Daxuanti criminal officer

Chapter 234

Fourth day.

The situation changed suddenly, and there was a continuous winter rain in Xuanmiao City.

This winter rain heralds the end of winter, and the holy capital is about to usher in the recovery of all things and spring back to the earth.

In the mansion of Cao Ding, the prime minister of Shui Ling.

Tie Jing, Dongfang Yaoluo and Chen Taiji were under the eaves, discussing something while sheltering from the rain.

"Why... come back here again?" Tie Jing was puzzled, "Didn't you come here before?"

"Hehe, maybe there was a mutiny that night," Dongfang Envoy said sarcastically, "Did Special Envoy Xu find out?"

"That's...then there's no need to mobilize the crowd like this?" Tie Jing frowned, "It's a waste of a day to point to the map and ask us questions. What can we do if we delay like this?"

"So," Dongfang Yaolu smiled faintly, "It is not true that foreign monks can chant scriptures, and it is not suitable for investigating cases!"

"No," Tie Jing finally found a common topic, stroked his beard and said, "We local monks can't figure it out, let alone people from other places!"

"My lords don't know something," at this moment, Chen Taiji couldn't help but said, "Shui Ling Cheng Cao Ding is indeed suspicious."

"What?" Dongfang Yaoluo was the first to hear the problem, and asked, "You mean... there is something wrong with Cao Ding's murder, or there is something wrong with Cao Ding himself?"

"There are problems," Chen Taiji said, "After Xu Zun inspected all the assassination scenes, he found that the situation of Cao Ding was the most special."

"Why... what special method?" Tie Jing asked hastily.

"All the victims were assassinated by young, beautiful and intimate women," Chen Taiji explained, "These women were either concubines married by the victims, or daughters-in-law, maidservants and Hualou girls.

"These female assassins are dormant beside the victim, waiting for the assassination time planned in advance to arrive, and then kill them!
"The longest of them was only about half a year dormant with the victim, and the others were nearly one or two months.

"But... the only woman who assassinated Cao Ding has been married into Cao Ding's family for a year.

"Furthermore, only Cao Ding can't prove that the assassin must be the little lady he married into the door, because there are no witnesses at all.

"We just took it for granted that it was her based on our habitual thinking."

"This..." The two looked at each other, suddenly feeling a little reasonable.

"There is another major doubt," Chen Taiji said again, "Most of the families of the victims were prosperous, or they had guards and entourages, and the assassins could only lay dormant to gain trust before they could attack.

"But Cao Ding is a widow. There is only a housekeeper in the family, and he doesn't even hire a maid." He pointed to the house and said, "Although the residence is not bad, it really doesn't look like the home of a dignified fourth-rank official. "

"Huh? Don't say it..." Tie Jing nodded slightly, "There is really something wrong.

"However...to tell you the truth, this old man and this Cao Lingcheng had some friendship in the past. Cao Ding is introverted, not good at socializing, and doesn't like to be lively. His favorite thing is to study his model designs. Why don't you let him do water conservancy work? Engineering!"

"So..." Dongfang Yaoluo took over the conversation and asked, "Special Envoy Xu is suspecting that Cao Ding himself is also from the Taoist sect?"

"It stands to reason," Chen Taiji said, "Assassinating Cao Ding is a breeze, there is no need to arrange a woman by his side.

"Xu Zun suspects that this woman may be spying on Cao Ding, or she wants to obtain some kind of information from Cao Ding!"

"It's... a little..." Tie Jing said with a frown, "Isn't it a little off? I know Cao Ding, and it is possible to say that someone else is a Taoist rebel, but Cao Ding will never, he is a person Live a simpler life, without so many twists and turns..."

When the few people were talking, Zhao Yu was leading all the guards to conduct a search, and the search was extremely thorough, and they were short of digging three feet into the ground.

"My lord..." At this time, I heard Cao Ding's housekeeper say to Xu Zun, "Master Cao usually doesn't let me into the study, I really don't know what's missing in it!"

The next second, everyone saw Xu Zun coming out of the study, and asked at the same time: "Then do you know what Cao Lingcheng is doing recently? Are you in charge of any projects?"

"This... this villain doesn't even know!"

"Special envoy Xu..." Seeing this situation, Tie Jing hurried forward and said, "Don't worry, if you want to know what Cao Lingcheng is doing recently, we can go to the Ministry of Industry!

"I think, since Cao Ding is the Water Commander, he must be in charge of the water conservancy construction of my Daxuan."

"Okay!" Xu Zun said firmly, "In this case, let's go to the Ministry of Industry!"

"Ah oh..." Who knows, Dongfang Yaoluo suddenly yawned and said, "Special Envoy Xu, we should wait here for your return!"

"Yes, yes," Tie Jing echoed, "The Ministry of Industry is in Xinglongfang, very close."

Xu Zun knew that these two people looked down on him, so he ignored him, but directly led Zhao Yu and others out of Cao Ding's house.

However, Chen Taiji was different from Tie Jing, he had already vaguely felt that Xu Zun might have discovered something.

So he didn't stay in Cao Ding's house, but set off with Xu Zun and others.

"Report..."

As soon as he left the house, the inner guard came to report that Xu Yusheng, the servant of the Ministry of War who narrowly escaped the assassination, had returned to the holy capital and was being questioned at the inner guard mansion.

Xu Yusheng was worried that the queen mother would doubt him, so he didn't dare to lead the troops, but returned to the city alone.

Since Xu Yusheng was not killed by the assassin, his confession must be very important.

It's just that Xu Zun is now focused on Shui Lingcheng's affairs, so he decides to continue to investigate at the Ministry of Industry.

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The Ministry of Industry is an extremely large organization that is in charge of civil engineering, water conservancy projects, and the manufacture of various utensils across the country.

These departments are scattered because of their different functions, and the departments are not in the same place.

Xu Zun had a clear purpose and went straight to the Ministry of Water Resources where Cao Ding was.

In this assassination, two high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Industry were lost, one was Minister of Industry Yingrang, and the other was Shui Ling Cheng Cao Ding.

In terms of rank, Cao Ding gave up a rank, but it was also an extremely important position in the Ministry of Industry.

Before, according to Xu Zun's order, someone had already asked Ying Rang and Cao Ding about their work.

At this moment, a young craftsman from the Ministry of Water Resources is introducing Cao Ding's work to Xu Zun.

This person is Cao Ding's deputy, so he is naturally the person who knows Cao Ding best.

However, after some introductions, Xu Zun discovered that Cao Ding hadn't undertaken any large-scale projects recently, and his work mainly dealt with water conservancy issues across the country.

If there is any important task, it is that the Ministry of Water Resources is building a batch of water town copper cattle, which are going to be placed on both sides of the downstream river to avoid flooding.

Next, Xu Zun checked Cao Ding's office and found that the office was full of books about water conservancy projects.

"Let me ask you," Xu Zun asked, "Who does Cao Lingcheng have the most contacts with?"

"Master Ying, but..." Young Master Jiang bowed his head and said, "Master Ying was also killed!"

"Is there any more?" Xu Zun asked again.

"There are also humble positions, and... and..." Jiang Zuo recalled carefully, which shows that Cao Lingcheng's interpersonal relationship is really worrying.

However, before the general craftsman could finish speaking, an inner guard suddenly ran in outside.

"Special envoy Xu...Special envoy Xu...it's not good, it's not good..." This person rushed in like crazy and reported to Xu Zunhui, "Cao Ding's house was attacked, and Tie Jing was assassinated on the spot! The Eastern God Catcher is also seriously injured, and his condition is dire..."

what……

Hearing such news suddenly, Xu Zun and the others felt like a bolt from the blue!

"Ah?" Who knows, the young craftsman said, "Tie Jing...is that Tie Jing from Dali Temple? He...he is also Cao Lingcheng's good friend..."

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(End of this chapter)