Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Chapter 164: Shocking Changes in the Zhao Mansion

Wang Pu personally appointed an official from the left office of Kaifeng Mansion, who was responsible for the collection of evidence and process deduction in the case of assassinating a senior general of the Forbidden Army in Tokyo. This pusher is very powerful, he is a well-known prison litigation official in Kaifeng Prefecture; his father is in this line of work, and his son takes up his father's job very professionally. No matter who is the emperor in his family, he has always been involved in prison litigation. The case was cleared up in two days.

The pusher calmly reported in front of Wang Pu: "The case is not complicated, and the most suspected person is Zhao (whose name is deliberately withheld). The next official will push Zhao's crime process first, and Deputy Wang will listen to see if there are any omissions:

Zhao Xian fell in love with the daughter of the general Li Chuyun, but because Li Chuyun did not want to marry the Zhao family, Zhao sent his accomplices Li Xiaer and Li Mazi to secretly investigate outside the Li residence. They found out that Li's wife had contacts with the Guo residence and booked an inn near Datong Temple in Shandong Province. So she decided that Mrs. Li had an affair with General Guo, and she felt jealous. Since Zhao had observed General Guo's itinerary to Datong Temple, he had the opportunity to commit the crime.

He also believed that once General Guo died, his subordinate Li Chuyun would be forced to join the family under the power of the Zhao family, so he could marry Li Niangzi. And because there was always a gap between General Guo and Huainan Jiedu Envoy Li Chongjin, he wanted to leave clues on the scene in order to divert attention and get rid of the relationship.

With such motivation, Li Xia'er and Li Mazi recruited more than ten refugees from Xuzhou to set up an ambush at the Datong Temple Inn. It was night, and the gunpowder barrel was lit and thrown into the room from the back window of the room where General Guo lived, and exploded. He didn't kill him, and shot him in front of the door with an ambush crossbow, wounding General Guo, but the assassination failed.

Li Mazi and one of his accomplices were arrested. Zhao was worried that the matter would be exposed, so he silenced Li Xia'er, who was his accomplice... Wu was poisoned by arsenic for the autopsy, and the fatal injury was caused by a heavy weapon such as an axe. After killing his mouth, he was buried beside the road..."

After the Tuiguan finished speaking, he said again: "What I just said is the inference of the case. From the evidence at the scene and the confession of the criminals, it can be confirmed that Li Xia'er and Li Mazi did the crime. It can also be found that Li Xia'er has frequent contacts with Zhao (3), and often goes in and out of Zhao's residence.

Li Xia'er has a close relationship with Zhao, and there are three evidences: first, Li Mazi's statement; "

The pusher continued: "If the evidence has been found to this extent, generally speaking, people can be arrested. But because the Zhao family is involved, there is still one thing that cannot be proved in this case: Although Li Xia'er has contacts with Zhao, there is no testimony or material evidence that can prove that Li Xia'er is interested in Zhao. As for Zhao's motive, it is just an inference from going to the customs... To prove that Li Xia'er is dead, unless... unless Zhao Kuangyi is arrested and made to confess himself."

Wang Pu said: "No need. You have done a good job in investigating the case, and you can ask questions impartially without bias. I will definitely report this matter to the officials."

The official pushed hurriedly: "Thank you, Wang Gong, for your kind words in front of the official family."

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Zhao Kuangyin came out of the palace, first went back to the front of the hall to see Zhao Hongyin, and then both father and son stopped going to work and went straight home. Zhao Kuangyin asked his father to sit in the main hall of the inner courtyard, and ordered all the servants to leave the courtyard. Then he took out a file presented to the emperor in the left hall of Kaifeng Mansion from his arms, and handed it to Zhao Hongyin.

"Father, please look at this first." Zhao Kuangyin said.

Zhao Hongyin coughed a few times, took a sip of tea, and began to read the file. The old man's face gradually changed color, his fists were clenched, and his knuckles turned white.

At this moment, Zhao San entered the room, bowed his head and said, "Father, Second Brother, why did you come back so early today?"

Zhao Kuangyin's black face really couldn't change color, but he was very unhappy and didn't speak, and ignored his brother. Zhao Hongyin suddenly slapped the table with his palm, shaking the teacup on it, and fell to the ground with a "bang" and broke into pieces.

"You bastard!" Zhao Hongyin stood up and slapped him. Zhao San didn't dodge, and got hit hard, and the five pointers on the left side of his face quickly swelled up. Zhao San yelled in pain, covered his face with his hands quickly, and knelt down on the ground with a "plop".

Seeing his brother being beaten by his father, Zhao Kuangyin knelt down to admit his mistake, and immediately spoke up, and hurriedly persuaded him: "Father calm down, sit down and let it go, don't worry."

Zhao Kuangyin helped his father to sit down, turned around and said, "Third son, it seems that you didn't stay at home overnight on February 28th, where did you go?"

"Ruzhou." Zhao Sandao.

Zhao Kuangyin asked again: "What are you doing in Ruzhou?"

"Meet a good friend named Wang Shun." Zhao San replied.

Hearing this, the old man was furious and stood up. Zhao San quickly covered his face when he saw this, and said in horror: "Father, you..." The old man cursed: "You dare to lie, the government has already found out what you did, and even the officials were alarmed! Don't even think about it. With that little ability, who can you deceive, ah? How dare you lie, I will break your dog legs! Cough cough..."

"Father, please be quiet. Let me ask." Zhao Kuangyin picked up the file on the ground, patted it in his hand, and said to Zhao Sandao, "This is not a court, and no outsiders are here. The third brother tells his father and second brother what he has done, so that we can help you find a solution."

Father was beating and scolding there, with frightening anger on his face; but second elder brother was trying to persuade him, with a black face but pretending to be "red face". But Zhao San was unmoved, and admitted that he was going to be forced by the second brother to kill his relatives righteously to show his loyalty?

Zhao San is very clear that everything he did before and recently... It's not that he made some mistakes, and it's okay to admit his mistakes; none of them should be forgiven casually. So he insisted: "Second brother, brother really don't understand why..."

"I raised you for nothing! Why did you give birth to..." Zhao Hongyin suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood when he said this, and with a "poof", even Zhao San, who was kneeling far away, was splashed with blood spots.

"Father!" "Father!" The two brothers rushed forward to support him.

Zhao Kuangyin ignored Zhao San's matter. Seeing that his father had passed out, he hurriedly shouted: "Quick! Go and get someone to find the doctor."

Zhao San was also in a hurry. He hurriedly got up from the ground, ran out of the door, and shouted: "Come here! Come here!" When Zhao San rushed to the entrance of the cave, he saw a servant girl coming up to answer.

But the ones who came were all servant girls, and they couldn't do their jobs. Zhao San rushed to the front yard in a hurry, called the servants and said, "Go to the doctor quickly! Go, call a few more people."

The servants rushed to the stables to fetch the horses. Dong Er, the groom, saw this and asked, "What happened?" The servant replied, "Sanlang wants to invite the doctor, but I don't know what happened. It seems urgent."

After hearing this, Dong Er hurriedly said: "Then I'll take a few fast horses to the front yard to get ready, so as not to waste time and trouble."

"Go, go!"

Dong Er led the horse into the gate of the front yard, and the porter asked, "Why are you bringing the horse in?" Dong Er replied, "A few people came to the stable just now, and they asked me to bring them here. They said that they were ordered by San Lang, and they should hurry to invite the doctor."

After hearing this, the porter said, "Hurry up and go in. I just heard that Alang fell ill and fell into a coma."

Dong Er led the horse and walked in quickly, but saw Zhao San still standing in the front yard calling for someone. At this moment, Zhao San turned around, covered his left face with one hand, frowned and asked, "You groom...what's your name? What are you doing bringing the horse here?"

"Didn't someone just come to say that San Lang asked to lead the horse over, saying that A Lang is sick and wants to invite the doctor?" Dong Er said.

Zhao San scolded: "I told them to go straight to the doctor, but I didn't tell them to lead the horse, they are a bunch of idiots! What are you still doing, take it away!"

"Yes, yes." Dong Er hurriedly said, his face was very pale, and his expression was a little strange. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and turned to leave. But Weiwei looked back at this moment, and saw that Zhao San had turned to talk to others, with his back to himself, and there were no servants nearby...all the nearby servants were driven out to find the doctor.

Dong Er frowned and hesitated for a while, and finally stretched his hands into his arms. His hands began to tremble slightly, and his expression became even more strange.

Finally, Dong Er pulled out a rusty short knife from his arms! I don't know where the tatters were dug out. The body of the knife is full of rust, and only the tip and the front half of the knife have been sharpened.

He rushed up and stabbed Zhao San's back with a knife. "Ah!" Zhao San screamed, and when he looked back, Dong Er had already pulled out the saber, and slashed at Zhao San's face again.

Zhao San covered his face with one hand and bled like a column, turned around and ran, but his eyes were covered by blood, he immediately bumped into a tree trunk, staggered and fell to the ground. Dong Er chased after him, grabbed Zhao San's hair in a bun, and slashed at Zhao San's face and neck more than a dozen times crazily. Zhao San's head was bloody and bloody, and he stomped on the ground.

Dong Er aimed at the center of Zhao San's eyebrows with his last knife, and stabbed hard, but pierced into Zhao San's eye socket, and penetrated deeply into his eye socket. Zhao San didn't move, Dong Er gave up the rust knife, got up and ran.

At this time, the servants who heard the sound saw Dong Er standing there with blood on his face, and screams came from all around.

Finally someone shouted: "Call the soldiers in the hall!"

Dong Er has already rushed to the horse, turned on a horse, rode the horse and ran to the east, where there was a side door. Dong Er had worked in the Zhao family for three years and was very familiar with the place, so he opened the latch of the side door and rushed out.

While running, he took off his coat, wiped the blood on his hands, head and face indiscriminately, and threw the bloody coat to the side of the road. The people on the street were thrown into overdrive by his fast horse, and the sound of hooves came from behind him. Dong Er knew that there was an official store at the opposite street corner, and with such a loud battle, he must have encountered an official messenger when he rushed to the street corner. At this time, he saw a side street with a fork in the road, and people were coming and going on the street.

Dong Er immediately abandoned his horse, jumped off his horse, and ran towards the crowd. He ran wildly along the streets and alleys, but when he saw a narrow opening in that place, the gap between the houses, he burrowed inside.

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