Fushui is a tributary of the south bank of the Yangtze River, and Xingguo Prefecture is on the bank of Fushui, more than 30 miles away from the Yangtze River.

Qin Lin and his entourage turned from the Yangtze River into Fushui by boat, but fortunately, the water level had not yet dropped at this time, and the two big ships sailed straight to the Xingguozhou wharf.

The state government is not far from the wharf, everyone came to the yamen together, Qin Lin took out the driving post of the brocade guard, and Han Feilian took it and threw it in, and the officials standing at the door saw that it was several brocade guards, they were all surprised, and they were extremely attentive to serve tea and pour water, and invited them to rest in the gatehouse.

After a while, a middle-aged man wearing a square scarf walked out, with a scorched mouse beard on his lips and two eyes dripping, and invited everyone to sit down in the second hall and asked: "Contemptible Fang Tangjin, Xi is the old master of money and grain in Benzhou, because of the illness of Dong Weng and the bed, so he ordered the contemptible people to come and ask you where you are the lord of the yamen, what do you have to say here?" ”

Although there are miscellaneous officials such as Tongzhi, judges, and officials in a state, Master Qian Liang is the second person in addition to Zhizhou.

Qin Lin had no time to be polite, and said straight to the point: "We sailed in the river and scooped up a slippery corpse, because the corpse found the remains of straw shoes made of water calamus, which are only sold in Guixing Guozhou, so we carried the corpse here, and asked Guiyamen if there was a missing person reported recently." ”

"No, no," Master Qian Liang shook his hand wildly, "The political cultivation of the bad owner's office, no one has killed anyone for a long time, I am afraid that the corpse you caught was executed elsewhere, and the river is slim, who can say that it is our Xingguo Prefecture that floats down?" ”

Qin Lin said sincerely: "Don't hide it from Mr. Fang, Qin has also broken a lot of cases in Jinyiwei, this dead body is a person from your Xingguo Prefecture, and it is very likely to die of murder!" Please also investigate carefully, and don't let him settle for grievances. ”

Fang Tangjin's eyes were dripping and rolling, and he refused to admit that the deceased was from Xingguo Prefecture.

Jiang Mao was annoyed and shouted loudly: "You don't know how to lift!" You are not afraid of delaying the work, turn the bow of the ship and send the dead body back to you, and you have to push back! Believe it or not, the water drifting corpse was dragged to the gate of the Guangbu Political Secretary of Wuchang Mansion Lake, and it was placed at the gate, what else would you say when the time came? ”

Jiang Jing persuaded his younger brother, and at the same time said with a little dissatisfaction to the master: "As the saying goes, it is good to practice in the public gate, you should always have a little compassion, the smooth corpse, our passers-by still work tirelessly to transport it back for you, you don't say to take a look, you don't say to find a piece of clothing, find a coffin and collect it with him, but you will only push it out!" ”

Jiang Zi followed and added: "And you don't know the facts of the case...... Big brother, third brother, let's not get entangled with him, the boat has turned around and arrived here, just go back to Wuchang Mansion and ask Uncle Wang Shi to ask him what to do, I am not afraid that the plague officials in Xingguo Prefecture will not do their best! ”

The three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family are dressed luxuriously, and even the servants are Tsing Yi small hats and foundation official boots, and that noble atmosphere is not comparable to that of ordinary squires, Fang Tangjin has already noticed it.

Hearing Jiang Zi say what Wuchang's "Uncle Wang" was going to call to supervise the Xingguo Prefecture to handle the case, Fang Tangjin was shocked: those who have the power to supervise the state government to handle the case are none other than Wuchang Mansion, Wuchang Branch Patrol Road, Huguang Punishment Envoy, Huguang Governor, the new prefect of Wuchang Mansion is Zhang Gongyu, the current sub-inspector surnamed Huang, according to the inspector surnamed Wei, and there is only one surname Wang - Wang Zhiyuan, who leads the title of the second rank of the right capital of the imperial history, and the governor of Huguang and other places and praises military affairs!

Thinking of this, and looking at the bearing of the three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family, Fang Tangjin's heart suddenly jumped and guessed their identities.

He forcibly held back the pounding of his heart and hurriedly said, "Everyone, slow down! The students are indeed confused, since the corpse straw sandals are a specialty of Xingguo Prefecture, it must be the people here, please leave the corpse behind, and wait for the students to know the state master, and then visit in detail. ”

Jiang Maohu blinked suspiciously: "You won't coax us to leave, and throw the corpse to the mass grave, and everything will be fine, right?" ”

"No, absolutely not!" Fang Tangjin shook his head like a rattle, and as he spoke, he glanced at a fat servant: "Zhao Zhutou, go with a few sons, and bring the corpse to the yamen......

Afraid that the three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family would not believe it, they still had to sue Wang Zhiyuan, Fang Tangjin flattered Zhao Zhutou and beckoned Zhao Zhutou: "Take a set of your old clothes, put it on, lest it be unclothed, take another ten taels of silver, buy a thin coffin and decorate it for the time being, and then bury it when the source of the corpse is found and the facts of the case are ascertained." ”

"That corpse has long been ......" Jiang Zi was about to say that the corpse had swelled and become larger, and ordinary clothes couldn't be worn at all, but Qin Lin next to her grabbed her arm and pulled it, so she didn't say it.

Jiang Zi grew up to be sixteen years old, and no other man had touched her since she could remember, and she was pulled by Qin Lin's hairy hands, she was ashamed and angry, and she was embarrassed when she was about to have a seizure, and glared at him angrily.

Qin Lin only had to look at Jiang Zi for a moment, and he could know that he was really a beautiful lady with a natural beauty, but as soon as he turned his gaze a little obliquely, he collided with Jiang Zi's shyly gaze, and suddenly Qin had goosebumps on his back, and quickly looked at the beam of the house, and thought silently in his heart: No, no, nothing happened...... All are hallucinations!

Zhao Zhutou took out the old clothes and waited respectfully.

At this point, the three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family have nothing to say, they just met the water drifting corpse by chance, and a few people are not unshirkable magistrates, and secondly, they are not reasoning freaks who dig into the roots.

Only Qin Lin and Fang Tang entered the void and made a smirk with the snake, and as soon as he walked out of the yamen, his face turned iron blue.

Lu Yuanzhi noticed it for the first time and quickly asked him what was going on.

Noticing that Zhao Zhutou had nothing to say and was close to the Jiang family's servants, Qin Lin pulled Lu Yuanzhi aside and said in a low voice: "That master has a problem!" ”

The fat man's eyes, which were originally not big, suddenly widened wider than longan: "How is it possible?" He's a master of money and grain! Brother Qin, do you mean ......?"

"I also think something is wrong with my master!" Jiang Zi's voice sounded from behind him.

Lu Yuanzhi turned his head and looked, Qin Lin, looked up at the sky and said haha, "The weather is good today, hahaha......"

Jiang Zi's face blushed for a moment, she had never met such a contemptuous and rude person, fortunately, she was very well cultivated, she didn't bother with Qin Lin, and said in a clear manner: "After Brother Qin reminded me just now, I also noticed that everyone never mentioned whether the corpse was male or female, old or young, Master Fang actually straightforwardly asked Zhao Zhutou, who had a different surname and was of the same age, to wear old clothes for the corpse, does it mean that he already knew the identity of the corpse?" ”

Lu Yuanzhi slapped his hand, looked at Jiang Zi in awe, and said in his heart It seems that the wisdom of this young lady is not below Brother Qin, no wonder the two kings looked at the mung beans in the right eye, but why did Brother Qin always look at the sky, uh~ Did a fairy fly over just now?

Qin Lin added: "Not only are men and women and ages matched, although the corpse is swollen and can't be seen to be fat or thin, the length has not changed, and it is just about the same height as Zhao Zhutou...... Hmph, I'm afraid this is not a coincidence! ”

After hearing this, Lu Yuanzhi felt a chill, and the cold feeling rushed up from the tail vertebrae, and he was always cold: If the Qian Liang Master and the head catcher of the state government were involved in this murder case, what would be the identity of this floating corpse? Could it be that they learned the story from Journey to the West and teamed up to slaughter the real Zhizhou?

The more I thought about it, the more I felt good, and the fat man said mysteriously: "I know!" Master Qian Liang and Zhao Zhutou are both thieves, they killed the real Lord Zhizhou, replaced them with puppets, and then acted as a blessing for the people here, and arbitrarily amassed ill-gotten gains! No wonder he said that Zhizhou was sick just now, because he was afraid that we would see the flaws......"

"You're imaginative!" Qin Lin touched the fat man's head, and said in his heart, could this guy be the screenwriter who let the bullets fly? But this is Xingguo State, not Goose City!

"Teach you to be a good man," Qin Lin pointed to the fat man: "Since the corpses are thrown in the river, most of the dead are people who live on both sides of the rich water, tell me, who is the most convenient to inquire about the news?" ”

Before the fat man could come up with it, Jiang Zi had already answered: "The merchants and boatmen on the water dock!" ”

10 points for the correct answer!

Lu Yuanzhi and Han Feilian went to find out the news, the fat man's family opened a butcher shop in Qizhou South City, he grew up in the market, and he has experience in dealing with the three religions and nine streams, and Han Feilian is a veteran of Jinyiwei, and the two of them cooperate with each other to find clues.

Qin Lin remained silent, and stepped forward to talk to Zhao Zhutou, wanting to take something out of his mouth.

But Zhao Zhutou is also an old slippery head who has been trained in the yamen for decades, and his speech does not leak, no matter how Qin Lin knocks on the side, he never leaks his mouth.

When the group came to the Daguan boat, Qin Lin paid attention to Zhao Zhutou, and sure enough, the moment he saw the corpse, the old slippery head finally showed a little panic for the first time, and that terrifying expression flashed on his face.

He wasn't necessarily afraid of killing a living person, but how terrible is this kind of corpse that presents the view of a giant, if you have a memory of its image before its death, the great contrast between the two contrasts, even a hard-hearted person can't completely control his emotions.

"This dress, it seems that the corpse can't wear it!" Qin Lin stared at Zhao Zhutou with a smile.

"Uh-huh!" Zhao Zhutou made a meaningless sound in his mouth, then took a step back, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and sneered: "Yes, I didn't expect it to swell so much......"

Qin Lin sneered twice, Zhao Zhutou's words can taste some flavor.

didn't wait long, Lu Fatzi and Han Feilian came back from the dock, and both of them were slightly excited.

Qin Lin made eye contact with them, and the three of them walked from the rear stern to the side of the gunwale.

The fat man couldn't wait to report: "There is a lieutenant in Fuchi Town who has been missing for eighteen days, and his appearance is the same as this corpse!" ”

(To be continued)