Suzaku Fury

The two rode fast all the way, but they arrived in front of the Taibu Office in a short while.

Di Renjie got off his horse, casually tied the two horses to the door, followed Yuchi, and walked quickly into the Taibu Office.

As soon as Yuchi Zhenjin entered the door, he first took out the official badge pinned to his waist, and before he could open his mouth, he registered his name: "This Dali Temple minister, Yuchi Zhenjin, came to investigate the case at the order of the Queen of Heaven. available?"

When Guan Yan saw the official emblem of Dali Temple, he quickly came down from the hall to salute Yuchi Zhenjin.

"Go back to my lord, Ling lord is in the backyard."

Yuchi Zhenjin tucked the official badge back to his waist, and said coldly: "Lead the way."

Guan Yan answered yes, and led them across the front hall until they reached a small room in the backyard before stopping.

Guan Yan turned around and said, "Lord Ling is inside, please wait a moment, Lord Yuchi, I'll go pass it on right away."

Yuchi nodded and watched him go in.

Di Renjie stood behind Yuchi, looked around, and found that the backyard of the Taibu Office was many times smaller than that of the Dali Temple.But although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs.Moreover, the area was not large, so it was easy to see at a glance, and he found the storage room of the Taibu Department almost without any effort.

Guan Yan quickly withdrew and replied: "Master Yuchi, Lord Ling, please go in and talk."

Yuchi nodded slightly, waved away Guan Yan, and signaled Di Renjie to enter with him.

As soon as the two of them entered the door, Lord Taibu Chengling cupped his hands to greet them: "Your Excellency is coming to the Taibu Office in person, and I will welcome you from afar..."

"Lord Ling, you don't need to be too polite." Yuchi Zhenjin hurriedly stopped him from saluting, "I came here today to learn about the situation on the observatory that day, and I hope that Ling Bucheng will know everything and say everything."

Ling Bucheng straightened up, with a look of embarrassment on his face, he said: "I'm afraid this will disappoint Lord Yuchi."

"how do I say this?"

Ling Bucheng stepped aside: "Your Excellency, let's go inside and discuss in detail."

After the three of them sat down, Ling Bucheng resumed the conversation: "To tell you the truth, Mr. Chen has always been cautious in his affairs. He did all the preparations before the tortoise divination and asked the hexagrams by himself. Since I took office, there has never been an accident. Because of this, we Bucheng can't interfere with the preparations before the sacrifice."

Yuchi Zhenjin thought about it secretly, and asked again: "Then is there anything wrong with asking the divination day?"

"The Taibu Department stipulates that when performing tortoise divination rituals before major sacrifices, only one Taibu Ling is allowed to go to the star observatory, and those who are under the official rank of Bu Cheng and below all stay in the Taibu Department to wait for orders."

Yuchi Zhenjin changed his posture, put his left arm on the table, approached him and asked: "That is to say, no one knows about the situation that day except the Taibu Ling?"

"Not necessarily." Ling Bucheng said, "As for the details of the hexagrams, of course we, the latecomers, have no way of knowing. When we were rushed to the observatory by the Queen of Heaven, we were all terrified, for fear of saying the wrong sentence. I'm about to move, so how dare I look around? But after stepping back from the observatory, I realized that something was wrong."

After hearing this, Yuchi Zhenjin hurriedly asked: "Have you got back the things you used to ask the hexagrams that day?"

"Yes, it was taken back by the lower officials, and it is now placed in the storage room."

Yuchi Zhenjin quickly stood up: "Take me there!" Just as he was about to look back for Di Renjie, he found that he had long since disappeared behind him.Yuchi hurriedly turned around on the spot, and shouted angrily, "Di Renjie?!"

Ling Bucheng hurriedly said: "Master Yuchi is looking for that lord just now?"

Yuchi Zhenjin pretended to be calm and nodded.

"When I was talking to the adults just now, he left, and I only think that he has gone to the toilet..." Unexpectedly, before Ling Bucheng could finish speaking, Di Renjie appeared by the door with a hasty look on his face:

"Master Yuchi, hurry to the storage room." After speaking, he ran away immediately.

Yuchi Zhenjin rushed out of the room and followed Di Renjie to the storage room not far away.As soon as he entered the room, he saw Di Renjie standing by a low table, looking at him solemnly.

"What is this?" Yuchi Zhenjin pointed to the charred object on the table and asked Ling Bucheng who was following behind.

"This is the ashes of the three one pills Shi Yi used that day."

Di Renjie asked him: "May I ask Master Ling, what is the Sanyi Pill made of?"

"Usually it is made by mixing charcoal powder, lead powder and jujube paste, and then put it in a ventilated place to dry. But whether Mr. Chen has a secret recipe, we will not know."

Di Renjie carefully picked up the pulverized blackened things on the table, held them in front of Ling Bucheng, and asked: "Then when you took back the things you used to ask the hexagrams, did you smell saltpeter and sulfur in the ashes?"

Hearing this, the other two immediately bent over and sniffed Di Renjie's palm.

"It really smells like gunpowder." Yuchi Zhenjin stared at the black powder in Di Renjie's palm, and couldn't help squinting slightly.

Ling Bucheng was also shocked when he heard it, and took a few steps back before saying: "The lower officials don't know why there is gunpowder mixed in the Sany pills, and the maker of the pills also knows that saltpeter and sulfur should not be mixed into the Sany pills. What a big taboo! With Mr. Chen's experience, it is absolutely impossible to make such a mistake!"

Hearing this, Di Renjie exchanged a glance with Yuchi Zhenjin, then picked up a piece of tortoise shell on the table and asked: "Is this piece of tortoise shell the same hexagram left over from that day?"

"Exactly."

Di Renjie rubbed the edge of the tortoise shell with his fingertips, and then looked at the fragments of the tortoise shell on the table.Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration, quickly put down the broken board in his hand, picked up other fragments of turtle board and began to piece it together.He kept moving his hands, and asked again: "Master Ling, have you recovered all the fragments of the tortoise shell that exploded that day?"

"The fragments that can be seen are all here, I don't know if there are exceptions..."

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Di Renjie stopped.

The tortoise shell that had been blown into pieces was pieced together by Di Renjie, and it was barely connected into a tortoise shell.

Di Renjie picked up the broken board that had just been put aside, carefully moved it over the newly joined tortoise board, and then stopped.

Standing by the table, Yuchi Zhenjin couldn't help but widen his eyes: "This so-called hexagram does not come from the same tortoise shell at all."

Seeing Ling Bucheng, he was so frightened that he almost knelt down on the ground.You must know that Empress Wu had seen this hexagram that day, and now the people of Dali Temple found out that the tortoise shell was fake, and if they reported it to the higher authority, they might not be able to survive this catastrophe.

Di Renjie brought the tortoise board in front of his eyes, turned it over and looked at it for a long time: "The one on it is Li Gua."

"Yes, yes." Ling Bucheng was still in shock, he answered in a trembling voice, and his cheeks were covered with cold sweat.

Hearing this, Yuchi Zhenjin stretched out his hand to copy, took the broken board from Di Renjie's hand into his hand, took a look and said angrily: "It's fire again!"

The expression on Di Renjie's face softened slightly: "In this way, we can know that the change of the observatory was deliberately done by someone."

Yuchi's expression changed instantly, and he glared at Tai Bu Cheng who was at the side: "You!"

Tai Bu Cheng's legs went limp after being yelled at by him, he knelt on the ground and said: "Your official is here!"

"Did Guibu see any face-to-face people that day?"

"The scene was chaotic that day, my officer, I have no time to pay attention!"

Yuchi was angry, and was about to speak when Di Renjie stretched out his hand to stop him.