A fire in the Imperial Palace, set off a storm, Guanghe Palace suddenly caught fire at night, a few days after the fact, the people of the Ministry of Industry were busy cleaning up the scene to discuss how to remedy, and the people of the Criminal Department surveyed the fire to find out the cause of the fire, whether it was an accidental fire or someone deliberately set the fire, it was difficult to understand for a while. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because of the fortifications, a small door was opened on the west wall of the palace, and there were two guards of the Imperial Forest Army during the day, and the gate was released on time to close the door, this gate was only for the craftsmen who participated in the construction to enter and exit, and the daily entry and exit had to be recorded, and hundreds of craftsmen were coming and going here. After sunset, the craftsmen returned home, and the door was locked, leaving only a fixed group of five people to set up a tent next to the construction site to guard and take turns patrolling, changing guards once an hour until dawn.

After the fire, one of the five guards went missing and his whereabouts are unknown. However, at first, it was not possible to determine whether the missing guards were related to the fire, because the guards were also selected from the eunuchs in the palace, and every time they encountered this kind of fire, etc., there were many palace maids and eunuchs who escaped from the palace while the scene was chaotic, just like this time in addition to this guard, there were several eunuchs and palace maids who were also missing.

Two days later, they found the body of the missing guard in the rubble, charred, but identifiable from the waist tag, and upon examination, he was not killed by fire, but by a sharp weapon.

In other words, it was not an accidental fire due to dry weather, but someone deliberately did it.

After some investigation, the Criminal Department came to the conclusion that the other four guards were resting in a shed that night, so that they could testify against each other and remove suspicion; the small door of the west wall was locked that night, and there was no trace of prying open, and the Imperial Guards were also guarded in shifts during the day, and the keys were all handed over to the second lieutenant of the Imperial Guards at night, which was kept by the second lieutenant, and the second lieutenant also had enough alibi that night.

Then there is only one possibility left, the arsonist went straight to the construction site from the palace. Guanghe Palace is a part of the Imperial Palace, which is naturally connected to the Inner Palace, but the road leading to the Imperial Palace is heavily guarded by the Imperial Forest Army, and it is difficult for ordinary people to approach here. The Guards didn't notice anything unusual that night before the incident.

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After Lu Yuancheng knew about this, he hurriedly consulted with Gu Qinghuan, he panicked like a red deer, and met Gu Qinghuan in the private room of Jiangyue Building, beat his chest and said: "Stupid! Stupid! I'm really angry! Today I went to ask him, and he said that when he slipped in and set fire that night, he was accidentally seen by the guard eunuch and killed him! I was afraid that I would blame him after I found out, so I concealed it! I thought that people were scorched by the fire and couldn't see the wounds, but who knew that they were still tested by the criminal department! I was really angry with me! If this criminal department investigates further, I'm afraid it will soon find out to me! It's over! Eh! I shouldn't have listened to your people burning Guanghe Palace in the first place, I'm also crazy! Once this incident happens, I will suffer!"

Gu Qinghuan was also a little at a loss, seeing that Lu Yuancheng was so anxious that the room was full of people, he thought about something silently, and then he had an idea, thinking that since he could persuade him to buy murder and arson here that night, he could fool him into buying murder today.

Gu Qinghuan hesitated for a moment, then pressed Lu Yuancheng's shoulder, who was like an ant on a hot pot, forcibly made him steady, and stood opposite him. Looking at each other, Lu Yuancheng was stunned for a while, moved by the perseverance in Gu Qinghuan's eyes, and then calmed down.

Only then did Gu Qinghuan speak: "What are you panicking about? What kind of thing you want to do, what kind of risk you have to bear, if you want to win your eldest brother, I am afraid that there will be much greater dangers and tribulations than this in the future, do you give up because you are afraid? Are you willing to lose your position as the son of the world because of your status? You must know that you have no way out! If Lu Yuanze becomes the son of the Lu family, he will definitely not allow you! What hope do you have?"

Lu Yuancheng bit his lip and shook his head firmly: "No, I will never be willing to be suppressed by my eldest brother for a lifetime!

Gu Qinghuan let go of him and said, "That's good." ”

"It's not dangerous to say that this thing is dangerous, you are afraid that the person will leak the secret and find out to you, so don't you just keep his mouth shut? People, you always have to pay the price for your stupidity, but sometimes the price is small, sometimes the price is big, and sometimes you even pay the price of your life. ”

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At dusk, on the secluded outer palace road, there were royal guards in golden armor walking by one after another, at this time they were not patrolling, but after the shift was handed over, they left the palace and returned home.

One of them was in a hurry, trotting after someone in front of him, calling: "Lixiao! Lixiao! Wait for me!"

A Forester in his early twenties stopped and looked back, his face a little pale and his eyes blank.

The man caught up with Yang Lixiao, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "What's wrong with you? I see that your face has been so bad today? Are you still depressed? Eh, what's the matter? Although guarding the construction site is easier than patrolling, it is considered a beautiful difference, but the risk is great, you see, you were just withdrawn this time, this is very good, fortunately you saved your job, what is there to be sorry for? Really, isn't it good to come back to patrol with your brothers? What are you still depressed about? Be content!"

Yang Lixiao smiled reluctantly: "You, you're right...... It's just that I'm trying to be lazy...... It's nothing...... Well, so be it, I'll go home first. ”

"Why do you go back so early? Let's go for a drink, and then go to Ruyifang to gamble?"

He shook his head: "Forget it, another day, I'm a little uncomfortable." ”

Yang Lixiao said goodbye to his friends, walked out of the court, and went home. He lived alone in a small courtyard outside the south gate of Chang'an City, and after returning home, he took out a box wrapped in felt cloth from under the bed, and was opening it, when he suddenly heard the door being smashed by something, he became vigilant, walked slowly to the door, peeked out through the crack in the door, but no one was seen.

Yang Lixiao waited for a while before opening the door and checking the situation, only to see a paper ball falling on the side of the door. He picked it up and opened it, and it read: "The danger of extinguishing the mouth, the killer is coming, please flee quickly, forbear for the time being, and hope for self-respect." ”

There is no name written on the paper, and there is only one word in the payment: Gu.

Yang Lixiao was shocked, hurriedly packed his things, took a box of gold and silver, and fled.

Sure enough, dozens of black-clothed people came to the door that night, but when they pounced, he had long since disappeared.

Those killers went to see Lu Yuancheng to report the situation, and Lu Yuancheng was so angry that the three corpses jumped violently, and the seven orifices were smoking, and he didn't meet his eyelashes all night, and he was in a panic all night.

The next day, after Lu Yuancheng returned home, he heard Lu Yuanzhi say that the criminal department had already decided the case.

It turned out that Chen Jingxing was angry after knowing that someone deliberately set fire to someone and killed someone, and immediately ordered the Criminal Department to let them investigate the matter as soon as possible, and specially allowed the Criminal Department to enter the palace to interrogate the palace guards.

To the surprise of the Criminal Department, there were eyebrows on the day of entering the palace for interrogation. Several palace maids and eunuchs behaved unusually during interrogation, and were brought to the criminal department for trial, and for fear of being punished, they confessed that they had nothing to do with the arson, but they knew who was the most suspicious. It was two of those missing palace maids and eunuchs, one was a palace maid who came to the palace to listen to errands, and the other was a eunuch who worked in the royal room, and they colluded to give food to each other.

Those palace maids and eunuchs got along with them a lot, and some of them knew that they had often sneaked into the construction site of Guanghe Palace, which was deserted in the middle of the night, and did things there.

On the night of the fire, one of the eunuchs witnessed them sneak to the Guanghe Palace, and after the fire started, they disappeared.

At this point, the facts of the case were clear, and the Criminal Department judged that this pair of men and women were bumped into by the patrolling guards when they were cheating, so they killed people and killed their mouths, and set fire to Guanghe Palace in order to destroy the corpses, and then escaped from the palace in chaos.

Therefore, the facts of the case were detrimental to the dignity of the court, and the people of the Criminal Department did not dare to make a public announcement after the verdict was decided, so they first went to Chen Jingxing to make it clear, and Chen Jingxing asked them to say that the case was not clear and the case was not decided, and quietly handed over the case to Dali Temple for trial, and asked the Criminal Department to send someone to track down the pair of palace maids and eunuchs on the grounds that the property in the palace was stolen.