HLnovel Chapter 224 Checking the Palace
Chapter 224 Checking the Palace
Li Jinhui looked at Shi Bin with a smile, and just when Shi Bin was about to get angry, he looked away.
It has to be said that no man who can become the Minister of Justice is a simple one.
His gaze seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts, and even the battle-hardened Shi Bin couldn't help but feel his heart beating faster.
"General Shi, can you let me see the murder weapon?"
"of course."
14 scimitars were quickly brought over. Li Jinhui checked them one by one and took out several of them to compare with the wounds on the body of the deceased.
He himself did not dare to draw conclusions rashly, and asked other officials from the Ministry of Justice to review them one by one.
"Master Lu, take a look and see if this scimitar is the real murder weapon."
Lu Hongwei, who had been following Li Jinhui, quickly took two steps forward after being called.
If it were an ordinary family, a case like this would usually be handled by Lu Hongwei. But today, the Prince Qin's Mansion was almost massacred, and with the Minister of Justice present, Lu Hongwei had nothing to do with it.
"In my opinion, these people should have died by the scimitar."
Li Jinhui nodded slightly and said nothing. They continued to follow Shi Bin to watch tonight's protagonist, Beidi Assassin.
When the group arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Li Jinhui wanted to pay his respects to Ye Jintang, but was told that Ye Jintang had moved to another courtyard.
"So many people died last night, and the princess was frightened. She has temporarily moved to Yingchun Pavilion to stay. She can move back after the yard here is cleaned up."
"I see."
After confirming that Ye Jintang was not in the yard, Li Jinhui immediately took people to check the scene.
After the autopsy, no one had any objection to the assassin's identity.
After all, there are huge differences in appearance between the Beidi people and the Tianqin people, and they can be recognized almost at a glance.
But when he checked the wounds on the assassin's body, Li Jinhui had another question mark in his mind.
Just now, we saw so many slaves in the front yard were killed or injured, and the fight was quite brutal, but these assassins did not have many wounds, and some were even killed with one blow.
Then he looked at the bloodstains on the ground that had not been cleaned up, indicating signs of a fight.
Logically speaking, with so many people fighting, the ground should be very messy, but on the contrary, the traces of fighting on the ground were very clear, and there was no feeling of clutter.
"General Shi, how did these explosion marks come about?"
"I have some thunder bombs in my hand. I originally used them for fun, but I didn't expect that one day I could use them to blow up assassins."
"This isn't an ordinary thunder bomb."
Li Jinhui squatted on the ground, looking at the traces of the thunder bomb explosion on the ground thoughtfully.
"Of course not. My thunder bombs are specially made with poison added inside. Each thunder bomb is worth more than ten taels of silver."
"Normally I would be reluctant to use it. If these assassins weren't so vicious and the guards couldn't defeat them, I wouldn't be willing to throw such expensive thunder bombs."
"Alas, we soldiers are poor."
Once Shi Bin opened his mouth, he couldn't stop talking and said a lot of random things.
He knew the Ministry of Justice quite well. Li Jinhui had worked his way up from the bottom to the position of minister. He had handled countless cases. Shi Bin was really afraid that he would see something.
He was talking nonsense here with the intention of disrupting Li Jinhui's judgment.
"Why are there so few traces of fighting on the ground? It turns out that everyone is poisoned and has no power to fight back."
Hearing Li Jinhui say this, Shi Bin secretly worried for himself. He was indeed the Minister of Justice, as he was too meticulous in his observations.
Everyone was still checking the scene, and the Dali Temple Minister also sent people over.
Li Jinhui led everyone to walk through the Prince Qin's Mansion and carefully checked all the corpses. He even carefully examined every trace of fighting to see if there were any clues left behind.
He checked so carefully that Shi Bin, who was following beside him, felt quite nervous.
We are all experts, and no matter how carefully we do something, it is easy to leave clues in front of the experts.
What's more, Li Jinhui has been the Minister of Justice for so many years, so naturally he is very capable.
If he were to discover that these dead slaves were deliberately captured by him and hacked to death with a scimitar, then the matter would be a bit troublesome.
After carefully examining for a while, Li Jinhui asked a lot of questions, and Shi Bin became even more unsure. He always felt like he knew something.
When Xiao Mo came back from the palace, he had become calm and decisive as before, completely different from his crazy appearance in the palace.
Li Jinhui has already finished reading it and is asking someone to draw a rough map of how the assassin entered the palace to commit the crime, as well as the detailed deaths of the servants in the palace.
When everyone saw Xiao Mo coming back, they all stopped what they were doing and came over to greet him.
"I have already handed the note found on the assassin to the Emperor. Sir Li, please go back and ask the Emperor for it."
Hearing Xiao Mo say this, Li Jinhui felt his scalp tingling. The blood-stained note in the case of the Qin Palace bloodbath was an important piece of evidence, but it was sent to Emperor Jing.
It seems that he knows who is trying to kill Xiao Mo.
"Yes, I have checked the dead and injured servants in the palace and made a detailed record. Your Majesty can now send people to clean up the palace."
"Thank you for today's matter, Lord Li."
"This is what I should do."
"After you clean up the palace, Your Majesty, remember to ask the monks from the White Horse Temple to come to the palace to chant some sutras. It is unlucky to have so many people die in the palace overnight."
Xiao Mo nodded slightly. He didn't care about these things. After all, he had more than just these lives on his hands. If there really were wronged ghosts seeking revenge on him, he would have died countless times already.
But there is also Ye Jintang in the palace, the new daughter-in-law who has just married not long ago. It is still necessary to invite a few monks and Taoists to chant scriptures and perform rituals.
Li Jinhui then asked about some details of the attack on Prince Qin's Mansion last night, and Xiao Mo answered them all.
"The attack on the Qin Palace is of no small magnitude. I will take away the 14 assassins first. Your Majesty can deal with the other dead servants on your own."
"it is good."
With Xiao Mo's consent, Li Jinhui immediately and quietly transported the assassin's body out of the palace through the side door.
After all the affairs in the palace were dealt with, Li Jinhui did not dare to waste time and hurried into the palace with his men to report.
What happened today will surely cause a bloody storm in the capital, and he, the Minister of Justice, will also become the focus of everyone's attention.
After walking out of the Prince Qin's Mansion, Li Jinhui couldn't help but look back again.
The entire Qin Palace was brightly lit, and the sky above the palace was illuminated in an orange-red color.
He sighed thoughtfully and hurried into the palace with his men.
As soon as Li Jinhui left, Shi Bin breathed a sigh of relief.
"Your Majesty, why do I feel like Minister Li has discovered something?"
"You are just scaring yourself. Besides, even if Minister Li has doubts in his heart, he will never speak out."
After being reminded by Xiao Mo, Shi Bin belatedly remembered that Li Jinhui still owed Ye Jintang a big favor. How could he say something detrimental to the Qin Palace at this critical juncture.
Even if he discovered something, he would pretend not to see it.