Zhang Zhenyu said to Meng Tianchu: "Master Meng, I planned this incident before and after, and I did it alone to kill Mrs. Qin and Xusong, and it has nothing to do with Wen'er, please raise your noble hand and let her go." ”

Meng Tianchu shook his head: "She is an accomplice, without her help, you would not have been able to carry out such a perfect murder, she is also guilty, but she played a secondary and auxiliary role in the joint crime, I believe that the local yamen will consider a lighter punishment for her as appropriate." At that time, I will also make it clear to the local yamen in accordance with the truth. ”

In fact, Meng Tianchu told a lie, he had just learned the "Da Ming Law" and knew that according to the law of the Ming Dynasty: "If slaves and maids and hired workers, murder parents, and parents' maternal grandparents, if they are relatives above the line, the crime is the same as that of children and grandchildren." "Whoever murders a grandparent or a parent, a parent, a maternal grandparent, a husband, a husband's grandparents, a parent, or a person who has done the act shall be beheaded. Those who have been killed will be put to death. "Ji Wen is Mrs. Qin's slave and maid, killing her master, according to the law, regardless of the master and slave, Ling Chi will be executed. Therefore, neither of them can escape the disaster of a thousand cuts.

Zhang Zhenyu didn't understand how the law stipulated, so he nodded gratefully: "Thank you Meng Gongzi!" Blocking Ji Wen behind him, he smiled at Meng Tianchu, and suddenly his wrist flipped, and there was another sharp knife in his hand. It turned out that he had two knives hidden on his body.

Everyone exclaimed in surprise and took a few steps back. Only Meng Tianchu stood still, as if he already knew what Zhang Zhenyu was going to do, and looked at him with pity.

Zhang Zhenyu smiled miserably: "Meng Gongzi, I hope you can take pity on poor Jiwen and save her life!" "Flip the tip of the knife and stab yourself in the heart!

Ji Wen was blocked by him, and when she realized that something was wrong and pounced on him to grab his hand, the knife had already penetrated deep into her heart and reached the handle.

Zhang Zhenyu fell softly into Ji Wen's arms, and Ji Wen shouted heartbreakingly: "Brother Yu......!" Holding Zhang Zhenyu's body tightly, he shook desperately in a panic, hoping that he could open his eyes as if he was asleep, smile and call softly, "Wen'er!" ”

But Zhang Zhenyu's knife hit the heart, and he died immediately, where can he wake up.

Ji Wen hugged Zhang Zhenyu in her arms, smiled miserably, and said in a low voice: "Brother Yu, you are dead, can Wen'er still live alone?" Reaching out, he suddenly pulled out the sharp knife in Zhang Zhenyu's chest, stabbed it into his heart, and died of exhaustion.

Everyone else is far away, although Meng Tianchu is in front of them, he can stop it with his hand, but Meng Tianchu hesitated, he knew that Ji Wen, as a slave and maid, killed the master, no matter the master and slave, Ling Chi would be executed, and preventing her from committing suicide would be equivalent to sending her a weak girl to the court, and suffering from a thousand knives in front of everyone, that was not to save her but to harm her, although Zhang Zhenyu temporarily begged him to save her, but he had no power or power, how could Ling Chi's capital crime be saved. In this hesitation, Ji Wen has committed suicide.

Meng Tianchu sighed, let the two of them be hard-working mandarin ducks, and it would be a good thing to have a companion on the Huangquan Road.

Qin Yiyun looked at Ji Wen in a daze, although he was so angry with her, but now in front of her tragic death, thinking of the love between the two before, his heart was sour, and he still shed a few tears.

At this moment, I heard the voices of people outside the temple, and someone shouted: "Young master! I have brought the people of the Yamen, where are you! "Listening to the voice is the old man.

Abbot Xuanyin and Qin Yiyun hurriedly went out to look, only to see Lao He Tou, seven or eight arresters and a few others standing in the courtyard, surrounded by an old man wearing the official robe of the county magistrate.

Na Zhixian seemed to be very familiar with the abbot of Xuanyin, and accompanied by the abbot, he entered the main hall and came to the room where Mrs. Qin's body was parked. When I saw two female corpses and a male corpse lying on the ground, and the corpse of a little monk lying in the opposite room, I was simply stunned.

Abbot Xuanyin, Meng Tianchu and others recounted the cause and effect of this incident. The magistrate breathed a sigh of relief.

I heard that this case was cracked by Meng Tianchu, and after listening to his cracking, I was surprised and admired, and thanked him. Meng Tianchu said a few polite words, and after the arresters recorded their testimony, the case was over.

There was a serial murder case in the jurisdiction, if it can't be solved, it will seriously affect the political performance, and now Meng Tianchu has successfully cracked the case within half a day, and he can't help but make the county grateful, he also knows how to repay it, and took three taels of silver and gave it to Meng Tianchu as a reward.

Regarding Qin Yiyun's rape of Ji Wen first and then adultery, because the previous rape was not clear, it was his maid who raped her, and the two of them committed adultery again, this Qin Yiyun was also preparing to marry and pick her up, so after the magistrate considered it, it was not treated as a crime, and the pearl necklace was also returned to Qin Yiyun.

Qin Yiyun was even more grateful to Meng Tianchu, and even thanked him. Meng Tianchu cracked this case, in fact, he indirectly saved Qin Yiyun's life, otherwise they would have killed Qin Yiyun again, of course, Zhang Zhenyu wanted to assassinate Qin Yiyun just now, and Meng Tianchu also saved him, which directly saved his life.

Qin Yiyun wrote a letter to Cai Zhao, the magistrate of Renhe County, Hangzhou, telling him about the murder of Mrs. Qin and Meng Tianchu's investigation of the case, and took thirty taels of silver to thank Meng Tianchu for saving his life.

After solving this case, I earned thirty-three taels of silver, plus the money from selling test tubes, so I don't have to worry about money for the time being.

Mrs. Qin's body, Qin Yiyun wants to be transported back to Suzhou, Ji Wen is the murderer of Mrs. Qin, of course it will not be transported back, and the bodies of the little monk Xusong and scholar Zhang Zhenyu are also buried on the spot. Anyway, there are no people within dozens of miles of this barren countryside, and some are open spaces. The bodies of the three were buried in a pine forest behind the temple. After going back, I will inform the family of the scholar Zhang Zhenyu.

The magistrate instructed Yamen to dig three pits in the pine forest behind the temple and bury the three bodies. Each wrote a simple tombstone on a wooden board and inserted it at the head of the grave.

After the hastily buried, it was almost noon, and the county magistrate and the abbot Xuanyin said goodbye and went down the mountain to go back. Meng Tianchu saw that there were two archers in the catch, so he proposed to the magistrate to borrow a pair of bows and arrows, saying that he wanted to hunt some game in the mountains.