Mrs. Zhang's emotions were on the verge of getting out of control, and the whole person seemed to be paralyzed, but when she heard Zhao Bufan say that it was the last problem, she still took a deep breath and said to herself: "No, my husband was at home that night, and he has been with me all the time, and he didn't fall asleep all night, I asked him what was wrong, and he said that he was upset, and he talked to me about many things in the past, and also mentioned Cai Xu's prefect, and also said a lot of good things about Cai Xu's prefect, saying that he treats our family well!"

When the words fell, Mrs. Zhang was already crying bitterly, and pleaded: "My lord, can we go now?

Zhao Bufan sighed, nodded and said, "Go! The corpse should have been stored in the special morgue of the government office, you can just go over directly!"

Mrs. Zhang couldn't take care of it anymore, leaving only the servants and maids to watch the house, and took the Zhang family all the way crying, and when she went out, she couldn't even stand steadily, and she could only move with the support of her children.

Zhao Bufan also left Zhang's mansion after them, but instead of following Zhang's family to the morgue, he took the servant who had seen the treasure knife to the arrest room of the mansion and came to the letter room where the evidence was collected.

This servant of the Zhang family has always looked a little nervous, and when he walked into the letter room, his feet even trembled a little.

Xue Renfu looked amused, couldn't help laughing and said, "What did I say, what are you shaking?

It's okay not to say it, but the more he said it, the more nervous he became, and even his voice trembled a little: "Big ...... Big...... The villain has never seen an official above the prefect level in his life, and when he looks at Lord Zhao, he is afraid, what do you want to do when you bring me here......? I ......"

Zhao Bufan glanced at him, and said angrily: "What are you afraid of me doing?"

Xue Renfu and Li Ruopu next to him laughed instantly.

The servant also smiled awkwardly, but Zhao Bufan's approachable tease swept away the tension and made him walk much brisker.

Xue Renfu took the opportunity to grab his arm and speed up his pace, and quickly came to the knife platform where Lu Deng's treasure knife was presented, pointed to the knife and asked, "Is this the treasure knife you saw that day, remember to look carefully, don't talk nonsense if you're not sure!"

The servant looked at it in confusion, and instantly cried out, "That's right, this is the knife, and its appearance is so peculiar, I ...... it."

Unfortunately, before he finished speaking, his eyes instantly froze, staring at the mark record next to the sword.

There is only a small paragraph on it: The murder weapon of Cai Xue's tragedy was originally owned by Lu Deng.

"No! I read it wrong, I don't know!" the servant was clever, and seemed to realize something, and changed his words in an instant, and shook his head like a rattle.

"Bold!" Xue Renfu was furious and shouted loudly: "You must know that according to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, if you don't report it, you will be consecuted, if you dare to conceal such a big case, then you will be treated as an accomplice, and you will be killed.

The servant's face turned white in an instant, and he bowed his head in a dejected manner.

"This is the knife, the master treats us subordinates very well, and I have the action just now!"

"What a fart!" Li Ruopu scolded and said angrily: "According to your description, it was not an impulse at all to open the knife against your neck that morning, he really wanted to kill you, if it weren't for his scruples that it would affect the follow-up action, and he was worried about causing unpredictable changes, you would have been quietly killed by him a long time ago, you should be glad that your life is big, instead of helping him hide it!"

The face of the servant of the Zhang Mansion turned blue and white for a while, he was not a stupid person, and after thinking about it carefully, he understood the truth, and he didn't say anything.

Zhao Bufan glanced at him with a smile, waved his hand, and said: "Ruopu, take him to record the confession first, sign and draw the confession, and by the way, also send someone to the morgue to record the confession of Mrs. Zhang's wife, so as not to add another incident!"

"Good!"

Li Ruopu responded and left in a hurry with the servants of Zhang's mansion.

Zhao Bufan and Xue Renfu were not idle, and quickly sent someone to pass on the head catchers and catchers of Kaide Mansion, and carefully interrogated the information related to Zhang Dekai, and the results were not surprising, and three important clues became key testimony.

On the night of the twenty-sixth day of the winter month, there was no case to be solved at all, Zhang Dekai left the arrest room in the evening of that day and went home alone, that is to say, Zhang Dekai deceived his family that night, and did not investigate the case at all, and the actual whereabouts were unknown, and it was speculated that he went to the Blood Knife Gate.

On the night of the 27th day of the winter month, Zhang Dekai also told the brother who caught the house very early that he was going home, and based on the confessions of the servants of Zhang's house, it was basically determined that Zhang Dekai had gone to steal Lu Deng's sword and shoes, so that he returned home in the early morning of the middle of the night.

In addition, the biggest recent case in the entire arrest house is to track down the group of people who sold illicit salt to Yunzhou, but Cai Xue has long been stopped, and the arrest house has not continued to track down at all, and Zhang Dekai has indeed disappeared from time to time recently, and even the people who arrest the house often can't find him.

Asked all this overnight, when Zhao Bufan, Xue Renfu and Li Ruopu came out of the capture room, the sky was already bright, although they were a little tired, but the three of them were in good spirits, and quickly returned to the post house and sat down in Zhao Bufan's room.

At this time, Xue Renfu could no longer hold back his excitement, and eagerly sorted out the clues he had mastered.

"Lord Zhao, Zhang Dekai is undoubtedly Cai Xue's confidant, and Cai Xue is completely likely to leak the news of his getting the box to him. Secondly, on the twenty-sixth night of the winter moon, Lu Deng got the box at the Blood Knife Gate and met the man in black who was very familiar, and at this time, Zhang Dekai happened to be nowhere to be found. Moreover, on the night of the 27th day of the winter month, Lu Dengbao's knife was stolen, and it was basically confirmed that Zhang Dekai was a participant.

In addition, Lu Deng and Zhang Dekai are familiar with each other, which is consistent with the earlier inference. Zhang Dekai's recent whereabouts are secretive, perhaps it is the secret search for Tong Guan's evidence, which is also in line with speculation, and this afternoon the adults set up a bureau, saying that Lu Deng wanted to draw the eyes of the man in black, and the case was about to be solved, the original intention was to force the man in black at the Blood Knife Gate to show his feet, and Zhang Dekai happened to be anxious when he returned home, and even left home again in the middle of the night and appeared near the dungeon, probably planning to come to Lu Deng, but was killed by his accomplices, of course, it may also be for other reasons, but no matter what, we can already be sure that Zhang Dekai is the man in black at the Blood Knife Gate！”

The result speculated by Xue Renfu is also what Zhao Bufan and Li Ruopu think in their hearts, but unfortunately the biggest problem is that Zhang Dekai is dead, and Zhang Dekai is obviously not the murderer who directly caused the tragedy of Cai Xu's outer house, but only the person who cooperated in the crime, so how to determine his relationship with the main culprit and how to find the main culprit is the biggest problem facing at the moment.

After a long silence, Li Ruopu said worriedly: "The clue is very clear, and the whole inference makes sense, but now that Zhang Dekai is dead, why did he die here? We can all feel that Zhang Dekai is being killed, but what about the evidence? Who is arrested without evidence? Where to arrest?"

Zhao Bufan's eyes flashed, and he said sharply: "The case can't be solved for the time being, but it's enough to exonerate Lu Deng, Renfu immediately went to the criminal painter of Kaide Mansion and asked him to draw Zhang Dekai in a night suit, if it is not detailed enough, then go to compare the corpse, and even take the night suit to put on Zhang Dekai's corpse, be sure to draw Zhang Dekai and put on the night suit for Lu Deng to make a final confirmation, and let Lu Deng be acquitted first." ”

"Okay!" Xue Renfu didn't say a word, and immediately agreed.

Zhao Bufan turned to look at Li Ruopu and said urgently: "You are responsible for sending people from Dali Temple to comprehensively search Zhang Dekai's mansion!"

"Honorable Order!" Li Ruopu replied.

Zhao Bufan turned his head to look at the already bright sky, and his tone slowed down slightly: "You don't want to do everything yourself, tell the subordinates who took turns to rest yesterday, and then go back to the room to rest for a few hours, it's not a way to stay up like this!"

"Hmm!" Xue Renfu and Li Ruopu nodded and went their separate ways.

Between the past two days and two nights, Zhao Bufan only slept for more than two hours, and he was really a little sleepy at this time, and after gently closing the door, he lay down directly on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

At noon, Xue Renfu, who had just woken up, came to report that there was a result on Lu Deng's side, so Zhao Bufan hurriedly got up and followed Xue Renfu and Li Ruopu to the dark and damp Puyang dungeon.

At this time, there were many servants of Dali Temple gathered in front of Lu Deng's cell, and the old painter who was ordered to paint Zhang Dekai's appearance was also there.

Lu Deng in the cell was even more emotional, shaking the portrait in his hand, making the shackles and leg shackles "jingle".

"Lord Zhao, this man in black is right, he is the man in black in the Blood Knife Gate, absolutely right!"

Zhao Bufan was not in a hurry, his eyes swept over the Dali Temple servants and old painters around him, and asked lightly: "But did anyone tell him who the person in the portrait was?"

"No!" everyone shook their heads in unison.

At this time, Zhao Bufan looked at Lu Deng in the cell and asked softly: "Since you have seen the masked portrait of the man in black, can you recognize his specific identity after careful observation now?"

"My lord, I can only feel that he is very familiar, but I really can't recognize him!" Lu Deng shook his head with a wry smile, and directly unfolded the portrait and faced Zhao Bufan.

Seeing the portrait, Zhao Bufan was slightly stunned!

If I hadn't known who it was in advance, I'm afraid I wouldn't have recognized the person above, Xue Renfu and Li Ruopu next to him obviously had similar thoughts, and glanced at each other, Xue Renfu then stepped forward and asked the old painter: "Why is there such a big gap between fat and thin?"

The old painter hurriedly bowed down and explained: "Lord Xue, I drew two pictures earlier, one is to paint the regular night clothes directly to that person, but I haven't taken it yet, the official of Dali Temple found his commonly used night clothes in that person's house, and found that his night clothes are very special, the hood and clothes are double-layered, and the two layers are sandwiched with pressed cotton cloth, and people will look fat twice when they wear it, so let the villain repaint, that is, the appearance that adults see now." ”

A person from the Dali Temple next to him walked out of the errand and replied: "A few adults, the situation is indeed as the old painter said!"

Xue Renfu breathed a sigh of relief and said with relief: "I see, no wonder Lu Deng can't recognize it!"

Of course, everyone understood, but because the name was not revealed, Lu Deng in the cell did not know the identity of this person, and seeing that everyone seemed to have found out the results, he hurriedly asked: "Lord Zhao, who is this man in black?

Zhao Bufan smiled faintly: "He can open up!"

"Mr. Zhang's head-catcher?"

Lu Deng was stunned for a moment, his mind seemed to be comparing, and his pupils rapidly dilated.

Suddenly, his face was bruised, and he roared and shouted, "My lord, where is he? I want to see him!"

"Dead!

"Dead?" Lu Deng gasped, his face blue and white.

As if he was afraid that his grievances would not be cleared up, he quickly fell into anxious thoughts, but it didn't take long for him to raise his head and say urgently: "My lord, since the man in black I met at the Blood Knife Gate was open, and he was so afraid that I would recognize him at that time, there could only be one reason!"

"What is the reason?" Zhao Bufan felt a pang in his heart.

Lu Deng's eyes burned and said: "As early as when I was secretly investigating the thief's trafficking of illicit salt to Yunzhou, I followed up and investigated the smuggler He Qianqian, who had a good friend at that time was the turtle prince of the happy building in the east of the city, and they were very closely connected, which made me suspicious.

But I didn't find out that he had anything to do with the sale of illicit salt to Yunzhou, so I didn't continue to investigate him, just stared at He Qianqian, after all, I am a general in the army, if it is not necessary, how will I take care of the trivial affairs of the rivers and lakes, but I am also really worried that this person will endanger one party, so I ran to tell the chief catcher to open his head, thinking that this is his responsibility, and it is not in the way to tell him.

After Zhang Dekai heard me say this, he asked me again and again how I knew, I didn't tell him, I just said that I heard it by chance, and I was even more puzzled by his attitude, but he seemed to be aware of it at the time, and immediately explained to me, saying that the turtle man was a fine work controlled by him, and was secretly responsible for monitoring those who were plotting against me in private, so that I should not say anything to avoid the danger of the turtle father.

I don't think about it, I think it's also reasonable, I have never said half a word to others, but there must be a problem if I can open the secret and appear in the Blood Knife Gate, since he has found the Blood Knife Gate, why does Cai Xue still let me check it? Zhang Dekai has always reported to Cai Xue that there is no clue, Cai Xue has no way to let me secretly investigate, why did he lie to Cai Xue? What did he go to the Blood Knife Gate to find privately?"

At this moment, Lu Deng seemed to have completely calmed down, regained his former calm and alertness, the more he recalled, the clearer his mind became, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "By the way, speaking of that turtle male, his height and size are really similar to the black-clothed killer I met in Cai Xue's outer house, could it be a person? If so, wouldn't it have something to do with that Wanhualou?"

Accompanied by Lu Deng's words, the scene was silent.

After a long time, Zhao Bufan took a deep breath, turned around and left.

"Xue Renfu and Li Ruopu immediately took someone to follow me to the Happy Building, and Lu Deng can also go home on his own, but he is not allowed to leave Puyang!"

"Lord Xie!" Lu Deng burst into tears and fell to his knees excitedly.

It's a pity that Zhao Bufan didn't have the heart to look back, so he just rushed to the Happy Building with everyone.