Imperial pet forensic mad concubine

Chapter 214

The news that Honggu found was that strange pattern, which seemed to be the clan emblem of a big family in the past, but this family fell into disrepair later on, so no one mentioned it anymore. As time passed, people had already forgotten it.

Tong Ange frowned upon hearing this: "The clan emblem of the big family? Which big family is it?"

Aunt Hong sighed slightly: "That family was originally in Yizhou, and it can be regarded as a wealthy family there. It was very famous. Later, it moved to the capital. After a few years, the entire family was suddenly infected with the disease, and all of them were wiped out. At that time, I was only twelve or thirteen years old. I remember that when the adults said that when the government went to collect the corpses, the whole yard was full of corpses. Later, I had no choice but to fear the spread of the epidemic, so they put the corpses together with the house in that place. It burned, and the fire burned for three days and three nights, and half the sky was burned red."

"So, there was a plague in the city when you entered the city?" Tong Ange asked aloud, couldn't help but wonder, since it was a plague, why did that woman enter the palace?

"In the capital city..." Hong Gu frowned, "I don't seem to have heard of anyone being infected. The family, the corpse and the mansion were all burned, and the disease is gone."

Hearing Hong Gu's words, Tong Ange raised his eyebrows: "You mean, only that family is suffering from the epidemic?"

Hong Gu hesitated for a moment when she heard the words, and nodded: "The government also suddenly broke out, saying that someone in the east of the city had an epidemic. It’s been more than 20 years, and if there was, I can’t remember exactly.”

After listening to her, Tong Ange's eyes lit up with some doubts. It's so strange that the entire family died of the disease overnight, and then the disease disappeared without a trace. Isn't it too strange?
"So who else in that family survived? Are there any survivors?"

Hong Gu shook her head: "No, it's said that there were more than 300 people in the family, all of them died." As she spoke, Hong Gu clicked her tongue a few times: "It's pitiful to say the least. " Hong Gu's tone was full of sighs.

At this moment, Tong Ange felt that one mystery after another was planted in his heart. More than 300 people from all over the house died overnight. After the government collected the corpses and set fire to the house, they said it was an epidemic, but the epidemic was not in the capital. Isn't it too strange to spread and don't know the source?
There is also that woman, she is holding the jade pendant engraved with the family crest, she probably belongs to this family, but why did her body go to the palace?And if the child she gave birth to died, where would the bones be?
"Girl? Girl?" Seeing Tong Ange frowning, she didn't know what she was thinking, so she couldn't help but yelled twice.

Tong Ange was pulled back to his senses by Hong Gu's voice, his eyes flickered, and he asked, "What's the last name of this family?"

"It seems to be Zhen."

"Then are there any women in this family who were sent to the palace?" Tong Ange asked again.

Hearing this, Hong Gu shook her head: "It seems not. Although the Zhen family was well-known back then, they have never heard of any concubines. Presumably they have never sent their daughters into the palace."

"Is the ruins of the Zhen family's mansion that was burned back then still there?" Tong Ange planned to go there to take a look. Although it was many years later, it is not known if there might be any clues to be found.

Aunt Hong didn't understand why Tong Ange suddenly became so interested in something that happened more than 20 years ago, and couldn't help but ask, "Girl, what's the reason for this incident...?"

"I'm just curious, tell me the address, and I'll go over and have a look." Tong Ange said evasively.

"I'll take the girl there."

When Tong Ange arrived in the east of the city, she felt that the more people went to the outside, the less people lived. When she followed Aunt Hong to the burned site of Zhen's house, it had completely turned into a wasteland with overgrown weeds. Can't see the size of the past.

"Is this place always deserted?" Tong Ange asked aloud.

Honggu nodded: "There was a lot of trouble back then, and because of the epidemic, so many people died overnight, who would dare to use this land? No, this place has been deserted for more than 20 years. Now you can’t see what it used to be.”

Tong Ange's gaze scanned the wasteland. Judging by the scale, the Zhen family should have been extremely prosperous back then. Could it be that the death of the Zhen family was not a disease at all, but man-made?
She doesn't believe that there is any epidemic that can quietly wipe out more than 300 lives in a family overnight, and it comes and goes without a trace, which is also incredible.

"Let's go, let's go back." Thinking of this, Tong Ange turned around and said to Honggu who was at the side.

Since the matter of the Zhen family had been involved in the government, it was a perfect time to ask Wang Qianhe for information.

The two left from the east of the city, and not long after they separated from Honggu at the market, they ran into Zheng Kun who came to look for her: "Princess, my lord invited the princess to come over, saying that we have something to talk about."

"it is good."

When Tong Ange arrived at Prince Su's Mansion, she found that Wang Qianhe was also there. She was about to ask Wang Qianhe about the Zhen family back then, when she saw that Wang Qianhe was holding a somewhat rusty iron plate, but there was a picture on it. It has the same peculiar pattern as the jade pendant that Tong Ange found next to the bone.

"This iron plate belongs to the Zhen family that was wiped out because of the epidemic." Tong Ange said, his tone was not doubt but affirmation.

Wang Qian raised his eyebrows, he was a little surprised that Tong Ange knew about it, but he still nodded: "Yes, I found this when I checked the case records over the years, because the Zhen family was completely wiped out because of the epidemic back then, so I kept it together." I didn't notice it at first." At the beginning, he only investigated cases of murder or crimes, and he didn't notice the Zhen family at all. If he hadn't discovered the iron plate by accident, Wang Qianhe didn't know when he would be able to find out. Guess.

Listening to Wang Qianhe's words, Tong Ange couldn't help but look up at Su Yu, who had no expression on his face, and said, "I asked people in the know, and they all said that the Zhen family was plagued by an epidemic back then, but what epidemic can make people feel sick? Isn’t it strange that more than 300 lives in Zhen’s family were wiped out overnight, and then because of a fire, this sudden epidemic that killed more than 300 people disappeared without a trace?”

Her words made Su Yu and Wang Qianhe frown. Long before she came, they had similar doubts and speculations. However, this case involved more than 20 years. Mr. Dong, the prefect, has already been dismissed and returned to the field, and there are very few insiders. Who else can know the details of the year?
Wang Qianhe sighed slightly: "Although the Zhen family has a great business, it is not a family of officials after all, and it died of an epidemic. A fire destroyed everything. Now I want to find out about the Zhen family. The case, I'm afraid it's difficult."

Not to mention that it was destroyed by a big fire, even if there was no big fire, after more than 20 years, there are already very few insiders, and who else can remember what happened back then?

Hearing Wang Qianhe's words, Tong Ange's eyebrows twitched: "If you say so according to your lord, how could the descendants of the Zhen family appear in the palace? Ninety-eight times out of ten, the corpse is from the Zhen family. It's not a family of officials, and they never sent their daughters to the palace, didn't all the members of Zhen's family die because of that strange disease, how could there be jade pendants and bones in the palace?"

Tong Ange couldn't figure this out. She felt that all these things were not accidental, including the strange epidemic in Zhen's family and the fire: "Maybe that fire didn't want to destroy the family at all. The corpses infected with the disease are basically to burn the truth about the demise of the Zhen family."

Hearing this, Su Yu's eyes narrowed, and a flash of sharpness quickly flashed in his eyes, and Wang Qianhe on the side also frowned tightly.

"Your Majesty, please find out the cause of this matter slowly, and try to find people who knew about it back then." Su Yu said to Wang Qianhe.

"Don't worry, my lord, this is the job of a subordinate official." Wang Qianhe said.

The corpse was found in the palace, although it did not reach the ears of the emperor, if it is revealed one day, the matter is so unclear, even if the emperor asks, he has no way to explain it.

After Wang Qianhe was sent away, only Tong Ange and Suyu were left in Suyu's study. Tong Ange's eyes fell on the iron plate Wang Qianhe brought, and his brows frowned: "This Zhen family is neither an official nor an official. I haven't heard that the family is a businessman, but the family has a big business and is very influential in Yizhou. Could it be that the Zhen family had some feud or old enemy, so they were wiped out overnight? Woolen cloth?"

Su Yu looked at Tong Ange's frowning brows, and pushed a brocade box in front of Tong Ange: "Look at this first."

Seeing this, Tong Ange was slightly taken aback, and stretched out his hand to open the brocade box, only to find some yellowed letterheads inside.

She picked it up and opened it carefully. The further she went, the more she frowned. When she finished reading all the letters, her eyes were filled with surprise: "The head of the Zhen family, Zhen Shuyuan, and the current prime minister, Qiao Shu Wang Shi came out of the same school?"

Su Yu nodded: "These are all the news that the secret guard found in Yizhou, and Yizhou is also Qiao Shuwang's ancestral home." He said, his eyes narrowed: "They are not only from the same family, but also from the same batch of candidates for the imperial examination. , Zhen Shuyuan was the No. [-] in high school, and Qiao Shuwang was the No. [-], but for some reason, although Zhen Shuyuan won the No. [-], he did not become an official, while Qiao Shuwang stepped into the imperial court and rose all the way to become the current Prime Minister."

Hearing Su Yu's words, Tong Ange raised his eyebrows, "If the female corpse is really a descendant of the Zhen family, then based on time calculations, the woman's age should be about the same as Concubine Qiao Shu's."

Then this matter is much more interesting. Zhen Shuyuan and Qiao Shuwang are from the same school, and their daughters look so similar?It's just that this fate is too different. One family is favored, one person is under [-] people, and the other family is ruined. Is this a coincidence or a coincidence?

(End of this chapter)