Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 434 The Watcher
Di Renjie was taken aback: "County government office?"

Wang Mang was stunned immediately: "Jinniang sneaked into the county government?"

Di Renjie glanced at Wang Mang slightly, and listened quietly to Ruyan's words.

Ruyan said: "Exactly. Just now, she ran to the county government's morgue and kept searching for her father Wu Si's body."

Di Renjie raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"

At this time, Wang Mang's heart skipped a beat: Could it be...

Ruyan said: "I really can't figure out, what is she looking for?"

Wang Mang's gaze was erratic, and he became thoughtful.

Li Yuanfang said, "Where is Jinniang now?"

Ruyan said: "I have already returned to the room. Oh, by the way, I also caught two servants of the Hou family who were monitoring Jinniang."

Di Renjie was taken aback: "Oh?"

Ruyan said: "It has been handed over to Zhang Huan and Li Lang for custody."

Di Renjie nodded, and murmured: "Everyone and everything is related to the Pingnanhou Mansion. Is this a coincidence, is it a coincidence, or..."

Li Yuanfang said: "I remember you once said that there are very few real accidents in the world."

Wang Mang took a deep breath.

Di Renjie looked at him: "That's right. I think there must be some kind of internal connection between Jinniang and the murders in Jiangzhou and Wuping, but we can't connect them yet."

Di Renjie watched Di Wang Mang's every move with vague eyes.

Wang Mang listened quietly with a calm expression.

Li Yuanfang and Ruyan looked at each other and nodded.

Di Renjie let out a long sigh: "Have you seen that in Wuping today, there is me in you, and you in me. The surface is calm, but there is a huge undercurrent surging under the water, so everything is unknown.

Yuan Fang, we must act now.

Immediately order Zhang Huan and Li Lang to lead Qianniuwei, and arrest Xue Qinglin to the mansion with the order of the imperial envoy! "

Li Yuanfang said: "Yes!"

Di Renjie said: "To untie the bell, you need the person who tied it. Everything has to start with him."

Suddenly, Di Renjie looked at Wang Mang: "Jing Yang, what's wrong with you?"

Wang Mang smiled: "It's just that Jinniang's behavior is very strange, and I don't know what she is looking for?"

Di Renjie stared closely at Wang Mang: "Really?"

Wang Mang nodded: "Otherwise, what else can I think?"

Di Renjie nodded slightly.

Li Yuanfang and Ruyan looked at each other, and a trace of doubt flashed in their eyes.

……

The night is deep.

Ruyan opened the door and walked into her room, only to see Jinniang sitting on the couch with the quilt in her arms, watching her quietly.

Ruyan walked up to her and said, "Are you afraid of sleeping alone?"

Jinniang shook her head: "Since I was six years old, I don't know what it means to be afraid. Sister Ruyan, what will people be like when they don't know how to be afraid?"

Ruyan slowly sat on the couch and shook her head lightly.

Jinniang said, "It's an indescribable loneliness."

Ruyan was stunned.

Jin Niang said: "I know, you have a lot of questions you want to ask me. Just ask, as long as I can answer, I will tell you."

Ruyan shook her head: "I don't have anything to ask."

Jin Niang sighed and nodded.

Ruyan said with a smile: "Today, you can sleep with me, we will sleep under the same bed."

Jinniang laughed, she rolled over and lay down: "First take a good place."

Ruyan also laughed.

……

Late at night, Wang Mang's mansion.

Inside the main hall.

Wang Mang kept wandering around the house, as if waiting for something.

Suddenly, there was a slight sound of footsteps, and Xiaomei Xiaofeng, who was dressed in black, walked in.

Wang Mang rushed to meet him: "Xiaomei, Xiaofeng, how are you doing?"

Xiaomei Xiaofeng shook her head: "The morgue of the county government has been surrounded by government servants, we can't get in."

Wang Mang sighed: "Oh, why didn't I think of it sooner! Wu Si is the most likely one!"

Xiaomei and Xiaofeng looked at each other: "Senior brother, it's really not possible, we just assassinate Xue Qinglin, and it's considered revenge for uncle and the others."

Wang Mang took a deep breath: "Things haven't reached that point yet, I'll have a look tomorrow, maybe..."

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and Wang Mang stopped talking.

Shangguan Wan'er, who was also dressed in black, walked in: "Jing Yang, Ruyan is by that Jinniang's side, I can't get close to her!"

Wang Mang frowned: "Forget it, as long as she is in Wuping, I am not afraid that she will run away!"

Shangguan Wan'er nodded and looked at Wang Mang: "Jing Yang, do you have any news about my matter?"

Wang Mang shook his head: "Jiangzhou is so big, who knows where it is? And I reckon, the emperor didn't expect you to find it, you just need to show yourself!"

Shangguan Wan'er nodded thoughtfully: "I hope!"

Suddenly, a middle-aged man in a purple robe strode in. It was Li Wenzhong.

Wang Mang raised his head: "Uncle Wen Zhong, why are you here? Aren't you monitoring the Hou Mansion?"

Li Wenzhong said: "Jing Yang, Xue Qinglin was killed!"

"what?"

Several people in the room let out a burst of exclamation.

……

In the early morning of the next day, in the Wuping county yamen hall, the sound of drums was louder and louder.

The three classes of Yamen arresters and imperial guards quickly lined up inside and outside the court, and the sound of Antang sticks and "mighty" resounded through the night sky.

Di Renjie, Wang Mang, Li Yuanfang, Wen Kai, and Lin Yongzhong walked quickly to the court.

Di Renjie slowly sat behind the public case, Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang stood beside him, Wen Kai and Lin Yongzhong were at the head of the hall.

The sound of footsteps suddenly sounded, and Zhang Huan and Li Lang rushed over with the imperial envoy in hand, bowed and said, "My lord!"

Di Renjie asked, "Where is Xue Qinglin?"

Zhang Huan raised his head with a dazed look on his face: "The humble officer was ordered by the lord to arrest Xue Qinglin, Marquis of Pingnan, to the mansion, but the inferior officer led his men to the mansion, and found that the Hou's mansion had been bloodbathed, and more than [-] people were killed! "

Di Renjie turned pale with shock, and stood up: "What?"

Wen Kai and Lin Yongzhong let out a scream.

Li Yuanfang asked hurriedly, "Where's Xue Qinglin?"

Wang Mang looked at the people around him, and was immediately taken aback, and also exclaimed.

Zhang Huan said: "He was killed in a dark room in the back hall."

Di Renjie took a deep breath, and slowly sat down on the chair.

Wang Mang swallowed and did not speak.

Zhang Huan said: "The humble official has ordered the imperial guards to surround Pingnan Hou's mansion, please go and investigate!"

Di Renjie stood up abruptly: "Show me the Pingnanhou Mansion!"

When the sun in the east was rising, Di Renjie and Wang Mang led the officials to rush to Pingnanhou's mansion.

In the Hou Mansion, the imperial guards, led by the heads of the Eight Great Army, came in and out to clean up the scene.

The county magistrate ordered the county officials to move out the corpses one by one and put them in front of the main hall.

In the dark room of the back hall, Xue Qinglin was wearing a black hooded cloak, sitting on a chair, his lips were slightly parted, and a stream of blood leaked from the corner of his mouth.

His eyes were wide open, as if he could not believe until his death that bad luck would befall him so suddenly.

A gleaming steel knife was stuck in his chest, and the iron awl used to injure Feng Wanchun was placed at his feet.

Di Renjie quietly looked at the scene in front of him, and took a deep breath.

Behind him, Wang Mang, Li Yuanfang, Wen Kai, and Lin Yongzhong looked at each other.

(End of this chapter)