Dongfang Ye and Chu Shancheng were still very polite when they spoke: "My lord, this is a corpse that we found on the official road at the entrance of Lepeiyuan Hutong. ”

Dongfang Ye said, made a gesture of please, and walked to the side of the corpse with Chu Shancheng at close range: "Look, my lord, this corpse is gorgeously dressed, and the Su embroidery on the clothes is very exquisite, at a glance, you can see that it is a big family, and the bracelet on the body of this female corpse is all green, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford to wear." ”

After the female corpse was pulled back, it was laid flat on a table, and because of her hideous face, her face was covered with a white cloth.

The old man stood with his head bowed to the side. He had no right to speak in front of the officials who came out of Dali Temple, so he had to stand in a corner of the room and try to reduce his sense of existence.

Chu Shancheng walked in front of the corpse and took off the white veil at once, with a blue and purple face, the woman's original facial features were also somewhat deformed because of stiffness.

But this face, Chu Shancheng searched in his mind for a while, confirming that he had seen it.

It was three years ago, at the birthday banquet of the Empress Dowager, when he was the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard, responsible for inspecting the security of the palace, and it was at that time that he saw this face, and he had an impression.

When the Empress Dowager met with her mother's Li family, she specially singled out the owner of this face and reprimanded her for not opening up the branches for the Li family. He deliberately glanced at the woman's expression because of curiosity, and the pear blossom cried very sadly with the rain.

"This woman is the Li family of Zhenguo Gong." Chu Shancheng blurted out according to his memory.

Dong Wan immediately followed and asked, "But the concubine of the Li family?" ”

This time, Chu Shancheng and Dongfang Ye looked back at him together.

Dong Wan, a lawyer, how did he know the identity of this noble lady's wife?

Dong Wan immediately realized that he seemed to have said something that shouldn't be said, and hurriedly made up for it: "I think it should be according to age, haha, haha." ”

Chu Shancheng stared at him for a long time, looking like he didn't believe it at all.

Fortunately, Dongfang Ye interrupted him by speaking: "There is one more thing, Shaoqing, our county government said that this woman may have a child in her womb, and she also lost it." ”

This time, Chu Shancheng and Dong Wan looked at each other at this shocking fact.

In other words, this turned out to be one corpse with two lives!

After Dongfang Ye finished his introduction, several people fell into silence, and they were a little overwhelmed by this somewhat heavy fact.

Chu Shancheng paused for a while and said, "Okay, I know, I'll go back to Dali Temple to file a case later." ”

If a princess may not be enough to attract the attention of Dali Temple, then this lost child may have been the son-in-law of the prince and the eldest grandson of the prince, so he is definitely qualified to be tried by Dali Temple.

Originally, Chu Shancheng was about to go out to the Dali Temple next to him, and when he saw Dong Wan, who had been dangling in front of him, he pointed at him and asked Dongfang Ye, "Why is he here?" ”

It is just that King Lu's wife is related to Dong Wan, and the deed of sale of the Lepeiyuan girl is in his hands, but this unrelated and unprovoked princess is dead, so he came to join in the fun.

This kid named Dong Wan has an unusual and suspicious smell all over his body.

Dongfang Ye said calmly: "He is the lawyer of this case. ”

Dong Wan was also stunned, and Chu Shancheng was also stunned.

The reason why Dong Wan was stunned was that he didn't seem to have agreed to take the case just now.

The reason why Chu Shancheng was stunned was that he really didn't expect that this Dong Wan would dare to take on such a big case, worthy of being a litigant, asking for money and not dying.

But since Dongfang Ye said so, Dong Wan also pushed the boat down, anyway, he was originally entrusted by this woman's parents to be this lawyer, so he didn't deny it.

It's just that Dong Wan always feels that there is something wrong with this matter, but he can't explain it clearly.

Chu Shancheng didn't show surprise on his face, and said seriously: "If you really want to take on this case, then you can follow me to Dali Temple." ”

Dong Wan had a long heart, knowing that once he went to sign and confirm all the formalities with Chu Shancheng, there would be no turning back.

Asked, "Are you sure you're a suspect?" ”

Chu Shancheng said: "No. ”

"Then before your Dali Temple identifies the suspect, give me a while to think about it."

Chu Shancheng reacted for a moment after hearing this, and even he really felt in his heart that this case was very unusual.

It seems that there is no hurry to determine the next lawyer, it is better to file a case and investigate it first, and look at it while investigating, so that Dali Temple can also have more autonomy.

Chu Shancheng put on that expressionless and businesslike look again: "Then you go home first, you can't participate in this case before you take over." ”

Dong Wan also understands that if this case has not been filed, he will be involved too much here, and it will be easy to be arrested and interrogated as a suspect.

Nodding: "Okay." He looked up and said to Chu Shancheng: "After I have a suspect, come to Lepeiyuan to find me." ”

Chu Shancheng said: "Well, I know. After speaking, he went out to the Dali Temple next to it.

Dong Wan also quickly left and returned to his home.

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Mao Xiang received an invitation from Chu Shimao yesterday, inviting him to come to Chu's house for dinner tonight.

Two years ago, before he was sent to Nanjing, he worshipped Chu Shimao as his teacher. It is said that the apprentice has to get together with the master. It's just that he went to Nanjing just after worshipping the teacher, and then Dong Xiaowan was demoted to the Hanlin Academy.

It is said that a person like him basically has no use value for Chu Shimao, Chu Shimao has not contacted him, and he naturally does not want to take the initiative to go to Chu Shimao.

It's just that he didn't expect that Chu Shimao would suddenly invite himself to a banquet.

And it's not the kind of fanfare thank-you banquet where many disciples are invited to his home as guests.

Instead, he just invited a person.

It's a bit sudden.

However, for Mao Xiang, Chu Shimao is the first assistant of the cabinet after all, and he is a small doctor of the Hanlin Academy, so there is no reason to refuse.

When he went out in the morning, he told Dong Wan that he wouldn't go home for dinner tonight if he had something, but he almost didn't choke Dong Wan. Pointing at him, he asked loudly, "You even eat out!" ”

So Mao Xiang ordered Mao out of the Hanlin Courtyard in the afternoon and went straight to the Chu Mansion.

This Chu Shancheng has hardly set foot in the Chu Mansion since he smashed the door plaque at the age of six.

On the door plaque of Chu Mansion, you can still see some traces of red oil splashing, and after people wipe and care, they still can't recover as before.

The courtyard of the Chu family is not very big, but after entering, the winding path is secluded, and the scholarly fragrance of the literati and scholars is coming to the face.

Pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, rockeries, plum orchids and bamboo chrysanthemums.

One place is one scenery, one place is one feature.

This elegant style can't be piled up for any amount of money.

It takes an unknown number of people to take care of it every day, take care of it all the time, and build and manage it every day to create it.