Li Gui and Zhao Si, along with another bailiff, the one who was knocked unconscious by Yang Chengye, arrived at the warehouse of the prefectural yamen.
At this time, Master Zhou Tai was already waiting for them.
Seeing Zhao Si and three others arrive, Master Zhou Tai hastily asked: "Why did you come so late?"
Zhao Si said: "Less nonsense, sir wants us to transport relief grain to Shen's house overnight."
"Is there no problem with disaster relief food?"
Zhou Tai replied, "No problem, I've been guarding here for two days."
Zhao Si said: "That's good, let's load up."
Zhao Si finished speaking and then led Li Gui and five carters to start loading the carts.
A total of 100,000 bags of disaster relief grain were loaded onto five horse carts. Zhou Tai was a bookworm with no physical strength to bind a chicken, and he was only responsible for keeping records. The others didn't expect him to help either.
The relief grain was loaded, and Zhou Tai instructed Zhao Si a few words before leaving.
Five horse-drawn carriages followed Zhao Sisan's lead and drove towards the city gate in a majestic manner.
Zhao Si and his group had just arrived at the city gate when they suddenly heard intense fighting sounds and mournful cries coming from not far away.
"You scoundrel! How dare you commit murder right under my nose? Come with me and take a look!"
Zhao Si shouted angrily and said to Li Gui and others.
"Elder brother, disaster relief grain is a matter of great importance, I'd better stay behind, you all go."
Li Gui said to Zhao Si with some concern.
"What the hell are you talking about? Let you guys go if you want to go. If anything happens, I'll take responsibility!"
Having heard Zhao Si's words, Li Gui had no choice but to chase after him with another constable.
Li Gui said to this point, and then turned to Yang Chengye: "What's strange is that although we heard the sound of fighting, we didn't see anyone at all. Since Captain Zhao didn't tell us to stop, we didn't dare not to chase."
"We chased for two streets until we saw a big patch of blood on the ground, then Captain Zhao said the thief had escaped and led us back."
"When they heard this, Yang Chengye asked: "Did you find anything unusual when you went back?"
Li Gui shook his head and said: "Nothing unusual was found until the disaster relief grain was handed over to Shen Da Guanren, everything went smoothly."
It wasn't until then that Yang Chengye finally understood the whole story. It seemed that when Zhao Si and his men were chasing after the thief, the relief grain was switched, and the sound of fighting must have been a ruse to lure the tiger away from its mountain lair.
Thinking of this, Yang Chengye asked Li Gui: "Then did Zhao Si instruct you on anything after the event?"
Li Gui replied, "When we returned to the yamen, it was already daylight. Captain Zhao gave each of us fifty taels of silver again and warned us to keep our mouths shut about what happened that night, or else we would be in mortal danger."
"We saw Zhao Da being killed today, and we two brothers were scared, so we left the city overnight to go back to our hometown to hide for a while."
Yang Chengye said: "It seems that you are not foolish either. There were four people who knew the inside story, one died and one went mad. Next will be the two of you."
Li Gui's face turned pale as he listened to Yang Chengye's words, and he said: "Master Yang, spare my life! I've told you everything I should say. Besides, I still have a 70-year-old mother, and I don't want to die yet!"
Yang Chengye glanced at the two of them and said: "As long as you testify in court when the time comes, I can beg the imperial envoy to spare your lives."
Upon hearing this, Li Gui was overjoyed and thanked Yang Chengye: "Thank you......"
Just then, two loud crashing sounds came, and I hastily dodged to the side. Immediately following were two dull thuds, Li Gui's eyes widened, his body slowly falling to the ground.
Yang Chengye hastily turned around and suddenly saw a black shadow flash by, and immediately took off in pursuit.
He came quickly and his agility was high. In the blink of an eye, he escaped without a trace. Yang Chengye chased out of the alley and didn't see that person's shadow anymore.
Yang Chengye said with hatred: "Killing people and silencing them, truly leaving no way out!"
At the same time, Yang Chengye also secretly hated himself for his poor martial arts skills, and was even more ignorant of lightness kung fu, otherwise he wouldn't have let that person escape so easily.
In the martial arts world, when it comes to lightness skills, the Ancient Tomb Sect is the most renowned. The founder of the Ancient Tomb Sect was Lin Chaoying. In "The Return of the Condor Hero", Little Dragon Maiden taught Yang Guo to practice lightness skills by catching sparrows. It seems that I should also start practicing now.
Yang Chengye returned to the scene, took a closer look at Li Gui's two corpses, and found that they were both pierced by a poisonous dart in their throats, with severe poison on top, which could be seen as a fatal blow.
After dealing with the bodies of Li Gui and his wife, Yang Chengye felt that the case of the relief grain was getting more and more complicated. Four people involved in the case had died or gone mad, and all leads were completely cut off.
Yang Chengye didn't stay any longer and left the city that night to return to the Shen family. He wanted to think about what to do next.
In the city of Jiaxing, a luxurious mansion, a man dressed in black and wearing a mask entered a room and said from behind a screen: "The matter has been settled, shouldn't you fulfill your promise to me?"
A moment later, a male voice came from behind the screen: "As expected of Iron Palm Floating on Water, you can actually kill someone silently and invisibly. I must say, I'm really impressed!"
"The man in black robes and mask said coldly: 'Less nonsense, hand over the thing to me. From now on, we owe each other nothing. Otherwise, you know my methods.'"
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The man behind the screen laughed and said, "Why must you get angry, General Jiao?"
"What you want is on the table, help yourself!"
The black-hooded man came to the table, opened a brocade box on it, and a burst of yellow light was released from the brocade box. Inside, two rows of gold were neatly arranged, with a full color.
The black-clothed masked man nodded in satisfaction, closed the brocade box and said: "Thank you very much, we will meet again."
He finished speaking, his body slightly moved, as if a willow catkin drifted out of the room, and in the blink of an eye he disappeared into the darkness.
The black-clad and masked man left, and a voice came from behind the screen once again.
"You're really good at plotting, and you actually made four of them die or go crazy. I wonder if you'll use the same method to deal with... oh no, to deal with me?"
"What are you talking about? We're partners, how could I possibly harm you? Those four are just small fries, even if they die, it's worth it."
"But the two of them are……"
"Don't worry, I'll compensate you. With silver, what's there to worry about?"
Yang Chengye returned to the Shen family, first visiting his mother Wu Ruolan, then met with Zou Shi, and promised her that he would bring Shen Youan back home safely.
For the next two days, Yang Chengye did not leave his house, repeatedly cultivating the mantra given to him by Zhou Botong, guiding the true yuan in his dantian out bit by bit. At the same time, he also practiced the Easy tendon and Bone Tempering Chapter, after all, without a strong physique, it would be impossible to carry such a huge inner strength.
Yang Chengye made a pair of long pants and a short jacket, put lead blocks inside, sewed them up, and exercised his body without stopping for a moment.
At the same time, Yang Chengye also started his sparrow-catching business. After two days of catching, he caught hundreds of them, but Yang Chengye still felt it was not enough.
Two days passed in a flash, and now it was already the day he had agreed with Zhang Jun.
