Seeing the adult sitting high above so gentle, the soldiers finally felt relieved and nodded. Yang Yan swept over them: "Who is the leader?"

"The villain Huang Dahu is the commander of this team..." A somewhat burly military man answered in a low voice, not daring to look up at the appearance of the adults, looking cautious.

"Why did you let them go before the city gates opened?" Yang Yan asked directly without going around in circles.

"Because... because they gave us five taels of silver, saying that they were in a hurry to go to Beijing to deliver goods, so they wanted us to be comfortable and open the door and let them go before dawn." Huang Dahu answered honestly. At this time, he did not dare to hide it anymore.

Yang Yan continued quietly: "When did they hand over the silver to you? It wouldn't be coming here in the middle of the night and paying the bank temporarily?"

"When...of course not, it was yesterday evening when they came to the city to meet the young one and proposed to let us be compatible."

Sure enough, there was a premeditation, Yang Yan snorted, but Li Ling suddenly said: "You said they had agreed with you when they entered the city and paid the money?"

“That’s right.”

"This is a bit strange. Which gate are you guarding?"

"The south gate to the capital."

"Southern Gate, did they enter through the South Gate?"

“Just… it’s right.”

Now, everyone, including Huang Dahu, showed strange expressions and noticed this unreasonable place. Who came from the direction of the capital and turned back? Huang Dahu looked even more panicked. Such a big flaw was right in front of him, and he didn't notice it at all. Just this one, the blame could not be escaped.

Yang Yan snorted again: "So you agreed at that time and even made connections with everyone below?"

"That's right, the young men had done similar activities before, so he was undoubtedly there. After about 4 o'clock, they arrived and handed over the money, we opened the door and let them go out."

"Well, I asked you again, you have to figure it out. Do you still remember the clothes of those people? Also, how many people, how many horses or vehicles are there in their entire team?"

"This..." Huang Dahu fell into deep thought and recalled. This was indeed difficult to answer. After all, he did not doubt the other party at that time. After all, who cares about what people look like and how many cars and horses there are? After all, this kind of thing is not charged based on the head.

However, he could also feel that this problem was the key, so he racked his brains to recall carefully, and looked at the brothers beside him, indicating that they would think together.

After recalling this hard work, I finally gained something again: "It should be twelve or three people. Except for the businessman in the lead who looked white and fat, the others were dressed up, thin but very energetic. It seemed that they were more energetic than our brothers. As for the horses and vehicles, there should be only five or six horses, two, no, three carts. I saw it when I came, it should be cloth, but I didn't check it when I went."

"Is the cloth full?" Yang Yan asked again.

"It seems that it's not full, and the boxes are only half filled." Huang Dahu said, and another subordinate behind him suddenly interrupted, "It's full. When I opened the city gate, I looked at the ruts that were quite deep when I put them out..."

"Huh?" Yang Yan's eyes flashed suddenly, and Li Ling nodded, "It's because they didn't run away. I'm afraid the boxes in time and space will be used to hold some people when they arrive. For example, Zhang Kang and his family, and the two missing subordinates of the Ministry of Justice."

Yang Yan also thought of this layer and felt a little annoyed, then looked at Li Ling: "Master Li, have you encountered similar teams on the way here?"

Li Ling shook his head: "I didn't pay attention to this carefully. Maybe they didn't go to the capital as they said, but after leaving Yanshi County, they moved to another place."

This statement made Yang Yan even more irritable, and his fingers kept knocking on the coffee table: "Do you have any other details to report?"

When Huang Dahu was asked this, his body was shocked again, and then he was silent. He really couldn't say more. Originally, he was just making some extra money. Who would pay attention to the specific situation of these merchants?

The clue was broken at this point. In the end, Yang Yan could only wave his hand: "Go and think about the appearance of the fat businessman who is the easiest to recognize, and then ask someone to draw his appearance for me. Others, go and recall it carefully, I want more details!"

The killing of so many people in the Ministry of Justice was enough to make Yang Yan feel unacceptable and unable to explain to his superiors. The disappearance of Zhang Kang and Captain Tie hung above his head like a sharp sword. Obviously, someone was deliberately targeting the Ministry of Justice, especially Zhang Kang, who should have mastered something. Once he acted in a bad situation, he might have suffered a lot.

Of course, for him now, Li Ling's threat is not small, so he has to quickly pass him over. So Yang Yan quickly changed the topic: "Let this aside, Lord Li, let's take a look at your affairs."

County Magistrate Zou understood and his eyes drooped slightly, then he said, "Did Chu Shiwu bring it?"

Then, a man dressed in a prisoner rushed in in panic: "Sir, please forgive me. That Chu Shiwu, he, he has died suddenly in my prison..."

"What!" The three officials blurted out almost at the same time. Li Ling's reaction seemed to be the slightest one. The other two widened their eyes, full of anger and surprise, as if they were more impactful than knowing that the people in the Ministry of Justice were killed.

"How is it possible? Zou County Magistrate, what's going on?" Yang Yan slapped the table and shouted.

"Xiaoguan, Xiaguan doesn't know what happened. You guys say, what's going on!" County Magistrate Zou immediately rebuked and looked at his subordinates who came to report.

"Sir, please spare me. Two days ago, two days ago, Chu Shiwu was fine in prison, but yesterday, there was no movement, and the young people didn't care much. Just now, the adults sent him a command to take him out, but as soon as we opened the cell, we found that he had died suddenly in the cell." The man said, kowtowing again.

At this time, Li Ling saw calmness and his eyes kept sweeping Yang Yan, Zou County Magistrate and others: "Mr. Yang, this is a coincidence? Such a key figure, why did he die as soon as we arrived?"

"Mr. Li, are you suspecting that this matter was instructed by our Ministry of Justice?" Yang Yan looked annoyed, "I can only say that I will never know what happened. Also, how did he die? Did you torture him and cause him to be injured and died suddenly?" The second half of the sentence was said by the people in Chong County.

"My lord is wronged. How could we do such a thing? Apart from hitting him at the beginning, the county has never punished him again. If lord doesn't believe it, you can check his body..." County Magistrate Zou immediately shouted.

"Mr. Li, do you think this is good? Look at his body first and then make a decision?" Yang Yan also said with a good attitude.

Li Ling hesitated for a moment before nodding: "Then bring him here. Remember, don't remove the shackles on his body!"

Although he didn't know what he meant, everyone obediently agreed. After a while, several officers carried the door panel into the hall, and a body that had already been stiff was lying on their heads.

Li Ling had already stepped forward decisively and leaned over to observe the corpse carefully. The first thing he saw was his appearance: he was in his fifties, with a long black face, a broken eyebrows, thin eyes and wide mouth, and a faint scar on his lower jaw... All the characteristics were consistent with what Chu Qi and the others described, and it should be that Chu Shiwu was correct.

Looking at his condition, he was indeed dead for only two days. This made Li Ling frown again, but he didn't rush to say anything. He immediately reached out and tore the thin prison uniform of the corpse, revealing his thin body. When he looked again, his brows frowned even deeper because there was no new fatal wound on his body.

Li Ling didn't give up, and ignored the strange gazes of others, peeled off Chu Shiwu's pants and looked over and looked at his back. Anyway, he had to do this in public and looked from head to toe. In addition to the awkwardness of the back and hips he had mentioned before, he had only had scars on his wrists and ankles that had been worn for many days.

At the same time, based on Li Ling's experience, it was not possible to see that he died of poisoning. At least there was no abnormality in his tongue, throat, eyelids, etc. Even the legendary killing method, Li Ling, has checked the Baihui above his head, and there were no traces of iron nails or other things.

"Cough cough, Lord Li..." Seeing his busy work, Yang Yan couldn't stand it anymore, so he coughed twice and called out, "I am not trying to exonerate Yanshi County Government, but it is not uncommon for prisoners like Chu Shiwu who are not too strong but are imprisoned in prison for a while and then died suddenly."

After hearing this, Li Ling stopped checking and said thoughtfully: "Of course I don't mean to blame the county government. It's just a little strange. Why did he suddenly die at this critical moment?"

"This may be fate, but I think there is one thing that Lord Li should have confirmed. The so-called Chu Shiwu was charged with other crimes, or even considered other resentful criminals and was about to be sentenced in the Qiu Jue, is completely nonsense." Yang Yan said as he looked at Li Ling, waiting for his response.

Li Ling's breathing slowly slowed down, and his eyes were on Chu Shiwu's body for a while, and finally landed on the frictional scars on his wrist. After staring at it for a while, he spoke: "What Lord Yang said is right. I really listened to it and misunderstood the Ministry of Justice. I hope you don't want to be accustomed to it." As he said that, he formally bent down to salute.
Chapter completed!