Chapter 52 The Missing Maid

Shi Qian rushed to Shilixiang the next morning, and Gu Hao ordered him to keep an eye on every move of Song's shopkeeper's house. He felt that if there was any flaw in the case, he would definitely remain in the Gu family. Then he instructed Zhu Gui to invite Zhu Tong to come over for a drink, for Zhu Tong he didn't want to use the tricks of designing Zhang Wenyuan, Zhu Tong is a righteous, loyal, and witty person, rather than designing for him, it is better to be honest, and he has long thought that he will meet this hero of Yuncheng County.

In the evening of the same day, Zhu Tong came to Shilixiang as promised, but Gu Haotian secretly praised Zhu Gui in his heart, he had mixed well in the county seat in less than a year, and a real power figure like Zhu Tong actually said that he would be invited.

"In Xia Gu Haotian, I have heard the name of the governor for a long time, and I took the liberty to invite him today, which is really abrupt." Gu Haotian saw Zhu Gui lead Zhu Tong in, and got up to greet him.

"It's a jade-faced Meng Wei petty official, but he is young." Of course, Zhu Tong had heard of Gu Haotian's reputation, but he couldn't imagine that he was so young.

"The jokes of the Jianghu people are not true." Gu Haotian invited him to sit down and served wine and food.

"The petty officials meet today, what do you have to say?"

After two rounds of drinking, Zhu Tong couldn't hold it back, he thought to himself that he had never known Gu Haotian in his life, and there must be a reason for his sudden invitation today.

"The governor is a loyal person, since he has seen and asked, he will also say bluntly, the day before yesterday, the senior doctor of the Huichun Hall had a lawsuit, and his wife begged to come to my house, and the senior doctor has a life-saving grace for me, so naturally I want to try to repay him. If the tall doctor really heals people to death, he has nothing to say, and he will deal with it according to the law, and if there is any ambiguity in it, he hopes that the governor will be thoughtful and let him live. ”

Zhu Tong is a criminal expert in Yuncheng County, so he naturally knows the strangeness of this case. Now Gu Haotian asked him bluntly, making him in a dilemma, if he felt that it was against his conscience, but then the county lieutenant Wu was the top boss, and he didn't want to offend.

"This matter is not under the control of the subordinates, and now it is the county lieutenant of Nawu who will personally try it." After thinking about it for a long time, he said it half-clearly.

"Could it be that the county lieutenant Wu can't cover the sky with one hand?" Gu Haotian provoked him again.

"Not really, it's just that the magistrate has not been very much of a council member since he arrived after the year, and if he is willing to try it, it should be different." After all, Zhu Tong is a loyal and righteous person, and he finally tells some inside stories.

"Who is the county magistrate today?" Gu Haotian has been in Liangshan recently, but I really don't know what county order came after the year.

"His name is Xu Churen, and it is rumored that he is out of the capital because of his discord with the DPRK and China, so he ignores political affairs and is unhappy every day."

"Xu Churen!" Gu Haotian was stunned for a moment, this Xu Churen was one of the few celebrities in the late Northern Song Dynasty that he was familiar with in later generations, in fact, it was also a coincidence, "History of the Song Dynasty • The Biography of Xu Churen" was a nine-year Chinese language and classical Chinese practice in later generations, and he remembered this person when he was tutoring his nephew to do the questions. It seems that he was born as a Jinshi, and he has been a chief official in Jinxiang County and Qingzhou Mansion in Shandong, and he has served as a subordinate servant in the highest position, and he is relatively old, but he seems to have nothing to do with Yuncheng County. He thought about it for a while, and he didn't take it seriously, now the Zhou Dynasty is not the Song Dynasty, all changes are possible, but this person is a rare loyal minister in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

"How can I see Xu Zhixian?"

"Recently, I have seen him fishing by the river in the east of the city every day."

"Oh."

Gu Haotian knew in his heart that this Zhu Tong had already done his duty. He also said that please treat Dr. Gao well and arrange for him to meet once, and Zhu Tong agreed. Next, the two of them didn't mention the lawsuit anymore and had a drink.

In the yajail cell of Yuncheng County, Gu Haotian pretended to be a pharmacy man, carrying a food box into the smelly and dark prison cell, and he didn't see Dr. Gao lose a lot of weight in a few days, and he seemed to be a different person.

"Little ......" Doctor Gao suddenly saw Gu Haotian coming in, and blurted out the three words "little official", but was stopped by Gu Haotian's eyes.

"The little one is ordered by the lady to send some wine and food to Ah Lang." In Dr. Gao's stunned expression, Gu Haotian laid out the wine and food one by one.

"How did the little official get here?" Doctor Gao asked lightly by drinking.

"Your lawsuit seems to have implicated County Lieutenant Wu and Song Zhisi, it's a bit tricky, that Fang Zi really won't die?" Gu Haotian didn't talk nonsense and went straight to the point.

"It's impossible." Doctor Gao already understood Gu Haotian's intention.

"That's good, the outside is trying, and the prison has also entrusted Zhu Dutou to take care of it, be careful, beware of Wu and Song."

"I knew this was the case, and I allowed the Gu Yuan to go to the Liangshan Manor a few days ago, so why did I come to this prison."

Doctor Gao couldn't imagine that he was in prison, but it was Gu Haotian who came to save him, and he couldn't help but feel guilty and remorse for his refusal a few days ago.

"Doctor, rest assured, there will be a way for you to get out in a few days." Gu Haotian didn't want to stay for a long time, so he quit and went out.

Let's say that Shi Qian has been staring at the Song family all these days, and he has slowly noticed some clues. He found that the lady of the Song family was unusually good to the maid named Cui'er, or she looked at it very closely, but Cui'er seemed to be a little uneasy.

That night, Shi Qian watched her come out of the Song family's lady's room with a golden hairpin, so he followed her, but saw her sneak back to the backyard to meet a young man, and then vaguely heard her say to the man, "The shopkeeper has never taken medicine...... The lady is pressing...... In the court, I was afraid of ......, "When the time moves, it is like a treasure."

After listening to what Shi Qian said, Gu Haotian concluded that the Song shopkeeper might not have died without taking the medicine of the Rejuvenation Hall at all, and the lady of the Song family then colluded with the relevant personnel to blackmail the Gao family. He thought about it for a while, and thought to himself that it would be better to startle the snake once.

However, it was said that the next day, another version of the Huichun Tang murder case slowly spread in the streets and alleys of Yuncheng County, saying that the Song shopkeeper actually died without taking the medicine of the Huichun Hall, and that the Song family wanted to blackmail the Gao family's money and bribed some people from the county government to maliciously extort money.

And the Huichun Hall posted that prescription in a lively place in a timely manner, although ordinary people don't understand, but there is more than one pharmacy and medicine practice in the county, and insiders naturally understand that this prescription can't kill people. And the Gao family took advantage of the situation to go to the county government every day to shout grievances, and idlers naturally like to gossip, and they also watched every day, but some people in the county government were under great pressure.

"Brother, I heard that the shopkeeper of the Song Dynasty has died without taking the medicine of the Rejuvenation Hall, and the lady of the Song family is a female streamer, but she is so vicious that she has blackmailed the Gao family." Passerby A said.

"Who said no, otherwise how can you say that it is the most poisonous to the hearts of women in the world. I've also seen the prescription, and the uncle of my cousin is also a doctor, and I asked about it, saying that anyone who eats it won't die. Passerby B replied.

"Not really, she is a woman with great ability, what can she do, I heard that the county government has advocated for her." But it's passer-by C.

"I have heard that the county lieutenant Wu seems to be very concerned about this lawsuit." Passerby B hears some rumors.

"Hehe, you only know one thing, but you don't know the other, the Song family lady is a woman in the house, if there is no acquaintance to introduce her, how can she catch up with the Wu County Lieutenant, you might as well think about the Song shopkeeper's family." Passerby C seemed to know more about the inside story and said pretendically.

"Where are the people? Isn't it Songjiazhuang, Song-hey! Could it be that person, don't they all say that the person is righteous and squandering wealth and is extremely benevolent and righteous. "A and B seem to be thinking of someone at the same time.

"Knowing people knows their faces but not their hearts, and who knows the black and white of their hearts." The three of them sighed and left.

Fueled by well-intentioned people, public opinion in the county is rising day by day, and the Song family and the county lieutenant of Nawu are naturally pushed to the forefront.

County Lieutenant Wu was upset for the past two days, thinking that it was an easy deal, but it was so embarrassing. On this day, someone heard the voice of the county lieutenant Wu lecturing in the public room, and later saw the iron-faced Song Zhisi coming out of it.

In the discussion in Yuncheng County, the most restless person is probably the lady of the Song family, she can't think of a good thing, how can it suddenly become like this. Cui'er, the only insider in the family, she had already watched it to death, and she never let her go out for half a step, but she couldn't figure out what went wrong there. She asked her cronies to ask Song Jiang for advice, but he just said lightly that the matter was not clear, so she just went to ask the county lieutenant of Wu, so she became more and more panicked. It was easy to look forward to the message of the county lieutenant Wu, but it was only eight words, "cut off the end of the hand and leave no trouble", but these eight words forced her into a corner.

That night, the lady of the Song family set up a table of wine and food in the room, and invited Na Cui'er to eat wine, saying that she had been loyal to the Song family for many years and wanted to accept her as a righteous daughter. Na Cui'er couldn't stand the persuasion, and she was drunk unconscious after a few drinks.

It was noon, by the river outside the east gate of Yuncheng County, a man sneakily peeked around, unloaded a heavy object from a car and pushed into the river.