Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 64
In the quiet night, there was a rush of hoofbeats from a distance, and a horse came galloping and stopped in front of the county government office.

The man on the horse jumped down with his briefcase on his back, and it was Di Chun.

Di Chun asked the yamen servant: "The deposed envoy, Mr. Di Renjie, is in the county yamen?"

The yamen servant nodded: "Exactly! My lord is in the second hall."

Di Chun heaved a sigh of relief: "Finally found the master!"

After speaking, he walked quickly into the second hall.

Di Renjie was giving orders to Li Yuanfang and Zeng Tai, when he saw Di Chun coming, he asked, "What's wrong?"

Holding the briefcase in his hands, Di Chun said, "Master, this is an urgent document from the cabinet."

Di Renjie said to Zeng Tai: "Go!" After speaking, he picked up the briefcase and began to read it slowly.

Zeng Tai took the order and left.

Wang Mang looked at Di Chun's dusty appearance and asked, "Di Chun, from your appearance, the imperial guards should be here."

Di Chun gave a thumbs up and praised: "As expected of uncle! Your guess is really accurate, the imperial guards have arrived in the post."

Li Yuanfang smiled and said: "Just now, my lord asked me to transfer the imperial guards, I didn't expect..."

"strangeness!"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Di Renjie's voice.

Wang Mang asked, "My lord, what's the matter?"

Di Renjie held the official document in his hand and said: "Wu Xiaojie, the academician in charge of Chongwenguan under the jurisdiction of Prince Wei, and Xu Shide, the school secretary, fought with weapons and died in Chongwenguan at the same time."

Li Yuanfang was startled: "A fight with weapons?"

Di Renjie nodded: "Do you think it's strange that the two civil servants would fight to death?"

Di Chun said from the side: "This matter has now spread all over the capital, and the imperial edict has been passed down. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prince's Neifang Bureau, and the Zong Zhengfu will investigate immediately."

Di Renjie took a deep breath and said: "What's even more strange is that Wu Xiaojie and Xu Shide are close friends. It's incredible why the two of them would kill each other, bloody Chongwenguan."

Di Chun said: "There are rumors in Beijing that these two people turned against each other because of a brothel girl."

Wang Mang shook his head: "If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. The two civil servants would fight with weapons. The most incredible thing is that they died at the same time. There must be something strange about it."

Di Renjie nodded: "We mentioned the prince during our chat last night, and something happened now, the prince's situation is not good!"

Li Yuanfang said in shock: "My lord, you mean the emperor wants to be right..."

While talking, Li Yuanfang didn't dare to say any more.

Di Renjie kept pacing the room, meditating quietly.

None of Wang Mang and the others made a sound, for fear of interrupting Di Renjie's train of thought.

After a long time, Di Renjie came back to his senses, and said slowly: "In one day, I heard that three people surnamed Wu died one after another, and they were all from Chang'an, the capital city."

Wang Mang nodded: "Yes, there must be some connection between the deceased surnamed Wu in the two murder cases today and Wu Xiaojie, the head of the Chongwen Academy!"

Di Renjie shook his head: "There is a lack of evidence, so it is too early to draw conclusions."

Wang Mang thought for a while, came to understand, and praised: "My lord, you really deserve to be a master at judging cases. You have a clear mind at all times. You never make subjective assumptions. Any judgment must be supported by evidence. This is easy to say, but it is easy to do. Get up, and many people will not be able to do it.”

Di Renjie looked at Wang Mang and said with a smile: "As a case investigator, you can't act on your own guesses at any time, and you must speak evidence in everything!"

Wang Mang, Li Yuanfang and the others looked at each other and nodded.

Di Renjie continued: "We still focus on the two murder cases at present. The two deceased surnamed Wu were both from Chang'an, and they both wore clothes made of silk. Let's do this analysis: under normal circumstances, Chang'an city , which type of people prefer to wear silk clothes?"

Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang looked at Di Chun and smiled.

Di Renjie asked strangely, "What's wrong?"

Wang Mang smiled and said, "My lord, you may not have noticed that Di Chun is wearing a silk coat right now."

Di Renjie took a closer look and couldn't help laughing: "It's true."

Li Yuanfang said with a smile: "Di Chun is now the head of the Di Mansion. All the deacons in the mansion wear clothes of this material."

Di Chun said with a smile: "Not only our Di Mansion, but all the butlers in the capital except Prince Neifang are almost without exception."

Di Renjie nodded and asked, "Well, what else?"

Di Chun thought for a while: "That's too much!"

Di Renjie said: "Only in Chang'an City!"

Di Chun slapped his head: "By the way, the range is much smaller. In Chang'an City, there are silk and satin houses, tea houses, money houses, banks, restaurants, wine shop owners, businessmen, and various yamen who like to wear this kind of clothes. The masters, deacons, accountants, helpers from various prefectures, bodyguards in the bodyguard bureaus, chiefs of the wards... basically that's all."

Di Renjie pondered for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, almost all industries are covered."

Wang Mang smiled and said, "We can use the method of elimination."

Di Renjie raised his head and said with a smile: "Those who know me, Jing Yang also. Anyway, I'll just listen to you!"

Wang Mang thought for a moment and said: "The first thing that can be ruled out is the bodyguard, because under normal circumstances, the bodyguard of the bodyguard can never act alone."

Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang nodded.

Wang Mang went on to say: "Secondly, the master can also be excluded. Because the two deceased were wearing short clothes, the master would not dress like this. Moreover, there is nothing in the book in the baggage. This is not a master. look."

Di Renjie nodded: "It makes sense, let's continue."

Wang Mang said, "It's not quite right to say it's a boss, a businessman, or an accountant."

Di Renjie said, "Well, tell me."

Wang Mang said: "First, the clothes don't look the same.

Second, if it is the boss, there must be a servant by his side.

Third, if it is a businessman, then the murderer must have committed suicide for money.

But the murderer only took away the identity documents, not the gold and silver. Obviously, he didn't want us to know the identity of the deceased. If the deceased was a businessman, what was the murderer's purpose?So this doesn't make sense.

Finally, as for the chiefs of the various workshops, it is even more out of the question. "

After hearing this, Di Renjie laughed happily: "Wang Jingyang, what you said is right!"

After hearing this, Di Chun laughed and said, "That's right, don't we have servants like Di An, Di Fu, and Di Gui in our Di residence?"

Li Yuanfang said with a smile: "If it is ruled out in this way, then only the status of housekeepers and servants of officials and eunuchs can be said to make sense."

Di Renjie nodded: "Okay, let's say they are the stewards of the Wu Mansion in Chang'an City, so who are they looking for in Huzhou?"

Li Yuanfang was stopped by the question, unable to speak: "This..."

Di Renjie looked at Wang Mang, and Wang Mang said with a smile, "I think either their hometown is in Huzhou, or they are their friends who are officials."

Di Renjie nodded and said with a smile: "The official said that the family is right, and the servants of the official will never come to find an ordinary person. Therefore, what Jing Yang said is right, there are only two possibilities.

First, the official's home is in Huzhou.

Second, he has friends living here, so he sent servants to visit or send some important things. "

As soon as the words fell, there was a sound of footsteps outside.

Zeng Tai's voice sounded: "Mr. Ge, I'm sorry for my lowly position."

Di Renjie said, "Your county, please come in!"

(End of this chapter)