Chapter 138: The Truth
Without hesitation, Duan Fei immediately slapped his palm and smashed the wall that Lu Sheng was pointing at. As expected, this wall turned out to be empty. As soon as the palm went down, the smoke and dust filled the sky, and a few pieces of rubble spilled down, revealing a dark grid.
"Brother Lu is really as wise as a torch, can you find such a secret secret grid?" Duan Fei happily took out a package from the dark grid, came to the front of the stage, and slowly opened the package.
Shen Ling and Lu Sheng sorted out the contents of the package, one was to change the timetable for the official bank's arrival in Suzhou, and the other was the contact list. Both of them have the seal of thanksgiving on them.
Just two things are enough to prove that the mastermind behind the hijacking of the official bank is Xie Tianci. However, in addition to these direct proof that Xie Tianci was the instigator of the official bank hijacking case, there is also a token.
When Shen Ling saw the token, his face suddenly changed, "This is the token of the Great Inner Secret Agent, which belongs to Guo Songling." In this way, Guo Songling also died at the hands of thanks?"
"It should be!" Lu Sheng flipped out another map, this map was somewhat similar to the layout map of Yanluo Island that Lu Sheng had seen before, but the location of the barracks and armory in the layout had changed.
Lu Sheng and Duan Fei glanced at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes. If the map in Xie Tianci's hand is true, then what was the map he saw from He Qiaosheng's hand that day?
"What is this?"
Lu Sheng pulled out another thing that seemed to be a formation diagram. Shen Ling took it and looked at it, revealing a look of sudden realization.
"I see, this is a commonly used battle plan in the army, and it turns out that Xie Tianci used the battle plan to implement this official bank hijacking plan. There is a special way to read this. ”
Shen Ling pointed to the symbol, read it carefully, and said, "After the official silver was transported from Yanluo Island, it was transported into Shanghai by borrowing the business name of Princess Changling. In fact, we have found that batch of official silver, but unfortunately we haven't found it. ”
"Where?"
"Right here!" Shen Ling pointed to his feet.
Lu Sheng thought about it in his mind, and suddenly realized. In this courtyard, Lu Sheng and Shen Ling came to it when they were investigating the case. They had a shipload of ice brought in from the far north.
said that it was for them to spend the summer, and at that time Lu Sheng also lamented that the life of the local tyrant was not something they could understand. If the official silver was transported here, then it could only be the ice of that ship.
"Ice?"
"Nice, ice. Because the ice cubes were stored in the ice cellar, the light was relatively dim, so none of us noticed any silver in the ice cubes at that time. Let's go and get the money. ”
All the incriminating evidence found in Xie Tianci's room can only be used as indirect incriminating evidence. Only with the most direct evidence of the crime can it be difficult to conclusive the case. There is no more real evidence than the discovery of stolen official silver.
Opening the cellar, a group of Changling guards and the Yamen's fast officials entered the cellar, pried open pieces of ice, and one by one the official silver printed with the official seal revealed the true face of Lushan from the ice.
After a lot of hard work, the stolen official silver was finally found, and a smile appeared on everyone's face. Lu Sheng is also very happy that this case can finally have a happy ending now.
However, the joy did not stay in Lu Sheng's heart for long. Unreasonable doubts appeared in Lu Sheng's mind like a marquee.
Three million taels is a lot, a number that ordinary people simply dare not imagine. However, no matter how much money there is, in the eyes of the rich, it is nothing more than a number.
No matter how much money you can make, you may not be able to spend that much money.
People who have never owned money cannot understand the attitude of rich people that money is like dung. But that's really the case, the richer you are, the less you care about money, the more you don't have, the more you crave it.
Three million taels is a lot, but is Xie Tianci short of money? Don't say thank Tianci, even Huo Tian won't care. It is extremely unreasonable and not worth taking such a big risk for the sake of three million taels.
But, thankfully, it did. Or rather, the evidence in front of him proves that Xie Tianci did this.
Among the evidence retained, there is the evidence of the guilt of thanks, and there is also his guilty plea. Xie Tianci wrote down how to lay out, how to arrange manpower, and how to hijack the silver and silver.
This seems to be an ironclad, indisputable fact.
But all this is so abnormal, everything is too perfect, perfect is like a painting, a play, a moving story.
Seeing Lu Sheng's frown, Shen Ling jokingly pushed Lu Sheng, "Guan Yin has found it, you still look unhappy, why are you tired?"
"Tired! But this case is not over yet!" Lu Sheng gently rubbed his eyebrows, "Let's go, let's go out." ”
As he spoke, Lu Sheng walked out of the ice cellar by himself. Shen Ling behind him looked at Lu Sheng's back blankly, "It's not over yet, aren't all the cases all settled?"
Although he muttered in his mouth, he still followed. The group returned to Princess Changling's room again, and the two still maintained the scene of falling in love and killing each other.
Lu Sheng looked at the two quietly, and then looked at the blood stains on the ground.
What came to mind was no longer the scene of the two dying together as imagined before, but a scene where Xie Tianci was stabbed through the throat with a sword, but he couldn't even touch the corner of the other party's clothes.
"What a fast sword!" Suddenly, Lu Sheng opened his eyes and shivered all over.
"What kind of fast sword?" Shen Ling asked curiously as he came behind Lu Sheng.
"I said kill the godsends, good fast sword. A sword pierced through the throat. Xie Tianci is not known for his martial arts, but he is a master of the innate realm. He was killed by a sword so powerlessly......"
"What are you talking about? Xie Tianci didn't die under the sword of Princess Changling?" Shen Ling stretched out his hand and touched Lu Sheng's forehead, "What's wrong with you today?" ”
"Shen Ling, look at this bloodstain!" Lu Sheng pointed to the bloodstains on the ground, "Is there a little less blood on the two people?" Also, look at the bloodstains on Princess Changling's chest, and the bloodstains spurted out by Xie Tianci, the trajectory is completely different. Moreover, there are too few blood stains on Princess Changling's chest, and the color is much lighter. ”
"Well, that's true. If it is really as you say, the sword in Princess Changling's chest is more like someone stabbed into it after death. You mean, Princess Changling didn't fight Xie Tianci at all last night, and their death together was also deliberately put like this?"
Actually, I've always suspected that we were all present when Monk Miaoyuan assassinated Princess Changling. I have personally seen Princess Changling's injuries. With such a serious injury, it seems to me that it is useless for the gods to come.
But that night, Princess Changling appeared unscathed. I thought that Princess Changling had some elixir to bring the dead back to life? Now it seems that Princess Changling did not spend that night at all. ”
"You mean, Princess Changling died seven days ago? How is this possible, people who have been dead for seven days can't be so fresh, besides, if Princess Changling has died a long time ago, then what we see these days is ......"
Suddenly, Shen Ling paused, as if he had thought of something.
"You also thought of it, why don't they live in another courtyard because there is an ice cellar here, because Princess Changling's body has been frozen in the ice cellar.
And the only person who pretends to be Princess Changling these days is her!"
"But, isn't she in the capital?"
"Who saw it? Yun Niang's intelligence never mentioned that anyone saw the Lingzhu County Lord. ”
"Duan Fei!" Shen Ling shouted.
"In!"
"Immediately block the Shanghai Mansion, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find out the Lingzhu County Lord for me. ”
"No need!" Lu Sheng said in a low voice, slowly taking out a bamboo tube from his waist, "This thing is called Butterfly Love Flower, last time I fought with Princess Changling, I secretly sprinkled a little on the princess's body." Within a month, even if she had changed all her skins, I would be able to find her. ”
As he spoke, Lu Sheng opened the bamboo tube, and two colorful butterflies flew out, dancing in the air, gently floating out of the door frame, and flying into the distance.
"Follow them!" Lu Sheng's voice landed, and the person had disappeared into a streamer.
"I said Lu Sheng, why did you smear this thing on Princess Changling?
"No, it's just a lot of things that I can't think of, but it works wonders. Lu Sheng insincerely perfunctory past, in fact, Lu Sheng planned to punish the evil halfway.
Outside the city of Shanghai, the ten-mile long pavilion, skipping the Changling Tomb into the ancient road in the countryside, there is a paradise in the mountains and dense forests.
A simple thatched hut, dilapidated like Lu Sheng's home when he first returned to Suzhou.
On the edge of the hut stood a lonely grave.
In front of the lonely grave, two candles were burned, the candles were swaying, and the paper money in the sky was flying like snowflakes.
The lord of Lingzhu stood quietly in front of the grave, and the tombstone was engraved with the tomb of the Jiangnan hero Bai Ye, brother, Guo Songling, and Lin Quan wept.
Behind the Lord of Lingzhu, there were thousands of Changling guards standing neatly, and they were as motionless as clay wood sculptures.
"Whew-"
A gust of wind whistled and the wind swirled, and the current incense candles swayed violently.
A cyan figure appeared strangely beside the Lord of Lingzhu, quietly looking at the tombstone, his deep eyes full of reminiscence.
"You're here?"
"I'm here!" Lin Quan's deep voice seemed to suppress something, "Lord Lingzhu, where is Niece Guo?
"Didn't you bring anyone with you?"
"The county wants me to come alone, how dare I not go alone? Don't talk nonsense, where is Guo's niece?"
The Lingzhu County Lord waved his hand lightly, and the Changling Guards were neatly separated, and in their encirclement, a bound girl looked at Lin Quan and let out a whimper.
"Xiang'er, don't be afraid, the second uncle is here!" Lin Quan hurriedly comforted, just took a step forward, but paused again. Three short guns were pressed against Guo Xiang's throat.
"Despicable! You actually threatened me with a weak woman who was powerless, when did the chivalrous Lingzhu County Lord on the rivers and lakes become like this?"
"Uncle Lin, why do you only remember that you have a niece of Xiang'er, but you forget that you also have a Ling'er?"
When the words landed, Lin Quan was like being struck by lightning.
Staring at the Lingzhu County Lord with round eyes, "You...... What did you just call me? ...... you?"
"Uncle Lin, I haven't seen you for so many years, are you okay?" Lord Lingzhu showed a sweet smile, the dimples at the corners of his mouth were so deep and so cute. 8)