A League of Nobleman 君子盟 Episode 2

Seeing the text, Lan Jue knew that Xie Hao had brought her through, and everything on the stage was carefully set up. Although it was Xie Hao who killed him, the real target was himself. The person who took the creed in the bead must know the content of the secret letter. Lan Jue thought that Zhang Ping knew too much and asked his subordinates to deal with him.

The Minister of Rites, Guo Yun, came to Banyue Tower to celebrate Lan Jue's birthday as soon as he returned to Beijing. Lan Jue apologized for disturbing his colleagues because of the murder in Banyue Tower, and Gong Songming, Minister of Rites, led everyone to the stage to check the situation. Later, Wang Mowen, Wang Shilang of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, brought someone to investigate the case. Lan Jue was familiar with this person, and informed the suspect of the incident against him, and privately asked Mowen to help cover it up. Mo Wen arranged for his subordinates to investigate the scene, and wanted to let the officials go back to the house temporarily, but he didn't expect to be stopped. It turned out that the Empress Dowager Li Shi of Shuoyang was listening to the play here, and ordered the officials present to report frankly.

Zhang Ping was investigating the case backstage on the stage, and was arrested because of his suspicious appearance. Zhang Ping reported his identity as a scholar, and then told everyone the clues he found. Zhang Ping found out that the dancer Xie Hao was first strangled to death and then burned. The pear blossom hair oil in Xie Hao's dressing room in the backstage was replaced. The murderer probably used this to achieve spontaneous combustion without fire. Another clue is that there are bead holes in the bottom of a burned candle, which may be related to Xie Hao's murder. Guo Yun asked Zhang Ping how he knew that the hole at the bottom of the candle was where the beads were hidden, and whether there was something hidden in it. In order to prevent Zhang Ping from revealing his bead theft to the public, Lan Jue publicly suggested that Zhang Ping participate in the investigation. The empress dowager asked Zhang Ping to investigate the case alone, and reported the case to her alone after the investigation, while other officials present had to wait for the case to be clarified before leaving.

Zhang Ping asks his friend Chen Tiao to help him investigate the case. He believes that as long as the murder case is clear, he will know the secret of Lan Jue's insistence on stealing the beads. On the other hand, Lan Jue suspects that Guo Yun murdered and framed her. For now, she can only find out the real culprit before Zhang Ping and get back the secret letter, so as to hide the secret letter from the Empress Dowager. Lan Jue told Mo Wen that Zhang Ping had to be guarded right now so that he couldn't do anything. Then Mo Wen arranged for his subordinates to stop Zhang Ping from investigating the case, and he accompanied Lan Jue to inspect the stage. Lan Jue found that there was a problem with the structure of the hanging beam on the stage. They found the hanging beam puppet master. After asking, they guessed that the murderer strangled Xie Hao on the hanging beam, and pulled the rope for Xie Hao. The puppet master put down the dead Xie Hao according to the rehearsal process.

The head of the troupe said that the hanging beam ladder was their unique trick, and only the people inside the troupe knew about it. Mo Wen speculated that the murderer was inside the troupe. Mo Wen's subordinates found Xie Hao's head oil bottle, Zhang Ping came to check the news but was rejected by Mo Wen, Zhang Ping pointed out that Lan Jue stopped him from investigating the case, and further verified that he had nothing to do with Xie Hao's theft of the beads death. In order to prevent Zhang Ping from looking for the queen mother, Mo Wen had to agree to let Zhang Ping go to the backstage to continue investigating the case.

Mo Wen summoned the dancers and musicians of the troupe. He bluntly said that the murderer was among these people and interrogated them one by one, but nothing was found. Zhang Ping and Chen Tiao searched the background, but found nothing. Zhang Ping thought that the hair oil bottle was empty, and then thought that the murderer had dispersed Xie Hao's remaining hair oil into the oil bottles of other dancers, but in this way, the combustion aid was diluted, and it was difficult to distinguish the specific combustion aid. things. Zhang Ping uses the method of separating egg whites for cheese to separate the oil from the oil and the combustion aid. Sure enough, through this method, Zhang Ping found out that the combustion aid was turpentine oil.

Lan Jue searches the dancer's room and accidentally finds a precious pipa in the smoking room. He finds Hanyan and asks her to hand over the beads, and promises to protect her life. Faced with questioning, Hanyan only admitted that she and Guo Yun were like-minded at first, and finally had to admit that she and Guo Yun had a similar interest, but she confessed that she didn't have the secret letter that Lan Jue wanted.

Zhang Ping experimented with a wig dipped in turpentine oil, speculating that the murderer had just borrowed the effect of the fire beads to ignite Xie Hao's hair during the performance. A beggar outside the Banyue Tower sent a book in blood, which read "Collaborate with the enemy, secret letter, hidden evil intentions, son inherits his father's career, and he is not ashamed." Right now the Jinwu Guard has been alarmed, and the Queen Mother will know the news immediately. Seeing that it was about to become a fatal situation, Lan Jue found Hanyan again, threatening her to say what tonight would determine her life and death.

Zhang Ping found the grease from the fireball, and then went to the troupe owner, asked and learned that the grease was armor oil used by the pipa masters of the troupe, and found Hanyan from this clue. Zhang Ping asked the Queen Mother to interrogate Han Yan, and the Queen Mother ordered someone to take Han Yan away, and also called Lan Jue to listen.