The people of Yangzhou have completely turned into melon-eating masses in the past few days.

First of all, Chen Lei, the sister-in-law of the big salt merchant Chen Million, was swollen by a businessman from Dengzhou in Qunfangyuan.

People who understand the market immediately moved a small bench and waited to eat melons.

As a result, this melon was really big enough and did not disappoint everyone.

However, because the melon is too big, it frightens a large number of people.

"Brother Yu, are you saying that Li Jian that day was actually His Royal Highness the King of Chu?"

Zhang Fan and Yu Lu and several other children of the family gathered in a wine shop and chatted about the past few days.

"That's right, Li Jian, Li Kuan? In fact, when I heard this name, I should have had an extra heart at the time, but fortunately, I didn't mess with him in order not to lose my demeanor in front of Miss Minmin, otherwise I would ......"

Yu Lu thought about the current situation of the Chen family, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

The family is ruined, that's what I'm talking about.

"So, that Chen Lei, did he really assassinate His Royal Highness the King of Chu?"

Zhang Fan quickly sorted out the situation that night in his mind, and found that he hadn't offended Li Kuan much, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Yu Lu: "I heard that Chen Lei directly brought dozens of people to ambush at the gate of Qunfang Courtyard, but His Royal Highness the King of Chu had already prepared, so the Chen family was unlucky." ”

"This ...... This Chen Lei, he shouldn't know that Li Jian is His Royal Highness the King of Chu, right? Otherwise, no matter how arrogant he was in Yangzhou City in the past, he wouldn't dare to assassinate the prince. ”

The Chen family's reputation in Yangzhou City is not particularly good.

Don't look at Yu Lu and Zhang Fan, the children of the family are willing to play with him, it's just that the Chen family is rich and useful.

Deep down, they, the children of the family, actually look down on the nouveau riche.

Yu Lu: "Having said that, that Chen Lei did assassinate His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and he was really caught." ”

"Hehe, in fact, there is one point, Brother Yu and Brother Zhang probably didn't take it into account. If you want me to see it, even if Chen Lei doesn't do anything to assassinate His Royal Highness the King of Chu, the Chen family will not end well this time. ”

Xiao Zhe on the side took a sip of fragrant tea and showed a mysterious smile on his face.

"Brother Xiao didn't get any inside information?"

Yu Lu couldn't help but look at Xiao Zhe curiously, as a child of the Xiao family, Xiao Zhe was often able to get some news of Chang'an City in a more timely manner.

After all, Xiao Yu is in Datang, but he is a very special existence, a proper boss in the DPRK and China.

"Everyone should know that the glass mirrors, whale oil candles, and new-style paper that have only become popular in Yangzhou City in recent years are all pushed out by the workshops under the Chu Wangfu, right?"

Seeing that everyone turned their eyes to himself, Xiao Zhe was very satisfied.

Since the Xiao family and the Cui family began to go to sea, they have received news from their families that there should be no conflict with the industries under the Chu Wangfu in the Jiangnan region.

In the past few days, many people in Yangzhou City thought that Li Kuan was there to show his majesty, and took advantage of Chen Lei's attack on him to give the Chen family a big hat of assassination.

However, Xiao Zhe doesn't see it that way.

"That's right, it is said that the various industries of the Chu Palace, which are making money every day, and even the four-wheeled carriage I just went out to ride are all produced in the workshops in his mansion." Yu Lu couldn't help but nodded.

Zhang Fan: "Brother Xiao, what does this Chen family's matter have to do with the property of the Chu Palace?" ”

"Brother Yu, Brother Zhang, you only saw the glass mirror and whale oil candles of the Chu Palace, but you didn't notice it, in fact, the Chu Palace, is in Dengzhou, and there is also a salt field that is said to be the largest in the world?"

As soon as Xiao Zhe's words came out, they immediately aroused the association of Yu Lu and Zhang Fan.

Yu Lu: "Brother Xiao, ......what do you mean?"

Zhang Fan: "In this Yangzhou city, it seems that I have never seen the refined salt for sale in the Chu Palace, but the various salts in the Chen family's salt field can be seen in almost every shop." ”

"That's right, why does the Chen family have such huge financial resources? Is Chen Million, this million called for nothing? In order to prevent the refined salt under the name of the Chu Wangfu from entering Yangzhou and even the entire Jiangnan, the Chen family has used various means in recent years. However, because the entire Jiangnan was resisting all kinds of goods from the north, the Chu Wangfu had never really dealt with the Chen family. ”

Xiao Zhe combined the news he got from the family, coupled with his own understanding, and made a good show.

"The benefits of salt and iron, that's what everyone knows. This Chen family made a stumbling block for the Chu Wangfu, so this time His Royal Highness the King of Chu came to Yangzhou, and the first thing he had to deal with was the Chen family who made salt? Yu Lu felt that he had fully understood the meaning of Xiao Zhe's words.

"With such an explanation, it makes sense why His Royal Highness the King of Chu wants to make a big fuss and closely follow the name of Chen Jiaxing's assassination." Zhang Fan is not stupid, and quickly understood the story behind this incident.

"So, the business in Jiangnan is going to change. If anyone still relies on the use of small means to resist, then people will play tricks with you. The Chen family is the chicken that His Royal Highness the King of Chu took out to sacrifice the flag. ”

The relationship between the Xiao family and His Royal Highness the King of Chu is quite good, so when Xiao Zhe talked about this matter, he was in a more relaxed mood.

Yu Lu: "I see, it seems that Chen Lei has been completely planted this time!" ”

Zhang Fan: "However, he deserves it." Over the years, the Chen family has done a lot of evil things, and several murders alone have been involved. ”

"Speaking of murder, you should have heard about the murder case in Majiazhuang a few days ago, right?"

Xiao Zhe couldn't help but think of the wonderful plot that his cousin told him yesterday, and he played it off again.

Yu Lu: "There are very few such bad cases in Yangzhou Mansion, of course we have all heard about it, but it is said that this case was solved in just a few days, it should be very simple, right?" ”

"Brother Yu, the speed of solving the case is of course directly related to whether the case is simple; However, it has more to do with who is trying this case. ”

"That's right, if you run into a few unconscious officials, no matter how simple the theft case is, you can't solve it, let alone this kind of murder."

Yu Lu didn't refute this.

"Brother Xiao, could it be that he has any inside information?"

Zhang Fan and Xiao Zhe have also known each other for many years, and they guessed something at once.

"Hey, speaking of which, I really know a little bit more than you guys. This case, starting from the Ma family, a few days ago, Ma Dabao and his mother-in-law Su Xiaoshuang had a quarrel, and this guy served Su Xiaoshuang with punches and kicks. Do you think, in that Su Xiaoshuang's family, the size is also a small landlord, and the five brothers in the family, just one of her daughters, have not suffered any grievances since she was a child, how can she bear her husband treating her like this? So in a fit of rage, he hanged himself. ”

Yu Lu: "Huh? It turns out that this Su Xiaoshuang really committed suicide? ”

Although the Majiazhuang murder case is very sensational, after all, it has just been solved, and there are not many people who know the details.

Xiao Zhe: "Yes, but it's not the most exciting. After Ma Dabao slammed the door that day, he found out that Su Xiaoshuang had committed suicide the next day, so if it was okay, would the Su family let them go? It is estimated that if he is not killed, he will be seriously injured. So in desperation, they found Chai Zhan, a famous lawyer in Jiangdu County. ”

"Is it Chai Zhan, a ghost lawyer who claims to be able to say that all the dead are alive?"

Zhang Fan has obviously heard that there is such a person as Chai Zhan in Jiangdu County.

"That's right, it's him. This Chai Zhan saw that there were silver coins to earn, which was just enough to increase the number of entanglements for his son who was going to Chang'an to catch the exam, so he came up with a poisonous plan. ”

"What poison scheme?" Yu Lu asked very cooperatively.

"This Chai Zhan, let the Ma family father and son trick a passing man to their house, and then kill him, disguised as an adultery with Su Xiaoshuang, so that after the Su family father and son saw it, they didn't dare to have any opinions on their daughter's hanging."

Xiao Zhe's eloquence is very good, and his tone is subdued, but it is more interesting than the storyteller in the restaurant.

Yu Lu: "In this way, the scholar who died in the murder case was a passer-by who deceived the Ma family's father and son into going home?" ”

"That's right, the Ma family father and son listened to Chai Zhan's opinion, and stopped a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam at the door of the house that afternoon, saying that it was almost the end of the year, and they wanted to ask him to help write a few pairs, and the scholar agreed under the compliment of Ma Laohan and his son."

Zhang Fan: "So, that scholar was killed at home by them because he promised to write a pair for the Ma family?" ”

Xiao Zhe: "Yes, after writing the pair, Ma Laohan was very enthusiastic to leave the scholar for dinner, and entertained him with good wine and food." The scholar was not strong enough to drink, and soon drank high, and then Ma Laohan poured the wine with arsenic into the scholar to drink, so that the scholar naturally could not live, but after a while, he bled to death in seven holes. ”

"This old man Ma is really good at choosing people, if this case comes here, there will be no follow-up, then maybe this scholar will really die unjustly."

Yu Lu couldn't help but sigh.

In this era, there are many scholars who travel thousands of miles to Beijing to take the exam.

Every year, some scholars go missing, and they have not been heard from since.

Even if the family wants to track it down, they don't know where to start.

Xiao Zhe: "Yes, after the death of this book, it was moved to the bed in Su Xiaoshuang's room by Ma Laohan, and then they went to notify Su Xiaoshuang's father and brother to come over." ”

Zhang Fan asked suspiciously: "In this case, then the Su family father and son should not dare to kill the Ma family father and son, right?" ”

Of course, when the father and son of the Su family saw this scene, they could only eat coptis dumbly, and they went back in disgrace with words of suffering. When the case arrives at this place, you must not have imagined that it will be more exciting in the future, right? ”

Xiao Zhe thought of the stunned expression he had when he first heard the details of this case, and couldn't help but sell it.

"What's more exciting in the future?" Yu Lu couldn't figure out why the father and son of the Ma family died.

"That's right. That Chai Zhan came to Ma Laohan's house from the county seat in the evening of the same day, he felt that his best plan should have worked, and he was ready to find Ma Laohan to receive the reward he deserved. But ......"

"But what?" Zhang Fan felt that the biggest turning point in this case seemed to be coming, and couldn't help but hold his breath.

That Chai Zhan came to Ma Laohan's house, but found that the dead scholar was actually his own son. The key is that at this time, he didn't dare to tell Ma Laohan, otherwise maybe their father and son would kill him too. ”

Yu Lu: "This ...... This...... And such a coincidence? ”

Zhang Fan: "This is Chai Zhan's retribution, if you do too many bad things, there will always be a day when you will be punished." ”

That Chai Zhan left the Ma family in despair, and the more he thought about it at home, the more angry he became, and the more he thought about it, the more he hated it. He only has one son, and now he is still counting on him to go to Chang'an to participate in next year's Spring Festival and raise his eyebrows for the family, but he died in Majiazhuang. ”

So, that night, Chai Zhan sneaked into the courtyard of the Ma family with a knife, first killed Ma Dabao, and then prepared to kill Ma Laohan. However, in the dead of night, Ma Laohan heard the movement, so during the fight, Ma Laohan ripped off a piece of meat skin on Chai Zhan's neck, and it was this piece of meat skin that confirmed the truth of Chai Zhan's killing. ”

Xiao Zhe told the true intention of this confusing murder case in one breath.

This is much more tortuous than the Chen family's house being raided.

Even the well-informed Zhang Fan and Yu Lu were a little dumbfounded.

After that, Xiao Zhe added fuel to the wonderful performance of His Royal Highness the King of Chu and that Wu Langjun in the process of solving the case that he heard from his cousin, which once again aroused bursts of admiration from Zhang Fan and Yu Lu.

Soon, the true thoughts and details of the Majiazhuang extermination case also became a well-known case in Jiangdu County through word of mouth.

……

Jiangdu County Ya, Gu Lian sat in the lobby, arraigning the latest case.

Li Kuan and his entourage finally left Yangzhou City this morning.

However, his only daughter also went to Suzhou with a group of people.

This made Gu Lian's mood after finally relaxing, and he became a little depressed again.

"Peng Wu, this official asked you, on the night of the fifteenth, was there any moonlight in the sky?"

Today, Gu Lian opened the court to try a theft case, and Gu Lian, who is good at summarizing, sorted out all the things that Wu Meiniang tried in the case.

Now I'm ready to taste the fruits of victory.

"Gu County Order, that night, the moon was very bright and very round."

"Why does this official remember that it was a cloudy day?"

"You may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure it was a sunny day on the 15th, and the moon was very bright."

Gu Lian: ......

Why was that Wu Langjun able to solve the case in just a few words?

When it's your turn, it doesn't go well?

"Be lenient in confession, and strict in resisting. Peng Wu, if you confess honestly, the official can also consider a light sentence, otherwise don't blame me for being unkind. ”

Peng Wu: "Wronged, the villain was definitely wronged." In my life, I have never stolen anything from someone else's house, and this time, someone must have deliberately poured dirty water on my head. ”

Gu Lian: ......

Diao Min in Jiangdu County, how do you feel that there have been more?