Chapter 5: Finding the Murderer
Who is going to assassinate Zhao Ji?
Li Gang led people to Shengde Fang, but found that the people in the shop had been dead for a long time, and even the assassin who had just escaped disappeared in such a short period of time!
Zhao Ji was assassinated, and the people who watched the excitement in front of the shop were also killed, and for a while, they couldn't even see a person's shadow.
Not a single person in a street, within 100 meters, will breathe!
Except, of course, for the boy in the middle of the road.
Li Gang got Zhao Ji's order, and when he searched the shop, he had already sent someone to see it, the little boy was still alive, with a pair of big black bean-like eyes, looking around in horror, and when he saw someone coming, he desperately stretched out his upper body and shrank back, his legs curled up in a strange posture.
This kid has a big fate.
He was thrown from the second floor of the shop, his body was knocked off before he hit the ground, he vomited blood in his mouth, his legs were broken, and he was still alive, and he was also awake!
It's just a pity that although he is sober, he seems to be frightened stupidly, and when he asks him anything, he will only stare at his ignorant eyes, shake his head in horror, and can't say a word.
Li Gang saw that he couldn't ask for any useful information in his mouth, so he had to send someone to send him to the Tai Hospital, and while seeing a doctor, he was strictly supervised and no one was allowed to approach.
This little boy is the only witness at the moment, even if Zhao Ji doesn't give orders, Li Gang won't let him die like this.
After sending the child away, Li Gang expanded the scope of the search.
The four gates of the capital have sent in and out of the registration, whether it is a person from Beijing or a person who comes to visit relatives, from top to bottom, all of them are in place, leaving no omission.
Even the Lantern Festival on the second day has been canceled, the lanterns made by each family can be hung casually, but they can't go out to enjoy it, the streets are cleared, and the imperial city guards go door to door to check the population, but if there is a trace of intelligibility, they will be arrested and sent to the imperial city guards for strict questioning.
Even so, the slightest trace of the Assassins could not be found.
Li Gang was a little depressed, the gate of the capital had long been under martial law, and there were no suspicious people entering and leaving, and he was only three feet away from digging through the capital like this, how could he not even find an assassin's hair?
Could it be that there is anything else he can't think of?
Just when he couldn't figure it out, Zhao Ji summoned him to the palace.
He was busy for two days and two nights without eating or sleeping, and he gained nothing, how could he still have the face to enter the palace to face the officials?
Thinking of this, he let out a long sigh and stepped into the main hall of Yanfu Palace.
Zhao Ji did not sit in front of the throne, but sat on the right side with Zhao Fujin, and in front of the two, a square white cotton cloth was hung.
A light shone on the white cotton cloth from Zhao Fujin's sleeve, and in a flash, he saw a figure shaking on the white cotton cloth.
The two people, four pairs of eyes, and the figure on the tight white cloth didn't even make Li Gang's plea turn their heads.
"Li Qing is here, come and see!" Zhao Ji glanced at Li Gang and stretched out his hand to beckon: "The assassin is here!" ”
Where are the Assassins?
Li Gang was startled, followed Zhao Ji's command, stood beside Zhao Fujin, and looked at the white cloth where the figure was shaking.
In the white cloth, it was the street of Shengde Fang, and more than a dozen assassins chased and fired arrows in front of them, and when they chased them near the Beiwei General's Mansion, they suddenly scattered and ran away, running in different directions, and even the woman who was knocked to the ground was also taken away by a bar.
On the white cloth, only the silent streets and the whirring wind remained.
Li Gang thought it was over, and just as he wanted to speak, he saw his own shadow appear in the white cloth.
With the heavily armed imperial city guards, he hurried to the scene, ran in and out of the shops along the street, carried out many corpses from the shops, and then looked at the child, sent the child away, and continued the search......
"This, what kind of painting is this, it can restore what the minister did the day before yesterday!" Li Gang's eyes were about to fall, he looked at himself in the painting in a daze, going in and out of the shop, looking for subordinates to ask, and the place he stood was the same as the day before yesterday!
So, are the assassins who ran around the same people he had been looking for for two days and two nights?
However, he had obviously searched all the mansions in Shengde Fang, where were these people hidden? How could it have disappeared without a trace?
And, what exactly is this white cloth, and how can you see what has happened?
"It's a movie, you can see what happened recently!" Zhao Ji was already surprised by what Zhao Fujin took out, and he looked at Li Gang: "Fu'er said that there will be a suspicious person in the painting, let you take a look, take the portrait of this person, and offer a reward for arrest!" ”
When I was looking around, there were still suspicious people?
Li Gang crossed his hands, his eyes widened, and he stared at the canvas tightly.
In the canvas, a man on horseback from the direction of Shengde Fang, dressed in a dark green cotton robe, with a circle of white hair around his neck, is tall and mighty, riding on a horse and swaying northward out of the canvas.
Then, in the corner of the canvas, half of the back appeared, probing the brains of the imperial city guards searching the street, and then retracted and glanced back at the canvas.
When Zhao Fujin was here, his fingers slid and enlarged the person's face in the center of the canvas: "This person is extremely suspicious. ”
Zhao Ji nodded and said to Li Gang: "At that time, you had already closed the streets and guarded the exits everywhere, but this person appeared sneakily in the local area, maybe he was an assassin who came out to explore the way." ”
"The official family is very right, and the subordinates will go to paint the portrait of this person and arrest him!" Li Gang, who had no clue, finally got a hint of eyebrows, and suddenly his spirits were lifted, and he was about to retire immediately.
"Wait, General Li, I have already drawn the portrait of this person, you can take it directly to find someone!" Zhao Fujin grabbed upward, and a stack of white paper appeared in his hand.
In the center of the white paper, there is a portrait, exactly like the person in the framed frame on the canvas!
Emperor Ji is really a god and a man!
Li Gang was shocked, bowed his head reverently, and took the white paper with both hands: "Thank you Emperor Ji!" ”
"General Li is polite, this person should be from the capital, and he has appeared near Shengdefang many times, you take the portrait and ask there, you should have a harvest." Zhao Fujin handed the painting to him and confessed: "There is also a problem with the horse rider in the painting, but unfortunately I can't take a portrait of him, and when you search, you should also pay attention to similar people." ”
Li Gang respectfully responded and withdrew from the main hall.
"But the inner supervisor has something to say?" Zhao Fujin watched Li Gang go out of the palace gate, and turned his head to look at the inner servant Yanqing.
"Old slave~~" Yanqing lowered his head, his face was entangled, and after Zhao Fujin asked, he quickly glanced at Zhao Ji, but did not reply directly.
"You old thing, if you have something to say, don't say it quickly, do a lot of it!" Zhao Ji glared at Yanqing.
"Official, this person, the old slave seems to have seen it." Yanqing was reprimanded, and he didn't dare to hide it anymore, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the person in the canvas and said: "He is an imperial merchant, like his surname Cheng, and the porcelain in the palace is mostly offered by others." ”
Is it a royal merchant?