From the fusion of Tongbei Quan to the Longevity Martial Saint

The Salt Patrol Guards had been monitoring and sealing off the Liu family for a long time, and Gu Changyuan was certain that the account books and letters had not yet been destroyed.

As long as this evidence is secured, he believes that even if the court is in uproar, the Salt Patrol Guards can still protect themselves.

Fang Qing followed Ding Mingcheng and the others and rushed into the mansion that had been blown beyond recognition by the thunderbolt.

Inside the mansion, nearly a dozen corpses lay scattered about.

It was obvious that the Liu family had taken precautions and ignited the firecrackers simultaneously in multiple corners.

So almost all of the dozens of people in the entire mansion perished.

At first, Fang Qing found it quite difficult to adapt to this scene, which resembled a living hell.

Ding Mingcheng and the others were already used to it, and quickly began to search each corpse for letters.

After searching around, Ding Mingcheng and the others felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.

"Lord Gu, no crucial letters were found on these people."

"We searched every corner of the house, but we didn't find any evidence."

Gu Changyuan paced back and forth in the open space of the mansion, and upon hearing this, his brows furrowed even more.

Fang Qing suppressed the urge to vomit.

Their gazes were fixed on the open space where the salt patrol guards had laid out all the corpses in a row, carefully searching for them.

Suddenly remembering something, Fang Qing picked up a scroll from his pocket.

This volume of files concerning the Liu family, the salt merchants, was just given to him by Ding Mingcheng.

Ding Mingcheng wanted Fang Qing to quickly familiarize himself with the entire process of the Salt Patrol Guard.

Therefore, this file contains almost all the intelligence they gathered during their initial investigation of the Liu family.

Fang Qing glanced through the intelligence. At this moment, a few words in the file stood out:

"Liu Tai, the head of the Liu family, values ​​his eldest grandsons who are his direct descendants very much and usually takes good care of them."

At this moment, a thought arose in Fang Qing's mind.

According to this file, the patriarch of the Liu family actually doted on his grandsons.

He really had the heart to watch his grandsons ascend to heaven on the spot amidst the thunderbolts...

Fang Qing walked directly to the rows of corpses on the ground.

According to Ding Mingcheng's description, those wearing brightly colored clothes were all Liu Tai's grandsons.

However, at this moment, these people were probably the closest to Pili Zi.

Everyone's front, chest, and even cheeks were completely destroyed by the Thunderbolt.

Fang Qing walked directly to one of the corpses and took off the man's boots.

When Fang Qing glanced at the soles of the feet of the person who was probably Liu Tai's grandson or something similar,

Suddenly, they discovered something.

He quickly got up and pried open the man's mouth, which was already blown beyond recognition.

After examining this person's teeth, he quickly went to another person nearby.

First, I looked at the man's teeth, and then I looked at the soles of his feet.

"Lord Gu, I've made a discovery."

Gu Changyuan and Ding Mingcheng, who were busy and overwhelmed, looked at Fang Qing immediately upon hearing what she said.

The next moment, the two of them rushed over at the same time.

"Brother Fang, have you discovered anything?"

Fang Qing immediately took off the shoes of the corpses that should have been Liu Tai's grandsons.

"Lord Gu, look, these people have thick calluses on the soles of their feet."

"And look, their arches are deformed, almost flat. It's obvious that this is because of carrying heavy objects on their shoulders and in their hands for a long time, which has caused their arches to be deformed."

"The Liu family, salt merchants, is one of the major families in the city, and their grandsons have always been pampered and spoiled."

"They ride horses whenever they go out, and carriages for long journeys. In the Liu family's salt merchant estate, they're waited on hand and foot. How could someone like that have such thick calluses on the soles of their feet?"

Upon Fang Qing's prompting, Gu Changyuan and Ding Mingcheng's pupils immediately contracted.

Quickly bend down to investigate.

Just as Fang Qing had said.

The next moment, Fang Qing got up again, went to the heads of these people, and pried open their mouths.

"And I just looked at their teeth, and they all showed obvious signs of wear."

"Some of them even had wisdom teeth."

Wisdom teeth usually grow in after the age of 25.

"And the fact that their teeth are worn down over a long period of time indicates that these people usually eat mostly whole grains."

Moreover, judging from the wear and tear on them, Fang Qing estimated that they were all over 20 years old.

At this moment, Fang Qing opened the dossier and laid out all the information about the grandsons of the salt merchant Liu family, placing it in front of Gu Changyuan and Ding Mingcheng.

"According to this file, Liu Tai's grandsons are all either 20 years old or even teenagers."

"These people have been eating refined grains for a long time, and although their height, build, and clothing are very similar to those of Liu Tai's grandsons."

"But regardless of the wear and tear on their teeth, the wisdom teeth that have grown in, or the thick calluses on the soles of their feet, I am certain that these people are not Liu Tai's grandsons at all."

"Based on this file, I can deduce that the young men that Pilizi killed were not Liu Tai's grandsons at all, but someone else entirely."

"It's highly likely that it was a servant from the Liu family in disguise."

With a loud bang.

Both Gu Changyuan and Ding Mingcheng looked at Fang Qing differently.

How long has Fang Qingcai been in contact with the Liu family's files?

Ding Mingcheng knew this very well.

From the moment Fang Qing entered the Liu family's manor to the moment Ding Mingcheng gave him the dossier, only half an hour had passed.

This case file was entirely written by Ding Mingcheng himself, who had been involved in the case for about half a month.

But even after half a month of organizing clues and writing files, he still couldn't match the amount of time Fang Qing spent in the first half hour.

Most importantly, through the few words in this file, Fang Qing was able to directly deduce from the traces on these corpses that Liu Tai had used the trick of substituting a cat for the crown prince.

He had some young servants disguise themselves as his grandsons, and they were killed by Pilizi.

He feigned an attempt to openly repair the plank road while secretly crossing the Chencang pass, thus managing to get his own grandson to escape.

If Fang Qing hadn't been there today, the Liu family bloodline might have actually managed to escape.

But these people are not direct descendants of the Liu family, so where are the descendants of the Liu family now?

Subconsciously, both Gu Changyuan and Ding Mingcheng turned their heads to look at another residence...

Those were the people controlled by the Salt Patrol Guard.

These were the Liu family's outer stewards and some miscellaneous servants that Fang Qing and Ding Mingcheng had just been in charge of supervising.

If the direct descendants of the Liu family are disguised servants, is it possible that the direct descendants of the Liu family are disguised servants?

Gu Changyuan immediately reached out and gave an order to the salt patrol guards in the distance:

"From now on, all the servants and stewards of the Liu family are to be detained. Without my permission, no one, for any reason, and under any transfer order may directly transfer them away."

Then, Gu Changyuan turned to look at Wei Wu, who had followed him in:

"Lord Wei, please immediately transfer the coroners from the Six Doors who are still in the city, and the relevant personnel from the Five Cities Garrison who are skilled in handling cases."

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