Song Dynasty female artist

The other evidence Wang Gongchen mentioned was the pure white stone found by Li Jizhi at the crime scene.

After many investigations, only the stone in Guo Zhongji's hand was missing, and his various abnormal behaviors after Li Jizhi asked him, no one would believe him if he said there was nothing wrong with him.

Guo Zhongji said indifferently: "I did buy that thing, but I explained yesterday that I gave this stone to a friend. You can just go find him and confront me. These ambiguous words will not make people misunderstand that I am the murderer... …”

"Guo Zhongji, you really won't shed tears until you see the coffin."

Wang Gongchen shouted: "You think that if you can conjure up a random person and we can't find you, we can't convict you. Then you are totally wrong. Although I can't find the person you mentioned, I have found another one." One, Guo Zhongji, you should be familiar with!"

After Wang Gongchen finished speaking, a yamen officer brought up an ordinary-looking man in his thirties who was wearing a gray robe and stood side by side with Guo Zhongji.

Guo Zhongji looked sideways and his pupils shrank.

They are the guards around Zhao Zongxing.

He was not an ordinary bodyguard, but Jia Xian, the most capable assistant around Zhao Zongxing. He interacted with Zhao Zongxing. In addition to flying pigeons to convey letters, Zhao Zongxing asked him to send some very important letters to the Guo Mansion because he was worried about them.

With Zhao Zongxing's temperament, after receiving his letter from Fei Ge, he must have sent his most trusted person to Guangdong and Guangxi to look for stones.

I just didn’t expect that I would be discovered.

A trace of panic flashed across Guo Zhongji's face, but he was a man who had been through strong winds and waves, so he quickly calmed down.

He calmly looked back and said nothing.

Maintaining the status quo.

Li Jizhi had been observing Guo Zhongji, and when he saw him calm down quickly, he understood that this was a tough nut to crack.

The next step was not only to present various evidences, but also to engage in psychological warfare with him to pry open his mouth. However, Li Jizhi knew in his heart that Guo Zhongji was not only involved in this murder case, he was also involved in the murder case. Yanzhou is closely related.

Guo Zhongji thought that Jia Xian was very strict, at least there would be no results from the trial today.

But when Wang Gongchen asked, Jia Xian told him everything he should and shouldn't say. If he hadn't been in contact with him for many years, Guo Zhongji would have thought that this person was a fake.

Jia Xian confessed that King Yan asked him to go to Guangdong and Guangxi to find a special stone after receiving a letter from Fei Ge, and the specific address was given in the letter.

"Guo Zhongji, over the years, the farmer only found nine stones in the river. You bought one of them. We investigated and found that only your stone was missing. If Mr. Li hadn't gone to the crime scene and found the fallen stone, it would have been I didn’t know you had such a close relationship with King Yan.”

"Master Wang, you said it's only nine yuan, is it nine yuan?"

He wouldn't admit it if it was baseless.

Wang Gongchen hummed: "I knew you wouldn't recognize it, so bring Long up here."

Long was the wife of the farmer. When Li Jizhi sent people to Guangdong and Guangxi to investigate, he found that the farmer had left key evidence, just in case the farmer's wife Long was brought directly to Kyoto.

Of course, Li Jizhi didn't know that the clues he found were all revealed to him intentionally by Gu Qingjue.

Guo Zhongji: "..."

He could tell who Long was at a glance.

This is not the farmer's wife. Why did he bring her to Kyoto from Guangdong and Guangxi? He has no news yet.

"Sir, Mrs. Long, a commoner woman, has met three adults." Mrs. Long came up to greet the three adults in the hall. Guo Zhongji kept looking at Mrs. Long out of the corner of his eye and had a bad feeling in his heart.

Sure enough, Long's next sentence was: "A civilian woman has come all the way to Kyoto to ask three adults to help the civilian woman to find the murderer of my husband."

The reason why Long said this was because of Gu Sijiao.

Li Jizhi raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect Mr. Long to be so smart. He just said that his husband died in vain, saving them the time of questioning.

"Mr. Long, how did your husband die?"

"Sir, my husband was strangled to death."

According to reports from people who came back, he strangled him with a rope and pretended to be a farmer committing suicide. The farmer's wife, Long, did not suspect anything and did not report it to the local government. He buried him normally. Why did he just say it when he came to Kyoto? Being strangled.

Even if Li Jizhi sent people to Guangdong and Guangxi to investigate, all the people had been buried, and they had no idea how the farmers died.

How did Long know?
Li Jizhi looked at Guo Zhongji: Let's see how long you can pretend.

"Mr. Long, have you ever had any grudges with others?"

Wang Gongchen's question was the most common one, but this was what Long was waiting for. This time she knelt down directly on the ground and took out a few pages of white paper she found that night from her chest: "Your Excellency, this is A civilian woman found it after my husband died, and she guessed that the murderer was one of them."

Guo Zhongji looked at the paper in Long's hand and his eyelids twitched sharply.

From his perspective, he could see the words on it. Although it was not his own name, he was sure that it was the list of people who bought the stones recorded by the farmer himself.

At that time, he just accidentally saw this stone and thought it was very beautiful. How could he have expected that a few years later this stone would become evidence of his murder. If he had known about it, he would definitely not have bought it himself or chatted with the farmer. Reveal your identity.

But how can there be so much in this world that is known in advance.

No wonder Wang Gongchen's words were so true just now. It turned out to be because of this list.

Guo Zhongji already regretted that when he took action, he should not have let them find clues with this stone. He also thought about finding an opportunity to go to the restaurant to take away the stone, but when he entered the restaurant again that night, he realized that no matter how hard he tried, , he couldn't open the door of the room, as if there was a ghost in the room competing with him.

He had a ghost in his heart, so he didn't force his way in.

The officer on the side showed the paper in Long's hand to Li Jizhi and the others. Li Jizhi previewed it first, followed by Lu Gongbi and Wang Gongchen.

I only knew this clue before, but didn't see it in black and white.

After Wang Gongchen saw it, he was shocked again: "Guo Zhongji, do you know what this is?"

Guo Zhongji: "What?"

"This is the evidence of your murder. This is the list of people who bought the stones recorded by Mr. Long's husband. I have checked them one by one according to the above list. Only the stone in your hand is not there, and this stone happened to be found at the crime scene. "

Wang Gongchen continued: "Maybe you don't know that although the stones are all roughly the same, there are still subtle differences between the one found at the crime scene and the one sold to you here. Exactly the same.”

Li Jizhi: "..."

Li Jizhi was puzzled. Why didn't he know that farmers also recorded the shapes of stones? But he was a master of interrogation and knew that he could not reveal any flaws at this time and could only cooperate with Wang Gongchen.

Good guy, he didn't even know that the upright Wang Gongchen could still bluff. (End of chapter)