The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

The reasoning of Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang connected all the testimonies of the wife, maidservants and guards who were interrogated some time ago, and the timeline matched the motive and logic of the murderer.Xiao Lou subjectively believes that their reasoning is very close to the truth, but no matter how the two people speculate, it is just a theoretical speculation-they have no actual evidence!

If you want to convict a person, you can't just rely on speculation. Evidence is the key.

There were no witnesses in this case. When the eldest lady died, no one in the backyard saw who she was with; when Lin Shaobo died, it was already dark, and no one saw who strangled him.

Physical evidence is even more difficult to find. The medicine that poisoned the eldest lady has been swallowed and digested in her stomach. In ancient times, there was no professional equipment that could extract the medicine from the blood of the dead, nor could it extract the fingerprints from the white silk...

Therefore, even if it is speculated that the murderer is very likely to be the mysterious young master of the palace, Yu Hanjiang can't convince the prince or His Majesty Qi Fenghua is the murderer, and he can't say "I guessed it", that would be ridiculous.

Strong evidence must be found.

Yu Hanjiang frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "We first need time evidence. Qi Fenghua was supposed to be on the front line of the war between Qi and Yan, but it is unreasonable to suddenly appear in Jiangzhou. Xiao Yu is not going to Yan Why? How about passing a letter to Feige and asking him to confirm whether Qi Fenghua is in the barracks, as long as it is confirmed that he has left the barracks, the timing will make sense."

Xiao Lou turned to look at the map of the four countries hanging on the wall, and thoughtfully said, "How long will it take to go from Jiangzhou to the front line?"

Yu Hanjiang roughly measured the distance on the map with his thumb and forefinger, and said: "It took us a day and a night from the capital to Jiangzhou. The distance from Jiangzhou to the front line is five times that of going to the capital. The horse will go for five days and five nights."

For the convenience of solving the case, the four countries set in this world of hearts are relatively small, and the time spent on the road is not too much. It will be several months on the road at the border.

Remembering that Missy died less than five days ago, Xiao Lou looked back at Yu Hanjiang and said, "It's a journey of five days and five nights, even if Qi Fenghua returns to the front line immediately after killing people, it's too late. So, he is probably still alive now." Jiangzhou?"

Yu Hanjiang thought so too. He frowned slightly, folded his arms and said, "Qi Fenghua rushed back to Jiangzhou at the risk. There must be important matters for him to deal with, and he won't leave so soon. He entered the palace disguised as a guard, what exactly is he trying to do?" , we have to investigate this matter first before we can understand his real motives."

Xiao Lou nodded: "I'll write a letter to my younger brother, Xiao Yu should still have clues about Qi Fenghua."

The carrier pigeons raised in Tianxianglou can also send messages to Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu communicated with Aunt Qing through the carrier pigeons in Tianxianglou when he was in Jiangzhou.However, Xiao Lou has the faster Li Qingzhao.

Li Qingzhao's 2nd skill "Who in the Cloud Sends Brocade Letters" can lock the target and send messages without being intercepted, and the speed is several times faster than ordinary carrier pigeons. He explained the reason in detail in the letter and asked his younger brother to find a way to sneak in In the military camp, check Qi Fenghua's situation, and immediately send a letter back by the pigeon.

Yu Hanjiang interrogated those assassins overnight.

As the proprietress of Tianxianglou and the leader of the Jiangzhou intelligence organization, Aunt Qing naturally knows a lot of information.But this middle-aged woman has a strong personality and a tenacious spirit. It is basically impossible to pry her mouth open and get her to confess honestly.

Yu Hanjiang had no choice but to adopt psychological tactics, carefully observed her expression, and asked directly: "Do you know His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Yan?"

A trace of surprise flashed in Aunt Qing's eyes, and she immediately denied, "I don't know."

Yu Hanjiang looked at her coldly: "Then do you know the young master of the palace——Qi Fenghua?"

Aunt Qing said blankly, "I don't know."

Yu Hanjiang said: "Sending Xueyan to the palace to assassinate, is it Prince Yan's idea? You want to take this opportunity to disrupt Jiangzhou, assassinate the prince or princess, and destroy the marriage between Qi and Zhao, right?"

Aunt Qing answered the following questions with "don't know".

After questioning her for half an hour, there was no gain, so Yu Hanjiang had no choice but to put her back and called Xueyan over.

Xueyan also gritted her teeth and said nothing, but Qin Rui and Xiao Yu had already witnessed the assassin's assassination of the prince in the palace that day. Whether she confessed or not did not affect Yu Hanjiang's judgment on the case.

After interrogating the newly captured assassin, Yu Hanjiang looked at Xiao Lou and said in a low voice, "Aunt Qing is indeed under the Crown Prince of Yan. When the prince's name was mentioned, her eyes flickered, her body stiffened, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on her forehead. It is a typical behavior of criminals when they are said to be the center of the matter." Yu Hanjiang touched his chin thoughtfully, and said: "But when Qi Fenghua's name was mentioned, she looked blank, and she probably really didn't know her."

Xiao Lou naturally wouldn't question Yu Hanjiang's judgment, and analyzed carefully: "If Aunt Qing doesn't know Qi Fenghua, it means that Qi Fenghua and Prince Yan might not be on the same side? His purpose of returning to Jiangzhou has nothing to do with this assassin group...then What did he suddenly return to Jiangzhou for?"

Yu Hanjiang said: "Maybe it has something to do with the rebel forces in Qi State that we have been investigating?"

Xiao Lou nodded in agreement: "That's the only explanation."

If this is the case, then it is normal for Qi Fenghua to be cruel and cruel to kill his own sister. After all, in ancient times, many emperors climbed to the throne by stepping on mountains of corpses and seas of blood.Are brothers killing each other and father and son turning against each other?What's more, a younger sister who recites Buddha's name every day will not help him in any way?

Thinking of the scene where Qi Yiyao was poisoned by her own brother, Xiao Lou couldn't help but feel chills down his spine.

He took a deep breath and calmed down, and said: "Qi Fenghua has been on the front line for so many years, and there must be some reason for his sudden rebellion. There must be some reason for this. He can't do big things with his own strength. There must be some rebellious forces behind him. We'll have to look into his history in detail with someone who knows about the war at the front."

Yu Hanjiang thought about it carefully, and said, "I'm afraid I have to ask your brother about this matter. He is the only one who came back from the front line now."

Xiao Lou nodded, and immediately released the Feige letter to his younger brother.

It was almost one o'clock in the morning, Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou didn't sleep, and the teammates were too embarrassed to sleep.

During this time, Shao Qingge settled Ye Qi and Liu Qiao in a nearby inn, and after Yu Hanjiang finished interrogating the assassins, Shao Qingge took them sneak in through the back door of the magistrate's office to care about the progress of the case.

Xiao Lou told everyone the deduction of the two - the murderer is probably the young master.

Ye Qi's eyes widened: "I felt like something was missing, it turned out to be the young master of the palace!"

Shao Qingge rubbed his temples with a headache: "I am really not suitable for the Heart Chamber, what is the name of the young master? I don't even remember."

"It's called Qi Fenghua." Lao Mo remembered the name very clearly. He frowned and said, "I didn't expect it to be him... The previous introduction said he was on the front line. The general who fought has little to do with this case."

Liu Qiao concluded: "It seems that the young master who has the least sense of existence has actually been in Jiangzhou. On the day of the prince's birthday party, he hid in the backyard for more than two hours. In case someone of us passed by the backyard and ran into him, Maybe he will be killed and silenced?"

Hearing this, everyone felt their scalps go numb.

Boss has always been around, but everyone didn't think of it, and didn't notice it.

Xiao Loudao: "At present, our reasoning has fallen into a bottleneck——Qi Fenghua suddenly returned to Jiangzhou, what exactly did he want to do? He doesn't seem to have anything to do with the assassin group in Yan Kingdom. Aunt Qing doesn't know him, and my brother didn't mention it either. He, explained that he had nothing to do with the assassination of the magistrate and the prince, and the killing of my sister must have been accidental."

Ye Qi stretched out his hand, scratching his head while thinking carefully.

Shao Qingge laughed at him from the side: "Miss Ye, you are pretending to be a lady now, don't scratch your hair like a chicken coop."

Ye Qi blushed, immediately retracted his claws, and quickly smoothed out his long hair.

Suddenly, Ye Qi's eyes lit up: "By the way, I remember Zhao Guo's envoys also happened to come to Jiangzhou? They have never had a role in it! Will the young master of the Wangfu come back and have something to do with this envoy?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was startled at the same time.

Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou looked at each other, and their hearts suddenly brightened.

Ye Qi is actually quite smart, as expected of a little witty ghost with an S score in the low-level heart room, Xiao Lou praised him in his heart, looked at him admiringly and said: "Xiao Ye is right, the Zhao Guo Envoy Group There should be a role in it."

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "Since the assassins from the country of Yan don't know the young master, maybe the young master has nothing to do with the country of Yan, but has something to do with the country of Zhao. Perhaps, our reasoning at the beginning, the overall idea is correct, but The target is wrong."

What does it mean that the idea is right and the object is wrong? !Shao Qingge didn't understand much, so he simply decided to give up thinking, sat beside him with his fan and patiently listened to everyone's analysis, and continued to put on the posture of lying down with a smile on his face.

Lao Mo thought carefully about the reasoning at the beginning, and said: "Is it the inference that 'the prince and Zhao Guo jointly usurped the throne' that you thought of at the beginning?"

Liu Qiao also thought of this incident, and said: "Master Yu speculated at that time that the second lady of the Wangfu had a marriage contract with the second prince of Zhao Guo. If the Wangfu and the second prince of Zhao Guo formed an alliance, the second prince would help the prince to usurp the throne, and the prince would help the second prince to ascend the throne. The two sides are mutually beneficial allies."

This is what Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou speculated at first.

The timing of Zhao Guo's envoys coming is a bit coincidental. Moreover, they did enter the palace on the prince's birthday. If the prince and the messenger happened to be overheard by the eldest lady during the conspiracy, the prince killed his daughter to silence him. The motive and logic chain of the murder are also complete. .

But after careful observation and reasoning, it was discovered that the prince was not a traitor—he was on the side of His Majesty. When the late emperor was still alive, he personally suggested passing the throne to the emperor's grandson. rebellion.

Yu Hanjiang concluded: "Now it seems that the prince should be innocent. On the contrary, it is the young master of the palace, who may have colluded with Zhao Guo. So our inference at the beginning was correct, but we got the wrong person—wanted to collude with Zhao Guo It is not the Eighth Prince who conspired against him, but the eldest son of the Eighth Prince—Qi Fenghua."

The teammates had complicated expressions when they heard this.

The A-level secret room is about to make everyone dizzy. The relationship between the characters in the palace alone is a big headache, and the two foreign forces, Yan and Zhao, are involved. It is simply a mess.

The Yan State Assassin Group sent a beautiful girl to assassinate the emperor, Qi Fenghua wanted to unite with Zhao State to usurp the throne, if Yu Hanjiang and his party could not solve the case in time, maybe after a few days, the emperor on the dragon chair in the capital would be killed!

Regardless of whether His Majesty died from enemy assassins or local traitors, as long as the emperor dies, Daqi will be in chaos, and they will naturally fail to break through and be eliminated. It is really thrilling to think about it.

Fortunately, the assassin line has successfully solved the mystery - the intelligence organization in charge of His Royal Highness Prince Yan wants to mess up the Qi country, assassinate the prefect, the prince, the princess, and even the emperor. Except for Xiao Yu, all other assassins have been arrested. Your Majesty Yu Hanjiang also sent a letter to inform that this line was temporarily closed.

As for the line of rebellion, it is likely that the young master colluded with Zhao Guo.

The two lines were analyzed separately, and the whole case finally became clear!

Yu Hanjiang said: "We still need evidence, the envoys from the Zhao Kingdom should not have left yet, right?"

Mo Xuemin nodded immediately and said, "I didn't leave. I saw them when I passed by today. They all live in the post house in Jiangzhou, and the palace has arranged people to receive them."

Yu Hanjiang looked at Liu Qiao and Ye Qi, and said, "Xiao Liu, Xiao Ye, you all have quick movement cards, and you are responsible for keeping an eye on this envoy group. If they have any changes, report them immediately."

Liu Qiao and Ye Qi nodded at the same time: "Understood."