A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 386 Something happened
After Duan Rong knew Xiong Yi's secret, he did not stay and went straight back to his room.

In the darkness, Duan Rong came in from the window like a huge fallen leaf. Although he was very fast, his feet were as soft as if they had no bones. He landed gently without making any sound.

Xiao Yu was still sleeping on the bed, breathing steadily.

Duan Rong walked over quietly, turned over and lay down. When Duan Rong lay down, he seemed to startle Xiao Yu, who hummed vaguely and put her arms around Duan Rong's waist.

Xiao Yu placed her forehead against Duan Rong's ear and fell asleep peacefully.

Early the next morning, at Duan Rong's suggestion, they left Shen Garden without even having breakfast.

Duan Rong said that he wanted to go back to Ruyang City to drink beef soup.

After having breakfast on the street in Ruyang, the three of them went to find Liu Shushan.

When Liu Shushan saw that it was the three of them coming together, he was overjoyed.

However, they did not stay in Liu Shushan's mansion. Instead, they strolled around Ruyang City together and visited almost all the famous places.

After this trip, Duan Rong and Xiao Yu soon felt bored because there was basically no difference between what they had played here and what they had played in Yuanyang Prefecture.

The so-called city is originally just a copy.

In fact, Liu Shushan's family is in the provincial capital, and their business is quite big, and they can be considered one of the major forces.

But after a few days of playing, Duan Rong gradually realized that during the three-month vacation, Liu Shushan had never been to Shen Mizhi's place.

This is somewhat unreasonable.

The relationship between them was pretty good. Shen Mizhi's father was also the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner, and many people wanted to get close to him but couldn't. Liu Shushan actually treated her coldly.

Moreover, he saw that Liu Shushan and Shen Mizhi were talking and laughing these days, and there was obviously no rift between them.

Duan Rong quickly figured out the reason.

I'm afraid that the political situation in Ruyang City has already formed some factions.

The major forces in the city obviously need to take sides, and Liu Shushan's family is obviously not from Shen Yanliu's faction.

It seems that it is not that Liu Shushan does not want to visit the Shen family, but that the elders of the family have told him not to go. Because Duan Rong can still vaguely feel that Liu Shushan seems to have some feelings for Shen Mizhi.

That day, they were visiting a sun-viewing pavilion by the lake.

On the lake, the waves were like scales, the willows were swaying, and the scenery was very charming and beautiful.

At this time, Liu Shushan went to the street to buy some fruits, and Xiao Yu went to buy tea, leaving only Duan Rong and Shen Mizhi on the top floor of the attic to enjoy the breeze and the view.

Duan Rong looked at the beautiful scenery before him and suddenly called her, "Mizhi!"

"Ah."

"Don't go snooping around in that garden. Even if you do see something, it won't change anything and will only add to your troubles."

Shen Mizhi was slightly stunned, and looked at Duan Rong in astonishment. She didn't expect that Duan Rong had already seen through her going to the garden to spy that night. She originally thought that she had done it very secretly and no one knew about it.

Duan Rong only looked at the beautiful scenery in the distance and did not turn his head to look at Shen Mizhi.

At this moment, Xiao Yu came up with tea in her hand. The two of them did not discuss this topic any further.

This was the last day that Duan Rong and Xiao Yu stayed in Ruyang City. Early the next morning, they left here in a carriage. Shen Mizhi and Liu Shushan followed them on horseback. They walked five or six miles before they said goodbye with willow branches.

Duan Rong and Xiao Yu returned to Xiangu County, but after resting for a few days, their three-month home visit leave was completely over.

After the home visit leave was over, they all went to the contact point of the Tongzhengshisi and took on the tasks assigned to them by the sect.

After accepting the task, Duan Rong, Ximen Kankan and the other four people met temporarily and exchanged their views on their respective tasks.

The first task is actually quite important. The completion degree of this task determines the level of the subsequent tasks.

Perhaps it was because they were all involved in the biggest bloodbath case in Xiangu County, the tasks they received were pretty good.

At least they are not trivial matters. They are serious cases.

Duan Rong, Ximen Kankan, and Liu Shushan were all assigned to investigate criminal cases, while Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi were assigned to monitor the cases.

Shen Mizhi was quite indignant. "Why are the three of you assigned to investigate, while ours is assigned to monitor?"

Ximen Kankan blinked, looked at Shen Mizhi, and said, "How about we switch?"

Liu Shushan said: "You can't change it randomly, or there will be problems."

Shen Mizhi asked: "Who wants to change it for you?"

Ximen Kankan said, "Supervision is great! It's much easier than investigation. I think you are just being ungrateful after getting the advantage."

"you……"

"That's enough." Duan Rong saw that Shen Mizhi was about to get angry, so he interrupted her and said, "The cases that the outer disciples are assigned to supervise are either major cases or cases that the sect thinks are problematic. They may be assigned to you because they think you are more careful. If you can find problems during the supervision, it will also be a great achievement."

Shen Mizhi kept silent when she heard Duan Rong say this.

They just met and exchanged views, and then went to their respective places to carry out their tasks.

Before leaving, Xiao Yu prepared some clean clothes for Duan Rong and gave him many instructions. Only then did the two of them part reluctantly.

Duan Rong had the ability to devour spirits of weapons and the ability to cover the body with the spiritual consciousness in the Taizang Sutra. Although the case was quite tricky, it was solved within two days after he arrived there.

The local officials called him "Detective Duan".

After the case over there was settled, Duan Rong, who had nothing to do, went to check on Xiao Yu.

Duan Rong looked into the case that Xiao Yu was supervising, and finding no problems, he started to hang out with Xiao Yu.

That night, Ximen Kankan suddenly came to find him on a fast horse.

When Ximen Kankan saw Duan Rong, he said, "I knew it. They said you left. I guessed that you must have gone to Xiao Yu's place."

Duan Rong had just bought a roast chicken and was chewing it in the inn, his mouth dripping with oil. He looked at Ximen Kankan and said with a smile, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"My butt is in a hurry, how can I not be anxious?" Ximen Kankan said, and he tore a large piece of chicken from the roast chicken. While eating, he poured himself some tea.

Duan Rong glanced at Ximen Kankan's butt and joked, "I see your butt is fine, it's not burned!"

Ximen Kankan poured himself a large cup of tea, took a breath, and said, "I'm not telling you any bullshit. I can't handle that case, you have to go over and help me."

Duan Rong twitched his fingers and smiled faintly, "So it's a case. What did I think it was?"

Ximen Kankan sat down on the chair, looked at Duan Rong, and said, "Brother, you are so arrogant!"

Duan Rong said: "I can help you, but I have a condition."

Ximen Kankan's eyelids twitched. He didn't know why, but when he heard this, he felt that Duan Rong was trying to deceive him. "What are the conditions?"

"Burn all the erotic pictures I drew for you!"

Duan Rong always felt that this was a stain, and he had a feeling that as long as that thing was not burned, Xiao Yu would know about it one day.

Ximen Kankan's face suddenly turned serious. He stood up and walked out, saying, "Forget it if you don't want to help me! I'll go find Xiao Yu and ask her to give me some advice."

"Come back!" Duan Rong immediately called him. "When did I say I wouldn't help?"

Ximen Kankan immediately turned around with a smile and said, "I knew you wouldn't let me make this trip in vain. Let's go."

"now?"

"Yes." Ximen Kankan said, "I've said it before, but it's too late."

"Wait until I finish eating the chicken."

"What are you eating? When the case is solved, I will treat you to chicken every day!" Ximen Kankan pulled Duan Rong up and pushed him out of the inn.

Duan Rong went to the government office, told Xiao Yu, and then went to his side with Ximen Kankan.

Duan Rong and Ximen Kankan arrived there at noon that day. A few hours later, before dusk, the case was solved.

The coroners and detectives who participated in the entire process of solving the case were all amazed and shocked.

The murderer had a clever way of fabricating an alibi.

Because his fabricated alibi was so convincing that it almost became ironclad evidence. Therefore, when the detectives investigated the case, they first excluded him. This made the darkest part of the story hidden under the lamp.

However, as soon as Duan Rong devoured the spirit of the murder weapon, he already knew who the murderer was.

A murderer has such a convincing alibi.

Either the spirit of the weapon he devoured was "lying", or the proof of his absence was "lying".

It is obvious that the spirit of the weapon will never lie, so the only possibility is that the evidence of his alibi is problematic.

In the next few hours, Duan Rong repeatedly investigated the evidence of his alibi.

Before long, not only the constable, but even Ximen Kankan became a little impatient, but Duan Rong was like a stubborn person, and kept holding on to it, because he knew very well that this was the problem.

Finally, it was through a large-scale devouring of weapon spirits that Duan Rong finally discovered the problem. All the people involved in solving the case were stunned, and the murderer who started the case looked at Duan Rong as if he had seen a ghost.

In the next two or three months, Duan Rong almost became the fire-fighting captain among them. Whenever they had a problem that they couldn't solve, they would come to Duan Rong for help. Although Duan Rong kept clamoring for a fee, he still went with them every time.

Gradually, Duan Rong established an invisible prestige among them.

In this way, three months passed.

On this day, Duan Rong and Ximen Kankan's cases went very smoothly. After finishing their own work, they gathered in Xiao Yu's inn.

It was evening at this time. The three of them were eating and drinking and chatting. The moon in the night sky was as big as a disk, and its bright light was everywhere.

At this moment, the sound of hurried horse hooves came like a sudden rain of hail.

The sound of horse hooves suddenly stopped at the door of the inn, and a figure rushed in.

The man moved as fast as a ghost and in a flash he appeared not far away from the three people.

Under the light, I saw that the man had an anxious look on his face and was covered in dust. It was Liu Shushan.

Liu Shushan walked to the table, picked up a bowl of crucian carp and tofu soup there, and gulped down most of the bowl.

Duan Rong glanced at the dust on Liu Shushan's body and frowned slightly.

The place where Liu Shushan handles cases is not far from here. Even if he rode all the way here, he wouldn't be so dirty.

Xiao Yu and Ximen Kankan didn't take it seriously. They both thought that Liu Shushan had encountered a difficult case and asked Duan Rong for help.

Liu Shushan put the food in the large porcelain bowl, exhaled, wiped the soup from his mouth, looked at the three of them, and said, "Shen Mizhi is in trouble!"

Xiao Yu's body tensed up immediately after hearing this. "What happened to her?"

Liu Shushan sat down and said, "It's a long story. The thing is, her house was ransacked."

"what!……"

Ximen Kankan asked, "Isn't her father the Censor? Who could have raided her house?"

Liu Shushan sighed and said, "The Censor is not the Lord of Shenyun Mansion."

Duan Rong said: "Shushan, please continue!"

Duan Rong was not at all surprised that Shen Yanliu's house was searched. Three months ago, when he was in Shen Garden that night, Shen Yanliu had already been targeted.

His house has been ransacked now, which means the people behind this are starting to close in.

It seems that in the vortex of Ruyang Prefecture's political situation, Shen Yanliu was defeated after all. This is exactly in line with the old saying, "It's too clever to be too calculating."

Liu Shushan looked at Duan Rong and said, "I got the news from my family. As soon as I got the news, I thought Shen Mizhi must have known it too. I left the city that night and rushed to the city where she was handling the case. I went to the government office to inquire and found out that she suddenly left halfway through the case. I guessed that she went back to Ruyang Prefecture. I thought this matter was quite tricky, so I came to discuss it with you first."

Duan Rong was still thinking, but Xiao Yu had already stood up. "We have to rush over immediately. If that girl is in a hurry, she might do something stupid! "

In her heart, Xiao Yu almost treated Shen Mizhi as her own sister. Now, she suddenly heard that her family had met with misfortune. Among all the people present, she was the most distressed.

Duan Rong glanced at Xiao Yu, only to see that Xiao Yu's eyes were anxious and his body was tense, and he couldn't wait to leave. He sighed and said, "Anyway, we have finished the cases on hand, so let's go to Ruyang Prefecture and see if we can help."

Although Duan Rong said this, he didn't want to get involved in this matter.

When he was in Xiangu County, he discovered that Shen Yanliu secretly ordered people to rob wealthy manors. Even a county magistrate was acting like a robber.

In the three years since he was promoted to the position of Censor, we can see from the glimpse of that night in Shen Garden that his official character has obviously deteriorated further in these three years. In the past, he was only bad himself, but now he is dragging others into trouble.

As soon as Duan Rong said this, several people set off immediately.

The horses in the post station are quite old and weak and cannot withstand the long journey. Ruyang Prefecture is still quite far away from here.

They went to the carriage dealership that night, broke down its door, bought four good horses at a high price, and left the city overnight, galloping towards Ruyang Prefecture.

Xiao Yu was anxious and whipped the horse's butt behind him with the whip from time to time.

The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became. Shen Mizhi was stubborn and impatient, and she would not give in. Suddenly, when such a big thing happened to her family, she ran back alone without discussing it with anyone.

At this moment, Xiao Yu was really worried that something might happen to Shen Mizhi.

(End of this chapter)