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Chapter 88 Sticky Rod

Tulichen replied seriously: "Your Majesty, the guards, housekeepers, maids, servants and other servants of Prince Dun's mansion were all arranged by Your Majesty when the Tenth Master opened the mansion. There have been almost no changes."

"We are well aware of every move in Prince Dun's mansion. No strange faces or unknown forces have appeared in the mansion in recent years. The Tenth Master lives a very regular life. He basically sleeps until the sun goes down every day, except for playing with the ladies and children."

"I just go to the Xishan Camp every now and then to handle some military affairs, and occasionally go to have a meal with the brothers such as the Third Master, the Fourth Master, the Eighth Master, and the Thirteenth Master."

After thinking for a while, he added, "The most common thing I do is to study the Four Books and Five Classics, chess, calligraphy and painting with Mr. Wu. Sometimes we often quarrel because of different opinions."

"My people are free to move around in the palace, and they are not restricted in what they see or hear. I can basically conclude that this matter has nothing to do with Prince Dun."

Kangxi's expression softened when he heard this, and he nodded: "Since the tenth son went to Jiangnan, his temperament has changed a lot since he came back. He knows how to be filial, and he also knows how to understand my difficulties. He doesn't waste time with the eighth son and the others anymore."

"You spend all day at home writing books and studying hard. This is very good. I have also heard about it."

"I don't expect them to make much contribution to the court. As long as they don't get involved with those ministers and cause trouble for me, I will be satisfied."

"Where are the other brothers?"

After Tulichen finished reporting on the Tenth Master, he continued when Kangxi asked, "As for the Fourteenth Master, he has close contacts with the Eighth Master, and he frequently interacts with the generals in the Fengtai Camp, and also often interacts with the ministers in the court. When he returns to the mansion, he often stays alone in the study."

"The rules in the Fourteenth Master's house are very strict. The servants cannot move around and have not been able to find out any information. A maid discovered that the Fourteenth Master often wrote in different handwritings in the study, and then burned them himself."

Kangxi was moved and asked, "Are you saying that the Fourteenth Master is imitating different handwritings?"

"I can't confirm it either. I was just a maid handling the burned paper and suspected it was important information, so I paid attention to it. Later I found out that it was just an ordinary official document. I just found that the font was different, but I didn't find anything else."

Kangxi's face darkened, and he suddenly remembered that the Tenth Prince had once said that the Prince's fake imperial edict was most likely forged by the Fourteenth Prince.

Now it seems that this possibility is very high.
The fourteenth child has grown up and has his own ideas. He is also a restless person!
"Turichen, the next step is to treat Old Fourteen as the key suspect and intensify the investigation on him. Do you understand?"

"The slave obeys the order!"

Turichen controlled the spy power of Kangxi, and arranged spies in the palaces of various princes and important ministers in the capital to grasp the situation of these people and control the stability of the capital. There was a special agency to manage it, called the Sticking Rod Office.

Because Turichen was accompanying Kangxi and also held a position in the palace, he would usually only report important matters.

This time, the Ninth Prince died. Kangxi asked Tulichen to mobilize the power of the Sticking Rod Office and activate the spies in various mansions. A lot of messy things were discovered, even things that were not usually noticed. However, there is still no conclusive evidence about the murder of the Ninth Prince, and Tulichen is a little nervous.

Then Tulichen reported the situations in the other princes' houses one by one, and most of them were excluded.

"Turichen, how's the investigation going on that matter? Are you sure it's him?" When Kangxi mentioned the ninth prince Yinzhen, his expression became much heavier.

Turichen knew who the 'he' Kangxi was talking about!
And I know what 'that thing' is.
"Your Majesty, I returned to the capital ahead of schedule at your order. After a thorough investigation of the officers of Shuntian Prefecture and the servants of the Ninth Prince's Mansion, as well as an on-site inspection, I found three suspicious points." Seeing that Kangxi did not speak, Turichen continued, "First, there were signs of rummaging in the Ninth Prince's study, as if the murderer was looking for something. Because the Ninth Prince's study has always been closed to outsiders, no one knows if anything is missing;"

"However, my spies in the Eighth Master's mansion found out something. It seems that on the afternoon of the day when the incident happened, the Ninth Prince sent someone to steal a letter from the Fourth Prince's mansion. The Ninth Master and the Eighth Master had a secret conversation in the study for a long time. Later, the Ninth Master returned home, and the incident happened in the evening."

"I guess the murderer came here for this letter?"

When Kangxi heard this, he suddenly thought of the handwritten letter from the Crown Prince to Ren Bo'an that the Fourteenth Prince sent to him. Could it be this letter? But why was it stolen from the Fourth Prince's mansion? Didn't the Fourteenth Prince tell him that it was someone from the Ministry of War who found it in the ruins of Jiangxia Town?

By the way, the Tenth Brother reported to himself that Nian Gengyao brought back Ren Bo'an's pawn ticket from Jiangxia Town, and whether he also brought back the prince's letter and gave it to the Fourth Brother. The Ninth Brother stole the letter from the Fourth Brother, and then the Eighth Brother asked the Fourteenth Brother to send the letter to him in the name of the Ministry of War.

Sure enough, Lao Ba still likes to play this kind of tricks behind the scenes.

"Hmph! A dog will always eat shit." Kangxi figured out the reason and cursed angrily.

When Turichen heard Kangxi's anger, he immediately stopped talking.

Kangxi wanted to understand what happened, vented his anger, felt the room quiet down, came back to his senses, and said, "What about the second suspicious point?"

"The second suspicious point is that the murderer shot the arrow in the garden far away, and then returned to the study to take the arrow away to avoid leaving it at the scene. Perhaps he was afraid that the arrow would reveal the murderer's identity."

"This behavior can only mean one thing, this arrow is not an ordinary bow and arrow, it may have an identification mark or something."

Kangxi's heart sank, and he thought of the arrows he had collected, and asked, "Could it be the same as those arrows?"

"I was particularly impressed by those arrows. I also compared the wound of the Ninth Prince and felt that it was very similar to Xiao Guoxing's wound."

Kangxi had expected this and fell silent.

"The third doubt"

Seeing that Kangxi did not speak, Turichen hesitated for a moment and continued. But it seemed that the third clue might trigger the emperor's bad guess, so he was particularly cautious.

"What is the third suspicious point? Why don't you tell me more?" Kangxi asked when he saw Turichen stopped.

"After asking the servants in the mansion one by one, I found that many people seemed to have heard a heavy drum sound in a fuzzy state, and some were awakened by the sudden sound."

"Because it was at night and it only rang once before returning to silence, most people didn't pay much attention to it. Many people even forgot about it. It was only after I reminded them that they remembered it. After repeated confirmation by me, I know it's not wrong."

(End of this chapter)