Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 742 Burning Traces
Li Cang was meditating by the sea while walking slowly among the ruins.

Inadvertently, he suddenly kicked something under his feet, making a bang.

Li Canghai looked down, and found that it was just a blackened iron chain with a black copper lock on it.

In addition, there were two door knockers on the iron chain, and the entire iron chain was wound back and forth from the door knocker several times, tightly entangled the iron chain and the door knocker.

Li Canghai didn't feel anything unusual at first, but when he saw the burnt door, a thunderbolt suddenly flashed in his mind, his expression changed suddenly, and he bent down to pick up the iron chain .

Looking at the iron chain in his hand, Li Canghai seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly walked towards the other two burned down houses.

Sure enough, in the other two ruins, Li Canghai also found similar iron chains.

The same is passed through the door knocker, and the same brass lock is hung.

Li Canghai looked solemnly at the three iron chains he picked up. Judging from his experience, it was no accident that these three iron chains appeared at the fire scene at the same time. His intuition told him that there was probably another reason for the fire. .

Thinking of this, Li Canghai immediately went to the ruins and searched for the burnt windows.

Li Canghai searched carefully among the ruins, not even letting go of any charred wood.

After burning incense, Li Canghai found a window frame that was almost burnt from among the ruins.

The window frame is square and square, and the window in the middle has long been reduced to ashes, but on the four corners of the window frame, there is a piece of wood about an inch thick.

The four wooden boards were riveted to the four-corner window frame, which was extremely strong, but the remaining piece of the wooden board was burned to ashes.

Li Canghai compared the width and angle of the next four planks, and found that there were actually only two of the four planks at the four corners of the window frame.

This made Li Canghai frowned even tighter.

"How could this happen? Could it be that someone did it on purpose?" Li Canghai looked at the window frame with confusion in his eyes.

At this time, Han Qu led several monks over.

"My lord, these are the eminent monks of Da Ci'en Temple." Han Qu bowed his hands to Li Canghai and saluted.

Li Canghai looked at the monks, and asked, "Masters, do you know Huiguang?"

One of the old monks nodded and said: "My lord, I recognize it."

"Then do you know where Huiguang is now?" Li Canghai asked.

The old monk shook his head: "Ever since Huiguang went out yesterday, he hasn't been back to Da Ci'en Temple, and I don't know where he went."

Li Canghai touched his chin, said oh, and then asked someone to take a few monks to save the dead.

"Master Han, I have a few questions to ask you." Li Canghai said in a deep voice with his hands behind his back.

"My lord, please tell me." Han Qu said respectfully.

"The official asked you to put all the infected people in a centralized detention room, but why are the people who were not poisoned also locked up?" Li Canghai asked coldly.

Han Qu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "My lord, the people imprisoned by the lower officials were all bitten by cats and dogs, or people who were scratched. It's just that the lower officials don't know who was poisoned. Just in case, the officials will lock them all up."

Hearing this, Li Canghai frowned slightly.

Han Qu shrank his neck and said cautiously: "My lord, this kind of tragedy caused dozens of deaths, and this happened in the capital, what should I do if it reaches the ears of the Holy One?"

Li Canghai glanced at him, and said calmly: "Since this matter is ordered by me, if the Holy Majesty asks about it, I will take it on my own and will not implicate you, Mr. Han."

Han Qu hurriedly bent over and smiled awkwardly: "Your Excellency, I misunderstood, I'm not worried about being punished, it's just...it's just that I'm the prefect of Chang'an, and now that such a big event has happened, I can't explain it to the Holy Majesty! "

"Master Han, I have said that I will take responsibility for this matter, so you don't have to think about it. I ask you, did you find any abnormalities before you found out that the house was on fire?" Li Canghai asked.

Han Qu asked in a daze, "I don't know what your lord is referring to?"

"Before you left here to collect herbs, did you see any suspicious people coming and going here?" Li Canghai asked with a frown.

Han Qu thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "Before leaving the water, this place has been under blockade. There are yamen guards around, and I haven't seen anyone who can do it!"

After hesitating for a moment, Han Qu asked curiously, "Why do you ask such a question?"

Li Canghai snorted, and said, "It's nothing, I'm just asking casually."

After a pause, Li Canghai went on to say: "Lord Han, I still have some important things to do, and I will leave it to you here. After all the corpses are cleaned up, let their family members come to identify and collect the corpses. The 100 taels of gold will be used for the burial of the victims and compensation for their families, this matter will be supervised by Lord Lao Han."

"My lord is unparalleled in benevolence and righteousness, please be respected by my subordinate!" As he said, Han Qu saluted Li Canghai.

"Master Han, there is no need to be too polite. After I return, I will immediately send someone to bring the gold, and it must be distributed to every victim." Li Canghai urged.

"Don't worry, my lord, I will take this matter seriously, and I will never disappoint my lord's painstaking efforts!" Han Qu said solemnly.

After explaining, Li Canghai returned to Dali Temple.

Not long after, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Benbo Erba came to report that the arrested hexagram masters had already been executed and their heads were hung on the city gate.

Li Canghai was still a little worried that 'Ni Lin Xuan Wu' would try his best to rescue the few people, but he didn't feel relieved until he confirmed that the supervisor and beheader was Gao Luochuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, and he personally examined the corpse.

The several hexagram masters who were captured have been detained together by the royal palace guards and the Jianning iron guards. It can be said that the guards are strict. In addition, the emperor ordered that no one is allowed to approach the prison cell. Even if someone wants to change the package, it is impossible.

Although the 'Nilin Xuanwu' was not completely eradicated, but the 'Eight Great Trigrams' lost more than half, it was still an extremely serious blow to them.

At least in the short term, 'Ni Lin Xuan Wu' will be seriously injured and will not take any further actions.

What worries him the most right now is the whereabouts of Huiguang and Hongyan.

The two of them went to detoxify those who were infected by the Gu poison, but those infected people would die unexpectedly, and the whereabouts of the two were unknown.

What exactly happened in this, no one knows.

Only by finding the two of them can we know what happened to all of this.

After contemplating for a long time, Li Canghai asked Ben Boerba and Baboerben to search for their whereabouts in Chang'an City, and then picked up the testimonies of the common people that Lu Jitong had collected and read them carefully.

(End of this chapter)