The son is responsible

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"My lord, my subordinates calculate that this person is nearly seventy years old, and died three years ago. He was killed by a sharp weapon through his heart, and was buried here after death. Now his body is rotten, leaving only a skeleton." Lu Zhao relied on In front of the temple gate, listen to people report.

"There is also this bead, which fell next to the corpse. It must have been kept in the mouth of the deceased, so the murderer did not find it."

Lu Zhao took the beads and looked at them carefully.

Xue Muji sat on the threshold with his head propped up. Lu Zhao just ordered someone to find some ropes and tie the dog to a tree far away.

Somehow, coming out of the bronze coffin, my brother seemed to take good care of him.I don't care if he continues to call him brother, brother, let him hold hands, cover him with clothes, ask him if he is hungry, and tie up dangerous dogs.

Could it be that he was moved by his heroic deeds of turning back from the acid rain?

I have to admire that the subordinates around Lu Zhao are very self-controlled.Mr. Lu is cold and indifferent, and he doesn't usually show much initiative and concern for others. The beggar in front of him is an exception. His mind is full of question marks, but he doesn't even have a suspicious look in his eyes.

It seems... When my brother was talking to his subordinates, he still looked at him from time to time.

Listen to Lu Zhao's order, "Check the household registration of the people in Yanli City three years ago, check the dead or missing people who are about the same age. Then check the shape of the fatal wound, and find out what kind of sharp weapon it is."

Two of them seemed to disappear in a gust of wind, and Mo Ziyu couldn't help admiring, "Lu Yu's subordinates have domesticated quite a few capable people."

Lu Zhao ignored it, turned around and said to Xue Muji, "Let's go."

calling him?Brother actually asked him to follow?Xue Muji didn't even think about it, just slapped the dust and followed.

"Then...when is Lord Lu going to give me the prescription for curing the plague?" Mo Ziyu obviously didn't want to go with the two of them.

"Only in one month, I will find it for you." Lu Zhao seemed to be sure that the library had it.Xue Muji thought, maybe his brother had seen similar records during his years of reading there, so he dared to be so sure.

"I'll just wait for your letter to rescue Kangdi." Mo Ziyu bowed his head and cupped his fists, turned and left.

"Bury the body back, and try to make it the same as before." Lu Zhao ordered.

"Yes!"

After they parted, Xue Muji asked, "Brother, what should we do now? What do the three dead officials have to do with the murderer who killed the old man?"

"I want to meet the lord of the yamen in Yanli City." Lu Zhao said, "The bride ran away, and the groom didn't look for the bride. Yuxi, don't you find it strange?"

"It's quite strange," Xue Muji said, "Also, why didn't he wait around at the gate of the temple? Instead, he left a letter?"

"I went to the yamen and used a false identity to be the special envoy sent by the Yongdu household department to randomly check the tax accounts. If he had ghosts in his heart, he would doubt me and be jealous, and it might be against me. I just asked someone to arrange your residence. , at the Fulu Inn at the east gate of the city, you are staying there for the past few days, don't follow me."

Xue Mu was extremely quiet, and nodded obediently in agreement, but Lu Zhao was surprised.After sending Xue Muji to the inn room, he went in the direction of the yamen.

As soon as Lu Zhao left, Xue Muji sneaked up behind him.So what if you agree, what you say may not necessarily mean what you do.It's a joke, legs and feet grow on him, and no one can stop him from going wherever he likes.Unless my brother can make up his mind to tie him up or put him in jail.

The elder brother disclosed the identity of the special envoy and entered the dangerous situation in person, most likely because he had a general guess in his heart that the real culprit was not the Yamen's family, and he was inseparable from the people in the Yamen, and he wanted to prove something with his own eyes.And where can I stay, instead of waiting anxiously, I might as well follow behind my brother, and if I run into trouble, I can help a little.

Yanli city yamen, Lu Zhao's token was naturally invited into the yamen by the old yamen owner himself.

Xue Muji watched from a distance, and the old yamen owner seemed to be much younger than when he met him before.This grandfather is almost 70 years old, and his waist is getting straighter and straighter. He is obviously not limping, and he is using a cane as a decoration.

Recalling how glorious it was when he came here as the son of Pingjiang, now he can only wait outside the door, with this appearance, no one recognizes him at all.

Xue Muji picked up a few fallen leaves and put them on the ground to play with, waiting for his brother to come out.When he was young in his previous life, his father-in-law coaxed him and always picked leaves to make patterns on the ground. It is said that when Princess Qi’an was young, her elder brother often coaxed her to play. He and his sister.

I don't know, after my sister married to Huajianhou's mansion, she lived happily ever after, did she forget that bastard Shen Chu fell in love with Xie Mu, the husband who really loved her.

He fiddled with the leaves, swaying several patterns back and forth.

A carriage passed by Xue Muji's side, and the people in the carriage suddenly let out a "Huh".

The carriage didn't stop, but the bead strings of the curtains swayed, and Xue Muji ignored him and continued to play with the leaves.

After waiting for a while, Lu Zhao came out.It was the old grandfather who sent his brother out respectfully.

Xue Muji hurriedly hid in the corner of the wall.

Lu Zhao originally walked on the main road, but halfway through, he suddenly turned to the small road, which caught Xue Muji by surprise, and immediately turned around to run away, but was caught by Lu Zhao's big hand and slipped back by the collar.

Lu Zhao dragged Xue Muji to a courtyard at the end of the alley.

Those subordinates were already waiting in the courtyard.

"I told you not to follow." Lu Zhao had a slightly reproachful expression, but it seemed more helpless and worried.

Xue Muji eloquently argued, "I was shopping, and I happened to be there. What a coincidence, I met my brother again. We are destined."

Brother probably has business to do, and he is too lazy to expose such a blunt lie.

"My lord, my subordinates have verified that no one aged in their [-]s disappeared or died in the city three years ago. Could it be someone from outside?"

Lu Zhao took the dagger from another person and drew out the scabbard.

"Compared to the wound, the murder weapon is not bad. My lord, the style of this dagger is very special, like..."

Needless to say Lu Zhao, Xue Muji could also see that this dagger was exactly the same as the self-defense weapons he carried with him in his previous life. There was a small gap on the blade, which was said to be able to touch flesh.

This dagger was made by the exclusive craftsman of the Yongdu royal family. The Li family's royal family, regardless of gender, no more or less, had a hand and carried it close to their bodies since childhood.

Just a moment of doubt, Lu Zhao raised his hand to stop his subordinates' speculation.

"What do you think about the origin of the dagger?" Xue Muji asked.

Lu Zhao put the dagger back into the scabbard, "It's just an old case, we don't need to get too involved."

Saying that, he threw the dagger to Xue Muji, "Keep it for self-defense."

Xue Muji kept the dagger close to his body, he happened to be short of a handy weapon, even though he changed his body, the memory of martial arts still remained, he didn't learn well, but he was good enough for self-defense.

Xue Muji couldn't figure it out, that murderous dagger was actually belonging to the royal family of Yongdu?How did the murderer get it?Could it be that they picked it up?Also, why wasn't the corpse buried in a mass grave, or thrown into the river to feed the fish, or burned?But buried at the gate of the deserted temple in the city?

Doesn't this increase the possibility of being discovered?

"My lord, for the identity of the corpse, do you want to check the household registration records of nearby towns?"

"No need." Lu Zhao said, "I just walked out of the Yamen, and I found a carriage parked in the courtyard. I didn't have this carriage when I went there. And the owner of that carriage was the one who murdered and buried the corpse. Who is it, I I probably know it in my heart."

"Carriage?" Xue Muji thought of the one that passed him just now.When the bead curtain fell, he seemed to see a pale man sitting in the carriage.

The carriage is engraved with the pattern of the city government, which is a standard that only the master of the government and the young master can use.

Lu Zhao took out the bead in his sleeve, "This bead is a decoration on the curtain of the carriage. I noticed it when I left. According to the arrangement of the bead curtain, the bottom one is indeed missing."

"So, it was the old man's struggle before he died. He grabbed the bead curtain, tore off a bead, and put the bead in his mouth?" Li Yazhu's sick son, what a vicious person he must be.

The old yamen owner he saw just now did not become younger, but was not the same person as the one he had seen before.And the real old yamen lord, that kind old man, was probably killed by the sick young lord, and his body was buried at the entrance of the temple just now.

No wonder, the young master brought people to arrest Mo Zikang, and he didn't stay at the temple gate for long, nor did he leave any subordinates to wait.He definitely didn't want anyone to find traces of the corpse, and maybe he had a wrong heart and didn't dare to stay there any longer.He left a letter and threatened Yuxi with his big words, which were full of doubts and almost irritated. He probably wanted to disturb the minds of the people present in order to cover up the criminal evidence at the gate of the temple.

Thanks to those dogs.Xue Muji remembered that when he met the old yamen owner a few years ago, the old yamen owner liked animals very much.He must have given food to the wild dogs, and the wild dogs remembered the taste of their benefactor.When the benefactor died, we gathered here to guard the burial place of the benefactor.

"You've thought about it too." Lu Zhao looked at Xue Muji, "So, just obediently go back to the inn and stay."

Xue Muji resolutely refused, "Brother, those three yamen officials were looking for a treasure, but they couldn't open the mechanism on the wall. They just wandered around the place where the corpse was buried, looking for clues and opening the route to the treasure, so It was just silenced by the murderer, right?"

"I have no evidence." Lu Zhao did not deny that these three people appeared to be government officials, but Emperor Jialin secretly ordered them to hunt for treasure.The thought of the person in front of him was exactly what he thought.But he didn't have any definite evidence in his hand to prove that his conjecture was true. The three yamen owners, by accident, were mistaken for finding traces of the corpse and silenced.

"So brother, you want to create evidence. What did you say in the yamen just now? For example, you said that you suspected that there was something in the hiding place of the corpse. The death of the three yamen officials was not accidental but man-made. When the yamen owner persuaded you When you think too much, you appear skeptical. You went as a small official of the sixth-rank household department in Yongdu, and they also treated you as the same as those three government officials. At best, you are an errand. So, do you want to They come to you, they do the same thing to you, and then you have evidence, don't you?"

Lu Zhao didn't answer him, Xue Muji was used to taking this kind of behavior as agreement.

How dangerous!

Xue Muji wanted to scold people, but his elder brother avoided his gaze. Lu Zhao said to his subordinates, "I just went to the study in the Yazhu mansion, and saw many books on the shelf on the shelf. I pretended to be curious and borrowed them silently. Memorize a few catalogs, I don't know the mechanism, I need you to help me study and explain the ingenious joints."

Brother, don't block me with official business!

Lu Zhao found a branch, wrote silently on the ground, and listened to his subordinates' explanations. Xue Mu didn't understand and was not interested. what's going on.

Whose is it?

Whoosh whoosh!

what sound?

Xue Muji didn't have time to think, his body was pushed, and then picked up by another person, and moved into the room.

"elder brother?"

Shhh!

Someone pressed his lips with a finger.

Outside the house, a meteor-like light flew into the yard, and the vegetation instantly burned, emitting thick black smoke.The hot breath pierced through the window paper and quickly filled the room.

"It's on fire... no, it's on fire!"

"It's on fire, come and put out the fire!"