Chapter 118 Going up the mountain again (Second update)
The second year of high school and Xu Da also looked up at the mountain.
Wu Chen remembered that when the three men were ambush, one of them said: "Go up the mountain after being hacked to death."
Why go up the mountain?
If Wu Chen is killed, will Laojieshan be sealed? If it is blocked, wouldn't it be a dead end to go up the mountain? Even if they are not immediately blocked, will they leave traces when they go up the mountain? Can it be found during subsequent inspections?
When he came to Laojieshan today, Wu Chen deliberately did not bring the policemen from the Imperial City Detective Department. On the one hand, he did not want to have a big battle, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see what the situation of the people in the county government was like. If he had brought the policemen, , Liang Kuan and the others must be cautious, so it would be difficult for him to see the clues.
But Wu Chen did not expect that someone would be so impatient to kill him, and it was planned in advance. If he died here, wouldn't it mean that there is something wrong with Laojieshan? Wouldn't it attract more scrutiny from the government? How could they act so ill-considered?
"Go up the mountain! You must see that Taoist temple today." Wu Chen said with a solemn face.
Both Gao Er and Xu Da didn’t know why, but they didn’t ask. They went up to have a look if they wanted to, but Liang Kuan couldn’t follow him. It is not easy to walk down the mountain in person, and if you are frightened, you will naturally be unable to go up the mountain again.
As for the government officials who had to guard the five corpses, they were already hurrying back to find the carriage.
Wu Chen only took the sophomores and Xu Da up the mountain with them. The horses of the three of them were left at the bottom of the mountain. Wu Chen was worried. He asked Liang Kuan to go back to the county town and inform the guards at the house to pick them up as soon as possible and just wait at the bottom of the mountain.
Liang Kuan was eager to go back as soon as possible, he repeatedly said yes, and hurriedly left the government servant guarding the body waiting for the carriage, and left first.
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Wu Chen and sophomore Xu Da hurried up the mountain. After halfway up the mountain, Wu Chen remembered that they did not ask where the Taoist temple was.
The sophomore in high school said: "The Taoist temple is easy to find. It's just such a mountain road. The Taoist temple must be not far from the mountain road. We just have to be careful. But we haven't had lunch so far, and now we don't even have dinner." , it’s better for Brother Datou, who knows how to bring dry food wherever he goes.”
Xu Da said: "We should have taken the people from the county government with us, but we were leaving in a hurry and forgot to ask them for some food."
The second year of high school snorted and said: "We were leaving in a hurry? Didn't you see that? After Liang Kuan climbed onto the horse, he didn't even look back. He was even more anxious to go back! "
Wu Chen frowned and said, "What we have to do must be beyond their expectations. We don't have time to arrange it, so we just thought! To attract us by killing people and setting fires Our attention seems to be... They don't want us to go up the mountain, but if they succeed, they will only stop us for one day, and they may mobilize troops to seal the mountain in the future."
"That's why I did it. I can’t figure it out, why did they want to kill you? Let’s use two people to pretend to be the family members of the reporter...”
Before Gao Er finished speaking, Wu Chen stopped, he frowned and asked:
"Do you remember that I asked the woman how Zhang Cai was discovered? She said that Zhang Cai went hunting in the mountains and did not return for a long time, so she asked her brother-in-law to look for him. The brother-in-law looked about twenty years old, how could he stay at home? Didn't he go up the mountain with him? The brother-in-law said that Zhang Cai died with his eyes open, his face was full of horror, and there was no injury on his body. Liang Kuan was standing there in official uniform, and neither of them asked Zhang Cai but Being murdered? When will the real murderer be caught? It turns out that they didn’t report the crime. But everyone in the county government knew that Zhang Cai was scared to death. Who informed the county government? The woman cried twice, but she stopped quickly. "What do you mean? Don't you all know that they are fake?" asked the second grade student.
“Yes, I mean they are full of flaws, but I didn’t discover them in time. This is also related to me not asking too many questions. If I keep asking, there will be more flaws! If I hadn’t gone up the mountain to see the tourists, Thinking that prey is not easy to come by, I am afraid that I will have to wait until the Yamen at the foot of the mountain come up to report it. Okay."
Xu Da said: "By then, the hut will have been burned down and the body will be burnt."
"Yes, where should I start? ?No, they thought I would die on the way to the hut."
After Wu Chen finished speaking, he breathed a long sigh of relief and continued to walk up the mountain. As he walked, he said: "Laojie Mountain is a bit strange. Look at the mountains outside Anping County. They are mountains connected to mountains, stretching endlessly, but Laojie Mountain is... Standing here so alone, there are some hills around, but they can't be called mountains."
"This is arranged by God, do you have any opinion?" asked the second grader.
"No, I'm just saying that on the day the five hundred soldiers were killed, some villagers saw them at noon. It stands to reason that they passed through Laojie Mountain and continued eastward. They were cavalry and they would leave soon. Laojieshan, there is a time gap here, that is, who else saw the entire team throughout the afternoon? Zhang Cai went to report the case the next morning. We can infer that he got up before dawn, I don’t know. Why did you go to the place where the soldiers were killed? After being frightened, , Thinking of going to the county government, how can he get there? There is no stable fodder at his house, and he can't raise a horse, so how can he get to the county seat? "
Xu Da said:
" What you said does not make sense. The county government said that Zhang Cai reported the crime in the morning, which meant that he came in as soon as the city gate opened. But it takes several hours to walk from here to the city gate. Does that mean that he saw it in the middle of the night? Or maybe it was at night? I saw it..."
"It is written in the file that Zhang Cai said he saw it early in the morning." Wu Chen said: "Zhang Cai is illiterate. There were clerks in the county government who wrote down the confession and Zhang Cai drew it. I now deduce that it is very likely that Zhang Cai said it, and The record in the file should be different, which means that the time when the soldiers’ bodies were found was wrong.”
It’s the second year of high school. One voice said: "There are still people from them in the county government."
"Yes! I asked Liang Kuan today, if Cao Bingde had not died, would it have been Cao Bingde who helped Zhang Cai write down his confession? Liang Kuan said yes. Maybe..."
"You mean the two cases are actually the same thing?" Xu Da asked in surprise.
Wu Chen took a deep breath and said:
"I'm not sure yet. It doesn't make sense to kill the Cao family just because he wanted to take a false confession. It's just that he was sick for a few days and couldn't go to the county government for that day. There's no need to make such a big deal. When the battle comes, even if the person behind them is very good, it is still troublesome and unnecessary."
Xu Da said: "That's the reason. If the two cases are related, then Cao Bingde may know it. Something. "
The second year of high school said: "When we go back to the county government, we can ask the clerk who recorded the transcript that day."
Wu Chen smiled and asked, "How do you know whether it is true or false? He told the truth , Or are you just telling lies?”
Wu Chen looked around as he said that, and he thought that Cao Kang had told him before he left: Laojie Mountain is something you can’t afford to offend. . (End of chapter)