Daqing Criminal Division

The two people's trip to Hangzhou Mansion arrived on time the next day.

But on the same day when he was about to leave Jiangning, Duan Xiao did something extra.

He had never made up his mind to change this matter.

That is, after five years, the 'old scar' on his face has finally been officially erased.

This ugly scar was scratched on his face by one of the unknown forces in the Shuntian Mansion case.

It was a shadow that he could not forget to face up to for more than four years.

For a time, he didn't want to recall his feelings at the moment of failure, so he kept it on his face to warn himself.

But after this case, I experienced everything that happened in the Jiangning mansion's pavilions and explosions.

But he no longer said that he wanted to follow fear or other things to stop everything in front of him, just to take a step forward and continue to move forward, to pursue the truth of the year more fearlessly, and to overcome his own heart.

It's just that he has restored his true appearance to others this morning.

For some people who saw his face for the first time, it was a little unexpected, or completely unexpected——

On this day, in Jiangning City.

On the road, the crowd was noisy, and traffickers and pawns were seen constantly coming and going.

The Meixiang Inn, which has a new plaque behind it, has been restored to the past, and the water of the canal under the river dam flows past.

Anxiang with a black mane and dark eyes was stamping her horse's hooves in front of the inn, while Fucharzi, who was also holding one arm, was leaning against the wall and waiting for the people behind her.

He threw the jade pendant with a black tassel in his hand.

A pair of eyes that have maintained a calm, thorough and absolute insight all year round looked into the distance thoughtfully, and he didn't know exactly what was going on in his mind.

But at this moment, there was a person behind him who made him feel that there was an inexplicable familiarity.

But when Fucharzi, who was still there, turned around, he saw a man similar to him, dressed in blue, with a slender indigo belt swaying around his waist, black boots, and coming with a smart white horse behind him.

That very shocking blue and red.

With the hem of the clothes and the cuffs moving with the wind.

Just like the blue sky and scorching sun above the head today, it is free and unrestrained, as if it should be like this from birth, making people feel that they are full of eyes and can't tolerate anything else.

The man's face was so against the light.

One line and one word, proud, publicity, two characters are fully displayed.

Under this shocking collision of colors, it seemed that she was born with a different kind of radiance.

At this moment, it seems that there is no such person in this world anymore.

It seems that the only way to be fair to God is to keep your eyes fixed on him, and when this person raised his head, he kept turning his head and looked behind him, Fuchaerzi, who was still waiting for someone's expression, had an even weirder expression up.

Fucharzi: "Then what, you, who are you?"

"What do you say?"

Upon hearing this, this 'unknown handsome guy' appeared in front of him with a look like you are pretending to me again, he turned his head to the side and squinted his eyes.

Fucharzi: "..."

'Unknown handsome guy': "..."

Fucharzi: "Duan Duan Duan Duan Duan Duan Duan——Owl?"

The man looked as if he had seen a ghost, and the words fell, and the two looked at each other in silence.

Fucharzi froze with his expression paused for a moment.

I couldn't help but carefully identified who he was from head to toe for a long time.

Seeing this person reappearing in front of his eyes, there was a smell everywhere that he could abduct a woman from a good family with just a tick of his fingers.

At the moment, they passed by half a street behind them.

Not counting those in their boudoirs in their seventies and eighties, no matter if they were in sedan chairs or in front of the powder shop, they all secretly looked at this man with blushing faces.

Fucharzi, who was standing crookedly against the wall, was dumbfounded at such a face, and when he coughed heavily with his fingers and eyeballs, he recovered, and he immediately pointed to the side and yelled like a person with an unbalanced heart— —

Fucharzi: "Cough! You... you! We, this is not like this! Why are some people born with this... no, you were here before, playing with me on purpose Keep a low profile, right?"

For the time being, Duan Xiao only thinks that this person is jealous.

After all, he never said that he was really ugly. He was already like this. Could it be that he would tell everyone because of this every day?

But the imbalance in the heart is the imbalance in the heart.

Afterwards, Fucharzi did nothing about it.

Because of what Duan Xiao did in the past, he didn't feel that there was any particularly lethal force.

But now this person's every move, as long as two people appear on the street, people will definitely feel that such a handsome guy is wronged to stand with him.

'Unknown passer-by': "Wow, why is that poor guy over there who can't afford clothes and shoes still yelling at others, hey, the guy next to him is really, really good-looking, hey, he looks It's so embarrassing to come here..."

Fucharzi: "..."

Upon hearing this in his ears, Fucharzi, who had never been particular about it, and was even less attractive to women, immediately twitched the corners of his mouth and refused to say anything more.

He was afraid that he would speak aloud to this person casually again.

There must be passers-by who can't see it to take the initiative to uphold justice.

So in the end, he had no choice but to put on an aggrieved face all the way, and set out on the road together with this person beside him who he had absolutely avoided in the past and who was very attractive at first sight.

Fortunately, this time, since there were only the two of them, everything was kept simple.

Although the two would borrow some passing official boats and mule carts for convenience, and then rest on the way, they generally didn't find it tiring to travel around like this.

Mostly because they're both the kind of people who can do anything.

In addition, they are all big men, and there is no reason why anyone will accommodate or give in to anyone, so they don't pay too much attention when they come and go.

However, there will be times when it is inconvenient to say.

Because over the years, Fuchaerzi is used to being alone, and Duan Xiao is also used to being alone, but they are still not used to it, staying with the other person for everything.

After all, as long as I think about myself and a man just like myself, eye to eye, nose to nose every day, everything will become numb.

These two guys were immediately overwhelmed, and got goosebumps all over their bodies for no reason.

In private, they are still used to the way of getting along with grown men.

No one will affect anyone's personal judgment and behavior style, what to do.

But it is also direct and straightforward, which is in line with the characters of the two of them.

As for other than that, what else can there be.

The minds of these two people who were only thinking about business affairs and rarely had the mood to think about other things really didn't feel it at all.

During this process, a certain Fucha also showed his survival skills wandering outside for many years.

But just talking about thick-skinned and stingy, one has to sigh that there are really any ways for a person to become poor.

For example, he is better at bargaining with people on the street, breaking one penny into two pennies and spending it.

And after the last time, he didn't wear the clothes that Duan Xiao gave him, but just put them away, and he still wore the soap clothes and broken shoes that didn't change no matter where he went, and he only said that he would wear them again in the future.

"Tsk, I've said it all. I'm frugal. I'm frugal. There are people in the wealthy family who stink of wine and meat. Besides, I must be rich if my surname is difficult. There are also poor people."

His full-mouthed reasons are quite good.

However, this person has always been very picky with himself, but he is quite generous with others.

Let’s just say that when they were passing through Jiaxing this time, they met a family of old and young who were selling girls in front of the city gate. The person didn’t say anything at the time, but turned around and wrapped up the money he had on himself before, and gave most of it to others. The family went to the rescue first.

From this point of view, there is a reason why this person has been able to live such a poor life day by day all these years.

Because he never regards things of gold and silver as his own.

It seems like this day can do whatever you want one day at a time, it's really hard to see through his thoughts.

It's also because he has never seen money in the market in his eight lifetimes. Duan Xiao, who had tried to think deeply about this guy's background before, didn't think any more in the end.

……

Afterwards, along the way, because of the fast horses rushing past, the two stopped for a short time on the road.

About fourteen days later.

The Hangzhou Mansion, which is thousands of miles away from the Jiangning Mansion, arrived as scheduled.

This place is under the assistance of General Depei, the current governor of Zhejiang.

The special government office is located in the middle of the Hangzhou government office, which is a rare and rich place in Zhejiang.

The reason why Duan Ou personally has an impression of this old general Depei is because he had already been stationed in Hangzhou during the reign of King Sejong, and secondly because of his special status.

Because if there is anything special about this general of the town, it is probably because he himself is a true son of the clan. He is now over half a hundred years old, but he was quite famous on the battlefield when he was young.

When the two of them finally arrived in Hangzhou, it happened to be a completely sunny day.

Once entering Lin'an County, there are the most winding mountain roads along the way.

The clouds and smoke are lingering, and the vegetation is new.

Halfway, there was the sound of a brown bird falling on the branches.

In the mountains, if you look up from the bottom, you will see tea houses and plantation fields of various sizes, large or small. There are small tea houses on the mountain roads, and there are tea ladies dressed as folk women for sale. Tea, the most common one is tea leaves drying in baskets.

It is said that the most popular tea in Hangzhou area nowadays is Longjing tea.

The top-quality Yuqian Longjing, except for the annual tribute, is worth a thousand gold per catty, and it is even more valuable than any antique or curio.

Veteran tea farmers come to this season every time.

They will walk in the mountains to fry tea and sell it. This makes Hangzhou Prefecture have a very large flow of people because of the tea merchants going up to the mountain to fry tea in the past two months. If we say that this business road is not inferior to Jiangning.

Just the thought of the three words 'Chen Tea'.

But it was also involuntary to think of the batch of smuggled goods that they first seized from Yang Qingbing in Chuzhou.

Up to now, where the source of the hemp leaves that flowed to Chuzhou came from, the government has not yet made a clear conclusion.

According to Yang Qingbing's personal statement, it is obvious that he is only a middleman in the drug sales process. No one knows the source of these illegal products and the specific sales channels.

In addition, this time they will also visit another location of the incident.

It is Damingkong Temple in Tianmu Mountain, Lin'an County.

All of this, it has to be said, also made the Hangzhou Mansion in front of me shrouded in an impenetrable cloud of suspicion.

Accompanied by the whip whip several times, and the sound of an old man driving past the mule cart downstairs in the front city gate, Fucha Erji, who got off his horse and stretched himself as soon as he entered the city gate, and Duan Xiao into the city.

The two of them didn't have much luggage, and they were all carried by An Xiang and Mei Huazui who followed behind.

And it was a coincidence that when the two of them entered the gate of the city leading the horses, they happened to see a notice with big red characters on the collar of the gate.

There are three special big characters written on the head of the Buddha in the middle.

——'Gongde tea'.

On this notice, there are two statues of Guanshi and Manjushri Bodhisattvas on the left and right, and there are also Vajra Arhats around them.

There are also several rows of densely packed names and ages at the bottom, and the address of the county government office is written at the bottom, which seems to be posted here by the government or shantang.

What is merit tea?

This completely unfamiliar vocabulary, for people like them who came from other places, this is really the first time they have heard of it.

But after that, Fuchaerzi and Duan Xiao saw a red box that was usually used for disaster relief fundraising beside it.

Whenever someone passed by, after seeing the name of the person on the notice, they would take out two copper coins and put them in this box, but they also roughly guessed that this was probably a box for donating money.

But the strange thing is that the red box full of copper plates is left unattended.

However, none of the passing Hangzhou people would take the initiative to touch this merit box, and they were very conscious.

It was also when the two passed by the gate of the city that they witnessed this scene. The two of them looked at the very eye-catching box, and Duan Xiao got up for an excuse and asked the tea girl beside him.

Normally, if the two of them are big men who don't drink tea, the tea girl will definitely not talk to them easily.

However, Duan Xiao's current face is too lethal for a woman.In the end, it didn't cost a penny, and it really gave them a good idea from the tea girl who was used to seeing businessmen from all walks of life, but who was also blushing and shy.

"Oh? The government helped set it up here?"

"Yes, yes, the people of Hangzhou Prefecture all know that tea money is used for good deeds, so no one will deliberately steal it. If someone is seriously ill, the money can be of great use..."

Standing in front of Duan Xiao across the screen of the tea room, he didn't dare to look directly at the man from other places. The tea girl's frowns and smiles were unconsciously attracted by his face.

"How can that be used in general?"

Duan Xiao asked again.

"To buy medicines for poor people who can't see a doctor, to buy charcoal to buy medicines in winter, and to buy clothes for some homeless beggars and leprosy patients. All these money will come in handy."

The tea girl with a braid replied in Hangzhou dialect with a delicate and blushing face.

"So that's the case, thank you for letting me know."

After all, Duan Xiao, who nodded and thanked the tea girl, twitched the corner of his mouth politely, but didn't express any opinion.

It turned out that this so-called 'merit tea' is really a unique charity donation method in Hangzhou Prefecture.

The lines and columns of names written on the notice are all the names and surnames of farmers around Lin'an County who are seriously ill, childless or widowed.

Because these people need money to help them for many years.

However, the matter of the people's livelihood at the lower level cannot be easily resolved by the government. The Hangzhou government has specially set up this box.

Since the reign of King Sejong, local shantangs have spontaneously placed such a box in several places under the mountain. If you are interested, you don't need to pay more, just put a bowl of tea money in it and it will be instant.

Just a bowl of tea.

Not only can you help others, but you will also get some good deeds at that time, so this move will be called "merit tea" by the people of Hangzhou Prefecture.

This was the first time they both heard about it, but it was rare.

After all, it does sound like a good thing.

And because the two of them mainly came here to find out the follow-up of the Jiangning explosion last time, after this incident, the two went to the local government to report together as usual.

After half a moment.

The official residence of Hangzhou Mansion is on the east side after entering the city. Two beasts face each other in front of the gate, and a red drum stands in front of the gate, spanning half of the main city.

The two walked through the city all the way without stopping.

He directly approached the local government department that specializes in investigating such serious cases.

Prior to this, Sima Zhun had written a letter in advance to help them explain the handover of the case, so after finding another person, the police who specialize in criminal investigations also received them.

Compared with the past, this time the two came by coincidence.

The local Hangzhou mansion officer who was responsible for the follow-up of the case knew the two of them for the first time, but he had already heard about what happened in Jiangning mansion before.

"Fuchardhi."

"Duan Owl."

The two of them said this to each other, which is still their usual opening remarks.

As for the Hangzhou police officer in front of him, his surname is Jin, his first name is Jin Ruoyun, and he is 35 years old.

He had a thicker beard than ordinary people, because both parties knew that this time he was here to investigate the affairs behind 'Arhat Money' and 'Green Spider with Flower Back'.

But now, they have three main clues.

One, it is the mysterious criminal gang that Yang Qingbing explained, and the location of one of the five pigs involved in the case behind the scenes.

Second, it is the mysterious Shangjia who made him smuggle in Chuzhou, Pingyang, and Jiangning before, and the criminal behind the scenes under the pseudonym Cui Dongting or Cui Luan.

The third is the mysterious key clue that Liu Cen wrote down when he was hijacked by a gang of unknown people, the bell of Damingkong Temple.

These three current clues do not seem to be directly related.However, Jin Ruoyun, who is familiar with the process of handling cases, has also transferred the files of the Hangzhou Government Yamen, whether it has been the same as his own case files in the past few years.

And as expected, neither Cui Dongting nor Cui Luan, these two obviously fictitious names are not natives of Hangzhou, nor have they left any apparent criminal records for them to trace.

Because people who get involved in this kind of hemp leaf selling business, except for those who are profiteering themselves, are mostly people who have serious symptoms of hemp leaf addiction.

As we all know, this kind of hemp leaves and the like are extremely addictive.

Once addicted, it is impossible to quit for life. In the process, women from good families become prostitutes, and normal men kill people because of their addiction.

On the basis of this case, the Hangzhou government policeman also told the two of an unsolved case that happened outside Lin'an County shortly before they came.

This case is not a big one, but the time, place, and what they saw when they heard the report was quite bizarre.

It's also the details of this case that sounds weird at first, so that Fuchaerji and Duan Xiao, who had just come to Hangzhou and learned about the case, immediately looked at each other and showed exactly the same expression.

"You said that just eleven days ago, a family in Lin'an found the bodies of twin babies who had just landed in the mouth of their yellow dog?"

The author has something to say: Finally, we can no longer hide the fact that our old Duan is a handsome guy.

In fact, Fucha is also handsome, but he deliberately pretends to be stupid all day long, and doesn't take care of himself well, so he doesn't seem to be competitive haha, but it doesn't matter, it's a unique skill to pick up a handsome guy, right?Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated the nutrient solution~

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated [nutrient solution]:

10 bottles of Jun Qingqing and Hu Hu; 5 bottles of Qianqiu Sui and Dark Moon; 2 bottles of Xie Fang;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!