Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 169 Gao Rujin

In front of Uncle Nine's house in Enjizhuang, it was raining non-stop.

The villagers surrounded the gate tightly.

Suddenly someone shouted from behind: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

Wang Mang pushed away the crowd and walked quickly to the courtyard.

Followed by Di Renjie and Zeng Tai.

As soon as Wang Mang entered the courtyard, he saw a headless corpse without a left arm lying on the kang in the house. It looked like Uncle Jiu!

Di Renjie and Zeng Tai walked in quickly, stood in front of the corpse, and watched quietly.

Di Renjie's face was ugly, and he asked a yamen servant: "What's going on?"

The yamen servant said: "I didn't see Uncle Jiu and the others this morning, and I didn't find Uncle Jiu dead until near noon."

Wang Mang frowned: "Where's the person on duty last night?"

"That's right! What about the person on duty last night, didn't I leave the yamen servant here?"

Zeng Tai reacted.

The yamen servant said: "Last night, I was on duty in a humble position, and I didn't hear any changes!"

Di Renjie frowned and asked, "Are you sure?"

The yamen servant said: "There is another brother who can also testify, my lord, the ghosts are so vicious, even the humble ones dare not squint their eyes!"

Di Renjie took a deep breath and waved his hand: "Go down!"

Wang Mang came to the corpse and observed it carefully.

Blood-stained quilts, headless corpses, blood eagles on the wall, neatly arranged tables, chairs and benches...

"Jing Yang, what did you see?"

Di Renjie also observed.

Wang Mang frowned: "The situation at the scene is similar to the one on the official road."

Zeng Tai nodded: "Could it be that the murderer has shot again?"

Di Renjie shook his head slowly: "Absolutely not!"

Zeng Tai frowned: "But, teacher, the situation here is very similar to the official one!"

Wang Mang's eyes lit up: "My lord, are you saying that Uncle Jiu was not killed by the previous murderer?"

Di Renjie shook his head: "It's hard to say now!"

Before the words finished, Li Yuanfang walked in quickly. He looked at the body of Uncle Jiu on the kang and said in a low voice, "My lord, the two old men who came with Uncle Jiu that night were also killed at home!"

At this moment, Di Renjie's eyes flashed with anger: "I will definitely make the murderer pay the price!"

He turned around and said confidently: "I don't believe that we, living and intelligent people, will lose to a ghost of the underworld! Let's go!"

With that said, he waved his hand and strode out the door.

At this time, there was a crowd of people kneeling in front of the gate, and they were the villagers of Enji Village headed by Pang San and several elders.

As soon as they saw Wang Mang, Di Renjie and others coming out of the door, the villagers shouted loudly: "My lord, help me!"

Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang were stunned for a moment, and their eyes turned to Di Renjie beside him.

Di Renjie hurriedly said, "Folks, what are you doing?"

An elder said: "My lord, you must help us!"

Di Renjie said: "Folks, I already know who the murderer is. Please rest assured, folks, I can catch him within two days at most!"

Pang San raised his head: "Are you really going to be able to catch the ghost tomorrow?"

Wang Mang stood up and said, "Of course, Mr. Di, the ghost catcher, was appointed by the emperor himself. There can be a fake!"

Pang San nodded dubiously, and the other villagers also cheered.

……

As the evening approached, Di Renjie, Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang came to a compound led by Zeng Tai.

In front of the gate of the compound, the door opened with a "squeak", and a man with the appearance of a servant showed his head: "Yo, it's the grandfather!"

Zeng Tai stood in front of the door, followed by Di Renjie, Wang Mang, Li Yuanfang and several government servants.

Zeng Tai asked, "Is senior there?"

The servant said: "Yes, yes. Grandpa, please go to the flower hall for tea, and the villain will report right away."

Saying so, he opened the door, let Wang Mang and others into the house, asked them to sit down in the flower hall, and hurriedly prepared tea for them, and then went inside to inform the master.

Di Renjie took a sip of tea and put the cup on the table.

Zeng Tai and Li Yuanfang were puzzled and looked at Di Renjie inexplicably.

Zeng Tai asked in a low voice: "Teacher, the students still don't understand why we came to Gao Rujin."

Di Renjie and Wang Mang looked at each other and said, "You will understand after a while."

Zeng Tai and Li Yuanfang were about to ask Wang Mang, when there was a sound of footsteps, and Gao Rujin walked into the flower hall with the help of his servants.

Zeng Tai got up quickly: "Senior."

Gao Rujin hurriedly said: "Don't dare to work, my grandfather, please sit down quickly."

Di Renjie sat sternly, without moving a muscle, squinted at Gao Rujin, and said, "Are you Gao Rujin, former Henan County Prime Minister?"

Gao Rujin was taken aback, and asked Zeng Tai, "This is..."

Zeng Tai said: "Today's minister, Di Renjie, Di Guolao."

Hearing this name, Gao Rujin trembled all over, knelt down tremblingly, and kowtowed his head: "Gao Rujin, a grass-roots man, did not know that the old man was coming, so he was sorry to welcome him, and begged for forgiveness!"

Di Renjie hummed through his nose and eyes: "Your name is Gao Rujin?"

Gao Rujin hurriedly said, "Yes."

Di Renjie sneered, "Your surname is neither Gao nor Gao Rujin. You are Jiang Xiaolang!"

As soon as this remark came out, it was like a bolt from the blue, shocking everyone in the room.

But Wang Mang sneered and didn't speak.

Gao Rujin was so frightened that his face was ashen. He glanced at Zeng Tai and said calmly, "Guo, Guo Lao was joking."

Di Renjie sneered: "I don't have the time or the mood to joke with you. You are the former Right Guard General Hanyang, the patriarch of the Jiang family village—Jiang Xiaolang."

Cold sweat dripped from Gao Rujin's forehead, and he stammered, "Guo Lao, Gao Rujin, the Prime Minister of Caominyuan Henan County, many people can testify to this."

Zeng Tai turned to Di Renjie: "Men, he is indeed Gao Rujin, did he make a mistake?"

Wang Mang shook his head: "My lord is right, he is not only Jiang Xiaolang, but also Gao Rujin!"

Zeng Tai was immediately puzzled.

Di Renjie nodded, stood up slowly, and said to Gao Rujin: "Before the early years of Zhenguan, there was no such person as Gao Rujin in the world!"

Gao Rujin's body began to tremble.

Li Yuanfang and Zeng Tai looked at each other, but they were still in the fog.

Di Renjie looked at Gao Rujin like a sharp sword: "Jiang Xiaolang! In the early years of Zhenguan, you led your subordinates to escape from the Right Guard Army for an ulterior purpose, and came to Henan County to build a new village in the depths of Mang Mountain. Jiangjiazhuang. At that time, except for your subordinates, no one saw your real face, and no one knew the name Jiang Xiaolang. You were afraid of being traced by the right guards, so you changed your name to Gao Rujin, and bribed the officials at the time to increase your identity You left your family in the Jiangjia compound, and you lived in the county seat and never returned to Jiangjiazhuang. Two years later, that is, the third year of Zhenguan, you sneaked into the county government office and became the county magistrate. seat!"

After Gao Rujin listened, he shuddered, but still pretended to be confused: "The grassroots don't understand what the old man said."

Di Renjie sneered: "Really? Then you are really a nobleman who forgets too much! Is it because it has been too long, or because you are too old? Huh! In the eighth year of Zhenguan, Youwei learned of your whereabouts and sent officers When you came to Henan County to hunt them down, what you didn’t expect was that the person who received these officers was actually you! Could it be that you also forgot about this?”

Wang Mang looked at Zeng Tai and Li Yuanfang, and said, "Now you understand!"

As soon as these few words were said, Gao Rujin couldn't help screaming, and sat down on the ground, sweating profusely.

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