Chapter 522 Eyeliner
For Shen Hao, the imperial city is not unfamiliar, and it is far from being a place he "has little contact with".
The six people brought from Fengri City, including Wang Yiming, now hardly have any room to move. Not only the yamen servants of the Ministry of Punishment stared at them like guarding against thieves, but even the Shouwang Mansion blatantly sent people to stare at them in order to find out their movements.
After the tightening, Wang Yiming and others seemed to be less active. Except for beating the drum, they would still go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to urge new files, and the rest of the actions stopped. Even the investigation into Xiangtang has sunk.
It was Shen Hao's deliberate arrangement.
The reason to stand out in the past is to create tension, but now that both sides have clearly expressed the intention of counter-pressure, they will naturally restrain themselves and "play dead", giving the situation to the needle tip and the wheat awning.
But it's not like doing nothing. In fact, after arriving in the imperial city, Shen Hao's actions were not limited to Wang Yiming and the other six. Not mobilizing people from Fengri City, nor borrowing people from Jingxi Town Fushi, it is not Shen Hao's entrustment, but to show others that "power is limited". This is also in line with his status as "drawn".
But in fact, the reason why Shen Hao in the imperial city is no stranger is because the tentacles of the Blackwater Project have already extended here.
Those cowardly tramps and beggars on the street, Lifu and pickers who are waiting outside the carriages and horses to recruit work, and even some who only drive around in the early morning to collect night incense from house to house. Not to mention every one, at least ten One or two of them have been eroded by the four ministries under Wang Jian's command.
As the core of the Jingjiu Dynasty, the imperial city was naturally regarded as an absolute key point in the Blackwater Project. Not to mention that the sisters of the Xu family have already entered the backyard of the high-level power of the Jingjiu Dynasty, but these spooky eyeliners on the street also made Shen Hao more likely to be undetectable by others when he wanted to investigate something.
For example, to find out the cause of Qin Xiuyuan's death, the unavoidable thing is to determine whether he died by swallowing poison disguised as "sweet sugar" as Shen Hao judged, and if so, what kind of poison? Who poisoned him?
On the day he came to the imperial city, a subordinate brought by Shen Hao went to the sweet candy shop in the night market to ask questions. The question was blatant, not only to send a signal to the Shouwang Palace and the Criminal Department's Major Case Division, but also to the one who killed Qin Xiuyuan behind his back. Man releases signal.
Hit the grass, startle, and see where the poisonous snake hiding in the grass will go.
And those who are responsible for staring at the "grass" are the four eyeliners that have been arranged on the street early.
This part of the eyeliner is that Shen Hao is in contact with Wang Jian himself, and no one, including Wang Yiming, knows about it, nor does he directly contact those eyeliners.
The fourth department is the firebreak between Wang Jian and the Blackwater Project, and the Impermanence Department controlled by Zhang Liao is the countermeasure in the firebreak. The purpose is to isolate the relationship between Xuan Qingwei and the spies and eyeliners outside.
From the moment he arrived in the imperial city, Shen Hao received the first-hand news from Wang Jian on the Thousand Miles Notes after he went to the scene of the crime.
Regarding the current situation of the Qin family.
It is said that the Qin family is currently in a state of panic, and the main family has made it clear that it has drawn a clear line with the third-bedroom people. Not only has the business been cut off cleanly, but also in terms of relationships, it has also made a posture of "no relationship between old and dead". At least on the surface, it seems that the Qin family is ready to "kill relatives with righteousness".
However, the news that came one after another later proved that there is actually a thread of connection between the lotus. At least Qin Xiuyuan's daughter, Qin Xiangyu, was not "involved", and she didn't even show up in the mansion of the third bedroom of the Qin family. Instead, she stayed directly in the mansion of the eldest son of the Qin family as before, and continued to live the life of the daughter of the direct line.
So it seems that the Qin family is doing one thing in front of the other and another in the back. He wanted to part with Qin Xiuyuan, an "unworthy descendant", but he also didn't want to give up Qin Xiuyuan's daughter, Qin Xiangyu, who was the bait that could catch a wealthy son-in-law. This is to prepare to "stand up again". It seems that the Qin family's ambition has not been diminished by half because of Qin Xiuyuan's death.
In addition, Qin Yurou, the daughter of Qin's patriarch who Shen Hao had been focusing on all the time, did not make any changes as he thought.
It's a pity that the Qin family is full of old hands, and the latest handyman was recruited more than two years ago. The Blackwater Project failed to infiltrate the Qin mansion, and we couldn't get news from the Qin mansion.
I just learned some superficial expressions from Qin Wenhe's expression when he entered and exited the Qin Mansion every day, as well as the gossip of the servants and servants going out in the Qin Mansion. He couldn't dig deep things, but it could be heard that the entire Qin family was vigilant, and their tone was much stricter than usual.
After Shen Hao saw the scene of the crime and determined the direction of the investigation, the eyeliners in the imperial city immediately launched fragmented news investigations under the arrangement of the fourth department. The main target is those shops that sell gum.
Xiangtang, this is the closest clue to the murder context other than Qin Xiuyuan's body.
It was the same as the news that the subordinates brought by Shen Hao had asked, a "big man" like Qin Xiuyuan was well-known in the circle of the Xiangtang shop. It's not about how much sweets Qin Xiuyuan can eat, but the owner and shopkeeper of the shop will take the initiative to publicize it, for example: The third master of the Qin family said that the magnolia-flavored sweets here are the most authentic.
In addition, Shen Hao also learned from the information collected by these eyeliners that there is still an upper-class "bottle circle" circle in the imperial city.
Shen Hao had heard of poetry circles, horse racing circles, wine country circles, etc. before, and this was the first time he had heard of bottle circles, but it did not prevent him from understanding what kind of circles this was literally.
The bottle circle started to rise when Jingjiu enjoyed chewing gum when he was in the upper class. They are all people with status and status, and most people can't afford chewing gum, which is extremely expensive and not a necessity. And what does it mean to just eat? Wouldn't it be better for everyone to take this opportunity to form a small circle and use Xiangtang as an opportunity to get together to connect, exchange business and deepen friendship?
So the storage carrier of the gum, that is, the bottle, became another circle among the upper class people in the imperial city.
Shen Hao would not underestimate these weird-sounding circles. Many people cut their heads and drilled into them, not because of the reputation of the circle, but because of their personal connections.
Qin Xiuyuan has a purple jade beast scented sugar bottle, which is carved by a famous artist. This one is worth thousands of gold in the imperial city, and it is very popular. It is said that someone doubled the money and wanted to give Qin Xiuyuan away, but he was rejected. It is also because of this bottle that Qin Xiuyuan is very famous in the circle, and the taste of the gum is also known by many people.
These are the eyeliners of the Blackwater Project who came out bit by bit from the mouths of some sugar shop handymen, unloading workers, and restaurant attendants.
Even though they are all pieces of fragmented information, after splicing and deduction of the four parts, there is still some progress.