Five days later.

Hejiang County yamen.

Old Xu came back quickly and glanced at Zhou Ze. The people around him quickly retreated.

"What's wrong?"

Old Xu got closer.

"The convoy is back, but the carriage is seriously damaged and the coachman is also killed."

Zhou Ze shivered.

He quickly stood up from the chair, and Xiaobai was also put down by him and looked at Lao Xu with a nervous look. He was worried about being attacked at the beginning, so he came back early and asked the carriage to cover it. It seemed that what he was most worried about was still happening.

"Tell me in detail, what about the others? Are there any injuries? Who can tell who attacked them?"

Lao Xu shook his head.

"Others are fine. Not long after leaving Jingzhou, they encountered a group of people attacked. The target was clear and they attacked the carriage. The coachman was shot in the neck with an arrow and died of blood.

The entire carriage was similar to a hedgehog. I attacked this time on the way. I guess I found that the carriage was empty, so the killer retreated directly.

Judging from the description of the followers, these people are not people from the Monster Hunter. Although they use arrows with the Monster Hunter logo, their methods are more clever and their traces are more hidden."

Zhou Ze was speechless. This means that the killer is from the Shadow Guard. Is it because he told King Ning about the traces of King Deer?

If so, the assassination seemed to have come a little late, and the Deer King was not as restless as such a person, and it seemed that he was controlling someone else.

"Send someone to Xinghe Buzhuang to ask if His Highness Ning's farewell will meet the other party?"

Old Xu shook his head again, Zhou Ze's face was puzzled.

"What's wrong?"

"After asking a few entourages, I went directly to Xinghe Buzhuang. The boss gave me a note, which was a message from Liu Cheng. His lobbyist had been sent away, and each had its own losses. The date was five days ago that day we left, but the assassination was four days ago."

Zhou Ze shook his head and glanced at Lao Xu. He didn't expect that this guy's IQ is online today.

"In other words, such as the assassination order may have nothing to do with the Deer King?"

Old Xu nodded and Zhou Ze sighed.

"It doesn't matter whether it was the deer king's order. Anyway, someone is going to kill me now. It seems that you can't run around for the time being. By the way, the coachman's house will ask Liu Yushan and the others to send their pensions."

Lao Xu turned around and made arrangements.

Xue Ping walked over quickly. He lost a lot of weight and darker. He held a stack of files in his hand and bowed to Zhou Ze frownly.

"I have seen the clerks from various counties sent to study in the Ming Mansion for almost a month, and they are all very anxious. What we should teach is basically completed.

It will take some time for only the members of A Ding to stay. My subordinates want to ask for instructions. Will they help them clear up the backlog of cases?"

Zhou Ze waved his hand and signaled Xue Ping to sit down. He glanced at the file Xue Ping was holding. Zhou Ze felt a little overwhelmed.

“Did you choose these?”

Xue Ping nodded.

"The files sent by each county are more than 300. Those who robbed are removed, those who have not been recorded in detail are removed, and those who have remained are almost 100.

There are a few cases that have happened recently. I probably took advantage of the previous war in the southern border and committed crimes. I chose them. Why don’t you take a look at the Ming Mansion?

Luzhou did not urge it, but all these counties were watching. Several clerks from Luzhou followed and kept talking about the cases we had tried before.

At this moment, it is really necessary to clean up a case so that these people can be more at ease, and can calm down and learn as a case."

Zhou Ze wanted to say no, but looking at Xue Ping's dark circles, he was not embarrassed to speak for a moment.

I am indeed lazy enough, so I throw it to them directly when I come. It seems that I went to the inn on the day I came.

After glanced at the file, Zhou Ze bit his back teeth and said:

"Since it is a robbery during the war, we must severely punish and find the worst and most miserable case for me."

When Xue Ping heard this, he almost cried without being moved.

My Ming Mansion is too considerate. I was just too busy before and didn’t want to ask about such small things. Whenever I have time, I will agree immediately after hearing what I said. It’s so touching.

Xue Ping moved very quickly and handed Zhou Ze the file on the top layer. Seeing Zhou Ze open it, he rubbed his hands and explained:

"After this adjustment of Nanping Road, Luzhou has twelve counties under its jurisdiction, five more than the original ones, namely Luchuan, Fushi, Jiang'an, Mianshui, Hejiang, Laifeng, Heyi, Taifu, Yunlong, Shiqiao, Shizhai, and Qifeng.

Luchuan, Jiang'an and Mianshui are close to Luzhou, with developed waterways and abundant people. Especially the golden nanmu produced by Mianshui is very famous in the Tang Dynasty, and a tree as thick as a bowl is worth hundreds of taels.

This case happened in Mianshui. Among the dead, Zhang Xiaoen, the Zhang family advocated Zhang Xiaoen, had a forest, with a total of five mountains, and 70% of them were golden nanmu."

Zhou Ze took a deep breath. He had heard of the golden nanmu. In the era when he lived, a string of golden nanmu bracelets cost a lot of money.

The file is very thick, and the four or five pages are opened with information about the deceased. Instead, the description of the case is fragmented. Zhou Ze was too lazy to read it, so he looked at Xue Ping and asked:

"Simply talk about the case!"

"On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Liu Yong, a vegetable delivery vendor in Mianshui County, went to Zhang's house to deliver vegetables.

Seeing that the back door was not closed, he went in directly and found that there were many people lying on the ground, with vomit everywhere. They died for a long time. He was so scared that he quickly went to Mianshui County Government to report the case.

After investigation, it was found that the Zhang family was poisoned forty-two people, including Zhang Xiaoen, six wives and concubines, the eldest son Zhang Peiyun, the third son Zhang Peihua, the fourth son Zhang Peiying, and the slaves and maids in each room in the backyard.

The poisoning was mild, and fifteen people escaped after treatment. The second son Zhang Peiyu, the youngest son Zhang Pei'ang, the three daughters Zhang Yun, Zhang Tan, Zhang Shuang, the wife Zou Hua of Zhang Peiyun, and the biological concubine Liu Yue'e of the youngest son Zhang Pei'ang. The rest is the guard of the outer courtyard."

Zhou Ze raised his eyebrows. No wonder the file was so thick. It seemed that the coroner had already tested it.

"What poison has been found?"

"It's arsenic. The Zhang family held a wedding on the third day of the first lunar month. The eldest son Zhang Peiyun married his wife. The dishes at the wedding banquet were all hosted by Yongyi Building in Mianshui County. However, the Zhang family held a separate banquet, and the Zhang family and the slaves in the backyard all ate this banquet.

There are two types of dishes that have been poisoned, one is lotus seed porridge. This one is for the sake of winning the lottery, and the other is fish soup.

The second son Zhang Peiyu did not eat fish and drank two sips of porridge, so the poisoning was the least. The youngest son Zhang Pei'ang had some diarrhea, and his aunt Liu Yue'e did not take him to the main table. After all, the fish soup on the table for women was almost unmoved at night, so most of the survivors were women.

Needless to say, the guards were patrolling around. These people had been distributing wine and food before the dinner, and they did not eat the table in the kitchen. As for the chefs and chefs in the kitchen, they were all dead.

The vegetable delivery vendor Liu Yong told the chef of the Zhang family that the chef was deducted for two months by the housekeeper half a month ago, and his wife Xu's mother was beaten in the mistress's room. The chef was resentful.

It felt like this chef took revenge, so he poisoned the Zhang family, but all the pharmacies in the city were asked, but unfortunately there was no clue."

Zhou Ze nodded. If the vendor said it was true, then this case was indeed like a chef taking revenge on the master's family, but it seemed a bit far-fetched to throw the blame on a dead person.

"Among the clerks who came to Mianshui for training this time, are there any coroners involved in this case?"

Xue Ping shook his head.

"Mianshui has no coroner, but the clerks sent by Mianshui have followed them to the Zhang family to investigate. After I trained them to investigate the scene, they also tried to draw the corpses on the scene and the location where the leftovers were found."

As he said that, Xue Ping turned the file in Zhou Ze's hand back and took out a few pictures. There were many traces of modification on it, but the descriptions were very carefully and were drawn with slender brushstrokes.

Zhou Ze counted and found that the most dead people were circled in the red on the backyard, most of whom were in the yard, as if they wanted to call for help, while the ten masters died in their respective rooms.

Xue Ping pointed to the blue sign on the picture and said:

"The blue marking is not very accurate. These are the locations of these survivors after the county government took them over, and there were more or less vomit next to them."

Two of them are red and blue, and the location is in the backyard, but the handwriting next to it is a bit unclear.

“Where are these two places?”

"On the left is the room of my aunt Liu Yue'e. She lives in this yard with her youngest son Zhang Pei'ang. She is probably an old son. Although she is a concubine, she is very favored.

As for the other place, this is the new house of the eldest son Zhang Peiyun. Zhang Peiyun was lying on the ground, and his wife Zou Hua was lying on the chair. The two of them were covered with vomit."

Zhou Ze exhaled, and so many people died in one go, which was similar to destroying a family. However, from the perspective of beneficiaries, it seems that it is a bit difficult to find a target in this case, after all, there are a few beneficiaries.

"Who will control the Zhang family's property at this moment? Isn't it that their family has a forest, mostly golden nanmu?"

Xue Ping blinked and approached with a mysterious look on his face.

"This is a bit complicated, and I can't explain it clearly in just a few words."

Zhou Ze frowned.
Chapter completed!