After listening to Wang Yue's narration, Dugu Qian's face was embarrassed, and he said for a while: "My father's trip was arranged ten days ago, and the reason why I only notified the steward there last night was completely an accident, and I forgot to inform him. ”

"It was arranged ten days ago?" Wang Yue was surprised.

Dugu Qian nodded, "It's my father's habit, he has had too many things in the past few years, and he usually plans it early, and he generally doesn't change his itinerary unless there are special circumstances." ”

It's a bit tricky, it's too early, and there are probably more people who know about it.

Wang Yue frowned and asked, "Who would know the itinerary of Dugu Xiangguo?" ”

Dugu Qian thought for a while and said: "There are really not many people who know, except for me, and then the leader of the guards, only the two of us should know." ”

"Will they know about the maids, concubines, physicians, etc.?" Wang Yue asked again.

"Impossible!"

Dugu Qian denied it: "The rules in the house are very strict, who should know everything has rules, maids and doctors don't know, as for concubines, my father does, but my father won't talk to them about business, maybe he told the concubine who served him last night and asked me to find someone to ask?" ”

Wang Yue shook his head, he had just figured it out, if the concubine had a problem, there was no need to assassinate him.

"Get the chief of the guard! I'll ask him. ”

In fact, Wang Yue felt that there were still some loopholes, if the personal guard was an internal response, he could assassinate Du Guqiu, and there was no need to find outsiders to do it, but this doubt only flashed in his mind, and he didn't have so much time to think about it carefully.

Not long after, a burly man walked quickly, he also carried filial piety, his expression was gloomy, this person's name is Xu Wei, he is the leader of the personal samurai of Du Du Qiu, who has followed Du Du Qiu for twenty years, but he didn't expect to see the old lord die in front of his eyes in the end.

Xu Wei suffered a huge blow, and the person was like a frosted eggplant, his expression was extremely depressed, and he entered the house and saluted.

Dugu Mingren introduced him to Wang Yue? He said to him: "If the king wants to ask some questions, just answer them truthfully." ”

"Obey!"

Dugu Mingren nodded to Wang Yue, and Wang Yue asked unhurriedly, "May I ask Chief Xu?" What is the old owner's itinerary? Has it been leaked to anyone else? ”

"Impossible!"

Xu Wei immediately denied it without thinking: "I won't go out and talk nonsense about this kind of thing?" No one was interested in asking about it either. ”

"What if anyone is interested?" Wang Yue continued to ask.

"Who will ...... it"

Xu Wei was halfway through speaking, but suddenly stopped, and he said after a while: "Say this? It seems that someone is interested. ”

"Who is it?" The three people in the room asked at the same time.

Xu Wei scratched his head and said, "Wu Faping asked me a few days ago. Did you tell him? I kind of forgot that we were having dinner together at the time. ”

"This Wu Faping is definitely not in the house, right?" Wang Yue suddenly had a strong premonition in his heart that he was a step too late.

"Huh! How does the king know? Wu Faping took a leave of absence in the afternoon? Say come back in the evening? But it hasn't come back yet. ”

Brother Dugu glanced at each other? They're also a little out of breath? Dugu Mingren immediately ordered: "Send all the brothers out?" Be sure to find this Wu Faping. ”

Xu Wei was extremely worried? Hurriedly ran to arrange people.

Wang Yue, accompanied by the Dugu brothers, came to Wu Faping's room, which was very simple, just a bed and a wooden box, and a few damaged weapons were piled up in the corner of the room.

The guards opened the box, and there were some old clothes and a dozen pieces of money inside? Don't have anything under the bed? The soldiers began to search the ground and walls.

This is? Wang Yue's gaze fell on the wall? There was a Buddhist shrine with a lamp on the wall, and there was an oil lamp on it, and Wang Yue immediately found that this oil lamp was different? It seemed to be very new, he took off the oil lamp and sniffed it, and sure enough, it was a new oil lamp, without any smell of lamp oil.

"Commander Wang, is there a problem with this oil lamp?" Dugu Qian asked.

"It's a little abnormal, everything that is not normal, there must be something strange in it!"

Wang Yue pulled out the dagger, pried the oil lamp open, and took out a roll of paper from the base of the oil lamp.

The Dugu brothers were greatly surprised, and they gathered around and asked, "What is it?" ”

Wang Yue unfolded the paper and looked at it, and said lightly: "It's a deposit voucher from the treasure cabinet, ten days ago he deposited three hundred taels of gold, and he still has real money." ”

Wang Yue glanced at Brother Dugu, "Does he have such a high salary?" ”

"Impossible!"

Dugu Mingren shook his head again and again, "They have six yuan a month, and they have to save three thousand yuan, at least.... Forty years, how is it possible. ”

Dugu Mingren suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "It must be him, betrayed the master, I have to break him into thousands of pieces!" ”

"I'm afraid it's too late."

Wang Yue sighed softly, "I didn't take this voucher, he didn't run away, if I guessed correctly, he has already been killed." ”

"That's ......," Dugu Mingren muttered.

Wang Yue was also really disappointed in his heart, he returned the credentials to the Dugu brothers, and said to them: "I will leave first, there is bad news about this and Wu Faping, please notify me in time!" ”

He bowed and took his men to leave........

Before dawn, the family of Dugu Mansion found Wu Faping's body in the woods by the Qujiang Pond, and the clues he had just found were broken again.

Wang Yue had no choice, he could only sort out his thoughts a little and prepare to report to His Royal Highness King Jin.

In the official room of the King of Jin, Wang Yue reported in detail to Guo Song, the King of Jin, what he had discovered yesterday, Guo Song squinted his eyes and listened without saying a word, and next to him sat Pan Liao and Du You, two Xiangguo, who were also thoughtful.

In the end, Wang Yue sighed and said: "The humble position found the only clue, but the other party was still too cunning and killed the person in advance, which led to the clue being broken again, and the humble position was incompetent!" ”

"What do you think?" Guo Song turned around and asked Pan Liao and Du You.

Pan Liao pondered for a moment and said: "It's a little better than the imperial court's investigation, which didn't take into account the situation of the carriage blockage, and now it still believes that the assassin is a poisonous crossbow arrow shot from a dilapidated roof." ”

Du You also said: "Indeed, the imperial court investigation did not take into account the problem of internal response, and it is still a bit superficial. ”

Guo Song nodded and said to Wang Yue: "In fact, there is a big loophole in the investigation, didn't you find it?" ”

Wang Yue was taken aback, "Where is the loophole in the humble position?" ”

Guo Song smiled and said, "It is inferred that the assassin shot poisonous crossbow arrows from the tree, why didn't the guards of Dugu Xiangguo catch him?" Can he fly away with wings like a bird? ”

Wang Yue was stunned, Du You stroked his palms and smiled: "That's good, Your Highness did point out a big loophole?" ”

"Is it really shooting from the roof?" Wang Yue muttered to himself.

Guo Song shook his head, "Thinking about the problem is still bound by the box, so be it!" Let's deduce it once on the spot, and I believe it will be understood. ”

Guo Song wrote a warrant and handed it to Wang Yue, "Go to Dugu Mansion again, let them perform again according to the way Dugu Xiangguo traveled yesterday morning, all the warriors will participate yesterday, and the location cannot be wrong." ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Wang Yue took the letter suspiciously and hurried away.

Guo Song smiled at the two Xiangguo: "Are you two interested in going there?" ”

Pan Liao and Du You smiled happily: "Why are you not interested? Let's go! Let's take a look. ”

Guo Song and two Xiangguo rode in a carriage to Xianyang, escorted by hundreds of cavalry.

.........

Near noon, eighteen Dugufu warriors escorted a carriage into Xianyang County, followed by a large group of internal guard cavalry, Wang Yue himself was also among the eighteen Dugufu warriors, he played Wu Faping, riding a horse and walking in Wu Faping's seat.

The carriage turned a corner, drove to the south of the county seat, walked about a mile, the houses in front began to be empty, on the left is a very narrow river, the river is covered with thick poplar trees, on the right is a number of houses, hundreds of steps in front of the sugar boiling workshop.

Guo Song has been waiting for a long time with two Xiangguo and a large group of cavalry guards.

Wang Yue looked at the tree as he walked, and at this time, he clearly saw a black shadow squatting on a poplar tree, and the leaves could not cover his figure at all, which was extremely eye-catching.

"That's not right!"

Wang Yue suddenly noticed something abnormal, he pointed to the black shadow on the tree and asked the leader Xu Weidao, "Have you seen it?" ”

Xu Wei nodded, "We can see it clearly, if the assassin was dressed in black yesterday, we should see it very clearly." ”

Another samurai said, "I went out of my way yesterday to look for a bird's nest in the poplar tree, and I'm sure there is no such conspicuous black shadow on the tree. ”

Wang Yue's heart became nervous, he made a mistake in judgment yesterday, and there was definitely no man in black on the big tree.

So, where exactly is the Black Assassin hiding?