Chapter 16 The Case
"Quan Yizhong has a special hobby, and he especially likes red sleeves to add fragrance. Although he doesn't have many concubines in his house, he has a lot of maids who have his hands on him, and they are all in this study."

Zhang Ku said, leading the way, stopped in front of a door, and pushed the door open.

"This is the place where he often adds fragrance to his red sleeves." Zhang Ku was outside and waited for his father to enter before following him in. "There is a small room on the side of the study room. Next to the bed, there is a table with half a person. Tall bronze mirror.”

Several people walked in and felt a chill when they saw Quan Yizhong's body, which still looked like it had been before death.

The man who had been dead for a long time was hung in front of the bronze mirror. On it was one of his tongues. Different from the one Bai He lived in the Thousand Layers Tower, this tongue had already emitted gray color.

Chu Wei stepped forward to check and asked, "When did the people from Quan Mansion report the case?"

The prosecutor of Dali Temple behind him immediately said: "At Mao hour, as soon as Dali Temple opened its doors, a young woman who claimed to be Mrs. Quan's personal maid came to report the crime."

Chu Wei signaled Zhang Ku and others to put the body down, stepped forward to check it briefly, and then frowned tightly.

Like Bai Hezhu, they were both strangled to death. Because Quan Yizhong was naked when he died, it can be seen at a glance that there were no scars on his body.

Chu Wei took a step back and signaled the inspector and the widower of Dali Temple to come forward.

And he began to slowly inspect the room. Xiao Shan said: "Sir, the people in the Quan Mansion said that the door is not closed. This is also related to Quan Yizhong never closing the door when he sleeps."

In other words, it may be an acquaintance who committed the crime.

"Who discovered the body?" Chu Wei stretched out his hand and touched the somewhat loose wall covering.

Xiao Shan said: "It's a woman who sleeps with Quan Yizhong."

"Call her over."

Chu Wei walked outside with his hands behind his back. Not long after, Xiao Shan came in, followed by a woman wearing an emerald green top and a white pleated skirt.

This woman looks to be eighteen or nineteen years old, with a slender figure and a frail figure.

"My lord," the woman came in and knelt down.

Chu Wei asked directly: "You slept with Quan Yizhong last night, was there anything wrong?"

"No," the woman shook her head, tears welling up in her red and swollen eyes, "I followed my grandmother to live with my cousin a month ago? My cousin-in-law takes good care of me. Last night I saw him working hard at work, so I made a bowl of lotus seed soup. , sent it to him. He said he had a good painting for me to see, so we went to the inner room."

Thinking of last night, as soon as she entered the inner room, the man suddenly hugged her from behind and kissed her eagerly, and the woman felt heartbroken.

My cousin is very strict, and my cousin's husband only has one concubine after marriage. Last night, he definitely told her that he would marry her as his concubine and ask her to give him several children.

Thinking of the future arrangements that the man gasped for her, and then thinking of the man who died tragically, the woman's face turned pale with distress.

"Sir, you must find the murderer and avenge him." She wiped her tears and cried.

"What happened after entering the inner room?" Chu Wei didn't have the ability to read minds, nor was he moved by the woman's miserable cry. He just asked calmly.

The woman's crying voice paused, and then continued with a tearful tone: "After entering the inner room, Yi Zhong said that he fell in love with me the first time he met me and asked me to be her woman. He also said that he would marry me. Concubine, after that—I don’t know anything, and when I wake up again, it will be dawn. When I open my eyes, what I see is, this is”

"Ah--" She couldn't stand it just thinking about it. The woman cried out in collapse, lying on the ground. Her whole body gave people a feeling of heart-breaking and lung-breaking, "My lord, my cousin must have known about this." , setting up a trap has harmed Yizhong. This family is controlled by her like an iron bucket. If it weren't for her, who could have come in easily and knocked me out easily? Did Yizhong die and the whole family didn't hear the sound? "

Before he finished speaking, a fat old woman rushed in, no matter what adult was sitting above, grabbed the woman and slapped her hard on the face a few times, then spit thick phlegm on her face.

"You shameless fox, if my lady hadn't taken you in, you would have sold yourself to bury your father. You didn't tell me that you were involved with me, and you framed my wife. Do you have a conscience? Do you have any shame?" The mother-in-law's mouth was like a machine gun. After she finished speaking, she knelt down towards Chu Wei and said, "Sir, don't listen to this bitch. She relies on her good looks and wants to become a white wolf with nothing when she comes to my house. The mistress of the Quan Mansion. She thought that the master was attracted to her. Little did she know that the master had this problem. He liked to steal the people close to his wife. At the beginning, "

The old woman knew that she had made a slip of the tongue, so she quickly changed the subject and said: "On the surface, my master is afraid of Madam and loves Madam, but in fact he hates Madam. Unless the big maids around Madam are really ugly, he will secretly use them. of."

If the wife catches their adultery, the master will be very excited, but he will also quickly throw the woman away and find a new target.

Even the mother-in-law doesn’t know whether the master hates the wife or is just a lunatic.

Zhang Rong and Xiao Shan both felt goosebumps when they heard this. They never expected that Quan Yizhong, the gentle and dog-like person they saw every day, would have such a problem.

Is that human being?
The mother-in-law continued: "Our wife has long been used to this kind of thing. He doesn't care who he wants. For this reason, the master coaxed the wife for many days, but the lady ignored him. When he saw that the lady didn't care about him, he didn't care about him." As if they were funny, they didn't live together for the past two or three years. Until this bitch came, I saw the way the master looked at her at that time. The old servant will never forget that disgusting look. But this bitch The wife doesn't need the master to try to seduce her, she can do it herself.

"I've discussed this matter with my wife a long time ago. My wife said to let them go. At worst, there will be more people in the house. Please be clear, my lord, it is impossible for our wife to dirty her hands with such a bitch."

Chu Wei said: "You can go down now and call the servant beside Quan Yizhong."

The mother-in-law kowtowed again, got up and went outside. Quan Yizhong's usual servant was in the yard. The mother-in-law said, "Come here, I have something to ask."

As she spoke, she walked down the steps, and said to the five people who stood up: "If you dare to speak nonsense, the whole family will not be able to live a good life."

Zhang Ku followed him to the door, heard these two sentences clearly, and then turned back as if nothing had happened.

"Chang Sui, stand up." Chu Wei said as he looked at the five people who came in.

The Changsui is different from the Xiaosi. The Changsui is responsible for helping the master handle official matters, while the Xiaosi just takes care of things at home.

Then three people stood up.

Chu Wei said: "Have you come into contact with any special people in the officialdom recently, Mr. Quan?"

The three of them listened and thought for a while, but they all said no.

A more steady one said: "This is the year when county magistrates from other places return to Beijing to report on their work. Our adults are in the examination department and have been very busy since March. We receive dozens of performance reports from county magistrates from various places every day. Starting from April, there are county magistrates who came to the capital first and asked my adults to take care of it."

"Give me a list of these people." Chu Wei tapped the back of the chair unconsciously with his fingers, and asked again: "Is there anything special about the family?"

The two boys who had been standing back quickly came forward. Thinking of Granny Zhang's words, they both said, "It's nothing special."

Chu Wei said: "Since Mr. Quan is going to take a concubine, he doesn't let you buy anything?"

"No, no." The two of them still shook their heads.

"You should think about it carefully. There are some things that can be revealed by checking on the street," Zhang Ku said threateningly.

The two servants immediately fell to their knees in fright, scrambling to say: "Master is really interested in Miss Qu's Biao, let us go to Baoguang Pavilion to buy some good forging horses and some gold and silver jewelry."

Baoguang Pavilion, there is nothing cheap there.

Quan Yizhong had only been a doctor in the exam department for less than four years, and he was already so rich.

Chu Wei stood up and said, "Don't leave Quan Mansion, people from Dali Temple will come again in the afternoon."

The imperial officials were killed in such a cruel way, which is different from the Thousand-story Tower Tongue Pulling Case handed over to Jingzhao Mansion.

The prosecutor handed the autopsy examination to Chu Wei. Chu Wei looked at it and said, "Go back to Dali Temple first."

On the way, Piaofeng said: "Master, you haven't had breakfast yet. I'm going to buy some door-nail meat pies."

Chu Wei didn't have much appetite, so he said, "Go and eat, I don't need it."

Zhang Ku followed up and asked, "Sir, do you think this murderer and the Thousand-story Pagoda killer Bai He live in the same place?"

"Judging from the signs of the corpse, it was committed by one person, but the Quan Mansion is different from the Thousand-story Tower the day before yesterday," Chu Wei said, "The possibility of other murderers cannot be ruled out."

Zhang Ku agreed very much, "Sir, before you question Quan Yizhong's servants, I heard with my own ears the woman who said a lot of bad things about Quan Yizhong and threatened them with words."

Xiao Shan was riding on the other side and exclaimed: "Quan Yizhong has a very good reputation outside. He doesn't even go to a brothel. In private, he is so disgusting. I feel that I am asking for my death."

"Human life is greater than heaven. You have been following me all these years in vain." At this time, when he reached a corner, Hu Ping caught up with him on horseback. Then he greeted Chu Wei and said excitedly: "Master, you will never guess , who is the owner of the restaurant where Bai He lives and works?"

Hu Ping did not follow him to the Quan Mansion. Instead, he went to the restaurant given by the Second Master to take someone with him. He was sent directly to Jingzhao Mansion. Before they even got there, the guy said who was the boss behind them and was polite. point.

As soon as Hu Ping heard this, he immediately went to Quanfu, and it took a detour to catch up.

"Quanyizhong?"

Before he could sell it, his grandfather figured it out.

Hu Ping was a little discouraged, "How did you know that?"

Zhang Ku, Xiao Shan, and Piaofeng who bought a basket of meatloaf all felt like throwing up when they saw him like this.

Xiao Shan said: "If you ask that, don't talk about me, I can guess it."

Hu Ping took a meat pie and took a bite. It was crispy on the outside and delicious on the inside. He immediately felt no longer aggrieved. "I haven't eaten the door-nail meat pie from Grandma Liu's house for several days. I feel like it."

All the way to Dali Temple, a basket of meat cakes had been eaten by four people.

Several subordinates who were still behind were complaining: What's wrong with me? As for letting a corpse become so bad that it can't eat?
It's so disgusting that Quan Yi Zhong is a human being.

What a disgusting method?

Hu Pingzheng, who had not gone to the Quan Mansion, quietly asked Zhang Ku, who was walking next to him. Zhang Ku suddenly shouted like thunder: "New girl, sir, it's a new girl."

Chu Wei wanted to raise his hands to cover his face, but he saw it.

The girl was wearing a light blue gauze dress, her hair was in a simple bun, her face was bare, but she still had bright eyes and white teeth.

Seeing her, Chu Wei felt like everything was clear.

 Ask for collection.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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