Ting Wei Yu Dingguo was ordered to investigate and handle the case of Zhao Guanghan reporting Wei Xiang's murder of his maid, so he was naturally extremely cautious.

He first read Zhao Guanghan's recital several times, and then asked all the servants and slaves of the Prime Minister's Mansion one by one.

The main purpose of the dossier of the "Prime Minister's Mansion Murder of Maids" submitted by Zhao Guanghan is that "Wei Xiang is extravagant and misbehaved, and his wife is jealous of killing maids". He found that the main evidence in the file was the confession of the mother, and there was no other corroboration. And the servant girl came to see no one alive or dead, that is to say, she was missing.

He scratched his head a little. On both sides of this case, one is the prime minister, the other is Jing Zhaoyin, and there is an emperor sitting in the middle. For the results of the investigation to be recognized by these people, it must be ironclad evidence, and the mother is a key witness.

He felt that it would be a breakthrough to interrogate his mother again, so he sent someone to find his mother. However, the officer came back to report that the mother was missing, and that there was no one to find her home and the places she frequented.

He didn't care at first, and told the officials to continue searching. I read the dossier again, thought about it for a while, and suddenly became suspicious in my heart, feeling that my mother was missing at this time, which was too abnormal. He stood up suddenly, and called out in a loud voice, "Someone." Immediately, a group of officials rushed to the door, bowed down and clenched their fists, and waited for orders.

He hurriedly fastened his crown hat and said, "Prepare the car." ”

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My mother was uncertain on this day, and I felt that my eyelids were jumping.

She was smug for a while after receiving the bounty from Jingzhao Mansion. However, she soon learned that Zhao Guanghan and Wei were in love. She had a cousin who was on an errand in the Tingwei Mansion and told her that the emperor had decreed that the Tingwei would try the case, and he explained the benefits and disadvantages again.

Zhao Guanghan and Wei Xiang were unattainable magnates in her eyes, and now because of her daughter's affairs, these two people are facing each other, and she is caught in the middle.

She pondered that Tingwei would inevitably come to her for the trial, and after thinking about it, she was really scared, thinking about such rights and wrongs, it was better to avoid it, so she decided to escape from the city to hide for a while. So he packed up some money and belongings, quietly opened the door of the house, saw that no one was paying attention, and quickly turned into a secluded alley next to the wall. After walking for a while, you will arrive at Xiyin Street, and then follow the back street of Shangguan to the north, and you can go out of Luocheng Gate.

The mother was always a little weak-hearted, for fear that the arresters of Jingzhao Mansion would target her. She stopped and stopped, and before she looked back, she found that a man in black seemed to be following her, so she pretended to be calm and walked a few steps quickly, and when she looked back, the man in black seemed to have quickened his pace.

She grew more and more frightened, and after walking a few more steps, she suddenly flashed behind a tree. After hiding for a while, he stretched out his head to peep, and there was no man in black behind him, and then he looked ahead, and the man in black was walking towards the Los Angeles Gate with the flow of people, and there was nothing unusual.

She was so nervous that she collapsed, and sat on the ground against the tree with her chest clutched, gasping for breath, and it took a while for her breath to recover. After thinking about it for a while, I felt that it was still a bit mysterious, so I didn't dare to go out from the Luocheng Gate again, so I turned around and walked back to Xiyin Street, preparing to go out of the city through the Chucheng Gate.

After walking for half an hour, I arrived at City Gate Street. On the west side of this street is the East Market, a lively place, and to the north you can already see the majestic kitchen city gate, so she is relieved.

Laimu was carrying a cloth bag full of five baht coins, which was not light, and she was already tired and panting at this time, so she found a secluded corner and sat down to rest. I took a sip of water from the water bladder and took out the cooking cake before I was about to put it in my mouth, when suddenly a shadow hung in front of me.

She looked up blankly, instantly terrified. Standing in front of him was the man in black. Before he could speak, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, opened his mouth to shout, and blood foamed in his throat, and he couldn't make a sound.

She clutched her chest, bent over, and slowly slid to the ground, and in a trance, she heard a chaotic footsteps.

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Yu Dingguo brought a group of servants to the Lu where Lai's mother lived, and asked a few neighbors, only to find out that they hadn't seen Lai's mother since yesterday, and then asked them if they knew where Lai's mother was, and they all said that they didn't have much interaction on weekdays, so they didn't know where she went.

Yu Dingguo frowned, feeling that this matter was a bit tricky. At this moment a servant hurried up and whispered a few words in his ear. Yu Dingguo was shocked and stared at the officer, who didn't speak, just nodded. Yu Dingguo waved his hand and said, "Go to Chengmen Street." ”

In a secluded corner of City Gate Street, a middle-aged woman was lying reclining, with a short sword stuck in her chest, covered in blood and already dry. The officials of the Tingwei Mansion arranged a cordon around them, and a few curious citizens probed their brains, and they were immediately reprimanded and dispersed by the officials.

Yu Dingguo stepped forward to take a closer look and said, "This is a homicide." He summoned him and asked, "But if you look carefully, who is the deceased?" The killer can leave physical evidence. ”

He bowed his hand and said, "Go back to Tingwei." The middle-aged woman was stabbed in the chest with a short sword, and she lost so much blood that she died, and she died for more than an hour. He carried more than 1,000 copper wires, which were not lost, and the linen money bag was embroidered with the word 'Lai'. The killer left behind a bronze dagger. ”

Yu Dingguo smiled bitterly: "This woman may be the mother we are looking for." He sighed, was silent for a while, and then instructed the servant: "You immediately go to find a few neighbors who came to the mother to come and identify the body, and if it is confirmed that it is the mother, bury her." He also took care of the work and sent all the physical evidence to the Tingwei's mansion, and he wanted to investigate it himself.

Yu Dingguo returned to Tingwei's Mansion, sat there for a while, spread out the file of "Prime Minister's Mansion Murder of Maids" on the case, read a few lines, and fell into contemplation.

After a short time, the official came to report, and after the neighbors of Laimu identified him, they confirmed that the deceased was Laimu. This was expected by Dingguo, and he just nodded. The official also asked if he wanted to interrogate his mother's neighbors.

"A few words of comfort and let them go." Yu Dingguo opened the file and read it.

The prison guard looked at Yu Dingguo, and seemed to have something to say. Yu Dingguo didn't raise his head, and said impatiently: "This is a homicide case, it has nothing to do with them, and I can't ask anything." He waved his hand and signaled that they could step back.

After a while, he sent over the physical evidence found at the murder scene, including the mother's bloody clothes, money bags, and bronze daggers, the murder weapon, and so on.

Yu Dingguo put the physical evidence on the case one by one, thought for a while, and ordered someone to remove all the other physical evidence, leaving only the bronze short sword. He wanted to be quiet and motioned for everyone to get out.

The huge Tingwei's mansion was empty, he picked up the bronze short sword, saw the tip of the sword from the hilt, rubbed it and searched it carefully, there was no mark on the sword.

He lowered his head, his thoughts racing. The facts of Lai's mother's murder case are very clear, that is, murder and silence. Because the property that the mother carried with her was moved, but it was fatal with a sword, which was done by the killer.