Crown Princess, she can catch ghosts

Chapter 139
The dawn broke, and the morning light fell through the window lattice into the dark file warehouse.

The yellowed and grayed window paper blocked most of the light, making the light in the house still unclear and dark.

The guards who had been hit by Su's Sleeping Talisman had already woken up. Seeing that Shizi was still asleep on the case, they were busy with each other carefully without making any sound.

At the beginning of the hour, Shi Zi woke up leisurely.

After lying on the desk for several hours, my arms felt numb and my head was dizzy.

Shizi stood up and looked around for a while, only then did he suddenly understand where he was.

Recalling what happened last night in a trance, he felt a little vague, and a little afraid that it was just a dream of his own. After finding that Diansu was not in the file vault, Shizi felt very uneasy.

Seeing Zhi'an, he hurriedly told the prince one by one what Diansu told him when he left last night. It was nothing more than saying that she would go to Yuanjiu and others to investigate the matter together, so that the prince should not worry.

After hearing this, the prince knew that Diansu was fine, and that all that was not a dream, so he breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed a little.

Seeing that the crown prince woke up, the guards who were waiting at the side hurriedly came in with copper basins and scarves, and waited for the crown prince to wash up awkwardly.

Clean face, clean hands, simply eat breakfast.

Thinking about what happened last night, Shizi thought, it is better to go back to Hongfeng Station first, and see what progress there is before making a decision.

This matter was too strange and involved a wide range, and he couldn't figure it out for a while.

So he ordered: "These files were almost badly read last night, just make another copy of the ones we selected and take them away."

He borrowed the case by virtue of his status as the son of Prince Huai, and it was beyond his authority. Naturally, it was impossible to take it away with the case. It was very accommodating to be able to make a copy of it.

The guards responded, leaving a few people to clean up, and the rest followed the son back to Hongfeng Station.

It's just that they didn't make it.

The death of the county magistrate is not a trivial matter, not to mention that he was related to the officials of the state.

This incident alarmed the officials above. Lin'an County sent the county magistrate to lead people to investigate the matter, but they directly bypassed the Fucheng level and only let them assist in handling the case, which shows how much the superiors attach importance to it.

The county magistrate sent down was surnamed Zhou, and he was tactful.

As soon as he heard that Prince Huai's son happened to come here to review the files last night, he naturally seized the opportunity to come and pay a visit, so as not to flatter him with some concern.

It just so happened that the son hadn't left yet, so he was invited by Zhou Juncheng to drink tea.

Although Zhou Juncheng has nothing to do with King Huai, he knows that the son of King Huai has a noble status, and his status in Ye Kingdom is comparable to that of a prince. If he can get a few words of support, he will be promoted and make a fortune just around the corner.

Therefore, after entering the tea room, Zhou Juncheng took very good care of the prince, and he was very careful when he spoke, for fear that what he did not do well would make the prince unhappy.

The son was unwilling to get involved in these official matters, after all, he never thought about what he really wanted to compete for, so it would be great to just spend his life idle with Diansu, so he didn't pay much attention to Zhou Juncheng's flattery.

After drinking a cup of tea, the prince suddenly thought of what Shaoyu said yesterday that they found many bones in the red maple forest.

Now that the county magistrate of Hongfeng County has had an accident, they can't count on it. Since Lin'an County's magistrate is here and has brought so many people, it is just right for him to investigate the matter together.

Shizi estimated the feasibility of this matter in his heart, and then roughly mentioned it.

This Zhou Juncheng is also a transparent mind. Hearing the son's words, he immediately understood that it was time for him to perform, and he couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

If he hadn't seen the right time and took the initiative to curry favor, I'm afraid that this job would not have fallen on him at all.

No matter the errand is big or small, it is an opportunity given to him by the prince!

If he can't grasp it properly this time, it will be a waste of his hard work in the officialdom for so many years!
Zhou Juncheng weighed it in his heart, and immediately wrote a letter to be sent back to the county. After reporting to the county guard, dozens of people were sent over.

Not only that, but also the records and records of missing and accidental deaths from the file databases of the county and the prefecture were also retrieved.

Seeing that he was so upright, the son was quite satisfied.

Although it meant asking for credit in front of him, after all, he really did his best and wanted to get the job done well.

After this incident, if he really has some skills, it's okay to say a few words for him.

During this period, the son pretended to know the news of the murder of the county magistrate, and led Zhou Juncheng to search the official residence carefully without any trace.

Naturally, the basement under the rockery was drawn out.

This basement is extremely secretive, but when they left last night, they didn't restore the inside to its original appearance, and the door wasn't closed, so it was much easier to find it.

Zhou Juncheng had already asked the yamen servants who were on duty at night in the county yamen, and he knew that the prince and the guards had been in the file warehouse all night, and they didn't get up until this morning, and no one came in and out during that time.

What's more, judging from the dust on the hem of Shizi's clothes and sleeves, it is true that Shizi got it by looking through a lot of files in the archives.

In this way, the death of the county magistrate could not be related to Shizi at all, so he would invite Shizi to drink tea.

Otherwise, even if Prince Huai's son was involved in a murder case, he would also have to interrogate him as usual.

Therefore, at this moment, Zhou Juncheng naturally would not have thought that the prince deliberately led him to discover the basement, but secretly sighed that he was negligent for a while, and did not find it here, and was a little worried that the prince would blame him for it.

Shizi didn't say anything, just continued to sit in the tea room and drink tea.

Zhou Juncheng immediately understood that the son was giving him time to deal with the matter, so he said goodbye quickly, and took his men to investigate the basement.

When Zhou Juncheng left, the accompanying guards said: "My lord, this person is used to flattery, why do you bother with him?"

The prince just said: "As long as you really want to do business, it doesn't matter if you follow the trend. In the officialdom, it is also a skill to be human and to observe the situation. If people don’t like it, they will end up being victims of the regime’s strife.”

After hearing this, the guard knew that Shi Zi knew what he knew, so he stopped talking.


Not long after, Zhou Juncheng came back with a pale face, and even changed his official uniform.

Zhou Juncheng was in charge of the prison, and Zhou Juncheng thought he had seen many bloody scenes, but when he saw the scene in the stone house in the basement, his expression changed drastically, and he couldn't help rushing out, vomiting continuously.

The first few yamen servants who found out were already scared to death.

Seeing that even the county magistrate who was in charge of the prison had become like this, the prince couldn't help being a little moved when he thought of Diansu and Shaoyu's protection of him last night.

I was glad that I didn't insist on looking at those things, I was just looking for guilt, and at the same time, I felt a little bit sorry for Su.

What did she go through that made her unresponsive to the things inside?Has it ever been more terrifying than that...

Shizi's heart sank a little, but it didn't show on his face.

This Juncheng is also a discerning person, after knowing that the things in the basement are not suitable for people to see, he just told the prince that he had found some clues, but he didn't mention anything about the things in it.

When the additional manpower from Juncheng and Fucheng arrived, Juncheng proposed to escort the prince back to Hongfengyi, and by the way, search the maple forest carefully to see if the two cases are related.

The prince saw that although he was tactful, he really wanted to handle the case well, so he acquiesced in this matter.

After all, neither he nor Diansu are good at investigating cases. Naturally, it is more appropriate for the government to handle this case.

In the underworld, there are Yuanjiu and Yunsi, and in the yang world, there is Zhou Juncheng. They go hand in hand, and they must be able to find out this matter earlier.

(End of this chapter)