Chapter 110: Man Kills Ghost
Because of the difference in concepts, Su Wuming did not put Cheng Qing and Zheng Fei in prison, but even if he didn't do it, the consequences for the two of them would definitely not be good.
This kind of immoral thing happened to the Cheng family, how could Cheng Yu spare the two of them? Even if they don't soak them in the pig cage, it may not be easy for them to move freely again.
When the night was deep, the chirping of autumn insects was silent, and everyone walked on the empty street, and the shadows were stretched for a long time.
The next day, everyone got up late, and not long after everyone got up, a servant hurriedly came to report that a body had been found in a ruined temple in the city, and that the deceased was in tatters, and that it was probably someone who was thought to be a ghost in the temple that night.
The news was shocking because Su Wuming didn't expect him to die.
There was no time to eat breakfast, Su Wuming and Tang Xiong hurriedly rushed to the broken temple, originally Nangong Yan and Wen Wan'er were going to follow, but they were stopped by Su Wuming, because they were women, and not eating breakfast was not good for their health, so Su Wuming asked them to finish breakfast and then go over, so there was no need to rush for a while.
The ruined temple was originally a lonely and lonely place, usually not many people came, but today it is very lively, because there is a dead person here, and it is said that the person who has always been thought to be a lonely ghost died.
Su Wuming and the others pushed aside the crowd and entered the broken temple, Qian Sheng was already waiting inside, after he saw Su Wuming, he greeted him again and again, with a smug look on his face, and said: "Master Su, you are really like a god, the beggar in the City God Temple that day was really found by us." ”
Su Wuming has always been full of sympathy for this kind of person who lives at the bottom, so he is a little disgusted by Qian Sheng's laughter, but at this time, it is inconvenient for him to blame Qian Sheng for this, so he only bows his head slightly, and then goes to see the corpse.
The clothes on the corpse were indeed very tattered, and the deceased was full of a stench, the smell was very unpleasant, and people wanted to vomit, after Su Wuming untied the deceased's clothes, he found that the deceased's skin had begun to rot, but this rot was not because of the long time of death, but because the deceased was already sick before he died, and that disease could be a skin disease, so the rot up and down the body was so bad that people couldn't bear to look at it directly.
After seeing this, Su Wuming was a little happy in his heart, fortunately, Nangong Yan and Wen Wan'er didn't come today, otherwise they would not be able to eat for a day in the future.
After looking at the corpse in this way, Su Wuming carefully examined it again, and found that the deceased was thin, with his mouth and eyes closed, his hands slightly clenched, his teeth burnt yellow, and his lips without teeth, which were obvious symptoms of illness and death.
After a long sigh, Su Wuming told his discovery, and after speaking, Qian Sheng also sighed, and sighed: "I didn't expect this person to die of illness, and I think it has nothing to do with the murder of Cheng Fu." ”
This beggar did die of illness, and it really has nothing to do with the murder of Cheng Fu, but he is the source of the whole murder, if it weren't for the fact that this beggar stole food in the City God Temple on the day of the Midyear Festival, maybe the people of Cheng Mansion would not have thought of pretending to be a ghost and scary, so naturally they would not dare to kill people in the name of ghosts.
After disposing of the corpse, Su Wuming looked at Qian Sheng and said, "Does anyone know this deceased?" ”
"The lower official has already sent someone on a business trip, maybe he will be able to find out soon!"
It's not easy for a beggar to find out his identity.
And just when a few people were about to leave the broken temple, Nangong Yan and Wen Wan'er hurried over, and when they saw that Su Wuming had finished inspecting the body, they all regretted a little, regretting that they should have come earlier.
And just when they regretted it, a servant led a beggar over, the beggar was dirty and smelly, his face had not been washed for an unknown amount of time, and he never smiled, pulling his face, giving people a very depressed feeling.
The official stepped up and said, "My lord, this beggar recognizes the deceased." ”
Su Wuming bowed slightly, and asked the beggar to tell him what he knew.
"His name is Ali, he only came to Qiantang County a month ago, after he came, he grabbed business with us, and several of us were ready to teach him a lesson, so that he could understand our rules, but when we found him, we found that he was rotten all over, it was really scary, we were afraid that he would infect us, so we didn't dare to touch him, and then we met him and hid far away."
The words of this beggar make people very angry, they are already living at the bottom, but they still want to bully people, which really makes people have indescribable helplessness and anger, but in the face of such people, they can't be angry, after all, they are also forced by life.
After Su Wuming sighed, he let the beggar leave, he didn't know much, I'm afraid that even the name Ali was made up.
Now, the beggar in the City God Temple has been found, but the person who pretended to be a god in Cheng Mansion and killed people has not been found, which is the most important thing.
However, for the affairs of Cheng Mansion, it is not as easy to handle as everyone thinks, and in the afternoon of this day, there was news in Cheng Mansion, saying that because of the incident last night, Old Man Cheng was going to draw up a will and distribute the property in the family, and according to various speculations, Xia He's two children were born to concubines, and Cheng Qing had an affair with his subordinates, so I am afraid that he will get a small amount of property.
Some people even said that Cheng Qing couldn't get any money at all, and he might be expelled from Cheng Mansion.
The news about Cheng Mansion spread very quickly, and when it reached the ears of Su Wuming and others, Su Wuming was very strange, who came out of these news?
It stands to reason that Cheng Qing had an affair with Zheng Fei, this is a family scandal, and if it comes out, it is equivalent to slapping the Cheng family in the face, but in this case, who will spread these news, do they want the Cheng family to be ruined?
Su Wuming shook his head, he felt that it was not so simple, after these news came out, although the face of the Cheng family was damaged, the biggest loss was probably Cheng Qing, and she was afraid that she would have no face in the future.
In other words, the person who spread the news is likely to have only one purpose, that is, to let Cheng Qing continue to stay in the Cheng Mansion without a face, so that Cheng Yu will be even more angry with her, and finally divide the Cheng family's property to others.
And because of Cheng Qing's matter, Cheng Dong is likely to be implicated, and in the end, the Cheng family's industry will fall into the hands of Cheng Zhong and Cheng Die, but will they do this?
Cheng Zhong has been in the wind and snow all day long, can he come up with this method to deal with Cheng Dong and Cheng Qing?
Su Wuming thought carefully, and finally thought of Cheng Die's husband Lu Wei, Lu Wei failed several times, and was extremely resentful in his heart, thinking of doing business to enrich his family, but Cheng Yu was afraid of him, so he only let him manage a restaurant, although a restaurant also makes money, but compared to the Cheng family's business, a restaurant is really rare.
In order to be able to share more of the Cheng family's industry, will he do something unexpected?
After hearing the news from Cheng Fu, Su Wuming thought a lot, he almost thought about all kinds of possibilities, but after thinking about it once, he just thought about it, because there was no evidence, no evidence, no matter how reasonable the conjecture was, it was useless.
The news of the Cheng family spread in Qiantang County, Su Wuming once wanted to go to Cheng's mansion and ask Cheng Yu to see how he was going to distribute the family property.
But after thinking about it carefully, Su Wuming felt that it was too inappropriate to ask Cheng Yu's will rashly, if Cheng Yu was not dead, you would come and ask what they were going to do after they died, it was too disrespectful, at least in this Tang Dynasty, this kind of thing is very inappropriate to do.
Su Wuming didn't ask Cheng Yu, which caused regret in the case.
Because after dusk that day, when it was already dark, the Cheng Mansion suddenly came out with news that Cheng Yu was dead.
When Su Wuming heard the news, he froze there, he couldn't believe that this was true, although a lot of things had happened in Cheng Mansion recently, which hit this old man hard, but his body bones were not as bad as he imagined, why did he die suddenly?
And died shortly after the news of the will came out.
Just as Su Wuming was about to go to Cheng's Mansion to see what was going on, a government official hurriedly came and said that the people of the Cheng family escorted Zheng Fei to the county office, saying that this Zheng Fei was the murderer of Cheng Yu, and asked the county to order Lord Qian Shengyan to deal with it, Lord Qian didn't know what to do, so he came to invite Lord Su to go.
The development of things seems to be more interesting, Su Wuming nodded slightly, and then followed the official to the county office, and on the way, the official told the situation in the Cheng Mansion.
"After dark, a maid saw Zheng Fei hurriedly run out of Cheng Yu's room, the maid was very curious, so she came to Cheng Yu's room to see what was going on, but as soon as she walked to the door, she saw Cheng Yu lying on the bed dead, the maid screamed, and after the other people in the house came, they all said that Zheng Fei killed Cheng Yu, so they pulled him to the county office."
"Can the cause of Cheng Yu's death be investigated?"
"Not yet, now the people of Cheng Mansion are still gathered in the county office, the county magistrate means that after Lord Su goes, they will go to Cheng Mansion to check what is going on, but Cheng Yu's body has already been sent to look at it."
After listening to the introduction of the servant, Su Wuming bowed slightly, and then quickened his pace.
When they came to the county office, Cheng Zhong and Cheng Die were righteous and indignant to ask for money to punish Zheng Fei, and it was best to kill them immediately, to pay tribute to their father's spirit in the sky, they were so angry, but no one was sad because of Cheng Yu's death.
Qian Sheng looked at Zheng Fei who was kneeling in the lobby, and he didn't know what to do for a while, after all, Zheng Fei was judged to be a murderer before the murder was investigated, even if he Qian Sheng was a fool, he would never be able to do such a thing.