Uncle Detective Di Renjie, I build a crime-solving team

Liuzhou, Qingyang Inn.

The innkeeper Wu Xiang was dozing off behind the counter when he suddenly heard someone coming in.

He looked up and saw a heroic middle-aged man walking in slowly. The middle-aged man looked around and saw that there was only a girl wiping the table. He came to Wu Xiang and took out a jade pendant.

"Please pass it on to your hall master. When your hall master sees this jade pendant, she will understand."

Wu Xiang looked grim. Few people knew the secret of Qingyang Inn. And he asked just anyone who came in to hand over an unknown jade pendant to his master. Could it be that the secret was exposed?

Xiaomei, who was wiping the table nearby, heard this, came to the counter and glanced at the jade pendant.

That was exactly what was given to Li Cunxi a few months ago.

Since this person is holding a jade pendant, he must be Li Cunxi's man.

"What's your name?"

Xiaomei took off the decorations on her face, took off the hat on her head, and asked calmly.

"Your subordinate Qiao Tai greets the Madam!"

Qiao Tai quickly bowed to Xiaomei.

"Who is Madam? You better watch your words."

Xiaomei's face flushed for a moment, then immediately returned to normal.

Qiao Tai said to himself, "Madam, my master asked me to come see you. He also told me about this place. He also said that if the shopkeeper here is not willing, I will take this out. If the shopkeeper shows it to you, you will come out to see me."

"Shut up... and talk about business!" Xiaomei shouted quickly.

"It's like this, ma'am. My master asked me to bring you a letter. I'll wait for you to read it, and then I can leave and go to Jiangzhou to deliver another letter."

"Shut up, Qiao Tai, right? Come with me upstairs. I'll take a look at what the letter is. Wu Xiang, you stay here and report to me if there's anything special."

"Yes!"

Half an incense stick later, in a private room on the second floor of the inn, Xiaomei put the letter she had finished reading on the table and glanced at Qiao Tai who was still standing.

"I haven't even married yet, and you've already given me such a big task? What does Li Cunxi think?"

"My master said that this matter must be done by you, and only you can complete it successfully."

"What good will it do to me after this is done?"

"The master says that all his salary is yours, madam, and you can also dispose of most of what is minted there."

"Who is your wife? Get out of here!"

"Ma'am, don't be angry. These are my master's exact words. He said that these things will be yours sooner or later after we get married."

"Shut up!"

"Yes."

Xiaomei picked up the letter, put it in her arms, and pointed to the door.

"Okay, you can go back and report. I will meet up with the others at the Xize Silver Bank in Yangzhou in a month."

……

Qiao Tai left Liuzhou and rushed to Jiangzhou overnight.

He went to Jiangzhou with only one purpose, which was to find a man named "Lin Yongzhong" mentioned by Li Cunxi. It was said that this man had extraordinary abilities, but a bad fate.

At the same time, in Chang'an City.

There is no curfew in Chang'an tonight. General Wang Xiaojie of the Right Guard led all the Right Guards to withdraw from Chang'an and returned the security power of Chang'an to the Chang'an garrison.

Except for the gate guards, Jinwu guards, Yulin guards and Qianniu guards who guarded the imperial palace bedrooms, all the soldiers who were not on duty went back to rest.

However, many people were afraid to sleep at this time. The noise in the first half of the night was too loud. Many people had already woken up from their sleep and hid in their beds, not daring to observe the movements outside. The bodies of the dead Iron Hand assassins were also dragged into the General's Mansion of Qianniu Guard. Huan Bin said that he wanted to find out some information about the real culprit behind the assassins.

However, everyone basically already knew that Wu Sansi was the real culprit behind the scenes. From Wu Zetian's attitude, it could be seen that Wu Sansi was the real culprit behind the scenes, and Li Xian was also dragged down to take the blame together. From then on, the most unpopular prince and the most unpopular prince got together, and they all suffered together and prospered together.

On the other side, at the end of Chang'an Street, is the Tiger Mansion.

The old gatekeeper was dozing off in the back when he suddenly saw two men come up to the outside of the Tiger Mansion, standing still and looking inside.

After just two sips of tea, one of the younger, thinner-looking young men came over and said to the old concierge:

"Please inform them that Li Cunxi, the sixth-rank lower councilor, is here to visit General Hu."

Ma Rong behind him took out some silver from his pocket and stuffed it into the doorman's hand.

"Brother, take this and buy some wine. Don't think it's too little."

"Don't dare, don't dare."

The old doorman politely pushed the silver back, and Ma Rong pushed it back to him. After some politeness, the old doorman took the silver and hurried in to inform Hu Jinghui.

In just half a cup of tea, Hu Jinghui, dressed neatly, walked out of the Tiger Mansion with a swift and fierce step, and called out from afar:

"Cunxi is here, please come in quickly!"

Li Cunxi and Hu Jinghui greeted each other, and then they entered the Hu Mansion hand in hand.

As soon as you enter the Tiger Mansion, there is a large courtyard. There are several trees planted in the four corners of the courtyard. Li Cunxi could not distinguish them as the leaves had fallen off long ago. Against the courtyard wall are several weapon racks, on which are placed eighteen kinds of weapons such as swords, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks. In the middle of the courtyard is a round table made of stone, and there are four stone benches next to it.

There were not many servants in the mansion, just as the yard was not very big. A man who looked like a butler came over with his head lowered and his eyes dodgy. Although the two mustaches seemed to make him look much older, they seemed to be glued on.

The housekeeper didn't say anything, but brewed tea and poured water, and served a pot of Biluochun tea from the previous year.

Hu Jinghui pointed at the table and said, "We parted outside the palace half an hour ago, but you came here in the middle of the night. I guess you must have something to ask me, right?"

After Li Cunxi sat down, he asked Ma Rong to take off the bag on his back. Li Cunxi took the bag and put it on the table, and said seriously:

"This trip is to thank Brother Jinghui for his repeated help."

"Cunxi, I have no other intentions. It's just a small token of my appreciation. Brother Jinghui, please accept it. We still need some money for food and clothing in the mansion. Cunxi is giving this as a gift to show respect to your elder brother."

Hu Jinghui silently picked up the bundle, handed it to the housekeeper, and asked the housekeeper to take it into the room.

Although Li Cunxi came in the middle of the night, this was equivalent to bribing the ministers after all, so we can't just leave it here and pretend nothing happened.

After receiving the silver, Hu Jinghui took the Biluochun from the previous year and took a sip slowly.

"Why did you suddenly think of coming to see me?"

"Again, thank you Brother Jinghui for your repeated help."

"Our friendship started in Youzhou." Hu Jinghui said, "and our friendship is only about the Youzhou case and the exiles."

"No, our friendship started from a bloody night in the crimson tent." Li Cunxi drank tea, staring at Hu Jinghui opposite him.

"What do you mean?"