Lu Jinping instructed Xiong Zhutou to escort another Langzhong to a distance for questioning alone, while he personally interrogated Li Langzhong, and then compared the confessions of the two.

Lu Jinping asked Li Langzhong: "Did you throw the female beggar who died tragically in the grove?" ”

"Yes...... it's all Huang Dashan's idea, he asked us to do it, and we were supposed to throw it into a mass grave, but we were lazy halfway and threw it into the woods."

"You tell me the details!"

"Well, at that time, the female beggar was sent to Beitianfang by a family of three, and Huang Dashan found his nephew. -- His nephew knew about us, because Huang Dashan had told him to let him do it together, but he was too timid to participate. Huang Dashan is not reluctant, but there is something that he still has to deal with, his medical skills are actually not better than ours, and it is all braggadocio boasted by his uncle Huang Dashan. When he came, he helped the female beggar to bandage her wounded leg, and then went back. Huang Dashan let the two of us send the female beggar away. But to the people who registered in front of the yamen, she didn't say that she was gone. In this way, we will be able to swallow up the money allocated by the imperial court for the elderly, sick or injured homeless elderly and homeless beggars. ”

"How did you throw that beggar into the woods? After making it clear. ”

"Yes, when I was about to come out, Huang Dashan said that this female beggar was only injured in the leg, and now Huang Langzhong has given her the medicine to stop bleeding, as long as there is no bleeding, her life will be fine. If that happens, it's going to be in trouble. Because many people in the same state know this female beggar, she is still relatively young and a fool, and no one knows how she came here. Many people pity her and often give her food, so many people know her. If she appeared on the street, maybe the people at the Yamen Hospital would recognize her and know that she was still begging on the street, how could she appear in our Beitianfang at the same time to receive medicine? Then it would be exposed. So Huang Dashan said that it was better to be thorough. So we rinsed off the hemostatic medicine and osteopathic medicine from her wound with clean water, so that her wound was bleeding nonstop. It won't be long before you're going to die. No one knows that we did it. Originally, we were going to transport her to the mass grave and throw it away, but after we transported her out of the city in a dual-purpose carriage, we felt that the mass grave was too far away and it was difficult to leave at night. Again. If she died in a mass grave, it would raise suspicions, after all, it was too far from the city, and there were no people nearby, and beggars would not appear in such a place, because there was no money and rice to eat. It's better to just throw it on the side of the road somewhere. Dead is not easy to arouse suspicion. That's why we threw him in the roadside woods. ”

Lu Jinping understood. No wonder Huang Langzhong bandaged the wound of the female beggar, but when he found the corpse, the wound was indeed clean, but it turned out to be washed away by the damn Langzhong here with water halfway. It's really innocent, and it's guilty. Who would have thought that a beggar would be murdered in order to swallow up the money allocated by the imperial court to treat them? The imperial court originally wanted to help these poor lonely old men and beggars, but they didn't expect to be harmed by Huang Dashanren's fake mercy.

Lu Jinping said: "How many beggars have you killed? ”

Li Langzhong shuddered and said, "There are only a few who are directly killed, all of them are easy to expose, and the others are sent directly outside the city, threatening them to leave the same state." When they're gone, they won't be exposed. ”

"Tell me all about the beggars you killed!"

Li Langzhong told the story of every murder for money, and the bodies of some beggars were buried in mass graves.

After the interrogation, the two confessions were compared, and the main plots could be consistent, proving the authenticity of the confessions. With the confessions of these two accomplices, this case can basically be solved, not to mention that Xiong Zhutou heard Huang Dashan personally instruct them to transport the old beggar he played to be disposed of outside the city.

At that moment, a group of people escorted the two Lang Zhong back to Tongzhou.

They went straight to Beitianfang, woke up the clerk of the medical hall who registered at the door, and Xiong Zhutou personally led people to arrest Huang Dashan, who lived behind Beitianfang, from the warm bed.

When Huang Dashan saw the "old beggar" bear who had not had time to change his clothes, he caught his head. Frightened, I didn't know what was going on.

When Lu Jinping showed the testimony of his two accomplices, Huang Dashan completely collapsed and confessed the entire crime. is completely consistent with what the two Lang Zhong said, and the whole case was solved.

At this moment, the sky has revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly.

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More than ten days later.

The emperor issued a holy decree to promote Lu Jinping to the judicial department of the same state government and to be in charge of the prison.

In the Tang Dynasty, officials above the seventh rank had to be appointed by the emperor himself. Because the number of officials below the eighth rank was too large, they were directly appointed by the officials entrusted by the emperor. The former Luo Judicial of Tongzhou was transferred to the Ministry of Household Affairs in the capital and was also promoted. It's a good move, and I'm happy.

Lu Jinping can be directly promoted from a doctor of medicine from the ninth grade to a judicial from the seventh grade, which is really jaw-dropping. The Yamen and others came to congratulate, thinking that this was a reward for Lu Jinping's continuous detection of strange cases. Only Lu Jinping himself knows that if he can be promoted just by being good at solving cases, it is true for low-level officials. However, as far as leading cadres at and above the intermediate level are concerned, their professional ability has taken a back seat, and the key lies in the unspoken rules of officialdom.

Lu Jinping found this unspoken rule, used Imperial Doctor Zhang, who could speak, and exchanged it for the valuable recipe for concocting aconitum aconitum. That's how quickly I got the hat.

No one knows about this except him and Imperial Doctor Zhang. Outsiders still think that he has been promoted through meritorious service.

When the former servant of the Ministry of Officials, Mrs. Gao, who sponsored him to become an official, learned about this incident, and he couldn't keep his mouth shut for a long time. However, these days, he has been paying attention to Lu Jinping's movements, knowing that he has solved several major cases in a row, a few days ago Imperial Doctor Zhang asked him to discuss the matter of jointly promoting Lu Jinping as a criminal officer in the same state, saying that General Li also agreed to the joint sponsorship, because Lu Jinping solved the theft of his grandmother's grave, he is very grateful and appreciates Lu Jinping's detection ability. Old lady Gao was reluctant to promote Lu Jinping as a criminal officer before, but during this period of time, Lu Jinping proved that he was qualified for the position of criminal officer. Old lady Gao happily agreed.

Of course, Old Lady Gao was also a little puzzled, why did this imperial doctor make such efforts to sponsor Lu Jinping? It's just that he has been in the officialdom for many years, and he has been the main leader of the Tang Dynasty's organizational and personnel work for a long time, of course he knows many of the unspoken rules, don't ask about these things, don't ask, it's rare to be confused, so although he has doubts, he doesn't ask.

came to congratulate Lu Jinping, as well as Huang Langzhong.

After Huang Dashan and Li Langzhong were imprisoned, because before this, Imperial Doctor Zhang had warned Zhang Dalang and others not to make any more trouble, and everything was subject to Lord Lu's disposal.

Lu Jinping did not reveal the secret of the prescription, but said very vaguely that the prescription was too domineering, and there would be danger if he was not careful, and Huang Langzhong was not intentional or negligent, but an uncontrollable accident led to the poisoning and death of Daddy Zhang, who was taking the medicine. The main reason is that Fang Zi itself is too dangerous. And not the responsibility of Lang Zhong himself. Therefore, it was decided that Huang Langzhong would pay for the burial of Father Zhang, and pay 5,000 yuan to settle the matter as appropriate. At the same time, in the name of the Yamen Medical Center, this case was reported to the local medical centers, and they should be very cautious about this prescription, and generally do not use such a large dose of Aconitum to prevent poisoning.

Brother Zhang Dalang has received a stern warning from his uncle Imperial Doctor Zhang that they are not allowed to make trouble, and they must obey the judge's judgment. What's more, Lu Jinping's final verdict is still acceptable, so this matter is over.

Although Huang Langzhong spent a lot of money, it was much less than the huge figure of 100,000 Wen. In addition, what he has always been most worried about being determined by the yamen to constitute "mistaken inferior to his own side" or even "therefore inferior to his own side", it will be miserable, and the light case will be imprisoned for two and a half years, and the serious case will be beheaded for intentional homicide. And Lu Jinping's final verdict was confirmed as an accident, which made him cry with excitement. didn't know that this incident was indeed an accident, the reason why Lu Jinping said that was just to use this incident to coerce him to tell the secret of Beitianfang that he knew, and sure enough, from his mouth, Huang Dashan's crime of murder for money was detected in one fell swoop.

Also coming to celebrate were the Tibetan envoy Yunzi brother and sister and their master Nan Nuo Benqiong. Yunzi was the most surprised, saying that in their Tubo, it was basically impossible to be promoted from an official under the ninth rank to an official from the seventh rank. Unless it's royalty. Lu Jinping had to half-jokingly say that in Datang, everything is possible.

Indeed, the imperial doctor beside the emperor, plus the former servant of the ministry and the general of the Imperial Forest Army around the incumbent emperor, the most important thing is that the big red pill concocted by Zhang Imperial Medical Lu Jinping cured the stubborn illness of Empress Wei, who held real power, and Empress Wei was "phoenix-faced" for this, and she was grateful to Imperial Doctor Zhang and rewarded him with a face, and Lu Jinping did show outstanding talent in detection and was qualified for this position, so Empress Wei directly issued an order in the name of the emperor to promote Lu Jinping's official.

A few days later, Imperial Doctor Zhang personally visited Lu Jinping, asking for a return for the concoction method.

Of course, Imperial Doctor Zhang had to show his merit first, and said that the difficulties of promoting Lu Jinping were nothing more than to let Lu Jinping know that it was worth exchanging with his aconitum method. Of course, the words couldn't hide the benefits he got from it, that is, after Empress Wei's illness was cured, she was very happy, and she had promoted him to be the head of the imperial doctor, and she was by her side. Infinite glory.

Lu Jinping secretly thought in his heart that Empress Wei would be unlucky in less than two years, and she would be killed by Li Longji, but she was afraid that this imperial doctor would be affected by the time, so she had the heart to nudge him, but seeing his smug appearance, if he said it himself, it would attract suspicion and be very bad for himself.

At that moment, Lu Jinping told Imperial Doctor Zhang the method of concocting aconitum aconitum. (To be continued.) )