Nongmen Shenjue

Still walking from the palace gate, all the way to Kunning Palace.

Feng Su asked: "Where does Mr. Mu want to start?"

Mu Qingyan recorded the case in his mind once, and asked back: "The person who killed the little eunuch has no clues?"

"Not yet."

Thinking about it, the time is too short, just a day.

However, considering that it is in the palace after all, it is very dangerous for the murderer to transfer the corpse, so the place of the murder should be at the place where the corpse was hidden, at least not far away.Taking this as the starting point, combined with the time of death, to screen people who appear in this range, and it will take a little time to find out.

What Mu Qingyan thought was that this is a common way of investigating cases, and normal people would think of it.As the mastermind behind the scenes, he must understand this anti-investigation awareness, so how will the other party hide the murderer?

The abandoned well where the corpses were stored was in a vacant palace. This palace used to be the Lenggong, and later the Lenggong moved to another place. It was not very auspicious here, so it was left vacant.

The location of this palace is a bit out of the way, very close to the dining room.

There are many dining rooms in the palace. The emperor has an imperial dining room, the empress has an inner dining room, high-ranking concubines have a dining room, and even low-ranking concubines have a place to undertake tea and meals, and the external dining room serves the queen mothers and concubines.The queen mother has passed away, and the old concubines have also passed away one after another, but the dining room is not vacant, and it seems wasteful to maintain it.A few years ago, the emperor felt that there were too many dining rooms and it was too extravagant, so he stipulated that except for winter and spring, in summer and autumn, all concubines and concubines should eat in the dining room.

Winter starts from October of the lunar calendar, so the dining room is still in charge of the daily diet of concubines.

During lunch yesterday, people from all over the palace went to the dining room to get their meals, so there were people walking around in the palace, and the dining room was also full of people coming and going.It was at this time that the little eunuch left the residence where he was recuperating, and never returned until he was found dead.

The God Detective Division got the news the night before yesterday, but due to the palace ban, only entering and leaving the inner palace was forbidden, and he didn't enter the palace until yesterday morning to investigate.It took a long time to find the little eunuch, and the speed was not slow.

At noon, it was not only daytime, but also the matter of the queen was being investigated in the palace.Although the queen claimed to be sick in an accident, there are no secrets in the palace. Anyone with a little background can get the news. The palace people will also be sensitive to the different atmosphere. Under such circumstances, people will be extra cautious. At that time, there were still people who dared to kill people openly.

It was the death of the little eunuch that made the God Detective Division turn from darkness to light, and no longer cover up.

Mu Qingyan looked at the remaining two pieces of paper. On it was a person's name. These people were all people who might have appeared at the death scene within the time frame of the little eunuch's death.It is conceivable that this not only involves some people in the dining room, but also includes the six palaces, and each person's name is marked with the palace to which he belongs.

This does not include the queen and concubines above the concubines.

These empresses and concubines have their own independent dining room, which is in their own bedroom, and there is a set rule every year.

Seeing him see the list, Feng Xing said: "The preliminary screening was done yesterday, and the ones with clear witnesses are the first ones, and the people on the second ones are very suspicious."

Even if some people were not in the dining room at the time of the incident, they might be together in threes or two, and each other can testify.Considering caution, such people are only preliminary investigations, and they must still be restricted.Those who can't prove their whereabouts should be checked first.

Mu Qingyan also focused on the latter one, which has seven people on it.

There are no palace people from Yikun Palace.

Concubine Hui lives in Yikun Palace, and Concubine Hui naturally does not eat in the dining room, but Concubine Hui is not the only one living in Yikun Palace.There are many concubines in the harem, and only concubines above the rank can be in charge of a palace and live in the main hall, while low-ranking concubines must live in the east and west chambers.

Concubine Hui has a high position, and the location of Yikun Palace is good, so it is of course beneficial to be able to live in Yikun Palace.However, there is only one noble person living here, and one is always there, so it is very clean.

There is no way to find it directly from the "suspect", so it can only be transferred back to the list.

There are seven people, including five maids, who belong to three regulars, two little promises, and the other two are cooks in the dining room.

It is often seen that the status is low, but it is impossible to send only one maid to receive meals, at least two.The reason why only one of them was suspected was because this person was out of sight of the others and no one could prove his whereabouts.

Furthermore, there are five court ladies among the seven, and they are all fifteen, six or seven years old.The young eunuch who died was also about the same age. Objectively speaking, even if it was unexpected and ruthless, the little maid would not have the strength to strangle the young eunuch, so the two kitchen servants in the dining room were the most suspicious.

"Have you asked these people?" Mu Qingyan asked.

Feng Jin said: "Never."

After the preliminary screening was done yesterday, the seven people were separated and detained. They were not allowed to contact or talk with others, and they were secretly watched to prevent accidents.After a night of deliberation, the performance of the seven people can be used as a reference. This is also a kind of interrogation technique, a psychological offensive.

There was a slight pause in the footsteps, and then the pace resumed.

Mu Qingyan realized that it was not difficult to find the murderer who killed the young eunuch. Screening in a closed palace was nothing to the God Detective Department.It took only one day for the suspect to be identified, and it was another major case involving the murder of the empress. To be prudent, it should take a few more days. The emperor did not need to worry about it at all.

It seems that the earlier speculation was correct, and the emperor had other intentions in letting him participate.

Thinking of this, he also had a new idea.

To participate this time, you don't have to work as hard as you did to find Liu Sheng before, you just need to be a bystander.Feng Su's response to his intervention was flat, and he was given enough information, but he didn't necessarily intend to rely on his ability, and even... Feng Su would also consider the emperor's intentions. After all, the investigation of the case went smoothly, and the bottleneck has not yet been reached. .

Let's wait until we find the murderer.

Mu Qingyan also wanted to wait until Wen Jixue returned to discuss with the other party.

With this plan in mind, Mu Qingyan remained silent.

Feng Xing went directly to the place where the seven suspects were detained. It was the abandoned palace. The empty room was simply cleaned.In addition to the detainees in the palace, there are also the guards of the God Detective Department, and the corpse of the little eunuch is presented here.

As soon as the suspension arrived, the guards from last night immediately came to report the situation.

"Young master, one of the seven people is the most suspicious. The other six people were crying or screaming, terrified, crying for grievances, unable to eat or sleep. The remaining person is the cook of the dining room. Sergeant Hao Chengguang has always been very quiet, eating as usual, sleeping as usual, and sitting in a corner in a daze when he wakes up."

"Hao Chengguang?" Feng Ting asked back.

"Hao Chengguang is 40 years old. His father, Hao Youfu, used to sell shortbread on the street. The Cheng'en government recommended Hao Youfu to the palace to make shortbread for the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager liked his craftsmanship very much, so she let him listen to him in the dining room. Therefore, Hao Youfu was specially recruited into the palace. Later, when he got older, Hao Chengguang took his father's place into the dining room. It was 15 years ago. Although the queen mother was gone, some people in the palace loved his craftsmanship, and every time the queen mother offered sacrifices, The emperor would also order him to make shortbread."

Dining rooms in the palace are all regulated, but occasionally there are special cases like the Hao family and his son.Generally speaking, they are all emperors, queens, queen mothers, or favorite concubines, etc., with noble status and authority. Naturally, people are indispensable to please and filial piety, and there are individual special recruits.

Yan Su nodded: "Go on."

"My subordinates have checked, this Hao Chengguang is taciturn, but he has a generous temper and doesn't care about it. He himself was specially recruited, and he may not give orders once or twice a year, so he is always idle. He often helps the kitchen in the dining room and learns from others. He has good cooking skills. He is very popular, and others often ask him to do errands. He originally went out of the palace once a month and stayed at home for two days, but later he had no one at home, so he often lived in the palace."

"He has no wife or children?"

"Hao Chengguang's father, Hao Youfu, died ten years ago. He died of illness, so he spent all his family's savings and borrowed money from people he knew in the palace. Hao Tongguang's wife died of dystocia, and the family only had an old mother and a young son. In six years A few days ago, his son died of an illness, and the old lady of the Hao family couldn't bear the blow, she was a little crazy, and she died after half a year of treatment. Hao Chengguang has not remarried in recent years, and the family house has been sublet, and he rarely goes out of the palace."

"What about the people he usually contacts?"

"He only stays in the dining room. Even if he does activities, he only stays in a small area around him. He has a good relationship, and they are all from the dining room. I haven't seen him have any contact with other palace people."

"Yesterday at noon, what did he do alone?" Yan Su asked again.

"He said that he didn't sleep well at night and was dizzy, so he found a quiet place to sit for a while. The place he pointed to was at the corner outside the dining room, and it was quiet there. However, you can walk a little further from there to reach this place It is an abandoned palace. I also asked him if he saw anyone else, and he said no, saying that he leaned against the palace wall basking in the sun and fell asleep without paying attention."

This is a lie.

If Hao Chengguang is a generous and taciturn person with friendly relations with others, it is impossible for him to choose to walk away alone when the dining room is busy. Such a person is usually very responsible, and there are rules in the palace, he will survive the busy time Duan, and then go to rest.

What's more, it is also unbelievable to say that he fell asleep.

Mu Qingyan's doubt lies in the fact that Hao Chengguang's reaction to being imprisoned is very different from other people's, which is very suspicious in itself, coupled with his rhetoric, who can not doubt him?Looking at his size, he has enough strength to kill the little eunuch and stuff the body into the well.

The focus now is to find out who instigated it, whether it was contact in the palace or outside the palace.

Another long and time-consuming investigation.

Mu Qingyan decided to watch from the sidelines, so he remained silent.

Feng Su could also think of these things, but even though he locked Hao Chengguang, he didn't release the other six.The seven people were still detained, giving outsiders the illusion that they were still under investigation, and secretly arranged the staff of the Shenhun Department to search around the activities in and out of Hao Chengguang's palace to investigate the people they had contacted.

Mu Qingyan's transparent people usually follow Feng Ting's side, and many people cast doubtful glances at him.

Feng Hang only cared about his own affairs, and didn't care about Mu Qingyan's "negligence of duty".

After eating lunch in the palace, he stayed until the palace gate was about to be locked in the evening before leaving the palace.