Chapter 33 Detective Yu Shu
Old Zhao was stunned: "Where can I find it?"
“That’s your problem”
"who is he?"
"When you find it, you will know it naturally"
"You guys in Tianji Pavilion, do you only speak half of what you say?"
Meng Yan stopped and said, "Aren't you asking what the reward is?"
Lao Zhao stopped and said, "If the reward is just to join Tianji Pavilion, then I really have to think about it again."
Meng Yan opened his folding fan and fanned it gently: "Once you enter the Tianji Pavilion, no matter who is interested in your secrets, they will no longer have the courage to be interested."
Oh, that means I will have a big boss to protect me after I finish this matter, so it doesn't matter if my identity is exposed.
"Including you?" Old Zhao remembered that Meng Yan had said that he was very interested in his secret.
Meng Yan paused: "Then I will exchange my secret with you."
“But I’m not interested in your secrets.”
With a snap, Meng Yan closed his folding fan again, and the smile that had always been on his face disappeared: "Remember, you only have two days. Besides, the academy knows nothing about what you have done."
Oh shit, Mission Impossible
Without waiting for Lao Zhao to ask again, Meng Yan took a few quick steps. A few cracks similar to glass quickly appeared beside him. With a loud bang, the glass shattered and Meng Yan disappeared.
“It’s the same trick again.” Old Zhao looked at the crowd that suddenly appeared around him, and realized that the conversation between him and Meng Yan had always been going on in this barrier. He just didn’t know when he fell into Meng Yan’s barrier.
The sky is big, the earth is big, but rice is the biggest
Watching Zhao Yushu leisurely walk into the food court, Meng Yan, who was standing aside but no one noticed, couldn't help but feel a little headache. Now he was the only one in the academy, and there was also a little junior brother who made him feel bald. The pressure was a bit great.
After getting a two-day leave from Liu Jijiu, Zhao Yushu walked out of the academy gate facing the rising sun.
Ji Leng has already set off for Xijing. He doesn't even have a local boss around him. How can he start looking for someone?
But I am a man who has watched thousands of episodes of Bleach since I was a child. Can you, the ancient people, hide it from me with your methods?
Ounijiwa drum washing machine!
The final crime scene, the teahouse in the west of the city!
Zhao Yushu rented a fast horse and rushed to the west of the city.
It's not that the stepping steps are not fast enough, nor that the fleeting shadows are not cool enough, it's just that the physical strength can't keep up. After all, this is a kidnapping case, and there may be one or two tough battles to fight. Saving physical and spiritual energy is the most important thing.
The fast horses in this world can run at a steady speed of about 60 kilometers per hour. Taking into account the traffic jam and road conditions, Zhao Yushu arrived at the teahouse about an hour later. Yes, there were traffic jams in ancient times. Everyone was rushing in and out of the city. Why should they let you go first?
The teahouse was empty, it seemed that no one had been running it for a few days. As expected, it was a wasted trip.
Is it really a wasted trip?
That afternoon, I went ahead and arrived outside the West City Gate around dusk. There were five city gates on the west side of the East Capital, but this official road had only one.
Until we entered the city, the young man did not surpass me, so the kidnapping happened after dusk.
Otherwise, there would be a constant stream of merchants and travelers on the road. Unless they were all killed, there would be enough news to pass back.
Two questions. Zhao Yushu sat on a chair in the teahouse that he hadn't cleared away in time. If you leave after dusk and the city gates are closed, why do you think you can still enter the city?
The second question is, if you wanted to enter the city before the city gates were closed, why did you leave the official road halfway?
Practice is the only criterion for testing truth
A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Yushu appeared at the west gate and took out his academy ID card. The gate officer saluted and said, "So you are a gentleman from the academy. May I ask what you can do for me?"
"Excuse me, I may have to go out of town to do some business today, and I may be back late at night. I wonder if you can open the city gate and let me in?"
The gate officer said without hesitation: "Excuse me, sir. According to the imperial law, after the city is closed, no gate is allowed to be opened. Violators will be executed immediately."
"The situation is urgent. I am following the order of the academy's chief priest Liu."
"Even if Wen Jijiu came in person, it would not work. Please forgive me, sir."
"Okay, thank you"
Zhao Yushu turned his horse around and ran west again. The first possibility was basically ruled out, unless that guy was more powerful than Wen Jijiu. People of that category were not considered in his mission.
Emperor Taizu of the Tang Dynasty won the world on horseback and was proficient in military strategy. In order to prevent the enemy from using local materials to build siege equipment, he ordered that no trees should be left within a radius of 30 miles for large cities and 10 miles for small cities.
This custom has continued to this day, so to the west of the Eastern Capital, all you can see are farmlands.
Zhao Yushu slowed down and looked over bit by bit.
The wheat has matured in the spring, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is abundant. It is half waist high, and everything is green at a glance.
According to the Tang Dynasty law, anyone who tramples on young crops will be fined at least five taels of silver, with no upper limit. If they are too harsh, they will be chopped off directly, so large tracts of farmland are neatly arranged. If there is any clue, all it takes is a gust of wind to clear it up.
Spring is the best time to enjoy the wind
The wind blows the grass low, and the wheat waves bend slightly and then stand up straight again, repeating this process over and over again.
Ten miles is not a long journey. The young man let his horse run freely, as if he was enjoying spring. After going back and forth twice, he stopped at a ridge. The sun was already directly overhead.
Zhao Yushu squatted beside the ridge of the field, watching the wind blow past him. He watched the green wheat undulate, with a few barely visible traces of being crushed, stretching all the way to the far north, where there was a village in the distance.
Zhao Yushu smiled, got on his horse, walked for a while, found a country road, and rode slowly northward.
If Boss Shen were here, he would definitely praise this talent.
When the city gates were closed that day, Mr. Shen, who still hadn't waited for his son, felt a little uneasy and ordered his servants to look for him. Just as the gate officer said, the city gates were closed, and it was useless for Wen Jijiu to come.
So Boss Shen used his own power to immediately search the entire city, but Dongdu was so big that even with the power of Huibao Merchants, they could only search the inns and brothels and found nothing.
Only then did Boss Shen realize that his beloved son might not have made it to the city.
Only Neijing can leave the city silently without alerting the military experts hiding somewhere. However, there are only two Neijings who stay by his side, one is by his son's side and the other is by his side.
The stubborn old servant was determined not to abandon Old Shen and go out of the city alone to look for him, in case he fell into a trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain. Those foreign guests did not dare to ignore the laws of the court and leave the city late at night. If they were discovered, it would be tantamount to rebellion.
Even with the financial resources of Huibao Merchants, under the carefully calculated time difference and the deterrence of Tang Dynasty laws, Old Shen missed the best time for rescue.
When the city gate was opened, more than ten outsiders from Huibao Merchants rushed out and quickly arrested the teahouse owner and the city gate officer who lived outside the city. After a combination of hard and soft tactics, they only confirmed that Mr. Shen Qi did not enter the city, and by the way, they betrayed the unlucky Lao Zhao.
Then another day of carpet search, and the seriously injured chief shopkeeper was found beside a tributary of Luoshui.
Following the tributary all the way, they finally found the bodies of the four companions one by one beside the Luo River. This place is dozens of miles east of Dongdu.
Due to his suspicion and fear of a certain giant, Boss Shen never asked the Dongdu Mansion, which specializes in solving cases, to help. Until today, a group of unprofessional guests have not been able to find the first crime scene.
Old Zhao rode into the small village, faced an old man with a slightly wary look in his eyes, looked at several constables in black uniforms in the courtyard, smiled and bowed, and said, "Father, can you give me some food? I have money."