Crowned with Pearls

   Chapter 775 One hundred and seventy-four suicide

The matter of the fourth master of Cui was very troublesome. Zhang Tuiguan and Su Yao were already very familiar with Su Yao because of the cases of Princess Jingming and Shenjiacun. They had a tacit understanding with each other. Naturally, they knew that Cui Yuandao was choosing Xiao Heng now. Yes, since Cui Yuandao's son was born, he has already taken care of it early in the morning.

   Now that Xiao Heng and Su Yao are here, Zhang Tuiguan first took out the file and pointed it to Su Yao and Xiao Heng.

"Fourth Master Cui hid his beauty in a golden house in a house in the north of the city, and set up an outer room. This outer room was surnamed Wu and called Wu Qianniang. I heard that she was originally a famous female historian in Jinling, but she was redeemed by Fourth Master Cui, and she followed Cui from then on. Fourth Master." Zhang Tuiguan knew the situation clearly, and broke it down to Xiao Heng and Su Yao one by one: "This is the testimony of the people who live in the surrounding mansion, which can prove that the mansion Wu Qianniang lives in belongs to the fourth master Cui. And Fourth Master Cui often comes in and out of this mansion."

   Xiao Heng first asked: "Didn't Cui Siye just entered Beijing not long ago?"

"Yes, but Fourth Master Cui used to be in charge of the Cui family's business, so he often came and went in and out of the capital, buying a house and placing this Wu Qianniang, I'm afraid he also avoided the Li family." Zhang Tuiguan turned to the neighbor's testimony, Then he said: "Besides, Wu Qianniang herself admitted that she has been following the Fourth Master Cui before, but she has never been discovered by the Li family. Until the Fourth Master Cui came to Beijing this time, the number of times she came in and out was more. , This aroused Li's suspicion, Li chased here, discovered the existence of Wu Qianniang, was furious, and had a fierce conflict with Cui Siye."

The matter is too much trouble, Cui Daru will not talk about it, the Li family is an official after all, the procedures of the Shuntian Mansion have already started, and the nearby neighbors and the servants of the Cui family have also been interrogated. Go over it.

  Su Yao turned over the testimony and saw that both the Li family and the Cui family's servants said that the first time Li rushed to find the fourth master of Cui, and there was a fierce conflict between the two sides.

Afterwards, Mrs. Li went back to her mother’s house, and went to Wu Qianniang’s place the next day. Fourth Master Cui asked her to go into the study alone to talk, but Mrs. Li didn’t come out for a long time. The servants of the Li family panicked and rushed in. At a glance, he found that Mr. Li had fallen into a pool of blood, with several wounds on his chest, and Fourth Master Cui had also fallen unconscious under the desk, holding a dagger in his hand.

   "Where is this Wu Qianniang?" Su Yao and Xiao Heng asked in unison.

Zhang Tuiguan narrowed his eyes: "Wu Qianniang also fainted. According to what she said, Mrs. Li was emotional at the time, and after rushing into the room, he grabbed the dagger on the table and killed her. She avoided, and then Fourth Master Cui also rushed into the house and scuffled with Mrs. Li. Mrs. Li broke away from Fourth Master Cui and rushed towards her. She was so frightened that she ran into the corner of the table while dodging in a hurry and fainted. "

  Su Yao pulled the corner of her mouth: "It's really coincidental, then she naturally doesn't know what happened next?"

"Yes." Zhang Tuiguan naturally knew what Su Yao meant, and shook his head: "She really doesn't know what happened next, including whether Li Shi was killed by Fourth Master Cui, and how, she didn't know. When she woke up, everyone in the Li family had already rushed into the house and cried for Mrs. Li."

   Xiao Heng asked, "Where is she?"

   Zhang Tuiguan said: "People from the Li family said that she was also an accomplice, so although she pushed everything, she is still being detained for the time being."

  Su Yao nodded thoughtfully.

Seeing that they all already knew the ins and outs of the matter, Zhang Tuiguan said bluntly: "I'm afraid this case is difficult to handle. Although Fourth Master Cui refused to admit the murder, he couldn't produce any evidence. Wu Qianniang also fainted. What's more deadly is that Fourth Master Cui has a murder weapon in his hand.

   As he was talking, a clerk outside hurriedly knocked on the door.

   Zhang Tuiguan answered the door and opened the door. After a while, he walked in with a dignified expression: "His Royal Highness, county magistrate, Wu Qianniang has an accident in prison. She is looking for a short-term view."

What? !

   Xiao Heng and Su Yao both stood up immediately and followed Zhang Tuiguan to the Shuntianfu prison.

The Shuntianfu prison was divided into male and female prisons. Because of her special status, Wu Qianniang was not locked up with the ordinary female prisoners, but was alone in the one at the end. The push officer arrived in a hurry and asked the doctor, "How is the person?"

The doctor wiped the cold sweat from his head: "This hairpin is really deep enough, and if it goes deeper, it will die. Fortunately, it was discovered in time, but this way, you can't stay in the prison any longer, you have to go out to rest. Just do it.

   Zhang Tuiguan took a deep look at Wu Qianniang, who was lying on the ground, and then said lightly, "I see, I'll talk about it after I ask Fu Zun for instructions."

   When he got out of the prison, Zhang Tuiguan looked at Xiao Heng and Su Yao: "His Royal Highness, county magistrate, what do you think of Wu Qianniang's injury."

"You have a good sense of proportion." Xiao Heng said in a deep voice, "It was just like the time when she fainted, just right, she was not suspicious at all, and the reason why you held her is just because the Li family thought she was a In the outer room, it's Hu Meizi, that's why she is holding her. But now that she commits suicide like this, the situation is different, and I think Fourth Master Cui will also receive news of her suicide."

   As if to respond to Xiao Heng's speculation, after a while, another prison official came over and said to Zhang Tuiguan: "Sir, Fourth Master Cui said that this matter has nothing to do with Wu Qianniang, and I hope that my lord will release Wu Qianniang as soon as possible."

   Zhang Tuiguan's smile suddenly became a little weird, and he nodded to the official: "Understood, you tell Fourth Master Cui that this matter has to be decided by the mansion, not me."

   After dismissing the official, Zhang Tuiguan thought thoughtfully: "Is this Wu Qianniang the murderer?"

"It may not be her, but it is inevitable that she is an insider." Su Yao snorted softly, sorted out the matter carefully, and gradually got a clue, and asked Xiao Heng: "Your Highness thinks, let go Wu Qianniang, how is it?"

Without any hesitation, Xiao Heng replied: "Okay." After a while, he looked at Zhang Tuiguan: "It's just that Zhang Tuiguan has to talk to Wu Qianniang first, it doesn't take too long, half an hour. , After half an hour, tell the prefect again and let her go."

   The two looked at each other and smiled, and both understood what the other meant.

   Zhang Tuiguan was also a little stunned for a while, and then he suddenly agreed.

  It was getting late, and Zhang Tuiguan asked them again, "Are you going to see Fourth Master Cui?"

"I'm gone today." Su Yao didn't have a good impression of Fourth Master Cui, regardless of whether Li killed him or not, but it was always his own behavior to buy the outer room privately. Now that his wife is dead, he still commits suicide for the sake of a suicide. The outer chamber pleads for mercy, looking at it like this, it is not a person who can handle it clearly.

   (end of this chapter)