Zhang Tong didn't know how long he had been standing at the door of Guan Chu's house, he only knew that when he reacted, his whole body was frozen.

The weather in Fan County is getting colder and colder, and winter will soon begin.

He raised his head, the bright moon hung high above his head, and on his head and shoulders, a large piece of Qionghua was sprinkled, as if at that moment, he was old.

The people in the house have turned off the lights.

Zhang Tong stood outside, stomped his feet lightly, and turned to leave.

When they returned to the Yamen, Zhang Jiusheng and Yun Sheng had already fallen asleep, and the autopsy room was still deserted, only he was with a corpse that couldn't speak.

"Guan Chu is my brother, that's his father, what should I do?" Zhang Tong muttered, but couldn't come up with an answer.

He grabbed his hair, rubbed his hands vigorously, and covered his face, the heat giving him a slight feeling of returning to the world.

"Let's sleep first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow." Zhang Tong muttered to himself again, and then said to the corpse covered with a white cloth: "Good night." ”

When the first basin of washing water was splashed into the courtyard, Zhang Jiusheng woke up, he yawned, stood at the door of the room, looked at Zhang Tong, who was also sleepy, and said hello.

"Good morning."

Zhang Tong was so frightened by this sound that he almost threw the basin in his hand, and then his eyes widened, looking at Zhang Jiusheng who was standing at the other end of the courtyard, and shouted, "My lord, when did you come back?!" ”

Zhang Jiusheng rubbed his ears, a little impatient: "Seeing the ghost, what are you doing shouting so loudly?" Afraid that others won't hear? ”

Immediately after, Zhang Tong ran over in three steps and two steps, and came to Zhang Jiusheng.

It's only been two days apart, and he really misses Zhang Jiusheng so much.

"My lord, we have found the corpse of the young master of the Xiao family." Zhang Tongxu said matter-of-factly.

"We see it." Zhang Jiusheng yawned again.

Zhang Tong accurately captured the message in the words: "We? Yunsheng is also back? ”

Zhang Jiusheng slapped Zhang Tong on the back of the head: "Are you stupid?" How could I possibly put Yunsheng alone in the Rakukanji Temple? ”

Zhang Tong thought about it, too.

Then he was still happy, Zhang Jiusheng and the others came back earlier than he thought.

"What about Yunsheng?"

"Yun Sheng is still asleep, it's getting colder and colder, I'll ask my subordinates to bring a few more quilts over when I turn around, is your house also cold? When the time comes, I'll add a few more beds and a few more stoves. ”

"Master Xie." Zhang Tongyi is not polite.

When Yun Sheng woke up, it was almost time for lunch, she slept well, to be precise, Zhang Jiusheng's bed was soft and warm, so that she was reluctant to get up when she woke up, and she rolled over on the bed several times before she got up.

At that time, Zhang Jiusheng and Zhang Tong were already sitting in the kitchen.

Zhang Jiusheng rarely cooked, of course Zhang Tong refused to leave, sat at the table, grabbed chopsticks in his hand early in the morning, ready to mouth.

"Yunsheng hasn't gotten up yet, if you dare to move the chopsticks first, I'll kick you out." Zhang Jiusheng held a plate of vegetables in his hand and warned.

Zhang Tong smiled: "My lord is virtuous." ”

"Shut up, can Ben-sama describe it with the shallow word virtuous?" Zhang Jiusheng raised a foot and kicked Zhang Tong's ass.

Yun Sheng came early rather than coincidentally, just when he saw Zhang Jiusheng putting the dishes on the table, he immediately came up with a smile: "My lord, you made these dishes?" ”

Zhang Jiusheng glanced at her, but the corners of his lips were slightly raised, with pride and show-off that he couldn't hide: "You go and ask Zhang Tong if you can make my meal that is full of color and flavor?" ”

"That can't and that can't." Zhang Tong waved his hand again and again, and he was eager to try it with chopsticks.

"Okay, grab the chopsticks and eat quickly." Zhang Jiusheng said, handing chopsticks to Yun Sheng.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhang Tong quickly put down a pair of chopsticks, added a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth, and said while eating: "It's delicious, I didn't expect the adult to be so good at cooking, it must have been learned from the old lady, right?" ”

"You're wrong, my mother doesn't know how to cook, my father used to cook, and I learned from my father." Zhang Jiusheng smiled.

Yun Sheng was taking a bite of rice and said in surprise: "The old lady can't cook?" ”

Zhang Jiusheng held the bowl, stood aside, and said while eating: "My mother is the daughter of a big family, Miss Qianjin, her ten fingers do not touch the spring water, and my father has cooked for my mother for a lifetime." My father told me that it is a big husband to serve the country and the people, and it is also a big husband to cook for his daughter-in-law and children. ”

Zhang Tong was stunned, he was an orphan, he had never had a father or a mother, and he couldn't feel what Zhang Jiusheng said.

Since he was picked up by the master on the street, he has been following the master, calculating this and that, he never seems to have thought of marrying a wife and concubine and giving birth to a bunch of boys and daughters, just thinking that if he dies one day, he can have a whole corpse.

Yun Sheng was also stunned, and she bit her chopsticks a few times.

In her memory, the concept of motherhood is already very vague.

She couldn't pick up this topic.

"Hurry up and eat, it's cold, and the food will cool quickly." Zhang Jiusheng urged.

Of course, the last bowl was washed by Zhang Tong.

When Guan Chu came to the yamen, the three of them were already in the autopsy room, Zhang Jiusheng was afraid of blood, so he sat in the back, and Zhang Tong and Yun Sheng stood in front, blocking his view.

The portrait that Lu Zhi painted for Zhang Jiusheng before was no longer useful, and he didn't know where he was thrown by Zhang Jiusheng.

Yun Sheng wore gloves, bent over, leaned in front of the corpse, carefully observed the red mole in the center of his eyebrows, and gently rubbed it with his fingertips, saying, "It's really a mole." ”

"What do you think?" Zhang Tong asked rhetorically.

"That's indeed Xiao Hengyan, that's right." Guan Chu stood at the door with his arms crossed.

The three people in the room turned their heads when they heard the voice, and at that moment, Zhang Tong didn't know how to face Guan Chu, so he hurriedly turned his gaze back and stared at the white and rotting corpse in front of him.

"Here we are." Zhang Jiusheng said hello and continued to sit sideways.

"My lord, I went to the street to interrogate again, and those who have seen Xiao Hengyan and those who have an impression of him can prove that the red mole in the center of his eyebrows, unless someone who has not seen Xiao Hengyan, or someone who has only heard of him, is not clear about his red mole, so that when he is disguised, he is missing."

When these words came out, everyone thought of Xiao Hengyan, who was still staying in the Zhang Mansion at this moment.

"Then that Xiao Hengyan in Zhangfu must have never seen what the real Xiao Hengyan looks like, just found someone who knows Xiao Hengyan, or looked at the portrait?" Zhang Tong said.

"Lu Zhi." Yun Sheng said the name of a person.

In that case, it all makes sense.

Lu Zhi is very smart, acting for the tiger, seeking skin with the tiger, he knows that he may not die well in the end, for his daughter, he can be said to have exhausted the organs, in the matter of Xiao Hengyan, he left a line, which can be regarded as giving Yun Sheng a way out, and also fighting for his daughter.

Yun Sheng wrote it down.

Zhang Jiusheng also wrote it down.

"My lord, do you want to arrest that one in the house?" Guan Chu asked.

As soon as Zhang Tong heard Guan Chu's voice now, his heart was full of mixed feelings, as if a kitten was scratching in his heart, it hurt and itched.

Zhang Jiusheng shook his head: "Don't disturb him first, since you are aware of it, you should also send someone to guard outside the mansion, right?" ”

Guan Chu nodded.

"Okay, then keep an eye on it, I'll see what moths he can turn up."

"My lord, what should we do next?"

Zhang Jiusheng glanced at Xiao Hengyan's corpse, which was covered with a white cloth again, thought for a while, and said: "The news can't be blocked for long, let's move fast, the people you are staring at outside during this time, come and ask, in the two days that we are away, that kid has sneaked out of the house, and who have you seen." ”

Guan Chu nodded, held the satchel and went out.

When he came back after a while, he was followed by Tie Wan.

Yun Sheng raised his eyebrows and didn't speak.

"You've been staring lately?" Zhang Jiusheng asked.

"Yes, the man surnamed Xiao has not come out of the mansion for the past two days, we are squatting outside, I don't know what he did in the mansion, but there are always a few people walking outside the mansion."

"Raw?"

"It's not a shame, when I was patrolling the streets, I met the people a few times, and they were very ordinary." Tie Wan scratched his head, looked up to the sky and thought for a while, and said.

"It's ordinary." Zhang Jiusheng repeated these three words, and then chuckled.

This smile made Tie Wan's heart feel half empty, and he glanced at Guan Chu with apprehension, and Guan Chu was also a little unclear.

Yun Sheng understood something, and said: "Ordinary looking people, you can't find them if you throw them in the crowd, even if you see him one second ago, you won't be able to remember what he looks like the next second, isn't this the effect that the other party wants?" ”

"It's true that I can't remember what those people looked like right now." Tie Wan frowned.

Guan Chu patted his head lightly and said, "I don't blame you for this. ”

"You go back and keep staring first, and see if those people are still coming." Zhang Jiusheng said.

"Yes, sir." Tie Wan clenched his fists and bent down, and retreated.

"My lord, the other party is prepared, and he has been staying in Zhangfu, he must have something to do with Zhangfu."

"How can I not know this?"

Zhang Jiusheng frowned, the other party was menacing, and the goal was clear, it was for the things in Zhang Ci's hands, they were now focused on that thing, and they hadn't shifted their attention to Yun Sheng yet, which was a good thing.

It's just that once Xiao Hengyan finds out......

Wait, he seems to have neglected one thing all along, Zhang Jiusheng suddenly looked at Yun Sheng, and after thinking about it carefully, there was indeed something strange.

Yun Sheng was glanced at by Zhang Jiusheng's complicated eyes, his heart was strange, and he hurriedly asked, "My lord, what's wrong?" ”

At the beginning, when she was on the rivers and lakes, Yun Sheng's bounty did not specify where she was, but then the news of Yun Sheng's presence in Fan County suddenly appeared, which attracted those people from the rivers and lakes to run to Fan County.

But who revealed the news?

The subordinates in the Zhangfu?

Catch fast in the yamen?

Still is......

Zhang Jiusheng's brows became tighter and tighter, he looked at the few people standing beside him, all of them had been with him since he took office, although he couldn't talk about birth and death in this small place in Fan County, but he also got up early and was greedy for darkness, without complaint, he couldn't splash the dirty water on them.

He also knows very well that there is no doubt about employing people.

However, once doubts arise in the heart, they are not so easily extinguished.

Zhang Jiusheng's hand was hidden in his sleeve, and he didn't know if it was cold or what, his legs kept shaking.

"I'm tired, I'll go rest for a while." Zhang Jiusheng got up suddenly, hung his head, and walked away from the infirmary quickly, leaving the three of them looking at each other, each with their own concerns.