Lord Jinyiwei

The next day, the sun was only showing the corner of the sky, and there was a knock on Liang Siwai's door. Liang Si came back late last night and was sleeping soundly at this time, so he didn't hear it. It was the housekeeper who opened the door with sleepy eyes.

"Master, the Governor of Shuntian Prefecture is looking for you." The housekeeper squinted his eyes, looked extremely sleepy, and left after speaking.

While Liang Si was getting dressed, Ji Tong missed the messy-haired housekeeper and ran into Liang Si's room, saying, "It's a big deal!"

Seeing that he was so anxious, Liang Si woke up most of his sleepiness, and said, "Another murder case?"

Ji Tong shook his head: "It's much bigger than this! Your Majesty is coming to Shuntian Mansion!"

"..." Liang Si was stunned for a moment, then collapsed on the edge of the bed and said, "Your Majesty will come to Shuntian Mansion."

"You said it lightly!" Ji Tong pointed at Liang Si, pacing back and forth, "Your Majesty is coming to Shuntian Mansion at this time, what else can you do with a case that is not the number one scholar? You said that we have no clue at all, just a suspect No one was caught, and you let him go, what does His Majesty think of us?"

Liang Si glanced at him, put on his clothes in a leisurely manner, and uttered four words in a calm manner: "Tell me the truth."

Ji Tong shook his head again and again.Can't tell the truth, absolutely can't tell the truth, His Majesty will think that they are not good at doing things.

Ji Tong came to the hall with a worried face, while Liang Si had a relaxed face. The little emperor had been sitting in the mansion for a long time, and when he saw the two of them, he said: "The sun is already drying their buttocks, so the two lovers are late."

Ji Tong knelt down with a "plop", his voice trembling: "I have neglected you, please punish me, Your Majesty."

"Just joking with you, why are you so serious?" The little emperor laughed.

Jitong wiped his sweat and stood up.

The little emperor laughed and spread out on the grand master's chair, shaking his feet and said: "Jitong, is there anything interesting in your mansion?"

Ji Tong was startled, and began to sweat again: "Report, Your Majesty, there is no fun in the minister's mansion."

"What about you?" Zhu Houzhao turned to look at Liang Si.

Liang Sizheng bowed: "Your Majesty, there are none in the minister's residence."

Zhu Houzhao was dissatisfied, and pouted: "I'm tired of playing in the palace, you don't have much fun, this is how you entertain me?!"

Ji Tong seemed to be facing the enemy, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, why don't you take a look at how Lord Liang handles cases, Lord Liang judges cases like a god, and the people call him 'Sai Baozheng'."

Liang Si looked at Ji Tong, when did he get another nickname like this?

Master Jitong turned a blind eye, and his smiling face was wrinkled at the Holy Majesty.

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while and said, "By the way, last time you reported that you had caught the prisoner, how is the trial going?"

Master Jitong was stunned with a smile on his face. He was shooting himself in the foot with a stone. He never thought that a person who could not read a chapter of the memorial for thousands of years happened to be drawn by his own memorial. He wished to be buried. Hope to be arrested.

It was too late to repent at this time, Ji Tong played a few tricks on Liang Si, how to fool him, no, how to uphold justice?

Liang Si cupped his hands: "Your Majesty, I do have someone to suspect in my mind."

Zhu Houzhao asked, "Who is it?"

"Jianke explores Du Zheng."

Zhu Houzhao snorted, and Liang Si said slowly, "I have two witnesses who can prove that there was something strange about him that night. One is Li Xiaozhuang, the watchman. He saw that Du Zheng's room was dark and bright again, and Sitting in front of the window holding a knife, and Gao Xiuping died at Zishi. Second, Jin Hongzhe, he heard the sound of a sharp object falling from Du Zheng's room that night, and I suspected it was a knife. "

"Xuan Duzheng, Li Xiaozhuang, and Jin Hongzhe are here," Zhu Houzhao said.

Yamen servants take orders.

A cup of tea came, and the three of them were brought to kneel down by the yamen servant.

Liang Si ordered Li Xiaozhuang and Jin Hongzhe to tell His Majesty what they said to themselves a few days ago.

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao turned to Du Zheng and said angrily, "Du Zheng, you are so courageous! Did you do it?"

Du Zheng knelt down and shook his head tremblingly: "Your Majesty, the student has never done such a thing! I did light the lamp at Zishi that night, but I was upset and couldn't sleep, so I thought about cutting it. eat a pear..."

Ji Tong sneered: "You don't sleep at night, you peel pears?"

Du Zheng panicked and anxiously defended: "I don't know why I have been suffering from chest tightness since I came back from the Ministry of Rites that night. Later, Jiao Yuan said that pears can produce body fluids and relieve congestion, so he helped me buy a lot of pears from Li Xiaozhuang. I really just peeled a pear. , really just peeled a pear..."

Liang Si: "Jiao Yuan was a pear bought at Haishi, why did you eat it after an hour?"

Du Zheng: "I was depressed that night. Brother Jiao mistook me for the imperial examination, so he stayed to comfort me and didn't leave until after Haishi. I was relieved to hear his comfort, so I wanted to go to bed and fall asleep, but I kept sleeping No, I found a dagger and peeled a pear..."

He kept insisting that he was just peeling a pear, and Ji Tong snorted with a "hum" and said, "Absurd words, sophistry!"

Du Zheng sweated straight from his head, he was anxious to defend himself, Liang Si asked, "What's the matter with the wound on your hand?"

Du Zheng: "I accidentally cut a pear that night."

With a flash of inspiration, Ji Tong said, "It's such a coincidence that the wounds from the hairpin fragments in Gaoxiu's bungalow are also the same. When Mo Bangyan accidentally broke the hairpin, he had several such wounds in his hands."

Zhu Houzhao nodded.

Du Zheng blushed anxiously: "My lord..."

"Su Shun bring the things here." Liang Si suddenly interrupted.

Su Shun nodded and went out.

When he came back again, he was holding two wooden trays in his hands, both of which were covered with a white silk handkerchief, Cao Yanbin lifted the white handkerchief away.

On the wooden plate on the left is a half-restored hairpin, but it seems to be missing a lot, with a small piece hollowed out in the middle, while the other wooden plate once held many small pieces of bloody hairpin .

Du Zheng stared blankly at the objects in the two wooden trays, his face full of confusion.

Liang Sidao: "The hairpin placed on the wooden plate on the left was collected from Gao Xiuping's room and someone restored it, but we searched every corner of the room, and there are still some hairpin fragments missing. Why did these hairpin fragments suddenly disappear? ?

At that time, Lord Ji found a piece of hairpin with blood on it. Why was there blood on the hairpin? Gao Xiuping’s body was far away from the scarf, and the screen blocked it. There was no reason why there was no blood on the hairpin. blood?That's when we identified the killer!

The murderer must be a Jinshi of the same discipline, and Gao Xiuping won the first prize, which damaged his interests.After killing Gao Xiuping, the murderer broke the number one scholar's hairpin, which was different from other Jinshi, into pieces because of venting hatred, and he dropped it many times.

But the murderer ignored the sharp corners of the hairpin after it was broken. He didn't realize it in his rage, but soon after he calmed down, he saw the scars on his hand, and a small part of the hairpin was stained with blood when it touched his hand!

In his haste, he could only pick out the blood-stained hairpins and bring them out, but because of his haste, he ignored one or two hairpin fragments and left them at the scene. This is the key to our case!Because the hairpin fragments on the right can be restored intact with the one on the left, and Jin Yiwei found them in the flower pots in Du Zheng's room in full view! "

Du Zheng trembled all over: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the students will never do such a thing, Your Majesty, the students were wronged, the students don't know what hairpin fragments..."

Zhu Houzhao: "Du Zheng, you killed your classmate, you acted cruelly, you should be executed immediately!"

Du Zheng's blood froze all over his body suddenly, his eyes became dizzy, and he passed out.

Zhu Houzhao wanted someone to drag Du Zheng out and behead him.

Liang Si cupped his hands: "Your Majesty, I still have two questions I want to ask Du Zheng, can I be executed later?"

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand in agreement.

Ji Tong ordered Du Zheng to be dragged out, Zhu Houzhao stretched his waist, leaned on the grand master's chair, his eyes sparkled: "This trial is quite interesting and powerful, what other cases are there to be tried?"

Jitong's smile froze. Is there any case recently?Just as Ji Tong cast a look at Liang Si, Liang Si immediately backed out.

"..." Ji Tong managed to maintain a smile, "Your Majesty does have a case..."

Master Ji reluctantly ordered a few extras to perform a stealing scene, trying to make the little emperor happy and then return to the palace quickly, but unexpectedly, the little emperor couldn't stop being addicted to being a county magistrate.

Ji Tong could only complain endlessly, from the Shuntian mansion up to the yatou down to the little jailer, he performed it all in front of His Majesty, which failed to make the little emperor get tired and ready to go back to the palace.

But when everyone was busy, a person quietly entered the prison of Shuntian Mansion...

After Liang Si's trial, Du Zheng went to look for Guo Sheng, hoping that Gao Xiuping's body would be taken out of Yizhuang for cremation and brought back to his hometown. In the past, Gao Xiuping had heard that there was an old mother at home, and the two thought about how to explain their relief. Don't make old people sad.

The two passed through Shuntian Mansion, and happened to collide head-on with the Yamen servant in the prison of Shuntian Mansion. The Yamen servant was carrying a stretcher with a corpse wrapped in a white cloth, and they were also going to Yizhuang.

Liang Si asked, "Is the person who was just sent in awake?"

The yamen servant nodded his chin and said, "Well, it's here. I died as soon as I entered."

Liang Si was astonished, stepped forward to lift the cloth, indeed Du Zheng was placed on the stretcher, but now his complexion is dusty, his lips are purple, his hands and feet are slightly cold, he looks like a dead person who has just died.

Liang Si asked, "How did you die?"

The yamen servant glanced at Du Zheng: "Take poison. He kept crying and screaming for grievances when he entered the prison. We separated him in a room alone. Unexpectedly, he took poison and committed suicide not long after."

Liang Si and Guo Sheng were astonished.

Guo Sheng said: "Did you see him taking poison with your own eyes?"

The yamen servant laughed disapprovingly: "He is holding a medicine bottle in his hand. Besides, the prison in Shuntian Mansion is heavily guarded, and his death is a certainty. Who will kill him? He can only commit suicide in fear of crime. There are many such cases."

The yamen servant carried the corpse into Yizhuang, put the corpse down and left.