Chapter 783 is one step late.

The investigation of Song Chengju, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was handed over to Xu Ruoxuan.

This matter didn't take much time, so at noon, Xu Ruoxuan already had a result.

"Brother Ye, I have already investigated, Geng Jia does have the intention of being the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Song Chengju has already learned the news, I think it is very likely that Song Chengju, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is the murderer!"

After listening to Xu Ruoxuan's words, everyone agreed.

Seeing this, Ye Xing nodded and said, "Since this is the case, then we have to go and visit Lord Song Chengju, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites!" ”

After lunch, they hurried to the Ministry of Rites, at this time the personnel of the Ministry of Rites were taking a lunch break, so there were not a few people who were still doing things, they saw that the King of Daming was coming, so they hurriedly greeted him, and said: "The King of Daming is coming at this time, I don't know what to do?" ”

Ye Xing swept around the Ministry of Rites and asked, "We came to find Lord Song, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, I don't know where Lord Song is?" ”

A petty official of the Ministry of Rites hurriedly smiled and said, "Lord Song is resting in the side room, and I will lead the King of Daming to go!" ”

As he spoke, the little official led Ye Xing and the others into Song Chengju's resting place, and Song Chengju's so-called rest was just lying on the bed reading a book.

Song Chengju suddenly saw Ye Xing coming, and hurriedly got up and said, "Why is King Daming here?" ”

Ye Xing asked the petty official to go out, and then said to Song Chengju: "Naturally, it's for the case of Geng Jia being killed!" ”

Seeing this, Song Chengju sighed and said, "It turns out that King Daming still doesn't believe me!" ”

Ye Xing shook his head: "If you want me to believe, you must use evidence to speak, you have no evidence to prove that you are not at the scene now, how can I believe in you?" ”

Song Chengju didn't know what to say with these words, and after a while, Ye Xing continued to ask: "Geng Jia wants to be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, you should know!" ”

Hearing Ye Xing ask this question, Song Chengju's face changed suddenly, and he looked at Ye Xing and said, "What does King Daming mean by this?" ”

Ye Xing smiled slightly: "It's not interesting, just ask if you know!" ”

Song Chengju looked at Ye Xing for a long time, as if he was thinking about whether he should tell the truth, this Ye Xing is not easy to deceive.

In the end, Song Chengju smiled coldly: "That's right, I do know that Geng Jia wants to be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but if you want to be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, it is not possible to rely only on the relationship of Princess Yong'an, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites is very important in the Ministry of Rites, and it is not so easy to want to be without real talent." ”

It seems that this Song Chengju knows a lot of things, and he even knows that the reason why Geng Jia was promoted was because Princess Yongan said good things about Geng Jia in front of the emperor.

And the more this is the case, the more it shows that this Song Chengju is very suspicious.

It's just that relying on this alone, I'm afraid it's useless, even if Song Chengju knows that Geng Jia wants to be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, it can't prove that he killed someone.

In view of this, Ye Xing and the others left after asking this question.

Before there is no evidence, it is not a good thing to arrest an official rashly, and Song Chengju does not dare to flee anyway.

After returning to Zhongshan Palace, Ai Fei'er had already returned, but his face was ugly, which made Ye Xing and the others very puzzled, didn't he find Feng Ma, but this is unlikely, Feng Ma is a common person with household registration, and it should be easy to find him.

"What's the matter, look ugly at your face?" Ye Xing looked at Ai Fei'er and asked.

Ai Fei'er hesitated and said, "We're late!" ”

"What do you mean when you're late?" Although Ye Xing had already had a bad premonition, he still kept himself calm.

Ai Fei'er sighed and said, "We went to the countryside and found the village where Feng Ma was, but Feng Ma's house had suddenly caught fire last night and burned down, and the people inside didn't have time to come out, so someone picked up their bodies today." ”

After listening to Ai Fei'er's words, Ye Xing was surprised, so he hurriedly asked, "How did Feng Ma's house catch fire, did you ask?" ”

Ai Fei'er nodded: "I asked, the nearby villagers said that the fire suddenly broke out in the middle of the night, and they rushed out to put out the fire after seeing the fire, but the fire was too big, they had no way at all, and they were busy until dawn to extinguish the fire, but the people couldn't be saved." ”

Ye Xing pondered for a moment and said, "This means that no one knows how that fire was burned, right?" ”

Ai Fei'er nodded, "That's right, because everyone had already gone to bed at that time." ”

"What about the bodies of Feng Ma and his family?" Ye Xing continued to ask.

"I've sent someone to pull the body back, I think Brother Ye should be able to find something from the corpse!"

Di Xiaojie heard Ai Fei'er say this, and said with a smile: "Do you think someone set this fire?" ”

Ai Fei'er nodded: "That's right, it was already the middle of the night, and the oil lamps had been extinguished, where did the fire come from?" And if Feng Ma and the others are still alive, it is not difficult to break out of the fire, even if they can't rush out, it is always okay to shout for help, but the people nearby said that they didn't hear the shouts for help at all. ”

Ai Fei'er analyzed it very thoroughly, leaving everyone speechless.

Ye Xing also agreed with Ai Fei'er's speculation and analysis, so he said after Ai Fei'er finished speaking: "In that case, let's conduct an autopsy after the body is transported." ”

It didn't take long for a group of officials to transport the three corpses to the courtyard of the Zhongshan Palace, the three corpses had been burned black, if it wasn't for the nearby people to put out the fire in time, I'm afraid that the three corpses would have left just a pile of dust in the end.

Among the three corpses, two adults and a child, an adult and a woman, the man should be Feng Ma, and the woman should be Feng Ma's wife.

The corpse was charred all over, but there were no obvious wounds, which made Ye Xing feel a little incredible, if the three of them were killed and then set on fire to destroy the corpses, then there should be wounds on the corpses.

But this is only one aspect, to kill people sometimes do not need a murder weapon, hands can, such as strangling people, twisting necks and so on.

After discovering this problem, Ye Xing focused on suffocation and breaking his neck.

After some investigation, Ye Xing nodded and said: "The two adults were torn, but the child was suffocated to death after being knocked unconscious, so the situation should be like this, after the murderer killed the two adults, he knocked the child unconscious, and then set a fire to destroy the corpse, but unfortunately the fire at that time had not destroyed the corpse, and it was discovered by the nearby people, so they extinguished the fire and preserved the three corpses." ”