Gongsun Ce and Bao Zheng

When the old man grabbed the medicine and was about to take the medicine to boil, Bao Zheng raised his hand to stop him, "No need! Doctor Liu, we trust you."

The old man looked up at Bao Zheng, "Do you believe it?"

Gongsun Ce also nodded with a smile, "In the first place, it wasn't your prescription, let alone your medicine problem. It's just that we need to understand some things, so just now, Gongsun Ce offended something, please forgive me, Doctor Liu."

The old man sneered, "So what if you believe it?! No one will believe this matter until the truth comes to light!" After saying that, the old man walked away in a huff.

Gongsun Ce was a little embarrassed, turned his head to look at Bao Zheng, but Bao Zheng didn't seem to care, took the medicine package handed over by the clerk, put down the money, and said to Gongsun Ce, "Let's go."

The two left the Qingshengtang, Bao Zheng looked around, then walked to the right, Gongsun Ce followed.

"Bao Zheng." Gongsun Ce walked a few steps quickly, walked to Bao Zheng's side and asked, "But the boss of the Qin family asked you?"

Bao Zheng nodded slightly, turned to look at Gongsun Ce, and said with a smile, "I've been thinking, when will you ask..."

Gongsun Ce smiled, "I didn't intend to ask, but I just suddenly remembered something."

"Oh? What's the matter?"

Gongsun Ce considered it for a while before slowly speaking, "Then Qin Wenchang scolded the boss of the Qin family, calling him a bastard? He is not from the Qin family, right?"

Bao Zheng nodded slightly, "He is not from the Qin family, he is the son of a sworn brother of the master of the Qin family. Because his parents died, the master of the Qin family took over and raised him. Later, when he grew up, the relatives of his biological parents wanted to pick him up. Go back to recognize your ancestors and return to your family, and accept your father's original business by the way, so he left, and didn't come back until later when he learned that the master of the Qin family had failed in his business and became seriously ill."

Gongsun Ce nodded suddenly, "I see."

Bao Zheng suddenly stopped, looked at Gongsun Ce, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Don't you also believe the rumors in the neighborhood, and think that the boss of the Qin family has something to do with the daughter-in-law of the Qin family?"

Gongsun Ce rubbed his nose and looked at Bao Zheng innocently. He was just imitating the reasoning that Bao Zheng likes to do in solving cases.

Bao Zheng shook his head helplessly, "The boss of the Qin family met me a year ago. At that time, I was selling tofu for my aunt. When the tofu was almost finished, my aunt went back to pick tofu. The burden was heavy, so I picked it up for my aunt without saying a word, and then left. My aunt wanted to give him a bowl of tofu, but he didn't want it. A person like this... I don't think he is coveting One's own sister-in-law."

Gongsun Ce nodded thoughtfully, looked at Bao Zheng, and felt a slight pain in his heart. He knew that Bao Zheng lived a poor life, and also knew that Bao Zheng had been helping his aunt sell tofu when he was studying...only when he knew it at the beginning He, Gongsun Ce, has not yet become best friends with Bao Zheng, so when he knew it, he just thought "ah, so Bao Zheng wants to sell tofu" and then forgot, but now it is different.

"I invite you to eat noodles." Bao Zheng's abrupt opening brought Gongsun Ce back to his senses, ah, noodles?

Bao Zheng pulled Gongsun Ce and walked into the noodle shop. Gongsun Ce looked around, looked at the "Qin Ji Cloth Shop" across the street from the noodle shop, and knew in his heart that he was here to investigate Qin Wenchang?

After sitting down, the waiter hurried over and asked with a smile, "What do you two want?"

"Two bowls of noodles." Gongsun Ce said with a smile.

"Okay!"

After the clerk left, Gongsun Ce looked at Bao Zheng, who was already staring intently at the cloth shop across the street.Gongsun Ce lowered his head, and poured two cups of tea on his own, put one cup in front of Bao Zheng, and picked up the cup by himself, drinking slowly.

"It seems that this business is not very good." Bao Zheng murmured.

Gongsun Ce turned his head to look, and saw the clerk in the cloth shop listlessly patting the cloth and yawning from time to time.

"Look, the colors of the fabrics displayed outside are very old. Nowadays, the fabrics displayed outside many cloth shops are very new, so as to attract business, but in the Qinji cloth shop, the ones displayed outside are still large. Green, I have seen a lot of cloth shops with big blue clothes, I heard from my aunt that many girls like to wear blue clothes this year." Bao Zheng said, frowning again, "It seems that Qin Wenchang's business is not doing well."

After Bao Zheng finished speaking, he picked up the teacup and drank it slowly, but he caught a glimpse of Gongsun Ce looking at him with a smile, but the smile was a bit treacherous.

"What's wrong?" Bao Zheng raised his eyebrows and asked.

"I didn't expect you to study what colors girls like to wear..." Gongsun Ce joked, but he was very happy. It turns out that the serious and upright Mr. Bao also likes to study what girls wear.Then he should have been a matchmaker for him in the first place!

Bao Zheng paused the hand holding the teacup, and slowly put down the teacup, his expression still calm and composed, "After all, I am a man."

"Pfft—" The tea from Gongsun Ce's mouth sprayed out.

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Walking on the way to the Qin Mansion, Gongsun Ce followed Bao Zheng slowly, seeing the straight back in front of him striding forward, Gongsun Ce was tangled in his heart, thinking of the man in front of him who said calmly, "After all I am a man"……

It turns out Master Bao would do the same... Um, are you kidding yourself?Is it because he hasn't discovered Master Bao's side in his previous life or Master Bao has been hiding it all this time?In fact, thinking about it, I made too much fuss, after all Master Bao is also a human being...

Gongsun Ce was just thinking wildly until he bumped into something hard but warm and rubbed his nose. Gongsun Ce raised his head and smiled embarrassedly.

"What are you thinking?" Bao Zheng looked at the shy smile on Gongsun Ce's face, and felt funny in his heart, but his face was calm.

"Ah, I think how you want to avenge the daughter-in-law of the Qin family..." Gongsun Ce smiled and took a step back. The distance was too close, and he was under a lot of pressure.Mr. Bao in front of him is very shrewd.

"Stretch as you want." Bao Zheng said casually, then turned around and walked up the steps.

"However, you only have speculations and no evidence." Gongsun Ce followed behind and said softly.

"Evidence? Don't worry, there will be one soon." Bao Zheng said, and began to knock on the door.

Gongsun Ce was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, it seems that this person has a plan in mind.

After knocking on the door, the young man came out with a haggard face and opened the door. Looking carefully, the young man's eyes were still red, as if he had just cried not long ago. When the young man saw Bao Zheng, his eyes lit up. Stepping forward, "Brother Bao, you are finally here!"

Bao Zheng showed an apologetic smile, and cupped his hands first, "Brother Qin, please forgive me for being late because Bao Zheng walked around the neighborhood." He introduced, "This is Gongsun Ce, Gongsun Ce, this is Brother Qin Hai Qin."

Gongsun Ce smiled and cupped his hands, "Brother Qin is good."

"Oh, hello, Brother Gongsun." Qin Hai said casually, then turned to look at Bao Zheng eagerly, "Brother Bao, look at the case of the sister-in-law..."

"Brother Qin, don't worry, let's go in first." Bao Zheng laughed.

Qin Hai woke up like a dream this time, and hurriedly let Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce go in in embarrassment.

Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce entered the house, and first took a closer look at the surroundings. The layout was very ordinary, with three yards, the front yard was the lobby, and the back yard was facing each other. It should be a living room.

Seeing Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce scrutinizing them carefully, Qin Hai simply took them around and introduced them in detail. The left courtyard is the residence of the master and wife of the Qin family, and the one opposite It is the residence of the daughter-in-law of the Qin family, and beyond it is a small yard, the ancestral hall, and behind the ancestral hall is a small garden, with melons and fruits planted, but very few.

Bao Zheng stood in front of the small garden, staring intently, not knowing what he was looking at, Gongsun Ce also looked up and down carefully, suddenly, Gongsun Ce squinted and looked at a certain place in the corner, there seemed to be something there ?Just as Gongsun Ce was about to speak, Bao Zheng had already strode over. Gongsun Ce was startled, then smiled, and followed.

Pushing away the firewood piled up by someone unknown in the corner, a dog hole suddenly appeared in front of them.

Qin Hai exclaimed, "Hey, why is there a dog hole here??"

Gongsun Ce glanced at Qin Hai, then turned his head to stare at the surroundings of the dog hole, and it was obvious that the dog hole was not built just now, it must have been some time.

But Bao Zheng carefully separated the firewood, and soon, a cloud of blue silk appeared in front of him, Gongsun Ce.Gongsun Ce raised his eyebrows slightly, he remembered that when Bao Zheng performed the autopsy on the old man of the Qin family, he also found the blue silk.

When Bao Zheng was staring at the blue silk, Gongsun Ce took out the handkerchief on his body and handed it over naturally. Bao Zheng came back to his senses, glanced at the handkerchief that Gongsun Ce handed over, and then Putting the blue silk on it, Gongsun Ce wrapped it up naturally and put it in his arms.

"Let's go to the ancestral hall to have a look." Bao Zheng said, and walked towards the ancestral hall first.Gongsun Ce followed closely behind, while Qin Hai looked bewildered, but hurriedly followed.

Pushing open the gate of the ancestral hall, the altar was oncoming, and there were three rows of tablets on the altar. Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce both knelt down to salute before getting up to check.Gongsun Ce stood in front of the altar and glanced at the tablets on the altar one by one, while Bao Zheng walked to the right side of the altar, where there was another door.

Gongsun Ce looked at the tablet for a while, then turned around and asked, "Brother Qin, is your brother called Qin Feng?"

Qin Hai was taken aback, then nodded, but then asked curiously, "Brother Gongsun, how do you know?"

Gongsun Ce said with a smile, "Because Lingdi's tablet is the least dusty, it must be because it is often wiped."

Qin Hai sighed softly, "Brother Gongsun is very careful in his observations. That's right. I often heard my father mention that my sister-in-law often comes to the ancestral hall, sometimes staying overnight."

"It shouldn't be sometimes, but often." Bao Zheng opened the door on the right side of the altar and said abruptly.

Gongsun Ce walked over, and when Bao Zheng walked in, he also walked in. It was a very small room, but it was very clean, and there was a bed on it. bedding.What bothered Gongsun Ce the most was that the only window in this small room faced the dog hole in the small garden.

Bao Zheng walked over, stared at the bed for a long time, and then slowly reached out his hand to find something under the pillow. It was a blue silk handkerchief, and there was an unfinished picture of a mandarin duck on the handkerchief!

Gongsun Ce frowned, turned around and asked, "Brother Qin, how old was your younger brother when he passed away?"

Qin Hai was taken aback for a moment, and then said blankly, "Brother Feng is not in good health, and passed away when he was 11 years old."

"The sister-in-law is..."

"It was bought and raised to be Brother Feng Chongxi's daughter-in-law... It's just a pity that Brother Feng..."

Gongsun Ce sighed slightly, and looked at Bao Zheng who was still staring at the bed wondering what he was thinking, seeing that Bao Zheng was still holding the blue silk handkerchief in his hand, he took out the handkerchief wrapped in blue silk from his bosom, He took the handkerchief from Bao Zheng's hand, rubbed it, and put it in a ball.

"We can go back to the government office." Bao Zheng said coldly after recovering.

Gongsun Ce nodded slowly.That's right, the facts of the case are already clear...

The two walked all the way back to the mansion, Bao Zheng was contemplating all the way, and Gongsun Ce followed quietly, until they reached the gate of the mansion, Bao Zheng suddenly turned around, and asked nonchalantly, "What are you doing?" look?"

Gongsun Ce was taken aback for a moment, and then replied, "Qinji cloth shop doesn't have blue silk."

Bao Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly, "That's not necessarily true."

Gongsun Ce turned his eyes and was about to speak, when he saw Shen Liang walking towards them in a hurry.

Shen Liang bowed his hands to Gongsun Ce, and then said seriously to Bao Zheng, "Brother Bao, I have already found out what you asked me to investigate."

Bao Zheng's eyes lit up, "Oh? Trouble Brother Shen! What's the result?"

"No, no trouble!" Shen Liang smiled boldly, and patted Bao Zheng's shoulder with a look of admiration, "Brother Bao really knows things like a god! That Qin Wenchang really owes a lot of money to the gambling house, except for that Qin Wenchang Remember the cloth shop, the others have already been mortgaged, and there is indeed a piece of blue silk cloth in Qin Wenchang's house! However, it is already half a foot short. What's more, Qin Wenchang has been staying out at night since last year. , Zhang’s second son, who was on watch, saw him sneaking around the back door of the Qin family several times! Also, the old lady has already checked, and the daughter-in-law of the Qin family is indeed not a big girl. According to the method you said, My lord has already been interrogated, and the adulterer is Qin Wenchang, but now, there is still some evidence!" Shen Liang said at the end, quite distressed, and said bitterly, "Then Qin Wenchang caused trouble in the Qin Mansion today and I arrested him. At that time, I still refused to admit it!"

Hearing this, Gongsun Ce smiled, "Brother Shen, don't be angry, look, the evidence has come!" Gongsun Ce smiled and took out the handkerchief wrapped in the evidence from his arms and handed it over, "Brother Shen, please give it to me. father."

Shen Liang's eyes lit up and he was overjoyed, "This is really great."

Bao Zheng smiled at the side and briefly explained the results of today's visit. Shen Liang listened carefully.