Chapter 67: The Truth Revealed
All things in the world have a specific truth, no matter how they are disguised and unpredictable, there is a original intention of the origin of the event, and what kind of real purpose they want to achieve in the end, this is the truth. But often what you see and hear is not necessarily the truth of the facts, maybe it is just the so-called truth that others want you to know.
"Chief Luan?!" When the Seven Sages King and Zhan Ying saw the corpse on the ground, they screamed almost at the same time, with an incredulous expression.
It turned out that this person was a small manager of the palace scholar's room, named Luan An. Usually responsible for serving the emperor in the Shang study, he was appointed by the chief eunuch after strict screening, and he should be regarded as a close confidant of the emperor. But he didn't expect that the corpse would be on the spot at this moment, and it seemed to have some connection with the great thief Jade Rakshasa.
"What's going on?Who killed him?" Zhan Ying asked sharply as he turned his head to look at Michicho Aoki.
"Jade Rakshasa. Without waiting for Aoki to speak, he replied first, and recounted what happened between himself and Jade Rakshasa and Luan in the palace from beginning to end.
After listening to the unintentional narration, Zhan Ying and the Seven Sages King were shocked again, they didn't expect that Chief Manager Luan actually knew martial arts, and he hadn't shown the slightest trace of his feet for so long, and he was too deeply hidden.
Zhan Ying frowned, looked at the Seven Sages King and said seriously: "Lord Wang, this matter is very high, it seems that this matter is no longer for you and me to judge ourselves, the top priority at present is to arrest the Jade Rakshasa before he escapes completely, otherwise the emperor will blame you and I will not be able to get out of the matter, please allow the six doors to cooperate with the prince's soldiers to immediately search the palace and find out the culprit." Although his words were polite, there was no doubt about his determination to search the Xian Wang's Mansion.
The Seven Sages King hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "What the Battle Commander said is right, I will let someone take you to search." ”
As he spoke, he looked at Gong Jiu on the side, and said solemnly: "Gong Jiu, you lead the way in front, cooperate with the battle commander to quickly launch a search, and don't let go of any corner." As soon as the words fell, Gong Jiu nodded and prepared to walk out of the hall with the people from the six doors.
"No need. Wuxin suddenly said at this time. Hearing his words, everyone looked at him, not knowing what he meant.
"What else do you want to do?!" said the Seven Sages King with angry eyes and a glaring at Wuxin. He didn't know what Wuxin's intention was to come out and stir up trouble several times.
"Lord Wang, Commander Zhan, you don't need to make such a big move, you just need to gather all the maids in the mansion, remember, it's all of them, and you have to be fast!" Wuxin hugged his fists, looked at the Seven Sages King and Zhan Ying and said eagerly.
Everyone didn't understand what he meant, and they all looked puzzled. Then they all slowly moved their eyes to the Seven Sages King, waiting for him to speak.
The Seven Sages King frowned, looked at Gong Jiu and said, "Do as he says, go immediately." As soon as the words fell, Gong Jiu took the guards out of the hall and walked towards the backyard.
Unintentionally glanced at Tie Feiyun and pouted. Tie Feiyun understood, and said as he walked out, "I'll go help, come with me." Then he followed Gong Jiu with a group of six-door catchers and chased after him.
Soon, all the maids in King Xian's mansion were woken up by the guards from their respective houses and taken to the hall in the front yard, there were dozens of them. Looking at the large group of maids who packed the hall, everyone present couldn't help but be stunned, it was worthy of the palace, and there were so many maids.
After all the maids were in place, Wuxin spoke again: "In the process of pursuit, the brother of the six doors has seen the appearance of the murderer, now please come out and see if the murderer is hiding among these people." ”
When the Seven Sages King heard this, his face sank again, and he asked coldly, "You mean that the Jade Rakshasa is the maid in this king's mansion?"
Wuxin didn't answer directly, but said lightly: "The prince will know in a while." As he spoke, he nodded to Tie Feiyun.
"You'd better find out, or don't blame the king for being ruthless. The Seven Sages King snorted coldly and said.
Tie Feiyun beckoned, calling out two of the group that had been attacked by the Jade Rakshasa outside the study just now, and motioned for them to take a closer look.
The two of them frowned, carefully looking at the maids in front of them who were already trembling with fear from such a scene. In fact, they didn't see the true appearance of the Jade Rakshasa at all, but only saw a figure fleeing quickly after attacking a few of their companions.
They didn't know how Tie Feiyun and Wuxin had asked them to find the murderer, but they could be sure that the clothes on the murderer were indeed exactly the same as the clothes on these maids.
Wuxin stared closely at the faces of every maid present, observing the changes in the expressions on their faces, and for some reason, he was sure that the Jade Rakshasa was hidden among these people.
Every maid who was targeted by the two was trembling, and tears were almost about to flow, for fear that she would be pulled out and arrested as a murderer.
The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became tense, and everyone was watching the two catchers, and as they moved, they all looked intently at the maid who was being targeted by them.
At this moment, Wuxin's eyes suddenly lit up, because among all the maids, he found a girl who was different from the other maids.
The other maids all bowed their heads deeply, trembling all over, and shrunk their necks, but this girl was the only one who was a little wrong. Although she also bowed her head deeply, and she trembled all over, her trembling seemed so unnatural, or it didn't seem like a tremor from fear. Seeing this, Wuxin slowly walked out and approached the different maid.
Everyone was watching the situation intently, and no one noticed Wuxin's slight and slow movements. But two people noticed it, one was Gong Jiu standing beside the Seven Sages King, and the other was the maid who was unintentionally stared at.
I saw that the maid suddenly raised her head slightly, glaring at Wuxin fiercely, her eyes full of resentment and anger. And at this moment, Wuxin also saw a trace of blood on the girl's drooping wrist, flowing from the sleeve to the clenched palm. Wuxin smiled because he had found the person he was looking for.
Wuxin looked at the maid who was glaring at him, slowly raised his hand, pointed at the maid, and said lightly: "She..."
Because at the moment when he pointed at the maid, the maid suddenly raised her head and rushed towards the Seven Sages King, and at the same time waved her hand vigorously, only to see a swallow dart shoot towards the Seven Sages King like lightning!
It happened so suddenly, no one thought that things would change abruptly, let alone that the maid of the Xianwang Mansion would suddenly attack his master, the Seven Sage Kings. Then everyone saw the dart shot out of the maid's hand, the swallow dart, the jade rakshasa!
Immediately after, the figure flickered, and Gong Jiu suddenly rushed out and met the Jade Rakshasa who rushed towards the Seven Sage Kings. Hearing a crisp sound of gold and iron resonating, Gong Jiu's judge's pen blocked the swallow dart that shot at the Seven Sages King, and stabbed the Jade Rakshasa throat with undiminished force!
"Be merciful!" Zhan Ying hurriedly shouted when he saw the scene in front of him. But it was too late, because Gong Jiu's judge's pen had already pierced deeply into the throat of the Jade Rakshasa, and a stream of blood arrows flew out, spraying Gong Jiu's face all over his body.
At this time, looking at the Jade Rakshasa again, his eyes were already blank, his mouth was very large, as if he was desperately trying to breathe, but the pierced throat was still able to breathe, and he struggled a few times and then stopped, but his hands were still tightly grasping Gong Jiu's clothes, as if he was unwilling to die like this.
Zhan Ying glared at Gong Jiu, whose face was covered in blood, sighed, probed the pulse of the Jade Rakshasa, and couldn't help but shake his head.
"Gong Jiu is also the protector of the lord, I hope that the commander of the battle is not strange, it is the carelessness of this king, I didn't expect this person to hide among the maids in this mansion, he is too bold. The Seven Sages King said with a little reproach, shaking his head as he spoke.
Gong Jiu on the side bowed to Zhan Ying, and then said in a deep voice: "Lord Wang, she is not a maid in the house, she is a raw face. As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at a woman standing at the front of the group of maids and shouted, "Mama Liu, what the hell is going on?!"
The woman known as Mama Liu ran over in a panic, knelt directly on the ground, and said tremblingly: "The prince spares his life, the prince spares his life, she... She's new here, and she's replacing Xiaoyu in the laundry room, Xiaoyu... Xiaoyu has been sick recently and has not come, it is the fault of the old slave, begging the prince to spare the old slave from dying..."The woman kowtowed as she spoke, and blood was already coming out of her forehead.
"Rubbish!" Gong Jiu shouted angrily, and was about to slap it with his palm, but he heard the voice of the Seven Sages King.
"Stop, aren't you idle enough to be messy here?" "The Seven Sages King said with a gloomy face, after all, it is always a bit inappropriate to kill people in front of the six doors, not to mention that Gong Jiu just killed the Jade Rakshasa who committed the biggest robbery in the capital in front of Zhan Ying, and the whereabouts of the jade seal of the country are still unknown.
Wuxin looked at the series of events that seemed to be designed in front of him, and frowned. Suddenly thinking of something, he turned around and rushed outside, and when he passed by Tie Feiyun's side, he said anxiously: "Take me immediately to the place where I just found the Jade Rakshasa." ”
Tie Feiyun heard Wuxin's words, and hurriedly rushed out to lead the way in front. Although he didn't know who the Jade Rakshasa was in advance, but before he followed Wuxin's intentions and followed Gong Jiu to gather those maids, he knew that Wuxin was afraid that there would be fish that slipped through the net, so he let himself watch from the side.
At the same time, he also deliberately kept an eye on it, observed the surrounding environment every time he went to a place, and by the way remembered the respective belonging of the maids, which was a habit he slowly developed in his so many years of catching fast. He remembered that the maid disguised as the Jade Rakshasa did indeed seem to have been found in a place similar to a laundry room.
Soon, under the leadership of Tie Feiyun, Wuxin found the laundry room, which was where the Jade Rakshasa was hiding. After some searching, the two of them accidentally found a secret door, pushed it open and looked at it, and couldn't help but exclaim.
I saw that behind the secret door was a secret room, and all kinds of rare treasures were piled up in the secret room, and on a incense case near the wall, there was a box, and when I opened it, it was the jade seal that had just been stolen! Next to the jade seal, there was a sword, and there was a book, which was Wudang's Qingying Sword and Shaolin's Wuxiang Divine Skill Secret Book.
Looking into the depths of the secret room, I vaguely saw a figure, sitting on the ground, motionless. Not far from the seated figure, lay a corpse, dressed as a maid.
Tie Feiyun rushed over, almost crying, because the figure sitting on the ground was Tie Xiong, who had been missing for a long time. It's just that now they are all chained, chained to a stone table, with strips of cloth stuffed in their mouths, and they are unconscious at this time.
Wuxin hurriedly walked over, squatted down and checked all parts of Tetsuo's body, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Tie Xiong's body is not scarred, but his breath is a little weak, it should be caused by not eating or drinking for the past few days, and the lack of air in this dark secret room, fortunately, there is no major problem.
Wuxin looked at the corpse dressed as a maid on the side, and frowned, this person should be the Xiaoyu who was sick and didn't come as mentioned by the grandmother of the palace, but unfortunately at this moment, he has already been killed, and there is no proof of death.
After a while, other people also arrived here one after another, and they couldn't help but be stunned when they saw the rare treasures piled up in the secret room and the unconscious Tie Xiong.
Zhan Ying, who arrived first, hurriedly put away the jade seal, quickly counted the treasures in the secret room, and informed the people of Wudang Shaolin, and quickly returned to the palace with those rare treasures, including Wudang's Qingying Sword and Shaolin's Wuxiang Divine Skill Cheats.
The stakes in this case are very important, and he does not dare to make a good claim, so he must rush back to the palace as soon as possible to report to the emperor. But before leaving, he promised the people of Wudang Shaolin that after all the dust of this case was settled, he would return the things sent by the two to Zhao. Aoki Daoren and Shaolin's senior monks were also reasonable and didn't say much.
Since Wuxin was the key figure in this case, Zhan Ying specially told Wuxin before leaving, not to leave the capital before the case was closed, and to enter the palace to meet the saint when necessary, and to explain the situation, Wuxin readily agreed.
Tie Feiyun discovered the traces of the Jade Rakshasa at a critical moment, and played a decisive role in this case, and also followed Zhan Ying back to the palace to resume his life, so Tie Xiong was temporarily handed over to Wuxin to take care of.
A turmoil has finally come to an end, and the shocking robbery that has not been encountered in the capital for hundreds of years has finally come to an end, and the truth has been revealed. But is this truth really the truth?
It all seemed to come too suddenly, and it ended too smoothly......