Chapter 29
Zhao Gao drafted another royal edict, got Ying Zheng's approval, stamped it with a jade seal, took fifty guards with him, and hurriedly left Xianyang, heading first to the military camp in Shangjun.
After finally arriving at the military camp and seeing Yang Duanhe, Zhao Gao almost cried.
Yang Duanhe said: "General Bai Bai requested to go home, and I have agreed."
"How can he go home now? This is exhausting me!"
Zhao Gao thought of Ying Zheng's words that he must be fast, so he rushed as fast as possible. Except for resting at night, he spent the rest of his time on horseback.
Zhao Gao now does not have the power to call a deer a horse, and he does not dare to disobey Ying Zheng's orders.
Zhao Gao knew where Baizhong's home was. It was just west of Xianyang, at most two days' journey away.
But he came all the way to Shang County and took a lot of unnecessary steps.
If he missed the date and was punished by the king, Zhao Gao knew he couldn't afford it, so he quickly said: "Let's go to Xi County!"
Zhao Gao was unwilling to stay even for a moment, and immediately changed direction and went back to the west.
But in the blink of an eye, he had already disappeared.
Yang Duanhe also wanted him to come in to rest for a while and drink some water.
Before the words were spoken, the person was already gone.
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A few days later.
Bai Lan wanted to find out what happened to Zhou Shi, so she went back to Changleli and asked Zhou Yu directly the reason.
However, Zhou Yu only lowered his head and refused to say anything. Bai Lan had no choice but to go back first.
After discussion, the brothers and sisters decided to start from other aspects. Unexpectedly, they learned something from the prison gate in Changleli. About half a month ago, Zhou Shi went out with a man named Fan Yang in Tongli.
After that day, Mou Le began to look for Zhou Shi, and he went there for several days.
"There must be something wrong with this Fan Yang?"
Bai Lan really wanted to help Zhou Yu, so she asked again: "Brother, what should we do?"
Bai Zhong thought for a while and said: "Go find Fan Yang, go now."
They arrived at Changleli again and found that Fan Yang was not at home. They had to ask the prison gate again and learned that Fan Yang had gone to work in the fields and had not come back yet.
Bai Zhong asked again where Fan Yang's fields were, then left Changleli and went to look for nearby farmland.
It was already evening at this time, and most of the farmers in the fields were going home to rest one after another, leaving the fields empty.
Baizhong came to the field where Fan Yang belonged, but strangely there was no one in sight.
"Brother, look here!"
Bai Lan exclaimed.
Bai Zhong walked over and took a look, and saw a little blood stain on the grass next to him, extending into the grass.
There were traces of being pressed on the grass. He followed the blood stains and found a man covered in blood with five knife marks on his body. The fatal injury was that a short knife had been inserted into the heart.
The blood on the man's wound was still dry and he still had body temperature. He must have died not long ago.
"ah!"
This was the first time Bai Lan saw a dead person, and she hid behind Bai Zhong in fear.
Bai Zhong, who came down from the battlefield, had seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Of course he would not be afraid of a corpse, but the moment he saw the corpse, he had a very bad feeling.
It's like walking into a trap.
"No, get out of here quickly!"
As soon as Bai Zhong finished speaking, a large group of people appeared around him.
"You want to leave after killing someone? It's already too late."
Mou Le led Qiu Pi, the pavilion soldiers, and a large group of people from Chang Le, including Li Jianmen, to surround him.
The pavilion chief was the director of the police station in ancient times, so Qiu Pi was the deputy director.
"Mule!"
The moment Bai Zhong saw this person appear, he knew that things were going to be serious.
Soon he figured it out again. Mou Le wanted to destroy the evidence, cover up things about Zhou Shi, and frame the blame. He accidentally fell into the trap.
Mou Le said coldly: "Bai Zhong, how dare you kill someone in Chang Le?"
Bai Zhong denied: "I didn't kill him, but you have many ways to frame him as the one who killed him."
"Am I framing you?"
Mou Le laughed and said again: "Tell me again what happened just now."
His eyes fell on the prisoner's door in Chang Leli.
The prison gate pointed at Bai Zhong and said angrily: "Just now you came to see Fan Yang, and I told him that Fan Yang was in the fields and hadn't come back yet. Then you went to the fields to look for someone. I happened to have something I wanted to talk to Fan Yang about, so I just told him
Behind you, but as soon as I got here, I saw you killing Fan Yang with a knife. I was too scared to save you, so I had to go back to find someone to save my life, and I happened to meet Zhang Tingzhang."
This witness was obviously found by Mou Le in advance.
What surprised the Bai Zhong brothers and sisters was that the prison gate in Changleli betrayed them as soon as the front leg told them the matter.
The other people in Changle seemed to have been recruited by Mou Le to testify, so that they could convict Bai Zhong.
They didn't know whether the murderer was Bai Zhong, but it didn't matter anymore. Mou Le said that was it.
"Someone watched you kill someone, and you still said I framed you?"
Mou Le said sternly: "Someone, arrest the Bai Zhong brothers and sisters."
Bai Lan retorted: "How dare you? My eldest brother will not change his position. Every hundred generals in the army will soon become a general. We did not kill anyone. We found Fan Yang dead as soon as we got here."
Mou Le said disapprovingly: "A hundred generals can kill people at will? I heard that some soldiers specialize in killing ordinary people and take their heads back to serve as military exploits. I guess this is how you and the hundred generals came about? Catch them and take them away.
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Several pavilion soldiers came forward quickly. Some raised their bows and arrows, while others drew their swords out of their scabbards.
Bai Lan nervously grabbed her eldest brother's sleeves, almost crying.
Bai Zhong frowned slightly. If he resisted now, even if he was not guilty, he would become guilty. If he was allowed to be captured and taken back, Mou Le's backstage was in the county and they had prepared everything, so it would not be easy.
what to do?
Bai Zhong had no choice. The only people who could help him were probably Wang Li and the others, but they were not around. Transportation and communications were extremely backward in ancient times. It was almost impossible to notify them under such circumstances.
To save himself, Bai Zhong thought that he could only go to the county, but he would not be captured by them.
A pavilion soldier came to Bai Zhong with a sword and was about to arrest him.
"You dare to catch me?"
Bai Zhong narrowed his eyes, and a cold murderous aura burst out from his body, pressing towards the pavilion soldier.
"No...don't kill me!"
The pavilion soldier was shocked, as if he saw a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. He couldn't hold the sword in his hand and threw it aside. His legs went weak and he sat down on the ground. His voice was trembling with fear.
The moment the murderous aura first appeared, he had a feeling that he was about to be killed by Bai Zhong.
The other two pavilion soldiers who were approaching were frightened by the murderous aura, their legs were also shaking, and they took several steps back in fear.
Even Bai Lan thought that her eldest brother suddenly became very scary, but she still held his hand. No matter how scary he was, he was still her relative and she was not afraid.
Bai Zhong said in a cold voice: "You don't want to catch me, come on!"
He just stood there waiting to be caught, but neither Qiu Thief nor the pavilion soldiers dared to take another step forward.
Chapter completed!