A word of Liu Kong made Xing Enming in the lobby suddenly feel like a thunderbolt from the clear sky, and he was stunned on the spot!
Liu Kong is also missing?
"Ms. Li, please tell me in detail, how did your master disappear?"
"Yes, sir!" Li cried and told the story of Liu Kong's disappearance.
It turned out that early this morning, Liu Kong took a sedan chair and went to the Ministry of Personnel to report on his work.
When leaving, Mrs. Li saw her off in person. She watched Liu Kong get on the sedan and leave with her own eyes.
However, when the sedan came back, Mrs. Li came out to welcome it. She didn't hear any movement inside, so she felt a little strange. As a result, she raised the curtain of the sedan. Except for a huge stone, where was Liu Kong's figure inside the sedan?
Li was immediately startled. She asked the bearers again, and they all said that it was Liu Kong himself when he left the official department. The sedan did not stop along the way. Why did Mr. Liu inside turn into stone?
Xing Enming frowned after hearing this.
Are you still a human being when you leave? Turned into stone when he came back?
Did someone trick him into hiding with rocks?
However, who is so powerful that he can kidnap Liu Kong and complete the transfer without disturbing the bearer?
If the opponent's kung fu is really so high, why go to such trouble?
This really makes no sense.
Another point is that when he returned from Guanyi yesterday, he ordered Zhou Lin to arrange for people to keep an eye on Liu Kong. Liu Kong's disappearance was such a big deal, why didn't they come to report it in advance?
Could it be...
Xing Enming felt something ominous in his heart.
He pretended to ponder for a moment, then looked at Mrs. Li again and asked: "Ms. Li, is the sedan chair and the stone still in Guanyi?"
Mrs. Li shook her head, "Yes. It's just that it's not in the hotel, but in the house that the master bought in Xuandu. The bearers carrying the sedan chair are also there. When I came to report to the official, I specifically asked the servants in the mansion not to let them go. Anyone leave.”
Xing Enming was stunned when he heard this, "Home house?" He remembered that Liu Kong was not from the capital?
"Your master has bought a house in the capital?"
"Yes. I just got the land deed from the tooth dealer a few days ago. I and a few servants moved there first this morning. I originally planned to wait for the master to return from his work report and then move the remaining things there. Who knows..."
At this point, Li covered her face and cried again.
Xing Enming frowned.
Just bought it?
As a local official, he bought a house in the capital. Did he plan to live in the capital permanently in the future?
Xing Enming felt a little strange, but he didn't continue thinking in this direction.
After all, the top priority is to find out the disappearance of Liu Kong.
"Okay, Mrs. Li, you lead the way, I want to see that sedan." As he said that, he stood up from behind the court case.
Mrs. Li nodded, "But it depends on your orders."
Therefore, Xing Enming took Zhou Lin and several government agents and followed Li to the house Liu Kong bought in Beijing. Before leaving, Xing Enming sent several other government officials to Jiulong Mansion to deliver the message, and also to find out if something had happened to the two people who had been arranged to follow him.
In the Jiulong Mansion, everyone had finished their work and was gathering at a stone table in the courtyard to discuss the case.
"So, the question now is, how did the murderer light a fire in the secret room and escape?" After listening to Chen Yutian's investigation of the fire scene, Gongsun and others pondered slightly.
Xue Tianhan nodded, "Yes. Brother Chen and I have thought about it for a long time, and the situation at the scene cannot be confirmed at all."
Huo Yuanji raised his eyebrows, "Confirmed? Does that mean you have a guess?"
Chen Yutian nodded slightly and said with a smile: "There is indeed a guess, but there is no evidence to support it at the scene."
Xuan Xi asked: "What guess?"
She obviously went to the scene with these two people, but why couldn't she see that they had something on their mind?
Is my brain really just a decoration?
Chen Yutian smiled slightly and said six words: "Delayed ignition mechanism."
When Gongsun heard this, his eyes lit up!
Indeed, this is the only conjecture that can be explained.
"Okay, this is what we have discovered here. What about you, do you have any new discoveries?" Chen Yutian asked again.
Huo Yuanji and Wu Dongtian shook their heads at the same time and said: "We didn't find anything here. Those witnesses saw the fire from a distance at night, and then one of the watchmen immediately knocked on the gong, waking up many people. "
Gongsun also shook his head slightly.
"I didn't find anything here either."
Everyone was slightly startled. Looking at him, Chen Yutian even asked: "Didn't you go to dissect the corpse today? Didn't you find anything like this?"
Gongsun shook his head helplessly, "Judging from the autopsy results, the deceased's stomach was contracted and he should have been without water for nearly three days. This is enough to cause many people to die. But there was a lot of soot in his lungs, mouth and nose , indicating that he was indeed not dead when the fire broke out.”
Everyone looked at each other.
Not getting a drop of water for three days can indeed lead to death. No one died when the fire broke out, which means that when the person died, he was already at the fire scene. Doesn't this mean that both causes of death are possible.
Gongsun smiled bitterly and said: "That's true. There is another thing I forgot to mention yesterday. The limbs of the deceased were broken by someone's internal force. In other words, the murderer should know martial arts and have a high level of cultivation."
Everyone was even more surprised!
How could Gongsun forget to mention such an important thing? This is completely different from the careful and careful person he was before.
Gongsun was helpless.
This matter was originally written on the corpse and attached to the case file, but the Jiulong Mansion started visiting and investigating it as soon as they returned. On the contrary, no one has looked through the most basic case file until now. Since this matter would be helpful in identifying the murderer, Gongsun could only mention it again.
"Now it seems that we are the only ones who have gained a little bit from today's investigation." Chen Yutian rubbed his eyebrows and said.
Everyone nodded.
This case doesn't seem complicated, but there are no clues. On the contrary, it's a bit troublesome.
At this moment, Lin Tao and Han Tong, who had finished studying with Chen Jing, came over and asked everyone if they wanted to go out for lunch. It happened that a new restaurant had recently opened in the capital, and it was said that the food cooked by the chef was delicious.
Of course, in terms of appearance, fragrance and flavor, she can't compare to Lin Feifei, the female chef.
It's just that everyone has been eating Lin Feifei's food for many days, and they will get tired of eating it all the time, so everyone thought about it and prepared to try something new.
Lin Feifei rarely had to cook, so she was happy to have some free time, so she went with the others.
But who would have thought that before they went out, the government officials from Gyeonggi Prefecture arrived first.
"I have met Mr. Wuhou."
As soon as the yamen servant entered the door, he knelt down and worshiped Chen Yutian.
Chen Yutian waved his hand and said: "Get up, what did Master Xing send you to do?"
The officer said: "Master Marquis, your Excellency asked me to send you a message. Liu Kong is missing."
"What?" Chen Yutian was stunned for a moment, and his expression suddenly became serious.
Liu Kong is also missing?
"I understand. Go back and tell Uncle Xing that we will go there now."
After saying that, he looked back at everyone who was planning to eat, and everyone nodded in understanding.
It seems that this meal is temporarily unavailable.
