female catcher

Chapter 10

In the imperial study room in the palace, Su Zhen closed the approved papers, went to the couch and sat down to rest.An Liang ordered someone to bring refreshing tea, and stood aside with his hands down.

Su Zhen was a little dizzy when he criticized the scriptures.There is no important matter in Jingguo right now, but he has just succeeded to the throne. The officials of the first dynasty are all left by the late emperor, and they are not really convinced by this 16-year-old young emperor. When I was in office..." came to press him.

The veteran wanted to seize power in the new dynasty, and he, Su Zhen, wanted to show his prestige. It was the time of the game between the two sides, so it was extraordinarily hard and heartbreaking.

Su Zhen drank the tea, handed the teacup to An Liang, closed his eyes and leaned on the pillow, "An Liang, let me tell you something interesting."

"Yes." An Liang asked someone to take the teacup away, waved his hand and told the servants in the imperial study to go down first, and then said: "Master Liu Zhong and Master Fang Jian Fang quarreled in the court room today, this Master Liu The eldest daughter of the family was originally engaged to the second son of Mr. Fang's family. They said they were engaged, but the two adults agreed verbally. A few days ago, Mr. Liu was promoted to the fourth rank of Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and he felt that his parents It's a disadvantage for a girl to marry the second son of the Fang family, so when the Fang family invited a matchmaker to come to propose marriage, Mrs. Liu didn't respond. Mrs. Fang is not angry, but today he stabbed Mrs. Liu with a gun and a stick in the court room, so, just It's noisy."

Su Zhen closed his eyes and smiled disdainfully, "This chapel house has become a big tree shade for street mothers-in-law? It's embarrassing to make a noise about it."

"Who says it's not." An Liang smiled, and continued: "Also, there was a murder case in Shengping Square last night, Wu Zonghuai's nephew was killed."

"Oh?" Su Zhen opened his eyes, showing some interest.

An Liang took a look, and hurriedly continued: "I heard that Mr. Wu asked Mr. Feng in the court room early this morning. Mr. Wu's eyes are black and blue. He must have been quarreled by his tigress last night. My lord is fine, the case is not difficult to solve. However, I don't know what the two of them are talking about."

"Shengpingfang?" Su Zhen lowered his eyes and thought for a while, "Where is Shengpingfang?"

"It's the Planting Flower House." An Liang chuckled, "This is enough for Mr. Jiang to scratch his head."

Jiang Xiyuan is very familiar with the brothels in Shengpingfang, and he is a well-known playboy in Beijing.Others see him as wandering around, but Su Zhen and An Liang only think that the guy is just doing business, and visiting other houses from time to time is also to learn from each other's strengths.The Shihua House is the brothel that Jiang Xiyuan invested in. Regarding why he opened a brothel, Jiang Xiyuan gave Su Zhen two explanations.

For one thing, this is a wonderful thing near the water.Second, the brothel is the easiest place for people to relax their vigilance, and it is very convenient to obtain some under-the-table news outside the court.

During Su Zhen's battle for the throne, the Shihua Pavilion did play a certain role, so Su Zhen also acquiesced in Jiang Xiyuan's use of the Shihua Pavilion as a hidden stake in the workshop, and let Jiang Xiyuan take the position of the fourth-rank servant of the Ministry of Punishment to continue Intoxicated with gentleness.

However, the Flower House...

Su Zhen passed these three words in his mind, and unexpectedly remembered the person who bumped into him on the street that day, and that bunch of weird things.Min Feng followed him and saw that the place where he entered was the Planting Flower Pavilion.

Is the murder in Shihuaguan just a coincidence?Or is there some deeper problem behind this?Su Zhen was a little uncertain.

"Call Jiang Xiyuan over here."

"Yes." An Liang took the order, exited the imperial study and sent someone to the Ministry of Punishment to look for Jiang Xiyuan.

In half a cup of tea, Jiang Xiyuan came over.Su Zhen was still half leaning and half sitting on the couch, and seeing him coming, he didn't ask him to perform those vain rituals, "Come here, I have something to ask you."

Jiang Xiyuan knew that what he wanted to ask was about last night's murder case, but he didn't say anything. He followed Su Zhen's gesture and sat on the crescent stool in front of the bed, his eyes lowered, waiting for Su Zhen to speak.

"I heard that Wu Zonghuai's nephew died in your flower garden last night?"

"Yes. I just happened to be here yesterday." Jiang Xiyuan smiled wryly, "The Flower Planting House was sealed off when I got up early this morning, and even Jiuxiang was arrested. See, the meaning is not only to severely punish the murderer, but also to reverse the business of the minister. The strange minister has hidden a little deeper, and now he can't even fight for some face, so he can only shut down for now."

Su Zhen smiled vaguely, "Is there anything suspicious about this case?"

"The perpetrator was arrested at the time, and there was a murder weapon at the scene. It should be an iron case and easy to break. But..." Jiang Xiyuan thought for a while, and said hesitantly: "There are doubts."

"Tell me."

Jiang Xiyuan made a promise, and then told Su Zhen all the words that Xia Chu analyzed with him last night.

Su Zhen flipped through a booklet in his hand and didn't know if he was listening.But Jiang Xiyuan only said that he was listening, if he really didn't care, he wouldn't have specially called himself over to ask.

(End of this chapter)