Man Pet squatted on the ground, carefully investigated, although the messenger was dead, but the dead man could also reveal a lot of information.

For example, this person's palms are thick, with messy palm prints, and thick calluses, and it is obvious that these hands have done a lot of heavy work.

Although he was wearing the clothes of ordinary people, he thought that the master behind him must be a high-ranking official of the court or the Sikong Mansion, so it can be inferred that this person is very likely to be a servant or guest secretary of the mastermind behind the mansion.

In this way, as long as someone can determine the identity of this person, then the Lord behind it can also be determined.

Man Pet ordered the people to return to Xudu overnight with the corpse, and when they returned to the city, it was already the afternoon of the next day.

Man Pet asked people to carry the corpse, and Man Xu Du looked for someone to identify the identity of the deceased.

He himself rushed to the government office with anxiety to ask Liu Ping for his guilt, and now the government of the county order of Naxu County has been used by Liu Ping.

After seeing Liu Ping, Man Zhong recounted what happened in detail with trepidation, and respectfully handed over the seized letter to Liu Ping.

Then stand next to him and wait for Liu Ping to fall.

After all, this simple little thing made him mess up, and he felt guilty in his heart, ashamed of Liu Ping's tolerance and generosity towards him.

However, what he didn't expect was that Liu Ping didn't blame him.

Liu Ping knew that such a dead soldier would commit suicide after the matter was revealed, and he couldn't stop it at all, and it was no wonder that he was full of favor.

What's more, Man Chong immediately ordered someone to track down the identity of the messenger, which is also very right.

The only thing that worries Liu Ping now is that if this person has just come to Xudu from other places, and no one knows him in the city, it will be troublesome.

For a while, Liu Ping was also a little anxious, and wasted this half of his strength to formulate a strategy to lure the snake out of the hole.

But at this time, there was no other way but to sit in the government and wait.

Unexpectedly, less than an hour later, a soldier hurriedly ran in, bowed down and said, "Fortunately, Mr. Ping, we have found someone who knows the corpse." ”

"Bring it on!" Liu Ping was overjoyed, he didn't expect things to go so smoothly and find clues so quickly.

After a short time, the soldiers brought in a middle-aged man dressed as a businessman.

"Don't panic, as long as you can recognize the identity of the corpse, I will give you a reward and let you go back."

Liu Ping saw that the middle-aged man was a little nervous, so he comforted him with kind words.

It is inevitable that any ordinary person will suddenly enter the government and panic.

"Say, who is this dead man?"

"Back to my son, I have seen that person many times, he is a servant of Kong Shaofu," the middle-aged man said tremblingly.

"Kong Rong's mansion?" Liu Ping was stunned and stammered.

He never expected that this person would be Kong Rong's person, and when he thought about it like this, Kong Rong's suspicion was quite big.

First of all, Kong Rong is one of the Nine Qings, a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and the court can't hide anything from him, and it is normal to get news of the dispatch of troops from the Son of Heaven.

Secondly, if you pull the Manchu Dynasty ministers again, there is no closer relationship between Kong Rong and Liu Bei.

After all, when Kong Rong was the minister of Beihai, he was besieged by the Yellow Turban Army, and the situation was critical, and the city was broken only overnight.

As a result, Liu Bei, who was not very strong, made a righteous move, and led the second general Guan Zhang to help Kong Rong defeat the Yellow Turban Army and relieve the siege of Beihai.

In this way, Liu Bei and Kong Rong have the grace to save their lives.

Kong Rong reciprocated the favor by secretly revealing the news to Liu Bei, and this motive is also very reasonable.

What's more, Kong Rong has always opposed the attack on Liu Bei in the court, and it is difficult to say whether he has selfish intentions......

"Are you sure?" After thinking for a long time, Liu Ping asked the middle-aged man intently.

"It's true!"

The middle-aged man bowed down and said, "The little one runs a rice shop, and the deceased has gone to the small rice shop several times to buy rice, and each time he leads the little one to the mansion of Kong Shaofu." ”

"Okay, first wronged you to stay in the government for a few days, and when the matter passes, I will give you a reward and let you go home,"

Liu Ping waved his hand and asked the official to take the middle-aged man down first, and he must not be let go at this time.

Kong Rong is not an ordinary person, he is a saint, and he is known as the three great celebrities in the world together with Tao Qiuhong and Chen Liubian Rang in the plains.

Cao Cao killed Bian Rang with a rod at that time, which had already made the Cao family bad among the scholars, and no one in the world wanted to defect to the Cao family.

Now that he has finally eased the relationship with the scholar class by welcoming the Son of Heaven, if Kong Rong is arrested again, it will establish the notoriety of Cao's torture and killing of scholars.

Liu Ping pinched his chin and pondered for a moment, then ordered Man Chong: "Don't leak the news for the time being, immediately send someone to secretly go to Kong Rong's mansion to arrest two subordinates, and then let them identify." ”

"No!"

Man Chong was already suspicious of Kong Rong, and when he searched the silk silk, Kong Rong's mansion was also one of the places where he was most seriously cared for.

It's a pity that he didn't find any clues at that time.

Unexpectedly, after turning around, it still returned to Kong Rong.

For the sake of safety, Man Zhong personally took a dozen or so servants and ambushed them around Kong Rong's mansion, and when he saw that there were slaves coming out of the mansion, he grabbed two of them at random.

After the two slaves who were captured looked at the corpses, they were very sure that the deceased was the slave of Kong Rong's mansion, and he was an old slave who had followed Kong Rong since Beihai County, and was usually very trusted by the head of the family.

Determining this, Liu Ping felt a little big, so he took the news to Cao Cao to discuss countermeasures.

"Father-in-law, now it seems that Kong Rong is very suspicious, as for how to deal with it, the son-in-law can't make up his mind, please ask the father-in-law to decide."

In Cao Cao's study, only the two of them, Weng and his son-in-law, reported all the investigation results to Cao Cao in detail, Liu Ping said respectfully.

"It turned out to be Kong Rong!"

Cao Cao raised his eyebrows, gritted his teeth and said: "The old man treats him very well, but I didn't expect that he still has his heart for Liu Bei, which is really hateful." ”

As he spoke, Cao Cao slammed his fist on the table.

Liu Ping found out the spy in such a short time, and he was naturally satisfied, which had been entangled in his heart for more than a month.

However, the spy is Kong Rong, which makes him feel a little tricky.

In the past, he didn't care what the scholars thought of him, a famous man like Bian Rang, but he slandered him a few times, saying that if he killed, he would be killed.

But now Cao Cao is no longer the small prince who only owned the land of Yanzhou in the past, he is already one of the three princes of the Han court, and has tasted the benefits of Fengtianzi to cultivate the people's popularity.

The world's corporal people have come to vote, he has countless talents to assist, his ambition has already changed from holding an acre and three points of land to pacify the world, if you want to complete this ambition, you can't do without the help of the scholars.

But if he goes to kill Kong Rong now, I am afraid that he will attract the world's corporal to criticize him again.

After all, in the eyes of scholars, Kong Rong is just a matter of position, and it is difficult to say whether it is right or wrong.

"This is a problem for the old man," Cao Cao pinched his beard, muttered for a long time, and finally looked at Liu Ping and said: "Ping'er, you have always been wise, how to deal with it, you don't have any idea at all?" ”