Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 110
There was a lot of noise outside, Su Wencheng frowned, couldn't help standing up, and told Su Tong, "A Tong, just sit down, I'll go and see what's going on."

After speaking, he opened the door and walked out.

As soon as he went out, he saw the two servants of the Su family confronting the two strong men in blue shorts. The two men were not like ordinary people. With a sword.

People without fame in the Song Dynasty were forbidden to carry weapons. Even though these two people were dressed in ordinary clothes, but they could carry weapons, and the masters they followed must not be ordinary people.

"There are more than 20 large and small guest rooms in this inn. You just lost your things. Why don't you search other people's rooms, but only search the guest room where my little lady lives?"

The two men stared coldly at the two young servants of the Su family, without saying a word, but the steward who was born behind was very rich, sweating profusely, and panic-stricken, rushed over and rushed over to the two men. A boy gritted his teeth and said, "You guys are sensible, open the door quickly, let me wait in and search..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Su Wencheng came over and sneered: "It's so majestic, now you don't have the approval document from the Kaifeng government, and you don't have the documents from the Ministry of punishment. How dare you search it privately? Anyway, I only brought two Even if a young man goes out, he can't stop you, let alone stop him. If you want to search, go ahead and search, just to remind you a few words in advance, a certain Su Wencheng, the champion of Jinke, although he is not a great person, but you today What you did, it doesn’t need to be tomorrow, I will definitely write a booklet and submit it to the official’s imperial examination, when the official’s blame will come down, the second class will not blame Su for not teaching and punishing.”

After finishing speaking, Su Wencheng waved his hand and said coldly, "Get out of the way, let them search!"

His demeanor was really good, the person in charge changed his face slightly after hearing what he said, although he was not very scared, he hesitated for a while.

Now that the imperial examination has just ended, the capital is full of tributes, and Su Wencheng is obviously the leader of this year, with a very high status in the tributes, and anyone with connections knows that he registered in front of the officials The figure, the officials pay close attention to him, after all, he is the number one scholar in Sanding Jiali. If he really randomly searched his daughter's residence, it may hinder their master. You know, their master has always acted in a low-key manner and never It is easy to fall into the trap.

Thinking of this, the steward reluctantly suppressed his anxiety, bowed his hands and saluted: "It turns out that your honor is the number one scholar, and I hope that your honor will forgive me. The small one didn't mean to be rude, it really has a lot to do with it, and the small one not only lost something. , and a guard died, this is a serious matter, the waiter in the inn testified again, when he got up at night in the middle of the night, he saw a little lady in a lotus-colored jacket and skirt walking around in front of the small guard's room. After leaving, I passed him by and went up the stairs, the direction the little lady was going was the east side of the second floor, on the east side of the second floor, there was only Ling'ai, a little lady."

Hearing that someone was dead, Su Wencheng's face suddenly changed. Although what he said was ambiguous, the manager in front of him was not concerned about the dead, but the lost things, but human life is at stake, and being involved in a life lawsuit is absolutely nothing good thing.

"Ahu, take my sign and go to Kaifeng Mansion immediately to call someone."

Su Wencheng has always been decisive, raised his hand, and stopped the manager's words, "Since there is a life lawsuit, there is no need to say anything. It is better to wait for the people from the Kaifeng government to come and let the people from the government investigate carefully. Before that, please be in charge. Temporarily seal off the inn, allowing entry and no exit, although there is no guarantee that the murderer will not take the opportunity to escape, but it is better to be careful if you are not afraid of ten thousand."

The person in charge hesitated to speak, but finally sighed and didn't say anything more.

Su Tong walked out of the room, and obviously heard the conversation outside just now, frowned, and couldn't help asking: "The manager, when did you find out what happened?"

The person in charge looked at Su Tong with vigilance, but when he heard that she was the daughter of Zhuangyuan Lang, he didn't dare to be too rude, and sighed: "It was early this morning, and the little one heard a scream and rushed out of the room Afterwards, I saw the little nephew passed out in front of Wang Da's door, and the door of Wang Da's room was open. The little one went in and saw that Wang Da was dead, and the window was open, and my master asked the little one to carry it with him. A piece of jade pendant also disappeared."

"The younger one was in a hurry, so he woke up the younger nephew by pouring water on it. According to him, he heard movement next door, so he put on his clothes and came over to have a look. Unexpectedly, as soon as the door opened, there was no one pushing in. He only had time to yell, then hit the ground and passed out. In a daze, he said he saw the figure jumping out of the window."

After such a big incident happened, the whole inn was panicked.

Su Tong and Su Wencheng are fine, although they are frightened, they are not too worried.
The father and daughter just sat in the house and waited quietly. At this time, the rain had not stopped, but it was lighter than yesterday. It was just a drizzle, and the people outside the inn had already gone out in twos and threes in the rain.

Not long after, it was Zhao Tuiguan from Kaifeng Mansion who came in person.

Su Tong and Su Wencheng were stunned. Although Su Wencheng was not familiar with Zhao Tuiguan, he had heard rumors that this Zhao Tuiguan had a serious and rigid personality. It is said that it is difficult to be an official in Beijing, and it is also difficult to be an official in Kaifeng Mansion. With such a temperament, he was able to be his official in a stable manner. It is not because of his ability, but because of his deep background. , his father is the Marquis of Guangping, and he is also from the Zhao family's clan. He has been on good terms with the officials since he was a child, and he is quite outstanding among such a large group of clan children.

He obviously knew Su Wencheng, but he didn't take him too seriously. He first interrogated the shopkeeper and the waiters of the inn one by one, and then called the sufferer into the room, asked for a call, and then came out. Looking at Su Wencheng, he said coldly: "Since there is a murder case, and there are witnesses proving that the young lady of the Su family is suspected, it's better to search."

Su Wencheng frowned, and Su Tong was also dumb, but the person in front of him was the pusher of Kaifeng Mansion, holding a document approved by the Kaifeng Mansion in his hand. If he wanted to search, others dared not allow it.

Fortunately, Su Tong doesn't care. Others may still be in the way of the girl's face and don't want others, especially men, to see where she lives. Su Tong doesn't care much about this.

Official Zhao Tui led a group of yamen servants and the hard-working manager into the house to search together. Su Wencheng and his daughter found a seat and continued to eat their meals.

The two of them haven't finished their breakfast yet.

The two of them were leisurely and leisurely, and they didn't take that group of people seriously at all, but they didn't expect that just a moment after Zhao Tuiguan entered the room, Su Tong hadn't finished eating a bun, and there was a sudden exclamation in the room.

"That's it, this is our master's jade pendant."

Su Wencheng was startled, and stood up abruptly, Su Tong also choked a mouthful of soup into his trachea, coughed for a long time, and saw Zhao Tuiguan with a livid face, but with a look of rejoicing, the steward came out, the steward What he held tightly in his hand was actually a dragon-shaped jade pendant wrapped in black satin.

Zhao Tuiguan stepped forward, pointed at the jade pendant coldly, and said to Su Tong, "Do you recognize this thing?"

"Of course I do." Su Tong frowned.

Naturally, she knew the jade pendant, it was a relic left by her mother, and it was also the only good thing she got back from her former stepmother Liu's in its entirety.Most of her mother's relics were sold by the Liu family at a low price. If it weren't for the preciousness of this jade pendant, I'm afraid it would not have been kept until now.

As soon as Su Tong said this, the face of the manager suddenly changed, and he said angrily: "Officer Zhao Tui, look, this little lady admitted it herself, and it seems that she killed Wang Da."

"Wait." Su Tong scratched his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "This jade pendant is mine, it is a relic left by my mother, and it has been in our house for more than ten years. It is my own thing, from my own room. Isn't it normal to find out, why did I suddenly become a murderer for no reason?"

The steward turned red with anger when he heard the words: "Don't talk nonsense, this jade pendant was given to the young man by the master, it is a very important token, how could it be yours? Besides, this jade pendant is so precious, the jade quality has to be This kind of jade is rare in the homes of high officials and nobles. As far as I know, your Su family is already in decline. Before Su Langjun was the number one scholar, he was just a poor scholar. Such a precious jade pendant?"

Zhao Tuiguan nodded, glanced at Su Wencheng, and then said to Su Tong: "Do you have anything to say?"

Su Tong sighed, pressed the center of his eyebrows, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that I am quite suspicious, but let me ask the manager, how much did you lose for such a jade pendant?"

The person in charge immediately said: "This jade pendant is so precious, the small one naturally only has one piece."

"Then you have such a jade pendant in your hand, did outsiders know about it before you came here?"

The person in charge shook his head, and said firmly: "Except for my master and the little one, no one else knows that this thing is in the villain's hands, and they haven't even let others see it before. It's just that the little one went out to do errands yesterday. If you take it out, the traitor may see it and get greedy, which will lead to a catastrophe."

While speaking, the steward also glanced at Su Tong.

Su Tong smiled, gently tore off the purse from his waist, took out a piece of suet white jade pendant, shrugged and said: "But my jade pendant is a pair, not just one. Although our family is poor, But it's not that you can't have such a jade pendant, Zhao officials and stewards, don't speculate."

There is a lantern above the head, the lights are shining, and Su Tong is holding the jade pendant in his slender hand, which makes the jade pendant crystal clear and very precious.

The steward was taken aback.

Zhao Tuiguan also raised his eyebrows in surprise, and did it himself, took the jade pendant from the hand of the steward, and then picked up the jade pendant from Su Tong's hand, and put them together.

(End of this chapter)