Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 24 Temporary departure
On the second day, an earthen kiln outside Chang'an City.

"My lord, since we have already arrived in Chang'an, why don't we go directly to the palace to meet the saint?"

Li Yuanfang's voice came from outside the kiln.

Di Renjie replied: "Of course it is to avoid the other party's eyes and ears."

Li Yuanfang's complexion changed, and he lost his voice: "You mean that there are traitors around the emperor?"

Di Renjie said: "This is for sure, otherwise there would be no attack on Jiang Zhang."

The two stood quietly on the ruins of the earthen kiln. Suddenly, Di Renjie saw a speck of whiteness among the remnants of the tiles.

Di Renjie walked over slowly, and lifted the tiles, revealing white spots, which were only a trace of white silk fabric that had been burned by the fire.

Li Yuanfang asked strangely: "What is this?"

Di Renjie didn't reply and put it away.

Then Di Renjie said: "Let's go, oh, by the way, Yuan Fang, who is better in martial arts, you or Jing Yang?"

Li Yuanfang smiled shyly, and said, "The humble job is slightly better."

Di Renjie said with a smile: "I'm afraid it's more than one chip?"

Li Yuanfang said: "Your Excellency may not know that martial artists are divided into low-rate, third-rate, second-rate, first-rate and top-notch in the Jianghu. The low-level job is in the second-rate state, and I think Jing Yang should be in the third-rate state, but the low-level job is currently injured, so only It can be said to be slightly better. Of course, this is in the case of a fair competition, if assassination, poisoning, sneak attack, etc. are added, a warrior with a low level may not be able to kill a warrior with a high level."

Di Renjie nodded thoughtfully.

As soon as Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang returned to the inn, they saw Wang Mang coming back.

Di Renjie asked: "How is it? Did you hear any news?"

Wang Mang said: "The emperor will go to Yuanjue Temple to offer incense in two days."

Di Renjie said: "Okay, thanks to Jing Yang this time, the old man thanked you here."

Wang Mang waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, no one will stand idly by when encountering such injustice."

Di Renjie looked at Wang Mang and smiled, and asked, "Can you tell me something about you?"

Wang Mang was shocked in his heart, forced a smile with his face unchanged: "My lord, what do you mean by that?"

Di Renjie looked at Wang Mang and smiled without saying a word, Li Yuanfang slowly put his hand on the handle of the knife.

After a while, Di Renjie said: "Forget it, since you don't want to say more now, I won't force you. When you want to say something, the old man will listen to you."

At this time, Wang Mang couldn't figure out how to show his flaws, and asked, "Does your lord think that I have any malice towards you?"

Di Renjie smiled and said, "Not really."

Li Yuanfang asked suspiciously, "What charades are you playing?"

Wang Mang said: "My lord, you just need to believe that I have no ill intentions towards you. As for my purpose, I can't tell you yet. I just hope that your lord will remember that you owe me a favor. When the time comes, I will naturally explain the whole story to you. But then again, for a good official like you, my lord, even if I don't have any purpose, I will help you within the scope of my ability."

Di Renjie smiled: "Jing Yang, you really put a high hat on me."

Wang Mang smiled and said: "I speak from the bottom of my heart, my lord, now you have arrived in Chang'an, and you are protected by brother Yuanfang. And I still have something to do, we will meet later!"

As he said that, Wang Mang bowed his hands to Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang and left.

Di Renjie looked at Wang Mang's back and shook his head, Li Yuanfang asked, "My lord, what's wrong with Jing Yang, what are you talking about?"

Di Renjie sighed, "He's a nice young man, I hope he doesn't go astray."

Li Yuanfang looked at this scene with a dazed expression on his face, and Di Renjie didn't explain anymore.

After Wang Mang left, Di Renjie took out the handkerchief embroidered with little snakes that Li Yuanfang had brought, and then took out the white silk fabric, and said, "Let's have a look."

Li Yuanfang picked it up, looked at it carefully, and after careful comparison, said: "The materials of the two are exactly the same, and they are both handkerchiefs used by 'Viper'."

Di Renjie nodded and said, "Yes, there are a few things for sure. First, the fire in the earthen kiln was by no means an accident. Second, the killing of the mission and the fire in the earthen kiln were all caused by vipers, so the two cases are classified into one." .So the first question arises, why did Viper take such a risk to attack and kill the mission, and even pretend to enter Beijing?"

Li Yuanfang thought for a moment, then asked, "What does your lord mean?"

Di Renjie sat down slowly, and said: "We can use the method of exclusion. The first possibility is that they did this to provoke a war between the two countries."

Li Yuanfang shook his head and said, "Then they only need to kill the mission, why would they risk going to Beijing?"

Di Renjie nodded: "It makes sense, this point can be ruled out. The second possibility is to pretend to be a mission to Beijing for profit and get a lot of rewards."

After thinking for a while, Li Yuanfang said: "Then they don't have to let me escape, let alone kill the princess or assassinate the lord."

Di Renjie nodded and said, "This can also be ruled out. Then the third possibility is to use fake missions to enter Beijing as a cover to sneak into the capital to achieve their ulterior motives."

Li Yuanfang nodded and said, "This is the most reasonable assumption!"

Di Renjie stood up and said, "This is the only assumption that is the most reasonable, so what is this ulterior purpose?"

Di Renjie walked to the desk, picked up a pen and wrote on the paper: kill the mission—pretend to enter Beijing—attack the kiln.

After seeing it, Li Yuanfang said: "That's right, from the handkerchief of Viper found in the ruins, it can be deduced that attacking the kiln is their ultimate goal."

Di Renjie slowly put down his pen, and said, "Then the second question arises, what is in the kiln that made them take such a risk?"

Li Yuanfang thought for a while and said, "It must be something very important to them."

Di Renjie nodded: "Okay! You said it's a thing, it's a hypothesis, but there are two more questions, first, if it's a thing, after they get it, they just leave, why bother to throw the soil away?" The kiln burns down?"

Li Yuanfang frowned and said, "Maybe, they are afraid of leaving traces."

Di Renjie said: "This can be regarded as an explanation, then the second question, Qianniuwei is the emperor's personal guard rate, and what they guard must be related to the emperor, so why not put this thing in the palace? ? And put it in an earthen kiln?"

Li Yuanfang thought for a while and said, "So, what they're looking for isn't an object."

Di Renjie asked: "If what you are looking for is not an object, then what is it?"

Li Yuanfang blurted out: "Could it be a person?"

Di Renjie nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Okay! This is another hypothesis, but the question is still there. If they want to save this person, they just need to save him. Why burn the kiln?"

Li Yuanfang shook his head.

Di Renjie continued: "There is only one explanation, and that is to create the illusion of an accidental fire, and use the fire to burn all the corpses, making it impossible for the investigators to identify the appearance. In this way, it is impossible to judge whether the mysterious person was rescued by them or not." He left or was burned to death."

Li Yuanfang nodded: "It makes sense."

Di Renjie smiled and said: "It's logical, okay, let's combine the two hypotheses now. These people want to use the status of the mission to achieve their own purpose, and this purpose is to rescue the mysterious figure in the kiln."

Li Yuanfang nodded and said, "All of this is logical. Without the identity of the fake mission group, even if they attack the kiln and save people, they will not be able to bring the mysterious person out of Chang'an City."

Di Renjie asked: "The last question, why did they kill the princess?"

Li Yuanfang frowned and murmured, "That's right."

Di Renjie suddenly remembered something, and said, "If the earthen kiln case happened and the city gates were closed, who is the only one in this mission that cannot be found?"

Li Yuanfang blurted out: "Princess Yiyang."

Di Renjie nodded and said, "Now it is certain that this mysterious person left in the Princess's official sedan chair, which is why they killed the Princess."

Li Yuanfang smiled and said, "There is no flaw."

Di Renjie sighed, "Now we can enter Beijing!"

(End of this chapter)