Zhuoying

The two walked back side by side, with one umbrella slightly deflected.Zhong Youyu's shoulders got wet, Shi Yu suddenly raised his hand to hold the front of the umbrella handle, and said, "I'll support it."

Zhong You let go, Shi Yu stabilized the umbrella, turned it slightly, and blocked Zhong You's shoulder.

The lanterns and stars on the street in front of him were hazy in the rain, Zhong You could only see the inches in front of his feet clearly, but it didn't hinder him from walking, because Shi Yu was at his side, and his steps were not too big.The two walked in silence for a while, Zhong You broke the solemnity.

He said: "Kong Xiangwen, the deputy envoy of the procuratorate for Qingping's punishment, is a native of Qingping Huixiang. In the 50th year of Hongxing, Qingping was appointed as the deputy envoy of the procuratorate. It was only in the second year of Yongle that he was promoted to be the deputy envoy of the fourth-rank inspectorate." He paused, as if thinking about it, and then continued: "This person has no outstanding performance, but he has been patrolling the Qingping local branch all his life. Therefore, there are many acquaintances. There are three teachings and nine streams, so Qi Yi attaches great importance to them."

Zhong You was a little cold, he retracted his fingertips into his sleeves, and said: "This case has been unusual since the very beginning. Although I had doubts, I didn't think about it. It wasn't until after I made an inspection yesterday that I remembered that the carriage that Kong Xiangwen was sitting in was very strange. It's familiar, so I guessed some clues." He looked sideways at Shi Yu, "I intuitively feel that Kong Xiangwen's purpose this time is not Lingtang, but your father."

Shi Yu hummed, and after walking a few steps, he said: "...Sir, do you know Kong Xiangwen?"

"I've never seen it before." Zhong You showed helplessness, "I said before that my teacher was also my elder brother's teacher. But my elder brother is talented and has always been the top one, but I really don't have any skills. Back then In order to win the favor of the teacher, I had to memorize the files of officials of the fourth rank and above from the 50th year of Hongxing to the fourth year of Yongle. If you ask me more, I will not be able to answer."

Shi Yu didn't speak again, until the two of them were about to turn the street corner, he stopped and turned to Zhong You.

"Mister, do you know Xin Zhenfu, the criminal prince of the former dynasty?"

"I know." Zhong You also stopped, "If you ask who's name is the most evil mentioned by the current emperor, it should be this one. What's wrong?"

"Sir, do you know why His Majesty hates this person?"

Zhong You paused for a long time this time.

There was no one around, only the two of them stood facing each other on this empty rainy night street.

Zhong You sighed, "Your Honor is really amazing."

Shi Yu looked down at the water flowing over the toe of the shoe, and said in a deep voice: "Shi Tingzhou, he was studying abroad in his early years, and he encountered a fierce battle between Beiyang and Dayuan. He considers himself a scholar, and he couldn't even lift a knife when he went to Beiyang, so Turning south, went to Jiangtang, and cast himself under the residence of Tang Wang, wanting to assist Tang Wang to help Beiyang." Shi Yu showed his sarcasm when he came here, and he said: "However, Tang Wang was planning for the country at that time, and did not His proposal was not adopted. Shi Tingzhou went down the long river to Mount Wuhan Foshan, and wanted to rely on the monks that Prince Sin had befriended here to go straight to the court. The above-mentioned aid was necessary. But the letter of recommendation was more than a month away There was no response, he was ashamed as death, and when he was about to go to the capital again, he learned a great secret in Wuhan."

"When your father learns this secret, this secret will not kill anyone." Zhong You looked at him and said softly: "But who would have expected that King Yan would ascend the throne later and never marry in his life, so he only mentioned the current sage as the new crown prince?" So from the first year of Chongtai, this secret has become a secret that will definitely lose your head."

"Shi Tingzhou quickly returned to Changhe Town, and no longer mentioned the matter of becoming an official. He married my mother not long after, and lived in Lianti Village."

The rain started to lighten, and Shi Yu kept lowering his eyes.

"However, he met Liu Qianling again, and was blinded by the friendship between the two of them in the early years. Liu Qianling, this man has been coveting my mother for a long time, and he has never had a chance to do it. Until he heard this secret when he was drunk, he began to act recklessly .”

The night wind brushed the broken hair wetly, Shi Yu didn't say any more, but Zhong You already understood everything.

Liu Qianling learned of Shi Tingzhou's secret, and used it to force her to take the widow Shi in front of Shi Tingzhou.Shi Yu was already nine years old at that time, and the filth he saw through the crack of the door, and the cries he heard from behind the door panel were all deep in his heart.

And sometimes widows conceived children.

And the way his father hugged his head and cried in the corner of the room.

They were all like branded traces, and they appeared repeatedly during his year-long night.After that year, Shi Tingzhou died, indeed, he was suffering from death.This man had had lofty ambitions all his life, but none of them came true.He used to run around and shout, his heart was burning hot for the country and the people, but in the end all his dreams were frightened because of a secret.

Shi Tingzhou could have resisted, fought hard, and protected his wife and children.But he didn't do anything, he just huddled in the corner in horror and despair, watching how his wife's nails were dug into the wooden board, and how they broke and bled.

He did nothing but beg for mercy and cry bitterly.

The nightmare ended before his death and turned into a deeper rage at his grave.

One year after his death, Liu Qianling also died.

Died in the night of the blizzard, in the cellar of his own home.

Died in Shi Yu's hands.

Zhong You doesn't remember the expression he heard from Meng Chen, he only remembers the feeling of hugging him the first night.

Zhong You suddenly took a step forward, appearing in Shi Yu's drooping eyes.He raised his hand to cover Shi Yu's hand holding the umbrella, looking at Shi Yu seriously and wanted to say something.

A person walked out in the darkness with his legs wet in the mud. When he saw Shi Yu, he was startled at first, then turned to Zhong You, his face suddenly changed, and he lost his voice and said, "White Gull."

Zhong You looked over and was also taken aback, "...Ruchen."

Zhong Xie was stunned, he even forgot the existence of Shi Yu, wiped his muddy face in the drizzle, and said: "Why are you here? What are you doing here?" Then said: "You didn't go back to Jiangtang !"

Shi Yu watched Zhong You's hand that was originally covering him hang down, took a step back, and the warmth in his eyes faded.

It's not quite the same as the usual Mr. Zhong.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, the person who delivered the case had already mounted his horse and headed straight for the entrance of the town.Unexpectedly, there were already people waiting at the entrance of the town, Zhong Xie and Su Shuo stood side by side in front of the gate, blocking the way of the fast horse of the case.

"Lord Zhong!" The man on the horse reined in his horse and clasped his fists, "This is a murder case! It must be sent to the mansion within two days! No delay! If you have nothing urgent to do, please let me go!"

"This case is doubtful and cannot be settled yet." Zhong Xie replied, "I can't let it go!"

That person has Kong Xiangwen's character imprinted on him, so why be afraid of his little food supervisor?He sternly said, "It's unreasonable for Duliangdao to intervene in the affairs of the procurator. You should get out of the way!"

"Get off the horse!" Zhong Xie didn't move, and put his hands on his chest, as if he was going to take out something, but he still said a little more, "I have already said that this case is suspicious, if you don't get off the horse as soon as possible, it will be a waste of life. Homicide investigation!"

The man sneered and clamped his horse's belly tightly, intending to bump him away and rush out.But the horse neighed and raised its hooves, but he clearly saw what Zhong Xie took out from his arms, and his expression changed dramatically.

Zhong Xie raised his hand, and what he was holding in his palm was a first-class golden order!

The man hastily reined in his horse, rolled down to the ground, thumped and knelt down in front of the order, and said loudly, "I don't know that the order is here! You deserve death!"

Zhong Xie walked straight over, pulled out the case that was tied on his back, and said in a deep voice: "There are still lives under this case, you immediately send people to the long river in the west of the town to search for a faceless corpse. Immediately arrest and bring to justice!" Seeing this man's terrified expression, he said sternly: "I have written a letter to the capital, if you dare to collude with a villain, you will be beheaded next!"

The man responded immediately, not daring to disagree.

The yamen was understaffed, so the Mongolian Pavilion took care of it.The people Kong Xiangwen searched by the Changhe didn't know the gold order, the two sides even fought, and finally the relevant people were arrested together.The corpse had been dragged out of the grass pit and was ready to be moved to another place for burning. It was also brought back to the yamen, and the old lady Liu witnessed that it was Liu Wanchen.Wu Zuo inspected again, excluding the re-scratched wound after death, the left shoulder and arm were all pierced by scissors, the cause of death was not external force, but oleander in the wine, and finally died of convulsions when pushed down the steps.

Zhong Xie took Kong Xiangwen into custody by means of a gold order, and Liu Qinghuan's carriage had already left the town, but was also chased back, and they were imprisoned together.

The murder case was retried, and the evidence was conclusive.Zhong Xie wrote down all the facts that Liu Qinghuan poisoned Liu Wanchen and Kong Xiangwen to cover up and then killed and changed their bodies to confuse the investigation.The case was handed over, and three days later, the chief minister, Qi Yi, was furious, and it was said that the two men were escorted back to the mansion and beheaded immediately.

The night before his departure, Liu Qinghuan wanted to see Zhong Xie in prison, intending to report Shi Yu's killing of Liu Qianling for the record.

But the person who came was Zhong You.

Liu Qinghuan leaned on the railing, narrowed her eyes as she watched the green shirt walk slowly outside the door, and stood there with her hands tied.The shock in his eyes gradually faded away, instead there was a viciousness. He said: "So it's you! How did I get the gold order when Zhong Xie came, so it's you! You've been waiting here for a long time, you." He smashed the pole and said angrily: "Your center is clear! I fell into your trap!"

"Many acts of unrighteousness will lead to death. When I was in the capital, I advised Marquis Changle to do it on his own." Zhong You calmly said, "He is already a second-class marquis, but he still wants to interfere in the local government, and he even wants to stir up rumors among the people. It is disloyal and unrighteous to be a minister."

"What are the rumors?" Liu Qinghuan sneered, he stuck to the gap, and said to Zhong You word by word: "Whose son is the current emperor, Hou Ke also knows very well. You claim to be loyal and upright, but you dare not say that Tell the world, Zhong Baiou, your loyalty is nothing more than loyalty to this unrighteous king!"

Zhong You looked at his madness, and there was compassion in his eyes, and said: "What is an unrighteous king? Back then, the Supreme Emperor ascended the throne, and the first emperor was crowned as the crown prince, and Wang Lifu was put down, and the leftists had no objections. With Qingping as the first voice, all the generals in Beiyang obeyed the holy will. The unrighteous king you speak of is in the eyes of the people of the world. In the eyes of the world, he ascended the throne openly and frankly. Now you say whose son he is, do you think he is Whose son is it?"

Liu Qinghuan said harshly: "Prince Sin paid homage to Buddha Wuhan Foshan in the past, and later Sun Baiping in Dezhou got his bed warmer. When the Supreme Emperor entered Xianglan City, what he met was—"

"Marquis Changle."

Liu Qinghuan stopped abruptly.

Zhong You said quietly: "Every word you are saying is to kill Chang Lehou."

Liu Qinghuan bit her lip, stared at his gentle and gentle face, gradually burst into a sneer, slid down the pole with a smile and sat on the ground, resting her head on the pole, and fell lonely in the laughter.

"Who is King Pingding?" Zhong You lowered his eyes, "You haven't entered an official position, so you don't know. Marquis Changle dares to stain the Supreme Emperor with half a smear, and King Pingding can make Dalan no longer have the Changle Luan family." He seemed He didn't like this condescension, so he knelt down and said to Liu Qinghuan: "Once this case enters the capital, it will definitely not reach the desk of the Holy Majesty and the Supreme Emperor. Mr. Liu, although you live in the capital, you don't know that some people even If you leave the court, you can still stir up the court and the public in every possible way."

He seemed to be trapped in some kind of regret of his own, and finally said in a low voice: "The situation is transient and uncertain."

Liu Qinghuan grabbed his sleeve corner, raised her head and blushed, and said, "This time, you will take all the blame on me!"

Zhong You didn't speak.

Liu Qinghuan tightened his sleeve, and said in a hoarse voice: "If you don't agree, then I will explain my father's death in front of Qi Yi."

Zhong You finally let go of his gentleness, he said lightly: "You can understand, if I am afraid, there will be a way to make you lose your tongue along the way." Then he stood up, gently pulled out his sleeves, turned and left.

Liu Qinghuan slammed on the railing again, and he hissed loudly: "Zhong Baiou! You are like this, how dare you call Xianyun's name!"

As if Zhong You had never heard of it, he left the prison, dazzled by the sun after the rain.

Leaning against Shi Yu at the gate of the yamen, his back was waiting for him.

But Zhong You stopped for a long time and never leaned over.