Huo Zhishan smiled bitterly and said, "But so what can you do? It doesn't make sense to catch me. I don't know who the murderer is."

"This doesn't matter"

Li Zhen shook his head and smiled, "The important thing is that you confirmed my guess. This pearl is a trap. It is deliberately misleading me astray. At least I don't have to go to Lingnan to catch people."

Huo Zhishan asked in a low voice again: "Will I be executed?"

Li Zhen pondered for a moment and said, "Yesterday I met the King of Xiang again. He begged me for you, saying that you did not have the intention to kill him, and you blocked the third assassin at a critical moment, won time for other guards to come and save his life. He hoped that I could spare your life."

Huo Zhishan sighed, "The King of Xiang treats me so well, but I betray him. What kind of face do I have to live? Commander Li, I am willing to endure the sin and die, and only beg for mercy for my father and elder brother. It has nothing to do with them."

Li Zhen smiled, "Actually, I can really spare your life, but you have to at least tell me a little clue so that I can have a reason to spare you."

Although Huo Zhishan was ashamed and willing to die, he would not be moved if he had the chance to survive. He thought about it and bit his lips and said, "There is a person with very skilled hammering technique among the assassins. He is very powerful. I have seen him. This person is not tall and has a baby face. He refuses to speak easily. I think there are very few people who use hammering techniques, and there are not many people with powerful hammering techniques. Commander Li can search from this direction and should be able to find the person who assassinated the King of Xiang."

Li Zhen nodded and said, "This is a good suggestion, I believe there will be rewards."

Li Zhen turned around and walked away quickly. Outside the door, his order to the warrior came, "Let him loosen his ties and heal him well."

Although Huo Zhishan's suggestion sounds quite reasonable and investigates the person who uses the hammer as a clue, when he started to investigate, Li Zhen found that the facts were not that simple. He asked many people, including the various lieutenants of the inner guards and local snakes in the Nanshi area. No one had ever heard of people who use the hammer as a weapon.

This disappointed Li Zhen very much, but the inner guard warriors who went to arrest Huo Zhishan told him that they did see a man in black who used a hammer in Xingyang, and Huo Zhishan did not lie.

On the third floor of Jiangzuo Dining Store, Li Zhen seemed a little depressed. He held the wine glass and drank slowly. He didn't say a word for a long time. Di Yan understood his thoughts. She whispered: "Have you ever been to find a fat man? Let him go to Qianniuwei to inquire. I think Qianniuwei has a wide range of news. They must have known this person who used the hammer."

Li Zhen sighed, drank the wine in the glass and smiled bitterly: "I also know that I can ask Qianniuwei, but this matter is relatively secret. If the news spreads too widely, even if someone knows this person, he will disappear immediately. Do you understand what I mean?"

Di Yan nodded silently. She understood Li Zhen's difficulties. She wanted to find more people to inquire about the news and keep the secret. It was really difficult to do.

Di Yan thought about it and suddenly laughed again: "Or let's go to the weapons shop to inquire. I know that there is a largest weapon shop in Nancheng City, with all kinds of weapons, maybe they know."

A word reminded Li Zhen, and he immediately stood up and said, "Let's go now."

He walked downstairs quickly. Seeing that he was anxious and ignored him, Di Yan couldn't help but shake his head and said to the bartender who came to meet him: "We'll be back later."

The bartender was very familiar with them and smiled and said, "Girl, go quickly, I will make arrangements."

Di Yan hurriedly chased after him, "Hey, wait for me."

After running to the gate of Nanshi, Di Yan caught up with Li Zhen. She said angrily: "Do you guy bully me because of your long legs? There are more than a dozen weapons shops in Nanshi. Do you know which one I am talking about?"

"Isn't it Wudetang?" Li Zhen said a little apologized.

"Yes, it's Wude Hall, but your dignified inner guard commander asks, do you think they will tell the truth?"

Di Yan coughed, pretending to be Li Zhen's voice and said in a rough voice: "Shopkeeper, I want to know who did you sell the hammer to?"

She changed her voice again, as if she was the shopkeeper in the store, "What does Commander Li say? Don't scare the little people. The small shop is law-abiding and operates small businesses. How dare you sell contraindicated products like hammers? You have never sold them."

Li Zhen couldn't help laughing. He was a little negligent. He forgot that the hammer was a contraband and that ordinary stores did not dare to buy and sell it publicly. Like himself, the leader of the inner guard, they would not admit it.

"Then I'm waiting for you outside, go and ask?"

"No need for this. I know the shopkeeper of Wudetang. With me, I am here, there is no big problem. Come with me."

Di Yan gave him a blank look and walked quickly into the southern city. Li Zhen no longer took the lead this time and followed Di Yan.

The weapon shop is located in the northwest corner of Nanshi City and consists of more than a dozen shops. The Tang Dynasty has control over horizontal swords, armor, crossbows and long weapons and is not allowed to be traded privately. However, there are no restrictions on ordinary swords, bows, arrows, leather armor, daggers and other ordinary weapons, especially long swords, which are worn by everyone.

Wudetang is the largest weapon shop on this street. Perhaps it was dusk, and the store was very quiet and there were no customers. A guy came up and smiled and said, "Do you two want to buy weapons?"

"I want to see you Manager Mi, go find him."

"Miss, I'll go now."

The guy walked quickly. Li Zhen looked at the weapon shop with his hands behind his back. He saw rows of sword racks in the middle, with various long swords placed on them, most of which had no scabbards and shining with cold light, but when you look closely, it was very ordinary. It was an entry-level long sword. The outer wall was also full of long swords. The quality was slightly better than the ones on the sword rack, but it was not much better.

At this time, Li Zhen saw a row of sword frames in the corner, with seven or eight long swords placed on them. Unlike other swords, the swords here have scabbards. Li Zhen immediately became a little interested and came to the sword frame with his hands behind his back. A guy next to him smiled and said, "Young master is very eye-catching. These eight swords are made by famous craftsmen, which are much better than other swords."

"Yeah?"

Li Zhen picked up a sword casually and saw that the scabbard was made of shark skin, embroidered with gold and silver thread, the hilt was also good for gold and wood, and two rubies were inlaid with it. It looked quite gorgeous. He slowly pulled out the sword, and his eyes suddenly showed a look of disappointment. It was a little better than the sword on the wall, but the so-called famous craftsman was probably a fame, and he really didn't like it.

He put the sword back and snorted disdainfully, "Does Wudetang only sell these swords?"

Seeing that Li Zhen looked down on the swords in the lobby, the guy bowed and smiled, "These swords are all ordinary long swords, and are purchased by ordinary people. If they are truly martial arts practitioners, or people who know goods like the young master, of course they cannot see these swords. There are some swords in the inner hall. I believe the young master will not be disappointed. Do you want the villain to take you there?"

"Let's talk about it later"

Li Zhen glanced at him and saw a middle-aged man hurried out. Di Yan greeted him and smiled, "Uncle Mi Si, it's been a long time since I saw you."

"It turns out it's Miss Ayan. It's been a long time since I saw you. Are you here today?" The shopkeeper looked quite familiar with Di Yan and his smile was very friendly.

Di Yan stepped forward and whispered to him a few words, then pointed at Li Zhen. Shopkeeper Mi discovered that there was an unusual person here. He was shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "It turns out that it is Commander Li, the little man Mi Nan, the shopkeeper of our store, I feel resentful."

The guy was so scared that he didn't dare to say anything anymore. Li Zhen smiled faintly, "I'm just here to accompany Miss Di to have a walk, there's nothing business."

Di Yan said a few more words to him, and the shopkeeper showed a look of embarrassment, but in the end he agreed, "Please follow me with Miss Di and Commander Li."

He brought Li Zhen and Di Yan to the back hall and asked them to sit down. Li Zhen found that there were also several rows of swords in the back hall, which were obviously much more than the swords in the front hall. He didn't dare to see the sword today, nor did he deliberately taste the sword. Soon, the shopkeeper brought a thick scroll of pictures over.

Sitting down at the small table opposite Li Zhen and Di Yan, he handed the scroll to Li Zhen and smiled: "This store does not sell banned weapons, but if some customers have special requests, we can help him find famous people to customize it. It has nothing to do with the store. The store only charges a little intermediary fee."

The implication is that this weapon shop does not sell banned weapons, but can make connections. However, the so-called intermediary fee is actually the profit of selling weapons, just a side ball.

Li Zhen expanded the picture scroll and looked carefully. He saw that there were all kinds of weapons in the picture album, including swords, guns, swords and halberds, eighteen weapons, and even horizontal swords, military crossbows, Mingguang armor and other strictly prohibited weapons. Li Zhen was not interested in these things, so he found a piece of hammer, about a dozen types of hammers, such as watermelon hammer, octagonal hammer, octagonal hammer, octagonal hammer, thunder drum and urn gold hammer, meteor hammer, etc.

Li Zhen pointed to the octagonal hammer and smiled, "I'm very interested in this octagonal hammer. I wonder if anyone in Luoyang has bought this kind of hammer. It weighs about 30 kilograms, but it's just a single-handled hammer. Does the shopkeeper have any impression of it?"

Manager Mi immediately understood that Li Zhen was not here to buy banned weapons, but to investigate the person who used this kind of octagonal hammer. He was very embarrassed: "Although I have records, we have store rules, so we must not disclose the secrets of customers. Please forgive me, Commander Li."

Li Zhen sneered, "It seems that Manager Mi doesn't understand very well. I'm just asking one thing now, and I'm asking with kind words. If Manager Mi refuses to cooperate, that's okay. In half an hour, I will bring a large group of inner guards to investigate the case. At that time, all those who buy and sell banned weapons will be investigated by inner guards. Will Wudetang be willing to bear this risk?"

Manager Mi's face suddenly turned pale. If that were true, the reputation of Wudetang would be destroyed. I am afraid that the owner would have great trouble. He should not think about doing this. He became scared and had to get up and say, "Please wait, I'll go check it out."

The shopkeeper quickly left, and Di Yan whispered: "This shopkeeper is a distant relative of my family. Are you threatening him?"

"Oh-I really don't know"

"I said I'll ask, what do you want to grab?"
Chapter completed!