So that's how it is.
Wei An suddenly understood.
The Third Master couldn't help but yelled again, "Are you saying that we are hiding these rebellious bandits?!"
The second master also frowned in disgust and said, "This is simply nonsense! Our Wei family is loyal and brave, loyal to His Majesty, and has never had any contact with Yongzhou Prefecture. How can we talk about harboring someone?!"
The fifth master was the calmest. He stepped forward and blocked Wei An behind him. He looked firmly at Commander Wu in front of him and asked him, "Master Wu said that the three bodies were the leaders of the bandits. Do you have any evidence?"
Commander Wu clapped his hands, and the little flagman behind him came out with a tray. When he opened it, there was a ring inside that had been smoked and turned a little black.
Commander Wu took it up and showed it to them, and told them carefully: "This ring is a token of their identity. The name is written on the ring."
Only top craftsmen can carve a name on a ring. The ring is too small, and it is a test of craftsmanship to carve such tiny characters as big as ants on the inner ring. From this, we can see the status of the bandit who owns this ring.
Master Wei Wu said coldly, "What can this prove? Maybe someone just picked up the ring and left it at home."
Commander Wu pursed his lips and was quite restrained and polite to them: "In reply to your question, we have asked the coroner of Shuntian Prefecture to perform an autopsy, and it has been proven that the three bodies are all middle-aged men, not an old couple and their grandson as your housekeeper said."
This is irrefutable evidence.
The Fifth Master frowned and said, "It is possible that these three vicious criminals randomly selected their targets and thought that only the elderly and the weak lived in this house, so they wanted to find a place to hide and hid in our house."
Commander Wu nodded sincerely, "What you said makes sense. We have been searching for this group of bandits recently, but to no avail. They were able to enter the city because they forged their identities and passes, which shows that someone is helping them behind the scenes. So since they died in your mansion, for the safety of His Majesty, the people, and your mansion, we have to ask the princess to go to the government office to verify the truth."
"How dare you!" The Third Master snorted coldly, "You say we can investigate? Shouning is a princess, and she's a woman. Even though this house is under her name, I've said it before, we adults are in charge of this house, what does she know? If she wants to find someone, she should find us. How can she go to the government office with you?!"
When the news gets out, people who don’t know will really think Wei An is hiding him!
What a joke!
Commander Wu was also anxious. The body found in the house was not fake, and the identity of the body was not fake. Moreover, he gritted his teeth and couldn't help but blurt out a cold laugh: "Sir!"
He interrupted the third and second masters, glanced at them, and said in an unquestionable tone: "It happened that someone next door was awake tonight and said that he saw with his own eyes a close guard of Princess Shouning went to that house!"
The Fifth Master also refused to give in: "What a joke! What does this prove?! That is our Wei family's house. Even if we go there, is there anything wrong with that?"
Commander Wu couldn't help but laugh: "Why didn't you go earlier or later, but chose to go at that time? Isn't there anything wrong with that?"
He took a deep breath, tried to calm down and looked at them: "We suspect that the princess is harboring the fugitive..."
This suspicion was really life-threatening. The third master snorted coldly: "We are not stupid. If we really want to hide the fugitive, why would we hide in such a conspicuous place?"
Commander Wu didn't even frown: "The most dangerous place is sometimes the safest."
The second master followed closely and asked, "If we really were the fugitives we were harboring, why did we burn them?! Are we stupid?!"
He laughed: "Commander Wu's words are contradictory and do not make sense. They are clearly untenable and ridiculous. Could it be that he is deliberately looking for trouble with our Wei family?!"
This family!
I thought that without Prince Zheng, it would be easier to take Princess Shouning away. Commander Wu was somewhat helpless.
He received the secret report, and indeed confirmed that the content of the secret report was credible, so he firmly believed that Wei An was related to the fugitive from Yongzhou Prefecture. Seeing that the Third Master, the Second Master, and the Fifth Master were protecting their shortcoming, he could not help but get a little anxious: "You are obstructing the Five Cities Army and Horse Division from doing their work!"
"Since when has such an important matter as tracking down a fugitive been handed over to the Wucheng Bingma Division?" The sound of neat footsteps was heard outside the room, and Young Master Lin suddenly appeared with a cool face. He glanced at everyone in the room, looked at the military commander with a smile, and asked again with a stronger tone: "I didn't know that such an important matter as protecting the emperor would bypass our Jinyiwei and fall on the Wucheng Bingma Division."
Young Master Lin never smiles. Commander Wu once made a bet with others on when Young Master Lin would smile, and whether he would seem more approachable when he smiled than he did now. But when he suddenly saw Young Master Lin smile, he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.
He took a step back, bent down and bowed to Young Master Lin: "Young Master, you are too polite..." He said: "We received a secret report saying that bandits had sneaked into the city, and then tonight there was a fire in the Wei family's villa. When we went in to search, we found that the three bodies were fugitives, so we wanted to ask Princess Shouning to go over and ask."
Young Master Lin did not even glance at Wei An. He looked like he was doing his job impartially, but he was just unhappy that the Five Cities Military Department had gotten there first. He sat on a chair beside him, supported his head with one hand, hummed, and curled the corners of his mouth nonchalantly: "I see, but Princess Shouning is a woman after all, and she is a rich woman. Apart from finding out that the three people were fugitives and there was so-called human evidence that the princess's close associates had been to the house that caught fire, what else did you find out? Is it worth bringing people to the Wei family late at night to take the princess to the Five Cities Military Department?"
Commander Wu scratched his head. He originally wanted to find out something from the interrogation so that he could gain merit.
But compared to making meritorious contributions, offending Young Master Lin seems a bit unprofitable.
If you offend this god of death, who knows when you might be caught and killed. If the Jinyiwei wants to find fault with you, you will be found guilty even if you have done nothing wrong.
He told Lin Sanshao honestly: "In addition, we also captured a person alive..."
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