Li Ji and several eunuchs who announced the decree also followed Lei Dashan and others to the wall, and a catcher was in the corner of the wall, he saw Lei Dashan and others coming, and immediately got up and hugged his fists and said: "Boss Lei, it's here!" The footprints towards the outside of the wall are particularly clear, and the footprints towards the inside of the wall are a little more blurry! ”

Lei Dashan squatted next to the footprints and looked at them, a pair of clear footprints were facing the wall, and the other line of clear footprints was facing the wall.

"These footprints should have been left by the murderer who jumped off the wall, and this line of footprints should have been left when the murderer left after committing the crime! Look at this footprint, the murderer's leg exerts force when he runs, so this footprint is ruthless; And this right footprint, with the force of the right leg, the wall left! ”

The eunuch who pronounced the decree asked, "Can you find the murderer with these footprints?" ”

"No, but it's a piece of evidence and a clue!" Lei Dashan said a word, and then beckoned a scribe: "Rub these footprints down!" ”

"Yes!" The scribe agreed, took out a stack of white paper and a box from the box, opened the box, grabbed a handful of black powder in it, squatted on the side of the footprints, and sprinkled the black powder around the footprints very seriously.

After sprinkling black powder around all the footprints, the scribe covered the footprints with pieces of white paper, then gently smoothed them on a piece of white paper, and then lifted the white paper to see that it was covered with black powder, and in the middle was a blank footprint shape.

Later, the scribe rubbed all the footprints according to the gourd painting scoop.

"Gong Li, it's almost over, let's go to the palace to meet you!" Lei Dashan said to Li Ji with a fist.

Li Ji nodded: "Okay!" Let's enter the palace now, we can't make Your Majesty wait for a long time! ”

Lei Dashan told his subordinates to arrest them quickly, and the first team went to investigate the murder of the envoy of the thirsty pantuo, and the second team stayed behind to investigate the murder of the envoy of the bowl and the country.

After walking a few steps, Lei Dashan passed by a fruit tree that was as tall as a person, he walked a few more steps and stopped, turned his head to look at the fruit tree, turned around and walked back to the fruit tree, stretched out his hand to pluck a strip of cloth from the branch.

"What kind of cloth is this?" The eunuch who made the decree came over and asked.

Lei Dashan said: "It may be that the murderer came and went in a hurry and accidentally scratched his clothes, and this strip of cloth hung on the branches!" This is a very important clue! ”

The eunuch frowned: "The dyeing of this cloth is also too bad, red is not red, brown is not brown!" ”

Li Ji came over and said, "My father-in-law is wrong! It's not that the dyeing is too bad, but it's dyed like this on purpose! The color dyed by this dyeing method is called a bad color, not a positive color, and cloth of this color is used only for the sewing of the bhikshu's three garments! ”

Lei Dashan couldn't help but ask: "What does Li Gong mean is that this is the strip of cloth on the monk's clothes?" What is Sanyi? ”

After Li Ji finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to take the cloth from Lei Dashan's hand, looked at it, and said: "The three clothes are the monk's robes, also known as the Dharma clothes, which are divided into Antuohui, Yudora monks, and Sanghali!" The roughly corresponding meanings are underwear, outerwear, and coats! You know it's hot in Tianzhu, right? Under normal circumstances, the three clothes are all a layer of fabric, and the monks only wear Antuohui for work, travel, and sleep; When reciting precepts and preaching sutras and walking with the crowd, a Yutara monk is draped at the Antuo meeting; It is only when you beg for food, teach the Dharma, enter the palace hall, and participate in major ceremonies that you put on the Sanghali. This cloth strip has two layers, there are needle holes around it, and the inside and outside are different from the old and new, indicating that the old clothes cloth is added to the new clothes, and the three clothes of the Tianzhu monks are spliced and sewn after cutting, and the needle holes on the cloth strips and the addition of old cloth on the new clothes These two points show that this monk's clothes are made of Tianzhu three clothes, this should be a Yudora monk, and my middle-earth monks' clothing production will not do this! ”

The eunuch said in surprise: "I never thought that Duke Li knew so much about the affairs of the Buddhist family, I admire and admire!" ”

Li Ji arched his hand and said with a smile: "I am Honglu Siqing, and I should know more about the surrounding countries and the Western Regions and Tianzhu. ”

"Tianzhu monk?" Lei Dashan muttered to himself, and said to Li Ji: "Gong Li, let's keep quiet about this matter first, it's not too late to go to the palace to meet Your Majesty and then come to find the murderer, he can't run away!" ”

Li Ji nodded, and the two followed the eunuch to quickly enter the palace to meet him.

In the imperial garden, Zhao Junsheng was a little irritable in his heart, there was a large-scale conflict between the people in Chang'an City and the Hu people in the Western Regions, although it has subsided, but this matter is by no means so simple to end, if someone really instigates it, there must be an ulterior purpose, the other party has not achieved the goal, how can it be stopped?

There have been two vicious cases of envoys being killed in a row in recent days, although it is not known whether these two cases are connected, but Zhao Junsheng always has a bad premonition in his heart, someone must be deliberately causing trouble!

Hua Mulan took a piece of melon and handed it to Zhao Junsheng, and comforted: "You don't have to think too much, husband, you are the emperor, what you need to consider is a major national event, these murder cases and conflicts between the people are all minor problems, and the people below will naturally handle them, otherwise what is the court raising them for?" ”

Zhao Junsheng took the melon and chewed it in his mouth, and said to Mulan: "Things on the street are indeed not a big deal, but this will cause the people and the Hu people to be hostile to each other, the Hu people are always small in number, and they all come to Chang'an to do business, if they are bullied and ruthless, they will leave Chang'an in a fit of anger, and it will still have a great impact on the market!" ”

"Besides, who did the two cases of envoys being stabbed in a row? What is the purpose of the other party? If some envoys continue to be killed, I am afraid that other envoys will not be able to stay in Chang'an, and if there is no envoy as a link between the great cadres and the countries, there will be problems in the relations between the great cadres and the countries, and they will not be careless! ”

At this time, the eunuch came over with Li Ji and Lei Dashan.

"Your Majesty, Li Ji, the secretary of Honglu Temple, and Lei Dashan, a member of the Criminal Department, have arrived!"

Zhao Junsheng beckoned, and Li Ji and Lei Dashan Li Ji stepped forward to salute: "See Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Let's talk about the case, how did the envoy of Bo and the country die?" Is there a clue to the murderer? ”

Li Ji gave Lei Dashan a look, Lei Dashan had never seen the emperor, he was a little nervous at this time, and carefully stepped forward to report: "Back to Your Majesty, the envoy of the bowl and the country vomited a lot of blood before he died, and he made a preliminary judgment, he should have been directly shocked by someone and died!" But what is puzzling is that Xiao Chen and Qi Zuo did not find palm prints and fist marks on the deceased's body, let alone wounds, only found a finger-sized bruise on the deceased's back near the heart, and the rest of the body was intact! In addition, we found some footprints under the walls, which were supposed to be left by the murderer; A strip of cloth was found on the fruit tree next to it, and Li Gong said that it was the strip of cloth on the Dharma robe of the Tianzhu monk! ”

After listening to Lei Dashan's report, Zhao Junsheng said: "So the murderer who assassinated the envoys of the bowl and the state should be a Tianzhu monk? Could it be the same person who killed the envoy of the thirsty panda? ”

Lei Dashan said: "Your Majesty, it shouldn't be the same person, the one who killed the envoy of the thirsty Pantuo was an assassin, we found the file of six major cases he committed during the Wei period twenty years ago from the file room of the Criminal Department, this person has never used a knife to kill, either without a knife, or a knife will take away a life, so the file of the Criminal Department gave him a name called Central Plains One Knifeman!" The minister has sent someone to find out the news of this person! ”

You've seen too much martial arts, and you're still a swordsman in the Central Plains, why don't you name him the Sword God? Zhao Junsheng slandered in his heart and asked, "How are you going to investigate these two cases?" ”

Lei Dashan replied: "Judging from the clues we have so far, the murderers in these two cases should not be the same person, and the subordinates plan to investigate separately in two ways!" The subordinates have ordered the first team of hunters to arrest all the bounty hunters' middlemen in Chang'an City and interrogate them strictly, these bounty hunters' middlemen serve as brokers to introduce business to assassins and bounty hunters, and some of them must know the news of the Central Plains Knifeman! ”

"The second team went to check all the temples inside and outside Chang'an City, and checked the files and records of the relevant yamen of the imperial court, but all the Tianzhu monks who came to my Daqian will definitely have records! The minister also wanted to ask His Majesty for a will, ordering that all gates of Chang'an City should be strengthened to check the city, but all Tianzhu people or Tianzhu monks were not allowed to leave the city for the time being; Swordsmen over the age of forty are not allowed to leave the city! ”

Zhao Junsheng was puzzled: "You said that Tianzhu people and Tianzhu monks are forbidden to go out of the city, I understand, but if you want to prohibit swordsmen over forty years old from leaving the city, I can't figure it out, do you think that Central Plains swordsman is over forty years old?" ”

"Exactly! Your Majesty, it is recorded in the archives of the Criminal Department that there were six assassination cases twenty years ago, and the direct targets of the assassins were all high-ranking officials of the Wei State, and the time span was more than six years, given that the fatal injuries of the deceased were all in the same part and the knife technique was exactly the same, so the officials of the Criminal Department of the Wei State believed that the murderer was the same person, so these six cases were combined for investigation, but for various reasons, the investigation was terminated, until the fall of the Wei State, and the case was not found, we can infer that even if the assassin debuted at the age of sixteen, By the time he commits the next six assassinations, he will be twenty-two years old, and another twenty years, which means that he will be at least forty-two years old! ”

Hua Mulan asked, "Is it possible that this assassin is the descendant of the Central Plains One Sword?" ”

Lei Dashan shook his head and said, "If you go back to your mother, this is impossible!" Judging from the wounds of the corpse of the envoy of the thirsty Pantuo, the assassin's knife skills are simply perfect, superb, and the control of the strength and the knife part is very exquisite, if the assassin is the descendant of the Central Plains One Knife Guest, his methods cannot be so exquisite, I think that the methods of the Central Plains One Knife Guest when he did the first assassination case are very rusty, and his heirs cannot be more sophisticated than him, right? ”

"Makes sense!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded; "Okay, I promise you, and I will issue an order to the guards of the left prison to follow and strengthen the inspection of passers-by! In addition, I would like to remind you that Tianzhu has a kind of martial arts that is known for its finger power, and it is not a problem to practice to the depths and pierce the stone slab with the index finger, or even the sword! ”