39. Repentance
When he arrived at Yamen early in the morning, Cheng Lan heard about an amazing thing.
The eldest young master of Governor Zhang's family found a male corpse in an alley last night, and was directly frightened and fainted, and after waking up, he began to have a fever and talk nonsense, and he has not yet woken up.
And that's not even the surprise. The real striking thing about this is the identity of the male corpse.
The male corpse is a lifter, surnamed Qiu Songlian, who is the first place in this year's township exam.
This township test is only once every three years, and there are many talents who participate. This year, Qiu Songlian, among these many people, stood out and won the first place, and after reading the examination papers, the examiners praised him again and again, saying that his literary talent is very likely to be ranked in the hall examination.
But who knows, it was this very promising Qiu Juren, but after the trial list, he should have been proud, and when everyone was envious, he was killed.
The person who killed the person was also strange, after killing him elsewhere, he was also sent to the back of the stone in the alley and posed as a sitting face, if it weren't for this, the eldest young master of the Zhang Governor's family would not be so scared.
Why, to kill Qiu Juren, and why, to transfer the body, to place it like this, these are unknown.
It is said that Yang Zhutou was called back to the yamen in the middle of the night last night, and he has not returned home until now, and has been helping out at Governor Zhang's house.
I think I must have come to the prefect's house to be upset about this matter.
To say that this frightening disease, to such a delirious state, it is extremely difficult to recover, and it will take a while.
And after waking up, it is not certain whether there is a shadow in the heart.
Ordinary people are not as fast as catching heads, and when they see more of this kind of thing, they don't care too much. Most people, especially women, can go crazy if they are killed by a murder.
This eldest young master is also unlucky, how did he encounter this kind of thing?
Cheng Lan thought in his heart, the prefect of this case must have attached great importance to it, after all, it was this matter that scared his eldest son out of illness. And Yang Zhutou will definitely do it himself to investigate this case.
Since the last time Yang Zhutou said that he would take him, in the past few months, the two have also investigated several cases together. In this case, perhaps, Yang Zhutou will also hand over his assistance.
It should be helpful to have an early understanding.
And now Yang Zhutou is busy with the affairs of the prefect's family, and he can't take care of the case, so he can't be wrong to investigate it earlier.
Thinking so, Cheng Lan put down the other things in his hand and went to investigate the case.
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Let's talk about the prefect's house.
It's really cloudy.
Since Zhang Yunyong was taken back to the house, he has not been sober, and he is always shouting some nonsense.
What "What do you do?" "Don't follow me, go away!"
What "I don't do it again, help!" ”
His voice was panicked, but his eyes couldn't be opened, and the whole person was confused, who was still the high-spirited boy and brother before?
Governor Zhang only felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, and sighed.
Zhang Yunyong has a lot of responsibility for this.
Last night, the little guy sneakily went to the kitchen to find food, but he happened to be seen by Governor Zhang, who couldn't sleep and came out for a walk.
As soon as Governor Zhang saw that it was Yun Yong's personal servant, he rushed up and asked why he came to get food in the middle of the night.
The little guy was hesitant, and only said that the eldest young master was hungry and ordered him to come and get it.
Governor Zhang felt that the little guy replied very strangely, so he tried to force it violently, but he forced the truth out at once.
Knowing that Yun Yong was angry and spending the night outside, Governor Zhang was so angry that he ordered the little guy not to go out to give him clothes and food.
After the anger subsided, Governor Zhang regretted it a little, so he let the little guy go out with his things again.
As a result, after the little guy arrived in the middle of the street, he heard Zhang Yunyong's terrifying cry from a distance, and he was so frightened that he almost didn't pee his pants.
Later, he boldly stepped forward, and found the fainted Zhang Yunyong and the man's corpse.
He was still far away, he only screamed, and subconsciously wanted to escape, but he even crawled halfway away, remembering that he was afraid that Zhang Yunyong would blame, so he still went back, dragged Zhang Yunyong over, carried him back to the house, and informed Zhang Zhifu about the man's corpse.
Now that Governor Zhang is looking at Zhang Yunyong's state of confusion, how can he not feel pain in his heart?
If he hadn't scolded Zhang Yunyong, how could Zhang Yunyong go out for the night? If he hadn't told the little guy not to send him something, how could Zhang Yunyong be so frightened alone?
But now, it's useless to say anything.