Cheng Nianzhen was only a little distracted, and soon she pulled herself back to reality.

She changed the topic and asked Zhou Xin, "You just recognized these three assassins as Jinyiwei, what do you have to do with Jinyiwei, why did they send someone to assassinate you?"

Zhou Xin sighed and said, "Actually, I'm just guessing. Since I came to Zhejiang to take up my post, my subordinates have dealt with a lot of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but I know very well that if you fight snakes, you will not die but suffer from them, so every time I must try to eliminate the evil and do everything possible, and the power of these corrupt officials must be uprooted and eradicated. ”

"Therefore, although they hate me to the core, they do not have the strength to send men to assassinate me. But there was only one person in it. ”

Miss Cheng raised her eyebrows: "Oh, who is the only one?"

Zhou Xin said: "At the beginning of this year, the commander of Jinyiwei appointed Ji Gang to one of his henchmen, a military attache Qianhu, to come to Zhejiang to serve as an officer. ”

"Since this person came to Zhejiang, he has been bullying the people in various places, blackmailing local officials, grabbing property on a large scale, acting as a prestige, and making people angry, but because of his special identity as Jinyiwei, everyone dares to be angry but dare not speak. ”

Cheng Nianzhen smiled unconsciously: "So you rose to the challenge and went to clean him up?"

Zhou Xin also smiled and said: "Didn't the little fat man of the Zhang family in the inn just now say it, I, Zhou, am a well-known Mr. Sanno, in fact, my biggest word is not afraid of what kind of background he has, what kind of background, as long as he dares to be a traitor, he will be investigated!"

"Even if this Qianhu Lord is an iron nail, I, Zhou, am also a copper-headed and iron-clad, and I am not afraid of touching nails. In the end, I finally found out the evidence that he oppressed the people and forced them to die. ”

"I immediately ordered this Qianhu to be detained and left to be disposed of. But I didn't expect that this Qianhu was born as a military attaché, and he was brave and brave, and several ordinary catchers were invincible, and he escaped from the encirclement. ”

Miss Cheng frowned: "Escaped, as long as the sea fishing documents come out and under strict investigation in various places, where can he escape?"

Zhou Xin also sighed and said: "That's right! I immediately sent an official document to order all localities to strictly investigate and arrest him, but this thousand households seemed to have evaporated half of the world, and there was no news." It looks like he must have been sheltered by some powerful person. ”

"Moreover, I searched his residence and luggage, and after he came to Zhejiang, he looted tens of millions of gold and silver treasures, but there was nothing in his belongings, so I suspect that there is an extremely powerful master behind him, and all the money he looted is also filial to his master, and in return, his master will of course protect him. ”

Miss Cheng blinked and asked, "Lord Zhou, what do you mean, do you suspect that the master behind this thousand households is Ji Gang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard?"

Zhou Xin's face sank like water at this moment, and said: "In the face of these three assassins just now, I just remembered this matter, so I guessed casually, but I didn't want to be unlucky! Since they were sent by Jinyiwei, then this Qianhu who escaped without a trace must now be under the protection of Jinyiwei, and the master behind him is Ji Gang!"

"It's a pity, it's a pity I don't have evidence. Since the old commander of Jinyiwei made Lord Ye Zhiqiu leave Beijing, Ji Gang succeeded him, he was corrupt and bent the law, and the handling of cases was all based on his personal likes and dislikes. ”

"I originally wanted to collect evidence to impeach him to the emperor, but I was suddenly released to Zhejiang as an envoy. is not in his position, he does not seek his government, but he does not expect his clutches

The scripture stretched out to this place, and I, Zhou, naturally couldn't sit idly by. ”

He sneered a few times and said: "One day, once I have enough evidence, even if I am no longer the supervisor of the imperial history, I will definitely go back to Beijing to meet the emperor, impeach this thief, and eliminate this great harm for the court and the people!"

Looking at Zhou Xin's high-spirited appearance, Cheng Nianzhen suddenly remembered that when he and Ye Feng were in the capital, Ye Feng had mentioned Ji Gang to her in private.

This Ji Gang is a villain who is accustomed to seeing the wind and the rudder, and is good at welcoming the arts, and travels between the emperor and the Han King all the year round, taking advantage of it. It is no accident that he was able to take over Ye Zhiqiu's position and serve as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, which in itself shows the emperor's trust in him.

Now Zhou Xin wants to play the impeachment of Ji Gang, but he is afraid that not only will he not be able to easily bring him down, but he will cause trouble.

Cheng Nianzhen saw that Zhou Xin was also a good and upright official, and wanted to remind him a few words, but when he thought of his temper, he would definitely not listen, and for a while, he didn't know how to speak.

The two of them just talked and walked, and after a while, they came to the county yamen.

Huang Xian Ling and several catchers were waiting in front of the door to greet Zhou Xin, and when they saw them coming, they hurriedly greeted them.

Huang Xianling's face was full of nervousness and concern, and he said, "The student heard that there was an assassin disturbing the teacher on the way just now, I wonder if the teacher is still safe and sound?"

When Zhou Xin heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then said lightly: "It's nothing, the assassins are all dead now, you send someone to clean up their bodies, don't disturb the people." ”

Huang Xian Ling bowed his head and replied: "Yes! The student immediately ordered someone to handle it." ”

Immediately, he said: "According to the teacher's instructions, the body of the deceased in the previous murder has been prepared, I wonder when the teacher will prepare for the examination?"

Zhou Xin glanced back at Cheng Nianzhen inquiringly, and Miss Cheng said, "Now that we are ready, let's go to test it immediately!"

Huang Xianling was stunned when he heard this, looked at Miss Cheng a little blankly, and blurted out, "What......?

He never expected that the person who wanted to examine the body would be such a weak young woman who looked weak!

What he couldn't have imagined was that such a weak woman's method of examining the body was something he could never have dreamed of.

Although Huang Xianling is familiar with all kinds of books on autopsy and judgment, and even can memorize the "Collection of Grievances", it is the first time he has seen the real autopsy method like Miss Cheng.

Disemboweling the dead body, holding the bloody internal organs that are about to rot one by one in his hand to inspect them, so that the scene that can only appear in the legend of the Yin Si Ghost Prison appeared alive in front of Huang Xianling's eyes at this moment.

Huang Xianling's legs were trembling, but he was afraid that he had vomited the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve last year, and spit out bitter bile.

Zhou Xin looked at him, frowned, and felt very embarrassed, so he took him outside the house to wait for the results of Miss Cheng's examination.

After a few moments, Miss Cheng walked out of the house.

When Huang Xianling saw Miss Cheng squatting aside and washing her hands, she couldn't help but think of the bloody corpse in the room that she didn't know what it had been tossed into.

Zhou Xin's stern gaze swept over, and Huang Xianling hurriedly reached out to cover his mouth, and swallowed the sour juice that came to his throat again.

Zhou Xin shook his head, as if he was very disappointed in this vain student, and turned to Cheng Nianzhen and asked, "May I ask Miss Cheng, test."

But have you got a result?"

Miss Cheng raised her head and said with a serious face: "As I guessed before, this person did not die of an emergency, but was killed by someone!"

When Huang Xian Ling heard this, he suddenly seemed to have forgotten the disgusting corpse, and said with a stiff neck: "How is this possible?"

Zhou Xin glared back, stopped his words, turned his head and asked Miss Cheng very politely, "What clues did the girl find from the corpse?"

Miss Cheng stood up, wiped her hands carefully, and said: "I found a very heavy ingredient in the deceased's stomach, which shows that the murderer put sweat medicine in the wine and food in advance, so that the deceased completely lost the ability to resist, and could only be slaughtered. ”

The murderer first stripped off the deceased's shirt, exposed his chest, and then slowly pierced it with a quick knife, piercing it on one side and pouring boiling water on the wound on the other, so that the flesh of the wound would turn white and roll, and there would be no blood spurting out, and naturally there would be no shade of blood, and it would look like a wound caused after death. The skin around the stab wound on the chest showed signs of burns. ”

In the end, after the murderer waited for the deceased to die, wiped his body clean, then dressed him, and stabbed him again in the chest wound to pierce the clothes, so that there was no blood on the knife wound of his teammates on the clothes, which naturally confirmed the false accusation of his family and cleared his own suspicion of murder. ”

Speaking of this, Miss Cheng sneered and said, "This person not only wants to kill the deceased to vent his anger, but also deliberately wants to make the deceased's family members be imprisoned for the crime of false accusation, how poisonous his heart is!"

She suddenly asked, "If my prediction is correct, this murderer must have done it in prison before he knows how to disguise his wounds." ”

Huang Xianling was stunned by her story, and after she asked, he suddenly said: "Yes, this case, the rich family originally worked as a clerk in the state prison, but because of his father's illness, he resigned and returned to his hometown to inherit the family property. ”

Cheng Nianzhen nodded: "That's it, this method of camouflaging wounds is not unique to him, there have long been rumors in the prison, and many jailers accept money, and use this method to kill prisoners in custody." ”

She turned her head to Huang Xianling and said: "You can't read a book, and you need to be careful and serious in examining the corpse." The burn marks around the wound are so obvious that you only notice the whiteness of the flesh of the wound, and you ignore the other marks, and you almost misjudged the case!"

Huang Xian Ling was embarrassed by this little girl's words, and the beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down his head, and he couldn't stop nodding and responding: "Yes, yes!"

Zhou Xin on the side also felt ashamed, after all, Huang Xianling was his own student, and when he made a mistake, it was like slapping himself in the face, not to mention that when he first discovered the suspicions in this case, he also completely believed in the autopsy, and didn't think of examining the body of the deceased again?

Zhou Xin only felt a hot discomfort on his face at this time.

Probably feeling that her words were a bit heavy, Miss Cheng said to Zhou Xin: "Since this matter is over and the truth is revealed, then the little girl will leave first." Lord Zhou, please cherish yourself!"

After speaking, she glanced at Huang Xianling, who was bowing her head, intentionally or unintentionally, and turned around and walked out.

Seeing her walk out of the county office, Zhou Xin and Huang Xian Ling let out a long breath in unison.

(This case originates from the article "Huang Ling's Death of a Mercenary" in the "Huangming Zhusi Gong Case", the original case occurred in Hechi County, Guangxi, in the Ming Dynasty. ）