Rebirth of the best emperor

Chapter 164
According to Zhao Ergou, a fisherman on the Xinyang River, Wang Mang and others quickly understood what happened here.

Half a day ago, Zhao Ergou came to the river to fish as usual, but as soon as the net was lowered, he felt that he had caught something. According to Zhao Ergou's experience, the net was definitely not fish, so he didn't care, so he used his skills to shake it He lifted the fishing net and threw the contents of the fishing net into the river again.

Originally, Zhao Ergou thought that the matter would end here, but who would have thought for a moment that a dead body appeared directly in the water, which scared Zhao Ergou almost to death. The merchant was planning to pick up the corpse first to see if there was any money or something, but the water gurgled a few times, and a few more corpses emerged.

Only then did Zhao Ergou realize that the matter was a bit serious, so he scrambled to inform Lizheng Sun Wufan, and when Sun Wufan arrived, he asked Zhao Ergou to salvage all the corpses.

Zhao Ergou was still a little shocked, looked at Lu Yuan, kowtowed and said: "Master, this matter has nothing to do with the little one, the little one doesn't know anything."

Lu Yuan waved his hand and signaled the servant to pull Zhao Ergou down, then looked at Wang Mang and said, "Brother Wang, what do you think?"

"Judging from the degree of decay of the corpse, this has happened for a while." Wang Mang pondered for a moment, combined with the findings of the autopsy over there: "If the reasoning is correct, it was said in the city that when the Lu family was far away from Xinyang City, The Lu family has already been wiped out, even thrown into the river."

"Then why do these corpses still float up? Could it be that they floated down from the upper reaches?" Lu Yuan frowned and said, "According to what Zhao Ergou said just now, this kind of thing often happens in the river."

"Probably not." Wang Mang shook his head and said, "I think the corpse was rotten and swollen, and could no longer sink into the water, so it floated up under the buoyancy of the river."

"What Master Wang said is true." Wu Zuo said at this time: "But it's not complete. Judging from the autopsy, there are ropes under the corpse's feet and bruises on the ankles. It should have sunk when it was tied with heavy objects, but the ropes are of poor quality. , was soaked in water and rotted, so when the rope broke, the swollen corpse floated up."

"Are you sure?" Wang Mang's eyes flashed.

Wu Zuo was a little displeased and said, "You can't question my profession!"

Lu Yuan quickly said: "I just want to confirm with you, what's your attitude!"

After all, Lu Yuan was the county magistrate, Wu Zuo didn't dare to show too much embarrassment this time, but he still snorted, turned around and went back to his own business.

Wang Mang knew that those who work in this business deal with the dead every day, and have a weird temperament, so he didn't care about his attitude towards this job, but looked at Lu Yuan and said, "It seems that this is really an accident?"

"It should be an accident." Lu Yuan also nodded.

The yamen servants on one side couldn't figure out what the two adults were talking about, they all looked at them in a daze, and Lu Yuan said again at this time: "Then what are you going to do?"

"It's too wasteful to use the target delivered to the door!" Wang Mang laughed.

"That's what I mean." Lu Yuan nodded, turned around, his face turned cold, and said, "Come here, bring me the principals of the four major families of Zhao, Qian, Sun and Li in Xinyang. I need to find them."

Everyone looked at Lu Yuan in shock, not sure why the county magistrate went crazy. He opened his mouth to arrest all the heads of the four major families of Zhao, Qian, Sun and Li. In the eyes of everyone, it was unimaginable. things.

But in the end there was the premise that Lu Yuan put Zhao Si, Qian Guangda and others in the prison. Although everyone was shocked, in the end a few government servants brought a group of people back to the city to find the heads of the four major families.

Soon, when Wang Mang and others returned to the county government office, the officials of the four major families were also brought over by the government officials. The four leaders looked gloomy and scolded Lu Yuan for not being flattering in their hearts, but they were afraid that Lu Yuan would go crazy. They were put in prison together, and finally came to see Lu Yuan holding their noses.

"I want to ask you, a few days ago, a few days ago, some foreign children of your four major families in Xinyang entangled Du Hong's family, a wealthy businessman in the city. Where are these people going now?" Lu Yuan asked directly when he saw the four principals.

The four principals looked at each other, what happened outside the city had not yet been reported to the city, the four principals couldn't figure out what Lu Yuan wanted to do, the dead people looked at each other, and finally Zhao Ming from the Zhao family said, "Report to Mr. Lu, what you said Those people have all gone home to visit their relatives, and they should be in Nanyang now, what do you want them to do?"

"What's the matter? Big thing!" Lu Yuan snorted coldly and said, "I don't care whether they have gone back for real or not, I will send you to the county government within two days, otherwise this matter will be ruined." It fell on the heads of you guys."

"Lord Lu, let us understand what happened, right?" Li Xiaobai's face was gloomy. Their Li family suffered the most serious losses in this turmoil. More than [-] restaurants were shut down. Up to now, none of them have been able to open. Sticking to the seal of the county government, what is lost every day is money.

"What happened, you will naturally know after you go out, and you don't need to tell me the seriousness of the matter." Lu Yuan snorted and stretched out two fingers: "Two days, just two days! "

The four principals came quickly and left even faster. Lu Yuan drove the four out without saying a word. The four were furious. They were also the representatives of the four families in Xinyang. How could they have been so angry.

After leaving the county office, the four of them looked at each other, Zhao Ming said, "Everyone, why don't you ask what happened first?"

Soon, the four members of Du Hong's family were silenced, and the news of the dead body in the river reached the ears of the four principals. The four chiefs looked at me, and I looked at you. Finally, Li Yibai slapped the table and cursed. Said: "I said, why did that bastard suddenly ask for leave? It turned out that he committed such a serious crime! He ran away by himself, and left me here to take the blame. What a bastard!"

Human life is at stake, and the extermination case is a major case that must be supervised by the imperial court. After all, since ancient times, people have always paid attention to being open-minded.

The four of them never thought that those in their own family had nothing to do with this matter. First, Lu Yuan dared to say that, there must be evidence, and second, as the representatives of the four major families in Xinyang, the four of them had a lot of resources in their hands. The behavior of the foreign affairs children during this period of time was clearly heard by the four principals, and from the time when those few left, and from the methods of those few people, the four chiefs used their toes to think that they all followed the four principals. related.

Zhao Ming frowned deeply. He had more information. He knew that the master's family had sent two sons to deal with the Xinyang incident. Such a thing happened at this gate. It was simply...

Zhao Ming didn't dare to imagine what would happen if the matter got to the ears of the two young masters, but he couldn't hide it, so he finally looked at the other three and said: "This matter is no longer up to us, pass the news back Let's go to Nanyang!"

(End of this chapter)