Chapter 48: Breaking the Ground (Part II)

Indeed, without the help of scientific instruments, it is indeed difficult to judge the time of an adult's old injury.

Xu Zun had indeed ignored this before.

However, for the bigger picture, this is irrelevant.

So, he suggested skipping it and moving on to the next topic.

But in this way, the people at the scene were confused and smoking.

"How can this work," Li Yan muttered, "It's not rigorous at all, is this Taoist priest an assassin?" There has to be a saying, right? ”

In Lord Li's heart, the topic of whether a Taoist priest is an assassin is very important, and it is related to the fate of the entire state capital.

But he forgot one thing, even if the Taoist priest was not an assassin, with that piece of jade pendant, they would not be able to escape the implication.

"Xu Zun," Cai Kun was also a little anxious, "You've been talking about it for a long time, is there any point?" Tell me, why did those people burn the corpse of the Taoist priest? ”

"Yes," Li Yan continued, "If the Taoist priest is not an assassin, then who is he?" ”

"Okay, then I'll have a showdown! Sit tight! Xu Zun pointed his finger at the corpse of the Taoist priest, raised his voice and said, "This person, in fact, you all know each other!"

"His family's ancestral home is Nangeng, Shangzhou, and he is the Jinshi Hanlin of Shangke, and the county order of Xinye County - Qiu-Yong-Nian!!"

Syllable!

Cai Kun missed, and the teacup fell to the ground and shattered.

Ooh......

The officials were dumbfounded.

The other people in the courtyard reacted differently, some were confused, some did not hear clearly, some were shocked and surprised, and some were trembling as if they had been struck by lightning......

"What?" Cai Kun got up from his seat and asked, "Xu Zun, what did you just say?" Who is this Taoist priest? ”

"I said," Xu Zun pointed to the corpse of the Taoist priest and repeated the words again, "This person is the real Qiu Yongnian!" ”

"That ......"

Cai Kun looked to the side suspiciously.

"Ah!?h

Qiu Yongnian on the side was suddenly startled, his legs were paralyzed, and he sat on the chair.

"Oops......"

The county Cheng Luo Million was startled, looked at this Qiu Yongnian, and then looked at the corpse of the Taoist priest on the ground, and involuntarily moved the chair back a few steps back until the back of the chair rested on the guard.

"How...... How so? ”

At the same moment, even Shen Tiande, who was in handcuffs, was full of surprise, completely unexpectedly that Xu Zun would say such earth-shattering words.

Not only him, but also the family of the Shen Mansion, Shen Qian next to him, and even Huo Anu who helped Xu Zun all widened their eyes with an unbelievable expression.

Xu ...... Xu Zun ......" Qiu Yongnian realized that he was out of shape, and then stood up angrily and shouted, "You are simply the great Miao of the world, you just framed this official, now ...... Now it's actually ...... How can it still be like this? ”

Qiu Yongnian was really mad, and he couldn't find a suitable word to rebuke Xu Zun.

"Xu Zun," Li Yan hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?" Why did the Taoist priest suddenly become Qiu Yongnian again?

"If the Taoist priest is Qiu Yongnian," he pointed to the county commander Qiu Yongnian, "then who is he?" ”

"No, that's not the point," Chen Taiji asked, "Xu Zun, you have to have a basis for saying that, right?" ”

"yes!" Cai Kun echoed, "Xu Zun, you can't grandstand and make a fool of yourself, if there is no real evidence, then the official will not be able to help!" ”

"Evidence? Of course! ”

Xu Zun smiled confidently and signaled to the fire Anu. Huo Anu immediately took out a blank piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Cai Kun.

But I saw that there were four and a half words written on the white paper, namely: "female", "square", "paper", "non", and there was a side "δΊ»" at the back.

"Oh?" Cai Kun showed these four and a half words in front of everyone and asked, "Xu Zun, what does this mean?" ”

"My lord," Xu Zun replied, "At the beginning, after we heard that there were Taoist people living in Qijiawu's Immortal Temple, we went to check it out.

"But I didn't expect that the enemy was one step ahead of us, and he had already burned the Immortal Temple with a fire, and the hunters only found a piece of jade pendant.

"And I, from the ruins of the concept of eternal life, found the wall full of words......"

Next, Xu Zun told all the discoveries and speculations he and Huo Anu made on the night of the Immortal Temple.

"Isn't this outrageous?" After listening, Li Yan quickly discovered the problem, "According to your speculation, that Taoist priest should be imprisoned in the secret room of the Immortal Temple, according to the witnesses, someone has seen that Taoist priest living in the temple."

"How can a person who is imprisoned still be seen by outsiders?"

"It's simple," Xu Zun replied, "the murderer sent someone to pretend to be a Taoist priest to guard this imprisoned Qiu Yongnian, creating a false impression that there are Taoist priests living in the concept of immortality......"

Seeing that most people were stunned, Xu Zun simply said again:

"Okay, then I'll tell you a story," he pointed to the corpse of the Taoist priest, "A year ago, before going to Xinye County to take office, Qiu Yongnian, a scholar of the Shanghai Science and Technology Ranking, was suddenly kidnapped by gangsters and imprisoned in Qijiawu's concept of immortality.

"This gang of gangsters is not simple, they selected a person who is similar to Qiu Yongnian, and asked him to pretend to be a county commander to come to Xinye County to take office.

At the same time, they also imitated the cruel methods of the Criminal Department and tortured Zhen Qiu Yongnian!

"First, it is to prepare for today's iron coffin case; Second, it is to let the real Qiu Yongnian tell everything about him, so that this fake Qiu Yongnian can better be fake.

"During the captivity, they also made the guards wear Taoist robes, dressed in rags, and walked around to be seen, creating the illusion that there was a Taoist priest living in the Temple of Eternal Life, so that after the Iron Coffin Incident, the line could be indexed to the Taoist Temple.

So, what the witnesses saw was the guards, not the prisoners.

"It's ...... An extremely delicate and extremely cruel plot," Xu Zun said, "and when the time came, they killed the real Qiu Yongnian, dressed him in Taoist robes, and put him in an iron coffin.

"Next, the iron coffin case was discovered, and they then burned down the Taoist temple and left the jade pendant at the scene, waiting for us to investigate!

"In this way, all the clues are all connected, and it is logical for us to think that this real Qiu Yongnian is the Japanese assassin who assassinated the Queen Mother back then!"

"Huh?"

This reasoning surprised everyone again.

"That'...... That's still my question," Li Yan asked, "why didn't they put that jade pendant directly on the corpse?" Wouldn't it be more secure to put it on a corpse? ”

"Wrong!" Xu Zun replied, "Master Li, this question is actually a bit redundant.

"Think about it, the murderer's ultimate goal is to frame Shen Gong! If the iron coffin case was really done by Shen Gong, then could Shen Gong put the jade pendant on the corpse? ”

"Oh......" Li Yan nodded, and then he realized.

"But if the jade pendant is found from the ruins of the Immortal Concept, then the meaning will be different. People will think that it was Shen Gong who harbored the assassins, which would make Shen Gong speechless and inexplicable.

"In the same way," Xu Zun said again, "some people may think that since the ultimate goal of the murderer is to frame Shen Gong, why don't you just write a letter of disclosure and report it?"

"Why did you kill You Dalang and his wife first, frame me for killing the merchants, and then write a letter of disclosure? Is this an overkill?

"But if you think about it, it's actually very necessary!" Xu Zun pointed at Cai Kun and Chen Taiji, and said, "After all, Cai Geling and Chen Yushi are not idle people!"

"If even the framer is so insincere, how can he escape the eyes of these two?

"However, if they use the crime of misappropriating property by me to lead to the iron coffin case, will the effect be completely different?"

Oh......

Everyone nodded again and again, and finally understood what Xu Zun meant.

After all, Shen Tiande is an important minister of the imperial court, and there is still power in the current court, if the exposΓ© letter is directly directed at Shen Tiande, it will seem too fake and arouse suspicion.

"Now, everyone understands," Xu Zun pointed at the fake Qiu Yongnian, "why did he send someone to infiltrate Yizhuang and burn the body of the Taoist priest?"

"When he guided us to link the corpse to the Japanese Assassins, the corpse's mission was complete.

"He didn't want anyone to recognize that this person was not a Japanese assassin, so he fell for us, and he was worried that our fictitious Donggong guard would be able to recognize him, so he ......"

"Stop! Stop! Who knows, Xu Zun was interrupted by Cai Kun before he finished speaking. But seeing Cai Kun holding the blank piece of paper, he asked eagerly, "Don't talk about these useless things first, let's talk about what these words mean?"

"Why do you think that the deceased is !? Qiu Yongnian?"