In the Dali Temple prison where Feng Guan, the family leader of the Yuanling Marquis, was imprisoned, Su Wang Zhao Hongrun held a torch, frowned slightly, and read the blood letter on the wall - it was the confession written by Feng Guan before he committed suicide by taking poison.
Book.
"I was tricked..."
Zhao Hongrun let out a breath and thought to himself.
Looking at Zhao Hongrun's unsightly expression, Xu Rong, the minister of Dali Temple, and Yang Yu, the young minister, looked at each other and couldn't help but feel ashamed in their hearts.
With their intelligence, how could they not see through the conspiracy behind this matter? Although Feng Guan's bloody confession before his death seemed to be identifying Yuanling Hou Feng Shu, in fact, it was framed in front of him.
This is His Royal Highness King Su.
As for the two of them, one was the Qingzheng of Dali Temple and the other was the Shaoqing of Dali Temple. This time, not only did the prisoner die in prison, but they also made the prisoner write a bloody letter before his death to confuse the public and attempt to frame King Su.
This is quite serious dereliction of duty.
Of course, it was precisely because of this that Xu Rong and Yang Yu notified Su Wang Zhao Hongrun as soon as possible.
"Your Highness King Su, look at this..."
After a while, seeing that Zhao Hongrun still remained silent, Xu Rong, the minister of Dali Temple, asked with an embarrassed look.
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Feng Guan's body, then glanced at the blood book on the wall, and asked: "Master Xu, has Feng Guan... seen anyone in the past two days?"
As soon as they finished speaking, a man came out from behind Xu Rong and Yang Yu. He cupped his hands and answered, "Reporting to Your Highness King Su, the prisoner has only seen one group of visitors in the past two days, namely the servants of Marquis Yuanling.
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"The servant of Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling?"
Zhao Hongrun frowned, feeling a little stunned.
"Who are you?" Zhao Hongrun asked.
The man cupped his hands and replied: "The last official is Jin Xu, the jailer of Dali Temple. I pay homage to His Highness King Su."
"Oh." Zhao Hongrun responded casually and looked up and down at the prisoner of Dali Temple.
I have to say that the official position of "Prisoner of Dali Temple" is quite jarring to Zhao Hongrun.
Because five years ago, when he was framed by Luo Wenzhong and his son, the official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it was "Dali Temple Prisoner Pei Na" who pretended to be a public official for personal gain and sent the officials of Dali Temple to arrest Zhao Hongrun and bring him to the Dali Temple official office in an attempt to frame him. However, at that time
Luo Wenzhong and his son, as well as the "Prisoner of Dali Temple Pei Na", did not expect that Zhao Hongrun was actually a high-ranking prince and a member of the royal family.
Later, after Luo Wenzhong was accused of the "regular exam fraud case" and sent to the army, the "Prisoner of Dali Temple Pei Na" realized that the situation was not good and escaped from Daliang that night with Xinruan.
At that time, Zhao Hongrun didn't have many troops in his hands. Seeing that Pei Na had escaped, he simply gave up.
After all, strictly speaking, although Pei Na, the prison chief of Dali Temple at that time, was Luo Wenzhong's accomplice, if he hadn't been greedy and took a fancy to the longevity golden lock Zhao Hongrun hung around his neck at that time, and discovered his identity as a dignified prince,
It is very likely that Zhao Hongrun will not be able to leave Dali Temple unharmed.
For this reason, when Zhao Hongrun couldn't find Pei Na, he simply let him go.
"His Royal Highness King Su?"
Seeing Zhao Hongrun staring at him intently, Jin Xu, the jailer of Dali Temple, looked a little unnatural.
After being called by this person, Zhao Hongrun came back from his memories and frowned at Feng Guan's body.
In his opinion, at this moment, the Marquis of Yuanling, Uncle Feng, sent someone to visit Feng Guan in prison, and that most likely had only one purpose, which was to make Feng Guan commit suicide by taking poison for the purpose of not publicizing his family scandal.
In other words, it is indeed possible that Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, poisoned Feng Guan to death.
"But what's the explanation for the bloody writing on the wall?"
Zhao Hongrun frowned and looked at the bloody book on the wall without saying anything.
It is undeniable that Fengguan's bloody confession seemed to be a frame-up for his master, Yuanling Hou Feng Shu, but in fact it was extremely beneficial to the latter; on the contrary, Zhao Hongrun was caught in waves of troubles.
only……
Is this really a desperate plan thought up by Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling?
Recalling that day in the hall of Daliang Mansion, when Yuanling Hou Feng Shu realized that his family leader Feng Guan, who had grown up with him since childhood and had been with him for more than forty years, had betrayed him, Zhao Hongrun saw the strong disappointment and loss of Yuan Ling Hou Feng Shu.
In eyes.
In the state he was in at that time, Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, was able to calm down after just one day and come up with such a vicious plan as "Death Time"?
You know, in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, this is no less than Yuanling Hou Feng Shu putting another pinch of salt on his own wounds.
As the saying goes, humans are not grass and trees, how can they be ruthless?
To use an inappropriate analogy, if someone in Zongwei, who has been with Zhao Hongrun for more than 40 years, betrays him in the future, he will never calm down in just one day and try to poison this Zongwei. He should
He was more inclined to expose the matter. From then on, the master and the servant cut off their ties and had no contact with each other until death.
After all, it was a friendship of more than forty years.
Of course, this does not mean that there is no possibility that Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, could poison Feng Guan to death.
For example, when Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, was still emotional, someone instigated him from the sidelines, causing the anger in the Marquis of Yuanling's heart to overwhelm his feelings of more than forty years. Without thinking too much, he sent someone to kill Feng Guan.
Killed.
This is also possible.
As for who instigated it, I recalled that in the hall of Daliang Mansion that day, when they learned that Zhao Hongrun was not related to the case of Marquis Yuanling, Sun Mou, the Marquis of Sihu, Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang, and others all showed expressions of disappointment or regret.
It goes without saying.
But the question is, even if Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, was instigated to kill Feng Guan, would he be stupid enough to send his own servants?
Thinking about it carefully, Zhao Hongrun felt that this incident was too ostentatious - the slave of Uncle Feng Guan, Marquis of Yuanling, visited Feng Guan in prison, and then Feng Guan committed suicide in prison by taking poison. Before his death, Zhao Hongrun poured a basin of sewage on him.
Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, is a man worthy of half a hundred people at any rate. Would he do something like this?
"...Speaking of which, how can the jailer be so sure that the person who came to visit Uncle Feng in prison must be the servant of Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling?"
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Jin Xu, the jailer of Dali Temple, and suddenly asked: "Jinxu, how can you be sure that the person who came to visit the prison must be the servant of Uncle Feng, Marquis of Yuanling, and not someone else pretending to be?"
"Ah? This..." The jailer Jin Xu was speechless after hearing this. After a while, he said in panic: "I don't think anyone will come to visit the prison under false identities, right?"
"Hmph!" Zhao Hongrun snorted and said calmly: "It seems that you are not sure... In this case, you should say that "someone claiming to be a servant of the Yuanling Marquis Mansion came to visit the prison", and should not arbitrarily think that
The other party is from Yuanlinghou Mansion, do you understand?"
Prison Prime Minister Jin Xu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said quickly: "Yes, I will teach you, and please forgive me, His Highness Prince Su."
Looking at this scene, most of the people present were a little puzzled. After all, it seemed that His Royal Highness King Su was targeting Prison Prime Minister Jin Xu, but the problem was that this was the first time the two of them had met.
"Isn't it because of what happened five years ago?"
Xu Rong, the minister of Dali Temple, blinked his eyes and stood aside without saying anything while stroking his beard.
At this moment, only two people frowned and glanced at the Prison Prime Minister Jin Xu intentionally or unintentionally. One was Yang Yu, the Young Minister of Dali Temple, and the other was Shen Gui, the Duancheng of Dali Temple.
As the saying goes, the speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention. Even Zhao Hongrun, who raised this point, did not pay too much attention to it, but it attracted the attention of Yang Yu, the young minister of Dali Temple, and Duan Cheng Shen Gui.
For example, Shaoqing Yang Yu, he felt that the remarks made by the prison chief Jin Xu just now were vaguely suspected of confusing the public.
You must know that the jailer Jin Xu is a person in the yamen agency of the Si Xingfu, so he can naturally understand the importance of testimony. "A servant of the Yuanlinghou Mansion" and "a person claiming to be a servant of the Yuanlinghou Mansion", these two The meanings represented are quite different.
But despite some doubts in his heart, Shaoqing Yang Yu still didn't point it out at this time. After all, this was just his arbitrary judgment - what if the prison chief Jin Xu just believed the identity of the person who came to visit the prison?
At this time, Zhao Hongrun asked the jailer Jin Xudao: "Did you order anyone to search the bodies of the people who came to visit the prison that day?"
"Reporting to His Highness Prince Su, I ordered someone to search my body at that time, and there was no poison in it." Prison Prime Minister Jin Xu replied.
After speaking, he called two jailers who were in charge of the body search at the time, and these two jailers also confirmed the testimony of the jailer Jinxu.
Zhao Hongrun only believed half of this. After all, as far as he knew, jailers were repeatedly banned from accepting bribes. Sometimes rich children committed crimes and were imprisoned. Logically speaking, they should eat simple meals in the prison, but as the saying goes, money can He knows that as long as he has enough money, that rich boy can make a fortune even in prison. Even if he is given too much money, he can even get women in.
Therefore, if the group of people who came to visit the prison had spent enough money, the jailer Jin Xu and the two jailers would not have searched him carefully. They would just kill him if they were asked today.
Perhaps it was precisely because of accepting bribes that the jailer Jin Xu arbitrarily believed that the other party was a domestic servant of Yuanlinghou Mansion.
"Do you know what Feng Guan was poisoned to death?" Zhao Hongrun asked again.
Hearing this, the jailer Jin Xu respectfully replied: "For the time being, we can only judge that he died from poisoning. As for the details, we need to wait until the prisoner performs a disembowelment to verify the poison in the abdomen of the corpse."
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded and said, "Let's do this for now. If you have any news, please contact me."
With that said, he turned around and left.
Seeing this, Xu Rong, the minister of Dali Temple, quickly stopped Zhao Hongrun and asked hesitantly: "Your Highness, King Su, how should we deal with this confusing blood confession written by the prisoner on the wall?"
After hearing this, Zhao Hongrun turned his head and glanced at the bloody words on the wall again, and frowned unconsciously.
Since this bloody letter was extremely detrimental to him, Zhao Hongrun naturally wanted to destroy it as soon as possible, but when he thought about it, wouldn't this be a deception?
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun said seriously: "This object is an important piece of evidence. Please protect it carefully."
After that, he left without looking back.
"Something's wrong, something's wrong..."
On the way back, Zhao Hongrun thought about the whole thing in his mind.
He felt that the whole thing seemed reasonable, but there was a faint sense of violation.
Suddenly, he stopped outside the door of a prison and turned his head thoughtfully to look at one of the prisoners in the prison, the prisoner who had just teased him and was called "Sun DaDa" by the jailer.
.
"Open the cell door and take this man out."
Pointing at Sun DaDa, who looked frightened and uneasy, Zhao Hongrun said in a deep voice.