Indeed, without the help of scientific instruments, it is difficult to judge the age of an adult's injury.
Xu Zun indeed ignored this point before.
However, for the overall situation, this is irrelevant.
Therefore, he proposed to skip it and move on to the next topic.
But in doing so, the people at the scene were confused and fuming.
"How can this work," the governor Li Yan murmured, "It's not rigorous at all. Is this Taoist priest an assassin? There has to be an explanation, right?"
In Mr. Li's mind, the question of whether a Taoist priest is an assassin is very important and affects the fate of the entire state.
But he forgot one thing, even if the Taoist priest was not an assassin, with that jade pendant, they would still be implicated.
"Xu Zun," Cai Kun was also a little anxious, "You have been talking for a long time, do you still have any important points? Please tell me quickly, why did those people burn the Taoist priest's body?"
"Yes," Li Yan continued, "If the Taoist priest is not an assassin, then who is he?"
"Okay, then let me show my cards! You guys should sit still!" Xu Zun pointed his finger at the Taoist priest's body and raised his voice and said, "Actually, you all know this person!
"His ancestral home is Nangeng, Shangzhou. He is a Jinshi Hanlin in Shangke and the magistrate of Xinye County - Qiu Yongnian!!!"
Snapped!
Cai Kun missed and the tea cup fell to the ground and shattered.
Oops...
All the officials were speechless and dumbfounded.
Other people in the yard had different reactions, some were confused, some didn't hear clearly, some were shocked and surprised, and some were trembling as if struck by lightning...
"What?" Cai Kun stood up from his seat and asked, "Xu Zun, what did you just say? Who is this Taoist priest?"
"I said," Xu Zun pointed at the Taoist priest's body and repeated his words, "this man is the real Qiu Yongnian!"
"That……"
Cai Kun looked aside in confusion.
"ah!!?"
Qiu Yongnian on the side was suddenly startled, his legs went limp, and he sat down on the chair.
"Ouch..."
The county magistrate, Luo Wanwan, was startled. He looked at Qiu Yongnian and then at the body of the Taoist priest on the ground. He couldn't help but move the chair back a few steps until the back of the chair leaned against the guard.
"How...how could it be?"
At the same moment, even Shen Tiande, who was handcuffed, had a look of surprise on his face, not expecting Xu Zun to say such earth-shattering words.
Not only him, but also the servants of the Shen Mansion, Shen Qian next to him, and even Huo Anu who was helping Xu Zun also widened their eyes with bewildered expressions on their faces.
"Xu...Xu Zun..." Qiu Yongnian realized that he had lost his composure, and then stood up angrily and shouted, "You are the worst person in the world. You just framed me, but now...now...you actually...
Is this still the case?”
Qiu Yongnian was really mad and couldn't find a suitable word to rebuke Xu Zun.
"Xu Zun," the governor Li Yan asked hurriedly, "what do you mean? Why did the Taoist priest suddenly become Qiu Yongnian again?
"If the Taoist priest is Qiu Yongnian," he pointed at the county magistrate Qiu Yongnian, "then who is he?"
"No, this is not the key," Chen Taiji asked, "Xu Zun, there must be some basis for what you say, right?"
"Yes!" Cai Kun agreed, "Xu Zun, you can't try to flatter others and make lies. If you don't have real evidence, then I won't be able to help you!"
"Evidence? Of course there is!"
Xu Zun smiled confidently and signaled to Huo Anu. Huo Anu immediately took out a piece of white paper from his arms and handed it to Cai Kun.
But I saw four and a half words written on the white paper, namely: "女", "方", "Zhi", "Fei", followed by the radical "任".
"Oh?" Cai Kun showed these four and a half words in front of everyone and asked, "Xu Zun, what does this mean?"
"Sir," Xu Zun replied, "at first, after we heard that there was a Taoist living in Qijiawu Changsheng Temple, we went to check it out.
"Unexpectedly, the enemy was one step ahead of us and burned the Temple of Immortality with fire. The detectives only found a jade pendant.
"But I found a wall full of words from the ruins of the Temple of Immortality..."
Next, Xu Zun told all the discoveries and speculations he and Huo Anu made that night at Changsheng Temple.
"Isn't this too outrageous?" After listening, the governor Li Yan quickly discovered the problem, "According to your speculation, the Taoist priest should be imprisoned in the secret room of Changsheng Temple. But according to the witnesses,
, someone once saw the Taoist priest living in the temple.
"How can a person who is imprisoned be seen by outsiders?"
"It's simple," Xu Zun replied, "the murderer sent someone pretending to be a Taoist priest to guard the imprisoned Qiu Yongnian, creating the illusion that a Taoist priest lives in the Temple of Immortality..."
Seeing that most people were stunned, Xu Zun simply said again:
"Okay, then let me tell you a story," he pointed at the Taoist priest's body, "A year ago, Qiu Yongnian, a Jinshi scholar from the Shanghai Academy of Sciences, was suddenly kidnapped by gangsters before he went to Xinye County to take office, and was imprisoned in Qijiawu.
In the view of longevity.
"This group of criminals is not simple. They selected a person who looks similar to Qiu Yongnian and asked him to pretend to be the county magistrate and come to Xinye County to take office.
"At the same time, they also imitated the cruel methods of the Ministry of Punishment and tortured the real Qiu Yongnian!
"Firstly, it is to prepare for today's iron coffin case; secondly, it is to let the real Qiu Yongnian tell everything about him, so that the fake Qiu Yongnian can better distinguish the fake one from the real one.
“While imprisoned, they also made the guards wear Taoist robes and rags, and be seen walking around, creating the illusion that a Taoist priest lived in the Temple of Immortality, so that after the iron coffin case was discovered, the
The clue leads to Taoist Temple.
"So what those witnesses saw were actually the guards, not the prisoners.
"This is... an extremely sophisticated and cruel conspiracy," Xu Zun said. "When the time was right, they killed the real Qiu Yongnian, put him in Taoist robes, and put him in an iron coffin.
"Next, when the iron coffin case happened, they burned down the Taoist temple and left the jade pendant at the scene, waiting for us to investigate!
"In this way, all the clues are connected together, which makes us logically believe that the real Qiu Yongnian is the Japanese assassin who assassinated the Queen Mother!"
"ah?"
This reasoning once again surprised everyone.
"Then... that's the same question I had before," Li Yan asked, "Why didn't they put the jade pendant directly on the corpse? Wouldn't it be more secure if it was placed on the corpse?"
"Wrong!" Xu Zun replied, "Master Li, this question is actually a bit redundant.
"Think about it, the murderer's ultimate goal was to frame Mr. Shen! If the iron coffin case was really done by Mr. Shen, could Mr. Shen put the jade pendant on the body?"
"Oh..." Li Yan nodded, and then he realized something.
"But if the jade pendant is found in the ruins of Changsheng Temple, its meaning will be different. People will think that it is Duke Shen who is harboring assassins, which will make Duke Shen unable to explain.
"For the same reason," Xu Zun said again, "Some people may think that since the murderer's ultimate goal is to frame Mr. Shen, why not just write a letter of exposure and report it?
"Why do you need to kill You Dalang and his wife first, frame me for murdering merchants, and then write an expose letter? Isn't this unnecessary?
"But if you think about it carefully, this is actually very necessary!" Xu Zun pointed at Cai Kun and Chen Taiji and said, "After all, Cai Geling and Chen Yushi are very aware of everything and they are not idle people. !
"If the framer is so insincere, how can he escape the eyes of these two people?
"But if they use my accusation of killing merchants and embezzling property to lead to the Iron Coffin case, wouldn't the effect be completely different?"
oh……
Everyone nodded repeatedly, finally understanding what Xu Zun meant.
After all, Shen Tiande is an important minister in the imperial court and still has influence in the current court. If the whistle-blowing letter points directly to Shen Tiande, it will appear false and arouse suspicion.
"Now, everyone understands," Xu Zun pointed at the fake Qiu Yongnian, "why he sent people to sneak into Yizhuang and burn the Taoist priest's body, right?
"After he guided us to connect the corpse with the Japanese assassin, the corpse's mission was completed.
"He didn't want anyone to recognize that this person was not a Japanese assassin, so he fell into our trap. He was worried that our fictional East Palace guard would recognize him, so..."
"Stop! Stop!" Unexpectedly, Xu Zun was interrupted by Cai Kun before he finished speaking. Cai Kun held up the white paper and asked eagerly, "Don't talk about these useless things first. Let's talk about these first. What does the word mean?
"Why on earth do you think that the deceased is - Qiu Yongnian!!?"
