Chapter 359 The direction of investigation is wrong

A pot of green ants and two plates of cold dishes.

A plate of salt, the last batch of summer vegetables, okra, amaranth, turnip and radish, simply pickled and fermented with coarse salt, taste salty, sour and crisp.

There are also two dried pork jerkys, made by cutting the pork into strips, pickling it with salt and peppercorns, and then air-drying it.

It has a hard texture and needs to be torn and chewed hard. The more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes. It can be regarded as a staple dish in small taverns.

Li E hurriedly forced himself to suppress his turbulent emotions, but his hands under the table couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"You look unfamiliar to me, sir, but are you from a military family?" The shopkeeper put down the dish and asked casually with a smile.

Li E's heart tightened, but his expression remained calm: "Oh? How did you know that?"

"You have an exceptionally strong figure, and the calluses on your palms and knuckles are thick.

I've been welcoming and seeing off people at this alley for many years, so I have some good eyesight.

If I'm wrong, please don't blame me."

Li E took a deep breath, picked up the wine bowl and took a sip.

The taste of the wine remains, but I can no longer taste the warmth and warmth of the past, only bitterness in my mouth.

"fine."

Seeing that he had no intention of talking further, the shopkeeper bowed and said, "Enjoy your meal, sir. I'll be cleaning up in the kitchen. If you need anything, just let me know." After saying that, he turned around and went back to work.

There were only two people left in the remote little shop.

Li E stared at the person opposite him with a sharp gaze, and asked in a voice transmission, "How do you prove that you are Qu Er?"

Qu Heng tilted his head back and took a big gulp. The wine rolled down his throat, his face expressionless as he replied in a voice transmission:

"That winter night, the dock was frozen solid, and Hu Zi, the wretch, slipped and knocked over the box.

In a panic, I tried to block it with my hand, but my little finger was broken and crushed.

You tore your clothes to bandage my wound and carried me to find a bonesetter.

The doctor's skills were poor, and he couldn't reseal it. The pain was so severe that I couldn't sleep for three days and three nights."

“Back then, our military pay was being cut at every level, and our brothers were almost starving.

That idiot Zhao Bolu pawned his ancestral treasure.

That was the only valuable thing his father left him, a jade pendant with coiled dragon pattern from an ancient dynasty.

It was only by exchanging it for silver that the brothers were able to survive the winter."

After hearing this, Li E's eyes instantly turned red.

The veins on the hand holding the wine bowl bulged, and the voice was choked and trembling with disbelief.

"You...you are really Qu Erlang. Why didn't you come to see me all these years?"

Qu Heng stared blankly at the murky wine, his voice filled with exhaustion and numbness.

"Alive? Ha, you're just a walking corpse, a wandering ghost.

Why should I bother to implicate you when you are in such a state of confusion and hiding from others?"

Li E's voice was filled with uncontrollable urgency and pain. "What exactly happened back then?"

His father passed away at that time, so he took a long vacation and returned to Beijing to attend the funeral and observe mourning.

When we returned to the northern border, the Zhaoyi Army was gone, the Zhao Family Army was gone, and none of our brothers were left.

Over the years, Li E could only investigate secretly, with slow progress and only vague clues.

Qu Heng took another gulp of wine, the wine burning his throat and his memory.

"That idiot Zhao Polu!

His military pay was withheld, so he used his own salary and savings to make up for it. When he couldn't make up for it anymore, he went to pester his superiors.

After much difficulty, the higher authorities allocated a sum of money for military pay, but later it was discovered that most of it was privately minted and inferior coins.

That idiot actually wrote a secret report and wanted to send someone to deliver it directly to the capital and report it to the emperor, but the news leaked out.

During a routine border patrol, hundreds of brothers unexpectedly encountered the elite Shuofeng light cavalry, which outnumbered them several times.

The whole army was annihilated... The whole army was annihilated...

Idiot! He is the biggest idiot! "

Qu Heng's voice was hoarse and broken in the transmission, filled with endless resentment.

"Perhaps he sensed something was wrong, so he arranged for me to die before the incident.

It's so that I can get evidence and secretly take care of the young master..."

"What!"

Li E was hit hard and jumped up from the stool, knocking over the wine bowl in front of him.

The turbid green ant wine splashed on the rough, compacted loess ground, spreading a dark color.

He stared at Qu Heng, his eyes bloodshot, his voice distorted by extreme shock and excitement, almost losing his voice:

"Young Master...Young Master is still alive?"

When Li E returned from mourning, everything had changed.

His former comrades-in-arms, his upright elder brother, and those brothers who were loyal to him were all killed or wounded.

He was the only one left and was incorporated into the Xuanwu Army.

The northern border is becoming more stable. Even if there is a small-scale cavalry conflict, how can the entire army be wiped out?

What's more, it was his elder brother who had emerged from a sea of ​​blood and corpses, and Li E would not believe it even if he was beaten to death.

He has been in the Xuanwu Army these years and seems to be obedient and honest, but in fact he has been investigating in secret.

Now, there is finally a conclusion.

The reason why I spent most of my fortune to grab this job is to go to Fengjing and get results!

He originally thought that the Zhao family bloodline had been completely cut off, but he never expected to hear news about the young master in a dilapidated tavern.

"what is going on?!"

Li E's voice was low and hoarse, like the friction of sand and gravel, and every word was filled with burning blood.

A secret sound transmission technique was accurately delivered to his ears: "Zhao Polu has a backup plan."

"He laid a backup plan and left a letter.

If anyone dared to silence his son, the scandal of the Northern Army embezzling military funds and using inferior currency to enrich themselves would spread throughout the streets and alleys of Fengjing in an instant.

The person in charge at that time could only deal with the young master secretly because he was afraid of using the wrong weapon.

Instead of killing him, they found a pretext for embezzling military pay and exiled him far away."

"My people have been secretly protecting him, and he has been displaced for many times.

In recent years, he has been working as a lowly miner in Chiyan County.

Not only is he alive, but his once notorious playboy son is also still alive, and the father and son depend on each other for survival.

By some strange coincidence and fate, they are now all in Fengjing."

What! In Fengjing?

"Where is Zhao Hengjiang now?"

Qu Heng did not hide anything and told everything:

"The eunuch Su Quan, who was close to the Empress, has a private residence in the capital."

Dead silence.

The air seemed to solidify into a block of lead, pressing heavily on Li E's chest.

Other things might be forged, but if Zhao Hengjiang is truly alive and in Fengjing City...

This is too easy to verify!

A long silence stretched out in the dim corner of the tavern, with only the sound of heavy breathing clearly audible.

After a long while, Li E spoke slowly, his voice icy.

"So you disappeared for so many years and suddenly appeared now. What's your reason?"

"To restore order." Qu Heng's answer was firm.

"You're tracking in the wrong direction. The real culprit behind that tragedy isn't the Right Junior Supervisor of the Xuan Ge Division you've targeted."

Li E's back instantly tensed like a fully drawn iron bow, his muscles bulged, and a fierce murderous intent mixed with unbelievable shock and anger exploded.

He suddenly raised his eyes, which were as sharp as poisoned black iron spikes, and carried a violent and destructive intent.

The Right Junior Supervisor of Xuan Gesi was the former General of the Northern Territory.

He spent countless efforts to find out the main culprit who killed his elder brother!

And now he is told that everything is a huge fallacy?

What’s even more fatal is that Li E’s real intention of returning to Fengjing this time is top secret.

All of his men are death warriors, there is absolutely no possibility of leakage!

"What's your connection with the Kiwanis Club?"

After a stick of incense, Qu Heng disappeared outside the tavern, leaving Li E sitting alone.

The blood color on his face had drained away, leaving him as pale as gold foil, and his eyes stared blankly at the messy wine cup in front of him.

The overwhelming momentum just now disappeared, leaving only a dead silence...