In fact, it really didn't take long since Shen Hao was assassinated on the street, and it had only been a few days. It was impossible to catch the murderer in such a short time, but Shen Hao found that when he asked about this topic, Tang Qingyuan's expression suddenly became stiff.
"What's the matter? Mr. Tang looks like it's not convenient to talk about it?" Shen Hao stopped the chopsticks in his hand and asked again curiously.
Tang Qingyuan and Shen Hao were too familiar. Tang Qingyuan knew that Shen Hao had noticed the clues in his expression just now, so he smiled bitterly and said, "Why are you so anxious? Don't you feel relieved that I will investigate this case?"
Shen Hao also laughed, continued to use his chopsticks, and said while eating: "It seems that it is really inconvenient to tell me. How about I ask Mr. Kuang?"
"It's not that it's inconvenient, but it's just that the decision hasn't been finalized yet, so it's hard to talk about it." Tang Qingyuan quickly added. It's not okay to ask Shen Hao to go directly to Kuang Shengyuan. Wouldn't it appear that he has no ability to respond?
"Then Mr. Tang, tell me, does this case need to be kept secret from me, the client?"
"It's not a secret, it's just...forget it, let's eat first, and we'll talk about it later when we're done."
Shen Hao nodded and did not continue to pester. He was just really curious in his heart about what was found in the case of the attack that made Tang Qingyuan behave so strangely. It stands to reason that it is nothing more than clues left by the murderer. Anyway, the person has not been caught yet, what other great inside story can be found?
After dinner, I went to Shen Hao's mansion to make tea and sat down on both sides.
"Can we talk now? It's so mysterious."
Tang Qingyuan snorted and said, "You said it so easily. If it were you, I might have held it tighter than me."
"Huh? What did you find out that makes you so nervous?"
Tang Qingyuan was silent for a long time before speaking: "You were busy with the case in the Military Department before, right?"
It was still a secret before, but now it has been covered, and Xu Hong has been jailed and the case has been concluded, so various news has spread, and Shen Hao, the organizer, has once again become famous within Xuanqing Guard.
So Shen Hao didn't shy away from it and nodded directly to admit it.
"So we previously suspected that the thieves in the military were plotting to kill you, because once you die, even if someone comes to take over the case and continue the investigation, there will definitely be a big delay, which will give many people who have nowhere to escape enough reaction time.
But then we discovered something strange, which made this case far different from our initial guess..."
Tang Qingyuan came slowly, saying that they immediately cut off all ways to leave Fengli City after receiving the news of Shen Hao's attack, and the teleportation array was also cut off.
Then there was a city-wide search.
This is not an exaggerated metaphor, but a real city-wide search. Even if every ditch has been opened, let alone every household, all the people and roads who cannot obtain the household registration certificate are from out of town. All were screened repeatedly.
Each group of soldiers is looking for people everywhere with magic weapons that can sense the true energy.
Not to mention, although this kind of search and ranking is very slow, it is still effective. Because as long as you enter or leave the city, you must pass through the city gate or the teleportation circle. Both of these places require you to leave a record of your identity certificate. Use these records to check the city's investigation results. Anyone who is missed is likely to be suspicious.
Of course, there are many such people, and they are not necessarily the thieves who attacked Shen Hao. Maybe there was some other reason for them to sneak into the city. But such people are not good people, so arrests have become common in Fengli City these days. You can often see the unlucky ones locked up with board locks being thrown into the Xuanqing Guard's prison and tortured, even if it is just a petty theft. Yes, even if he was affected by Yuchi, he would never be able to get out of the prison again.
Who made you unlucky enough to hit the blade?
After investigation, sorting, and screening, there were still some useful clues that came to the attention of Tang Qingyuan and other organizers.
"We found an out-of-town guest in a small inn who went out shortly after the incident and never came back. That person still had a full twenty taels of silver on the inn's account. Most people are not so generous and just leave. Money...and we searched around and couldn't find this person at all. According to the description of the waiter, this person's eyes were very gloomy, making people afraid to look at him, and his aura was not like that of ordinary people. It was possible that He is a monk.
And we went to see the room this person had booked in this small inn. When the window of this room was opened, you could see the place where you were attacked before. The two places were less than one mile apart. "
Shen Hao raised his eyebrows, this was a very important clue. However, he still didn't understand why Tang Qingyuan had avoided telling him about the progress of the case before.
Without interrupting, Shen Hao continued to listen, guessing that there should be other discoveries later.
Sure enough, Tang Qingyuan said: "That person is most likely the thief who performed the phantom killing on you. It's just that he left the inn before we found him, and there is currently no trace of him in Fengri City.
I could only make a portrait of the man's appearance and some peculiar features based on the memories of the waiter at the inn. Unexpectedly, a problem was discovered. "With that said, Tang Qingyuan took out a palm-sized piece of paper from the storage bag in his arms and handed it to Shen Hao.
Shen Hao took it and unfolded it. There was a coat of arms drawn on the paper.
The underside of the coat of arms is a pattern of three golden spears crossing each other, and then there is a rice field. This coat of arms made Shen Hao blink his eyes and be speechless for a long time.
After a long time, Shen Hao twitched the corner of his mouth, raised his head and looked at Tang Qingyuan with a sad look on his face. He didn't know what to say. He opened his mouth several times before holding back a sentence: "This thing has nothing to do with me, does it?" ?”
Tang Qingyuan said angrily: "What do you think? Now you know why I said it was hard to talk about you before, right? This coat of arms was seen on the wallet the waiter took out when he was collecting the deposit when he checked in. Yes, you should know the weight of this coat of arms, right?"
"Well, this is...the coat of arms of the royal family's internal guards. The rice field three spear pattern."
The imperial guards, as the name suggests, are the guards recruited by the royal family to protect their own safety. They are not in the regular establishment of the Jingjiu Dynasty. They are equivalent to the servants guarding the courtyard with high gates and red walls, and are also different from the emperor's palace guards.
But the strength of the royal family's internal guards cannot be underestimated. Their training, equipment, and cultivation are all comparable to those of the palace guards. The only thing is that there are extremely strict restrictions on their numbers, and they are divided according to their status.
"That's right, the rice field three spear pattern is the unique emblem of the royal family's internal guards. The person who wants to take your life with phantom killing is most likely the royal family's internal guards. In this case, don't you think this matter is complicated? I It's strange. I, Tang Qingyuan, have worked in Xuanqing Guard for most of my life and don't have many enemies. Why do you have people trying to kill you every two days? Even the royal family comes.
...Do you think it could be...the fifth prince? "
