Zhou Yu'an pursed his lips uneasily, released the hand holding Shen Chongming's sleeve, and said subconsciously: "I came to Suizhou to treat Mrs. Tan. The patient is gone, so I should go back!"
"Where are you going back?" Shen Chongming approached, and an inexplicable irritation surged into his heart.
"Go back..." Zhou Yu'an stretched out his hand and pointed out. Half of what he said was interrupted by the sword.
The new county magistrate was killed on his way to take office. The emperor ordered Shen Chongming to be responsible for the investigation and to serve as the county magistrate on his behalf.
From general to county magistrate, from military attache to civil servant, was Shen Chongming demoted by the emperor? Before Zhou Yuan could ask clearly, Shen Chongming took him to the carriage.
The crime occurred in a small town called Qingyang. This town is quite special. It is under the jurisdiction of Suizhou, but it is at the junction of Suizhou and Shuozhou. The actual jurisdiction is owned by Shuozhou. This is why the emperor appointed Shen Chongming to handle the case.
Ordinary officials cannot handle this case. Whether it is the governor of Suizhou or the governor of Suizhou, they may use this case to make a big fuss. The imperial court can choose to send an imperial envoy, but what kind of imperial envoy can suppress the governor in these two weeks.
The governor of Suizhou has military power, and the governor of Shuozhou also has military power. The person who handles this case should not be too big. If it is too big, it will easily attract the attention of the government and the public and surrounding enemy countries. If it is too small, it will not be suppressed. Civil servants are easy to be restrained, while military attachés have no brains and are easily led by the governor in the past two weeks. Shen Chongming is the most suitable person.
Traveling from Suizhou to Qingyang by horse-drawn carriage would take five or six days at the fastest. The case was special, and the person who died was the alternate county magistrate of Suizhou. From Zhou Yuan's point of view, Shen Chongming had to work hard, day and night, but this man actually took his time and did not worry at all that the county magistrate's body had been tampered with. .
"How did Magistrate Ma die?"
"Emergency!" Shen Chongming closed his eyes: "You are both a doctor and a prisoner. Maybe you can tell me the real cause of his death."
"Is this why you took me to Qingyang?" Zhou Yu'an curled his lips: "I am a doctor, not a coward."
"Aren't you doing the autopsy?" Shen Chongming raised his eyelids: "Did you know that the autopsy results of the autopsy play a vital role in the entire case?"
"I know, that's why I help others test it." Zhou Yu'an shook his feet restlessly.
Shen Chongming glanced at her and said, "Don't move." Zhou Yu'an quickly sat down properly.
As the sun set, the evening breeze blew slowly through the window and onto Zhou Yuan's face. She looked at the afterglow covering the entire mountain in the distance, and said softly: "I was twelve years old when I first came to Suizhou, and I came with my master. The county magistrate encountered a very difficult case. The victim was the brother-in-law of the Suizhou governor. In order to help her brother find the murderer, the governor's wife personally took charge and asked the county magistrate to arrest hundreds of people. They couldn't be held in jail, so they were tied with ropes in front of the county government office and screamed. , screams of humiliation, begging for mercy, the sound is constant, and the noisy people’s ears hurt.”
Zhou Yu'an put down the curtain: "My master has a heart of Bodhisattva and didn't want to see those people suffering, so he took me to the county magistrate. Although the county magistrate was confused, he was a good official who did not care about human life. With his permission, the master asked me to check The body of the deceased.”
"Twelve years old, checking the body?" Shen Chongming frowned: "Did your master force you to do it?"
"It's not forced!" Zhou Yu'an raised his head: "He said the corpses of dignitaries were too dirty and he didn't want to touch them. I am his apprentice and should do it for him."
"Your master taught you autopsy?"
"It's a lesson, after all. After all, he took me to Yizhuang every now and then, and even took me to dig graves when he was drunk. He asked me to tell the cause of death of everyone. Whether they died just now or have been dead for hundreds of years, I You have to check, test, and see. If you are wrong, you will be punished. If you are right, you will go see the next one. Apart from my master, I am afraid that I am the person who has seen the most corpses in the world. "
"Zhou Yu'an——"
Shen Chongming never thought that her past was like this. He stretched out his hand, but she turned around and continued to look out the window. The carriage swayed forward, and the sound of swords being held came from the front.
"Sir, where are we staying tonight? Not far ahead is an inn. Walking further from the inn, there is a small town less than two miles away."
"Go to the town." Shen Chongming looked at Zhou Yu'an: "We need to buy some things."
Holding the sword and breaking the whip, the carriage speeded up. Zhou Yu'an was unprepared and fell sideways on Shen Chongming. She stood up quickly and heard him ask: "How did the brother-in-law of the Suizhou governor die?"
"It's going to be windy soon!" Zhou Yu'an lowered his head and stood up, looking at the place where he just lay down.
"You should know what's wrong with that, right? He kept an outhouse outside his wife's back. The outhouse had a bad background and was a firework woman. After the accident, the firework woman was afraid of getting into trouble, so she took her The body was thrown out. The place where the body was thrown was quite special, in the back street of Fireworks Willow Alley."
"What's so special about the back street?"
There seemed to be something else in Zhou Yu'an's words, and Shen Chongming couldn't help but think about it.
"It's nothing, it's just that there are many homeless people. They look like beggars, but they never beg. On the night of the incident, someone met the governor's brother-in-law. Seeing that he was dressed richly, they took away his belongings It’s time to take off the clothes. The person who took the things was not the same person as the ones who took off the clothes. By the time the sun came up, he had nothing left on him.”
"Did you peel it off?"
"Exceptionally clean. From head to toe, there is nothing left except the things his parents gave him."
"Then he is really miserable."
The brother-in-law of the governor of Suizhou is not a good person. Because he has a brother-in-law of the governor, he bullies men and dominates women in Suizhou. Shen Chongming knew this person, but their identities were different, so he was too lazy to care about these things.
He knew the case, but only the fact that he was killed. As for who killed him, how the case was solved, and the details, he had not paid attention to it.
Unexpectedly, this case was actually related to Zhou Yu'an. Somehow, there seemed to be something called fate that brought them together.
Zhou Yu'an didn't think too much and said casually: "It's quite tragic. The body was not only stepped on and kicked by others, but also torn apart by wild dogs. If not for this, how could the county government be helpless?"
"How did you find out about a case that no one could do anything about? Forget it, don't tell me!"
Shen Chongming belatedly remembered what the wind was and felt quite unhappy.
"Zhou Yu'an."
"Um?"
"From now on, I can be a female doctor with peace of mind!" Shen Chongming clenched his fists, unclenched them, and looked at Zhou Yu'an's hands: "Qingyang's case will be handled by the county government's deputy."
"Why did you come up with an idea all of a sudden?" Zhou Yu'an looked at him sideways: "Are you angry? What are you angry about?"
"Zhou Yu'an, what am I to you?" Shen Chongming looked at her steadily: "The marriage in Qinglu..."
"Don't take it seriously!" After Zhou Yu'an finished speaking, Shen Chongming grabbed his chin: "I mean, it's too crude, so you don't need to take it to heart."
"Then let's do it again." Shen Chongming let go and said happily: "The parents' orders, the matchmaker's words, three gifts and six betrothals, ten miles of red makeup."
