The Golden Hairpin

Zhang Xingying went home to get the quilt and clothes for Di Cui. Huang Zixian and Zhou Ziqin walked out of Dali Temple together. They were discussing whether Princess Tongchang was kidnapped at the time. Why didn't she call out when she suddenly saw Cui Chunzhan riding back and jumping off the horse. Shouting at them: "Ziqin! Chonggu! Are you guys here too? That's great!"

The lantern at the entrance of Dali Temple was bright, and the torches in the hands of the attendants around Cui Chunzhan were also burning. They saw the joy on Cui Chunzhan’s face in the bright light, and they both felt surprised and looked at each other—thinking that Cui Shaoqing is today. It must be a painful look!

When a fat figure was dragged out from behind Cui Chunzhan, Huang Zixian and Zhou Ziqin were even more stunned-this short and fat middle-aged man who was tied with twine and was as round as a zongzi, wasn't it the money boss Is the money closed?

As soon as Qian Guansuo saw them, he immediately cried out: "Master Zhou! Grandpa Yang! You must testify for me! I really didn't kill anyone! I can't even kill the princess!"

Zhou Ziqin's eyes widened and he couldn't believe it: "Cui Shaoqing, is he the murderer?"

Cui Chunzhan smiled and was quite proud: "Yes, today I was ordered by the emperor to go through the princess's mansion again, and I just met him sneakily looking for the chef of the princess's mansion. We caught him and asked him. It's a lie to say that I went to look for my daughter!"

Zhou Ziqin watched Qian Guansuo who was dragged in, and asked in amazement, "Hey, isn't his daughter a maid in the princess's mansion?"

"Yes, he kept saying that his daughter is the maid next to the princess. He also said that he has seen her daughter many times. Recently, she has not heard from her daughter, so he quietly went to the mansion to inquire about the news." Cui Chunzhan looked contemptuous, "I don't want to lie. Say a good friend, let him point to the daughter he was looking for, but he couldn't find it. He only said that there was a light cyan birthmark on the daughter’s wrist. As a result, we asked all the people in the Fuzhong, let alone. Even the eunuchs are counted as the maids, and none of them have birthmarks on their wrists."

Zhou Ziqin said in surprise: "Huh, but when we visited his shop last time, he told us that he had noses and eyes. His daughter also gave him a golden toad with jewels all over his body, squatting on the jade lotus leaf. , It's exquisite!"

"Jin Chan?" Cui Chunzhan's eyes lit up when he heard it, "Is there a crystal bead on the jade lotus leaf? Every time the golden toad moves, the crystal bead will roll on the lotus leaf like dewdrops. Like that?"

Zhou Ziqin nodded repeatedly: "I have seen Cui Shaoqing?"

"Of course I have seen it! Two years ago, a certain country in the Western Regions paid tribute! It was Yuanri, and all the officials in our temple saw it, and everyone was amazed! Later, it was also one of the dowries of Princess Tongchang." Cui Chunzhan was overjoyed. He said, "Now I have it, and I even have the motive for committing the crime! Qian Guansuo successively killed the eunuchs and princesses of the princess's mansion, the princess, and a Sun Lei who lived in the surrounding area in order to obtain the golden toad, although he did not know this grandson. How did the scorpion get involved, but I believe that as long as a big punishment is used, the short fat guy has to recruit!"

Cui Chunzhan said, walking briskly towards the inner hall of Dali Temple, while instructing the people around him: "Pull the lamp! Ascend the hall! The officer wants to try the repeat offender at night!"

Zhou Ziqin was dumbfounded, and looked back at Huang Zixian. Huang Zixia hurriedly walked inside and said, "What are you waiting for, hurry up and see how Cui Shaoqing is going to try the case!"

The main hall of Dali Temple was brightly lit, with three squads of government officials, law enforcement officials, judges, and temples standing around, and Shaoqing of Dali Temple personally interrogated the scene. The scene was very vast.

Because they were investigators appointed by the emperor, the people at Dali Temple set up two chairs for Huang Zixian and Zhou Ziqin. The two sat aside, watching Qian Guansuo being brought up, kneeling to the ground, shaking.

Huang Zixia asked Zhou Ziqin quietly: "By the way, who is the current Dali Temple Qing? How come he has never seen him in Dali Temple?"

Zhou Ziqin looked at her with incredulous eyes: "You don't know?"

"Where did I know that when I left the capital, Dali Temple Qing was Xu Gong, but then I heard that Xu Gong passed away..."

"But you are with Dali Temple Qing every day, you don't know who Dali Temple Qing is!" Zhou Ziqin growled.

Huang Zixian pressed his finger on his lips to signal him to be quiet, but after a change of thought, even she couldn't control herself: "Dali Temple Qing is... King Kui?"

"Yeah! Don't you know how many positions he holds?"

He roared too loudly, and everyone around him looked sideways at them. The two hurriedly pretended to be innocent, lowered their heads and opened the notebook that Zhou Ziqin had made before.

Cui Chunzhan sat in the hall with a very powerful expression, and asked solemnly, "Who is kneeling?"

"The villain... the villain Qian Guansuo opened a Qianji cart and horse shop in and in the capital. For many years, it has a good reputation, integrity and law-abiding... The villain is wronged! The villain definitely doesn't..."

"This official asks one question, you answer one sentence!" Cui Chunzhan patted the gavel, took the regulations that Sizheng next to him had drafted, and asked one by one: "Is your cart and horse shop set up sewer services in recent years, and Have dealings with the servicemen of the Ministry of Industry for the drainage channel?"

"Yes..." He was at a loss.

"It was found by Dali Temple that there was a canal mouth next to Princess Tongchang where the accident happened. Did you use this as a hiding place at the time, avoiding the official search after the murder?"

Qian Guansuo was shocked and yelled incoherently: "No! No no! The villain definitely did not kill! The villain...the villain doesn't even know that the princess is dead!"

"After investigation, the first time you entered the Princess Mansion was when the Princess Mansion waterway was renovated last year. Why do you often go to the Princess Mansion to check the progress of the process because you don't understand water channels?"

"The villain... the villain, because he heard that the princess mansion is luxurious and luxurious, he wanted to open his eyes, and because the princess was so honorable, he was afraid that his subordinates would work on business trips, so he often came to supervise the work. Unruly heart!" Qian Guansuo collapsed on the ground in fright, like a piece of fat lard, collapsed and pale white.

"I heard that the princess mansion is luxurious and luxurious? So you focused on the rare treasures of the princess mansion, and colluded with the **** Wei Ximin, and succeeded in stealing the golden toad and the nine-luan hairpin in the warehouse, right?"

"Well, where do you start? The villain and Wei Ximin have only met once, the villain’s Jin Chan was given by his daughter, and the villain has never seen Jiuluan Chai..."

"Since you and Wei Ximin only met once, why did you give him such a precious Lingxiang? Later, Wei Ximin went to your store to ask you for the spices, and then he disappeared that night and died at Jianfu Temple the next day. , You said, after he helped you steal the golden toad, you burned him to death at Jianfu Temple in order to kill people?"

Qian Guansuo burst into tears, his throat creaked, and he just hurriedly defended: "No, no... my incense, that incense is for the cook..."

"Then why do many people say that Wei Ximin is using it? Isn't the chef one of your eyeliners in the princess mansion?"

"No! No! No! Chef Changpu is a good person, she helped me find my daughter..."

"You keep saying that you have a daughter in the princess mansion, but no one in the mansion has the birthmark you said on his wrist, how can you prove it?"

Qian Guansuo knelt there blankly, the flesh on his face trembling like a twitch. Huang Zixia felt that he was like this, pitiful and miserable, and she could not help but sigh secretly in her heart, turned her face away and couldn't bear to look again.

"But... but I really saw my daughter! She stretched out her hand to me through the screen, really! The pink and blue birthmark, like a little rabbit, she's not Myolie, who else can she be? Huh? I really saw my daughter..."

He was like a questioning and a defensive speech. He was snapped off by Cui Chunzhan's gavel: "Qian Guansuo! The officer asked you, after you and Wei Ximin stole the treasures of the princess mansion, why did you kill the princess again? At that time, the princess was killed. After seeing Jiuluanchai in your hands in the crowd, how do you kill her? Hurry up and recruit the officer in real terms!"

Qian Guansuo was so scared that he lost his soul. He tossed around and just shook his head: "No! Really no, I didn't kill anyone, my daughter is in the princess's mansion..."

The Dali Temple commentator gave a light cough, and said: "The prisoner has solid evidence and he will not be recruited. Cui Shaoqing, it seems that he will not confess to the big punishment!"

"Well, drag it down and blame it for twenty!" Cui Chunzhan said, drew out a sign and threw it to the hall.

Zhou Ziqin jumped up and rushed to grab the lottery. It's a pity that it was still a step late after all, and Ling Qi landed, and the yamen behind him grabbed Qian Guansuo and dragged him down.

Zhou Ziqin pounced too fast, his heel tripped to the chair behind him, and he fell to the ground with a plop, and the chair fell to the ground as well. The servants lined up around him suddenly dispersed and the hall was in chaos.

Cui Chunzhan frowned and asked, "Ziqin, what are you doing?"

"Cui Shaoqing." Huang Zixia stood up and bowed his hand to him. "Although Shaoqing is already hearing this case, the emperor asked me and Ziqin to participate in this matter. Therefore, there are a few things I want to discuss with Shaoqing. You See if you can take a step to speak?"

Cui Chunzhan listened to Qian Guansuo's wailing from the side, and looked at the messy formations of the officials in the hall, and said, "Okay, let's go to the back hall and let them take a break first."

The three of them sat down in the back hall. After the servants finished serving tea, Cui Chunzhan quickly asked, "What's the matter?"

Huang Zixia asked: "Does Cui Shaoqing really think Qian Guansuo is the real culprit in this case?"

Cui Chunzhan frowned and said, "From the current point of view, he is very suspicious, isn't it? He gave Wei Ximin such a valuable spice. Wei Ximin went to find him that night and disappeared and was burned to death the next day; that Sun Feizi must be an accomplice. Or he discovered his crime, was killed by him, and found a time to say that he happened to find the corpse after drinking; Also, since he can steal the golden toad in the warehouse of the princess mansion, he will definitely be able to steal the Jiulan who is also in the warehouse. Chai, and the nine-luan-chai was the weapon used to kill the princess. In addition, there is a waterway nearby for him to escape. It is said that a few days ago he went to the waterway entrance to see people dredge in person..."

Huang Zixia asked: "However, if we say that Wei Ximin died because he and Qian Guansuo stolen Jin Chan, and Qian Guansuo killed them, but Jiuluanchai was stolen again after Wei Ximin died. At that time, he was gone. How can the internal response be stolen again?"

Cui Chunzhan frowned, showing a thoughtful look. After a long time, he said, "Perhaps the cook he mentioned?"

Huang Zixian shook his head helplessly: "Cui Shaoqing, Wei Ximin is a person close to the princess, saying that he might still have a chance to steal, but the cook is in the dining room every day, and there is no chance to even go to Qiyun Pavilion. How can there be a way to steal Jiuluanchai? ?"

"But Grandpa Yang can't deny that Qian Guansuo is very important to this case, especially the three cases are deeply related-oh, and! The horse that had an accident with the consort was the one who transferred it to the Department of Defense of the Capital! You! Saying that there are so many suspicious points in a person, is it possible to be innocent?" Cui Chunzhan sighed, approached them again, and whispered, "Besides, you also know that the emperor loves Princess Tongchang the most, just like a pearl. Jade’s pampering. Now the princess is dead, not to mention the Dali Temple, the Criminal Department, Yushitai and other three law divisions, even the capital guards, the two yas, and the ten army, who can get out of the relationship? The imperial doctor has been killed on the spot. People, I heard that the emperor wants to sit down with hundreds of their family members. You said that the princess was killed by a single blow by the murderer. Isn’t the eunuchs wronged? Now if the emperor catches the prisoner as soon as possible, which government can withstand this thunder? Angry?"

Huang Zixian frowned slightly, Zhou Ziqin asked quickly: "So, in Cui Shaoqing's opinion, who is more suspected of Lu Dicui and Qian Guansuo?"

"Zi Qin, you are kidding, compared with Qian Guansuo, Lu Dicui's suspicion is simply not worth mentioning. If she hadn't signed the case when she surrendered herself, she can be released immediately!"

Zhou Zi Qin Lue was pleased, and said, "Cui Shaoqing, in fact, I feel that this boss Qian’s case should be more careful, what do you think? After all, this is a matter of life..."

Cui Chunzhan looked embarrassed, but he nodded reluctantly, and said, "Don't worry, anyhow, as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, when I should be cautious, I will still..."

Before the words fell, someone ran in behind and shouted, "Shaoqing, Cui Shaoqing!"

Cui Chunzhan frowned, looked at Dali Temple, who was rushing in with joy, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I just received the news that there is a waterway passing through Sun Laizi's house!"

"Oh? Really?" Cui Chunzhan suddenly stood up in surprise, "Does Qian Guansuo know this waterway?"

"I know! Just a few days before the incident, the capital was clearing the waterway, and the workmen under Qian Guansuo cleaned it up there, and Qian Guansuo also went to watch the scene at that time!"

"It's true that Skynet is elusive and not leaking, and there is one more piece of evidence!" Cui Chunzhan looked back at Huang Zixian and Zhou Ziqin triumphantly. He killed someone in the airtight house and then quietly went down the waterway. When the crowd gathered, he took the people into the house again and made evidence of his absence!"

Zhou Ziqin frowned and said, "Master Cui, when Sun Feizi just died, I went to see the scene. His land was very flat. It seems that there is no trace of anyone going up and down the sewer..."

Cui Chunzhan frowned when he heard the words, but soon he was relieved: "Hey, that's why he had to gather so many people to witness Sun Laizi's death with him! Because of the crowds, Sun Laizi's house was turned over in the mud. , Can’t he be trampled down and lose the evidence? This person is so careful in his mind, how cunning!"

"But... it still doesn't make sense..." Zhou Ziqin wanted to say something, Cui Chunzhan had already raised his hand to stop him, and walked towards the front hall: "Zi Qin, Duke Yang, I have a rough idea about this, you two Don't worry about it anymore, just leave it to me, and tomorrow I will be able to review this case and get the answer to the bottom of it!"