In the evening, in the drunken restaurant, a restaurant uncle saw a middle-aged man walk into the last compartment on the left side of the third floor, glanced at a new pair of chopsticks on his tray, and immediately walked over quickly. As soon as he walked to the door of the compartment, he heard a cry of pain inside, and the uncle was startled, and hurriedly opened the door and greeted: "Master Hang, are you okay, the guest you are waiting for has arrived, and the villain has sent a new pair of dishes and chopsticks?" ”

The door opened, and the restaurant uncle saw at a glance that Hang Zhirong was holding the left arm of a middle-aged man with both hands, his face twisted, he snorted in pain, his face was even more distorted and purple, his body couldn't help twitching, and then he fell to the ground. And the middle-aged man's right hand reached into his arms, and he was hurriedly pulling it out, as if he had put something in his arms just now. The middle-aged man looked at Hang Zhirong in a blink of an eye, and he seemed to be extremely surprised.

The uncle saw Hang Zhirong's face purple and hideous, lying on the ground motionless, shocked, and immediately shouted: "Ah, ah, someone, come quickly." ”

When the shopkeeper of the restaurant and the diners heard it, they came over to check it out.

Half an hour later, in the Yuanying Inn, Zuo Peipei was sitting in his room with his eyes closed and meditating, and suddenly heard a cry and cracking sound outside, and hurriedly picked up his sword and walked out of the door to check. From a distance, I saw that an innkeeper in the corridor was squatting on the ground, and there was a white porcelain fragment next to him. It seems that Xiao Er accidentally fell and broke the teapot in his hand, Lu Geng was about to go back to the room, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the door of Zuo Peipei's room next door exposed a few inches of cracks, and it was not closed tightly. walked over, and was about to ask if Zuo Peipei was okay, Lu Geng found Zuo Peipei's maid lying crooked on the table through the crack in the door, Lu Geng was shocked, the maid helped Zuo Peipei take care of the child, should not fall asleep on the table. Lu Geng immediately pushed open the door and looked up, Zuo Peipei and Zuo Xu were both lying on the bed, and Hang Zhirong's wife Yan Jin was standing in front of the bed tent, holding a cotton pillow in her hand.

Lu Geng stared at Yan Jin and asked, "Young Mrs. Hang, what are you doing?" ”

Lu Geng said and walked quickly to the side of the bed, stretched out his hand to probe Zuo Peipei's snort, fortunately, Zuo Peipei was fine, it seemed that he just fainted. Lu Geng stretched out his hand again to touch Zuo Xu's neck, and immediately his face changed in shock, and he glared at Yan Jin angrily in a blink of an eye: "The little boy is dead, you killed the little boy?" ”

When Yan Jin heard this, his face was shocked, and the cotton pillow in his hand fell to the ground. Yan Jin couldn't help but take two steps back, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "Zuo Xu is dead, how can it be, how can it be?" It's not me, it's really not me. ”

Jian Xuan received a report from the official, saying that Hang Zhirong died in the drunken restaurant, and immediately came to the drunken restaurant with his work and arrest, and was just about to enter the restaurant, when he suddenly heard the shouts of several people in front of him, turned his head to look, and saw Hang Zhitong riding a white horse at a gallop, almost hitting a few passers-by. The white horse galloped to the drunken restaurant, and Hang Zhitong pulled the reins hard, forcing the horses to stop. The horse understood the owner's intentions, and his front hooves slammed into a high yang and stopped. Hang Zhitong didn't seem to expect the horse to raise its front hooves, didn't take precautions, turned over, exclaimed in fright, and fell off the horse. Everyone also exclaimed, thinking that Hang Zhitong was going to fall extremely embarrassed, but in mid-air, one person reached out and grabbed Hang Zhitong's shoulder, and pulled Hang Zhitong hard, Hang Zhitong fell to the ground and did not fall. It's just that when Hang Zhitong landed, he stumbled and hit the man's body, moaning in pain, Hang Zhitong endured the pain, raised his eyes, and saw Jian Xuan's handsome face close at hand, he couldn't help but blush, and was stunned.

Jian Xuan said flatly: "Miss Hang Si, it's okay, can you let go of me?" ”

Hang Zhitong glanced down, only to find that he was lying in Jian Xuan's arms, still holding Jian Xuan with both hands, his face suddenly turned red, he immediately let go of Jian Xuan, stood up straight, and was about to thank Jian Xuan, when he caught a glimpse of an orange-red lip print on Jian Xuan's snow-white shirt on his chest, which was extremely conspicuous, which he had just printed and dyed. Hang Zhitong's face turned even redder, and he was stunned again, and he was still a little at a loss.

Jian Xuan glanced at Hang Zhitong and said calmly: "Miss Hang Si is here to check on the situation of Hang Gongzi, come with me?" ”

Without waiting for Hang Zhitong to answer, Jian Xuan walked into the drunken restaurant, Hang Zhitong was stunned for a moment, and then thought of Hang Zhirong, his face turned sad, and he quickly followed Jian Xuan.

Jian Xuan and Hang Zhitong walked up to the third floor and found that the last compartment on the left side of the third floor was full of diners. was surprised to find that not only Hang Zhirong died in the compartment, but Xu Yan was surrounded in the compartment by everyone as a murderer.

Hang Zhitong saw Hang Zhirong's corpse, first ran to Hang Zhirong's corpse and cried a few times, suddenly looked up at Xu Yan and said, "Governor Xu, you killed my eldest brother, why did you kill him?" My eldest brother did something that couldn't stop you, but when you came to Hangzhou Mansion to pick up Zuo Xu this morning, you said that you wouldn't care about the eldest brother and Zuo Peipei anymore, why, why did you kill my eldest brother? I'm going to kill you to avenge my big brother. ”

Hang Zhitong said and took a small dagger from his sleeve, held the dagger, and stabbed Xu Yan, Jian Xuan hurriedly blocked in front of Xu Yan and comforted: "Miss Hang Si, you calm down first, the matter has not been clarified yet, Hang Zhirong may not have been killed by the prefect." ”

Hang Zhitong was angry, he didn't want to listen to it at all, and said loudly while pulling Jian Xuan apart: "You get out of the way, my eldest brother was killed by him, he knew about my eldest brother and Zuo Peipei yesterday, and today my eldest brother died next to him, didn't he kill my eldest brother, could it be that my eldest brother committed suicide?" ”

Jian Xuan didn't move, he reached out to snatch Hang Zhitong's dagger, Hang Zhitong dodged and refused, between the two of them, Hang Zhitong's wrist turned violently, and the dagger accidentally stabbed Jian Xuan's left arm. Jian Xuan snorted in pain. Hang Zhitong was stunned when he saw that Jian Xuan's left arm was soaked in blood, and only said in a half-loud voice: "I. . . I didn't mean to. ”

Jian Xuan said indifferently: "It's okay, it's just a skin injury, and it will heal in a few days." Miss Hang Si, no matter whether Governor Xu is the real murderer of Hang Zhirong or not, you have to fight for your life if you lynch and kill, why did you take your life in vain? And as a magistrate of the imperial court, I can't let you kill people illegally in front of me. Miss Hang Si will do it again, and I will have to let people arrest you according to the law. Jian Xuan paused for a moment and said: "I am the magistrate of Jinzhou, and it is within my duty to investigate the wrongs and arrest the culprit." Miss Hang Si rest assured, no matter who killed Hang Zhirong, I will find out the real culprit and bring him to justice. Please Miss Hang Si calm down first and don't hinder the government's investigation of the murder scene. ”

Hang Zhitong was stunned for a moment, glanced at Jian Xuan, nodded his head painfully, put away the dagger, and stood quietly aside.

Then Jian Xuan looked at Xu Yan, who had a gloomy face, raised his hand and saluted, "I've seen Lord Prefect." ”

Xu Yan said: "Lord Jian doesn't have to be polite, this time it was the official who caused trouble to Jian, and he also bothered Lord Jian to find out the real murderer and return the official's innocence." ”

Jian Xuan: "Where the responsibility lies, the subordinate officials must do their best." May I ask why the prefect is here, and how did Hang Zhirong die? ”

Xu Yan: "It was Hang Zhirong who asked me to come, he said that he had something to discuss with me, I walked into the compartment and saw him lying on the table, like he was drunk." I was about to call him, but he suddenly sat up straight, screamed in pain, his face was distorted, and reached out to grab my arm, as if to tell me something, but before he could say anything, his body twitched a few times, and he fell to the ground, out of breath. It looks like it has been poisoned, I think there should be poison in these drinks and dishes, and I can let Liang Yanzuo carefully check it later. And I had just arrived at that time, and I didn't have time to poison myself, and the uncle in the restaurant could testify that he should have seen me walk into the compartment. ”

Xu Yan said and glanced up at a restaurant uncle standing next to the door of the compartment.

When the uncle of the restaurant saw the eyes of the prefect Xu, he immediately walked into the compartment carefully, and said to Xu Yan and Jian Xuan: "I have seen the prefect, I have seen Lord Jian, and the villain Zhao Rui is the uncle who serves tea and food in this restaurant." ”

Jian Xuan looked at Zhao Rui and said, "When did Hang Zhirong come to the restaurant, can there be people with him?" ”

Zhao Rui shook his head: "Grand Prince Hang sent someone to book this compartment in the afternoon, about an hour ago, Grand Prince Hang came to the restaurant alone, let us prepare a table of signature dishes of the restaurant." Grand Prince Hang said that he was waiting for a friend, let's serve a good pot of tea first, and wait for his friend to come and serve the food. But Hang Dagongzi sat and waited for three quarters, but his friends didn't arrive, Hang Dagongzi seemed to be a little anxious, and called the villain to come over and serve the wine and food directly. The villain brought all the prepared wine and food and placed them on the table, and the eldest prince of Hang poured himself drinks and ate alone.

After another quarter of an hour, I delivered food to the guests in the other compartment, and saw a middle-aged man walk into the compartment of Hang Dagongzi, thinking that Hang Dagongzi and other friends had finally arrived, and I remembered that I had just sent a pair of dishes and chopsticks to Hang Dagongzi. I happened to have a new pair of chopsticks on the tray, so I walked quickly to the compartment of the eldest prince of Hang, wanting to give the chopsticks to the new guests. Unexpectedly, as soon as I came to the door of the compartment, I heard a cry of pain from the compartment, I listened to the voice of Mr. Hang, who often came to our restaurant to eat, and I still knew his voice.

I was startled, and hurriedly opened the door to check, and saw that Hang Gongzi was grabbing the prefect's arm, his face was extremely painful and distorted, and then his body twitched a few times, and he fell to the ground, motionless, Hang Dagongzi's face was very terrifying, and he knew that Hang Dagongzi was dead from a distance. I screamed in fright, and the shopkeeper and the others gathered around to check it out. ”

After Zhao Rui finished speaking, he glanced at Xu Yan, as if he thought of something, and stopped talking.

Jian Xuan saw it and said: "Zhao Rui, this official believes that the prefect will not know the law and break the law, and in the restaurant where people come and go, kill people and destroy his future." The murderer should have someone else, you tell everything you see, so that we can track down the real murderer and clear the prefect's wrongs, you don't have to worry, what else do you see? ”

Zhao Rui glanced at Xu Yan, hesitated and said, "No, I didn't see anything, when I opened the compartment door, it seemed... Seeing the prefect's right hand withdrawn from his bosom, too. Or maybe I'm dazzled. ”

When Xu Yan heard this, his face darkened, and his eyes seemed to be flustered, but he didn't say anything.