Since they had no clue for the moment, everyone had no choice but to disperse and wait silently for Li Yu's arrival. While Yang Qing was still looking at the stones and rags, a burst of hearty laughter came with the breeze.
"Haha, my dear brother Ming, I haven't seen you for a few days, but I didn't expect that we met again at the crime scene." It turned out that Li Yu finally arrived with his people.
"Brother Ziyu, please wait a while." Yang Qing stepped forward and bowed his hands in salute.
"Don't blame Mingzhi. He is really busy with official duties. As soon as he heard that Mingzhi was also involved in this disappearance case, my brother rushed over immediately." Li Yu returned the courtesy: "Now, you and I can work together to solve the case. .”
"We didn't know each other last time, so how could we work together to solve a case?" Yang Qing slandered.
"Ahem." Xia Houyue couldn't help but let out a dissatisfied voice when she saw the two men joking around at the crime scene.
Seeing this, Yang Qing also knew that this was not a good thing, so he quickly turned the conversation back to business: "Brother Ziyu, let's not talk so much now, we should solve the case first."
Li Yu naturally noticed Xia Houyue's dissatisfaction, turned around and said to Xia Houyue: "This must be Mrs. Xiahou, and this is Chengdu County Lieutenant Li Yu. I came this time to find the missing maid."
Xia Houyue returned the courtesy and said: "Li County Lieutenant is polite, so I will leave everything to the County Lieutenant."
"Don't worry, Madam Xiahou, I will go all out, not to mention that with Yang Xiandi, a master of solving crimes, it will be easy to find the maid." Li Yu patted Yang Qing's arm, full of confidence in him.
"Oh, the Nu family thought that Yang Langjun was already a great talent in literature, but never thought that Lang Jun was also good at criminal cases. This surprised the Nu family again." When Xia Houyue arrived as an assistant in Huang County She already vaguely knew from his mouth what murder case Yang Qing had helped the government solve, and she was only slightly surprised at the time. Unexpectedly, County Lieutenant Li also admired Yang Qing's reasoning skills in solving crimes. This made her evaluate Yang Qing in her heart. Another level up.
"I only have a brief understanding. Madam Xiahou, please do not listen to Brother Ziyu teasing Yang." Yang Qing said hurriedly and humbly. At this time, he didn't have much clue, so how could he dare to say in front of others that he would definitely find Xinlan.
"Brother Ziyu, you should see the scene before making any other calculations." Yang Qing pointed to the pit on the ground.
Li Yu said: "Yes, yes, Huang County Assistant, please tell me what's going on."
Huang Xianzuo on the side hurriedly stepped forward and explained the whole story to Li Yu. After hearing this, Li Yu walked to the pit and looked carefully at the blood-stained stones, leaves and rags. He pondered for a moment and said to everyone: " That’s it, I’ll go to Wang’s house now to find out what happened last night.”
"Huang County Zuo, please order people to protect the crime scene and these physical evidences. In addition, continue to send people to search for traces of Xinlan along the streets. As soon as there is news, come to Wang's house and inform me." Li Yu gave another order to Huang Shuzuo.
In the main hall of the Wang family, Wang Pu sat solemnly on the main seat and looked at Li Yu, Yang Qing and others. Li Yu and others also knelt down and sat in the guest seats without saying a word. The atmosphere in the room seemed a bit heavy. When Li Yu brought everyone into the house for questioning just now, Wang Pu seemed to be cooperating fully. However, Li Yu's inciting troops and mobilizing people in such a way meant that he thought the Wang family was suspicious. This made him quite angry, thinking that although the Wang family was not considered He belongs to a wealthy family, but he is also a Shishizhou county. How could he be related to the missing maid from the house of his niece?
Wang Pu took a sip of tea, calmed down, suppressed the anger in his heart, and planned to say a few words to ease the atmosphere in the room. Before he could speak, Wang Tong came in and reported: "My lord, the servant who went to Xiahou Mansion last night They have all been brought here, and I have ordered them to wait outside for Lieutenant Li's interrogation."
Wang Pu said to Li Yu: "In that case, Ziyu, it's up to you to do what you want next."
"Since the prince has said so, it would be disrespectful for Yu to reject it." Li Yu stood up and bowed. It turns out that Wang Pu is now serving as the subordinate of Jue Cao in Shu County. Cao refers to the government department in the Han Dynasty. Jue Cao is the department in charge of prison. Cao's official title is Fu and deputy title. Although Wang Pu's Jue Cao subordinate rank In terms of rank, Bi Sanbaishi is not as good as Li Yu, a county lieutenant with a rank of four hundred Shi, but power is not discussed in this way. Jue Cao's subordinates assist Jue Cao's case in charge of a county and Jue Jing is an important official of the prefect. In addition, Wang Pu was older and had been an official for many years, so Li Yu also respected Wang Pu quite a lot.
Li Yu said to Yang Qing next to him: "Mingzhi, what do you think we should do next?"
When he first arrived at the Wang family, Yang Qing basically understood the whereabouts of the Wang family last night through the accounts of Wang Pu and his son. Yesterday, a total of eight people from the Wang family went to Xiahou's house for a banquet. In addition to the two hosts, Wang Pu and Wang Tong, there were also two coachmen and four attendants. According to what Wang Pu said, the maid Xinlan chased after him two streets away from Xiahou Mansion last night. After returning the jade pendant, he said a few thanks and let Xinlan go back. The Wang family only had contact with Xinlan. That's all. As for what happened next, the Wang family's motorcade was divided into two groups. Wang Pu returned to the mansion, and Wang Tong went to a nearby villa to rest.
As for why Wang Tong wanted to go to the annex, when asked by Li Yu, Wang Tong hesitated and only said that the annex was in a quiet location and the chrysanthemums in the backyard were in bloom, so he wanted to rest there to enjoy the flowers. Drink tea and read to nourish your mind. Yang Qing was skeptical about this statement. Could it be that after being beaten by him last night, Wang Tong had to work hard all night? Does he have the perseverance? It seems that we have to ask these people separately to know their true whereabouts.
After making up his mind, Yang Qing said with a smile: "Brother Ziyu is taking the exam for me, so I'm just asking." Li Yu also smiled knowingly when he heard this, and said to Wang Pu: "Please prepare some for me." A room for questioning."
Wang Pu replied: "This is easy to talk about. Let Tong'er prepare it."
"Yes, sir."
After Wang Tong accepted the order, he walked up to Xia Houyue and invited her to come and see the scenery in the mansion, but Xia Houyue declined politely. The man had to leave angrily, but before going out, he glared at Yang Qing fiercely, which made Yang Qing angry. Qing felt funny in his heart.
"Brother Wang, please tell me again about Xinlan's whereabouts after catching up with the convoy last night." Yang Qing said.
After some questioning, I didn’t expect that I really gained a lot. After Xinlan returned the jade pendant last night, the Wang family's motorcade was indeed divided into two groups. Wang Pu returned to the palace with a coachman and two guards, while Wang Tong took another coachman and two guards to the annex. There should be no problem with the four masters and servants of Wang Pu. They all returned to the mansion together and have not left the mansion so far. Their whereabouts at every moment have been confirmed by others. Both the four of them corroborated each other and others can prove it. The problem lies with Wang Tong and his party, but the suspicion does not point to Wang Tong. His whereabouts are also certain. As he said, he went to the villa to rest and returned to the mansion just after 1:00 this morning. All these have been revealed by others. It was confirmed that this guy didn't go to the annex to study hard as he said, but to spend the night with the singer who was placed there. Now this guy doesn't dare to look at Xia Houyue seriously.
"Li County Lieutenant, after I separated from my father last night, I asked the coachman Guo Ping to drive the carriage to the annex. Of course, I was accompanied by my attendants Wu Er and Zhu Ba, who came in just now to answer the question." Wang Tong ignored Yang Qing and just cared. He replied to Li Yu: "Both of them are rangers, and they also spent some time together in Liu Zhang's army. After the late emperor settled Shu, they both withdrew from the army. Later, my family saw that they had great martial arts and skills." We had strength, so we recruited them as guards.”
Wang Tong paused and then said: "Shortly after the convoy parted ways with my father last night, the two of them asked me to go home to live. I thought that the annex was not far away anyway, and there should be no danger on the road, so I let They went back. As for the whereabouts of these two people after they left, I don't know, but when I got up in the morning, I saw these two people on duty in the mansion. "
Yang Qing glanced at Li Yu, and Li Yu nodded. Both of them had something to worry about. Yang Qingdao: "I see, does Brother Wang still remember when these two people left?"
"It should be just after midnight."
"Have these two people come into contact with Xinlan before?" Yang Qing suddenly thought of something and asked.
"How could someone know about the affairs between people?" Wang Tong said arrogantly.
Yang Qing said speechlessly: "You are stupid. Then please ask Brother Wang to go out and ask the servants from last night to come in. Of course, the other four people except Wu Er and Zhu Ba."
Wang Tong said angrily: "You don't need to teach me this, I know it already." After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and walked out of the room.
Yang Qing smiled awkwardly at Li Yu. This guy was becoming more and more hostile towards him. Naturally, he knew the reason. Xia Houyue knew about Wang Tong's indulgence in the villa last night, which made him appear in front of the beautiful lady. After losing some face again, shouldn't this debt be placed on Yang Qing again?
Li Yu waved his hand and asked Guo Ping and the others to leave. Seeing Yang Qing's thoughtful look, he was not in a hurry. He picked up the teacup on the desk and took a sip, then asked: "Mingzhi, it seems that Zhu Bahe Wu Er is indeed quite suspicious."
"That's true." Yang Qing replied: "According to what Guo Ping and the others said, the Xiahou Mansion also sent wine and food to the servants last night. Because Xinlan was so pretty, she made all the servants cheer when she went to deliver the food. Among them, Zhu Ba and Wu Er were the ones who danced the highest. The two were drunk and lusty. Not only did they tease each other, but Zhu Ba even reached out and touched Xinlan. The disappearance of Xinlan last night was probably related to these two. It’s about people.”
"Now that I think about it, when Wu and Zhu were answering, their eyes were quite evasive. I originally thought that it was because I was nervous when being questioned by the officials. Could it be that I had a guilty conscience?" Li Yu expressed his doubts based on the current clues. .
"It's not easy to draw a conclusion on this. Maybe they are just timid and nervous." Yang Qing shook his head slightly: "Brother Ziyu, I think it is better to control the two of them first, and then send people to their homes to verify whether they are as they say. I just wanted to go home and rest."
"Well, that's right." Li Yu immediately ordered.
