Chapter 740

On the eighth day of July, in the early morning, Mao time.

Imperial City, Prince Lu's Mansion.

It's already summer, and the sky is already turning white at Mao's time, and the temperature has begun to rise rapidly.

The Lu Palace is brightly lit. In the entire mansion, apart from the royal guards coming in and out, there are also a large number of officials from the Ministry of Criminal Justice who are busy inside with frosty faces. You can even see the royal guards who usually don’t pay attention to others are honest. Really accept the cross-examination of the yamen servants one by one.

The owner of Prince Lu's mansion died, and he died in his own back garden. This was like a bolt from the blue for the whole of Prince Lu's mansion. Some were crying, some were scared to pee, and some were still in disbelief. For the people in the palace, the sky was falling.

In fact, the palace of Prince Lu had been clouded for a long time. King Qian was killed, and King Lu was suspected of being the murderer. Not only was the emperor asked him to shut up and contemplate his mistakes, but even his original supporters were scattered.

The personal guard who served King Lu on weekdays said: "The prince is in a bad mood recently, he likes to drink, and always drinks alone, sometimes in the study, sometimes in the gazebo in the back garden.

The moonlight was good last night, and there was a cool breeze, so King Lu asked someone to prepare wine and sit alone in the gazebo. I stood at the position of the prince ten feet away, no, I didn't find anything unusual, until the breath of the prince suddenly, suddenly collapsed."

This personal inner guard of King Lu is at the eighth level of Yuan Dan Realm, which is almost the highest within the scope allowed by the "big test". In addition, King Lu has recently had bad luck, which involves safety issues, so he has always been with King Lu. It was tight and never let down its guard. Even King Lu's inner guards were not one, but a total of eight, all of whom were masters of Yuan Dan Realm and Later Realm.

But even under such tight defense, King Lu died, even under the noses of many inner guards.

"Before you came, I was the only one who was close to King Lu's body and the pavilion. I checked all the aura around King Lu at that time, and there was nothing suspicious or found anything."

King Lu's personal inner guard's face was ashen, and at the same time he was angry and full of killing intent. He knew that he was finished this time, and even if he didn't die, he would lose his position among the imperial family's inner guards. guarded. Thinking about the dark days in the future, my heart hurts with anger.

Xue Gui, the head of the Department of Major Cases, was in charge of recording the statement.

The mask on Xue Gui's face often gave him a cold and stern impression, but Xue Gui's heart was not at all calm at this time. He is very clear that one prince after another dies, even in the "big exam", it is not a good thing to accept this kind of case from any point of view.

But Xue Gui is only a fifth-rank official, how can he evade the orders given to him by Ma Xuanlin, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment? What's more, Ma Xuanlin had shown him many times before and after that he had been asked to temporarily act as the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment ten days ago, and now he naturally had no way to shirk.

But Xue Gui was also very empty in his heart. He was worried that the last prince who ascended the throne would not be "good" by the Ministry of Punishment, and it would be miserable then.

His mind was restless, and he also didn't have much clue when facing the case. But the clues collected so far have made Xue Gui feel familiar.

Following the completion of the confession here, Wu Zuo's conclusion also entered Xue Gui's hands.

No trauma, no signs of poisoning, and the cause of death is unknown. Isn't this exactly the same as when King Qian was killed before? Even the expression on the corpse's face showed no pain at all, just a sad look, as if King Lu was still worrying about some troubles before he died, and he died on the spot the next moment.

Xue Gui nodded, and waved his hand to let the royal guard whose fate is unknown go down to wait, but he has no power to deal with these guards, neither has the power to torture or imprison them, only limited power to let the other party cooperate with him in investigating the case . However, the royal ancestral hall sent people over to cooperate, so Xue Gui didn't have to worry about what would happen to the inner guards of Lu Wang's mansion.

Of course, there is also the possibility of the inner guards lying. Although the royal family's inner guards are equivalent to the dead soldiers of the royal family, there are no absolutes in the world, and some things are hard to say. It's just that it's not his turn to check whether the other party is lying. The people from the royal family's ancestral hall are already doing it. But Xue Gui also knew that this possibility was very low.

The examination of King Lu's body was almost the same as that of King Qian. But there is still a big difference in where the corpses are buried. One was in the dungeon, and no one was around when he died; the other was in the back garden of his own house, under the watchful eyes of his guards when he died.

Wu Zuo was incapable of judging the cause of death, but Xue Gui had already reached a conclusion in his heart: King Lu's soul collapsed and died instantly.

According to the previous experience of the Qianwang case, Xue Gui mainly searched for scriptures, books, and even all the things with words in the scene of the investigation, but he did not get much. He was even told by the people of the Lu Palace that the Lu King never liked to read books, except for necessary things. Except for some documents, I usually don't touch books. In the pavilion where King Lu's body was buried, there was nothing but tableware, chopsticks and wine utensils on the stone table, and there was not even half a piece of paper.

How did King Nalu's soul be shattered?

This thought made Xue Gui's mind a mess. Because the causes of death of King Lu and King Qian looked exactly the same, but the means of death were different. The "story book" next to King Qian's body could not be found at the scene, and even King Lu had no habit of reading books at all.

Isn't it slowly foreshadowing the final blow like killing the king? This time, he cast the spell directly, without telling the guards of the eight monks in the back realm of the Yuandan realm, to crush King Lu's soul?

In the end, Xue Gui could only keep these doubts in his heart, and at the same time intensified his search of the Lu Palace, hoping to find some details that could support some useful deduction.

But when the sky was bright, there was no clue that made Xue Gui's eyes shine in the middle of the sun.

Even though he was against this case in his heart, Xue Gui was very annoyed that he was helpless again, because he knew very well that this case was actually more unstoppable than the previous case of Qianwang, and he could not afford it.

Just after noon, Ma Xuanlin came and ordered Xue Gui to go back to report on the case and hand it in in writing. Xue Gui had no choice but to follow suit, and at the same time ordered to start questioning all the servants in Lu Wang's mansion, and if necessary, he could use torture to extract confessions.

At the same time, a plain and straightforward report of the situation was passed on from the people of the royal ancestral hall who came to coordinate the investigation of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. When it arrived in the palace, it didn't take long for the commander of Xuanqingwei, Pang Ban, to be recruited by the emperor. go in.

In the evening of that day, a secret order was sent to the commanding yamen of the Black Flag Camp in Fengri City. The top-secret copper bar was signed by Shen Hao face to face, and then a copy of the matching thousand-mile note was handed over to him at the same time.