The duke of the governor's family is leaving again

Baima Mountain is not far from the magistrate's office, but it belongs to Puling County.

After a murder occurs, Puling County must first take over the preliminary trial. After the county government has concluded the trial, it will be handed over to the prefect government for review.

Therefore, after the murder occurred today, the government officials responsible for maintaining order quickly rode to Puling County to report the case.

At the beginning, Puling County Magistrate Zhou Shiying, who was presiding over the Mid-Autumn Festival ceremony, did not realize the seriousness of the matter at all. He only sent the county magistrate, a coroner, and five yamen officers according to the normal procedure for handling murder cases.

However, before the seven people could set off, news of a second murder in Baima Mountain came.

Zhou Zhixian had no choice but to let the county captain replace the county magistrate and add five more Yamen servants.

As a result, the half-strengthened team still failed to set off because news of the third murder case came again.

The case involved an official from the magistrate's yamen. Zhou Shiying felt that God was going to kill him. If this matter was not handled well, it would be difficult for him to advance in his career in the future.

This Mid-Autumn Festival is so sad!

With this in mind, it was inappropriate for Zhou Zhixian County to send the county lieutenant to Baima Mountain to be the coroner. He had to take action himself to show his importance.

He asked the county magistrate to take charge of the county government office, asked the county lieutenant to preside over the Mid-Autumn Festival ceremony, and sent someone to the magistrate's government office to convey the news of the case.

After arranging these things, Zhou Zhixian personally took fifteen government servants and laborers and hurriedly rode towards Baima Mountain.

When the group arrived at Baima Mountain, the bodies of the three murder cases were moved to the town's ancestral hall.

Although Chen Yuan, Shui Sheng and Yuan Jie came from the magistrate's yamen, they did not have official positions. When they heard that the county was coming, they all went to the entrance of the ancestral hall to greet Zhou Shiying and each reported their identity and position.

Zhou Shiying didn't make any noise when facing the three of them, nor did she chat at length. After briefly chatting about human affairs, she led everyone to the ancestral hall.

Behind him, Qiao Shanming, a middle-aged widower in blue cloth, glanced at the little girl who introduced herself as a governor of the government office, trotted forward and approached Zhou Zhixian and whispered in his ear.

"Master Magistrate, I wonder if today's autopsy will be done by Chen Wuzuo from the government office, or by a villain, or by both of us?"

Zhou Zhixian's hand stroking his beard paused.

"Well..." He looked at Chen Yuan hesitantly.

He didn't know what Chen Yuan's autopsy skills were. He just knew that she came with Cai Gongshu to get familiar with the surroundings of the government office. She sounded too much like a junior who had some connections behind the scenes and was brought to hang out in the gilded building. He also didn't know about Chen Wuzuo Yuan. Not willing to do it myself.

If he is someone who is somewhat capable and loves to show off, wouldn't it mean that if he doesn't let her take action alone, the little girl will have less chance to show off?

If she was incompetent and asked her to do the autopsy alone, wouldn't it mean that she would be deprived of the opportunity to make up for it and tear off the fig leaf? In the end, the person who would be in trouble would not be a small magistrate like him.

Chen Yuan saw Zhou Zhixian's eyes twitching and looked at him in embarrassment, feeling confused.

At this time, Mrs. Ma, who was waiting at the door of the ancestral hall with a face full of sorrow, came up to her, "Mr. Magistrate, you are here, but you are going to conduct an autopsy immediately?"

As soon as she opened her mouth, the family members of the other two corpses also came over and started asking questions.

The female corpse in the Langu murder case was clearly identified as Li Yanling, the elderly daughter of the head of the Li family who had a place in the Baima Mountain porcelain-making family.

The body of the Vata man was burned beyond recognition, making it difficult to identify him. But the jade pendant worn by the male corpse was worn daily by Feng Qiming, the eldest son of the Feng family of the Baima Mountain porcelain-burning family. Even if the male corpse was not Feng Qiming, it was related to him, so the government officials informed the Feng family of the news.

The Feng family sent servants to look for the eldest son everywhere. When no one was found, the Feng family sent a butler to identify the body.

Normally, the two deceased were direct blood relatives of the head of the family, and their families naturally did not want their bodies to be subjected to the humiliation of being dissected.

But the deaths of the two of them were too bizarre. They did not die in a hidden and uninhabited place, but in full view of the public. There were too many people parading in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and people from all over the country came to the town. Rumors that people do not respect immortals and end up dying badly as a result of divine punishment have been unstoppable.

People in Lingnan especially believe in gods. How could they buy porcelain from the family of someone who was condemned by the gods?

If this matter is not explained clearly, the porcelain business of the Li family and the Feng family will suffer a huge blow. Therefore, the family members of the deceased in the ancestral hall are eager to get an autopsy result of "homicide" to clear up the rumors of divine punishment.

Lingnan is not as prosperous as Jiangnan and the capital. Puling County relies on the porcelain from Baima Mountain for most of its tax revenue, and Zhou Zhixian does not want to upset the porcelain-burning family and affect his political performance.

After repeated prodding, Zhou Zhixian decided to kick the ball out and let them decide for themselves.

In this way, he would neither offend the porcelain family nor give Chen Yuan, who had someone behind his back, a chance to blame him.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhixian, who was very aware of the concerns of the Li and Feng families, said to the family members of the deceased with a righteous face, "Please rest assured, I will definitely find out the cause of death and give justice to the deceased."

Hearing this, the worries on the faces of Li and Feng's family eased slightly, but they were still solemn. Zhou Zhixian reached out to Chen Yuan and Qiao Shanming in time.

He introduced proudly and confidently, "This is Chen Wuzuo who came from the government office. This is Qiao Wuzuo who has served in Puling County for eight years before I took office. There are two Wuzuo here. Do you have anything else? Something to worry about?”

After Zhou Zhixian's introduction, everyone felt a little more hopeful.

He just looked up and saw Qiao Wuzuo. Even the magistrates and counties said he was a veteran in wuzhuo, but Chen Wuzuo from the government office was too young and even a woman.

Mingming's distrustful, suspicious, and surprised eyes glanced at Chen Yuan.

Zhou Zhixian felt nervous, worried that the provocation he just said was not too obvious. Don't you see that Chen Wuzhuo shouldn't be making trouble?

Logically speaking, for the sake of face, young people would not be able to resist taking the bait and take the initiative to prove their abilities to those who doubted them. However, Chen Wu did not react at all. Either he is a very stable person, or he really has no ability and dare not speak up. .

Little did he know that Chen Yuan had been immune to this kind of look since he had seen it so many times. According to Zhouzhi County, Chen Yuan was too young to be so calm, and that meant he had no ability.

While he was thinking about something to say to save Chen Wuzuo's face, Zeng Shuisheng, who wholeheartedly protected his junior sister, spoke up, "My junior sister is very good at autopsy. Don't look at her like this."

Everyone disagreed, but did not refute it directly. They knew in their hearts that they were just small merchants, and even though the other party was just a co-worker, he came from a government office.

"Don't be angry, Mr. Yamen, we have no other intentions. Chen Wuzuo comes from the Yamen and must be a very capable person."

"Chen Wuzuo looks young and promising at first sight."

As expected of a businessman, Zeng Shuisheng was able to make the young Zeng Shuisheng smile with every word he spoke.

But the next moment, the victim's family members changed their tone and said, "Chen Wuzuo is a noble person from the government. He must have been very tired just coming to Baima Mountain today. We can't bear to put a little girl like her through such hard work and stay up all night to conduct an autopsy."

"Yes, yes, no matter how powerful Chen Wuzuo is, she is still a little girl. We can't bully her. Why not let Chen Wuzuo have a good rest. Let Qiao Wuzuo do the autopsy today!" (End of Chapter)