Chapter 135 The True Identity of the Headless General
The county magistrate followed the two thousand-bull guards through the winding alleys of Enji Village, his mind full of thoughts.

He knew that Di Renjie's summons this time was not a good thing, and it was very likely that his identity was leaked.

When he arrived at Di Renjie's temporary residence, the county magistrate saw Di Renjie, Zhao Ji, Li Yuanfang and Zeng Tai sitting upright as soon as he entered the door, with all their eyes focused on him.

He forced a smile and bowed, saying, "I pay my respects to Lord Di and all the gentlemen. What instructions do you have?"

Di Renjie looked at the county magistrate with a sharp gaze and spoke slowly, "County magistrate Wang, right? Regarding the Jiangjiazhuang case, I need to verify some details with you."

The county magistrate was stared at, but he still pretended to be calm: "Please ask, Lord Di, I will tell you everything I know."

Di Renjie did not comment, and said coldly: "It's better this way. I remember that the first time we met was on Qingyanggang? At that time, you were ordered by Zeng Tai to find the location of Jiangjiazhuang, right?"

The county magistrate glanced at Di Renjie and admitted, "What the elder said is correct."

Di Renjie continued, "You said at the time that you learned about the location of Jiangjiazhuang and the bloody incident several decades ago from Gao Rujin, the former county magistrate of Henan. Was what I said correct?"

The county magistrate took a deep breath and replied, "That's right."

Di Renjie smiled slightly: "If it is correct, then I am confused, why did Gao Rujin say that he had never met the Yongchang County Magistrate?"

The county magistrate pretended to be at a loss and said calmly, "Maybe the old man is old and his mind is confused, so he can't remember people and things."

Zhao Ji couldn't help but shake his head and laugh when he heard that, then he clapped his hands three times.

Upon hearing the sound, Qianniu Guard came out from the inner room with Gao Rujin. The county magistrate's face suddenly changed and cold sweat broke out.

"Jiang Xiaolang, is this the person who threatened you to surrender a month ago?" Zhao Ji asked, pointing at the county magistrate.

Jiang Xiaolang had a look of resentment on his face, and replied: "General, it is this person. I will never forget this person's voice."

Zhao Ji nodded and ordered the guards to take Jiang Xiaolang away.

When Zeng Tai saw Jiang Xiaolang pointing the finger, he immediately slammed the table in anger and said angrily: "I never thought that there would be a scum like you in the Yongchang County government! You are an accomplice to the tiger and slaughter the people!"

"Tell me, were those two old men killed last night killed by you at the behest of the Headless General?"

With such a traitor among his subordinates, Zeng Tai had to show off and distance himself from the county magistrate to prove his innocence.

At this point, the county magistrate calmed down and said, "I don't understand what you are talking about. Can we convict someone based on the words of an old man like this?"

Zhao Ji sneered, walked forward, grabbed the county magistrate's left hand, rolled up the sleeve of his left arm, and a plum blossom tattoo was clearly revealed on his shoulder.

"It's the internal guards!" Li Yuanfang and Zeng Tai's eyes met, and both of them showed surprise.

Although the county magistrate's identity was completely exposed, there was no fear in his eyes, as if he had anticipated this outcome.

"Well, what do you have to say now?" Zhao Ji glared at the county magistrate.

The county magistrate was not afraid at all. He glared back at Zhao Ji and said coldly, "I am indeed an internal guard, so what? You have no right to ask about the internal guards' affairs!"

Zhao was provoked by his arrogance and instead showed a mocking smile: "Good! You have guts! You should know this thing."

After saying that, he showed Sun Dianchen's inner guard token, and the county magistrate's pupils contracted instantly.

Zhao Ji continued to ask: "Your servants found that you went out in the rain for no reason last night. Did you lead the way for the headless general?"

"I advise you to confess as soon as possible. Are there any internal guards in the county government? Who are your accomplices? Who is your mastermind? Tell the truth!"

The county magistrate glanced at Zhao Ji again and said, "If you want to get any information from me, you are wrong. I also know that you are monitoring me and want me to contact Shangfeng so that you can follow the clues to find out the truth. I tell you, don't even think about it!"

Zhao Ji was furious when he heard this and wanted to explode immediately.

The county magistrate suddenly began to twitch all over, blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, a look of pain appeared on his face, and then he slowly fell to the ground.

Di Renjie's face suddenly changed when he saw this, and he said hurriedly: "Not good, he committed suicide by taking poison." Zhao Ji checked his breathing and pulse, and then checked his mouth, and shook his head helplessly: "There must be a poison pill hidden in his mouth, and he just bit it and died of the poison. There is no hope."

Zeng Tai asked anxiously: "Master, what should I do?"

Di Renjie looked deep in his eyes and sighed, "What a decisive suicide. What drove him to do such a thing?"

Zhao Ji's eyes gleamed, and he said, "Sir, he already knows that we have basically understood the whole case and that the purge of the inner guards has been exposed. He did this just to protect the person behind the scenes."

Di Renjie nodded: "There is no doubt about this. I am just wondering who is the person behind the scenes who is willing to die for him."

Zhao Ji couldn't help but shook his head. Princess Taiping was quite amazing. She could actually find such a loyal warrior who would rather commit suicide than betray her master.

A group of people were still lamenting the death of the county magistrate when suddenly the sound of fighting was heard outside the courtyard gate.

The Headless General finally arrived.

Zhao Ji and Li Yuanfang quickly escorted Di Renjie to the outside of the courtyard, where they saw a group of guards surrounding the headless general, who was wearing heavy armor and holding a phoenix-wing gilded halberd.

In addition, a group of archers drew their bows and arrows, ready to shoot the headless general.

Seeing this, Di Renjie quickly shouted to stop them: "Don't shoot, catch him alive."

When the headless general heard the order, he wielded the gilded halberd in his hand wildly, forcing back many guards.

His movements were not fast, he just relied on the length and power of his weapon to fight, and he was determined to break out and get back to his BMW.

Seeing this, Zhao Ji drew his sword and flew forward, using a powerful move to split Huashan: "All troops, retreat, I will meet him."

The headless general instinctively used his gilded halberd to block horizontally, resisting Zhao Ji's attack. The sound of metal clashing was deafening.

Zhao Ji didn't gain any advantage with his attack and stepped back, feeling numbness in his palms: "What a strong force!"

Li Yuanfang was not to be outdone and drew his sword to join the fight. After two or three moves, he also felt the opponent's amazing strength and his hands were numb from the shaking.

Zhao Ji understood clearly that this man's martial arts skills were ordinary and he only focused on using his great strength to make bricks fly.

Li Yuanfang also saw this and warned: "Chengyuan, this man is born with supernatural power, we should not fight him head-on."

If it didn't matter whether the headless general lived or died, Li Yuanfang would have cut off his hands, feet and neck without any effort at all.

But Di Renjie wanted to capture the enemy alive, and the enemy was wearing heavy armor, which made it difficult to deal with him.

Zhao Ji had to be prepared for this, he smiled and said: "I know this man is wearing heavy armor to kill people, he must be very strong, and the adults must be alive, so I prepared something."

He waved his hand, and soon several Qianniu Guards took out some thick hemp ropes and tied them into two slipknots.

Li Yuanfang understood what Zhao Ji meant. He and Zhao Ji each took a rope and threw the noose at the upper body of the headless general.

The headless general was wearing armor, trying to pretend to be Xing Tian. It was a rainy night, so his vision was poor and he was unable to dodge, so he was easily trapped by Zhao Ji and Li Yuanfang.

Seeing that they had trapped the Headless General, the two men quickly tightened the noose and tied up the Headless General's upper body and arms.

The headless general continued to struggle and even tried to break the rope to escape, but the guards had already wrapped him around and reinforced him with ropes.

Before long, the headless general was tied up from head to toe like a dumpling, unable to move.

The guards escorted the headless general into the room. When everyone looked closely, they found that the upper part of the armor designed in the shape of Xing Tian was made of a thick layer of clay.

"So this is what the so-called headless general is." Zeng Tai said in amazement.

Di Renjie smiled and said, "I've said before that there are no such things as ghosts in the world. As expected, the so-called ghosts are all people pretending to be ghosts."

(End of this chapter)