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In short, the situation is currently [2/17].

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Dali Temple Qingzheng Xu Rong...... That old man is really not simple.

With admiration for Xu Rong, Zhao Hongrun stepped into one of the warehouses of the official registration warehouse of the Ministry of Officials, but in his mind, he still recalled the scene of Fang Cai.

Zhao Hongrun still remembers the last day he saw Zhou Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, on June 14.

On the morning of that day, he went out at two o'clock in the morning, and at about three o'clock in the morning, he first went to the Ministry of Rites and asked to see Du You, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and negotiated with the latter for a long time.

When I left the Ministry of Rites, it was about two o'clock.

Subsequently, Zhao Hongrun went to the Department of the Criminal Department and met Zhou Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department.

After learning that Du You, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, had acquiesced to the matter, Zhou Yan readily agreed to the matter, but because he and Zhao Hongrun talked about those bizarre headless cases later, it took some more time.

When I left the Punishment Department, it was probably close to noon.

Zhao Hongrun thought to himself that he would not be mistaken, because after he left the Criminal Department that day, he immediately went to the prison of Dali Temple to rescue Wen Qi.

After that, he took Wen Qi back to the Su Wangfu to have a meal together, which should have been three o'clock in the afternoon.

According to the government officials of the Criminal Department, Zhou Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, went out not long after he Zhao Hongrun left, but it was close to noon, and the government officials thought that this Shangshu Lord was going back to his house to eat, so they didn't care.

They were just surprised, because Zhou Yan rarely returned to the house at noon to eat, and usually dealt with casually in the canteen of the Criminal Department and the Department.

The hour is right......

Zhao Hongrun muttered to himself.

When Zhou Yan came to the Ministry of Officials, it should have been after noon, and during this time period, Zhou Yan met the Ministry of Officials who was wary of him.

Originally, the old man He Mei originally planned to go back to the house for dinner and take a nap by the way, but Zhou Yan's arrival made him change his mind, so he went to visit Cao Zhi, the former secretary of the Ministry of Works, who had left his post and retired.

This matter has been confirmed by Cao Zhi and Cao Mei, and even Cao Lao Man also revealed the topic of his chatting with He Mei at that time, such as He Mei complained to him that the Ministry of Industry had the support of King Su, and for example, Cao Zhi's old man buried He Mei with an old bone and hurriedly told the old man.

Then, the old brothers "had a drink" for an afternoon.

Yes, Lord He Meihe, the official of the Ministry of Justice, was absent from work.

After learning about this, Zhao Hongrun was speechless, and he finally understood why when he asked He Mei when Zhou Shangshu would leave the Ministry of Officials, He Mei's face changed suddenly.

It seems that He Mei He Shangshu can't say anything at all - he drank with Cao Zhi and the old brother for an afternoon, and as a result, Zhou Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, went to his Ministry and disappeared, how do you tell him to speak?

If on weekdays, this kind of thing will pass with one eye closed, after all, He Mei is also about to reach the age of resigning from the old age, maybe he will come down in two years after tomorrow, and no one will target him at such a time.

But the problem is that this time there was such a major incident as the murder of Shangshu Zhou Yan of the Criminal Department, and this is spread on He Mei, isn't it a serious dereliction of duty?

When the time comes, the imperial history supervisor will have a corpse vegetarian meal, and He Mei I's reputation will be lost, and the evening will not be guaranteed.

It's no wonder that He Mei panicked, and hurriedly found Zhao Hongrun, Xu Rong, Chu Shuli and others yesterday to provide clues.

Of course, these inside facts have nothing to do with this case, and Zhao Hongrun only needs to use He Mei's mouth to know the time when he met Zhou Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, -- close to two o'clock in the afternoon.

This time is the same as the time recorded in the book about Zhou Yan's observation of the library: two o'clock in the afternoon.

And the problem is that the time when Zhou Yan left: two o'clock.

It's impossible!

Why? The reason lies in the oil lamp.

At this point, Zhao Hongrun admires Xu Rong, the secretary of Dali Temple.

Because as far as he knew, around dusk yesterday, after Xu Rong and Chu Shuli, the head of the Daliang Mansion, and the guards blocked the official department, Chu Shuli hurriedly took a cadre of guards to search for the official register of Wang Ling, Ma Qi, Su Li and others.

Xu Rong, on the other hand, paced to a class room outside the storehouse, that is, the place where the officials on duty were on duty. Note: The class room is equivalent to today's office and office.

In that class room, Xu Rong found the booklet, carefully inspected the people who had visited the treasury of the Ministry of Officials recently, and then noticed the oil lamps in the room.

This kind of oil lamp is not the private property of those minor officials, but the public property of the ministry, and it is for those who need to look through the treasury of the ministry--the six departments of the imperial court, and any treasury has a similar supply of miscellaneous goods.

From the dozen or so oil lamps, Xu Rong found the one with the latest oil color in the lamp.

This kind of oil lamp, different from the oil lamp in ordinary people's homes, is a copper oil lamp once built by the Smelting Bureau, which is shaped like a large teacup the size of a teapot.

In the center of the cup, there is an erected copper tube, which does not exceed the mouth of the cup, and inside the tube is a wick about the thickness of a little finger.

At the mouth of the cup, there is a thin copper lid - to be precise, two semicircular copper sheets closed together in a circle, in order to prevent the oil lamp in the cup from spilling and causing fire, to adjust the light of the lamp, and to extinguish the oil lamp.

It is undeniable that this oil lamp is very bright, because its wick is very thick, but relatively, the fuel consumption is also very strong, so even if the smelting bureau deliberately increased this oil lamp, the oil in the cup is still only enough for about two hours.

If Zhou Yan really stayed from two o'clock in the afternoon to two o'clock in the afternoon, a full four hours, the oil in this oil lamp would not be enough at all.

And without this kind of oil lamp, that Zhou Shangshu didn't even want to rummage through things in this dimly lit warehouse.

Or some people will ask, what if someone added lamp oil to Zhou Shangshu halfway?

However, Xu Rong blocked this point from the beginning - he asked a few questions to the two little officials in the class room last night.

First, there were several junior officials in the class room.

The two officials replied: There are only two villains.

Second, who received Zhou Shangshu.

One of the officials named Zhang Sanxiao replied that it was him.

Third, how many times have you seen Zhou Shangshu before and after?

That Zhang Sanxiao replied: twice, once for each greeting and sending.

Another official replied: I have never seen Zhou Shangshu.

And then......

Then there were these two small officials, and it didn't take long for Xu Rong of Dali Temple to send people to the torture room of Dali Temple overnight and torture them.

This is where Zhao Hongrun admires Xu Rong, from the time he saw the time when Zhou Yan came and returned from the record book, he noticed that there was something greasy in it, and then quietly asked the words of the two little officials.

Only the elderly who have been immersed in adjudicating and adjudicating cases for many years have this experience.

Let's take a look at another old man, Zheng Chu Shuli of the Great Liang Mansion, so far he has not found any clues, and even so far he has not even found the official register of Wang Ling, Ma Qi, Su Li and others.

It can only be said that people who are not in this line of work can't do things in this line of work.

"His Royal Highness King Su."

Just when Zhao Hongrun secretly sighed, in the treasury, Chu Shuli, the head of the Great Liang Mansion who was directing the guards to find clues, noticed him and walked over to salute.

"Master Chu." Zhao Hongrun also returned the salute, and then asked, "Do you have any gains?" ”

I saw Chu Shuli open a pair of tired eyes, and said with a wry smile: "I haven't gained the slightest...... What the old minister said was no, it was really nothing, and he didn't even find a clue of a hair......"

"Huh." Zhao Hongrun couldn't help laughing, he really didn't expect that this Lord Chu Shuli of the Daliang Mansion was actually a rather funny person.

"Master Chu, don't worry...... Don't be in a hurry, this is still the words of the adults to persuade the king. Zhao Hongrun smiled and said with relief.

Chu Shuli glanced outside the room and sighed secretly.

Obviously, Xu Rong found an important clue but he didn't find it, which made this old man Chu feel a little depressed.

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun changed the topic and asked: "Have you never found the official register of Wang Ling and others?" ”

Chu Shuli glanced at Zhao Hongrun, and then motioned for the latter to follow him to a place where there was no one outside the house, and then, Chu Shuli said in a low voice: "All the guards, I have been looking for a full night, and the vaults of these rows of houses are almost rummaged through, and they have not been found. …… Now there are only two possibilities, either they have fallen into the hands of the murderer, or they have been ...... by those two"

Speaking of this, he looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, those two little officials, have you mentioned them to Lord Xu?" ”

Zhao Hongrun nodded, and said concisely and clearly: "Inner thief, I'm still talking about it." ”

Chu Shuli also nodded when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "The details of these two people, the old minister has sent someone to investigate, Gu is a local in the west city of Daliang City, at least he has lived for more than ten years, the situation of the two of them, the neighbors, and the government officials in the government of the Ministry of Officials, are generally clear, and they all say that these two people follow the rules on weekdays...... If it weren't for Lord Xu's conclusion, even if it was an old minister, he would have some doubts about whether he had caught the wrong person. ”

After a pause, Chu Shuli said with a solemn face: "If you catch the wrong person, you will be fine, but if you don't catch the wrong person...... It seems that such a traitorous and loyal person, the people behind them are probably not small......"

Listening to Chu Shuli's words, Zhao Hongrun's expression also became solemn.

Indeed, the locals of Daliang, who have been honest for more than ten years, actually helped to harm the Shangshu of the Criminal Department of the Imperial Court, so you can imagine how deep this pool of black water is.

Zhao Hongrun intuitively determined that the person who harmed Zhou Yan of the Criminal Department, or the force, might be the anti-Wei force that he had painstakingly tracked down back then.

It seems that I guessed correctly at the beginning, that anti-Wei force has already infiltrated the imperial court...... Perhaps, it was a force bigger than I had imagined......

Zhao Hongrun took a deep breath.

He was already sure that Zhou Yan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, must have found out some ulterior secrets of that force when he was investigating the cause of death of Wang Ling and others, so those people were so anxious to kill people.

Wait...... If this is the case, doesn't that mean that the case of Wang Ling and others is also the result of manipulation by that force? What kind of hatred and resentment, those people want to make Wang Ling's officials ruin their families and cut off their heirs?

Zhao Hongrun faintly felt that this situation was a little wrong, because of the conspiracy involving interests, the other party would not do such a desperate thing.

In other words, it's revenge! (To be continued.) )