and Xiao Nai.

Have they returned to Lin'an?
Judging from the time, the cargo ship should arrive in the next few days, so it is possible for them to come here on the cargo ship.

But who are the other two groups?

He saw one of the people who was trying to kill him with an iron pestle at the front of the car, and thought it was Liu Yiguan's arrangement.

As for the person who stood at the bridgehead and scattered the drugs as Baili Bing mentioned, he didn't see him. Now he knew what Baili Bing said.

Since those people threw the drugs without distinguishing between friend and foe, it was obvious that they formed a force of their own.

I just went to the Lin'an government office to stand trial. Did it involve so many forces?

For a moment, Yang Yuan was confused about the origins of those forces. He turned his attention back to Baili Bing and asked:

"You haven't answered me yet. The Song Dynasty and the New Jin Dynasty are allies now. I have been quite helpful to the New Jin Dynasty. Why do you want to deal with me?"

Baili Bing stared at Yang Yuan and said quietly, "Don't you know that you deceived Brother Shangguan?"

Yang Yuan frowned, Shangguan Luo?

Of course he knew it, but he never took it to heart.

His help to Xinjin was real.

Shangguan Luo went from being a loser who supported Wanyan Yong and opposed the family of King of Yue Wanyan Luti to eventually becoming a founding hero of the New Jin Empire. At a young age, he was the Minister of Rites and was in charge of such an important government office as the Yiluansi. Wasn't it all because of his help?
He just concealed from Shangguan Luo that he was still loyal to the Song Dynasty and planned to retire after the affairs in the Northern Kingdom were settled. What's so great about it? It didn't hurt Shangguan Luo in any way.

Compared with everything he has given to Shangguan Luo, can such a concealment that is completely harmless to Shangguan Luo be a reason for Shangguan Luo to deal with him?

If Shangguan Luo was a woman and he had deceived her feelings, it would be understandable for him to resent himself.

But Shangguan Luo is a man. It's just this little secret of his that is harmless to others and is purely for self-protection. What's wrong with hiding it from him?

Baili Bing said: "Brother Shangguan is very sad and angry.

You are the first friend he trusted so much, believed in so much, and was so close to, but you deceived him and treated him like a little fool. "

Yang Yuan was speechless after hearing this. He knew that Shangguan Luo had a sickly sister, but he really didn't know that Shangguan Mingyue also had a sickly brother!

He must be crazy. Just for such a trivial thing, he is so brooding over it that he even sends people to Song Dynasty to kidnap him?
Isn’t he afraid that this will destroy the alliance between Song and Jin?

Yang Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Shangguan Luo...what on earth does he want?"

Baili Bingmei smiled and said, "Brother Shangguan has a much better conscience than you. Even though you have been so sorry to him, he has never thought of hurting you.

He just wants to take you back to the capital, so that we can serve as officials in the same court, ministers in the same palace, work together as colleagues, and get along like brothers."

Baili Bing patted Yang Yuan's cheek again and warned him, "Remember this. Don't lie to him or bully him again. Brother Shangguan is very pitiful. If you lie to him again, I won't allow it."

Yang Yuan was completely confused. No... Are you sick too? What the hell is going on?

Baili Bing said: "The people of Song Dynasty have let you down. You have made so many contributions, but there are still people who want to plot against you, want to put you in jail, or even kill you. Why are you still working for the Song Dynasty?"

She stood up and said, "You just stay here obediently these days. When the storm is over, I will take you to the capital."

Baili Bing glanced at Fei Yuye who was lying next to him and said, "Hey, stop pretending to be asleep now that you're awake.

As for you, since you are Yang Yuan's woman, I will take you back to Shangjing with me. It's because Brother Shangguan treats her like a big treasure."

When Fei Yuye saw that she had been seen through, she opened her eyes.

Baili Bing sighed twice and said, "Poor girls in the Yiluansi, they still miss their teacher Yang.

He was living a carefree life in Song State, surrounded by beautiful women."

Suddenly, one of Baili Bing's subordinates came over quickly and said, "Miss Bing, the soldiers are coming this way."

"Then I'm sorry to both of you for a while. Although you are weak now, but..."

Baili Bing waved his hand: "Tie them up."

A hemp rope tied Yang Yuan and Fei Yuye tightly together.

Yang Yuan protested with his eyes wide open: "How can you tie someone up like this? Are you short of ropes?"

Fei Yuye had her back to Yang Yuan, pressed tightly against his arms, their legs tied together at the ankles with ropes.

Yang Yuan's hands went around Fei Yuye's back, wrapped around her chest, and tied her wrists tightly together.

Such close contact made Fei Yuye blush.

She dared not move, because if she moved, she would inevitably have more contact with Yang Yuan.

"Come on, just make do with it for now. You two are not strangers to each other, why are you pretending?"

Baili Bing waved his hand disapprovingly and said, "Let's go."

Yang Yuan and Fei Yuyeru were tied together and carried onto a couch.

It's quite considerate. After all, this underground palace is still quite cold and damp.

However, the secret room hidden under the base of the tower is quite large. Baili Bing had long planned to use this place as a place to hide people, so he made preparations early on, with all the daily necessities and even a bed for them.

Then these people left in a hurry.

Although they firmly believed that they would not be discovered by the officers and soldiers here, there was no need to take the risk.

If they stayed in the underground palace and were discovered by soldiers, they would be caught in a jar and unable to escape.

The underground palace suddenly fell silent. Fei Yuye froze there, not daring to move, feeling extremely embarrassed.

Yang Yuan was tied behind her, as if he was hugging her tightly.

Although Yang Yuan did not deliberately get close to her, but... the warmth and beauty in his arms, especially the plump and full part, was against his body...

Yang Yuan became nervous.

The government has arrived in Chengdu, right?
Is Shangguan Luo so yandere?

This merchant ship is heading to Beijing, and no one knows who the ship's owner is.

Xue Jiezi said that his family would slaughter a pig one day and invite me to come over to eat the slaughtered pig dishes...

It was useless. He tried desperately to think about other things and divert his attention, but...

Yang Xiaoyuan still began to show his extraordinary talents with perseverance, indomitable spirit and determination, just like... a bamboo shoot after the rain!

……

In the dense forest on one side of the dilapidated Leifeng Pagoda, a young man was lying quietly on a tree trunk like a chameleon.

He has colorful protective colors on his body, so even if someone gets very close, it would be difficult to detect his presence if they don't know he is here in advance.

He saw several figures suddenly appear on the side of Leifeng Tower.

The few people looked at the lake and saw that the patrol boat was coming this way. So they walked quickly to the other side, which was the direction of the "Qiyun Archery Club". It seemed that they wanted to leave from that side.

This place has become a ruin, with dense vegetation and entwined vines. People are walking hurriedly under it, but from the side of the West Lake, no human activity can be seen there.

As they walked away, a person slid down from higher up the tree trunk, also wearing a colorful protective silk cloak.

The man whispered, "Leopard, I didn't see where they came from."

The man lying quietly there frowned and said, "There must be a secret mechanism underneath."

They are members of the Tongzhou Society, trained by Old Man Song. Moreover, they are brothers, one is called Xiao Hu and the other is called Xiao Bao.

They had just been following them all the way here.

They were originally following Yang Yuan's arrangement and were keeping an eye on Gong Jinquan (Da Bu Ye), Huang Ji (Yidu), Yao Kun (Puyang Wen) and others.

These secret spies of the Jin Dynasty who set up fake "huizi offices" to distribute huizi and disrupt the market burned down the fake huizi offices and fled when Liu Yiguan went to Longshan City to arrest Wang Yuanwai. At that time, they were targeted by the people of the "Tongzhou Society".

Fan Shi did not accidentally discover any clues when clearing illegal buildings. Instead, the people from the Tongzhou Club had been keeping an eye on Gong Jinquan and the others before that.

When Liu Yiguan seized the right to arrest from Wang Zirui, it was Uncle Gou who sent someone to take a step ahead to warn Gong Jinquan's people, leaving Liu Yiguan empty-handed.

In order to set a trap for his political enemies, Yang Yuan kept silent and deliberately let these people continue to jump around, but he would eventually bring them to justice and naturally could not let them really get out of control.

Therefore, Uncle Gou has been sending people to keep an eye on them.

Unexpectedly, after staring at each other for a while, they actually wanted to break into the Duzi Bridge and assassinate Yang Yuan.

Liu Yiguan used the fake meeting case to set a trap for Yang Yuan, and Yang Yuan used these golden spies to lure Liu Yiguan into the trap.

However, these Jin spies wanted to use Yang Yuan's death to lure the two opposing forces of the Song State into a trap. The three parties each had their own plans.

After the people sent by Uncle Lao Gou to follow realized the other party's true intention of appearing at the Duzi Bridge, the assassination had already begun.

Everything that happened at Qiaotou actually happened in a very short period of time.

After Yang Yuan was kidnapped, there were three people responsible for keeping an eye on him. One continued to keep an eye on Gong Jinquan and the others and left, while Xiao Hu and Xiao Bao followed.

However, when they tracked to the place where Baili Bing and others disappeared, they could not find the entrance. Because they were afraid of being discovered, they had to hide first.

Seeing Baili Bing and others leaving, the two of them slid down the tree.

They searched carefully again at the location where they had just observed Baili Bing and others appear. This was just an ordinary ruin, and no signs of having been opened were found.

"Brother Hu, the soldiers have arrived at the shore."

Xiao Bao discovered that the searching boat had already docked, and hurriedly said something to Xiao Hu.

Xiao Hu said bitterly: "Let's go first and ask Seniors Wang Changsheng and Han Qianchen to come and take a look."

The two of them hurriedly left the place, taking into account that it would take some time for the officers and soldiers to search over.

The people who went ashore to search were a group of officers and soldiers who had temporarily requisitioned a cruise ship.

Among them were the imperial guards from the Palace Front Department, the marriage officials from the Imperial City Department, as well as the inspectors sent by the nearby wing offices and the security personnel from the streets and alleys.

They didn't quite believe that the criminals who kidnapped Yang Yuan and Fei Yuye would hide here, because it was too close to the crime scene.

Normally, the perpetrator would not hide so close to the crime scene, and people would instinctively run as far away as possible.

However, they conducted a carpet search, searching all the alleys and streets in and outside Lin'an, and this place was naturally not to be missed.

……

At the Duzi Bridge, the imperial envoy Mu En came in person, and he brought a few coroners with him.

It was during the Song Dynasty that coroners officially became an industry that assisted the government in investigating scenes and examining corpses.

All government offices that deal with criminal cases have their own coroners that they are used to and trust the most.

As soon as they arrived, they began to inspect everything on the bridge.

Mu En immediately summoned the parties involved in the prisoner hijacking incident and interrogated them one by one.

The Imperial City Bureau is an intelligence organization directly under the emperor. The leader of such a force must be the emperor's most trusted person.

Logically speaking, after Zhao Yuan became the emperor, the two people who needed to be replaced immediately were the chief eunuch of the palace and the imperial envoy of the city.

Zhao Yuan replaced the chief eunuch Zhang Quwei at the first opportunity, but Mu En still held the position of the director of the Imperial City Department.

Because Zhang Quwei, who was deeply trusted by Zhao Gou, had a close relationship with Qin Hui, this was something Zhao Yuan absolutely could not tolerate.

When Mu En was the director of the Imperial City Department, he was very close to Zhao Yuan, the Prince of Pu'an at the time, and they had worked together on cases.

And he is a clear-cut radical.

For these reasons, Zhao Yuan did not touch him for the time being because he trusted him.

But Mu En knew clearly that although the emperor trusted him, this important position of eyes and ears would eventually be handed over to someone the emperor had been using since childhood.

Now the two deputy envoys of the Imperial City Administration are originally from the Prince Pu'an's Mansion.

One of them, Deputy Envoy Han Jiansong, came with him today. I believe that once these two people become familiar with the assistants and commanders of the Imperial City Bureau and understand the various operations of the Imperial City Bureau, it will be time to replace him.

If he can handle a few more successful cases during this period, he will be able to go to a more satisfactory place after he resigns as the Imperial City Envoy.

"Lift it up, preliminary inspection, I found some problems."

An old coroner led Mu En to the dilapidated prison van.

The people from Lin'an Prefecture had caused some damage to the scene as they rescued the injured and carried away the bodies.

But an experienced coroner can still find out a lot of things from the numerous traces.

The coroner pointed to the body of a constable who had been brought back and said, "The left calf of this corpse was hit by a clog at this location."

The coroner squatted down, lifted the hem of the corpse's robe, pointed at the bruises on his calves, and said affirmatively: "This was an injury just before death, so the swelling of the bruises is not serious.

Lift it up, and look at the arrow that shot into his neck from behind..."

The old coroner accurately simulated the situation at that time:
“He should have been sitting in this position, and was suddenly kicked and hit by the prisoner diagonally opposite, causing his body to lean to this side.

An arrow shot through the window of the prison van and hit him in the back of the neck, so he was shot at such a weird angle. "

"Looking at the bruises on his legs again, they are the size of men's shoes, so the person sitting opposite him should be the suspect Yang Yuan.

The person sitting in the middle with a window behind him should be the female prisoner Fei Yuye."

When prisoners are imprisoned, they change into prison uniforms and shoes as well.

Clogs are wooden-soled shoes with several straps tied on them. Another advantage of prisoners wearing this kind of shoes is that they make noises when they walk.

This makes it very difficult for them to escape from prison because it is difficult not to alert the jailers.

Therefore, the scars caused by these clogs on the human body are easy to identify.

Another old coroner was not to be outdone: "Tiju, the death of this deceased is very strange.

You see, he suffered a severe blow to the face, his nose was broken, and his front teeth were broken, but the injury was serious but not fatal, and yet he died. "

The coroner grabbed the right hand of the deceased, who had been hit hard in the face by the sharp corner of the shackles used by Yang Yuan:

"Please look, this person is wearing a ring on his hand. The strange thing is that there is a sharp protrusion on the ring.

I have sniffed it and it has a bitter smell, which must be a deadly poison.

I cannot confirm what the poison is yet, but I found needle marks on the face of the deceased, please take a look..."

He pointed at the wound on his cheek, where he subconsciously covered his face with his hands because of the severe pain, and the needle tip of the ring pierced his cheek, and concluded:
“The needle tip on the ring is facing inwards, so I think he is wearing a ring that contains a poisonous needle tip.

At this time, he was suddenly hit hard in the face by the shackles, and the pain was so severe that he covered his face with his hands, and the poisoned needle pierced his cheek, causing his death.

Mu En's eyes narrowed and he said, "The tip of a needle is so small that even if it is poisoned, its effect is limited. How could it be so toxic?"

Han Jiansong, the deputy envoy of the Imperial City Department, who had been observing and rarely speaking, nodded and said, "The supervisor is from the north, and I think he has never seen such a poison.

I am from the south, and I have heard of the malaria-ridden areas in the south, where there are many strange poisons in the mountains. Among them is a poisonous tree whose sap kills people instantly, and it is called 'Seven up, eight down, nine down'."

Mu En said: "What do you mean by that?"

Deputy Director Han said, "It means that if you go up, you only need seven steps, if you go down, you only need eight steps, and if you walk on flat ground, you only need nine steps before you fall to the ground and die."

Mu En thought about it for a moment and understood.

Walking up is the most strenuous, and the blood flows fastest. Walking down is slightly less strenuous than walking up. Walking on flat ground is the most peaceful, but it only takes nine steps. This poison is really powerful.

Mu En narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "This constable put on a ring tempered with a deadly poison and wanted to use it on Yang Yuan?
As a result, Yang Yuan was the first to notice it. Although his hands were in shackles, he used the shackles to fight back and hit him in the face.

The constable was in so much pain that he covered his face with his hands, but he forgot that he was wearing a poison ring, and ended up being poisoned himself and dying? "

The coroner apologized with a smile and said, "I will only report my findings to the supervisor, and will not speculate."

Deputy Director Han smiled faintly, but his smile was not as bright as his eyes, which seemed a little cold: "Why did the constable who escorted him to the trial want to kill him? This is quite interesting."

Han Fu Tiju was Zhao Yuan's confidant. When Zhao Yuan was the Prince of Pu'an, he was Tongzhilang of the Prince's Mansion and Zhao Yuan's attendant military officer.

Of course he knew how much the government valued Yang Yuan. Now the three ministries were going to try Yang Yuan, and the constables sent by Lin'an Prefecture actually wanted to assassinate Yang Yuan on the way. A hint of murderous intent was already revealed on Deputy Director Han's face.

Mu En looked at Captain Xing and asked calmly, "There are four escorts in the car?"

Captain Xing was standing aside, listening to their conversation, and was already sweating profusely.

He really didn't expect that the four escorting constables in the car were actually involved in the murder of Yang Yuan.

Who instructed them?
Liu Yiguan's name quickly popped into his mind.

Hearing Mu En's question, Captain Xing stammered, "Yes, yes..."

"Bring the two who are still alive here."

"He... they were badly injured."

Deputy Han said, "Isn't he still alive? Bring him here!"

(End of this chapter)