When Songjiang Prefecture tried Shimazu Mingyun and others with great fanfare, Li Yuntian had already gone to Hangzhou City, and he did not go to Hangzhou this time for the sake of the Japanese Invaders, but to investigate a case that caused a sensation in the entire Jiangnan.

In addition to pacifying the Japanese in the coastal areas, Li Yuntian also shouldered the duty of inspecting Jiangnan, and it was his identity in inspecting Jiangnan that made the officials of all sizes in Jiangnan awe him, and then enabled him to implement his strategy of pacifying the Japanese.

In order to be able to concentrate on dealing with the Japanese invaders, Li Yuntianjing handed over the important task of inspecting Jiangnan to Xie Muen, the left deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate who assisted him in inspecting Jiangnan.

Once he encountered a difficult case, Xie Muen did not intervene at first, but asked the local patrol to investigate first, and if the patrol did not find a satisfactory result, he would start to investigate.

The reason why this is Li Yuntian's request, after all, the two capitals and fourteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty have their own imperial histories or governors, and if there is a case, they should be tried first, otherwise it will not tire Li Yuntian and Xie Muen to death, and besides, there needs to be a process to do things, and it must be carried out in accordance with the steps of reporting at all levels.

The reason why this case alarmed Li Yuntian was that it involved a wide range of officials, including the governor of Zhejiang, the imperial history of Zhejiang, the political envoy of Zhejiang, and the envoy of Zhejiang, and Xie Muen could not find out the reason, so he had to pay tribute to Li Yuntian.

By the time Li Yuntian returned from the Japanese Kingdom, the case had caused a storm in Zhejiang, and everyone from high-ranking officials and nobles to peddlers and pawns had a lot of discussions about it, and they all wanted to know the truth of the case.

If the government can't solve the case, the family members of the party involved are ready to go to the capital to sue the emperor and ask the orthodox emperor to decide, although the orthodox emperor is still young, they don't really want to see the orthodox emperor, just to express a demand.

Li Yuntian didn't expect that there would be such a big case in Zhejiang, and it would be to the point of suing the emperor, so he decided to go and see what was going on.

The reason why this matter is so big is because one of the parties involved is a new imperial examiner, and his classmates and friends and the same year of the same year worked together to build momentum, which made the case spread quickly, and even Zhejiang Xuezheng personally intervened.

According to the facts of the case that Li Yuntian grasped, there was a new imperial examiner named Liu Qing in Lin'an County, Hangzhou Prefecture, who hooked up with Liu, the wife of the king butcher in the town, and instigated Liu to secretly murder the Wang butcher with arsenic.

The case file records that Liu Qingjun is elegant and elegant, and his writing is brilliant, while the Wang butcher in the same town is a reckless man in his thirties who is five big and three rough, but the Liu family is less than two years old, and he looks like a flower and jade, and the water is as bright as if he can seep water with a light touch of his hand, and he doesn't know how many wild bees and butterflies covet it.

The reason why Butcher Wang was able to marry a coveted wife was because she was the child daughter-in-law of the Wang family, and at the age of fifteen, she had a round house with Butcher Wang, who was over 30 years old, and was secretly sighed that "a flower was inserted in pig dung".

Liu used to work as a maid in Liu Qing's house, during which he was attracted by the young, handsome and quite literary Liu Qing, and Liu Qing had long been in love with the beautiful Liu family.

In order to be able to stay together, Liu Qing secretly discussed with the Liu family and poisoned the Wang butcher who was in the prime of life with arsenic, causing the Wang butcher to die violently.

Bai Dezhang, the magistrate of Lin'an County, learned of the case and took him to the autopsy, and he used a silver needle to pierce the body of the Wang butcher, and found that the needle body had turned black, so he concluded that the Wang butcher was poisoned and died, and according to his experience, the arsenic guide was applied to the Wang butcher when he died.

Bai Dezhang then arrested Liu, and Liu confessed that Liu Qing had an affair with him, and poisoned the Wang butcher with arsenic in order to get along for a long time.

After obtaining Liu's evidence, Bai Dezhang ordered the arrest of Liu Qing, who had just returned from Hangzhou, and after some interrogation, convicted him of a capital crime on the grounds of "plotting a husband and taking a wife", and reported to Zhejiang Xuezheng University to revoke Liu Qing's reputation.

No one would have thought that such a seemingly ordinary "adulterer ****" case had been tossed for more than two years, from Lin'an County to Hangzhou Mansion, and then to Zhejiang according to the Inspectorate Division, and alarmed the Criminal Department, even the Zhejiang Governor and the Zhejiang Governor have also intervened successively, and the case has not been concluded after more than 20 sessions, and it is famous in Hangzhou Mansion and even the entire Jiangnan.

Liu Qing's sister Liu and his wife Yang were rejected because they refused to accept the crime, but fortunately, Liu Qingxiang's friends in the same department jointly wrote a letter to the Criminal Department to plead their grievances, so that the Criminal Department rejected the official document convicted Liu Qing and Liu by the Zhejiang Inspectorate and ordered the Zhejiang Political Envoy and the Inspectorate to conduct a four-hall trial together with the Zhejiang Governor and the Zhejiang Governor.

As a result of the four sessions, Liu Qing and Liu maintained the original charges, Liu Qing's sister Liu was not satisfied, and was about to enter Beijing to file a complaint to the orthodox emperor, and at this time Xie Muen came to Hangzhou Mansion to inspect and encountered such a difficult case.

The difficulty of this case is that Liu Qing has the support of the Hangzhou government, scholars, and the gentry, while the local yamen unanimously found him guilty, which makes the case deadlocked.

Xie Muen felt that the case was very tricky, and the evidence to convict Liu Qing seemed to be conclusive, but he could not directly convict him, so he asked Li Yuntian for help to prevent the case from intensifying.

The Liu family is a gentry family, so the Liu family has the ability to go to the capital to beat the Dengwen drum, and then not only the relevant yamen in Zhejiang, but also the Criminal Department, Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will also be implicated.

Li Yuntian felt that Liu Qing's case was not so simple, it seemed to be the murder of the Wang butcher, but in fact, it involved a contest between the local gentry and the local government, and there was a good chance that the officials in the yamen were derelict in their duties and violated the law and discipline.

Therefore, after Li Yuntian received Xie Muen's official letter, he rushed to Hangzhou Mansion in a light car, wanting to find out the cause of the case in order to calm down the increasingly violent turmoil.

On this morning, two carriages drove into the county seat of Lin'an County, Hangzhou Prefecture, and more than a dozen elite men on horseback tightly surrounded the two carriages, and the group was dusty and spoke with an accent from the Jinling area, like merchants from Jinling.

After stopping in front of the best restaurant in the county, two maids got out of the carriage behind and came to the front carriage to wait.

With the curtain of the carriage in front of him lifted, a delicate maid got out of the carriage, and then helped down a young couple, the man was elegant and handsome, and the woman was graceful and beautiful, which immediately attracted the attention of many people on the street.

"Two distinguished guests, please upstairs." Seeing this, the shopkeeper standing outside the door of the restaurant hurriedly greeted him, nodded and said to the young couple.

From the situation of the young couple in front of him, the exquisite clothes and the expensive jewelry worn by the ladies, the shopkeeper knew at a glance that the young couple were rich and noble, so they naturally wanted to entertain them.

"Lord and Madam, I have already arranged a place to stay, and I have booked a small courtyard in the best inn in the city." In a private room on the second floor of the restaurant, a young man who had been waiting for a long time waited for the door to close and bowed to the young couple.

The man who spoke was naturally Li Zixi, and the young couple were Li Yuntian and Lei Ting, and the delicate maid was Lin Xin.

Since Li Yuntian wants to intervene in this case, then of course he will not go to Hangzhou City to listen to the report of the people below, after all, hearing is false, seeing is believing, the reason why Liu Qing's case has been tossed for so long is because there are too many entanglements of interests in it, so he wants to go to Weifu to investigate in person, and he will definitely be able to hear many hidden secrets that the local government has not reported.

Li Zixi was sent by Li Yuntian to Lin'an County under the banner of discussing the fabric business, firstly to inquire about the affairs between Liu Qing and the Liu family, and secondly, to arrange a place to stay in Lin'an County.

The two sides agreed to meet in this restaurant, and if it weren't for Li Yuntian's lack of wanting to be too ostentatious, Li Zixi would definitely greet him downstairs.

"What's the catch?" After taking a seat at the wine table, Li Yuntian opened his mouth and asked Li Zixi, who was standing aside, to see what news he had found out in the past few days.

"Lord Wang, after a lowly investigation, Liu Qing was admitted to Xiucai at the age of seventeen, and at the age of twenty-eight, he was promoted to a talent, and he is a famous talent in Lin'an County."

Li Zixi bowed to Li Yuntian when he heard this, and said in an orderly manner, "Liu Qing is the only son in the family, and there is an eldest sister Liu Sujuan who has been widowed for a long time after she got married, and she has been living in her mother's house since her husband died. ”

"Liu Qing's wife Yang is a kind and virtuous woman, from a big family in Lin'an County, her father and brother have a reputation for showing talent, and they have been running around for Liu Qing's affairs since the accident." Saying that, Li Zixi remembered something, "Liu Qing's son is two years old this year, and Liu Sujuan took him to Zhejiang to report to Liu Qing according to the Yamen of the Inspectorate Department, which caused a sensation. ”

"What's the rumor?" Li Yuntian bowed his head slightly when he heard this, no wonder Liu Sujuan desperately wanted to exonerate Liu Qing, it turned out that the two were not only sisters and brothers, but also like mother and son, and then asked in a deep voice, what he needed to know was what was not mentioned in the official documents.

"Liu Qing and Liu are both celebrities in the county, because Liu used to help Liu's family, so there are many rumors about the two, although the people think that there is a personal relationship between the two, but they don't believe that Liu Qing will do something to instigate Liu's poison to kill the Wang Butcher, but think that the Liu family wants to stay with Liu Qing for a long time, so he killed the Wang Butcher, and is a femme fatale."

Li Yuntian's brows suddenly frowned slightly when he heard this, it was obvious that this view of the people had a strong prejudice, it was because Liu Qing had a good family background, coupled with his handsome appearance and many talents, so the people subconsciously thought that it was impossible for him to do the thing of poisoning the king's butcher, but logically put the blame on the Liu family.

Could it be that Liu is really a femme fatale, who was dazzled by ****, and was willing to poison my husband and my butcher in the face of the world's condemnation? Didn't he know that after poisoning the king's butcher, he would know it after he came to check it?