Fang Guan nodded, "Director Li is right, Liu Wutong's family should be controlled by the real murderer, and the real murderer must also catch Liu Wutong."
"Do you have any questions, Mr. Chamberlain?"
Fang Guan smiled and said, "Can Governor Li reveal the progress of your investigation?"
Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "You and I investigate the case in different directions. You investigate the internal agents, and I investigate the assassins!"
Fang Guan was already in trouble in investigating the case. Liu Wutong ran away last night, which was why he was so anxious. Li Ye's words cheered him up and he quickly asked: "Can Governor Li reveal some clues to me?"
Li Ye said calmly: "As long as the Fang Shilang doesn't doubt me for no reason, I will be happy to share clues with the Fang Shilang and solve the case together!"
Fang Guan blushed and quickly lowered his stance, "We really shouldn't doubt Governor Li. We were reckless."
Li Ye then said slowly: "I can only tell the chamberlain that the assassin's real name is Zeng Honger, and he is a Japanese artist. The rest of the matter will be easy to find out."
Fang Guan was overjoyed and stood up and said, "Thank you! Thank you so much!"
After he got the clue, he was so anxious that he immediately said goodbye and left in a hurry.
Li Ye immediately returned to the inn. He walked around outside the inn to make sure that no one was watching, and immediately found Guan Pei and said: "The government is searching Liu Wutong. They immediately moved Liu Wutong and his family away. They first moved to another inn, and then rented a courtyard.
The whole family went into hiding."
Guan Pei agreed, immediately found a carriage, and moved Liu Wutong and his family away with several brothers.
Li Ye asked his men to take off their clothes from Dali Temple again so that they no longer had to pretend to be from Dali Temple.
The joint investigation team is located next door to the Prince Consort's Mansion in Fenglefang. It is led by Fang Guan, the Minister of Punishment. Cheng Xiao, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Zhang Jian, the Censor Zhongcheng, form the Third Division Investigation Team. However, Zhang Jian is investigating other cases.
Let Shi Yushi Zheng Ang take his place.
Fang Guan hurriedly returned to the investigation team, and he immediately summoned Cheng Xiao and Zheng Ang to discuss the matter.
The three of them sat down, and Zheng Ang asked: "Fang Shilang, is he willing to make friends with you?"
Fang Guan shook his head, "He denied it flat out. He didn't admit that he took away Liu Wutong's family."
Zheng Ang was furious, "You took someone away in front of me and he didn't admit it?"
Fang Guan belongs to the prince's faction, and Zheng Ang is Yang Guozhong's confidant. The two are not the same, and they are even hostile in the officialdom. They can maintain formal cooperation with the prince, but if it exceeds a certain limit, Fang Guan will not cooperate.
Fang Guan said coldly: "The Wang Junbai who took someone away in front of you is not Li Ye, and it's not like you don't know Li Ye."
Next to him, Cheng Xiao shook his head and said: "Wang Junbai is in Yanzhou. I know very well that someone is pretending to be the identity of Dali Temple."
"Here's the problem. We have no evidence that Li Ye is pretending to be from Dali Temple. He denies it. What should I do?"
Zheng Ang said angrily: "He is also the person handling the case, who else could it be besides him?"
Fang Guan said calmly: "What if the mastermind behind the Prince Consort case pretended to be from Dali Temple and took the person away?"
Zheng Ang was immediately speechless, and Fang Guan said coldly: "Zheng Yushi, I know about the murder case in Yunyang County. You were embarrassed at the court, so you have always been dissatisfied with Li Ye. Now you think it is
He, just like Zhang Xiangguo, believed that he had killed the consort, but it was finally exposed as a slander, which made the emperor furious, and might not protect his position.
The same goes for you. If Gao Lishi proves that Li Ye was at his place yesterday, what will you do? I might as well remind you that he has the Shangfang Emperor Sword in his hand!"
Hearing that Li Ye had Shang Fang's Emperor Sword in his hand, Zheng Ang did not dare to say anything. Although he failed to impeach Li Ye because of the Yunyang County case and had always harbored a grudge against Li Ye, he was not stupid and would not get in trouble with Shang Fang's Emperor Sword.
, he will be fine even if he is killed by that sword.
Cheng Xiao saw that Zheng Ang couldn't stand down, so he interrupted the topic and asked: "Fang Shilang, he was also ordered to investigate the case. Did he find anything?"
Fang Guan nodded, "The direction of his investigation is different from ours. He is investigating the identity of the assassin."
Zheng Ang took the opportunity to go down the steps and asked hurriedly: "There are no items or information on the assassin, how can he check it?"
Fang Guan glanced at him and said, "In fact, he has found out the identity of the assassin and told me."
Cheng Xiao quickly smiled and said: "The Fang Shilang wouldn't treat it as a secret and not tell it!"
Fang Guan sneered and said: "He said the assassin's name is Shuo Honger and he is a Japanese artist."
Zheng Ang was immediately surprised, "It turns out to be him, why didn't I recognize him?"
Fang Guan asked: "Zheng Yushi knows this person?"
"I saw his performance a few years ago. His figure is very similar to that of a child, so he is nicknamed the one-armed prodigy. His ability is to lift cauldrons and flying knives. He can lift a stone cauldron weighing hundreds of kilograms with one hand."
Cheng Xiao also said: "I've heard of this guy too, he seems to be from Chang'an Yiren Bai Opera Troupe."
Zheng Ang said quickly: "Yes, it is the Yiren Baixi Troupe, their three main pillars. We will find people from the Baixi Troupe to identify the corpse."
In fact, they also knew that Liu Wutong's family members had been picked up first, and Liu Wutong was probably nowhere to be found. Now they could only hope that the assassin would investigate.
Fang Guan immediately decided: "Without further delay, let's go find someone now!"
Soon, a steward from the Yiren Bai Opera Troupe was found. When he walked in, he bowed and said to Fang Guan: "Sir, Zeng Honger used to be one of ours, but he has nothing to do with us long ago. He came three years ago
He was taken away by the government."
Fang Guan was startled, "Why were you arrested by the government?"
The manager sighed and said: "He liked Madam Hu, who performed with him, and spent all his savings on her, but Madam Hu still looked down upon her. He had a grudge in his heart, and when he was performing a flying knife, he struck out with a knife.
After killing Madam Hu, he was captured by the government and was sentenced to three thousand miles of exile. Logically speaking, he should be in Yunnan. I wonder why he is here?"
Fang Guan and the others couldn't find Liu Wutong and were in a state of distress when they suddenly discovered the true identity of the assassin. The three of them suddenly saw hope. As long as they found out who recruited Zeng Honger, the real culprit behind the scenes would be revealed.
Fang Guan immediately said: "No matter what, let him identify the body first!"
Everyone led the stewards to the morgue room. The room was very cold and filled with ice. There were two ice coffins inside, one was that of the consort Zhang Bian, and the other was a smaller one that was the assassin Zeng Honger.
Two soldiers lifted the coffin lid, and the body was covered with white cloth. The soldier slowly opened the white cloth and suddenly screamed, "What's going on?"
Everyone stepped forward and were shocked to see that under the white cloth was not the assassin Zeng Honger, but a dead dog.
Everyone looked at each other, what is going on?
Fang Guan suddenly gritted his teeth and asked, "When was the last time the coffin lid was opened?"
The official in charge of the corpse said tremblingly: "Yesterday morning, Peng Zhongcheng of Dali Temple came to check the corpse. I humbly accompanied him to see the corpse."
"Have you confirmed it after he left?" Zheng Ang asked angrily.
"After confirming my humble position, I closed the coffin lid and never opened it again."
Fang Guan shook his head, "It has nothing to do with Peng Haiyan. I was the one who walked him out when he left. He was carrying a corpse behind him. Couldn't I tell?"
"My lords, is it possible that the assassin is not actually dead?" an official put forward a bold hypothesis.
The three of them found it incredible, but other than that, how could they explain it? Did someone steal the body?
The three of them suddenly thought of something at the same time and looked at the Prince Consort's ice coffin. They all had a bad feeling.
Fang Guan stepped forward and ordered: "Open it!"
The soldiers opened the ice coffin and lifted the white cloth. Everyone was stunned. The body was still there, but the head was missing.
There was a chaos in the Prince Consort's mansion, and everyone was looking for the Prince Consort's head.