The statement of clearing one's name in the hall had long been expected by Hetai, and who would admit his guilt except for those who surrendered themselves? Failure to admit and quibble are the reactions that should be.

"As a servant, my job is to conduct an autopsy, a careful autopsy, and to show the suspicions on the deceased and all the discoveries, but the corpses of the eight assassins obviously have the same tattoos, why don't they hide it on purpose?"

"It's that the subordinates are not meticulous enough, and they didn't find it for a while, please punish the adults, and the subordinates are willing to accept the crime of dereliction of duty, but the subordinates did not deliberately conceal it. The man argued, kowtowed, and glanced at Hetai when kowtowing, wanting to see if he was confident or deceiving himself, but this glance was facing a pair of cold eyes of Hetai, those eyes were as black as ink, cold and sharp, as if he could see everything, which made him shudder.

Seeing that the servant was arguing and peeking at himself, Hetai had already understood eight or nine points, and then he was shocked.

"It seems that you are not going to tell the truth to this official?" His voice was cold and not a little warm, which was a precursor to his anger, or rather, he was already angry. "If you just ignore it, but the tattoo was only stabbed after the deceased died, and it happened in the last few days, you never mention it, isn't it secretive?"

"My lord, it's not that you don't mention it, you really haven't found it!" said firmly, but his heart trembled.

Hetai snorted coldly: "The official knows that you have made up your mind not to say anything, maybe you yourself feel that you are not afraid of anything, but the official thinks that you are still a lot afraid." There is a strong sense of danger in this statement.

"My lord is clear, everything his subordinates say is true, if the adults have to torture his subordinates into tricks, then the subordinates have nothing to say. If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse!" He said this, clearly saying that Hetai was going to be tortured and beaten into a trick. Impose the charges on him.

"Hmph, you are overestimating yourself, you are not worthy of being tortured by this official at all!" said Hetai contemptuously, not taking this seemingly difficult bone in his eyes at all.

"What?" "What do you mean, you don't want to torture yourself, so if you say you're afraid, what are you afraid of?

Hetai wrote lightly: "The official said that you are afraid of a lot, but he didn't say that he would punish you, you think too much." Then he said in a deep voice, "For example, the right wing room at No. 14 Qingshan Road, the cuckoo girl in the Red Moon Building, and the five hundred taels of silver in Surabaya Curie?"

His voice was faint and soft, but when he heard it, his eyes widened with an incredulous look of horror. Hetai seemed to have easily grabbed his lifeline.

Listening to what Cui Li said before, it seemed that Hetai had found very few clues in this case, and it was stagnant at all, but now it seems that it is not the case at all?

And looking at Hetai's expression, he must know a lot about it so calmly, and the case is in his hands, but since he is obviously confident, why does he show a helpless appointment, even Cui Li is worried about him, and he is worried about him.

The horror of the work satisfied Tsurutai for a while, and this was the effect he wanted.

So he hooked his lips and sneered, and once again disintegrated the defense line of the pretend: "You can choose not to say anything, since this official can ask you and talk to you about this, that is, he already has a number in his heart, and he has already mastered the evidence, whether you say it or not, it will not prevent this official from using factual evidence to convict you and arrest those behind the scenes." But this official will interrogate you with a trace of kindness and give you a chance to make meritorious service and atone for your sins. If you can tell the truth, although it is difficult to escape the responsibility, but if you take the initiative to confess, the official can deal with it lightly. ”

"And you have to know that all those who commit adultery are vicious, and in order to prevent others from betraying, they generally adopt the method of killing people and destroying their mouths, because only a dead person will not open his mouth, so he will not betray him, if you do not stand on the side of the official at this time, even if the official does not deal with you, how many more lives do you think you can have? ”

Sure enough, his eyebrows trembled when he heard it, and now he has taken the initiative to confess, and if he doesn't recruit, Lord Shangshu will also know it. The balance in his heart has gradually tilted, he was silent for a while, looked up at Hetai, he sat in the hall with a calm expression, and looked like a bamboo in his chest.

The work finally broke his heartstrings, and he fell to the ground with his hands: "The subordinates move, the subordinates all move, and the subordinates don't want to do this, they are all forced, I hope that the adults will fall lightly and spare the lives of their subordinates." ”

Seeing that the kowtow was like a chicken pecking rice, she eagerly said that she wanted to recruit, just waiting for the confession to be charged, Yu Die'er retracted her head and returned to the back hall to drink her red bean porridge quietly.

It turns out that Hetai not only knows how to hold a knife and a sword, but also handles cases vigorously, and is also proficient in the way of interrogation, using psychological offensive to break down the opponent's psychological defense line in just a few words, and play the suspect in the palm of his hand. As for the evidence, who knows how much he had? But the truth is that the next moment he will know more from the confession.

At this time, Yu Die'er seemed to understand why, although the agreed time to solve the case was approaching, he was not in a hurry at all, always calm and relaxed, and thought that he was relying on his identity, even if he couldn't find out, he could cheat, no matter how bad it was, the emperor Lao Tzu supported him, but in fact, he was in control, so he was calm, and it seemed that he didn't need to worry about him at all. That's a lot of money!

After the interrogation was over, and he had been taken into custody, Hetai returned to the study in the back hall, and there were not many footsteps from the side door into the study, and he talked to Hetai for a long time before leaving, the voice was very low, and Yu Die'er couldn't hear what they were saying.

After that, Hetai passed on the squire Qian Hongyuan, and instructed him to lead people to continue the investigation in the direction of the confession he confessed, and strive to catch the person tattooed on the assassin's body as soon as possible.

He handed over the next matters to Qian Shilang, and then said that he had not slept for a few days to investigate the case, and now that he had made progress, he could finally put down his snack and go to rest and sleep for a day.

Then he led Yu Die'er and Cui out of the criminal department, and walked on the lively street in a blink of an eye. But he didn't look like he was going to rest, and he went shopping lively.

Qian Hongyuan took Hetai's order and did not dare to slack off, and immediately mobilized the arrester and led the troops to investigate.

"Lord Shilang, this has just found out some eyebrows, and you should take advantage of the victory to pursue it, why did this Lord Shangshu withdraw? Catching the murderer is a great achievement, what a good opportunity for meritorious service. "A catcher who has a good relationship with Qian Shilang under his hand is puzzled.

Qian Shilang smiled bitterly, and said in his mouth: "Lord Shangshu has worked hard for a few days for this case, and it has been so hard that I just go back to rest for a while, and if I say that I can't withdraw or not, I should share the worries of the superiors as a subordinate, so let's quickly launch an investigation into the arrangement of Lord Shangshu in the case." ”

"I think this new Shangshu is still too young, and as soon as he found out some clues, he was complacent, and he used his rest to eat, drink and have fun. "The other is a fast-talking catcher.

"Discuss right and wrong behind the back of the officials, but you have to bear the responsibility! Are you on the first day of errand?" Qian Shilang reprimanded. The two catchers also found that they were open-mouthed, and lowered their heads to say yes.

Don't talk about the multiple identities of this Shangshu Lord, the prince and the prince. Even if it's just a Shangshu, it's not a quick catch that can be discussed casually, and Qian Shilang is also for the sake of catching fast, so he doesn't answer his words. And the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, he didn't think that there were only two days before the case was solved, strictly speaking, only one day, because the day after tomorrow was the first seven days of Concubine Zhuang, and the agreement between Hetai and Prince Hui that day was before the first seven, that is, tomorrow. Tomorrow! Now I just found some clues, how can I catch the murderer in such a short time?

Therefore, Qian Hongyuan felt that Hetai was withdrawing in time now, probably planning to put the blame on his head at that time, and then he would be the scapegoat who did not do well, but Shangguan confessed, and he had to do it himself, and embarked on an official career, especially the officials of the Criminal Department, who wronged the prisoners, and may be retaliated against by good people, punished bad people, and may suffer from bad people's revenge. If the prisoner is a high-ranking official, a relative of the emperor and a country, it is even more difficult to do, and the slightest carelessness will be in danger of his life.

The predecessor of the Criminal Department Shangshu had not yet reached the age of returning to his hometown, but because he was strictly punished by the law two years ago, the son of a marquis who broke the law was dealt with, and the people applauded, but they were hated by the marquis, and the united party members were framed everywhere, which led to the gray end of the days in the court early and went home to farm. Therefore, Qian Hongyuan, who witnessed this incident, has already put life and death aside.

But he is upright by nature, upright and honest, and he is a good official who wants to serve the court and be the master of the people, so since Hetai commanded, even though he thought in his heart that he might be a scapegoat, he still did not slack off to do what Hetai said, as a scapegoat should be a scapegoat, as long as the case is not delayed, in order to prevent the case from being solved when the case expires, he will have to go to prison, so he took an hour to go home, and his wife and children said a few words of cryptic words, and then the soldiers were divided into two ways, and he took people to find it. The murderer who was tattooed on the body was arrested, and another team of people was taken by the arrest to search for the missing man, and by the way, he investigated the clues related to the case.

The three of them were strolling around on the street, Yu Die'er also bought two strings of rock sugar gourds, eating while walking, there was a sudden restlessness on the street, and the pedestrians automatically retreated to the side of the street.

"Qian Hongyuan's movements are quite fast!" Hetai said with satisfaction.

He instructed Qian Shilang to do these things, but also to test his character and ability to do things, whether he is really dedicated to the public, and let him do these things on the surface, also in order to hide people's eyes and ears, divert the attention of some people, and make his private arrangements more smooth, so as not to startle the snake too quickly.