[Bao Qingtian] Why is peace?

King Jingdong, judging from his title, it is known that his status is not low among the princes.

In fact, the king of Jingdong is about the same age as the current emperor Zhao Zhen. Zhao Yi lost his father when he was young.When they were young, both Zhao Yi and Zhao Zhen lived in the Eighth Prince's Mansion for a long time.

So Zhao Yi not only has a good relationship with Zhao Zhen, but also the eighth prince who has not had many children raised him as his own son, and his calligraphy also inherited the style of the eighth prince, and the eighth prince loved him very much.After Zhao Yi got married and split the mansion, the Eighth Prince would go to his house to drink tea and play chess from time to time.

Moreover, Zhao Yi is also very smart, low-key, likes to stay at home and study, and never joins the gangsters in Beijing. The word eating, drinking, whoring and gambling is basically insulated from him.

However, it was such a Jingdong King who looked like a clean stream, who killed more than a dozen members of the Tang family, even girls and children.

It doesn't sound like something Jingdong Wang would do at all.

But Zhu Dazhao didn't need to lie, he was a fourth-rank Shaoqing from Weiwei Temple, and his official rank was not low.Even he had to pretend to be a commoner, preferring to lose his official position to save his life, which only shows that he can't afford to offend people who want his life.

If it were King Jing who had no real power and had a bad relationship with Zhao Zhen, Zhu Dazhao would have tried to avoid being involved in trouble, why would he beat a good citizen to death in order to get the whereabouts of the fish that slipped through the net?Even if you give him ten guts, he wouldn't dare to do this!

People who can make Zhu Dazhao work for him willingly, but are afraid to do so, actually have a relatively small range of choices.

"Since you are working for King Jingdong, why did you abandon your official position and disguise yourself?" Lord Bao asked him.

"I have no choice but to be an official..." Zhu Dazhao smiled wryly.

According to Zhu Dazhao, before King Jingdong killed the top and bottom of the Tang family, he had a festival with the Tang family. Zhu Dazhao didn't know exactly what the festival was.I only know that Tang Xiaoguang once witnessed King Jingdong sending his subordinates to do bad things. After returning home, the Tang family reported to the officials. Li Nan, the county magistrate of Ji’an, heard that what Tang Xiaoguang saw was a group of people wearing official costumes, so he asked the local officials from different branches to wear them. Their uniforms let Tang Xiaoguang identify them.

Tang Xiaoguang should have recognized the uniforms worn by those who did bad things at that time, but Li Nan didn't announce it in class, and seemed worried.Unexpectedly, that night, Li Nan was attacked in the middle of the night and was beaten to a paralyzed state, almost dying.

Then there was the tragedy of the Tang family being silenced.

Li Nan, the county magistrate of Ji’an, already knew that the person the child bumped into was the guard of King Jingdong’s mansion when Tang Xiaoguang was in court, but he still wanted to find out what King Jingdong said before making any plans. When Nan Yi heard about the tragedy of the Tang family, he guessed that King Jingdong probably did it. He could no longer remain silent. Because he was paralyzed all over his body, he could only narrate slowly with unclear articulate. The memorial is ready to be reported to the court.

Unexpectedly, this memorial was intercepted by Zhao Yi's people. Zhao Yi was annoyed that Zhu Dazhao failed to catch the remaining three members of the Tang family. He took the blame and got rid of Zhu Dazhao.

Zhu Dazhao learned of this by accident, and immediately escaped from the mansion, disguised himself, and prepared to hide his identity in a place that no one knew.Who would have thought that his luck was quite good, and he met Tang Xiaoguang who was alone on the way, so he coaxed Tang Xiaoguang to the capital, and wanted to use Tang Xiaoguang to "make a crime and make meritorious service", and begged the king of Jingdong to spare his life.

However, Zhu Dazhao, who knew Zhao Yi was cruel and ruthless, still left behind. He did not bring Tang Xiaoguang to the door directly, but threatened him with a letter. He was afraid of death and took the child with him at any time. At the same time, he also prepared some evidence of Zhao Yi's crime. In case he handed the memorial to Zhao Zhen and cut off his own way of life.

In fact, Zhu Dazhao still wanted to turn to Zhao Yi, but he still kept an eye on it.I wanted to use Tang Xiaoguang to regain my identity, but I didn't expect Tang Xiaoguang to mistake An Lehou for his mother and refuse to go with him, so he missed the trap and was discovered by Pang Yu.

Therefore, after Zhu Dazhao found out that the matter was irreparable, he had the idea of ​​leaving the child in Kaifeng Mansion and fleeing for his own life.

Bao Zheng looked serious: "Do you know what Tang Xiaoguang saw?"

"I don't know." Zhu Dazhao shook his head and said, "The lower official also made indirect remarks on the child several times, but he was probably frightened, and he refused to recall what happened that day, or he would cry when he remembered the images of officers and soldiers. Unwilling to cooperate."

"Seeing the killing of his relatives with his own eyes, it's no wonder that he doesn't want to recall. The trauma brought to him by those officers and soldiers is immeasurable." Pang Yu thought for a while, then sighed, "I'm afraid it will take a lot of money for him to testify against King Jingdong in the future." It took a lot of work.”

What Mr. Gongsun thought of was another aspect: "If this child is to be left in Kaifeng Mansion, I am afraid that the adults and Zhan Weiwei will not be able to wear official uniforms for the time being, at least not when they see this child."

"Mr. Gongsun's words are reasonable." Master Bao nodded, and the others also agreed.

The elders in Kaifeng Mansion are sometimes quite careful.

After talking relaxedly, Mr. Bao began to arrange work: "Guard Zhan, please go to Ji'an County to meet that county magistrate Li. Zhang Long, go to the place where Zhu Dazhao met Xiaoguang, and see Is it possible to find the maid Mei Xiang? As for Zhao Hu, although it has been a long time, I still invite you to go to the place where Zhu Dazhao said the corpse was abandoned. If Tang Wenguang's body can be found, he must be buried alive and buried in the ground For safety."

The three of them took orders, and after a little preparation, they went out quickly.

Zhu Dazhao saw a few people leaving in a hurry, with a strange look on his face: "Master Bao... are you really going to fight King Jingdong?"

"This government handles the case only for justice. There is no such thing as right or wrong. If King Jingdong never harmed others, this government will not even have any contact with him." Master Bao said seriously.

Zhu Dazhao was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled sadly: "It seems that I will fall into the hands of the adults, and it is also destined."

Zhu Dazhao was secretly imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion, and the number of people in the room suddenly decreased, leaving only Bao Zheng, Gongsun Ce, Pang Yu, and Bai Yutang, plus a bedridden Xiaoguang.

The atmosphere was tense for a while, Mr. Bao glanced back and forth between Bai Yutang and Pang Yu, and sighed, "I have something to trouble you both."

"My lord, please speak directly." Pang Yu said hastily.

"Master Ding's death has never been known. The five servants of Ding's residence have never been seen again, and everyone in Ding's residence has no knowledge of it. Now that the Ding's residence is holding a funeral, I don't know the two of you..." Master Bao hesitated.

"My lord, do you want us to go to the Ding Mansion?" Bai Yutang said straightforwardly.

Bao Zheng coughed dryly: "If it's convenient, you can also look around in the Ding Mansion..." Is there anyone or anything suspicious?

After all, Mr. Ding is an important minister in the court, and he has not violated any law. Naturally, it is impossible for his body to stay in the Kaifeng Mansion for a long time for people to investigate. Sooner or later, he will be buried in the ground for safety.And Lord Ding's son is a dutiful son, he sent people to Kaifeng mansion every three days to urge them to return Lord Ding's remains.Bao Zheng had no choice but to ask Wu Zuo to return Master Ding's body to the Ding family after a hasty autopsy.

I heard that Master Ding's son doesn't like being an official and wants to go into business, so after Master Ding is buried, he will sell Ding's mansion, take people back to his hometown to buy property, and no longer stay in Bianjing.

Before Master Ding is buried and before Ding's mansion is sold to others, they can secretly investigate in the name of worship, and maybe they can get some clues. This is their last chance.

Pang Yu and Bai Yutang didn't want to delay the matter. Seeing that the child was being taken care of by Lord Bao and Mr. Gongsun, and that there was nothing to do with them in Kaifeng Mansion, they went to the stables to take two horses and went straight to Ding Mansion.

Everyone in Ding's house is wearing hemp and mourning. If you don't look at the Zihe Che case that Mr. Ding finally handled, his popularity in the court is still good, and there are quite a lot of officials and family members who come to worship. The visits of Pang Yu and Bai Yutang It didn't attract much attention, but Ding's mansion was understaffed. After they finished offering incense, no one paid attention to their whereabouts.

This is also convenient for the two of them to act.

Relying on his lightness skills, Bai Yutang took Pang Yu up to the roof, avoiding eyeliners all the way, and found Master Ding's study.

Since ancient times, the study room has been an important place, and any important letters, account books and other things are very likely to be hidden here.

Since everyone in Ding's residence was busy with the funeral, and no one was looking after the study at this time, the two swaggered down from the roof without attracting attention, and Bai Yutang even opened the copper lock on the study with ease.

It seemed that he had opened this kind of lock a lot before.

Pang Yu squinted at him.

Bai Yutang smiled and said: "My fourth brother likes to study some ingenious sex skills, and I also learned a hand."

"Is Yi Rong also?" Pang Yu asked.

"Yes." Bai Yutang did not hide anything. After entering the study, he went straight to find the hidden compartment in the bookcase, and said to Pang Yu, "In addition to being good at Emei stabbing, he is also very good at organ formations. When I have time, I will take you to Sunken Island to meet him."

Pang Yu suddenly felt a little hot on his face. This statement...why does it feel like returning to his mother's house with his wife?

But before he had time to think about it, he saw Bai Yutang touched a hidden compartment over there, and poured out a dusty box from it.

Inside the box was a mask-like thing, gray in color, with lifelike features.

Pang Yu said in surprise: "This, isn't this Master Ding!"

"This is a mold." Bai Yutang frowned. "It should be made by melting the wax and covering it directly on the human face to take the mold, so that in the future, inexhaustible human skin masks can be made with special materials. Look at this mold." It is so vivid and vivid, presumably when the model was taken, Master Ding was still very conscious."

They originally thought that there was something wrong with Master Ding, but now it seems that Master Ding may have encountered an accident long ago.

"The one lying in the mourning hall..." Pang Yu suddenly felt a little creepy.

"It could be Mr. Ding who was killed by them after it was no longer useful, or it could be a dead soldier pretending to be Mr. Ding." Bai Yutang weighed the mold in his hand, "Otherwise this thing should have been destroyed long ago. Is it our turn to find out?"

"Because the mask must be replaced with a new one every one or two days. During the few days when Mr. Ding was inactive, they also changed the mask for the corpse, so this thing has not been destroyed?" Pang Yu asked.

"It's very possible." Bai Yutang said.

Pang Yu had a flash of inspiration: "That is to say, those people who murdered Mr. Ding are still staying in Ding's residence?"

The author has something to say: Jingdong is just east of Bianliang, that is to say, Jingdong Wang Zhao Yi's fief is actually a neighbor to Zhao Zhen's imperial city, so it seems that they have a good relationship.