It was late at night, but everyone wasn't sleepy.

Sun Qi knelt on the ground and glanced at Hua Lang, was silent for a while, and after a while, he spoke: "Liu Qi is a brute, I have always wanted to kill him, but I have no chance, he was drunk that night, I quietly followed him, I don't know where he is going, but he fell into my eyes, I must make him pay, he drank too much wine, walked staggeringly, on the way, he suddenly fell, and after he fell, he did not mean to get up, I saw that the time had come, He suddenly raised his dagger and rushed forward, and before he could resist, he was hacked to death by me. ”

Everyone listened to Sun Qi tell this part of the murder, and they felt that he said it so casually, as if it was not difficult to kill a person at all.

"After killing Liu Qi, I felt a little uneasy, in order to eliminate some clues, I decided to change the murder scene, so I carried Liu Qi's body to another place, and then dealt with the real murder scene."

The killing process is very simple, and the killing method is not complicated, but it took people to think about it very thoroughly, so it took so long to find the real murderer.

But it doesn't matter, as long as the murderer can be caught, does it make a difference whether he is caught immediately or a few days later?

After Liu Qi's murder was over, Linxi City was quiet for more than a month, probably in early summer, a major event happened at the border, the Western Xia soldiers suddenly attacked the border of the Great Song Dynasty, Bai Ji led the troops to resist to the death, and finally beat the Western Xia soldiers back, but the fight back was beaten back, and the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty suffered heavy losses.

After this incident, the people of the entire Linxi City were panicked, and now that it was not time to harvest the crops, could it be that these Xixia people were already thinking about plundering them?

It is normal for the people to be very uneasy, after all, war is a terrible thing, and human life is like ants in the face of war.

Hua Lang, Wen Meng and others were also a little worried in their hearts, but more of them were worried about the Great Song Dynasty, how could hundreds of thousands of horses and horses in the Great Song Dynasty border pass not be able to resist tens of thousands of Western Xia soldiers?

Is the Western Xia soldiers too powerful, or are the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty vulnerable?

The soldiers and horses are too weak has always been a problem in the Great Song Dynasty, but for this, Hua Lang has no way at all, unless there is a martial emperor in the Song Dynasty, he has the heart to kill and decide, otherwise this situation can not be changed until the fall of the Great Song Dynasty.

And Hualang, a descendant, knew very well that there was no such emperor in the Great Song Dynasty, so this kind of illness in the Great Song Dynasty naturally could not be solved.

For this matter, Hua Lang had no chance to make changes at all, so he had to hide in Linxi City with Wen Meng and others to wait for news, if Bai Ji's generals were not useful and couldn't stop those soldiers in Western Xia, Hua Lang and they might have to flee.

Current events are like this, even if it is unbearable to flee, there is no way for them to survive.

It's just that on the night when the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty repelled the Western Xia soldiers, a person knocked on the door of Hua Lang's house, Hua Lang opened the door, and saw a soldier standing outside the door, he was very curious, but before he could speak, the soldier immediately bowed and said: "The subordinate is Bai Shuai's guard, and he visited late at night because Bai Shuai has something important to discuss with the playboy." ”

Now the border is turbulent, Bai Ji must be anxious, although Hua Lang is not a person in the court, but he can be regarded as a common person in the Great Song Dynasty, now the Great Song Dynasty is in trouble, Bai Ji sent someone to find him, he can't shirk, and hurriedly invited the guards into the house, Hua Lang asked: "Bai Shuai has something to discuss with him?" ”

The guard took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Hua Lang, saying, "What Bai Shuai said is all in the letter, please look at it." ”

Hua Lang picked up the letter and read it, and after reading it, he was suddenly startled, and then said to the guard: "You go back and tell Bai Shuai, just say that I Hua Lang took over the matter he entrusted me, and I will definitely give him an answer as soon as possible." ”

The official did not show joy on his face, and after nodding slightly, he immediately rushed into the night again.

After the guards left, Wen Meng took the letter and read it, and after reading it, he was also surprised, and said: "Hualang, this Great Song Dynasty was sold to the pig iron of the Western Xia Kingdom, and Bai Ji asked you to investigate, this is not a trivial matter, how can you agree so casually?" ”

Hua Lang's face was heavy, and he said: "It is precisely because this matter is so important that I agreed without hesitation, pig iron is the material for forging weapons, if someone sells pig iron to the Western Xia Kingdom, wouldn't it create an opportunity for the Western Xia Kingdom to slaughter the people of my Great Song Dynasty?" This matter must be investigated as soon as possible. ”

Hua Lang's heart also has a patriotic heart, everyone was a little moved after listening to his words, but everyone is also clear about the difficulties in front of them, Bai Ji only said that someone sold pig iron to Xixia, but there is no evidence and no suspects, how can they investigate?

Hua Lang naturally knows that things are difficult to do, but since he has taken it, no matter how difficult it is, I am afraid that it must be done.

There was nothing to say all night, and after everyone got up the next day, they immediately went to the yamen with Hualang, if they wanted to know who sold pig iron to Xixia, this matter was indispensable to Tong Zhuo's help, Tong Zhuo had been here for many years, and it should be very clear who was doing the pig iron business.

After everyone saw Tong Zhuo, Hua Lang immediately asked about the people who did business nearby, of course, at first, in order not to arouse Tong Zhuo's suspicion, Hua Lang asked several kinds of business, and only mixed the people who did the pig iron business with them.

This Tong Zhuo was not suspicious, and he had to answer Hualang's questions.

"In our place, there are not many pig iron, there are only three full of pigiron, these three pig iron business do not live in Linxi City, after all, pig iron is not something else, living in the city affects the lives of the people too much, they are all outside Linxi City to the east ten miles, these three pig iron business people are Cheng family, Pang family and Zhao family, we have no pig iron to mine in this place, so most of their goods are shipped from other places, and then sold to the army, every year at the beginning of the war, That's when these people get rich. Speaking of this, Tong Zhuo couldn't help but sigh, after all, making war money is really a bit awkward.

"I'm afraid that these three pig iron companies have backers behind them, right?"

"Naturally, this kind of business is no better than others, if there is no backer, it has already been robbed by the army, where can they still do business here?"

Tong Zhuo's words are good, although the soldiers are soldiers, they also do the things of robbers, and they need to buy pig iron every year to pay for it, and they must have the ability to do it.