Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 350 Liu Residence Underground (Part [-])
Wu Chen raised his eyebrows and said excitedly:
"What you said made me think of a possibility. The Liu brothers didn't know that the so-called ancestral house was in their own courtyard. Since those people can lie to them and appease them, they have gained their trust. Say no. Every time, Zhun followed with his face covered. He didn't know he had arrived until he saw Yinzi when he got to the ground, so the rest of the Liu family didn't know that the problem was in the house, which made sense. Why did they only mention the ancestral house but no one It makes more sense to be able to give an approximate location, from the perspective of outsiders, why they stayed in the house and did not leave."

Xing Yun was even more puzzled, he asked: "There are so many people in the Liu family, how can you let those people come and go freely, and open the secret door without being discovered?"

Song Gu hurriedly explained: "Most of them live in the inn, and women and children live here on weekdays. It should not be difficult to make them sleep more deeply by some means."

Xing Yun nodded, then looked at Wu Chen and asked, "But, even if you know that this is probably the case, what can you do?"

"I can't do anything. This is the process of investigating a case. The evidence is all there. Naturally, there is no need to infer. For this kind of old case that has passed ten years, I can only get some appearances of the murderer from inferences. A pen is a stroke, and the final judgment can only be made when the outline is slowly drawn out. Your errands only need to be done with hands, but mine is different, in addition to working hard, you also need to use your brain."

Xing Yun was so choked that he opened his mouth, but didn't say a word.

The sophomore laughed and said to Xing Yun:
"Don't take it to heart. When Xu Dagang and I were with Brother Wu, we were often scolded for being brainless and Gu You. Now I have grown a lot, and you will too after a while."

Wu Chen said seriously:

"He's different from you. He's going back to report. How do you ask him to tell the officials what I did that night? Except for the battle just now, you ask him to repeat what I said to the officials? You can do it? He just wanted to hear a conclusion."

The sophomore nodded sympathetically.

Xing Yun pursed his lips and lowered his head.

Wu Chen stood up and said, "Let's go, I probably have an idea in my mind, let's go down and have a look, and then you can do whatever you want."

……

There are steps under the secret door, Wu Chen dared to jump down because he could see clearly, Xing Yun and the others didn't dare to jump down easily, they all walked down the steps slowly holding torches.

There are more than [-] steps. When they finished walking, the sophomore in high school had already started to exclaim: "It's so big! How much gold and silver does it have to hold? There are still empty boxes!"

Song Gu was concerned: "Why is it built so high?"

Wu Chen shrugged his shoulders and said, "The lower floor is also so high, it seems that there is no shortage of gold and silver, but... where is the silver?"

Xing Yun said: "Isn't it true that you have spent all these years on transporting money?"

Wu Chen turned to look at Xing Yun and said, "Go back and tell the officials that it's hard for Xingguo not to be strong, and now I'm giving him money. After the case is found out, the money will go into the internal treasury. Is it appropriate to ease the burden?" pay taxes?"

"You think comprehensively!" Xing Yun replied coldly.

"The floor with Shimen is also this high?" Song Gu asked.

Wu Chen nodded and said: "It seems to be higher than this floor, and the walls are made of bricks and stones on all sides. Only these two floors will take some years, so I asked Shangfu Yin, where is the capital of the former dynasty? "

Shang Gong cupped his fists in admiration and said, "Vice Envoy Wu knows things like a god!"

"It's not predicting things like a god, it's deduction. Such a large project, no, such a large darkroom, how can the government not be alarmed after the construction is started?"

Wu Chen said, leading a few people to the next step.

……

The next floor is exactly the same as the previous one, Wu Chen asked, "Do you see any problems?"

Several people looked around by the light of the torch, and Song Gu was the first to speak:

"These two floors don't seem to be as dusty as those in the rooms above, but it makes sense, but...if this place was full of boxes before, you should be able to see some traces at this time, but there is a kind of...out of place clean."

Shang Gong hurriedly said: "Not only are the two floors clean, even the stairs are not dusty, and there are no shoe prints."

Wu Chen nodded and said:
"Does this mean that they come here often, and even after the gold and silver have been transported away, someone has cleaned this place. If you look at the height of this place, the tunnel over there should be opened to the upper floor and the location above this floor. Obviously, what they got through was not here, but turned a corner after reaching this wall and went down."

Several people nodded.

Wu Chen also said:

"The snake's nest is supposed to be behind the stone gate. Their tunnel turns downwards. Is it directly the snake's nest? I don't think so. Since the snake's nest is to protect something, it will be in the same room as that thing, that is, surrounded by The wall, those things will not run out, and they dug down along the wall. It stands to reason that they only need to smash through the wall to enter the dark room on the lower floor, but where is the snake's nest? If it is close to the wall Not to mention their casualties, where did they get the chance to build a door in the secret passage? Didn’t all those things come out?”

Several people looked at Wu Chen, but did not speak.

Wu Chen had no choice but to add a summary: "If they don't know the location of the snake's nest, it will be difficult for them to get through the correct tunnel entrance at once."

Song Gu nodded in agreement and said, "It's not uncommon for people to discover snake nests in the distance after getting through it, but it's true that luck is too good to have time for them to block it and build a door..."

"If they didn't know there was a snake's nest, they would only find another way because they couldn't open the stone gate. After finding the snake's nest, they should seal it up and make plans. But so far, they have been focusing on that tunnel."

Song Gu nodded.

The rest of you look at me and I look at you, as if they don't know what these two people are talking about.

Wu Chen is too lazy to talk nonsense, these are just inferences at the moment, he didn't say anything, and took a few people down to the bottom floor. The space here is much smaller, and when he got down the steps, he saw Shimen, and there was only a narrow road in front of Shimen. .

Xing Yun and Gao Er held up torches to carefully inspect the surroundings of the stone gate. Gao Er said while watching, "If you need to touch the mechanism to open the stone gate, there must be a place to put the mechanism? The surrounding area is so flat..."

"If the mechanism can be opened, why does the Liu family need to come? Since the Liu family has been identified, only blood can prove the blood, and there should be blood gutters around the stone gate." Xing Yun said.

Song Gu said: "The Liu family may know the treasure chest under the secret door, but they may not know that there is this stone door below."

Shang Gong said: "Just looking at the size of the upper two floors, you can tell that the Liu family will not be able to spend a few lifetimes, but the Liu family still opened an inn. Deputy envoy Wu, what do you think of this matter?"

Wu Chen asked, "How can you be sure that this house has always belonged to the Liu family?"

(End of this chapter)