"Speak and listen."

Su Chen took two steps closer and walked less than one meter ahead of Zhao Hailong. The soldiers behind him did not step forward, only him, not wearing armor or weapons.

Zhao Hailong rubbed his hand holding the hilt of the knife. At this distance, he could instantly cut off Su Chen's head.

Su Chen deliberately lowered his voice and said, "If you can be loyal to me, I am willing to attribute all your previous actions to the secret actions of testing the Ling Kingdom. I am your behind-the-scenes envoy."

Zhao Hailong narrowed his eyes and asked in a low voice: "How can I trust you?"

Trust has always been the most difficult and easiest thing. Sometimes it only takes one look, one action, and one sentence for the other person.

Su Chen stared at Zhao Hailong's eyes, took another step forward, and said firmly: "You can put the knife on my neck. If I take a step back, I will think that what I say is fart."

This behavior immediately made these people in the martial arts world admire him. Such courage is rare in the world.

However, they didn't know that Su Chen's reliance was actually a jade pendant on his chest. He knew that Zhao Hailong was just a second-rate warrior and could not hurt him at all, so he dared to do so.

Zhao Hailong was obviously shocked by his spirit, and his palms were sweating a little, but he still put the seven-star mad sword that was as sharp as mud on Su Chen's neck. This scene shocked the soldiers almost rushed up.

However, Su Chen just raised his left hand lightly and asked them to retreat. Then he continued to stare into Zhao Hailong's eyes and said, "If Gangmaster Zhao doesn't mind, we can go in and chat for a while."

Zhao Hailong nodded, withdrew his sword, made an invitation gesture, and said, "Young man, please!"

Su Chen smiled slightly, first turned around and dismissed the city guards, then stepped into the mansion of the Hailong Gang. Those originally aggressive people from the martial arts world gave way and looked at them with admiration.

Zhao Hailong led him to the living room, invited him to sit down, and served tea. Then all the masters of the Hailong Gang sat down one after another, looking forward to the conversation with Su Chen.

Afterwards, Su Chen asked them in detail about the people of Lingguo and found that they were really just doing smuggling business, and the person who was in contact with them was Captain Wang.

According to their explanation, Captain Wang took the initiative to come to them and brought a large amount of goods from Lingguo, and sold them at an extremely low price, hoping to form a long-term cooperative relationship with them.

After the first transaction, the Hailong Gang made a huge profit and also gave a lot of benefits to officials from all over the place, especially the general. In order to be able to do smuggling business for a long time, the general must nod.

Later, the second batch and the third batch of goods were successfully traded, and the profits were getting richer every time. For the fourth, he even brought several beauties from Lingguo to ask them to deliver them to the general.

On the surface, the people of Lingguo are indeed doing business. They lose some money in the early stage and wait until the channels are passed before finding ways to make money. But the problem is Captain Wang, who privately mobilized the city guards in the city, and his identity as a spy has been confirmed. It seems unusual for him to manipulate all this behind the scenes.

Su Chen suddenly thought of the ancient tree spirits he met that night, and asked, "Does their goods be sent by tree spirits every time?"

Zhao Hailong replied: "No, the previous few times they sent a convoy to bypass the north of the border forest. Although the speed was slower, we could receive goods during the day, which looked more like an ordinary transaction. It was only the last time that Captain Wang temporarily notified him that a batch of goods would be delivered from the forest, so that we could receive goods at night. He also explained that it was a tree spirit delivery, and that ordinary humans could not pass through the border forest."

Su Chen asked the materials outside the plan: "What kind of goods are sent by the tree spirit?"

"It is a batch of excellent weapons and the price given to us is very low, and it is considered the most profitable batch of supplies."

Weapons? Su Chen was puzzled. Although he was a little sensitive, it was also a very common cargo. Why did Captain Wang need so many weapons? Did he use it alone?

"Where are those weapons now?"

"It's all put into weapons shops everywhere."

Su Chen pondered for a moment, and there was no new gain. The Hailong Gang was charged with smuggling for profit, but given that it was not a collusion with enemies in nature, it would not be too much to exempt them from being punished for more crimes in the future. The most important thing is that he took a fancy to the force of the Hailong Gang. Now the city guards are weak. If the Hailong Gang can fill this gap, he should be able to cope with the sudden war.

Su Chen said goodbye to the Hailong gang members, intending to go back and write a letter with the seal on the public to Zhao Hailong, so that they can get rid of the crime with justification.

After returning to the mansion, he immediately wrote a letter and handed it to Yu Yesheng to send it to the Hailong Gang so that they would not be restless.

In the afternoon, Ye Sheng came back and brought back a letter at the same time.

Su Chen said in confusion: "Why did you get it back?"

"Mr. Su, this was just sent by the head of the Ministry of Revenue, not the one you wrote to the Hailong Gang."

Su Chen took it and saw that it was the official letter he had issued to investigate the storyteller of the teahouse. He finally responded today. Su Chen speculated that it was probably there that had arrived long ago, and the head of the Ministry of Revenue did not give it to him. Now that the city has cleared the spies from Lingguo in the city, he was afraid that the matter would be of great importance, so he quickly sent it.

When he opened the content of the public letter, he was surprised that the storyteller was really from Shuang Country, and his original household registration was a remote village outside Lincheng.

"Then why did he run away?"

Su Chen still couldn't figure it out and felt that this storyteller was still a bit strange.

At this moment, Xianglan also brought an envelope over.

"Young Master, this is a letter sent in before the city was closed last night, which states it is for you."

Su Chen took it in confusion and muttered: "Can someone still write a letter to him? Is it Xiaoqi?"

However, when he saw the address indicated in the envelope, he had a bad premonition. It was the remote village he had just learned about. Could it be the letter from the storyteller?

He hurriedly opened it and took a look.

"Mr. Su, I disappoint you. I am indeed a native of Frost Country.

I wrote not to prove anything, but to tell you that Lincheng is an unfortunate city, but not because it is remote and corrupt officials, but because it is its past.

Do you still remember the story I told? The answer you want to know can only tell you.

Now I will tell you that I am the person in the story. When the city massacre took away a few children, I am their descendant.

I can tell you that the stories are true, and Lin Cheng was the one who was slaughtered at the beginning.

The ancient trees planted in the streets and alleys of Lincheng are actually monuments for the dead.

If you are a good official, please don’t let the tragedy happen again.”

Su Chen was creepy when he saw this. No wonder the atmosphere on the streets was strange every night. This place was a cemetery!

The walls of Lincheng are higher than other cities. They should be the ones who rebuilt this place at the beginning. I hope this city will be stronger.

Su Chen didn't have time to think about it, and many phenomena indeed showed that Lin Cheng was extraordinary. However, what scared him the most was the last sentence, which seemed to be reminding him of something.

He developed various associations, and linked together what happened recently, hoping to give them a final explanation.

Suddenly, he came to a terrible conclusion.

"Ye Sheng, let's go to the Ministry of Revenue now." After that, he hurried out.

Ye Sheng followed immediately, without asking any more questions. Judging from Su Chen's expression alone, things must be very serious.

When they arrived at the office of the Ministry of Revenue, they rushed into the yard of the Ministry of Revenue. Regardless of any obstruction and rules, they broke into the file storage room of the Ministry of Revenue and began to read them in various ways.

After a while, Ye Sheng shouted: "Mr. Su, I found it."

Su Chen had only one hand to move, and the speed of reading was very slow, mainly relying on Ye Sheng. He took a book handed over by Ye Sheng, and opened it and carefully looked it up.

"Sure enough, Lincheng's history is only over eighty years, and what he said is true!"

Su Chen said to himself with a look of horror.

At this moment, he finally figured out why Mr. Storyteller ran away and why Captain Wang had to temporarily add a batch of goods.

It turns out that all this happened because of him.

He ordered a thorough investigation of all teahouses and taverns in the city, and wanted to curb the spread of Lingguo culture, but unexpectedly, he slammed the grass and alarmed the giant python.
Chapter completed!