King of Song

Chapter 39
In the concierge courtyard, Yeluzhi looked out the window leisurely. The heavy rain stopped intermittently, but the sky was covered with dark clouds telling him that the rain would continue.Then the Song people's name is to protect, but the actual house arrest will continue. This matter makes him very angry, anxious, unlucky but helpless.

People under the eaves had to bow their heads. The prerequisite for venting their anger and revenge was to leave here first.These are trivial matters, and it has been four or five days, but the news has not been transmitted back. I am afraid that the major event will be missed... Besides, the longer the time is delayed, I am afraid that some hidden things may be revealed. Another young man came today, and he seemed to be quite shrewd...

No, it can't be dragged on any longer, there are many nights and dreams, and there may be many variables, especially in Youzhou, which may have been fully prepared, and there is only one internal and external excuse.

Thinking of this, Yeluzhi felt that he couldn't wait any longer, and he was going to go to the officials of Honglu Temple to talk about it, threaten and intimidate him. In short, he must leave the Song Dynasty as soon as possible...

Don't want to have just walked to the door, there will be a soldier to report: "Song Dynasty Honglu Temple Concierge Court Chongyi Gong Chaixiao welcomes you!"

"It's just in time!" Yeluzhi was determined this time, he would no longer be polite to Laoer Chai, so he brought a few personal entourages and left with the attendants of Honglu Temple.

As he walked, Yelvzhi realized that something was wrong.Instead of going to the auditorium of Honglu Temple, it seems that they went to Xiao Jie's previous residence. After the murder, they changed their yard to live.

Could it be...Yelvzhi began to feel a little uneasy, then shook his head, and said to himself: Impossible, it's only a day...

When he walked into Xiao Jie's residence, all Yeluzhi's self-comfort was shattered in an instant.There were many people standing in the room, Chai Xiao from Honglu Temple, and two others he had seen before, they seemed to be Wang Anshi, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, and Wang Gui, the governor of Kaifeng.It was led by a few young people I had seen before...

"Deputy Envoy Yelu, please be polite!" Chai Xiao was able to straighten his back finally, and Yeluzhi's heart beat a little with a confident smile.

Yeluzhi forced himself to be calm, and snorted coldly, "Why did you ask me to come out?"

Chai Xiao said with a smile: "There are already some clues about the murder of envoy Xiao in your country, and the officials ordered the two venerable Wang Xueshi to explain it!"

"Oh? The murderer has been caught?" Ye Lvzhi hurriedly asked. He had already thought about it before, and if the Song Dynasty randomly found a scapegoat, he would never agree.

Wang Anshi stepped forward and said, "Deputy Envoy Yelu, let's first understand the process of envoy Xiao's murder!" After speaking, he gestured with his eyes and handed over the right to speak to Lin Zhao.

"Under Lin Zhao, I was ordered to investigate the murder of your country's envoy Xiao Jie, and now I have some clues, and I want to communicate with Deputy Envoy Yelu..."

"Speak quickly, if you don't catch the real culprit and investigate and prove it, you need to make noise!" Yeluzhi seemed a little angry, and said angrily, "You people from the Southern Dynasty are like this, procrastinating, not straightforward at all..."

"Let's be straightforward, okay!" Lin Zhao walked to the window and said with a smile: "Let's recall the situation at the time of the incident. At the banquet that day, envoy Xiao seemed to be in a bad mood. Send him back here, and then we chatted in front of the outside, then heard envoy Xiao scream, and then heard the sound of the water basin falling to the ground, deputy envoy Yelu immediately decided that something was wrong, and rushed over to find out Is it right?"

"That's right, my envoy from Daliao was killed right under my nose, do you have any explanation?"

Lin Zhao continued to ask: "That is to say, the above are all facts? Well, when you enter the room, Envoy Xiao has already fallen to the ground and died with a knife in the neck... The whole house is sealed, except for this window of course... ...so you believe that the murderer assassinated envoy Xiao from here..."

"Obvious problem!"

Wang Guidao: "The back wall outside the window is the guards of my Great Song Imperial Army, there is no way a murderer will assassinate him!"

"How is it impossible? You Song Kingdom can put us under house arrest, but you can't assassinate them? It's not surprising that officials protect each other and plan to assassinate each other." Ye Lvzhi emphasized emphatically, with an attitude of not believing you, it is obvious that he wants to point the responsibility for the assassination Song.

Lin Zhao smiled and said, "Who killed envoy Xiao, he will tell us himself..."

"But he's dead..."

"So what if you're dead? Can't a dead person speak?" Lin Zhao said with a smile: "Many times, the words of a dead person are more credible than a living person, because they will never lie."

Everyone looked at each other, looking at Lin Zhao who seemed to be in a daze, not knowing why!
Lin Zhaodao: "I have a few questions to discuss with everyone! First, Deputy Envoy Yelu and Chai Gong Shicai both talked about it. At that time, they first heard a scream, and then a basin of water fell to the ground. Who made the scream?"

"Of course it's Master Xiao..."

"Deputy Envoy Yelu really thinks so?" Lin Zhao said with a confident smile on the corner of his mouth, "The wound on Envoy Xiao's neck proves that this knife directly pierced his throat and neck blood vessels... a person's throat Can you still scream so loudly after being punctured?"

Everyone recalled that it was indeed the case!Ye Lvzhi didn't take it seriously and said, "Perhaps it was Mr. Xiao who found out the danger and called for help before he was hit by the knife..."

"Really?" Lin Zhao said with a faint smile, "If this is the case, it means that Envoy Xiao discovered the assassin first... It is said that he is also a warrior on the grassland, so he will definitely fight the assassin in this case, but there are Is it a trace of a struggle? Is it possible for an assassin to ignore Xiao Envoy's defenses, kill him from behind in an instant, and then slip away without a trace in such a short period of time?"

Uh...Yelvzhi was at a loss for words immediately, and stammered: "Maybe he flew out of the window to shoot and killed, and used a machine gun and other things..."

"Let's not talk about the possibility of implementing it. Envoy Xiao has already told us that this is not the case..." Lin Zhao immediately vetoed it.

Yeluzhi snorted coldly: "How did he tell you? Could it be that you will go to hell again?"

"Of course not!" Lin Zhao ignored it, pointing to the blood on the ground and said, "The site has been preserved very well, almost the same as that day, please see... If the flying knife stabbed envoy Xiao from the outside to the inside, First of all, he must have stood with his back to the window, and the blood vessels in his neck were punctured...

Everyone must know that if a blood vessel ruptures in a person's neck, blood will splatter at least three feet... If this is the case, there should be a lot of blood on the screen in front of him. Did you see it? "

The pure white screen became the best evidence, everyone suddenly realized, Ye Lvzhi also had nothing to say, his forehead began to sweat slightly!
Lin Zhao continued: "Look now, the blood on the ground is concentrated in the area near the window, and the wooden frame where the water basin is placed is bright red... From this, it can be inferred that envoy Xiao was lying down at that time, and it seemed more likely that the knife was pierced from below. Reasonable……"

"Are you kidding? How could the knife penetrate from the ground? Could it be that the assassin has the ability to escape from the ground?"

"There is no need for a skill as complicated as the ground escape technique!" Lin Zhao said, "Just put the dagger on the ground and then fall down, can't it be done?"

"What do you mean?" Yeluzhi's expression changed a little!
Wang Guidao: "But how can the dagger stay on the ground, and how can it be so clever that envoy Xiao just fell down and got hit by the knife? Didn't he see it himself?"

"Good question!" Lin Zhao didn't care about Wang Gui's mentality, and analyzed, "It's impossible for outsiders to do it, but what if it's envoy Xiao himself?"

"What? He committed suicide?" Everyone in the room exclaimed.

Yeluzhi was already a little angry, and shouted loudly: "How is it possible, how could Mr. Xiao commit suicide? The position and direction of the knife edge show that he can't do it with his own hands... How can such a small dagger be held securely? Can't grasp it?" It’s all right to be the real murderer, and it’s too much to use such absurd reasons to prevaricate and slander!”

"Whether it's prevarication or not, you'll know if you look at it!" Lin Zhao beckoned, and someone lifted up a wooden basin with a few ice cubes in it, and a gleaming dagger in the middle...

"That's fine!" Lin Zhao's words fell to the ground, and he exclaimed again!
"Why use ice?" Chai Ruona expressed his doubts.

Yelvzhi took advantage of the situation and said coldly: "I'm afraid it's just your own speculation!"

"Hmph, why use ice cubes?" Lin Zhao seemed to be asking himself, and poured a pot of steaming water from behind him... The weather was already hot, and the ice cubes immediately began to melt when they encountered hot water...

Lin Zhao put down the water basin, clapped his hands, and said, "The reason is very simple, it can quickly destroy the evidence...Think carefully, why did the hot water basin happen to be knocked down? It is only a basin of water, why is the ground so wet? There are still so many water stains..."

"The hot water is to melt the ice. After the ice cubes melt, there will naturally be more water stains on the ground!" Wang Yu added, explaining the problem well.

Lin Zhaodao: "More than that, the hot blood spurting from the veins can also melt the ice. Without the ice, suicide becomes murder. What a plan!"

"It's nonsense, where is the evidence? When we entered the door, did we ever see ice? Could it have melted in an instant?" Yelvzhi was already a little flustered, looking for various reasons to refute.

"Evidence? Well, envoy Xiao often drinks iced wine these days, and ice cubes are delivered from the ice cellar every day, but did you see any ice cubes in the room that day? No! The ice was used elsewhere. The ice at the end of the dagger The tiny scratches were caused by Xiao Jie falling to the ground, stabbing the dagger, and rubbing against the ground...

Also, the blood was sprayed on the ice, it was bright red, it is normal not to notice it at the first time, if someone deliberately covered it up, it would be..."

Chai Xiao suddenly said: "At that time, Deputy Envoy Yelu was visiting and calling for the old lady to find a doctor..."

"It's over!" Lin Zhao said, "By the time you come back, Mr. Chai, the ice cubes have already melted. When the officials from Kaifeng Mansion arrived, all they saw was a puddle of water stains!"

Yeluzhi stammered, "At that time, I was only focused on rescuing Mr. Xiao, and didn't even pay attention to whether there were ice cubes... Maybe it's just your speculation. Why did Mr. Xiao commit suicide when he was fine?"

"Why? Didn't Deputy Envoy Yelu talk about it all day long!" Lin Zhao said coldly; "The envoy of the Liao Kingdom died in Song Dynasty, which is an excellent excuse to send troops! Deputy Envoy Yelu is anxious to return home because he is afraid The Liao army in Youzhou must wait impatiently, right?"

"Unexpectedly, you and others deliberately framed Song Dynasty!" Wang Anshi, Wang Gui, and Chai Xiao, several veteran officials, had a sense of justice, and immediately scolded, furious.

Lin Zhao looked at Yeluzhi with a smile, and said leisurely, "Deputy Envoy Yelu, do you have anything else to say? Don't worry, you are sweating profusely. Would you like to send you some pots of orchids for Ning Xinjing?" Are you angry?"

When Yeluzhi heard this, his body couldn't help shaking, and he sat down on the ground!
Several officials in the Song Dynasty breathed a sigh of relief, Xiao Jie... Huh, he committed suicide, with this conclusion, everything is easy to say!

(End of this chapter)