Leng Yi ignored his interruption and continued slowly: "The other group is centered on the staff of the King of Qi. This group is headed by Lu Duoxun. The third group is the veterans headed by the former prime minister Zhao Pu. They want to Returning to the center of power, they will help whoever gives them power. They do not take sides between the officials and the King of Qi. In addition, there are some Xiaoyao faction who are waiting and watching. I am right! "

"I don't understand what the adults are talking about."

"You understand very well. Yesterday, Lu Duoxun had been following Xiang Gongdingniu, and the two were not convinced by each other. This is a small microcosm of the overt and covert struggle between King Qi's faction and Zhao Pu's faction in the court! - Don't think that I am. During this time, we are just busy with the affairs of the Court of Punishment, and don’t think that our Court of Punishment is all about eating and not doing anything else. I am very aware of these shenanigans of the imperial court!”

Shen Lun looked at him for a long time, and then let out a long sigh.

Leng Yi continued: "As the left-behind prime minister, you have the important responsibility of supervising the country. You are deeply worried about the situation in the court, but you can't do anything about it. Because the officials are away and they have not given you more strength, you can't do anything about it." You can't afford to offend the King of Qi, represented by Lu Duoxun, and the veteran faction represented by Zhao Pu. You are also worried about living up to the high expectations of the officials. You want to make a difference. This is the underlying reason why you held this family banquet. ——You invited the main figures from the other two factions just to unite everyone, resolve these gang barriers, and work together to get things done in the court, right?"

Shen Lun smiled bitterly and said: "Now that Mr. Leng has exposed the matter, let's open the window and speak frankly - what you said is the truth. I am really worried when I see this situation. I once hoped that Mr. Leng would I used the prerogatives of the Court of Justice to deal with this situation. However, maybe I was too anxious. Seeing that Leng Ren had not taken any action, I held this banquet in order to improve everyone's relationship..."

"You saw that you couldn't achieve your goal, so you killed Chen Congxin!"

"Why should I kill him?"

"He is Lu Duoxun's right-hand man, but you are trying to sway the mountain!"

Shen Lun sneered: "Master Leng, it is undeniable that you have a rich imagination. It's a pity that I didn't do this!"

"You haven't?" Leng Yi stared at Shen Lun for a long time, then chuckled and said, "Maybe. - Can you tell me what you did last night?"

"Last night? I was sleeping. I slept until dawn."

"Is there any witness?"

"Except for you and your wife, who are two people, everyone else sleeps in one room. There are many vacant rooms in Zhen's house. It's enough for us to sleep alone. No one comes with me."

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of the question, Leng Yi could only nod his head and said, "Okay, you can go."

The second interrogator was Xiang Gong.

Xiang Gong looked very nervous and said when he came in: "Master Leng, you don't doubt me, do you? I didn't kill him!"

"Then who do you think killed him?" Leng Yi asked slowly.

"It's hard to say this. If I say it, I'm afraid others will say I'm talking nonsense."

"It's okay, let's talk and listen."

Xiang Gong looked outside the door mysteriously and whispered, "I think it's Lu Dosun!"

"He?" Leng Yi was a little surprised, "Isn't he the same group as Chen Congxin?"

"I don't know about this," Xiang Gong smiled slyly, "I only know that he has the ability to open secret rooms!" At this point, Xiang Gong pointed to the stone room, "What does this look like? It's cold. Does the Lord know?"

"Like what?"

"Like a tomb!" Xiang Gong said mysteriously: "That's what a tomb is like. After the person is buried in such a grotto, the door can be closed from the inside when the person is outside! Such a thing, we can't Among people, only one person can!"

"Lu Duoxun?" Leng Yi hesitated for a moment and asked softly.

"That's right! - In the fifth generation of their family, they specialized in robbing tombs. Later, they made a fortune by robbing tombs, and then they changed their ways and started studying and learning. Therefore, he will definitely be able to do these things passed down from the family."

Leng Yi and Cheng Luo looked at each other, and Leng Yi said: "Stop talking about others, talk about yourself. What did you do last night?"

"Sleep! In the middle of the night, I got up and went to the latrine. I had diarrhea. There might be something wrong with Shen Lun's food!"

"Can anyone testify?"

"Testify? They are all sleeping, who will testify with me?"

"Okay, please step back first!"

Xiang Gong stood up and warned again: "Master Leng, don't forget Chaludosun! He is a descendant of tomb robbers and knows these outsider things!"

Leng Yi watched him go out without saying a word.

The next person to be interrogated was naturally Lu Dosun.

Leng Yi said casually: "I heard, Mr. Lu, do you know how to rob tombs?"

Lu Duoxun stared at Leng Yi and said slowly: "What do you mean, Master Leng?"

"Nothing else, just a casual question. If you don't want to answer, that's okay."

"I know a little bit." Lu Duoxun said with a sullen face.

"That means you know how to bolt the door of a stone house from the outside?"

Lu Duoxun smiled and said, "I understand. - Are you trying to say that this proves that I killed Chen Congxin?"

"Isn't this enough? This is the most puzzling and core part of this strange murder case!"

"I'm sorry, I know how to close the door latch from the outside, but that requires some special props, and those props have to be left at the scene. However, you have already looked carefully before, and there is nothing on the scene. Of course, there are no other special props that I can use to close the door. Therefore, I did not make this door. At the same time, Chen Congxin and I were close friends and brothers in life and death. When he died, I was most sad, as if he had been cut off. He lost one of my arms!"

This is the truth, Leng Yi thought to himself, and asked Lu Duoxun what happened last night. As mentioned before, he was sleeping in the room, and there was no evidence.

After Leng Yi asked Lu Duoxun to step down, he next interrogated veteran Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu looked at Leng Yi with a look of helplessness on his face: "Master Leng, look at my skinny body, can I kill Chen Congxin?"

Leng Yi smiled and said: "I know there is a way to strangle people, called 'Back White Wolf', which is to wrap the person's neck with your body, and then carry it on your back. Walk along the way, walking several times. , people die. In this way, even an older and thinner person like you can strangle someone much stronger than you! What's more, you are not yet sixty years old this year, so you are not that old. Old, Chen Congxin is not much older than you. Chen Congxin's body is not much stronger than yours!"

"I didn't kill him!" Zhao Pu said coldly, "Why should I kill him?"

Leng Yi looked at him and smiled leisurely: "Master Zhao, don't think that we have nothing to do after the establishment of the Court of Justice. We have done some things, such as understanding the details and relationships of the ministers in the imperial court. Among them, Zhao

My lord!"

"Oh? Have you found out anything about me?" Zhao Pu was so busy.

"You have a close friend named Li Chuyun. He was the main participant in the Chenqiao uprising, and you were the planner of the major event that announced the founding of our Song Dynasty! You two can be said to be brothers. And this Li Chuyun, is

He is the father of Concubine Li De, the queen who has not been canonized by the official family!"

Zhao Pu twirled his beard and said: "Master Leng really inquired very clearly. Is this related to the case?"

Leng Yi possessed him and stared at Zhao Pu: "I also found out that this Chen Congxin is the uncle of the deceased Concubine Li Xian! And Concubine Li Xian's death seems to be very closely related to Concubine Li Def!"

Zhao Pu trembled slightly and looked at Leng Yi. After a long while, he smiled bitterly and said: "Master Leng's trial court seems not to be simple."

"At this age, as long as you are willing to spend money, there is no news that you cannot buy.

"It's a pity that your news has nothing to do with this case. Yes, I have a good relationship with Li Chuyun, Li Defei's father. Leng Yi's original death of Concubine Li Xian was somewhat related to Concubine Li De, but the person who died was

Concubine Li Xian, it is Concubine Li's business to seek revenge, that is to say, it is Chen Congxin's business. Why is it that he was killed and we seek revenge? This doesn't make sense."

Leng Yi said: "From the perspective you mentioned, it certainly doesn't make sense. However, I also got information that Chen Congxin has been investigating the sudden death of Concubine Li Xian. She suspects that there is a chapter behind it, and this chapter will

Comes from Concubine Li Defi! - Concubine Li De is not just a matter of relationship, but a direct relationship!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Zhao Pu exclaimed.

"I'm talking about Chen Congxin's suspicion. If he didn't have this suspicion, he wouldn't have come to Li's house to question him."

"That was already two years ago, - have you heard all about it?"

"Yes! I said that as long as you are willing to spend money, there is no information that cannot be bought. What's more, many people know about this matter, and it doesn't take much effort to find out. Our trial court is only investigating these things.

As a source of information, I never thought it would actually be used.”

Zhao Pu shook his head and said: "Although what you said makes some sense, the Li family may have killed Chen Congxin who was trying to retaliate first out of consideration of striking first. However, they will not rely on me, an old man, to handle this matter.

.At this age, it is not difficult to find an assassin."

"Many assassins can only use their fists and not their brains, but you, Mr. Zhao! You are very smart. 'Half of the Analects of Confucius rules the world' means you. It is even more difficult for a smart person like you to kill someone."

Revealing the truth. Much more effective than an ordinary assassin!"

"Master Leng praised me, but I really didn't kill Chen Congxin."

"Then what were you doing last night? Who can prove it?"

Zhao Pu said: "Last night, I was chatting with Song Qi until dawn. We went out for convenience, and then came back to sleep. Moreover, we slept together, and our room had two beds."

"You didn't go to bed until dawn?" Leng Yi frowned. The autopsy proved that the body spots of the deceased had appeared, and there was a high degree of body odor! This means that the time of death should be at least three or four hours. ! In other words, the deceased should have died in the middle of the night when they both went to bed. And if the two of them chatted until almost dawn, they would not have had time to commit the crime.

This was a major matter to narrow down the scope of suspects. Leng Yi asked about the content of their chat in detail. Then he asked Zhao Pu to step aside and sent Song Qi for questioning.

What Song Qi said is indeed the same as what Zhao Pu said, and the contents of the chat can also corroborate each other.

The two of them had eliminated suspicion, and Leng Yi's eyes fell on Cheng Dexuan, who was the last suspect. If there were no clues on him, then this case would probably be a no-brainer. Even if torture instruments were used to extract a confession, If the problem of this person bolting the door from the inside out is not resolved, even if someone confesses, the case will not be finalized.

Asking Cheng Dexuan is similar to asking Shen Lun. Cheng Dexuan is also from Shen Lun's side and a loyal supporter of the official family. It was Cheng Dexuan and Wang Jien who helped Zhao Guangyi enter the palace and inherit the throne. Cheng Dexuan could not propose anyone. Evidence proving that he was sleeping in the room at the time.

The case has reached a deadlock.

It seems that we still have to start from the most critical part of the problem and figure out how to fasten the door latch from the outside! If we solve this problem, we may have a clue!

Leng Yi squatted down next to the corpse again, reviewing the past and learning something new. The same goes for autopsies and on-site investigations. Sometimes you have no clue, and if you look back, you may be able to understand something new.

There is no question about the cause of death of the body, and evidence of homicide has also been found. The door latch at the scene shows no traces of tampering, and the ventilation opening is only the size of a bowl. Not even a human, not even a baby, can come in. And the entire stone house is made of It was built from pieces of bluestone. He checked it in detail and found that there was no movable secret door or any hidden passage. How did the murderer hang the body on the beam, then calmly go out, and then fasten the door from the inside?

Leng Yi was worried, but he still had no clue.

Cheng Luo'an was helping him think about it, but Leng Yi didn't have a clue, and Cheng Luo'an naturally had no clue. He could only comfort him and said: "Officer, don't think about it anymore. Go back first and investigate later."

Leng Yi ignored her, holding his cheek and looking at the corpse on the ground, thinking, and said to himself: "How on earth was it tied up?"

Seeing that he was ignoring her, Cheng Luo was a little angry and said boldly: "The dead man tied him up!"

Leng Yi was stunned and looked back at her: "What did you say?"

Cheng Luo'an regretted it after he finished speaking, so he put on a sweet smile and said, "Guardian, since we have no clue, let's go back first."

"No, it's the last sentence."

"Back there...?" Cheng Luo'an smiled sheepishly, "I was joking."

"You're joking, what did you say?"

"I said..., that the dead man tied it from the inside! Hehe, I said nonsense, don't be angry."

Leng Yi looked at her steadily, then stood up and looked at the beams at the ceiling, then at the vent, suddenly shouted, jumped up, hugged Cheng Luo'an, and kissed her hard. Said: "My Lao'er is really a genius! Let's go!"
Chapter completed!