Rescuing the caravan and eliminating the horses was not a big deal for Li Ling's team. The only thing that caused them trouble was that they could no longer walk with those caravans that must have doubted their identity and origin, so they could only continue to rush around at night.

However, after leaving the caravans, the speed of the entire team quickly increased. By dawn, they walked thirty or forty miles in anger. A small county town ahead had already caught everyone's eyes under the rising sun.

After working hard for two days and nights, I only slept for less than an hour, which made the guards feel tired. Li Ling also noticed everyone's condition and pointed to the county town and said, "Let's rest in Qingyuan County for a day today."

Sun Bi looked around and forgot the schedule and time, and nodded in agreement.

They walked slowly for the past two days and nights, and they were almost out of the boundary of Youzhou. If they calculated at this speed, they would be able to arrive in Luoyang smoothly within ten days, so they would naturally arrive before the funeral, and there was still some extra money on the way.

However, in order to prevent any incident, Li Ling and the others did not reveal their identity to the outside world, and still regarded themselves as ordinary caravans. Because Li Ling had prepared a long time ago, all the documents and roads were specially taken out by the Youzhou Yamen, so it was quite smooth to enter Qingyuan County. Then he casually found a small inn that was inconspicuous and booked a courtyard. Everyone quickly returned to the room and fell asleep.

I slept for several hours. When Li Ling woke up again, it was already noon and he heard the sound of the stomach. When he got up, he went to see Sun Bi's situation, and called the inn staff to prepare some food, wine, food, etc.

At this time, the others also got up, and naturally, like him, they were busy celebrating to the Five Insect Temple first, and then gathering together while discussing the next itinerary.

In fact, the best way is to find a few caravans on the same route to Luoyang, so that they will no longer be so conspicuous when they are mixed in these teams. However, after inquiring about the inn, they found that there were no passing caravans in the past few days, but their plans were lost.

"Then wait for the first half of the day and set off tomorrow morning. It would be better if other caravans passed by during this period, otherwise we would have to go on our own." After weighing the trade-offs, Li Ling raised his own opinion. After Sun Bi nodded in recognition, the others naturally had no objection.

In this way, it was another half day and one night of rest. In order to accumulate energy and not cause trouble, these twenty of them stayed in the inn and never even stepped out of the cross-yard under the bag.

But just when everyone thought that this night would pass safely and could be on the road at dawn, the queen of the third day suddenly beat gongs and drums outside, and someone screamed loudly: "Go away, go away... put out the fire quickly..."

The sound of gongs and drums in Dangdang and the increasing shouts made Li Ling and others go out to check in curiously. Sure enough, they saw a red fire not far ahead illuminating half of the sky, and people were running and shouting in a mess. It was obvious that many people went to put out the fire.

If there were fires in later generations, firefighters would naturally come to rescue them. If the fire occurred in a big city like Luoyang, there would be soldiers patrolling night-long soldiers carrying water dragons and other water tools to put out the fire. However, there were no such arrangements in the small county in Qingyuan. Perhaps some people from the county government rushed to command in time, but the real fire was still dependent on the local people. Because of this, it became a bit difficult to put out the fire. It was not until dawn that the fire was put out, and people's sighs kept coming from the street:

"Hey, Mr. Wang's house is so miserable. With a fire, such a big house is over..."

"What's the matter with the house? Many people were burned to death. I heard from the White Captain in the Yamen that there were more than 20 people in the family, and none of them came out..."

"It's so miserable. God is not open to his eyes! Mr. Wang's family is the largest Jishan family in our county. They have built bridges and roads and donated porridge and rice on weekdays. How could such a thing happen?"

"Although there is no conclusive evidence, I heard from the people in the yamen that this fire was set by people. The Wang family either slept to death and did not escape, but was killed by the murderer who set fire..."

Many of these people talked about were heard from the wall behind the courtyard, and they just fell into the ears of Li Ling and others who were preparing their luggage and preparing their harnesses and planning to leave. They also looked at each other.

If it was as they said, some thieves broke into the Wang family and committed crimes, and set fire to extinguish the whole family afterwards. These murderers were really lawless. Sun Bi frowned even more. If they weren't anxious to return to Beijing, they wouldn't want to cause trouble, and they really wanted to help the yamen to check and take those inhumane thieves.

Li Ling also saw his thoughts and whispered: "Brother Sun, after returning to Beijing, the Ministry of Justice can send someone to investigate. Now we should put our own affairs first and not cause any more troubles."

"I know." Sun Bi nodded, took a deep breath, and then waved his hand, "Let's go now and rush back to Luoyang as soon as possible." After saying that, he led his horse and walked out, but when he just touched the gate of the courtyard, the door was pushed open by the person outside.

This surprised Sun Bi slightly, and subconsciously took a step back, then raised his eyes and looked forward. Facing a pair of sharp long eyes, a soap-clothed detective also looked at him, and then his eyes fell on the other people in the yard, sneering: "Are you leaving?"

Li Ling frowned slightly, but he quickly stepped forward and bowed politely, "I wonder what this messenger is doing here?"

"Hmph, do you still want to get away with it at this time? Your affairs have been revealed! The person who came, took down all these murderers!" As he said that, he waved his hand, and the forty or fifty county corps officers following him immediately showed off their iron chains, sticks, iron rulers and other weapons, and rushed towards them.

This was even more unexpected to Li Ling and the others. Sun Bi frowned and his hands subconsciously pressed his hands on the hilt of the waist. The same was true for other guards. They were moving fast, and they had already drawn the knife and were about to go forward.

"Sure enough, you are guilty. Do you still want to resist arrest?" The head of the constable immediately scolded loudly, and Li Ling shouted: "Don't do anything random..."

He knew very well how much trouble it would cause when a conflict with the people in the county government at this time. Although the yamen servants in front of him were not worth mentioning to the guards, once they were really defeated, they would just confirm that they were guilty of being a thief. Then the officers and soldiers in the city would come, which would be really hard to deal with. Perhaps this team of people was enough to fight out, but there was no need for this. He was also from the court, so how could he really have a conflict with the local government?

So he bowed repeatedly and said, "This man, what are you doing? We are just a duty businessman. We passed by Qingyuan County and did not make any mistakes. Why did we take us?"

I don’t know if I was frightened by the guards’ momentum of drawing swords, but the officers did not rush to pounce on him, but they still blocked the way out, and then saw the detective and said coldly: “Isn’t it enough to show the problem? Do you dare to say that the tragedy of the Wang family last night was not yours?”

Sun Bi and Li Ling were both shocked when they heard this, and quickly exchanged glances before the latter explained: "Master, you are so unfair. When I first came to Qingyuan, I didn't even know what the owner of the Wang family was named and where they live. How could I harm them?"

"At this time, I dare to argue! Since the matter was not done by you, why are you so guilty? Also, there are more than 30 people from the Wang family, and several guards guarding the hospital. Just like you, you can break into his house and start killing! I, Bai Lang, have been the chief captain of Qingyuan for more than ten years, and there are still some judgments. Just look at this, you can conclude that you are not registered in the inn, some merchants from Youzhou... And according to my investigation, those who have lived in our county these days are the most suspicious. Such a major case cannot be done by locals. What else do you have to say?"

Bai Lang's remarks were not completely unreasonable, and Li Ling was a little confused about where to distinguish it. Although he knew that this matter was definitely not his own, the doubts raised by the other party were really difficult to explain for a while. He could only say: "Captain Bai, we are really wronged. We still have Lu Yin and Youzhou City documents to testify..."

"All these things can be faked, and I can't tell them. Let's go with me and go to the yamen to hear the trial first!" Bai Lang insisted, and said, staring at Li Ling with his eyes, obviously deciding that he was the leader of the entire team.

As he finished speaking, the officers followed up and raised their weapons. If the suspect refused to obey, he would directly take the person.

At this point, Li Ling had no choice but to have another eye contact with Sun Bi, and sighed and said, "Since that's the case, let's go to the county government with Captain Bai." Without thinking about the conflict, he could only go to the county government government. After all, they believed that they were innocent. As long as they were told, the county government government could not force the crime to fall.

Seeing that he agreed to go to the yamen, Bai Lang breathed a sigh of relief, turned around halfway, signaled the other party to come out, and then was escorted by the people from their yamen, leaving the inn, and headed towards the county government not far away.

Along the way, Li Ling and others faced many hatreds, hatred and frightened eyes of the people. Obviously, these people also regarded them as murderers who set fire to dozens of people in the Wang family to death last night. Many of them even had brave men and whispered to them from the side, which showed that the people from Qingyuan County were still quite united. If Li Ling and the others really chose to break through before, they would probably fall into Wang Yangli, who was in the People's War.
Chapter completed!