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Chapter 368 Another Murder Case
Although Master Yao and Master Zheng are both far away in the Longzhou Mansion, and the matter of military power has no direct relationship with them, one of them is the chief envoy of Longyou Dao, and the other is the deputy envoy of the Chasi, and they are in the officialdom of Longyou Dao. More or less, there will be some influence and involvement.

"My lord, I'm more inclined to think that Zhang Zhifu committed suicide, but what I don't understand is that Zhang Zhifu has always been optimistic about Pang Xian'an. Mr. Zheng also reciprocated the secret news, telling his true guess about the case.

Zhang Zhifu's move clearly has a deep hatred with Pang Xian'an, and he wants to drag him into the water when he is dying.

However, according to the current investigation, Mr. Zheng has no enmity or grievance. Pang Xian'an has always followed the example of Zhang Zhifu in handling the government affairs of the Suzhou government.

Mr. Zheng frowned and pondered, and said again after a while: "The lower officials tested Zhang Minxian before, but he also didn't know about it."

If there is really a deep hatred, it is impossible for Zhang Zhifu to hide the truth from Zhang Minxian, the eldest son.

After all, Zhifu Zhang is old and is about to retire, and the Zhang family will be handed over to Zhang Minxian in the future, which makes Mr. Zheng can't help but wonder whether Zhifu Zhang made a temporary move.

"Before now, someone in Beijing had been trying to win over Zhang Zhifu. He went to meet a little girl, Zhan Feiyu, in private. He probably planned to join Xueshi Gu." Even if Master Yao is the confidant of the Holy Majesty, speaking of Jane in the Emperor's heart, he Still far behind Gu Xueshi.

Whether it is Zhang Zhifu or the Zhang family, they can only be regarded as small families of the third and fourth ranks in the capital, but they can be regarded as local snakes in Longyou Dao.

Zhang Zhifu has been an official for many years, he knows that it is not easy to earn from the dragon's merits, it is estimated that the general's mansion has recovered, the palace has exerted pressure, and the Zhang family is in danger, forcing Zhang Zhifu to choose to take refuge in Gu Xueshi.

It's a pity that Xueshi Gu has always been a lonely minister, and it is absolutely impossible to have anything to do with the local aristocratic family. Zhang Zhifu failed to seek refuge, but he was unwilling to get involved with the palace. Zhang Minxian wanted Ding You for three years, so he avoided it temporarily.

But what Master Yao and Master Zheng couldn't figure out was why Zhang Zhifu dragged Pang Xian'an down when he was dying. It stands to reason that if Pang Xian'an took over as the prefect of Suzhou, Zhang Minxian would recover after three years, and there would be people in the officialdom who would watch over and help each other.

"Forget it, it's useless to talk about a person who is dead, not to mention that Pang Xian'an won't open his mouth." Master Yao didn't plan to investigate further. If His Majesty really wanted to investigate, there would definitely be Dragon Guards to investigate. Then Pang Xian'an would keep his mouth shut?

At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps came from the yard, it was estimated that the matter was urgent, Hu Butou even forgot to salute, "My lord, something happened..."

Lord Yao and Lord Zheng stood up abruptly, and they looked at each other with serious expressions on their faces. The case of Prefect Zhang has not yet been clarified, yet another murder case occurred.

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Two quarters of an hour later, Pang Mansion.

"My lord." The policemen and yamen servants guarding outside Pang's mansion saluted immediately when they saw a few official sedan chairs descending.

Master Yao, who got off the sedan chair, didn't even look at the policemen around him, and walked quickly towards the gate. Master Zheng and Chu Qianshi followed closely behind, and Zhao Tongzhi fell behind.

A group of people hurriedly walked through the main courtyard and went straight to the back house, knowing that the murder happened in the back house of the Pang Mansion without asking.

"My lord." The policeman guarding here immediately greeted him and led the way, "This is the Yusheng residence where Mrs. Pang lives."

Pang's mansion is a three-entry house, and Yushengju, where Mrs. Pang lives, is also the main house of the back house. It has five rooms in width. Come on.

Master Yao stepped in, the main hall was a bit messy, there were broken teacups on the floor, and a plum vase with blue, white, bamboo, stone and plantain patterns rolled down in the middle of the main hall.

Two chairs fell on the ground, the table was moved, and the copper incense burner with a mahogany seat and gold and silver dragon pattern in the corner was also fallen down, and the incense ash was scattered all over the floor, mixing with the smell of blood was particularly unpleasant.

Looking at the corpse lying in a pool of blood, Master Yao's expression became even more ugly.

"This was hacked to death by random knives?" Chu Qianshi frowned, looking at the almost invisible corpse on the ground with disgust, no wonder there was so much blood, tsk tsk, even got a stab in the face.

Master Zheng didn't speak, but just glanced at Huang Wuzuo who was outside the door, after all Master Yao was in charge.

"This is Qian Shipeng?" Zhao Tongzhi, who was also standing outside the door, was shocked. On the way here, he only knew that something happened to Pang's house, but Zhao Tongzhi really didn't know that it was Qian Shipeng who was killed, and he died so badly.

"Huang Zuozuo." Master Yao asked Wu Zuo for the autopsy, but he didn't go out, but retreated to stand in the corner, intending to know the results of the autopsy immediately.

Master Yao didn't leave, so Master Zheng and Chu Qianshi naturally couldn't leave either, and the two of them walked to Master Yao's side and waited.

Huang Wuzuo carefully avoided the blood on the ground, and then squatted down in front of Qian Shipeng's body, "Return to your lord, the deceased was stabbed eight times. The preliminary judgment is that the death was caused by excessive blood loss, and the fatal knife was in the neck. at..."

Wu Zuo raised Qian Shipeng's neck slightly, and a wound with deep visible bone was across the right neck, extending from the shoulder blade to behind the ear.

But what surprised Huang Wuzuo was the knife wound on Qian Shipeng's face. It stands to reason that with this fatal wound on his neck, Qian Shipeng was not far from death, and there was no need to cut this knife on his face again. , which looks like venting hatred.

"How do you know which knife wound was cut first? Which one was cut later?" Chu Qian asked provocatively. Maybe the knife wound on the face was cut first. Although it hurts, it is not fatal. , and then he made another stab at the neck, which killed him.

Huang Wuzuo replied: "Returning to my lord, the knife wound on the face of the deceased is not complete. The wound started from the left brow bone and ended on the right side of the nose."

Huang Wu made a gentle movement and put the corpse down, stood up and bowed his hands to Master Yao, and then raised his hand to draw a knife wound on his face.

"Since the knife was cut, it stands to reason that the wound should extend to the right cheek. The reason why there is no wound under the nose must be blocked by something."

After finishing speaking, Huang Wuzuo raised Qian Shipeng's left hand, but there was a wound on his arm, "After the deceased was stabbed in the right neck, the deceased should raise his left hand to cover the wound."

Lord Yao, Lord Zheng, including Chu Qianshi, who was looking for faults, all looked at Qian Shipeng's left hand, and there was indeed dried blood on the palm.

And he covered the wound on his neck with his left hand, and was slashed on the face again. The reason why his cheek was not injured was because it was blocked by his left arm.

When Master Yao heard this, his face became more serious. If Qian Shipeng was killed by bandits, no matter how many times he was stabbed, even if he was cut into pieces after death, Master Yao would not think too much about it.

But the problem now is that Qian Shipeng died in the hands of the arresting officers of the Suzhou government office. The death condition was so miserable, not to mention the many knives on his body. Since there was already a fatal knife in the neck, it shows that Qian Shipeng At that time, there was less air in and out.

But at this time, the policeman slashed Qian Shipeng's face again, which was too cruel, more like revenge.

It is estimated that Huang Wu's autopsy will take one or two hours. Master Yao turned around and left the main hall after hearing the general cause of death, but he did not return to the government office.

"Come on, bring everyone involved in the case to the front yard!" Lord Yao gave the order, and the policemen immediately led away.

A quarter of an hour later, the living room in the front yard of the Pang Mansion.

Except for Mr. Yao who was sitting upright, the police officers stood on the left and right sides respectively, while the Pang family members who were brought up and several police officers knelt in the middle.

Master Yao didn't speak, and the eerie silence in the huge hall made the kneeling people even more frightened and uneasy, and the timid maid trembled even more.

Among the servants of the Pang family, apart from Mrs. Pang, the four policemen in police uniforms stood out the most, but at this moment the big knives at their waists were temporarily taken away as murder weapons.

The reason why Mr. Yao tried the case on the spot in the Pang Mansion was because he didn’t want to cause trouble. After all, Zhang Zhifu had only died not long ago, and there was already a lot of rumors in the Suzhou Mansion. There was another murder case in the Pang Mansion. Panicked.

Under Longyou Dao's rule, successive homicides occurred one after another, and this was Master Yao's fault.

In the inn, Zhan Feiyu, who was doing his homework, was stunned when he heard He Sheng's reply, his eyes widened three points, "You said Qian Shipeng died?"

"Yes, I just received the news that Qian Shipeng wanted to bully Mrs. Pang in disorder after drinking, but he happened to be arrested and ran into him. In the end, there was a conflict, and Qian Shipeng died on the spot." When He Sheng heard the news, he was also shocked. Surprised, the first reaction was that Qian Shipeng was killed and silenced.

(End of this chapter)