Chapter 35
The next morning Li Bing went to the guard, but when he asked the people in charge of the torture, he didn't get any news about Wu Sanhe.
"It shouldn't be! Any criminal who is caught in the guard will have to undergo a torture first before being sent to the dungeon for custody. Could it be that Wu Sanhe is not in the guard at all?"
Li Bing was at a loss, which was different from what he expected. But soon Zhang Hu, a small flag officer under him, took the initiative to find him and brought new news.
"General Banner, let me ask again for you. The murderers who tortured did not interrogate the person named Wu Sanhe yesterday, and they didn't even have similar physical characteristics. However, two people were tortured three days ago. They were transferred to the Black Flag Battalion to perform their duties, and they seem to be called Zhou Tao and Yang Lin. Someone saw them cleaning the torture room yesterday, and there was feces and urine in it, which should be left behind by torture.”
Li Bing was shocked when he heard the news, and he intuitively told him that the guy who was interrogated by Zhou Tao and Yang Lin was most likely the Wu Sanhe he was looking for.
"Where are they now!"
"Should be at the station of the Black Flag Battalion?"
Li Bing immediately jumped up from the chair, was about to rush out but then stopped in his tracks.
He said with scruples in his heart: If I go directly to the Black Flag Camp like this, maybe people will notice, if it is really Wu Sanhe, it will be troublesome for them to hide it. Gotta figure out a way.
But what Li Bing never expected was that instead of looking for him, the other party came looking for him instead.
Li Bing thought he heard it wrong when the concierge came in to communicate. But when he actually saw the other party, he had some impression that the other party was indeed from the Black Flag Camp.
"Wang Jian, the small banner officer of Group A of the Black Banner Battalion, has seen Li Zongqi." Wang Jian bowed to Li Bing neither humble nor overbearing.
"What are you looking for?"
"Mr. Li, it's like this. Yesterday we received an investigation note from a bank, saying that someone suspected of fraud in the circulation of large bank notes in the bank. So we, Mr. Shen, said that we will help the bank anyway when we are idle. After searching, it turned out that a person named Wu Sanhe was easily found out, and he was arrested one by one.
But even if someone from Qianzhuang denounced this Wu Sanhe, he always yelled that he was wronged, and that he was the chief steward of your family. Because it was too ridiculous, it was ignored by the interrogators yesterday. I just remembered it today and came to ask if there is a big steward named Wu Sanhe in your house? "
After Wang Jian finished speaking, he stood up straight with a smile and looked at Li Bing's reaction in front of him. In Shen Hao's words, now it's time to catch the snake, and he was asked to come here to startle the snake and see how the snake reacts, whether to run away or bite.
If you escape, you will use the net, if you bite, you will use the pliers.
Li Bing's face changed slightly and then returned to normal. He said to Wang Jian with some doubts: "It is true that there is a steward named Wu Sanhe in my family who did not return yesterday, but he is a person who abides by the law. Take me to identify it?"
"I'm sorry, Li Zongqi, Lord Baihu ordered the dungeon to be strictly controlled yesterday, so we can't take you to the dungeon to see the prisoners. But don't worry Li Zongqi, I brought the portrait, you can also look at the portrait."
portrait? !
Before Li Bing could react, he saw Wang Jian standing in front of him take out a half-foot-square picture scroll from his arms and hand it over.
"President Li, please take a look."
Li Bing subconsciously took the scroll and unfolded it. He almost cursed at the words "I'm your mother" in his heart. He didn't expect these people in the Black Flag Camp to be so good at playing.
The scroll is very simple, with a few strokes of thick and light ink, it clearly depicts a lifelike middle-aged man's appearance.
But the problem is that this middle-aged man is 50% like Wu Sanhe, but 50% like him Li Bing! It's not Wu Sanhe's original appearance at all!
Even Li Bing turned his head, he felt that Wang Jian was deliberately mocking him by handing over the portrait!
Seeing that Li Bing's face turned as red as a pig's liver, Wang Jian didn't hide his smile at all, and burst out laughing intentionally or unintentionally. Li Zongqi doesn't know the person in the portrait, so I will leave now, and I hope Li Zongqi will take care of any troubles."
"stop."
Li Bingchang stood up from his seat with a blushing face, and walked in front of Wang Jian. The distance between the two was less than a foot, so that Wang Jian could clearly see the killing intent in his eyes.
"What if I say, this is Wu Sanhe, the chief steward of my family?"
Even though Wang Jian was trembling with trepidation, his face still did not lose face, and he still smiled, and replied: "We Mr. Shen said that if the thief is indeed the steward of Mr. Li's family, we can go to him to intercede, maybe He will take it lightly for the sake of his colleagues, of course it all depends on Shen Zongqi's mood."
After finishing speaking, Wang Jian didn't even bother to salute, turned around and left, leaving Li Bing behind him tightly holding the handle of the knife at his waist.
After finally temporarily suppressing the fury in his heart, Li Bing firmly believed that Wu Sanhe had fallen into the hands of the Black Flag Camp, and that the Black Flag Camp was targeting him.
He couldn't sit still in the guard. Li Bing knew that if he was torn apart, he would definitely suffer, and the entire Li family would be implicated.
Something has to be done.
Afterwards, Li Bing returned home directly, and told the two inmates at home what he had seen in the guard.
The portrait was torn into pieces by Li Bing's father, Li Longcheng.
It was the old man Li Canglie who seemed the most calm. After listening to Li Bing's story carefully, he pondered for a long time before he opened his mouth and said, "A newly established Black Flag Battalion has such courage? Impossible. The only explanation is that someone borrowed it. Give him the courage to dare to provoke the Li family so blatantly."
"Who borrowed the courage? Tang Qingyuan?"
"Tang Qingyuan is not enough."
"Who is that? Could it be Jiang Cheng?!"
But Li Canglie still shook his head, and after another moment of silence, he continued to ask Li Bing, "Tell me about the scope of the Black Flag Battalion."
Li Bing didn't know why his grandfather asked this at this time, but he patiently repeated the content published in the guard. He found that after he finished speaking, his grandfather's face became somber that he had never seen before, and there was even a trace of panic in his eyes? !
"Bing'er, go to the teleportation circle in the city right now to see if it can still be used?"
"Huh? Well, there's no need to go to Grandpa. Before I came back today, I received a notice from the guard, saying that the teleportation circle needs temporary maintenance, so I can only enter and cannot exit for the next five days."
"A short notice?"
"Ah? Yes, it was a short notice."
Li Bing didn't feel it yet, but his father Li Longcheng also felt a chill in this question and answer, and his face was as gloomy and terrifying as Li Canglie.
Because it is reasonable to say that every adjustment of an important facility such as the teleportation circle needs to be reported to the Yamen and the Xuanqing Guard in advance.
Has there ever been a precedent for temporarily closing the access to the magic circle out of the city?
This is if you think about it in depth.