After leaving the palace, Yang Qingyuan and Li Xunhuan immediately returned to Dali Temple.
As soon as they arrived at the entrance of Dali Temple, the policeman guarding the gate came to greet them.
"Sir! Master Li! Master Di and Mr. Song are back!"
The words of the arrest made Yang Qingyuan relieved. Dali Temple really didn't have enough manpower, especially people who could work alone.
Ye Jianhan is only good at using his hands. It's not that he can't use his brain, he's just lazy. If something can be solved with a sword, he will never use his brain.
Ji Yaohua is experienced and mature, but now in the eyes of An Shigeng, she is still an undercover agent lurking in Dali Temple. Ji Yaohua has a great potential role, and Yang Qingyuan is afraid that she will reveal her flaws in the operation and lose her greatest value.
As for the group of people at Liumen, they were really a mixed bag. Yang Qingyuan didn't even know how many undercover agents were hidden in Liumen headquarters. The one Liu Dufeng randomly assigned to him was an undercover agent, and he relied on himself to instigate rebellion.
Now Song Huifu and Di Zhiyuan, who went to Sicang, Gyeonggi Province to inspect the scene, are back. Yang Qingyuan also feels his shoulders relax. He and Li Xunhuan have been crazy busy these two days.
"Zhiyuan, Mr. Huifu! Are you back?"
Both Di Zhiyuan and Di Zhiyuan looked tired. They took the Dali Temple's detectives and ran around the granaries for two days to investigate the scene.
“Although this trip was hard, it was very rewarding!”
The four of them entered the study together and called Tie Chengxuan and Ji Yaohua. The senior officials of Dali Temple except Ye Jianhan were already here.
Ye Jianhan, on the other hand, was taking Xiaobai on the roof to guard the surrounding areas.
After Song Huifu took a sip of tea, he took out a stack of manuscripts from the box he carried with him.
"Sir, everyone, Zhiyuan and I have investigated the fire scenes in four granaries and can confirm that they were caused by man-made fires." Song Huifu pasted the four manuscripts on a temporary wooden board made by Yang Qingyuan.
"The locations of the fires everywhere are very strange!? They all started fires directly from the warehouse. You adults should know that the fire prevention measures in the granary of the Imperial Dynasty are extremely strict. This is almost impossible. Later, Zhiyuan and I checked all the granaries, and in one
In the granary where the fire was relatively small, fragments of something that started the fire were found! It can be determined that the fire was caused by man-made arson."
"In addition, we carefully inquired about the extent of the fire and inspected the scene. Although the fire was extremely intense, guards at each warehouse put out the fire. Such a fire was not enough to burn all the food inside to ashes."
Later, Song Huifu took out eight more manuscripts.
"This is part of my autopsy on the deceased in the granary fire. Based on my years of experience in solving cases, if the deceased was burned before death, there would be soot in the mouth and nose of the corpse, and both hands and feet would have their fists shrunk. This is because the person was burned before he died.
Forced to run and struggle, the soot was breathed into the nose. And if the person was burned after death, although the person's hands and feet were retracted, there would be no soot in the mouth. Most of the guards who died after the granary was burned by fire had their fists clenched.
, there was no soot in his mouth, it was obvious that most of the guards who died in the granary fire were killed first and then burned."
"Then I poured rice vinegar and wine on the ground under the deceased's bones. Blood entered the ground and turned bright red. This shows that the deceased was killed by a knife before he was alive."
Di Zhiyuan on the side answered, "So we suspected that the murderer was still hiding in the military camp, so we collected the blades of the soldiers in the army, tested them with blood and juice, and found the murderer."
Hearing this, Yang Qingyuan had a bad feeling.
"It's a pity that the murderers were all dead men. They took poison and committed suicide before we could catch them. They also used poison that would seal their throats after seeing blood. Even if they were given excrement and water, it would have no effect."
Yang Qingyuan: "..."
Suddenly, inexplicably, I felt that these dead soldiers were a bit miserable. It had nothing to do with right or wrong, just because they were fed feces and water before they died.
…
Half an hour later, Song Huifu and Di Zhiyuan reported the results.
Yang Qingyuan originally only made inferences about the fire in Sicang, but the case in Dali Temple could not be solved only by inferences. Now, under the investigation of Song Huifu and Di Zhiyuan, it has become a proven fact.
After seeing the fatigue between Song Hui's father's brows and the bloodshot eyes, Yang Qingyuan spoke.
"Mr. Huifu, you go and take a rest first. You will have to work hard to sort out these files later!"
Song Huifu nodded. Among all the people present, he was the weakest in martial arts. In other words, he didn’t know martial arts at all. It’s just that medicine and martial arts have not been separated since ancient times. He could barely be regarded as half a martial arts practitioner. For two consecutive days,
Working almost without sleep took a huge toll on Song Hui's father's spirit.
The rest, even Di Zhiyuan, who is the weakest in martial arts, is a warrior in the Tongmai realm and can persist.
After Song Hui's father left, Yang Qingyuan continued, "Everyone, although the truth of the case has gradually emerged, the biggest problem has not yet been solved - where did the grain go?!"
"Could it be that after stealing the food, it was transported away directly?" Tie Chengxuan asked.
His question is also a question for everyone present.
"Someone has asked me this question before, but please take a look!" Yang Qingyuan took out a pass inspection map near Gyeonggi Province.
Everyone gathered around the map, and after reading the map, Di Zhiyuan's eyes flashed with understanding.
"Sir, are you sure that the Sanshui Gatekeeper will not have an affair with An Jia?!"
Yang Qingyuan nodded, "Qi Yuanjing, the inspector of Sanshui Pass, was transferred from Dengzhou. I asked Bachelor Yu to check him. He is trustworthy! There is no problem."
Of course, there is another reason that only Yang Qingyuan knows.
"Then there should be some of this batch of grain stored in the Gyeonggi area that has not been shipped out." Di Zhiyuan looked at the confused people and explained,
"Please see, everyone, the five granaries in Gyeonggi are built close to mountains and rivers. To transport such a large number of granaries, it is only possible to transport them by water. If you go by land, not to mention how many carriages and horses are needed, you can't go very far at all.
Someone will find something abnormal."
Di Zhiyuan pointed at the map, "Look again, if you go by water, no matter how you go?! If you want to get out of Gyeonggi, you have to go through Sanshui Pass, or you have to go back to the capital in the opposite direction, so as long as Sanshui Pass is no problem
, then this batch of grain can only be slowly carried out through Anjia’s grain transportation channels.”
"Zhiyuan is right, and to be precise, it may still be hidden in the capital?!" Yang Qingyuan added.
"Capital?!"
Even Di Zhiyuan was a little confused about this statement.
"Sir, isn't this right!? An Shigeng clearly wanted to transport the grain out of the capital and then to other places. This can be known from the previous Caobang records. Why did it take so much trouble to transport it into the capital?
Wouldn’t that require several more inspections?” Tie Chengxuan, who was acting as a backdrop, continued to ask.
When he mentioned this, Li Xunhuan thought of the water transportation affairs that he wanted to investigate recently.
"I know, because of the customs clearance document that exempts you from inspection!"