588. in the first place

King Quang Ninh took over the case, and after arraigning the two criminals once, he vaguely felt in his heart that the matter would not be closed so easily.

It's not that the case is complicated, on the contrary, the case is very simple, and the confessions of the criminals are also the same, all of them say that they saw that Miss Lu's carriage was luxurious, so they thought of extorting a sum of money, so they robbed the person, and then asked people to send a letter back, and then saw that Miss Lu was born beautifully, so they had a bad heart and wanted to rape Miss Lu, but Miss Lu would rather die than obey, and plucked the golden hairpin on her head and stabbed herself in the throat.

What makes King Guangning feel strange is that the statements of the two are completely consistent, even the details are exactly the same, even if this is the case, this consistency is a little too suspicious, and from many places, the two of them obviously have confessed, which makes him very vigilant, but the first time he interrogated the prisoner, and many people were present at the time, he put aside these doubts in his heart for a while, and instead focused on asking the family history of the two.

The abnormal thing is that both of them are reluctant to explain their family backgrounds, but their accents are not foreigners, obviously with some Yunzhou accents.

After questioning a few times, the two simply shouted at the king of Guangning: "Everything is the ghost of my two brothers, if you want to kill it, you have to listen to it, why bother asking so much, robbing and kidnapping others is not a felony of extermination, I just don't say that you can't help me, and I won't report my own door to let you black-hearted officials who loot the people's fat and ointment take revenge!"

Hearing this, even the King of Guangning couldn't help frowning, not to mention Lu Zhengming, who was the assistant on the side.

He has been an official and fair all his life, thanks to the emperor's grace, he entered the cabinet and became a cabinet elder, and he has always been the only one who took out silver money to supplement the people, how could he have scavenged the people in the slightest!

Being slandered like this, he clenched his fists fiercely and looked at the two prisoners: "I, Lu Zhengming, have been an official and fair all my life, and I dare to say a word about evidence to convict in handling cases, and I have never bent into a case, but you tied up my daughter, but there is no reason at all, and now the little girl's death is uncertain, dare to ask you two Don't you two have a little guilt and remorse in your hearts?"

Speaking of Miss Lu, the two of them hung their heads and fell silent.

Then he asked, as if his mouth was sewn up, and he didn't say a word.

The case should have ended here, but the place where the criminal's household registration was located had not been found, and it was not easy to convict, and the king of Guangning felt that there must be something else strange about this matter, so he simply postponed it for a few days, drew the portraits of the two, and posted them everywhere in the suburbs near Yunfu City, but those who provided the details of the identities of the two were rewarded with two taels of silver, and those who could explain the identities of the two in detail were rewarded with ten taels of silver.

It must be known that two taels of silver are to buy good rice and noodles can buy one or two hundred catties, and it is free, and within a few days, there will be a yamen who knows these two people to get the silver.

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Chan Yi gently took out a piece of plum blossom balm from the oil paper, carefully opened the incense burner, buried the balm into the burning silver frost carbon, within a moment, the faint plum blossom fragrance, it rose from the incense burner, and the wind blew in from the half-closed window, blowing away the fine green smoke.

"It only snowed yesterday, but I didn't think it would be sunny today," she wore clogs made of agarwood on her feet, stepped lightly over the waxy floor, and raised her hand to close the half-closed window with only a gap, "Even on a sunny day, it is not good to keep the window open to blow the wind, beware of the wind and cold." ”

She turned around and looked at Chu Shaoyuan with a faint concern in her eyes.

Chu Shaoyuan was holding a bowl of decoction medicine in his hand, not the kind of wound medicine he drank on weekdays, but another kind of tonic, but it was not delicious.

He poured the decoction into it in one go, and while putting down the medicine bowl, he looked at her and smiled, "Didn't you ask me about the identities of those two villains?"

As soon as he said this, Chanyi's attention was drawn, and she hurriedly asked, "Who are those two?"

When Chu Shaoyuan put down the medicine bowl, he picked up a black plum from the small plate of Doucai and put it in his mouth, the sour and sweet taste instantly made the bitter taste in his mouth dissipate, he squinted, and then said slowly: "The thing is strange here, people who know these two people say that their family is not poor, and there are two grocery stores in the house, although they are not rich and expensive, but in addition to food and clothing, they are always better than ordinary people on the street." ”

Chanyi frowned, she was not a person who was particularly short of money, but she did such an evil thing, and forced Miss Lu to kill herself with a golden hairpin, thinking that the situation at that time was already very critical, otherwise Lu Yanzhen, a person who was more and more calm in the face of things, how could she use such a means of burning jade?

Chu Shaoyuan said again: "It's just that I heard that the elders of the two people seem to have offended someone, and the shop can't be opened, so they plan to put the shop out, these days are preparing the shop, the family is busy, so I didn't notice the whereabouts of my own kid, I just said that I thought I went to a friend's house to have fun again, one of the two is the eldest son of the family, and the other is the subordinate next to him, I heard the fifteenth uncle say that the two grew up together since childhood, and the next person has no father or mother since he was a child, and was bought by the master's family, so he served the main culprit for more than ten years as the next person. ”

Chu Shaoyuan paused when he said this, and always felt that this matter was not very simple, that is, if there was a problem with the shop in the real family, would ordinary people dare to reach out to the official family? And it is such a big case, it is successful, and he will live with fear in the future, let alone bully the hostages when this person is panicking, even people with some brains will know that there is a problem here.

He smiled slightly, his heart was not in a hurry, if someone really instructed him, he only needed to see if his family situation would suddenly improve in the future.

Thinking like this, he took another black plum and stuffed it into his mouth, and then finished the next words: "When the fifteenth uncle was retried, he told their identity and background, but they didn't have the slightest intention of letting go, and then they simply had the intention of breaking the jar and breaking it, because this case alarmed the father, so since the case has been investigated, the case will be closed in a few days, and it can be regarded as an explanation." ”

Chanyi sighed faintly, "It's a pity for Sister Zhen'er, she is only twelve or thirteen years old this year, and she has to suffer such a thing, I heard Aunt Seven say that Sister Zhen woke up these days, that is, she was frightened, and she had to light the lamp at all times, and the injury on her neck was too serious, I was afraid that she would not be able to speak in the future. ”

The important thing is marriage, since Lu Yanzhen's matter came out, the Fuguo Mansion has been very concerned, not only sent a lot of ginseng and deer antler antlers in the past, but also gastrodia codonopsis these calming herbs, and in the marriage, although the Duchess of Fuguo did not clearly express her attitude, but from her polite attitude, you can see the clues.

Mrs. Lu washes her face with tears every day, but the matter has come to this point, what is the benefit of not getting married?

In the past few days, they have been discussing the divorce.

She shook her head: "It's just that I don't know whose young lady Fuguo will appoint for the prince of Fuguo after retiring from this family business, but no matter who the family is, as long as I think of this previous incident, I will always say that the prince of Fuguo is not very kind in this matter." ”

She was sighing, and before she knew it, a slender hand suddenly shoved a sweet and sour plum into her mouth.

Chanyi pursed her lips and glanced up at Chu Shaoyuan, and then felt his index finger lightly against her lips, seeing her looking at him, he slid lightly on her lips a few times, itchy, and couldn't help but want people to bite him.

Chan Yi did the same, and while he was still sliding his fingertips, he quickly opened his mouth and bit his finger fiercely.

Chu Shaoyuan only felt that the tip of his index finger was warm, and then a wet and soft thing crossed by, with a slight itch, and as soon as the itch reached his heart, there was a sharp pain, and there was a numb itch in the pain, which made his body tremble.

"It hurts!" Chu Shaoyuan exhaled mournfully, but he didn't mean to withdraw his hand at all, but looked at her with eyes full of grievances, and whispered soft words in her ear, "Wanwan is always so concerned about others, I feel sour when I see it." ”

Chanyi couldn't help but snort at him, not to mention that Sister Zhen was a girl, just said that in this matter, the prince of Fuguo was the one he helped up, and he should be concerned about it, besides, a fierce girl like Sister Zhen'er, if she was given to the prince of Fuguo, she would not really insult him.

She glared at him and let go, he quickly retracted his hand, and while raising his eyes to stare at her, he opened his lips to lick the tooth marks on his fingertips, and the tip of his scarlet tongue licked the fingertips that left her bite marks, and he couldn't help but feel a little intoxicated on his face.

It's a seductive look.

Chan Yi looked at him like this, and couldn't help but reach out to pinch his cheek and poke him the head, "You're getting more and more out of shape!"

Chu Shaoyuan smiled like a fox, reached out to wrap his hand around her waist, and coaxed her softly: "This case is not a big deal in the end, the Duchess of Fuguo doesn't know Chu Shaolun, since he has set Lu Yanzhen in his heart, he will not let go so easily, not to mention that this matter is not Lu Yanzhen's fault in the first place, you don't have to worry, when the case is over, we just need to quietly see who will jump out and act impatiently, and we can know who is shrinking behind and calculating people." ”

Chanyi looked at him suspiciously, she had never been in contact with Chu Shaolun, the prince of Fuguo, and she had no intersection in her previous life, so she really didn't know what Chu Shaolun was like, but hearing Chu Shaoyuan say this, could it be that Chu Shaolun could still influence the thoughts of the Duchess of Fuguo?

Sensing her doubts, Chu Shaoyuan lightly hugged the person in his arms, and thought that after a few days, the winter plums in the garden of the light secluded residence would bloom, and then move to the light secluded house to live, and she would always ask someone to fold the plum blossoms to insert the bottle.

But he still coaxed her and said, "You always think about these things all day long, if you are really so free, make me a few more sweat towels." ”