Cypress Boat Floating

Lu Zhixing and others followed the direction indicated by the injured guard and came to the place where Cheng Tianhe was taken away. Another guard fell in a pool of blood with a clearly visible wound on his neck. Perhaps it was because he failed to complete the task assigned by Lu Zhixing, or perhaps it was because he was powerless to do anything about Cheng Tianhe being taken away. When the guard fell down, there was unwillingness in his eyes, and he stared in the direction they left.

Lu Zhixing couldn't bear to go forward. Most of the people in Dali Temple were those he had trained in the past few years and were able to stand on their own in the outside world. He had deep feelings for these people. What general wouldn't love his soldiers? What general wouldn't be moved when seeing his soldiers die in front of him?

The group of people behind him were all colleagues and friends lying here. They were all deeply moved when they saw the way he died, and they couldn't hide their anger towards the murderer.

Lu Zhixing stepped forward and gently closed his open eyes with his hands: "Have a safe journey, brother. We will definitely find the murderer and avenge you."

No matter how reluctant he was, he had to continue doing what he had to do. Lu Zhixing arranged for two other guards to send the guard back, and he continued to chase forward with the others.

"Second brother, where should we look now?" Looking at the hazy road ahead shrouded in the night, Lu Ci Qiu had long lost his direction. The other party came suddenly and left suddenly. No one saw where he was going, so it was not easy to find him.

Lu Zhixing looked around and saw horse hoof prints on the ground, heading east, so Lu Zhixing led everyone to the east.

Walking eastwards, it is said that there is a mass grave not far away with many wandering ghosts. Those wandering ghosts will come out at night, and no one dares to walk there at night because of fear.

However, who among those present dared to say that they did not have a drop of human blood on their hands? They were the ones who investigated and solved cases, so they naturally would not take these stories of wandering ghosts seriously.

Lu Ci Qiu couldn't ride a horse by himself, and there was no carriage for him, so Lu Zhixing took him with him, and the others helped with the wheelchair.

A group of people headed eastward in a vigorous manner.

The horse hoof prints stopped abruptly, there was no way forward, and the mass grave was right in front of us.

"Your Highness, there is a mass grave ahead." A guard took the initiative to check forward and then came back to report.

Lu Zhixing jumped off the horse first, then carried Lu Ci Qiu down and put him on the wheelchair.

"Here." Ye Jianqing got off the horse faster than them and looked around. The night did not have any effect on her eyesight. She had been training herself to see things at night.

When she arrived here, she smelled a bloody smell. The smell was not strong, but it kept lingering at her nose. She was very confident in her sense of smell and thought it was because of the mass grave at first, but the more she walked forward, the more she felt that the smell was wrong.

Although it's not summer yet, it's not that cold. Moreover, the blood in a corpse will coagulate if left for too long. Blood exposed to the air will produce a peculiar smell when it encounters bacteria. Even if the corpses in this mass grave are all buried, how is it possible to still smell the blood of those corpses?

Ye Jianqing, who was quite confident in his sense of smell, followed the smell and walked around to see if there was anything wrong. Finally, he found a pool of blood not far from the mass grave.

Someone must have killed someone here and then dragged the person away, because there was a dragging trail starting from the pool of blood and heading towards the mass grave, and this trail happened to be seen by Ye Jianqing.

Ye Jianqing frowned, looked around, then walked forward in the direction of the bloodstains and came to the mass grave.

The mass grave was filled with bodies that had not been claimed by anyone after their death. Ye Jianqing looked at the graves one by one, but the deeper he went, the stronger the smell of blood became.

Ye Jianqing deepened her thought that the body was most likely not buried, so she stopped looking at the grave mound and walked inside following the smell of blood. Finally, when she reached the innermost part, she saw a naked body.

Because he had seen it during the day, Ye Jianqing still had a certain impression of this face.

"The person is here." After finding the person, Ye Jianqing shouted over there.

Hearing Ye Jianqing's voice, Lu Zhixing and Lu Ci Qiu hurried over here.

"The man is already dead. An arrow pierced his heart and killed him instantly." Ye Jianqing briefly examined Cheng Tianhe's body and then told them some simple details.

"Was he killed by the person who took him away?" Lu Ci Qiu frowned and asked.

He was still not used to this place, not used to seeing dead people, especially this person had talked to him during the day.

"It should be. I don't know what kind of deal was made between them. The arrow was shot from behind. The other party should have said something to Cheng Tianhe, or did something that made Chen Tianhe relax his guard and was shot when he turned around and left." Ye Jianqing turned Cheng Tianhe over and looked at his wound.

The arrow had been pulled out, but the direction of the arrow could still be seen from the wound, and the technique inevitably reminded Ye Jianqing of the arrow that pierced his heart in his previous life.

Is it really as Lu Ci Qiu said, that these people are the ones who killed them before?

Then she must find out who these people are!

"What should we do now?" Ye Jianqing looked at Lu Zhixing. Here, Lu Zhixing was the one in charge. Her task had been completed, and it was up to Lu Zhixing next.

"The murderer must have known that the map Lin Xuan had was not the real one, so he went to find Cheng Tianhe. But why did he know it so quickly? Even we just found out, didn't we?" Lu Zhixing thought about it and felt that this was very strange.

"It's possible that he overheard our conversation." Ye Jianqing clapped his hands, stood up and walked to Lu Ci Qiu. In fact, many times solving a case does not require overly rigorous logic. Some criminals are the most illogical. They may not be like the officials who have to think about everything smoothly and understand it. They just do whatever they think of.

Ye Jianqing met too many people like this in modern times. Those people have no logic. They just do things based on their instincts, or they do things by accident. So sometimes you shouldn't be too logical when thinking about problems.

"Let's take the people back first. We don't know where Cheng Tianhe has hidden the real map. Maybe they really took it away." Thinking of this, Lu Zhixing felt a headache. When he caught Lin Xuan just now, he was full of confidence and thought that he could get the marching distribution map tonight. As a result, what Lin Xuan got was a fake.

Immediately afterwards, Cheng Tianhe, who was holding the real marching distribution map, was killed, and the marching distribution map disappeared again.

This is really annoying.

Now we don’t even know where the real marching distribution map is, and we don’t know who they have contacted or who wants this map.

There are only three days left before the deadline given by the emperor.

The more Lu Zhixing thought about it, the more headache he felt. He felt that he urgently needed a quiet place to sort out his thoughts and solve all the problems. He also needed to resolve the matter of Cheng Tianhe's murder.

Fortunately, they still had the other's body, and they could find some information from it.

Carrying Cheng Tianhe's body, they returned to the Dali Temple. After a night of tossing and turning, it was almost dawn. Lu Zhixing and Lu Ci Qiu had to go to the Meridian Gate to wait and prepare for the morning court.

Ye Jianqing was staring at the three corpses in the Dali Temple. Oh, she couldn't stare now. Only her pair of big eyes were staring at the other three pairs of closed eyes.

The guards had already gone to call the coroner. All she had to do now was wait. Once the coroner arrived, she could help him examine the bodies, especially the body of the man in black. She couldn't wait to know who he was.

Lu Ci Qiu and Lu Zhixing changed into court robes and hurried to the Meridian Gate. Although Lu Ci Qiu had difficulty walking, he could not sit in a wheelchair to attend court, so he changed into a crutch and went to court with the crutch.

The emperor was in a bad mood because of the loss of the marching distribution map, and he couldn't even sleep well, especially when he learned in the morning that two people had died in the Ministry of War and the recovered map was fake.

These two things made the emperor even more unhappy, and he never had a good face in the court.

"Prince Qin, tell me what happened last night." The emperor was in a bad mood, and even his tone was a little heavy, but Lu Zhixing didn't care at all. He walked out from the side after hearing the emperor's words.

“Your Majesty, according to my investigation, Lin Xuan, the supervisor of the Ministry of War, was the one who stole the map, and Cheng Tianhe from the Office of the Secretary assisted him in stealing the map.

Five days ago, Lin Xuan used the excuse of drinking with Lord Qiu, the Minister of War, and after getting Lord Qiu drunk, he secretly handed the key to Cheng Tianhe who had been guarding outside, and asked Cheng Tianhe to make a copy of the key.

Then the day before yesterday, Cheng Tianhe went to Mr. Qiu's room on the pretext of delivering official business and left the key in Mr. Qiu's room. After Cheng Tianhe left, Lin Xuan entered, picked up the key, and stole the map.

Later, in order to avoid being tracked down by his son, he handed the map to Cheng Tianhe for safekeeping.

I knew who stole the map, so I set a trap for Lin Xuan to contact the person who wanted to buy the march distribution map. Lin Xuan did contact him, and that night he went to meet him in the Huaishulin forest outside Beijing. I immediately sent people to besiege and capture the two of them, but the man was so cruel that he killed Lin Xuan directly, and then he was defeated by me and committed suicide by taking poison.

Before that, Cheng Tianhe had swapped the marching distribution map that was given to Lin Xuan and made a fake marching distribution map for him. After Lin Xuan's deal failed, the man in black overheard that the map was fake, so he caught Cheng Tianhe who had been following Lin Xuan, took him to the mass grave, and brutally killed him. "Lu Zhixing slowly told the story of his investigation.

Just in that short period of time, he sorted out his discoveries of the past two days in the carriage and finally found the truth, but unfortunately...

"Then where is the real marching distribution map now?" the emperor asked with a frown. This is what he is most concerned about now.

Yes, the most regrettable thing is that Lu Zhixing has not yet found out where the real marching distribution map is.

"I am investigating."

"I'll give you another ten days. If you can't find the real marching distribution map and investigate the person who stole the map, you won't be the King of Qin anymore."

"Yes."