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Since Hua Qingping, the magistrate of Yincheng County, was assassinated, he was also protected by the Pingxi Army. Cui Feng, the commander of the Pingxi Army, personally brought Zhong Hao and Xu Tuiguan and a number of state officials to come, and naturally went straight to the back office of the Yincheng County Ya, where Huazhi County lived, without hindrance.

The front office of this Yincheng County is a little dilapidated, but this back office has no winter, especially the courtyard where Huazhi County lives, it is really not small, and the flowers and trees in the courtyard are luxuriant, the rockery pond is complete, and it is really good to take care of.

The civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty are basically liuguan, and there has always been a rule of "not cultivating for officials". However, it is true that there is this rule of "not repairing the government for the officials", but this is only limited to the front of the official office, and the civil officials are still well taken care of by the back office where they live. The civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty are very high, and these civil officials still know how to enjoy it, so even in this bitter cold land in the northwest, they will not treat themselves too badly. Doing things for the country is doing things, but you can't delay the enjoyment of life.

In fact, Zhong Hao has also been to Yincheng County before! A few years ago, when he was presiding over Jingqiang Village, he once came to Yincheng County to visit Cheng Zicai, the former magistrate of Yincheng County. That Cheng Zhixian has been in Yincheng County for many years, and he has not been promoted or transferred. Cheng Zhixian was old, and seeing that his career was hopeless, he asked for Zhishi last year.

Now the assassinated Huazhi County only took office last year, according to Cui Feng on the road, this Huazhi County is still a Jinshi, and he is only in his thirties, which is the time of his prime.

In the past, there were very few civil officials from Jinshi in border prefectures and counties like Yincheng County, and everyone was reluctant to come to this bitter cold place. This Huazhi County was born as a Jinshi, and he was still in the prime of life, and his previous political achievements were quite outstanding, if it was according to the previous practice, the imperial court would never let him come to a border state like Yincheng County.

In Zhong Hao's opinion, Wang gradually did not deceive himself, the imperial court really exerted its strength on this northwest, otherwise it would not have sent a young and powerful civil official like Huazhi County to Hexi.

In the past, when Cheng Zhixian was in Yincheng County, he was the only official civil official in this county, and there were several economic officials. But now in addition to Hua Qingping, the magistrate of Yincheng County, there is also a county lieutenant, and it can also be seen from this that the imperial court has begun to exert force on the management of this land of Linzhou.

This Yincheng county lieutenant's surname is Cao Mingjian, and when this Cao county lieutenant saw that Cui Feng finally came with Zhong Hao and Xu Tuiguan, the state officials, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At that moment, the county lieutenant Cao briefly explained the case to Zhong Hao and Xu Tuiguan, and then led Zhong Hao, Zhong Hao and Xu Tuiguan to the scene of the crime, that is, the inner room of Huazhi County's residence.

Zhong Hao and Xu Tuiguan went to the inner room of the living room in Huazhi County, and saw that the scene of the murder in Qizhi County was well preserved. It seems that this Cao County Lieutenant also knew that the county magistrate of this county was killed, which is not trivial, because he did not dare to let people easily move the scene of this crime.

Zhong Hao and Xu Tuiguan came to investigate the case on behalf of the state government, and they could not only listen to the report of Cao County Lieutenant, but naturally they also had to investigate on the spot.

At that moment, Zhong Hao and Xu Tuiguan entered the inner room of the living room in Huazhi County and took a closer look!

Nothing at the scene of this crime has been moved, and this Huazhi Prefecture has not been moved for the time being since it was killed. Zhong Hao and Xu Tuiguan stepped forward to check, only to see that Hua Zhixian was dressed neatly, with a blood hole in his left chest, sitting paralyzed on the edge of the bed, his eyes were wide open, with incredible surprise in his eyes, and there was a large pool of dried blood under his body. The scene of the assassination in this room is not too obvious that there are no traces of a fight, and there is no mess in the room.

According to Cao County's lieutenant, according to what he learned, it is very likely that this Huazhi County was assassinated by Western Xia spies.

At that moment, the county lieutenant Cao was recounting the response he did after he knew that their Yincheng magistrate was assassinated.

After Huazhi County was assassinated, Cao County Lieutenant and Cui Feng immediately imposed martial law on Yincheng County, and at the same time, the Yincheng County Government protected and controlled it, and briefly interrogated a cadre in the Huazhi County Court.

According to the interrogation of Cao County, Huazhi County has a wife and a concubine, and the house where Huazhi County was stabbed is the living place of Huazhi County's wife, Qi. Huazhi County rarely came to Qi's room to sleep, and most of the time he would sleep in the room of his concubine Feng.

Huazhi County generally gets up every day within this half hour, and the first half hour is used to wash and eat, and then go to the county government to order Mao.

Because Huazhi County is in the prime of life and energetic, it is more rigorous in its governance, and it will be on time every day in the second hall of the county government.

The maids in the inner house of Huazhi County all slept in the outer side compartment of the housemaster's room all night, in case the master summoned them at night. The maids on duty usually get up early at the third quarter of the first month, ready to wait for the master to get up, and summon them to serve at any time.

According to the maids, the Qi family has the habit of getting up early to worship the Buddha, and this morning Mrs. Qi Yin is going out at two o'clock, saying that Huazhi County slept late last night, a little tired, and may get up late.

According to the maids, Huazhi County got up at the third moment of Yinzheng, because at that time Huazhi County asked the maids to prepare warm water for food and clean noodles. But after the maids were ready, Huazhi County never summoned them to serve.

The maids waited until the second quarter of the first month, Huazhi County still did not let them in to serve, the maids were afraid that Huazhi County would delay the time of the Shangya, so they dared to enter the room and shouted Huazhi County to get up, but they did not expect that as soon as they came in, they saw that Huazhi County had been killed.

It seems that Huazhi County should have been killed within three quarters of an hour from the third quarter of Yinzheng to the second quarter of Mao. If the time period is more accurate, it should be within these three moments, and the maids were killed in the short time when they left the outside world to prepare for food!

Zhong Hao and Xu Tuiguan took a closer look at Huazhi County's room, and there were no obvious traces of a fight at the scene, this assassin should have been unable to resist after stabbing Huazhi County, so it didn't happen in Dadu.

The assassin should have driven directly to Huazhi County's bedroom after Qi and the maids left, and when Huazhi County did not react, he stabbed him to death in the chest, and calmly wrote the four big words "revenge" on his clothes, so he quickly escaped, this ...... It seems that only people with very strong martial arts can do it.

Zhong Hao looked at the murder weapon handed over by Cao County Lieutenant with a white cloth, a very ordinary dagger, and picked up the corpse grid filled in carefully and looked at it carefully.

According to the account of the county lieutenant Cao on the side, these Western Xia spies did seem to have a motive to kill Huazhi County. Because not long ago, Huazhi County led people to capture a group of Western Xia spies hiding in Yincheng County, and destroyed a stronghold of the Xixia people in Yincheng County!

Moreover, these Western Xia spies who were captured by Huazhi County were persuaded to be beheaded by Huazhi County, so if there were escaped Western Xia spies who hated Huazhi County so much that they assassinated him, it would not be an exaggeration.

And the scene shows that it seems that it is really the Western Xia spies seeking revenge and assassinating Huazhi County!

Zhong Hao listened to the report of Cao County, and after inspecting the scene, he had no clue for a while, and asked Xu Tuiguan's opinion at the moment, Xu Tuiguan shook his head, saying that he couldn't see the clue for a while.

Xu Tuiguan is also a scholar, although he is in this position, but in fact, he is not very proficient in the matter of criminal names, or it can be said that he does not understand at all. When Xu Tuiguan used to study, he naturally read the books of sages, and he hadn't read much of this kind of miscellaneous books on criminal names, so he was naturally a little powerless about this investigation and judgment of the case.

Moreover, Xu Tuiguan saw Zhong Hao's prestige at the city gate, and had already made up his mind to take Zhong Hao's horse head and listen to Zhong Hao's orders. Not only this investigation, but also various things in Linzhou in the future, he also plans to follow in Zhong Hao's footsteps. This Zhong Tongju not only has a background, but also prestige, and there is no harm in working with him.

Zhong Hao listened to Xu Tuiguan's words, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head: This Xu Tuiguan is not good at criminal names, and he is not very proficient in this criminal name. However, Zhong Hao faintly felt in his heart that the assassination of Huazhi County did not seem to be like this on the surface, and he planned to do his best to investigate as much as possible and strive to find out the truth!

Zhong Hao liked to watch those mystery novels and film and television dramas in his later life, and he was quite interested in this detective investigation, and he also had some experience learned from that novel and film and television drama, and he felt that he could not let a young and powerful Song cadre die in vain. Moreover, the impact of the murder of the county magistrate was also very bad, and Zhong Hao felt that he should try his best to find out the truth of the matter.

Therefore, Zhong Hao secretly decided that he must do his best to investigate and try to get to the bottom of it.

However, since Xu Tuiguan thought that he was looking at the horse, Zhong Hao decided to take the lead, anyway, even if he couldn't find anything, the big deal would be reported according to the biggest suspicion of being assassinated by a Western Xia spy, and it would not have much impact on him.

At that moment, Zhong Hao searched carefully in the room again, hoping to find some clues about the truth.

After a careful investigation of the room, Zhong Hao noticed the gold-painted screen next to the bed! This screen just blocks the commode and the bed, the style is very exquisite, but it is very ordinary, it is a style commonly used by large families, and there is nothing surprising in itself.

Zhong Hao turned the screen and saw a beautifully made commode. Zhong Hao saw that there was nothing abnormal, so he wanted to turn back, but suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and took two steps forward to lift the lid of the commode to take a look.

Xu Tuiguan has been paying attention to Zhong Hao's expression, and she found that Zhong Hao had a sudden look flashing the moment he lifted the toilet lid.

Zhong Hao turned to Cao County Lieutenant and said, "Cao Shaoyin, I need to interrogate all kinds of people in the courtyard of Huazhi County again!" "Shao Yin is the nickname of the county lieutenant.

Cao County Lieutenant said: "Okay, wait a minute, and let the lower official call everyone in the Huazhi County Courtyard!" ”

Zhong Hao found some clues and clues, and planned to play the role of Sherlock Holmes today and do this reasoning and solving the case.

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Soon, Lieutenant Cao led a group of county officials to call the people in the courtyard where Huazhi County lived to the house where Huazhi County was killed.

There are more than 20 people in the courtyard where Huazhi County lives, in addition to Huazhi County's wife Qi and concubine Feng, there is also a housekeeper, an account room, and the rest are maids and servants.

Zhong Hao carefully observed the expressions of everyone, and most of them were a little uneasy. It's understandable to think about it, the master of the house is gone, and they don't know what will happen in the future! Only the bookkeeper was quite calm.

Zhong Hao called the people in the courtyard where Huazhi County lived into the hall one by one for interrogation, and Cui Feng, Xu Tuiguan and Cao County Lieutenant sat next to him and listened carefully.

Zhong Hao asked very roughly about the dozen servants and maids in front, basically asking what he was doing last night, what he was doing from the third quarter of Yin Zheng to the second quarter of Mao Zheng this morning, and whether there were any witnesses.

When Mrs. Qi's personal maid Cuiyun came in, Zhong Hao began to ask carefully.

This Mrs. Qi's personal maid, Cuiyun Girl, although she looks very ordinary, she is a shrewd person at first glance, and she came in and saluted everyone very obediently, Zhong Hao smiled and nodded.

Immediately, Zhong Hao asked, "How does your master usually treat you?" ”

Cuiyun didn't blink his eyes, and said directly: "The master usually has a straight face, and he has never been close to people. ”

She replied very cleverly, neither saying that the lord was good to her, nor that he was not good to her, but said that her lord always kept a straight face and never got close to others, which means that the lord treats everyone equally, which exempts him from suspicion.

Zhong Hao couldn't help but look a little higher at this girl named Cuiyun, and then with a little smile on his face, he asked, "Oh? Could it be that your lord is not close to your wife and Aunt Feng? ”

Cuiyun was silent for a moment, as if chewing on the deep meaning of Zhong Hao's words, and then said: "Madame, don't say it, but since Aunt Feng was married into the door by the master, the master has always spoiled her, but he is very kind to her."

Zhong Hao looked at Cuiyun and asked, "What about the pair of ladies?" ”

When Cuiyun first came in, she knew that Zhong Hao was going to ask questions, but this kind of questioning was much more relaxed than when County Lieutenant Cao brought a group of officials to interrogate just now, and Zhong Hao's attitude was not cold, which also made her breathe a sigh of relief! But Zhong Hao's current problem is very tricky, which made her suddenly alert, and under Zhong Hao's forced gaze, she said quietly: "The master respects his wife. ”

Respect two words, there is no deep meaning, Zhong Hao naturally understands what this means.

When a husband respects his wife, it also means that the relationship between the husband and wife has become estranged. Zhong Hao smiled, and felt a little good in his heart for this girl named Cuiyun. Anyway, this girl is very clever and speaks very decently.

At that moment, Zhong Hao winked at this girl, and said gently: "Okay, it's none of your business here, you go out and call your Aunt Feng's personal maid in." ”