Just because the Du family's concubine died, it didn't mean that Du Boqin was really cleared of suspicion.
This concubine died so coincidentally, it is suspicious no matter how you look at it. In addition, the veterans at Zhoujiazhuang were able to obtain permission to enter Dujiazhuangzi to search with the consent of the Du family's concubines. Who knows if Du Boqin was taking the opportunity to vent his anger and kill people to silence them?
Du Boqin argued that his concubine committed the crime first and committed suicide out of fear of committing the crime later. Because it was a shameful thing, he ordered his family to hastily bury the dead concubine. If Marshal Zhou, the Duke of Zhenguo, hadn't sent someone to the house for questioning, I'm afraid Du Boqin wouldn't even have told outsiders about the death of his concubine.
His concubine had died less than two days ago and had already been buried in the mountains. The two confidant maids who served him were also sold away because of their inability to protect the Lord. It's really impressive that Du Boqin does things so efficiently and neatly.
Apart from the inside of the Du family, Chang'an Qianwei didn't find any useful clues.
The number of arrows equipped with special arrowheads produced in the bow and arrow workshop has always been limited, but now an audit has revealed a surplus of more than a thousand arrows. The manager of the workshop speculates that they are specially prepared for the military parade that the Northwest Frontier Army may hold next spring. , during the previous test firing, a batch of approximately two to three hundred arrows were accidentally lost. Their whereabouts are still unknown. It is suspected that they were stolen and resold by young people. The clues have been completely interrupted, and the workshop has no choice but to An entry was made in the account, and then the matter was settled.
However, the Shaanxi Dusi did not know anything about the northwest frontier military parade. Even Marshal Zhou only heard it mentioned by a niece-in-law by chance, and it was not on the schedule at all. The emperor's attitude towards the Zhou family has just eased. What kind of border military parade should be held at this time? Not to mention the waste of manpower and financial resources, if the emperor was not present, Marshal Zhou would have to step in to preside over it. In the eyes of the court, wouldn't it be another so-called sin for the powerful Zhou family? !
Since there is no military parade, why should the Chang'an Vanguard workshop add arrows for this purpose? Just happened to "lost" a batch again? With this batch of unaccounted arrows, it seems to be explained that the killer's accomplices have nothing to do with Du Boqin. They got the arrows from arrow thieves. The so-called entry on the account was still in fresh handwriting, and it looked more like it had been written in the past two or three days.
Neither Marshal Zhou, the Duke of Zhenguo, nor a veteran military advisor who has experienced battles for a long time were fooled so easily.
Looking back at the masked man who rescued the young killer from Haijiao that day, and the personal guards around Du Boqin, there were at least a dozen people who were similar in stature to him. And these people testified against each other. They all stayed in the guardhouse on the day of the incident and never left. They all had alibis.
However, that day, Zhuangzi, a veteran of the Zhou family, went to the Chang'an vanguard to find Du Boqin to ask for permission to search the village. He saw with his own eyes that several of them had taken a vacation and went to a nearby town to have wine and have fun. Although they did not see any of these people doing any shameful and bad things alone, the presence of these people was enough to prove that the Dobochin soldiers' testimony to each other that they had never left the guardhouse was a lie.
Du Boqin's soldiers did not explain themselves well in advance, so something went wrong. After being reprimanded by Du Boqin, they changed their story and claimed that they went to the town to have fun and debauchery without telling others. They were afraid of being scolded by their superiors, so they lied. , but they can testify to each other that the people who left the guardhouse that day were all relaxing in a flower building. No one left alone, so naturally no one went to save any bad guys with bows and arrows.
People from Hualou testified for them.
The tavern diagonally across from the flower building was demolished. They testified that two soldiers were walking past their shop that day. They accidentally bumped into someone and got into a quarrel with them. In the process, they pushed and shoved the two big men in front of their shop. The wine jar was smashed and he left without paying a penny. The two soldiers were covered in alcohol, and they walked away laughing, the smell of alcohol spread all the way, and finally disappeared in front of a secret door in the inner street.
Anmenzi denied that he entertained two Chang'an vanguard soldiers.
Anmenzi's neighbors yelled at Anmenzi, who often bullied the neighbors because of the friendship between these two soldiers, making their entire alley a mess. On the day of the incident, they were eating, drinking, playing and singing at home, and they were noisy all night long, making it impossible for every household nearby to sleep peacefully.
The lie of Du Boqin's personal soldiers was once again disproven.
However, under the testimony of the secret door, the soldiers who left the flower house and acted alone also had an alibi, and they were not the masked men who came to rescue the killer. Marshal Zhou and the old military advisor had no intention of arguing with them anymore, leaving it to Du Boqin to punish them for violating military discipline. But Du Boqin's soldiers lied repeatedly, and no one believed that they were innocent anymore.
Du Boqin's suspicion cannot be cleared, but there is no clear evidence to prove that he was the mastermind of sending assassins to kill the Jin family. After all, he has nothing to do with the Jin family and has no motive for the murder. All we can say at the moment is that there is no way to escape the charge of harboring a murderer. No matter how much he claims his innocence, he cannot escape the responsibility for his negligence.
Marshal Zhou still had some expectations for his niece-in-law, whom he had cultivated for many years, and had already ordered him to come and explain clearly. Du Boqin didn't go to the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion yet, but he went to his father-in-law's door. I don't know what he said, but he asked his father-in-law to come to the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion to intercede for his son-in-law.
His father-in-law probably didn't know what his son-in-law had committed, and thought he was deceived by the concubine who gave birth to his only son. It was his concubine who took in a gangster from the capital of unknown origin and colluded with the killer to do evil. Now this concubine Now that I have committed suicide out of fear of crime, this kind of thing will never happen again in the future. Of course the son-in-law is innocent. He just neglected family matters because he was busy with official duties. He deserves to be punished. It would be too exaggerated to be dismissed from his post and questioned...
Marshal Zhou was so angry and speechless by his old brother's persuasion, but he couldn't argue with the old fool who was deceived.
The old military advisor privately ordered people to find the two maids sold by the Du family. There are countless maids in Chang'an. Since these two maids were sold under the name of the Zhou family's son-in-law, someone will definitely know their whereabouts. Du Boqin would sell people, naturally because they must know something, but they don't know the real secret and there is no need to kill them to silence them. Once the person is found, some of the secrets hidden within the Du family will be revealed.
The old military advisor will continue to live in the Zhenguogong Mansion and preside over investigations related to Du Boqin. He sent his grandson to tell Hai Jiao to calm down and stop asking around. The incident has alarmed Du Boqin. In order to cover up his crimes, he will never sit still and wait to be killed. He couldn't do anything to the Zhenguo Palace, but he could easily control a young boy. The old military advisor was very optimistic about Haijiao and did not want him to encounter any danger.
After Hai Jiao said this, he sneered: "The old military advisor still doesn't know about the new clues found in the prefect's office. I don't know what Prefect Huang is worried about. He's hiding something, so he should just be a good person. He told the grandson of the old military advisor that one of the dead killers was a Sun family soldier. Later, the old military advisor knew that the case was related to the Sun family. The person Du Boqin protected was actually related to Mr. Sun Ge, and he would probably be interested in Du Boqin's true identity. Do you have a deeper understanding of the idea?”
Du Boqin didn't know the Jin family, so he had no motive for the murder? Sounds very convincing.
Then how could he explain why he protected several dead soldiers sent by the Sun family to kill people? As the son-in-law of the Zhou family, doesn't he know what Mr. Sun Ge's attitude is towards the Zhou family?
Haitang heard this and asked Hai Jiao a question: "Has the motive of the Sun family sending killers to kill the Jin family clear now?"
Haijiao suddenly became speechless.
(End of chapter)
