"Is the body still there?" Walking to the door of the wine shop, looking at the low table neatly stacked in the guest room, Liu Wei asked Zhou Cang, who was following him.

"Your Highness has not arrived, and the last general will not dare to be proficient!" Zhou Cang, who was standing behind Liu Wei, said: "The corpses are still in the store, and they haven't moved for half a minute. ”

Liu Wei nodded slowly, and walked into the wine shop with a solemn face.

In the living room of the wine shop, the low tables are neatly arranged, and each table is very clean, and there is no messiness.

followed Liu Wei into the wine shop, Zhou Cang stood behind him and whispered to him: "The corpses are all in the back hall!" ”

After a brief inspection of the guest hall, Liu Wei's eyes narrowed slightly, but his eyes were much clearer in an instant, and he led Zhou Cang and several personal soldiers towards the back hall.

Before he reached the back hall, a thick bloody aura rushed towards Liu Wei.

In the doorway between the back hall and the guest hall, a light blue linen curtain was hung, and a personal soldier stepped forward to open the curtain, and a stronger smell of blood suddenly poured towards Liu Wei and the others.

Raising his feet and walking into the back hall, the first thing Liu Wei saw was a female corpse lying face down in a pool of blood.

Since the female corpse was face down and could not see her face clearly, judging from her dress and figure, she should be around twenty years old.

Squatting down next to the female corpse, Liu Wei reached out and pulled her head.

The face of the female corpse was tilted towards Liu Bian, and Liu Bian found that there was a long sword mark on her neck. The sword marks were so deep that even the severed throat was clearly visible.

After briefly inspecting the female corpse, Liu Wei stood up and walked to the back hall.

In the back hall, which is not large, there are fourteen corpses lying horizontally and vertically, as Zhou Cang said, these corpses are a total of nine men and five women.

The fourteen corpses were only cut with a deep cut in their necks, and the rest of their bodies were not even the slightest scars.

Squatting next to a corpse leaning against the corner of the wall, Liu Wei stretched out his hand to support the corpse's cheek, and said to Zhou Cang, who was standing behind him: "What a clean technique, fourteen corpses, all of them are fatal with one sword, each sword is cut in the throat, and there is no deviation at all." The one who strikes is definitely a good sword maker! And these people were not prepared at all beforehand! ”

Standing behind Liu Bian, bending down to look at the corpse leaning against the corner, Zhou Cang nodded and said, "If this person is not a ranger, he is a swordsman raised by a noble family. ”

"Not alone!" Letting go of the hand holding the corpse's cheek, Liu Wei squatted in front of the corpse and said in a calm tone: "There are at least four of them, and all of them are good hands!" These corpses had indifferent expressions, not as if they were frightened, they died very suddenly, and the screams heard by the soldiers were probably also from the murderer. ”

"The last general doesn't quite understand!" Zhou Cang furrowed his brows, and said with a blank expression: "Since they killed people, they should be afraid of being known, why did they deliberately scream?" ”

"That's where they come in." Turning his head to look at Zhou Cang, Liu Wei stood up, looked down at the corpse lying in the corner of the wall and said, "They must have other purposes, killing these people is just the beginning of a game!" ”

"Let the body be carried away!" Waving his hand at the pro-soldier standing behind him, Liu Wei turned his head to look at the furnishings in the room.

A pro-soldier answered, turned around and walked out of the back hall, and after a while, more than a dozen soldiers followed the pro-soldier and walked in and carried the body out of the inner hall.

There was a strong smell of blood in the room, and the corpses were carried out one after another, but there were still thick blood stains on the floor and walls of the room.

Looking around the furnishings in the house, Liu Wei muttered at a pot stove stuffed with straw in the hearth, and said to the soldiers behind him: "Dismantle the stove." ”

Several of the soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then they all responded in unison, and found a hammer in the back hall, and one of them picked up the hammer and rammed the bluestone stove with great force.

"Why did Your Highness dismantle the stove?" Not only did a few soldiers who were busy dismantling the stove not understand why Liu Wei asked them to do this, but Zhou Cang on the side was also confused and couldn't help asking.

"The wine shop sells wine and rice for a living, and the two pots and stoves in the back hall are used together to ensure that the fire is not extinguished. But they only use one, and the other one is sitting around, don't you think it's a little weird? Looking at the soldiers who were smashing the stove, Liu Wei said to Zhou Cang: "The murderer killed people during the day, and made such a big noise, he will definitely not be able to escape from here, if he is still hiding in the wine shop, he will leave through the secret passage." This stove is probably the entrance to the secret tunnel! ”

"The last general still can't figure it out...... Zhou Cang shook his head, pursed his lips and said: "Since you are sneaking into Dayang secretly, why don't you act secretly, but you want to make such a big fanfare, aren't you afraid that the matter will be revealed?" ”

"The spies who were caught by us when they entered the city are probably also deliberate!" The soldiers were busy smashing the stove, Liu Wei frowned slightly and said to Zhou Cang: "He did this in order to divert our attention and rob people from the government." It's just that they didn't expect that they would choose to kidnap Huanniang. Since the spy was arrested, to the robbery of Huanniang, and now there is another murder case in the Donglai wine shop, so many things have happened in one day, it is nothing more than to hide their true purpose. ”

"And ......what is their real purpose?" After listening to Liu Wei's words, Zhou Cang felt that things had become confusing, and subconsciously asked again.

"Asking this king to withdraw is one of them, and I don't know what other purpose there is!" Liu Wei shook his head and said to Zhou Cang: "Take one step at a time, as long as there is a conspiracy, it will eventually surface." ”

"Your Highness!" As the two were talking, the soldier who smashed the pot stove with a hammer turned his head and shouted with a shocked face: "Sure enough, there is a secret way!" ”

Liu Wei hurriedly walked to the stove and glanced at the stove that had been smashed open.

The bluestone stove was smashed down, and the broken stones and stone dust fell to the ground, and in the middle of the stove, a large black hole appeared.

"Give me the hammer!" Taking the hammer from the hands of his own soldiers, Liu Wei picked it up and smashed it hard towards the edge of the furnace.

The heavy hammer smashed on the furnace, smashing the edge of the stove that had collapsed, and the broken stone powder fell into the furnace with a "bang", raising a foggy cloud of smoke.

Seeing that the entrance of the cave was a little bigger, Liu Wei threw the hammer to the side, stretched out his hand and said to the soldiers on the side: "Light the fire." ”

A personal soldier hurriedly took out the flint from his arms, lit the fire, and handed it to Liu Wei.

Stepping on the smashed stones, Liu Wei rubbed to the edge of the hearth, took the fire fold from the hands of his own soldiers, and put the hand holding the fire fold into the black and dark hearth.

The fire folded down the hole and reflected the edge of the cave wall, but the flames did not change much at all, and the flames still rose upward, not extinguished, nor did they shake abnormally.

"There's a secret passage in there!" Blowing out the fire fold in his hand, Liu Wei stood up, handed the fire fold back to his own soldiers, and said to Zhou Cang: "The thief may have fled from the secret passage, so start a search in the city as soon as possible, and be sure to find the murderer." ”

"You've found the entrance, why don't you go down?" found the entrance to the secret passage, Liu Wei did not let people go down to search, and Zhou Cang, who was very puzzled by this, interjected and asked: "Maybe from this secret passage, you can find the traces of thieves." ”

"The tunnels are narrow and the terrain is unknown. One person is guarding the middle of the road, and even if we wait for a hundred and ten people to enter, I am afraid that we will not be able to break through! Turning his head to look at Zhou Cang, Liu Wei waved his hand at everyone in the house, and said: "There is more than one thief, it's hard to say whether there will be people left to intercept and kill the pursuers in the middle of the road, I will wait and withdraw from the city, and immediately start a search in the city." ”

Liu Wei urged everyone to leave the back hall, and in the secret passage that they had just discovered, four shadows with long swords lurked.

After listening to the conversation between Liu Wei and Zhou Cang above, a black shadow squatting behind whispered to the black shadow holding a long sword guarding in front, "If they don't come down, how to deal with it?" ”

"I'm afraid that King Hongnong is going to trap us to death!" The black shadow squatting at the front furrowed his brows slightly, and whispered to the three black shadows lurking behind him: "King Hongnong is also very tight, just from the clues of our killing, you can see the number of people, I am afraid it is impossible to kill him in the secret passage." Fortunately, he did not see that this secret path was a dead end, so the brothers should be calm and wait until dark, and then I will leave at night. ”

"No!" The three black shadows behind responded at the same time, quietly dormant in the dark passage, and did not continue to speak.

led Zhou Cang and the others out of the back hall, and as soon as they stood in the front hall, Liu Wei whispered to Zhou Cang: "But I don't understand why this king didn't order someone to go down to search?" ”

"Your Highness has already told you what happened!" Zhou Cang lowered his head, also lowered his voice, and asked Liu Wei, "Isn't there any other reason?" ”

"Fold the fire into the hole, and the flame is not biased!" Turning his head to look at Zhou Cang, who was full of puzzlement, Liu Wei lowered his voice and said: "There is a dead end below, people are hiding in it, and they can't get out at all." They will come out sooner or later, so why should the brothers fight for their lives to arrest them? Quietly set up an ambush outside the wine shop, don't let them get away, tonight I want to ask them about the whereabouts of Huanniang! ”

As soon as Liu Wei explained this, Zhou Cang, who was still puzzled by his lack of letting people go down to follow him, suddenly opened his eyes, slapped his forehead heavily with a look of sudden realization, and praised in a low voice: "Your Highness is really fine, you can even see these!" ”

"I haven't slept all night, I'm really tired!" Liu Wei stretched out his hand and put it on his mouth and yawned, and said to Zhou Cang: "This king will go back to sleep, and the rest of the affairs will be handled by Yuanfu as appropriate!" ”

Zhou Cang responded and followed Liu Wei out of the wine shop.

Out of the gate of the wine shop, Liu Wei led a team of personal soldiers straight to the direction of the official mansion. Seeing the backs of Liu Wei and the others disappear at the end of the street, Zhou Cang turned around and beckoned to the officers and soldiers gathered outside the wine shop and shouted: "Leave twelve people to guard the wine shop, don't let the civilians get close, and the rest of the people will return to the barracks with General Ben!" ”