Daqing Criminal Division

twenty days.

night.

The riots caused by the twelve side-mounted slow guns in the whole city have basically stopped today.

Jiangning's crisis has been lifted.

In the follow-up, the government will conduct door-to-door comfort visits to the safety of the people in the city. All scattered dangerous objects have been removed. The Qinhuai River this night has finally returned to its former peace.

At the gate of the yamen, in front of a long aisle, many traces of bomb disposal left by several official horses and officers and soldiers during the day have been cleared.

I just changed the night shift, so I didn't leave.

One by one with a knife, the servants guarding this place are in the darkness above their heads.

When a tall and thin figure that almost blended into the night was away from the eyes of outsiders, and pushed the door open with a 'squeak' and entered the yamen, his dangerous face hidden in the darkness was revealed.

Duan Xiao came here alone tonight.

Because he had some other questions to ask this person in the prison himself, so he had to come here himself.

"—!"

The person who was arrested all the way from the pier and put in prison again was taken aback and raised his head hastily.

Duan Xiao and him looked at each other, but didn't speak.

Then, he dragged a chair casually, and sat down in front of the prisoner whose neck was still shackled.

The stack he held in his hand was the case file of the Jiangning Mansion this time—on it, there were information about Wang Tianxiao, the four 'Wannan natives', and the person in front of him.

Directly opposite him, in Jiangning Prison, at the end of the iron fence with windows closed on all sides, a middle-aged man who was shackled again, this time his face was paler than last time, and his forehead was covered with sweat.

Because the two knew each other, this person felt guilty when he saw Duan Xiao appear again.

The other party was originally a fat man with a wide body, short limbs, and a fair complexion.

After two months, perhaps to deceive others, he grew a beard and changed his attire, but it was not quite similar to the salesman in the past, and he became much richer and richer.

——The smuggler Yang Qingbing, who was in the state capital last time, was arrested again in Jiangning Prefecture, which is probably the most unexpected turning point of the case.

Just now, Sima Zhun and his group of Jiang Ning policemen came in to ask a question, and this person basically admitted that he was Yang Qingbing from Chuzhou, so they were old acquaintances.

Originally, he should have been arrested together with the murderer Fu Sunxian last time.

Before he and Fuchaerzi finished solving the case and left, the policeman Ma Zixiu had clearly stated that since this person had pleaded guilty and was in custody, he was waiting for the magistrate to find out who was behind him.

The state capital will definitely not let this person get away with it.

But now, he not only successfully escaped from prison.

He also turned into the criminal Zhang Santong this time and the mysterious "Shangjia" mentioned by that group of people in southern Anhui.

About who the hell was the guy who rescued him behind his back.

How he obtained such a large amount of fire nitrate, and then smuggled it to Zhang Santong is a bit thought-provoking.

And now Duan Xiao has basically confirmed in his heart that this person probably lied when he was arrested last time.

Otherwise, as a mere salesman who helps people smuggle 'Chen Tea'.

Even if he became acquainted with gangsters because of being involved in the hemp leaf trade and became a link in that profit chain, he would not change hands immediately, and he could grasp such a large amount of fire nitrate.

But it's strange to say that Yang Qingbing was not written on the very realistic customs clearance document that was found on him before.

It was another unknown name, and his household registration was not from Chuzhou—it turned out that he had changed his name just like Wang Tianxiao before he escaped from prison.

But apart from admitting to smuggling and jailbreak.

This Yang Qingbing didn't know anything about the people in the Jiangning government, but it made people think about the hidden things behind the scenes.

At this moment, as the two looked at each other, Duan Xiao was also quietly observing Yang Qingbing's every word and deed.

Realizing that he was caught in this person's hands again this time, the other party must be difficult to deal with. Yang Qingbing swallowed his saliva and listened to Duan Xiao's sudden sentence.

"Yang Qingbing, how does it feel to come in again?"

"The last time it was Ma Ye, this time it was Huo Nitre. You have many connections on the road."

This is very difficult to answer.

Remembering that it was this person who caught him last time, Yang Qingbing replied with an indescribably twitching face,

"...Okay, I've recruited everything that should be recruited, and I really don't know anything about the rest. All of this is just, just a coincidence, a misunderstanding."

Another sentence - I don't know anything.

The smuggler Yang Qingbing, who traveled around many places and buried a long line of criminal gangs behind the scenes, seemed to have decided that as long as he said that he didn't know again, the government would have nothing to do with him.

Sensing that he started talking about him again, Duan Xiao didn't comment when he heard the words.

"Is it?"

"Yes, the things this time were originally given by those masters, my masters, I am a pawn... just copy and check some inventory, and help-"

As soon as he heard it, he was eager to argue, and Yang Qingbing seemed to want to open his eyes and say 'nonsense'.

"Then let me ask you another question, a piece of Arhat money strung on a red string, and a green spider with a flower back, do you know each other?"

The squinting Duan Xiao said while tilting his head and twitching the corners of his mouth at him.

"..."

As soon as I heard 'Luo Han Qian' and 'Green Spider with Flower Back'.

Yang Qingbing, who was staring blankly before, suddenly turned pale for some reason, and closed his mouth again, but Duan Xiao didn't seem to intend to let him go, rubbed his fingers, and continued following this line of thought road,

"You are the 'material evidence' that Liu Cen said in the letter that we were looking for. The first person he met in Jiangning was actually you, right?"

"The one who let Guo Mubu steal something from Mr. Jiahui's house in Songjiang was also with you, right?"

"..."

As soon as Duan Xiao said this, he suddenly understood why he recognized Yang Qingbing who was hiding under the cabin just now on the pier in the middle of the night.

Tonight, not only failed to deal with his next family, but was also caught by the Jiangning Mansion. Yang Qingbing, who is now in prison alone, suddenly looks much worse.

In this encounter with him, he originally wanted to be "hard-spoken" to divert the disaster to the east or to hold on for a while.

But the puffy and swollen white and fat face and this fat pig-like body are a little timid due to the beads of sweat falling down from the neck.

Seeing this, Duan Xiao was not in a hurry to ask further questions.

He only leaned down under the gaze of the other party, put one of his fingers on the table in front of him and tapped, then narrowed his eyes and looked at the spider in the dark above their heads and opened his mouth.

"Before, I asked Liu Cen to come to Jiangning to investigate the smuggling of 'Chen Tea', so I also thought about many reasons why the other party would be involved in the bombing case of the people in southern Anhui after the incident."

"At first, I just thought that all the fragmented clues were coincidences."

"After all, during this trip to Jiangning, Liu Cen happened to break through the fact that people in southern Anhui made their own fire nitrate products. But in combination, when we were in Pingyang County last time, that stalker Guo Mub The confession I made at the end made me feel that the matter might not be that simple."

At this moment, it was as if the two parties were engaged in a thrilling intellectual and psychological game.

On one side are sophisticated criminals.

On one side is Duan Owl, who is used to walking in the dark.

Staring straight at the other party's cold and serious eyes, which made people unable to escape the law again and again, the prisoner Yang Qingbing clasped the table firmly, but didn't say a word.

But Duan Xiao didn't lie about this.

Because the follow-up of the case that happened in the past two or three months has more or less left a little bit of suspense, so he will inevitably think about it.

In the past four or five years, he has been investigating the truth of the pig man case.

If you don't even have the sense of crime to detect something wrong, I'm afraid you won't be able to live to this day.

At the moment, he only felt that there must be a direct or indirect connection among the three things that surrounded them in succession, but just now, when the last slow cannon on the old beggar was solved, he let him go for a while. Zi wants to understand the connection.

Because before that, he once asked Sima Zhun a question about the watermelon head.

That is the people of this dynasty, if it is not the place where the fire nitrate is produced near the mine, who can get such a large batch of pure fire nitrate.

At that time Sima Zhun answered him.

The other party said that it is basically impossible for the people. After all, every government government now has a ban on fire nitrate. Only the dispatch order of the general soldier can get the official distribution right of fire nitrate.

But Mr. Zongbing and his heavy troops have been stationed in the south of the Yangtze River all year round.

The last time he appeared in everyone's minds was in the case of Pingyang. Before the prefect's wife was under surveillance, he had published a report that the Jiangnan general soldier had visited Mr. and Mrs. Jiahui's residence.

The Jiangnan General Soldier once went to Pingyang because of the decree.

That was the only time in the past six months that he left the General Military Mansion except for official business. After that, the unsolved stalker case happened in Pingyang.

——This is a coincidence, but it is a bit too coincidental.

"The prisoner Guo Mubu in Pingyang County once said that a man who was carrying arhat money and had a tattoo of a green spider on the back of his hand made him steal a ledger from Mr. Jiahui."

"At that time, I never thought about it."

"What exactly is this 'ledger', why Master Jiahui didn't seem to notice it afterwards."

"Afterwards, Liu Cen came to Jiangning to investigate Chen Tea's incident, and then disappeared mysteriously. Then Wang Tianxiao, one of the accomplices in the pig man case, 'Hai Pig' committed crimes again."

"Later, I figured it out, because the 'ledger' in Mr. Jiahui's mansion may not be a real 'ledger', but the Jiangnan General Soldier went to Songyang to deliver an imperial decree to the magistrate's wife during that time, and named him The imperial decree left by the married woman, the real thing you want to steal is the imperial decree, and after that, you and the force behind you used this to obtain this batch of fire nitrate in the name of Jiangnan General Soldier, right?"

"So——the real origin of this batch of fire salt is precisely the Jiangning General Military Mansion itself, am I right?"

This one went round and round, but the truth behind these three consecutive cases was exposed at once.

Red sleeping shoes, vase case, and watermelon case with human head.

Yang Qingbing, whose source of smuggling had been exposed, felt cold for a moment, unable to utter a word, just stared blankly for a while, and it took a long time for 1 people to tremble with guilt and panic.

"I admit that I found someone to steal the things from Madam Zhifu's house, and that's how the fire nitrate came from. Afterwards, I spent money to buy people from the subordinate yamen to fill it in with flour and miscellaneous ores... Fire salt was mixed with watermelon and shipped to Jiangning..."

"I couldn't help myself... If I hadn't been deceived by money into the hands of 'this group' many years ago, I would also like to embark on the road to fame and fame, instead of half my life in fear, and use my little knowledge to do my best These things that harm others and ourselves, if they were not instigated by 'this group of people'..."

"But other things, I, I really don't know anything... please let me live, I'm just a helper, it's because of my crimes that Jiangning Mansion finally chopped off my head this time, I can't confess to those people, he, they will definitely kill me and tear me into pieces..."

Yang Qingbing, who was so timid that he huddled into a ball, lowered his head in fear after all this, but he also exposed his fear of the group of people he spoke of under Duan Xiao's eyes.

"'That group of people'? Who are 'those people'?"

Hitting the table violently, Duan Xiao asked coldly, a pressure all over his body.

Hearing this, Yang Qingbing, who was arrested tonight, also knew that it was hard to hide anything, so he started to talk about a series of things he knew since the red night shoes case two months ago with a pale face.

It turned out that Yang Qingbing, who had changed his name twice, was not a real salesman.

It was the 11th year of Sejong, the eleventh in Chuzhou Chuwei's general examination.

He is not only an out-and-out native of Chuzhou, but also had a serious reputation when he was young. He was also a miscellaneous scholar who edited books and had works circulated in the world under his name.

Before that, his whole family in Chuzhou Capital was indeed his relatives.

But for many years, Yang Qingbing has been hiding his name in various places with his family and mouth, pretending to be a salesman.

What he has done for many years is to smuggle around for a 'group of people' the raw capital chips they need to sell to the criminal forces in various provinces.

However, what he dabbles in is not conventional poetry classics or general history literature, but agronomy and meteorology that very few people will understand today.

This kind of miscellaneous learning is mostly contacted by folks, because Sejong himself is a person who pays great attention to farming, and Yang Qingbing was elected because he has his own unique knowledge storage in this way.

But such a person, not only did not become an official.

But many years later, he became an out-and-out criminal and was involved in several major cases, not only smuggling hemp leaves, but also nitrate and homicide cases, which sounds absurd.

But when Duan Xiao thought about it, he vaguely thought of another person who was very similar to Yang Qingbing in front of him.

That is - that 'Hai pig' Wang Tianxiao.

On the surface, Wang Tianxiao is a shop assistant. According to others, he has been doing small jobs in Jiangning Mansion for many years to make a living.

But he himself is rarely literate, and is very proficient in the common sense of all kinds of gunpowder ratios. He is not only very smart and good at making side-mounted slow guns, but also familiar with grid positioning. He can be called an all-rounder.

Such two people, if they are serious about their merits or become officials, they will most likely be able to be admitted to the Ministry of Industry as a small official.

But both of them were reduced to criminals driven by profit.

And in this big case in Jiangning Mansion, each of them was controlled by the unknown forces hidden behind the 'Arhat Money' and 'Green Spider with Flower Back', and became a pawn in this game.

What they have been manipulating behind the scenes is probably aware of the talents of these two people, but somehow, the true face of this mysterious criminal organization has also appeared in front of Duan Xiao for the first time.

It is also at this moment, facing this prison that is destined to never escape, and the group of "evil ghosts" who will inevitably find him afterwards, Yang Qingbing, who knows that he has one way of thinking, also closes his eyes and trembles and sheds tears road,

"The Arhat money and the flower-backed green spider are the signs of those people every time they come and go."

"Once they become one of them, each of them...everyone has a piece of arhat money tied with a red string in his hand, and that Wang Tianxiao used to belong to them...they are very powerful. Anyone who has offended or offended them will suffer a terrible death, and behind them stands a person who must never be offended. That person once committed a big crime in Shuntian, and then managed to escape in the imperial city... ..."

"who's that person?"

Obviously already noticed something from these words, and recalled the old case that happened to him, but Duan Xiao, who could not stop staring at him coldly, spoke expressionlessly.

"A person called Jizhu, who also has a tattoo of a green spider on the back of his hand."

"A legendary person who has not seen his true face for so many years, but has the ability to ask the gods and Buddhas of the heavens to make way for him."

……

Yang Qingbing's confession in the prison of Jiangning Mansion once pointed all the clues in front of him to an unknown new world.

miles away from it.

In the middle of the night, in an alley with no fire on the street, Fucha Erji, who was lying on the wall with one arm under his pillow, was lying alone on the street of Jiangning, staring at the night sky above his head like a drunk man in a trance.

His two legs were upturned boneless, and he was vaguely humming the little tune called Shepherd Boy last time, and there were no footsteps around him, only the Qinhuai lights shrouded his body without a trace of energy.

Someone had asked Fuchardhi a question before.

What does it feel like to be blind.

He replied at the time that it was very uncomfortable, as if there was a ray of light coming in, but he couldn't see anything clearly.

It seems that everything can be seen clearly, and it seems that nothing can be seen clearly.

Because of the darkness in front of his eyes, he had to touch everything carefully.

He no longer trusts others.

Because I can't see it, I also begin to reject the world of anyone who can see it.

Most of the time, he could only curl up in a dark place alone, staggering and crawling forward slowly in a dark well with the secrets of the past.

He no longer believed in his firm judgment in the past, that he could really do it.

Because there are many difficult things on the ground.

If he is not careful, his own palm will be covered with blood, so no matter how powerful he was, he will start to be as scared as an incompetent person.

This made him lose everything in the past, and turned into a useless person he almost didn't know, so that he could only hide in Songyang with another face for so many years, but he didn't even dare to take that step.

But all of this seems to have been changed unconsciously during this period of time.

He couldn't tell exactly what had changed.

But there seemed to be a faint light shining in front of him, a useless blind man.

Although it seems very weak.

But Fucharzi knew that it was light.

Because, he has not seen what the light looks like for a long time.

Therefore, every ray of light that he can see is extremely precious to him now, like the rarest and most precious thing in this world.

——He didn't even lose it now, and he started to feel a little bit reluctant.

"Tsk."

I don't know if he thought of something, anyway, Fucharzi looked at the sky boredly for a second and blinked.

At the end, the Big Dipper is amazingly bright tonight.

One of them is particularly beautiful.

As if to attract all his attention.

But just as he was looking at the stars and thinking about what happened during this time, a sound of footsteps coming from the end of Jiangning alley startled him.

Before that, he had been waiting for this person to come.

In the middle of the night, he shouldn't have disturbed the other party.

But the two of them have been very close in the past, and after hearing Gui Donglin say that the guy happened to be in Jiangning, he was not polite.

And he raised his eyelids to look at the "old friend" who had come to Songyang to look for him last time standing up and down.

Seeing that the other party was still dressed in elegant and luxurious clothes this time, and he still looked like a leisurely son of a rich family, Fucha Erji, the 'poor ghost' himself, who was a little envious and jealous, also despised him.

"Sartuk Changling, you guys are not busy working for the court, Gui Donglin gambles every day, and you wear such a flamboyant bag every day and drink flowers and wine everywhere."

"I don't know about him, I can't afford to be busy even if I want to, who makes some people so showy today, one person, oh, no, two people, together do all the work for us Shangyu spares I'm grateful that it's too late, but there's been no news for so long since the last time, and you thought you were dead."

Chang Ling, the 'noble son' who was dressed in a glittering style, also retorted so bluntly.

Shangyu's spare place.

——These five words are the identity of this person.

If Duan Xiao was here, I'm afraid that he would be surprised by the hidden meaning of the five words, where he came from in this dynasty, and what special status he had.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm still alive and well."

Fucharzi, who fell down and slept on the wall, snorted like a drunkard.

Regarding this, his 'noble son' friend also had a good-tempered look on his face, but after thinking about it, he also recalled everything behind this case and suddenly said,

"Hi, dead man."

"I know you haven't let go of the past, but that Yang Qingbing was arrested, and the clues behind him have been temporarily cut off. If you want to investigate further, you may have to investigate along the lines of Wang Tianxiao's death this time. .”

"Right now, I can only help you find a clue about the 'Luohan Qian' and the 'Green Spider'."

The figure standing at the bottom of the alley with his back against the wall spoke again.

"What clue?"

Fucharji lowered his eyes and asked, but in the next second he got a sentence from Chang Ling who was standing under the wall with a serious expression.

"Tianmu Mountain."

"The 'spider' you are looking for may be there."

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