Chapter 361: The Case of Arrival at the Pawnshop (7)
The three of them couldn't help but feel sad when they looked at Yanzhi who had closed her eyes.
At this time, the sleeping baby seemed to know that his mother had left him, and he started crying.
Lian Le quickly picked up the baby and coaxed it, but who knew that the baby was unwilling to stop crying. The heart-wrenching cry made the three people in the room not know what to do for a moment.
"Brother Qin, did we do something wrong?"
After finally coaxing the baby to sleep, Lian Le looked up at Qin Shaobai, his eyes filled with tears.
"At the beginning, we just wanted to scare her, to let her know that she was in danger and to consciously take out the things we wanted in order to be safe. Who knew it would end like this."
Qin Shaobai sighed with sadness on his face.
"Now that things are like this, we don't want to live up to Yanzhi's sacrifice. Let's make good use of her body to do something."
Zhao Bai said calmly, "Shao Bai, take Lian Le to report the crime. Just say that a thief broke into the other courtyard and committed murder. Unfortunately, Miss Rouge was stabbed to death."
"General Zhao, do you mean to move Miss Rouge's body to the lobby? Wouldn't that be too cruel?"
Lian Le muttered.
"Shouldn't we let Miss Rouge rest in her grave?"
Zhao Bai turned his head and looked at Lian Le coldly.
"Le'er, who just asked people to believe that Miss Rouge was in trouble because of Boss Xiao?
Now that Miss Rouge has really sacrificed her life for our plan, you are hesitant.
Do you want Miss Rouge’s sacrifice to be in vain?”
Zhao Bai became more and more excited as he spoke, and his eyes turned slightly red.
When Lian Le saw this, he knew that it was useless to say anything now, so he pouted and backed away from Qin Shaobai.
"Okay, since Miss Rouge is willing to sacrifice her life for our plan, we don't need to worry about anything anymore. Le'er, please arrange the scene properly, and I'll have someone go to the government office to report the case now."
"Okay, let's split up."
Zhao Bai said, taking the account book and leaving.
"General Zhao, where are you going?"
Lian Le actually asked.
Zhao Baitou didn't reply: "I'm going to the palace and present this account book. Maybe it's time to restore our identities."
When Qin Shaobai heard this, he wanted to hold Zhao Bai back.
Now is not a good time to show the account books to Song Ningzong.
You should at least take a look at the ledgers to see if there are any traces of irregularities.
It is best to wait until you have studied the ledgers and identified the predators you want to deal with before carefully discussing a plan.
Would it be safer to go to Song Ningzong after everything is ready?
However, Zhao Bai seemed impatient and disappeared without giving Qin Shaobai any chance.
"Brother Qin, do you think General Zhao is a little different on this matter?"
Lian Le walked towards Qin Shaobai, but his eyes were fixed on the direction Zhao Bai left.
"He may be too anxious. He wants to catch all the worms in the Song Dynasty and crush them to death, so that the Song Dynasty can have a decent change."
"Nothing is that easy."
Lian Le muttered.
It is indeed not that easy. History cannot change because of Zhao Bai's efforts. But working hard is better than not working hard at all.
After Qin Shaobai comforted himself in his heart, he and Lian Le moved Yanzhi's body back to the original room.
He sent someone to the government office to report the case, and soon, Li Xiaolin and Song Ci came.
When Qin Shaobai saw Song Ci, he felt a little worried in his heart.
He didn't know if Song Ci could tell that the knife in Yanzhi's heart was stabbed by himself.
Song Ci looked at Rouge's wound carefully, then turned around to greet Lian Le who was standing aside.
"Girl, were you the first to see the murderer's back?"
Lian Le nodded quickly.
"Yesterday, my eldest brother asked me to accompany Miss Rouge to sleep. At midnight, I went to the toilet and saw a shadow running out of our room."
"Did the girl see the thief clearly?"
Lian Le shook his head: "At that time, I was worried about Miss Rouge's safety, so I rushed into the house. I saw Miss Rouge lying on the bed, and the bed was covered with blood."
Lian Le said, turning his face away, trying hard to control the tears in his eyes.
"Speaking of blood, there doesn't seem to be a lot of blood on this bed..."
"Sir, this Rouge girl is so small and thin, I don't think she has a lot of blood in her body, and after so long, the blood should have solidified."
Song Ci said nothing, his eyes fell on the dagger.
"Sir, this girl's identity has been confirmed. She is indeed related to the pawnshop owner Xiao who was killed earlier. She was a woman that Boss Xiao bought from Chunsemanlou with a lot of money. She has been hiding in Wangxianglou for several years."
Li Xian pushed open the door and walked in.
"Oh, it's related to Wangxiang Tower again."
Song Ci's brows furrowed even more.
"Sir, the owner of Wangxiang Tower, Mr. Mei, is not in Lin'an now, but I heard that a more powerful person has come to Wangxiang Tower."
Li Xian whispered a few times into Song Ci's ear.
Song Ci's face became increasingly ugly. He had no intention of looking closely at the wounds on Yanzhi's body and ordered people to move Yanzhi's body away.
"Mr. Zhao, is your brother not here?"
Song Ci's eyes searched around.
"My brother has something to do. He specifically told me and all the adults that we must seek justice for Miss Rouge."
Song Ci said nothing more.
Back at the government office, Song Ci told Li Xiaolin his views on the murder case.
Li Xiaolin pondered for a moment.
"You mean, this is a conspiracy against Boss Xiao? However, he is just an ordinary pawnshop owner. Why did the other party want to kill him to silence him, and also killed his servants and his lover."
"That's because he is not an ordinary pawn shop owner at all."
Suddenly there was a clanging sound outside the door.
Everyone turned around and saw that it was Zhao Bai, the general who had not seen the country for a long time, who walked in.
Zhao Bai had already taken off his mask at this time and used his original appearance.
When Li Xiaolin saw Zhao Bai, his eyes were full of joy.
He ran down and held Zhao Bai's hand.
"It's great to have you back."
When Qin Shaobai saw Li Xiaolin's eyes like this, he knew that he still regarded Zhao Bai as himself. He had no idea that the Zhao Bai in front of him was completely Zhao Bai.
But Qin Shaobai still felt moved. He almost ran up, took Li Xiaolin's hand, and told him that he was the person he was looking for.
Zhao Bai was startled by Li Xiaolin's enthusiasm. After thinking about it, he understood the reason why Li Xiaolin was so enthusiastic.
He didn't object, but took a step back slightly.
This step made Song Ci on the side see the clues, and his eyes swept over Zhao Bai hesitantly, and then fell on Qin Shaobai.
Qin Shaobai caught Song Ci's gaze and said to himself, it seemed that Song Ci was doubting Zhao Bai's identity.
He quickly turned to Zhao Bai and asked loudly: "Sir, you said that Boss Xiao is not an ordinary pawn shop owner. Could it be that there is something shady going on in this pawn shop?"
He pretended to be anxious.
"Sir, the three of us, brother and sister, have spent all our savings to buy this pawn shop. But there must not be any problems with this shop."
"Brother, don't worry about this. Not only has Boss Xiao done nothing illegal, he has also made great contributions to the court."
With that said, Zhao Bai clapped his hands, and Feiyu ran in with an imperial edict.
When everyone saw the imperial edict, they were all so frightened that they knelt on the ground and respectfully welcomed the edict.
The content of the imperial edict is very simple, that is to say, the murder of Boss Xiao was not a simple vendetta, nor was it a murder for the sake of wealth, but a group of people who were corrupt and perverted the law were killing people to silence them, just to regain the evidence that the emperor secretly asked Boss Xiao to collect.
The imperial edict requires the Lin'an prefect to cooperate with the general protecting the country, bring those people to justice, and recover the embezzled national property.
After reading the imperial edict, Li Xiaolin immediately said to Zhao Bai: "General Zhao, look at what to do next."
"Although we already have physical evidence about the pawnshop incident, physical evidence alone is useless. We also need witnesses."
"The general is absolutely right, but isn't the biggest witness lying here?"
"So, we need those people to throw themselves into the trap."
Li Xiaolin looked at Zhao Bai suspiciously.
After a while, he said: "I hope the general will tell me how to make them fall into the trap?"