Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 252 Dungeon
"Alright, then Brother Tao will take a trip." Kang Xu thought for a while, and felt that this was the only way to do it.

"It's not too late, I'll leave immediately." Tao Ruozhu put the letter away close to his body, cupped his hands at the two of them, then got on the horse's back, and left the tea shed in a hurry.

"My lord, what should we do next?" Chang Feng scratched his head and asked.

Kang Xu pondered for a while, and said: "Since Lu Jitong has met those Dongying people, he must know their whereabouts. Go back and interrogate them."

Chang Feng nodded and asked curiously, "My lord, aren't you going back to interrogate him?"

"I'm going to the swamp again to see if there are any clues that I missed." Kang Xu said as he took out three kits from his bosom, and handed them to him, "This is the kit that my lord gave me before I fell into a coma. I didn't go back, so you just act according to what is written in the kit."

Chang Feng was stunned for a moment, he took the kit, and said in surprise, "How does your lord know what happened now?"

"Your Excellency must have his reasons for making such arrangements. What we have to do is to trust Your Excellency." Kang Xu said seriously.

Chang Feng put the bag close to him, nodded heavily and said: "I will act according to the bag, Brother Kang, be careful in everything, I will go back first."

After Chang Feng left, Kang Xu sat alone in the tea shed, looking at the city gate with people coming and going, lost in thought.

It was not until it was getting late that he got up and went to the swamp where the bones were found.

The night quickly enveloped the earth, and a new moon hung in the night sky, emitting a faint moonlight.

Kang Xu sat on the grass next to the swamp with a torch next to him. He looked up at the night sky, motionless like a statue.

There was gusts of wind in his ears, Kang Xu turned his ears sideways, and listened carefully to the chirping of insects in the quiet mountain forest, feeling everything in nature.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound, and then a few tired birds suddenly flew up and made a quacking sound in the forest, as if they were frightened.

Kang Xu looked back at the pitch-black forest, except for the randomly swinging branches blown by the wind, there was no movement.

"There shouldn't be tigers in this high mountain and dense forest, right? I just came to check the scene, not a murderer! Buddha bless, Buddha bless!" Kang Xu's heart tightened, and he clasped his hands and recited Amitabha several times.

Holding the torch in his hand, Kang Xu calmed down and observed the scene of the crime.

In fact, the scene has been searched many times, each time without any results, but he always felt that there would still be clues here, but they hadn't been discovered yet.

Taking advantage of the firelight, Kang Xu hunched over and started a carpet-like search around the swamp, even looking at a single leaf for a long time.

Kang Xu carefully searched for clues around the swamp, but he did not expect that danger was approaching quietly.

Just as he was pleasantly surprised to find something out of the duckweed, he suddenly received a heavy blow to the back of the head, and fell to the ground with a thump.

In a daze, he seemed to hear someone talking.

"Look, I told you that I was discovered and told you to come here earlier, but you won't be able to come here. What should I do, kill him?"

"Then you do it!"

"I don't kill people."

"You don't kill people, you knock him out?"

"...Either you come."

"Coward, get out of the way."

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After an unknown amount of time, Kang Xu woke up and found himself in a prison cell.

"Is anyone there? Come on, come on!" Kang Xu climbed to the fence and shouted loudly.

"Young man, don't bark. Save your energy. Except during meal times, someone will come to deliver the food. Usually there are no ghosts." A voice suddenly came from behind.

Kang Xu was startled, and quickly turned around, only to find that besides him, there was another person in the prison.

This person was wearing a dusty blue-gray robe, and was lying on his side facing the wall, only his back could be seen.

"I didn't notice that there were others, so please forgive me for being rude just now." Kang Xu said to that person.

"You are really interesting, you have become a prisoner and you still don't forget etiquette. Tell me, why were you arrested by them?" The man turned around, looked Kang Xu up and down and asked.

It was only then that Kang Xu discovered that he was an old man over half a century old. Although his appearance was haggard, his eyes were not cloudy, but bright and energetic.

"I found a nearly decomposed corpse in the swamp outside Zhengyang City. I was about to go back to report to the police, but suddenly my head hurt, and I was here when I woke up." Kang Xu rubbed the bulging part of the back of his head, humming said hummingly. "Old man, why are you trapped here?"

"The old man came in by himself." The old man narrowed his eyes and said.

Kang Xu touched his ear in a little surprise, and asked doubtfully, "Didn't you be arrested?"

"Of course not." The old man squinted his eyes and said leisurely: "This place is protected from wind and rain, the most important thing is to have food and drink. Where can I find such a good place?"

Kang Xu looked the old man up and down, and suddenly laughed: "Old man, you really know how to joke. You are not a beggar, so why don't you have a place to live?"

The old man glared at him and said, "How do you know I'm not a beggar?"

"Although you are dressed in rags, you are hale and hearty and elegant. How can you be a beggar?" Kang Xu said with a smile.

The old man was stunned for a moment, then suddenly got up and sat up, squinting his eyes and said: "You have some eyesight, kid, I'm really not a beggar."

"Meeting is fate, I don't know what to call the old man?" Kang Xu laughed.

"My surname is Cui and my name is Huan." The old man stroked his beard and said.

Kang Xu's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Do you know Tao Ruozhu?"

"Of course I recognize him, he is my student." The old man looked at him in surprise and asked doubtfully, "You also recognize Ruozhu?"

Kang Xu couldn't help but excitedly said: "My lord, I have found you!"

The old man frowned, his eyes full of caution.

"Who are you?"

"My next official, Li Canghai, magistrate of Zhengyang County, has met Lord Shangshu." Kang Xu hurriedly saluted the old man.

Cui Huan stared at him intently, and said in a deep voice, "How did you know the identity of this old man?"

"Brother Tao told the officials all this." Knowing that Cui Huan had doubts about his identity, Kang Xu described the incident to him.

After listening, Cui Huan fell into silence.

"My lord, what happened at that time? Why did you suddenly disappear?" After finally finding Cui Huan's whereabouts, Kang Xu couldn't wait to ask the matter clearly.

"That day, the old man went to Damiao Village to investigate the 'Broken Dragon Monument' and returned to Zhengyang. He was resting in a tea shed outside the city. The old man was carrying something to the forest, and the old man felt that something was wrong, so he followed in secret. Unexpectedly, they were throwing the corpse! As the imperial court official, the old man can't just sit idly by, but the one I followed In a hurry, the accompanying people did not come, and my old bones are not their opponents."

(End of this chapter)