Demon detective

Chapter 52 Gossip
The next morning, at the gate of the county government.

Song Zhili, Chen Houlu and a group of yamen servants stood in the middle of the road at the door, bowing their hands to the west, and they didn't straighten their backs until a carriage on the road gradually passed out of sight and the hustle and bustle fell.

However, the faces of the two county magistrates were still extremely embarrassed.

It turned out that Sima Xin and Cai Jin, who joined the army, left the county government office and returned to Daguan City. Song Zhili and others were seeing them off.

Before leaving, Sima Xin didn't say anything, and Cai Jin just shook his head blindly, which meant that Song Zhili and Song Zhili should resign themselves to their fate and take care of themselves.

Now, Qiu Batian's case has become an iron case, and it is impossible to retract his confession again.

That is to say, Song Zhili offended the Minister of the Ministry of Officials thoroughly, even though the Minister of the Ministry of Officials sent word that he and Qiu Batian had severed their kinship and asked the yamen to handle it impartially.

However, the officialdom is sinister and people's hearts are unpredictable. Who can know what the official minister really thinks?
Perhaps, he is waiting for a promotion, so he can't care about it for the time being.But once he really enters the cabinet in the future and becomes an extremely human minister, God knows if he will settle accounts after the fall?

And the most desperate thing, even if the Minister of the Ministry of Officials really didn't pursue this matter, Song Zhili had already offended his immediate superiors, whether it was the county guard, joining the army, or the governor, he had offended them all over and over again.

Therefore, Song Zhili's state of mind at the moment can be imagined, it is both panic and remorse.

However, he also knew that it was useless to regret, so he turned from regret to hatred, and became angry from embarrassment, and shifted his target to Xu Zhen.

That's right, the person who hired the killer is the county magistrate!
When Song Zhili repeatedly thought about the whole process of being cheated, he finally realized that the problem might be caused by this little policeman.

On the surface, Xu Zhen just misjudged his personal grievances and misjudged them as political struggles, but when he thought about it carefully, there were many doubts, and he seemed to be doing it on purpose.

Especially for that crucial secret letter, it was obvious that someone imitated a friend's handwriting and changed the content of the letter, which made him finally fall into the trap.

The most irritating thing is that, knowing that he was cheated, but because of too many taboos, it is difficult to clearly detect it. Even if he can find out, it will not help, and he can only swallow the bitterness in his stomach.

Therefore, the more Song Zhili thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and in the end he couldn't get enough of it, so he took advantage of the fact that he knew the contact information of Dongyou Sanren, and secretly hired a killer, trying to get rid of Xu Zhen to relieve his hatred.

Originally, Cheng Xiao could also be asked to do this matter. After all, Cheng Xiao had a grudge against Xu Zhen, but the scheming Song Zhili still didn't look for him.

Because Song Zhili was worried that once he fell in the future, Cheng Xiao might shake off his dirty work in order to protect himself, which would be bad for him.

So Cheng Xiao didn't know about the assassination of Xu Zhen.

"Ah..." At this moment, as soon as the two senior officials were sent away, Chen Houlu lamented bitterly, "Now, we have thorns on the stool and knives on our heads, and we can neither sit nor stand. ...How to do it..."

Song Zhili gave him an annoyed look and didn't bother to pay attention.

Now, the only thing they can do is to suspend Qiu Batian's case, but how to suspend it still needs to be carefully considered.

Soon, everyone returned to the county office and entered the hall, but as soon as they entered, everyone froze on the spot.

But seeing the tiger girl, Shen Yu, at some point, actually escorted the two men in black who were tied up in a big way to the center of the hall, facing everyone.

"This……"

Song Zhili was startled for a moment, then realized something, then suddenly widened his eyes and was shocked.

"Xiaoyu," Chen Houlu didn't know why, and asked, "What is this for? Who are these two people?"

"My lords, Chief Cheng," Shen Yu clasped his fists and saluted, and explained, "These two are Dongyou Sanren who kill people without batting an eye!"

"What? Dongyou Sanren?" Cheng Xiao's eyes flashed with excitement, "Where did you catch it?"

As the head of the county government, Cheng Xiao naturally knew the existence of Dongyou Sanren. These people were all wanted criminals with their lives on their backs, and there was a huge bounty for catching them.

Cheng Xiao has always wanted to catch a few, but these people are well-organized and highly skilled in martial arts, so they can't be caught at all.

Unexpectedly, Shen Yu caught two at once, and Cheng Xiao was inevitably a little excited.

"It was captured at Xu Zhen's house," Shen Yu said, "Late last night, these two people wanted to assassinate Xu Zhen, but I captured them!"

ho...

When everyone heard the words, they all exclaimed in unison.

But if someone observes carefully, they will find that Song Zhili was dizzy for a while and almost fell down.

"What?" Cheng Xiao was even more incredible, "Xu Zhen's family? Kill Xu Zhen? Why kill him?"

"Where is Xu Zhen?" Chen Houlu asked, "How is he?"

"It's okay." Shen Yu looked at the crowd, also a little puzzled, "Hey? Brother Xu Zhen came over early, why didn't you see him?"

"...Hehe..." At this time, someone in the crowd suddenly whispered, "It's really interesting, she caught the killer at Xu Zhen's house in the middle of the night last night, so that means they were together all night?"

"Hehehe..." Someone happily echoed, "Yeah, this lonely man and widow may be playing something, hehehe..."

"You... you guys?" Shen Yu's eyes and ears turned red when she heard these people's comments, and she quickly explained, "Don't talk nonsense! Brother Xu invited me to drink at his house yesterday, and his little daughter-in-law is also here ..."

"Hehehe..." This time, the policemen laughed even harder, "The little daughter-in-law is here, and now the eldest daughter-in-law is here again, Xu Zhenming is so kind!"

"Hey," Shen Yu picked up a stick of water and fire, pointed at the sarcastic arresters and said angrily, "If you dare to talk nonsense again, don't blame me for being rude!"

"Enough!" At this time, Song Zhili yelled to stop, "When is this, are you still in the mood to joke? Shen Yu, cough cough..." Because of his excitement, he coughed several times and asked, "You Are they all facts? Did these two confess anything? Who wants to kill Xu Zhen?"

"I don't know about that," Shen Yu replied truthfully, "These two people were appointed by their superiors, and they don't know who their employer is!"

"Oh..." Song Zhili finally stabilized his mind, and his complexion looked better.

"Oh," Chen Houlu frowned, "Did I make a mistake? Xu Zhen is just a small catcher, who would miss him?"

Unexpectedly, Chen Houlu woke up the dreamer with a single word, and Cheng Xiao realized something instantly. First, he gave a shock, and then subconsciously glanced at Song Zhili, his eyes full of fear.

However, he soon realized that he had lost his composure, and hurriedly retracted his gaze and lowered his head.

"No, no," Shen Yu said, "There is absolutely no mistake, these two people have admitted that the person to kill is indeed Senior Brother Xu Zhen!"

"That...hehe...it's really strange," Chen Houlu still didn't notice the abnormality, and said with a smile, "Xu Zhen still has the intention to invite you at home after such a big incident in the yamen, isn't it a bit deliberate?"

As a result, Chen Houlu's unintentional words awakened the dreamer again.

This time it was Song Zhili who was awakened, his body trembled violently, and he realized with horror that Xu Zhen invited Shen Yu to dinner last night, did he expect that he would send someone to kill him?

This Xu Zhen... is too scary, right?
No, no, no...

Song Zhili silently made up his mind that this Xu Zhen must not stay, even if he cannot be killed temporarily, he must be expelled from the Yamen!
Thinking of this, without waiting for Shen Yu to answer Chen Houlu's question, he immediately asked excitedly: "Where is Master Xu? Where is he now?"

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(End of this chapter)