parentshiftbook #120 - Chapter 120 Inspector Wu
#120 - Chapter 120 Inspector Wu
The leading cultist replied.
“Reporting, Holy Maiden.”
“We few were unable to enter that Shengwei Restaurant.”
“This news was obtained by spending some silver to inquire with the yamen runners.”
“According to them, Chief Qi and the other two were killed by a guard beside Marquis Longxiang.”
Li Hongchan’s almond eyes widened, and she asked in disbelief.
“Are you saying that Qi Kuaidao and the other two were killed by one person?!”
“Do you know that person's identity?”
The few cultists exchanged glances, all shaking their heads.
The leading cultist nervously replied.
“We only know that they call that person Commandant Li.”
“We don’t know anything else.”
Li Hongchan’s beautiful phoenix eyes narrowed slightly.
“Commandant Li, is it? Interesting.”
“It seems there’s an opportunity. I must meet this fellow.”
“I must avenge the death of the Dharma Protector of our cult!”
Leaving aside the Red Lotus Holy Maiden, who was troubled at heart.
At this time, Marquis Longxiang’s group had already returned to the hostel.
However, because the female Marquis was assassinated at Shengwei Restaurant today, the hostel was now heavily guarded.
Inside the east courtyard of the hostel, Marquis Longxiang, Bai Jing, was telling her younger sister, Bai Yuxuan, about the assassination she had just encountered.
She also handed the Martial Virtue Office waist tag found on the assassin to her younger sister for inspection.
After listening to her elder sister’s description of the assassination, Bai Yuxuan pinched the waist tag with her hand, frowned and pondered, then said.
“Looking at it this way, the mastermind behind the assassination of elder sister doesn’t seem like General Fuguo.”
“Deliberately leaving the Martial Virtue Office’s waist tag on the other party seems more like someone trying to frame someone else.”
The female Marquis also nodded slightly.
“I also think so.”
“I just don’t know, who is the mastermind behind this?”
Bai Yuxuan turned around and sat on the bed, saying.
“Who else could it be?”
“If it’s not someone from a religious sect, it’s someone from a rebel family.”
“The most likely is the Red Lotus Dharma Sect.”
“After all, we just uprooted their foundation in Qing Province.”
Hearing this, the female Marquis also nodded in agreement.
At this time, Bai Yuxuan asked.
“By the way, where are the bodies of those assassins?”
“If we want to find the mastermind, the easiest way is to start with the faces of the assassins.”
The female Marquis said.
“The assassins’ corpses have been handed over to the local yamen.”
“However, I have already had people draw the faces of several assassins.”
“When I have time, I will have someone slowly investigate.”
Immediately, the female Marquis sighed.
“Today, I was once again indebted to Li Yuan. If he hadn’t been by my side.”
“I’m afraid I wouldn’t have been able to return.”
Suddenly, the female Marquis looked at her younger sister, chuckled, and teased.
“By the way, Yuxuan, after tonight, Li Yuan will be your husband.”
“You must not disgrace our Bai family.”
“You must take good care of your husband.”
Hearing this, Bai Yuxuan, who had just been resourceful and decisive, instantly had a blush on her face.
Her expression revealed a bit of girlishness, and she shyly muttered.
“Sister, you’re teasing me again.”
In the afternoon.
The Xinzhou Yamen sent someone to the hostel.
Saying that it was the Supervisor of the Martial Virtue Office of the Beichuan Road.
Having heard about the assassination of Marquis Longxiang, he rushed to Qing Province on horseback.
Wanting to seek an audience with the Marquis.
Marquis Longxiang understood in her heart that this Supervisor probably wanted to explain the matter of the waist tag seized from the assassin.
However, it was good to meet him, so she let him in.
In the main hall of the hostel, a middle-aged military officer with a solemn expression quickly walked into the hall.
Seeing Marquis Longxiang from afar, this person hurriedly bowed and saluted, saying.
“Wu Jun, Supervisor of the Martial Virtue Office of Beichuan Road, pays respects to Marquis Longxiang.”
The female Marquis did not speak, but looked at him with cold eyes, playing with the waist tag seized from the assassin in her hand.
The Supervisor was considered a high-ranking military officer in the Martial Virtue Office, and was also the overall person in charge of the Martial Virtue Office of Beichuan Road.
Looking at his dusty body and rather haggard appearance.
The female Marquis estimated that he should have received the news from the Xinzhou Yamen and immediately rushed over.
It was no joke, a Marquis was assassinated in Xinzhou by someone carrying a waist tag from the Martial Virtue Office.
If this matter was really spread out, and then someone added fuel to the fire and made a big fuss about it.
Then the first one to suffer would definitely be this Supervisor of the Martial Virtue Office.
He would definitely be charged with dereliction of duty first.
Therefore, after learning of this news, this Supervisor Wu was first frightened, and then immediately rushed from the Beichuan Garrison Yamen to Xinzhou.
No matter what, he had to personally clear up the misunderstanding with Marquis Longxiang.
This Supervisor Wu was also meticulous in his thinking.
He first went to the Xinzhou Yamen, checked the corpses of several assassins, and confirmed that these people were not his subordinates.
Nor were they the Suspended Blade Guards of the Martial Virtue Office that he was familiar with.
Only then did he have some confidence to come and explain to Marquis Longxiang.
However, looking at it now, this female Marquis was obviously still angry and did not respond to his visit.
Instead, she looked at him with a cold expression, as if she was examining the accomplices of those assassins.
Under this inexplicable pressure, cold sweat broke out on Supervisor Wu’s forehead.
In fact, the female Marquis also knew in her heart that this assassination should have nothing to do with the Supervisor in front of her.
Otherwise, he would not have rushed over immediately, wanting to sincerely explain.
However, the female Marquis had always disliked these Martial Virtue Office runners.
Now that she happened to have their handle in her hands, Bai Jing definitely had to beat them up properly.
The female Marquis saw that Supervisor Wu’s face was tense and beads of sweat were dripping from his forehead.
She felt that she had grasped it about right.
So she opened her mouth and said in an icy tone.
“Good you Martial Virtue Office, you actually dare to assassinate this Marquis, are you trying to rebel?”
Hearing this, the Supervisor knelt on the ground with a thud, hurriedly clarifying.
“Marquis Longxiang has misunderstood! Absolutely not.”
“Our Martial Virtue Office is just the imperial court’s hunting dog, how could we do such a thing.”
“This must be a villain impersonating us, wanting to frame our Martial Virtue Office and cause chaos in the imperial court.”
“Your Excellency is wise, you must not be fooled!”
At this time, Supervisor Wu’s words already carried a crying tone.
The female Marquis stroked the Martial Virtue Office waist tag in her hand and asked in a leisurely tone.
“Then Supervisor Wu, let me ask you.”
“How should you explain this Martial Virtue Office waist tag?”
“It was hanging on the waist of that assassin.”
Supervisor Wu hurriedly kowtowed to Marquis Longxiang again, and then replied.
“Reporting to Your Excellency, our Suspended Blade Guards have many conflicts with various rebels.”
“Last year, as many as seventeen people from our Beichuan Road Supervisor’s Office went missing or died in battle.”
“It is normal for a few of these waist tags to be lost and fall into the hands of rebels.”
The female Marquis snorted coldly.
“Hmph, you’ve said all the good things.”
“Then how do you prove that this matter has nothing to do with your Martial Virtue Office?”
“To take a step back, even if this matter has nothing to do with you, if it weren’t for you losing the waist tag, I wouldn’t have been assassinated.”
“How could those assassins have disguised themselves as Suspended Blade Guards and easily approached this Marquis.”
The female Marquis’s questions were all reasonable.
Wu Jun couldn’t help but lower his head even further.
“You… You’re right.”
“This matter is indeed our dereliction of duty.”