Shao Xi hurriedly walked towards the door, and before he took a few steps into the door, he saw Long Qitai, who was not drinking tea in the hall, but pacing back and forth in the courtyard, looking very anxious.

Long Qitai looked up and saw that Shao Xi had returned, so he hurriedly stepped forward, pulled Shao Xi and said, "Brother! Something is wrong! I have failed to live up to your entrustment and have not looked favorably on people. ”

When Shao Xi heard Long Qitai's words, his heart was broken! It must have been the one who brought it up.

"Brother Long, don't worry! What the hell is going on, you tell me slowly. ”

Long Qitai had a look of chagrin on his face, and he slapped his palms and said, "You asked me to take good care of Na Wu Ri Yeti to prevent someone from killing people and cutting off clues." I have been arranging for Xiao Liuzi to guard this guy day and night for the past two days, but I don't want Xiao Liuzi to just go out to relieve himself last night, and when I came back, I found that Wu Ri Yeti had been poisoned and died. Today we spent most of the day, all the people in the Dali Temple were questioned, even the cook was interrogated by us several times, but until now we have not found out who poisoned Wuriyeti, and now there is no clue. ”

Shao Xi secretly complained in his heart. Finished! It was not easy to find a clue that could find out the mastermind behind it, but now it was so inexplicably extinguished, and the clue was interrupted.

"Has it been found out how to be poisoned? Was it poison in the food, or was it poisoned in the water you drink? Who were the people who came into contact with him yesterday? Were there any signs beforehand? ”

"We have checked the food and water, and no poison has been found, except for Xiao Liuzi, who came into contact with him yesterday, that is, the interrogator, and we have also checked that there is nothing suspicious, and there is no warning before. Now the body is parked in the workshop, and the examination should have been completed at this time, does my brother want to go back to Dali Temple with me? ”

Shao Xi turned his head to Liu Fu and said, "Bring my horse here, don't take the carriage." ”

Liu Fu answered, and trotted all the way to the backyard to lead the horse.

Shao Xi touched his chin and asked Long Qitai, "Brother Long, have you had any doubts in your heart so far?" Since no outsiders have contacted him, it must be a spy inside Dali Temple, and someone may have hidden a secret stake in Dali Temple a long time ago. ”

Long Qitai's eyebrows were twisted together at this time, and his face was tangled.

"To be honest, the most suspicious person at the moment is Xiao Liuzi, but this brother has been with me for many years, he is honest and honest, honest and steady, and everything I have explained before is my best. If he had killed Uriyeti, I couldn't believe it. ”

"This matter is still inconclusive, although Xiao Liuzi is suspicious, but it may not necessarily be that he did it, everything will be decided after you and I return to Dali Temple."

"Alright! It seems that this matter is going to trouble you brother, you have to think about it a little more. ”

Shao Xi was more depressed than anyone else at this time, Wu Riyati was the only clue in his hand to find out the identity of the man in black robe, and now that the person is dead, the clue is also broken.

It seems that the power of the people behind this is really strong, and they can do it everywhere.

At this time, Liu Fu had already led "Listening to the Snow" outside the gate, Shao Xi and Long Qitai each got on their horses, shook the reins, and galloped towards Dali Temple.

Due to the urgency of the matter, the two of them could hurry as fast as they could on the road, and it didn't take long to arrive at the door of Dali Temple.

After dismounting, the two threw the reins to the handyman in front of the door, trotted all the way into the Dali Temple, and met the Dali Temple Qing who came out, Long Qitai's brother Long Qihong.

The two hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and Long Qihong asked Long Qitai after returning the salute: "Atai, I just heard that someone was poisoned in my Dali Temple, although I don't return to the temple much on weekdays, but you shouldn't be so slack." Now that such a thing has happened, how can I have the face of Dali Temple? How should I explain when I go back to the Holy One? ”

Long Qitai also knew that he was at a loss, and lowered his head and said: "What the eldest brother taught me is that I was negligent, brother, I just went to invite Master Shao over, hoping to find out this matter, so that the eldest brother can have an explanation from the saint, and please rest assured." ”

Long Qihong shook his head helplessly, with an expression of hatred that iron is not steel.

Turning his head, he said to Shao Xi again: "Although Lord Shao has not been in office for a long time, he has won the appreciation of the saints, and your ability is now well known, and this matter is still bothering Lord Shao a lot. If you can help my Dali Temple find out this matter and capture the murderer, my Dali Temple is grateful to Lord Shao, and if Lord Shao is useful to my Dali Temple in the future, we will do our best and never shirk. ”

Looking at this posture, it seems that Long Qihong also feels that this matter is a little tricky, Dali Temple does not lose face or second, the fatal thing is that the one who is dead now is the murderer who assassinated the envoy of the White Night Kingdom, if Dali Temple can not find out this matter, Long Qihong is indeed not easy to explain in the saint.

Shao Xi also arched his hand at Long Qihong and said: "Lord Long, the officials should do their best in this matter, but now that the person is dead, the clues have been interrupted, if you can't find the spies inside this Dali Temple, I'm afraid this matter is really a bit troublesome." ”

Long Qihong sighed and said helplessly: "I also know that this matter is a little troublesome, Lord Shao just do his best." To tell the truth, if it is a case that you 'Jing Chengsi' can't find out, I'm afraid my Dali Temple will be in vain, I just hope that this matter can be explained in the Holy Place, don't even burden my colleagues in this temple who have been fined salaries. ”

Shao Xi naturally understood Long Qihong's thoughts, and the people who worked as errands in the official family were all ordinary people, and they all had to support their families. As a Dali Siqing, if he can't even keep the salaries of his subordinates, it will indeed affect his prestige in the future.

"The lower officials should do their best, no matter whether the case can be found out in the end, the lower officials will take responsibility in front of the saint."

The meaning of these words could not be more obvious, that is, no matter how far this case is investigated, all the responsibilities will be borne by Shao Xi, and Dali Temple will never be affected.

When Long Qihong heard this, his face immediately turned ashamed. He said to Shao Xi: "What did Lord Shao say?" This case was taken over by my Dali Temple from the beginning, and Lord Shao only came to help us investigate the case, how can Lord Shao be allowed to bear all the responsibility? If the case can't be found out in the end, the official should go to the saint to ask for guilt, how can he implicate Lord Shao again? ”

"Lord Long is serious, the elder brother and the subordinate are also brothers, speaking of which, I should also call Lord Long a big brother in private, since this is the case, there should be difficulties together. Besides, if you don't blame the public, but multiple people take responsibility together, I think the Holy One will also raise his hand and let us pass. ”

When Long Qihong heard Shao Xi's words, he was very moved in his heart.

Although he is half a level higher than Shao Xi at the moment, judging from the degree of favor that the saint has in him, Shao Xi's official rank will be above him in the future. A monarch and a minister know that a person with holy grace will not be pampered and arrogant, and it is not easy to say such things to himself.

Long Qihong arched his hand at Shao Xi, "Since Brother Shao has already talked about this, Long is not hypocritical, from this moment on, everyone in this Dali Temple is at the disposal of Brother Shao, including Long." As long as it is necessary for the investigation of the case, all the documents and files in the temple are available to the Shao brothers, and no one has the right to stop them. ”

What does that mean? This is the current Dali Temple in Dali Temple, even Dali Temple Qing has to obey Shao Xi's dispatch, as long as it is needed to investigate the case, all the resources in Dali Temple must serve him.

This seems to be a good thing, but in fact, the pressure on Shao Xi has become greater.

In this kind of situation where the soldiers and horses of the whole city and the Dali Temple are obeying their own dispatches, if you can't find a meridian again, let alone that it is difficult to explain it in the Holy Shang, even those yin and yang weird guys in the court can spray you to death.

This is true that with great power comes great responsibility.

Shao Xi naturally understands this truth, but now that things have developed to this point, they can only continue.

"In that case, let's stop gossiping, I'll go in first and take a closer look at yesterday's events."

After speaking, several people entered the Dali Temple together.

I didn't rush to ask, but went straight to the room, the living will lie, but the dead won't, there will definitely be something left on the corpse.

The person responsible for inspecting the corpse is still the old man last time, and it seems that any difficult cases encountered in this Dali Temple will be handed over to him, which shows that this person is also an experienced investigator.

As soon as Long Qitai entered the door, he asked impatiently, "Have you found anything?" Is there a bruise, bruise, or something else on the body? ”

The old man was not in a hurry, and after giving a few salutes, he said slowly: "The surface of the corpse has been examined, and there is nothing wrong, judging from the color of the eyes, lips, tongue and nails, it is indeed poisoned and died." The person's throat and abdomen were probed with silver needles, and the poison was indeed taken from the mouth, and there was no trace of forced medicine, judging from the color of the silver needles, the amount of poison was very large, and it did not look like it was mixed into food or water, but it seemed like it was directly taken with poison. ”

Long Qitai was anxious when he heard this, "How is it possible to take poison directly?" After this man was captured, his whole body was carefully searched, and his clothes were changed into prison clothes, leaving him no chance to hide his belongings, where did this poison come from? And it wasn't forced to dove, could it be that he took the poison himself? If he really wanted to die, why didn't he die when he was caught, but chose to kill himself at this time? ”

Shao Xi took Long Qitai's words and said, "Not bad! When this person was caught at that time, if he had the belief that he would die, he would not have been taken back to Dali Temple by us, and he could be brought back alive by us, which shows that he had no thoughts of death in his heart. A person who doesn't want to die, it must be because he is concerned, I once asked Brother Long to investigate this person's background, seeing that there are wives and children at home, I originally wanted to use this to force him to speak. At the moment, it seems that someone has thought of one thing with us, and they also took advantage of this to force him to commit suicide. ”

Long Qitai suddenly realized: "No wonder! By the time I found out where his family was, the family had mysteriously disappeared and had been kidnapped. But where did his poison come from? ”

Shao Xi smiled and said, "Naturally, it was handed over to him by the person who forced him to commit suicide." ”

"But who forced him to kill himself?"

"The man who was with him every day."