"I don't want to come to you."

Wan Guojun gritted his teeth in hatred and said, "But the Wei brothers have run away, and their whereabouts are unknown. Longling Villa was also burned by a fire. The clue that King Liang had spent so much effort to find was now nothing. Seeing the duck on his mouth flying away again, how could you explain to King Liang?"

"Hmph, why did you explain to King Liang? It has nothing to do with me. If you handed over Gan Enxin to me earlier, maybe I could help you, but now? I'm sorry, I can't help you."

Wan Guojun heard that a fire was lit in the southwest at noon, so he sent someone to Longling Villa again. He found that two brothers he sent to monitor the villa were killed. The villa was burned to white land by the fire. The generals of the Wei family disappeared. This immediately made Wan Guojun panic. The warriors of the Wei family escaped. How did he explain to King Liang?

After thinking about it, he felt that the responsibility lies with Lai Junchen. He agreed that the two families would join forces to attack the villa and seize the evidence, but it was because Lai Junchen was reluctant to cooperate with him that the Wei brothers escaped.

He came to find Lai Junchen to raise an army to question him, but Lai Junchen did not take the promise to King Liang seriously. Wan Guojun had to soften again, "I don't know what Lai Zhongcheng is going to investigate, can you tell me, maybe I can help Lai Zhongcheng with some help."

Lai Junchen heard that his tone had softened, so he thought for a while and said, "I suspect that Li Xian and Xingtang will collude. Can you give me some advice?"

"Xingtang Association"

Wan Guojun was shocked, "Will Xingtang still be here?"

"Nonsense, if I didn't check what it does, Xingtang would never disappear and had been in secret activities. But this time I encountered it. Of course I have to investigate. I want you to help me with all my strength. Tell me first, how many people did you bring?"

"His Highness Liang didn't want to be too arrogant, so he only let Bei Yi bring twenty people, three of them died, and now there are seventeen people."

Lai Junchen then understood why he didn't attack the Wei brothers. It turned out that there were less than twenty people. No wonder he had to wait for him to act together. Lai Junchen pondered for a moment and said, "I suspect that the group of people who ambushed Dali Temple in Yongqing County were Xingtang Association, but I don't know where to start now. King Liang told you, is there any clues in Fangzhou?"

Wan Guojun suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said, "The prince sent a group of warriors to hide in Fangzhou last year, but for some reason, all of these warriors were killed. It is still a mystery. His Highness Liang said that this time Dali Temple went south to investigate this case. Will the case be--"

Lai Junchen frowned. He understood Wan Guojun's meaning. Could the case be done by Xingtang Club? He also felt that there was a possibility and thought to himself: Daoli Temple was ambushed in Yongqing, but Xingtang would want to stop them from investigating this case?

At this time, Lai Junchen felt that he needed to have a good talk with the people from Dali Temple.

"Come" Lai Junchen shouted loudly.

A warrior rushed in immediately, "I am in the low position"

"Immediately notify all brothers to withdraw, give up looking for Gan Enxin, and all come to me to meet up."

The small town where Lai Junchen is located is called Lingdong Town, which is the only way to Fangling County from Xiangzhou. Jiang Enxin passed Lingdong Town shortly after, his horse died and he fled into the vast forest.

Li Junchen carefully asked the county magistrate and found that the person who was chasing Gan Enxin did not go into the forest to search. He suspected that Gan Enxin was still hiding in the forest or died of beasts in the forest. If this is the case, the letters and documents carried by Gan Enxin must still be left in the forest.

It was with this glimmer of hope that Lai Junchen divided his subordinates into five groups, each with three people in one group, and went into the forest to search, hoping to find some clues.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the forest became no longer safe. There were always inexplicable sounds, as if some animal was walking in the dark. Three black warriors were retreating to the edge of the forest. They searched for more than 30 miles deep in the forest, but they still found nothing. But when night fell, they had to quickly withdraw from the forest.

At this time, the three of them were five or six miles away from the edge of the forest. The three of them held long swords and crossbows in their hands, leaning back against their backs, while nervously staring at the surroundings while slowly evacuating outwards. They had just heard an abnormality and were worried about encountering a beast.

At this time, not far away, a group of black shadows had quietly surrounded them, raised crossbow arrows, and aimed at three black officials and warriors. In the darkness, someone whistled on the big tree above his head, and dozens of crossbow arrows shot at the three people like lightning. The three of them were caught off guard and screamed and fell to the ground.

Then the shadows rushed up, someone sniffed their noses and whispered: "All dead."

The leader hung a bronze medal on a branch, waved his hand and "left" everyone followed him and left one after another.

A quarter of an hour later, on the edge of another forest two miles away, another group of gangsters were ambushed, and three gangsters were killed on the spot. Soon, a tragedy of ambush occurred in another woods, and three gangsters were killed by scattered swords.

Overnight, three groups of five search teams sent by Lai Junchen were murdered, and in the end only two groups returned to Lingdong Town.

The sky gradually became brighter. Lai Junchen, who had been waiting for the night, felt something was wrong. He hurried to the forest with the remaining seven or eight subordinates and Wan Guojun's warriors. Soon after they entered the forest, they found their killed subordinates. Soon, nine subordinates who died in three places were found.

Lai Junchen was so angry that he almost fainted. He died four subordinates outside Fangling West City. Unexpectedly, nine more people were lost in Lingdong County. He had never suffered such a big loss.

While he was extremely angry, he felt a little scared. He had only a few subordinates in Lingdong Town. If the other party attacked him, then he would be Lai Junchen who died last night.

At this time, Lai Junchen began to worry about the other group of brothers who rushed to Yongqing County. Will they also be ambushed?

"Zhongcheng, I've discovered it."

A subordinate shouted in the woods. Lai Junchen quickly walked into the woods. His subordinates came up and presented him with a bronze medal. This was the item we found at the ambush point and hung on a branch.

Lai Junchen took the bronze medal and held it in his palm and took a look. His eyes suddenly widened, "Xingtanghui, three words jumped into his eyes. He was so excited that he held the bronze medal tightly, afraid that the bronze medal would fly away with wings. This is the clue he dreamed of.

Although the real task of Dali Temple is also to find evidence of the rebellion of Luling King Li Xian, an ambush in Yongqing County greatly damaged Dali Temple's vitality. Sun Li temporarily gave up the idea of ​​continuing to investigate Luling King and instead investigated a major case that happened last summer. They rushed to Fangzhou on the excuse of investigating the case.

However, this case took too long and many key witnesses disappeared strangely. Their progress was very slow and it could be said that they had found nothing.

Sun Li and his men lived in a large mansion next to the county government. In addition, several inner guard soldiers assisted them in handling the case. In the lobby, Sun Li was discussing the case with one of his men, Cao Jin, the Dali Sizhi.

"Si Cheng, I think the disappearance of these coroners for no reason is a clue. They are the only ones who saw the corpse and dealt with the corpse. I can bet that they must have discovered something before they will be silenced."

Cao Jin said the word "silence" very seriously. Sun Li jumped up immediately. He looked out and immediately lowered his voice: "Old Cao, it seems that I have to warn you that there are too many vortexes in Fangzhou, too deep, and you will fall into it if you are not careful. Of course, I know that there are many strange things in this case, but think about it, twenty young and strong men died bizarrely, and I am afraid that the water involved behind this is too deep."

Cao Jin couldn't help but have a cold war. Of course, he understood what Sun Li meant, which was to tell him that this case would be appropriate and not investigate any further.

At this moment, a subordinate hurriedly ran to the hall and whispered: "The Secretariat, the Censorate is here."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Lai Junchen and several subordinates breaking into the yard and walking towards the lobby with great momentum. Whether it is an official position or actual power, Sun Li was far inferior to Lai Junchen. He and Cao Jin hurriedly greeted each other and bowed together, "Accompany Lai Zhongcheng for his humble duties"

Lai Junchen glanced at him, smiled and said, "I am thinking about things in my heart, it's a bit rude. Don't blame Sun Zhongcheng."

"I dare not be humble, come to the Chief Secretary to invite the minister to the seat."

Lai Junchen was not polite, and walked into the lobby to sit down. Sun Li and Cao Jin didn't dare to sit, and stood aside and talked to him. At this time, a subordinate served tea to Lai Junchen. Lai Junchen drank a sip of tea before slowly asking: "How is the progress of the Dali Temple's inspection last year?"

Sun Li smiled bitterly and said, "So far, there is no progress yet."

Lai Junchen frowned, "How could it be? What have you all done?"

"We investigated the bones yesterday and found that they were all injured by sharp blades. They also looked at other evidence, but they did not find any clues."

"Take me the file," Lai Junchen said bluntly.

Sun Li gave Cao Jin a wink, and Cao Jin understood and hurried down. Soon, he brought a few stacks of papers and placed them on the small table.

Lai Junchen opened one of the stacks of files, looked at it for a moment, and asked, "Have you asked the person who found the body at first?"

"Reporting to Zhongcheng, he was a peddler. When we wanted to find him, we heard that he had already returned to his hometown Shuzhong."

Lai Junchen's face darkened, "The case has not been solved yet, how can the witnesses leave at will? Who else has left?"

"There are also coroners, a total of three coroners, two of whom were poisoned by corpses and had passed away last year. The other one went back to his hometown to treat his illness because he was seriously ill. The three coroners recorded in the file are now no longer found."

How smart Lai Junchen is? All the key witnesses are either missing or dead. It is obvious that someone is covering up the case, but he did not ask anything again. He opened the file and read it carefully. He put it together and asked: "I suspect that the dereliction of duty involves officials. From now on, the case will be taken over by the Censorate. All the evidence will be transferred to me. Dali Temple will not need to be asked about it anymore."

Sun Li was shocked and said anxiously: "But this is the case given to Bei Zhi by Li Siqing--"

Before he could finish his words, Lai Junchen waved his hand and said impatiently: "The court has laws and regulations. Cases involving officials' corruption and dereliction of duty must be taken over by the Censorate. I will explain to Li Siqing. You just need to cooperate with me in handling the case."
Chapter completed!