Xu Qinji was stunned for a moment by the question, and then nodded: "Yes. After all, if you run out of the east city gate, you can only go to the fishing village on the coastline. No... why do you ask this?"
After Xu Qinji finished answering, his mind came to his senses and he asked strangely.
The fat old man didn't answer and continued to ask: "Did the people who escaped brought out some evidence about Wu Zhenguo or the current temporary governor, Jia Pengyi? Or was it evidence of guilt?"
When Xu Qinji heard this person asking about this, he immediately became very wary.
He shook his head and warned: "You are looking for death! If someone can hide with those things, you won't be able to find them. Do you want to report them to the government office?"
At this time, Pei Xuangui also stood up and moved toward the fat old man step by step with murderous intent.
The fat old man glanced at Pei Xuangui, ignored him, and asked Xu Qinji urgently: "Do you know what the handles are?"
Xu Qinji stopped talking and stood up, pressing towards the fat old man.
The fat old man wants to report him when he goes out? Then don't even think about leaving here.
Both of them are already dead anyway, so it's not a bad idea to survive such a scourge before they die.
…
The timeline is stretched back a bit.
Di Ying thought about it and decided to start by investigating the motive of the dead man's murder.
So I went to check the archives of Wu Kangsheng, who was killed by the dead soldiers. It was discovered that Old Man Wu was not a completely widowed person.
His eldest son had a good friend named Fudan during his lifetime. He was working as a junior official of the eighth rank in the government office of Zhoucheng.
Di Ying then checked along the lines. It was found that the Fudan official had escaped after something happened in Cangzhou, and his whereabouts are still unknown.
We also found out: when the Khitan thieves entered Cangzhou City, Xu Qinji was captured alive, and a series of other things.
It's just that some officials were killed by the Khitans at that time.
Among the government officials who escaped or went into hiding, only Fudan, who escaped, did not return after settling down in Cangzhou.
Why not come back?
Di Ying secretly asked the officials who had returned.
They didn't know anything about it either.
However, a famous scribe said: The most secret archives of the government office were burned by the Khitans.
Di Ying asked Xie Jing to take him with him and secretly entered the government office. It was found that nothing around the archives was burned, only the warehouse was burned.
Suspicions arose in my mind.
His intuition told him: There was something important inside, and he didn't want to be discovered, so someone took advantage of the Khitans to enter the city and set it on fire.
In other words: It was a certain official in Cangzhou who completely burned the entire archive to prevent traces of leakage.
It can be deduced from this: what someone wants to destroy, there must be something someone wants to preserve.
That Fu Dan who didn't come back definitely shouldn't have stopped coming back for no reason. Either he was the one who set the fire, or he was the one who took something.
While secretly investigating the government office, especially the temporary governor Jia Pengyi, they found out his relationship with Wu Zhenguo, and also found out that Wu Zhenguo was raising soldiers to die.
This is actually not too difficult to check.
Jia Pengyi is Wu Zhenguo's confidant.
Xie Jing secretly attacked Jia Pengyi, and a dead man jumped out.
Xie Jing did not kill the dead soldier in order to prevent him from being beaten. He just pretended that he could not beat him and took away an ornament from Jia Pengyi's study.
He pretended that he wanted to steal the treasure, but when he saw the owner, he had murderous intentions and ran away without any fight.
But the thread in Di Ying's mind connected it all.
What Fu Dan must have taken away was Jia Pengyi or Wu Zhenguo's handle. He ran out, or ran out from the east city gate.
After all, at that time, the Khitans attacked from the south gate and then went to the west gate, preparing to kill Jizhou. The north city gate was always closed.
The east city gate was opened because Wu Zhenguo didn't care about it when he was escaping, so he kept it open.
Di Ying also asked the officials who escaped, and they all ran out from the east city gate.
They were not following Wu Zhenguo.
When Wu Zhenguo ran away, he took away everyone and everything he could.
These officials fled after the city was broken.
Not a bad person.
So the testimony is credible.
Then, Fu Dan should have escaped from the east city gate. Where can I run?
He should just run to find Wu Kangsheng, who he has been secretly taking care of.
But maybe after discovering that Wu Kangsheng was messing around with a woman, he disappeared again.
But Jia Pengyi also thought about Wu Kangsheng whom Fu Dan would look for when he ran out of the east city gate.
Therefore, a dead soldier was arranged to kill Wu Kangsheng directly.
why?
Follow the line further down.
Jia Pengyi must have checked Wu Kangsheng before killing him, right? We can definitely find out that Wu Kangsheng and Jiang Xiuhua are having an affair, right?
Wu Kangsheng's place must have been secretly searched, but nothing was found. The dead man went to find Jiang Xiuhua.
You brought them to those two big rocks just to extract a confession, right?
Because Jiang Xiuhua has scars all over her body from being forced to confess, she can't dump her body at will, right?
Then the dead soldiers took the people to the rocky beach and burned them. After all, he was a dead soldier who followed Jia Pengyi. He was not short of money and could also get kerosene from the government office. He brought kerosene with him before killing him.
Whether it's killing Jiang Xiuhua or Wu Kangsheng, right? Initially, preparations were made to burn the corpses to eliminate traces.
This is why the dead man doesn't care about the jewelry on Jiang Xiuhua's body.
Jiang Xiuhua's silver hairpin fell off. The snake was taken back to a nearby nest.
Jiang Xiuhua definitely said something!
The dead man went back to Zhoucheng to report that there was no need for Jia Pengyi to kill Wu Kangsheng after he knew the secret that Wu Kangsheng handed over to Jiang Xiuhua.
But a few days later, probably because they heard that Di Ying was coming to Cangzhou, they sent out dead soldiers again, killed Wu Kangsheng and left.
Then, the secret that Wu Kangsheng gave to Jiang Xiuhua must be just some verbal information, not something real.
After all, neither of their families had any trace of being extensively searched.
What could this secret be?
Fudan's hiding place!
Fudan is probably in danger, or has been killed.
wrong. There's something else that doesn't make sense here.
Di Ying paced and re-deduced the situation in his mind.
Wu Kangsheng knew the dead man. This shows that after Jia Pengyi guessed what Fu Dan took away, he arranged for the dead men to sneak into the fishing village.
Then he met and interacted with Wu Kangsheng. Wu Kangsheng was a good drinker, so he might have been tricked by the dead man.
But nothing was found.
It shows that Wu Kangsheng is indeed unaware of Fudan's affairs. So, after Fu Dan escaped, he did not actually go to Wu Kangsheng.
But while staring at Wu Kangsheng, the dead man discovered that Jiang Xiuhua knew some secret, so he secretly interrogated Jiang Xiuhua, then killed her and burned her body.
Originally, this matter was settled.
Later, the dead man discovered that someone was inquiring about Jiang Xiuhua and demolished Jiang Xiuhua's house. In order to prevent himself from being recognized by Wu Kangsheng, the dead man immediately killed Wu Kangsheng and left the fishing village.
Only in this way can the time and order of death of Jiang Xiuhua and Wu Kangsheng be sorted out.
The secret Jiang Xiuhua knows may belong to her husband Cheng Xinzhi.
What could it be?
