There is half a box of ice cubes in the box, and the cold air will bubble up as soon as the box is opened. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Above the info ice cube is a corpse with a knife wound. Two boxes, a total of two corpses. Looking at the costumes, he is not like the people of the Ming Dynasty, but he is wearing the costumes of the Japanese people.

"This is what the 'Wako' captured when they entered the city?" Wang Shouren asked.

Master Lu replied: "Exactly." On the day when the 'Japanese Invaders' entered the city, the Lu family's old house was also attacked by a large number of 'Japanese Invaders', and their goal was very clear, not attacking the main gate, but attacking the back door. Not far from the back door, the back cover room is where the Lu family's silver vault is located. Fortunately, the servants were brave, risking their lives, and resolutely resisted, so that the enemy and the outside did not let the bandits rush into the mansion. ”

This is also the reason why Master Lu is dissatisfied with the Songjiang Prefect and the He family, if it is really a widow, how can he even find out the Lu family's silver treasury and come to rob it? It may be that the inner ghost colluded with the foreign thieves and plundered the rich households in Songjiang under the guise of "Japanese robbers". The two corpses of the "widows" hidden by the servants of the Lu family took advantage of the chaos also confirmed Master Lu's speculation.

The Yamen of the Songjiang Prefect did not think about solving the case and making meritorious contributions, but instead pushed the matter on the "Japanese Kou", and also bit the Shen family as a substitute for the dead ghosts, such a prefect is really intolerable. After Master Lu learned that Qin Cha had a good relationship with Wang Shouren, he came over to surrender as soon as possible.

Wang Shouren said to Zhang Yong: "I felt that it was wrong before, there is a garrison outside Songjiang City, and the prefect's yamen also has errands, even if the military and civilians have hundreds of casualties, they should have some gains, but the prefect of Zhao avoided mentioning this matter in his excerpts." ”

Zhang Yong nodded and asked Master Lu: "You are a local, and you have personally experienced the bandits, can you know the losses and gains of other people?" ”

Master Lu sighed and said: "This gangster is obviously prepared, the shops that are thriving on the street have been looted, and the few gentry houses in the city have also been attacked. Others don't know much, and my family Zhang family was broken in the silver treasury, losing more than 100,000 taels of gold and silver. Because there are many healthy servants in each family, and there are also loyal and fearless people who dare to fight for their lives with bandits, and they have also killed many bandits. Strangely, those bandits not only robbed the silver, but also the corpses of their companions. When I heard about this, I felt more and more strange, and when I asked the old man in the family to see it, I realized that something was wrong with the corpse, so I secretly hid the two corpses. ”

The Japanese people are different from the Ming people, they are short in stature, and because they are usually kneeling and sitting with thick legs, and the weapons are mostly knives, so the arms are developed, and the sun is strong on the island for a long time, and the face is mostly black and red, and there are sunspots on the cheeks. All of the above have become the characteristics of the Japanese Invaders. A few years ago, when there was a Japanese rebellion, all the thousands of households along the coast were found out after "killing the people and risking merit", because the Japanese people were different from the people of the Ming Dynasty.

In the early years of Songjiang, after a real Japanese rebellion, it was only the garrison and the prefect's yamen at that time who were able to kill many Japanese who went ashore and hung their corpses at the city gate to show the public, so the old people who had accumulated years had many impressions of the Japanese invaders.

Zhang Yong was accustomed to seeing life and death in the palace, and did not shy away from the corpse, remembering what Shen Rui said before, he called two guards to come in, carry the corpse out, and examine it in person.

The two corpses were not strong, but they were not as short as the Japanese people, and they were considered tall among the southerners, and both of them had thick calluses in the position of the tiger's mouth.

The corpse was dressed in a five-cent old robe, but the threads used to sew the clothes were new and not very old. Inside the Japanese clothes, it is a white coat of the Ming Dynasty, which has been washed with a few waters, and it should be worn ordinarily. Looking at the shoes of the two of them, they are not straw sandals that the Japanese are used to wearing, but Japanese slippers made of cloth belts.

Zhang Yong asked someone to take scissors, cut the slippers of one of the corpses, and opened the strip of cloth that had been wrapped before, and the inside was still newer than the outside. The old ones on the outside are intentional, and the horses on the inside are exposed.

Zhang Yong's face had already drooped, and these two corpses had proved that it was not the Japanese who entered the city to plunder at all, but the soldiers and bandits who pretended to be the Japanese invaders.

Thinking that King Ning secretly rubbed and raised soldiers, and he didn't know when he would raise the flag and rebel, Zhang Yong hated it so much.

Wang Shouren's expression is also very solemn, he used to study everywhere when he was a teenager, and he went to Jiangxi, where the literary style was at its peak.

In Jiangxi, Ning Fan has been operating for a hundred years, more than a dozen county palaces, and hundreds of generals' mansions have been sealed, and King Ning's line has firmly mastered Jiangxi. Just mastering the place, just a provincial place, is not worrying; The most worrying thing is that the scholars from Jiangxi.

Jiangxi is a large province of Jinshi, and the number of champions and Jinshi is tied for the first place with Zhejiang, which is more than Jiangsu. These people live in Jiangxi, if they really have an affair with King Ning's Mansion, it is really impossible to prevent it.

Master Lu watched carefully, but he didn't expect this "Master Zhang" to conduct an autopsy in person, and even found his clothes and shoes one by one, so carefully. It's just that this "Lord Zhang" seems to be of a high grade, and his official authority is very heavy, and his face drooped down, and he was a little frightened beside him.

Master Lu was still worried, Zhang Yong had already made an eyelid, looked at Master Lu, and said sharply: "Since you know that something is wrong, why don't you hand over these two corpses to the prefect's yamen, but hide them in private?" ”

Master Lu didn't expect Lord Qincha to suddenly change his face, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and he didn't dare to answer for a while, and couldn't help but look at Wang Shouren. Wang Shouren had calmed down, and looked at Master Lu with some encouragement.

Master Lu swallowed a mouthful of foam and said: "I didn't have the intention of hiding in the next place, I was going to send it to the prefect's yamen in person, but I didn't expect the prefect's yamen to then detain the children of the Shen family, the charges were far-fetched and contrary to common sense. It's just that he and the Shen family live in Songjiang, which has been adjacent for a hundred years, and they can't bear to suffer in vain for the Shen family, so they left these two corpses down just in case. ”

Zhang Yong picked the corner of his mouth and said: "Your family has been attacked, but the Shen family's old house is safe and sound, you suspect that there are internal ghosts, why don't you suspect the Shen family?" ”

Master Lu said: "If you go back to your lordship, you don't suspect the Shen family, because the old surname Songjiang knows that the richest people in the Shen family are the third and fifth rooms, not the sect house." When the old patriarch of the clan was alive, he loved to buy land; When the current patriarch takes care of the Shen family, he is still mainly buying land and property, and there are only a few shops under his name, and his floating wealth is limited. As for the three-room Shen family, it was notoriously wealthy in the past few years, but because several masters of the Shen family were divided in the past few years, the most capable masters were separated, some went to Guangzhou Mansion, some were in Beijing, and the three-room lord who stayed in Songjiang had a lot of family property, but last year's trading was divided into two families, and most of the family property was lost. As for the Shen family's five rooms, because the wife of the family is capable, she has accumulated a family business, but the two sons are in Beijing, the officials are officials, and the students are studying, only the second son returns to his hometown to keep his business, and when his wife and children are kidnapped and extorted, all the cash that can be used is used, and naturally there is no need to rob. Speaking of this, he paused and said: "It is precisely because of this that the next conjecture is more and more confirmed, those bandits who entered the city to loot should be a group of people who kidnapped Shen Qi's wife and children and kidnapped Shen Dong, the head of the Shen family's sect. ”

Other people's families are just lost money, but the Shen family is the sect's house, the fifth room has lost the population, the sixth room has died of the housemother, and the seventh room has died of the old lady, in this case, Zhao Xianzhong also accused the Shen family, and the He family has to "fall into the well", no wonder people like Master Lu, who have always been kind to others and do not participate in the battles of various families, can't see it, and want to stand on the side of the Shen family.

Zhang Yong asked everything he should have asked, and glanced at the two boxes.

It's the height of summer, and it's only two quarters of an hour's work, and a lot of water has been melted. Such key evidence should have been handed over to the prefect's yamen, but Zhang Yongshi couldn't trust Zhao Xianzhong, so he said to Master Lu: "Lord Wang and I will stay in Songjiang for a few days, you can carry these two boxes back first, so that you can keep them." When we return to Beijing, we will take it to Beijing. Your credit for preserving the evidence will be remembered by Lord Wang and I. Even the Shen family's side, I will be grateful for your help when I think about it. ”

Master Lu knew that this "surrender" was okay, and he was excited, so he was busy, and he didn't dare to be verbose, so he left in a hurry with a few henchmen.

Zhang Yong and Wang Shouren returned to the next room, Zhang Yong frowned and said: "Lord Wang, even a squire can find out that the 'rebellion' is wrong, Zhao Xianzhong really doesn't know anything?" Or has he been dragged into the water by King Ning, deliberately confusing the public and covering up for Ning Fan's retrograde? ”

Because the eunuch lost his rigidity, he had a little more femininity, and he was easily sensitive and suspicious, Zhang Yong asked Wang Shouren like this in his mouth, and his suspicion of Zhao Xianzhong in his heart was already seven or eight points.

Wang Shouren thought of the prefect's staff "Yan Juren" mentioned by Shen Rui, if that person was really King Ning's secret line in Songjiang, then the prefect of Songjiang would be deceived even if he did not surrender to the thief. But the prefect of Songjiang is a protégé of Li Dongyang and Li Gelao, and the backers of the court and the central government are tough, so there is really no reason to vote for King Ning. Thinking of this, Wang Shouren said: "I still remember the resume of Governor Zhao, the county is Fujian, and the governor is Zhejiang, and he has not been an official in Jiangxi. ”

Zhang Yong took the account book and said, "What if you don't be an official in Jiangxi?" With such a rich wolf heart, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, I can't even lose my ancestors, can I still remember to be loyal to the monarch and patriotic? ”

Outside the city, Xiaozhuang.

Shen Rui had already arrived with the Jinyi Guard, and it was one of Shen Rui's entourages who guarded Shen Zhu.

This person didn't treat Shen Zhu roughly, but just listened to Shen Rui's arrangement, locked Shen Zhu in a small dark room, and then kept chanting a few words from Shen Rui outside.

In the small dark room, there is a urine bucket, and three meals a day are also sent in through a small window. Xu Shenzhu eats, but he is not allowed to sleep, which is also specially ordered by Shen Rui.

After two days and nights, Shen Zhu's spirit has reached its limit.

When Shen Rui was taken to the living room by the long entourage, he looked haggard and unbearable, he didn't care about the presence of others, his face was pale, his eyes were red, and he cried bitterly at Shen Rui and said: "Brother Rui, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have been vain for a while and got on someone else's ship, I shouldn't have praised the Shen family in front of outsiders, and I caused disaster to the Shen family, it's all my fault!" I am a sinner of the Shen family. I'm sorry for the eldest sister-in-law in the sixth room, I'm sorry for the old lady in the eighth room, I'm sorry for the little brother in the sect's room, and I'm sorry for the second sister-in-law in the fifth room......"

A look of misbefriending a bad guy and regretting it was completely displayed in front of Jinyiwei's eyes.

Shen Rui's eyes sank, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

After talking to Shen Zhu the day before yesterday, Shen Rui was thinking about what to do to eliminate the troubles, and this active friendship and misfriendship are two concepts. He didn't do this to help Shen Zhu, but he didn't want Shen Zhu to become the shortcomings of the Shen family, so that people could use the topic to play. But with Shen Rui's temperament, he really can't do it to the point of killing people and destroying mouths, and he also knows that at this time, the Shen family is being watched by the four rooms, and he can't "kill people and kill people".

Shen Rui thought of a way, ordered someone to lock up Shen Zhu's small black room, and brainwashed him day and night, talking about the death of several clan elders, and saying that Shen Dong and Shen Qi's wife and children were missing.

Shen Zhu is not a crazy person, he has long had a sense of self-blame, and he was tortured for two days and nights, where is the spirit still resisting? Perhaps he was also exonerating himself in his heart, so the joy of being favored by the nobles and the hostility towards other houses were left behind, leaving only the "truth" that he was deceived and deceived......