On Suzaku Street in the south of the capital, there is a small inn "Xingfu Inn". The shopkeeper's surname is Zhu, and his name is Zhu Shou. There are more than a dozen guest houses in the backyard of this small shop, which are specially designed for dignitaries to live in when they visit Beijing. At present, because of the case, business is very light. Chen Ao, the head catcher of the Zhenfu Division, was standing in front of a table of eight immortals in front of the guest room; There was a burned candle in the center of the table, and the furniture ornaments in the original house were also scattered around the Eight Immortals Table, and there were still blood stains in the corner of the room.

At this time, Chen Ao's mind was mixed. Four days had passed since the murder, and His Majesty had ordered the case to be solved within ten days. But at this time, no useful clues were found in the case, only a burly suspect in the confession of the shopkeeper. But the new emperor ascended the throne, and the whole world came to congratulate. The dignitaries and merchants from all over the country increased the population of the already prosperous capital by three-tenths. Searching for a murderer from a huge capital is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Chen Zhutou, what did you find?"

Chen Ao looked back and saw that the person who came was about thirty years old, wearing a crimson official uniform and a black horned head. It was He Yuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites who was supposed to receive the Jin State Mission. Chen Ao raised his hand and saluted, "It turned out to be Lord He." ”

"Chen Zhutou, more than half of the time has passed since the Holy Majesty ordered to solve this case. What progress has you made on the case? As he spoke, he walked over to the table and flicked the burnt wick with his hand. Seeing Heyuan who casually touched the physical evidence at the scene, Chen Ao looked displeased, but he didn't say anything. After all, the other party is the same as his direct boss, and it is better to have more than one thing.

"Lord He, you are the informant, as the certification of the first witness scene, is there anything else to add to the case?" Chen Ao was not very clear about this case, and Chen Ao, who was originally arresting the murderer outside, immediately returned to Beijing to resume his life after receiving the edict. All I know about the case is just a look at the description of the case and the confession of the store. Now that I see the main owner, I naturally have to ask more questions, otherwise I will inevitably miss important clues.

"As mentioned in the case, the official had a night banquet for the Jin State Mission, but due to his busy official duties, he left the table early. On the second day, he was ordered to invite the delegation to visit, but when he arrived, he found that the house was closed and locked inside. So the officer knocked on the door outside the house, but there was no response. Therefore, he became suspicious and ordered someone to knock the door open. Only to find out that the Jin delegation had suffered misfortune. ”

"So, when Lord He found out, the scene was a secret room?"

"That's true, and according to the testimony of the innkeeper, it was found that there were candles lit in the room at the end of the day, and the official found the murder in the middle of the hour, and such a tragedy happened in just one hour, how cruel the murderer was!"

"Chen Zhutou, Lord Wei Yong's life is small, and I told you to hurry back to the house, saying that there is an urgent case to discuss." At this moment, a lock of clothes rushed in from outside the door and hurriedly shouted.

Hearing that there was a discussion of the case, it was estimated that some clues were found, and Chen Ao didn't care about interrogating He Yuan.

"Since Lord Wei summoned Chen Zhutou, it must be that the case is progressing rapidly, so it is not easy for this official to disturb, Chen Zhutou, take your leave." With that, he turned and left.

Chen Ao didn't think much about it, so he ordered the clothes to stay at the scene of the crime as soon as possible, so he led the horse to the Zhenfu Division.

In the council hall of the Zhenfu Division, Wei Yong sat behind the table, tapping his fingers rhythmically on the table. Tie Lihua, Yan Chong, Li Candle, Zhu Zhao, and Chen Ao stood in front of the table in two columns, waiting for Wei Yong's new order. He had already learned some new clues from the replies of these subordinates, and it seemed that something had been caught in this bizarre case.

"Chen Ao, you have already been to the scene. What are your thoughts on this? ”

"Lord Hui, the traces of the scene are no different from the recorded case, and his subordinates have also asked He Shilang himself. Combined with the clues of the iron head arrester and the strict head arrest, the time of the subordinate is the key to this case. The figure seen by the inn Xiao Er seems to exist to cover up the real time of the crime!"

"Master. I also investigated the surroundings with Senior Brother Zhu, and there were no suspicious people before and after the incident, and the Jin delegation returned to the room to rest after the night banquet, and no one else visited during the period. Most likely, it was done by the people in the inn. Li Candle answered.

"It's not impossible to say this, since you suspect the time of the crime, then Li Zhu and Zhu Zhao will monitor the every move of the inn guys, Chen Ao will continue to investigate the scene, and Lihua and Yan Chong will monitor He Yuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites."

"Yes, master."

"Yes, sir."

After the five of them left the council hall, Wei Yong sat alone at the table, thinking about what he had just said. muttered: "The time of the crime, the lock in the door, the messy ornaments in the room, the figures, the candles," suddenly Wei Yong's expression was stunned, and the words 'shadow puppetry' popped out of his mouth.

"To spend a day in vain and to do nothing is like committing a theft."

This is a sentence that Tie Lihua's father, the god of catching Tie Zhengsha, taught his daughter since she was a child. At this time, Tie Lihua was like a thief, this was the seventh day of the crime, and after she and Yan Chong came out of the chamber of the Zhenfu Division, they had been following He Yuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites. But in the past two days, He Yuan could not find any clues related to the case except for going to the Ministry of Rites to discuss matters or to appease the other vassal envoys.

There are still three days left before the deadline given by the Holy Lord, and now Tie Lihua can only pin on the two senior brothers Li and Zhu who are monitoring the inn, can Kaka find any clues.

"Rika, we've been following them for two days, and we haven't found any clues so far. It is very likely that this case has nothing to do with him, and it is very likely that the murderer is an insider of the inn. ”

"Senior Brother Yan, are you saying that the shopkeeper is likely to be the murderer?"

"That's right, the key to this case is the time of the crime, and the testimony of the shopkeeper insisted that he saw the movement in the room between the hour and the hour, and no matter how much he said it in an hour, he would not be able to complete the murder and dismemberment of the body and arrange the secret room, so it is very likely that the shopkeeper lied."

"Then Senior Brother, what are we waiting for here? Hurry up and join Senior Brother Li and them. ”

"That's just a possibility, in order to prevent accidents, Pear Blossom, you first join up with Li Zhutou, and I will continue to monitor He Yuan."

"I know, senior brother, then you should be careful, I'll rush to the inn."

Not long after Tie Lihua left, He Yuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, changed his normal state, and did not go to appease the vassal envoys as usual, but hurried back to his mansion, not knowing what happened. On the other side, after learning the possibility of Yan Chong's reasoning, Tie Lihua immediately rushed to the inn to meet Li Candle and Zhu Zhao, and informed Yan Chong's reasoning. After hearing this, Li and Zhu felt more and more that the shopkeeper had a greater chance of perjury.

At this moment, there was a 'boom', and then a thunderclap rang out in the sky. It was a special cannon made by the Suppression Division, specially developed to convey the message, and only the officials of the Suppression Division had it. At this time, Li Zhutie, who was monitoring the inn, and Chen Ao, who was guarding the scene of the murder, looked in the direction of the sound together.

"Oh no, it's Senior Brother Yan's position. Two senior brothers, I'll go back and have a look first. ”

"Zhu Zhao, you and Pear Blossom together, hand over to me at the inn." Li Zhu said very calmly, after all, the suspicion of the inn has not been cleared up, and it is necessary to continue to monitor, and Chen Ao also has the task of guarding the scene, and he can't leave at will, and only Tie Lihua and Zhu Zhao can wait and see the situation.

At this time, Yan Chong was standing in the study of He Mansion, and there was a person hanging on the beam in the room, it was He Yuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, who seemed to be hopeless. Tie Lihua and Zhu Zhao had already arrived, and they were also shocked to see the scene in the room. Then I saw Yan Chong squatting on the ground, holding a paper in his hand and reading something:

The Suppression Division Wei Yong personally revealed:

"Brother Wei, you and I are officials in the same court, when it comes to the punishment, I only respect you and Tie Zhengsha, but Brother Tie is gone, and the foolish brother thought that he could cross the sea all over the sky. But I didn't think that you still found some clues, Skynet is magnificent and not leaky! I He Yuan III is loyal and good, Jin Bing is cunning, my only son He Jingde died on the battlefield, the eldest boy was born to serve the country, I He Yuan has no regrets. At the night of the banquet on the eve of the seventh day, the Jin envoy insulted me, and the foolish brother was unbearable, so he slaughtered the Jin delegation like the old case six years ago. Place the body in the surrounding corners, and then hang the ice cubes on the candles mixed with white phosphorus, and wait for the ice to melt, and the white phosphorus will be ignited by the temperature, so that the innkeeper can witness the illusion that there is someone in the room. After dawn, in the name of inviting tourists, the door latch of the door was destroyed. ”

It turned out to be a suicide note pleading guilty to the law, so that the 'Golden Envoy's Body Case' could also be restored to the Holy God as scheduled. Now that the certified physical evidence is there, there is no need for surveillance at the inn. The three people in the room were divided into two ways, Zhu Zhao went to inform the inn, and Tie Lihua and Yan Chong will return to the town to resume their lives.

In the hall of the Zhenfu Division, Li Candle, Zhu Zhao, Chen Ao, Yan Chong, and Tie Lihua stood in the center of the hall at this time. He Yuan's corpse was flat on the floor next to him, and Wei Yong was holding He Yuan's suicide note at this time. But the frowning brow still did not spread, and this expression made the five people in front of him a little uneasy.

"Now that the case is settled, it's time for you to rest, it's been a hard time. Tomorrow, the old man will enter the palace to pray to the saint. Yan Chong, you have contributed a lot in this case, and you are worthy of being a disciple of the Divine Hunting Iron Zhengsha Sect. Rika, you stay, and the others go down first. ”

"Yes, sir."

"Yes, master."

"Rika, what do you think about He Yuan's suicide?" After everyone left, Wei Yong spoke.

"Why do you ask?" Tie Lihua was puzzled.

"I have examined He Yuan's body, ropes, silk and other ties, handed over to the left and right ears, dark purple, eyes closed, lips open, hands, teeth exposed, hanging on the upper throat and tongue against teeth, and more tongue under the throat, it is indeed consistent with self-hanging, but the fingers contain dandruff, and there are no wounds on the whole body."

"Do you suspect him of killing?"

"What do you think of Yan Chong?"

"Adults suspect Senior Brother Yan?" Although Wei Yong and his father are both masters of solving cases, they are a little unhappy when they hear that Wei Yong suspects his father's disciples.

"Pear Blossom, the old man doesn't mean anything else, okay, you're tired too, go down and rest." Wei Yong didn't mean to ask, and waved his hand.

"Yes."

When the lamp was in hand, Tie Lihua was lying on the bed, thinking about Wei Yong's words all the time, and couldn't fall asleep over and over. So she decided to go for a walk in the yard and relax. "I can only expose your secrets, but I can't sanction you, because I am neither a law nor a god, and I have no right to sanction you." This sentence was taught by her father to Senior Brother Yan, and she believed that Senior Brother Yan could not kill anyone, because she knew that Yan Chong respected her master in her heart, her father, the famous god who hunted iron and conquered sand.

Tie Lihua stopped, because before she knew it, she walked to Yan Chong's room. Although Tie Lihua didn't believe that Yan Chong would kill someone, she still wanted to confirm it. She walked to the door and was about to knock. The door was opened, and Yan Chong in the room was very surprised, because he didn't know what Pear Blossom was doing when he came to him. Tie Lihua outside the door was also surprised, she dared to ask about He Yuan, but when the door opened, Tie Lihua was suddenly a little scared, what if it wasn't? I doubt Senior Brother Yan so much, will he be angry?

"Senior Brother Yan, during the inspection, Lord He's fingers contained other people's dander, you... Can you show me your arm? Tie Lihua still decided to ask in person.

"You've got it all!" Seeing Tie Pear Flower, Yan Chong knew that when he strangled He Yuan, he left the dandruff of his arm that was scratched because of resistance, and he couldn't hide it.

Yan Chong's answer was undoubtedly an acknowledgement, and the moment Tie Lihua heard it, her first reaction was to believe it. Just as she was about to say something, a sword groan came from the sky. The roof was also covered with trappers, all armed with hard crossbows.