Daxuanti criminal officer

Chapter 48

Indeed, without the help of scientific instruments, it is really difficult to judge the time of an adult's old injury.

Xu Zun had indeed ignored this point before.

However, for the big picture, this is irrelevant.

Therefore, he proposed to skip it and move on to the next topic.

But in this way, the people at the scene were confused and smoky.

"How can this work?" Inspector Li Yan muttered, "It's not rigorous at all. Is this Taoist an assassin? There must be an explanation, right?"

In Master 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 capital.

But he forgot one thing, even if the Taoist priests were not assassins, with that jade pendant, they would still be implicated.

"Xu Zun," Cai Kun was also a little anxious, "You have been talking for a long time, is there any point? Tell me quickly, why did those people burn the Taoist priest's body?"

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

"Okay, then I'll show my cards! You can sit still!" Xu Zun pointed his finger at the body of the Taoist priest and said loudly, "Actually, you all know this person!
"His family's ancestral home is Nangeng, Shangzhou. He is a Jinshi Hanlin of Shangke, and the county magistrate of Xinye County—Qiu Yongnian!!!"

Snapped!
Cai Kun missed, and the teacup fell to the ground and shattered.

ho...

All the officials were speechless, dumbfounded.

The other people in the yard reacted differently, some were puzzled, some didn't hear clearly, some were shocked and surprised, and some trembled as if struck by lightning...

"What?" Cai Kun started up from his seat and asked, "Xu Zun, what did you just say? Who is this Taoist priest?"

"I said," Xu Zun pointed at the Taoist priest's body and repeated, "This man is the real Qiu Yongnian!"

"That……"

Cai Kun looked aside suspiciously.

"what!!?"

Qiu Yongnian on the side was suddenly startled, his legs went limp, and he sat down on the chair.

"Ouch..."

The county magistrate Luo Wanwan was startled, looked at Qiu Yongnian, then at the corpse of the Taoist priest on the ground, and involuntarily moved the chair back a few steps until the back of the chair leaned against the bodyguard.

"How... how could it be?"

At the same moment, even Shen Tiande, who was in handcuffs, was full of astonishment. He never expected Xu Zun to say such earth-shattering words.

Not only him, but the servants of Shen's residence, Shen Qian next to him, and even Huo Anu who helped Xu Zun also stared wide-eyed, with an unbelievable expression on their faces.

"Xu...Xu Zun..." Qiu Yongnian realized that he had lost his composure, and then stood up angrily and shouted, "You are nothing short of desolate, you just framed me, but now... now... unexpectedly... Still like this?"

Qiu Yongnian was so angry that he couldn't find a suitable word to reprimand Xu Zun.

"Xu Zun," the governor Li Yan asked hurriedly, "what do you mean? Why did the Taoist suddenly become Qiu Yongnian again?
"If the Taoist priest is Qiu Yongnian," he pointed to the county magistrate Qiu Yongnian, "then who is he?"

"No, that's not the point," Chen Taiji asked, "Xu Zun, you must have a basis for what you say?"

"Yes!" Cai Kun echoed, "Xu Zun, you can't be a sensationalist, if you don't have real evidence, then I can't help you!"

"Evidence? Of course there is!"

Xu Zun smiled confidently, and gestured to Huo Anu.Huo Anu immediately took out a blank piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Cai Kun.

But I saw four half-characters written on the white paper, namely: "female", "fang", "paper", and "fei", followed by a radical "亻".

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

"My lord," Xu Zun replied, "At the beginning, after we heard that there was a Taoist living in the Longevity Temple in Qijiawu, we went to check it out.

"I didn't expect that the enemy would be one step ahead of us, and had already burned the temple of longevity, and the arresters only found a piece of jade pendant.

"And I, from the ruins of the Temple of Longevity, found a wall full of words..."

Next, Xu Zun told all the discoveries and conjectures he and Huo Anu had made that night at the Temple of Longevity.

"This, isn't it too outrageous?" After listening, Li Yan, the governor, quickly discovered the problem, "According to your speculation, that Taoist should be imprisoned in the secret room of the Temple of Longevity, but according to witnesses , Someone once saw the Taoist living in the temple.

"How can the imprisoned be seen by outsiders?"

"That's simple," Xu Zun replied, "The murderer sent someone pretending to be a Taoist priest to guard the imprisoned Qiu Yongnian, creating an illusion that there is a Taoist priest living in the Longevity Temple..."

Seeing that most people were in a daze, Xu Zun simply said again:
"Okay, then I'll tell you a story." He pointed to the body of the Taoist priest, "One year ago, Qiu Yongnian, a Jinshi of Shangke, was suddenly kidnapped by gangsters and imprisoned in Qijiawu before he went to Xinye County to take office. In the concept of longevity.

"This group of gangsters is not simple, they selected a person who looks similar to Qiu Yongnian, and asked him to pretend to be the county magistrate to take up the post in Xinye County.

"At the same time, they also imitated the cruel methods of the Criminal Ministry and tortured Zhenqiu Yongnian!

"Firstly, it is to prepare for today's iron coffin case; secondly, it is to let the real Qiu Yongnian tell everything about him, so that the fake Qiu Yongnian can better confuse the fake with the real.

"When they were imprisoned, they also let the guards wear Taoist robes, dressed in rags, and deliberately walked around to be seen by others, creating an illusion that there was a Taoist priest living in the Longevity View, so that after the iron coffin case happened, people could be seen. Index the line to Taoist Temple.

"So the witnesses saw the guards, not the prisoners.

"This is... an extremely elaborate and cruel conspiracy," Xu Zun said, "When the time is right, they will kill Zhenqiu Yongnian, put him in Taoist robes, and put him in an iron coffin.

"Next, when the iron coffin incident happened, they burned the Taoist temple and left the jade pendant at the scene, waiting for us to investigate!
"In this way, all the clues will be connected together, so we can logically believe that this real Qiu Yongnian is the Japanese assassin who assassinated the Queen Mother back then!"

"what?"

This reasoning surprised everyone again.

"Then... That's my previous question," Li Yan asked, "Why didn'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, "Lord Li, this question is actually a bit redundant.

"Think about it, the murderer's ultimate goal is to frame Shen Gong! If the iron coffin case was really done by Shen Gong, can Shen Gong put the jade pendant on the corpse?"

"Oh..." Li Yan nodded, and only then did he realize something.

"However, if the jade pendant is found from the ruins of the Temple of Longevity, the meaning will be different. People will think that Duke Shen is harboring assassins, which will make Duke Shen unable to explain.

"It's the same reason," Xu Zun said again, "someone might think, since the murderer's ultimate goal is to frame Shen Gong, why not just write a letter of denunciation?

"Why do you have to kill You Dalang and his wife first, accuse me of harming the merchants, and then write a letter of exposure? Is this superfluous?
"But if you think about it carefully, it's actually very necessary to do this!" Xu Zun pointed to Cai Kun and Chen Taiji, and said, "After all, Cai Geling and Chen Yushi are clearly aware of the details, and they are not idle people. !
"If even framing people is so insincere, how can they escape the eyes of these two?

"However, if they used me to cause the iron coffin case by using me to kill merchants and embezzle property, wouldn't the effect be completely different?"

Oh……

Everyone nodded again and again, and finally understood Xu Zun's meaning.

After all, Shen Tiande is an important minister of the imperial court and still has power in the current court. If the report directly points to Shen Tiande, it will appear too fake and arouse suspicion.

"Now, everyone understands," Xu Zun pointed at Qiu Yongnian, "why did he send people to sneak into Yizhuang and burn the Taoist priest's body?
"When he led us to associate the corpse with the Japanese assassin, the role of the corpse has already been achieved.

"He didn't want anyone to recognize that this person was not a Japanese assassin, so he fell into our trap. He was worried that our fictional Eastern Palace guard would recognize him, so he..."

"Stop! Stop!" Unexpectedly, Xu Zun was interrupted by Cai Kun before he finished speaking.But Cai Kun asked eagerly holding up the blank paper, "Don't talk about these useless things, first tell me what do these words mean?
"Why do you think that the deceased is—Qiu Yongnian!!?"

(End of this chapter)