Indeed, if scientific instruments are not used, it is indeed difficult to judge the time of an adult's old injury.

Xu Zun did ignore this before.

However, this is no longer important to the overall situation.

So he proposed to skip and proceed to the next topic.

But this made the people on the scene confused and smoked.

"How can this be done," Governor Li Yan murmured, "It's not rigorous at all. Is this Taoist priest an assassin? There must be an explanation, right?"

In Lord Li's mind, the topic of whether a Taoist priest is an assassin is very important, and it is related to the fate of the entire state prefecture.

But he forgot one thing: Even if the Taoist priest is not an assassin, they will still be unable to escape the involvement with that jade pendant.

"Xu Zun," Cai Kun was also a little anxious, "Are there any point in your mind after talking for a long time? Tell me quickly why those people burned the Taoist priest's bodies?"

"Yes," Li Yan continued, "If the Taoist priest is not an assassin, then who is he?"

"Okay, then I'll show off! You guys are firmly sitting!" Xu Zun pointed his finger at the Taoist priest's body, raised his voice and said, "In fact, you all know this person!

"His family is from Nangeng, Shangzhou, and is a Jinshi Hanlin from Shangshen. He is the county magistrate of Xinye County - Qiu Yong-nian!!!"

Bang!

Cai Kun missed and the teacup fell to the ground and shattered.

Wow...

The officials were speechless and dumb.

The others in the yard had different reactions, some were confused, some were heard clearly, some were shocked and surprised, some were trembling as if they were struck by lightning...

"What?" Cai Kun was startled from the seat and asked, "Xu Zun, what did you say just now? Who is this Taoist priest?"

"I said," Xu Zun pointed to the Taoist priest's body and repeated the words again, "This person is the real Qiu Yongnian!"

"That……"

Cai Kun looked to the side in confusion.

"ah!!?"

Qiu Yongnian, who was beside him, was suddenly shocked, his legs collapsed, and he actually sat on the chair with his butt.

"Ouch..."

The county magistrate Luo Baiwan was startled and looked at Qiu Yongnian, then looked at the corpse of the Taoist priest on the ground. He couldn't help but move the chair back several steps until the back of the chair leaned against the guard.

"How...how could it be?"

At the same time, even Shen Tiande, who was handcuffed, was full of surprise and suspicion, and he had never expected Xu Zun to say such shocking words.

Not only him, but also the servants of the Shen family, Shen Qian beside him, and even Huo Anu who helped Xu Zun widened his eyes, looking incredible.

"Xu...Xu Zun..." Qiu Yongnian realized that he had lost his composure, and then stood up angrily and shouted, "You are simply the most misunders in the world. It would be fine if you framed me. Now... you actually... are you still like this?"

Qiu Yongnian was really angry and couldn't find a suitable word to rebuke Xu Zun.

"Xu Zun," Governor Li Yan asked hurriedly, "What do you mean? Why did the Taoist priest suddenly become Qiu Yongnian again?

"If the Taoist priest was Qiu Yongnian," he pointed to the county magistrate Qiu Yongnian, "who is he?"

"No, this is not the key," Chen Taiji asked, "Xu Zun, you have to have a basis for saying that, right?"

"Yes!" Cai Kun echoed, "Xu Zun, you can't be a sensationalist and mysterious person. If there is no real evidence, then this official will be helpless!"

"Evidence? Of course there is!"

Xu Zun smiled confidently and signaled to Huo Anu. Huo Anu immediately took out a piece of white paper from his arms and handed it to Cai Kun.

But I saw four and a half words written on the white paper, namely: "女", "女", "女", and "女", and there is a radical "女" behind it.

"Oh?" Cai Kun showed the four and a half words in front of everyone and asked, "Xu Zun, what does this mean?"

"Sir," Xu Zun replied, "At the beginning, we heard that there were Taoists living in Qijiawu's Longevity View, and then went to check it out.

"But I didn't expect that the enemy had already burned the Vision of Eternity with a fire, and the constables only found a jade pendant.

"But I found the words all over the wall from the ruins of the Perspective of Eternal Life..."

Next, Xu Zun told all the discoveries and speculations he and Huo Anu on the night of the Vision of Eternity.

"Is this too outrageous?" After hearing this, the governor Li Yan quickly discovered the problem. "According to your speculation, the Taoist priest should have been imprisoned in the secret room of the Perspective of Eternal Life. However, according to witnesses, someone has seen the Taoist priest live in the Perspective of Enlightenment.

"How can people who are imprisoned be seen by outsiders?"

"This is simple," Xu Zun replied, "The murderer sent someone to pretend to be a Taoist priest to guard the imprisoned Qiu Yongnian, creating an illusion that there is a Taoist priest living in the view of immortality..."

Seeing that most people were stunned, Xu Zun simply said again:

"Okay, then I'll tell you a story," he pointed to the body of a Taoist priest. "A year ago, before taking office in Xinye County, Qiu Yongnian, a Jinshi, was suddenly kidnapped by a criminal and imprisoned in Qijiawu's view of immortality.

"This group of bad guys is not simple. They chose someone who looks similar to Qiu Yongnian and asked him to pretend to be a county magistrate to come to Xinye County to take office.

"At the same time, they also imitated the cruel methods of the Ministry of Justice and committed torture on Zhen Qiu Yongnian!

"One of the way, we are preparing for today's iron coffin case; secondly, we are going to let real Qiu Yongnian tell him everything so that this fake Qiu Yongnian can better be fake and real.

"When imprisoned, they also asked the guards to wear Taoist robes, dressed in rags, and were seen everywhere, creating an illusion of a Taoist priest living in the view of immortality, so that after the iron coffin case could lead to the clues to the Taoist temple.

“So, those witnesses actually saw guards, not imprisoned people.

"This is... an extremely delicate and extremely cruel conspiracy," Xu Zun said, "When the time was right, they killed Zhen Qiu Yongnian, put on a Taoist robe and put it in an iron coffin.

"Next, when the iron coffin case happened, they burned the Taoist temple and left the jade pendant on the scene, waiting for us to investigate!

"In this way, all the clues are connected together, which makes us naturally think that Qiu Yongnian was the Japanese assassin who assassinated the Queen Mother back then!"

"ah?"

This reasoning surprised everyone again.

"Then...that's my previous question," Li Yan asked, "Why don't they put that jade pendant directly on the corpse? Wouldn't it be safer to put it on the corpse?"

"Wrong!" Xu Zun replied, "Mr. Li, this question is actually a bit redundant.

"Think about it, the ultimate goal of the murderer is to frame Mr. Shen! If the iron coffin case was really done by Mr. Shen, can Mr. Shen put the jade pendant on the body?"

"Oh..." Li Yan nodded, and then he realized something.

"But if the jade pendant is found in the ruins of the Perspective of Eternal Life, the meaning will be different. People will think that it is Mr. Shen who is hiding an assassin, which will make Mr. Shen unable to argue and cannot explain it.

"The same reason," Xu Zun said again, "some people may think that since the ultimate goal of the murderer is to frame Mr. Chen, why not just write a letter of exposure and report it?

"Why do you have to kill You Dalang and his wife first, frame me for killing the merchant, and then write a letter of exposure? Is this an unnecessary move?

"But if you think about it carefully, it is actually very necessary to do this!" Xu Zun pointed to Cai Kun and Chen Taiji and said, "After all, Cai Geling and Chen Jingshi were both wise and were not ordinary people!

"If even framed people so insincere, how could they escape the eyes of these two people?

"But if they use the crime of killing merchants to embezzle property, will the effect be completely different?"

oh……

Everyone nodded repeatedly and finally understood what Xu Zun meant.

After all, Chen Tiande is an important official in the court and still has power in the current court. If the letter of exposure is directly pointed to Chen Tiande, it will seem too fake and arouse suspicion.

"Now, everyone understands," Xu Zun pointed to the fake Qiu Yongnian, "Why did he send someone to sneak into the charity village and burn the Taoist priest's body?

"After he guided us to connect the corpse with the Japanese assassins, the corpse mission was completed.

"He didn't want anyone to recognize that this person was not a Japanese assassin, so he was fooled by us. He was worried that the East Palace guard we made could recognize, so he..."

"Stop! Stop!" Unexpectedly, Xu Zun was interrupted by Cai Kun before he finished speaking. But when Cai Kun held up the blank piece of paper and asked anxiously, "Don't talk about these useless things first, let's talk about what these words mean?

"Why do you think that the deceased is Qiu Yongnian!!"
Chapter completed!