Old man Zhang is too old to take him to the Qingyuan County government to record his confession.

Chu Cheng and Gu Jing returned with Yang La overnight.

The three of them sat in the carriage and did not communicate with each other for a long time.

There are a few stars hanging in the sky, and the bright moon is half a round. Yang La felt that it was too quiet, he shook his horsewhip and took the lead in asking, "Madam, Lord Gu, do you think what this old man said is credible?" ”

Gu Jingtong bowed his head slightly: "Let's just say the truth, but there are many doubts in it, I don't understand." He thought of the glance he had with Chu Cheng before, and said busily, "Old man Zhang said that when the lid of Zhu's coffin was opened, he had a big belly, but Li Zhongyi was sure that Zhu had already delivered a stillborn baby before sending the spirit, which Su Mei also confirmed, among them, who is telling lies?" ”

Chu Cheng frowned: "Assuming, what they say is the truth, then how can this happen?" ”

Gu Jingtong touched his smooth chin and analyzed: "Maybe the weather is too hot, and the Zhu family's corpse is corrupt?" ”

"Please, Su Yu was born in winter, and the weather will never be hot when Zhu dies." Chu Cheng glanced at him, and returned to the county, not as smart as Lin Boqin at all.

Yang La interjected with a chattering face at this time: "I heard the old man say that some corpses will also be pregnant, will they ......" He turned his head to look, Chu Cheng and Gu Jing looked at the fool with the same look on their faces, and immediately swallowed the rest of the words into their stomachs.

Gu Jingtong took out a fan and knocked on the corner of his forehead, sighing: "I always feel that I missed some key information, but I can't think of it at this moment." ”

Chu Cheng didn't answer.

Because she also has this strange feeling.

***

The three of them arrived in Qingyuan County at noon the next day.

Yang La and Gu Jingtong went to Lin Boqin to report the news, and Chu Cheng also followed.

The candle on Lin Boqin's desk had burned to the end, and there was a piece of paper in front of him, densely written with the incident and the characters. He sat motionless in his chair, frowning, his eyes darkened, and he looked extremely tired.

"You didn't get a good night's rest last night?" Gu Jingtong stepped forward and sighed, "You are like this, if something happens, you have to overdraw your body to give up." We had been on the road all night last night, and at least we had closed our eyes in the carriage. ...... I really don't know how to say anything about you. ”

Lin Boqin subconsciously glanced at Chu Cheng by the door, his thin lips pursed, and he didn't speak.

He promised to let Chu Cheng go to Dezhuang Village, and Chu Cheng was quite happy. Thinking that he hadn't seen him for two days and one night, he raised his hand and said hello: "Have you eaten?" ”

Unexpectedly, Lin Boqin didn't even look at her this time, and kept lowering his eyes.

Chu Cheng was unhappy in her heart, she wanted to quarrel with him, but as soon as she opened her lips, she saw Lin Boqin suddenly bow her head, twist her sword eyebrows, and raise her hand to keep rubbing the position of her temples.

Gu Jingtong hurriedly poured him a cup of hot tea: "Look at you, every time you don't rest well, you will have a headache." ”

Lin Boqin rubbed it for a while before he got better, and he muttered, "It's okay, let's talk about the news I heard from Old Man Zhang." ”

Gu Jingtong knew that he remembered the case, so he didn't have a mother-in-law, and told him everything in detail. Chu Cheng stood for a while, and when she saw that Lin Bo Qinli ignored her, she was on fire in her heart, turned around and left.

She is not easy these days, and after seeing Su Yu, she went back to Lin Mansion to make up for her sleep.

When she woke up, the sky was already full of glow, red and dazzling, delicate and beautiful.

"Ma'am, get up and get something to eat." Twilight entered the room with the tray and carefully lifted her up from the bed.

Chu Ji shook her somewhat drowsy head, washed her face with a handkerchief, and sat down at the table. After only a few bites, she strode into the house with a bouquet of jasmine, bringing a refreshing floral fragrance.

Mabi inserted the jasmine into the blue and white twig-patterned plum vase, and fiddled: "Madame hasn't rested well these days, I heard that jasmine is calming, so I went to the flower market to buy it." ”

Hearing this, Chu Cheng hooked the corners of her lips slightly: "Mabi, you are so caring." ”

Mabi turned her head and said with a smile: "Madam, don't praise me, I'm embarrassed." She took a pair of scissors and pruned the branches and leaves of the jasmine, "By the way, I just came back from the flower market, and I saw Hu Zhutou rushing to the county government with a person, and I heard that it has a lot to do with the case of Zhu Chengye's family." ”

"Who's that guy?" Chu Cheng hurriedly asked.

After all, it was about Su Yu, and she was now thinking about this case.

Mao Bi frowned and hesitated: "Hu Zhutou looked in a hurry, and I didn't ask...... If you don't do it, you're the murderer. ”

Her words reminded Chu Hui, and Chu Cheng drank the gruel in one gulp, and hurried to the county office.

Passing by the streetside medical hall, Dr. Xu was sitting on a rattan chair at the door and dozing off.

Chu Ji didn't know why, and suddenly remembered Lin Boqin's action of rubbing his temples in front of the bookcase, he didn't rest well, his head hurt, and he looked sick. Lin Boqin hasn't quarreled with her in the past few days, and he ignores her, maybe because he is tired and has a headache and sleepiness.

In the past, there was a little eunuch in the palace who was like this, he was doing things from morning to night, and he was as busy as a spinning top, but he suddenly died one day. The imperial doctor checked it and said that it was caused by overwork, but finally found out that it was because of the oppression of other eunuchs. The eunuch who oppressed him was punished, but the life of the little eunuch never returned.

Lin Boqin, don't die of overwork.

Thinking of this, Chu Cheng took a big step and walked into the medical hall.

When Dr. Xu asked her where she was uncomfortable, she said a little embarrassed: "It's not that I'm uncomfortable, it's ...... Lord Lin. ”

Doctor Xu smiled knowingly: "Madame cares about adults, it should be." ”

Chu Cheng smiled dryly and echoed, pointing to his head: "He has a lot of affairs these days, and he hasn't had a good rest, he looks listless, and his head often hurts." ”

Dr. Xu nodded, turned around and went to the medicine cabinet to grab the medicine for her, and said while weighing the medicinal materials: "Today's people live without discipline, so half a hundred declines. I have seen a lot of these diseases, so I took the medicine back, fried three bowls of water into one bowl and took it, and drank it for three days in a row, and the medicine was cured. After speaking, he took the oiled paper and wrapped the medicinal herbs one by one.

Chu Cheng waited for Dr. Xu to take the medicine, and when she was bored, she looked east and west.

Just saw a dwarf standing on the corner of the street.

That dwarf was Du Jiaojiao's soul giver before, and when Wen Lanxin was alive, she also told her, don't look at the dwarf's appearance, people are very famous for doing white things in Qingyuan County.

Doctor Xu wrapped the medicinal herbs, but saw Chu Cheng staring at a dwarf.

said casually: "That person's name is Qian Gao, don't look short, that mouth can speak, very sleek." He worked as a medicine boy in my hospital more than ten years ago, but unfortunately he always likes to play right and wrong, and instigates other medicine children to have a discordant relationship, I really don't like it, so I fired him. ”

Chu Cheng turned her head and said in surprise: "I thought he had been doing things for nothing all along." ”

"Well, a lot of people look for him for nothing." When Dr. Xu said this, he frowned, "A few days ago, he suddenly stopped doing it, and the shop also went out, saying that he was going to Yinzhou to join his relatives. But for some reason, it's back now. ”

Chu Cheng answered: "Maybe there is something else you haven't taken?" Come back to see a friend? ”

"It's possible."

Doctor Xu skewered the medicine bag and handed it to Chu Hui, "Three coins of silver." ”

Chu Cheng paid the money, took the medicinal herbs, turned around and looked at the corner of the street again, but Li Gao was gone.

She carried the medicine and rushed to the county office, but there was no one behind the three halls, and Gu Jingtong and Yang La were not there.

Chu Cheng stopped a servant and asked, "Where is Lord Lin?" ”

Seeing that it was her, the official hurriedly replied: "Back to Mrs., Wang Huayuan, one of the spirits just sent to me, has been found, Lord Lin, they are taking them to the torture room for inquiry, and they have only been there for a short time, so Mrs. will also go to take a look." ”

These officials have already figured out the temper of their county lady, that is, it is so lively.

Sure enough, Chu Cheng thanked him and hurriedly went to the torture room. When she arrived outside the door of the torture room, she heard Gu Jingtong scolding her: "You don't want to talk nonsense!" ”

"My lord, I'm not talking nonsense!"

Chu Cheng leaned on the window and looked in, and saw a middle-aged small-eyed man in a gray linen shirt, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy: "Even if you give me a punishment rod, the words of the grass people will not change." When the coffin was covered, Ke Zhixi, Zeng Hongcai, Wei Gao, and Li Zhongyi were all there, and all ten eyes were looking, and Zhu's stomach was clearly deflated! ”

At this time, Ke Zhixi also said: "Gu Xiancheng, this matter is serious. ”

Li Zhongyi nodded beside him: "I also personally gave my deceased wife a shroud, Wang Huayuan didn't lie." ”

Gu Jingtong frowned, glanced at them, and said coldly: "But old man Zhang, he swears, seeing Zhu's stomach stand up, how can this be explained?" ”

"Old man Zhang is nervous, his words ......" Wang Huayuan glanced at Gu Jingtong's expression and did not continue.

Lin Boqin listened for a long time, and then he stepped forward and asked, "Wang Huayuan, on the day of the incident, it was the time for you to go back to Qingyuan County. Did you notice anything wrong along the way? His voice was already warm, but because of exhaustion, it was slightly muffled, and it sounded very magnetic at this time.

Chu Ji secretly glanced at his side face, and her breathing was slightly suffocated.

Wang Huayuan lowered his head and thought for a long time before saying: "At that time, Lao Ke was blind, and I was busy taking care of him, and I didn't find anything wrong...... It's Zeng Hongcai and Wei Gao, the two have been talking to each other since the way there, muttering, I think those two are seriously suspicious. ”

Ke Zhixi frowned, and said righteous words: "Zeng Hongcai and Wei Gao have a good relationship, and they whisper to make you suspicious?" Besides, Wei Gao also returned to Qingyuan County halfway because of his poor health. People are afraid that it will be inconvenient for the three of us to carry our spirits, so we specially paid out of our own pockets to find a strong fat man to help, and you turn your head and pour dirty water on others, which is too unjust! ”

"Don't be angry, don't be angry." Wang Huayuan folded his hands to compensate for not.

Li Zhongyi said to Su Yu: "You, Uncle Ke, are upright. He probably thought that the relationship between the two was no longer the same as before, and let out a long sigh, "Geng is too straight." ”

Chu Hui, who was standing outside the window, seemed to think of something.

She remembered that Old Man Zhang said that there were two thin men, one blind and one fat. The blind man is obviously Ke Zhixi, one of the thin men is Wang Huayuan, and the other is Zeng Hongcai. I thought that the fat man was Wei Gao, but he didn't expect it to be an irrelevant person invited by Wei Gao.

Wei Gao left halfway, then he would definitely not appear in Shiliwan.

Something seemed to flash through my mind, but it was fleeting.

Lin Boqin seemed to think of her, he frowned, and asked Ke Zhixi: "Where did Wei Gao return to Qingyuan County after you were blind?" ”

Ke Zhixi was stunned and said, "After I was blind." ”

Lin Boqin turned his head and asked Yang La and Hu Yu: "Where is Wei Gao now?" ”

"I haven't found it."

Yang La reported the clues he obtained, "I sent documents to the government early in the morning, and I turned it all over in Qingyuan County, and I didn't find a person named Wei Gao." ”

At this moment, Wang Huayuan suddenly interjected and said: "Wei Gao used to take his mother's surname, but later it seems to have changed his name, what is the name of money......

All the doubts in Chu Hui's mind were solved in an instant, her pupils shrank, her scalp was numb, and she blurted out: "It's called Qian Gao!" ”