Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 556 Mysterious Man

"Sir, I'll stay and help you too!" Li Yu said enthusiastically as he stroked his sleeves.

Li Canghai shook his head, and said: "Thank you for your kindness, my lord, but brother Conan and me are enough here, my lord should go back and rest."

Li Yu wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Li Tan's words: "You will only be of no help if you stay, go back to sleep honestly!"

Hearing Li Tan's words, Li Yu suddenly became honest.

He rubbed his nose, sighed helplessly, and followed Li Tan dejectedly, leaving Dongkua courtyard.

After the two left, only Li Canghai, Xue Xuan, Conan, and some guards were left in the Dongkua courtyard.

"Brother Conan, I have to work hard for you again." Li Canghai said.

Conan smiled slightly, and said: "Brother Li, you are being polite. It is a great fortune to be able to investigate the case with Brother Li. Besides, this matter is related to the three major artifacts, and it is my duty to find out the truth."

The two of them cherished each other, looked at each other, and smiled tacitly at the same time.

When the Zhang family investigated the truth of the murder case, the two had a very tacit understanding.

Conan is not familiar with the customs of the Tang Dynasty, but he has a keen insight and can find out many subtle clues.

Although Li Canghai has limited mobility, he has a very special understanding of human relationships and sophistication, and can infer from subtleties.

The two of them moved and remained silent, cooperating with each other, and had an amazing tacit understanding.

It was also because of this that Li Canghai was able to find out the truth about Zhang's murder in just two days.

Li Canghai asked the yamen guards to put the corpses of the twelve guards together, and then began to examine the corpses one by one.

And Conan began to investigate around the side room.

"The tongue is located between the upper and lower forehead. He didn't die from suffocation. There are no obvious wounds on his body, and there are no signs of poisoning. Strange, how did these guards die?" Li Cang said to himself while inspecting the corpses by the sea.

Li Canghai checked all the corpses, but found nothing, as if they were just suddenly taken out of their souls and died without a sound, which made him frown.

Just when he was at a loss, he suddenly found that one of the dead Jianning iron guards was clenched in his right hand, as if he was holding something.

He forcefully broke the iron guard's right hand, and took out a jade pendant the size of an egg from the iron guard's hand.

This jade pendant is engraved with a lifelike blood-eyed ferocious wolf. This blood-eyed ferocious wolf roars up to the sky. Although it is only a carving, it gives people a very intuitive feeling of coldness and tyranny.

Li Canghai turned over the jade pendant, and suddenly found a row of strange characters engraved on the back of the jade pendant. These characters were different from Chinese characters, but similar to the Arabic characters he knew in his previous life.

Li Canghai's heart suddenly moved, and he immediately thought that this might be the murderer's item.

At this time, Conan came over with a frown, and said, "Brother Li, I found something strange."

"Oh? Brother Conan, what did you find?" Li Canghai put away the jade pendant and asked.

Conan said in a deep voice: "I found some signs of fighting around the house."

"Battle marks?" Li Canghai couldn't help being stunned for a moment. He rubbed his chin and pondered, "That's impossible. There are no wounds on their bodies, which means that they didn't fight with anyone. Besides, their weapons were not sheathed. How could there be traces of fighting?"

"This is indeed a strange thing. Besides, I found this near the fight." Conan said, spreading out his right hand, revealing a steel needle as thin as a hair.

"Shadowless Needle?" Xue Xuan asked in surprise when she saw the tiny needle.

Li Canghai hurriedly took the needle in his hand and observed it carefully.Indeed, as Xue Xuan said, this needle is exactly the same as the needle used to kill Feng Shisanniang and others in Luoyang Prison.

Li Canghai suddenly thought of something, and immediately ordered someone to find a magnet, and then searched the corpses of the twelve dead one by one.

Sure enough, he found a fatal needle from each corpse.

"Tang Ao!" Xue Xuan frowned, and her pretty face became ugly.

Li Canghai frowned, he didn't speak, he stared at the needles for a long time, and then he suddenly asked: "Xuan'er, do you know this?"

With that said, Li Canghai handed the jade pendant to Xue Xuan.

Xue Xuan took the jade pendant, looked at it over and over, and said, "I've never seen this jade pendant before, but I can recognize the writing on it as Turkic."

"Turkic language?" Li Canghai was a little surprised, "Maybe you can see what it means?"

Xue Xuan shook her head and said, "I have seen Turkic writing, but I don't recognize it."

Li Canghai snorted, and after thinking about it, he asked, "Xuan'er, isn't Tang Ao a Turkic?"

Xue Xuan was stunned for a moment, and said: "No, Tang Ao was born in the Tang Sect in the middle of Sichuan, but he is an authentic member of the Tang Dynasty, what's the matter?"

"Oh, it's nothing." Li Canghai lowered his head. He looked at the jade pendant in his hand, and at the shadowless needle beside him, and fell into deep thought.

Judging from the situation at the scene, it seems that Tang Ao killed the guard first, and then wanted to steal the three major artifacts, but at this time a mysterious person came to stop Tang Ao, and fought with him.

The more Li Canghai thought about it, the more he felt that this was a possibility, but what puzzled him was, what was the identity of that mysterious person?
As far as he knows, Tang Ao is Yang Guozhong's subordinate. He must have discovered the trap set by Li Canghai against the rogues of Sang Island. Knowing that the three major artifacts have not been sent out of Yangzhou City, he took advantage of Li Canghai to deal with Sang Island with all his strength. While wandering, he sneaked into the sheriff's mansion, trying to take advantage of the chaos to steal the three great artifacts.

If it is said that Tang Ao has an obvious goal, which is to kill people in order to seize the three great artifacts, but what intentions does the mysterious man have?
If the mysterious man stopped Tang Ao as he guessed, then his purpose is probably to protect the three artifacts.

However, the people related to the three artifacts are all dealing with the ronin of Sang Island, so who cares so much about the three artifacts?

Could it be that the mysterious person is from the rivers and lakes?His target is also the Three Great Artifacts?It's just that it hasn't had time to steal the three artifacts?
But after thinking about it again, Li Canghai felt a little unlikely.

First of all, the matter of the three artifacts is a secret of the imperial court, except for Li Canghai and others, no one else knows about it.

Secondly, even if this news spreads to the rivers and lakes, absolutely no one would dare to think about the three great artifacts.

No matter how powerful the rivers and lakes are, they are no bigger than the imperial court. No sect or gang dares to be an enemy of the imperial court.

But what is the identity of the mysterious man?What is his purpose?This made Li Canghai feel confused.

"Perhaps, only by finding out the identity of the mysterious person can we know his purpose!" Li Canghai thought for a while, and decided to investigate from the jade pendant in his hand.

"Brother Li, what are you thinking?" Conan asked.

(End of this chapter)