Chu Tianzhao said to the emperor and the civil and military officials: "After two days of inquiry, the subordinates have preliminarily concluded the case as follows: First of all, Lord He's death was not due to curses or epilepsy, but because he was hit by a poison called "Immortal Jump". This medicine is made by mixing two poisons, one called psychedelic grass and the other called mandala. Psychedelic grass can cause hallucinations in poisoned people, and it can also make people itch all over the body. The mandala, on the other hand, gives the deceased a strong fragrance. In the Nanyang area, after many people die, they will also apply a mandala to the body of the deceased, so that the body will not decompose, but will also emit a fragrance. This can be proved by the imperial physician in the palace. ”

The emperor also became interested all of a sudden, he was originally worried that this case would become an unsolved case, but now it seems that he has eyebrows. He asked with great interest, "Then how do you know that Lord He has been poisoned?" ”

Chu Tianzhao replied: "Actually, this is not difficult to do. When I examined the corpse of Lord Ho, I found a small red envelope around his neck, which looked like a mosquito bite. At that time, someone in the imperial garden saw someone shoot something in Lord He's neck. ”

Someone next to him sneered: "How can someone enter and exit the Imperial Garden easily, who is that person?" Let him come out and testify. ”

Chu Tianzhao shook his head: "That person's name can't be revealed for the time being, and I should explain everything to the emperor afterwards." ”

When he said this, he didn't want to involve Yang Fei'er, because if she told everyone her name, it would pose a threat to her personal safety. That throwing knife last night is the best proof of that; Second, Yang Fei'er herself did not come forward to uncover the unsolved case, the purpose was not to show her face, otherwise some stubborn ministers would know about it, and I am afraid that she would be gossiped about, and maybe she would be charged with "interfering with government affairs". Women have always been disapproved of by the rulers, and there have been many precedents in the past dynasties and generations that have died because of women's rebellion. What's more, Yang Fei'er's identity is just a female official, with a low status, who wants to listen to a person who has no real power? Also, she was in the palace, and she couldn't be known by the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother, otherwise they would unite and have to drive her away, and even the emperor wouldn't be able to protect her.

Although the emperor was eager to know who the person who saw the poisonous needle was blown, since Chu Tianzhao said so, he sang a duet with him and said: "Yes, at present, it is not only necessary to find out who is the murderer of such an incident, but also to ensure the safety of witnesses. ”

"Thank you for your grace!" Chu Tianzhao's loud voice shouted.

The emperor nodded and said, "Chu Aiqing, please continue." ”

Chu Tianzhao said: "The second is Lord Yang's death. His death seems to be suspicious, and the murderer did put a lot of effort into thinking that he was hiding from the world. As everyone knows, I finally found out. ”

He paused and said, "Lord Yang was actually poisoned by someone!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone shouted: "Impossible, Lord Yang obviously died of more than 300 knives in his body, how could it be poisoning?" Nonsense! ”

"Since Lord Yang has already been hacked to death, why do you still want to poison him? Isn't that redundant? ”

Chu Tianzhao snorted coldly, with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he expected them to ask this, and said, "This lord, you have a good question!" But you're getting the order wrong. Lord Yang was first killed with poison, and then slashed more than 300 times. ”

The minister laughed and said, "Is that any difference? Isn't it the same as a snake to add? ”

Chu Tianzhao immediately replied, "Of course it's different! If Lord Yang was killed by the murderer with more than 300 knives first, even if the first knife was a fatal knife, it would be impossible for Lord Yang not to make a sound, not to mention that Lord Yang was a scholar of the military department, and he was skilled in arches and horses, how could there be no trace of resistance, even if there was no trace of resistance, then why was there not even a trace of sound? Besides, Lord Yang died in the secret room. It stands to reason that the secret room is known to a very small number of people, why would the murderer do it in the secret room? And you can escape quietly afterwards. If my guess is correct, this person must be someone Yang knows, or someone he knows who commissioned him to come to him. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the murderer to come to the secret room and kill Lord Yang without anyone in the Yang Mansion discovering it. ”

When Chu Tianzhao said that the murderer was someone known to Lord Yang, everyone was shocked, and said in their hearts: Who is so bold?

Everyone knows that Lord Yang's skills are among the best in the imperial court, otherwise it would be impossible to climb to the high position of the secretary of the military department. No matter how old he is, he can't face the murderer without being able to fight back. After listening to Chu Tianzhao's explanation, everyone felt that it made sense, but what if it was reversed and he was poisoned first, and then hacked to death?

Finally, someone couldn't help it and asked impatiently: "Even if what you said makes sense, how could Lord Yang be poisoned?" ”

Chu Tianzhao said: "Xia Guan has already said just now, this murderer is someone who Lord Yang knows, and he may still be a relatively familiar person, so he will neglect to take precautions and give the murderer a chance to attack." According to the records of the Criminal Department and my on-the-spot inspection, Lord Yang's ten fingers have been cut off by the murderer. The murderer did this, first, to create public opinion pressure and make everyone think that he was extremely cruel. The second is to destroy the evidence. Because after a person dies of poisoning, if the poison is more special, then his fingernails will slowly turn black. When the time came, the people from the Criminal Department and the Imperial Doctor checked and exposed his ghost tricks. As I just said, the murderer is a person that Lord Yang is familiar with, and the murderer is also a poison that seals the marquis with blood, so even if Lord Yang has good martial arts, it is impossible to resist, and it is impossible to make a louder voice. Then the murderer did something terrifying to Lord Yang - he slashed a full three hundred knives on Lord Yang's corpse! ”

Everyone couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and someone said: "There are so many suspicious points, why haven't the people in the Criminal Department found out?" ”

Someone else said: "Although Commander Chu explained very reasonably, why did the murderer still slash Master Yang three hundred times on his corpse after he died?" Wasn't his purpose to take Lord Yang's life? ”

Chu Tianzhao didn't answer the first person's question, because it was too wide, and this was what Yang Fei'er said to him when he was leaving, and he must not offend other people until he had to. On the way, Prince Jian also said that it may be that someone in the court is vying for power, and maybe those people in the criminal department are also forced to do so.

Chu Tianzhao didn't answer them immediately, he bowed to the emperor and said, "Please make an edict to prohibit rumors about curses in the palace and among the people." This is clearly a naked homicide, and it has nothing to do with the curse! ”

As soon as the emperor wanted to say something, Liu Tinghui shouted: "Slow! Then, he bowed his head to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, this matter should not be taken lightly, although Commander Chu is right, but after all, it is empty and unreliable. And even if the emperor gives an order now, it may not be able to convince the civil and military officials, and convince the hundred people. ”

As soon as Liu Langzhong said this, the originally one-sided situation immediately changed, and many people also said that Liu Langzhong was old and thoughtful.

When the emperor saw this situation, he cast an apologetic look at Chu Tianzhao, and had to give up for the time being.

Chu Tianzhao said: "Don't worry, everyone, listen to me slowly." The reason why I ask the emperor to decree a ban on the current rumors is because this is simply a murderer's conspiracy. Just now, a minister asked why Lord Yang died, and the murderer had to cut him 300 times. That's because the murderer just wanted to use Lord Yang's death to build momentum for Fang Xiaoru's curse, thinking that Fang Xiaoru's descendants began to take revenge. However, Xia Guan has not yet found out whether it was Fang Xiaoru's descendants who planned this conspiracy. Of course, He Zhongtang's death is the same reason. ”

At this time, a sober-minded minister of the household department said: "Although Xia Guan has not been to the scene of the crime, I heard that after Lord Yang died, the door of the secret room was locked, how can this be explained?" And there are no other vents in the chamber. ”

The officials of the whole hall and the emperor once again focused their eyes on Chu Tianzhao.

Everyone was talking, and Chu Tianzhao said unhurriedly: "Everyone listen to my explanation." When I went to the Yang Mansion that day, I found that the door of the secret room of the Yang Mansion was locked, and Lord Yang was assassinated in the secret room. It stands to reason that the murderer couldn't lock the door and leave after killing someone. Here's the problem, we've searched carefully, and there's no secret passage or anything like that, just a door. The problem lies in the door, in fact, the murderer cleverly used this door. Let's assume the scene at that time: the murderer pretended to talk to Lord Yang about things, and then poisoned Lord Yang to death while he was unprepared. After that, he closed the door and slashed at Lord Yang's corpse, creating the illusion of being hacked to death. What's even more shameful is that he was afraid that he would be found out about poisoning, so he actually stomped off Lord Yang's ten fingers. ”

Everyone "hissed" and took a breath of cold air, only to think that this murderer was so cruel, and continued to listen.

"The murderer wanted to leave when he was done with all this. He was very clever and knew that large families generally had ice to quench their thirst. He put the ice on the latch, then closed the door, and when the ice melted, the latch naturally fell. In the eyes of others, the door is locked. I took a closer look at the door of Lord Yang's secret room, and there is indeed a large area on it that is very different in color from other places, and there is also a faint water vapor, Lord Yang's secret room is very dry, where does the water vapor come from? ”

He said so much in one breath that everyone was stupid and silent.

He finally said: "So the death of the two adults is simply someone behind the ghost, not some so-called poisonous curse killing." ”

The emperor nodded appreciatively: "Chu Aiqing is reasonable, I don't think this matter has anything to do with the poisonous curse, there must be someone who made it out of nothing, cholera government." The matter was handed over to Yin Chen Tianbao of Shuntian Mansion to investigate. As for the matter of prohibiting rumors, you should immediately make a decision to post the emperor's list, and if anyone hears someone who is behaving and confusing the public, he will be immediately killed! ”

When everyone saw that the emperor said so, they didn't dare to make it again.

Chen Tianbao stepped forward to receive the order of thanks, and the emperor saw that there was no major event in the court, so he announced his retirement from the court, and then hurriedly went to find Chen Yuanyuan.

When Chu Tianzhao found Yang Fei'er, she was dozing off in a chair. Chu Tianzhao woke her up and told her the general situation. Yang Fei'er smiled when she heard this, and laughed: "Well said, you have made a great contribution this time, and the emperor will definitely reward you greatly." ”

Chu Tianzhao also smiled: "It doesn't matter if the reward is given, the main thing is that your round girl is good." This sentence sounds quite beautiful, but Yang Fei'er just feels depressed, why can't every sentence be inseparable from Chen Yuanyuan?

Seeing her, Chu Tianzhao said again: "I saw Prince Jian today, and he asked you hello." Yang Fei'er sighed and said, "Hey, I live in the Deep Palace now, what Prince Jane, Master Luo." Except for Brother Chu, I can't even see a decent man. ”

Chu Tianzhao remembered what Prince Jian had said to him, and originally wanted to tell Yang Fei'er, but he was afraid of increasing her troubles. When the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them raw.

In the afternoon, Chu Tianzhao was planning to take a nap. The subordinates reported: "When the Shuntian Mansion came and went to handle the case, it was found that the secret room of the Yang Mansion had been transformed into a Buddhist hall by the family, and the door panel that the adult said had been modified and painted with other colors. Chu Tianzhao sat up suddenly, almost not believing his ears, and he said in his heart: It's bad, someone has taken the lead.

He hurriedly went out and happened to meet Yang Fei'er who was feeding the fish at the entrance of the pavilion. He told Yang Fei'er about this, and Yang Fei'er shouted: "It's not good, send someone to He Mansion to guard it, it's too late." Chu Tianzhao also meant this, and he rushed out without saying a word. Yang Fei'er thought about it and felt that something was wrong, so she quickly found Xiao Chengzi and a few eunuchs beside the emperor and went to Yang's mansion.

Unexpectedly, it was still a step too late, and the fire in Hefu was in the sky, and everyone was in a hurry to put out the fire. Chu Tianzhao looked at the raging fire, the fire spitting out fiery red letters, as if he was also laughing at him, for the first time he felt that he was so powerless.

Chu Tianzhao, who was originally here to protect the evidence at the scene, could only fight the fire with everyone at this moment. It's just that the fire is so fierce that there is no way to extinguish it at once. Everyone carried it on their shoulders, and everyone worked hard. At this time, a group of soldiers broke in, and everyone took a look, and the leader was Yin Chen Tianbao of Shuntian Mansion.

I saw that there were several water wheels behind him, and the soldiers stepped forward to take down the water pipes and began to spray water in the direction of the fire in the mourning hall. After all, water pipes are better than manpower, and after a while, the fire gradually decreases. Chu Tianzhao wiped his sweat and came over to greet Chen Tianbao.

"Lord Chen, thanks to your watermill coming in time, otherwise the fire will get bigger, and I'm afraid the entire He family will be reduced to ashes."

Chen Tianbao stuck to his beard and smiled: "Where is it?" Thanks to someone who reported to me, I learned that there was a fire in Hefu, so I arrived quickly. Looking at Commander Chu below, he is really brave, he can lift two large wooden barrels at the same time, but his arm strength is very comparable. ”

Chu Tian Zhaoxin said: What's the big deal about lifting two wooden barrels, I think when I was practicing, I could lift a 100-pound hammer in one hand. But he laughed anyway and said nothing. He cautiously entered the mourning hall, the coffin was almost burned, and there was still a fire on it, but it still didn't fall apart for a while, and what made people feel disgusting was that the coffin still smelled of burning corpses. As soon as Chu Tianzhao wanted to step forward and open the coffin lid, he heard a click, and the beams of the mourning hall couldn't hold it and fell.

Chu Tianzhao was shocked, and immediately flew out of the house, jumped out of the house, and heard a bang, and the entire mourning hall collapsed.