Sang Hong was furious: "Do you know that it is a big crime to punish the nine clans by biting the prince!"
Taohong sighed: "Look, just hearing the name makes me so scared, so why make me confess?"
Sang Hong's face turned blue and white, as if he was thinking about something.
Pei You and Zuan looked at each other, and then the anger just now disappeared, and the room suddenly fell into a strange silence.
Only Zu An was more calm, and said solemnly: "Did King Qi send you personally, or did his subordinates send you?"
Taohong replied: "What kind of person is King Qi, how could he personally handle such a thing, naturally it was arranged by his subordinates."
"Then how do you know that someone didn't use the name of King Qi." Zu An said solemnly.
Taohong snorted: "How can we spies not know who we are loyal to?"
"In that case, why did you betray so quickly?" Zaan said lightly. Although the embroidered messenger is good at interrogation, as a secret agent, she confessed too quickly.
Taohong said resentfully, "Do you know why I was caught by Yun Jianyue?"
Without waiting for Zu'an to answer, she continued: "Because after I completed the task here, I was killed by the killer under King Qi. Fortunately, I had a good mind and prepared in advance to escape, but it happened by accident. He was caught by Yun Jianyue."
Several people looked at each other, and they all admired that this woman was a smart person.
At this time, Pei You said, "I saw you last time in Biyufang. Is the affection you showed for Shen Zhou true or false?"
Taohong sneered: "This is the end, is there a difference between true and false?"
Pei You's voice was low: "Of course there is a difference."
Seeing the other party's burning eyes, Taohong was a little silent, and after a long time, she said: "I have been trained as a spy since I was a child, and everything I received was cruel and cold, even the occasional show of favor from my boss is just a means of the imperial subordinate. Only Shen Zhou gave me sincerity and warmth. Although he was clumsy and dull, I really fell in love with him."
Zaan said lightly: "It's a pity that you still killed him."
Taohong smiled sadly: "Yes, he was indeed killed by me. When I reported his findings to my superiors, I knew what kind of fate he would have. It's a pity that I didn't understand my own heart at that time. I was afraid that the betrayal would be retaliated by the organization, so I didn’t think about it that much.”
"It wasn't until I learned of his death that I realized that I was wrong, but it was too late to regret it."
"But you continued to work for King Qi as if nothing happened afterwards, and even used Shen Zhou to mislead us to handle the case." Zu An said in a deep voice.
Taohong lowered her head: "What can I do? Life and death are in the hands of others. How can I say? How can you big people know the sorrow of us little people?"
Zaan was silent, knowing that the other party was telling the truth.
Most of this woman had feelings for Shen Zhou, but unfortunately she didn't have the courage to resist King Qi, so she lived in entanglement and pain.
"Have you revised the account books of the Zhenyuan Chamber of Commerce?" Sang Hong asked. He is old and used to seeing ups and downs. His heart is already hard as iron, and he doesn't care about the love and love of these young people at all. Only care about the most important issues.
Taohong snorted: "I didn't participate. There were special people who disguised themselves and took out the real ledger, and then replaced it with a new ledger. I don't know what was changed."
"Who is the person who connected with you? How can I find him?" Sang Hong asked.
"The treasurer Ma of the Ping'an Pharmacy in the west of the city, because many girls in Jasper Square often need doctors to see a doctor, so he can come and go often without causing suspicion." Taohong replied.
Sang Hong hurriedly winked at Xiao Jianren, who was beside him.
"Do you have any other evidence?" Sang Hong continued to ask.
Taohong shook her head: "Everyone in our line is on guard against each other, where will there be any evidence left."
Sang Hong frowned and continued the interrogation, but unfortunately he didn't get any useful clues later.
So he left Pei You to continue the trial, and he changed Zaan to the secret room to discuss.
"Do you want to press it down this time?" Zaan asked curiously.
Sang Hong shook his head: "King Yan was not the emperor's target before. If they were forced to turn against the emperor, they would blame us, but King Qi was the one the emperor wanted to deal with, so we naturally have no such concerns."
"It's a pity that there are only human witnesses, not physical evidence." Zuan said worriedly, after all, King Qi is more than ten thousand people, and it is really difficult to deal with him only by relying on Taohong's confession.
Sang Hong also sighed: "Yes, now it's up to Master Xiao to see if he can gain anything, but I'm not optimistic."
Zuan also agreed with this judgment. How could an old fox like King Qi leave such obvious flaws after Taohong escaped.
At the same time, he was also a little hesitant. He had communicated with King Qi in the capital before, and everyone made a "covenant". Although both parties knew that this thing was unreliable, Zuan really needed King Qi to help him deal with the emperor. , it is best to lose both sides, if King Qi is directly hammered to death, it is not in his interest.
It didn't take long for Xiao Jianren to come back. The reason why he came back so quickly was that the Ping An Pharmacy was already empty, and there were only a few people who were completely unaware.
"Sure enough." Sang Hong smiled bitterly, and began to hesitate whether to hand over Taohong.
Although he had nothing to do with King Qi, he was thinking of another level. This crime was extraordinary. Once the attack was launched, there was no real hammer. As a result, King Qi finally came over. The Sang family will be pushed out as a scapegoat.
I already suffered a loss last time, and I don't want to repeat the same mistakes this time.
At this moment, another subordinate came to report: "A fire broke out in a village on the outskirts of the city."
Sang Hong snorted: "Why do such trivial things tell us what to do, do you think we don't have enough?"
The soldier hurriedly explained, "It's the village where Shen Zhou's widow lives."
Because Zaan went there to investigate before, the mission sent someone to pay attention to the relevant information secretly, but did not expect to get this bad news.
"What!" Zaan was shocked and hurriedly asked for the specific situation.
The soldier replied: "The specific situation is not clear. It seems that the fire started in the middle of the night, because everyone was asleep, and then the fire spread quickly by the wind. There were 36 people in the village, and no one survived."
Zu'an's voice was extremely cold: "It was snowing heavily in the past few days, how could it be so easy to burn, and there is not a single living person in the whole village!"
"Quiet!" Sang Hong also had the same judgment.
Soon Zuan and Sang Hong took people to the scene of the crime in the suburbs, where the corps had already been collected by the yamen.
There was an extremely unpleasant smell in the air. Looking around, it was like purgatory on earth, and many yamen could not stand it and retched.
With an expressionless face, Zu An walked directly to Shen Zhou's wife and children, thinking that the boy with a head and a head had turned into a piece of coke at the time, his heart was filled with anger.
Although I already knew that for the powerful and high-ranking people, the life of the common people was like a must, but I still didn't expect it to be so bottomless, and even such a small child would not be spared.
At this time, a yamen official came to report: "A preliminary autopsy has been carried out. There is a lot of smoke, dust and black ash in the lungs of the deceased, which is in line with the characteristics of burning to death, and homicide can be temporarily ruled out."
Zaan looked at him coldly: "How are these people dying?"
The man replied: "The death is peaceful, it should have been burned to death in his sleep."
Zaan snorted: "No matter how deep the sleep, the fire will burn like this, will they not respond? Apparently, someone restrained the acupuncture point during his lifetime, and then set it on fire and burned to death!"
"This... this... who is so maddened!" The little official was obviously also frightened.
Zuan did not answer, but directly picked up the young skeleton and said solemnly: "These two people don't have to take them back to the yamen. I will let them go to the ground first for safety."
Now that the murderer is known, there is no need to expose their bodies in the yamen.
With Zaan's cultivation, he quickly dug a large pit, and then split the trees to make a simple coffin to bury their mother and son.
He remained silent throughout the whole process, and Sang Hong comforted him: "Azu, don't blame yourself too much, it has nothing to do with you."
Zuan did not answer, but silently took out the wooden sword that the child gave him: "I swear by this sword, I will definitely avenge you, otherwise there is such a sword!"
After he finished speaking, his skill was shocked, and the wooden sword was directly broken into two pieces.
He was about to insert the broken sword into the grave, but suddenly his eyes narrowed.