Similar to Nancheng Government Office, the cell of Zhongcheng Government Office is not far away. Chen Lang and Tang Quan were about to enter when suddenly a hurried sound of horse hooves came from behind.

Turning his head, he found that the chief clerk was chasing him. The chief clerk was in poor physical condition and turned over and got off the horse and gasped, saying, "Wait, I just received the news that the identities of the dead assassin and the arsonist have been found out."

"Who is it?"

Chen Lang and Tang Quan spoke in unison.

The chief clerk gently stroked his chest: "The arsonist was burned beyond recognition. He could only use the exclusion method to determine his identity based on his gender, figure, and the list of dead people. His name was Tien Niu, seventeen years old, a young man who cut vegetables in the imperial kitchen. And the assassin who assassinated Xu Huang was not from the Xu Kingdom..."

Speaking of this, the chief clerk glanced at Chen Lang standing beside him. Chen Lang encouraged him to continue and said: "It doesn't matter, the conclusion drawn by the investigation has nothing to do with you, just tell me."

The chief clerk nodded, then whispered in a volume like a mosquito flying over: "The specific identity of the assassin has not been clarified yet, but he had checked into an inn before the assassination. Someone had talked to him. The assassin rarely talked, but revealed that he came from Liang Kingdom to Huaining to do one big thing."

ah?

Chen Lang couldn't believe his ears. He thought he was about to clear his suspicion, but he expected that such a fierce news would be revealed.

Seeing this, Tang Quan gently patted Chen Lang on the shoulder: "Don't be anxious, it's just a vague clue. Maybe the person's memory was wrong when he talked to the assassin."

Chen Lang took a deep breath and tried to control his sudden chaotic thinking. His brain cells were spinning rapidly, and in just five seconds, Chen Lang discovered the flaws.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Since the assassin talks very little during the chat, why do you say that he wanted to do something big in Huaining, and he also revealed that he came from Liang State? Assuming that he had planned to assassinate Xu Huang a long time ago, wouldn't he hide his whereabouts? He just said two key information that shouldn't be said the least. Isn't this abnormal?"

"That's right!" Tang Quan told the chief clerk, "Add to continue to investigate the true identity of the assassin. The clue just now was verified with the insider. If the insider insisted that the assassin was very little but revealed two key information, then the clue would be temporarily put on hold and ignored. Because the assassin was likely to deliberately mislead, don't look for the wrong direction."

"Okay." The chief clerk replied immediately.

...

Looking at the back of the chief clerk's gradually moving away, a stone fell to the ground in Chen Lang's heart. But Chen Lang knew very well that the pace of investigation must be accelerated. If the truth is unresolved, there will definitely be more and more rumors covering Chen Lang.

After all, Tang Quan believed in Chen Lang, which does not mean that other officials in Xu State could believe Chen Lang. As the saying goes, three people become tigers. If Xu Huang often hears remarks that are unfavorable to Chen Lang, then Xu Huang will also be shaken.

The cell is smelly and it is a whole space. If the interrogation is conducted in the cell, the routine of interrogation of the previous person may be heard by the next person.

Therefore, Chen Lang picked up a room outside the cell and asked the jailer to take the key suspects to the house for interrogation one by one. The key suspects Chen Lang judged were mainly kitchen mates.

reason?

Because the Imperial Guard belongs to the army and has strict management, it is difficult for arson prisoners to get in; the same is true for the Grand Inner Guards; and the palace maids are relatively weak and do not have the ability to commit crimes, so the above are listed as secondary suspects.

After thinking about it, the only possibility of a kitchen guy committing a crime is relatively high. The kitchen guys in Zhaixinglou all came from the imperial kitchen room on the night before, and the imperial kitchen usually has high requirements for food production, but ignore other aspects.

What's more, the suicide arsonist was a guy named Tie Niu.

Chen Lang sat upright, pretending to be a terrible figure. Soon the prison guard brought a young man. The man knelt down on the ground when he saw Chen Lang, and his whole body could not stop trembling.

There were bloodstains on his back, and it was obvious that he had experienced torture not long ago.

"What's the name of the person kneeling?" Tang Quan asked at the top of his throat.

"Zhang Erlang." The kitchen guy shivered.

After hearing this, Tang Quan flipped through the file, found the page that recorded Zhang Erlang's interrogation records, and handed it to Chen Lang. It looked like Chen Lang was the chief judge of the case, while Tang Quan served as the chief clerk.

Chen Lang raised his chest and spoke very quickly: "How many years have you worked in the imperial kitchen?"

"Eight years!" Zhang Erlang sobbed, "The villain is wronged. He has been diligent in his work. He has worked hard for so many years without any contribution and has worked hard. How could he set fire in the Zhaixing Tower?"

"Tsk~" Chen Lang curled his lips, "If you say there is no, then there is no? How to prove it?"

"When the kitchen caught fire, I immediately tried to put out the fire. I guess many people saw it." Zhang Erlang crawled on the ground.

"Did they see the arsonist, and have you seen the arsonist?" Chen Lang had a expression on his face.

"I haven't seen..." Zhang Erlang said in a crying voice.

"Since everyone can't see anyone setting fire, why can you see you put out the fire? This way of proof is not a slight persuasion." Chen Lang spoke faster and faster.

"Unfortunate!" Zhang Erlang kowtowed repeatedly.

Chen Lang suddenly stood up and cursed from a high position, saying, "You bastard, you don't cry until you see the coffin. It seems that you must continue to torture, so that you can taste the taste of life being worse than death."

"Don't!" Zhang Erlang suddenly yelled: "The villain is wronged, beg the official to let the villain go. The villain has been beaten to death, it's so hard!"

Chen Langheiyan said with the fastest speed: "How painful was you beaten? If I had known this, I would have died in Zhaixing Tower the night before, right?"

When Zhang Erlang heard this, he was obviously stunned for a few seconds. Then he said mercilessly: "Please don't spend the fun of the villain. The villain ran out of the fire in Zhaixing Tower. How could he think that he was burned to death in Zhaixing Tower? That would be so painful."

Chen Lang raised his eyebrows and continued to question: "Do you know who died the Zhaixing Tower the night before?"

Zhang Erlang immediately cried: "The villain doesn't know."

Chen Lang asked again: "There is a guy named Tie Niu in the Royal Kitchen. Do you know him?"

Zhang Erlang hurriedly replied: "I know, but I'm not familiar with it. It's been half a year since he came to the imperial kitchen."

...

After interrogating Zhang Erlang, several people were interrogated. No matter who it was, Chen Lang raised the same questions and spoke very quickly.

Tang Quan couldn't understand Chen Lang's routine. In theory, if anyone interrogated one suspect after another in the past, Tang Quan would definitely regard him as an idiot, but now the person who did this is Chen Lang, so Tang Quan felt that there was an indescribable profoundness.

Gudong ~

Chen Lang drank water to replenish his energy, then straightened his back and waited for the next suspect.

The visitor was named Hong Xiu, who also experienced severe torture. Chen Lang asked a few questions quickly, and Hong Xiu answered quickly with Chen Lang's rhythm and kept shouting for justice.

"Bang!"

Chen Lang suddenly slammed the table and stood up. He asked as quickly as possible: "You guy just don't cry until you see the coffin. You must continue to torture, so that you can taste the taste of life worse than death."

"I am wronged. The villain has already said everything he should have said. If he is punished, the villain will be beaten to death." Hong Xiu cried.

Chen Lang immediately asked again: "Since you are so afraid of being tortured, you might as well die in Zhaixing Tower, right?"

"Yes!" Hong Xiu blurted out.

As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Quan shouted three times in his heart: Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!
Chapter completed!