Judgement

Chapter [-]

Chapter [-]

The He family in Gongzhuang cried loudly, and the county magistrate Wang Jizheng was helpless looking at the dead body.He Qingquan was the only single heir of the three generations of the He family. He was fine yesterday afternoon, but was found dead in the study by his wife in the evening.Wang Ji checked that the doors and windows were tightly closed, and there were no prying marks or abnormalities.It happened that he died inside, Mr. He was also a flirtatious talent, and often went out drinking and chatting with friends, and his family said that he had no enemies.Several of He Qingquan's friends came to pay homage upon hearing the news of his death and were all questioned by Wang Ji one by one. He Qingquan had had a drink with his friends at the Slender West Lake painting boat three days ago...

Chen Mengsheng came galloping along with the prefect Zhu Zijian, behind him were Shangguan Yanran, Xiang Xiaotian and Jiang Meng with a few escorts.When Chen Mengsheng arrived at He's house, he didn't rush in, but stared at the gate for a long time, took out the magic ruler and struck the door god on the gate of He's house left and right.Everyone was puzzled by Chen Mengsheng's weird behavior, and no one dared to stop him.There are portraits of Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong on the left and right sides of the door. The door god was beaten by Chen Mengsheng's magic ruler and turned into green smoke and stood respectfully in front of Chen Mengsheng.

Chen Mengsheng scolded angrily: "You two are devouring the incense of the world but you don't want to return it. The blackness in this room must be caused by goblins."

The two door gods looked at each other bitterly and smiled wryly. Qin Shubao stepped forward and replied: "The Shangxian doesn't know something. It's not because our brothers don't want to repay it, but because those two girls are very powerful. Our little door gods really No way, we two brothers were banned by that monster tonight, seeing that monster do evil but we can only freeze here, please take a lesson from Xian Ming."

Zhu Zijian saw Chen Mengsheng talking to himself at the gate of the He Mansion alone and asked, "Master, have you found any clues?"

Chen Mengsheng released the two door gods back, turned around and said to Zhu Zijian: "There is indeed a goblin in the Yangzhou mansion who killed people. Just now I saw that there is still a black aura of evil spirits in this room. I only found out after asking the door god. There are two goblins who turned into women, Master Zhu will make sense after I enter the house and check the dead body of Young Master He."

A group of people entered the study of the He family. The county magistrate Wang Ji saw that the prefect Zhu Zijian hurried over to salute.Zhu Zijian waved his hand and said, "The red tape is all free, what did Mr. Wang find?"

Wang Jidao: "The next official picked Mrs. He Qingquan to beat the drums to complain about her grievances. Her husband died in his own study for no apparent reason. The next official brought the yamen servants to check, but after a whole day of investigation, there was no clue Your Majesty, forgive me."

Zhu Zijian saw He Qingquan's body lying on his back, his face showing the same dark gray color as the original strange dead.Outside the study room were relatives and friends mourning, Zhu Zijian asked Chen Mengsheng softly, "Master, do you think there is any clue to solve the case?"

Chen Mengsheng said: "Master Zhu, you should leave the study first, let me check it out, maybe I can find out some clues." Zhu Zijian waved to Wang Ji and led the servants out of the study.

Seeing everyone leave, Xiang Xiaotian asked: "Brother, are you going to summon the soul to ask the case again?"

"Well, there were too many villains in the house just now, and the yang energy is too strong to summon souls. Brother, you and junior sister are waiting for me here, and you can't be too close to avoid being possessed by ghosts." Xiang Xiaotian and Shangguan Yanran nodded in agreement.

Chen Mengsheng walked up to He Qingquan's dead body, pinched his fingers and chanted a spell to summon He Qingquan's soul.Asked: "Who killed you?"

He Qingquan was asked inexplicably and blankly replied: "I don't know who killed me?"

Chen Mengsheng couldn't help shaking his head and sighed: "Another fool, he doesn't even know how he died. What happened in the study last night?"

"Nothing happened to me in the study room. It seems that I was reading a book in the room. Suddenly I smelled a faint fragrance of flowers, and then I felt a splitting headache. I couldn't sit or stand on the ground because of the pain. What happened next?" I don't know either."

"You didn't notice anything unusual? Did someone enter this study?"

He Qingquan shook his head full of doubts and said, "I didn't see anyone coming in." Chen Mengsheng saw that He Qingquan didn't know what to ask, so he could only put He Qingquan's soul into the soul-destroying bottle.

Shangguan Yanran asked: "Why did senior brother know the murderer after just asking a few questions?"

Chen Mengsheng shook his head and said, "The bitter master himself doesn't even know who killed him, but only from the mouth of the door god that there are two women."

Xiang Xiaotian looked at the ground behind the desk in the study, and saw scattered red and green pink objects and said in surprise: "Brothers, come and see what this is?"

Chen Mengsheng squatted on the ground and gently twisted the red and green powder with his fingers, but he didn't know what it was.Shangguan Yanran smelled a light fragrance and suddenly realized: "It's pollen, the pollen of peony flowers."

Xiang Xiaotian said angrily: "Is that wicked fellow Pang De using poisonous flowers to harm people again?"

"Brother, it's impossible. Pound was a frightened bird last night and it's hard to protect himself. This person was definitely not killed by Pound. He should have been killed by a monster." The three of them checked again in the study room. He didn't find anything, so he opened the door and walked outside the study.

Seeing Chen Mengsheng coming out, Zhu Zijian hurried forward and asked, "What did Master Chen discover?"

Seeing Chen Mengsheng and the other three looking sluggish, I felt sad for a while.Self-explanation: "I have just asked everyone with Wang Ji. Three days before the incident, He Qingquan and the two Mr. Yun and Mr. Wei had stayed on the Xingyue Painting Boat. The murderer in the Yangzhou Mansion case most likely went there." I also sent soldiers to garrison the Slender West Lake Painting Boat, but nothing came of it.”

Chen Mengsheng cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Mr. Zhu, for your suggestion. I'll go to the Slender West Lake to check it out."

Zhu Zijian said to Jiang Meng who was questioning the case: "General Jiang is responsible for taking Master Chen and the others to go together." Jiang Meng responded and led Chen Mengsheng and his party out of He's house, heading straight for Slender West Lake.

Xiang Xiaotian and Jiang Meng laughed at Shangguan Yanran all the way and said: "Girl, you should go back first, it's really not suitable for you to go to the place of fireworks."

Shangguan Yanran said not to be outdone, "I'm going to investigate the case with my brother, why can't I go if you can go?"

Jiang Meng laughed loudly and said: "Miss Shangguan, you really hit the mark. It is true that girls are not received on the boat. Even if you are on the boat, the old bustard will drive you off. The girls in the boat will be fine." I bought the rich boy’s pastime.”

Shangguan Yanran twitched her horsewhip shyly, and quickly shook off the people behind her like a shooting star.Ignoring Chen Mengsheng's yelling, he rushed straight into the city of Yangzhou.Looking at Shangguan Yanran who was going away, Chen Mengsheng and the three could only sigh helplessly...

On the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou Prefecture, there are painted boats like clouds, and after the second watch, bursts of fairy music mixed with the sound of Yingge and Yanyu can be heard from the painted boats.Jiang Meng raised his horsewhip and pointed at the giant flat boat in the middle of the lake with the flag of the moon and stars hanging on it, saying: "Brother Chen, Brother Xiang's boat is the number one boat in the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou Prefecture, and the beauties on board are like clouds. It’s a gold den for the rich.”

Xiang Xiaotian smiled and said, "I guess Boss Jiang must be well versed in this way?"

"Haha, it's not bad if my money isn't driven off by the big teapot on the boat. I've never been on a moon and star boat, so I'm going to use Brother Chen's light to go on board today to investigate the case and feast my eyes. "

Chen Mengsheng frowned and said: "If He Qingquan got on the Xingyue Huaboat and suffered an accident, I don't even feel that there is any evil spirit on the boat."

When the three were talking on the shore, a wooden raft with two flat ends came out of the lake.Walking from the raft, two young men in green clothes lowered their hands and asked, "Are you guys here to have fun on the boat? Are there any boats you know well, so I'll send you guys over here."

Chen Mengsheng saw that the two young men were only fourteen or five years old, and they were cleanly dressed and articulate, so he asked, "We came here for fame, but we don't know which boat is better among so many boats?"

The older boy said: "Sir, if you're new here, you should go to the small boat to listen to music and have a drink. There are 72 boats in the Slender West Lake. The [-] boats outside are all small boats. Only the boats inside The twelve circles are the big painting boat."

Xiang Xiaotian walked over leading the horse and said displeasedly: "Brother, what do you mean by that? Are you afraid that we will short your money?"

The little servant at the side smiled and said: "Master, you have misunderstood. We guides are all counting on the uncle to reward you with two more money so that we can go back and buy some brown rice to support the family. It will not make trouble for the uncle. My brother means big There are many rules on the boat, which is not as comfortable as in the small boat. You can see that there are three types of no guests on the Xingyue boat. You don’t see drunk people on board, you don’t see rich and unrefined people, you don’t see vulgar and unreasonable people.”

Xiang Xiaotian turned his head and said to Chen Mengsheng: "Brother, this is interesting. They don't even want to make money if they have money, so let's go on the Xingyue Painting Boat to have a look."

Chen Mengsheng nodded and said: "Then let's go on the Xingyue Painting Boat." He took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve and handed it to the two servants.

Seeing that Chen Mengsheng was rich and generous, the servant rushed over to lead the horse into the shed, and then the three of them boarded the raft.Chen Mengsheng asked if there were any strange things that happened in the Xingyue Painting Boat, and the faces of the two oarsmen changed when they heard this sentence.Putting the silver in his hand back into Chen Mengsheng's hand, he said: "Sir, we don't know what you said, and we can't accept this money. In half a year, there was a guide who was fired because he said something wrong. I really don't know." Chen Mengsheng saw that their eyes were full of panic, so he stopped asking.

The raft was rowed near the painting boat, and from time to time some girls in the small painting boats outside made gestures at Chen Mengsheng and the three of them, and when they saw the raft rowing towards the painting boat inside, they returned to the boat angrily.

After the raft went down the water, it took a short time to reach the Xingyue Painting Boat, and someone in the painting boat put down the flower ladder to pick Chen Mengsheng and others onto the boat.The big teapot is a young and beautiful woman in her twenties, she said with a smile: "Zhidie has seen all the masters, and I don't know if they are here to listen to music or to drink?"

Jiang Meng said with a smile: "The big teapots who do miscellaneous affairs are mostly men, today is an eye-opener, such a beauty is actually a big teapot, ha ha."

Zhidie threw two slings of money to the guide and said calmly: "There are women on the Xingyue Painting Boat, please come into the boat with Zhidie..."