After the fiancé was cut off by the county owner

Chapter 44 Chain Links
Less than a month after the store opened, two strangers suddenly came to the Wei family's grocery store and showed him a blueprint of jewelry for him to identify.

Wei Changgui was shocked when he saw the blueprint.Because the few pieces of jewelry on that drawing are exactly the same as the ones he salvaged from the Weishui River.

Wei Changgui was afraid of causing trouble, so he naturally said he had never seen it before, but the two foreigners put the knife on his neck without saying a word, Wei Changgui was so frightened that he dared not hide a word, and honestly confessed the jewelry of origin.

A few days later, Wei Changgui chatted with shoppers in the shop, saying that shopkeeper Song of Fuxiang Gold Shop in Yongningfang, Kyoto, was killed. Cut off the whole root.

Wei Changgui's back felt chills and he was sweating profusely. He had an intuition that shopkeeper Song must have been killed by those two foreigners, because it was Shopkeeper Song who bought those jewelry.

Shopkeeper Song is dead, will it be his and his father's turn next?

Wei Changgui couldn't help being frightened. In order to save his life, he didn't even care about business, so he left the grocery store to his wife to take care of, while he and Wei Tiezhu found a place to hide.

He didn't dare to reappear in front of people until the people from Jingzhao Mansion captured the two foreigners.

After hearing Wei Changgui's explanation, Yan Li was very angry. If the father and son of the Wei family hadn't been greedy for money, the shopkeeper Song of Fuxiang Gold Shop would not have been killed.

If it was true as stated in the confessions of the two foreigners who killed shopkeeper Song, the corpse of the woman in red was very likely to be the only daughter of Prince Changjun, County Lord Qingming.

King Changjun is the No.12 son of the first emperor, and the half-brother of Emperor Yuanhe.

After the rebellion case of the five kings, King Changjun was conferred the title of prince, and was finally implicated in his mother's imperial concubine's practice of witchcraft, so he was demoted to the title of prince of the county and went to Liuzhou.

Before his death, the first emperor left a will to Emperor Yuanhe, and the king of Changjun and his heirs would never set foot in Kyoto.If Changjun's royal residence conspires against them, the rebels don't have to be escorted to the capital, they can be dealt with on the spot.

This edict was well known to the government and the public. For more than ten years, the Changjun Palace has always been in Liuzhou, keeping a low profile and gradually fading out of the scope of people's attention.

The status of Qingming County Lord is unusual, Yan Li immediately reported the matter to Emperor Yuanhe.After Emperor Yuanhe knew about it, he hadn't condemned Changjun's palace, but the Changjun's palace's pleading sheet had already been handed over.

King Changjun's memorial was not long. In addition to a large pleading at the beginning, Emperor Yuanhe had to make decisions for him.

King Chang said that his only daughter, County Lord Qingming, did not come to Beijing privately, but was taken away by gangsters. For some reason, she died tragically in the Weishui River.

Emperor Yuanhe was silent for a long time after reading the excerpts, and then ordered the secret guards to go to Liuzhou to investigate.He ordered Yan Li to suspend the investigation of the case of the female corpse in red until the dark guard returned.

After speaking, he asked about the case of the murder of Princess Ling, so Yan Li had no choice but to tell the clues he found one by one.Seeing Yuan Hedi's uneasy expression, he bit the bullet and expressed his conjecture.

"Your Majesty, if the red-clothed woman's corpse is really Qingming County Lord, I believe that the murderer of this case is the same person as Yong'an County Lord and Ling County Lord."

Yuan Hedi's expression became very serious, "Is there any basis?"

Yan Li said: "The reason why I have doubts is because there are too many coincidences in these three cases."

"The first coincidence is their death. Although the red-clothed female corpse cannot be specific on the date of death, I inferred that it was at the beginning of April. The time when Yong'an County Lord was killed was on the sixth day of May, and the time when Ling County Lord was killed was on the sixth day of September. .If the female corpse in red is really Qingming County Lord, then her death date should be the sixth day of April."

"The second coincidence is the cause of their deaths. Both the red-clothed female corpse and Princess Ling were murdered and sank underwater. The body of County Lord Yong'an was also found in the water."

"The third coincidence is their identities and ages. The victims were all noble daughters of the clan, and they all died shortly after their birthdays."

There were many other coincidences. For example, when the bodies of the three were found, they were all wearing red dresses, but Yan Li was interrupted by Emperor Yuanhe before he could say anything, "According to what you said, the murderer has enmity with the royal family?"

This is just a guess, Yan Li naturally dare not make an arbitrary decision.All he could do was wait for the dark guard to return from Liuzhou, and then he would know whether his guess was true.

Fortunately, the hidden guards didn't keep them waiting. Three days later, the news about the Lord Qingming reached the imperial court.

Indeed, as King Chang said in his pleadings, Lord Qingming was kidnapped by gangsters on his way to the temple fair.

The people from Changjun Wangfu almost turned Liuzhou upside down and found no one.

Later, a Liuzhou spice merchant came back from Kyoto and bought a pair of gold earrings inlaid with rubies in the shape of water drops for his daughter. When his daughter went out to a banquet, she was recognized as the earrings of Qingming County Lord.

The news reached Changjun King's Mansion, and Changjun Wang interrogated the spice merchant, who only said that he bought it in a gold shop in Kyoto.Changjun's palace cannot leave the fief, so he can only send his confidants to the capital to find a daughter.

After the two confidantes came to the capital, they went straight to Fuxiang Gold Shop and asked shopkeeper Song about the origin of the earrings. Shopkeeper Song only remembered that the pair who sold him the earrings were a father and son who had been dredging the Weishui River all year round.

The confidantes found the grocery store of the Wei family again, and learned from Wei Changgui that the gold earrings and gold bracelets were taken from a drowned female corpse, and that the female corpse was in Yizhuang, so they went to Yizhuang to steal it. corpse.

Unexpectedly, it happened that an officer from Jingzhao Mansion was handling the case and was caught.According to the account of those two, the reason why the shopkeeper Song of Fuxiang Gold Shop was killed was because he insulted the Qingming County Lord.

In other words, he insulted the corpse of a red-clothed woman who was probably the head of Qingming County.

The confidant of King Changjun killed a shopkeeper of a gold shop in Kyoto. As the owner, King Changjun is naturally to blame.However, the identities of Yuan and Di's red-clothed female corpses have not yet been determined, and the two of them cannot die for the time being.

According to the information verified by the dark guards, the county master Qingming was born with a disease in his left foot, and there is no little toe on the sole of his left foot.And the left foot of the female corpse in red happens to match this feature.

The red-clothed female corpse was the Qingming county lord, and at the moment her identity was confirmed, the pain and anger in Yuan Hedi's heart could no longer be suppressed.

"Let me check. I want to see who has the guts to murder my nieces."

Then he gave Yan Li a decree, ordering the three palaces and relevant personnel to fully cooperate with Dali Temple in investigating the case, and anyone who did not cooperate would be disobeying the sacred order.

Yan Li also secretly made up his mind to find out the murderer who killed your daughter.

East Palace
The prince is playing chess with a white-haired old man.The prince held black pieces in his hand, and the white-haired old man held white pieces in his hand. The prince fell down and swallowed several pieces in an instant.

The white-haired old man smiled slightly, "Although His Highness made a dangerous move in chess, he caught the old man by surprise."

The prince shook his head, "If there is no other way, Gu will not move this pawn."

The white-haired old man smiled and said nothing.

The prince asked again: "Mr. Song, do you think Yan Li can find out the real culprit behind the scenes?"

The white-haired old man, Mr. Song, touched the beard on his lips, "Small shrimp are easy to find, but big fish are hard to find."

The prince suppressed his smile when he heard the words, "Since Mr. Song made such a statement, it must have been calculated by divination?"

Mr. Song still had a smile on his face, but said in his mouth: "The art of deduction is not omnipotent, please forgive me, Your Highness."

The prince naturally understood what he meant, and said apologetically, "I don't blame you sir, it's Gutai who insists too much."

After that, they stopped talking about it with him, and then the two played a game of chess again, and the prince still won.

Mr. Song got up to leave, but the prince did not keep him.

(End of this chapter)