The key may be in the book of records of the entry and exit of the city gate given by Wang Zan.

There can't be a murderer or clues about the murder of Yushi, but there are definitely all the records of officials coming and going in Fengcheng in recent years.

Among them, it must include the murdered Yushi Wang Xianming.

Chu Xian has always had a question, as a supervising imperial history, and an old imperial history with nearly twenty years of career experience, this death is too aggrieved. Wang Yushi's official skills must be above his current self, and his perception must be stronger, what kind of killer can kill him instantly, and he can't even react?

There are too many doubts here.

This made Chu Xian want to have an in-depth understanding of Wang Xianming, the superintendent of the imperial history, and the previous file was very one-sided, so Chu Xian wanted to see what Wang Xianming had been doing over the years, and whether he had gone to various places in Suizhou to make secret visits to investigate.

In the book of records of entering and leaving the city gate, Chu Xian quickly checked it, and sure enough, in the past three years, Wang Xianming, the imperial historian, actually had dozens of records of entering and leaving the city gate, maybe for those peddlers and pawns, this is nothing at all, but for officials, it is a little unusual.

Compared with other officials, Wang Xianming has entered and exited the city gate several times more, and after screening the interval between each entry and exit, the records of entering and exiting that day are removed, and only those with a longer interval between entering and exiting are only seen.

This anomaly may not be a clue in the eyes of others, at best, it can only prove that Wang Xianming is a good official, and most of them are observing the people's feelings in various parts of Suizhou.

But Chu Xian didn't think so, because just a month before Wang Yushi was killed, he was still holding a record of often entering and leaving the city gate, even if it was only a day out and returning on the same day, but in the month before Wang Yushi was killed, there was no record of entering and leaving the city gate.

That's a little out of order.

Either Wang Xianming was unwell and rested for a whole month, and he didn't even go out of the city gate, or, for some reason, Wang Yushi couldn't go out.

This time point is extremely special, because when Chu Xian was exploring the Imperial History Mansion before, he found that the water in the flower garden pond in the Imperial History Mansion had also stopped taking care of it a month before Wang Xianming was killed.

A bold idea and speculation instantly appeared in Chu Xian's mind, if it was assumed that Wang Yushi had been under house arrest a month before he was killed, then all of this would make sense.

It's just that who has such courage and ability to dare to control a superintendent under house arrest, and has the ability to control and put under house arrest a superintendent of the imperial history?

You must know that this matter is not something that can be done by just anyone, there are so many subordinates and guards in the Imperial History Mansion, can it be said that they have all been bought? Or is it that long ago, they were slowly replaced by another wave of people, replaced by people who monitored the imperial history, so those subordinates and guards were interrogated afterwards, so that there were no clues, and this could not leak.

Chu Xian felt that this possibility was extremely high.

It's also very simple to prove this, that is, find someone who is familiar with the subordinates and guards of the Imperial Mansion, and identify it.

Taking a deep breath, Chu Xian called Qi Chengxiang in.

"Chief Qi Dao, please go to the city guard camp and invite Wang Dutong to come. ”

Wang Ruoyu grew up in the Imperial History Mansion since she was a child, and the Changshi Mansion can buy other people, but there is absolutely no way to buy Wang Ruoyu, so that she can identify the subordinates and guards of the Imperial History Mansion is the most safe.

Because Chu Xian was very anxious, Wang Ruoyu entered the city overnight, Chu Xian planned to inform Cui Huanzhi of this matter, but he didn't expect that Cui Huanzhi was not there, and Li Yanji was not in the official residence.

Chu Xian also remembered that Lord Chu found him yesterday and said that he had found a clue and wanted to investigate it himself, but he had not come back yet.

Chu Xian couldn't wait, so he made a quick decision and ordered the subordinates and guards of the Imperial History Mansion to come immediately in the name of the penman to cooperate with the investigation.

Since it was already night, many people were quite complaining, thinking that it would be okay to do this tomorrow, why do they have to toss people in the middle of the night.

But for more than half an hour, there were already more than a dozen people crowded in the courtyard, Wang Ruoyu came, but there were no complaints and dissatisfaction, after all, this was investigating the case of her father's murder, Chu Xian told her about the situation, and she began to identify it.

It's just that the result is that Chu Xian's previous speculation was negated.

These subordinates and guards are the people of the original Imperial History Mansion.

These people have been in the Imperial History Mansion for half a year, and the long time has been five or six years, and there is even an old housekeeper who has followed the Wang Yushi for nearly 20 years, even if they are people from the Long History Mansion, it is impossible to lay out so early.

Their rhetoric is the same, they have been interrogated before, either they have colluded in advance and have already thought of their rhetoric, or they have a clear conscience and there is no problem at all.

In short, Chu Xian's conjecture that Wang Yushi was under house arrest has no evidence to prove it.

And to find the servant who is responsible for the repair of the garden trees and flowers, the latter replied, the flowers and plants in the Jingxin Garden of the Imperial History Mansion have long been taken care of by Wang Yushi himself, as for the water in the pool, it was also more than a month before the murder of the imperial history, Wang Yushi personally confessed, saying that he raised a few rare fish and did not allow them to be filled with water.

Chu Xian recalled carefully, the neglected garden trees and flowers were indeed only in the meditation garden, that is, it was Wang Yushi himself who neglected to take care of them.

Of course, it could be that the slave was lying.

Still didn't ask a reason, the answers of these subordinate servants can be said to be leaky, Chu Xian had a headache for a while, if this step doesn't work, it is still difficult to make a breakthrough in the case of the murder of Yushi.

During these days, Master Cui also didn't have a smile on his face, the longer the time dragged on, the greater the pressure, and I heard that there has been some progress on the side of the Criminal Division, as for what it is, the Inspection Department does not know, but it is certain that the old magistrate Kong Qian of the Criminal Division is definitely not simple.

Cui Huanzhi and Kong Qian are competitors, and it depends on who can find out the murder of Yushi first.

Because the Criminal Investigation Division and the Inspection Division live together in the same official residence, so tonight's battle is also in the eyes of the Criminal Investigation Division, when an official of the Criminal Investigation Division passed by the door, he shook his head and said: "In the middle of the night, people will not be able to live in peace, and it will take time to investigate and judge the case, which needs to be accumulated over time. ”

Chu Xian has heard a lot of cold words about competitors these days, but Chu Xian has long been immune to this kind of words.

At this moment, Chu Xian also felt that he was thinking too much, maybe Wang Yushi was not under house arrest at all.

At this time, a small official came over with a few inquiry record books, and said to Chu Xian: "Master Writer, the subordinates and guards of the Imperial History Mansion have summoned eighteen people this time, and they have all finished questioning, this is the inquiry record, that, it is not early now, do you want them to go back first? I see that an old gentleman is not young, I am afraid that he will not be able to withstand such a toss." ”

Even his own people in the inspection department had a lot of complaints about Chu Xian's overnight inquiry, Chu Xian had no choice but to nod his head while taking the document and flipping through it.