Shao Xi's words made all the officials present panic. Is this a hands-on approach? It's in this county guard's office? This "Jing Cheng Division" is really a royal privilege, and he can take people without declaring to anyone, who can afford to provoke this?

Liang Daoqian was more panicked than anyone else at this time, in his eyes, "Jing Chengsi" was an incomparably mysterious, and also an incomparably terrifying existence, and now in front of him, this Shao Da and the history of the four-grade supervision and inspection actually wanted to do it himself.

He didn't even have the idea of running at this time, he knew that once he was targeted by the "Jing Chengsi", it would be useless to run to the ends of the earth, and the only way to survive was to get rid of the people in front of him, and those who knew about it could be dealt with slowly later.

Thinking of this, he didn't hide anymore, reached out and pulled out the short knife from his waist, flew straight towards Shao Xi, he hoped to solve the problem in the shortest possible time, in the fastest way.

But he was wrong.

Shao Xi smiled when he saw him pounce, he wanted to force him to make a move, but he took the initiative to leak the bottom before he could do it, which saved a lot of trouble.

This Liang Daoqian can see at a glance that what he cultivates is only inferior martial arts, that is, the kind of person who only cultivates exercises and techniques when he gets a secret book, which is basically out of the flow in Shao Xi's eyes, so when he pounced, Shao Xi just lightly stepped under his feet, and the whole person flew backwards, and the place where he landed happened to be the place where Liang Daoqian's strength was exhausted.

Liang Daoqian missed the blow, and when he looked up, he saw Shao Xi standing in front of him with a smile, so he raised his short knife and stabbed it straight at Shao Xi's chest, not wanting his whole body to be bounced away after this stab.

When the officials present saw Liang Daoqian flying towards them, they immediately dispersed.

Liang Daoqian smashed the wooden coffee table and chair, and those wooden utensils were immediately smashed and scattered, and this fall also made Liang Daoqian fall into a rut and could no longer stand up.

Shao Xi put away his qi shield and said coldly: "If you don't have that ability, don't move that mind, you also need qualifications to be a bad guy." ”

Turning his head, he asked Chen Mohuai again: "Lord Chen, what is the crime of assassinating the court officials?" ”

Chen Mohuai was sweating all over his head at this time, and his heart said why was he so uncontrollable? How do you say do it? Even if I want to protect my shortcomings at this time, I don't dare to open my mouth, who can cover the official who assassinated the "Jing Cheng Division"? Isn't this looking for your own death?

"The lower officials don't dare to make decisions privately, this matter must be handed over to the Criminal Department to be heard and decided, after all, my lord, you are an official of the 'Jing Cheng Division', and I and other local petty officials really have no right to deal with this matter."

"Let's bet on it! We still have to make it clear about his murder and arson. ”

Chen Mohuai hurriedly bowed down and responded: "The lower official obeys the order!" The bear is all headed, and you don't want to take people? ”

Xiong Dutou hadn't reacted at this time, why did a civilian official on weekdays suddenly start fighting? Also, he didn't see clearly how this Lord Shao beat Liang Daoqian away, as if he didn't fight back at all!

Liang Daoqian was tied up by Xiong Du's head and taken to the county prison.

Shao Xi pondered that he was a court official who was originally fake, if Liang Daoqian was convicted of assassinating a court official, wouldn't this be tantamount to selling himself? We still have to find a way to convict him of murder and arson.

"Lord Chen, according to my inference, this person is the suspect in the Jiaku arson case, if this crime is convicted, you can report it to the Criminal Department according to this charge, as for the assassination of the court officials, there is no need to mention it, we're 'Jing Chengsi' who have never wanted to be involved in the criminal cases of other ministries."

Chen Mohuai's scalp was numb at this time, how could he dare to have other opinions.

"The lower officials will obey Lord Shao's orders, and everything will be done according to Lord Shao's wishes."

Shao Xi turned his head to Lao Wu and said, "Bring in the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper." ”

When Lao Wu heard this, he turned around and went out, and brought in two people from outside the yamen of the mansion, and these two people entered the hall and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to the officials.

"These two people are the shopkeeper and shopkeeper of Juxian Restaurant in the city, and they were found only after I inquired with Lord Wu in the restaurants in the city today, and the two of them can prove to Lord Chen and all the adults here that Liang Daoqian and Nakuding are really acquaintances."

After Shao Xi finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper, signaling that they could speak.

The shopkeeper spoke first: "Just now this adult came to our Juxian Restaurant with the portraits of the two of them today, let us identify whether these two people came to our restaurant yesterday, and the villain can prove that these two people did come to the villain's restaurant together yesterday, and they had a meal on the second floor." ”

After speaking, he looked back at the shopkeeper, which meant "the rest is yours to take care of".

This little second is also clever, and immediately took over the conversation, "What the shopkeeper said is true, the two of them greeted the small one yesterday, and even the small ones they ordered still remember, the two of them drank a lot of wine yesterday, and the man who looked rough and black was even a little drunk." I also saw another man stuffing a piece of silver into his hand, as if he was still telling him something, but the little one was in a hurry and didn't hear the conversation between the two of them clearly, but I vaguely heard them mention 'tung oil' and 'ignition' or something. ”

When Shao Xi heard this, he took out the small cloth bag that was handed to him in his arms, opened it and put it in front of Chen Mohuai and the others.

"This thing was peeled off the body of Kuding during the autopsy last night, and it was confirmed that it was silver after investigation, why does a Kuding carry silver taels on his body on weekdays? With the errand he did, even if he didn't eat or drink and saved for a year or two, he might not be able to save enough of these silver taels, so this proves that Liang Daoqian discussed with Nakuding during the day yesterday to set fire to Jiaku at night and bribe Kuding with silver taels. ”

At this time, Xing Wenxin, who had never spoken from beginning to end, asked: "Lord Shao's inference on this matter has not been too omission so far, and the actions of Treasurer Liang just now also prove that this matter is indeed his doing, but the lower officials don't understand what the motive is?" Why did Treasurer Liang set fire to the armor he was responsible for? The culpability for this crime of arson is not light. ”

Shao Xi put his thumb on his chin again, thinking: "I'm not sure about this at the moment, but as I said before, he must be destroying something, and the purpose of destroying these things must be to cover up something." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and asked Xiong Dutou again: "When the treasury silver was stolen a few days ago, Liang Daoqian was in the treasury?" And in addition to the theft of treasury silver, there were other things stolen that day? ”

Xiong Dutou recalled: "That Liang Daoqian has no family, he lives in the treasury on weekdays, the treasury is his home, he was indeed in the treasury when the treasury silver was stolen that day, Kuding found that someone sneaked into the treasury to steal the treasury silver and warned in time, and the lower officials also took people into the treasury to search for thieves, and Liang Daoqian also rushed to the treasury to count the number of stolen silver taels. As for whether other items were stolen? I didn't hear him talk about it. ”

Shao Xi turned his head and shouted, "Old Wu." ”

Lao Wu immediately understood, and said to Cai Cheng and Xiong Dutou: "You two will go to the treasury with me to check the accounts, and call all the people who are responsible for the entry and exit of the treasury and silver to Liang Daoqian's room, and I will ask them one by one." ”

Cai Cheng and Xiong Dutou hurriedly bowed down and said yes, and then rushed to the treasury with Lao Wu.

Xing Wenxin seemed to understand Shao Xi's purpose, and asked Shao Xi: "Lord Shao, do you suspect that Treasurer Liang has embezzled the treasury silver and changed the accounts privately, and you are afraid that it will be discovered in the future, so you teamed up with Kuding to set fire to the A warehouse, in order to destroy the old silver and money transactions stored in the treasury, and then kill Kuding while he was unprepared?" ”

Shao Xi nodded slowly and said, "Although I'm not very sure, I feel that this matter must be related to the silver accounts of this treasury." ”

Although the investigation so far is still logical, Shao Xi always feels that something is not right, it seems that something is missing, and this lack may be the key to this matter.

At this time, Chen Mohuai was sweating nervously, and said to Shao Xi, "The theft of this treasury silver is already a big matter, and now if another person in charge embezzles the treasury silver and changes the accounts, wouldn't this matter be even more troublesome?" How should I explain after the above investigation? How did it get to this point? ”

"Above? Which other top do you want to track you down? Lord Chen, you are bound to have nothing to do with this matter, and it is best to investigate it clearly, otherwise you can only ask for more blessings from yourself. ”

Chen Mohuai only reacted when he heard Shao Xi's words, and now that the official of the "Jing Cheng Division" is in front of him, do you still use others to track it down? This can directly take off his head, and thinking that this breath didn't come up, he fainted directly.

As soon as the surrounding officials saw that the county guard had fainted, it was a chaos, and they hurriedly ordered someone to carry Chen Mohuai into the inner hall to rest, and hurriedly sent someone to call Langzhong.

Shao Xi looked at the chaotic scene around him, and at this time he seemed to have become redundant, so he walked alone towards the outside of the yamen.

Just walked out of the gate of the mansion, but was stopped by Master Liu, who chased him out.

"Lord Shao, Lord Shao has just woken up, as soon as he woke up, he asked me to accompany Lord Shao to the treasury to investigate this matter clearly, Xia Guan is also responsible for the entry and verification of many documents, files, and account books on weekdays, and Xia Guan is also familiar with that Liang Daoqian on weekdays, what can I do to accompany the Lord to go together, what do you think?"

"I can't imagine that Lord Chen is still so attentive at this time, so there is Lord Lao Liu."

"These are all the things that are within the responsibility of the lower officials, it should be, it should be, Master Shao and I will rush to the treasury now! Maybe there's something that has been found out over there, and maybe it's not clear. ”

So the two of them rushed all the way to the treasury.

When they arrived at the treasury, they saw a chaotic scene in the treasury, where the clerks were checking the accounts, and the Kuding and the officials were counting the amount of money in the treasury.

Shao Xi looked around and asked, "Where is Liang Daoqian's residence?" ”

"Lord Shao, please follow the lower officials."

"Lord Liu seems to be very familiar with this place."

"The lower officials often have to come here to sort, check, and compile the documents and account books to facilitate storage and preservation, so they are more familiar with this place."

"It turns out that the accounts here are all checked and sorted out by Lord Liu before they can enter the first warehouse."

"That's exactly what Lord Shao said."