Father can be an enemy to the country

At Tongfu Inn, the process of elimination continues.

"There are also the female relatives in the house." Zhu Zhen continued: "My senior brother is a gentleman who observes etiquette. It is impossible for him to be abducted by them."

Hu Quan had already scanned these files before, and quickly took away the confessions of six people: Cao Shenzheng's wife, only daughter, two servants, and two maids.

There were only six confessions left on the ground, but Lao Liu still had no intention of stopping.

"Exclude the cooks from Cao Shenzheng's family as well." He ordered in a deep voice. The cook was also unable to lure the senior brother into the well.

You can't let Liu Shenzheng taste the saltiness of the food. Isn't that nonsense?

"Let's get rid of his two servants for now." Zhu Zhen thought for a moment and said:

"Although they were able to lead Senior Brother to the well, when they came to look for him later, so many officials were present. As two servants, they shouted through the wall, 'Liu Meng Liu Meng, has your master gone back? ?’ It seems very unruly.”

"That's really the case." Hu Quan said, stroking his hands.

Now there are only three confessions left. As soon as Zhu Zhen stretched out his hand, Hu Quan quickly picked it up and presented it to him.

Zhu Zhen quickly flipped through it and saw that the three of them were all officials of the Chief Secretary. The reason why they left the banquet hall at that time was to go to the latrine. The three of them unanimously said that they came back after going to the latrine and found nothing unusual.

Lao Liu went through his confession again and complained: "Why don't we have specific time for them to come in and out? How about we arrange them in order?"

"Your Highness, be satisfied. This confession has been recorded in sufficient detail. If Liu Shenzheng's identity was not sensitive, the superiors would not even record whether they left the banquet hall." Hu Quan said with a bitter smile.

"Wasn't Zeng Tai ordered to investigate the case? Let him focus on interrogating these three people first, and ask them clearly about the specific time when they left and came back." Zhu Zhen said in a deep voice: "If we ask clearly about the time when my senior brother was found missing, it should be clear again I can rule out one or two.”

"Okay, I'll send a message to him right now." Hu Quan looked excited. The scope has been reduced so much that he is not far from the truth.

~~

Needless to say, Xiong Qitai's execution ability is still very strong.

That afternoon, he took the imperial envoy's warrant and came to the Yamen of Anchasi.

"Hey, Mr. Xiong Fang, you are here, what can you say?" Zeng Tai, who was possessed by Gang Jing, looked like his nature had been liberated.

"Hey, Lao Zeng, I'm not telling you, but what's wrong with you and why you have to go against the imperial envoy?" Xiong Qitai said speechlessly.

"Oh, I can't help myself." Zeng Tai sighed.

"I understand." Xiong Qitai nodded, thinking he was referring to the prince. Shen Liben said in his heart that as expected, the conflict between the prince and Hu Xiang has extended to Jiangxi.

"Understood. We below seem to be great officials. But in the eyes of the adults in Beijing, we are just chess pieces they use to fight." He patted Zeng Tai's arm sympathetically.

"It's true." Zeng Tai nodded, stroking his short gray beard and said, "Look, the imperial envoy has only been here a few days, and my beard is half white."

"Both each other. My life is not easy either." Xiong Qitai sighed: "I can't write two characters in one stroke, so we two brothers have to work together to help each other."

"How?" Zeng Tai asked.

"I'll try my best to speak for you when it comes to the imperial envoy, so that you won't be too blamed." Xiong Qitai said: "Just like the fight you had with him today, didn't it all depend on Brother Yu and me to make peace, so we didn't make a big fuss?"

"Thank you very much." Zeng Taipi said with a smile.

"Then why don't you stop being so serious here? Let's cut through the mess quickly and get this case over with." Xiong Qitai then said in a persuasive way: "Send off the imperial envoy as soon as possible so that we can get down to business as soon as possible."

"I have to be able to do business here." Zeng Tai said in a muffled voice.

"That's for sure. I didn't intend to distort the case, but I just wanted to speed it up." Xiong Qitai said with a smile: "The Imperial Envoy also meant the same thing. He asked Brother Yu to join in and help you investigate the case together."

"Will the two divisions conduct joint trials? Wouldn't that make things slower?" Zeng Tai said, "Let's try them separately. Half of the cases will be tried on one side, so it's faster."

"Oh, it's just a case of accidentally falling into a well. As for the exchange of money? What do you mean?" Xiong Qitai was speechless, and then suggested: "You ask the officials as the inspector, and we, the chief secretary, ask the rest of the people. ?”

"This..." Zeng Tai's soul was touched, and he suddenly realized that Xiong Qitai was not well-intentioned.

He secretly wondered, could the murderer be hiding among those idle people? This must be the case, otherwise how could he arrange it like this?

"It's better for your company to ask the official." Zeng Tai said casually. "They are all colleagues. It is disrespectful to let the judicial department interrogate them."

"Ah, that's not necessary. After all, you are more professional..." Xiong Qitai declined.

"That's it." Zeng Tai said more firmly: "I believe in the level of the feudal lord."

"Oh, okay." Xiong Qitai suppressed his smile and nodded seriously.

In fact, this was the result he wanted. He knew that Zeng Tai would definitely fight, so he deliberately did the opposite, and it turned out to be true.

~~

Over there, Xiong Qitai took the officials who were called for questioning back to the Chief Secretary's Yamen with the order.

Here Zeng Tai rolled up his sleeves and was about to start interrogating those idle people, hoping to find out the murderer.

The interrogation continued until dark. The chief attendant quietly came into the interrogation room, lay down in his ear and whispered: "Aiming Qiba Nebula has someone here again."

Zeng Tai nodded, motioned for his men to continue questioning, then walked out of the interrogation room unhurriedly, and returned to the back house to meet the visitor.

This time Diga didn't come, it was his uncle who came.

"May I ask Uncle Nanchang, what are your orders?" Zeng Tai's tone revealed the temperament of a bully.

"Are you interrogating those involved in the case?" Hu Quan asked with a frown.

"Yes, we are currently interrogating each one of them. I'm afraid we will have to stay up all night tonight." Gang Jing said, "It's really hard."

"That's great, you don't need to examine them all." Hu Quan wrote down three names, pushed the paper to Gang Jing and said, "Just focus on these three first."

"I didn't tell you earlier..." Zeng Tai was overjoyed when he heard this, and his workload was now much lighter.

As he said that, he used the light to look at the three names on the paper, and couldn't help being stunned: "I didn't tell you earlier..."

"You complain a lot, do you need to say it twice?" Hu Quan said displeased.

"No, the two words 'I didn't tell you earlier' have two different meanings." Zeng Tai shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The first one is to express his resentment for doing useless work. The second one is to say that uncle said it too late. Three people have been taken away by Xiong Qitai."

Hu Quan was furious when he heard this: "What the hell are you doing?"

"Alas... Forget it, I'm just shooting myself in the foot." Zeng Tai also knew that he had been fooled, and said with an expression on his face: "Xiong Qitai said that there would be joint trials, but I said separate trials, and he said He asked me to interrogate the official, but I let him interrogate him, and then let him take the person away..."

"I'll beat your lungs out." Hu Quan rolled his eyes. "You big mallet!"