Castle Peak Does Not Change [Comprehensive Martial Arts]

The power of the sky is unpredictable. In the Daqing Hall, she was called Jia Yuanying, but now in the Wende Hall, she is called Pang Aiqing.

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Gu Qing rolled his eyes under his nose and said: "Master Han has an outer room."

The official, that is, Zhao Zhen raised his eyebrows: "Huh?"

Gu Qing said again slowly: "Lord Qi guarded the two daughters last night."

Zhao Zhen couldn't help asking: "Is it true?"

Gu Qing looked at Zhao Zhen with a half-smile, and Zhao Zhen gave a fake cough: "Qi Aiqing is a dragon and a tiger, and she is not afraid that her energy will be low during the day, so that she will not want to do errands for me!" If this is put before the sentence just now Said that the expression of wanting to know more is not so obvious, so the official's statement is more convincing.

Gu Qing half lowered his eyes: "Your Majesty is right."

Zhao Zhen didn't feel the sincerity of this sentence at all, and he didn't feel embarrassed, so he changed the subject naturally: "It seems that Yuan Ying and I don't have a good understanding, and I just wanted to hint to Yuan Ying that you should talk about yourself." In Changzhou Mansion, I don’t want to know what the courtiers have done in private.”

Gu Qing said from the bottom of his heart: "Your Majesty's words are simple and meaningful, which is beyond the reach of my ministers."

Zhao Zhen: "..."

Zhao Zhen didn't want to argue with his brother-in-law, so he immediately cleared his throat and said, "It's alright, alright, we don't have to see each other like this." Then he pointed to the seat for Gu Qing to come and sit, and he said Sitting on the chair next to him, he stuffed a piece of snack into his mouth without being polite to himself. Didn't he have time to eat something early in the morning to fill his stomach?It was another half an hour of early morning, and I was already hungry.

Gu Qing just picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

"I received the brochure from the magistrate of Changzhou," Zhao Zhen said after finishing his snacks and drinking tea. Seeing that Gu Qing didn't talk to him immediately, he stared at him twice more, "You mentioned Yuanying in the brochure. In order to solve the case, you did not hesitate to pretend to be a woman and break into Tantuo Temple, saying that Yuanying's unconstrained spirit really made him admire him. Yuanying, what do you have to say about this?"

"I think," Gu Qing continued after pondering, "the prefect of Changzhou is right."

Zhao Zhen: "..."

"I pretended to be a woman to solve the case. I caught the flower picker who caused the disaster in Changzhou as soon as possible, so that the victims would be relieved and the people would no longer be panic-stricken. This is what the prefect of Changzhou said very well." Gu Qing said slowly. , and then the voice changed again: "Master Xie can not be bothered by the outside, and directly hits the essence of this minister, it is really extraordinary, what do you think, Your Majesty?"

Can Zhao Zhen say no?

After stuffing another piece of pastry into his belly, Zhao Zhen put aside the depression of being unlucky - he spared such a big trick, just wanting to have some fun with Gu Qing's red makeup, and the result?Lezi didn't find it and didn't talk about it, but even involved himself in it.

"Let's get down to business. Xie Zhiyuan didn't explain your case clearly in the brochure. After deliberation, it's most appropriate to ask you directly. Let's think about it, how did you know about the first question, Yuanying?" A flower picker, he's the guy in the pastry shop?" Zhao Zhen leaned back in the chair after speaking, his posture looked very relaxed and comfortable, and in addition to the table full of refreshments in front of him, it looked like he was in The guests in the teahouse who were waiting for the storyteller to tell the story were just about to nibble on a handful of melon seeds, which was completely different from the unpredictable dignified and graceful appearance in front of outsiders.

On the other hand, Gu Qing, he was still wearing a court dress of red clothes and red clothes, and a three-beam crown, sitting upright and drinking tea, with an elegant appearance, which made the Wende Palace flourish.

Zhao Zhen couldn't help thinking of Concubine Pang, who was beautiful and beautiful, and Grand Master Pang, who was now tall and fat, and thought that Mrs. Pang, who died young, must be a great beauty.

Leaving aside what Zhao Zhen meant by thinking this way, Gu Qing had put down his teacup and wanted to tell Zhao Zhen the ins and outs of the case.

Speaking of which, Gu Qing did not go to the Changzhou government for the flower picker case in the first place. After all, this case has not been closed yet, and it is still the responsibility of the prefect of Changzhou.

The reason why he was in Changzhou Mansion was because of another old case that came from Changzhou Mansion to Anqing County. Gu Qing had two doubts when looking at the case file, so he told Zhao Zhen that he went all the way to Anqing County for investigation. After conducting on-the-spot investigations, and after answering his doubts, he passed by Changzhou Mansion when returning to Bianliang City from Anqing County, and happened to encounter the flower-picking thief case.

Xie Zhiyuan, the prefect of Changzhou, is not a flexible person. He did not refuse to let Gu Qing intervene because if Dali Siqing intervened to solve the case, he would appear mediocre as a prefect. After all, the most important thing right now is to catch the rampant. And the harmful flower pickers—no matter which dynasty the girls' reputation is the most important thing, not to mention that the current folk customs are not as open as in the previous dynasty. Among the girls whose reputation was ruined by the flower pickers, there are already One committed suicide while marrying without paying attention.

Then there are those high-ranking families who pay more attention to fame and integrity. After their own daughters encountered such disasters, some of them did not report to the officials, but directly sent their daughters to the family temple. Some family members of the victim came to report to the official in private.This is undoubtedly very distressing. Obviously, it was the flower picker who should be cut to death, but in the end it was the innocent girls who were hurt the most.

After Gu Qing took over, he looked at the case file first. First, he divided the case that Xie Zhiyuan classified as one person into two criminals according to the different victims.Strictly speaking, apart from the difference between the small family and the big family, the victims of the former are all in the house of the girl who was engaged recently.

After sorting them into categories, Gu Qing spent another two hours visiting the victim's home and found that the first victim was different from the other victims.Her family has a dog, but the dog was drugged on the night of the crime, but one of the other victims had a dog, but the dog was not drugged, but was scared away after being woken up prisoner.Also, the vegetable jar placed under the wall of one of them was crushed... This shows that the prisoner either knew the first victim and was very familiar with the situation of her home, or he only visited the first victim's home.

All in all, the first victim is different from the prisoner, except that although the first victim was engaged recently, she had never been engaged to anyone before that, and there was no such thing as a former fiancé.

Let’s talk about the fact that the victims were all recently engaged. Although Changzhou is not as prosperous as Kaifeng, it occupies a large area as a government, and the geographical distribution of the victims is irregular. So how did the prisoners know about them? What about the recent engagement?

When it comes to marriage, the best-informed person is the matchmaker.

But after Gu Qing inquired about a matchmaker in Changzhou Prefecture, he learned that matchmakers have their own boundaries where they often operate. Can be active in the whole Changzhou Prefecture.

In this way, the matchmaker and those related to the matchmaker were excluded from suspicion, but after talking with the matchmaker, Gu Qing had another clue.It turns out that the custom in Changzhou is that after a daughter’s family gets engaged, her family will either buy or make wedding cakes for relatives and friends, and there are many pastry shops selling wedding cakes in Changzhou, but several victims’ families should be in the same bakery Make-to-order wedding cakes.In this way, the relevant people in the pastry shop can know the current situation of their home and their address.

After having this clue, we then intersected the information of the first victim, and finally found Hefangzhai's buddy.

"So that's how it is," Zhao Zhen suddenly realized after listening to Gu Qing's story, and after thinking for a while, he said, "As for the other flower picker, I think the rest of the victims went to Tantuo Temple to offer incense in the near future, and they were killed by that thief just now." But who would have thought that the flower picker would be a monk with a clean six senses?"

Gu Qing said seriously: "The officials have learned to draw inferences from one example, which is very good."

Zhao Zhen was not happy at all, this wave of compliments was still not sincere, it sounded like perfunctory, no, this time it was in the tone of praising a young child, as if someone was raring about it.But, Zhao Zhen's slander turned to slander, but he said in his mouth: "Where is it, I'm just an afterthought. By the way, Yuanying, do you know Zhan Zhao?"

Gu Qing didn't sit upright anymore, he also leaned back on the back of the chair, his eyebrows stretched out, and after hearing Zhao Zhen's words, he just raised the corners of his eyes a little: "Nan Xia Zhan Zhao?"

Zhao Zhen nodded and said, "It seems to be called such a name."

Gu Qing: "Oh."

Then, no more then.

Zhao Zhen waited for a while and didn't hear him answer, so he could only rely on himself and said, "Why didn't Yuanying ask me, why did he mention such a reckless minister?" He didn't have any fame, so Zhao Zhen said that he was from Caoye, so it was understandable.

Gu Qing showed a slightly exaggerated expression of surprise, "I have only been away for more than a month, and your majesty's request to me has come to an end. Not only can you hear the unsuccinct meaning from your majesty's concise words, but you also have to hear what your majesty wants to express next. Is it? Isn't this a bit too difficult to be a subject?"

Zhao Zhen: "..."

Isn't it normal to ask, "Why did Your Majesty mention Zhan Zhao so well?"How did it come out of his mouth that he, an official, made trouble for no reason?

What about being as careful as a hair as you agreed, and knowing every detail?

Zhao Zhen took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled: "Actually, Bao Zheng and I recommended him. Dao Zhanzhao rescued him several times in critical situations. I heard Bao Qing's family say how brave Zhan Zhao is, how powerful he is in martial arts." , and aroused the love of talents, and wanted to allow him to enter the court as an official."

Gu Qing frowned after hearing this: "Forgive me for being stupid, I can't figure out what this matter has to do with me."

It seems that it really doesn't matter, Zhao Zhen just mentioned this matter to Gu Qing as a new thing, but now it seems that they have chatted to death.

Zhao Zhen was a little powerless, and bluntly opened a new topic: "Do you want to meet your sister?"

Pang Feiyan is now a noble concubine, and having a queen on top is equivalent to not having a queen. Zhao Zhen really doesn't like his queen very much. Besides, Pang Feiyan is a girl who was taught by Grand Master Pang, and Zhao Zhen treats her with some sincerity. In the harem, no one can make her suffer.

However, Gu Qing and Pang Feiyan have always had a good relationship, and they were not unfamiliar because Pang Feiyan rarely met in the palace. During the period when Gu Qing left the capital, Pang Feiyan often talked about it in front of Zhao Zhen. ask.But Zhao Zhen regretted it after asking, and before Gu Qing said anything, he hurriedly said: "Your sister and I didn't do anything yesterday."

What a place there is no silver 300 taels!

Gu Qing rolled his eyes hard in his heart.

Zhao Zhen: I don't want to, I'm also very desperate.

To be honest, it took four or five years for Gu Qing to become an official, but Pang Feiyan entered the palace much earlier than that, and it took ten years if he worked hard, that is to say, Gu Qing and Zhao Zhen knew each other at that time.

When the two of them met for the first time, Gu Qing left an indelible impression on Zhao Zhen, which can also be said to be a huge psychological shadow, and it didn't get better in the future.How can I say it?

Time is the best medicine to heal all pains. Seeing that Zhao Zhen can now be happy to see the success of Gu Qing's interpretation of the courtiers, you can know what kind of transformation he has undergone for so many years.It can be said that Zhao Zhen can still grow into a wise and powerful official today, thanks to the tenacity in his bones.

To put it bluntly, it is rough skin and thick flesh that can resist blows.

And even though Zhao Zhen has a good psychological quality, the shadows of many years are always lingering, which has caused others to look at Zhao Zhen, who is a minister and a king and a king is like a tiger. When it comes to Gu Qing, it is so upside down come over.

So it is not incomprehensible that the officials are so cowardly now.

After all, Gu Qing went to see Pang Feiyan alone, and the officials said he still had to review the memorial, so they didn't go with him.

Concubine Pang Gui is two years older than Gu Qing, and she is now at a beautiful age for girls, and Concubine Pang Guifei's appearance is that kind of aggressive beauty, like a rose with thorns.Seeing Gu Qing's first words were: "Is the official family deflated again?"

While beckoning Gu Qing to sit down, he unceremoniously dismantled Zhao Zhen's platform: "Ever since the official family got the paperwork from Changzhou prefect, they have been waiting for you to come back from Changzhou mansion to tease you about you pretending to be a woman. Don't you know?" , He has been talking back and forth several times recently, just hearing it makes my ears callous."

Concubine Pang spoke quickly and crisply, so she didn't give Gu Qing a chance to speak. She turned her beautiful eyes and asked naturally and warmly: "What's your reaction?"

Gu Qing said nonsense in a serious manner: "Father is so happy to have half a daughter that he tosses and turns, unable to sleep at night."

"I think the second half of the sentence still looks like it." Concubine Pang Gui couldn't understand Grand Master Pang and would be ecstatic. I don't know what she was thinking of, but Concubine Pang raised her eyes and glanced at her younger brother, "Pang Yuanying, you are honest. Tell me, when did you find out that the monk named Juewu or Juegui is the flower picker you were looking for?" Based on what she knew about her brother, he shouldn't need to go through so much trouble to pretend to be a girl. To lure the thief into the bait.But sometimes he just likes to simplify and simplify, just for his own fun, so Concubine Pang thinks that before her brother pretends to be a girl, he has already determined that the monk who is enlightened or repentant is the prisoner he is looking for.

Gu Qing sighed slightly: "Sister, this is already the second time you have asked knowingly today, I just hope you will repeat it again and again."

Concubine Pang choked, and when it was over, she came up with a strange sentence: "The officials thought you had caught someone for a while, so they were sure that the other party was the thief you wanted to catch."

"It's not difficult to understand," Gu Qing said slowly, "It's said that Zhechi is close to Zhu, but he hasn't been close to Zhu for as long as you, sister."

Concubine Pang Guifei immediately came to her senses, stretched out her slender fingers and tapped him, and said angrily: "It's amazing, Pang Yuanying, you've become thicker after you've been out for more than a month, haven't you?"

Only Concubine Pang Gui can be so outspoken. Others are either blinded by a leaf, or they only look at the appearance and cannot see his essence clearly.Representatives of the former are Grand Master Pang, and representatives of the latter are Zhan Zhao and Bao Zheng who have recently had contact with Gu Qing.

Speaking of Zhan Zhao and Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng was in danger several times during his tenure and was rescued by Zhan Zhao, and Zhan Zhao was a man of chivalry and a gentleman, Bao Zheng felt grateful for his righteousness He admired his high-strength ability and loved his character. After this, Bao Zheng strongly recommended him to the officials.

Officials loved talents, and Bao Zheng strongly recommended them, so they ordered Zhan Zhao to have an audience with him.

Originally, Zhan Zhao saved Bao Zheng not for the sake of glory and wealth, but that was his usual style. After parting with Bao Zheng, who had been reporting to the capital, Zhan Zhao returned to his hometown of Changzhou.Now that Bao Zheng sent someone to pass on the government's oral order, although Zhan Zhao was reluctant, but after all he admired Master Bao, and was afraid that he would embarrass Master Bao if he refused, so he had to bid farewell to his family and go to Bianliang City.

After entering Bianliang City, he met Bao Zheng in Kaifeng Mansion, and went to the palace to face the saint on the second day.

And because when Bao Zheng recommended Zhan Zhao, he said that he not only has a chivalrous heart, but also has outstanding martial arts skills.Zhao Zhen himself is not very good at martial arts, but he knows that Gu Qing is a man of both civil and military skills, but he hasn't seen Gu Qing perform much on weekdays. Hearing Bao Zheng's words, he became interested, and wants to see the martial arts displayed by the school in person. So he decided to meet Zhan Zhao at Yaowu Tower, and called a group of civil and military officials to watch.

Zhan Zhao is indeed excellent in martial arts, not to mention the profound swordsmanship, the arrows in his sleeves can hit every shot, and the lightness kung fu makes him fly like a swallow in the clouds, it is easy to fly over the eaves and walls.

Zhao Zhen didn't know what to think, but he felt that Zhan Zhao, who was as light as a swallow, was like his Royal Cat (a cat in the literal sense), and he was so eloquent, that Zhan Zhao got the nickname Royal Cat out of nowhere.

Then Zhao Zhen passed on the decree, specially entrusting Zhanzhao to be the guard with a knife in front of the fourth rank, and to take office in Kaifeng Mansion. Everyone in Kaifeng Mansion was happy, but Taishi Pang kept muttering in his heart, and he didn't see him when he returned to Taishi Mansion His son only found out after asking the housekeeper that the young master was in the mansion given to him by the government.

Thinking of this incident, Grand Master Pang hummed. It's not that there is no vacant mansion next to the Grand Master's mansion. The official gave another mansion across the street on the grounds that the vacant mansion was in disrepair. It seems that the master's mansion has no money to repair a mansion.

Heh heh go back to heh heh, the officials have made good words, can they still go back on their word?

Grand Master Pang went to Dali Temple Qing Mansion by car non-stop. Dali Temple Qing Da Da Da Dali is reading the case in the study. He didn't go to Yaowu Tower to join in the fun. Anyway, his father will definitely tell him when he comes back.Also, "What kind of official did the officials appoint Zhan Zhao?"

Grand Master Pang opened his mouth, swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, and said unhappily: "Seal him as a royal cat of the fourth rank!"

Gu Qing tilted his head: "Meow?"

Grand Master Pang was amused by his son, and he was a little angry at first, but he didn't let it go. "It's a fourth-rank royal guard with a knife, and he was given the title of 'Royal Cat', but according to my father, the Zhan Mao has 26 seven. Son, when you became the fourth-rank Dali Temple Shaoqing, you only had At the age of 20, besides, he is only a martial artist, so he can't compare with you at all."

Gu Qing propped his forehead, unable to understand his father's brain circuit: "What is there to argue about?"

Taishi Pang, who has always been "my son is the best", said plausibly: "Of course there is something to be said for it. If you can achieve the fourth rank at the age of 20, son, you are the No. Yes. Speaking of this, my father was furious. You were clearly the top one in the palace examination, and you were well-deserved to be the No. 1 scholar, but the officials only chose you to be the Tanhua Lang. Who is it that hinders you because of your good looks?"

How old is this, and I still remember it to this day.Gu Qing turned a deaf ear to it, and changed the subject on his own: "You said that the title given to Zhan Zhao by the government is 'Royal Cat'?"

Grand Master Pang responded, and incidentally muttered: "It's better to be called Yuhu."

——These two nicknames are not very good, are they?

What Gu Qing thinks is not the appealing nature of nicknames, but if he remembers correctly, there are five brothers in today's Jianghu who are nicknamed "rats", and the youngest of them, 'Chinosaurus', Bai Yutang, is the most beloved. Being arrogant, I'm afraid he won't accept someone's nickname to defeat him.Who knows what troubles he will cause because of this?

Thinking of this, Gu Qing raised his head and said to Grand Master Pang, "Father, I'm going out tomorrow."

Grand Master Pang casually asked, "Where are you going?"

Gu Qing replied very casually: "Huainan."

Grand Master Pang couldn't help but stare: "Didn't you just go on a long journey?"

Gu Qing didn't answer the question, and just briefly explained the matter: "Xu Yu, the magistrate of Jianchang County, encountered a suspicious case. He was really hesitant, so he wrote to me. I read the case file and thought it was worth my time. Let’s go.” Xu Wei previously served as the director of Dali Temple in Dali Temple, but because of his parents’ illness, he applied to be transferred from Dali Temple and returned to his hometown to serve as the county magistrate of Jianchang County.Before he was transferred, he could be said to be Gu Qing's subordinate, and just now he had the matter of writing to Gu Qing for advice.

Taishi Pang secretly made a note for Xu Wei, and asked curiously, "What case?"

Gu Qing's expression turned subtle, and he said slowly: "The case of a woman killing a ghost."

Taishi Pang: "..."

"Oh, I made a mistake. It's actually a female ghost murder case." After Gu Qing corrected it, he put on an innocent face towards his father and said to himself, "According to the case record, the 'female ghost' has already been killed." Killed three people, one died of frightened liver and gallbladder rupture, one had his tongue pulled out, and the other was frightened out of his horse when he performed Zhou Gong's ceremony."

Taishi Pang is someone who has seen strong winds and waves, will he be frightened?joke.

Taishi Pang just felt the same feeling after hearing the 'immediate wind', wiped his forehead and said: "I asked the housekeeper to prepare something for you, you go and come back quickly."

Gu Qing nodded obediently.

Grand Master Pang didn't enter the concubine's room that night, so he could cultivate himself.

On the next day, Gu Qing handed over the letter to Zhao Zhen to inform the foreign envoy, and after getting the approval, he took Pang Xie, took the carriage and horse prepared by the housekeeper, and headed for Jianchang County in Huainan easily.

Jianchang County

"My lord, as soon as the female ghost said that there has been a lot of rumors and panic in the past few days, do you think you want to invite a master to do a ritual?"

The person who said this was Master Liu of the Jianchang County Government Office. In fact, he wanted to say that after doing the trick, the case should be finalized after the female ghost was subdued.

Xu Wei disagreed: "You don't talk about strange powers and distracting spirits."

Master Liu believed that the culprit was a female ghost: "But you have also seen it, my lord. This case is very evil."

Xu Yuzi knew this, that's why he wrote to Gu Qing.Just at this time, a yamen messenger brought an urgent letter from outside, Xu Yu hurriedly opened it to read, and after reading it, he showed his first relaxed smile in half a month: "That's great!"

Chief Liu asked curiously, "My lord?"

Xu Wei's expression relaxed a lot: "Pang Dao is on his way here, and with him, he will definitely be able to investigate this suspicious case to the bottom."

"Pang Da man?" Master Liu, as Xu Wei's assistant, must know the background of his immediate superior, and after thinking about it for a while, he was surprised: "Could it be Dali Temple Minister Da Da Da?"

Xu Yu nodded and said, "Exactly!"

Master Liu has also heard about the deeds of Xiao Da Da, and the adults of his family often talk about him, obviously respecting him extremely.Master Liu did not expect that the majestic Dali Temple Minister would leave Bianliang City to come to the local area in this way. You must know that in Dali Temple, it is usually the Dali Temple official who goes to the local area to review cases, and there is no reason to work for the Dali Temple Minister. .Or is it that the adults in his family are highly valued by the Xiaoda people, and then they will be promoted and looked up again?

Before Mr. Liu got excited, Xu Wei said excitedly: "I knew that Pang Da would be interested in this case, Mr. Liu, you don't know, when I was the Dali Temple in Dali At the time of Sizheng, I saw Pang Daren finish reading the cases of the Zhenzong period preserved in Dali Temple in just one month. The more mysterious and unsolved cases, the more interested he was. There was a case after 25 years that he found After being suspicious, he even went to dig someone's grave and brought back the bones. He stayed in the room alone for a quarter of an hour without knowing what he had done. After he came out, he asked the jailer to arrest him. I thought I had escaped legal sanctions for so many years."

At the end, Xu Wei sighed: "Pang Dao, he is not so powerful!"

Master Liu: "..."

Leaving aside how powerful he is in judging cases, just in terms of digging up other people's graves and sharing the same room with the bones, the minister of Dali Temple is extraordinary enough.Master Liu thought of what he had heard, so he tentatively asked Xu Wei: "Master Pang, does he often take care of Dali Temple?"

"That's right, because I wanted to take care of my parents, I asked to be transferred from Dali Temple to my hometown. This is the greeting from Taishi Pang and the officials." Xu Wei thought for a while and said, "Grandmaster Pang is still a loving father. In order to allow Pang Da to live comfortably in Dali Temple, he spent his own money to repair Dali Temple. At that time, we were very grateful for his kind deed.”

Master Liu felt that he had no way to talk to Xu Wei, and it was because the lips of the donkey were wrong, and he couldn't compare the Grand Master Pang that Xu Wei talked about with the high-ranking Grand Master Pang who could call the wind and rain in his cognition. Link to go together.

In another three days, Xu Wei took Master Liu and two yamen servants to meet Xiao Pang outside the county seat.

Master Liu finally couldn't hold back and said to Xu Wei: "My lord, is this too simple?" Let alone the Dali Temple Minister who is welcoming the third rank, even the honor guards welcoming other county magistrates are more solemn than this .

Xu Yu didn't care much and said: "It's okay, Da Da people never like these vain rituals."

Mr. Liu was dubious, and waited half an hour later for the people they greeted to arrive, not to mention the sound of gongs to clear the way, even the scene of the yamen servants queuing up did not appear.There were ten of them who came here, and eight of them did not follow into the government office. It is said that they went to find a place for their young master first.

Xu Wei was not surprised by this situation, and quietly said to Master Liu: "That is a servant of the Pang family. It must be that Grand Master Pang forced it in because he was worried that the big man would suffer outside."

Mr. Liu's face was blank, and he always felt that a place in his heart had collapsed.

What about Grand Master Pang who agreed to call the wind and call for the rain?

Leaving aside how Taishi Pang travels thousands of miles and worrying about it, let's return to the "murder case of the female ghost" itself.

Xu Wei still understood his former boss's behavior style very well, and he didn't do anything false. After a short rest, he led Gu Qing to Yizhuang to see the victim's body, and told Gu Qing about his progress along the way. :

The "Female Ghost Murder Case" took place in Luohe Township, Jianchang County. There are more than 120 families in the town, mostly with the surnames Li and Yang.

Among the three people killed was Yang Zhang, who was 52 years old and had been widowed for many years. Only one son died of illness three years ago, and she did not remarry after the man died. Got a chastity memorial arch issued by the imperial court.She was first discovered by her maid Tweet, and the cause of Yang Zhang's death, as the saying goes, was being frightened to death;

There is also Mrs. Li, who is 45 years old. The man is still alive and has two daughters and one son.Although the family does not have real estate for renting and collecting rents like Yangzhang's family, on weekdays, Mrs. Li can support herself and the men in the family by helping people in the town as mediators.She was found dead in an alley by watchman Sun Erhu, and her tongue was pulled out;

The last victim was Yang Wenchang, 58 years old, the patriarch of the Yang family in Luohe Township, who also held the post of Lizheng in Luohe Township, in charge of household registration, taxes and labor.His original wife died ten years earlier, and Yang Wenchang remarried five or six years later, marrying the Su family from another town.On the day when the incident happened, Yang Wenchang was in love with his stepwife, Su Shi, but unexpectedly, the female ghost came to the door, and Yang Wenchang was so frightened that his teeth were bared and his eyes were cracked, and he died immediately on Su Shi's belly.

Originally, Xu Wei didn't believe that the female ghost killed people, but the case is very strange. Take Yang Zhang's death as an example. When she was found dead, not only was the window covered from the inside, but she was also intact. Even the door is fastened from the inside.Several men in the town bumped into them from the outside before they knocked open the door, and considering that her maid Tweet had just heard the screams earlier and only went out to call someone, that means that Yang Zhang's She was alone in her room when she was killed.

So if the murderer is really a living person, how did he or she do it?

"And the death of Mrs. Li. Sun Erhu saw that she was dragged into the alley by a black shadow. There were other people on the street at that time. When they heard Sun Erhu's yelling, they saw a black shadow coming from the wall. Floats by, disappears in the blink of an eye."

Not to mention Yang Wenchang's death, his step-wife Mrs. Su also saw the female ghost, and she was so frightened that she lost her mind and has not recovered until now.Not only that, after the incident, some townspeople said that they also saw the female ghost, and now most of the Luohe townspeople believe that the female ghost did it, and they have sent someone to invite the master to perform the deed.

Xu Wei had worked under Gu Qing before. After he realized the unusualness of this case, he did not categorically believe that it was a female ghost who committed the crime, although the evidence points to the fact that it was not done by a living person.Instead, after thinking about it, he first wrote a letter to Gu Qing, and then put aside the possibility of a female ghost committing the crime, and began to investigate the case from the perspective of a living person committing the crime.

What is the connection between the three who died?

Who did they have such a big grudge with?

Why are the townspeople in Luohe Town sure to be female ghosts?

With such doubts in mind, when Xu Yu went to investigate, he quickly found something.When the widowed Yang Zhang was pregnant with a child, her man died, and the child became a posthumous child, and was born prematurely because of this. He has been in poor health since then.When he grew up, not only was he not in good health, but his illness became more and more serious a few years ago. Someone suggested that he find a wife to celebrate his happiness.

Then Yang Zhang married his son back to a relative. The woman's surname is Qi, and everyone else calls her Qi Erniang.It's a pity that Chongxi said it was useless. Yang Zhang's son died a few days after getting married, and Yang Zhang's white-haired man sent a black-haired man.Besides, Erniang Qi, even though it was a rooster who married her that day, since she entered the Yang family, she is the daughter-in-law of the Yang family.

Poor Qi Erniang was widowed in only [-] years, and this widowhood lasted for three years.This doesn't mean that she remarried to someone else. There was no such thing as remarriage in Luohe Town, so Erniang Qi was born as a member of the Yang family and died as a ghost of the Yang family.

So this means that Qi Erniang committed suicide by throwing herself into the river seven days before Yang Zhangshi was killed, which means that the day Yang Zhangshi died happened to be Qi Erniang's first seven days.

"My lord, according to what I have found, I suspect that Erniang Qi most likely did not commit suicide voluntarily, but was forced to commit suicide." Xu Wei hesitated to speak when he said this.

Gu Qing pursed her lips and said, "You still want to say that she was murdered by others, pretending that she committed suicide, don't you?"

Xu Yu nodded with a wry smile: "What your lord said is very true."

It turned out that before Erniang Qi "suicide", someone suddenly said that she had hooked up with a peddler in Lailuohe Town, and they said it well.Not only did they talk about how they gave and received in private, but also said that Erniang Qi planned to elope with the shopkeeper and was unwilling to be a widow again.Not long after such rumors spread, Erniang Qi threw herself into the river, so some people began to say that Erniang Qi really did not obey women's morals, and now she would be ashamed to do so, and she would have no face to live anymore.

If things get here, then there is nothing to say.

But when Qi Erniang arrived on July [-], her mother-in-law Yang Zhangshi was frightened to death, followed by Li Po and Yang Wenchang, and the cause of death was very strange, and there was a rumor about the female ghost, so how can Qi Erniang commit suicide? Nothing is that simple.

"The humble official has asked the yamen servant to look for the shopkeeper, but when the humble official inquired, I heard that the townspeople said that it was Qi Erniang who came to take revenge, and also talked about retribution..." Xu Wei frowned and stated, "And that Li Po is here. The reputation of Luohe Town is not very good, saying that she can say that black is white, and white is black, and that Qi Erniang has an affair with a shopkeeper from other places, and this is Li Po who first mentioned it."

In addition, Li Po's tongue was pulled out, and Yang Wenchang was the patriarch of the Yang family, and he was also killed. No matter how you look at it, you think there is something wrong with Qi Erniang's death.

If Yang Wenchang and Yang Zhang's family didn't believe that Erniang Qi was innocent for the sake of the reputation of the Yang clan, determined that she was not a woman, and forced her to commit suicide, then Erniang Qi would turn into a ghost to take revenge after death, The whole case made sense, and this is what Master Liu and the others tend to believe.

In Jianchang County, it is not uncommon for clans to lock unruly women or adulterous men and women in cages, tie stones to sink ponds or rivers.In Xu Wei's view, this kind of thing is the use of lynching indiscriminately, committing the crime of intentional homicide, but in the eyes of more people, this is a normal thing, and the government can't control it.

In fact, this kind of thing is not limited to Jianchang County, and it is not limited to this dynasty. However, the law becomes ineffective when it comes to such things that seem to have been "conventional".What's even more sad is that those who think like Xu Wei are still in the minority, that is, it has to be said that this is the influence they received in Dali Temple before - Gu Qing is better at teaching people than tirelessly.

In any case, the more important thing now is to investigate this case clearly.

At this time they had arrived at Yizhuang, Xu Wei thought of something and said: "My lord, the corpses of the three victims were sent to this Yizhuang because Yang Wenchang and Yang Lizheng were among the dead. Otherwise, the Yang family is We categorically disagree with sending them, especially Yang Zhang's body. In their view, human life is not as important as their reputation."

Master Liu didn't quite understand why his adults talked so much at the beginning, and he still disagreed with Xu Yu's statement in his heart. People need face and trees need skin.