Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 86 Clues
In the main hall of Liujiazhuang, Di Renjie walked up and down anxiously.

Zeng Tai and Wang Mang rushed in through the door, calling out "My lord" and "Ge Lao".

Di Renjie hurriedly asked: "How is it? Have you found Yuan Fang?"

Zeng Tai shook his head: "Uncle and I searched the surroundings, but we didn't find any trace of General Li!"

Di Renjie asked, "Did he leave any mark?"

Wang Mang shook his head.

Di Renjie gasped: "Not good! Something must have happened."

Zeng Tai was startled: "What happened?"

Di Renjie nodded: "He will never just leave without leaving any clues."

Wang Mang thought for a while, and said, "There is still one place that Zeng County Magistrate and I haven't found."

Di Renjie's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Where is it?"

Wang Mang said: "Do you still remember the back garden of the Liu family that Yuan Fang told us about?"

Di Renjie remembered, and Zeng Tai said, "Oh, yes, it's that abandoned courtyard."

Di Renjie nodded: "Come on, let's go and have a look together."

……

Di Renjie, Wang Mang and Zeng Tai led their entourage into the back garden and came to the front of the small courtyard.

The door of the small courtyard was dilapidated and mottled, with a rusty iron lock hanging on the door.

Di Renjie glanced at Liu Da and said, "Open the door!"

Liu Da said with a bitter face: "There is no key, only the master has the key to this small courtyard."

Di Renjie waved his hand: "Slam the door open!"

The yamen servants pulled out their knives, split the iron lock in two or three strokes, and opened the door.

Just as Di Renjie was about to go in, Wang Mang hurriedly stopped him and said, "My lord, let me go in first!"

Di Renjie glanced at Wang Mang and nodded.

Wang Mang's sleeves moved slightly, and the two short swords were already in his hands.

He walked in first, and stopped in front of the door of the small building.

Suddenly, a dagger pierced the door of the building like lightning.

Wang Mang's ears moved slightly, but there was no movement.

Di Renjie thought about Wang Mang's actions.

Zeng Tai asked, "Uncle, what is this?"

Di Renjie said: "I think Jing Yang is testing whether there is a mechanism."

Zeng Tai asked suspiciously: "Organ?"

Di Renjie said with a smile: "This is a murderous ambush controlled by mechanism and information. There is no warning in advance. Once the mechanism is triggered, the murder will come immediately."

Liu Da smiled unnaturally: "My lord, this small courtyard has been abandoned for many years, how could there be an agency?"

Di Renjie looked at Liu Da, and said with a half-smile, "Really?"

Liu Dagan laughed twice and stopped talking.

Wang Mang heard that there was no movement, so he led the servants in.

Everyone soon came to the small building, which was empty without any decorations.

Di Renjie observed quietly, the four walls were bare, and there were stairs leading to the second floor.

Liu Da said: "My lord, the back garden has been abandoned for a long time, and no one has ever lived in this building..."

Zeng Tai let out a low voice: "Talk out! Don't back down!"

Liu Da was taken aback and dared not speak.

Di Renjie looked around carefully. He walked slowly to the pillar, touched the pillar with his hand, and looked at his hand.

After pondering for a while, he waved back and shouted, "Liu Da, come here."

Liu Da came over in a hurry: "My lord, what are your orders?"

Di Renjie asked, "What is this small building for?"

Liu Da smiled wryly and said: "My lord, this back garden has long been abandoned, and no one has ever entered it. As you can see, although the villain is the housekeeper of Liu's Villa, he just doesn't have the key here."

Di Renjie sneered: "According to what you said, this small building has been abandoned for a long time?"

Liu Da nodded: "Exactly!"

Di Renjie turned around, pointed to the walls and beams, and said, "Has anyone ever cleaned it?"

Liu Da laughed and said, "No one lives here, and the villain doesn't even have a key here, how do we clean it?"

Di Renjie asked, "Are you sure?"

Liu Da nodded and said, "Yes!"

At this time, Wang Mang came over and snorted coldly: "No one cleans, why is this small building so clean?"

Di Renjie said coldly: "The walls and pillars are spotless, there are no cobwebs on the beams, and the window paper is newly replaced. Does this look like it has been abandoned for a long time?"

Liu Da was speechless when asked by Wang Mang and Di Renjie, unable to say a word for a long time.

Facing the staring eyes of Wang Mang and Di Renjie, Liu Da stammered and said, "Your Excellency, you are still right!"

Di Renjie smiled, and patted Liu Da on the shoulder. Liu Da grinned in pain, and said with a forced smile, "My lord, this building is a bit strange!"

Wang Mang looked at Liu Da's reaction, his eyes lit up, after thinking about it, he immediately had an idea.

Wang Mang walked over, patted Liu Da on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "What's so strange? Tell me about it."

Liu Da's tears of pain were about to fall, and he forced a smile on his face: "Uncle, the villain doesn't know, but the villain feels strange when the adults say that."

Wang Mang didn't take off the hand on Liu Da's shoulder, and smiled: "Really!"

Liu Da nodded quickly: "Yes, that's what the villain thinks."

Wang Mang saw that Liu Da's face turned pale, so he let go of Liu Da, and said with a smile, "I think so too."

Liu Da laughed dryly at the side.

Di Renjie waved back, Zeng Tai ran over and asked, "Mr. Ge, what are your orders?"

Di Renjie said: "You and Jing Yang take the yamen servants to inspect this small building and see what else you find."

Zeng Tai and Wang Mang responded and went to look around.

Wang Mang looked at the surrounding walls. Suddenly, a copper ring caught his attention. Wang Mang walked forward slowly and picked it up.

"what is this?"

Di Renjie came over.

Wang Mang handed it to Di Renjie and said, "It looks like a waist ring!"

Di Renjie took a look, and suddenly his eyes widened: "This is the copper ornament on Yuan Fang's belt."

Zeng Tai did not know when he came to Di Renjie's side, and asked strangely: "How do you know?"

Di Renjie said: "The military officers of the fourth rank in this dynasty are divided into four ranks. They are the upper and lower ranks of the fourth rank, and the upper and lower ranks of the lower ranks. They all wear copper rings on their waists in casual clothes."

Only then did Zeng Tai suddenly realize.

Di Renjie said: "Yuan Fang must have discovered something. She followed her here, but she was ambushed..."

Zeng Tai was taken aback: "Who was ambushed by? Who has the guts to attack the court's fourth-rank military officer?"

Wang Mang said: "This is the key, whether it is Yingyu or the other force that your lord said."

Di Renjie heard the "another force" that Wang Mang said, and he suddenly recalled the scene when he inspected Liu Chali's body just now.

The lifted quilt; the blood-stained curtain; the headless corpse, the headless corpse, the fingers are rough, and the fingernails are full of black mud...

Suddenly, Di Renjie's eyes lit up, and Zeng Tai asked, "My lord, what did you think of?"

Di Renjie said, "Let's go to the greenhouse!"

Just as he was about to leave, Di Renjie seemed to remember something, and said to Wang Mang, "Jing Yang, you are an expert at playing tricks, take the yamen servants to see if there are any tricks."

Wang Mang said modestly: "I'm not an expert, I just read a few books on mechanism techniques. Sir, don't worry, I will definitely not let go of any clues."

Di Renjie nodded, and took Qian Niuwei, Zeng Tai, and Liu Da to the greenhouse.

(End of this chapter)