Then he saw the woman, and wept and said, "The woman of the people is the wife of the deceased, and this is our son." Xiao Ming didn't kneel down for the adults quickly, and begged the adults to do their best to solve the case, so that they could pay for your father. ”

The little boy stood next to the woman, looked at Chen Shangshu and said, "This adult, as long as you can solve this case and avenge my father, I will give you a hundred kowtows." ”

Looking at the little boy standing aside and refusing to kowtow to himself, Chen Shangshu handed the horse into the hands of the guard, walked over and touched the little boy's head and said: "Little boy, even if you don't kowtow, I will handle the case impartially, I eat the emperor's food, I will definitely do things for the emperor, the emperor has ordered me to solve the case within a month, I think it won't take a month, I can solve the case, and then you can avenge your father." ”

The woman looked at Chen Shangshu and kowtowed three times in a row and said, "The woman has thanked Master Shangshu here." ”

"Hurry up and be the master of the people, it is within the duty of this official, and there is no need for such courtesy." Chen Shangshu said to the proprietress of the rice shop.

As soon as the proprietress of Mi Xing got up, she saw the little boy standing next to her and said: "I hope this adult is true to his word, and that Lord Su also swore that he would solve the case within two days when he came to handle the case, and it was not gone and disappeared." ”

"Xiao Ming must not be rude, how can Lord Shangshu compare with them, Lord Shangshu has always handled cases impartially and is a well-known Qing official." The proprietress reprimanded the little boy,

"Don't reprimand your child, it's those people who have betrayed the child's trust in them."

"My lord, I heard that something happened to the east side of the city? I wonder if it was a gang of thieves? The proprietress looked at Chen Shangshu and asked.

"It's not good to say, after all, we haven't checked the cause of another minister's death."

"Then please ask Lord Shangshu to check it carefully, and give me justice." The proprietress let Chen Shangshu and Qi Zuo and others into her rice shop.

After entering the rice shop, Chen Shangshu saw that there seemed to be a corpse on the ground in the center of the rice shop, covered with a white cloth, as if he was afraid of getting dust.

The proprietress pointed to the corpse and cried: "This is the corpse of the father-in-law, our family is fair and thrifty, and a little stingy, but he is never short of catties and short two, he is just stingy with himself, he suspects that the guys are stealing, so he guards the rice line, and the result is an accident, if he doesn't care enough to let the guys guard, it won't be this end." ”

"Madame's words are wrong, the lives of the guys are also their lives, and if they die, they should handle the case impartially. Regardless of the status of the deceased, whether they were born high or low. ”

"Your Excellency is right." The proprietress stepped aside.

He hurriedly stepped forward to uncover the white cloth on the deceased's body, and Chen Shangshu saw that the deceased had also been twisted and his neck was broken, and his death was miserable, with blood flowing from his mouth.

He looked at Chen Shangshu and said, "It seems that the modus operandi of the crime should have been committed by the same group." ”

"Your Excellency has found out that the murderer is his person?" The proprietress asked with concern.

"Well, it's just a suspicion, the case hasn't been decided yet, so it's hard to talk nonsense." Chen Shangshu said cautiously. You must know that in some cases, before the case is decided, it is absolutely impossible to reveal the rumors, and even if the case is decided, before the murderer is caught, the slightest bit of the case cannot be revealed, so as not to startle the snake.

Seeing that the lady was looking at it so seriously, the proprietress looked at Chen Shangshu and hesitated: "The woman has something, shouldn't she say it?" ”

"As long as it's strong on the case, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

The proprietress looked at the work and said in a low voice: "Originally, my father-in-law was still holding a black strip of cloth in his hand, which was taken away by the Su Governor's Mansion, saying that he wanted to check the cloth, but there has been no movement, I suspect that it was left by thieves." ”

As soon as Chen Shangshu heard that there was evidence, he hurriedly asked, "You mean that your family is a father-in-law, and there is evidence left?" ”

"Well, it's a strip of black cloth, like the corners of a night coat." The proprietress recalled.

"My lord, with the strip of cloth, we can take the strip of cloth to the cloth shop and ask who has come to the cloth shop to buy a large number of fabrics, so that we can follow the vine and catch the thief."

"What you said is very reasonable, we will go to the prefect's mansion now and ask for a strip of cloth."

The two rode to the prefect's mansion again, and when they heard that Chen Shangshu was visiting, the prefect of Su hurriedly came out to greet them.

After letting Chen Shangshu and Qi Zuo into the guest room, Su Zhifu looked at Chen Shangshu and said, "What is the matter with Lord Shangshu's visit, it can't be that my family Xiaoyue made some mistake in Shangshu Mansion!" ”

"Brother Su, where did you come from, Xiaoyue has been very peaceful in Shangshu Mansion recently, and there is nothing wrong with it, I came this time on the orders of the emperor to investigate the case."

Hearing him say that he came to investigate the case, Su Zhifu was stunned, thinking that the emperor had found out that he had colluded with the Flying Eagle Sect, and hurriedly asked: "Master Shang Shu investigated the case to my Su Mansion, is there someone in my Mansion who is committing a crime?" ”

Seeing that Su Zhifu was so excited, Chen Shangshu hurriedly explained: "Brother Su misunderstood, I came to the mansion to get something, not that someone in the mansion committed a crime. ”

"Take something, take something?"

"That's the case, the emperor ordered me to investigate the case of the murder of the boss of Mixing, I don't have a clue at all, I heard the boss lady say, Brother Su found a black cloth when he checked the scene last time, I want Brother Su to hand over the black cloth, I want to use this as evidence to continue the investigation." Chen Shangshu looked at Su Zhifu and said.

Seeing that Chen Qing wanted the black cloth, the prefect of Su was afraid that he would find out that it was the Flying Eagle Sect, so he hurriedly haha: "That black cloth seems to be where the master is,"

"No matter who or where he is, I hope that the Su Governor will hand him over, and we will use it to handle the case." Chen Shangshu looked at the Su prefect and said, he could see that this Su prefect was playing sloppy with himself, and he didn't want to hand over the black cloth.

Seeing that Chen Shangshu insisted on asking for the black cloth, Su Zhifu had no choice but to say to a servant beside him: "Ma Gang, you go and call the master to come over for questioning." ”

Not long ago, a person dressed as a master came to the guest room, and the prefect of Su glanced at the person and asked, "Master, the last time we were investigating the case in Mixing, did the deceased have a black cloth in his hand?" ”

"It seems that there is a piece, yes, there is a piece, and the subordinates also asked the proprietress to come as evidence, but the subordinates took the strip of cloth and asked the boss of the cloth shop everywhere, and they all said that it was just an ordinary cloth, which cloth shop has."

Hearing him say this, Chen Shangshu hurriedly said, "Where is the cloth now, quickly bring it to me." ”

I saw that the master grinned and said: "Seeing that it was an ordinary fabric, my subordinates thought that there was no need to keep it, so they threw it away." ”――

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