"One is a transfer envoy, and the other is a female official of the Qingzheng Division, and I killed them." Liu Dayue became more and more frenzied, clutching the hem of his clothes with both hands, "They are too noisy, so I sealed their mouths with paste, then chopped them with bamboo cutting machinery, and finally burned them with pine oil." ”

Huo Yijun crossed his arms, and what the lantern maker said was basically the same as what they had inferred.

But since it is safest to bury the murder on the spot, why torture, dismemberment, and incineration regardless of the cost, the cost of this murder is inevitably too great, and the Tianlantern case is obviously developing in the direction of expanding the impact.

Why scale up your reach?

"Mother said that Ah Da will listen to Yun Niang's words in the future." The lanternmaker kept repeating this phrase.

Just when he was about to believe it, Huo Yijun tugged on Jiang Xie's sleeve and motioned for him to come out.

In the corridor of the cell hallway, Jiang Xie called Xiangxiu to come out with her.

"What did Huo Xiaogongzi find after hearing the trial?" Jiang Xie asked.

Huo Yijun said seriously: "Liu Da's words are very strange, Yun Niang killed Liu Wang's family, why did Liu Wang's family still tell Liu Da to listen to Yun Niang's words in the future, if he is really obedient, from his confession just now, it seems that he has memorized it in advance, ordinary people will not know about the transfer envoy and the female official of the Qingzheng Division at all, it is obvious that he was instigated by others." ”

"Liu Da's words are not credible." Xiang Xiu suddenly interjected into this sentence.

Jiang Xie turned his head to look at him: "Why?" ”

Xiang Xiu recalled: "I took people back to the lantern shop to turn over the whole shop, and found 10,000 taels of gold under the bed, and according to Liu Da's catch, Liu Da's brain had long been burned out when he was a child, and he only listened to his mother's words for so many years, and the two depended on each other for their lives, and they were fools." ”

"Liu Da is a fool??" Huo Yijun was quite surprised to hear this.

Xiang Xiu nodded, and then explained the results of the search in full: "The locked firewood room, the woodcutter is parked inside, the firewood room is the site of the corpse, and there is pine oil, someone must have killed someone and thrown the corpse." ”

"The one who threw the corpse must be the lantern maker, and he is the only one who has the skills to fly such a large sky lantern."

Huo Yijun turned to face the wall, leaned his head against the wall, and recalled the occurrence of the whole case and the series in between.

Jiang Xie was fascinated when she saw Huo Yijun's thinking like this, and there were people like her who were used to thinking on the wall.

"In addition, I also found a black fire in the lantern shop, and more than fifty catties were all hidden in the paper piercing man." Sokyu continued.

Hearing this, Huo Yijun stood up straight suddenly, turned around and asked, "There is a black fire on the lantern?" ”

"Yes, Black Fire, it's definitely smuggling and hiding." Xiang Xiu said with certainty.

Huo Yijun suddenly remembered that he smelled gunpowder at the lantern shop at the beginning, and originally thought that he had smelled wrong, but he didn't expect that there was really gunpowder.

So where did the gunpowder come from?

Jiang Xie came back to his senses and said: "Black fire smuggling land transportation will definitely not enter Yecheng, then there is only water transportation, it is very likely that black fire was brought into the dock, then Wang Yi found out that black fire was caught and tortured by the murderer." ”

"Treading the clouds is to track down the sky lantern case, and the goods of the lantern shop disappeared after being found, so can it be inferred that the black fire is caught in the paper goods of the lantern shop!"

Xiang Xiu looked excited: "The paper on the lantern shop does smell of gunpowder. ”

"Who dares to use water transportation to smuggle black fire, and what is the connection between the two cases?" Jiang Xie fell into deep thought.

The morning light outside is getting brighter, and before you know it, it has reached the end of the ugly hour.

Huo Yijun rubbed her sleeves with her hands, and suddenly she looked around and found that there was one person missing.

"Lady Xiang, where is the kid in the lantern shop?"

"What child, I didn't see any children, I turned back and saw the lanternmaker and Yun Niang."

Huo Yijun's eyes widened: "No children? I obviously ......"

"Wait a minute, Jiang Sizheng, how many paper boxes are there in the lantern shop in the sky lantern case that Lord Zhao investigated?"

"Four." Jiang Xie said.

Huo Yijun calculated: "A cargo box is fifty catties, then there should be three cargo boxes, after the sky lantern case, martial law in the city, freight does not enter the city, then it can only be stacked at the dock." ”

"When the city gate was opened in the morning, I chose the Lantern Festival to commit the crime, could it be that I did so many things, just to transport goods into the city?" Jiang Xie threw out a question.

The two looked at each other, with mixed feelings.

Jiang Xie immediately stretched out his hand, and the jailer returned his sword, and he could order: "Order the city defense battalion, the city gate of the Qingzheng Division to investigate the case is delayed until the opening of the door, and Xiang Xiu will take people to Qinglin Wharf with the official!" ”

"Yes!"

After resting, Jiang Xie glanced at Huo Yijun before leaving: "It seems that this case is inextricably linked with the Huo family, Huo Xiaogongzi just said that he saw a child in the lantern shop, I don't know if I can go to Qingzhou Wharf with this official to find someone."

Huo Yijun frowned slightly, he said this, did he believe that he saw a child, or did he still doubt himself and deliberately make things difficult?

Either way, she had to find the kid now.

Yin Zheng, the sky is bright, several ships are sailing in the mist on the river, and the boatmen of Qinglin Boat Company are carrying the goods on the dock.

"Qingzheng Division investigates the case, you wait to retreat!!"

A team of officials quickly surrounded the Qinglin Wharf to control the laborers who were moving, and Xiang Xiu led people to find the paper boxes of the lantern shop in a pile of goods.

The cargo box was very heavy, and the three of them worked together to move it out, and Xiang Xiu pried open the lid of the cargo box, and there was indeed a black fire hidden under the paper on it.

"My lord, black fire!"

The people were all stolen, and the people of Qinglin Boat Company were controlled, and soon the shopkeeper of the ship company was escorted for questioning.

At the same time, Jiang Xie asked the person behind him: "Among so many people at Qinglin Wharf, is there any child that the little boy saw in the lantern shop?" ”

In the distance, a gentleman dressed in a fancy costume stepped down from the big boat docked on the dock.

The man looked ordinary, and he had a paper fan in his hand, but he couldn't hide the market spirit on him: "Jiang Sizheng has always been vigorous and resolute in handling cases, and this time he actually came to my Huo family Qinglin Wharf, which is really unwelcome." ”

Xiang Xiu reminded: "My lord, this person's name is Huo Yihuan, he is the grandson of the second master of the Huo family, and his father is Huo Yingyu, the owner of Qianjintai, the largest restaurant in the city. ”

At this time, Huo Yijun stood behind Jiang Xie and whispered: "The child I saw is the housekeeper next to Huo Yihuan. ”

Jiang Xie's eyes sank, and he was looking forward to revealing the truth of the case.