Chapter 088: Huda (1)
As soon as he left the Wei Mansion, before he could get on the horse, he saw Huang Qi hurrying over.
When he saw Yiqiu from afar, he shouted "Miss, Miss".
When he got closer, he leaned down uneasily and whispered:
"Huda went out an hour ago, but our people lost them near Jiaolan Lane."
After finishing speaking, he looked at his young lady blankly, thinking that Yiqiu would be angry, but at this time, he saw her raise her eyebrows slightly:
"Let people continue to look for Huda in Jiaolan Lane, and tell the rest of the people to surround Huda's mansion, and no one is allowed to enter or leave without my order."
Huang Qi responded, and was about to turn around and ride away, when Yiqiu said again:
"You take someone to Sweetwater Lane to find me as soon as you finish your errands."
There were a few chatty servants standing at the door of several households at the mouth of Tianshui Alley, and Yiqiu used a few pieces of broken silver to find out Li Sansi's residence from them.
She didn't plan to knock on the door to look for someone, so she took her own horse and circled around the outer wall, and when she saw that one side of the wall was shorter, she flew directly up the wall and jumped into the courtyard.
This is a minimalist courtyard, with three upper rooms in the middle and the wings on the east and west sides forming a small courtyard.
An old servant in the courtyard who was drawing water suddenly saw someone jumping from the wall, and was so frightened that he threw the barrel back into the well and turned to flee.
Yiqiu stepped in front of him in a few arrow steps, put the horsewhip against his chest and asked:
"Where is Li Sansi?"
"Let's ...... Our master is not in the house. ”
When the old servant saw the murderous look on the face of the richly dressed girl, he thought that he was here to seek revenge, and he was so nervous that his whole body trembled, and his nose and tears flowed out.
"Let's be honest, Li Sansi has committed a big crime, if he escapes, I will take you to blame!"
Yiqiu was afraid that Li Sansi would flee when he heard the movement, so he scared the old servant.
When the old servant heard this, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly:
"The villain doesn't dare to lie, he didn't come back when he went out last night."
Yiqiu was puzzled in her heart, there was already the sound of horses' hooves in the alley, she knew that Huang Qi had brought someone here, so she dragged the old servant to open the gate of the small courtyard.
Zu Yong and Huang Qi walked around the alley with anxious faces, and hurriedly stepped forward when they heard Yiqiu's greeting.
Zu Yong shouted:
"My aunt, I've found you, the fish has bitten! Someone made a bet with us for 100,000 taels! ”
Yiqiu was also overjoyed when he heard this, and ordered Huang Qi and others to search for Li Sansi's whereabouts, and hurriedly went to the Daye Gambling House in Jiaolan Lane with Zu Yong.
"Now these people are really careful enough, the person who came to gamble wore a hat and refused to show his true face, I asked my subordinates to stabilize him and lock him in the room first, and then hurry to find you."
"Hmph, it's not a big deal, it's either Hu Da's person or Li Sansi himself, you can know their true colors right away."
Yiqiu sneered, this matter should be over.
Daye Gambling House is located in the core of Jiaolan Lane, and it is close to dusk at this time, it is the time when the tea shops everywhere hook up the bars to pick up customers, and the pedestrians and cars on the road are rubbing shoulders one after another, which makes Yiqiu frequently anxious and look.
Before he arrived at the gate of Daye Gambling House, he saw a group of people surrounding him pointing on the road, and Yiqiu felt a faint uneasiness in his heart.
Zu Yong's Chang Sui saw his young master and Miss Lin Fu coming, so he hurriedly stepped forward to say:
"Young master, Miss Lin, the person who bet with us fell down the building and died!"
Zu Yong and Yiqiu were shocked when they heard this, jumped off their horses and walked inside separately from the crowd of onlookers.
The corpse was leaning on the pavement, its face sunken and its flesh blurred.
Where had Zu Yong seen such a bloody scene, and he immediately turned his back and vomited.
Although Yiqiu is young, after all, he has been on the battlefield for a long time, so he is very calm.
Zu Yong's entourage explained:
"We don't dare to flip the corpse at will, just wait for the young master and Miss Lin to come and check."
Yiqiu nodded, and at a glance he caught a glimpse of a paper seal peeking out from under the corpse, so he squatted down and carefully pulled out the paper seal.
She hurriedly opened the envelope, and upon closer inspection, she realized that it was Huda's last letter.
In the letter, he listed his four major crimes, instructing the housekeeper Hu Zigao to kidnap Hu Ji to blackmail Fu and try to sabotage the peace talks between the missions; In Kyoto, rumors of the failure of the mutual market, and the attack on Dachen by the Tuxi and Tulun forces created panic; falsely claimed that the Dongshan Tomb was defeated in an attack, forged the Dongling Wei Yuyu to be transmitted to Beijing, and spread false news of the defeat everywhere, in order to cause chaos in Beijing; He also colluded with the rest of the party to ask the emperor to support the Tanglin Guard, in a vain attempt to take advantage of the emptiness of the army in Beijing to carry out chaos.
Yi Qiu Lan snorted coldly, Hu Da's official position is only the right squire of the military department, the title of a third-grade civil official, and there are no soldiers in his hands, how can he take advantage of the emptiness of the army in Beijing to do something chaotic?
Moreover, how could he have planned such a big situation on his own, and many of his comrades must have participated in this series of step plans, and the inside story was also very wide-ranging.
It seems that the people behind Huda have taken him as an outcast.
Yi Qiu stared at the deceased on the ground, and judging from his body shape, he was indeed very similar to Huda.
She turned her face back to one of the guards behind her, who had just lost Huda:
"Is this man Huda?"
The guard nodded, then shook his head:
"When his subordinates lost it, Huda did wear this dress. But...... The corpse in front of him was already unrecognizable, and his subordinates were not convinced. ”
Yiqiu bowed his head, turned to Zu Yong's Chang Sui and asked:
"What the hell is going on? Why did people die all of a sudden? ”
"The young master placed the people in the private room on the second floor, and our people stayed outside the door. After a while, they heard the sound of the window being opened, and the little ones, fearing that something would happen, opened the door and broke in, only to find that the person was gone. When the little ones saw that the window was open, they thought that the man had jumped out of the window and ran away, and hurried downstairs to chase him into the street, and then he fell from above, and the man immediately lost his breath. ”
A person fell from the top of his head, and died in front of his eyes like this, and he still had palpitations when he said it.
Yiqiu followed his words, looked upstairs for a moment in confusion, and asked Zu Yong's Chang Suidao:
"Can you search upstairs? Is there anyone suspicious? ”
That often followed me for a while, so I had to reply truthfully:
The little ones only said that he jumped out of the window and fled, and hurried downstairs to chase him, so as to ...... I didn't go upstairs to search it. ”
Yiqiu suddenly realized that the other party was just Zu Yong's constant follower, and he just followed him to do some things like beating chickens and scolding dogs in Kyoto on weekdays, where was he good at doing such things.
"You send someone to report the case to Shuntianfu Yin", Yiqiu said to Na Chang, even if he committed suicide by falling from the building, he still needed Shuntianfu Yin to come and clean up.
At this time, Yiqiu suddenly showed a look of surprise, squatting down and looking at the corpse's face carefully.
The whole face of the corpse was cracked and the face was indistinguishable, and the face had deep sunken lines from the forehead to the jaw, and the wound did not fit the ground, and it did not look like it was caused by a fall alone, but more like it was hit by something.
Yiqiu knew that he was not good at this, and explained to his relatives:
"I'm afraid I have to invite Lord Shen Chi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to come here, he is a veteran in handling cases, and he may be able to see if there is anything unusual at the scene."
He often received orders with solemnity and galloped away.
Yiqiu looked away from the bloody corpse and spread out Huda's letter in his palm again.
From Feng Sidao's destruction of the Tuxilu market, to the rumors in Kyoto and even the news of the defeat of Tanglinwei, officials kneeling and begging the emperor to send help, who is behind this series of things? What will they do in the future?
It's easy to find Huda's witness, but now the only clue is broken again.