Suzaku Fury

After leaving the city gate, Di Renjie rode his horse fast and galloped all the way to the station where the fire broke out last night.By the time he could see the burned-out roof, the green trees in front of him had gradually thinned out, replaced by a messy inn.

After the baptism of the fire overnight, the condition of the inn was not inferior to that of the Honglu Temple Minister's office that was burned to the point that only a fragile skeleton remained.

When Di Renjie saw General Zhonglang standing guard in front of the post station, he quickly got off his horse and put on his luggage: "I pay my respects to your lord."

General Zhong Lang saw that it was Di Renjie, and hurried up to help him up: "Master Di, don't be too polite."

Di Renjie bowed deeply again, and said respectfully, "Your Excellency, please stay here all night."

"Master Di is serious. It is the duty of a soldier to obey and dispatch."

Di Renjie glanced at the house in the post station that was not affected by the flames, and said: "Did your lord find anything suspicious last night? Or some suspicious person?"

"My soldiers guarded firmly between the post station and the edge of the dense forest, and sent a two-person team to the dense forest to patrol every moment. But as far as suspicious places and suspicious people were concerned, there was not much discovery. It seems that after the fire was extinguished, Nothing of note has happened."

Di Renjie pondered for a moment, feeling like a cicada chrysalis, tightly bound by silk outside, but he couldn't find a breakthrough to break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly, and the case was at a standstill.He came back to his senses, clasped his fists again at Zhonglang Jiang, and said: "My lord, can I go around, please?"

Zhong Lang returned with a bow and said, "Master Di, please go ahead."

Di Renjie nodded slightly, and was about to lead his horse to the dense forest, when there was a noise from the house that was not affected by the fire.Di Renjie's footsteps stopped when he heard the sound, and his eyes followed the sound.

"Master Cui, Master Cui, Master Cui, please stay." A guard with a knife hurriedly followed behind Cui Qianpei with a flustered expression.But the person called was expressionless, turning a deaf ear to the pleas of the person behind him, as cold-blooded as Di Renjie seeing him for the first time.

However, Cui Qianpei's obliviousness made the guard with the knife very anxious. Seeing that Cui Qianpei was about to walk to the vestibule, he was so frightened that he ran forward to block Cui Qianpei's footsteps.

Cui Qianpei stopped walking, and slowly stood with his hands behind his back, squinting at him with lowered eyelids: "A good dog doesn't block the way. Didn't your master teach you this truth?"

The guard clasped his fists and said: "My lord, I'm just following orders, please forgive me."

"Forgiveness?" Cui Qianpei paced around him slowly, and said in a strange tone: "Is there anyone else who will be considerate of our family? Our family was ordered by the Holy Majesty to escort foreign tributes to Beijing with Mr. Zhang. Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhang The teacher was not successful, and he died in the fire, if there is anything wrong with the things he was ordered to transport, I am afraid that you and I will not bear the consequences." Cui Qianpei walked back to the original place, and found that he was leading a horse outside the post station and looking at the Di Renjie at the side said to the guard again with a threatening voice: "In order to avoid any troubles during the escort, our family can only escort the tribute to the city first and then come back to deal with Mr. Zhang. If you still want to save a few more heads for this Day, don't stop me from doing so much."

"It's just, Master Cui..."

"What's the noise?" Zhong Lang held the handle of his saber in his hand, and walked briskly on the road, coming in front of several people in two or three steps.

"My lord..." The guard quickly bowed his head and saluted, and explained the reasons for the incident.

General Zhong Lang glanced at Cui Qianpei and said displeasedly: "My lord Cui, this officer is only on business. No one is allowed to leave the station until the evacuation order is issued."

Cui Qianpei sneered and said: "I know very well that my lord is dedicated to my duties, but I also obeyed the order of my sage to escort the tribute to Beijing. If it hadn't been for such an accident, our family and Master Zhang have already sent the things to the imperial court. The city is over. Your Excellency also knows that the tribute of the escort is used to reward the [-] returning sailors. If anything goes wrong, I'm afraid..."

"This..." Zhong Lang hesitated, turned slightly sideways, and glanced at Di Renjie.

Seeing that his stance was uncertain, Cui Qianpei knew that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he took advantage of the victory and pursued: "My lord imprisoned us here, could it be that the sage suspects that our family lit the fire that burned lord Zhang to death?"

Zhong Lang said anxiously: "I have never said such a thing before, so don't talk nonsense!"

"If that's the case, then let him go." Cui Qianpei looked down at the slightly distraught General Zhong Lang from top to bottom, his white hair under the cap glistened under the bright sun, making him look even more domineering.

"The two gentlemen are good officials who are dedicated to their duties. Such an argument is not a good solution. It is better for Rong Di to offer his humble opinion." Di Renjie tied his horse and came up at some point.He has a pleasant smile, a humble attitude, and an old-fashioned style.

Di Renjie interrupted the tense momentum of the two people, but it eased a little, and they said in unison: "Master Di, please speak."

Di Renjie said with a smile: "Last night, due to the sudden incident, Lord Yuchi had no choice but to take the risk of dispatching Lord Zhonglang to garrison here. The purpose is to protect the post station officials from causing trouble, and secondly, he also wants to use the imperial guards to help Dali. Temple to solve the case. Master Cui was ordered by the Holy One to escort the tribute into the palace. Now that Master Zhang has encountered an accident, Master Cui must still be deeply saddened. It is really rare to follow orders like this. In this case, as long as the two adults do not neglect As a premise, everything is easy to talk about. Now that noon is coming, the evidence left here and Mr. Zhang’s remains will also be transferred, so there must be someone from Dali Temple to come to support. Your Excellency, why not send a team of people to follow Mr. Cui into the palace. This is to protect the safety of your lord, so as to avoid troubles on the way into the city, and secondly, your lord is not negligent, and this way, lord Cui can also enter the palace to face the saint as scheduled. Let's see what you two think?"

"Of course!" Zhong Lang clapped his palms and laughed, without waiting for Cui Qianpei's consent, he rushed to dispatch people.

Cui Qianpei sneered, bowed slightly to Di Renjie, and said without sincerity: "Thank you, Mr. Di, for your understanding. This favor is owed by Cui." He knew that he could not escape from Di Renjie's eyes. The words are high-sounding and profoundly righteous, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that this so-called "protection" is nothing more than surveillance.But Di Renjie had already given him the opportunity to step down, so he didn't need to be ignorant of flattery, not to mention that if something happened to the escorting of the tribute, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Di Renjie said with a smile: "Master Cui, why should you be so polite? There's no need to worry about trivial matters. Di might as well do something as an adult and step down first."

Cui Qianpei bowed to leave with a smile on his face, and led a group of people to the city from time to time.

Di Renjie glanced at the burned house, took out a palm-sized sackcloth from his arms, covered his mouth and nose, and went straight there.

Although the burned house was extinguished in time, considering the current miserable situation in the house, it can be imagined that the fire was so fierce at that time.

Di Renjie covered his mouth and nose, took five steps forward, backward, left, and right, then returned to the original spot, looked up at the charcoal-blackened beams, thinking to himself: This second murder case differs from the first one in a few ways. .

First, there is no gray-white powder on the ground that Shatuo discovered in Honglu Temple; second, although the beams of the house were blackened, they were not burnt; third, there was no remains of Lingnan Jiedushi in the house.

Di Renjie slowly turned around in a circle, his eyes shifted from the carbon black beams to the unburned door frame and then stopped moving.It turned out that on the door frame where vermilion lacquer could still be seen faintly, five small iron blocks with strange shapes were nailed.

Di Renjie walked over quickly, wrapped the blackened iron block with a sackcloth covering his mouth and nose, and shook it gently.Although the door frame was not burned, it was still extremely fragile after being baked by the raging fire overnight.Di Renjie only took the small iron block and shook it lightly, then took it off, but when he looked closely at Brie's things again, he was taken aback.

It turned out that this unremarkable little piece of iron was an arrow head, but the arrow body and the joint were burned by the fire, and it was nailed to such an inconspicuous place. If you didn't look carefully and pull it out, you wouldn't find that there was an arrowhead inserted here. `Hit five arrows.

Di Renjie carefully weighed the object in his hand, judging by the weight and feel, it seemed that it was not an ordinary iron block.You must know that making arrows pays attention to accuracy, and a slight difference can lead to a loss of thousands of miles.He wiped off the soot on the arrowhead with a sackcloth, and saw patterns on this thumb-sized piece of iron that he had never seen before.

Di Renjie suddenly raised his head to look at the roof, but now there were only a few pieces of broken charcoal left on the place where glazed tiles should have been laid.

"Come on!" Di Renjie stepped out the door and shouted, and someone immediately answered "Yes", but after a while, he ran over with the saber in his hand.It turned out to be the guard with the sword who had a dispute with Cui Qianpei just now.

"What's your order?"

Di Renjie pointed to where the roof should have been and asked him, "Before it was burned down, was there a skylight in this room?"

The guard looked at the place Di Renjie was pointing at, and replied: "My lord, yes. And to prevent leaks, it is slanted."

When Di Renjie heard the words, he compared the distance secretly, and asked quickly: "One more question, where is Master Zhang's remains now?"

"Go back to my lord, in the back hall."

Di Renjie cupped his fists and said, "Please lead the way."

The guard was surprised by Di Renjie's politeness, he came back to his senses and quickly waved his hand: "Master Di, please." After saying that, he immediately walked ahead and prepared to lead the way.

As soon as Di Renjie stepped out of the door on his hind legs, he quickly fell back, quickly picked off three of the arrowheads from the door frame, wrapped them in cloth and put them in his arms.

After following the guards to the back hall and greeting the guards in front of the door, Di Renjie pushed open the door of the room used for temporary mortuary in the back hall.As soon as the door opened, a pungent burning smell came out.

Di Renjie quickly covered his mouth and nose, fearing that the corpse would still have poisonous gas after a night, but the guard with the knife who led him in couldn't take it anymore, retching and ran out.

Di Renjie frowned as he looked at the blurry charred corpse.Although this is a scorched corpse, it is not curled up like the scorched corpses I have seen before.Presumably Mr. Zhang was also killed first, and then set fire to his body. In this regard, it is consistent with the case of Honglu Temple Minister being burned to death.Since the results are the same, why is there a deviation in the modus operandi...

Although he knew the purpose of Suzaku and Fire Orb, but the arrowhead he just discovered is...

Di Renjie frowned tightly and looked up at the roof.Different from the house that was burnt into an empty shell just now, the tiles here are complete, the beams are straight, and the light of the scorching sun at noon enters from the skylight...

"!" Di Renjie suddenly put down his hand covering his mouth and nose, his lips parted slightly, his eyes widened - he unexpectedly discovered that the layout of this house was the same as that of the burned room!

That being the case...

Di Renjie rushed out of the room suddenly, regardless of how the guards leading the way yelled, but he just pushed open the doors of the connected rooms and looked towards the roof without exception.

"Master Di, Master Di... what are you going to do..." The guard who endured the discomfort followed closely behind, watching him open a door in bewilderment, and then closed it again, and then pushed it open again The other one went back and forth like this, until Di Renjie ran out of the back hall alone, the guard stopped, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and panted, "I thought he was a, a modest gentleman, why did he act so crazy? "

Di Renjie ignored General Zhong Lang's yelling, and just ran to the dense forest behind the station.

Suzaku, western dragon oil, fire beads, aloes, charred corpses, white ash, arrows... now they are like beads, connected one by one by the needle and thread.

Di Renjie did not rush into the dense forest, but stopped on the muddy ground behind the station.He moved slowly, his eyes fixed on the base of the wall, for fear of missing any clues.

Suddenly, the pair of black boots that had just been stained with mud stopped.

Di Renjie raised the hem of his long coat, squatted down slowly, and wanted to measure what he had just measured with his hand, but unexpectedly, he stretched out his hand, and it froze in midair again.

"...So that's how it is," Di Renjie murmured, "This person is indeed a master."

Di Renjie got up slowly and looked up at the roof of the house.

"In that case, I'm afraid this is the third murder case..."

Di Renjie pinched the goatee on his chin, narrowed his eyes, thoughtful...

The author has something to say:

I really want to add: all the puzzles are solved!

I would like to ask: Do you know what dee means when he suddenly realizes that "this is already the third murder case"?

No prize for correct answer! !The answer will be revealed in the next few chapters!

Due to too much nonsense, Mrs. Shark Fin will appear in the next chapter

------in addition:

I have something to tell everyone here, Suzaku Fury may be going to V.Although I feel a little guilty and entangled, I feel that it is difficult to write a V article other than this. As a scumbag, I am really ashamed of the editor for digging me out, so... If I make a V, I hope you can do what you can. If you think it is unnecessary, Just wait a little longer.I'm sorry everyone, thank you for your support and encouragement all the time, I have been chasing and leaving messages, and writing for Zha Zha Motivation.Thank you everyone!