Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 440 Morgue

Di Renjie, Wang Mang, Li Yuanfang, Lin Yongzhong and a group of yamen servants walked into the morgue of the county yamen.

Wu Si's body was lying on the corpse bed. Di Renjie walked up to the body and said, "Search!"

Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang stepped forward and searched the corpse.

After a long time, the two raised their heads in disappointment, and slowly shook their heads at Di Renjie, who was opposite him: "My lord, I have searched several times, but nothing."

Di Renjie walked up to Wu Si's body, thinking quietly.

Lin Yongzhong said in a daze, "My lord, what are you looking for?"

Wang Mang frowned deeply.

He fell into deep thought. It stands to reason that the letter should be here. How could it not be there? It shouldn't be.

Also, what does Qingqing want that letter for?
At this moment, Di Renjie turned his head and said, "A letter."

Lin Yongzhong asked: "A letter?"

Di Renjie nodded: "Yes, a very important letter."

At this time, Wang Mang's eyes kept scanning Wu Si's body, and suddenly stopped at Wu Si's feet.

He asked softly, "Brother Yuanfang, have you checked your shoes?"

Li Yuanfang nodded: "I've checked it several times, and there's nothing in it."

Wang Mang walked to Wu Si's feet, stretched out his hand to take off his left shoe, and inspected it carefully.

These are a pair of ordinary cloth shoes with Banner soles, nothing special about them.

Wang Mang put the shoe aside, took off the shoe on Wu Si's right foot, and stretched out his hand to feel inside. Suddenly, his eyes lit up.

The inner sole of the shoe nest was slightly raised, and he tore it lightly, and with a "crack", a piece of the insole was torn out.

Di Renjie, Li Yuanfang, and Lin Yongzhong were startled, and they rushed over.

Wang Mang handed the shoes in his hand to Di Renjie.

Di Renjie took the cloth shoes from Wang Mang's hand and looked inside. After a long time, he shook his head slowly.

Li Yuanfang sighed in disappointment.

A trace of disappointment flashed in Wang Mang's eyes.

Di Renjie looked at the cloth insole in his hand, then looked inside the shoe nest, and said slowly: "This layer of insole was originally sewn into the shoe nest. I think Wu Si must have hidden the secret letter here."

Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang looked at each other, and they were shocked: "Oh? You mean, someone took the letter away?"

Di Renjie thought for a while and nodded, "Look inside this shoe nest."

Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang approached and looked into the shoe nest. Sure enough, there were white threads cut off by a sharp weapon on the side of the sole.

Wang Mang took a deep breath: "It was cut open with a sharp weapon!"

Di Renjie nodded: "This means that someone sneaked into the morgue and took the letter from Wu Si's shoe."

Li Yuanfang said, "Who is it? Jinniang?"

Di Renjie shook his head: "It's hard to say now!"

A light flashed in Wang Mang's eyes, and he looked at Lin Yongzhong who was standing at the door.

At this time, Di Renjie also looked at Lin Yongzhong: "Yongzhong, has anything strange happened in the county office recently?"

Lin Yongzhong thought for a while and said: "Oh, by the way, last night, the mortuary of the yamen servants was haunted by ghosts, and the humble staff led people to check, but nothing was found."

Di Renjie nodded slowly: "Yongzhong, other than that, what else is abnormal?"

Lin Yongzhong shook his head: "Not anymore."

Di Renjie nodded slowly, lost in thought.

Wang Mang looked at Lin Yongzhong: "Magistrate Lin, where are the people in charge here and the yamen servant who discovered the ghost?"

Lin Yongzhong pointed to an old man behind him: "It is this old Wu who is in charge of this place."

As soon as Old Wutou heard that he was being called, he hurried forward a few steps and was about to fall to his knees.

Wang Mang quickly waved his hand: "There is no need to do this big gift, old Wu, I have a few questions about the corpse and I want to ask you alone."

Di Renjie narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a smile, "Jing Yang, what's the matter?"

Wang Mang gave Di Renjie a meaningful look, and said with a smile, "I just want to ask you a few questions about the corpse, it's not a big problem."

Di Renjie nodded slightly, and unexpectedly said deeply: "Jing Yang, then you go!"

Wang Mang nodded, turned around and walked away quickly with Old Wu Tou.

When he got outside, Wang Mang said, "Wu Tou, please tell me what happened last night in detail."

Old Wu looked at the morgue, hesitant to speak.

Wang Mang said: "Don't worry, Mr. Di Ge is the prime minister, no one will do anything to you."

Hearing this, Old Wu gritted his teeth, and said, "Forget it, the old man just said it straight. My lord, to be honest, I, Old Wu, have been working as an assistant for so many years. If I want to talk about ghosts, I really haven't met anyone." I've been there, and the situation at the time was like this..."

Lin Yongzhong looked at Wu Si's body, took a deep breath, turned his head and said to the old Wu head and the yamen guards behind him: "You go, this county needs to investigate carefully."

The yamen servants agreed to leave and closed the door behind them.

……

Speaking of this, the old Wu head looked at Wang Mang: "My lord, I don't know what happened after that."

Wang Mang smiled and nodded slightly: "Okay, very good, thank you very much."

Old Wutou hurriedly said he didn't dare.

Wang Mang looked in the direction of the morgue, with an inexplicable expression in his eyes.

……

Night, Wang Mang's mansion.

Wang Mang was wandering around the house.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door.

Shangguan Wan'er walked in with a man in a black cloak.

Surprised, Wang Mang hurried up to meet him.

Shangguan Wan'er said: "Jing Yang, this is the leader of Jiangzhou's internal guards."

Wang Mang looked over, and the black cloak slowly raised his headgear.

A familiar face appeared, it was Wen Kai.

Wang Mang was taken aback: "It's you?"

Wen Kai nodded with a wry smile: "It's me, Lord Hou, it's not that the lower officials want to hide it, but I really can't find the letter, and the lower officials can't explain to the emperor!"

Wang Mang and Shangguan Wan'er looked at each other: "Xin, I already know whose hands it is in."

"what?"

Wen Kai was taken aback.

Wang Mang nodded: "However, to catch this person, we need the help of Mr. Di Ge."

Hearing that he wanted to see Di Renjie, Wen Kai immediately lowered his head.

Wang Mang said: "Lord Wen, don't worry. Although you have bloodbathed the Hou's mansion, there is a reason for it, and you didn't attack those old and weak. I don't think Master Di will blame you too much."

Wen Kai sighed: "After paying such a high price, I didn't expect that I still got nothing."

Wang Mang smiled: "Master Wen, if you want to catch the real murderer, I'm afraid you need to help!"

Wen Kai's eyes lit up suddenly.

Wang Mang and Shangguan Wan'er looked at each other, and they laughed knowingly.

Wang Mang glanced at Wen Kai, this Wen Kai should be afraid of being scolded by the emperor, no, when he heard that there was a chance to make meritorious service, he immediately changed.

(End of this chapter)