The Dark and Foolish King: The Fierce and Crazy Concubine Has Infinite Strength

The next day, several people left home early in the morning and went straight to the county government office.

Lu Xiuyuan had status, so he went to the county government office and simply stated his request. The prefect immediately retrieved the autopsy results of Liu Zhenzhen without saying a word.

A few people gathered together to watch, and saw that the cause of death was indeed death from smoke inhalation.

It is stamped with the official seal and has the handwriting of the coroner Qian Shun on the lower right. It couldn't be more authentic.

"Is Qian Shun still working in the government now?" Lu Xiuyuan asked the prefect.

The prefect shook his head and said, "Your Highness, Qian Shun resigned after examining Liu Zhenzhen's body that year."

"Is there anyone in the county government who was familiar with Qian Shun? Call him to see me." Lu Xiuyuan ordered.

"Yes!" The prefect agreed and told his men to do it.

While waiting, Lu Xiuyuan and his friends sat in the county government office to rest. Zhu Li and Xiong Fei were restless and could not wait any longer. They said goodbye to them and ran out to play.

After a while, the officer came slowly towards them with an old man.

The old man was about sixty years old, with gray hair, a hunched body, and his face full of traces of time.

Xia Younan stopped the old man from saluting, moved a stool for him to sit down, and then began to ask: "Uncle, you and Qian Shun have worked together before, right? What kind of person is he?"

The old man recalled carefully and then slowly replied: "Qian Shun is a very honest person. He is also positive and serious about his work. He is a very conscientious person.

"We used to be good friends, but I haven't seen him since he quit his job for no apparent reason fourteen years ago."

"Inexplicable?" Xia Younan heard the point in his words and asked, "The job is free, and you can quit if you are not satisfied. Why do you say that you quit for inexplicable reasons?"

The old man sighed and told them about Qian Shun’s difficult life.

Because of the special nature of his job, Qian Shun married a widow when he was in his thirties and had a son when he was forty, thus settling down his family.

It's a pity that God always picks on the unfortunate people to trick them. Qian Shun had a son in his old age, but his son suddenly fell seriously ill at the age of six, which required a very high cost to cure.

For a person like him who lives at the bottom of society, even if he doesn't eat or drink, he still won't be able to raise enough money for medical expenses even if he works for another 20 years.

So the only thing he could do was to work hard and use herbal medicine to keep his son alive for a few more days.

But when he was in urgent need of money, he suddenly quit his job, saying that he wanted to take his son to the capital for medical treatment. When people asked him if he had collected enough money, he hesitated and did not answer.

"Just like that, he left inexplicably. We don't know how he managed to get such a huge sum of money together." The old man is still confused when talking about it.

"Has he raised the money for medical treatment? Is his son cured?" Lu Xiuyuan asked in surprise.

"I did get to know him. Later I heard that his son had recovered, but..." The old man paused in the middle of his words, and then he sighed heavily.

"Just what?" Xia Younan asked.

"It's just that the kid is cured, and the old man is gone."

"What? Qian Shun is dead?" Several people exclaimed at the same time, and their faces changed at the same time.

The old man continued to tell them, "Yes, I heard that not long after his son recovered, he became ill again. He lay in bed every day, depressed, and passed away not long after."

Lu Xiuyuan and the others looked at each other, obviously thinking that this matter was not that simple.

It was all too coincidental. Qian Shun didn't quit his job early or late, but just after examining Liu Zhenzhen's body.

He even lost his job, how did he raise a huge sum of money to cure his son's illness?

Even though the source of the money was not stated explicitly, everyone knew it.

Based on the old man's explanation, several people guessed the general cause of the incident. After that, they found out where Qian Shun's son lived and set off towards his home.

The address was not far away. The few of them walked on the street for about half an hour and finally came to a small courtyard with green tiles. Xia Younan knocked on the simple wooden door.

Soon the gate was opened and a young man appeared in front of everyone.

The young man was about twenty years old, tall and thin, with regular features and fair skin. He was wearing a green robe embroidered with bamboo leaves, and he looked very energetic.

"Are you Qian Shun's son?" Xia Younan asked him.

The young man looked at them, scratched his head and asked in confusion: "My father's name is Qian Shun, but he has been dead for more than ten years. Why are you looking for him?"

Lu Xiuyuan told him the purpose of his visit, but he didn't expect the young man to react so strongly after hearing it. He was surprised, happy, and full of curiosity, which left them confused.

"Who are you? How powerful are you?" the young man asked them tentatively.

Lu Xiuyuan pondered for a moment, and thought there was no need to hide it from him, so he showed his identity badge and said, "We are from the capital, royal relatives, powerful and influential!"

The young man was delighted when he heard this, and quickly moved aside to let them into the house, "You are finally here, come in quickly, my mother has been waiting for you for a long time."

"Your mother?" Several people asked curiously as they followed him into the house, "What's going on? Did your mother know someone was coming?"

"I know, I know. This matter has been weighing on her mind for many years!" As the young man spoke, he led them to the main room, arranged for them to sit down, and went to the bedroom to find his mother.

After a while, an elderly lady came out of the bedroom.

She walked hurriedly, holding two folded pieces of paper in her hands, and looked at Lu Xiuyuan and others curiously as she walked towards them.

"Are you here for the arson case? You want to overturn the verdict, right? Can you beat him?" The old lady asked repeatedly with a somewhat excited look on her face.

Lu Xiuyuan patiently answered one by one: "Yes, we are from the capital, and we have found that there are many suspicious points in the arson case, so we are starting to re-investigate.

"As for the 'he' you mentioned, as long as there is evidence to prove that he is the murderer, we can definitely defeat him."

"That's great, that's great. The old man can rest in peace in peace if he knows about this." The old lady murmured a few words to herself with tears in her eyes, quickly handed the paper in her hand to Lu Xiuyuan, and then bowed solemnly to them.

"Mother-in-law?" Xia Younan was full of questions. He supported her and asked depressedly, "What do you mean?"

The old lady wiped away the tears from her eyes and told them the whole truth of what happened that year.

The facts were just as Lu Xiuyuan and the others had guessed. Qian Shun's son had fallen seriously ill, and the high cost of treatment almost made the family collapse in despair.

Just at this time, an arson case occurred, and as soon as the matter was reported to the government, Qu Zhengyan found Qian Shun.

He asked Qian Shun to produce a false autopsy report, and he would pay Qian Shun a large sum of money in return.

Qian Shun was at his wit's end at the time. If he could get that money, his son's illness could be cured!