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Chapter 168: Treat the other person with his own way, Lin Feng's plan to hide the truth!

the next day.

After Xiao Yu went to the Chang Dynasty, he returned to Dali Temple a little tired.

It's not that the morning court is very hard. As the minister of Dali Temple, except for cases with great impact such as the murder of the East Palace envoy, which requires him to report the progress of the case in the morning court, he is relatively leisurely in other situations.

After all, the morning court talks more about national affairs and the national economy and people's livelihood. The most tiring ones are Zhongshu, Shangshu, the important ministers of the three provinces, and the officials of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel. He only needs to stand there quietly and wait to retire.

But today, it's a little different than usual.

Because after retreating from the court, he was surrounded.

Many officials asked him why Lin Feng did not come to court.

Especially the official who finally managed to chat with Lin Feng yesterday wanted to make a big effort and formally make friends with Lin Feng.

As a result, it was discovered that the target of friendship did not come to court.

So on the one hand, they wanted to understand the reason, so that if Lin Feng got sick, they could take the initiative to visit him.

On the other hand, he wanted to show his concern for Lin Feng so as to leave a good impression on Lin Feng, so he asked Xiao Yu directly as soon as he came to court.

And this directly led to Xiao Yu experiencing the feeling of being surrounded by Lin Feng yesterday.

It's just that Lin Feng was surrounded yesterday, which was all about showing concern for Lin Feng, but today... he has absolutely nothing to do with Xiao Yu, and no one cares about him. All they care about is Lin Feng.

This made Xiao Yu feel helpless, but at the same time he sighed in his heart, Lin Feng is really hot now.

It took a lot of words to explain that Lin Feng did not come to court because the task assigned by His Majesty was time-sensitive, so His Majesty granted Lin Feng not to go to court until he completed the task and to focus all his time and energy on the task.

When all the officials saw that Lin Feng was not absent because of illness and could not use this opportunity to show courtesy, they all looked disappointed. After thanking Xiao Yu, they returned disappointed.

This made Xiao Yu's eyelids twitch for a long time.

After everyone left, Xiao Yu wiped his forehead and found that he was sweating from exhaustion. While he sighed that he was getting old, he also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. An unknown meaning flashed in his small eyes. With an expression similar to that of Wei Zheng and Dai Zhou, who was looking at him not far away, he nodded incomprehensibly and then returned to Dali Temple.

After entering Dali Temple, he asked the officials passing by: "Where is Lin Temple?"

The official said hurriedly: "Lin Sizheng has been handling official business in the office and has never left."

Xiao Yu nodded and went directly to Lin Feng's office.

He raised his hand and knocked on the door. After hearing the sound coming from inside, he pushed the door open and entered.

Entering the office, the first thing Xiao Yu saw was the mountains of files on both sides of the desk. There were so many files placed on the table that they directly blocked Lin Feng's head.

If Lin Feng hadn't raised his head and revealed the tip of his head among the mountains of files, Xiao Yu might have thought that there was no one here.

Seeing that it was Xiao Yu who was coming, Lin Feng stood up from behind the desk and saluted Xiao Yu: "Xiao Siqing."

Xiao Yu nodded slightly, looked at Lin Feng in front of him, with a touch of admiration on his face, and couldn't help but said: "It looks like! It's really very similar! If you don't look carefully, you will never see any difference."

"People who are not familiar with Zi De will never find out about your problems without close contact with you."

Lin Feng, who was in front of him, heard the words and said hurriedly: "Hearing Xiao Siqing say this, I feel relieved. Since I came here, I have been on tenterhooks for fear of being discovered that I am not the real Lin Sizheng... Now I am... I feel more at ease.”

That's right, the person in front of you is not the real Lin Feng at all.

He was selected by Lin Feng, Xiao Yu, Wei Zheng, and Dai Zhou. He was the one who looked most like Lin Feng in terms of height, weight, body shape, and even appearance.

Then, using the powerful makeup disguise method of the fake Zhao Yanran who had already confessed, the fake Zhao Yanran painted the person in front of her to look like Lin Feng.

This person directly replaced Lin Feng and appeared in front of the public, and the real Lin Feng... Xiao Yu's eyes darkened slightly, and his thoughts couldn't help but go back to the scene when Lin Feng shared the good news with them yesterday.

At that time, when they were worrying about how to find clues about "humans" or "ghosts" to determine the conspiracy of the Sixiang organization, Lin Feng received a letter from Du Gou, the governor of Gongcizhou, Lai State.

After Lin Feng read the letter, Lin Feng told them directly that news of the ghost had arrived.

After they heard it, they were pleasantly surprised but also confused. They didn't know what happened, so they asked Lin Feng.

Lin Feng didn't hide anything and told the content of Du Gou's letter.

It turned out that during this period in Cizhou, where Du Gou served as governor, a very strange ghost shipwreck and murder occurred.

Du Gou said in the letter that two months ago, a cargo ship sank in the Zhanghe River Basin under the jurisdiction of Cizhou.

There happened to be some farmers working on the shore at that time, and they saw the whole process of the shipwreck.

According to what they said, it was dusk and the sun was setting in the west, dyeing the earth with blood. At that time, they were carrying farm tools on their way back home.

Not far away, they saw a large cargo ship sailing on the wide and deep Zhang River.

The Zhang River rises from the Taihang Mountains and descends to the South Canal. It passes through many states and counties along the way. The river is wide and deep, so there are many ships, and the goods carried on these cargo ships are things that farmers like them cannot afford to buy after working hard all their lives.

So they took a few more looks at the ship.

But who knows, at this moment, an accident happened.

The huge cargo ship suddenly stopped, and then burst into flames for unknown reasons.

The flames were fierce and quickly surrounded the entire ship in a sea of ​​fire.

And in the sea of ​​​​fire, there were voices shouting "Help".

These farmers had never seen anything like this before, and they all froze in place. After a while, someone finally came to their senses and shouted for help.

But the farmers like them had no boats and no water skills. How could they save people?

They could only think of reporting to the county government.

But before they could report it to the authorities, they discovered that the cargo ship began to tilt and then sank toward the water little by little.

Seeing the cargo ship sinking, they even threw away their farm tools and hurriedly ran to the county government to report the incident.

Soon the county government sent people to go, but when the people from the government arrived, the cargo ship had completely disappeared.

The water was calm and there was no sign of a ship.

When the people from the Yamen arrived, it was completely dark, and there was no moon at the time. They couldn't even go into the water for inspection, so they had to give up temporarily and wait until the next day to investigate.

Later, people from the Yamen went to investigate early the next morning. Through the water inspection, they finally discovered the sunken ship at the bottom of the river and confirmed that a cargo ship had indeed sunk.

But the strange thing is that the cargo ship sank, but no corpses floated on the water, and the watermen found no trace of the corpses on the cargo ship.

The people on the boat disappeared out of thin air.

The farmers who witnessed the sinking of the cargo ship also said that they heard the cry of "help" from the cargo ship, and that throughout the sinking process, farmers were waiting anxiously on the shore. They did not see anyone jumping off the ship to escape. No one was found swimming to the shore.

Therefore, it can be determined that when the cargo ship caught fire and sank, there must be people on board, and no one escaped successfully.

But no matter how hard the people from the yamen searched, they also searched downstream, but no trace of the body was found.

This incident became a little strange in an instant.

Later, through investigation, the Yamen learned that there were a total of thirteen boatmen on the cargo ship, but these thirteen people died inexplicably without any bodies.

Of course, this can only be regarded as a somewhat strange unsolved case at best, and it will not cause Du Gou to write to Lin Feng asking for help.

The reason why Du Gou had to write a letter was that this was just the beginning of a series of strange things.

After the cargo ship sank, accidents began to happen one after another on the river.

On the morning of seven days after the shipwreck, farmers who went to work found a ship parked in the center of the Zhanghe River, motionless. The surface of the ship was dark and there were suspected signs of fire. They quickly reported it to the authorities.

As a result, the officials found that the ship had been burned by fire and there were fifteen corpses on it.

Five days later, the same thing happened to another ship, and this time ten people died.

Two cargo ships were burned to death for no reason in a row. The local county government also felt troubled, so it could only ask the governor's government for help, so Du Gou personally investigated the case.

He specially arranged for government officials to patrol the Zhanghe River Basin.

However, the Zhanghe River that passes through Cizhou is very long, and it would take several hours for the government officials to complete the trip on horseback, making it impossible to cover all areas.

Finally, ten days later, another incident of burning and death occurred.

But this time, a survivor appeared.

After the patrolling government officials rescued the survivor on the shore, the survivor woke up after being treated by a doctor. However, when he woke up, he was mentally abnormal and had only one sentence in his mouth - "Ghost! Don't kill me!"

When Du Gou asked the survivor what the ghost referred to, the survivor named some people.

And these names directly made Du Gou and others' hair stand on end, because the names he mentioned were those of the boatmen who mysteriously disappeared without any trace of their bodies after the first shipwreck.

Du Gou asked the survivors about the situation of the boatmen, but the survivors began to shout in terror, such as ghosts and don't kill him, without any useful clues.

These news later spread like wildfire, causing great panic in Cizhou, and even caused the local people to call the Zhang River a ghost river.

The Zhang River, which originally had cargo ships passing almost every day, saw a sharp decrease in the number of cargo ships due to this strange incident. In the end, there was not even a single ship passing through for ten days, which dealt a huge blow to Cizhou's business.

Du Gou was worried that if this continued, no cargo ship would be willing to come to Cizhou. He was even more worried that the rumors would have a greater impact, so he had no choice but to ask Lin Feng for help.

After Lin Feng told himself and others about the case, he said: "The ghost killings in Cizhou are the same as the people we mentioned before who have died and someone suddenly discovered their traces... it is probably the main residence of Wangsi It’s a ghost, and this is not the only haunting incident in Cizhou.”

"When I said goodbye to Duke Lai Guo before, he specifically asked me about the possibilities of hauntings, and told me that there have been various rumors of hauntings in Cizhou in recent years... I feel that this may not be the case. It’s groundless, so I’m going to Cizhou to investigate in person.”

Because there is no clear direction now, and Lin Feng's original investigation also required on-site inspections in various places. Since it is time-consuming, it is better to choose a case that is close at hand and has a certain probability.

So when Xiao Yu and others heard Lin Feng's words, they all agreed with Lin Feng's decision.

However, Lin Feng later said that if the Cizhou case was really related to the ghosts of the Sixiang Organization, if he went to Cizhou, once the Fourxiang Organization found out about it, it would most likely put the Sixiang Organization in great danger. The Elephant Organization will either find ways to intercept him, or simply take action in advance to prevent the secret from being revealed by him.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, Lin Feng wanted to go secretly.

But now Lin Feng is a thorn in the eyes of the Four Elephants Organization. He suddenly disappeared, and the Four Elephants Organization will definitely find out. Therefore, after the four of them discussed it, they decided to use a method to treat the other person in his own way - rejuvenation. Lin Feng, the prime minister of Dali Temple, faked his death to escape, and the golden cicada escaped from its shell!

At that time, Lin Feng, the former prime minister of Dali Temple, put Lin Feng, who was still a beggar, in jail in order to escape his guilt, so as to replace him, he used a trick to hide the truth... So, why couldn't Lin Feng also use this trick?

It just so happened that in the Zhao Deshun case, the fake Zhao Yanran used makeup to disguise herself as the real Zhao Yanran, hiding it from everyone, and created the Zhao Deshun case... But now the fake Zhao Yanran's psychological defense has collapsed, and everything is... If he asked her to help draw Lin Feng, she would never dare to refuse.

Therefore...there is this fake Lin Feng in front of me.

His thoughts returned, Xiao Yu sat on the stool beside the table, looking at the fake Lin Feng with nine images in front of him, and sneered in his heart. If Lin Feng really found out the secret of the Four Elephants organization during this trip, then when all this is revealed, when Lin Feng, the former prime minister of Dali Temple, knew that Lin Feng's stratagem was to imitate the method he used to harm Lin Feng, and he didn't know if he would regret it.

It makes people feel happy to think about this method of treating others in their own way.

Xiao Yu slowly exhaled and said to the fake Lin Feng, "You can just stay here and pretend to be busy."

"Your Majesty has granted you no need to attend regular court meetings, so you don't have to come into contact with those officials. But in Dali Temple...Lin Feng doesn't see anyone when he is busy. Everyone is used to his habit of getting up early and working day and night, so you No one will give it a second thought if I don’t leave this room all day.”

"Of course, I will also cooperate with you and tell no one to disturb you. This way, you can ensure that you are not exposed to the greatest extent by not coming into contact with other people."

Fake Lin Feng nodded quickly and said, "I understand."

Xiao Yu looked at the fake Lin Feng who was saluting quickly, pursed his lips, and then shook his head. Although the appearance was almost the same, the difference in temperament was still too big. Lin Feng's cynical and confident attitude of being able to control everything was not ordinary people. Can be imitated.

"Fortunately, he doesn't have to come into contact with other people..." Xiao Yu looked out the window and saw that the sky was blue and cloudless, and it was a good weather.

"hope everything is fine……"

…………

Two days later.

A cargo ship sailing on the wide Zhang River.

Thunder exploded in the air and rain poured down.

The boatmen quickly covered their heads with their hands and rushed into the cabin with their heads covered.

Because it was not a passenger ship, the cabin space was not large. As the boatmen rushed into the cabin, it suddenly seemed a little crowded.

But no matter how crowded it was, these boatmen just squeezed together and gave up the space in the opposite corner without getting closer.

And there were three people there at this time.

One of them was a tall, well-dressed man. He was holding his arms and standing in front of the table in the corner, looking at the boatmen with eager eyes.

This man was really too burly, a head or two taller than the boatmen. With a fierce look on his face at the moment, the boatmen didn't dare to approach him.

There were two people sitting at the table behind the burly man.

One person was wearing a gorgeous and complicated pleated skirt, and she had a slim figure. However, her face was covered with a veil, making it difficult to see her face. However, it could be seen just from her beautiful eyes like autumn water that she was definitely a first-rate beauty.

Since the woman boarded the ship, the boatmen often secretly visited her.

But this woman never gave them a look. After she boarded the ship, she was either looking at the scenery or chatting and laughing with the man dressed as a scholar in front of her. Her beautiful eyes never left the scholar when she was talking to him.

Even these rude boatmen could see that lingering good impression.

"Tell me, which family is this young lady? How come you are not afraid of ruining your reputation when you go out alone with a man?"

The boatmen were wiping the rainwater from their clothes and gossiping in low voices.

"How do you know they are not married? Maybe they are already husband and wife."

"They are not living together, and they are certainly not married."

"Whether we are married or not has nothing to do with us. Don't talk nonsense. If someone overhears it and the guard comes to trouble you, don't blame me for not warning you."

As soon as this voice sounded, everyone subconsciously looked at the guard with a fierce look on his face.

Seeing the guard's fist about as big as his own head, he couldn't help but shrink his neck and immediately fell silent.

They felt that if this guard punched them, their heads might be smashed directly.

Can't be bothered, can't be bothered.

And as the sound of the gossip disappeared, the sound of the heavy rain hitting the cabin suddenly became clearer.

Feeling the strong winds blowing and shaking the cargo ship, these boatmen couldn't help but show nervous expressions on their faces.

Some people couldn't help but said: "You said, this ghost river...isn't there really a ghost? I heard that three days ago, another cargo ship was destroyed and people died...Us, will we be okay?"

After listening to this boatman's words, the expressions of other boatmen also changed.

The fact that the Duanzhang River in Cizhou is haunted has long been spread among boatmen like them.

Four cargo ships had strange accidents one after another, and there was only one survivor. The survivor was also crazy. This made the boatmen who depended on shipping feel extremely frightened.

If they had a choice, they would never take this route along the Cizhou section of the Zhanghe River.

It's just that the ship's cargo is in a tight rush, and they must deliver it on time. If they want to be on time, they have no other choice but to take the Zhanghe River.

In addition, the transportation fee given by the cargo owner was five times the usual... Due to many factors, they could only bite the bullet and take the Zhanghe route.

Originally, they thought that there would be no problem if they passed here in broad daylight. After all, ghosts would not appear during the day.

But who knew that dark clouds suddenly gathered in the sky without warning, followed by lightning and thunder, and violent storms... Now it was as dark as the black sky outside, and the boat was shaking so hard that it seemed like it would capsize at any time. They couldn't help but Thinking of the water ghost killing people.

In fact, all of this is so frustrating.

"Don't...don't talk nonsense."

One of the boatmen swallowed and said, "It's broad daylight now, and the water ghosts won't appear. Besides, we have no grudges against those people in the past, and we have no grudges recently. If they are ghosts, there is no need to trouble us."

"You've been sailing for so long, but you haven't heard of the legend of water ghosts? These water ghosts can only reincarnate themselves by dragging other people into the water to death... In order to reincarnate, how can they care about whether they have anything to do with us when they are alive? hatred?"

"Then what should I do? I don't want to die yet. I have a seventy-year-old mother and a three-year-old child..."

"You are only twenty-five years old, and my mother is seventy years old. It's disrespectful."

"your mom……"

…………

The boatmen were so nervous that they unconsciously raised their voices, causing their words to reach the opposite corner.

The man dressed as a scholar looks to be in his twenties. He has a mustache, a slightly dark complexion, and a tear mole at the corner of his eye. He does not look outstanding.

Hearing the panicked words of the boatmen, he looked at the woman opposite with a smile and said, "Miss Man'er, are you afraid?"

Xiao Man'er shook her head, looking at the face she still couldn't get used to with her beautiful water-cut eyes, she said softly: "There are no ghosts in the world. The so-called ghosts are all in the human heart."

Lin Feng, who had disguised his appearance, laughed directly when he heard this and said: "Miss Man'er still sees things thoroughly and is much calmer than these grown men."

Xiao Man'er listened to Lin Feng's praise and blinked: "These remarks were made by Lin Sizheng when you were investigating the case before. I just quoted Lin Sizheng's words... So Lin Sizheng praised me. In fact, he was saying Praise yourself?"

A shrewd look flashed in her eyes, and she smiled: "I didn't expect that Lin Sizheng is still a person who likes to boast."

Lin Feng didn't expect that Xiao Man'er would actually plan to make fun of him, so he couldn't help but laugh and shake his head... This girl, after spending three days with him day and night, no longer regarded her as an outsider.

On the day he received Du Gou's letter, he secretly left Chang'an.

His original idea was to rush to Cizhou secretly alone.

As a result, when Zhao Shiwu heard this, he immediately jumped from the bed to the ground, insisting on following him.

I was worried about Zhao Fifteen's injury and didn't want Zhao Fifteen to run around with me, but Zhao Fifteen said that his injuries were not serious, they were just ordinary skin wounds. After using the best medicine from the Imperial Medical Office, he was almost healed. .

As he spoke, Zhao Shiwu raised the butler and used it as a barbell, almost scaring the butler to death.

At the same time, Zhao Shiwu also said that if he didn't take him there, he would raise the housekeeper every day, which frightened the housekeeper and quickly helped Zhao Shiwu to persuade him.

Lin Feng saw that Zhao Shiwu was really fine, and the remaining injuries only needed to be changed on time. Lin Feng couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Zhao Shiwu's recovery power was really terrifying. This was definitely not something ordinary people could do, so he didn't refuse. .

After all, for him, Zhao Shiwu's sense of security was much higher than that of others.

If Zhao Shiwu was by his side in Banyue'an and the East Palace, there would be no need for him to personally deal with Han Shuangshuang, and there would be no need for him to guard against Mo Wanshan's guards.

As for Xiao Man'er, Xiao Yu insisted on bringing her with her.

According to Xiao Yu, he has a distant relative in Cizhou. This distant relative is quite powerful in Cizhou and may be able to help at critical moments.

So he asked Xiao Man'er to follow him. With Xiao Man'er as a middleman, he could help Lin Feng better utilize the power of this distant relative.

Lin Feng wanted to say at that time that as long as Xiao Yu wrote a letter, he would visit with the letter and there would be no need to trouble Xiao Man'er to follow him on a long journey.

But before he could speak, Xiao Yu seemed to know that he was going to refuse. He didn't give himself a chance to talk back and directly sent someone to call Xiao Man'er.

When Lin Feng saw this, he suddenly became enlightened and responded.

In this way, along the way, they first took a carriage and headed towards Handan. At the same time, they sent people along the way to inquire about the ship to Cizhou.

As a result, I happened to find out yesterday that a cargo ship was going to sail in the direction of Cizhou, so I tried every means to open the way with money and squeezed into the cargo ship.

The reason why we were looking for boats was because the boats that had the accident during this period were all boats traveling on the Zhang River.

If you want to find out the truth behind the water ghost's murder, you should at least walk along the path that the accidental cargo ship took. Maybe you can find some clues.

If you are lucky and encounter a water ghost who comes to kill again, that would be even better.

However, until they entered the Cizhou boundary, nothing unexpected happened, which made Lin Feng ready to give up.

But who would have known that not long after entering Cizhou, we would encounter such a situation... According to the boatmen, maybe there is still something to be done?

While he raised his ears to eavesdrop on the conversation of the boatmen, he looked at Xiao Man'er with a smile and said, "Miss Man'er also has some understanding of the Cizhou case. What do you think is the truth behind the water ghost murder?"

Xiao Maner's bright eyes rolled slightly, her red lips under the veil pursed lightly, and she said: "Maybe the thirteen people on the first shipwreck were not dead. They used some method to avoid the sight of the farmers and escaped secretly. Already..."

"They were the ones who murdered later, so the survivors will see them."

Lin Feng nodded slightly: "It makes sense."

Xiao Maner raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Lin Si doesn't think so?"

Xiao Maner's understanding of Lin Feng far exceeded Lin Feng's understanding of her. After all, she had long followed Lin Feng's case through Xiao Yu.

So she knew very well that every time Lin Feng said something like this, he would always add a "but" at the end.

Lin Feng smiled and said, "I'm not sure whether it's what you said, but the currently unexplained doubts make me somewhat skeptical about this possibility."

"Doubtful?" Xiao Man'er said, "What is the doubtful?"

Lin Feng said: "First, if they really escaped secretly, where were they hiding?"

"After the incident, the county government did not think about this possibility. They immediately searched all homes, crop fields, and mountains and forests within a five-kilometer radius, but no trace of them was found."

"There are a total of thirteen people on this ship. There is a lot of food and drink for so many people. It is not easy to hide them completely."

"Secondly, the identities of these people have been confirmed. They are the captains and boatmen who have been running shipping routes. So what reasons and motives do they have to destroy the ship they have been relying on for survival and go to the edge of the knife to lick blood? Life?"

"And there's something a little strange..."

Lin Feng looked at Xiao Man'er and said: "The Yamen went to inspect the cargo ships that were subsequently destroyed and people died, and found no shortage of goods. The goods inside included some very valuable silk pottery, and even gold, silver, and jade. But there is nothing missing inside... If it was really those thirteen people who killed people but did not seize the treasure, then why did they kill people? What was the motive? "

Xiao Man'er's beautiful brows frowned slightly.

She nodded and said: "So, everything is indeed full of weirdness. Wasn't it the thirteen of them? But if it wasn't them, why would the survivors see them? And where were their bodies?"

Lin Feng shook his head. He turned around and looked at the boatmen who were crowded together with panic on their faces. He said calmly: "If we are lucky and the water ghost chooses this boat, we will know right away."

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