In the afternoon, Zhou Wenzong, the county commander of Juxian County, rushed to Songjiazhuang with the county lieutenant, the chief bookkeeper and more than a dozen officials. Song Jue, as the only Jinshi in Juxian County except for the county order, his father was actually poisoned, which is a big case. What's more, there was also a Lang Zhong and a Yahuan who died at the same time, and one person was missing (Qi'er). Such a case has never been a case in Juxian County since the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty. Therefore, Zhou Xianling did not dare to slack off.

Before the arrival of the people from the official mansion, Song Zheng quietly took out the poisonous mushroom and Zheng Feng's jade pendant from under his bed, stuffed the poisonous mushroom into Xiaolian's quilt, and placed the jade pendant next to the inconspicuous courtyard wall. For the real poisoners, Song Zheng knew that they must be the opponents of Old Man Gao, only they had such skills, they could climb over the wall without a sound and put arsenic into the medicine bag. However, the people in the government must not know the truth, so Old Man Song's nemesis will definitely be suspected. At that time, this jade pendant and poisonous mushroom will be discovered, Qian Youcai and Zheng Feng will be involved, and with "evidence", they don't even have an excuse to quibble, and they will be removed by the hands of the government, and they will have one less confidant. The death of Old Man Song and others made Song Zheng feel that his heart was much harder, and he began to deal with the enemy by unscrupulous means.

After Zhou Xianling and others arrived, he quickly found out that the three died of arsenic poisoning. The arsenic in Old Man Song was put down into the medicine bag, and there were traces of poison in the medicine pot. And arsenic was also found in the water tank of Dr. Gao's house. In addition, by the water tank of Dr. Gao's house, a talisman was also found, which read, "Remove quacks and drive away yin qi". The officials searched in great detail, and under a brick at the gate of the Song house, there was also a talisman pressed, which read, "Destroy the Song family, eliminate evil spirits". In addition, the poisonous mushrooms in Xiaolian's house and the jade pendant on the wall were also searched, and after questioning, the jade pendant was not the Song family's thing, and Xiaolian had never seen it worn. What's even more amazing is that at the bottom of the box where Xiaolian put her clothes, two taels of silver were found. The Song family is just an ordinary rich family, Xiaolian's monthly money is only thirty Wen, even if Xiaolian has not spent a penny in the four years since she came to the Song family, it is only more than one or two pieces of silver, so these two taels of silver are very doubtful. Only Song Zheng knew that these two taels of silver were given to Xiaolian by Zheng Feng.

All the above evidence made the case confusing for a while. The only certainty is that the three were poisoned with arsenic.

On this night, Zhou Wenzong began to try the case overnight. The big house behind the ancestral hall of the Song family, that is, the place where the upper clan studied, was cleared out and used as a public hall. Song Jue's usual lecture place became the seat of Zhou County's order, and a wooden block was placed on the table as a surprise wood. After inquiry, Zhou Wenzong knew that the Song and Qian families had enmity, and Qian Youcai was listed as the most important object of suspicion.

That night, the "makeshift courtroom" was brightly lit. Qian Youcai, who was still on the sickbed, was brought in, and his family, including the money cabinet, was driven to the court. Song Jue and Song Yu brothers, Song Zheng and Wu also came here as bitter masters. Because Song Jue is a jinshi, he can be exempted from kneeling, and the others all kneel. Outside the house, there were villagers from Songjiazhuang.

Qian Youcai knew that Song Xiang and others were poisoned, and his heart was extremely happy, and even his illness was more than half better. Qian Youcai was still celebrating with his family just now, but at this moment he was escorted to the court as a suspect.

Zhou Wenzong shouted: "Money is rich, Song Xiang, Gao Dafu, and Xiaolian were poisoned, but you instructed people to do it?" ”

Qian Youcai kowtowed like garlic, and shouted: "Little old man is wronged, although the villain is at odds with the Song family, he did not instruct others to harm him, and I hope that the county lord will be clear." ”

Zhou Wenzong asked people to take pen and ink, and he had a way to make money, "You write four words, Song, Medicine, Extinguishment, and Qi." "Money and wealth are unknown, so coincidentally, these words are relatively simple, and money and wealth can be written, so I trembled and wrote these words.

After Zhou Wenzong got the note written by Qian Youcai, compared it with the words on the two talismans, his eyes immediately widened, he slapped the shocked wood, and shouted: "You still don't admit it, do you have to use the punishment of this official?" What do you see this is? With that, he threw the two talismans on the ground.

Qian Youcai was immediately shocked when he saw it, that night, he obviously saw that the old Taoist of Qiankong had burned the talisman, why did he appear here now? At this moment, a servant came in from outside the house, handed over a paper bag to Zhou County, and whispered a few words in Zhou Wenzong's ear. Zhou Wenzong nodded, and shouted angrily at Qian Youcai: "Don't hurry up and recruit it!" ”

Qian Youcai shouted, "It's wronged," and then told the old story one by one. Song Zheng was also extremely frightened after listening to it, what a poisonous plan to plant blame, this fortune teller, first went to the rich man to lay out, and then went to the old man's house to scare the snake. After catching Old Man Gao and Xiaolian, they were poisoned, and they were sent back to Old Man Gao's house overnight, and then went to Song's house to poison them, and finally left clues that Qian Youcai committed the crime. If he hadn't known the inside story, he would almost have suspected that Qian Youcai instructed someone to do it.

After Zhou Wenzong listened to Qian Youcai's story, he sent two officials to the Yuelai Inn in Shishan Town overnight to get people. During this period, Qian Youcai also told him how Song Xiang "bullied", and the people of the Song family naturally refuted it. Song Jue is not good at words, Song Zheng is inconvenient to say, Song Yu and Wu have become the main force of the accusation.

At this time, two villagers came in and accused Qian Youcai of relying on his second son Qian Liangren to serve as a servant, running rampant in the township, forcibly buying and selling. A villager said that his family's 10 acres of land were bought by Qian Youcaiqiang, and he also took out the title deed, which said a total of 800 wen, with an average of 160 wen per mu, far lower than the market price of 300 wen per mu. Another villager complained that Qian Youcai used five acres of barren land to exchange his own five acres of fertile land, but he did not follow it, and Qian Youcai brought his second son to his house to threaten him.

Zhou Wenzong once accepted twenty taels of silver from the Qian family through an intermediary, and let Qian Liangren become a temporary servant. Although he had heard of Qian Liangren's evil deeds, he had to turn a blind eye because he had accepted the silver. After Qian Liangren became a servant, he became a small leader among the ruffians in Yingxian County, and he usually had a lot of filial piety, and Zhou Wenzong was even more embarrassed to take care of it. However, a few days ago, Zhou Wenzong got a hint from above and resigned Qian Liangren, and even returned a few dozen taels of silver. At this time, Zhou Wenzong "had a clear conscience". Seeing that the Qian family had committed such a big case, he couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he was fortunate to have resigned from this troublemaker, otherwise he might have been implicated.

After Qian Liangren was dismissed, some other local snakes in Yingxian saw that he had lost power, so they gathered a group of people to beat Qian Liangren violently. This is the scene where he limped back to Songjiazhuang.

At the time of the trial, the villagers watching outside the court had a lot of discussions, and they all fell to the Qian family. Zhou Wenzong ordered a servant to go out to investigate, and sure enough, he heard that Qian Youcai's family was notorious. Although Zhou Wenzong was greedy for money, he was only in his early thirties and had a great future. In order to be promoted as soon as possible and "seek welfare" for more toiling people, Zhou Wenzong has made up his mind to punish the Qian family in order to win the reputation of the great lord of the blue sky.

At this time, the official who went to Shishan Town came back and brought the owner of the Yuelai Inn. The shopkeeper said that the second room of Yuelai Inn has never lived in any fortune tellers, and there have only been two subordinates of a man in white in the past two days. Not only that, but the entire Yuelai Inn has never lived in any Taoist priests.

Hearing this, Qian Youcai and the others immediately looked like ashes. Song Zheng was interested, after the white-clothed boy and others transported the first part of King Lu's secret cache away, they must have come back to check the news of the other two secret caches. Since the fortune teller reported the name of "Yuelai Inn No. 2 Room", it is very likely that he is the same group as the boy in white. Are they the enemies of the old man? Why did they harm Old Man Song again? It seems that she has to ask Qi'er and ask her who her enemy is, so that she can get some truth.

Qian Youcai's family kowtowed again and again, shouting that they were wronged. Zhou Wenzong shouted: "What else do you have to say? ”

Qian Youcai said: "The villain did instruct someone to harm the Song family, but it was indeed not me who did the poisoning." Then Qian Youcai told Zheng Feng and Xiaolian about it, and there was an uproar in the court. Zhou County Commander hurriedly ordered the officials to arrest Zheng Feng, and within a quarter of an hour, Zheng Feng was brought to the court. Zheng Feng said that he hooked up with Xiaolian and became an adulterer, as well as hitting the little son of the Song family with a stone on the order of Qian Youcai, and asked Xiaolian to poison the old man Song and so on.

When it came to Song Xiaogongzi, he appeared. Song Zheng pointed at Zheng Feng and said angrily: "It turned out that you smashed me that day? If I hadn't managed to dodge, I would have been stoned to death by you. Then, Song Zheng bowed his hand to Zhou County Lingyi and said: "On the morning of August 18, the villain went to the big stone in the West Mountain to practice boxing, and suddenly a mountain rabbit jumped out from the side, which scared me. ”

At this time, Qian Youcai still kept kowtowing, and the ground was red with blood. Even so, Qian Youcai still shouted that he was wronged, and repeatedly insisted that he did not do the poisoning. Zhou Wenzong was quite annoyed when he saw him like this, and said loudly: "You still haven't recruited him from the truth, what do you think this is?" As he spoke, he threw down the paper bag that the official had just handed over. Qian Youcai opened it and saw that it was some brown powder, and asked suspiciously: "County master, the villain doesn't know." ”

Zhou Wenzong was extremely angry, squinted his eyes and said, "Then let me tell you, this is colored arsenic, which was searched from under the table in the main room of your house." It is exactly the same as the arsenic that poisoned Master Song. ”

When Qian Youcai heard this, he immediately knew that he had been harmed by Qiankongzi, so he sat back on the ground in shock, and said loudly: "Wronged, the villain once let that Qiankongzi rest in the main house for one night, and he must have put it there." It was the fortune teller who did it, and he fled. It's really none of the villain's business. (Welcome to collect, comment, ask for flowers)