The next day, after saying hello to his family, Zhang Shihuai rode to his friend's house. Along the way, he was quick and did not stop at all. Within half a day, Zhang Shihuai came to his friend Gao An's home. Before he could dismount, the housekeeper, who had been guarding the door, hurried to the front and took the reins of the horse.

"Zhang Gongzi, my young master has been waiting for you for a long time." "Didn't I come here after receiving the letter?" Zhang Shihuai jumped off the horse, instructed the family to take care of his mount, and walked into the courtyard of Gaofu alone.

Gao An, who got the report, got up and came out to greet him, and before he walked out of the living room, he greeted Zhang Shihuai, who stepped in.

"Brother Gao hasn't seen you for a few days, don't come unharmed?" Zhang Shihuai sang a big song (a way of saluting in ancient times).

But Gao An didn't return the salute immediately, but stared at Zhang Shihuai again and again. "What's the matter, doesn't the senior brother even know the appearance of the younger brother?" Zhang Shihuai was a little hairy by the other party, and asked again very uncomfortably.

"Let's all go down first!" Gao An still didn't return the courtesy, but retreated from the left and right families, and then pulled Zhang Shihuai to the center of the living room, and after the guests and hosts sat down, Gao An asked in a low voice: "Brother, there are no outsiders here, so you don't have to pretend to be confused with me!" ”

"What am I pretending to be confused?" Gao An asked Zhang Shihuai was confused, and he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the other party's gourd.

"Brother, don't you know such a big thing?" Gao An asked Zhang Shihuai in a slightly heavy voice.

"What the hell is going on?" Seeing the other party's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, the anxious Zhang Shihuai stood up directly and said: "You only said in your letter that there was something important, so I came in a hurry, but after I arrived here, you were spitting and spitting, what happened?" If you don't, I'll lift my legs and leave!" ”

"I wonder what the relationship between my brother and the witch Zen Shadow is now?" Gao An asked the other party tentatively.

"You have something to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Zhang Shihuai came to Gao'an to escape from Zen Ying, but where did he think about it, people came up to split their heads and cover their faces, and they mentioned this matter. In desperation, he had no choice but to be sloppy and see what the other party knew, and then make plans.

"Looks like you really don't know." Gao An continued with a solemn expression: "Zen Shadow is dead! ”

"What?" Zhang Shihuai couldn't believe his ears, "You say it again?" "I said Zen Shadow is dead!" As soon as Huang An's words fell, Zhang Shihuai instantly sat down on the chair, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"Don't joke about this kind of thing, okay!" Zhang Shihuai, who came to his senses, yelled at Gao An on the side. It's no wonder that yesterday afternoon I was still on the street, and I saw each other in the Qinglou, why did this good person disappear overnight? Impossible, absolutely impossible, the other party must have heard that he broke up with Zen Shadow, and he teased himself with this! Zhang Shihuai comforted himself in his heart, and at the same time he didn't dare to think about the worst.

"Do you like Zen Shadows? Do you know how long I've liked each other? I thought you were the first person to know about this, so I asked you to come over and ask in detail what happened to Zen Shadow, but you didn't even know about the other party's death, Zen Shadow really loved the wrong person. Gao An said that he was sad, and tears flowed down the corners of his eyes.

"No way, you're lying to me." Seeing Gao An's appearance, Zhang Shihuai's heart sank directly, and then he shook his body and came to Gao An's side, grabbed the other party's shirt and asked loudly: "You're lying, aren't you?" Tell me you're lying! ”

Gao An pushed Zhang Shihuai away and grabbed his hands, and said sadly: "I plan to go over to see Zen Shadow alone now, as for whether you follow or not, it's up to you." After saying that, he completely ignored Zhang Shihuai, who was lost in his soul, came outside the house alone, and told the family to prepare the horses and set off.

After the family brought the horses in, Zhang Shihuai stumbled outside the house: "Let's go together, I definitely don't believe that Zen Ying will die." ”

"Humph!" Huang An snorted coldly, then turned over and got on the horse, raised the whip and whipped the horse's buttocks. After the horse was in pain, he shook off his hooves and galloped away quickly in the direction of Lin'anfu. And Zhang Shihuai followed closely, for fear that he would be one step late, and he would not be able to see the zuihou side of Zen Shadow.

In the Criminal Department of Lin'an Mansion, the criminal officer led the two nobles behind him forward with a flattering face. It's just that both men have heavy expressions.

"Your Excellency, please take a look." The criminal officer led the two to a certain morgue bed, lifted the white cloth covering the corpse, and the pale face of Zen Ying directly met the eyes of the two.

"Zen Shadow ~~~!" Gao An, who saw the corpse, could no longer suppress his sadness, and threw himself on the corpse and cried loudly.

Zhang Shihuai was also very sad in his heart, but he could bear it. After working hard in officialdom for so many years, he has learned not to leak his feelings easily.

"How did she die?" Zhang Shihuai suppressed the incomparable grief in his heart and asked the criminal officer beside him.

"Back to my lord, this woman actually committed suicide." "Nonsense!" Gao Zhang and the others scolded in unison. Then the two big men glanced at each other and regained their long-lost tacit understanding.

"How could such a woman who can penetrate the world commit suicide?" "Yes, you say, weishenme will commit suicide!" The two big men relentlessly asked the judge.

"Look, my lord!" The criminal officer lifted the white cloth completely, and then pointed to the wound on Zen Ying's wrist and prayed again: "The woman committed suicide by cutting her wrists on the ground of her house the night before, and it happened that her friend went to visit her house the next day, and found that the door was not bolted, so she pushed the door in, and only then did she find that the other party was lying in a pool of blood. frightened the other party, and immediately reported to the magistrate.

When the subordinate arrived, the other party had already died of anger. It's just that what makes Xia Guan quite strange is the posture of the other party when he dies. Speaking of this, the judge couldn't help but pause.

"Why, isn't it suicide, is it he who kills?" Zhang Shihuai clenched his fists, his eyes spewed flames, almost everything in front of him could be melted away, and Gao An was also angry, and it could be seen that this man who didn't like to show his feelings, after hearing about this possibility, he was also really angry.

"When we rushed over, we found the woman lying on the ground, and the ground was full of coagulated blood, and there was a rope around the outermost part of the blood, which surrounded all the blood that flowed from the woman, so that not a drop of blood could flow outside. From a distance, the circle of ropes encloses a sense of individuality. And in the smell of blood, there is also a hint of rouge gouache, which is really strange! The prosecutor recalled the scene at that time.

to be continued