As night fell, Lai Junchen, who was in charge of investigating Shangguan Wan'er's assassination, also returned to Luoyang City before dark.

Although Lai Junchen was dusty and tired, he couldn't hide the joy and pride in his eyes, and the saint appointed him to investigate the assassination of Shangguan Wan'er, not only out of trust in him, but also gave him a clear signal that he would not be affected by Xue Huaiyi's case.

This undoubtedly gave Lai Junchen a reassurance, although he was Xue Huaiyi's military advisor, and in Xue Huaiyi's copied letters, there was evidence that he came to Junchen to give advice to Xue Huaiyi, but as long as the saint still wanted to use him, even if he was Xue Huaiyi's sworn friend, he would not be held accountable.

This made Lai Junchen, who had always been worried, breathe a sigh of relief, and he worked hard to investigate the assassination of Shangguan Wan'er, he first went to the inn where the assassin was killed, tortured the shopkeeper and all the men again, and dug up the buried body again for examination.

To his frustration, he didn't get many clues, the only clue was that eight of the ten assassins had been killed, and the other two had escaped, and at the same time, he had unexpectedly encountered dozens of Wu generals led by Wu Furong near the inn.

Although Wu Furong also showed up with them and left quickly, the shrewd Lai Junchen was still keenly aware that Wu Furong was probably here to search for the two escaped assassins, which was interesting, could it be that these assassins were sent by Wu Chenghe?

In fact, the assassin who assassinated Shangguan Wan'er is easier to guess, either Princess Taiping, or Wu Chengsi or Wu Sansi, as for the most rumored in the market is Xue Huaiyi's Yu Dang, Lai Junchen knows that it is impossible at all, with Xue Huaiyi's unsympathetic temperament, how can there be any Yu Dang who is willing to avenge him.

Among them, Princess Taiping and Wu Chenghei are the most suspicious, after all, Princess Taiping has always wanted to seek the position of Guan Wan'er, but with Princess Taiping's status and the city government, even if she wants to do it, she will fake it to others, and will never do it herself.

Therefore, if you calculate carefully, it is the most likely that Wu Chengsi did it, and Wu Furong led the Wu family to appear near the place of the assassination, Lai Junchen has eighty percent certainty that Wu Chengsi is the murderer.

However, if there is no evidence or witnesses, even if he is 10% sure, Lai Junchen pondered all the way, he felt that the two escaped assassins were the key figures, and if he could catch them, he would have the bottom of the case.

Of course, Lai Junchen will not honestly close the case and report it, this is not his style of doing things, he does everything first, he thinks about his own interests first, and the same is true of Shangguan Wan'er's assassination case this time, how to maximize his interests is the key thing he considers.

Lai Junchen led a group of his subordinates to just enter Luoyang City, his henchman Zhao Yin urged the horse to meet him, Zhao Yin was responsible for understanding the situation in Luoyang, Lai Junchen knew that he rushed to meet him, there must be something important to report.

"Is there any situation?" asked Lai Junchen.

Zhao Yin pulled Junchen aside and said in a low voice: "I got a piece of news from my humble position, this afternoon, Li Zhen led dozens of internal guard soldiers to capture one person in the Cause and Effect Lane of Tonghuofang. ”

Lai Junchen frowned, "Who did he arrest?"

"I don't know who is lowly, but I got the news from Wan Guojun, and they are also very concerned about the person Li Zhen captured, which is said to be related to this assassination. ”

Lai Junchen was shocked, could it be that the person Li Zhen captured was one of the two assassins who escaped? This is extremely important news, if that is the case, this case may not have its own business, and this is definitely not the result he is willing to face.

Lai Junchen pondered for a moment and asked, "Where is Li Zhen now?"

"It's still in the official office of Quanshanfang. ”

Lai Junchen immediately decided: "I'll go to him and ask for someone!"

Many people don't know about Li Zhen's internal security office in Quanshanfang, but it has never been a secret to Lai Junchen, who has a wide range of sources, and Lai Junchen led several subordinates to come to Quanshanfang, he turned over and dismounted in front of the internal security office, and someone had already rushed in to report to Li Zhen.

At this time, it was already dark, and there were few pedestrians on the street, Lai Junchen stood in front of the steps of the secret office of the internal guard, squinting at a big tree in the distance, he had already appeared behind the big tree There was a person, and he was sneaking to peek this way.

At this time, Li Zhen hurriedly walked out of the mansion, and said with a smile: "I thought that I would come back tomorrow when I came to Zhongcheng, but I didn't expect to come back today. ”

Li Zhen and Lai Junchen cooperated when they were tracking down Lan Zhenyu, although the cooperation was not pleasant, they did not turn their faces and politely broke up with each other.

Lai Junchen smiled slightly, pointed to the big tree in the distance and said, "The people behind the big tree are working harder than me, I don't know if Commander Li is here?"

Lai Junchen's finger, the person hiding behind the big tree to monitor ran away, Li Zhen looked at the black shadow running away, and said with a cold smile: "That's Wan Guojun's person, who has been monitoring here, I'm afraid that when Zhongcheng comes to me, Princess Taiping will soon know." ”

"I'm here for business, so what's the point if she knows?"

"That's right, please come in!"

Li Zhen invited Junchen into the official office, the two came to the inner hall and sat down, came to Junchen to look at the office, and said with a smile: "The last time I dealt with my brother, my brother was still white, but I didn't expect that in less than half a year, my brother was promoted to the deputy commander of the internal guard, which is really unexpected and enviable, congratulations to my brother." ”

"It's just a coincidence!" Li Zhen smiled faintly.

The two chatted casually for a few more words, and at this time, an internal guard soldier brought them hot tea, and Lai Junchen picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea slowly, and then turned the topic to business.

"This time I went to Shaanxi County and was assassinated, it is not only unfortunate, but also my brother's fate, I am investigating this matter by the will of the Holy Lord, I wonder what clues my brother can give me?" Lai Junchen's eyes narrowed slightly, and he stared at Li Zhen sharply.

Li Zhen smiled, "I don't want to catch the murderer as soon as possible, it's a pity that the murderer is well prepared, and there are no clues in terms of clothes, swords, bows and crossbows, but I think I can trace it from the poison on their arrows, maybe there will be a harvest." ”

Saying that, Li Zhen put a narrow wooden box on the table and pushed it to Lai Junchen, Lai Junchen opened the box, inside was a crossbow arrow, the arrow was blue and quenched with poison, Lai Junchen smiled happily: "I will go to test the poison, thank you Commander Li for your cooperation." ”

He unceremoniously accepted the wooden box, and asked in a deep voice: "I went to interrogate the shopkeeper, according to the information I have, there should have been ten assassins at that time, but you only killed eight of them, and two assassins who answered on the periphery escaped, what clues does Commander Li have?"

"As Lai Zhongcheng said, since it was a peripheral response, of course I couldn't catch them, and it was in a hurry, I didn't have time to check how many assassins there were, and I escorted Shangguan Sheren out of the town before dawn the next day, and I really didn't have any more clues. ”

Without waiting for Junchen to speak, Li Zhen continued: "Shangguan Sheren's original intention was to deal with this matter in a low-key manner, but I didn't expect Luoyang to spread the word, I think it's very strange here, it seems that someone is planning this matter behind the scenes, if you are interested in Zhongcheng, you might as well start here, I believe there will be unexpected gains." ”

Lai Junchen's eyelids jumped a few times, of course he knew that in addition to the assassin and the assassin, there was also a third party in this matter, which made this case confusing, but it was not easy to find this third party, and even if he did, it had nothing to do with his interests.

Lai Junchen first thinks about the assassin, catches the evidence of the assassination, and then uses the evidence to achieve his own best interests.

So the key is still on the two escaped assassins, Lai Junchen took another sip of tea, pondered for a moment, and said: "I heard that this afternoon, Commander Li led the internal guards to catch a person in the Cause and Effect Alley, I don't know who was arrested?"

Li Zhen laughed, "The news of coming to Zhongcheng is really fast, that's right, this afternoon I led the internal guards to arrest a person in the Cause and Effect Lane of Tonghufang, a Jiangyang thief with high martial arts, because Dali Temple was worried that he would not be able to catch him, so he asked the internal guards to take action, could it be that the imperial history is also concerned about the arrest of thieves?"

Li Zhen's answer was expected by Lai Junchen, Li Zhen was unlikely to hand over the key assassin to himself, first, Shangguan Wan'er did not believe in him, and secondly, they also wanted to report the matter to the Holy Lord.

Lai Junchen was very depressed in his heart, he looked into Li Zhen's eyes, and said after a while: "I think the person who led Li to capture is the assassin who escaped, isn't it?"

Li Zhen had a sarcastic smile on his face, "The associations of coming to Zhongcheng are so rich, how can it be an assassin who escaped?"

"Commander Li, I am here to solve the case as soon as possible, catch the real culprit, and give an explanation to the saint, which is also of great benefit to you, I hope you can fully cooperate with me!"

"Lai Zhongcheng said well, finding the assassination mastermind is our common goal, as long as I have news, I will immediately inform Lai Zhongcheng, if there is anything that needs help, Lai Zhongcheng can bring it up, I will try my best to help." ”

Lai Junchen stared at Li Zhen for a long time, and then stood up helplessly and said, "Okay! ”

"Definitely! Come to Zhongcheng and walk slowly. ”

Lai Junchen arched his hand, quickly left the office, he turned over and got on the horse, galloped away with a few of his subordinates, and met Zhao Yin and others at the gate of the fang, Zhao Yin asked: "Zhongcheng, have you gained anything?"

"He resolutely refused to admit it, and I couldn't help it. Lai Junchen was very discouraged.

At this time, Zhao Yin said in a low voice: "There are at least nearly 100 people lurking in the Quanshan Fang, and there are three or four groups of people, and they are in their own formations. ”

This was expected by Lai Junchen, and the captured assassin was most likely hidden in the internal security office.

He pondered for a moment and said: "This assassin who slipped through the net is the key person in the whole case, and you also took thirty brothers to ambush in the Quanshan Fang, closely monitoring the internal security office, if there is something in the internal security department today and tomorrow, you must not hesitate to rob people." ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Lai Junchen snorted coldly, whipped the horse fiercely, and the horse galloped away outside the square

In the office of the Internal Security Bureau, Li Zhen sat alone in the lobby, although he caught the assassin who had slipped through the net and got the most powerful evidence.

This time, it was he who proposed to Shangguan Wan'er that this case should not be in a hurry to break the situation, you need to wait a little longer, and when all the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods have jumped out, it is not too late to clean up Wu Chenghei.

At this time, Zhao Qiuniang hurriedly stepped forward, bowed down and said, "Commander Qiqi, persuade the people of unknown origin to lurk in the Shanfang." ”

This was expected by Li Zhen, these people thought that the assassin was hidden in the office, and they all wanted to fish in troubled waters, he sneered and asked, "How many people?"

"The exact number is unknown, but it seems that there are three groups. ”

Li Zhen thought about it for a while, a group of people should be Wu Chenghe's Wu family generals, and a group of people are Wan Guojun's internal guards or Taiping Mansion warriors, and another group of people are the black officials of Lai Junchen, but he hopes that a fourth group of people will appear, Wu Sansi's military generals.

"But how should we deal with it?" Zhao Qiuniang asked with some concern.

Li Zhen smiled, "Don't worry, I'm fully prepared!"

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