After listening to Wang Yue's narration, Dugu Qian looked troubled and said after a while: "My father's schedule was arranged ten days ago. The reason why I only informed the manager there last night was a complete accident. I forgot to notify him."
"It was arranged ten days ago?" Wang Yue asked in surprise.
Dugu Qian nodded, "It's my father's habit. He has too many things in the past few years, so he usually plans them in advance. Unless there are special circumstances, he usually won't change his schedule."
This is indeed a bit difficult to handle. It is too early and more people may know about it.
Wang Yue frowned and asked again: "Who knows the schedule of Prime Minister Dugu?"
Dugu Qian thought for a while and said: "There are really not many people who know. Apart from me, and then the leader of the guards, we should be the only two who know it."
"Would the maids, concubines or doctors know about it?" Wang Yue asked again.
"impossible!"
Dugu Qian denied it flatly: "The rules in the mansion are very strict. There are rules about who should know what. Even the maids and doctors don't know about it. As for concubines, my father does have them, but he won't discuss business matters with them.
Maybe he would have told his concubine last night that he wanted me to call someone for questioning?"
Wang Yue shook his head. He had just figured out that if there was a problem with the concubine, there was no need to assassinate her.
"Fetch the captain of the guard! I'll ask him."
In fact, Wang Yue felt that there were still some loopholes. If the personal guard was an internal agent, he could still assassinate Du Lingqiu. There was no need to find outsiders to do it. However, this doubt only flashed through his mind and he did not have so much time to consider it carefully.
Not long after, a burly man walked up quickly. He also had a filial piety and a sad expression. This man's name was Xu Wei, and he was the personal warrior leader of Du Lingqiu. He had followed Du Lingqiu for twenty years, but he didn't expect that he would watch helplessly in the end.
Watching the old master die in front of his eyes.
Xu Wei suffered a huge blow. He was like a frosted eggplant, looking extremely depressed. He entered the house and bowed.
Dugu Mingren introduced Wang Yue to him and said to him: "Commander Wang wants to ask some questions? Just answer them truthfully."
"Follow the order!"
Dugu Mingren nodded to Wang Yue? Wang Yue asked calmly: "Excuse me, Chief Xu, the old family master's itinerary plan? Have you leaked it to others?"
"impossible!"
Xu Wei immediately denied it without thinking: "I won't go out and talk about this kind of thing? No one is interested in asking about it."
"What if someone is interested?" Wang Yue continued to ask.
"Who would feel..."
Xu Wei suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking? He said after a while: "It sounds like someone is interested."
"Who is it?" the three people in the room asked at the same time.
Xu Wei scratched his head and said: "Wu Faping asked me a few days ago. Did I tell him? I kind of forgot? We had dinner together at that time."
"This Wu Faping must not be in the house anymore, right?" Wang Yue suddenly had a strong feeling in his heart that he was a step too late.
"Hey! How does Commander Wang know? Wu Faping asked for leave in the afternoon and said he would be back in the evening, but he hasn't come back yet."
The Dugu brothers looked at each other. They were a little out of control. Dugu Mingren immediately ordered: "Send all the brothers out and be sure to find this Wu Faping."
Xu Wei was extremely worried and hurriedly ran to make arrangements.
Accompanied by the Dugu brothers, Wang Yue arrived at Wu Faping's room. The room was very simple, with just a bed and a wooden box. There were several damaged weapons piled in the corner of the room.
The guards opened the box and found some old clothes and more than a dozen dollars inside. There was nothing under the bed, and the soldiers began to search on the ground and walls.
Is this? Wang Yue's eyes fell on the wall. There was a Buddhist niche with a lamp on the wall. There was an oil lamp on it? Wang Yue immediately found that the oil lamp was different. It seemed to be very new. He took off the oil lamp and smelled it. Sure enough, it was
A new oil lamp has no smell of lamp oil.
"Commander Wang, is there something wrong with this oil lamp?" Dugu Qian asked.
"It's a little abnormal. Anything that's abnormal must have something fishy in it!"
Wang Yue pulled out his dagger, pried open the oil lamp, and took out a roll of paper from the base of the oil lamp.
The Dugu brothers were greatly surprised. They gathered around and asked, "What is it?"
Wang Yue unfolded the paper, looked at it, and said calmly: "It's a deposit receipt from Baoji Cabinet. He deposited three hundred taels of gold ten days ago. He still has real money."
Wang Yue glanced at Brother Dugu, "Does he have such a high salary?"
"impossible!"
Dugu Mingren shook his head repeatedly, "They make six guans a month. To save 3,000 guans, it will take at least... forty years. How is that possible?"
Dugu Mingren suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "It must be him who betrayed his master. I must cut him into pieces!"
"I'm afraid it's too late."
Wang Yue sighed softly, "This voucher was not taken away. He did not escape. If I guessed correctly, he has been silenced."
"This will happen..." Dugu Mingren murmured.
Wang Yue was also really disappointed. He returned the credentials to the Dugu brothers and said to them: "I'll take my leave first. If there is any news about Wu Fa's reconciliation, please notify me in time!"
He bowed, took his leave with his men and left...
Before dawn, the servants of Dugu Mansion found Wu Faping's body in the woods beside Qujiang Pool. The clues they just found were broken again.
Wang Yue had no choice but to sort out his thoughts and prepare to report to His Highness King Jin.
In the official room of the King of Jin, Wang Yue reported in detail what he had discovered yesterday to King Guo Song of Jin. Guo Song listened with squinted eyes and said nothing. Pan Liao and Du You, two prime ministers, sat next to them, and they were also thoughtful.
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At the end, Wang Yue sighed and said: "Bizhi found the only clue, but the other party was still too cunning and killed the person in advance, causing the clue to be broken again, Bizhi was incompetent!"
"What do you think?" Guo Song turned around and asked Pan Liao and Du You.
Pan Liao pondered for a moment and said: "It's a little better than the imperial court's investigation. The imperial court didn't take into account the situation of the carriage being blocked, and now it still believes that the assassin was a poisonous crossbow arrow shot from the dilapidated roof."
Du You also said: "It is true that the imperial court's investigation did not take into account the issue of internal responses, and it is still a bit superficial."
Guo Song nodded and said to Wang Yue: "Actually, there is a big loophole in your investigation. Didn't you find it?"
Wang Yue was shocked, "What's the loophole in this humble position?"
Guo Song smiled and said: "You deduce that the assassin shot poisonous crossbow arrows from the tree. Then why didn't the guards of Prime Minister Dugu catch him? Can he grow wings like a bird and fly away?"
Wang Yue was stunned, Du You put his hands on his hands and said with a smile: "That's wonderful. Your Highness has indeed pointed out a big loophole?"
"Could it really be shot from the roof?" Wang Yue said to himself.
Guo Song shook his head, "You are still constrained by the box when thinking about the problem, so be it! We will conduct a live deduction once, and I believe you will understand."
Guo Song wrote a warrant and handed it to Wang Yue, "Go to Dugu Mansion again and ask them to perform it again according to the way Prime Minister Dugu traveled yesterday morning. All the warriors yesterday must participate, and their positions cannot be wrong."
"I understand the humble position!"
Wang Yue took the letter doubtfully and left in a hurry.
Guo Song smiled at the two prime ministers and said, "Are you two interested in going?"
Pan Liao and Du You smiled happily and said, "Why are you not interested? Let's go! Let's go and see together."
Guo Song and the two prime ministers rode a carriage toward Xianyang under the escort of hundreds of cavalry.
.........
Near noon, eighteen Dugu Prefecture warriors escorted a carriage into Xianyang County, followed by a large group of internal guard cavalry. Wang Yue himself was among the eighteen Dugu Prefecture warriors. He played the role of Wu Faping and rode in front of Wu Faping.
On the seat.
The carriage turned a corner and drove towards the south of the county seat. After walking for about a mile, the houses in front began to become empty. On the left was a very narrow river with thick poplar trees growing beside it. On the right were houses. In front of them were houses.
A few hundred steps away is the sugar making workshop.
Guo Song, along with two prime ministers and a large group of cavalry guards, had been waiting for a long time.
Wang Yue looked up the tree as he walked. At this time, he clearly saw a dark figure squatting on a poplar tree. The leaves could not cover his figure at all, and it was extremely eye-catching.
"wrong!"
Wang Yue suddenly noticed something unusual. He pointed at the black shadow on the tree and asked the leader Xu Wei, "Have you seen it?"
Xu Wei nodded, "We could see it very clearly. If the assassin had been wearing black clothes yesterday, we should have seen him very clearly."
Another samurai said: "I was looking for a bird's nest in the poplar tree yesterday. I can be sure that there is no such conspicuous black shadow on the tree."
Wang Yue became nervous. He made a mistake in his judgment yesterday. There was definitely no man in black on the big tree.