Daxianguan

Chapter 86 Bold Guess
The key, perhaps, lies in the entry and exit records of the city gate given by Wang Zan.

There can't be a murderer or clues about the case of Yushi's murder, but it definitely has all the records of officials coming and going in and out of Fengcheng in recent years.

Among them, Wang Xianming, the murdered censor, must be included.

For a long time, Chu Xian had a question. As a supervisory censor, and an old censor with nearly 20 years of official career experience, this dead person is too aggrieved.Wang Yushi's official skills must be superior to his current self, and his perception must be stronger. What kind of killer can kill him in an instant without even having time to react?

There are too many doubts here.

This made Chu Xian really want to know more about Wang Xianming, the supervisory censor. The previous file was very one-sided, so Chu Xian wanted to see what Wang Xianming was doing these years, and whether he had made unannounced visits to various places in Suizhou.

In the records of entering and exiting the city gate, Chu Xian quickly checked it. Sure enough, in the past three years, Yu Shi Wang Xianming had records of entering and exiting the city gate dozens of times. Perhaps for those traffickers, this is not counted at all. Nothing, but for officials, it's a little unusual.

Compared with other officials, Wang Xianming entered and exited the city gate several times more times, and after screening the intervals of each entry and exit, the records of entry and exit of the day were removed, and only those with longer intervals of entry and exit were looked at. In this way, Wang Xianming The time interval between Xianming leaving the city and returning to the city was more than three days, accounting for most of them. In one year, Wang Xianming spent more than half a year running outside.

This is unusual in the eyes of others, and it may not be a clue. At best, it can only prove that Wang Xianming is a good official, and most of them are in various places in Suizhou to observe the people's conditions.

But Chu Xian didn't think so, because just a month before Wang Yushi was murdered, he still kept the record of frequently going in and out of the city gate, even if he only went out on the same day and returned on the same day, but in the month before Wang Yushi was killed, There is no record of entering or exiting the city gate at all.

This is a bit abnormal.

Either Wang Xianming was unwell and rested for a whole month, so that he didn't even go out of the city gate, or, for some reason, Wang Yushi couldn't go out.

This time point is very special, because when Chu Xian was investigating the Yushi Mansion, he found that the water in the pond of the flower garden in the Yushi Mansion had stopped being taken care of a month before Wang Xianming was killed.

A bold idea and speculation instantly appeared in Chu Xian's mind. If it is assumed that Wang Yushi was under house arrest a month before he was murdered, then all this would make sense.

It's just who has the courage and ability to dare to put a supervisory censor under house arrest, and who has the ability to control and house arrest a supervisory censor?
You must know that this matter cannot be done by just anyone. There are so many servants and guards in the Yushi Mansion, could it be said that they were all bribed?In other words, long before, they were slowly replaced by another group of people, replaced by those who monitored the censor, so they interrogated those servants and guards afterwards, so that there was no clue, so that they could not leak anything.

Chu Xian felt that this possibility was extremely high.

It is also very simple to prove this matter, that is to find someone who is familiar with the servants and guards of Yushifu and identify them.

Taking a deep breath, Chu Xian called Qi Chengxiang in.

"Qi Daochang, please run to the city guard barracks and invite Wang Dutong to come."

Wang Ruoyu grew up in Yushifu, Changshifu can bribe other people, but there is absolutely no way to bribe Wang Ruoyu, it is safest for her to identify the servants and guards of Yushifu.

Because Chu Xian was in a hurry, Wang Ruoyu went to the city overnight. Chu Xian planned to inform Cui Huanzhi about this, but he didn't expect that Cui Huanzhi was not there, and Li Yanji was not at the mansion.

Chu Xian also remembered that Lord Chu found him yesterday and said that he had found a clue and was going to investigate it himself, but he probably hadn't come back yet.

Chu Xian couldn't just wait, so he made a decisive decision and ordered the servants and guards of Yushifu to come immediately in the name of the writer to cooperate with the investigation.

Since it was already night, many people were quite critical, thinking that it would be okay to do this thing tomorrow, so why bother people in the middle of the night.

But half an hour later, there were already more than a dozen people crowded in the yard. Wang Ruoyu came, but there was no criticism or dissatisfaction. After all, she was investigating the case of her father's murder. Chu Xian told her the situation, and she start to recognize.

However, the result was to deny Chu Xian's previous guess.

These servants and guards were originally from Yushifu.

These people have been in the Yushi Mansion for half a year, and for a long time, five or six years. There is even an old housekeeper who has been with Wang Yushi for nearly 20 years. .

Their statements are all the same, they have been interrogated before, either they colluded in advance and thought of their statements long ago, or they have a clear conscience and there is no problem at all.

In short, there is no evidence to prove Chu Xian's conjecture that Wang Yushi was under house arrest.

And I asked the servant who was in charge of repairing the garden trees and flowers, and the latter answered that the flowers and plants in the Jingxin Garden of Yushi's Mansion had been taken care of by Wang Yushi himself, and the water in the pool was also taken care of more than a month before Yushi was murdered. At that time, Wang Yushi personally confessed that he raised a few rare fish and refused to pour water into them.

Chu Xian carefully recalled that the neglected garden trees and flowers were indeed only in the meditation garden, that is to say, it was Wang Yushi who neglected to take care of them.

Of course, the slave could also be lying.

Still did not ask why, the answers of these servants can be said to be watertight, Chu Xian felt a little headache for a while, if this step fails, the case of Yu Shi's murder is still difficult to break through.

During these days, Mr. Cui did not have a smile on his face either. The longer the time dragged on, the greater the pressure, and I heard that there had been some progress in the criminal prosecution department. As for what it was, the inspection department did not know, but it was certain What's more, Kong Qian, the old official who promoted the Criminal Division, was definitely not simple.

Cui Huanzhi and Kong Qian are rivals, so it depends on who can find out the truth about Yu Shi's murder first.

Because the criminal punishment department and the inspection department live together in the same official residence, the battle tonight is also in the eyes of the criminal punishment department. When an official from the criminal punishment department passed by the door, he shook his head and said, "It's not safe for people to live in the middle of the night." , To investigate and resolve the case, it needs to accumulate over time, with your investigation method, it is like a headless chicken, it will be strange if you can find it out."

Chu Xian has heard a lot of sarcastic remarks from competitors these days, but Chu Xian is already immune to such words.

At this moment, Chu Xian also felt that he was thinking too much, maybe Wang Yushi was not under house arrest at all.

At this time, a small official came over with a few inquiry record books, and said to Chu Xian: "My lord, the servants and guards of the Yushifu have summoned 18 people this time, and they have all finished their inquiries. This is an inquiry." Transcript, um, it's getting late now, should we let them go back first? I think an old gentleman is not young, and I'm afraid he won't be able to withstand such a toss."

Even his own people in the inspection department were quite critical of Chu Xian's overnight questioning. Chu Xian had no choice but to nod while taking the document and flipping through it casually.

(End of this chapter)