Chapter 173 Why Take Me to Dali Temple (1)

Chapter 173 Why Take Me to Dali Temple (1)

The assassination case of Ban Huai spread throughout the capital in just one day. Compared with Zhao Jia who had no sense of existence, Ban Huai's status as a top playboy was extremely valuable. Regardless of whether he has real power or not, the news of his assassination at this time is enough to cause panic among many nobles.

There are few people in the world who are not afraid of death, especially the nobles who live a luxurious life.

Some nobles who have a good relationship with the Ban family came to visit with gifts. They saw Ban Huai lying on the bed and sluggish, and they couldn't help saying a few more words of encouragement. Most of them were taking good care of their health. If you don't die, you will have future blessings.

Some people really had nothing to say, so they praised Banhuai for finding a good son-in-law. For his assassination case, they ran and worked so hard that they even drew a portrait of the criminal. Only then did everyone know that it was not that Cheng Amber was not good at drawing characters, but that he didn't like drawing. But in order to help his future father-in-law find the criminal, he made an exception.

A gentleman with principles is admirable, but a junior who puts down his principles for the sake of his elders is also moving. Originally, many people laughed at Ban Huai behind his back for finding a son-in-law who looked down on the Ban family. Who knew that this son-in-law was not only not disrespectful to the Ban family, but respected Ban Huai everywhere. He has already taken the affairs of the Ban family as his own to worry about.

Now everyone is envious of Ban Huai again, what kind of shit luck did it take to find a future son-in-law who is good in everything and respects and cares for the woman's parents so much?

No wonder someone wanted to assassinate him, maybe it was because he was so lucky that people couldn't bear to look down on him.

The Holy Majesty issued two decrees to ask Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate the case as soon as possible, and even asked the Ministry of Criminal Justice to assist in the investigation. The whole capital was panicked by this big battle, which also made everyone see once again how much the Ban family is valued by the emperor. .

Because the characters in Rong Xia's paintings are too close to the criminal himself, even though the criminal looks very ordinary, someone still confessed his identity for the reward of fifty taels of silver.

It turned out that this person was a steward of King Hui's mansion, but since King Hui and his wife died in the fire, and Prince Hui's son and princess were raised in the palace, many servants of King Hui's mansion have been dismissed. And the household registration of the confessed steward had already been cancelled. The reason for the cancellation was that he died in a fire.

A person who was originally killed in a fire bought a murderer, and it was Mr. Jing Ting who killed him. If there was no conspiracy, no one would believe it.

I only feel sorry for Jiang Yuchen and Jiang Kangning who were raised in the palace. After this incident, life in the palace became even more difficult.

There have long been rumors in the capital that King Hui was behind the assassination of the eldest princess. It's just that King Hui died in the sea of ​​fire, and His Majesty never mentioned it, so even if many people had doubts about it, they didn't dare to say it out loud.

But now the old department of Prince Hui's Mansion wants to assassinate Duke Jingting, what is the reason?

There can only be one reason, that is, the old part of King Hui hated the eldest princess for ruining their plan to assassinate the emperor, but the eldest princess is dead, and the only person they can take revenge on is the eldest princess' son Jing Tinggong.

Many people began to sympathize with the Ban family. The biggest backer died because of saving them, and now the mastermind behind the scenes still hates them. What a bad fate?

A day later, the yamen servant found the body of the former servant of King Hui in a ruined temple. After an examination by the foreman, the steward had been dead for at least ten hours.

This is obviously the exposure of the minions, and the mastermind behind the scenes is in a hurry to jump the wall, so he silenced the manager.

Then Wu Zuo found a pearl in the steward's mouth. This pearl was of excellent color, as if it was used by female relatives to embroider on clothes or shoes.

This pearl is hidden in the wormhole of the tooth, if you don't look carefully, no one will know that there is this thing in his mouth. Could it be that he felt unwilling before dying, so he intentionally left something on the murderer?

The officials of Dali Temple suddenly had a headache, why did this involve a woman again?

However, with this pearl, they had a clue to investigate the case, so the Dali Temple sent people to strictly check all the channels for providing pearls in the capital, especially the channels that specially provided pearl supplies for nobles.

There is a saying that masters are always among the people. An old craftsman recognized this kind of pearl as a kind of clam pearl from the sea. It is very rare. The aristocrat bought it, and this year it was only sold to three families.

Jingting Mansion, Zhongping Bo Mansion and Shi Xiang Mansion.

People from Dali Temple were the first to find Zhongping Bo's mansion, and finally found out that all these pearls were used as the dowry of the second prince and concubine.

As for the Jingting mansion, Dali Temple went to the victim's house to ask, and the family couldn't even remember whether they bought the pearls, and finally found the box of pearls from the storage list. , never opened.

The reason is that the queen sent a box of better pearls, and they forgot about the defective ones.

The officials of Dali Temple finally saw the luxury of the Ban family. They forgot such a good thing without hesitation, which shows that they are used to good things in normal times.

"My lord, this Jingting mansion is really rich and enviable," an official of Dali Temple walked out of the gate of Ban's house and followed Liu Banshan, and said with emotion, "The potted plants in their house are all inlaid with precious stones. I've never seen anything as gorgeous as it came out."

It's a pity that his family doesn't have a daughter, otherwise it would be great if they could get married in the family.

"I have seen it." Liu Banshan seemed to have thought of something, he smiled, "The Ban family is also a wealthy family for hundreds of years, so it is not surprising that there are good things in the house."

"But isn't it rumored that when the Ban family followed the ancestors to fight the world, they didn't get many good things because of bad luck?" the official said, "There are still storytellers talking about the story of more than two hundred years ago with relish." The thing is, the ancestors of the Ban family fought like this," he compared his thumbs, "but luck is like this."

Liu Banshan looked at his colleague's sticking out little finger, and sighed, "Master Wang, how do you think we should visit Shi's house?"

Mr. Shi, who was talking eloquently just now, suddenly fell silent. Prime Minister Shi is now in power, and the Crown Princess is still his eldest daughter. How can these petty officials dare to offend this? When they went to Xie's house just now, they still had confidence, but facing Shi's house...