The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Zhu Tong said that what was done upstairs in Fuyun Hall was a power-for-money transaction, and King Qin was shocked!Zhu Wei coughed twice: "Tong'er, are you a bit assertive?"

Zhu Tong said: "The clothing shop we just saw sells both fish white coarse cloth and Jiangning Kesi—" He pointed to a name, "Mr. Accountant is a regular customer on the second floor of Fuyun Pavilion." King Qin thought of that The coarse cloth at home is two or three times more expensive than other countries. Zhu Wei guessed that the goods were sold to the army, so he believed it half to eighty percent, and his face sank immediately.

Zhu Wei coughed twice again: "His shop is the closest to Fuyuntang. Maybe Mr. Accountant likes to gamble, so pick the nearest gambling house to gamble."

Zhu Tong said: "A accountant, who is not the boss, what is the salary? He can afford to gamble with a minimum chip of 1000 taels? Isn't it good to open a shop and start a business by yourself with this financial resources?"

Zhu Wei simply coughed more than a dozen times: "Maybe he stole the money from the account to gamble."

Zhu Tong said with a smile: "Then he will definitely choose a casino far away from the shop because he is afraid of being discovered by his boss."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone rushed to say: "Master Zhu, don't cough anymore, I can't stand it anymore. Your lord is neither blind nor fool." Everyone saw that it was Liu Shu who sneaked behind him at some point. Tang eavesdropped and winked at Qin Wang: Brother, you are the prince and you didn't tell brother, it's not mean!

King Qin smiled wryly and said, "The lonely king has seen it."

Master Chen and Master Yu Er looked at each other blankly, and Master Chen asked, "What did the prince see?"

Zhu Tong said: "Based on Wansheng, Master Chen and Uncle Yu Guo didn't know about it." King Qin snorted coldly.

Chen Yu and the two were shocked: "What does Mr. Zhu mean by this?"

Zhu Tong said: "Uncle Yu Guo is a scholar. I heard that he is a little pedantic, so it's best to deceive him. Mr. Chen is not very subtle, and he said that a prisoner died. He clearly became suspicious and did not perform an autopsy himself. It is also very easy to deceive."

Mr. Chen's face darkened: "Mr. Zhu doesn't know the details, so why bother to talk nonsense? Mr. Liang has been a master for many years and never made a mistake. Is it better for me to do the autopsy myself?" Zhu Wei hurriedly smoothed things over.The atmosphere in the lobby was discordant.

After a while, someone outside came in and said that Liang Yuzuo had come.Everyone put the others down immediately.I saw Liang Yuzuo, who was over fifty years old and had gray hair, kneeling in front of the hall to worship.Zhu Wei pointed to Xia Kui and asked, "Liang Yuzuo, do you recognize him?"

Liang Yuzuo took a look: "I don't know."

"Look carefully again, do you really not recognize it?"

Liang Yu said: "My lord, don't worry, the old official has good eyesight and memory, I have never seen this person before. If the old official has seen him, he will recognize him even if he turns into a corpse." Liu Shuli chuckled behind him, seeing him smile Xia Kui also laughed.

Lord Chen looked at Huizi coldly and said, "Liang Yuzuo, a prisoner died of illness in prison more than ten days ago, do you remember?"

"Remember." Liang Yu said, "That man had asthma and couldn't bear the cold. It's cold now, and it's even colder in the prison. He fell ill and died."

Zhu Tong rushed to ask: "Liang Yuzuo, do you remember what he looks like?"

Liang Yu said: "The old official went to examine the corpse himself, remember to understand."

"I would like to trouble you to draw the portrait of that man." Zhu Tong thought for a while, "Do you know where he was buried?"

Liang Wu said, "I haven't been buried yet."

Zhu Tong said happily: "Still in your yamen?"

"It's in Yizhuang outside the south gate of the city." Liang Wu said, "The man has no relatives to claim the body, and the old official filled out the form himself. He went to the Social Charity Bureau to collect money to buy a coffin for the funeral. The money hasn't arrived yet." He complained, "Ever since the Charity Bureau changed its director, it's been so slow! It's been almost half a month, and he's still in Yizhuang! It's so pitiful to be wrapped in a mat. It's as cold as it is today. If it's hot, the body will be ruined sooner." gone."

Liu Shu wondered, "Does Qin also have a Social Charity Bureau?" He glanced at Zhu Tong, "This is the national policy of Lu."

Zhu Tong coughed twice: "Lu Guo copied it from Yanjing Charity Association." Liu Shu shrank his neck.Zhu Tongnai said, "Since the body has not been buried yet, it would be better to take it for a portrait." Then he ordered people to go to Yizhuang to fetch the body.

The yamen servant in charge asked, "What's the name of the corpse?"

All the lords and lords in the room remained silent.Liang Yu said: "It's called Xia Kui, and it was sent there thirteen days ago."

The yamen servant asked again, "How do you write the word Xia Kui?" Liang Yuzuo asked the scribe to borrow a pen and paper to write the word "Xia Kui".

When the yamen servant left with his name, Liang Yuzuo still knelt in front of the hall when he came back.Xia Kui knelt beside him, and looked at him with a sideways glance.Liang Yuzuo felt uncomfortable being looked at by him, and also glanced at Xia Kui.Xia Kui still didn't blink.All the adults in the room were silent.Liang Yuzuo became more and more awkward, and said in a low voice: "Brother, look at me."

Only then did Xia Kui blink: "Liang Wuzuo!"

"What's the matter?"

"Liang Yuzuo!"

Liang Yuzuo frowned: "What's the matter!"

"Liang Yuzuo, are you afraid?"

Liang Yuzuo pulled his back: "My surname Liang is innocent and has never done anything illegal. What are you afraid of?"

Xia Kui said: "The sky is bright and the sun is bright, what the hell are you afraid of?" Liu Shu couldn't hold back and laughed, and Xia Kui followed suit.The two big men laughed angrily, which caused echoes in the hall.Liang Wuzuo was inexplicable.

Zhu Wei pointed at Xia Kui and said, "He is Xia Kui."

Liang Yu was stunned: "Xia Kui? The dead one?" He looked at Xia Kui, "That's not right! At least Xia Kui said he was a head shorter than him, so thin that he was only half the weight of this person, and his appearance was very different. .”

Zhu Wei shook his head: "This is the real Xia Kui. The one who died of asthma in prison was someone else. Liang Yuzuo, you have never seen Xia Kui before the court, Master Chen never went to see the dead body of the fake Xia Kui in person, and let him be under his nose." Played a civet cat for the prince."

Zhu Tong said: "Not only is the civet cat replacing the prince, but also the mantis is catching the cicada. I'm afraid more than one party has made a move here."

Qin Wang said: "The lonely king is confused."

Liu Shu said: "I'm confused too! Ah Tong, what's going on?"

Zhu Tong pondered: "At first I thought that the yamen guards under Mr. Chen had already emptied him. Then I thought it was wrong. If the yamen guards colluded with others to coax Mr. Chen, Xia Kui had to tell him that Xia Kui ran away alive. Mr. Chen. Otherwise, sooner or later the truth will be revealed, and they themselves will not be able to cover it up. Then they will just make up some other nonsense and pick themselves out. Unless they think that Xia Kui did not escape, but died. Hide behind. The trappers obviously trap the yamen servants and jailers."

Liu Shu crossed his hands and said, "Here he is again! He ran away, but he didn't die, but now he knocked four jailers unconscious and took off one jailer's clothes, how could he think he was dead? The jailer must be so stupid ?”

Zhu Tong thought for a long time, then suddenly stood up and said, "Let's go! Go to Mr. Chen's yamen."

"what?"

"Stop disturbing people." Zhu Tong said, "Hurry up." He glanced at Master Yu Er, who was a little confused and at a loss. "About in time."

Zhu Tong has been in power for many years in the state of Lu, and when he talks about business matters, he is majestic, and everyone can't help but listen to what he said.So he set off immediately.

A group of people rushed to the magistrate's yamen.The magistrate's prison is in the yamen, Zhu Tong ordered all the jailers to be summoned, and sent people to look for vacation or night duty.All the officials in the punishment room also called out.One of them, when he saw Xia Kui, felt like he had seen a ghost, and his face turned pale with fright.Zhu Tong just pretended not to see, and asked Xia Kui to identify the jailer.Xia Kui went through each of them carefully, but there were no four jailers who wanted to give him the "house cloth bag" that day.After waiting for half a day, the night watchman who was on vacation also came, but still not.

Zhu Tong nodded: "I've thought of this possibility." Nai Han smiled and looked at the prison official who changed his face, "Does this prisoner have anything to say?"

The prison official smiled and said: "What did you say, sir? The little official can't understand."

Zhu Tong said: "Is it interesting to see ghosts in the daytime? Do you know that the sun is about to set."

The prison official wobbled and almost couldn't stand up.Master Chen just looked at him coldly, without saying a word.The official of the punishment room "thumped" and collapsed.

It turned out that early in the morning when Xia Kui was arrested, a man in a gray coat came to his house and gave him a box of snacks with a smile.The prison official opened the box and saw that there were two big silver ingots in white.The man said: "My boss's friend had an affair with someone and was killed by an adulterer. My boss is deeply indignant. Although the law of murder is hard to tolerate, my boss doesn't want him to delay his death until next autumn. Listen Said, tonight is the night duty of the escrow."

The prison officials stared straight at Yinzi!It took a while to come back to his senses, wondering: "Although I am on duty at night, I am not the only person on duty at night."

The man said: "After the Elder Master has been interrogated today, the adulterer will be sent to a secluded place to be locked up alone. Don't worry, the chief officer, my master has more than these two ingots of silver, and everything that needs to be dredged will be dredged."

Only then did the prison officials feel relieved, and said generously, "As the saying goes, money can make ghosts turn the millstones. Some small things are easy to discuss." The man then explained the boss's arrangement to the prison officials in detail, and the two discussed it. Meeting son, make a plan.

That night, the prison guards came to work a little early on purpose, not allowing anyone else to follow, and ran to Xia Kui's cell alone to take a peek.There is an empty cell in the north of the cell, which is quiet and deserted, and Xia Kui is locked here alone.He came out from that area with a lantern in his hand. All the guards on duty at night looked at him and smiled, and the execution room officer replied with a smile: "There is only one prisoner locked up there, honestly. I have seen it, and you don't need to go there. "Everyone agreed.

At the fourth watch, five men in jailer's clothes came in.Two were holding iron locks, two were carrying a bag of loess, and a tall and strong man was carrying a long cloth bag, which seemed to contain a person.All the jailers just didn't see it.After a while, I vaguely heard screams coming from the north, but the jailers pretended not to hear them.After a long time, two men in jailer's clothes hurried out.Afterwards, three more men in jailer's clothes came out, one of them was carrying a long cloth bag, and the other two were carrying the bag of loess.The jailers still pretended to be deaf and dumb.

In the early morning of the next day, the shift worker hadn't arrived yet.The prison official personally led people to check the cell, and suddenly found a dead body lying in Guan Xiakui's cell.Then he hurriedly carried the corpse out, and ran to ask for help.

Liang Yuzuo is a real person. He comes to the Yamen very early every day, and he just arrived at that time.Without even drinking his saliva, he ordered someone to carry the body for an autopsy.

Everyone was dumbfounded after hearing this.After a while, Liu Shu sighed in admiration: "This is not weaker than the ancients!"

It was also checked that the people who locked Xia Kui in the cell that day were two day shift guards.The two also got the money from others, and sent Xia Kui to the north cell specially, and told the leader of the jailer that Master Chen ordered it.

Liu Shu said leisurely: "Everyone in this yamen will lie to others." Master Chen's face was ashen.

Zhu Tong said: "Since the matter has come to this point, it is very clear. The homemade bag is just a show. The jailer thought that the master sent someone to kill Xia Kui, and replaced a sick substitute who died in the prison to cover up for the jailers. Xia Kui thought The government wants to kill him. Xia Kui, the one who wants to kill you and the one who rescued you are accomplices."

Xia Kui was almost dumbfounded: "Then... are they playing with me?"

Liu Shu spoke quickly: "Obviously, he is borrowing a knife to kill people, so let you kill that Mr. Bi! By the way, who is this Mr. Bi? Is he really dead? Have you seen him in real life before? Could he also be like Liang? Do the same?"

Xia Kui was taken aback when he heard this.After thinking for a long time, he hesitated: "I have met Mr. Bi. It's just that he is far away, and his appearance is not real." After thinking for a long time, "I should have killed the wrong person..."

Liu Shu said, "You're not sure yourself."

Zhu Tong pondered: "Maybe someone wants to use Xia Kui's hand to kill Mr. Bi, or maybe Mr. Bi wants to escape from Jin Chan's shell and feign death. It's hard to say right now."

King Qin asked, "Mr. Zhu, what do they want to do?"

Zhu Tong shook his head: "I can't guess it, I have to investigate carefully. First find out the identity of the patient who died instead. The corpse must have been transported back to my uncle's yamen, let's go back right away. It's getting late, the prince wants to go back to the mansion to rest?"

The king of Qin said loudly: "The lonely king will go with the gentleman. It's not that the lonely king has never seen a corpse."

Zhu Tong nodded: "Okay. The Bailan girl from Xianyang must be innocent too." He bowed his hands to Liang Yazuo, "Liang Yasi came to the office early in the morning, so you can see that he is dedicated. The late-born Yuzuo is young and has less experience than Liang Yasi I implore Liang Yasi to do another autopsy with him. Both of them died wrongfully. We are not eminent monks, so we cannot rescue them. However, we can find out the truth and avenge their grievances for them with modest efforts. Such a merit is no less To build a seven-level pagoda."

Liang Yuzuo straightened his back, touched the Buddhist beads on his wrist with his fingers unconsciously, and said, "Since Mr. Zhu has this heart, the old official will do his best." Then he bowed to Zhu Tong.Zhu Tong returned a long bow.

Now that the matter has come to this point, neither Master Chen nor Master Yu dared to go back to the mansion, and followed the Zhu family's uncle and nephew back to the prefect's yamen overnight.It was already meal time, Zhu Wei ordered to go outside to buy some food, it should be light and not greasy.

Zhu Tong hurriedly said, "I don't want to eat!" Then he explained, "After eating, we have to examine two corpses and they have been stored for more than ten days. Even though it is cold, there will inevitably be stench."

After hearing this, the king of Qin also said: "I don't eat it alone." Liu Shu also yelled not to eat it.

Zhu Wei said: "It's no good if you don't eat it. Just have a little porridge." The three of them agreed.

The king of Qin drank porridge, can others eat meat?So they all drank only half a bowl of porridge and water.At this time, Jiang Yuzuo, which Zhu Tong brought from the state of Lu, also arrived.

Everyone rushed to the morgue together.First, they asked someone to draw a portrait of the person who died of illness, and the two Jiang and Liang re-examined the autopsy, and they all said that the person really died of an asthma attack.Look at the female corpse Bailan again.Jiang Wuzuo looked at this woman for a long time, frowned and said, "There seems to be something wrong."