A car several rides, madly running on the Jingzhou road. Pedestrians hurriedly dodged, and smoke billowed all the way.

Chu Suiliang had been sitting in this bumpy carriage for almost two days. At this moment, he felt soreness and dizziness all over his body, but he still urged the coachman to hurry up and rush to Jingzhou City as soon as possible.

Chu Suiliang had never been so nervous as to bear the responsibility of the sea of blood. He was well aware of King Wu’s assassination, the Emperor’s sudden illness, and the rumors that Qin Mubai was about to rebel in Kansai. These three shocking events that could shake the foundations of the rivers and mountains of the Great Tang were directly or indirectly related to Jingzhou.

Although Chu Suiliang knew that Changsun Wuji had the intention to detach him from the court at this critical moment and push the most difficult case in the world to him with some ill intentions, Chu Suiliang had no time to think too much.

Find out the truth of the Jingzhou case, King Wu Li Kesheng to see people die to see the corpse, is the most important thing at present.

Along the way, Chu Suiliang quickly changed horses and even ran away from two carriages. Finally, he arrived at Jingzhou City. After getting off the car, he almost couldn’t stand steadily, but he didn’t even need to rest for a moment to drink a mouthful of water. He went straight to the prefecture yamen and summoned the governor and other local officials to inquire about the case.

Yin Yang was also on the list.

Jingzhou Governor’s surname was Xu, and he had some connections with Li Ji (Li Ji’s original name was Xu Shihu). He had been an official for seven years, and his rule had always been peaceful. Although he was not considered a capable official, he had at least made no contribution. Xu Cishi was so frightened that he almost hanged himself when this monstrous calamity occurred under his administration.

Chu Suiliang asked everyone about the situation one after another, and it was no different from what was rumored in the outside world. It was none other than that King Wu had been attacked in the forest on the outskirts of An’an County. There were a total of 18 people accompanying him, only Yin Yang had survived.

After Chu Suiliang heard this, he thought to himself for a long time. Seeing that all the officials were present with complicated eyes and ears, he dismissed the miscellaneous people and called Xu Cishi and Yin Yang over privately to ask again.

Sure enough, this time, Chu Suiliang heard many key questions.

Xu Cishi’s handling of the matter was fairly stable. He had tightly sealed off the investigation results of the crime scene, so that neither Yin Yang nor his subordinates knew about it. He reported to Chu Suiliang that the murderer had set a large fire in the forest to destroy the corpse after the assassination. Afterwards, the state government extinguished the fire with all its might. Forty-three male corpses were found in the embers of the fire scene!

“Forty-three?!” Yin Yang was shocked on the spot. “We were accompanying King Wu’s bodyguards. There were only seventeen of them, and there were eighteen of them with King Wu. Why are there so many corpses at the scene?”

“There’s something even more shocking!” Xu Cishi was so nervous that he gulped down his saliva. His face trembled in fear as he said, “Twenty-seven of the forty-three corpses have no heads!”

“Ah?” Chu Suiliang and Yin Yang exclaimed at the same time.

“How could this be?” Yin Yang was shocked. “What’s the point of killing someone and cutting off their heads?”

“After cutting off his head, he will set fire to destroy the corpse and exterminate it.” Chu Suiliang was much calmer and said with a deep brow, “Obviously, the person who attacked did not want to expose the identities of these 27 people!”

“Then why haven’t the heads of the other sixteen been cut off?” Yin Yang asked again.

Xu Cishi’s entire body trembled as he said, “I, I personally led the coroner to examine all the corpses. I discovered that the 16 corpses that were not cut off were all King Wu’s Mansion’s guards! Because on their bodies, there was an entrance token to the palace!”

“But this?!” With that, Yin Yang removed his iron token from his waist.

“No, that’s right! It’s precisely this thing!” Xu Cishi affirmed after recognizing it.

Chu Suiliang frowned as he took the token and looked at it. “Wrought iron is hard to melt. This proves the identity of the sixteen dead. In other words, all sixteen guards except General Yin have died. Let me ask you, what is the identity of the other twenty-seven corpses?”

“No.” Xu Cishi replied with certainty, “The corpses have all been burned to the point of being charred. It’s impossible to identify them at all.”

Chu Suiliang nodded. “I guess so. Since the murderers have cut off their heads, they probably won’t leave any other clues to prove their identities. According to this analysis, there were at least two groups of people in the forest that day besides King Wu’s group!”

“That’s right, this lowly position thinks the same!” Xu Cishi said, “The mantis catches the cicada, the yellow fowl is behind us!”

Yin Yang was stunned for a moment. After thinking for a long time, he asked doubtfully, “That is to say, apart from the group that assassinated King Wu, there was also another group that appeared at the same time. Then what was their purpose?”

“We don’t know yet.” A light flashed in Chu Suiliang’s eyes as he said indifferently, “Xu Cishi, you should go down and rest first. I will talk to you tomorrow.”

Xu Cishi obeyed and left, leaving only Chu Suiliang and Yin Yang in the room.

“General Yin, this official is asking you, why are the sixteen guards accompanying you dead, but you are the only one who survived?” Chu Suiliang said straightforwardly.

Yin Yang’s anger instantly surged forth. His eyes widened and he said angrily, “Husband Chu, do you suspect that Mo Gong is the murderer?!”

“That’s not the intention. Don’t misunderstand.” Chu Suiliang’s temper was quite good. He waved his hand to signal Yin Yang to restrain his temper and said, “This official also heard from Xu Cishi that you were knocked unconscious by the murderer and thrown to the side of the road, so you survived. This official is only curious why the murderer did not kill you. Could it be that there is another conspiracy?”

“This!” Yin Yang was also stunned for a moment. He shook his head, “Mo Jiang, I really haven’t considered this question carefully. However, after breaking through the encirclement with my two brothers’ bodyguard King Wu, I encountered a mysterious expert who killed him. It was that person who knocked Mo Jiang unconscious!”

“Oh? Tell me more!” Chu Suiliang’s spirits lifted.

Yin Yang told Chu Suiliang about the situation that night in detail. After hearing this, Chu Suiliang was shocked and asked, “Are you saying that King Wu was still talking to the murderer and guessed that the murderer was King Wu’s old acquaintance when he was an official in Xiang Prefecture?”

“That’s right!” Yin Yang said confidently, “But King Wu didn’t know who that person was.” After saying a few words without hesitation, that person was about to commit murder. The general was eager to fight with the guard, but he didn’t expect that the man’s methods were very crafty and ruthless. He had only used one move to knock the general down. At the end of the day, the general thought that he would die without a doubt. When he woke up, he discovered that he had been knocked unconscious by the back of the knife, and the hematoma still hadn’t disappeared. Husband Chu, please take a look! ”

After saying that, Yin Yang took off his helmet and disbanded his hair. Sure enough, there was still a big blister swollen like an egg behind his head.

‘”In other words, after fainting, you don’t know anything? When you wake up, you find yourself thrown by the side of the road, and the forest is already filled with fire?” Chu Suiliang asked.

“Exactly.”

Chu Suiliang nodded, got up, cut his hands off his back, and paced. “So it’s easy to kill you with that murderer’s methods, but why didn’t he kill you? Did he intend to keep you alive so that you could report to the government?”

“Then why would he do that?” Yin Yang was also puzzled.

Chu Suiliang’s heart skipped a beat. His expression became more and more nervous and anxious. He whispered, “Think about it, King Wu was assassinated. Doesn’t this big thing mean that the government and the public will be in turmoil and the world will be in turmoil?” Now I suspect that the murderer probably did not kill the Prince of Wu, but kidnapped him! “Behind him, there is a bigger conspiracy than killing the Prince of Wu himself!”

“Ah? Does that mean His Highness King Wu is still alive?!” Yin Yang was instantly overjoyed and knelt down to Chu Suiliang on the spot. “Husband Chu, you must save His Highness King Wu!”

“General Yin, please stand up.” Chu Suiliang helped Yin Yang up, took a deep breath, and slowly sighed. “Right now, these are just my speculations. What the truth is is yet to be verified. General Yin, you must keep everything a secret from outsiders. Don’t reveal anything. Remember, remember!”

“I will remember!”

At this time, Xu Cishi actually went back and asked to see him outside. Chu Suiliang asked the guards outside to let him in. After entering, Xu Cishi hurriedly said, “Husband, forgive me. This lowly position was panicking and nervous for a moment. I actually forgot an important clue.”

“Speak quickly!”

Xu Cishi hurriedly said, “That day, after the crime, I brought people to investigate the scene. Aside from many corpses, I also found a few running horses not far away!”

“Yes!” Yin Yang said hurriedly, “When General Mo woke up, he looked for his comrades and horses everywhere, but found nothing. I think the horses were frightened and fled all around during the intense battle, or they were burned to death before they could escape from the tree!”

“That’s right!” Xu Cishi said, “We found eighteen charred horse corpses at the scene. They should be the mounts of King Wu and the others.” The horses were tied to a tree and burned to death. However, two other horses were found alive in the distance! “These two horses have saddles and bridles, and their breeds are exceptional. They are definitely not horses for folk use, but like …”

“Lead the way forward and lead this official to take a look!” Chu Suiliang ordered decisively.

Later, the three of them arrived at the back of the secretariat’s mansion and saw the two horses. Chu Suiliang personally went forward to inspect it, allowing Yin Yang, who was familiar with the army, to inspect it as well. Moments later, Yin Yang said with certainty that it shouldn’t be warhorses in the army, because both horses were uncastrated male horses. Apart from the stallions, all the stallions in the army had to be castrated. But these two horse breeds are good and expensive, and the bridle and other items are not affordable for ordinary people. According to this, it should be the private horse of a wealthy family.

“This lowly position is thinking, could this be a horse left behind by the murderers when they were in a panic?” Xu Cishi asked carefully.

“This is possible” Chu Suiliang answered casually and continued to carefully examine the horses around him. Finally, a special imprint was found on the neck of one of the horses!

Seeing this imprint, Chu Suiliang was stunned on the spot!

“What’s the matter?” Xu Cishi and Yin Yang asked at the same time.

“Look” Chu Suiliang pointed at the mark on the horse’s neck.

“Is it a brand? In order to prevent theft, the horses of wealthy families must be branded together with their official horses.” As Yin Yang asked, he stepped forward to take a closer look at the brand. “It’s the word ‘Wei’!” He cried out in shock.

“That’s right, it’s the word Wei!” Chu Suiliang narrowed his eyes and asked Yin Yang, “General Yin, what did you think of?”

“The moment General Mo saw the word Wei, he immediately remembered-Wei Aochen!” Yin Yang exclaimed, “Back then, when King Wu was the governor of Xiang Zhou, Wei Xiaochen was his assistant governor and served as the governor of Xiang Zhou’s Sima.” But this person colluded with Commandant Guoyan Du Chengyuan of the Xiangzhou Military Manor to cause trouble for the River Ghost, and was annihilated by King Wu and Young Marshal Qin at that time! –Husband Chu, the two were escorted to changan at that time, have been beheaded! Difficult, could it still be a Yin Soul that took his life? “!”

“Stop spouting nonsense, where’s the ghost!” Chu Suiliang took a deep breath and said, “This clue is very important. You two must remember not to reveal anything to the public!”–Alright, you all go down. This official is also tired and needs to rest. ”

The two of them had no choice but to leave.

Chu Suiliang stood beside the horse and stared at the brand. He thought to himself, “Wei Aochen and Du Chengyuan are dead, but the Wei Du Clan and the Chang’an Clan are still prospering!” The Xiangzhou Water Ghost case had made King Wu and Qin Mubai famous. But from then on, the Weidu and Chang’an clans definitely hated Prince Wu to death. Especially the Wei Clan, whose roots are deep and powerful. The harem has the head of the Fourth Concubine, Consort Wei, and the Imperial Historian, Wei Ting …

“Wei Ting!!” Chu Suiliang was shocked, “he and the Wei Palace, with the Wei King very close!” Moreover, didn’t he have a daughter who married King Qi, Li You? Back then, Li You was executed for plotting a rebellion, and his daughter was demoted to cripple Lingnan. As a result, Wei Ting was also slightly implicated. The Minister Zuo Cheng was demoted to the position of prosecutor in the first dynasty, and was only reactivated after being arranged by the King of Wei’s activities. The official was in charge of supervising the officials and supervising the litigation and punishment of major cases! Didn’t Li You’s rebellion be extinguished by King Wu and Qin Mubai? “!”

Thinking of this, Chu Suiliang couldn’t help but shiver!

“If this case is really related to Wei Ting, then the truth of the matter might be even more frightening!” Chu Suiliang sucked in a breath of cold air and thought to himself, “He is both King Wei’s confidant and King Wu’s enemy. There is indeed a reason and motive for assassinating King Wu at this time. But … he is also Imperial Concubine Wei’s brother. Imperial Concubine Wei also has a prince! Since Imperial Concubine Yang gave birth to a concubine who can compete for the throne, why can’t Imperial Concubine Wei’s son?”

“King Wu’s return to the capital is related to the Li Chu. In this very sensitive period, I suspect that King Wei will not act against the will of the world. Because as long as King Wu fails, his suspicions will be the greatest! Although King Wei is sinister, he is not stupid!” Chu Suiliang thought to himself, “But if it’s Wei Ting!” On the surface, he was helping King Wei to eliminate his powerful enemies, but in reality, he was deliberately trying to frame King Wei. He really killed two birds with one stone! If both King Wei and King Wu perished, not only would the Wei Clan avenge their blood back then, but the son of Imperial Concubine Wei, Ji Wang Li Shen, who was only in his teens, would also benefit from this. If that was the case, wouldn’t Wei Ting have the chance to dominate the government and even suppress Eldest Sun Wuji in the future? “!”

“Danger!!” Chu Suiliang’s mind suddenly flashed like thunder!

“If that’s the case-then King Jin is in danger!”