Soon, Liu Xianling and Hu County Lieutenant came, took the chariot, respectfully invited Xiao Jiading to get on the chariot, and the group left the county office and came to the best restaurant in Wan'an County. They have already set up the best seat, and there is no one to accompany them, just Liu County Ling and Hu County Lieutenant. Xiao Jiading knew that they had something to say.

Sure enough, without waiting for the banquet to be placed, Liu Xianling took out a small money box, put it in front of Xiao Jiading heavily, and said with a smile: "Xiao Zhiyi has worked hard to record prisoners, and we have not done our job well, which has added a lot of trouble to Zhiyi, and please forgive me, this is our little meaning, and I apologize." Please also smile. ”

Xiao Jiading didn't even open the cash box, so he pushed the cash box back and said: "Liu County Order, Hu County Lieutenant, our friendship, we don't need to be measured by money, if we talk about money, it will be divided." It's not good for you or me. ”

Liu County Ling and Hu County Lieutenant persuaded Xiao Jiading to accept it, which made Xiao Jiading very embarrassed, so he said: "Actually, I need two helpers in Wan'an County, you really want to thank me, and you can do me a favor when the time comes." ”

"Please say, what are you busy with? We'll do our best! ”

In fact, Xiao Jiading didn't think about asking them to help at all, he just said that. But since they had already asked, they said casually: "I want to set up a horse farm, I wonder if we have a suitable place to build a horse farm in Wan'an?" ”

Xiao Jiading also thought of it temporarily, and Geng Changshi had decided to hand over the official business of buying Shu horses to him. He didn't want to gain benefits by doing tricks in the transaction, but he didn't want to give up such a good opportunity to make money, so he temporarily thought that it would be better to run a horse farm in the name of someone else, so that he could buy Shu horses directly from his own horse farm, as long as there is no problem with the price, making money is justified, and there is no suspicion of corruption.

Liu County Ling and Hu County Lieutenant both laughed, and Liu County Ling said: "Xiao Zhiyi, you can be regarded as looking for the right place." The entire Jiannan Road is the most suitable place for us to raise cattle and horses! The best cattle and horses in Shu are also with us. Since Xiao Zhiyi has this plan, this matter is easy to do, and I will set up a horse farm for you in a circle. I'll do the land requisition! This matter of looking for horses will be handled by County Lieutenant Hu. ”

County Lieutenant Hu hurriedly agreed, patted his chest and said that it was a trivial matter, and he would definitely handle this matter well.

Xiao Jiading said: "I can put it in front, I want to spend as much money as I should spend to run this horse farm, don't be tired of playing on it." In that case, I don't want it. ”

Liu Xianling and Hu Xianwei actually had this idea, and wanted to bribe Xiao Jiading by setting up a horse farm at a low price, but they didn't expect Xiao Jiading to say it first, seeing that he was serious, not like a pretentious gesture, the two had to nod and agree. ”

Xiao Jiading said: "As long as you help me do this well, you will do me a great favor, and you don't have to give me any benefits in terms of price." Also, I'm going to do it in someone else's name. This avoids problems. Meantime. I am going to buy a large number of Shu horses in the near future, and I want to buy adult Shu horses, and now I will buy mares to raise. ”

Hu County Lieutenant said: "There is no problem with this. I'll do it. We have a lot of horses and cattle in Jiannan Road. Enough to meet the needs. ”

Now that Xiao Jiading has already said this request. resolutely refused to ask for money, and Liu County Ling and Hu County Lieutenant were no longer reluctant.

Now that people have this attitude, and they have already changed the verdict of the case they want to change, Xiao Jiading will certainly not do things too much. also said that if these two cases will say good things in front of the prince of Shu, they should not be punished.

The reason why Xiao Jiadingzi can express this attitude. It is because these two cases are cases assigned by Princess Yang, and the prince of Shu loves this Princess Yang very much, and he knows that Princess Yang has handed over some cases to him, so he will not be embarrassed.

With Xiao Jiading's statement, Liu Xianling and Hu Xianwei breathed a sigh of relief, and called a few singers who had already prepared to serve the wine to accompany the wine, these women were also considerate in their words and actions, although they were not as good as a metropolis like Yizhou, but they were not bad.

Several people drank happily until late at night.

Just as he was about to disperse, a soap subordinate of the yamen ran in in a panic, clenched his fists and said, "Master Qiqi, it's not good, it's a murder case!" ”

As soon as he heard that there had been a murder, Liu Xianling was trembling. As a palm seal officer, this is what I am most worried about, once a life case occurs, it cannot be solved within the time limit, which will affect political performance. Therefore, there are a very small number of officials who are bold and reckless, and when they encounter a thorny murder case, they would rather suppress it and not report it, or determine that it is an accidental death and suppress the case. Of course, Liu Xianling didn't have the courage, not to mention that Xiao Zhiyi, who was a prisoner on behalf of the prince of Shu, was still on the side. After settling down, he said, "What's the matter?" To put it bluntly! ”

"Master Qu's family came to report the case, saying that their young lady was killed in the boudoir, and in addition, there is a man's body in the boudoir, I don't know how it came about!"

Liu County's first reaction was the love killing of men and women fornication! If that's the case, it's okay to do, since the man also died in the boudoir, it's really not good, it's just to think that the two became enemies because of love, and they died of love killing. So he calmed down a little in his heart, and said to Xiao Jiading: "I heard that Xiao Zhiyi solved the case like a god, and it happened to bump into it, can Zhiyi go to inspect the scene together and give some guidance to the lower officials?" ”

In fact, the several cases that Xiao Jiading solved before, that is, people in the Yizhou circle knew that in ancient times when communications were backward, they had not yet reached Wan'an County in Jinzhou. Liu Xianling just wanted to pat Xiao Jiading's sycophants, so he just said it casually. If Xiao Jiading excused himself, he would have borrowed the donkey to get off the slope.

Xiao Jiading had already received instructions from Tang Lin to use every opportunity to expand his fame as much as possible in order to carry out his plan. Now I have encountered a murder case, and what is the peach-colored murder case of the old lady's family and a man who died in the boudoir, this kind of case is the easiest to attract everyone's attention, if you intervene in the detection of this case, then the impact will go out.

So, Xiao Jiading immediately agreed: "Since Liu County's order is so trusted, it is better to be respectful than to obey his orders." ”

Liu Xianling was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Xiao Jiading to agree so happily, this is also a good thing, there are officials who recorded prisoners discharged by the prince of Shu to help solve the case, if it can't be detected, his responsibility will be much smaller, so he is also very happy, and he is busy thanking him.

So a few people got out of the restaurant and went to the scene in a chariot.

When they arrived at the scene, the arrester of the Wan'an County Yamen had already received the news, and with lanterns, they set up a guard around the embroidery building at the scene, and no idle people were allowed to approach. Not even Master Qu and his family. Xiao Jiading is also satisfied, which shows that the awareness of this yamen to protect the scene and collect clues about the crime is still good.

When the Huang Zhutou of the Yamen saw them coming, he hurriedly greeted them and saluted with his fists.

Liu County ordered: "What's the matter? ”

Huang Zhutou said: "The subordinates have briefly seen the scene, Master Qu's daughter died on the bed, facing the sky on her back, her skirt and clothes have been untied and peeled off. He was slashed horizontally in the neck and was dead. The body of another young man was lying in front of the bed, with a pair of scissors stuck in his heart. With a single knife in his hand, he is also dead. There is also a package next to it with some gold and silver jewelry. Speaking of this, Huang Zhutou lowered his voice and said, "This man who died is very similar to Xiao Soul, a flower thief who escaped from prison and absconded before the Spring Festival!" ”

Liu Xianling was surprised and delighted: "Is it really him?" ”

"It looks like it, but it hasn't been autopsied yet, so it's hard to confirm."

Liu Xianling nodded happily, and when he saw Xiao Jiading looking at him in confusion, he hurriedly explained: "This Xiao Soul, originally from Suzhou, is a scholar, but he likes to mess with flowers and grass by nature, because he is good at light skills, so he became a flower thief, and harmed many women from good families, and the yamen has been catching him at sea. A few days ago, we received a report that he was going to a certain house to pick flowers, and we laid a net in advance to arrest him in one fell swoop. Sentenced to death, and was submitting for approval, I didn't expect this kid to take advantage of people's unpreparedness and escape from prison and steal it on the eve of the Spring Festival! I was struggling to arrest him, but I didn't expect him to fall into the net and die here. It's really Skynet, which is sparse but not leaky. ”

"I see. - Who reported the crime? How was it discovered? ”

She heard a noise in the young lady's room, asked a few times, didn't hear the answer, and came to the young lady's room, and saw the young lady lying on the bed, bleeding a lot, and no longer moving, there was also a man's body on the ground, with a pair of scissors in her chest, so she ran to tell the master, and reported to the official. Fortunately, after they found out that the young lady was dead, they did not move the body and reported it directly to the official. ”

"Well, yes, let's go up and inspect the scene first, and then conduct the corresponding investigation."

"Good!"

Since the county magistrate personally came out of this case, there was no need for the county lieutenant to intervene, so the county lieutenant Hu did not follow, but waited below.

Xiao Jiading followed Liu County's order, accompanied by Huang Zhutou, and went up to the embroidery building.

This embroidery floor is the boudoir of Master Qu's daughter, and downstairs is where the old mother and the rough maid live, as well as the living room. Upstairs is the lady's boudoir, study and piano room. The outer room is the residence of the little maid.

Both bodies were in the lady's boudoir. Sure enough, as Huang Zhutou said, the body of the young lady was on the bed, and the body of the lewd thief was under the bed. The corpse of the thief had a pair of scissors stuck in its heart, and it bleed very little, only a small piece of the chest was soaked. But the body of the young lady on the bed was very terrible, and there was a deep wound on her neck, which almost cut off most of her neck. The blood had turned the bed near her head into a dark red pool of blood!

The strong smell of blood made Liu Xianling's face immediately turn pale. He stood at the door, trembling vigorously, not daring to step forward, only glanced at the tragic scene at the scene, and then turned his head and didn't dare to look at it again. (To be continued......)