The whistle sounded in another iron prison, and after turning a few steps down the road, you could see that the iron gate was wide open, and the chaotic crowd was still coming!

"Don't mess around!"

Guangsheng shouted angrily, this is due to the mention of internal force, everyone only felt a buzzing in their ears, and they couldn't help but stop.

"Who blew the whistle and what happened?"

A trembling voice sounded in the darkness, "It's a humble duty. ”

Guangsheng lit the fire, and the moment the light brightened, he saw a familiar face - Li Sheng?!

"Your Excellency...... It's me who has an accident! ”

Li Sheng hung his head and shrank as the firelight illuminated the large prison behind him, and a person fell on a simple wooden chair on the ground, his body unnaturally stiff and drooping.

It's the stone inspection!

Guangsheng's pupils contracted instantly: one of the three important criminals actually died!

The rank of the patrol officer is only nine grades, which can be said to be a sesame mung bean official, but he is in charge of the traffic exchanges between various towns and cities and key points of the passes, and his authority is not small. The Jiangning County under the jurisdiction of Ying Tianfu, which is under the control of this stone inspection, can be said to be covered with cobwebs on waterways and mountain roads, and he is also a snake who has fished enough.

There are only three key criminals in Jinyiwei's hands, among which Captain Yan was tricked into confessing by Guangsheng and pulled out Yue Xianglou, but the clues were cut off because of a fire, and the remaining Boss Huang did not enter, but Guangsheng also had a way to make him open his mouth - only this stone inspection was left, which was interrogated by Li Sheng and the two captains.

It's not that this person is not taken seriously, but as soon as Guangsheng started to interrogate, he felt that this Shi was quite slippery - as soon as he heard that the customs clearance document he sent out had caused a big incident, he shook his fat face, and almost fainted with fright, but after being kicked twice by the soldiers, his eyes were blank, and he approached Guangsheng and said, "Can you take a step to speak?" ”

Guangsheng didn't want to pay attention to his sneaky appearance. The stone inspector glanced at the soldiers guarding the left and right, and came up with an extremely flexible and flattering attitude and whispered: "The business of customs clearance paperwork is not done by the subordinate officials alone......

He wanted to go on again, Guangsheng had already understood, and directly handed over the person to Li Sheng, and instructed: "Who are the people involved in this business, let him confess one by one, and you can continue to investigate." ”

In the next three days, he opened his hand and let Li Sheng and them play freely, but who knew that until now, Shi Inspector suddenly became a corpse in the edict prison!

Although Li Sheng is not very old, he is a hereditary Jinyi Wei family. His face turned pale, knowing that this matter was not trivial, and a dereliction of duty and incompetence was enough to ruin his future, and he said in a trembling voice: "The three lowly officials were asking him just now, and they didn't use the punishment or anything, and he suddenly vomited black blood and fell headlong!" ”

Guangsheng peeled off the corpse's clothes, saw that there were indeed no fresh wounds on the chest and other vital points, and dipped the blood stains to observe carefully. After a detailed examination, everyone said: "Death by poisoning!" ”

He also pulled his tongue out of the deceased's mouth with small iron tongs, and saw that there was a black blood mark at the junction between the base of the tongue and the throat bone, and he opened his eyelids to see the blood spots and pupils. confirmed: "I was fed poison, and the next moment I ate it, the poison was all over my body!" ”

Li Sheng's face turned even paler, his eyes stayed on the large porcelain teapot beside the table, and Guangsheng felt the change in his eyes. stepped forward and lifted the teapot and shook it, but there was nothing left!

Li Sheng's eyes wandered, and he hesitated to report: "He shouted thirsty." I gave him a drink, including what we drank, it was all from this teapot, it couldn't be poisonous! ”

Guangsheng's brows furrowed even deeper, and he suddenly walked in front of him, grabbed his collar, and said coldly: "If you are a man, just finish your words - Jinyiwei is not a coward of the Hanlin Academy, and there is no room for cowards who prevaricate!" ”

Li Sheng was scolded by him so badly, his face turned purple and red in shame, and he became fluent in his heart, "He said he wanted to drink tea, but he just didn't tell the truth, and my lord, you ordered him not to be tortured, so I forced him to swallow the whole pot of tea residue!" ”

He finally told the truth, and the two lieutenants on the side also lowered their heads.

There are many ruthless and bloodthirsty people among the Jinyi guards, and even take pleasure in torturing and punishing prisoners, this stone inspector is cunning, asking for a long time is nonsense, and he likes to climb the relationship between the military department and the household department, which has already aroused the anger of the three of them, and when he drinks tea, he salivates and wants to drink it, Li Sheng on a whim, he simply forced him to swallow tea residue, seeing that he shrunk his neck and choked and rolled his eyes, and the three of them all laughed forward and backwards.

The so-called happiness is sad, and the next moment, Shi Inspector rolled his eyes and shouted, vomited blood and fell to the ground, and then he was out of breath - the three of them suddenly felt that the top of the dark cloud was crumbling.

"Just、Even if the tea leaves are poisonous, we drank it, how could we-"

Guangsheng shook his hand to stop Li Sheng's chatter in despair, he carefully examined the teapot, and then sniffed the breath in the corpse's mouth, and his eyes fell on one point-

"Soak his hands in water and grind poison."

At the sound of the order, although the medicine doctor and others did not understand what they meant, they still did it, and the water basin was rippling, and after adding the poison test powder, black smoke began to emit!

"The water is poisonous!"

Amid the exclamations of the crowd, Guangsheng pointed to the deceased's right hand and asked, "What did he take before?" ”

Li Sheng recalled: "I threw him the account book of the Inspection Division and asked him to explain one by one, and he took it and flipped through it——"

He Huo Ran understood, jumped to his feet and said, "There is something wrong with this account book!" ”

It was another period of chaos, and the account book was really found to be poisonous, and Shi Inspector usually has a vulgar habit of turning books while dipping his saliva, but this time it has become a talisman for him to go to hell!

Looking at Li Sheng and the others who were sweating profusely, Guangsheng smiled slightly, and said coldly: "The three of you have neglected your duties and abused lynching, and you will all give me twenty military sticks for myself!" ”

The three of them knew that they were wrong, so they didn't dare to say a word, so they obediently went out and received the military stick, and walked back with a limp, Guangsheng continued: "You will be fined half a year's salary, and you will make up for your mistakes and be responsible for tracking down the account books, are you convinced?" ”

"Obey the orders of your lord, and swear to complete the task to the death!"

The three of them bowed their heads and agreed, and when they got up from the ground, their eyes flashed like eagles, and they didn't say anything, but they were all eager to wash away the shame of this time with actions!

Li Sheng whispered to the other two: "I will take someone to inspect the Yamen, you will divide into two ways, one will go to his house to report and search, and the other will go to the street to investigate who he usually interacts with!" ”

****

The embroidery lane near the Qinhuai River is not far from the Wanhualou, scattered to live some prostitute female apartments, the third family inside is planted with apricot blossoms in the courtyard, at this time the spring is blooming, but it is full of new green and stamen, it looks bright and elegant.

But a fierce movement was breaking out in the main room—

A beautiful woman of twenty-eight or nineteen years old was hurriedly directing the two maids to pack up the precious and soft, she was dressed in a silver-red silk moire gown, covered with a thick and light snow satin gown, her hair was not combed, and it was scattered straight down like a black silk, her wrists were jingling with four or five gold and jade bracelets, and the bright rubies on her ears looked a little dazzling.

"Hurry up, that plague man who killed a thousand knives has been arrested, we can't stay in Jingshi, we have to flee quickly!"

She urged the maids, but she almost cried, "Why am I so miserable, I finally found a backer and a way for my sister, I just handed in good luck, but I ended up messing with Jinyiwei!" ”

"Mom, it's not good, my sister is crying and going to die!!"

A little maid ran in to report but tripped over the threshold.

Although the bustard's mother is no longer young, she is still beautiful, she glared, and suddenly her face was full of power, and she became like a dominatrix, "She wants to die, let her die, jump into the well and drink medicine casually, and then rub it down, just wait to be sold to the inferior kiln and sleep into a piece of rotten meat!" ”

At this time, the whining cry in the west room was even louder, and seeing that no one paid attention to it, he simply took the porcelain in the room to vent his anger, and the sound of clanging continued to be in his ears.

"Little hooves are really dead!"

The bustard's mother was so angry that her eyebrows were upside down, and at this time she felt that it was simply self-inflicted hardship to choose such a beautiful and brainless daughter to be popular and entertaining.

Seeing that her mother was silent, she began to whimper and scold while crying, saying how she was so thin, how ruthless her mother was, and she obviously had a lover who was a husband of Hanlin Xianggong, but she forced her to serve the vulgar guests of the stone inspection, and now that something happened, her mother was going to run away again, and she was really worse than dead.

The bustard's mother was so angry that she wanted to rush out of the gang to get this little white-eyed wolf out of theory, but she felt that time was pressing, and shouted: "My little aunt and grandmother, if you don't leave, you will really die!" ”

The next moment, I heard the door of the courtyard clang, as if someone had kicked it open, but the guarding turtle guard courtyard was silent at all, and the bustard mother fell to the ground as soon as her feet were weak - this time it was really an official to arrest someone.

After a while, the curtain of the main house was lifted, and what appeared in front of her was a gorgeous and bright face, looking at her with a smile, condescending but extremely natural.

Behind her, four men and four women followed, all silent, as if they were ghosts.

"It's the palace sister of Wanhualou!"

The bustard's mother shouted in a lost voice - the Qinglou industry has its own rules and power distribution, although Gong Yuchun is one or two years younger than her, she must be called the eldest sister.

"Yo, isn't this the Qin family's brother and sister, do you want to move?"

Gong Yujun teased.

The bustard's mother forced a smile and asked, "Why is Sister Gong here?" ”

Gong Yuchun snorted and laughed, "Sister Qin, you are really funny, the incident of your family's stone inspection has happened, and the government is looking for a murderer in the Manchu world!" ”

"Kill, kill whom?"

The bustard mother was frightened again, but she felt that her tongue was not flexible.

"Why bother pretending to be garlic again, Shi Xunjian has just been poisoned in prison, and it is said that the poison is in the account book kept close to him - your daughter can't escape the charge of murdering his benefactor!" (To be continued......)