It was almost three o'clock when Li Hong left. Zhang Zong was still a little sleepy, but after getting the news from Li Hong, his sleepiness was swept away, and his mind was full of thoughts about Zhou Futong's massacre.

When Li Hong arrived at night, he brought a lot of useful information to Zhang Zong. Zhou Futong, who was destroyed, was Li Hong's confidant, and he was also a senior general with powerful Kong Wu and capable work.

The most important thing is that Zhou Futong has many martial arts trained at home, some of whom even went to the battlefield. It can be said that the defense at home is extremely strict. Without strict plans and enough manpower, it is impossible to destroy the entire Zhou family.

Li Hong did not believe that Zhou Futong died of private revenge. In addition to the above reasons, there is another very important point, that is, in addition to protecting Li Hong's safety, Zhou Futong also has a very important identity, that is, to help Li Hong deal with some inconvenient things.

Everything has two sides, and people are no exception. Especially for people in high positions, in addition to their open power, they also need to secretly have a hand that others cannot see to help him deal with some things. For example, taking Emperor Li Zhi as an example, the ministers of the three provinces and six ministries under him help him manage the country, but there are also secret organizations like Feinusi.

As the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, Li Hong also needs an institution similar to Feinusi around him, and Zhou Futong is the leader in charge of this institution. Of course, Zhou Futong usually only helps Li Hong inquire about some information or secretly contact some help from the court, and generally does not do anything too outrageous. After all, there is a Feinusi who supervises them.

"I didn't expect that Zhou Futong was actually a spy leader. No wonder the prince didn't believe that he was killed because of personal grudges!" Zhang Zong lay on the bed and murmured to himself. Although Zhou Futong mainly helped Li Hong inquire about various information, he would occasionally do some dirty work that Li Hong was not convenient for him to come forward, which also made Zhou Futong have many enemies in secret, and these enemies were actually Li Hong's enemies.

Since Zhou Futong is the one who helped Li Hong handle dirty work, he must have offended many people. Li Hong himself said that he didn't even know how many people wanted Zhou Futong to die sooner, so he was not sure who took the action.

However, one thing is certain. Zhou Futong's family is very strict, and ordinary people do not have the strength to destroy his entire family. In other words, the murderer who destroyed the family is probably a strict organization, and a lot of people went out to participate in the family's death.

"No, even if there are a large number of people, with the defensive power of Zhou Futong's family, they can at least fight back for a period of time, and this is likely to attract the attention of people around them. In addition, Jiupin Street is full of officials, and Jinwu Guards patrol there frequently, so if I were the murderer, I would definitely find a way to weaken or even fail the defensive power of Zhou Futong's family." Zhang Zong whispered again at this time.

Li Hong just introduced in detail that Zhou Futong's family has many divisions, but most of these divisions live in farms outside the city. Usually, only a dozen people are stationed in the mansion and rotate every once in a while. This is similar to the garrison in the capital, but the scale is smaller.

Chang'an City is actually very safe. After all, this is the capital city, and there are a large number of troops stationed in it. Most people dare not cause trouble in the capital city. Therefore, more than a dozen pieces in Zhou Futong's family are already quite strong defensive forces, and there are also servants and servants at home. If organized, it will be a considerable force.

"Poison!" Zhang Zong suddenly thought of a possibility. If he was the murderer, he would definitely find a way to make Zhou Futong's defense ineffective, and poisoning is undoubtedly the easiest and most effective way.

After all, the day of the incident was the Spring Festival. Generally, during such festivals, high-ranking families would prepare a banquet for their servants, and then give them a holiday after eating and drinking, so that they could have time to go on the street to play. If the murderer took this opportunity to poison the Zhou family, the entire defensive force would fail, and the murderer could easily destroy the Zhou family.

"But even if it is poisoned, the murderer cannot be alone. Instead, it requires multiple people to divide the work and cooperate. Some people are responsible for infiltrating the mansion to poison, some are responsible for rumoring information, and several people are sure to participate in the murder. After all, there are quite a few people in the Zhou family. Even if they are unable to resist, they cannot be completed by one person in a short time." Zhang Zong whispered again.

Killing people is not as easy as people think. Even holding a sharp blade, it takes a lot of effort to kill a person. It is not easy for ordinary people to kill several people in a row, let alone at least dozens of people in the Zhou family.

It is worth mentioning that the number of deaths in the Zhou family has not yet been determined. In addition to the nine charred corpses discovered by Zhang Zong and Di Renjie, Di Renjie and others later found thirteen corpses, all of which were dug out from the ruins. The excavation of the Zhou family's mansion is still continuing. It is estimated that more corpses will appear in the later stage.

Although these corpses excavated from the ruins were burned by fire, compared with the scorched corpses outside, the corpses under the ruins were still well preserved, which also allowed Di Renjie and the others to find more clues.

For example, some corpses have obvious knife wounds, and according to the knife marks, the murderer is probably the most common horizontal sword, which is almost the standard configuration of the martial artists of the Tang Dynasty. Even the soldiers in the army use horizontal swords, but the standard is slightly different from those used by the people, but the blade is almost exactly the same.

In other words, the murderer's weapon does not have any obvious characteristics, so it is difficult to find any clues from the weapon.

However, these wounds are not completely worthless. Di Renjie and the others found that the wounds of the deceased were almost killed with one knife, and the swords were at the critical point of the deceased. Only some deceased who resisted had some messy wounds found on their bodies. After all, even if they were poisoned, it was impossible to ensure that everyone was poisoned.

However, there are two problems that have not been clarified. The first is that the witnesses at the beginning of the fire have not been found yet. However, I believe this is only a matter of time. After all, the victims of Anrenfang have begun to comfort me. Now Di Renjie and the others are also catching up on the time to check. As long as there is enough time, the initial witness should be found to determine whether the fire was first burned from the Zhou family.

The second question is even more urgent. Although many corpses were found in the ruins of the Zhou family, Zhou Futong's corpses have not been found yet. Of course, this is not necessarily the case, because among the bodies found, several of them were burned extremely seriously and their original appearance could not be identified at all. However, Di Renjie and the others hoped that Zhou Futong's corpses would be crushed under the ruins, because this might be preserved more completely, so that more clues could be found.
Chapter completed!