Detective in the Red Chamber

This guy must have been ready from the beginning, ready to reveal his identity as a green hat to the public, right?

"My lord, my lord!"

At this moment, a yamen servant rushed towards him and reported in a loud voice: "The corpse has been brought over, and I'm waiting..."

"Let Huang Bin speak first!"

Sun Shaozong hurriedly interrupted his report, and said involuntarily, "Leave the corpses outside first!"

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Chapter 848

[There are really too many things in the past two days, and the update is unstable, but I will definitely explode-in the name of the half-year award! 】

Ningguo Mansion.

In the corridor at the northwest corner of the mourning hall, Sun Shaozong sat straddling a high-backed chair made of sour pear wood. Opposite the grass shed for singing scriptures.

To be precise, it was looking at Daoist Hongyuan who was sitting upright.

The real Hongyuan at this time is different from last night.

A pair of red phoenix eyes are full of melancholy, and two crouching silkworm eyebrows are tightly locked with soreness, coupled with that pale face and black-blue eye bags...

The more he puts on a nonchalant look, the more people can't help but explore the truth behind it!

Therefore, before reading a few words of this sutra, when the news that Daoist Hongyuan became a green hat to take over Panxia, ​​he had already put on his wings and flew out of the gate of Ningguo Mansion.

It's really a 'miserable' sale!

It is estimated that it will not be long before the news that Daoist Hongyuan was greened because of alchemy, but still obeyed the emperor's imperial decree and came to Ningguo Mansion to do something, will spread throughout the capital.

And then……

It should be a drama of bitterness between master and apprentice, right?

"My lord, my lord!"

As if to echo Sun Shaozong's conjecture, at this moment Chen Jingde ran over yelling, attracting countless surprised looks along the way.

Seeing that he was holding up his robe, with an excited expression on his face, Sun Shaozong thought to himself, and before Chen Jingde could speak, he asked first: "Which city gate did you catch it? How many did you catch?"

When Chen Jingde heard the report, he was choked back and stared at Sun Shaozong dumbfounded. He even forgot to put down his official robe, and stood there like a plague chicken.

After a long while, he finally came back to his senses, and hurriedly provoked Thumbs up to praise him: "Your Excellency is really clever! As soon as the city gate was opened today, Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei wanted to sneak out of the city through the East Bianmen, but they were arrested. The officers and soldiers in our ambush captured it on the spot!"

Hearing what he was going to say was indeed this, Sun Shaozong nodded lightly, and then ordered in a neutral manner: "Since you have caught it, take it back to the Yamen and let Yang Sicheng have a trial."

"Let Chancellor Yang Si interrogate?!"

Chen Jingde was taken aback, then hesitantly moved forward, and reminded with a suppressed voice: "My lord, this is an important case of imperial order, and Yang Sicheng didn't make any effort yesterday, why should you give the credit to me?" ..."

"What are you talking about?"

Sun Shaozong raised his hand impatiently: "I don't know if there are any remnants of the thieves at the moment, I naturally have to guard here, lest the people of the Tianshi Mansion make any mistakes."

Chen Jingde was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he was a little puzzled.

Didn't he recognize yesterday that the corpse was Zhao Yixiong, the third disciple of Daoist Hongyuan?Now Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei have also been arrested, but where are the remnants of the party?

But seeing that Sun Shaozong turned his head away, obviously he didn't intend to explain a few more words, so Chen Jingde had no choice but to follow orders with a bewilderment.

After he left, Sun Shaozong once again turned his attention to Hongyuan Daoist who was selling 'miserable'.

The real man's mansion is in the north of the city, but Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei chose to leave the city at the east gate, obviously with the idea of ​​going south by boat directly from the pier.

If Sun Shaozong hadn't identified the two of them as suspects last night, he might have let them abscond successfully.

In this way, Master Hongyuan's original plan may not necessarily be to sell miserably - no matter how one kills two birds with one stone, the name of the green hat can't be taken off once it is worn on the head.

However, his performance yesterday didn't seem like a temporary idea.

Probably, it was a backup plan that had been prepared long ago. If Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei managed to escape, they would treat these two cases as the work of hostile forces.

If there are any variables in it, I will give up the "fake name" to be sure.

tsk~

This guy really made a good plan!

According to the current situation, he didn't even have to worry about Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei daring to betray him.

After all, this world is not a society ruled by law, but a naked rule of man.

"Cleaning up the house" out of righteous indignation, and being ordered by the master to kill the mistress, is the difference between the main criminal and the accessory criminal only from the legal perspective.

According to the law, the crime of the former should be more serious.

But there is an old saying that 'jurisprudence is nothing more than human feelings'. From a moral point of view, the former is obviously superior to the latter.

In addition, the root cause of the incident seemed to be that Master Hongyuan was devoted to alchemy for the emperor, thus neglecting his wife.

Even if the emperor didn't think it was his responsibility, he still had to comfort him to some extent.

As long as Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei are willing to shoulder all the responsibilities, they will first gain a firm foothold on the moral high ground.

At that time, Hongyuan Daoist will go to the emperor to sell miserably again, and he will say "the disciples are incompetent, and the teachers are lazy". Could the court still severely sentence these two people?

On the contrary, if they dare to climb and bite Daoist Hongyuan, the moral high ground will become a depression in an instant.

As for the emperor's extra favors, he would only grant them favors to Daoist Hongyuan—waiting for the two of them would only be aggravated crimes and would never be redeemed!

In view of this, it may be difficult to get the truth out of Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei.

And that's why Sun Shaozong didn't bother to preside over the interrogation of these two people—rather than listening to them make up stories, it's better to wait and read the confession directly.

only……

Without the testimonies of Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei, I can't just use a small piece of paper to expose the true face of Hongyuan, can I?

Is it just to let him get away with it?

To be honest, in view of Hongyuan's status as a green hat receiver, it was not impossible to let him go.

But Sun Shaozong absolutely couldn't bear this fellow showing off his acting skills in front of him and fooling him like a monkey.

"Second Master."

He was staring at Hongyuan's luck, when he suddenly heard soft voices from behind, it was Second Sister You who came over and said softly: "You didn't sleep all night yesterday, now at least go to the back to rest, or you will be tired I collapsed, and I can't explain to Sister Ruan."

"My master, what's the point of staying up all night? You go about your work, I don't need you to serve me here."

Sun Shaozong replied without turning his head, and then half of his plump body came up against him, and the pectoralis major muscle clamped the biceps brachii for a while, and the urinary system involved was ready to move.

"Father~"

The second sister You said coquettishly, and put two slightly thick lips on Sun Shaozong's earlobe: "If you are really not tired, why don't you go and help my sister out, she sighed a lot last night, but I almost engraved you in my heart."

This……

Sun Shaozong's gaze subconsciously moved to the door of the mourning hall, and a pretty figure in sackcloth and mourning came into view.

Coupled with the big word "Dian" on the top of her head, Sun Shaozong's heart was excited, and he recalled many oriental stories at the moment.

"cough!"

But in the end he coughed dryly, and pushed Second Sister You away from his shoulders with a hard heart, and scolded: "When is this, do you still want to have something? You go back and let her calm down, first Let's deal with this funeral and talk about other things!"

Chapter 849 Doubt

It was still diagonally facing the corner of the coffin shed.

The difference is that the high-backed chair that Sun Shaozong originally sat astride has been replaced by a red sandalwood leisure chair, holding Kuafu's gilt hand stove in his hand, and a blanket of snow leopard skin on his knees.

If he hadn't resolutely refused, there would have been two servant girls on the left and right, serving tea and snacks.

More than half of this is of course due to Youshi's carelessness.

But it is also because Sun Shaozong's current status is enough to be treated seriously - otherwise, no matter how much you try to please him, you will have to worry about others' opinions.

Corrupt class privilege.

Sun Shaozong sighed silently with emotion, took the newly brewed Wuyi Dahongpao from Chen Jingde, lowered his head and sniffed the curling incense mist, and read the text that had just been delivered line by line. Interrogation statement.

Sure enough, as he expected, after only reading three or five lines, the word 'righteous indignation' was already on the paper.

According to Ma Yizhen, the 'principal criminal', more than half a month ago, he accidentally found out that Zhao Yixiong was having an affair with his teacher's mother Ma Chunfang.

At this time, Ma Yizhen, Zhao Yixiong, and Liu Yiwei were ordered to go to Jiangxi in order to confirm many things about Zhang Tianshi going north after the spring of next year.

Ma Yizhen felt at the time that this must be God's desire to use his own hands to clean up the door, so it sent down such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

So before leaving Beijing, he started planning.

First of all, under the guise of Zhao Yixiong's name, he agreed with Ma Chunfang to elope yesterday evening.

Immediately after leaving the city, they summoned Zhao Yixiong and Liu Yiwei and announced that there was still a secret mission to be carried out before going south to Jiangxi.

That is to seize the opportunity and lure the spiritual veins to overflow in the newly built Tianshi Mansion, so as to strengthen the prestige of the Tianshi Mansion.

Zhao Yixiong and Liu Yiwei did not suspect him, so they followed Ma Yizhen to lurk outside the city.

During this period, Ma Yizhen reached a covenant with the loyal Liu Yiwei, so the two led Zhao Yixiong to the Tianshi Mansion the night before to kill him.

And they took away Zhao Yixiong's head and clothes because they were afraid that someone would recognize Zhao Yixiong and reveal the truth that the three of them had not left Beijing.

[By the way, the reason why Zhao Yixiong's body was identified was precisely because Sun Shaozong found a fuzzy mark on the chest of the body—it was a token that Zhao Yixiong had worn since he was a child, and the unique pattern.

At that time, Ma Yizhen also deliberately took this thing away and destroyed it, but he never noticed that when Zhao Yixiong was pressed on the incense burner, the token left a vague mark on Zhao Yixiong's chest. 】

After solving Zhao Yixiong, Ma Yizhen followed the "agreement" and sneaked into the real man's mansion to kill relatives righteously and get rid of the shame of Ma Chunfang's family.

Originally, according to the plan, they would go south by boat the next day, pretend to be robbed halfway, and define Zhao Yixiong as a missing person.

In this way, the two murders will be recorded on the opponents of the Tianshi Mansion, and the truth will never be revealed, and the reputation of Hongyuan Daoist and the Ma family will also be preserved.

However, what they never expected was that when they arrived at Dongbianmen in disguise this morning, they were caught by officers and soldiers carrying portraits of the two of them!

There was admiration for the government in the back, I don’t know if it’s true or not, anyway, Sun Shaozong didn’t bother to look at it, flicked it twice with his fingers, and asked with a sip of tea: “Deputy Chen Si, what do you think of this confession?”

"Cheap Yang...cough!"

Chen Jingde spoke quickly and almost said what was in his heart. He coughed to cover it up, and changed his words bluntly, "The lowly position means that this is mainly due to your clever calculations, my lord—since they were captured in the capital, the wishful thinking of those two criminals If it is empty, naturally there is no way to quibble."

Sun Shaozong glanced up at him, and asked with a pun: "According to what you mean, there is nothing wrong with this confession, is there?"

Omissions?

Chen Jingde was slightly taken aback, and then suddenly said: "Yes, yes, there are still some omissions in this, and I am afraid that the adults will have to interrogate them in person to make up for them one by one!"

This guy obviously thought that Sun Shaozong's so-called omissions were actually trying to trouble the Prime Minister Yang Zhiming.

However, his guess is not entirely wrong.

The reason why Sun Shaozong wanted to hand over this case to Yang Zhiming for trial was not only to determine that the two murderers could not confess the truth, but also to test Yang Zhiming.

Judging from the current results, Yang Zhiming's performance is really unsatisfactory-of course, Chen Jingde is just half a catty.

Turning his gaze behind Chen Jingde, Sun Shaozong handed out the statement again: "Huang Bin, come and have a look at this statement, and see if there are any omissions in it?"

Seeing Sun Shaozong go past him to ask a small captor, Chen Jingde's face was a bit uncomfortable.

But Huang Bin was a little more shy than Chen Jingde, bowed his body in embarrassment and said: "This... villain... villain can't read."

Forget about it.

Sun Shaozong patted the confession in Chen Jingde's arms, and ordered unquestionably: "Read it to him."

Chen Jingde felt more and more humiliated, but now, how dare he go against Sun Shaozong's will?

After glaring at Huang Bin fiercely, he recited the confession reluctantly.

At first Huang Bin heard it with sincerity and trepidation, but the more he got to the back, the more suspicious clouds on his face became heavier.

After Chen Jingde finished reading, he hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands and said: "My lord, I don't know if it's an omission or not, but there are some doubts in my heart."

"speak."

"First, according to our investigation, Ma Yizhen, Zhao Yixiong, and Liu Yiwei are the most trusted disciples of Daoist Hongyuan. It stands to reason that sending out two is enough, and we should keep one by our side anyway."

"Besides, there is still a young celestial master in the capital. It stands to reason that it is most appropriate for him to come forward to contact and coordinate the errands to the capital."

"Secondly, Ma Yizhen said in his statement that he had an agreement with Mrs. Ma half a month ago and had a private meeting yesterday evening."