I'm a detective for Dongchang

Chapter 126 Confusion
Liao Mingli! ?Liao family!
A flash of inspiration flashed in Lu Xizhi's mind.

The first case she helped Dongchang solve, Liao Chenlin was also arrested and "hanged himself" to death that night. She remembered Liao Mingli's eyes full of hatred when he looked at her and his father for the last time.

After Liao Chenlin's death, the Liao family's business plummeted. Although they paid each victim's family a large amount of money, people still made trouble every day, calling the Liao family a murderer. Soon, it was unknown who made Liao Mingli infertile , the wife and concubine Hong Xing cheated out of the wall, and the news spread that the three children were wild species. For a while, the Liao family became the talk of the people after dinner, and the joke of the whole capital. He lost all his business in the capital, sold his house, and returned to his hometown of Yunzhou with his family.

"Father, didn't the Liao family go back to Yunzhou?"

"Do you still remember who Liao Chenlin was clamoring to meet?"

Lu Xizhi replied: "Remember, he wants to see Mr. Fan and Mr. Chang."

"That's right, Mr. Fan has the support of Marquis Xuanping, not to mention Mr. Chang. He is the queen's beloved nephew and Chang Shangshu's most beloved grandson. Liao Chenlin has a close relationship with them. I think Liao Mingli must know and acquiesce Yes, but..." Lu Zhonglian stopped, and touched his daughter's tear-stained face.

"Unfortunately, you are still too young, and the court is obscure and obscure. The less you know about some things, the better. After you go out, you just need to tell Factory Supervisor Yuan that Liao Mingli may have been involved in the disaster of the Lu family."

Lu Xizhi held his father's hand firmly, and finished the hesitant words for him: "Fan Ming and Chang Renxin are on the side of the prince, right?"

Lu Zhonglian quickly covered his daughter's mouth, and nervously ran to the wooden fence of the cell to check out. After finding that there was only one jailer who led the way just now, he was relieved.

"It's a pity, you..."

"Father, there are many things that I don't have time to explain to you now, but you trust me, I will definitely investigate under the premise of protecting myself, you just need to tell what you know, and then wait for me to save you."

Lu Zhonglian was in tears, but still had a look of embarrassment on his face, he just kept muttering: Good boy, good boy...

Tuk Tuk Tuk…

"Miss Lu, the time has come, we should go." The jailer whispered.

"Father!"

She held Lu Zhonglian's hand tightly again: "Father, Lily is dead! It is very likely that she joined forces with outsiders to put those things into the warehouse without a trace. If you still have concerns, you are wasting the opportunity of the Lu family. Wait until more witnesses are silenced before you tell the truth?"

Lu Zhonglian gritted his teeth: "In addition to my doubts about Liao Mingli, there is another thing. About a month and a half ago, Yao Zhongjin took three customs clearance documents and asked me to stamp them, saying that his relatives were in a hurry to go home to visit their seriously ill relatives, but At that time, King Jing was assassinated, so Yuan Factory Superintendent issued an order that if you want to pass the customs, you must first go through the East Factory’s review before you can issue official seals, but the three documents obviously did not have the factory superintendent’s instructions, so I reminded him, and Yao Zhongjin patted his head. Say he forgot, and there will be no further discussion on this matter."

"Do you remember the name on the paperwork?"

"At that time, I was only focused on seeing if there was the Dongchang logo, and I didn't pay attention to the others, but I remember it was two men and one woman."

The jailer knocked on the wooden fence again to remind them.

"Okay, father, I remember, you hold on and wait for me."

"It's a pity! Be careful in everything, treacherous people are cunning, don't be reckless."

"Yes."

After saying that, Lu Xizhi quickly walked out of the end of the corridor with the jailer.

Bei Xue met her in the dark, and was about to lead her to jump up the wall, but Lu Xizhi turned around, took out the silver he had prepared, stuffed it into the hands of the jailer without rejection, and said quickly: "Brother, my father is old Well, I have weak rheumatism, and my stomach is not good, so please help me, if you can change to a dry place, please take care of me."

How could the jailer dare to accept this benefit, so he returned it to her immediately, and said in a panic: "Miss Lu can't do it, the factory supervisor has orders, and the little one just obeys orders."

Lu Xizhi refused to agree, and must accept it, otherwise he would feel uneasy.

Bei Xue winked, and the jailer took the money tremblingly, almost knelt down and kowtowed.

The two quickly left and disappeared into the night.

Back home, Lu Xizhi, as usual, hurriedly found paper and pen, and recorded all the information collected in the past two days and the information he just asked from his father.

The current timeline: King Jing was assassinated - Yao Zhongjin asked for official seals - Dongchang Prison caught fire - Lu Zhonglian was promoted - Lu Zhonglian was arrested.

The seemingly unrelated incidents made Lu Xizhi feel more and more uneasy.

Throughout the ages, the ups and downs in the officialdom are the most sinister. There are many examples of forming cliques, collaborating with others, framing people, and making trouble. My father has obviously fallen into the conspiracy of forming a party for personal gain. He is an honest official and acts according to the rules, but he is hated , He did not hesitate to destroy him with serious crimes such as embezzlement and bribery.

The common people judge the officials: one person attains the Tao, and the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven; the officials judge the officials: one person is convicted, and ten households sit together.

The result these people want is to kill the Lu family.

why?
Even if the three documents were related to the burnt prisoners in Dongchang prison, what did they have to do with Lu Zhonglian?
Also, whether Liao Mingli was involved and what role he played.

What is their ultimate goal...

Lu Xizhi looked carefully at the words on the paper, trying to synthesize the various fragments that happened in the past few days——

However, it still cannot be connected.

"What's more, are you asleep?"

Mother?

She quickly put away the papers on the table and walked to the door to greet him.

"Mother, why don't you rest?"

"I couldn't sleep. I wanted to ask you again tomorrow morning, but I felt flustered." Li Wenjun was as haggard as ten years old.

Lu Xizhi helped her sit up, and let Chunxiang serve a cup of hot water.

"Mother, father is fine. I have already arranged guards, and they will take good care of father."

"Your father looks carefree on weekdays, like a naughty boy, but I know best that he never tells us about those things on duty, and he pretends to carry them all by himself, so that we don't let us worry about them. Such a crime, I feel bad in my heart..."

"Mother, things will develop in a good direction. The factory supervisor and I have found some clues. Father will come out soon."

Li Wenjun nodded, afraid of putting too much pressure on her daughter, she suppressed tears and pretended to ask casually: "Did you go to the Yamen during the day? Did you see...Lily?"

Lu Xizhi nodded heavily, "I see."

"How did she die? Was it really she... who put those things in?"

"Mother, according to my investigation so far, Lily is the most suspect in this matter. Today, Wang Yuzuo told me that she was strangled to death, and...was pregnant for a month."

"What?! Pregnant!?"

"Well, the murderer not only wants to kill her, but also seems to hate the child in her stomach very much. Deep bruises and dark purple lumps were found on the stomach of the corpse, all of which were caused by multiple blows."

Li Wenjun covered his mouth in horror, tears welled up in his eyes: "Who, who is so vicious..."

Lu Xizhi shook his head, "The murderer dumped the body at night and was discovered in the morning. They are still investigating. Such a coincidence must have something to do with the Lu family's case. Most likely they were silenced."

"Mother, does Lily often go out of the house privately recently?"

"She is free, so if she wants to leave the house, she only needs to tell me in advance, and she can come in and out as she pleases." Li Wenjun thought for a while, "It seems that she has gone out a few times in the past month or so."

"Mother, Lily has an older brother, did you know that?"

"Brother? How could it be? Lily has been telling me that she is an orphan, her parents and brother died early, and she is the only one left in the Zhao family."

Lily really lied, but why is that.

"Mother, it's too late today, you should go back and have a good rest, tomorrow morning, I'll go to see the room where Lily sleeps, maybe I can find something."

"Well, they all listened to you and didn't touch anything in her house."

All night.

(End of this chapter)