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Chapter 1073 Chapter 1014 Clown (2)

Chapter 1073 Chapter [-] Clown ([-])

The world goes on as usual.

On the tenth day of April, the eleventh day of April...the twelfth day of April, shortly after entering the side courtyard of the Yamen in Yunzhong Mansion, Mandu Dalu met Gao Puhu and his party who came out in a hurry.The two teams confronted each other for a while, Gao Puhu, who seemed to have not slept well, bowed to salute, and retreated to the side of the road. After Mandu Dalu and others passed by, the other party walked towards the outside of the yamen in despair. It seems that there are still pancakes for breakfast.

"How is Lao Gao?"

Going inside to the public room assigned to the patrolmen, and waved away some people, Mandu Dalu spoke to a few confidants around him: "It doesn't look so good."

"Be scolded, I'm in a hurry to go out before I finish eating the pancakes in my sleeves." Mandu Daru's old comrade-in-arms in the army, nicknamed "Old Sword", was tall and pockmarked, and was good at Xing Xun is also good at observation. Obviously, he also saw the clues in Gao Puhu's sleeve.

"In the past two days, I heard that there was almost a fight at the top. The young master who lost his father is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he is running around. Last night, King Liang took the opportunity to fight the commander. It is estimated that the magistrate is here too. Scolding. The master was scolded, how will Gao Puhu feel better?"

There were well-informed policemen around who talked about it, and some people said with a smile: "Fortunately, we are fine here."

There is a reason why there is nothing wrong here. Wanyan Xiyin greeted Yunzhong Mansion when he was transferred to Mandu Dalu. Right now, his most important task is to arrest the black flag spies and ensure the May Tournament. The matter of Xungui's disappearance did not come to this side for a while.

Mandu Dalu thought for a while: "Is there no progress yet? Have we found anything here? If it is a normal kidnapping, someone should come to make a request now."

"The strange thing is that there is no requirement. In fact, according to the current situation in the cloud, it is really a fortune. Who dares to come to trouble at this time. I am afraid that the water in the middle may be deep, and it may be possible for the people in the east to do it themselves. A big living person , strolling around the antique shop, there were guards following outside, and suddenly disappeared. This matter is full of ghosts..."

"It's also possible if it's a black flag..."

"Maybe there is, but... arrest a few nobles and make the two sides quarrel a little more? Risking the risk of exposing yourself? How much benefit will it be..."

After everyone discussed it, Mandu Dalu said: "It's hard to say now, let's investigate. He can't catch people, but we caught him, which is also a good thing."

The twelfth of April passed peacefully, followed by the thirteenth of April.The affairs in the yamen are trivial and trivial, and the pursuit of the black flag and the clown has been going on. He knows that sooner or later there will be results, but right now it can only be accumulated in this way.

On the afternoon of the thirteenth day, he was suddenly summoned by Gushen Mansion, and Mandu Dalu rushed there. Xi Yin met him in the study, asked him about his work, and then switched to another topic.

"Have you heard about Wanyan Linqi?"

"Humble job knows..."

"Do you think it's possible that Black Flag did it?"

"Beizhi thinks...there is...a certain possibility...Beizhi has been secretly pursuing the clues of this matter these days..." Mandu Daru replied cautiously.

Xi Yin nodded: "Check this matter more." Then he waved his hand, "Go back."

Mandu Dalu understood, and after leaving, he mobilized his men to investigate the case in Gao Puhu's hands with all his strength.His investigation at this time was a little bit late, and most of the first-hand information was concentrated in the hands of Gao Puhu, and it was not easy for him to ask Gao Puhu for it, but let people inquire secretly.

On the night of April [-]th, the two groups of people met again on the road in the side courtyard of the yamen. Gao Puhu hesitated for a moment, then retreated to the side of the road and bowed his hands in salute. This time his movements were much more straightforward.Mandu Dalu walked over with his chin raised, and Mandu Dalu, who had been walking all the way, turned his head and frowned slightly when the figures of Gao Puhu and his party disappeared at the other end of the corridor.

"Lao Gao has a problem." Lao Dao at the side also approached and whispered.

The two gangs have always had enmity. Two days earlier, Gao Puhu ran to finish Yan Linqi's case, and was scolded by the magistrate so much that he didn't have time to eat breakfast. After seeing Mandu Dalu, he reluctantly gave way.Although the light was dim tonight, the other party seemed to give way as in the previous two days, but the look on his face was obviously different.

Solved the case so quickly?

But why not promote it?

Isn't the boss still arguing and wrangling?

Mandu Dalu was puzzled, and after a while, he arranged manpower. On the one hand, he began to investigate Gao Puhu, and on the other hand, he began to go to Wanyan Linqi's father to investigate and see the little honorable man who was tied up. , Did you come back?

On April [-]th, news came back.Wanyan Linqi did not come back, but the prison in the north of the city where Gao Puhu is currently, has already sent extra guards, and it is very likely that someone has been caught.

In the huge Yunzhong Mansion, there is not only one cell on the side of the government office. The small prison in the north of the city was not used by many people in the past. Later, most of them tacitly agreed to be a stronghold and private prison used by the chief arrester near the north gate.Mandu Dalu hesitated for a moment, thinking of Xiyin's reception two days ago, he immediately set up his men and horses and headed towards the north gate.

Thick white clouds are rising in the sky of the city, the sun is like a sharp sword, shooting down directly from the gaps in the clouds, and pedestrians are walking on the street, everything is as usual.At this time, the knife that fell towards Xifu had already pierced Yunzhong's heart.

In the afternoon, when he arrived near the prison cell at the north gate of Yunzhong Mansion, Mandu Dalu saw that several teams of royal private soldiers had surrounded the area. Passers-by have already made a detour.

"Something went wrong..." There seemed to be countless ants crawling behind his head, Mandu Dalu ordered his subordinates, "Go and inform Gushen that something will happen..."

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After noon on April [-]th, Wan Yanchang arrived at the courtyard with a prison in the north of Yunzhong City. After entering the slightly spacious lobby, he saw Zong Bi and the other two Jurchen princes, and then two more princes. Arrive here together.

"It's not good to set up a private court in a sticky place." He questioned so.

Zong Bi replied: "If you don't look at a big case in private, you won't be able to try it."

Wan Yanchang arrived in Yunzhong on the eighth day of the lunar new year. On the ninth day of the new year, he found out about the kidnapping of Wanyan Linqi, a junior. Since then, Zong Bi has continued to make trouble with this incident—this is not surprising, since he arrived in March Beginning in Yunzhong, Zong Bi, Zong Han, and the others had confrontations and conflicts every day. This time, after all, they came here to share the power of the West Mansion. Wan Yanchang did not reject such a fight for every inch of land. .

From the afternoon of the ninth day to the fifteenth day, only six days, Zong Bi said that the case had been solved, and the whole matter would even play a decisive role in this dispute. Wan Yanchang was puzzled, but he probably guessed Guess, the whole thing may have spilled over to the highest echelons of the cloud.

The old files brought up by the yamen servants were about half a foot high, and at the top were some new confessions. In addition, there were some blood-stained knives, tokens and other things as evidence. I don’t know where they got them. Four prisoners were taken along with the rescued Xiao Xungui Wanyan Linqi.

The interrogation began in front of the six Jurchen princes.

The whole thing is not complicated.

One of the four prisoners, a member of the Black Banner Army, together with a woman from the Gushen Mansion, kidnapped Wanyan Linqi on the afternoon of the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. When the chief arrester Gao Puhu found them, the woman from the Gushen Mansion Taking advantage of the chaos to escape, the member of the Black Banner Army was arrested. After being tortured for half a day, the member of the Black Banner Army confessed a series of shocking inside stories:

For more than ten years, Chen Wenjun, the "Mrs. Han" of the Gushen Mansion, relied on her status to convey important information from the Kingdom of Jin to the south for a long time. She first colluded with the Secret Investigation Department of the Wu Dynasty, and later cooperated with the At the same time, the Wu Dynasty also formed an ally with the Huaxia Army.

After the fall of the Central Plains, this "Mrs. Han" not only delivered countless important information to the south, but also directly or indirectly helped a large number of anti-golden righteous men and black flag members escape danger in the golden country.It was the important news she conveyed that helped the Black Banner Army in the south to find out the reality of Jurchen's fourth southern expedition.According to the confession, if it were not for the assistance of these news, it would have been several times more difficult for the Huaxia Army to win the Southwest War.

According to the confession of the member of the Black Flag, Gao Puhu then revealed a large amount of evidence he had kept about the transmission of news, arranging the escape of Han slaves or captives.Later, three underworld figures who had no time to escape and were involved were captured, which further proved the authenticity of all the information.There are even some clues that vaguely point to Wanyan Xiyin, who has always admired sinology...

Wan Yanchang and the others flipped through the confessions and evidence, and pieced together clues into a web in words and words.After a long time, Wan Yanchang put down the file, slapped his palm on the table, and stood up.

"It happened by such a coincidence. After being arrested, the evidence was prepared one by one. In these confessions, none of the important figures of Heiqi and Wu Dynasty were missing, and only these three gangsters came to testify to these things... you What kind of idea is playing!"

He approached the member of the Black Flag among the four prisoners. The man kneeling on the ground was half covered in blood and his figure was thin. His hands were hanging on the ground. Only when he got close could he see that all ten fingernails were completely gone. up.Wan Yanchang raised his foot and stepped on his right hand, the man let out a scream, fell to the ground and twitched and howled, with blood and saliva pouring out of his mouth.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

The howling sound resounded throughout the room.

The black flag prisoner didn't answer, but Wanyan Zongbi stood up behind him: "Uncle, is this important?"

Wan Yanchang looked back at Zong Bi, then at the eyes of the other four people, after a while, he also sighed slightly.

"...It doesn't matter anymore."

He let go of his feet and walked outside the house. There were long white clouds in the sky outside the house.The black flag prisoner on the ground was lying in a pool of blood. His right hand, which had been stripped of all his nails, began to bleed again. He just lay there, staring outside, screaming a few more times, bleeding and saliva .The three prisoners next to him were all well-known gangsters in the cloud. Their eyes hated him, but seeing him twitching on the ground, no one dared to really approach him.

"Ahhh...hehehe..."

He seemed to have lost his normality, and after the pain passed, he laughed a few times creepily.

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Mandu Dalu didn't know what happened, and he kept running outside throughout the afternoon and night.

After discovering that the guards outside the prison were unusual, he knew that the matter was out of his control, so he quickly ordered someone to notify Gu Shen.However, the people sent there came to report soon after, and Gu Shen was not in the mansion, and even in the mansion, there were so many officials visiting every day, some small policemen couldn't jump in line to report the matter.

In the evening, he recognized Zong Bi's figure among the crowd who came out there, turned his head quickly, and went to Gushen Mansion in person.As night fell, he waited here until he was close to Zi, when Xi Yin's car appeared on the road outside.Mandu Daru also ignored the etiquette at this time, and rushed directly to the driver, begging to see him loudly.

The convoy stopped, and Wanyan Xiyin lifted the curtain over there to let Mandu Daru come over to talk, and Mandu Daru reported to him what he saw in the afternoon.The old man in the carriage had a serious and indifferent expression. After Mandu Daru finished speaking, he looked at him slowly and with a somewhat complicated expression for a moment.

"I see." He said, "You go back."

"..."

Mandu Dalu was slightly stunned, but then the car drove away, and he saluted and backed away.

At this time, it was almost late at night, and Mandu Dalu returned to the government office with doubts, and met with two companions who had not yet dispersed.One of them told him that a relative from his family came over in the afternoon and asked him to go to his cousin's house immediately, as if something had happened to him.At this time, Mandu Dalu was in no mood to care about his distant relatives, he waved his hands and put the matter behind him, then gritted his teeth, and took out the night clothes he had used before from the yamen.

The group of three drove to the north of the city again, changed their clothes near the prison, and climbed in from the side of the courtyard wall.The three of them used to be scouts in the army, and now they are members of the public family, so they are very familiar with sneaking in this way.In the prison, knock out the two guards at night, and then go to the innermost part of the prison where the prisoners have been basically emptied.

The innermost cell is also the most important. Checking along the corridor, there are still lights inside. Two jailers moved a table and sat there while eating and chatting. Mandu Dalu rushed forward quickly, and one of them reacted before knocking him out, while pointing the blade at the other man's neck.

Comrade Lao Dao also came over immediately and restrained the jailer.

Only then did Mandu Dalu have time to look around the prison cells.There are a total of four prisoners in the innermost cell, and they are all guarded separately. He even knows a prisoner who was tortured in the cell on the left.He frowned at the moment, searched out the key and walked over.

"Mountain dog, what's the matter? How did you come in?"

The man nicknamed Mountain Dog was an information dealer in the past, and there was even some personal friendship between the two of them.At this time, Mandu Daru was still wearing a mask, but the other party listened to the voice, looked carefully, and rushed towards this side quickly, trying to grab Mandu Daru's clothes through the railing of the cell, his The voice is hoarse and hurried.

"Something's going to happen, something's going to happen, we're all being fooled, that Black Flag beast..."

"What about the black flag?" Mandu Dalu grabbed the opponent's hand with his backhand.

The coyote pointed to the innermost cell. The bloody prisoner in that cell was different from the other three. He was not at all curious about the sight of someone rushing in. He just sat quietly on the straw, leaning against the The wall, looking at a small window on the inner wall, watching the starlight seeping in from there.

He seemed to be humming something softly.

"That guy belongs to the black flag... He has been tricked... The eastern and western prefectures are about to fight, and we can't wait until the contest..."

"What nonsense are you talking about, why did you fight?"

"He got Mrs. Han out, the evidence is solid, he can't run away, and Gu Shen can't run away either... He got Mrs. Han out..."

Mandu Dalu listened to the voice of the other party, and the surrounding seemed to be a little quieter suddenly. The words "he got Mrs. Han out" echoed in his mind, and he was settling down into reality. Something was in his stomach Writhe, as if about to spit it out.He remembered Wanyan Xiyin's eyes on the street not long ago, and then he let go of "Mountain Dog" and walked quickly to the cell over there, took out the key, and wanted to open the room where the black flag prisoner was. The opponent was killed with one blow!

The lock was opened, with a soft, "click" sound, he heard something humming from the young man in the cell, and then another sound appeared from behind.

"—It's useless to kill him, my lord."

People from the other side of the cell came over one after another, led by Gao Puhu, one or two were holding crossbows in their hands.Mandu Daru took two steps and pointed the long knife at the prisoner's head. He heard something humming in the prisoner's throat...

"... live on the shore."

Turning his head, Gao Puhu walked over with open arms: "I have already passed the scene in front of the six lords! The evidence is as high as a mountain! Come on, my lord, you are the inspector who was personally promoted by Lord Gushen. Kill him with one knife, and kill the witnesses for Mr. Gu Shen!"

Mandu Dalu hesitated for a moment, the two comrades outside had already made a defensive posture, Gao Puhu didn't care, and went straight into the cell.

Mandu Dalu raised his knife against the black flag prisoner, and stared at Gao Puhu: "This beast really... bit the god of valley?"

Gao Puhu smiled: "If it wasn't for him, we really don't know. It turns out that it was because of Gu Shen that our West Route Army lost so much news, and so many people died in the southwest."

"Do you know, without Gushen, I am Dajin..."

Mandu Daru gritted his teeth and paused every word, but before he could finish speaking, the black flag prisoner who was held up by him seemed to slowly raised his head, and a hoarse voice came out: "Man, Du, Da, Lu?"

Mandu Dalu turned his head to look at him. The face of this Chinese prisoner sitting on the ground was bruised and purple, his hands were bloody and bloody, and his clothes seemed to have been tortured. Between his messy hair, only his tired eyes could reflect a little light. .He looked at him quietly, and then said hoarsely, "You killed Lu Mingfang, right?"

"...that's me, how about it?"

"I've been thinking about how to retaliate against you." The words of the Huaxia Army prisoner said plainly, turned his head away here, and continued to look at the starlight coming in from the small window above, "Later, I investigated, and you have a son……"

"Son..." Mandu Dalu frowned, and Gao Puhu who was on the side seemed a little surprised when he heard the prisoner's voice. He looked at the other party, then at Mandu Daru: "He has no son... ..."

"Retired from the army and became a captor. For the sake of merit and advancement, I offended many people. I didn't dare to have children. In fact, I gave birth to a posthumous son who was sent to your distant cousin to be raised. It is said to be the posthumous son of a comrade-in-arms. You are very sorry Don't look around, I'm 11 years old now, I really look a bit like you..."

He looked at Mandu Dalu again: "You are busy with work, so go see him more after you go out, I have arranged everything for you, we have settled the matter of Lu Mingfang..."

Such calm words made both Mandu Dalu and Gao Puhu slightly stunned, and Mandu Dalu suddenly remembered what his companion told him in the yamen in the middle of the night about his distant cousin coming... The sound rang faintly.

"Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey..." The Huaxia army prisoner with the tip of the knife on his forehead looked at Mandu Dalu, and gradually started laughing, the laughter turned from low to high, setting off the gloomy prison cell Like a ghost, I only heard him laughing: "Hey hey hey black hahahahahaha... Look, look into his eyes, hahahahahahahaha, Xiaogao, Xiaogao, have you seen, Mandu, haha... Dalu, Hahahaha... Look at him, everyone, look, is he going to cry..."

The "Xiao Gao" in his mouth is naturally Gao Puhu. At this time, he is like a child who has discovered an interesting toy. Regardless of whether the tip of the knife is on his head, he can't help reaching out to grab Gao Puhu's trouser legs.Mandu Dalu's hand trembled, and Gao Puhu rushed over and took the knife from his hand. The two fought in the cell several times, and the Huaxia Army's captive didn't care about the sword, but sat on the ground laughing.

"Hahahaha, Mandu Daru, your son's eyes are just like yours... Kill him, kill him, go out and see your son, I don't know if he still has eyes, hahahahaha Haha, hurry up and—"

Gao Puhu snatched Mandu Dalu's knife, and kicked the Huaxia Army prisoner with a strange and penetrating laugh into a corner.He curled up into a ball, still breathing on the ground non-stop, humming an extremely strange melody in his laughter.

"Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey mandu Dalu .

It was perhaps the last thing that made him happy.The starlight shone in from the tiny window, and the lights in the cell were flickering, casting everyone's figures on the gloomy wall. Gao Puhu was stunned for a moment in such a strange atmosphere, but finally blocked the way between the prisoner and Mandu Dalu. between.Mandu Daru also seemed to be frozen there for a while, and then he slowly took off the black mask from his face, glanced at everyone, and walked out of the cell.

They sneaked in privately, and the arresters originally wanted to catch them, but at this moment, everyone knew about Mandu Daru's son, and couldn't help but look at each other. Get out of the way.When Mandu Dalu walked away, he waved his hand and said in a low voice: "My condolences..."

"Hahahahahahaha——" Beside him, crazy laughter exploded: "Sorrow and Shunbian, hahahahaha, Xiao Gao, you are too good at talking hahahahaha, Jieshou Shunbian, hahahahaha, look, I like you—— Don't hit...cough cough cough cough..."

This unscrupulous laughter spread far to Mandu Dalu's ears. The veins on his forehead were bulging, and he wanted to use a knife to fight back desperately, but finally gave up.He hurriedly left the prison and rushed towards the place where his cousin lived...

　Originally, the foreshadowing could be extended for several chapters from everyone's perspective, but this is not the case for the scenes other than the protagonist, so let's get straight to the point.

(End of this chapter)