Criminal investigation in ancient times

Gao Shi was suddenly dragged to the ground, so frightened that she screamed "嗤~~", clutching her stomach and expressing her discomfort.

Master Sun walked over and said, "Is it uncomfortable? There is something even worse! You poisonous woman! Someone stripped her clothes off for me! Tie her outside and pour cold water on her!"

Mrs. Gao stared at Master Sun, as if she didn't understand, she kept shaking her head.

Several beating women grabbed Gao, saw that Gao's clothes were stripped clean, tied Gao's hands and feet with a rope, carried him out of the house and threw him into the middle of the yard.It was the twelfth lunar month of winter, and people would feel cold in cotton-padded clothes, let alone a woman who stripped naked.

Two young servants came over carrying buckets.Master Sun picked up a bucket and poured it on Gao Shi.

Gao yelled, "My lord, please spare me! What did the concubine do wrong, and the lord wants to punish my concubine like this!"

Sun Zhan walked around her twice and said, "What mistake did I make? Huh? You asked me what mistake I made? Why didn't you think about what mistake you made when you committed adultery? You and Sun Hongcai partnered to kill me Why didn't Qi'er think about the consequences when he was a child?!"

Gao said stubbornly: "Master, I have been wronged! I am indeed pregnant with your child, this child is Hongqi's reincarnation, and I don't want to leave my master!~~~"

Sun Zhan poured another bucket of water on it: "How dare you mention Hongqi? You poisonous woman, you are not afraid that I, Qi'er, will come to seek revenge for you in your dreams at night?! Okay, you said the child is mine? Come on!" Ah! Bring me that old quack!"

As soon as the doctor came over, Gao knew that the matter had been exposed, no matter how much he tried to argue, it was useless.

Gao had no choice but to deny that he did not kill Sun Hongqi. "Master, Master Hongqi really wasn't murdered by his concubine! I beg the master to bypass my concubine!"

Sun Zhan sneered: "I don't care if you killed Qi'er or not, adultery is enough for you to die a hundred times, you can slowly experience what it means to be cold here!" After speaking, he turned and went back to the room.

"Master, please spare my life~~~Master~~~Master, please forgive my concubine..." Gao was lying on the ground, his whole body turned purple from the cold, and in less than half an hour, he had already exhaled more air than breathed in less.

On the side of Dali Temple, Lin Xiaoqing walked excitedly towards Dali Temple Qing's study with the confession.

"My lord, this case is clear. The young master of the Sun family was killed by the housekeeper Sun Hongcai! He had committed adultery with Mr. Sun's step-wife, Mrs. Gao, and after learning that Mrs. Gao was pregnant with a child, the two planned to kill Mrs. Sun Hongqi later. Gao's child is secretly hiding Chen Cang!"

Zhang Yaozhi stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Xiaoqing, how did you know that he had committed adultery with Mrs. Gao? The confession was not written."

Lin Xiaoqing said: "Although he didn't say it, but judging from his protection of Gao and Gao's children, this child probably belonged to Sun Hongcai. In this way, there is a motive for killing people."

Zhang Yaozhi nodded and said, "Well, that's right, let's leave this case as it is for the time being. I'm afraid Mrs. Gao won't be able to live anymore. The butler let Jiang Shaoqing directly deal with it."

Lin Xiaoqing saluted and left the study with joy on his face. Zhang Yaozhi shook his head and said, "Although I have ideas, they are not deep enough. I am too young to hold my breath..." Sighing, he casually threw away the goshawk picture he drew that day Into the painted porcelain jar.

The truth about the case of the Sun Mansion came to light, but except for a few officials of Dali Temple, no one else knew about it. Zhang Rui also overheard Lin Xiaoqing and Lin Cheng talking a few words during dinner at night. .In private, Zhang Rui asked Uncle Han to go to the Sun's residence to inquire, but the Sun's residence did not leak anything. It was only a few days later that Mr. Sun's step-wife, Mrs. Gao, died of a cold due to grief.

After the incident, Sun Zhan was physically and mentally exhausted, and the relatives around him were basically dead. There was nothing left, and he had no intention of going to court. It didn't take long for him to get old. The emperor didn't feel embarrassed, and directly approved it.From then on, the official positions in the imperial court were reshuffled again. Many people from the original princely party were promoted and secretly demoted, but a few capable ones from the neutral party quietly climbed up. The Jiangzhou salt merchants also changed to another one. The third grade is in charge.

The case has finally come to an end, the murderer did not expect to be the step-wife, but there are still several questions that Zhang Rui has not solved.Why did the old woman beat the grievance drum?It is reasonable for ordinary people to go to the Governor of Kyoto at most to file a complaint, but the old woman went directly to Dali Temple, which is unreasonable, and this is one of them.Second, when Mr. Jiang of Dali Temple asked all the participants of the poetry meeting to go to Dali Temple, Zhang Rui paid special attention to all the people present. Only one person had a different expression from the others, and that was the man named Zhongxin, Zhang Ruiben. I thought this case would be related to him, but I didn't expect that the case has been closed and has nothing to do with him, which is really puzzling.Thirdly, since the murderer is a coachman, it is clear that the child's footprints are just the crutches he leaned on, stained with blood, and there are traces similar to children's footprints.It's just that he was bought by someone and then killed by someone afterwards, but the three grandparents and grandchildren survived unscathed.

Forget it, since it's over, it's over, and it doesn't make sense to join in. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and Uncle Han went out early in the morning to buy a lot of sacrificial things. The ancestral temple, but Zhang Rui's mother did not enter the ancestral temple because of an accidental death, so Zhang Rui simply worshiped it alone. It just so happened that his mother was also from the Lin family, so it didn't hurt to worship, otherwise he had to go out to worship.

Early in the morning of the second day, Zhang Rui changed into the clothes that the old lady of Ningxinyuan had sent to him a few days ago. Zhang Ruishi was wearing a snow blue dress, which looked like a jade man, no matter how good it looked, he simply made the new clothes in this color.

Early in the morning, I went to Ning Xin Garden to pay New Year's greetings to the old lady, and the old lady had just woken up for a while, only Aunt Yuxiu and Lin Xiaomin were there talking with the old lady.The old lady was very happy to see Zhang Rui wearing the new clothes, and dragged him to talk about his mother's childhood, Zhang Rui sat beside the old lady and listened carefully.Suddenly there is a feeling of going back to the past.Before he died, every time he went to his grandparents' house, his grandma would hold his hand like this and tell funny stories about his father when he was a child.

"Rui'er, I heard your uncle said that you will go to school to attend classes in the new year?"

Zhang Rui regained his senses and nodded, "Well, my uncle knew I liked Wen and sent me to study with my second and third cousins."

The old lady patted Zhang Rui's hand and said, "Good boy, this studiousness is not like that of the Zhang family, but very much like your uncle when he was young."

The aunt named Yuxiu next to her said softly: "Nephew, Uncle Xiao, Rui'er should be like a master."

The old lady loved to hear this, she patted Zhang Rui and laughed and said, "When you go to school, you must study hard, don't lose face to your uncle, in the future you will be able to re-establish the Zhang family if you pass the exam." Lin Xiaoze ran while talking came in.

"Grandmother, grandma, happy new year, I wish grandma a blessing like the East China Sea, and a long life than Nanshan." He said happily and ran to the old lady to ask for new year's money.

The old lady tapped his forehead lightly with her finger and said: "You monkey, I knew you had to come to ask for the lucky money."

Lin Xiaoze sat beside the old lady, picked up an orange, peeled it, and handed it to the old lady, "I'm thinking about my grandmother. I just woke up in the morning, changed into the clothes my grandmother made, and ran here."

The old lady took the oranges and didn't eat them herself, but handed them to Yuxiu next to her and said: "These oranges were transported from the south to our house a few days ago, your father brought them all to my Ningxin Garden , It's a pity that the orange is too sour, my old lady can't eat anything after two petals, and you will take some when you go back later."

Yuxiu ate the orange and said with a smile: "Why can't I taste the sour taste? Maybe it's because I have a good appetite recently and eat a lot of everything."

After a while, Lin Cheng, Mrs. Lin, and Lin Xiaoqing and his wife came to Ning Xin Garden. The room, which was considered spacious at first, suddenly became difficult to move around.

The younger ones paid New Year's greetings one after another, and the older ones handed over money to the new year's money.Zhang Rui took four or five red envelopes and stuffed them into his bosom without looking at how many taels of silver it was.In Xuzhou, there is still some silver on hand to be a jade pendant. If I need to buy pens, inks, papers and inkstones at the beginning of school, it will inevitably not be enough. It just so happens that these new year's money solves the problem.

After breakfast, Lin Xiaoze led Zhang Rui to go out for a walk, this time he learned his lesson and obediently reported to his father, Master Lin didn't stop him, but sent two followers to follow them.

Zhang Rui wondered, Lin Xiaoze and Lin Xiaomin were about the same age, why didn't he call him every time he went out, why did Lin Xiaoze reject him as a concubine brother so much?

"Xiaoze, let's ask Shang Xiaomin to go out together."

Lin Xiaoze curled his lips and said, "Don't, it doesn't matter if he's a coward and embarrassing, if something happens, doesn't his aunt hate me to death? Besides, if I let him go out, he might not be able to go out with me, I can Don't want to be annoying."

Zhang Rui understands that there must be something going on between this, he is an old man, he treats both Lin Xiaoze and Lin Xiaomin as juniors, he never thought of favoring one another and seeing Lin Xiaomin walking out of Ningxin Garden, saying: "Xiaomin, your second brother and I Do you want to go to the street?"

Lin Xiaomin was stunned for a moment, then grabbed the cuffs with both hands hesitantly and said, "I...I'll go...I'll go." He raised his head and looked at Zhang Rui with bright eyes, his cheeks flushed a little shyly.

Lin Xiaoze rolled his eyes with his back to Lin Xiaomin and cursed his followers inwardly.Then he ignored him and walked towards the gate.Lin Xiaomin followed Zhang Rui closely for fear of leaving him behind.

The three of them came to a bustling street in Kyoto, the whole street was very lively, there were sugar sellers, paper kite sellers, rouge gouache sellers, hairpin walkers... everything was dazzling.

The three of them wandered to a stall selling paper kites. Lin Xiaoze fell in love with a paper kite in the shape of an eagle, and bought it for twenty big bucks. Normally, such kites are worth fifteen big bucks at most. Maybe it's because Chinese New Year is the same as modern times, and things all go up. price.

Lin Xiaomin then bought a butterfly kite and was laughed at by Lin Xiaoze. "You said that you talk like a little girl on weekdays, but why do you like like a girl? If I don't tell you, people will think I have a younger sister!" Lin Xiaomin's eyes were red, and tears were in the eye circles spin around.

Zhang Rui patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Whoever said that men can't like paper kites of butterflies, I look better than your gray eagle." Lin Xiaomin stopped tears, hugged the paper kites and nodded, Lin Xiaoze disdain He snorted and continued to move forward.

Suddenly there was commotion from the crowd in front, "Get out of the way! Get out of the way, the horse is startled! It's trampled to death!"