Chapter 20: Human Lives Matter
Zhen Qian stood up and paced around the room with his hands behind his back, combing through Song Yi's case in his mind, the case was not complicated, but it was full of suspicions.
The deceased and Song Yi had no contact or any entanglement before his death, and even the family of the deceased admitted this, the key to the whole case is that after the deceased ate the food in Song Yi's restaurant, he vomited and diarrhea when he returned home, and died before the doctor came to treat him!
"Since they all ate the food in the restaurant, why are the others okay, but the deceased has an accident?"
He is equivalent to the autopsy of later generations, but the means are very primitive, and it is difficult to see the real cause of death of the deceased from the file, "Food! The thought in his mind flashed, Zhen Qian picked up the file again and read it carefully, the deceased only ate some mutton and Hu cakes in the Song Yi restaurant before his death, these ingredients were extremely sparse and ordinary in the Tang Dynasty, and he would not eat the dead at all.
"In this way, it seems that the deceased ate other food after leaving the Songyi restaurant, but some people testify that the deceased returned home directly after leaving the Songyi restaurant, that is, if the deceased really ate other food, it should have been eaten at home, but the family of the deceased obviously will not admit it?"
Zhen Qian suddenly asked, "Where is the body of the deceased now?" ”
"I'm still in the county office, I heard that I'm going to be buried in a few days!"
"Quick! You go to the county government again, bring a little more money to the servant, let him re-examine the deceased again, but the focus of this inspection is the stomach of the deceased, you must find out what other food is in the deceased's stomach in addition to mutton and Hu cake, this is very important, you must carefully check clearly, if you find anything suspicious, then go to the deceased's house to buy the servants at home, ask the deceased if he has eaten other food after returning home, go quickly! ”
Wang You's face is more ugly than bitter gourd, and he ran outside one after another to hold back the fire in his stomach, and he couldn't say it.
"Da Lang, what does Song Yi's lawsuit do to us, and what good does it do us!"
"What do you know, if you say one more word, let Uncle Wang break your legs!" Zhen Qian scolded.
"I'll just go, don't be so angry!" Wang You had never seen Zhen Qianfa so angry, and he shrank his neck and slipped out of the room.
Seeing the back of Wang You leaving, Zhen Qian was still a little uneasy, and called Wang Qun to ask about the situation of Zhending County's Yawen County Order, Wen County's order is also Zhen Qian's old acquaintance, and the case of his amnesia after falling from a horse was judged by him, not a clean official, nor a confused official, this person's ability is a little ordinary, and he is a bit nerdy.
Originally, Zhen Qian should have gone to the county government in person, but thinking of his current situation, he didn't want to show up immediately, and then go to see this Wen county order after the matter was investigated.
This time, Wang You went out for a longer time, and came back in the evening, with a bitter face, he didn't dare to attack Zhen Qian, so he could only look at Zhen Qian aggrievedly and said: "Check it out, in addition to mutton and Hu cake in the stomach of the deceased, some residues of white fungus lotus seed soup were also found, and I heard the slave in the deceased's house say that the deceased did drink a bowl of white fungus lotus seed jujube soup and went to bed after returning home, and suddenly screamed in the middle ......of the night that his stomach hurt, and he didn't expect the doctor to swallow his breath before he arrived."
"White fungus lotus seed jujube soup...... Mutton, Hu Cake! Zhen Qian's mouth was muttering, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, a thought flashed in his mind, and his eyes lit up and said, "Could it be that the food has gone bad!" ”
At first, I thought it might be some kind of food caused by physical discomfort, but the food left in the deceased's body is very ordinary, then the remaining possibility is only the possibility of food spoilage, mutton and Hu cake are impossible, otherwise there will not be only the deceased alone, white fungus, lotus seeds and jujube made of soup, although it is possible to deteriorate, but think about it carefully, only after the white fungus is spoiled, it will produce dizziness, stomach pain and diarrhea and other poisoning phenomena, which is also the same as the symptoms of the deceased before death, Thinking of this, an irrepressible smile appeared on his face.
Thinking of this, Zhen Qian said to Wang You: "It's not early today, you go back to rest first, and tomorrow morning, you and I will go to the county government to visit and hear the county order!" ”
Wang You was reluctant to say: "What are you going to do in the county office?" ”
"Save people, of course!"
Wang You has gone to the county government office again and again to inquire about the news, and his heart has long been bored, if it weren't for the money to open the way, the officials in the county government would not have bothered to see Wang You at all, and his face was not good.
"Does Da Lang know who killed the dead?" Seeing that Zhen Qian was going to visit the county order, Wang You immediately thought of the murderer who killed the deceased.
Zhen Qian pretended to be mysterious and said: "Hehe, you will know this then, you can't say it now?" ”
"Don't say it!" Wang You was tired from a long day of running around and muttered back to sleep.
The next day, Zhen Qian rarely got up early in the morning, some reluctant to get up from the gentle township, the two little Nizi are now used to flying with their own double stay, at first they were a little embarrassed, but the two little Nizi dismantled each other, no one was willing to give in to each other for fear that they would suffer, so that Zhen Qian was exhausted while enjoying the blessings of Qi people.
Xiaozhu carefully reminded Zhen Qian while helping him get dressed: "Lang Jun, Song Yi's case has been decided, and the file has also been reported to the state government. ”
"It's important to lose face when you hear the county order, or it's important for Song Yi to die innocently!"
Zhen Qian also knew that looking for Wen County's order at this time would make Wen County's order embarrassing, but when he thought of his plan, no matter how difficult it was, he would have to face it head-on, and it was good to be a turtle with a shrunken head in a low-key manner, but when he thought that it was now ten years of Tianbao, and the upcoming Anshi Rebellion was approaching, it made Zhen Qianru Mang not care about Wen County's face problem with his back.
"Hey!" Xiaomei on the side sighed and said: "Lang Jun, that Wen County Order is a little pedantic, but he is not bad, I heard that he cares about his reputation very much, after Lang Jun fell off the horse and lost his memory, Wen County Order was unwilling to send the Meng family to slavery for personal gain, the aggressive attitude of the Zhen family caused his disgust, and now I am afraid it will backfire to him, it is better to let other outsiders go to the county government to shout grievances, maybe there is a chance!" ”
Zhen Qian shook his head, held Xiaomei's pretty face, and kissed her on the red lips, causing a pink fist to fly and hit her chest.
"It is this county order that takes into account the reputation, so that people can't beat the drum to voice grievances, if you really do this, I'm afraid there will be no room for maneuver in this matter!"
"Why is that?"
In the past, I used to deal with people who were officials in the shopping mall, and those officials wanted to save face the most, even if they were wrong, they were reluctant to admit it, even if the facts were in front of them, they would be ashamed and angry because they knew the correct opinion, such examples were not uncommon, if Zhen Qian really listened to Xiaomei's words, Song Yi would be dead.
"You don't understand the mentality of being an official, sometimes you say it in private and say it in public, but there will be two completely different results, some people have no ability in their lives, but they want to save face and suffer crimes, and their reputation is more important than their own lives, if I guess correctly, Wen County Order is such a kind of person, so this matter can only be explained in private, maybe there is room for maneuver!"
Xiaomei said worriedly: "That Langjun should be more careful, you must pay attention to your words, don't offend Wen County's order!" ”
"Of course I know that!" The people don't fight with the officials, Zhen Qian is not so stupid, in order to save Song Yi, he put himself in it.
In the back hall of the county government sat a half-hundred-hundred-year-old man with gray hair, dressed in a dark flower regular dress with a flowing expression, looking down at the official document in his hand.
At this moment, a servant at the door came to report: "Qiyu Ming Mansion, the county government outside the Zhen family asks to see!" ”
"The ...... of the Zhen family", this middle-aged man is the county order of Zhending County, and when he heard the words of the officer, he thought for a moment and said, "But Zhen Qian of the Zhen family? ”
"Exactly!" The official replied.
"Isn't he amnesia?" Wen Xianling was a little puzzled in his heart, "Could it be that his amnesia is good, why haven't you heard of it?" ”
"Let him in!" Wen Xian Ling felt a little strange, but it aroused his interest, and he didn't know what Zhen Qian was doing when he came to the county government to find him.
After a while, Zhen Qian, who was also dressed in regular clothes, appeared at the door, speaking of which the previous Zhen Qian had seen Wen County Order, but the current Zhen Qian did not know Wen County Order, but there was only one person in the house, and he would not admit his mistake, so he gave a salute to the middle-aged man and said: "Xiaomin has seen Wen Ming Mansion!" ”
Wen Xian Ling knew Zhen Qian, the last time he saw Zhen Qian was on the hospital bed, today I saw that Zhen Qian's temperament was vaguely different from before, there was no nerdy air in his eyes, but more calm and composed, and he was secretly surprised in his heart, but he didn't expect to see him for more than a month, but the temperament of the whole person had changed, and he knew that the person in front of him had already been a person.
"Isn't Zhen Lang amnesia? It's not true to see and hear today! ”
Zhen Qian knew that Wen County Decree would have such doubts, and he had already prepared a statement in his heart, and said to Wen County Decree again: "Thank you Wen County Decree for your concern, after Xiaomin lost his memory, he visited famous doctors all over the world at home, and went to the temple to burn incense and make wishes, and invited Taoist priests to practice at home, maybe God has the virtue of a good life, Xiaomin's illness was cured a few days ago, and I came to thank Wenming Mansion today!" ”
Scholars are not willing to believe in ghosts and gods, Confucianism often says: respect ghosts and gods and stay away, some say: the son is silent, strange power and chaos.
I was a little unhappy when I heard Zhen Qian talk about ghosts and gods, but these things were all done by the Zhen family, and they had nothing to do with Zhen Qian, so it was not good to blame Zhen Qian.
"It's good to be healed!" When the case of Zhen Qian's amnesia was tried at the beginning, the aggressiveness of the Zhen family left a shadow on Wen County's order, if the Zhen family was not a wealthy family in Hengzhou, Wen County's order would not give the Zhen family a good face, let alone give Meng Xiaoya to the Zhen family as a concubine, but this is how the Zhen family still does not pay for the unforgiving posture, and to this day, Wen County's order still remembers it in his heart.