When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

Having been a general for more than ten years, he was pushed away by a young boy. The expression on Cheng Su's face was obviously a little embarrassed. He opened his eyes angrily, showing his majesty.

However, judging from his martial arts attainments alone, this kid is indeed a promising talent.

Cheng Su looked at Liu Yunhe with a slightly admiring gaze and said, "You have courage. What's your name?"

Liu Yunhe turned around, without any fear in his eyes, but also without any disrespect, and said with a fist: "General, my name is Liu Yunhe."

"Okay." Cheng Su looked at Liu Yunhe, put his hand on the place where Liu Yunhe hit him, lowered his eyes and said, "Do you know what the crime is for bumping into the general?"

"I……"

"Bumping into the general is naturally a crime of disrespect. If dealt with according to military law, it will naturally be a death penalty." Lin Lezhi spoke first.

Liu Yunhe stared at Lin Lezhi with eyes wide open, a look of disbelief on his face.

The expression seems to be saying, I helped you, but you didn't speak up for me and even helped others to sentence me to death.

Cheng Su's eyes suddenly lit up with interest. He turned his gaze to Lin Lezhi and said, "Then in your opinion, should I sentence him to death?"

"The general should be so majestic, but the reason is that I was the one who caused it. I was in a hurry and did not mean to offend the general. If the general had not intentionally given way, how could he be the general's opponent?"

Hearing this, Cheng Su laughed heartily, but soon stopped laughing. He stared at Lin Lezhi and said, "I can let his fault go, but what crime should you be charged for openly provoking me in front of the inn last night?"

Lin Lezhi asked tentatively: "General, do you really want me to say it myself?"

"explain."

"In my opinion, I am innocent."

"What did you say?" Cheng Su's eyes darkened.

Lin Lezhi clasped his fists and said sincerely, "The general went to the inn to test Jiang Guitan to prevent any unscrupulous people from taking advantage of the situation. He did not intend to blame him, but was concerned about the safety of the people. Since the general had no intention of blaming him from the beginning, I dare to claim that I am not guilty."

"You are good at talking and know how to defend yourself." Cheng Su looked at Lin Lezhi fiercely, but his tone was much softer.

"Thanks to the general's generosity, I dare to claim that I am innocent, but I am not without fault."

"Oh?" Cheng Su looked at Lin Lezhi with interest and said, "Where did you go wrong?"

"The general is very righteous and serves the country and the people. I was wrong to presume on the general's intentions and to think that the general would blame the spy. I was not thoughtful enough to judge the general's intentions. I know I was wrong, so I came to apply for the recruitment. I hope to help the general reach the lake island with my own meager strength."

How could Cheng Su not see that, although Lin Lezhi seemed to be quick to admit his mistakes and put himself in a low position, he was actually putting his opponent in a position of strength.

Every word and action of his was impeccable.

Cheng Su smiled heartily and praised: "No wonder Jiang Guitan has been recommending you to me. You are indeed a man who knows how to deal with things. This is what I promised you. If you do well, there will be a reward when you come back."

As he spoke, Cheng Su put the silver ingot in his hand into Lin Lezhi's hand, and Lin Lezhi tactfully took it with both hands.

"Thank you, General Cheng." Lin Lezhi said with a smile.

Cheng Su turned to look at Liu Yunhe who was standing beside him and said, "As for you, you are really capable to fight with me. Come with me tomorrow morning."

Liu Yunhe held the sword and clasped his fists, saying, "Thank you, General Cheng, for forgiving my rudeness just now. I will do my best."

Cheng Su nodded in satisfaction, and then said: "Okay, I still have something to discuss with Jiang Guitan, you guys go back and prepare first, and remember to come on time tomorrow."

After Lin Lezhi and Liu Yunhe exchanged greetings, they left the tent. There was no one else outside the tent except the stationed soldiers.

After leaving the tent, Liu Yunhe breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, he thought of Lin Lezhi's shoulder injury and took action subconsciously without thinking too much.

But looking at Lin Lezhi, he seemed to care nothing about what had just happened in the tent.

"Thank you for what you did just now."

"What are you thanking me for? Didn't you protect me too?" Lin Lezhi responded lightly.

Liu Yunhe asked in confusion: "Aren't you afraid?"

Lin Lezhi shook the heavy ten taels of silver in his hand, and said with a look of joy on his face: "Do I look like I am not afraid? I just know that he just wants to use this to establish his authority, and he will not easily attack us."

"why?"

"The higher the status of a person, the more things he has to worry about. To put it bluntly, what he fears is not you, me or Jiang Lian'an, but the people hiding behind. Otherwise, how could a small person like us get away with it so easily?"

"Who is the person behind the scenes?" Liu Yunhe still didn't understand.

"It seems that your young master is really good to you." Lin Lezhi smiled slightly and shook his head, then motioned Liu Yunhe to put his ear close to him.

After hearing this, Liu Yunhe's eyes widened.

"It's my king...!" Liu Yunhe stopped immediately and asked puzzledly: "But why?"

"It's simple, because they are afraid."

"But..." Liu Yunhe frowned, feeling indignant for Xiao Yihuo in his heart.

However, it is a well-known fact that the prince has not been loved by his father since he was a child. People in the court and the country only respect the prince on the surface, but they will change their faces in private.

Moreover, the prince has been poisoned for more than ten years, and it has not yet been discovered who poisoned him.

If one day the poison in the body cannot be controlled, the poison will attack the heart and the person will be in imminent danger.

Leaving the center of the lake, the mountains behind the island appeared. Lin Lezhi stopped and looked at the mountains on the other side of the lake, and said slowly: "It's just that the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop. Even if it is unintentional, it still has intention."

Lin Lezhi's rare seriousness made Liu Yunhe confused, "What do you mean?"

"Some places look magnificent and are the places that countless people yearn for, but underneath the bright and beautiful surface, there is actually a swamp. People involved in it will find it difficult to extricate themselves. It is a place where people are eaten without leaving any bones. Do you know why?"

"why?"

"Because in that place, what they eat is never people's flesh and blood, but people's hearts."

Seeing Liu Yunhe's unimaginable expression, Lin Lezhi hooked his index finger and tapped Liu Yunhe's forehead, then said with a smile: "Don't frown, you just need to know that your young master is very powerful."

Speaking of Xiao Yihuo, Liu Yunhe looked proud, raised his chin slightly and said, "Of course!"

If I tell Liu Yunhe directly, Xiao Yihuo is a cunning guy and he will probably drag me to argue for a long time.

Lin Lezhi shook the silver ingot in his hand and said with a happy expression, "Let's go back."

Lin Lezhi has been smiling happily ever after since he got the silver ingot, and his eyes have hardly left the silver ingot.

Liu Yunhe quickly took a few steps and followed him, saying with a little disdain in his eyes: "I thought you came here to look for clues, but I didn't expect that you really came here just for these ten taels of silver."

"Just?" Lin Lezhi took the silver firmly in his hand, his eyes filled with disbelief. He looked at Liu Yunhe's incredulous expression and said, "This is ten taels of silver. I see that you are living a very comfortable life with your master."

Liu Yunhe's eyes darkened and he didn't say anything, but a complicated look appeared in his eyes.

Lin Lezhi caught the silver thrown in the air steadily in his palm, clasped his hands together and said with a smile: "Besides, how do you know that I didn't find any useful clues."

"What clue?" Liu Yunhe's eyes lit up.

"The parchment roll."

Liu Yunhe remembered that there seemed to be a rolled-up parchment scroll on Cheng Su's desk. "What can a parchment scroll tell us?"

"The parchment scroll itself is not rare, but there is also a parchment scroll in Wu Sanshan's basement, which is also incomplete. Do you still remember the parchment scroll in Wu Sanshan's hand and what was drawn on it?"

Liu Yunhe lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then raised his head and looked at Lin Lezhi and said, "It's a map."

Lin Lezhi smiled and nodded.

"I have been wondering why a general was sent here to investigate the case. Now the country is stable and there is no war on the border. There is no reason for Cheng Su to carry a map with him."

Lin Lezhi's eyes darkened slightly, and he continued, "It seems now that their purpose of coming here is not to investigate the case, but for another purpose."

"Then what should we do?" Liu Yunhe asked.

"Let it be and wait and see what happens." Lin Lezhi smiled and continued, "Go back first, or your master will be worried about you."

After returning to the inn, Lin Lezhi went back to the room first, wanting to tell Guan Ziheng that the room fee had been settled, but when he opened the door, Guan Ziheng had not returned yet.

I guess he hasn't finished negotiating with the bookseller yet. In the past, he would only come back at lunchtime.

Thinking that Guan Ziheng would organize the books every night, Lin Lezhi raised a sly smile, walked to Guan Ziheng's bag, untied a small gap, and stuffed the silver ingot right on top of the books.

After Lin Lezhi put the silver ingots away, he carefully restored the bundle to its original appearance before sitting down at the table with a thoughtful look on his face.

Judging from the size of the two parchment scrolls, the one in Wu Sanshan's hand seemed to have been separated from the larger parchment scroll.

If what Lin Lezhi thought was correct, the two maps put together would form a complete map. Now Cheng Su has sent people to guard the entrance to the underground room, so Wu Sanshan's map naturally fell into Cheng Su's hands.

Wu Sanshan found the coffin containing gold and silver with only the small incomplete map in his hand.

This shows that the map in Wu Sanshan's hand is the most crucial.

But what is the purpose of those scratches of different lengths and directions that Wu Sanshan carved on the wall?

Lin Lezhi used Guan Ziheng's brush to take a medicine bag beside him and drew the marks he remembered in his mind on the back of the medicine bag.

Because the light in the basement was not bright enough, Lin Lezhi only remembered part of the engravings.

It seems... I have to find another opportunity to go to Wu Sanshan’s basement.