Suzaku Fury

Chapter 12 [09 Separate Action]

When the two came to Fang's mansion quickly, they saw a piece of white onyx.

Di Renjie got off his horse and followed behind Yuchi Zhenjin, and said in a low voice: "Master Fang's charred corpse is still in Dali Temple for evidence collection, and it has not been returned to Mr. Fang's widow. My subordinates speculate that Mr. Fang's family is afraid that he will be angry with Dali Temple. Officials have reservations."

Yuchi Zhenjin wasn't worried at all, and just stepped into the Fang Mansion quickly: "How can we rely on hearing only for evidence collection and investigation? Seeing all directions with eyes and listening to all directions are indispensable."

After hearing this, Di Renjie didn't say much more.

The two of them went straight to the front hall of the Fang Mansion, and saw that the hall was also plain. On the hall was written a big word "Dian" in black and white. Didn't notice anyone coming in.

"This seat..." Yuchi Zhenjin paused, then changed his words: "My official is Yuchi Zhenjin, Minister of Dali Temple, today is..."

"Dali Temple?!" A woman in sackcloth was quite emotional, and when she saw Yuchi and Di Renjie, she pretended to stand up.Seeing this, the people waiting beside her hurried forward to help her.

"My husband died tragically for no reason. Now his bones are still cold, and your Dali Temple has seized his remains for a long time and refused to return them. Now you dare to visit? What are your intentions?!" Go up and scrape Yuchi's real gold.

Seeing this, Di Renjie quickly stepped forward to stand in front of Yuchi, bowed respectfully to the woman, and said, "My condolences to Mrs. Fang, Dali Temple did not intend to detain Master Fang's remains. Dali Temple was ordered by the Queen of Heaven to thoroughly investigate this case before releasing Fang. Mr. Fang’s remains were handed over to Wu for evidence collection. We had to delay until now. I hope Mrs. Fang will forgive me. However, Mr. Fang died tragically for no reason.

Mrs. Fang cried bitterly when she heard the words, her feet were weak and she fell backwards. Fortunately, the people behind her supported her so she didn't fall down.

Di Renjie turned his face sideways and glanced at Yuchi Zhenjin.Yuchi understood, took a step forward and said: "I came here this time to see if there are any clues to solve the case in the place where Mr. Fang used to work, and I hope Mrs. Fang will cooperate."

Mrs. Fang fell to the ground crying almost suffocating, after hearing what Yuchi Zhenjin said, she waved her hand weakly.

Seeing Mrs. Fang's release, Yuchi Zhenjin and Di Renjie followed the housekeeper of Fang's mansion to a locked room.

Seeing that the butler was helpless, Di Renjie asked, "Master Fang usually locks it when he leaves here?"

The butler replied: "Yes, there is only one key to this lock. Mr. Fang never leaves his body. Every time he leaves the room, he must lock it, even when going to the toilet."

When Di Renjie heard this, he pondered for a while and then issued the "order to evict guests": "I'm sorry for the housekeeper, but I hope to avoid it in the future."

The butler had a slightly uneasy expression on his face when he heard this, but after hearing Di Renjie's words, he could only turn around and leave resentfully.

Di Renjie took a look into the room, and said without pointing: "I didn't expect Mr. Fang to be a cautious person."

"I'm afraid I'm too cautious." Yuchi Zhenjin pulled out his saber and picked it up with the blade, the lock snapped in two and fell to the ground.He put the sword back into its sheath neatly, kicked open the wooden door and walked in quickly.

Di Renjie glanced at the lock that had been broken in two, and couldn't help shaking his head with a smile.

Yuchi Zhenjin started to walk towards Mr. Fang's official case, picked up two notes and read them.

"This is the memorabilia that I was ordered to supervise when I went back to the navy to receive the reward." Yuchi handed the memorandum in front of Di Renjie, "Such important tasks should be handled first, why did they stay at the mansion?"

Di Renjie put down the notes in his hand, and rummaged through the table a few more times, and found that almost all the notes on the table should be processed urgently.

"It is reasonable to say that if the Minister of Honglu Temple is temporarily absent, the important affairs of the temple should be handled by Shaoqing. Why is it that after so many days, no one has come to find such an important matter?"

Yuchi Zhenjin groaned for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "It's because they didn't know there was this post, so they didn't come to look for it!"

Di Renjie was enlightened, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency is wise. People in Honglu Temple must have thought that Master Fang put the memorial stickers in the burning office room, and burned them together with the furnishings in the room. Unexpectedly, Master Fang actually brought the memorial stickers with him. I'm back..." Di Renjie paused for a while, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came.

Yuchi also sensed that something was wrong, he raised his index finger ecstatically and said, "Master Fang returned to Fang Mansion on the night of the fire!"

Di Renjie nodded vigorously, and said: "Whether it is the people of Honglu Temple or us, they all thought that Mr. Fang stayed in the temple on the night of the fire until he was killed, so they ignored this blind spot. From this point of view, there are indeed many doubts: First, when Mr. Fang took the unfinished memorials and stickers away from Honglu Temple, the officials of Honghe Temple did not even find out. Why did Mr. Fang leave the temple quietly? Burned to death in the office room of Honglu Temple?"

After Yuchi Zhenjin thought about it for a while, he felt that there were too many things that didn't make sense.The two red eyebrows were almost twisted into a knot, and Lan Shun was also full of doubts.

"Why is it so much trouble..." Yuchi reached out and flipped through the notes on the table, "Why did Mr. Fang, who had already returned home, return to Honglu Temple?"

Di Renjie looked at Yuchi's hands flipping over the notes, and suddenly smiled: "My lord, maybe Master Fang didn't return to Honglu Temple voluntarily, but he had to return to Honglu Temple, or was taken back to Honglu Temple."

Yuchi Zhenjin paused, and asked again: "You mean... Mr. Fang was killed in the Fang Mansion and then brought back to Honglu Temple by the murderers and burned to death?"

Di Renjie shook his head and said: "There is no trace of a fight here, Mr. Fang should not have been killed here. The murderer should have ambushed Fang's mansion in advance, and then waited for an opportunity to stun Mr. Fang, then transported him to Honglu Temple, and finally set him on fire. .”

Yuchi Zhenjin was puzzled: "Why not just light the fire here?"

Di Renjie's eyes froze, and he said in a low voice, "Maybe there are things in this room that Mr. Fang took great pains to keep secret, which the murderer thought should not be burned."

Yuchi Zhenjin suddenly realized, and immediately ordered: "Look for it!" After saying that, he turned around and rummaged desperately on the wooden frame behind him.

Di Renjie didn't do what he said, but stood there and looked around.

Yuchi took several chorus stickers, turned around and said angrily: "Di Renjie, why are you still standing there? Come and look for it!"

"Does my lord know what I need to look for?" Di Renjie narrowed his eyes slightly, then bent down slightly, wiped the edge of the case with his finger, then moved his finger under his nose to sniff, and immediately frowned.

Seeing this, Yuchi Zhenjin immediately put down the note in his hand, walked up in two or three steps, grabbed Di Renjie's hand, pulled it under his nose and sniffed it, and said in surprise, "Is it Chenxiang?"

Di Renjie turned his head to look at the edge of the case and said: "Only this part of the whole case has a little soot. The failure to clean this place shows that this person acted in a hurry."

A flash of light flashed in Yuchi Zhenjin's mind, and he couldn't help squeezing Di Renjie's hand excitedly and said: "Master Fang, who acts cautiously, will not be so hasty in his own room. If this is the case, only a murderer will be so hasty." .”

Although Yuchi's hand was pinching, Di Renjie didn't want to say anything, and only echoed: "My lord is wise. My lord will look at the pen holder on the table."

Hearing this, Yuchi let go of his hand, and copied the pen container on the table, before he got it in front of his eyes, he could already smell a pleasant fragrance.

"Agarwood again!?" Yuchi Zhenjin said in shock.

"Not only this pen holder, but also the pen holder on the table and the private seal placed on the table by Mr. Fang are all made of agarwood, and judging by the size, they should be all high-quality agarwood."

Yuchi Zhenjin rolled his eyes for a moment, stared at him and said: "The top-grade agarwood from the Tang Dynasty is paid by Lin Yi, and only our royal family can enjoy it. Mr. Fang is just a minister of the temple, why..."

The two looked at each other and said in unison: "Pursuing tribute!"

Yuchi Zhenjin couldn't help laughing.He looked at the agarwood pen holder in his hand and said excitedly: "I never thought that the truth would be like this."

"Presumably this is the purpose of the murderer. The murderer who did not hesitate to use the Vermilion Bird to attract the attention of the whole city and even the Second Saint seems to want to use Dali Temple to check things."

Yuchi Zhenjin glanced at Di Renjie, put the pen holder in his hand back on the case, and said unwillingly: "Although it was set up by that thief, it is also a death penalty for Fang gradually to embezzle the tribute."

Di Renjie glanced at the table in silence, then raised his head to look at the beam above his head, stepped back a few steps, jumped on the spot, tapped the table, and finally jumped onto the beam.He groped on the beam for a while, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, then jumped off the beam, and showed what he found to Yuchi Zhenjin.

Yuchi frowned and said, "Agarwood? Why is there also on it?"

Di Renjie said with a smile: "The murderer is very smart and cunning. He knows that Mr. Fang loves agarwood very much, so he tampered with this agarwood. He only needs to mix the agarwood powder with Mongolian'sweat' medicine when making the incense, and then put it on This tampered agarwood is lit, even a person with an extremely sensitive sense of smell will not notice any difference in this house full of aloes."

Yuchi looked up at Di Renjie.

"My lord, it's too early to be happy." Di Renjie put the piece of agarwood he found just now into his cloth bag, "There are still many unknown mysteries."

"...Until now, we have really started to investigate the cause of the death of Mr. Fang Jianfang, Minister of Honglu Temple."

As Di Renjie spoke, he looked up at the wooden frame behind Yuchi.

The author has something to say:

Thank you Lion Run girl and Xuan Xi girl for the overlord tickets... I feel sorry for your slippery hands (kneeling thanks) Actually, I would be very happy to read this article and YY with me, if I can leave a message to show that I am not alone That's enough for self-promotion~ I feel very embarrassed to let you spend money, what can I do next... QAQ Thank you again! !

I worked as a master student for a whole day yesterday and failed to post a post, what the hell!