Chapter 79 Cooking Crane Walk (8)

Chapter 79 Cooking Crane Walk (8)

Chapter 79 Cooking Crane Walk (8)

"I checked the background of the dead Liu Jing."

Under the flickering lights, Hu Yan, the black ribbon, took the lead in opening.

"Born in Luzhou, his ancestors were officials from the states and counties of the Eastern Qi Dynasty. At the age of 32, he became the commander-in-chief of the Jinwu Guard, the captain of the accompanying capital. It is reasonable to say that it is quite good, but for the next ten years, he has been wasting here in Jiangdu. The year was fine, but the past few years have become more and more unhappy. I often tell the people around me that this place has gradually become full of Nanchen Han. I am not used to staying here and want to leave. Make some credit..."

Everyone reacted when they heard this.

At this point, Hu Yan looked at Zhang Xing, who was sitting in the shadow not far away, showing only half of his face, and then scanned the people around him: "Yesterday's case is very obvious, Duke Zhou is a false target at all, and he is counting on the public It is ridiculous to kill Duke Zhou face to face, and the original intention was to kill Liu Jing! And my opinion is basically consistent with what Zhang Sanlang said yesterday. Cleverness is misunderstood by cleverness.”

"How to say?" Bai Yousi tilted his head slightly.

"Think about it for the inspector. According to Liu Jing's performance, is there any possibility of reporting some inside information about Jiangdu to us?" Hu Yan answered seriously.

Everyone nodded.

"The only northerner among the rich and powerful in Jiangdu, and a northerner with enough motivation to report some inside information to us, was assassinated at a banquet the day after we arrived in Jiangdu... Is there really any conspiracy against us?" Seeing that everyone agreed, Hu Yan continued to speak. "From my point of view, it seems that because of our arrival, he was forced to make a hasty assassination at the door - there is no other way, it doesn't matter if he stays in the mansion and offends Mr. Lai, or in front of us, he has to kill, otherwise, once the banquet is over, If Liu Jing can't say it, he can directly find you for inspection and make a report."

"If you say that, could it be that some masters decided our mentality and chose to assassinate here? Let's go dark under the light?" Qian Tang asked back. "Things are hard to tell after all."

"Not bad." Hu Yan nodded. "I'm just talking about a possibility, that's all I think... Besides, Zhang Sanlang's words yesterday are really reasonable, and it's right to get rid of the filth in the officialdom beforehand."

"Don't save me face." Bai Yousi said with a smile. "If we are suspicious of ourselves, it must be because I didn't think carefully last night... Then I said, this case must be resolved... And in my opinion, it is not difficult."

Hu Yan shook his head slightly.

"Here in Jiangdu, there is a Jingjie Huzongqi who is my old friend." Qian Tang took it. "I just came out of his house, and he told me that yesterday's assassin was indeed a member of the True Fire Sect, and he also told me that the True Fire Sect is blooming everywhere in the southeast, and that all the dignitaries in Jiangdu City, as long as they are from the south, will not believe it." Yes, Laigong and Zhougong also have..."

"So yesterday those servant assassins were also publicly recommended by the True Fire Cult?" Someone suddenly asked.

"No." Qian Tang shook his head slowly at the table. "Or it can't be traced from here... Lai Gong and Zhou Gong were the general managers and deputy general managers of Xuzhou a few months ago. The two came temporarily to serve as the left-behind and deputy left-behind, for the convenience of replenishing military resources... In other words, the servants and maidservants in the left-behind mansion were brought in hastily. They were purchased and recruited on a temporary basis, and the dancers among these assassins came to the public houses to buy, and the servants were all official servants."

"So Xie Juncheng has something to say?" Someone asked again.

"Naturally." Li Qingchen also spoke. "Do you still remember? Yesterday we came in a hurry, but a whole group of brocade patrol boats arrived, and the place shook. Everyone in Jiangdu's dignitaries came to ask, but the county magistrate didn't send anyone... I don't know what I'm busy with Not to mention, this person is from the Xie family, one of the eight great families in Jiangdong, known as a famous family for hundreds of years, and since the sage ascended the throne in this dynasty, although he has repeatedly promoted Jiangdong people, many of them are from the same family as Zhang Shangshu, who died before The second-rate family, on the contrary, tends to restrain the Eight Great Families of Jiangdong, and it is not uncommon for such people to have resentment towards the imperial court."

Everyone nodded.

And Bai Yousi, who was holding the long sword in his arms, also looked at Li Qingchen thoughtfully: "Xiao Li, what did you check?"

"I just asked about Xie Juncheng in detail... This guy has been accompanying the Du Juncheng, a high position and authority, but he has repeatedly written some bitter poems, saying that he is underappreciated and misunderstood by others." Li Qingchen sneered. "After Laigong and Zhougong took office and stayed behind, he relied on Laigong not to ask questions, and Zhougong always gave them three points of courtesy, so he wanted to promote the southeast scholars in Jiangdu, and the administration was extremely biased. If someone really did it Whatever happened to make Liu Jing feel that he can sue him, nine out of ten he did it."

"What about Dugong Zhao and Liao Zhushou, apart from being from the south, can they have any disagreements with Liu Jing?"

"Governor Zhao is logically considered to be directly under Liu Jing's superiors and jointly act as an agent for the palace, but in fact, the Jinwu guards led by Liu Jing also patrol the streets at night while guarding the palace, and the responsibilities of the two do not completely overlap. It's just one inside and one outside, and it's more common to have any disputes. As for Liao Zhushou and Liu Jing...haven't you seen enough of the shit about Jingjiehu and Jinwuwei?" Li Qingchen continued to sneer.

"So everyone is suspected?" The people below were visibly annoyed.

"Could it be done together?"

"If they didn't do it together, the rest of the people would just sit on the sidelines."

"Duke Lai and Duke Zhou..."

"I think that Lai Gong and Zhou Gong are probably watching with cold eyes, but we can only ignore them... Think about it, why would a sage touch these two for such a thing? To put it bluntly, We are still separated from Zhongcheng, even if Laigong threw us all into Yangzijin, the saint would not bother to say anything... Those people are used to seeing corpses and blood seas, destroying Nanchen and conquering Dongyi , Hundreds of thousands of lives, what is this crap?"

"If you say that, how are we going to investigate the case? Find out, Lai Gong waved his hand and covered it up..."

"Where is it his turn to cover up?" Qian Tang immediately reprimanded seriously. "At that time, I will really check it out, and I will cut it with my own sword! Do you still expect Lai Gong and Zhou Gong to be the masters of Qingtian?"

Everyone nodded, didn't they? They almost forgot that there was a big old woman sitting here!
"Inspection... what do you think?" Qian Tang turned his face and urged earnestly. "There is no criminal case for this matter right now, but if it is reasonable, it points to the infighting among the powerful and powerful in Jiangdu, and the conflict between the North and the South."

"Infighting among the rich and powerful, and conflicts between the North and the South are definitely inevitable. It is true that the matter may not be resolved, but the key point is that as members of the Jing'an Taiwan Inspection Team, we must always understand what happened when we encountered such a big case. It's a matter of finding out the ins and outs of the matter, and you can't rely on being drenched in blood for nothing." Bai Yousi replied calmly, but looked at Zhang Xing again. "Zhang San, you and Qin Erlang also went out today, what did you check?"

"I didn't find anything." Zhang Xing said one thing. "We went to the Zhenhuo temples around Jiangdu, two in Nancheng, one in the city, and one in Yangzijin. I just felt that the teachings of Zhenhuo sect were quite appropriate, but there were obviously two factions in the church. One group respected the truth. Huo is taking the lower route; the other faction obviously respects the Qionghua female saint more and is taking the upper route. Obviously, the imperial court's suppression for many years has caused a split within the True Fire Sect. If there is no unified religious reform, it will soon It may gradually drift apart, and finally completely split."

After everyone listened, there was a moment of silence.

After a while, Qian Tang still frowned: "Zhang Sanlang, which faction do you think is responsible for this case?"

"Theoretically, which faction seems to respect the female saint, otherwise how can I enter the left-behind mansion?" Zhang Xing said with a smile. "But I still think it's more like the real fire faction, because they have manpower... Moreover, they are not divided to the point where they are completely out of line."

"If you say it, you don't say it." Li Qingchen was depressed for a while.

"I said I didn't find anything." Zhang Xing was confident.

"I waited on the river and found the female assassin who escaped yesterday." At this moment, Bai Yousi suddenly said. "And captured her alive, and interrogated her in Jiangxinzhou by the way..."

There was a sudden silence in the room, one could feel the drop of a needle.

"She is one of the female saint candidates of the True Fire Sect. She grew up in a temple and practiced martial arts since she was a child. The year before last, she suddenly went to Yang Shen's residence..." Bai Yousi said eloquently. "And according to her, she also went to the Yang Mansion once when she was a teenager."

"A broken mirror is reunited." Someone blurted out.

People around suddenly realized.

The Broken Mirror Reunion is a well-known allusion of Yang Shen's father, Yang Bin. It refers to Yang Bin, the first hero of the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, who took part in the extermination of Chen and took in a princess of Chen Guo as a maid in the mansion. The husband found it with a broken mirror token, and Yang Bin After knowing the beauty of adulthood, let the broken mirror reunite.

And this matter, placed here, refers more to the fact that Yang Bin, as the first hero and powerful minister in the founding of the country, participated in the whole process of the war against Chen and the subsequent Jiangdong rebellion war. When Han Bolong went south, it was different from burning, killing and looting. It can be counted that he did not commit any crimes, so he was extremely popular in the southeast.

Then Yang Shen's rebellion, no matter what the purpose was, it was not uncommon for the True Fire Sect, who was indistinctly opposite to the imperial court, to send some experts to help... Even, according to this statement, they may have been secretly colluding for many years.

"Not bad." Bai Yousi smiled. "In short, Yang Shen was defeated too quickly, so he fled back to the south and stayed in Jiangdu..."

"Did the inspection directly ask someone out?" Someone couldn't wait. "Who ordered her?"

"She would rather die than tell." Bai Yousi continued to laugh. "I'm not willing to kill her. But guess what she revealed to me after I said I would not touch the Taoist temples of the True Fire Sect? Or more directly, where did she live when she returned to Jiangdu that day?"

"Is it a palace?" Zhang Xing, who was under the shadow, suddenly raised his eyebrows and asked. "A broken mirror is reunited."

"That's right." Bai Yousi turned his head and smiled disdainfully. "It's the palace behind us."

(End of this chapter)