The warm winter sun hangs high in the sky, illuminating a small mound on the eastern outskirts of Bianjing City. At this time, there were 100 officers and soldiers around this originally untouched mound, they were the men and horses of the Kaifeng Mansion, and the leader was Xue Yuanpeng, who was sentenced by the government government.

On the mound, a piece of mud has been dug up, digging out a big pit two or three zhang square, and the faces of these people around the pit are a little pale, and Xue Tongju's face is even more sunk. Just because there were seven or eight corpses buried in that pit, it was shocking.

In fact, it's not just them, it's because Sun Tu, who knows that there is this result, is also in a heavy mood at this time, as long as he is a normal person, he will feel sad and resentful after seeing the bones of so many people who died in vain.

In the eyes of some people in later generations, the Great Song Dynasty was a prosperous era of literati and an enlightened world that countless people yearned for, and it was their best choice to travel here. But the truth is far from the case, perhaps the Great Song Dynasty was indeed prosperous, and the status of the literati was much higher than that of other dynasties, but these benefits only belonged to the scholars and doctors, and for the real low-level people, their lives were still difficult, and it could even be said that they were precarious.

What happened to Sun Tu in Yuncheng County at the beginning is enough to explain everything, and the bodies of the innocent victims buried on this barren mountain today are even more bloody to show the true and ugly face of the Great Song Dynasty. He believes that this is just the tip of the iceberg, in Bianjing City, in the whole world, how many unjust souls have been buried deep and cannot be redressed, but what can he do for these people?

After being silent for a long time, Sun Tucai looked at Xue Yuanpeng: "Xue Tong's sentence, this time it can be regarded as conclusive evidence of the crime, right?" ”

Not long ago, in the second hall of the Kaifeng Mansion, when Xue Yuanpeng threw out evidence to exonerate the defendant Zhang Bingcang, Sun Tu pushed Zhang Jian, who had been standing behind the crowd, out, and then asked him to tell everything he knew.

After some struggle, Zhang Jian finally confessed truthfully: "My master has indeed disposed of some disobedient slaves in the house in recent years......"

"Zhang Jian, as a slave of the Zhang family, do you know that this is a felony committed by the following crimes?" Xue Yuanpeng's heart sank, and he suddenly reminded the other party.

But at this time, Zhang Jian had no way out, even if he knew that he would be implicated this time, he could only continue: "The little one knows, but after all, this matter is related to several lives, and the villain has to seek justice for them." ”

"There is no basis for what you say, it is impossible for this official to conclude that Zhang Bingcang has indeed killed people because of your one-sided words."

"There is also conclusive physical evidence in the small ones." Zhang Jian immediately replied: "A few months ago, my son-in-law asked me to secretly send the body of a foreign merchant who died drunk in the Niulou Hotel out of the city to be buried. The small one also found the remains of other buried people there. ”

"What? Where is that? This time, Xue Yuanpeng was not good at maintaining Zhang Bingcang anymore, so he immediately asked urgently. Zhang Jian hesitated for a moment, and then said abruptly: "On a small mound in the eastern suburbs that has been abandoned for many years......

Sun Tu listened to the two of them with a cold face, and he also sighed in his heart. In fact, he originally just wanted to gain Tong Guan's attention by dealing with the Zhang family, and he never meant to kill them all. But in the subsequent secret investigation, he gradually discovered such a careless and lifeless affair that the Zhang family had done behind his back.

It wasn't until this time that he knew that the sanctimonious Tobe Langzhong was completely a cold-blooded well-dressed beast! This naturally strengthened his desire to eradicate this fang and avenge the innocent victims. In this way, he had a series of layouts and calculations after that, which not only ruined Zhang Bingcang's future and the lives of his two sons, but also wanted to send him to the prison of Kaifeng Mansion.

Now that Zhang Jian has already said this, Xue Yuanpeng naturally does not want to defend Zhang Bingcang, an old colleague. Not to mention that there is a Tong Guan behind Sun Tu, just the actions of those bitter masters beating the drums of grievances outside the mansion just now are enough to attract people's attention, and it is not something he can cover up.

So, after some weighing, Xue Tongju ordered people and horses, took Sun Tu and Zhang Jian straight to the eastern suburbs, and under the guidance of the latter, dug up the corpses in this place.

At this time, hearing Sun Tu's inquiry, Xue Tongju's face became more and more gloomy, but he still nodded and said, "Yes, this time it is indeed conclusive." There are not only human witnesses, but also physical evidence. Come, invite these corpses out, and bring them back to the government for those sufferers to identify. ”

However, this practice is obviously redundant, because most of the corpses in this pit have become white bones, and even the latest one is so decomposed that it is impossible to recognize its appearance. When Xue Yuanpeng brought someone to send the corpse to the second hall of the government for the sufferers to identify, they just cried and shouted injustice, but they couldn't recognize which corpse was their children and wives.

In view of this, the following officials secretly said: "General judgment, there is still room for change in this matter, the identities of these people are undecided, and they can be so sure that they are the slaves of the Zhang family?" Moreover, that Zhang Jian can be more suspicious, it is better to ...... "This is to make Zhang Jian a scapegoat."

Although Xue Yuanpeng didn't despise Zhang Bingcang's actions, after all, he was an official in the same dynasty, and he was targeted by Tong Guan's people, so he had the heart to help him, so he wanted to accept this statement. But at this moment, Sun Tu came out to stir up the situation again, as if he had already guessed that the other party would say this, and he said again: "Xue Tongju, why don't you send someone to arrest the mastermind and murderer soon?" ”

"There are still some doubts in this case that need to be resolved, how can you conclude that these people must be related to the Zhang family?"

"It's very simple, because the mound is the property of the Zhang family." Sun Tu quickly replied: "This point can be known as long as Xue Tong investigates. And why did the Zhang family keep such a mound for many years but not use it for other purposes, let alone sell it, I don't need to say more, right? ”

This time, even the last point of the back road that could exonerate Zhang Bingcang was blocked, and Xue Yuanpeng could only order with a black face: "Come on, you bring people and go to Zhang's house, and bring Zhang Bingcang and all the stewards in the family to the government for inquiry." ”

It wasn't until he heard an order that Sun Tu finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the person was taken into Kaifeng Mansion, in front of such conclusive human and material evidence, Zhang Bingcang would definitely have no chance of getting away with it. And those bitter plaintiffs once again let out a loud cry of grief, and at the same time, they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed, calling Xue Yuanpeng Qingtian.

There is no impermeable wall in the city of Tokyo, and in just two or three days, the news that Zhang Bingcang was arrested by the Kaifeng Mansion for his crimes spread among the government and the opposition.

Originally, the Zhang family had attracted everyone's attention because of the bizarre case before, and now there is such a horrific murder case, which is naturally constantly discussed by many people. For a while, the comments that were still somewhat sympathetic to him immediately turned into a one-sided scolding and crusade, and even the colleagues of the DPRK and China did not dare to defend them in the face of public anger, but wanted to impeach them and ask the Son of Heaven to severely punish such murderers.

And as the leader of all this, uncovering the ugly face of the Zhang family, Sun Tu has once again entered the eyes of many people, after knowing some of the connections between him and Tong Guan, it is easy for the officials of the DPRK and China to think about this series of things on the contradiction between Zhang Bingcang and Tong Guan, and at the same time they are jealous of this favorite minister of the Son of Heaven, they also have a disgust for Sun Tu, the cloth.

Of course, these are just the opinions of the court officials about him, but among the people, Sun Tu's reputation is very good, because this time he has presided over justice for the people, and in their eyes he is a true hero who is eager for justice and righteousness.

The opinions of the outside world can no longer affect Sun Tu at this time, after he completely solved the matter of the Zhang family, he returned to live a somewhat boring life of practicing words and martial arts, after all, it is not far from the shooting test court that is related to his own future, after seeing the tragic results of those people, he is more and more eager to change Bai Ding's identity.

However, just a few days before the Chinese New Year, when everyone thought that Zhang Bingcang's case would have to be dragged out until the end of the year, a news suddenly came out that the suspect Zhang Bingcang actually committed suicide with his belt hanging from the beam in prison!

When many people heard about this result, they just applauded it, thinking that he was to blame, and even Sun Tu thought that this was a reward for good and evil when he first heard about it. But after calming down and thinking about it, he tasted the deeper problem.

I'm afraid that Zhang Bingcang's death has another mystery - because he died too quickly, and now that the case has not been completely concluded, isn't his death directly confessing to the crime? This person has been in the officialdom for many years, how can his psychological quality be so poor, and he will commit suicide in fear after only a few court trials?

Moreover, with the court's favoritism towards scholars now, even if everything is really ascertained, he may not necessarily die. After all, it was just some slaves who died, and in the eyes of those people, their lives were nothing at all, even if they were hindered by public opinion, at most they would be sent to the outskirts, so Zhang Bingcang was not in a desperate situation of death at all, why did he commit suicide?

The only explanation is that someone wants him dead. I am afraid that if the case is investigated in depth, it will lead to other more terrible problems and implicate the interests of some people, so that some people will come forward in secret, or directly kill him, or indirectly force Zhang Bingcang to die.

Thinking of this layer, Sun Tu no longer had the joy he had before, but instead thought deeply. The darkness of this Great Song Dynasty is far more terrifying than he thought, and he must be more careful in his actions in the future!

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