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Sitting in the duty room of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, as the office of the first leader of the Jinyi Guard, it is very elegantly set up, and it is much more spacious than the duty room of Liu Chengfeng's former servant's house. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Liu Chengfeng sat cross-legged on the couch and took a sip of tea, and his face eased a lot.

Li Dongdong sat on the chair under the bed, looked at Liu Chengfeng worriedly, and then said: "My lord, Zhou Cheng's case is not only strange, but also too timely, Your Majesty just said that Your Majesty is now seriously ill, and he knows that there is not much time left, in this case, I am afraid that I am already thinking about the replacement of the new monarch, and this kind of thing will cause a big disaster." ”

Liu Chengfeng looked at Li Dongdong and said, "So I ask Your Majesty to allow me some time, no matter what, I have to find out this murderer, only in this way can I prove my innocence." Mr. Li, to tell you the truth, there are many people in Beijing who are looking at my jokes now, how do you think this case should be investigated? ”

Li Dongdong narrowed his eyes and said solemnly: "There are not many people who can have this ability, and the adults also said that the emperor is seriously ill, but he deliberately concealed the news, even my brother is hiding it in the dark now." And there must be no more than ten people in the palace who can know this news, but the murderer behind the scenes must have known the news, the reason is very simple, if it weren't for His Majesty's serious illness, even if he killed Zhou Chengmanmen, it would never have had any impact on the adults in a short period of time. They chose this time to act, which means that they knew that the emperor was seriously ill earlier than others, and the time was short. In this case, in order to maintain the community, don't say that brothers can kill each other, let alone monarchs and ministers? ”

Liu Chengfeng nodded in a deep voice, what Li Dongdong said was not wrong, the person who plotted to kill him behind the scenes must know this news, so this person is from the palace? Or is there a confidant in the palace to listen to the news for him?

But there are only a few people in the palace who can know about Zhu Youzhang's condition, and there are only a few people in the palace who can organize samurai to kill people while knowing the news that His Majesty is seriously ill......... Xiao Jing!

Liu Chengfeng's eyes narrowed, yes, this person is absolutely possible, this person is unfathomable, and the relationship with himself is not too good, nor too bad, and the most important thing is that this person has a great conflict of interest with himself, and he can mobilize so many people.

In this way...... This person is Xiao Jing.

Li Dongdong saw that Liu Chengfeng was stunned, and couldn't help asking, "Isn't my lord suspicious of Xiao Jing?" ”

Liu Chengfeng was silent for a moment, and said: "I don't have a clue at the moment, and I can't talk about who is suspicious, but this Xiao Jing is also quite in line with the characteristics of a murderer." ”

Li Dongdong said: "And that Liu Ji, the suspicion is not small." ”

Liu Chengfeng thought for a while and said, "Liu Ji's motive is the greatest, but let him dispatch so many warriors, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him." But this person should also pay attention. ”

The two talked for a while, and then Chen Hongyu led a servant over, who fell to the ground and said, "My lord, the corpse has been examined." ”

Liu Chengfeng asked, "Say it." ”

He nodded and said: "There are a total of seventy-six people killed, most of them were injured by sharp blades, judging from the incision of the knife wounds, these knives are all standard long knives, which should be made by the superintendent of the Creation Bureau. ”

"A head-on close-range kill?"

Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but ask.

"That's right, it should be within a radius of one zhang, because a lot of iron sand has passed through the skull hole, and if it is not killed at close range, it will never pass through the skull."

"Who was the one who was killed by the firebolt?"

"This person is Zhou Cheng's nursing home, a leader, and a confidant of Zhou Cheng, called Zhou Yan."

Liu Chengfeng began to ponder, he was killed by the fire gun at close range, you know, even if the fire gun has been loaded with gunpowder in advance, it is not easy to shoot it out, not only is it time-consuming, but in front of the people who take care of the home and nursing home, the fire gun is fired at such a close distance, is the other party not aware at all?

Under normal circumstances, this kind of thing would never have happened, Liu Chengfeng continued to ask: "Zhou Yan had traces of struggle before he died. ”

The reason why he asked this was to know if this guard named Zhou Yan had been subdued before being killed by the firecracker, so that he could not move, and only in this way could this suspicion be reasonably explained.

He shook his head and said: "My lord, the villain has carefully examined it, this nursing home called Zhou Yan has no traces of struggle at all, the bones of his whole body are intact, and no one seems to have subdued him." ”

Liu Chengfeng's face felt even more strange, but for now, he could only let this matter go for a while, and then continued: "What else is suspicious? ”

"There is nothing surprising about the others, it's just that these murderers are too cruel, even the baby in the swaddling clothes is not spared......"

Liu Chengfeng interrupted him and said, "You go down, check it again, and see if there is anything missing." ”

After that, Liu Chengfeng immediately stood up and said to Li Dongdong: "The suspicion that I said is really a little strange, but it is certain that the other party clearly wants to frame me, you stay here and see what else there is, it seems that I have to go to Jingxian County." ”

Originally, Liu Chengfeng didn't plan to go to Jingxian, but now this suspicion is that Liu Chengfeng has to go, the other party used a firecracker, and the firecracker is an extremely strictly controlled thing in the Ming Dynasty, but a group of assassins are using this kind of weapon, except for planting, Liu Chengfeng really can't think of anything else?

The reason is very simple, in this Ming Dynasty, as long as you think of the fire gun, you can't help but think of Liu Chengfeng, Liu Chengfeng has always admired the fire gun to defeat the enemy, and has been preaching that the fire gun is the magic weapon to defeat the enemy in the future, and the appearance of such a thing on the scene will naturally make Liu Chengfeng's suspicion a little greater. It is a stupid thing to assassinate others with the fire gun of this era, the assassination is originally fast, and the melee killing is the fastest way, but the fire gun of this era has a big disadvantage, that is, the procedures required to fire are very complicated. Moreover, it is even more strange to kill head-on at close range, anyone who plays with the fire gun within a foot of someone close to him will definitely be wary, but this guard who was killed by the fire gun not only showed no signs of resistance, but even behaved extremely normal before he died.

Eccentric...... It's so weird...... The reason why Liu Chengfeng decided to go to Jingxian where the crime occurred is precisely because of the strange way of death of the victim that he has the heart to explore.

After Liu Chengfeng finished saying that, Chen Hongyu said: "My lord is going to Jingxian, so go with my lord." ”

Liu Chengfeng nodded, then asked someone to prepare a horse, and took Chen Hongyu, Gao Qiang and dozens of others to quickly cross the Chaoyang Gate, and instead of galloping, they galloped towards the almost barren official road.

In fact, Jingshi is not far from Jingxian, because the place where the crime occurred is on the outskirts of the county bordering Jingxian and Jingshi, so the real distance is only dozens of miles, and it will only take more than an hour to arrive if you hurry up.

It has been overgrown with weeds here, because no one maintains, it is very remote, there are already a lot of Jinyi guards and the errand of Jingxian County on the road, Wang Si personally led people to arrange a forbidden area here, no one is allowed to pass, when Liu Chengfeng arrived, the captain of the periphery recognized him, hulala knelt down on one knee and saluted, after Liu Chengfeng dismounted, tied the horse to a tree next to the road, and the official boots stepped on the weeds, looking at both sides of the road.

It was indeed an excellent location for an ambush, as it was flanked by dense woods, and there was obviously no human presence in the front and back of the road, and there were occasionally some tea sheds, but they must have been abandoned because there were no caravans.

Liu Chengfeng led people into the forbidden area, in fact, this place has already been almost destroyed, after the incident, the people of Shuntianfu once said that the people of Jingxian County had also come, and the corpses had all been moved, if it was not for careful observation, no one would have thought that there had been a killing here.

Stepping on the weeds, Liu Chengfeng saw a lot of bloodstains, but the bloodstains were dried up and dark purple, if you don't identify them carefully, some people will think that they are some unknown bushes, and if you go some further, you can see some traces of weeds crooked, which is obviously not trampled on with boots, it should be caused by someone's body rolling over.

Seeing that Liu Chengfeng had arrived, the Wang priest hurriedly brought two hundred households over to salute, and the Wang priest said, "Why did the adult come in person?" ”

Liu Chengfeng stood up from the grass and clapped his hands, but did not answer the question of the Wang priest, and asked rhetorically, "How?" What did you find? ”

Wang Si said: "There are some discoveries. He pointed to the forest on the left side and said, "Those assassins must have been ambushed in that forest, there are traces of burying pots and cooking, from these, these assassins should have received the news a day ago, they were ambushed here in advance, they were all here, there was a lot of dung on the east side of the forest, not only that, but there were also many traces of tents......

Liu Chengfeng frowned and said: "So, the route of Zhou Cheng's path, they have long been clear?" ”

Wang Si also frowned and nodded: "Judging from this, it is indeed the case. ”

(To be continued)