Peerless Pirates

In the afternoon, Ju County Magistrate Zhou Wenzong rushed to Songjiazhuang with the county captain, chief registrar and more than a dozen government officials. As the only Jinshi in Ju County besides the county magistrate, Song Jue's father was actually poisoned to death, which is extraordinary.

It was a big case. What’s more, a doctor and a maid died at the same time, and another person (Qi’er) was missing. Such a case has never happened in Ju County since the founding of the Qi Dynasty. Therefore, Magistrate Zhou did not care at all.

Dare to slack off.

Before the officials arrived, Song Zheng quietly took out the poisonous mushrooms and Zheng Feng's jade pendant from under his bed, stuffed the poisonous mushrooms into Xiaolian's quilt, and placed the jade pendant on the inconspicuous courtyard wall.

Bian. As for the real poisoner, Song Zheng knew very well that he must be the enemy of Old Man Gao. Only they have such skills, able to climb over the wall without making a sound and put arsenic into the medicine bag. However, the government

The person must not know the truth, so Qian Youcai, Mr. Song’s nemesis, will definitely be suspected. By then, the jade pendant and poisonous mushrooms will be discovered, and Qian Youcai and Zheng Feng will be involved, and there will be "evidence"

", so that they didn't even have an excuse to quibble, and used the hands of the government to get rid of them, so they had one less big worry. The deaths of Mr. Song and others made Song Zheng feel that his heart had become much harder, and he began to use any means to deal with the enemy.

After County Magistrate Zhou and others arrived, Wu Zuo quickly found out that the three people died of arsenic poisoning. The arsenic poisoned by Mr. Song was put into the medicine bag, and there were traces of poison in the medicine pot. And the arsenic poisoned by Dr. Gao's family

Arsenic was also found in the water tank. In addition, a talisman was found next to the water tank in Doctor Gao's house, which said "Expel quackery and drive away Yin". The officials searched in great detail and found a brick at the gate of Song's house.

Below, there is also a talisman pressed, which reads "Destroy the Song family and eliminate evil spirits". In addition, the poisonous mushrooms in the small lotus house and the jade pendant on the wall were also found. After questioning, it was found that the jade pendant did not belong to the Song family.

I have never seen Xiaolian wearing it. What is even more surprising is that at the bottom of the box where Xiaolian kept her clothes, I found two taels of silver. The Song family is just an ordinary wealthy family, and Xiaolian's monthly income is only thirty

Wen, even if Xiaolian has not spent a penny in the four years since she came to the Song family, it is only more than one tael of silver, so these two taels of silver are very questionable. Only Song Zheng knows that these two taels of silver were given to Xiaolian by Zheng Feng

of.

All the above evidence made the case confusing for a while. The only certainty is that the three people were poisoned to death with arsenic.

On this night, Zhou Wenzong began to interrogate the case all night. The big room behind the Song family ancestral hall, where Shangzu studied, was cleared and used as a courtroom. The place where Song Jue usually lectured became the seat of Zhou County Magistrate

, and a wooden block was placed on the table as a gavel. After questioning, Zhou Wenzong learned that the Song and Qian families had a feud, and Qian Youcai was listed as the most important suspect.

That night, the "temporary court" was brightly lit. Qian Youcai, who was still on the hospital bed, was escorted in. His family members, including his money-filled cabinet, were all driven to the court. Song Jue, Song Yu brothers and Song Zheng

, Wu, as the master of suffering, also came here. Because Song Jue was a Jinshi, he was exempted from kneeling, while everyone else knelt down. Outside the house, the folks from Songjiazhuang stood full.

Qian Youcai felt extremely happy when he found out that Song Shi and others were poisoned to death. Even his illness was more than half cured. Just now Qian Youcai was celebrating with his family, but at this moment he was taken to the court as a suspect.

Zhou Wenzong shouted: "Qian Youcai, Song Shi, Doctor Gao, and Xiao Lian were poisoned to death, but you ordered others to do it?"

Qian Youcai kowtowed like garlic and shouted: "Young man is wronged. Although he is at odds with the Song family, he did not instigate anyone to harm him. I hope the county master will find out."

Zhou Wenzong asked someone to get a pen and ink, and asked Qian Youcai, "Write four characters, Song, Yi, Mie, Qi." Qian Youcai didn't know why, but coincidentally, these words are relatively simple, and Qian Youcai can write them. , then he wrote these words with trembling.

After Zhou Wenzong got the note written by Qian Youcai, he compared it with the words on the two talismans. His eyes immediately stared, he was stunned, and shouted loudly: "You still don't admit it, do you have to torture me?" No? What do you think this is?" After saying that, he threw the two talismans on the ground.

Qian Youcai was immediately shocked when he saw it. That night, he clearly saw the Taoist monk Qian Kongzi burning the talisman. Why did he appear here now? At this moment, a government servant came in from outside the house and handed a paper bag to Magistrate Zhou. Then he whispered a few words in Zhou Wenzong's ears. Zhou Wenzong nodded and shouted angrily at Qian Youcai again: "Hurry up and get him!"

Qian Youcai shouted, "You're wronged", and then told the story of the old man who had done nothing. Song Zheng was extremely frightened after hearing this. What a vicious plan to frame the blame. The fortune-telling Taoist priest first went to Qian Youcai's house to lay out the plan, and then went to Old Man Gao's house to scare the snake. He caught Old Man Gao and Xiaolian and poisoned them, and sent them back to Old Man Gao's house overnight, and then went to Song's house to poison them, and finally left them behind It was a clue that Qian Youcai committed the crime. If he hadn't known the inside story earlier, he would have almost suspected that Qian Youcai ordered someone to do it.

After Zhou Wenzong heard Qian Youcai's story, he sent two government servants to the Yuelai Inn in Shishan Town to pick up the person overnight. During this period, Qian Youcai also told how Song Shi "humiliated" him, and the Song family was naturally upset. To further refute. Song Jue was not good at speaking, Song Zheng was inconvenient to speak, and Song Yu and Wu became the main force in the accusation.

At this time, two villagers came in and accused Qian Youcai of using his second son Qian Liangren as a government servant to run rampant in the countryside and buy and sell by force. One villager said that ten acres of his family's land was bought by Qian Youcai, and he was also raped. He took out the land deed, which said a total of 800 Wen, an average of 160 Wen per mu, which was far lower than the market price of 300 Wen per mu. Another villager sued Qian Youcai for using five acres of barren land in exchange for He had five acres of fertile farmland, but he refused to do so. He had money and even brought his second son to the house to threaten him.

Zhou Wenzong once accepted twenty taels of silver from the Qian family through an intermediary and made Qian Liangren a temporary government servant. Although he had heard about Qian Liangren's evil deeds, he had to turn a blind eye because he accepted the money. Now, after Qian Liangren became a yamen official, he became a minor leader among the local gangsters in Ying County. He usually showed a lot of filial piety, and Zhou Wenzong was even more embarrassed to take care of it. However, a few days ago, Zhou Wenzong got a hint from his superiors and took the money. Liangren resigned and even returned dozens of taels of silver. At this time, Zhou Wenzong felt "clear of heart" when handling the case. Seeing that the Qian family had committed such a big case, he couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he was lucky to have resigned this troublemaker, otherwise he would have been in trouble all the time. You may also be implicated.

After Qian Liangren was dismissed, other local gangsters in Ying County saw that he had lost power, so they gathered a group of people and beat Qian Liangren violently. This was the scene where he limped back to Songjiazhuang.

During the trial, the villagers watching outside the court were talking a lot, and they all blamed the Qian family. Zhou Wenzong ordered a government servant to go out to investigate, and he heard that Qian Youcai's family was notorious. Although Zhou Wenzong was greedy for money, he was only in his early thirties.

, has a bright future. In order to be promoted as soon as possible and "benefit" more working people, Zhou Wenzong has made up his mind to punish the Qian family in order to win the reputation of the Qingtian Grand Master.

At this time, the government servant who went to Shishan Town came back and brought the owner of the Yuelai Inn. The owner said that no fortune teller had ever lived in Room 2 of the Yuelai Inn. In the past two days, there had only been a young man in white.

Two servants. Not only that, there has never been a Taoist priest staying in the entire Yuelai Inn.

Hearing this, Qian Youcai and others immediately turned pale. Song Zheng took it seriously. After the young master in white and others carried away the first part of King Lu's secret treasure, they must have come back to check the news about the other two secret treasures. That one

Since the fortune-telling Taoist priest reported the name of "Room No. 2 of Yuelai Inn", it is very likely that he is the same group as Mr. Bai. Are they the enemies of Old Man Gao? Why did they harm Mr. Song again? It seems that,

Press Qi'er and ask who her enemies are, so that we can get some truth.

Qian Youcai and his family kowtowed repeatedly and shouted that they were wronged. Zhou Wenzong shouted: "What else do you have to say?"

Qian Youcai said: "The villain did instigate people to harm the Song family, but the poisoning was definitely not done by me." Then Qian Youcai told the story about Zheng Feng and Xiaolian, and the court was in an uproar.

The county magistrate of Zhou hurriedly ordered the yamen to arrest Zheng Feng. Within a quarter of an hour, Zheng Feng was brought to the court. Zheng Feng told the story of his collusion with Xiaolian and how he was stoned on the orders of Qian Youcai.

The young master of the Song family asked Xiao Lian to poison Mr. Song and other things.

When Young Master Song appeared, Song Zheng pointed at Zheng Feng and said angrily: "It was you who hit me that day? If I hadn't escaped by chance, I would have been hit to death by you." Then, Song Zheng said to Magistrate Zhou.

Gongshou said: "On the morning of August 18th, I went to practice boxing on the big rock in the west mountain. Suddenly a mountain rabbit jumped out from the edge. I was shocked. When I went to chase the mountain rabbit, I saw a stone falling from the cliff.

It rolled up and down, but it scared me so much that I rushed home."

At this time, Qian Youcai still kowtowed, and the ground was red with blood. Even so, Qian Youcai still screamed that he was wronged, and repeatedly insisted that he was not responsible for the poisoning. Seeing him like this, Zhou Wenzong was quite angry and shouted loudly

He said: "You haven't recruited me from the real thing, what do you think this is?" As he said that, he threw down the paper bag handed over by the Yamen servant just now. Qian Youcai opened it and saw some brown powder inside, and asked doubtfully:

"Master County, I don't know."

Zhou Wenzong was so angry that he narrowed his eyes and said: "Then let me tell you, this is dyed arsenic, which was found from under the table in the main room of your house. It is exactly the same as the arsenic that poisoned Mr. Song."

When Qian Youcai heard this, he immediately knew that he had been harmed by Gan Kongzi. He was so shocked that he sat back on the ground and said loudly: "It's unfair. The villain once let that Gan Kongzi rest in the main room for one night. He must have put it there.

.It was the fortune-telling Taoist priest who did it. He escaped. It’s really none of the villain’s business.” (Welcome to favorites, comments, and flower requests)