Chapter 124： speechless

Ministry of punishment death row.

Ji Zhuilu was dressed in death row clothes, unkempt, and had lost his demeanor as a member of the former royal family. The cell door was opened, the jailer stepped aside, and the young servant of the Ministry of Punishment looked at him.

"Xie Shilang, come to interrogate me again, I have nothing to say, really."

Xie Zhi ignored the lack of cooperation in his words, and said to the prison officer in an indifferent voice: "Get him out of here."

"Yes, thank you, sir."

This is the third time Ji Zhuilu has been taken to the execution room. He looks very reluctant, but he is now a prisoner, so he cannot resist.

When he was tied to the chair, Ji Zhuilu looked at Xie Zhi who was sitting in front of him: "The case of Qiu Lie and Bai Xun was solved on the Mid-Autumn Festival, right? Why don't you let me go?"

When Xie Zhi heard this, he felt it was funny: "Let me go? Captain Ji, it's not time to daydream yet."

Ji Zhuilu snorted.

"Lieutenant Ji has done a lot of good things, and it hasn't stopped since the beginning of spring this year." Xie Zhi started her interrogation, "There is plenty of time today, the two of us take it easy."

Ji Zhuilu showed a look of surprise, every contact with Xie Zhi gave him a new understanding of Xie Zhi's unpredictability. That's why he was so afraid of Xie Zhi, this person was really too smart.

"Let's talk about the poisoning of Qu Jiangyan first." Xie Zhi cut to the first incident, "How did you manage to kill people without leaving any trace?"

Ji Zhuilu raised his eyebrows: "Xie Shilang is so smart, I even guessed the murderer, why can't he even guess the trick?"

Facing his provocation, Xie Zhi remained calm: "I am not following the Qu Jiangyan case."

Besides, when the case happened, she had already left the banquet scene, and even the men who were supposed to come back to report to her were caught by Yang Dejin's people, so she had no idea what happened in Qujiang Pavilion.

"That's it." Ji Zhuilu smiled.

"You were on patrol at the time, and you weren't there when the crime happened, so I'm really curious, how did you manage to kill the people in the Qujiang Pavilion on the edge of the Qujiang River?"

"How else can it be done, of course it is to borrow a knife to kill someone."

Xie Zhi asked: "Whose knife did you borrow? And how did you kill him?"

"Probably a court lady?" Ji Zhuilu shrugged, "I'm afraid she doesn't know until now that Ma Yu died under her hands, right?"

Ji Zhuilu didn't speak clearly, and ordinary people sounded like he was hiding something, but his expression was very calm, as if he was really not lying.

Xie Zhi frowned: "Then what's the trick? Every link of wine and food from the palace to Qujiang Pavilion is strictly controlled, but the poisoned wine still appears in the courtier's wine glass. How did you do it?" Arrived?"

Ji Zhuilu didn't answer directly, but asked instead: "Have you checked all the teacups, wine cups and dishes used in the Qujiang Banquet?"

Xie Zhi: "I checked."

If the murderer had smeared poison on the mouth of the cup, there would definitely be residue on the rim of the cup, but the results of the investigation showed that there was no problem with the container, and the problem was in the wine.

Ji Zhuilu: "What about the silver needle?"

"Silver needles?" Xie Zhi asked back, "I tried all the wines with silver needles, and there was nothing abnormal."

Ji Zhuilu shook his head: "Don't you understand this yet, Xie Shilang? It's obviously the same as □□."

Xie Zhi was taken aback for a moment, then realized: "There is something wrong with the silver needle."

Without waiting for Ji Zhuilu's in-depth explanation, Xie Zhi reasoned naturally: "The silver needles were replaced with iron needles, and then smeared with poison..."

The poisonous iron needles were mixed into the silver needles to be used for poison testing. The maid in charge of poison testing didn't know whether she was holding silver needles or iron needles.

In this way, the poison was poisoned under the eyes of everyone through the hands of the unwitting maid. The toxin was dissolved in the wine, but the iron needle would not change color, which naturally made people think that the wine was not poisonous.

It was obviously a poison test, but the poison was mixed in instead.

"The needles that have been poisoned need to be wiped, just to wipe off the water stains and the poison. Captain Ji, you are really clever."

Even if all the tableware was checked after the fact, no one would think that the problem was the silver needle.

"Xie Shilang is overrated." As if he couldn't understand Xie Zhi's irony, Ji Zhuilu really humbled himself.

Xie Zhi snorted coldly: "No wonder you didn't attack that person. It's because the silver needles used to test the queen and the silver needles used to test the ministers were not put together, right?"

"Yes, the silver needle used for Li Fu's poison test was prepared by her personal maid alone." Ji Zhuilu admitted generously, "Besides, I didn't intend to poison her to death like this, but Just give her a warning."

Xie Zhi: "Then why did you target Ma Yu? He's just a doctor of the Imperial Academy, so he can't hinder you at all."

Ji Zhuilu: "How could Minister Xie think that I was targeting Ma Yu on purpose? As I said, the silver needles were mixed together and randomly taken away by the palace maids."

"Are you trying to say that you don't care who is recruited, as long as someone dies, your goal will be achieved, right?" Xie Zhi clenched his fists when he asked this question.

"That's right, using the death of a sixth-rank official to frighten that ignorant empress, his death is worth it." He said the cruel words that were almost heartless, and he still looked calm.

"madman."

What's the difference between this and indiscriminate killing? !

"That's different. Several officials' wine glasses were tested for poison, but Ma Yu was the only one who died. This was not the poisonous bar I forced him to drink. In the final analysis, he was unlucky."

His attitude of taking human life as a trifle made Xie Zhi angry, she said sharply: "Then you failed to rebel twice, your luck is not much better."

"You...!" Ji Zhuilu's face froze, his expression changed from lax to annoyed, it seemed that he had been poked at a sore spot.

Xie Zhi changed the subject: "Let's talk about the dragon boat accident. The wood used to support the deck should have been hard pine wood, but the broken wood at the collapsed site has all become soft pine wood. Originally, pine wood was easy to rot when it was dry and wet, and it was also damaged by pine wood." Use it to build ships.

"Dare to instruct people to tamper with the ship, you are quite courageous, it is a dragon boat."

"What about the dragon boat? I don't care who falls into the water. My purpose is to create panic. If someone is not careful and the person who dies is Li Chou, then I will earn money."

"You can't make money, because if the empress dies, all the ministers will definitely recommend Her Highness to succeed her, and you are not ready to seize power. So even if the person who fell into the water becomes Her Majesty the Empress, you will definitely rescue her."

"...Did you send someone to watch me? Why do you know everything?"

"It's not difficult to find out the reason why the dragon boat collapsed. The hard part is how to catch you, the culprit."

Ji Zhuilu was a military officer, and he was able to tamper with the dragon boat, which meant that the Department of Water, who was in charge of ship manufacturing, had his inner ghost, so Xie Zhi didn't act rashly, and she was waiting for the mastermind behind the scenes to show his flaws.

In the past few days, the imperial court is undergoing a major purge. Facts have proved that not only the Ministry of Water, the entire Ministry of Industry, and even the entire six ministries of the three provinces, have Ji Zhuilu's influence. His followers are everywhere, and most of them are dressed in the guise of the Prince's Party, which really tricks Yang Dejin.

"And long before Qu Jiangye and Chuan Lu toured the lake, you were already planning the Dacheng Sect. You used rumors and deceptions to win over people's hearts. The purpose was to slander the empress, obstruct her majesty's personal governance, and then place Her Royal Highness Prince Yu in Unrighteous land really kills three birds with one stone."

Up to now, Ji Zhuilu has nothing to hide: "Li Fu's temperament change is unexpected. Although the method is still immature, it is undeniable that she has really hindered me. Besides Besides, that Bai Qingyang next to her is not a good person, my spies have never been able to get close to her."

"So you create rumors in the market, trying to disrupt their pace. The oracle that Prince Yu will become the new emperor is the tool you use to sow discord between the monarch and his ministers. You are the high priest who pretends to be a ghost."

"If I didn't tell you about the underground palace of the imperial mausoleum, would you have guessed that I was the mastermind of Dacheng Sect?"

Xie Zhi smiled contemptuously and said, "Lieutenant Ji, do you think that you didn't show any flaws in the Dachengjiao case?"

Ji Zhuilu was very curious: "How to say?" Where did he make a loophole?

"Remember that white cloak?"

"White cloak?"

"It's the white cloak that I chased all the way to the vicinity of the City Defense Division's camp, and then disappeared into a dead end."

Ji Zhuilu suddenly realized.

Xie Zhi continued: "After that incident ended, I went to see that alley again."

"It's a narrow dead end about ten steps long, the left and right sides and the ceiling are sealed, and there is only one entrance for entry and exit. It is impossible for the white cloak to slip under my nose.

"The depths of the alley are full of sundries. Part of the corner is recessed. It is not very wide enough for a person to stand against the wall. But from the perspective of people outside the alley, it is a blind spot. But if you get closer Some, that blind spot can be exposed.

"The white cloak didn't leave the alley. He dropped the cloak just to confuse me. I didn't give up at the time and wanted to go in to check, but I was stopped by Captain Ji."

Ji Zhuilu: "I didn't expect you to be suspicious just because of this incident."

"The camp of the City Defense Division is a restricted area, and idlers are not allowed to approach it, and the white cloak fled there recklessly, and I already felt that something was wrong."

Generally speaking, if you want to get rid of the follower, you should go to a crowded place. Sensing Xie Zhi's relentless pursuit, the white cape left Dongshi instead and headed straight for the city defense battalion. Thinking about it now, the white cape must have been from the city defense department in the first place.

"Furthermore, the City Defense Department has not been equipped with new guns yet, so it is worth investigating where the crossbow you used to frame Yang Dejin came from." In the Chengjiao case, the Military Weapons Supervision lost two teams of new weapons, including a hundred refined iron knives, a hundred longbows, three thousand arrows, and fifty sets of improved guns."

Including the arrowheads picked up by Meng Shike from Wolong Pass, which also came from these two teams of new weapons.

If Ji Zhuilu's body and hands were not bound, he would have stood up and applauded: "That's right, I lost the arms of the military supervisor. Although there are not many, I need these arms."

"Unfortunately, this is a public property, not your personal property."

After Xie Zhi finished speaking, he flipped through the case file at hand, took a pen and wrote on it: "You didn't get involved in the actions that Yelu Dieter made during the court meeting, did you?"

Ji Zhuilu shrugged: "The level of martial law is so high this year, even if I think about it, I dare not."

"Why don't you dare?" Xie Zhi didn't even raise his head, "After the court meeting, didn't you take the opportunity to **** Shuobei's envoy out of the city and hook up with Yeludiela?"

"Xie Shilang, are you really not putting eyeliner around me?"

"Is there any need? A waste of manpower."

"..."

"And it's not the first time you've done collaborating with the enemy."

"It's not enough to cooperate with the enemy, each takes what he needs."

"Then when it comes to Qiushou, why did you kill Yang Dejin?"

Ji Zhuilu was a little surprised: "I thought you would ask me what the cooperation with the prairie people is about."

Xie Zhi glanced at him, stopped writing, and blew on the case file: "Is this hard to guess?"

Think on your knees, it's just some **** that you help me kill, and I help you win the reserve, what can I ask?

Xie Zhi: "I think, apart from wanting to create the illusion that Yang Dejin committed suicide in fear of crime, you have another reason for killing her."

Ji Zhuilu: "It's very simple. Not half a day after the assassination failed, her subordinates have already found out the Wolong Mountain Pass. Prince Yu is more powerful than I imagined, so I must eliminate this hidden danger."

Unexpectedly, Xie Zhi frowned when he heard this, as if he understood the meaning of his words: "What do you mean... Yang Dejin's subordinates found the Wolong Mountain Pass?" Why didn't she know?

Ji Zhuilu also looked at her suspiciously: "Didn't you come to me that night and say that the empress disappeared and there were signs of a fight at Wolong Pass?"

"I'm talking about my subordinates discovering traces of fighting at Wolong Pass."

"Aren't your subordinates Prince Yu's subordinates?"

Xie Zhi was silent for a while, and understood: she planned for herself from the beginning to the end, but Ji Zhuilu thought that she was carrying out the task Yang Dejin gave her, and thus thought that Yang Dejin hindered his plan, so he wanted to kill Yang Dejin.

A little speechless.

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Yang Dejin: Xie Zhi is like a **** fucker.