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

Youzhou.

The city gates are heavily guarded and everyone entering or leaving is carefully checked.

This is the kind of vigilance that would only be in place during wartime. Now is not a wartime period, and there is no sign of war between the two countries, but the vigilance is still so strict.

Di Renjie, Hu Jinghui and Li Yuanfang, who were dressed in disguise, mixed in the team entering the city, and it was almost their turn.

The captain guarding the city gate led the soldiers to check each one and shouted:

"Take out your official pass and identity documents, one by one! Don't rush, don't crowd."

After checking each one carefully, they were allowed into Youzhou City.

Even those who carry luggage will be searched one by one to confirm that there are no contraband items before being released.

Seeing them so alert, it was obvious that something had happened. Di Renjie frowned as he watched this scene.

"Sir, you are checking so closely, has something happened?" Li Yuanfang leaned over and asked softly.

Li Yuanfang's intelligence can be said to be the lowest among the four members of the crime-solving team. Even Li Yuanfang noticed that something was wrong, not to mention Di Renjie and Hu Jinghui.

Due to the haste of the situation, Hu Jinghui had no time to contact Jin Mulan, so naturally he didn't know what had happened.

However, based on instinct, Hu Jinghui guessed that Fang Qian must have missed something.

Fang Qian made a mistake, and Di Renjie went to Youzhou again...

Hu Jinghui stepped forward and whispered in Di Renjie's ear:

"Sir, something serious must have happened here. Before we figure out what's going on here, why don't we not go into the city? It's too dangerous."

"If something happens, how can I explain it to the Emperor?"

Di Renjie looked straight into the city and shook his head slowly.

Now that I'm here, how can I not go in?

"As long as you two treat me as a traveling doctor instead of an imperial envoy, everything will be fine."

The captain in front began to urge people to move forward.

Di Renjie just kept his head down and tried to get away with it.

He had not taken two steps forward when a soldier came over and stopped the imposing Di Renjie.

"Hey, old man, what do you do?"

"Sir, we are traveling doctors."

"Are these two people with you?"

"Yep."

While answering the soldiers' questions, Di Renjie took out the official pass from his bag.

Hu Jinghui, who was standing behind him, looked very unhappy when he saw that this mere soldier was so unreasonable.

Li Yuanfang's expression was not good either. If they were not investigating the case in secret and could not reveal their identity, he would teach this soldier a lesson immediately!

"Bring the bag over here!"

The soldier flipped through the documents, glanced at them casually, and then reached out to grab the bag from Di Renjie's hand.

The action was rough and unreasonable, and Di Renjie's fat body was dragged all over the place by the soldier.

Fortunately, there was Li Yuanfang following Di Renjie, who immediately reached out to support Di Renjie and prevented Di Renjie from losing face in front of everyone.

"You are presumptuous!"

Hu Jinghui took a step forward, pushed the soldier away, and reached for the weapon wrapped in cloth on his back with his right hand.

As soon as he touched it, he came to his senses immediately, stood in front of Di Renjie, and glared at the soldiers.

"You really deserve a beating!" the captain said angrily.

Hu Jinghui became even angrier, his eyebrows glaring: "How dare you, a little soldier, be so rude to Qin... to my own father! Humph!"

Hu Jinghui, who almost let the cat out of the bag, quickly corrected himself.

The commotion at the city gate soon attracted the captain.

Di Renjie didn't want to continue the trouble, so he took out five taels of silver and presented it to the captain as a gift. Only then was he able to enter the city safely.

Hu Jinghui's expression was still quite ugly. He stared at the captain and the sergeant with his eyes wide open.

"My lord, these people are really hateful!"

Hu Jinghui said indignantly, looking to both sides.

A group of soldiers rode into the city from outside and then headed straight to the governor's mansion.

Seven or eight old men and women were tied to wooden stakes quite close to the city gate. No one knew what they had done wrong to be tied up and suffer in such a place.

There was an empty table under the tea stall not far away.

"Sir, there is a tea stall over there."

"Walk."

When the waiter saw the three people coming over here, he immediately said:

"You three, please come in!"

Di Renjie came over with his bag and sat on the bench.

The closer you are to the border area, the harder it is to make money.

After we sat down, the waiter handed us tea bowls which were discarded from other people's meal bowls.

Li Yuanfang sat down, took a sip of tea, and began to laugh.

Hu Jinghui asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"

"He is laughing at you, Jinghui." Di Renjie couldn't help laughing.

"General Hu is so majestic and impressive, he is worthy of being the commander of the Royal Guards."

"Eh."

Behind Di Renjie, a man in a tattered bamboo hat was resting against the tea stall with his head lowered.

Li Yuanfang smiled and said, "Sir, General Hu is much more powerful than you, the imperial envoy!"

The man in the bamboo hat suddenly looked up, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.

The idea of ​​taking the opportunity to escape from the city also changed at this moment.

If I run away, I don’t know where I can escape to. If I am caught again, I will be killed without a burial place.

It would be better to...

Di Renjie: "Hush."

"Jinghui, Yuanfang, let's find a place to stay."

The tied-up old man had a dry mouth and could only shout that he was thirsty.

The sergeant guarding them took the water and poured it on the ground, refusing to give him even a sip. After throwing the bowl on the ground, he slapped the old man in the face.

Hu Jinghui frowned, feeling extremely angry, and was about to stand up immediately.

"Don't miss the important thing, let's go."

"Oh, I'm so mad!"

……

Governor's Mansion.

Brightly lit!

Youzhou Sima Wu Yizi walked into the main hall and bowed to Youzhou Governor Fang Qian.

"Sir, the news of Li Er's escape has reached Lady Jin Mulan. What should we do next?"

Fang Qian took a deep breath and said:

"Just pretend nothing happened and don't worry about anything. The more we worry now, the more likely something will go wrong."

Two days have passed since Li Er escaped.

They still haven't found Li Er until now, so they have to order martial law at all four gates.

"Yes, my lord."

"Li Er definitely can't leave the city. Order people to search for Li Er's location day and night. I don't believe he can fly out of Youzhou City!"

"I will send someone to do it right away."

"By the way, the current cabinet minister Di Renjie is said to have arrived in Taiyuan, Bingzhou, and is going to Shihechuan in Gannan Road to investigate a case. Is this true?"

"Di Renjie is a man of great meticulousness and his whereabouts are hard to track. It is no exaggeration to say that he is elusive. However, he is investigating a case in Bingzhou, so he should not be able to find the case in Youzhou."

"You are right. The envoys were killed in Shihechuan, Gannan Road, Bingzhou. What does it have to do with Youzhou?"

Fang Qian and Wu Yizhi had both heard of Di Renjie's great name for a long time and knew that he was the most capable minister in the court.

If this person came to Youzhou to investigate the case, it would not be easy for the two of them to fool him with their abilities.