Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

Kaifeng House.

Bao Zheng walked in with an embarrassed expression on his face, and asked as he walked, "How is the examination, sir?"

The servant hurriedly replied: "Mr. has been assembling and autopsying with you since the body parts were transported back, and he hasn't come out for a whole day."

Bao Zheng sighed, and just about to say something, he heard someone shout from behind: "The Eighth Prince is here!"

Bao Zheng turned around in a hurry and was about to salute, but his hand was supported by someone: "Don't fix these nonsense, hurry up and tell me what's going on with this Eight Treasure Building? Today, I was angry in court and said that I would thoroughly investigate this matter. The case is related to the Yelan Gang, and you have seen how many idiots in the court stand up to guarantee the Yelan Gang without thinking, once the incident happens, the consequences will be extensive, and the situation may even change."

"The case of the Babao Building is indeed full of doubts. I also want to ask Mr. Gongsun to see if there are any clues in the autopsy. Since the prince is here, let's listen together." Bao Zheng frowned and looked at Zhang Long who was beside him. Said, "Go and get sir."

"Yes!" Zhang Long took the order and went.

Seeing this, the Eighth Prince looked around and asked, "Why don't you see Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang?"

"Don't dare to lie to the lord, Zhan Huwei and Bai Shaoxia went to Linzhou to investigate the case, and I'm afraid they won't be able to come back for a while."

"Linzhou? That land borders on Xixia. Could it be that the case they are going to investigate is related to Xixia?"

"It's hard to say about this, but the guards of Zhan asked the Holy Majesty to receive a secret decree to investigate the case. Few people in the DPRK and China know about this."

The Eight Kings said: "Oh? If that's the case, then I won't ask any more questions, and I will never spread the word."

Bao Zheng replied, "Thank you, my lord, for your compassion."

Zhang Long hurried to invite Gongsun, and as soon as he reached the door of the mortuary, he smelled a strong smell of blood, which made people sick.

"Sir, sir, Eight Kings Chitose and Master Bao are back, and want to ask you for clues about the autopsy."

Gongsun opened the door, his face was pale, his eyes were red, and his uniform was covered with dirty blood. He knew that this time many lives were lost and the matter was of great importance, so he did not dare to be negligent. Bao Zheng came together, and he was about to go out without even thinking about it, but Ru Fuzuo behind him hastily stopped him and said, "Sir, sir, I want to see the Eight Sage Kings anyway, you can change this bloody clothes before you go!"

Hearing this, Gongsun looked down at his clothes and found that something was wrong, so he said to Zhang Long, "Wait a moment, I'll change clothes and go right away."

When the two rushed to the hall, they saw the eight virtuous kings and Bao Zheng, who had always been calm, pacing around the hall non-stop. Chitose."

When the Eighth Sage King saw Gongsun Ce coming, he quickly waved his hands and said, "Excuse me, sir, you have worked hard to investigate the case for several days, what did you find?"

Gongsun Ce got up, saluted Bao Zheng slightly, and said: "A total of 43 corpses were cut up on the spot by masters. Their limbs were cut off and their heads were separated. Now we have finished 39 corpses, and the remaining four Gu Ye can finish spelling soon, his identity has been confirmed, and they are indeed Zhong Shiping's family."

The Eighth Prince was puzzled and said: "What is the deep hatred between this family and the murderer, not only destroying the family in the street, but also being dismembered and insulted?"

Bao Zheng said: "Does the Yelan Gang have any enemies?"

The Eighth Prince said without even thinking about it: "Impossible, this king and Bai Jintang have known each other for many years, even if he really has an enemy that must be killed, he will never make people die so dishonorably, not to mention that the other party is just an ordinary person. people."

Bao Zheng said unceremoniously: "Fortunately, the Eighth Prince, you held back and didn't say that in the court, otherwise the Holy Majesty might not let the minister continue to investigate, and directly ordered the eradication of the Yelan Gang."

The Eighth Prince said "tsk tsk" twice: "Old Bao, your mouth is a bit damaged."

Gongsun heard the words and asked, "How do the courts discuss this matter today?"

"Oh?" The Eighth Prince looked back at Gongsun Ce, "Mister seldom cares about the court, maybe it's because of Lao Bai, so..."

Gongsun was stunned for a moment, thinking that the Eighth Prince's eyesight is really good, no wonder the mouse and cat are afraid of him.I am really concerned because this matter is related to someone from the Yelan Gang, and the mouse and the cat are not around, so I am very concerned.

Seeing that Gongsun Ce didn't speak, Bao Zheng smoothed things over and said, "Mr. has a close relationship with that head of the Bai family, so it's natural to care about it. Today, the Holy Majesty asked about this matter at court, and it involved the Yelan gang. The ministers of the gang all announced that they were willing to guarantee the innocence of the Yelan Gang..."

Gongsun said: "Bai Jintang has such good contacts in the court?"

"Good, not good."

Gongsun was puzzled and said, "My lord, what is the meaning of this?"

"He is a leader in water transportation, powerful, and occupying one side, but to the Holy Majesty, he is just a commoner. However, this commoner has attracted half of the court officials to intercede for him. Tell me, what will the Holy Majesty think?"

The Eighth Sage King took a sip of tea, and echoed, "So what I say about those idiots will only add fuel to the fire."

Bao Zheng coughed and said, "There are people like you among the idiots."

Eight Wise King put his hands into his sleeves, and said dissatisfiedly: "Hey, I said Old Bao, do you still want to have a good time?"

Bao Zheng pretended to apologize and bowed.

The originally worried atmosphere between the two of them seemed to be completely resolved after Gongsun Ce's words. Gongsun Ce was a little confused, so he said, "My lord, my lord, you don't seem to be as worried as before?"

The Eighth Sage King smiled and said: "After listening to Mr.'s words, this king has confirmed that this matter was not caused by the Yelan gang, so it will be easy to handle, right, old Bao, it will be your job next, your little brother No, don't embarrass yourself, you know?"

Bao Zheng said: "My lord, don't be too happy, no matter whether this matter is caused by the Yelan Gang or not, this Baijintang has already become a thorn in the Holy Majesty's flesh and a thorn in his side."

The Eighth Sage King waved his hands and said, "It's all right, as long as it's not Lao Bai who did it, then it's easy to handle. What you should consider now, Lao Bao, is to find out the real culprit and make the Yelan Gang innocent."

"I understand." Bao Zheng thought for a while and said, "Actually, the biggest doubt and key point of this case is why the murderer chose to divide and kill Zhong's family members in the bustling morning market. If you can figure this out, you won’t be far from solving the case.”

"Okay, Lao Bao, Zhan Zhao has been handling the case all these years. I thought you'd been slacking off a long time ago. I didn't expect you to be so young. Such a simple sentence captures the essence of this case."

Bao Zheng ignored the praise of the Eight Sage Kings, but turned to Gongsun Ce and said: "This Zhong Shiping was killed by someone pretending to be the Yelan Gang, and he had some disputes with you, sir. We have to start with Mister and the Yelan Gang."

The Eighth Sage King became interested: "Mr. Gongsun actually had a dispute with the victim?"

Gongsun replied: "Yes, a few days ago, Zhong Shiping took his mother to seek medical treatment from a student. The old lady's illness was very strange, but in the end the student found that Hu Lancao could cure her, so Zhong Shiping was in a hurry to go home again. The student asked him to prepare the medicine to take the old lady back, but the day before yesterday, the whole family brought the old lady’s coffin to Kaifeng Mansion to ask the student to argue, saying that the student killed the old lady and wanted to pay for it.”

The Eighth Wise King knocked on the table: "This is not a typical extortion of money!"

"The students felt that this matter was strange, so they asked them to keep the old lady's body for an autopsy. They refused, but Yan Qi from the Yelan gang threatened them a few words, so they kept the old lady's body and said they would wait for the next one." We'll see the results in two days."

"Yan Qi?" Ba Xian Wang squinted his eyes, "One of the Yan masters of the Yelan gang, Lao Bai actually sent him here."

"Yes, there are also Yanliu and Yanwu."

"What?" Eight Sage King was taken aback, "Sir, you mean to send three weir masters at once?!"

Gongsun Ce didn't expect the Baxian King to be so surprised, so he said in a slightly embarrassed voice: "Yes."

"Three weir masters at a time, it seems that Lao Bai is aware that something big will happen...Sir, you continue."

"Yes." Gongsun continued, "The student immediately inspected the old lady's body and found that there were medicine residues in her stomach, but the most important one was missing from the residue, and the rest of the medicine was the same as the one prescribed by the student. There is no difference, but before that, even the students were not sure that the lack of the Hulancao medicine alone could kill people, so the students thought that someone deliberately dropped the bag or secretly replaced the old lady's medicine, so that the old lady The wife died without follow-up treatment."

"It's unreasonable. Has anyone found the person who dropped the bag?"

Gongsun Ce shook his head: "No, after the students found out about this, they thought that the Zhong family would come to Kaifeng mansion the next day, but unexpectedly they were met with a lot of people in the early morning. After they arrived, Yan Qi and the others followed suit Seeing them, the people all over the street, including the guards on duty at Babaolou, all insisted that they were the murderers, ah, no... It should be said that everyone insisted that the murderers had the same clothes as Yan Qi and the others, and they claimed to be the murderers. It's the Yelan gang, only killing Zhong's family."

"So, someone wearing the exact same clothes as them committed the crime? But how could Yan Qi and the others just appear at the scene of the crime again?"

"According to Yan Qi, he was stationed in Kaifeng Mansion that day, but that night he met a man in black who attacked Kaifeng Mansion at night. He tracked the man in black to the woods in the suburbs, and found that the Yan Wu who was guarding the Babao Building, Yan Liu I was also attracted by the same trick, so I felt bad, so I hurried back."

Baxian King nodded and said: "So that's the case, but Zhong Shiping is quite rich. The Babao Building is the first floor in the capital. Ordinary civilians can't afford it. He even lives in the Babao Building with 43 members of his family. Said it was still a bag shop?"

"As far as the students know, Zhong Shiping's family has always been poor and has little savings. When Zhong Shiping brought his mother to Beijing for medical treatment, he couldn't even rent a car, but after his mother died, he suddenly left for a while like an upstart. It’s a windfall, and I don’t know why.”

"Oh?" Eight Sage King glanced at Master Bao who was thinking, "Old Bao, what do you think of this matter?"

"Strange, very strange."

Seeing that Bao Zheng didn't say anything, the Eight Sage King asked, "Where are Yan Qi and the others now?"

Gongsun said: "Yan Wu and Yan Liu went back and informed Bai Jintang that Yan Qi is currently in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion as a suspect."

"Yan Qi is really a man, old Bao, why don't we go and meet him?"

Bao Zheng nodded and stood up. Seeing this, Gongsun Ce said, "The student went back to do the autopsy."

The two nodded. Just as Gongsun Ce was about to leave, he suddenly remembered one thing and hurriedly said, "There is one more thing that the student forgot to mention just now."

"What's the matter?"

"That is, more than half of the members of Zhong's family are suffering from the old lady's illness, but when Zhong Shiping brought the old lady to the hospital for treatment, I checked his body and found that he was not ill, but after he left and returned, he began to have symptoms of this illness. .”

"Could it be...the incubation period of the disease?"

Gongsun shook his head: "The students can't tell, but they don't think it's an epidemic. Let the students check the corpse to make sure."

Afterwards, Gongsun returned to the mortuary, and saw that Ru Zuo had assembled the last four corpses, and seeing that Ru Zuo was exhausted, he said, "Let me take care of the rest, little Ru, go and rest first. "

You were too tired to work, so you took off your uniform and said, "Then sir, I'll go to rest for a while, if you need to wake me up immediately."

Gongsun Ce nodded, and changed into another set of clean uniforms. From the corner of his eye, he saw Ru Zuo yawned and then scratched his neck. Gongsun opened his eyes wide and said nervously, "Little Ru, wait a minute. !"

Ru Wuzuo was startled by Gongsun Ce, and he didn't dare to move. Gongsun Ce hurried over and reached out to remove the hair on the back of Ru Wuzuo's neck, only to see that the neck was bright red, and some transparent blisters appeared!

Gongsun felt bad, so he pushed back the sleeves of Ru Zuo, only to see the same red marks and blisters appeared on Ru Zuo's arms, but they were very shallow and not very obvious.

You Yuzuo is someone who has seen the old lady's stubborn illness, and suddenly realized that he was also suffering from the same illness as the old lady. Just as he was about to ask Gongsun Ce what to do, he saw that Gongsun Ce had rolled up his sleeves as expected. Gongsun Ce's snow-white and slender arms were also a little crimson.

"Sir, you...you...have to..."

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At this rate, I will definitely finish this year hahaha