The carriage rocked for most of the night, and finally stopped at dawn. Qin Mubai and Chen Yan didn't say anything else in the middle of the night, and then he called her: "We're here, get off the car."
Chen Yan's starry eyes opened instantly, and without saying a word, she jumped out of the carriage like a gust of wind. The clothes fluttered across Qin Mubai's face, leaving a fragrant breeze.
"Oh, the heroine also has the scent of powder, and it is quite special, the scent of gardenia that is prevalent in Jianghuai... After all, she is also a woman!" Qin Mubai Wan'er smiled and stepped out of the car.
"General, that's right there." A soldier who knew the way raised his hand forward and pointed to an inconspicuous house.
"You guys should come forward and say hello first. I'll be here soon." Qin Mubai detached the three pawns and said to Chen Yan, "Before I see Liao Lirong, I must promise you something."
"You said, I may not agree." Chen Yan said coldly.
"It's not difficult." Qin Mubai said, "I just ask you, after hearing Liao Lirong's confession, don't run away for revenge privately and ruin my plan."
"What's your big plan?" Chen Yan sneered, "It is a right thing to pay debts and kill people to pay for their lives. It has always been the right thing to do today. You are checking here and there in secret, so you must have ulterior motives. You can't tell, it must be an excuse for officials to protect each other. I can't promise you."
"Then I guarantee you won't hear anything from Liao Lirong." Qin Mubai raised his sword eyebrows slightly, his face darkened, and he said sternly, "This case is huge and concerns the country. It is far more than just the murder of Zhu Chengwen. In his position , to do this, even if I kill Liao Lirong today to silence him, I will never let you take revenge privately to arouse the enemy and ruin my important affairs. "
"Then I will kill you first!" Chen Yan suddenly pulled away and stabbed Qin Mubai in the chest like a ghost sword!
"Unreasonable!" Qin Mubai shouted deeply. Instead of retreating this time, he shrank his chest and abdomen and struck at the sword clip with his hands like a pair of iron pliers.
"boom!"
With a sharp sound, Chen Yan's ghostly and murderous sword was actually caught in Qin Mubai's fleshy palms!
Chen Yan was immediately shocked. Thanks to her quick reaction, she hurriedly pulled out the sword, but it was as if it had been inserted into a stone and could not be pulled out at all. In shock and anger, she raised her foot and swept it towards Qin Mubai's lower body. Qin Mubai shouted loudly and exerted force on all four limbs at the same time. He twisted the sword with his hands like iron pincers. At the same time, he stepped on the ground with both feet and leaned into the air.
"Ah..." Chen Yan is a female after all. Although she has excellent swordsmanship and is very fast, her strength is several levels weaker than Qin Mubai who is born with divine power. Qin Mubai slapped and pinched her, and using the inertia of her body to fly into the air, she was still able to hold the sword!
With a "buzz-" sound, Chen Yan let go of her sword. At the same time, the hand holding the sword hurriedly reached behind her and kept pinching. It was obvious that Qin Mubai's pinch just now had injured her wrist.
Qin Mubai half rolled his body and landed firmly on the ground. He looked at Chen Yan with a cold face. He hummed slightly and flipped the sword in his palm to hold the hilt. With a flick of his wrist, the handle The sword was inserted directly in front of Chen Yan's toes as if it had eyes.
"A good man doesn't fight with women. Tolerating you does not mean that he is afraid of you. I hope you don't regard my tolerance as weakness and incompetence." Qin Mubai walked a few steps with his hands behind his back and said lightly, "Although I'm not big I'm happy to hit women, but when you touch my bottom line, I don't even mind killing you."
Chen Yan stared at Qin Mubai with her eyes. She held the sword so tightly that her knuckles turned white. She took a breath and said in a deep voice: "Okay, I will agree to your conditions first. But you also You have to promise me something."
"You speak first."
"If I know the murderer, I can give you a period of time to deal with the so-called major matters 'concerning the country'. But if you haven't brought the murderer to justice when the time limit is up, I will kill you and the murderer together!"
"It's the end of autumn now. The murderers will be brought to justice within a month, and you will have a chance to see their heads." Qin Mubai said calmly, "So, you are not allowed to act rashly within this month, otherwise, you will bear the consequences." ”
"Hmph! Listen carefully. Within this month, I will follow you closely until I see the murderer's head fall to the ground." Chen Yan sneered, "Also, I just underestimated the enemy and was careless. You know your way, do you really think you can beat me? I’m warning you, don’t talk to me in that threatening tone again!”
"The legs are on your feet. I don't care where you go. Follow me if you want." Qin Mubai said as he turned around and left. "Besides, I have always only recognized victory or defeat, and I have no habit of reasoning with corpses. ”
Chen Yan's delicate body trembled slightly, and she clenched her teeth in annoyance and glared at Qin Mubai's back several times, then she still followed him up.
The two walked to the front of the house. The three soldiers were waiting outside. They raised their hands to Qin Mubai and said, "General, Liao Lirong is inside. There are four brothers who specially stayed here to guard them. They can't even fly even if they have wings."
"Very good. You guys stay outside while I go in and interrogate him." Qin Mubai paused for a moment, then turned back to Chen Yan and said, "It's best for you to listen in the room outside the door and don't barge in. I'm afraid you might suddenly Ji Fen kills him."
"It's up to you." Chen Yan said coldly, hugged the sword and turned away.
The three pawns sneered at her together, and no one paid any attention to her as they walked aside.
Qin Mubai walked into the room. Four soldiers were distributed in different corners of the inner room, closely monitoring all the movements inside and outside to ensure that there was no visual blind spot. Baiqi has a lot of training in this area, and it seems that they use it quite well when performing tasks.
Liao Lirong was lying sideways on the bed in the back room, probably asleep.
Qin Mubai asked the soldiers to wait outside the door, walked to the bed and kicked Liao Lirong in the butt.
"Oh woo -" Liao Lirong screamed in fright and sat up. Suddenly he saw Qin Mubai in front of him and panicked for a moment, muttering: "Qin, General Qin!"
"You still recognize me? That's good. It saves you a lot of time." Qin Mubai took his time and sat down on a chair beside the bed, raised his chin: "Sit down, I have something to ask." you."
"Yes, yes. If you have anything to say, General Qin will just ask. I am humble in my position... I will tell you everything I know." Liao Lirong was a little at a loss. He sat down obediently, but only dared to touch half of his buttocks to the bed board, and his upper body was straight but slouched. He didn't dare to look at Qin Mubai.
"Last time I sent a few brothers to briefly question you, and you already confessed that it was you who covered Zhu Chengwen's nose and mouth when he didn't have a wet towel, causing him to suffocate to death, and then made him hang himself from a beam at the scene. The truth is this?" Qin Mubai asked.
"Yes, yes. When I was in my humble position... I was obsessed with it and forced by others. I, I'm sorry Brother Zhu!" While mumbling in panic, Liao Lirong actually wiped his face with his sleeves and howled.
Outside the door, Chen Yan held the sword tightly with both hands and her knuckles cracked. Her starry eyes were filled with murderous intent. She finally resisted the temptation to draw her sword and rush in.
"If you keep howling like this in a pretentious manner, I'll punch you in the head." Qin Mubai said calmly and indifferently, but he was so frightened that Liao Lirong's whole body trembled and he stopped talking, and he did not dare to say anything casually.
"Let me ask you, who gave you the order to do this? Who has your upper hand?" Qin Mubai asked.
"This, you can't talk about this humble position!" Liao Lirong opened his mouth in embarrassment, glanced at Qin Mubai in panic and anxiety, and then quickly looked away.
"Are you afraid that someone will kill you in revenge after you say it?" Qin Mubai sneered, "Then have you thought clearly that if you don't say it, I can bury you alive now?"
"I, I say, I say!" Liao Lirong said hurriedly, like pouring beans from a bamboo tube -
"I also know my superior General Qin, who is the governor of Jiangzhou, Cheng Songnian, and the captain of Jiangzhou Prefecture, Ma Kun. In fact, these two are not the culprits behind this case. They also follow orders. The biggest backer behind us. It was Zhang Tianci, Marquis of Shengnan! Last year, a huge amount of money was allocated for embankment construction. Cheng Songnian was the first to report it to Zhang Tianci. Then, some of their senior officials shared half of the money and the rest. A little and a half... I and some other minor officials each shared a little bit. Originally, my brother Zhu Chengwen also had a share, but he refused to take it and even scolded me for it. I was extremely ashamed and wanted to pay for it. When he went back, he was threatened with his life by Cheng Songnian and others... Out of helplessness, he had no choice but to secretly accept the money and became their pawn from then on. "
"Let me remind you first, you don't have the face to call Zhu Chengwen your brother." Qin Mubai said, "In addition, I want to ask you, according to what you just said, you divided most of the 50 million, but anyway There are still 10 to 20 million that have been transferred to your county government. There should be records of the income and expenditure of this money. Where is the account book now?"
"This... I really don't know about the humble position." Liao Lirong shook his head in confusion, "Brother Zhu... Oh, the money the county magistrate received at that time was actually only five million, which was not enough at all. He was very angry and prepared to file a lawsuit. However, Cheng Songnian and others persuaded him to stop. From then on, Zhang Tianci had murderous intentions towards him. I also heard Cheng Songnian’s instructions and told me to find someone to blame Zhu Chengwen. , let him get out of the Jishan County government office, and then promoted me to the county magistrate. However, after the bribery incident, Zhu Chengwen no longer trusted me and was always wary of me. I never had a chance. He kept urging me, saying that no matter what happened next spring, he would file a lawsuit and get Zhu Chengwen away. Who knew that within a few days... the flood would break out, and the general would know what happened next. "
"In this way, Zhu Chengwen does know a lot about you, and he is unwilling to join in the same trouble with you. It happened that the flood happened again at this time. Zhang Tianci, Cheng Songnian and others were afraid that this flood would trigger a thorough investigation by the court into the embankment construction funds. Therefore, you ordered you to murder him, right? At the same time, you imitated his handwriting and wrote a suicide note of "suicide in fear of crime", and issued a county government decree in his name, forcing the people in the city to move out. Jishan City, right?" Qin Mubai said.
"Yes... yes, General Qin is as attentive as giving out information and doing things like a god. Everything is just as you said." Liao Lirong, his face white with cold sweat dripping from his face, replied in a low voice with his head lowered.
"I kill you!!!"
At this moment, a scream full of sorrow and fury suddenly came from the door, and a black shadow swept in like lightning. Cold light flashed, and a sharp sword pointed directly at Liao Lirong's throat. He stabbed it with infinite murderous intent and hatred!