Ruan Qiqi returned to the criminal department from Chen's house, crossed Erlang's legs, and before he finished drinking a cup of tea, a small official rushed in, with a blue face, "Lao Jin on the autumn trial, hang and hang ......" The little official was anxious, frightened and afraid, and when he said the word hanging, he couldn't go on, and he only wiped a hand on his neck in a hurry.

"Look at your appearance, isn't it just hanging a person, what's the big deal, where is it? Go check it out, who else knows? Did you report it to Zhou Shangshu? Ruan Qiqi stood up with a shout.

He had just taken over the errand to find out how Wu San had escaped from prison, and this little official hanged himself, which was too coincidental.

The little official followed closely behind Ruan Seventeen and hurriedly pointed the way, "At home, I don't know, I heard that I was hanged, so I hurried over to report to you, Master Seventeen, here and here." ”

"Tell me what you know." Ruan Qiqi strode forward with the guidance of the little official, and at the same time signaled to the little official who finally took a breath.

"Said that it looked good, and then Lao Jin said that he had to go back to his house if he had something, and his house was on the street in front of the yamen, very close, who knew that he would not return as soon as he went, because he wanted a dossier from above, and the dossier was received by him, and they found his house, and his daughter-in-law was washing clothes in the yard, saying that he was in the house, but as soon as he pushed the door, he saw it hanging on the beam."

The little officials know that there are not many useful ones, and there are really a lot of useless ones.

The two of them had just left the yamen, and they were running back from the yamen, Dongshan saw Ruan 17, and immediately turned around and followed Ruan 17, and reported as he walked: "The master was not here just now, I heard that Jin Shouli hanged himself, so the little one made his own decision and went to inquire first." ”

The little official looked up at Dongshan with a look up, it is really convenient for a rich man to be an official, look at this little guy, this clever man, this ability, if it is in their criminal department, at least a small chief official's material. There are a bunch of such little guys!

"It was said that Jin Shouli was fine when he arrived at the Yamen in the morning, before and after the ceremony, several small officials of their Autumn Trial Division got together to drink a cup of tea and take a breath, and talked about gossip, saying that Zhou Shangshu had handed over the matter of Wu San's escape to the seventeenth master, Jin Shouli's face changed, and said that his face had changed very badly, everyone saw it, and asked him what was wrong, he said that he probably didn't eat clean in the morning, and his stomach suddenly hurt badly, and then he went out, and said that he had to grab the side medicine and go home to boil and eat."

"I'll see later." In front of him, he could already see a group of people with their sleeves on tiptoe and their necks stretched, Ruan Qiqi knew that it had arrived, raised his hand to signal Dongshan, and then turned his head and said to the little official: "You go back to the ministry and go and talk to Zhou Shangshu, Jin Shouli's death may be related to the prison escape, I will investigate this matter, and let him call all the irrelevant idlers away." ”

"Yes." The little official turned around and ran back.

Dongshan pushed away a group of long-necked goose-like idlers, let Ruan Seventeen, and followed up himself, Beihai stayed outside, commanding a few small servants to disperse the onlookers.

In the very small courtyard, a bucket of water rolled aside, and the water flowed all over the courtyard, and at the door of the main house, a thin woman was lying on the threshold, crying and breaking her liver and intestines.

In the house, Jin Shouli had already been put down, and several officials of the Autumn Judge Division were standing around him, and Shangguan did not come, so they couldn't do anything for the time being.

As soon as Ruan Qiqi entered the courtyard, the chief officer of the Autumn Trial Division also arrived, Ruan Qiqi stretched out his hand to stop him, "I told Zhou Shangshu, this person is only afraid that it has something to do with the prison escape, here I come, you go back with them first, and I will look for you if there is something." ”

"Good, good!" The chief officer agreed repeatedly, and he was simply grateful that someone was willing to take care of such a tricky and unhelpful matter.

Ruan Seventeen stood in the middle of the courtyard, and was about to go in, when his feet rose and fell.

Wu San escaped from prison, he asked Lao Guo, Lao Guo said that he didn't know, Lao Guo didn't know, that must be a means to the family.

On Potai Mountain, that devil didn't take much advantage, he didn't suffer a loss. This opponent is at least on par with the devil.

The prison of the Criminal Department is in his charge, and Wu San's escape from prison may be investigated in the end, and he will be found on himself, of course, he is not afraid of this matter, there are many people who want to frame him, and there is no one who can be planted.

However, this matter still has to be guarded against in advance, the first one, first of all, everything must be said to others.

The big case in Potaishan is the general manager of Chen Jiang, and his small escape case is the introduction of the big case in Potaishan, well, it is natural to find Chen Jiang.

Chen Jiang is a good person, with broad shoulders, willing to take responsibility, courageous, fearless, and fearless, he likes this.

"You go to the small courtyard behind the Yushi Terrace, find Chen Shilang, and tell him that there is a small official in the Criminal Department who hanged himself, so he said that what I said, this matter must be related to Wu San's escape from prison, and I am not good at this post-mortem investigation scene, so please ask him to come here." Nguyen XVII instructed Dong Shan.

Chen Jiang has now received the title of a squire, but he didn't say which squire he was. However, according to Zhu Xi's words, what he got was the squire's Yulu, and that's it.

Dongshan came quickly, Chen Jiang didn't come, saying that Xuyi Jun had found out, he rushed over, it was Zhu Xi who came, politely met Ruan 17, politely discussed with Ruan 17, and invited two servants from the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to start the autopsy.

Chen Jiangling's envoy was instructed to be in charge of him, and as for the manpower, he asked the six departments and all the departments to cooperate.

Fortunately, in the case of Potai Mountain, as long as you are not stupid to a certain extent, you know that there are many things in the future.

First, the province is in the hands of Chen Jiang, and Chen Jiang's reputation for not being afraid of anyone dares to offend is now very loud.

Second, they are more afraid of being seen by any eye, and they will not be able to see it well. Now that the second master and the Su family are completely collapsed, those two swords are tense, and they can't get a little bit of a star at this time.

Zhu Xi used the warrant left by Chen Jiang, the criminal department didn't say anything, it was originally their family's business, Dali Temple immediately ordered two of the best works, and also allocated two horses, and soon arrived.

Ruan Qiqi watched the autopsy for a while, and when he saw that there were no big flowers, he began to wander around the courtyard and the houses, and stopped next to Jin Shouli's daughter-in-law, who was crying bitterly, and looked at it carefully for a while.

Zhu Xi looked like an honest master, standing next to the four servants, carefully watching the autopsies of the four people, listening, asking, pointing out where to check again, and glancing at the records of the bookstore next to him, as if he didn't notice Ruan Seventeen's wandering around.

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Ruan Seventeen rushed into Chen's mansion to make a fuss, and half of the streets where his daughter was crying could be heard being carried out and returned to her parents' house, not long after this incident, Luo Shangshu Luo Zhongsheng knew, and then got the message of Changsui, Mrs. said, if it's okay, go back early, where can Luo Zhongsheng still sit still, he didn't let him send lunch to the ministry, he went back to eat.

Mrs. Qiao came out, and without waiting for Mrs. Qiao to speak, Luo Zhongsheng looked at Mrs. Qiao's reddish eyes, and asked first, "Sister Wan'er is back?" How's it going? Is it serious? ”

"I knew you should know, the illness is not serious, please ask the doctor to check the pulse, but nothing else, it's not good."

Mrs. Qiao and Luo Zhongsheng entered the house side by side, and first told Li Wenmei what she said.

“…… This is all what Sister Mei said, the second wife of the Li Mansion can hear a mountain shouting, we only knew this point before, who knows, that Mrs. Hu followed the wife of the Li family from beginning to end, and she instigated it, saying that she was still holding the seventeenth master's little guy Nanhai.

Alas, what kind of medicine did the second wife of the Li family have, but it was also instigated by Mrs. Hu. The second wife of the Li family is a fool, this, almost everyone in the capital knows it, but Mrs. Hu has too many eyes to count, and almost everyone knows it, saying that it was all instigated by Mrs. Hu, I believe this.

Sister Mei said that when she sent Sister Wan back home, Ding Jiaerlang told Aunt Chen in detail about these things, Sister Mei said, Ding Jiaerlang felt that Aunt Chen definitely had to tell you about this, so he didn't come to us again, but Uncle Chen didn't mention a word, look at it, how big a deal this is. ”

Luo Zhongsheng's face changed, "That's what Sister Mei said?" Thinking that Chen Xinghui told me, he didn't come to us to talk about it? Is this the exact word? ”

"That's what I said, I heard it at the time, and I was also shocked, look at it!" Mrs. Qiao saw that her husband's face changed, and knew that the matter was more serious than she imagined, and the original seventy percent was annoyed, but now it became ten percent, "I know the Chen family's aunt's thoughts, I'm afraid that if we know, we will blame them for the Chen family, but why is he so stupid, is this a matter of blaming or not?" Look! ”

"Someone," Luo Zhongsheng's face turned slightly pale, and he first raised his voice to call someone in, and ordered: "Pick a few proper people, quietly look at Chen Fu and Chen Province, especially Chen Province, see what he is doing, don't alarm him." ”

The long follower responded, and withdrew with his hands down.

Mrs. Qiao sighed continuously, and Luo Zhongsheng looked at Mrs. Qiao, "After Ruan Seventeen arrived at the Chen Mansion, what happened?" ”

"Alas, Mama Qiu sees the end from the beginning, you know Mama Qiu, she is very honest and safe, she said...... "Mrs. Qiao carefully told Luo Zhongsheng about the situation and those words that Mama Qiu said, as well as the arrival of Li Wenmei and Li Wennan one after another.

Luo Zhongsheng listened attentively, and the more he listened, the more his face softened, and when he heard the end, he breathed a sigh of relief, and Mrs. Qiao looked at him with questions on her face.

"This is not obvious, the seventeenth master is not going to make trouble today, this is to take Sister Wan out first, alas." Luo Zhongsheng also sighed again and again, "This seventeenth master is notoriously arrogant, but he can't be provoked, no one says anything else about him." In this incident, Sister Wan only had grievances, and he knew it, so he ...... Alas, you see. ”

"I think so too, the words of the seventeenth master, I think, every sentence is very good, and it all goes to my heart, they Chen family, they know that we love Sister Wan the most, this is to take this Sister Wan'er, to take care of us, what is this called!" The more Madame Jo spoke, the more angry she became.

"How is Sister Wan'er?" Luo Zhongsheng furrowed his eyebrows, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Sister Wan," Mrs. Qiao's words choked, and after a moment, she sighed again, "I can't hide it anyway, I'll tell you the truth, Sister Wan said that she won't go to the Chen family, no matter what, if we keep her, she will live at home, if not, she will cut her hair and go as a sister-in-law, if the sister-in-law can't be a sister-in-law, she will die in front of the Chen family, you see." ”

"I thought about it." Luo Zhongsheng was very calm, he had heard a lot about the seventeenth master, and his methods had always been ruthless, how could he just let Sister Wan go back to her parents' house for a few days to make a little temper.

"You persuade her?" When Mrs. Qiao mentioned Sister Wan'er's idea of preferring to die rather than return to the Chen family, she was full of sadness.

Luo Zhongsheng thought for a while, nodded, and motioned to Mrs. Qiao, "Let's go see her together." ”

Luo Wan was in the landlord's ear room, and the two of them entered the Bisha cupboard through the two doors, Luo Wan had just drunk the medicine, and when she saw her father come in, she sat up with her hands propped up, looked at Luo Zhongsheng, and before she finished shouting, tears fell into a string.

"I know it all." Luo Zhongsheng sat sideways on the chair in front of the bed, "Sister Wan has been wronged, and Daddy is very distressed." ”

"Daddy!" Hearing her father say this, Luo Wan's heart was sour, painful, comfortable and wronged, with mixed feelings, looking at her father, tears were even more.

"Ugh." Luo Zhongsheng gently stroked his daughter's hair, "Daddy has to go back to the yamen in a while, come and see you, and a few important words, your aunt said that you don't want to go back to Chen's house?" ”

"Hmm." Luo Wan nodded, and hurriedly shook her head, "I mean, Daddy, I won't go back to the Chen family when I die, they didn't treat me as a person, before, the fifth child in his family wanted to dispense medicine, and he had to let me go, I told him, when it came to the prescription, he laughed at Mrs. Hu, laughed at something, said that the prescription of becoming an immortal is more credible than Mrs. Hu's prescription, saying that Mrs. Hu is delusional and crazy, he obviously knows that the prescription is fake, he knows that it is useless, but he still let me go, I said I was very tired, I said many times, I didn't want to go, he refused, said this is filial piety, What else did you say about the clan woman, he never felt sorry for me. ”

Luo Wan's words were very urgent, lest her father dismiss her with a word, and she was anxious to persuade her father.

"Also, once, Mrs. Hu let me just enter the moment of the set, in the back garden to scrape frost flowers, but also from the afternoon can not eat and drink, I was cold and hungry, Mama Qiu prepared some ginger porridge for me, and a few side dishes, who knows that he came back from drinking that day, said that he was hungry, Mama Qiu mentioned to him how many times, all of them were clearly said, saying that this was specially prepared for me, I was hungry for most of the day, and I was frozen outside for a long time, I had to drink a bowl of ginger porridge, if he was hungry, this let the kitchen do it and send it over, but he ignored it, saying that he was cold, Just thinking about a bowl of ginger porridge to eat, he didn't have a drop left, Daddy, how can he have me in his heart? ”

Mrs. Qiao's distressed tears fell, Luo Zhongsheng wrinkled his brows, patted his daughter gently, and Luo Wan was even more anxious, "Daddy, that day, Mrs. Hu really wanted me to go out and die, not only to send me to death, but the bandits outside are all brutes, burning and killing traitors...... I shook the silver hairpin...... Daddy, I won't go to their Chen family when I die, that day, Sister Shen said, no one is the best, no one will harm us...... I'd rather die! ”

Luo Wan covered her face and cried loudly.

"Daddy knows, Daddy knows your grievances, Daddy didn't say to let you go back, don't cry first, listen to Daddy first." Luo Zhongsheng patted his daughter's back in great distress.

"Hmm." Luo Wan sobbed a few times, suppressed her sorrow, and looked at her father anxiously.

"Sister Wan, if you don't go back to the Chen family all the time, no matter what, this is a severance of relatives, don't worry, you listen to Daddy, Daddy didn't say no."

Seeing that Luo Wan was about to be anxious again, Luo Zhongsheng hurriedly comforted and explained, Luo Wan nodded and looked at her father.

"How long do you live at home, your aunt and I can tolerate you, but when your aunt and I are old, how many years can we live? When I leave with your aunt, your brothers will be divided, what should you do? Awan, don't worry, listen to Daddy first, become a monk or something, it's too hard, besides, Fangwai is not a pure place, and you are not a person who can leave the red dust, Sister Wan, Daddy didn't let you come back, Daddy told you what would happen after you came back. ”

Luo Zhongsheng said while comforting his daughter in time, "Another one, is to remarry, Sister Wan, this woman remarries, almost all of them fill the house, more than ninety percent, the ex-wife has a few children, Sister Wan, the stepmother is difficult, your temperament, it is even more difficult, if you don't fill the house, then the other party's family, I don't know where it has fallen, unless you hit the luck, otherwise, it is probably better to marry again."

Sister Wan'er, your aunt and I are your father and aunt, everything must be for your sake, you are a girl's family, this is a divorce...... Alas.

You are angry now, don't worry, take care of it for a few days, think about it, think carefully, think about it before and after, think about it thoroughly, and then decide what to do in the future. Don't worry, me and your aunt, it's you who hurt, not Chen Xing. It's just that you have to think clearly, figure it out, and then make a decision. ”

"Okay." Luo Wan nodded slowly.