Zhumen Hangui

Chapter 492
Zong Zeming tore off the veil of the man in black, took a look in the bright moonlight, and found that it was really Sheng Lanqing.

"Tsk tsk! It's really exciting to fight with two father-in-laws in a row."

After finishing speaking, he appointed the unconscious man on his shoulders, "I still have to make proper arrangements, what should I do if my wife blames me for not taking good care of my father-in-law?"

As he thought about it, he happily carried Sheng Lanqing forward.

Su Yizhao looked at the backlog of files in Dali Temple for a few days, and planned to rearrange these cases to see if he could find any clues.

Kang Shiwen was about to leave his job, but seeing Su Yizhao was still there, he opened the door and walked in.

After all, he is also a fifth-rank official, so Su Yizhao has a separate class.

"Still leaving?" Kang Shiwen looked at the files on Su Yizhao's desk, picked up a file, and found that it was an old case from three years ago.

"My lord!" Su Yizhao got up and saluted.

"I want to take a look at the backlog of cases to see if there are other clues."

Kang Shiwen sighed, "These are all old cases, because the clues were interrupted, it is really impossible to investigate."

"Do you think there is anything suspicious about this case? The officer read the file and it has been closed, but you still put it together with these unclosed cases."

Su Yizhao pointed to the file in Kang Shiwen's hand and asked curiously.

Kang Shiwen opened the file and couldn't help sighing.

"I always feel suspicious."

This case is related to Luo Zheng, the right servant of the Ministry of War. Three years ago, Luo Zheng was found suddenly dead in bed.

This was originally the responsibility of the governor of Jingzhao. After excluding homicide, he died of a sudden emergency.

However, this person did not die suddenly due to his own reasons, but was poisoned to death, so the family members had serious suspicions.

Originally, the governor of Jingzhao locked his suspicion on his concubine, but after listening to Mrs. Luo Zheng's words, he changed his mind.

The reason is that Luo Zheng behaved very abnormally in the half month before his death, and stayed in the study until late every day.

She had persuaded Luo Zheng to put his body first, but Luo Zheng was very irritable during those days, and he was very impatient with her advice.

During that time, Luo Zheng was full of thoughts, busy with copywriting until late every day, and then simply lived in the study.

I haven't seen him in the backyard for half a month, and if I really want to harm him, I can't even get close to him.

Later, several servants who served him were arrested, and none of those servants had any motive to murder him. Even though they were tortured, no one confessed.

"From the symptoms of poisoning, it can be seen that he was poisoned by oleander, but the Luo family didn't grow oleander. Some servants couldn't leave the house on weekdays, so naturally they couldn't get poison. So at that time, the yamen suspected Locked on several servants who are in charge of purchasing."

Kang Shiwen flipped through it, thinking about it now, he still had doubts in his heart.

"Later, the Yamen sent people to check where these people went. There was nothing abnormal, and they did not buy any medicine or flowers related to oleander. And what was the motive for the murder? It is really puzzling."

"Murder is nothing but because of these four points, one is seeking money, the other is enmity, the third is killing for love, and the fourth is entanglement of interests." Su Yizhao said.

Kang Shiwen nodded, "Not bad!"

"So the Fu Yin started from this aspect. It should not be about making money. Because he goes to the Yamen and the mansion every day, and rarely goes out to drink and socialize with his colleagues."

Kang Shiwen still remembers this case vividly, "If you want to talk about grievances, as the right servant of the Ministry of War, he is of high rank, and ordinary officials dare not offend him. And his superiors praised him quite a lot, so this should be ruled out." .

As for those officials, he has a gentle temperament and a smooth temper, so he won't offend them. "

Su Yizhao nodded, agreeing.

"Love killing can also be ruled out, the rest is interest disputes, which is also common in official circles."

Su Yizhao's words made Kang Shiwen agree very much. After all, the court is full of turmoil, and no one can escape.

"At that time, Fu Yin also focused on this, so he also inspected his study, and then found some things he recorded in the dark room of his study, and found a memorial."

It was the contents of the memorial that made Kang Shiwen suspicious, because what was written in the memorial was to impeach Zhong Dehuai, the left servant of the Ministry of War, and Shi Xiyi, the left deputy capital, and others.

At that time, Fu Yin suspected that Luo Zheng's murder was related to this matter, so he transferred the case to Dali Temple.

Luo Zheng's usual business in the Yamen is to be in charge of the driving and arsenal, and the content of the memorial is that the officials led by Zhong Dehuai and Xi Yi crossed the sea and exchanged the armaments sent to the border, or used inferior ones as good ones.

Luo Zheng mentioned in the memorial that the soldiers' armors were originally made of iron sheets for external use, and the iron sheets were filled with cotton in winter, but the iron sheets of the three consecutive batches of armor were stuffed with grass.

There are also many cotton armors, which means that the outside is made of cotton cloth, and the generals are covered with copper nails, while ordinary soldiers do not.

There must be iron pieces sewn into these padded armors near the chest, but those devoid of conscience did not sew iron pieces into them.

In other words, if those three batches of armaments were sent to the border, those ordinary soldiers would expose their weaknesses to the enemy's eyes after wearing them.

Without armor, how can human flesh withstand the slashing of knives and spears?
And even the cotton has to cut corners, making it too thin, and adding grass and reed wadding in the middle.

There are other armaments that are also problematic, sometimes spears and knives, which are very fragile.

If this is true, it would be murder.

So Kang Shiwen immediately reported the matter, and the emperor was furious when he heard the words, and immediately ordered the batch of military equipment that had just been sent to the border to be recovered, and sent someone to the border to investigate the matter thoroughly.

However, just when everyone thought that there would be a turmoil in the court, the Luo Mansion caught the person who poisoned Luo Zheng.

"A servant, even if she is unwilling to become Lord Luo's concubine, she doesn't have the guts to murder Lord Luo, right?"

Su Yizhao felt strange. At this juncture, the murderer was revealed, which really made people think too much.

"Indeed! I didn't believe it at all at the time, and I firmly believed in the contents of that memorial."

Kang Shiwen nodded, full of emotions in his heart.

"However, the truth of the matter is true. The concubine is the son of the Luo family, but he has a mutual admiration for the son of a manager in the family. Luo Zheng wanted to accept her as a concubine when he saw that she was quite attractive. She had no way of resisting. But afterwards, he held a grudge against Luo Zheng, so he killed Luo Zheng."

The concubine couldn't get the poison, and she was afraid that others would find out, so she asked her mother who bought it in the big kitchen to bring her oleander.

Oleander is poisonous, so the concubine's mother-in-law, who is the kitchen steward, naturally knew about it, but the daughter couldn't help saying that the flower was beautiful, and wanted to buy it to relieve her depressed mood.

Coupled with the battle in the inner house, her mother thought that she was guarding against another concubine's room, so she brought it to her.

After the incident, she buried the flowers in the place where the bamboo was planted in the backyard, destroying the evidence.

This is the whole process. Among the armaments recovered by the DPRK and China, there is no case of Luo Zheng's impeachment.

And news came from the border that everything was normal for the armaments, so the matter was closed.

(End of this chapter)