Red Dresses Overwhelming the world/C80 The murderer the fire
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C80 The murderer the fire

The Ruan Mansion fire was exterminated only when dawn arrived. At this moment, it was still emitting thick smoke.

The luxurious mansion only had ruins left, the ground was filled with broken buildings and walls, densely packed with dozens of charred corpses with unrecognizable faces, looking at them, it was enough to make one's scalp go numb, Capital Office and Right Guard Commander Xiao Ye were all alarmed in the middle of the night, at this moment, they were standing on the ground in front of the corpses.

"How is Advisor Xing?"

"My lord, your majesty, we have examined all eighty charred corpses, and it will take us some time to find out who they are. In addition, the coroner found out that everyone was killed with one knife after another, only one person's chest and ribs were pierced by a sharp weapon. It must have taken more than ten stabs to stab the heart, which was extremely cruel. Furthermore, after cleaning the abandoned beard, we found twelve swords in the dried up well in the backyard. They were all stained with blood and should be murder weapons, and before the Lord and Prince came, there was Ruan's Family. A young lady was saved and sent to the infirmary to be treated, and the doctor said that the injury was too severe.

"Send an order to the I, protect the infirmary. Announce to the Imperial physician, no matter what, he must save the person for the I! Send people to see if the people who were searching for the Shao deputy commander came back? " Seeing the ten blood stained swords clanging on the ground, Xiao Ye ordered with a solemn face, his voice carrying a trace of anger.

Having said so, some guards at the side immediately left as soon as they heard the order.

The I had long guessed that the culprit might not be just one person when he heard that someone had seen him escaping, but the I had ordered someone to stand guard outside the Ruan Mansion. The culprit had killed so many people, but not one of them had resisted and begged for help, even though it was late at night, everyone had fallen asleep already. Only someone with Ruan Mansion at night would be able to do so. When the fire started, yamen runner had already rushed in. However, other than the culprits, no one else has discovered anything suspicious.

"Also, over twenty days ago, Ruan Family Weaving Dyeing Workshop s used fire oil s, but last night, the fire s were even more powerful than that night. When the fire started, it was accompanied by a strong smell of alcohol. It seemed like these people were extremely familiar with the situation of the Ruan's Family. The culprits set fire but did not leave in time. Instead, they waited for the yamen runner to arrive before they left, obviously moving to cover their comrades, and those culprits, were most likely hiding at the scene of the fire. Unfortunately, all the people from Ruan's Family are dead, and the only survivor is unknown, otherwise ? "

As Yu Chong spoke, he could not hide the melancholy in his eyes. With such a huge incident, Long Yan was infuriated, and the Ruan's Family was the first thing that happened, if someone were to use it on him, he would be the first one to do so. He hated the murderer for burning away all the fire, and did not leave any clues behind.

Right now, he could only hope that Shao Feng could catch the culprit who escaped.

Otherwise, he would not be able to explain in front of the emperor!

Xiao Ye heard this and did not say anything.

In the past few days, the entire Capital had been cordoned off, and all the city gates had long since been on full alert. Not only were their inspections even more rigorous, they also strictly controlled the flow of fire oil s and other inflammable substances like tung oil.

There was also the Right Guard patrolling around the Ruan Mansion every fifteen minutes, and there was no movement for half a month. However, just when everyone relaxed their vigilance and thought that the killer would definitely not do anything else, the assassin actually went the other way, and used such a ruthless method to annihilate the entire Ruan's Family family.

No one would have thought that he would be able to release such a fire even without using the fire oil. He wanted people to control the fire oil and other combustible substances, but he had forgotten about the wine, not only was it easily to drink, it was also extremely combustible. He had seen the Ruan's Family wine cellar before, but there were many empty wine jar scattered everywhere.

These people were not ordinary people. From the initial massacre and arson to their final retreat, they had all left people behind to attract the attention of the people from the Palace and Right Guard. Their methods were clean and tidy, and they were definitely not something that could be done by those bullies from the Shop s in the courtyard.

In other words, someone was fishing in troubled waters!

"Lord, Prince, we found a person in the woodshed in the side courtyard." Two people behind him carried a person as they walked over: "This person was locked in the woodshed, and because of that he escaped death due to the fire, but he was tortured, and had long since fainted."

"He was tortured?"

Yu Chong looked at the skinny and tiny injured person: "Look at the clothes that they are wearing, it seems like a servant girl from the Ruan's Family. Advisor Xing, let the doctor come over first to check on their injuries. "I'll ask him in detail after he wakes up."

"Yes, milord."

The doctor who was originally standing guard at the scene quickly diagnosed the patient and came to a conclusion.

"My lord, this man was injured but not seriously, and he fainted for two reasons. The doctor checked her pulse and said that she had not eaten any rice for several days, and then fainted because of the smoke. She said she didn't know what was going on either. She only heard a sound in the middle of the night and got up to see that there was a fire outside. No one came to save her, so she fainted from the smoke in the end. "

"This person is Ruan Wei'er's lass, she was punished and locked in the woodshed because she accidentally broke Madam Ruan's jade bracelet three days ago." This person is Ruan Wei'er's lass, she was punished and locked in the woodshed because she accidentally broke Mistress Ruan's jade bracelet three days ago.

After Yu Chong finished listening to the words of the Advisor Xing, he only frowned. "Send her back to the Residence to be taken care of first.

Xiao Ye glanced over and saw that the skinny and pathetic figure had been supported away. Upon seeing the three people walking over, he shifted his gaze away, "How is it, is there any news on Shao Feng?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, our people have already found the Shao deputy commander, it's just that the deputy commander is severely injured, all the people that went to hunt them down have died, but the culprit has already been captured."

"What? You said the murderer has been caught?" Yu Chong and the rest were startled, but immediately revealed joyous expressions.

Xiao Ye asked: "Where is he now?"

The janissary replied, "Reporting to Your Highness, deputy commander is currently at the Capital Office and the murderer's corpse has already been brought back. It is also within the magistrate court."

"Prince ?"

"Yu, let's return to the Residence and take a look. Although father has handed the case over to Yu for investigation, he is in charge of Capital and is on patrol.

"This is great, sorry to trouble you."

Yu Chong, Xiao Ye and the others brought their men and rushed back to the yamen. Several corpses were also placed in the main hall of the yamen. Other than the ones that were ordered to follow Shao Feng during the night, there were three other corpses wearing ghost-mask.

Advisor Xing and Head Constable stepped forward to lift up the ghost masks, "Sir, all of them are dead. This subordinate has compared them with Head Constable Ye, and these three are all fugitives, each of them carrying multiple lives."

"A criminal under orders?"

Yu Chong took the portrait in Advisor Xing's hands, and compared it with the corpse on the ground. The three of them were indeed the criminals that had been running away for many years, and each of them had at least ten lives on them.

Who would have thought that this would happen?

Putting down the portrait, he looked at Shao Feng who was still wrapped in the white cloth made from blood: "Can Vice Leader Shao tell me the details of what happened at that time to I? According to what I knows, you were hunting one person at the time, why three appeared later on? Did the murderer say anything before he died? Why did they want to kill the Ruan's Family people? Was there any other accomplice? Are the two people whose Ruan's Family are missing in the hands of their people? "

Shao Feng's face was pale as he shook his head: "Yu, we were indeed chasing one person, but then two people suddenly appeared. These few people tried to resist, but this deputy commander could only order people to kill them on the spot. However, based on the situation now, I'm afraid that they are in a bad situation. "

After the Advisor Xing heard this, he stepped forward and said respectfully, "Master, from this subordinate's point of view, if these people were not rich, they would have been bought secretly. Now that the culprit has been executed, this subordinate thinks that we can wait for Miss Ruan's Family to wake up and ask her about it first. Since she is the only survivor of the crime scene and the only person who might have come into contact with the culprit, she might have some clues. "

Yu Chong heard and nodded his head: "It seems that this is the only way, thank you Duke and deputy commander Shao for your help, after lower official finishes arranging the documents, he will write a report and report the situation to emperor."

Xiao Ye lowered his head and looked at the corpses: "Don't worry, I's duty is to me. Shao Feng's injuries are not light. Since there's nothing else happening here, I shall leave first. "

"Respectfully sending off your highness."

Yu Chong and the rest immediately bowed.

After the few of them disappeared, the Ya Head Constable stepped forward: "Master, this case... Doubtful, do you think these three people are really the culprits? Some of them have been running for more than ten years, and have already informed all the provinces and prefectures to arrest them, and even more so have been hunting them down since early in the Central Judicial Office. Just the three of them have already put a bounty of no less than ten thousand gold on the flowers, but why would they suddenly appear and even start a fire together in the Ruan's Family?

"Head Constable Zhan, the culprit has been executed."

Yu Chong looked at Zhan Yi coldly: "This case no longer needs to be investigated. What you need to do now is to wait for the witness to wake up and verify the evidence, then quickly organize the documents into a book, so that I can report this case to the emperor and post a notice. Advisor Xing, you know what to do."

"This subordinate understands."

Advisor Xing replied respectfully with the portrait in his hand, he understood the meaning of Master's words, the effects of the case were too severe, regardless of whether they were the real culprits or not, they had to be treated as the real culprits, only then would Master be able to explain to the emperor, in any case the culprit was captured by the Imperial guards.

If they say it's a murderer, then it's a murderer!

In the King Xian Palace, Shao Feng followed Xiao Ye back to the study room.

His pale face looked much better as he kneeled on the floor and begged for forgiveness, "Your Highness, it was all your subordinate's incompetence that did not catch the real culprit. Please punish me."

"It has nothing to do with you. It was the I that underestimated your opponent."

Xiao Ye shook his head: "You have done very well, the massacre of the family at the feet of the Son of Heaven will definitely disturb the hearts of the people. Now that Yu Chong thinks about it, there will be an end to it. Since you have met with the murderer, then you should have secretly sent people to investigate. I is confused, the person hiding in ambush has already killed everyone, why did he let you go alone? "

"This, your subordinate does not know either!"

Shao Feng frowned, a look of regret appearing between his brows: "It's a pity that the culprits were wearing masks, and those who appeared afterwards were also masked their faces. "Originally, your subordinate guessed that the person who appeared later was a comrade of that person, but then your subordinate thought that they might not have been on the same side as him, otherwise, like what Your Highness said, they would have killed your subordinate as an addition, but they did not do so. Besides that, your subordinate really cannot think of any other reason ?"

Xiao Ye muttered to himself for a while before slowly opening his mouth, "It was a provocation, and it was done on purpose!"

"Your highness, they intentionally let us return, but why?" Shao Feng did not understand, who was he provoking, and who was he provoking? Provoke the magistrate court, the prince, or the emperor?

"Why?"

Xiao Ye stood up and retorted, "I thinks that it's not that hard to guess. Shao Feng, send someone to check who has not been able to locate their whereabouts last night, and then order for the martial law to be lifted, there is no need to patrol the area near the Ruan's Family. "

It was not only to provoke the Emperor's might, or the Imperial Family, it was also to provoke him. It was to force him to make a choice, and it was also the first thing he did after hearing from Shao Feng that he made such a decision.

He chose to let the murderer return.

Even if he had known that someone had set their eyes on Ruan's Family, he did not think that person would use such a vicious method to openly eliminate Ruan's Family. He was probably the only one who hadn't thought of it.

Especially since this person had done it.

Using the grudges between the Liu and Ji Clans to expand his power so that he could use the Liu Family s to deal with the Ruan's Family, not only was this person daring and ruthless, he was also meticulous and difficult to guess. He precisely seized every opportunity to see through everyone's personality, and even intentionally made a move in front of the Qionghua Feast.

The person behind him had calculated almost all the details.

What a formidable opponent!

Shao Feng hesitated, "Your Highness, this ?"

Xiao Ye said coldly: "The Ruan's Family have already been burnt to ashes. Whether it is someone taking revenge on us or someone trying to harm us, the murderer's goal has been achieved. We will temporarily not do anything else. As for other things, I has other arrangements."

"Yes, Your Highness. Your subordinate will go right away."

After Shao Feng left, Xiao Ye went back to his table, took out his brush and wrote a letter, he gently patted his hand and a Black Man appeared, "Send this letter out as soon as possible."

Seeing that the Dark Guard had disappeared, the man's face darkened.

You want to target Ruan's Family?

Very good!

I will help you this time, and let I see just how much ability you, who are hiding in the shadows, have. Can you find that thing for me?

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