Chapter 91: Consultation (One of the Silver League of Linghu No. 3 Middle School)
Outside Shuibo Gate in the northeast of Yingtian Mansion, close to the river bank, there is a fishing village of Dan people. Dan people usually live on fishing boats. The fishing boats are connected from end to end, which is a floating village with many masts. When the boat cables are untied, it can be turned into a village.
A number of flexible fishing boats galloped back and forth on the river.
The life of the Dan people was very hard, so many merchants opened warehouses and warehouses here, hiring them at extremely low prices to do some of the most arduous and arduous work.
There are hundreds of these warehouses, large and small, and most of them are scattered along the shore. Resident stewards and shopkeepers have built countless simple houses and courtyards around them, forming a densely populated city.
huge village.
People coming and going, hustle and bustle are the main tone here, and the roads extending in all directions and as dense as a spider web are the characteristics of this place. Therefore, it is no wonder that Dongji Pavilion will set up a secret interrogation point here.
The appearance of this courtyard looks a bit dilapidated, almost exactly the same as other surrounding houses. Even with the guidance of Dongfang Li's flying talisman, Zhao Ran searched for a long time before finding it. After a little calculation, the flying talisman silver paid for it was
It reached four taels, and he believed that the Eastern ceremony cost more, probably ten times as much as himself.
There is still a long way to go to improve the flying talisman!
When Zhao Ran entered this small courtyard, Qiu Yunqing, the elder of Dongji Pavilion, Zhuo Yunfeng of Wei Chaozong, Zhuo Yunfeng of this pavilion, and Dongfang Li had all gathered here and were discussing nervously.
After Zhao Ran went in, he listened for a while and then heard Wei Chaozong making an introduction, saying that he had sent someone to inquire. It was the Lingji Palace that distributed charcoal to the monks in the palace, asking them to send it to poor families, ten pounds per household, mainly for
Follow the practices of the monks in Daolu Si Lecture Hall.
But Wei Chaozong added: "This incident is indeed beyond our expectations and has brought us difficulties in investigating the case. However, we cannot rule out the possibility that the two thieves passed the message through charcoal because they cannot give a reasonable explanation."
, why should charcoal be sent to the deserted suspect's residence? If there is indeed a hidden secret, this leads to the second question, what does charcoal mean, and why is it thirteen?"
Qiu Yunqing looked at Zhao Ran and said, "What do you think of Zhiran? Daolusi was the first to send charcoal, and then Shang Sangong followed suit. Zhiran wondered whether this behavior was used to cover his actions.
Possibility of real motive?”
Zhao Ran first looked at the thirteen pieces of charcoal that were broken into twenty-six sections on the ground. From the cloth bag to the shape of the charcoal, they were all the same as the regulations issued by the Daolu Division that day. It was obvious that they were all looking for the same charcoal.
Bought from a merchant.
After thinking about it, he flew to Fuli Dayin first. Not long after, he received a reply from Li Dayin, so he told several people in the room: "These charcoals were all purchased by Li Dayin, the deputy envoy of the Daolu Department, from a merchant. The charcoal merchant was
The royal merchant has been running the charcoal business for several generations." Then he told his original thoughts and motives, and finally said: "I can't guarantee that Lingji Palace did not use these charcoals to send messages, but privately I think it is possible.
Not big. Just crush all the charcoal and see if there is anything hidden inside. As for thirteen...it may have nothing to do with the number of charcoals. You can weigh the charcoal to see if it is exactly ten pounds."
The weighing result is how much more than nine catties and eighty taels. Although it is less than the round number of ten catties, it can already be considered as ten catties. This imperial merchant is relatively conscientious and has not done too much cutting out materials. Maybe they
I don't dare to cut corners on Li Dayin.
Then he carefully crushed all the charcoal, and found nothing. This proved that the charcoal itself was no problem.
Wei Chaozong has been investigating the case for many years and has a good attitude. He is not embarrassed because he has gone into a misunderstanding. Instead, he said: "Fortunately, we invited Junior Brother Zhao here to prevent us from walking into this dead end. It turns out that the initiator was actually Junior Brother Zhao.
Haha, it’s really unexpected.”
Putting the charcoal matter aside for the time being, everyone began to discuss the square card, passing the pattern around in their hands, but no one could tell what it was drawn on.
However, both Qiu Yunqing and Wei Chaozong swore that the pattern on the square card was definitely a contact code often used by suspects. Dongji Pavilion has found three such patterns. The general style is similar, but the three patterns are different.
According to judgment, they should convey different meanings.
Based on these three patterns, no one knows what they represent. Wei Chaozong said that the two thieves Chunfeng and Guanyun were determined not to know what happened, and they were tortured many times to no avail.
"Judging from their performance, these two thieves couldn't stand the punishment. Not to mention howling like ghosts and wolves, they couldn't control their urination and were completely out of character. At first they said they didn't know, but then they changed their words and said some nonsense. It was completely
It’s unreasonable, and then they once again insisted that they didn’t know the inside story. If you look at the results of the torture alone, I have to believe that they really knew nothing about it, but judging from the whole process, they really saw a ghost because they didn’t know about it.”
Indeed, as Wei Chaozong said, the two Taoists did not send charcoal anywhere else, but came to this alley to send it; they did not send it to other families, but sent it to this unoccupied house; it was just a matter of sending charcoal. The key is a priori.
After looking at the square card, he used his magic power to turn it into powder, and then he pushed the door open. Even though there was no one inside, he still threw the charcoal into the house. If you want to say that the two of them didn't know about this series of actions, then say that he
The two of them have nothing to do with the key suspects arrested in Dongji Pavilion. Who can believe it?
Zhao Ran asked Dongfang Li: "Can Senior Brother Li be a yin-yang soul searcher?"
Dongfang Li shook his head: "Junior Brother Jing is good at this method, but I don't know it. But it's not necessary. First, Junior Brother Jing is in seclusion, and secondly, the methods of Xiao Wu and Xiao Ding in Dongji Pavilion are also first-rate.
Very powerful, not inferior to the Yin Yang soul searcher."
The matter has reached a deadlock at this point. Wei Chaozong does not dare to use torture anymore. If the torture continues like this, Chunfeng and Guanyun will definitely not be able to bear it. But if there is no need to torture, how will they find the whereabouts of the key suspect?
Zhao Ran looked at Dongfang Li and said hesitantly: "Meng..."
Dongfang Li nodded and said: "The two thieves have already confessed to this case. They also confessed to some things about Xiu'an. They said that they went to Xianling Palace to drink flower wine several times, and most of the people who came out to accompany them were women from Xiu'an.
, In addition, they also visited Xiu'an in Guizhou, Huguang and other places, but the two places they mentioned were destroyed after we found out, so it was useless. The only thing that is useful now is to identify Wang Shouyu and
Lin Zhibin, these two are accomplices in the Meng Yanzhen case."
"Can we arrest people?"
Qiu Yunqing shook his head slightly: "I always feel that it is not enough, there is still a little bit left! What we want to catch most is the key person. Various signs indicate that that person is the only contact person between Shangsan Palace and Xiu'an everywhere, and it is even possible that
He was the initiator who first came forward to promote the establishment of Xiu'an."