"Are these places where water flowing due to sulfur and charcoal? Are they houses in the city or shops?" Jing Ting asked.

Zhao Qi passed the case file in his mind and said, "It seems that they are all ordinary shops on Zhongdongmen West Street and Fengmen West Street."

Jiang Chengyi looked slightly deeper and said, "Then please ask Lord Zhao to take the Zhongdu official Cao Tuli to these eight shops, find the person in charge, and take it to the Dongfu Sizhong. I and the commander want to ask in detail."

Zhao Qi immediately responded: "Okay, the official will take the tu Li to come here."

He stood up and bowed, and wanted to leave. Jiang Chengyi called him at this moment and said, "Wait a minute, Lord Zhao has lived in the capital for a long time. Can you tell... how many Taoist priests are living in this city who are good at alchemy?"

Zhao Qi looked stunned and said, "There are many Taoist priests in the city who are good at alchemy. The officials don't know. They only know that there are two Taoist priests living in Minxiang on Ximen West Street and Xijiao Alley on Xiaoyuanmen North Street. A few years ago, these two Taoist priests offered elixirs when His Majesty was seriously ill. The officials remember this matter very clearly."

Jiang Chengyi nodded and said, "Then please invite these two people. As for the others, I will personally ask Gao Sheng, the official of the household, for the family."

Zhao Qi and Jing Ting didn't know why he asked how many Taoist priests were in the city, and he looked confused.

Seeing this, Jiang Chengyi replied: "Sulphur powder and charcoal powder are important auxiliary to alchemy. And if these two things are ground into powder, once they are spread into the air and merged with the air, they will cause an explosion. However... if there is not enough sulfur and charcoal, at most it will cause fire to flow out of water, and it will not be possible to detonate the dungeon. However, few people know about this. Only the royal Taoist who refined alchemy for Sima Hui back then recorded it in an ancient book that was regarded as a rare book by Taoists and has been circulating in the hands of those who practice alchemy and Taoism. If it weren't for those who have been practicing alchemy and going to Taoism all year round, they would naturally not know that these two things were ground into powder in large quantities, and they would cause an explosion after encountering open fire. Therefore, in the explosion, there must be a Taoist who is good at alchemy participating."

Only then did Zhao Qi realize that Jiang Chengyi wanted him to invite Guan Shuo.

So he nodded and took the servants in the mansion to the Zhongdu government.

After Zhao Qi left, Jiang Chengyi and Jing Ting went to the dungeon to interrogate Deng Yuan.

Deng Yuan always remembered Deng Guozhong's words. Although he admitted that Shi An was arrested by him, he knew that he was moved by emotion and reason, and kept defending that the explosion in the private prison in the mansion had nothing to do with him.

Even when he wrote the memorial and handed it to Jiang Chengyi, all of them were the heartfelt words of loyalty to the emperor, the country and the people.

After seeing this, Jing Ting felt that he really had nothing to do with the explosion, and believed that someone must have framed him.

Jiang Chengyi naturally knew that the explosion should have nothing to do with Deng Yuan. But his clearness made people outside the mystery, especially those who were more suspicious and prone to think too much, think that he was making false arguments.

Of course, Jiang Chengyi still handed the presentation to His Majesty.

As expected, Your Majesty was not only moved by his loyal advice, but also felt that the matter of Shi'an, Deng Yuan and even the Deng family must have been concealed.

Soon, the coroner and the autopsy was found to have been poisoned and died of death before the explosion. When Jing Ting was searching the ruins of Deng Mansion, he happened to find the residual poison residue in the place that should have been Deng Yuan’s bedroom.

So everyone believed that before the Deng Mansion bombing incident, Deng Yuan had drugged and poisoned Shi An.

So why did he poison Shi An?

Emperor Wei guessed that perhaps Shi An had something to do with Deng, or perhaps Deng had some involvement with King Ningzheng of Huai through Shi An, so after Deng Yuan arrested Shi An, he saw that he wanted to use this matter to threaten Deng, so he made up his mind to kill Shi An. However, he did not expect that someone would deliberately make Emperor Wei suspected him and Deng, so he mixed into Deng's private house and sprinkled a large amount of sulfur powder and charcoal powder in his private prison. Once it was night, the guards in the mansion who guarded Shi An lit a candle and encountered an open fire, which detonated the private prison.

Jiang Chengyi roughly knew how Emperor Wei guessed. As expected, Emperor Wei was furious and secretly summoned Deng Yuan alone and asked the truth.

Deng Guozhong may not have thought that the fake Shi An was not killed by the bomb, but was poisoned.

He had previously asked Deng Yuan to admit that Shi An was arrested privately and denied that the bombing was a testimony that he did, which became powerful evidence for Deng Yuan to conceal Shi An's true cause of death.

Deng Guozhong has always been sitting steadily and walking steadily, and he is also panicked at this moment.

The Deng family has shown its strength over the years, and is at the core of the Wei Emperor's party and even threatened the imperial power, which has long made Emperor Wei unhappy. In this incident, Emperor Wei originally wanted to use Deng Yuan to kill a chicken to warn the monkey, and to cut off the Deng family's authority, so that they could obey themselves.

But neither the Dongfu Department nor the City Defense Army nor the Zhongdu official could find any evidence that Deng Yuan ordered people to buy poisons. Emperor Wei had no evidence to convict Deng Yuan, and Deng Guozhong was in a position to argue, so he had to give up the matter.

King Huai completely got out of this matter and did not ask anything. Seeing a rift between Deng and Emperor Wei, he was naturally happy, so he added fire at this time. In front of all the court officials, he echoed Deng Guozhong in front of Emperor Wei and defended Deng Yuan.

Deng Guozhong was stunned and knew that Ning Zheng must have bad intentions at this moment. His defense would only make Emperor Wei even more convinced that Deng Yuan killed Shi An and silenced the mouth. However, before he could deal with the body, the incident was caused by the explosion. Deng Yuan or the entire Deng family was very likely to have some contact with the Huai Palace in secret and intend to betray the Emperor Wei.

Although Emperor Wei had never said anything on the surface, Deng Guozhong knew that cause and effect had been planted. If he continued to defend Deng Yuan, it would only aggravate the rift between Deng and the emperor.

At this time, he had already seen that someone deliberately used the matter of Shi An to provoke the relationship between the emperor and his monarch and ministers. Deng Guozhong couldn't help but be anxious, frowned and wondered who had set up such a chain of plans that made his clan unable to defend himself?

In the case of Deng Yuan’s private house explosion, one person always needs to take the blame and quell public grievances.

Emperor Wei forced Jiang Chengyi and Jing Ting to find the behind-the-scenes envoy of the explosion before the New Year. Otherwise, they would be fined and demoted.

The two of them could only continue to investigate in full view of everyone.

However, two days ago, when they were in Dongfusi, they interrogated overnight to the shop managers who had caught fire due to charcoal and sulfur powder, and even all the Taoist priests in the capital. There was only one clue available. These eight shops that caught fire were privately used to receive foreigners who had traveled thousands of miles to the capital and let them stay in the shop rooms. Therefore, it was normal for three people who were dressed in different places in the capital to carry bags of things in their shops over and over. The reason for the fire later was that these foreigners missed some of them in the shop when they were transporting charcoal and sulfur powder. They were accidentally ignited by the people who stayed there later and then left the water.

As for the Taoist priests, they asked the household priests for record documents, found six Taoist priests, and asked and investigated them one by one, but did not find clues about their private contact with the outer city, nor did they find any evidence that they had any intersection with the eight shops that caught fire.

Jiang Chengyi even doubted whether she guessed the wrong direction until fifteen days after the Laba Festival, the letter from Jiang Chengjia who was far away from the congratulations was passed to Jiang Mansion.

He saw that Zhou Yuanmo fled to Beijing and had constant disputes with Ningnan. He also heard that the explosion in the capital might be caused by Zhou Yuanmo who colluded with Deng Yuan's private residence in the capital, so he realized that something was wrong.

While he saw the letter, he thought of someone and a possibility.

It was just that this possibility made him shudder.

If... the explosion that implicated more than 80 innocent people's casualties was related to that person, then he would be the culprit of the indirect cause of the incident...

Jiang Chengyi was shocked and sweated coldly, and felt a chill in his heart.

In the past ten days, while investigating the case with Jing Ting, he accompanied Prince Ning Wuheng to comfort the implicated people, donate porridge and camps, take care of the people who have no houses and nowhere to go, and calmed down a lot of public grievances. Looking at the entire alley that turned into ashes of ruins, Jiang Chengyi had been upset for several days, hating why he could not notice the abnormal movement in the city earlier?

However, he was worried and sad about the innocent people involved and he was eager to find out the real murderer behind the scenes, and he never contacted this matter to that person. Now, he was surprised to learn that this matter might be related to that person, and he was afraid and frightened in an instant, which made him frequently deny his thoughts and feel that he was thinking too much.

His lost look caught in Mu Yun's eyes, making her feel strange.

She was not willing to ask about the court affairs, but the explosion was so big that Mu Yun naturally heard a lot of rumors. While feeling sorry for Jiang Chengyi's interrogation and investigation of clues day and night, he also paid attention to the matter.

Seeing that he had read the letter from A Luo, he felt as if he had lost his soul, so he took the letter from his own home and started reading it.

As I read, I realized that something was wrong.

She frowned and grabbed Jiang Chengyi who was about to go out and said, "This matter...isn't it?"

Jiang Chengyi was already shocked. Seeing Mu Yun guessed it, his face became cold and said bleakly: "I'm afraid it's true. In this month, only he is qualified to bring a large number of people and wooden boxes containing sulfur powder and charcoal to Deng Yuan's mansion to make arrangements..."

Mu Yun said with a sad face: "But he is in the palace now. If this matter is discovered... not only him, but you will be implicated."

What she was worried about was naturally Jiang Chengyi.

But at this moment, Jiang Chengyi was annoyed at the act of sending the man into the palace by himself, so that he has indirectly harmed so many innocent people.

He fell into a guilty feeling that he couldn't extricate himself, and was even more angry and couldn't help but rush to the palace to question the man.

Mu Yun pressed him and said, "You need to remain calm at this moment... If you make a mistake, or if this matter is discovered by the commander Jing Ting... it will be bad!"
Chapter completed!