"Ah?" Shen Ning exclaimed softly, "Then what?"
Mo Chuan frowned tightly and added: "After what happened, the Northern Qi envoy insisted that I sent someone to poison them with incense, and then stole the drawings, and asked me to hand over the drawings, otherwise they would never Let's get over it. This incident did happen in the post house. If I couldn't find the whereabouts of the drawings, I wouldn't be able to explain it even with all my words. But the person who stole the drawings was obviously caught on the spot. But there are no drawings on him, which is really strange! "
Shen Ning thought deeply: "There is no guarantee that this matter is not because they wanted to guard against the thief, and the thief shouted to catch the thief, so they spread the suspicion. Otherwise, how could the thief not find the stolen goods on him? Could it be that he swallowed the blueprint?"
Mo Chuan said: "I have also thought about this, but after the man in black committed suicide, the Northern Qi envoy cut open his belly with a knife, but no drawings were found, and the identity of the man in black was also unknown. , the only thing that can be confirmed is that he is indeed from Western Chu, so the Northern Qi envoy insisted that this matter was done by Western Chu. "
"Mo Chuan, there must be someone behind this incident. The man in black is just a pawn who was used by others." Shen Ning said with certainty, "He committed suicide by taking poison just to replace that person." If a person conceals the truth, once he dies, it will be as difficult as going to heaven to find the person whom the Lord has given him.”
"Yes, but even if we find the person in charge of this matter, will we be able to find the blueprints?" This is what Mo Chuan is most worried about.
Shen Ning thought for a while: "How many people know that the Northern Qi envoy wants to sell the weapon blueprints?"
Mo Chuan took a deep look at her and said: "Only Li Zhixing, the Minister of War, and I know about this matter. I am not very familiar with the drawings of the five-gun crossbow. I once summoned Li Zhixing to the palace and showed him the drawings. He is proficient in it." The art of forging, after reading this blueprint, he was very sure that this blueprint was the forging blueprint of the five-gun crossbow."
"So, the person who knows the value of this blueprint best is Li Zhixing?" Shen Ning thought deeply.
"He is indeed very suspicious, but besides him, there is another suspicious person." Mo Chuan took a breath and said slowly.
"who is it?"
"According to the Northern Qi envoy, he wanted to protect the drawings for fear of losing them, so he stayed in the post house for the past three days. However, on the second day, an uninvited guest came to visit him. This person is..." Mo Chuan said word by word: "King Dingyuan, Chu Shaoyang."
"Chu Shaoyang?" Shen Ning was startled and looked at Mo Chuan intently, "Why does he want to visit the Northern Qi envoy? Did he and the Northern Qi envoy know each other before?"
Mo Chuan slowly shook his head: "The envoy from the Northern Qi Dynasty said that he and Chu Shaoyang had never known each other. He only heard that the other party's identity was King Dingyuan. He was embarrassed to turn away the door, so he invited Chu Shaoyang in, and the two had a cup of tea and chatted. For half a day, he was talking about not having to do anything about the love affairs. Then it was almost noon. He wanted to stay with Chu Shaoyang for dinner, but Chu Shaoyang did not stay for dinner. Instead, he said goodbye and left. The Northern Qi envoy always He was confused and didn’t understand the purpose of Chu Shaoyang’s visit, so when the theft of the drawings came out, the first person he suspected was Chu Shaoyang! "
Shen Ning bit her lower lip and remained silent.
If it were her, she would definitely regard Chu Shaoyang as the most suspect.