A quarter of an hour later.
"My lord, I have already asked."
"The suspect's full name is Ma Yizhen. He has been apprenticed to Hongyuan Zhenren at the age of fourteen, and it has been nine years since then."
"Because this person is the eldest disciple of Hongyuan Zhenren and his nephew, he is always in command, and uses several junior brothers as slaves, so he is very unpopular."
"The two Taoists accompanying him are Zhao Yixiong, the third disciple of Renren Hongyuan, and Liu Yiwei, the fifth disciple."
"Zhao Yixiong is the most outstanding disciple of Master Hongyuan. Master Hongyuan has said several times that it will be Zhao Yixiong who can inherit his lineage in the future."
"Because of this, Zhao Yixiong and Ma Yizhen have always had a bad relationship, and it can even be said that water and fire are incompatible."
"Liu Yiwei is the nephew of the real Hongyuan. Because of this status, Ma Yizhen and Zhao Yixiong treat him differently."
"However, Liu Yiwei is a dull and old-fashioned person. Apart from serving the real person Hongyuan wholeheartedly, he usually doesn't make excuses for anyone, so his relationship with the two is quite ordinary."
"Ma Yizhen is tall and burly; Zhao Yixiong is of medium height; Liu Yiwei is black, thin and short."
Although he thought it was unlikely that the three of them committed the crime together, it was unlikely that Ma would be murdered, but Sun Shaozong ordered Huang Bin to verify their relationship with the Taoist priests.
Just judging from the survey results, if those Taoists—including some Taoists—did not lie collectively, these three people would be enough for the romance of the Three Kingdoms!
To say that they can cooperate sincerely and cover Ma Yizhen to sneak into the capital to kill Ma Shi, Ma Yizhen may not even believe it!
As for the hypothesis that all three had an affair with Ma's...
According to a series of investigations by Sun Shaozong, it can be preliminarily determined that Ma is a woman with low psychological maturity, introverted, literate, and eager to be cared for.
Once this kind of woman is neglected, the chance of cheating may not be low, but it should not be possible to say that she has sex with multiple lovers at the same time.
"Lord, look at what this is!"
Sun Shaozong was rubbing his brows with his fists, trying to piece together a logical relationship, but the yamen, who had never dared to sit idle and kept searching the room, suddenly called out.
Sun Shaozong turned his head to look and saw that he was squatting in front of the dressing table, holding a scrap of paper the size of a fingernail like a treasure, and there were obvious burn marks on the edge of the scrap.
Sun Shaozong hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look, and when he saw that there was no dust on the paper, his eyes lit up.
This was apparently lit a while ago!
He cautiously put the scraps of paper into his hands and asked, "Where did you find this?"
"Just under this dresser, the villain just pulled it out with a broom!"
The yamen was quite proud. He really had nowhere to search just now, and he didn't dare to be lazy in front of Sun Shaozong, so he took a broom and scratched at the bottom of the bed and the cabinet.
Sun Shaozong looked at the dressing table, then turned around and asked, "Is there a charcoal basin in this room before?"
"some!"
Qiu Hong immediately replied: "It hasn't been broken since the morning. Later, Madam wanted to go out. She was afraid that no one in the house would take care of her, and she would accidentally go into the water, so she moved to another place."
Saying that, he stretched out his hand and pointed to a corner: "It was originally placed here."
The place she pointed was only three feet away from the dressing table. If Ma Shi had threw a whole piece of paper into the charcoal basin at that time, there would have been debris from the corners and corners of the dressing table. Below, it's no surprise.
"That's weird."
Sun Shaozong showed the scraps of paper to the two maids, and said coldly: "This room is up and down, there is no ink, ink, ink, and books, and you just said that no letters were sent in, so the one that was burned is the what?"
The question returned to the question, in fact, Sun Shaozong did not doubt these two maids very much in his heart.
Because according to the investigation just now, they spend almost all day in the back house with Ma, and if they want to pass on the news, they must go through the hands of others.
But who would dare to convey such a terrible scandal through the hands of so many people
Otherwise, as long as there is a problem in one of the links, it will be a disaster for the adulterer!
"This… "
Xia He looked at the piece of paper terrified, and then looked suspiciously at Qiuhong, apparently suspicious of what Qiuhong had done behind her back.
Qiu Hong did not respond to her doubts, instead, her brows gradually tightened, looking thoughtful and bizarre.
After a long while, under the gaze of Sun Shaozong, she hesitantly said: "Qingtian, Master Qingtian, I really don't know where this thing came from, but..."
"But what?"
"But it's not just me and Xia He who came to this dormitory today, but also... and the master!"
Hongyuan real person also came
Wouldn't it be him who helped Ma Yizhen and asked Ma to kill him in the back garden
This is also unreasonable!
If you know that he is wearing a green hat, it is estimated that he can't wait to tear the adulterer's body into thousands of pieces, how can it be...
and many more!
A flash of light flashed in Sun Shaozong's mind.
Previously, because of the traces in the back garden, especially the murderer's unwillingness to destroy Ma's remains, and the appearance of Ma's affectionate face, he acquiesced in his heart that the murderer who killed Ma was Ma's lover.
But what if it wasn't
What if Ma Yizhen killed Ma Shi, not because he was Ma Shi's lover, but because he was instructed to kill the adulterous and pregnant Ma Shi
Further inference, the three people sent to Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi seem to be incompatible, and there is basically no possibility of collusion.
But what if all of this was at the behest of Hongyuan Zhenren
The three of them conspired...
Do not!
As long as there are two conspiracy is enough!
Because another person is very likely to be the real adulterer!
After all, judging from the current investigation, only a few apprentices favored by Master Hongyuan could possibly come into contact with Ma Shi.
And the real person Hongyuan designed to kill his wife, would he still let the adulterer go
"Huang Bin!"
Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong immediately ordered: "You immediately send someone back to the yamen, and bring the headless corpse here, so that everyone in the Tianshifu can recognize it!"
Without waiting for Huang Bin to take orders, he motioned to Huang Bin to come forward and whispered a few words.
Huang Bin nodded knowingly, and hurried to the bedroom again.
…
half an hour later
After searching Ma's residence inside and out three times, Sun Shaozong brought the maids and yamen back to the front hall again.
Contrary to the previous 'one bird entering the forest, a hundred birds suppressing the sound', this time Sun Shaozong entered the hall, the noise not only did not weaken, but instead added fuel to the fire, one wave after another.
Perhaps drawing strength from it, one of the young Taoist priests directly asked Sun Shaozong, "My lord, with your endless cross-examination, you won't be treating us as murderers, right?!"
"yes!"
Someone next to him immediately followed up: "This is clearly someone targeting our Tianshi Mansion. You waited for the official to arrest the murderer, but only bothered me and waited for the bitter master to do what?"
When the rest of the Taoists saw the leader, they all beat the side drums.
For a while, the crowd was angry, and the bluffing yamen panicked. After all, the Taoist priests have been bullish recently. If they really get into trouble, the court's board may not hit them.
Sun Shaozong turned a blind eye, stood in front of the dharma platform as if nothing was happening, and ordered: "Go and bring Hongyuan Zhenren here. This official has a few questions, please ask the real person to explain it clearly in public."
Several yamen servants at the door seemed to be granted amnesty, and you rushed out, but the hall also fell silent.
Relying on the recent momentum of the Tianshi Mansion, the Taoists may dare to confront the court officials to a certain extent, but they will never dare to cause trouble in front of Hongyuan Master.
Not long after, I saw the real person Hongyuan coming in from the door with their heads held high, and all the Taoists were busy with the honorific titles of 'Master, Uncle, Uncle'.
However, Master Hongyuan ignored it and went to Sun Shaozong. He stared at him for a long while before he said, "I heard that Sun Shaoqing has a few questions, do you want me to answer them in person?"
"good."
Sun Shaozong nodded slightly, and then asked straight to the point: "How tall is Ma Yizhen, the eldest disciple of Zhenren?"
"More than six feet."
"Are you familiar with the terrain of this mansion?"
"Naturally familiar."
"When the official asked, why did the real person insist that there is no one who is more than six feet tall in the Tianshi Mansion?"
"Ma Yizhen left Beijing more than ten days ago, how can he do this? Since there is no suspicion, there is no need to mention it."
"I heard that the third and fifth disciples of Zhenren are walking with him?"
"Exactly."
"How does the real person know that he will not conspire with the two junior brothers and secretly lurk in the capital..."
"Sun Shaoqing!"
The real Hongyuan interrupted Sun Shaozong's words, and his narrow eyes looked at Sun Shaozong without fear, and asked every word: "Did you rely on the word 'unnecessary' to solve the case in the past?"
Sun Shaozong looked at him silently for a long time, then suddenly grinned: "What the real person said is that I made a slip of the tongue just now, and the three people who were traveling with each other were at odds with each other. Murdered Zhao Yixiong, and then…”
"Master Sun!"
Master Hongyuan interrupted Sun Shaozong again, and his words became more and more rude: "Although I respect you for having the name of Qingtian, I can't let you speak vernacularly and stain the innocence of my disciple!"
After a pause, he said again: "Furthermore, Yizhen is my nephew, and Yiwei is my nephew. They have no reason, so how could they deceive their teachers and destroy their ancestors and kill Zhuojing without regard to Lunchang?!"
"For no reason?"
Sun Shaozong sneered, shook out a pamphlet from his sleeve, and handed it to the real person Hongyuan, saying: "Is it for no reason, the real person knows it, but the official is not confused."
The eyes of the real person Hongyuan fell on the blue booklet, and he unconsciously became a little dark, but his mouth was still calm: "What is this?"
Sun Shaozong raised the booklet: "Of course it's Mrs. Zun's autopsy record."
The left hand of Master Hongyuan also lifted up subconsciously, but it was still a long way from the booklet, and it froze in mid-air.
Immediately, he simply lowered his hand, shook his head and said, "Master Sun may wish to speak directly."
This made Sun Shaozong a little surprised. He was stunned for a moment. Seeing that the real person Hongyuan did not change his mind, he simply opened the autopsy report and selected one of the passages: "The body X room, abdomen, rear buttocks, According to the judgment of several women who were temporarily invited, the deceased was already pregnant before his death, and it was more than three months."
Having said that, Sun Shaozong closed the booklet again, and raised it towards the real person Hongyuan, saying: "Really, this is not something that is 'unnecessary', right? Or, if you want to have the evidence taken out, please see it yourself. Do you believe it?"
Hongyuan's face was completely gloomy, and even a few people in the crowd looked suspicious.
But more people were inexplicable, and some even couldn't help shouting: "What does this mean? Aunt Shi is pregnant, what does it have to do with Brother Ma and others?"
In fact, Sun Shaozong originally did not plan to expose this matter in front of everyone.
But the real Hongyuan did not accept the move, so he had to make it public.
Now that he has started, he seems to have no confidence if he hides it again, so Sun Shaozong suddenly smiled when he heard someone questioning him: "What does it have to do with Ma Yizhen and others, it is difficult to conclude at the moment, but this child is the same as Hongyuan. Real people have nothing to do with it!"
This time it was really an uproar.
"Absurd! How dare you slander my uncle so much!"
"My wife has been in Beijing for five months, and she is three or four months pregnant, so what's so strange?!"
"Master and Mistress have always been in love..."
"My uncle is a real person appointed by His Majesty, how dare you..."
"Of course this officer dares to judge!"
Sun Shaozong first shouted loudly, interrupting the voices of doubts, then looked around the audience and sneered: "Otherwise, the real person Hongyuan has committed the crime of deceiving the king, and your Tianshi mansion will not be able to escape. Get involved!"
After a pause, he added: "Because Hongyuan Zhenren once said that when alchemy for His Majesty, you can't get close to women."
The uproar in the hall was even louder.
But soon, it fell into a deadly sediment.
Those who were deep in the city looked at their noses and noses and watched their hearts; and more people looked at Master Hongyuan in disbelief.
"Ah~"
In the midst of this dead silence, Master Hongyuan suddenly sighed: "I just thought about her past, I already expected it, but I didn't think about it... I didn't think about it..."
After speaking, he suddenly raised his head and laughed: "Hahaha... I think that Liu Hongyuan is arrogant and worthy of the sky all his life, but he never thought about it, never thought about it... Hahaha..."
The laughter was sad and bleak, and his tall and thin body was shaky.
Only Sun Shaozong first secretly scolded 'drama', and then frowned again.
According to the existing clues, it is inferred that Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei must have been instigated by the real person Hongyuan to kill Zhao Yixiong and Ma.
As long as one of Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei is arrested and confesses the truth, then no matter how much he hides it, he will only be struggling to the death.
But the performance of Hongyuan Zhenren at this time made Sun Shaozong think of another possibility - what if Ma Yizhen and Liu Yiwei refused to confess, or 'couldn't' confess
At that time, he didn't seem to have any evidence that it was the mastermind who could lock the real person Hongyuan.
Thinking about it further, although the real person Hongyuan had lost face greatly at this time, he was in order to concoct alchemy for the emperor, so he left his wife in the cold and was put on a green hat.
As long as he is not involved in the case later, the emperor will surely comfort him...
tsk~
Shouldn't this fellow be ready from the beginning to make the identity of the green hat public
"My lord, my lord!"
At this moment, a yamen came running and reported loudly: "The corpse has been delivered, and I'm waiting..."
"Let Huang Bin come and speak first!"
Sun Shaozong hurriedly interrupted his report and said involuntarily, "Leave the corpse outside first!"