In the early morning of the next day, Bai Sujin and others had already packed their luggage and ran to the city gate early to wait, and when the city gate opened, Bai Sujin and his party carried their bags and were mixed with the hawkers and pedestrians. When the soldiers at the gate checked, Bai Sujin only said that he was going to visit his relatives, and the soldiers were already tired of the routine routine checks every day, so he waved his hand and let them go out of the city.

After leaving the city, he didn't walk for long, but he saw a carriage waiting outside the city gate, and the coachman and Guo Yifeng glanced at each other, and Guo Yifeng made a positive look at the coachman. The coachman understood, and did not bow to Guo Yifeng, but asked in a calm tone: "Several ladies, sons, seeing that you are all carrying burdens, you should go out to relatives and relatives." I'm here to solicit customers, so if you need it, please get on the bus! ”

These words were right to Bai Sujin's mind, she thought that a few people would walk on foot, it would definitely not work, but it happened that the carriage appeared in time, and hurriedly said: "That's great, but we are going to the capital, I don't know if your carriage will not arrive in the capital?" ”

The coachman smiled: "I am specialized in pulling people and goods, naturally I will go anywhere, but the capital is far away, if Xiaoxing sleeps overnight, I am afraid that the carriage will also go for seven days, and the carriage and horse fare, I am afraid that it cannot be too little, at least five taels of silver." ”

Before Bai Sujin could answer, Li Miaoqiu had already taken out three taels of silver, stepped forward and said gently: "Coachman, I am originally from the capital, and I arrived in Suzhou a few days ago because of the matter, I know how far this place is from the capital." You are also a sincere person, five taels of silver is also reasonable, but it is inevitable that there will be twists and turns along the way, I follow the convention, pay three taels first, and wait until I arrive in the capital, and then pay the remaining two taels of silver, what do you think? ”

As soon as the coachman heard this, he knew that he was an expert, and listening to Li Miaoqiu's accent, it was indeed full of Beijing flavor, so he took the silver and said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then you can get in the car!" ”

The coachman is accustomed to driving cars, and after a morning's work, he actually went out for dozens of miles. Bai Sujin and the others were frightened last night, packed up their things overnight, sat in the car, and suddenly felt sleepy. Fortunately, the carriage was running steadily, and several people didn't care about talking, and they all leaned on the carriage and fell asleep.

Zhang's house.

Zhang Run became one of the fewer people who knew about this, and vigorously wiped the blood stains on Zhao Chang's body, dragging Zhao Chang's body alone, along with the bloody cloth, and throwing it into the waste well in the backyard, and covering the manhole cover. After finishing all this work, Zhang Runcheng was also very tired, so he ran to the study and fell asleep.

When the servant came in to report, Zhang Runcheng was excited, and hurriedly sat up, only to hear the servant say unhurriedly: "Master, the official in front of me has passed the word, and someone has come to report the case." ”

Zhang Runcheng was overjoyed, and thought that the people in the matchmaker shop were poisoned, but after all, it was a major murder case, even if he was happy, he couldn't show it too obviously, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and got up, and said: "Such a big thing, why don't you wake me up as soon as possible." ”

The servant did not know the reason, but still said unhurriedly: "At breakfast, the lady came to the study to see the master, and when she saw that the master was sleeping peacefully, she ordered the little ones not to alarm the master, so we did not dare to wake up the master until someone reported the crime." ”

Zhang Runcheng was talking, and he didn't wait for anyone to serve, so he put on his clothes neatly and strode to the front hall.

When he arrived at the court, Zhang Runcheng saw two mothers-in-law standing under the hall, arguing about something, so he coughed. When the two mothers-in-law saw Zhang Runcheng coming to the court, they quickly knelt down, and one of them preemptively said: "Lord Zhixian, you have to make the decision for me." ”

Zhang Runcheng didn't know why, didn't these two mothers-in-law come to report to him that the matchmaker had a murder case? Look at this situation, it's not like it!

I only heard a mother-in-law say: "My lord, my lord, I am Zhao Lin of East Street, our family has five chickens, this morning, I was feeding the chickens in the yard, the children of the Liu family came to my house to borrow a mallet, I went to the house to get the work, the children of the Liu family shouted in the yard again, and when I came out, the children of the Liu family were gone, and one of my chickens was gone. This makes it clear that the children of the Liu family stole my chickens. ”

The other mother-in-law looked angry and said loudly: "You are talking nonsense, our Liu family has always been innocent, how could you steal your chicken, you lost the chicken yourself, and in turn framed a good person, I said, if you don't steal, you don't steal, you have the ability to come up with evidence." ”

Zhang Runcheng had a headache when he heard it, and he didn't have the heart to manage these trivial things about stealing chickens and touching dogs, seeing that the two mothers-in-law were still arguing below, he couldn't help but shout: "Okay, this official should be a big deal, I lost the official and rushed over, but I didn't expect that it was a trivial matter of a chicken, this matter, you can solve it yourself, and retreat." ”

After saying this, Zhang Runcheng no longer cared about the quarrel of the two mothers-in-law below, and went directly into the back hall.

After wandering in the back hall for a long time, Zhang Runcheng suddenly thought that since the person in the matchmaker's shop was dead, it stands to reason that someone should report the case. No one has reported the case until now, so there is only one possibility, that is, the people in the matchmaker shop have breakfast, and they have died before they can open for business. In that case, outsiders still think that the matchmaker shop is closed for business, who will smash the door to see the situation inside.

The more Zhang Runcheng thought about it, the more reasonable he felt, it seemed that it was no longer possible to expect someone to report the case naturally, and some means had to be used.

"Jiang Chong, I tell you one thing." Zhang Runcheng whispered a few words to his henchman Jiang Chong, Jiang Chong frowned and nodded. Zhang Runcheng sat in the back hall, waiting for someone to report the case.

Sure enough, after a while, someone finally came. The person who came was the proprietress of Liu Ji Inn, and I saw Aunt Liu running into the county office in a panic, because she ran too fast, her hair was a little scattered. Zhang Runcheng hurriedly went to the court, only to hear Aunt Liu say: "My lord, the big thing is not good, the matchmaker shop in the city is on fire, fortunately, the guys in each shop, and passers-by tried their best to splash water to save each other, and the fire has been extinguished, but, it's just, when we went in, we found it, and found ......."

Zhang Runcheng couldn't restrain himself anymore, and hurriedly asked, "Is it because of the fire, there are casualties?" ”

Aunt Liu shook her head, but said, "There were no casualties, because when we went in, there was no one in the shop at all." ”

"No one?" Zhang Runcheng seemed to be in disbelief, how could it be, how could there be no one?

I only heard Aunt Liu continue: "This is not the most important thing, because of the reason for the firefighting, the guys are tired and thirsty, but coincidentally, the adult's brother passed by here, also participated in the firefighting, and took the lead to run to the kitchen of the matchmaker's shop, scooped a scoop of water from the water tank to drink, the other guys have not yet started, but found that the adult's brother eyes are up, foaming at the mouth, the guys hurriedly went to ask the doctor to come, but the doctor said that he was poisoned, and there is no cure." In a short time, the adult's brother died of poison. ”

"What do you say? My brother, my brother he died? Zhang Runcheng's eyes widened in disbelief.

Aunt Liu snorted, and said, "It's true, my lord, go and take a look!" ”