Tibet

Chapter 454 Unbelievable

Fang Guan nodded, "Dudu Li is right, Liu Wutong's family should be controlled by the real culprit, and the real culprit will also catch Liu Wutong."

"Do you have any questions, Mr. Chamberlain?"

Fang Guan laughed and said, "Could Governor Li reveal the progress of your case investigation?"

Li Ye smiled slightly and said, "My investigation direction is different from yours. You investigate internal responses, while I investigate assassins!"

Fang Guan was already in a predicament of investigating the case at this time, and Liu Wutong ran away last night, which made him so anxious. Li Ye's words lifted his spirits, and he asked quickly, "Can Dudu Li give me some clues?"

Li Ye said calmly: "As long as the Fang Shilang doesn't doubt me for no reason, I will be happy to share clues with the Fang Shilang and solve the case together!"

Fang Guan blushed, and quickly lowered his posture, "We really shouldn't doubt Li Dudu, we are reckless."

Li Ye then said slowly: "I can only tell Fang Shilang that the assassin's real name is Zeng Honger and he is a Japanese entertainer. The rest of the matter can be easily investigated."

Fang Guan was overjoyed and stood up and said: "Thank you! Thank you very much!"

He got the clue and was so anxious that he immediately said goodbye and left in a hurry.

Li Ye immediately returned to the inn. He walked around outside the inn to make sure that no one was watching. He immediately found Guan Pei and said, "The government is searching Liu Wutong. They will immediately move Liu Wutong and his family away. They will first move to another inn and then rent a courtyard." The whole family went into hiding.”

Guan Pei agreed, immediately found a carriage, and moved Liu Wutong and his family away with several brothers.

Li Ye asked his men to take off their clothes from Dali Temple again, so that they no longer had to pretend to be from Dali Temple.

The joint investigation team was set up next door to the son-in-law's mansion in Fenglefang. It was headed by Fang Guan, the Minister of Criminal Affairs, and Cheng Xiao, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Zhang Jian, the imperial censor, formed the investigation team of the Third Division. Let Shi Yushi Zheng Ang replace himself.

Fang Guan hurriedly returned to the investigation team, and he immediately summoned Cheng Xiao and Zheng Ang to discuss the matter.

The three of them sat down, and Zheng Ang asked, "Fang Shilang, is he willing to make friends with you?"

Fang Guan shook his head, "He denied it outright, he didn't admit that he took Liu Wutong's family away."

Zheng Ang was furious, "He took people away in front of me, but he didn't admit it?"

Fang Guan belongs to the prince's faction, and Zheng Ang is Yang Guozhong's confidant. The two are not the same, and they are even hostile in the officialdom. They can maintain formal cooperation with the prince. If it exceeds a certain limit, Fang Guan will not cooperate.

Fang Guan said coldly: "Wang Junbai who took away people in front of you is not Li Ye, and it's not like you don't know Li Ye."

Cheng Xiao shook his head and said, "Wang Junbai is in Yanzhou. I know very well that someone pretended to be Dali Temple."

"Here's the problem. We have no evidence that Li Ye is pretending to be from Dali Temple. He denies it. What should I do?"

Zheng Ang said angrily: "He is also the person handling the case, who else could it be besides him?"

Fang Guan said indifferently: "What if the mastermind behind the son-in-law case pretended to be Dali Temple and took him away?"

Zheng Ang was speechless for a moment, and Fang Guan said coldly: "Zheng Yushi, I know about the murder case in Yunyang County. You made a fool of yourself at the court meeting, so you have always been dissatisfied with Li Ye. Now you think it is He, just like Zhang Xiangguo believed that he killed the son-in-law, was finally exposed as a slander, which made the emperor furious, and might lose his position.

The same goes for you, if Gao Lishi proves that Li Ye was with him yesterday, what will you do?I might as well remind you that he has Shangfang Tianzi Sword in his hand! "

Hearing that Li Ye had the Shangfang Tianzi Sword in his hand, Zheng Ang didn't dare to say anything. Although he failed to impeach Li Ye because of the Yunyang County case and had always held grudges against Li Ye, he was not stupid, and he would not be able to make it difficult for the monk Fang Tianzijian. , I will be fine if I kill myself with that sword.

Cheng Xiao saw that Zheng Ang was a bit embarrassed, so he interrupted the topic and asked, "Mr. Fang, he was also ordered to investigate the case. Did he find anything?"

Fang Guan nodded, "The direction of his investigation is different from ours. He is investigating the identity of the assassin."

Zheng Ang took the opportunity to go down the steps, and he hurriedly asked: "The assassin doesn't have any items or information on him, how can he check?"

Fang Guan glanced at him and said, "Actually, he has found out the identity of the assassin and told me."

Cheng Xiao quickly smiled and said: "The Minister of Housing will not treat it as a secret and not tell it!"

Fang Guan sneered and said, "He said the assassin's name was So Hong Er, a Japanese entertainer."

Zheng Ang was taken aback immediately, "It turned out to be him, why didn't I recognize him?"

Fang Guan asked, "Zheng Yushi knows this person?"

"I saw his performance a few years ago. His figure is very similar, like a child, so he is nicknamed the one-armed prodigy. His ability is to lift a tripod and a flying knife. He can lift a stone tripod weighing hundreds of catties with one hand."

Cheng Xiao also said: "I've heard of this guy too, he seems to be from Chang'an Yiren Bai Opera Troupe."

Zheng Ang hurriedly said: "That's right, it's the Yiren Baixi Troupe, and they are their three pillars. We will ask people from the Baixi Troupe to identify the corpse."

In fact, they also knew that Liu Wutong's family members had been picked up first, and Liu Wutong was probably nowhere to be found. Now they could only hope that the assassin would investigate.

Fang Guan immediately decided: "Without further delay, let's go find someone now!"

Soon, a steward of Yirenbaixi Troupe was found, and he bowed to Fang Guan when he entered the door: "My lord, Zeng Honger used to belong to us, but he has nothing to do with us for a long time. He was taken away by the government.”

Fang Guan was taken aback, "Why was he taken away by the government?"

The steward sighed and said: "He likes Hu Niang, who is performing with him, and spent all his savings on her, but Hu Niang still doesn't like her, he has a grudge in his heart, and when performing throwing knives, he threw a knife After killing Madam Hu, he was captured by the government, and I heard he was sentenced to three thousand miles of exile. Logically speaking, he should be in Yunnan, but why is he here?"

The three of Fang Guan couldn't find Liu Wutong, and they were devastated when they suddenly discovered the true identity of the assassin. The three immediately saw hope again. As long as they found out who recruited Zeng Honger, the real murderer behind the scenes would emerge.

Fang Guan immediately said: "Anyway, let him identify the corpse first!"

They brought the stewards to the mortuary room. The room was very cold and filled with ice cubes. There were two ice coffins inside, one was the son-in-law Zhang Yi, and the other was smaller, the assassin Zeng Honger.

Two soldiers lifted the lid of the coffin, and the body was covered by a white cloth. The soldiers slowly lifted the white cloth, and suddenly exclaimed, "What's going on?"

Everyone stepped forward together and were shocked to see that under the white cloth was not the assassin Zeng Honger, but a dead dog.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, what's going on?

Fang Guan suddenly gritted his teeth and asked, "When was the last time you opened the coffin lid?"

The official in charge of the corpse said tremblingly: "Yesterday morning, Peng Zhongcheng from Dali Temple came to inspect the corpse, and I accompanied him to see the corpse."

"Did you confirm after he left?" Zheng Ang asked angrily.

"The humble official confirmed it, then closed the coffin lid, and never opened it again."

Fang Guan shook his head, "It has nothing to do with Peng Haiyan. When he left, I was the one who escorted him out. I couldn't see a corpse on his back?"

"Three adults, could it be that the assassin is not dead?" An official made a bold hypothesis.

The three of them found it unbelievable, but other than that, how could they explain it? Could it be that someone stole the corpse?

The three of them suddenly thought of something at the same time, and looked at the ice coffin of the son-in-law together, they all had a bad feeling.

Fang Guan stepped forward and ordered: "Open!"

The soldiers opened the ice coffin and lifted the white cloth. Everyone was stunned. The body was still there, but the head was missing.

There was a great chaos in the son-in-law's mansion, and everyone was looking for the head of the son-in-law.

(End of this chapter)