So, sometimes it really has to be believed.

……

As soon as Gu Xin and Gu Si left the gate of the palace, they saw Lu Zheng leading the horse and waiting there.

"Brother Yuanyuan!" Gu Xin got out of the carriage and ran forward, Gu Si also followed, and went over to greet Lu Zheng, "Brother Ayuan." ”

"Why is it so late? I've been waiting for a long time. Lu Zheng touched Gu Xin's head and said with a smile, "I said a few days ago that I would take you to ride a horse to play, but it turned out to be dark." ”

"It's okay, it's okay. Let's go now! Gu Xin just wanted to tell Lu Zheng about the case, so he turned his head and said to Gu Si again, "Sister Sisi, you go back first, tell your family, I will come back in an hour at most!" ”

"Alright! Third sister, you have to come back early, otherwise the second uncle will be angry. Gu Si nodded and instructed.

"yes, I know." Gu Xin nodded.

After Gu Si got into the carriage and left, Gu Xin got on Lu Zheng's horse, and Lu Zheng led the horse and walked like this: "Are you hungry?" I'll take you to eat. There is a restaurant on the East Street that makes lo mein very delicious. And your favorite sake meatballs! ”

Gu Xin nodded: "Okay!" Let's eat. ”

Lu Zheng didn't get on the horse either, so he led the horse away.

The curfew in the capital will not wait until after the first hour, and it will be dark at this time, so the streets and alleys are very lively.

Lu Zheng likes this feeling, and hopes that they can go like this forever, to the end, to eternity, and never separate.

Gu Xin told Lu Zheng about what happened today on horseback, Lu Zheng had already gone to Gu's house to find Gu Xin after he got off the government just now, so he knew about it, but he still listened patiently to Gu Xin's words.

He was taken aback when he heard Gu Xin say that the emperor had taught Gu Xin the case of destroying the door on the outskirts of the city.

Lu Zheng is now working in the Ministry of War, and it just so happens that the Yamen of the Ministry of War and the Yamen of the Criminal Department are next to each other, so he knows more about this case than Gu Xin has heard from others.

This case is a bit tricky.

Wang Village on the outskirts of Beijing is a relatively large village, and it is also the closest village to the capital, most of the villagers in that village are surnamed Wang, and because it is close to the capital, as long as you are not lazy, the life of the family is very good. Many families in the village are better off than those in some remote counties.

The one who died this time was a family with relatively good conditions in Wang Village, with seventeen members and four generations in the same house. The old man and the old lady, three sons and three daughters-in-law, one daughter, five grandchildren, two granddaughters, one granddaughter-in-law, and one great-grandson.

The old man took his sons to farm and raise pigs, and the old lady took her three daughters-in-law to raise a lot of chickens. The five grandsons are all studying, and the eldest grandson also won Xiucai, the granddaughter-in-law who married Layue the year before last, and the great-grandson who was born in Layue last year.

On the twenty-ninth day of the first lunar month, the door of their house was not opened, the pigs in the pigsty were hungry, the chickens in the chicken pen were also hungry, the pigs arched the door, and the chickens flew out of the chicken pen, and ran to the neighbor's house next door to spoil the vegetable field, and the neighbor came to the door.

The door of this house is closed, the neighbor knocked on the door for a long time and did not open, standing at the door and scolding for a long time no one answered, even the dog did not bark, she felt that something was wrong, ran to find Li Zhenglai, and then Li Zheng took the lead to find the person next door to his house and knocked the door open, their big yellow dog was lying in the yard, foaming at the mouth, the door of the hall and the kitchen were closed from the inside, so Li Zheng let people bang on the door again.

Then I found that all of the seventeen members of this family were dead.