Chapter 149 - Tax Audit
Xuanfei slept until noon before opening his eyes. He rubbed his head and sat up.
Sunlight shines through the window onto the ground. Xuanfei knew that it was not too early. He couldn't remember how he got back. So he went to the shallow house of the childe.
Childe Qingqian and Hanguang were not in the room. Where did they go?
Gongzi Qingqian went to the county government early in the morning. The deceased was Li Yu from the county accounting office. Since he was poisoned, there must be something wrong with the accounts he manages.
Childe looked at his accounts, but found no problems.
"Bai Gongzi! My son-in-law invites you to the county office! Hanguang walked into Childe's shallow room and saw Xuanfei sitting boredly on Childe's shallow bed.
"What are you going to do there?" Xuanfei got up and asked Hanguang.
"Don't you remember what happened last night?"
"Last night?" Xuanfei's face was confused.
"When you go to the county office, you'll know." Hanguang and Xuanfei have already left the museum, got on the horse, and went straight to the county office.
Gongzi Qingqian and the county magistrate stood outside the morgue waiting for Xuanfei.
"My lord! Here they are! "A servant came to report it. Xuanfei and Hanguang walked in front of Gongzi Qingqian.
"This is Bai Xuanfei!" Childe Qingqian introduced.
"Please!" The county magistrate personally pushed open the door of the morgue.
Xuan Fei gave a salute to the county master and walked into the morgue. Then he looked at the corpse that was parked there. Childe Qingqian stood beside him.
"There are two poisons in him! None of them will be fatal! But when the two poisons are combined, they become deadly poisons! Xuanfei's words made the county master frightened.
The coroner only said that Li Yu was indeed poisoned by two kinds of poisons, but neither of them would die!
So who planted this poison? The county lord looked up at Gongzi Qingqian, who was contemplating.
"Is there a master of poison in Xuancheng County?" Childe asked after walking out of the morgue.
"Haven't heard of it!" The county magistrate thought about responding.
"Is there anyone who is a skilled doctor?" Xuanfei asked.
"There's one! But he'd already let his apprentices take over his medical hall! The county magistrate remembered someone. That person was Tang Qifeng, the brother of Tang Langzhong, a famous doctor in the capital.
Tang Qifeng's medical skills were not inferior to his brother Tang Qi
Ancestor. But everyone has their own ambitions, Tang Qifeng doesn't like fame and fortune, and only delves into medicine and pharmacology.
Tang Qifeng heard that the county magistrate had personally visited, so he had to walk out of his medicine house.
"I don't know what kind of illness the county master has?" Tang Qifeng bowed his hand.
"Inquire about the existing cases!" The county magistrate doesn't like Tang Qifeng very much.
The Imperial Physician Department of the capital once ordered the famous men of each county to go to the capital to diagnose the emperor.
The county magistrate reported Tang Qifeng's name. In the end, he couldn't get sick! The county master had no choice but to go to the table to help him lie.
"But what's wrong with my doctor?" Tang Qifeng looked at Yang Chen, the eldest disciple behind the county master.
"Excuse me, Tang Langzhong! Do you recognize these two herbs? Gongzi Qingqian handed Tang Qifeng a bamboo slip with the names of two poisonous herbs written on it.
"The mixture of these two herbs will poison people!" After Tang Qifeng finished speaking, he was stunned.
"Who asked you about this?" Childe Qingqian saw what Tang Langzhong was recalling?
"This matter is a matter of human life! Don't hide it! The county magistrate also saw the clues.
"Don't dare! Xiao Yunzi, who often comes to collect taxes, once asked me if there were two herbs mixed together that could kill people! Tang Qifeng's face began to redden, and cold sweat broke out on his head.
"Take someone!" The county magistrate turned around and walked out of the medical hall.
"How do you think you can tell someone something like this?" Xuanfei stared at Tang Qifeng with beads in his eyes.
"Let's go!" Childe Qingqian dragged Xuanfei away.
"Sir! Little Yunzi ran away! "Catch the fast head and walk into the second hall to report to the county master.
"Close the gates and search the whole city!" The county magistrate immediately ordered.
"There must be someone in this hospital who is tipping off!" Childe Qingqian analyzed.
"Zhao Quan! Go and escort all the people in the infirmary to the yamen to await trial! "The county lord is angry.
"Yes!" Zhao Quan, the official of the government, took people to the medical hall.
The county Yashengtang asked about the case, and no one in the medical center admitted to fornicating with Xiaoyunzi. The county magistrate came to the second hall and walked back and forth on the ground.
"You just need to ask who brought Xiao Yunzi to Tang Qifeng!" Childe said the key to the problem in a simple word!
The county magistrate finally found the person who reported the news in private. He is Tang Qifeng's fourth disciple Bingke.
Xiaoyunzi and Bingke are small! Xiao Yunzi often invites Bingke to eat and drink. The two of them have a good relationship! So Xiao Yunzi used Bingke to get Tang Qifeng's words.
Bingke is a man of righteousness. When he heard that someone from the yamen was asking about it, he went to inform Xiao Yunzi without understanding the reason. So Xiao Yunzi ran away. But he couldn't get out of the gates.
It is not easy to find a fugitive in Xuancheng County who is familiar with every street in the county!
can't catch the criminals, and the county lord is like sitting on pins and needles every day. Gongzi Qingqian asked Hanguang to tell the county magistrate that the rest of the infirmary was released, and only Bingke was punished for fornication, and paraded in the streets for three days!
Liu Tao and Shan Liancheng, who saw the portrait of Xiao Yunzi, were secretly searching for him.
Luckboy hides in a dilapidated house in the city. He occasionally went out to buy something to eat.
He had heard about Bingke being paraded through the streets. So on the third day, he mingled in the crowd to see Bingke.
Bingke's hair is messy and haggard. Xiao Yunzi was sad in his heart, and he couldn't help but stagnate under his feet.
Bingke's dull gaze suddenly lit up as he swept across the crowd. This subtle change did not escape Liu Tao's eyes. He followed Bingke's gaze and found the traces of Xiao Yunzi.
Liu Tao and Shan Liancheng teamed up to hunt down Xiao Yunzi. Xiao Yunzi was escorted to the yamen and knelt down when he saw the county master. He begged the county magistrate to let Bingke go.
The county magistrate said that Bingke had violated the law, so he would naturally be punished by the law!
Childe Qingqian secretly interrogated Xiaoyunzi overnight. At first, Xiao Yunzi insisted that he and Liu Yu were purely personal grievances and did not involve anything else!
Hanguang compared Liu Yu's handwriting at home with the handwriting on the ledger. Although the handwriting on the ledger is very similar, it is still very different from Liu Yu's own.
After reading it, Xiaoyunzi still insisted that she didn't know what was going on! It wasn't until Liu Tao took out the book that he imitated Liu Yu's handwriting that he found at his house that Liu Yu said out of surprise that he leaked his mouth.
"I burned it? How could it be ......"
"You still don't draw a charge?" The county lord shouted.
Zhao Quan, the official of the bureau, grabbed Xiao Yunzi's hand, picked up the pen and drew it.
"This is not true! Let me die to understand! Xiao Yunzi's eyes stared straight at the young man sitting next to the county master.
"I wrote the words!" Childe looked directly at Xiao Yunzi.
"How can you write his words? Who are you? Xiao Yunzi said in a trembling voice.
"I saw on the wall of his house the words he wrote to his mother!" Childe's eyebrows turned upside down and his fists clenched. Liu Yu's mother was dying of her son's sudden violent death.
Liu Yu was killed because he was unwilling to join forces with Xiao Yunzi and his gang, how could Gongzi Qingqian not be angry!
"He is the son of Qingqian who came up to check the tax for the emperor! You might as well recruit it! The county master pointed at Xiao Yunzi and said sharply.
"Haha! Ha! I'm just a little tax collector! Take my life if you want it! Xiao Yunzi laughed and said hoarsely.
"I'm afraid something has happened to your family!" Childe's shallow gaze swept sharply across Xiao Yunzi's face.
"All you need to do is save my family! And I said! Xiao Yunzi's face turned pale and his eyes were empty.
"Liu Tao! Bring it in! Childe said in a deep voice.
Everyone's eyes invariably looked at the door of the second hall.