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Chapter 622 Chapter 640: Knocking the Mountain and Shaking the Tiger

Next, Di Renjie sent all the painters in Dali Temple to the morgue to paint the portrait of Chang Fu, and asked them to draw [-] portraits before sunset tomorrow.

Li Hao has already passed on the sketching skills to Dali Temple, and sketching is very popular in Dali Temple. In the ancient times when there were no photos, people were all relying on it to find people and murderers.

Then he sent people to Luoyang on fast horses overnight with the portraits, and asked them to go to various restaurants to inquire, because Di Renjie suspected that this Chang Fu should go to Luoyang to work as a cook. Although Luoyang is big, there are only so many restaurants. Thirty Dali Temple policemen asked each family, and they could finish the questioning in one day.

Because he was too busy to go to bed the next day, Di Renjie wanted to sleep in bed the next day, but just after dawn, there was noise from the yard, and Di Renjie was woken up. He vaguely heard the voices of several policemen and women the sound of.

"How can there be women in Dali Temple?" Di Renjie rubbed his sleepy eyes and sat up, wondering to himself. Suddenly, he patted his head and remembered that it was Sheng Guolan, a girl from Nanzhao.

Di Renjie hurriedly put on his clothes, shoes and socks, opened the door and walked out of the room. He saw a group of people fighting in the courtyard. Sheng Guolan was obviously struggling to deal with the three policemen alone. The three policemen did not dare to hit her hard. , because Sheng Guolan is a woman, and she is also the daughter of the King of Nanzhao, if she was injured, it would be no small matter.

"Stop!" Di Renjie snarled and walked over quickly.

They hurriedly stopped when they heard the sound, Di Renjie walked up to them, frowned and asked, "Why are you fighting here?"

A policeman replied loudly: "Master Shaoqing, Princess Nanzhao wants to see you. People of low rank and others know that adults will only sleep for less than two hours. They are afraid that she will disturb your rest, so they stop her. Who knows that Princess Nanzhao will not listen?" Persuasion, then started a hand with us."

Di Renjie turned his head to face Sheng Guolan, bowed his hands and saluted, "It turns out that you are the Princess of Nanzhao, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Di Renjie, is very polite."

"Princess Nanzhao!" Sheng Guolan waved her hands sullenly, "Di Renjie, let me ask you, I heard from the police that you are the most powerful investigator in the Tang Dynasty, aren't you?"

Di Renjie was a little embarrassed. If he admitted it, it would seem that he was stinky and shameless.Don't admit it, isn't this a lie? Is there anyone better at investigating cases than me...

"I'm asking if you are!" Sheng Guolan asked anxiously and loudly.

Di Renjie could only reply very implicitly: "So far, Di has investigated the case, and he has not met anyone who is more proficient in this field than Di, but there are people outside of people, and there are mountains beyond mountains..."

He just wanted to be modest, Sheng Guolan interrupted him and said: "Okay, then tell me, who poisoned my brother to death, is it someone from Taibailou?"

Di Renjie hesitated when he heard the words, seeing her fierce eyes and tone, she clearly wanted revenge, Di Renjie hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said: "There are many strange things in this case, after Di finds out, I will give the princess the answer." .”

"Are you from Taibailou?" Sheng Guolan stared at Di Renjie as if she had a tendon.

Di Renjie was helpless, if she didn't help Taibailou to get rid of the relationship, this little girl might go to burn Taibailou, and if she found out that the owner of Taibailou was Li Hao, maybe she would go to give some money to Li Hao's palace Di Renjie still knows Li Hao, although he is very aggressive and a bit funny, but if he is offended, the other party usually has no chance to kneel down and apologize.

So Di Renjie could only say seriously: "Based on the current evidence, the murderer who poisoned him was not from Guanzhong, and has little to do with Taibai Tower. I will set off tonight to go to the murderer's hometown to find out the murderer's information."

Sheng Guolan hurriedly said, "I'll go with you!"

When Di Renjie heard this, he frowned and shook his head: "How can this be done, I'm going to investigate the case..."

Di Renjie suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, because he saw Sheng Guolan took out a small knife from nowhere, put it next to her own neck, and said loudly: "You don't take me! I will kill myself!"

Di Renjie didn't expect her to be so strong-tempered, and hurriedly exclaimed: "Put down the knife, it's too dangerous."

"Take me there!" Sheng Guolan's tone was very strong. Originally, she was just a lively, cheerful and happy girl, but after experiencing such drastic changes alone, he had to become stronger.

"Princess, why do you need to be like this..." Di Renjie was about to persuade, but Sheng Guolan had already cut her own neck with a knife. Although only a little skin was cut, Di Renjie was frightened, and hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll take you there , I’ll take you there! Put down the knife first!”

Sheng Guolan put away the knife and said slowly: "You must keep your word, if you lie to me, I will still kill myself."

Hearing this, Di Renjie was speechless for a while, who is threatening others with his own life? He was depressed for a while, and could only nod his head: "Princess, don't worry, I won't go back on what I promised."

"That's good." Sheng Guolan said, "Please send someone to the Sifang Pavilion to pass a message to ask my father's two guards to come to see me. One is called Tai Zongqing and the other is called Duan Zhongyan."

"Okay." Di Renjie nodded, and made a look at a policeman, who immediately nodded and left.

The matter here was over, Di Renjie turned and went back to the room to wash up, but Sheng Guolan also followed.

Di Renjie looked at her in surprise, and said, "What are you doing in my room?"

Sheng Guolan said: "From now on, I will follow you every step of the way until I find out who killed my brother behind the scenes."

Di Renjie's expression suddenly became very exciting, and he asked, "What if we can't find out?"

"Then I'll follow you all the time." Sheng Guolan sat down on the stool beside the table and said, "I'll go wherever you go."

"If I go to the latrine or take a bath, you will follow me?" I have to say, after being in contact with Li Hao, Di Renjie has also lost some of his integrity. If he was the former him, he would definitely not be able to ask such shameless words.

Sheng Guolan blushed pretty, and said, "Of course, I said I would marry you, so what are these things?"

Well, she was still thinking about it, but this answer made Di Renjie blush, and Di Renjie nodded helplessly: "Okay, if you like to follow, then follow." After that, he began to wash up, and went to have breakfast after washing up.

Sure enough, Sheng Guolan followed him every step of the way. Di Renjie washed up, and she watched from the sidelines. When Di Renjie ate, she also asked someone to serve him a bowl to eat together. After all, she was an envoy of Nanzhao, or a princess of Nanzhao. It's just a bowl of porridge, Dali Temple dare not give it.

After breakfast, Di Renjie went back to practice martial arts in the yard in front of his room. Ever since he went to Youzhou with Li Hao, Di Renjie had seen the sword skills of the master swordsman Ye Mengqiu. With several times improvement, Sheng Guolan was eager to see the skills, and also found a knife to practice against Di Renjie.

Sheng Guolan's martial arts can only be considered average, far inferior to Di Renjie's now, Di Renjie flicked the knife in his hand after only seven or eight moves, Sheng Guolan refused to admit defeat, and shouted: "Come again!" Go up to pick up the knife, continue beat.

Di Renjie intentionally forced her to leave, but he didn't hold back his hand. He knocked down the knife in her hand again and again. She shouted "Come again" every time, and then continued to fight.

Soon, two warriors dressed in Nanzhao came. They must be Tai Zongqing and Duan Zhongyan that Sheng Guolan mentioned. When they saw Sheng Guolan, the two strong men knelt down in front of Sheng Guolan and cried bitterly, crying like two two-hundred-pound children.

Seeing them crying, Sheng Guolan also had red eye circles, but she tried not to cry, but comforted the two of them. Di Renjie watched from the side, secretly admiring, Sheng Guolan was tenacious at such a young age, and she had the air of a general. not easy.

Di Renjie didn't do much business all day long, because he had already made a plan in his heart, and it wasn't time to implement the plan.
In the evening, Di Renjie went to look for Sun Fujia and reported to him the new progress of the case. After hearing this, Sun Fujia slowly stroked his beard and said, "The cook who poisoned him was from Bingzhou (Taiyuan)? So, it's really not Li. What did Hao do?"

Di Renjie said: "Currently, King Qiongnan has not completely shaken off his suspicions, and the humble official speaks on the basis of evidence."

"Well, very good, your attitude reassures me." Sun Fujia smiled and nodded.

Di Renjie said: "My lord, I want to take 200 people to Taiyuan early tomorrow morning to search for Chang Fu's information. Please send me an approval letter."

"Okay, I'll give it to you now." Sun Fujia wrote a piece of approval to Di Renjie. With this piece of approval, Di Renjie can mobilize two hundred Dali Temple arrests, which is very prestigious.

Di Renjie resigned after getting the approval, and Sun Fujia started to write the memorial again. Li Shimin will definitely ask about the progress of the case tomorrow morning, and he must prepare in advance.

Early the next morning, at the routine small court meeting, at the Hall of Liangyi, the first thing Li Shimin did was to ask Sun Fujia about the progress of the case. Ren, I have sent Di Renjie to lead people to Bingzhou to investigate, and it is estimated that they have already set off."

"People from Bingzhou?" Li Shimin looked at the memorial and asked thoughtfully, "That means this matter has nothing to do with Li Hao?"

Sun Fujia nodded and said: "Returning to Your Majesty, it only reduces the suspicion of Qiongnan King, and Qiongnan King has not completely escaped the suspicion."

"Well, okay, I see." Li Shimin nodded. Obviously, he was satisfied with the speed of handling the case in Dali Temple, and the suspicion of Li Hao was also reduced. He was very happy because he didn't think it was Li Hao. Hao did it, and I don't want Li Hao to do it. If someone really wants to frame Li Hao, he will be punished.

Li Shimin paused, and said with dignity on his face: "This man is really audacious, he dared to poison and kill foreign envoys in Chang'an City, and one of the dead was a Nanzhao prince. If the imperial edict explains it, I am afraid it will lead to war between the two countries, and the common people will be ruined."

"I obey the order!" Sun Fujia's body was bent like a bow.

(End of this chapter)