Zhang Peien waited for Gu Fan to cover the white cloth before he whispered: "Shopkeeper Gu, right now, the Zhu family has been destroyed, but the Zhu family's farm house and property cannot be left unattended, so it's a pity to leave it here."

Why don't we discuss with the Lu family and divide the Zhu family's industry. ”

Gu Fan knew that Zhang Peien was a lord who could not afford to make a profit, and the reason why he was able to come to the Zhu Mansion was not to track down the murderer, but to come for the properties left by the Zhu family.

Now there are three of the four major families in Jiangnan City, and the Gu family has the government of Jiangnan City as a backer, and they have completely secured the top spot among the families in Jiangnan City.

If there is no approval from the Gu family, no matter how bold he is, Zhang Peien will not dare to swallow the Zhu family's family business alone.

What's more, the murderer who slaughtered the Zhu family has not been found yet, in case the other party comes to the door to retaliate, won't he become a fish in the pond.

Several families are divided together, and the goal is a little bigger.

"In this way, according to what the head of the Zhang family said, let's sum up the assets of the Zhu family's acres and divide them." Gu Fan is not a hypocritical person, he turns a blind eye to the money he sees, the Zhu family is destroyed, and this money should be wanted.

After all, Kuang restored the world of the Han family, and needed soldiers, food, carts and horses, which was all money.

"The head of the Gu family is bright, I have already brought a few account rooms, and I will start to calculate the Zhu family's industry to ensure that the Gu family will be given the best." Zhang Peien rubbed his hands excitedly.

'This old fellow seems to have been prepared for a long time, and before the bones of the people are cold, he will begin to eat the family. ’

Gu Fan nodded, he didn't want to say much, whether it was walking the rivers and lakes, or running a family, they all paid attention to a sharp word.

"Where is the body of the head of the Zhu family? I'll take a look. ”

Zhang Peien frowned, and said with a gloomy face: "I advise you not to go and see it, Old Lady Zhu's death is really miserable, his corpse is broken, and I don't know how much the murderer has a grudge against him." ”

"It's okay, since you're here, you want to give the Zhu family the truth." Gu Fan said lightly.

"Gu shopkeeper is righteous, the body of Old Lady Zhu is in the main house in the backyard, and the prefect and the criminal books and wardens of the government are investigating the case inside."

After hearing this, Gu Fan said goodbye to Zhang Peien and went straight into the main house of the Zhu family.

I saw that on the Taishi chair in the bright room of the main house, there was a headless corpse wearing a gorgeous costume half-lying.

Next to this corpse, the hostess of the Zhu family was also lying on her side on the ground, with a huge blood hole in her chest.

There were still a few maids and guards lying in the house, all of whom were in a miserable state.

"Brother Gu Fan, you can be regarded as back, nothing happened on the way." When the Tartar prefect saw Gu Fan, he immediately stepped forward to greet him.

"Thanks to the prefect's timely arrival last night, he saved his wife and children, Gu Fan will come to the door to thank him in person another day."

"Hey, what else do we have to thank each other as a family, Gu Shun is my godson, I saved my son, it is right."

"Fortunately, Gu Shun, nothing happened." Gu Fan was also secretly happy.

"Gu Shun, this child was born with an auspicious appearance, and this time he was attacked by evil people and was unharmed, it seems that my godson is a coquettish son who is blessed by God, I really didn't see the wrong person." The Tartar prefect praised proudly.

The two exchanged pleasantries again before turning the topic to the corpse of the head of the Zhu family in the house.

The Tartar prefect gave a general account of what happened last night:

"Last night, not long after I met my godson at your house, my subordinates reported that the Zhu family was on fire.

I didn't take it seriously, but as the fire got bigger and bigger, I didn't hear anyone in the Zhu family shouting for help, and at this time, someone who rushed into the Gu family to put out the fire ran out in great horror, saying that many people in the Zhu family had died.

I rushed to Zhu's house overnight, only to find that everyone in the Zhu family was dead. ”

"It's really hateful, dare to do such an evil thing under the nose of the prefect, it's really too deceitful."

First the Gu family, then the Zhu family, the big family of Jiangnan City suffered disasters one after another, and the hearts of the people were shaken, if the murderer could not be arrested in time, I am afraid that it would not be able to eliminate the panic of the people of Jiangnan City.

The panic of the people is small, the Jiangnan area where Jiangnan City is located is the most prosperous and wealthy place in Daqi, and it is an important source of taxes and food.

He must solve the case as soon as possible, give an explanation to the imperial court and Jiangnan City, and keep his official position.

"Brother Gu, this case still has to be handled by the Shunfeng Dart Bureau for help."

When the Tartar prefect explained what had happened, Gu Fan walked to the body of the head of the Zhu family, and the warden, who was inspecting the corpse next to him, hurriedly took two steps back and made room for Gu Fan.

Gu Fan half-squatted down, gestured twice with his fingers at the position of the corpse's neck, and asked with an unusually solemn expression, "Have any of you ever touched this corpse?" ”

The warden of the torture room hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, none of us have touched the corpses in this room." ”

"Did you find anything?" The Tartar prefect hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"The body was apparently touched after death, and the death seems to be the same as the murders of six years ago." Gu Fan said with a serious expression.

"You mean the Qingshui Liu family, the Bengbu Sun family, and the Hangban Feng family." The Tartar prefect recalled six years ago, the three small families in Jiangnan who were suddenly wiped out overnight.

Coincidentally, the heads of these three families once came to attend the Tommy banquet held by the Gu family when Gu Shun was born, and Gu Fan also toasted them.

As a result, not long after he returned, the three families were wiped out at the same time.

Their corpses were all crushed and decapitated, just like the death of the head of the Zhu family.

Unfortunately, there were no eyewitnesses at the time, and no valuable evidence was left at the scene, and until now, it has not been clarified who did it.

However, looking at the modus operandi, it is quite a kind of style of the Demon Sect murder decades ago.

However, the Demon Sect had already been driven out of the gate by the Central Plains Martial Arts, and they had rarely heard their movements over the years, and now they had reappeared, which made Gu Fan also have a bad premonition.

Now the Central Plains is occupied by the Hu people, the Han people are displaced, and the people are struggling to make a living. If the Demon Sect takes advantage of this opportunity to make a comeback from outside the Guan, it will undoubtedly make the already precarious Central Plains Martial Arts even worse.

Martial arts are not as united and powerful as they used to be, and it is still unknown whether they can deal with the Demon Sect.

If the Demon Sect comes to get involved at this time, his plan to restore the Han Dynasty will be even more distant.

Gu Fan only hopes now that everything is his own speculation, the Demon Sect is still outside the gate, and the perpetrators are only one or two Demon Sect people who have wandered into the Central Plains. Or under the guise of the Demon Sect, they are just wicked people in the rivers and lakes who do evil.

Gu Fan got up again and probed the wounds of the wife of the head of the Zhu family and a few maids, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

At this time, the prisoner, who was in charge of investigating the situation outside, walked into the house with a soldier.

"Lord Prefect, Gu shopkeeper, my subordinates just found out about a strange thing."

The soldier next to him hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "Meet the prefect, Gu is the shopkeeper." ”

"Excuse me, what is this strange thing you are talking about?" The Tartar prefect waved his hand and asked.

"Lord Hui, last night it was a small time when I was patrolling Jiangnan City, and when I was keeping vigil in the city, I found a person dressed in coarse linen clothes, carrying a lantern and holding the token of the Zhu family, leading a group of people towards the city.

Because of the Zhu family's token, the small one did not come forward to interrogate, but according to Xiao's observation, those people did not look like ordinary people, but more like martial artists, and there were two particularly burly figures in them, who should be Lian Jiazi. ”

"How many of them are there? When did you see them? ”

"The small ones are not counted, but there are at least six or seven people. At that time, not long after the subordinates were on duty, Jiangnan City had already been curfew, and it was about the beginning of the year (20 o'clock - 21 o'clock). ”

"I remember that the Gu Mansion was attacked by the wicked, and it was also at the beginning of the Hai Dynasty, could it be that the Zhu family led the wicked people to do it. The people of the Zhu family wanted to take revenge on the Zhu family, so they invited the wicked people from the Valley of the Wicked to help. And the wicked want to make another fortune from the Gu family, that's why it's like this. The Tartar prefect guessed.

"There is this possibility, of course, it is not ruled out that the token is forged, and some people are trying to confuse the public and cover up their tracks in the name of the Zhu family.

Moreover, those wicked people are not good stubble, if it is really the Zhu family's subordinates who take revenge on the Zhu family, how much benefit does he have to give, so that the wicked people can come to Jiangnan City to do things for him. Gu Fan analyzed.

"It seems that things are getting more and more confusing."

"Don't we still have two more wicked people who have been caught, and I have also caught some minions of wicked men outside, and I will know when the time comes."