sinovels Chapter 14 Cha, the unsolved mystery case
Chapter 14 Cha, the unsolved mystery case
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang sat on the bed carefully looking through the files. Bai Yutang sighed as he looked at it, "How much hatred is needed to achieve such extermination...Look here." As he spoke, he pointed to one of the cases Show it to Zhan Zhao, "In this case in Tongzhou, a pair of uncles and sisters-in-law committed adultery, and both families were wiped out. I said that if they really fell in love with each other and eloped, wouldn't it be fine? Why do you hurt people?"
Zhan Zhao glanced at him, "These days, many people kill people for a few pennies."
"Hmm... Mao'er, do you think this looks like it?" Bai Yutang handed over another file in his hand, "Wantong Escort of Yingchang Mansion."
Zhan Zhao took it over and took a look, "Well... a family of more than [-] people, including the buddy, all died unexpectedly. A fire even burned down the house, and when the yamen came the next day, all the corpses had already been burned. Unrecognizable..."
"The body will be burned after the family is destroyed, probably to cover up the logo of the Snake Eagle Cult, and this house is also an escort agency." Bai Yutang said, "But the arsonist has already been caught, and he is said to be a bandit in the mountains. A total of three people have already been executed."
"Three people?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Even if the bodyguards in the bodyguard agency don't have unique skills, at least one of them is powerful, let alone twenty people, even if it's twenty pigs, it's not like three bandits can do it." Those who are easily killed, no one can escape."
Bai Yutang squinted his eyes and nodded, "Cat, it's a good metaphor."
"I have one here too." Zhan Zhao handed over the file in his hand, "It's also from Yingchang Mansion."
"What a coincidence?" Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, "Where is this Yingchang mansion? There are so many extermination cases."
"Look." Zhan Zhao pointed to Bai Yutang, "This time it's not an escort agency, it's a bank. It was also destroyed and then set on fire."
"Qianzhuang... the murderer he wrote is Mr. Accountant?" Bai Yutang frowned and thought for a while, "Mr. Accountant?"
Zhan Zhao nodded, and said, "This case looks fine at first glance, but... before those corpses were burned to death, they were hacked to death with knives... Think about it, an accountant wants to kill someone, buy a package Poison is more practical, right? Hacking them one by one, I don’t believe it.”
"That makes sense!" Bai Yutang nodded, "It's indeed suspicious."
"They all belong to Yingchang Mansion?" Zhan Zhao adjusted his angle and leaned on the bed, "How did the county magistrate of Yingchang Mansion investigate the case? The case is still closed with such obvious doubts!"
Bai Yutang also felt that sitting and looking at the files was a bit boring, so he crawled over to lean against Zhan Zhao, and said, "Yingchang Mansion is near Kaifeng, who is the governor of Yingchang Mansion? I think he is more suspicious." .”
"That's right. It's obviously helping people to cover up the case, or else it's extremely stupid." Zhan Zhao yawned, "Well, I'll show Master Bao tomorrow."
"Isn't that Deng Jie in charge of this case?" Bai Yutang asked, "Will Master Bao take care of it?"
"There are so many suspicious points, plus that Deng Jie's behavior is weird." Zhan Zhao said, "My lord should take care of it."
"Oh...that's considered leapfrogging." Bai Yutang laughed, "It will definitely offend the members of the Privy Council."
Zhan Zhao looked at his face close at hand, and smiled, "If you're afraid of offending someone, why not Master Bao?"
"En." Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows appreciatively, "It makes sense." After speaking, he turned over and lay down, "I'm so tired."
Zhan Zhao also yawned, "Tell me, how did Luo Changfeng die? Why did he get poisoned in the blink of an eye?"
"Hmm... and that widow... I understand." Bai Yutang said in a daze, "If she doesn't say anything else, she definitely knows about the snake eagle tattoo on Luo Changfeng's body."
"Is someone afraid that she will speak out?" Zhan Zhao hooked the quilt at the end of the bed with his feet, kicked it away, grabbed it, and covered it...
"Cat, give me some!" Bai Yutang reached out to snatch the quilt.
"Dead rats, one half!"
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Early the next morning, Wang Chao and Ma Han's voices came from outside the courtyard, "Master Zhan, Master is looking for you, are you awake?"
Zhan Zhao, who was tired all night, opened his eyes and was startled when he saw the sun outside the window. He woke up late and blamed the rat for making trouble with him. Last night he snatched the quilt all night!
Thinking of this, he turned to look around, and saw that Bai Yutang had woken up at some point, and was looking at him with wide-open eyes.
Bai Yutang's heart suddenly flickered, Zhan Zhao's hair was loose, and he was rarely confused.
Zhan Zhao's heart flickered, Bai Yutang's eyes were still a little hazy, and his expression was lazy.
Looking again, both of them were half-undressed, with their shoulders touching their shoulders...covered with a quilt.
Looking at each other, Ma Han asked at the door, "Master Zhan?"
"Ah...here we come!" Zhan Zhao jumped up, and Bai Yutang got up quickly, Zhan Zhao said, "Go to sleep for a while..."
"Oh." Bai Yutang nodded, then shook his head again, "I won't sleep anymore..."
The two were so embarrassed that they didn't know where to put their eyes, and they met from time to time, making it even more awkward.
"Ahem, I'll go and talk about those two cases with Mr. Bao." Zhan Zhao hurriedly put on his clothes and was about to run outside.
"Cat! Dossier." Bai Yutang pulled out the two dossiers they found last night from under the pillow and handed them to Zhan Zhao.
"Oh, that's right!" Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to take the file, but he didn't catch the file, and it was a coincidence that he grabbed Bai Yutang's hand.
"Pa..." The file fell to the ground, and the two retracted their hands as if they had been burned.
"I'm leaving." Zhan Zhao hurriedly picked up the file and tied his clothes.
"Oh, go slowly." Bai Yutang also put on his clothes. "I'm almost there too..."
After finishing speaking, the two stared at each other stiffly for a while, lowered their heads and continued to put on their clothes, Zhan Zhao unbuttoned them after putting them on...the coat was put on backwards.
Ma Han and Wang Chao looked at each other at the door, wondering why Zhan Zhao got up so late today, when the door suddenly opened with a "crash", and Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang rushed out together, ran to the well in the courtyard, and beat As soon as the well water came up, he scooped up the cold well water and started splashing it on his face.
Ma Han looked at the dynasty and raised his eyebrows—what's going on?
Wang Chao looked at Ma Han and raised his eyebrows—what could happen, isn't it like this every time?
Ma Han narrowed his eyes and shook his head—no, it seems a little different today.
Chao Chao squinted his eyes, and shook his head—don't worry about it.
After washing with cold well water, the two of them felt refreshed, and their feverish cheeks were no longer hot, so they turned around and saw Chao Ma and Han looking at them with puzzled eyes, and they felt awkward for a moment .
"Uh... my lord, Master Bao is looking for you." Wang Chao's words broke the embarrassing situation.
"Oh... okay, I'm going to see Mr. Bao." Zhan Zhao turned around.
"Uh... I should go back too." After Bai Yutang finished speaking, he turned around, and soon, the two of them rushed out of the courtyard gate and climbed over the courtyard wall.
Ma Han and Wang Chao looked at each other, what are they panicking about?
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Confused, Zhan Zhao rushed out of his other courtyard and rushed to Bao Zheng's study. When he entered, he saw Gongsun Ce was there, drinking tea from a cup.
"My lord, sir, good morning." Zhan Zhao greeted them first after entering the door.
Bao Zheng and Gongsun looked at each other, and Gongsun smiled and said, "It's still early, it's already noon."
"Ah, it's noon..." Zhan Zhao didn't expect it to be so late, seeing Gongsun looking at him with a smile, he walked to the side, found a stool and sat down, with an uncomfortable expression on his face.
"Heh...Zhan Huwei checked the file with Bai Shaoxia last night, did you get any results?" Bao Zheng asked.
"Yes." Zhan Zhao stood up, handed over two files, and said, "My lord, these two cases seem suspicious."
"Oh?" Bao Zheng took it and flipped through it for a while, frowned, and said to Gongsun, "Mr. Gongsun, take a look."
Gongsun took a look in his hand, shook his head, and said, "There are obviously problems with these two cases."
"The governor of Yingchang Mansion seems to be called Zhou Lan. He is still very young. He was born as a Jinshi. He was the second place in the spring examination that year."
"The top three in the spring test?" Gongsun was a little surprised, "Isn't your lord his mentor who graded the papers?"
"That's right." Bao Zheng nodded, "It happened about three years ago. At that time, the Luoshui War was not over yet, and the situation was very critical. His article was written with some suggestions for Xia. It was very far-sighted. The article is majestic, concerned about the country and the people...so I am deeply impressed, this person is a talent, he should not have done such a foolish thing."
"What's going on?" Zhan Zhao was even more puzzled, "Moreover, there were two massacres, so it couldn't have been caused by negligence."
"Hmm..." Bao Zheng sighed softly, "The last thing I want to see is a great talent with a bright future going astray."
"My lord, do we care about this case?" Gongsun asked Bao Zheng.
"Uh... do you have any good suggestions, sir?" Bao Zheng asked.
"Master Liu of the Privy Council has a good friendship with you, and Wang's case happens to intersect with Luo Changfeng's case...Can we handle this case at the same time?"
"That's right." Zhan Zhao felt that the proposal was good, so he said, "We are not investigating the case of the Snake and Eagle Sect, but the case of the Widow Wang. It is understandable to use the people he caught to interrogate, right?"
Bao Zheng nodded and said, "It's easy." As he spoke, he wrote a letter and asked Ma Han to come in. He said, "Send this letter to the Privy Council and give it to Mr. Liu, saying that we want to talk to Luo. Talk to Changfeng’s family and ask for clues about the murder of Widow Wang.”
Ma Han took the letter and left. Bao Zheng pondered for a while, and asked Zhan Zhao, "The Thousand-armed Evil Buddha that Zhan Huwei and Bai Shaoxia saw in the white clothes temple that day and the case of the Snake and Eagle Cultists being killed in the forest that day? The jade hand you picked up looks very similar, right?"
"Same!" Zhan Zhao nodded, "Yutang and I took a closer look that day, and they are exactly the same."
"In other words, the Snake Eagle Sect has something to do with the arrest of the White Clothes Sect." Bao Zheng thought for a while, stood up, and said to the yamen servant outside the door, "Prepare the sedan chair for me, I will go into the palace."
"My lord, are you going to deal with the matter of Baiyi Jiao?" Zhan Zhao regained his energy.
"Your Majesty attaches great importance to the Snake Eagle Sect. Now there are two more White Clothes Sects and Red Clothes Sects. Regardless of whether it has anything to do with it or not, the two things of believing in evil Buddhas and forcing innocent people to join the Sect cannot be lightly forgiven. , I will go to the emperor to ask for two imperial guards, and let them take people to copy his white clothes sect, first rescue those vagrants!"
Zhan Zhao and Gongsun looked at each other, and they both showed joy.
After Bao Zheng left, Zhan Zhao and Gongsun finished their meal together, and then went back to his other courtyard.The quilt was still messy, Zhan Zhao went to the bedside to fold the quilt, and saw a piece of white jade pendant on the bed sheet.Zhan Zhao picked up the jade pendant and looked at it, and saw that the jade pendant was extremely delicate, with a small mouse in the middle, a circle of hibiscus patterns on the side, and a word "Tang" on the upper left corner.Zhan Zhao smiled, and put the jade pendant into his arms.
Walking around in the yard, there was nothing left and right, so I took Chao Mahan to patrol the streets.Turning left and turning right, for some reason, he turned to Yipin Building. Zhan Zhao turned around the corner and looked upstairs. He was a little disappointed when he saw the window of the private room was closed. Thinking about it, Bai Yutang had probably returned to Baixun Manor. .Just as he was about to take Chao Mahan to another place, he suddenly felt a gust of wind, something was flying towards him with the wind, Zhan Zhao heard the sound to identify his position, took a step back, raised his face, and saw a black The thing flew past his eyes, and when he raised his hand to catch it, he held it firmly, and saw that it was a heavy jar of pear blossom white.
Zhan Zhao was overjoyed, turned around, and saw Bai Yutang leaning against a big tree in front of a wine shop not far ahead, looking at him with a smile.Zhan Zhao was also overjoyed to see Bai Yutang, but then he noticed a bit of teasing in Bai Yutang's eyes, and was a little puzzled.He didn't know that just now when he looked up at the elegant room in Yipinlou, Bai Yutang saw the disappointment when he couldn't find Bai Yutang, and the surprise when he received Li Huabai.
Bai Yutang walked over with a knife in his hand, holding the white horse in his hand, and said with a smile, "You're a busy cat, you came out to patrol the streets just after noon, have you eaten yet?"
"I've eaten." Zhan Zhao replied. While speaking, he heard a commotion in the distance. When everyone turned their heads, they saw a large group of imperial guards passing quickly with their weapons. The leader was Wang Mo, the commander of the imperial guards.
"What is this for?" Bai Yutang asked puzzled.
"Master Bao entered the palace just now, so he went to move troops to copy that white-clothed sect." Zhan Zhao said.
"That's a good thing." Bai Yutang got on his horse and said to Zhan Zhao, "Come on, let's go watch the fun!"
Zhan Zhao thought for a while, then got on his horse, sat behind Bai Yutang, and said to Wang Chao and Ma Han, "You two continue to patrol the streets, let's go and have a look."
As soon as the words fell, Bai Yutang shook the reins, and the white horse spread its hooves, chasing the forbidden soldiers and ran away.Zhan Zhao was sitting in the back, holding the wine jar in one hand, and wrapping around Bai Yutang's waist with the other, and saw Bai Yutang's long black hair in front of him, swaying and swaying with the wind...