Li Jie was very fast in action. On the first day of the first day, he went to Nanjing to block the various yamen. In the afternoon, he went to Taicang for on-site inspection. The next morning, good news came from the Jinyiwei that Xu Zhou's younger brother Xu Qing had already been found.

"Mr. Concubine, Xu Qing has been arrested. Do you want to interrogate yourself?" Huang Hua came to Li Jie again and asked.

"It's done well, where did he hide?" Li Jie smiled slightly when he heard this. Although the theft case of Taicang was not complicated, the murder of Xu Zhou was confusing, and Xu Qing was the key figure in this case.

"This kid is very cunning. After Xu Zhou's family was arrested, he took people away from Nanjing. On the surface, he said he wanted to go back to his hometown to hide, but in fact he quietly hid in a village outside the city. Fortunately, we had a lot of eyes, so he pulled him out." Huang Hua reported again.

"Let's go, take me to see him!" Li Jie smiled calmly when he heard this. No matter how cunning the fox is, he can't fight the hunter. Especially for such a big case, even the Jinyiwei is involved in it, and no one in the case is involved can escape.

Huang Hua immediately agreed and then brought Li Jie to the imperial prison of Jinyiwei. Although Jinyiwei moved to Beijing, the imperial prison in Nanjing was still retained, but it was not used for a few years. The imperial prison had already grown grass. Now it finally restored its former glory again.

As soon as Li Jie was admitted to the imperial prison, he immediately heard a burst of screams from inside, which made him frown. Huang Hua next to him immediately explained with great tactful explanation: "Mr. Prince Concubine, these people are all Taicang officials who were arrested before and are being interrogated now, but their mouths are very hard, so they can only use some means."

"Then did they explain?" Li Jie was silent for a moment before asking. Although he ordered the officials to be handed over to the Jinyiwei, he was still a little uncomfortable when he heard the screams of these people.

"Most of them have been explained, and a few are still stubborn. Now my subordinates are sorting out their confessions and will soon come up with a result!" Huang Hua replied immediately.

"Yes!" Li Jie nodded softly when he heard this, and then didn't say anything else.

Then Huang Hua took Li Jie to a separate interrogation room, and saw a middle-aged man with a slick face tied to a chair, and his face was full of panic. When he saw Li Jie and Huang Hua come in, he was so scared that he curled his body into a ball and didn't dare to look at the two of them.

"You are Xu Qing?" Li Jie looked at the other party and then asked. At the same time, he felt relieved, because Xu Qing was not a brave person at first glance, and such a person was so easy to deal with.

"You... how can you Jinyiwei arrest people? I am the queen's uncle. Be careful that I will tell Your Majesty that you can't afford to take care of it!" Although Xu Qing timidly, he still put on a harsh expression on his face and questioned Li Jie and the others.

"Hmph, Xu Qing, you don't open your eyes wide. This time I came to Nanjing to investigate the theft in Taicang!" Huang Hua snorted coldly and directly indicated Li Jie's identity.

"Son-in-law? Which son-in-law?" Xu Qing was stunned when he heard Huang Hua's words. He had been hiding outside the city for a while and did not know that Li Jie came to Nanjing. Moreover, there were quite a few son-in-laws in the Ming Dynasty, so he couldn't figure out Li Jie's identity for a while.

"When I first met the queen, I felt that the Fan family was a well-educated family, but I didn't expect that the Fan family would have relatives like you!" Li Zhiguang looked at Xu Qing coldly and said, "When Empress Fan and Zhu Yunsheng met, thanks to his cover, Xu Qing, as the queen's uncle, must have known about this."

Sure enough, when Xu Qing heard Li Jie's words, he suddenly widened his eyes, and then looked at him with disbelief and said, "You... are Marquis Jinghai?"

Li Jie ignored Xu Qing, but looked at him again and asked directly: "Tell me, how did your elder brother Xu Zhou die?"

As soon as Li Jie said, Xu Qing, who was still shocked by Li Jie's identity, shivered and his face turned pale. But soon he forced a smile and said, "Your Majesty, you... What do you mean? Didn't my elder brother commit suicide?"

"Suicide?" Li Jie sneered, "Before Xu Zhou's death, someone had seen you go to his study with his own eyes. Then the old butler Xu Fu found Xu Zhou's body. On the surface, Xu Zhou seemed to have committed suicide, but it might also be disguised as suicide!"

"I... I just discussed borrowing money with my elder brother that day. He refused and I left. I had no idea what happened next!" Xu Qing's face turned pale at this time, and his eyes were full of panic. As long as he was a person, he could see his guilt.

"Haha~, it seems that you won't cry until you see the coffin. You should have heard of the name of the Jinyiwei Zhaozhu. I originally thought that I didn't want to torture you for the sake of the queen, but since you refuse to say it, don't blame me for being rude!" Li Jie said as he stood up and acted and was about to leave.

When Xu Qing heard that he was going to use torture, he was so scared that he almost wet his pants. He immediately shouted in horror: "Don't leave, I will do it, I will do it all!"

Seeing Xu Qing confessing so easily, Li Jie and Huang Hua also smiled at each other. Then Li Jie turned around and walked to Xu Qing and said again: "Tell me, did you kill Xu Zhou? Who is instructing you behind your back?"

"You...how did you know someone instruct me?" Xu Qing also showed a shocked expression again when he heard Li Jie's words.

Li Jie smiled disdainfully at this. With Xu Qing's cowardly personality, it would be strange if he had the courage to kill Xu Zhou.

However, the more Li Jie didn't answer, the more scared Xu Qing was, because he felt that Li Jie seemed to know everything, which made him dare not hide anything, and immediately explained everything he did.

It turned out that Xu Zhou was indeed killed by Xu Qing, but that night he went to see Xu Zhou and pretended to admit his mistake to Xu Zhou. Then, taking advantage of Xu Zhou's inattention, he put the medicine in the tea, and then took advantage of the opportunity of reciting tea to admit his mistake to Xu Zhou, which made him fall into a coma quickly. Then Xu Qing hung Xu Zhou on the beam of the house and arranged it as an illusion of suicide.

"Bastard!" Li Jie was so angry that he slapped the table when he heard this. After all, Xu Zhou was Xu Qing's biological brother, but he actually killed his brother regardless of his brother's affection. He was simply worse than a beast.

"Shunting my anger, the villain was forced to do so. Someone set up a plan outside to lure me to owe me a huge gambling debt. If I don't do this, they will kill my whole family!" Xu Qing began to complain for himself.

"Who is the person who commands you behind your back?" Li Jie suppressed his anger and asked again.
Chapter completed!