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After they ate, they realized that it was still early, so Zhan Zhao wanted to go to Cao Jian's house in the south of the city to check on the situation. In addition, he asked Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to take people to help find the lost maid in Bai Yutang's house.

Everyone was idle anyway, walking towards the south of the city together as if digesting food.

Zhan Zhao's popularity can be seen from the number of people who greeted him. He asked all the way, and he really heard a lot of comments on that "Cao Jian".

Everyone summed it up briefly, Cao Jian is a moderately gifted scholar, his family background is not good, and he has no future.Originally, he was ambiguous with a certain servant girl. He is good-looking and coquettish, and he is quite good at provoking girls.But recently, he climbed into a good family and became a son-in-law after marrying him. He has been completely reborn, and he looks like a son-in-law with a high-spirited tone.

Cao Jian happened last night. It is said that the house suddenly caught fire. Cao Jian didn't know why he was trapped in the study and did not come out. He also ended up dead without a whole body.

Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and the others arrived at the door of the burning house, the Yellow Gate in the south of the city, and the owner of the house was Yuanwai Huang from Kaibufang.There are quite a few wealthy households in Kaifeng Mansion, Huang Yuanwai is not particularly rich, but his house is still very decent, it's just that the clouds are gloomy at the moment, and he is preparing for the funeral.

The most worrying thing is that his daughter became a widow just after getting married. She passed out last night and still hasn't woken up.

Worried, the butler came in and said, "Master, someone from Kaifeng Mansion has arrived."

Huang Yuanwai was slightly taken aback, "Kaifeng Mansion? Who's here?"

"Master Zhan."

Member Huang was startled, "Zhan Zhao?"

"Yes." The housekeeper nodded, "I said I wanted to ask my uncle about it."

Huang Yuanwai slapped the table and stood up abruptly, startling his wife.

"Master?" Mrs. Huang was puzzled.

"I just thought that Hao Duan Duan Duan Duan could catch fire, don't ask, someone is thinking about my son-in-law, don't let someone murder him!" Huang Yuanwai said to the butler, "Hurry up and invite Master Zhan to come in!"

The butler nodded, thought for a while, and added, "He brought quite a few people with him."

"A yamen servant from Kaifeng Mansion?" Huang Yuanwai didn't think it was unusual. Zhan Zhao was a fourth-rank official anyway, and Kaifeng Mansion was also a majestic yamen office. There was no reason for someone to come out to handle the case.

"It doesn't look like it." The housekeeper said, "Well, there is a young man in white clothes, who looks very handsome, and there is also a very handsome scholar who is holding a child, and there is also a man in black clothes, who looks a bit Scary, another one with fiery red hair..."

Huang Yuanwai was preoccupied, and was annoyed by the housekeeper, so he stomped his feet, "Oh, whoever he is, as long as it's brought by Zhan Zhao, please come in!"

"Yes!" The butler hurried away.

After Zhan Zhao and the others entered Huang's mansion, they sat down in the living room to drink tea. Member Huang came out to welcome Zhan Zhao, first apologizing to Zhan Zhao, saying that there was a funeral at home and he could not go out to meet him...

Zhan Zhao waved his hand, telling him not to be too polite, since he came here on business.

Huang Yuanwai asked Zhan Zhao what was the matter.

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, and didn't say much about the maids in the Bai Mansion. It's not that he deliberately concealed or favored someone, but that the situation is unclear now. If the news spread, it would probably cause panic in Kaifeng Mansion.

"When I was eating just now, someone mentioned that Yuanwai's house was on fire for no reason." Zhan Zhao said, "I felt a little strange, so I wanted to take a look at the house that was on fire and Mr. Cao's body... I don't know if it's convenient or not."

"Convenience!" Huang Yuanwai nodded, "I also feel that my son-in-law died strangely. Master Zhan is willing to show me, so I feel at ease. If it is a natural disaster, then I will admit it, but if someone murders my son-in-law and my daughter Widow, Mr. Zhan, please help me seek justice! I must go to Kaifeng Mansion to express my grievances."

Zhan Zhao nodded, and Huang Yuanwai stood up and led the way.

It was Huang's study that was on fire. It was almost burnt to a piece of scorched earth, the beams of the house were burned to carbon, and the whole house collapsed.

Ouyang Shaozheng knelt down and knocked on the charcoal, which was as hard as a rock, and looked around, and saw that except for the study, other places were intact.

Ouyang raised his head and glanced at Zhao Pu, and Zhao Pu looked at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang—everyone knew that this kind of weather was neither dry nor windy, so how could it be possible to burn so thoroughly unless it was poured with kerosene...

"Can I have a look at the corpse?" Gongsun asked Huang Yuanwai.

"Okay, in the mourning hall ahead." Huang Yuanwai wanted to lead the way, and looked at the fourth son with some worry, as if he was puzzled—children should also enter the mourning hall to see the corpse?

Gongsun remembered that although the fourth son was not afraid of the corpse, there was no need to look at it, so he took advantage of the situation and asked others to help him hug him.

Zhao Pu stretched out his hand, "Come on, little four."

Usually, when Gongsun is not free, Zhao Pu must be the first to pounce on the fourth son.

It was the same this time, when Zhao Pu opened his hand just now, the fourth son also opened his hand, smiling as if he was going to pounce, but just halfway through the pounce, the fourth son suddenly seemed to think of something, pouted, and approached Turning around, he threw himself at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang was slightly taken aback, and instinctively reached out to catch it, holding the fourth son, and the two looked at each other.

The fourth son puffed out his cheeks and stared at Bai Yutang, which meant - I want you to hug him!

Bai Yutang looked at the fourth son, then at Zhao Pu...

Zhao Pu clutched his heart - so sad!The fourth son hates him!

Zhan Zhao was also a little puzzled. When he lightly touched Zhao Pu, what did that mean—what did you do to him?

Zhao Pu was wronged, his head shook like a rattle——June Feishuang, I treat him like my own son so much!

Ouyang rubbed his chin, "Could it be that the fourth son has seen through the rogue physique of the prince, and thinks that those who are close to ink are black and those who are close to vermilion are red? Children have a future!"

Zhan Zhao looked at him speechlessly, Ouyang smirked.

Gongsun followed Master Wang into the mourning hall, and was also looking at the situation behind him, a little puzzled——Isn’t the fourth son the one who claims to like Zhao Pu the most? He spent the night chatting in a carriage last night. What can I talk about?Zhao Pu is also boring enough, he can chat with a four and a half year old boy all night, why suddenly the youngest boy ignores him today?

But Gongsun didn't have time to think about it, and went into the mourning hall with Huang Yuanwai. After burning incense, he said "Excuse me", and went to check Cao Jian's body in the coffin.

Outside the yard, Zhan Zhao followed in because of urgent business, Zhao Pu stood at the corner to heal his heartache, and Ouyang patted him on the shoulder to express his comfort.

Bai Yutang was left standing in the middle of the yard with his fourth son in his arms, looking at him.

The fourth son twisted twice, feeling uncomfortable being hugged.

Bai Yutang was uncomfortable in the hug, so he couldn't help but asked the fourth son, "What's wrong?"

The fourth son pouted and muttered something in a low voice.

The voice of Xiao Sizi was really soft, but Bai Yutang heard it, and seemed to be saying something, "Jiujiu said that no one would look down on..."

Bai Yutang frowned, "No one cares about anything?"

The fourth son muttered, saying that Zhao Pu's mother asked him to marry him, but he said that no one would like it.

Bai Yutang was curious, "So what?"

The fourth son pouted, "Daddy is so nice that he can't even look down on him."

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, seeing Zhao Pu secretly looking at him in the distance, he seemed to be very concerned about why the fourth son was ignoring him.

Bai Yutang moved closer to the fourth son's ear, and said in a low voice, "You misunderstood, Zhao Pu said that the one person he doesn't like is a woman."

The fourth son was taken aback, "Woman?"

"Your father is a man." Bai Yutang said, raised his head to help the fourth son and asked Zhao Pu, "Do you have a crush on Gongsun?"

Zhao Pu was puzzled when he heard this, and nodded without thinking about Bai Yutang's words.

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows at the fourth son, which meant—look!No one can see it, but your father!

The fourth son's originally calm face turned up, and a smile came out...

Bai Yutang secretly felt that the sad-faced dumpling looked really different from the smiling one.

After thinking about it, Bai Yutang walked over and put the fourth son in Zhao Pu's hand.

Zhao Pu answered it silly.

The fourth son put his arms around his neck and called out sweetly, "Jiujiu!"

Zhao Pu was taken aback, but quickly responded, "Oh."

The fourth son happily said, "Jiujiu, the best!"

Zhao Pu felt at ease... At the same time, he was also wondering, did the dumpling get stuck in the meatball while eating?Emotional ups and downs are a bit big... I guess this is like his father, oh, it's not his own life, but I can also hear it, don't be like his father from time to time and have such a temper, be more careful, and guide him correctly!

On the side, Ouyang Shaozheng stroked his chin and looked at Bai Yutang, then at the fourth son, thinking about—huh?Interesting.

Bai Yutang turned around and entered the mourning hall. At this time, Gongsun was already examining the corpse.

Originally, Huang Yuanwai called for a geotechnical worker to repair Cao Jian's body, at least he would look like a human being when he was buried, not like a piece of coke, but the geotechnical worker was scared away when he saw it, saying that there was no way to repair it.

Gongsun carefully looked at the condition of the corpse, took out a pair of black silk gloves of unknown type from his pocket, put them on, took out a knife, and cut open the flesh between the neck and neck of the corpse.Cut all the way to the chest.

Member Huang felt a little nauseous when he saw it, but couldn't bear to watch it, so he hurried outside to breathe.

Zhan Zhao didn't know what Gongsun was going to do.

Bai Yutang had just stepped into the mourning hall when he saw Gongsun break open the charred corpse's chest, reach in, and take out a lung...

Bai Yutang silently turned around and went out again.

Gongsun held his lungs and looked at them for a while, then put them back in, then reached out to dig out for a while, and took out the liver.

The corners of Zhan Zhao's mouth twitched. Although he knew that it was normal for him to perform an autopsy, Gongsun's action of digging out the internal organs was as natural as that of the fourth son reaching for candy in his purse. .

Huang Yuanwai wiped his sweat outside, thinking to himself why this fragile and beautiful scholar is so hard-handed...it's terrible.

Gongsun cut off a piece of liver, found a small bowl, put some medicine in it, put the liver in, and after a while, Zhan Zhao saw that the colorless medicine had turned dark green, and frowned... He Every layman knows that there must be a way.

After Gongsun left the mourning hall, he went to the well in the yard, fetched a bucket of water, poured some medicinal powder in it, took off his gloves, dipped them in the bucket, washed them carefully and put them away.

Everyone noticed that his hands were clean, and the gloves were actually waterproof.Afterwards, Gongsun fetched water again, and carefully washed his hands with saponins.

Zhao Pu was puzzled, and asked the fourth son, "What kind of gloves does your father wear?"

The fourth son replied, "Daddy specially asked the best female workers in my hometown to weave it. There are two layers of silk, with a layer of oil paper in between."

Zhao Pu understood, nodded, "I see, your father is really smart."

The fourth son's smile immediately widened.

Zhao Pu found a trick. He wanted to make this group happy, so he just praised his father.

……

Gongsun washed his hands and said to Zhan Zhao, "Cao Jian died of poisoning. He was already dead when the fire caught fire. There was no smoke in his lungs, which means he died when the fire caught fire. There are poison residues in his liver. The poison may It was drunk into the stomach through wine, it should be Hedinghong."

"Oh!" Huang Yuanwai jumped three feet high, "My son-in-law likes to drink a couple of glasses, especially when he reads and writes at night... Who hurt my son-in-law?!"

Zhan Zhao asked him, "Who poured him the wine?"

Huang Yuanwai hurriedly called the housekeeper.

The butler was innocent and said that my uncle likes to make flower carvings at night, and he usually brings them back from the winery on the corner of the street when he goes out.

"The owner of the winery is an old man who is deaf and dumb." The butler explained, "We have bought wine from him for decades, and the neighbors all drink from his house, and there has never been an accident."

Zhan Zhao knew that it probably had nothing to do with the winery, so he looked at Bai Yutang—maybe he had something to do with that maid, she had a motive, and she might have fled after doing it.

Bai Yutang nodded to express his understanding.

Zhan Zhao turned his head and asked Huang Yuanwai, "Yuanwai, does Cao Jian have any enemies?"

"Have!"

Before Huang Yuanwai could say anything, a woman's voice sounded.

Everyone looked at the gate of the courtyard, and a maid came out with a pale and naked woman.

"Ruiyun." Huang Yuanwai hurried over to help, "Why did you run out, be careful of catching a cold."

Everyone probably guessed that this was the daughter-in-law of Cao Jian's family—Miss Huang Family, Huang Ruiyun.

"I know that my husband has an enemy, and I hate him to the bone." Huang Ruiyun said, "That is a woman, a maid, I don't know her full name, but I know her name is Xing'er, and she is a maid from a rich family, but who At home, I don't know."

Everyone didn't speak - I felt emotional in my heart, my name is really Xing'er.

Zhan Zhao asked, "Miss Huang thinks Xing'er killed Cao Jian?"

"She was the one who killed my husband. She hates my husband!" Huang Ruiyun wiped his tears and said, "He is my husband's hometown. He is infatuated with my husband, but he has no feelings for her. After marrying me, the woman It's even more entanglement. My husband is simple and honest, and he can't bear to hurt her, so he tolerates everything, but she intensifies. We met her a month ago, and she cursed my husband to die without a whole body, and said that she would not die. Let me go..."

Huang Yuanwai stomped his feet when he heard it, "Oh, Ruiyun, why don't you talk about such a big thing?"

Huang Ruiyun had no choice but to say, "Daddy, my husband is afraid that you will be worried, so he told me not to say anything."

Everyone silently looked at each other—this Miss Huang is innocent enough, no wonder she was tricked by Cao Jian, probably because Cao Jian was afraid that Master Huang would be suspicious, and found out about his past romantic history.

Huang Yuanwai frowned and asked Huang Ruiyun to go to rest. He will handle it here.

Huang Ruiyun was still crying when he left, saying that her husband died unjustly, and asked everyone to help him get justice.

Huang Yuanwai asked Zhan Zhao with a sullen face, "Master Zhan, although I dare not say that Xing'er is the murderer, she is indeed suspected..."

Zhan Zhao nodded, "Don't worry about it, I will investigate it myself. Besides, since it has been proven to be a murder case, please ask Mr. Huang to write a complaint and file a complaint in Kaifeng Mansion so that we can investigate the case."

"Yes!" Huang Yuanwai nodded quickly, and ordered someone to find a lawyer to write a complaint.

Everyone said goodbye to Huang Yuanwai and returned to Kaifeng Mansion, but they were full of doubts in their hearts-how could this happen?

Zhan Zhao asked Gongsun, "Sir, are there any other clues on the corpse?"

"Yes." Gongsun nodded.

"What clue?" Everyone looked at Gongsun.

Gongsun took over the fourth son and said, "The one who died was a woman."

……

"what?!"

Everyone was silent for a while, and then exclaimed.

Even Bai Yutang, who was always expressionless and paralyzed, showed a look of surprise.

The fourth son shook his head, "Daddy, how can you breathe so hard!"

Everyone nodded - that's what happened!

Zhan Zhao wondered and asked Gongsun, "You didn't say just now... Could it be?"

Gongsun smiled and asked the fourth son, "Sir, did you see that Miss Huang just now?"

"Yes." The fourth son nodded.

"Is she in good health?" Gongsun asked.

The fourth son thought for a while, nodded, "Okay."

"Does it look like she was stimulated, exhausted physically and mentally, and fainted all night?" Gongsun continued to ask.

The fourth son scratched the back of his head and tilted his head, "It's not like... Her face is a little pale, but there are no bloodshot eyes in her eyes. Although her body is crooked, her steps are not vain, and also, she is very friendly. Yintang’s color is normal, and his face isn’t dull, is he, Daddy? He looks like a very nice person.”

Gongsun nodded, expressing his satisfaction with the answer of the fourth son.

How smart are the people present.

Bai Yutang frowned, "Just pretending..."

"That lady is just pretending, she doesn't look like a member of staff." Zhao Pu said to himself.

"Indeed!" Gongsun nodded, "Yuanwai Huang is clearly exhausted."

"It was a woman who died, so Cao Jian is not dead." Ouyang Shaozheng frowned, "Xing'er is gone..."

Everyone looked at each other - it seems that the seemingly innocent Ms. Huang is not innocent at all!