Zhan Zhao and colleagues are walking in Shasha

However, when the head catcher Zhao saw Qin Tong, he couldn't help being secretly surprised, and took a closer look. Seeing Qin Tong sweeping his eyes at him, he smiled calmly and said, "I think this is Mr. Qin? I'm going to Kaifeng." The head of the government, whose surname is Zhao, is lucky to meet you."

"It turned out to be Mr. Zhao from the Kaifeng Mansion. You're being rude." Although Qin Tong said he was surprised, he was busy returning the greeting.She secretly recalled whether she had seen this person before, but she had no clue.

Seeing this, Zhan Zhao glanced at the head catcher Zhao without a trace, and said to Qin Tong first: "I'm not here to look for Zeyan, you come first, let's find a clean place to talk."

"That's the reason," the head catcher Zhao also laughed, and pulled Qin Tong who was still confused, "It's not easy to stand here stupidly, come here, let's come to the tea room here." Several people said Then go to the tea room on the side.This tea room is at the other end of the corridor. It is quiet and elegant inside. There are elegant seats separated by Xiangfei bamboo curtains. There are small desks and coffee tables. You can drink tea alone or have a heart-to-heart chat with friends.

Although Qin Tong couldn't figure it out, since Zhan Zhao brought him here, she couldn't refuse, so she followed into the tea room.Several people chose an elegant seat and sat down respectively, and then she asked: "The two adults came here on a special trip, we were supposed to meet friends over tea and have a heart-to-heart chat, but forgive me for being entangled in mundane matters, so why don't you come straight to the point and ask the two elders Is there something going on here?"

These words were polite, and the head catcher Zhao smiled, and said: "Happy, Mr. Qin is really a happy person. Then I will say it directly. When your lord was still in the capital many years ago, I also served him. Left and right, today I heard Brother Zhan say that Brother Qin is in the capital, so I took the liberty to come here without invitation, and I hope Brother Qin is not to blame." He cupped his hands as he said.

When Qin Tong heard that he was his father's subordinate in the past, he felt very kind in his heart, and said with a smile: "I came here in a hurry, and I forgot to call on Brother Zhao. This is really rude, no wonder. " She glanced at Zhan Zhao quietly as she spoke, and when she saw him winking at her, she knew it was more than that, and she couldn't help feeling a little bit suspicious.

"Where is this talking?" Zhao Zhao waved his hands and smiled, "I'm just a small official under Master Qin, I'm afraid Brother Qin doesn't know me." He didn't wait for Qin Tong to agree, and sighed, "Speaking of which, I don't know. In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed, and Master Qin's departure from Beijing seems to be still in sight." He looked at Qin Tong with a smile and asked, "If I remember correctly, brother Qin will also be crowned now, right?"

Qin Tong nags: "Exactly, next year will be twenty." She became more and more confused, but heard Zhan Zhao say indifferently: "Brother Zhao, don't be too busy reminiscing about the past, but forget our business."

"Oh!" Zhao Yi, the head catcher, slapped his thigh and said, "No, I was also confused, and I forgot all about it! Luckily, Brother Zhan is a sensible person."

Qin Tong's eyes flickered, and he said: "Sure enough, the two of you have other things to do. Brother Zhao is quick to speak, just say it straight."

"Brother Qin, there is no need to be suspicious," Zhao Wenyan, the head catcher, said with a smile, "Although we are wearing official uniforms, we are not here to embarrass you. It's just that we were in a hurry to go out, so we didn't change into decent clothes."

Qin Tong smiled politely: "Master Zhao is busy with business, so why should you care about these details?"

"Haha, brother, it's good that you understand." The head catcher Zhao smiled and said, "The two of us came here to invite Brother Qin to come out of the mountain. It happened to be a difficult case at hand, and Brother Zhan said that Brother Qin had There is a unique insight in solving the case, so I thought it would be better for us to go and see together, and if we really find something, let me, old Zhao, see it.”

Hearing this, Qin Tong was surprised and said, "This... I'm afraid it's not in compliance with the rules, right?" head?

"What's the matter?" Zhao Da, the head catcher, said sharply, "Brother Zhan works under Lord Yushi, and he is someone I can trust. Brother Qin is the only son of Lord Qin, so he is even more trustworthy. I, Mr. Zhao Could it be that for some rigid and dogmatic rules, you will be suspicious of our brothers?" Having said this, Qin Tong had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask: "If that's the case, I don't know what kind of case it is?" Even so Said, but she made up her mind to find ways to shirk the matter.Leaving aside whether she would get into trouble or not, her father would have to be reprimanded just for not following the rules.

"It's a homicide case," the head catcher Zhao saw Qin Tong asked, and replied with a smile on his face, "A doctor surnamed Xu in the south of the city died last night, and there seems to be something else hidden in it."

Qin Tong's heart skipped a beat, he glanced at Zhan Zhao, and asked, "The surname is Xu? But I don't know what the name of this doctor is?" She asked, clenched her fists calmly, and cold sweat broke out from her palms.

"Name taboo?" Catcher Zhao raised his eyebrows and replied, "This doctor's surname is Xu Mingling, and he used to work in Xinglin Garden in his early years."

Qin Tong only felt like a thunderbolt beside his ear, forced himself to calm down, and asked, "How did he die?"

"The back of the head is seriously injured," the head catcher Zhao has been looking at Qin Tong calmly since just now, and at this moment he replied slowly, "His family reported that the old man got up in the middle of the night and accidentally rolled down to the second floor. However, an old servant secretly told me that her master was murdered."

Qin Tong's face was pale, and he forced a smile: "If that's the case, Mr. Zhao has carefully questioned the person identified by the servant?"

"I asked," the head catcher Zhao said with a slight smile, "that person is the old man's concubine. She said that she took a rest early last night, because she slept deeply at night, and never heard the master get up. The next day Listening to the noise downstairs, this is the bad news."

Qin Tong felt a little relieved, but didn't show it on his face, and asked again: "Since that's the case, does your lord think this person's confession is credible?"

"It's hard to say," the head catcher Zhao tapped the table with his finger. "This family has a small population. Excluding the dead old man, there are only his concubine, servant, cook, and a child brought in by the concubine."

Qin Tong frowned and said, "According to Mr. Zhao, do you suspect that your family members committed crimes?"

"Exactly," said the head catcher Zhao, "the door has already been closed at night, there is no trace of robbers breaking in, and no one has heard the movement. If the old man really died unexpectedly, it is likely that the family members did it."

Qin Tong said, "Since that's the case, where were these people when the incident happened last night?"

"In the middle of the night, it is natural to sleep in the room." The head catcher Zhao Xiao sighed, "Except for the concubine sharing the same room with the master, the rest of the people slept separately, so naturally there is no evidence to prove it."

Qin Tong frowned and said, "It's really tricky." She tilted her head and thought for a moment, then asked, "Is that child raised by my concubine before she came in?"

"That's not true," Zhao the head catcher replied, "This child was an orphan adopted by that woman, and later entered the door of Mr. Xu's house. The old man was kind and let this child come with him."

Qin Tong raised his eyebrows and said, "Both of them are bodhisattva-hearted, so they are not in the same family, so they won't be in the same family."

"That's not true," the head catcher Zhao sighed, "but it also corresponds to that sentence, good people don't live long, but this old man can't live up to his old age."

Countless thoughts flashed through Qin Tong's mind, and he asked, "Since the servant has reported on the concubine, do you have evidence?"

"It's not evidence," said Zhao, the head catcher, with a look of disdain in his eyes, "She said that the concubine had a lover, but she didn't know the identity of the lover. The so-called adulterous passion was discovered by the master, and he killed him in panic. What I said is just empty talk, without any real evidence.”

Qin Tong nodded and said: "So, the case is still unclear." She glanced at Zhan Zhao, and asked Zhao Dao, the head catcher, "Since that's the case, I want to go to Mr. Xu's house to have a look, is it convenient? "

"Convenience." Zhao Wenyan, the head catcher, stood up, as if he had been waiting for this sentence, "The south of the city is not close, let's go now."

Several of them are veteran investigators, and they are not shy at the moment.Qin Tong went to find Bai Yutang and said that he had something to go out, but he didn't mention Xu Langzhong at all. He only earnestly told him to stay with Haosheng to watch Qinglian and not to go out to cause trouble, so he turned around and went out with Zhao and Zhan.

After rushing all the way like this, it was not until noon when they arrived at Xu's house.The first time Qin Tong saw Langzhong Xu's house on the street, he noticed an indescribable desolation.Previously, it was only hidden in the bones and dissolved in the blood, but now with the death of the master, the desolation is completely released.The lantern at the door has been replaced with white silk, with the word "Dian" scrawled on it.There was crying in the door, which sounded even more desolate and lonely.

Zhao, the head catcher, knocked on the door and said in a loud voice: "The government is investigating the case, open the door!" There seemed to be someone answering inside, and Qin Tong looked around while waiting, and saw that the doors of every house near the house were closed, probably because they hadn't arrived yet. Days, no one came to condolences.

With a sound of "squeak", the door opened, but it was a middle-aged man with a stern face. He was wearing sackcloth. When he saw Zhao and the others, he bent down to invite them in.

Qin Tong glanced at the oil stains on the corner of the man's clothes, and guessed that this man was the cook.Sure enough, when the man led them into the small building on the left, a woman in plain clothes was slowly coming down upstairs, and said softly to the man: "Go back to the kitchen, you don't need to greet me here." Huang Ying can't be tactful, but she is gentle and pleasant to hear, which makes people feel good about her involuntarily.

Zhao, the head catcher, looked up at the woman, saluted and said, "Mrs. Xu."

The woman came downstairs, saluted the three of them generously, and said softly: "You have come from a long way, and the young lady is very filial, but she was not able to greet her from afar. I hope the officials will forgive me for her rudeness." " She has fair complexion, but her eyes are red and swollen, and she lowered her head slightly at this moment, making her look even more pitiful.

"Death cannot be brought back to life, Madam Xu is mourning." The head catcher Zhao Weiwei sideways avoided the ceremony, and said bluntly without exchanging greetings, "We are still here for Mr. Xu's business, please make it easy for Madam."

Mrs. Xu sighed softly: "The lowly concubine is just a woman of the generation. The adults want to investigate, and the lowly concubine will obey her orders. It's just that my husband's bones are not cold. I wonder if the adults can give me a few days and let the family take care of the funeral. Well, it’s not too late to check.”

"It is precisely because Mr. Xu's bones are not cold yet," Qin Tong said, "this case must be investigated as soon as possible so that Mr. Xu can rest in peace."

Mrs. Xu glanced at Qin Tong lightly, and said calmly after a while: "Since that's the case, please check those officials."

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