“Shen Shizi ……”
The sheriff of the Capital Mansion saluted respectfully, Shen Yan was different from other sons, he had illustrious military achievements, even the civil and military officials were polite when they saw him.
“What is it?”
Shen Yan stood with his arms folded, his aura oppressing the few magistrates who did not dare to raise their heads.
“This is the case, early this morning we received a report that an old man was deliberately murdered in North City last night, after we investigated in detail we found that the suspect was a relative of Prince Shen who was taken away from Commander Sun’s army in the hands of the Five Cities Military Horse Division last night, we want to bring the person over for interrogation. ”
“Interrogation?”
Shen was not angry.
Cold sweat emerged from the sheriff’s face, “My mistake, I was inviting them over to assist in the investigation.”
“You should go back first, I will bring the men there in two quarters of an hour.”
“This ……”
Shen Yan’s eyes swept over, the sheriff’s head’s heart tightened and he hurriedly responded, “Then I’ll trouble Shizi.”
After they left, Shen Yan ordered someone to bring in a horse and personally went to South City.
Song Wan Yue had also stayed up all night, thinking about what Wen Zhong’s purpose was in doing this.
Faced with her similar face to Xu Qingwan’s, Shen Yan did not feel like softening his voice, “After you go to the capital, you do not need to be afraid, I am here for everything.”
“I’ll trouble Uncle Shen.”
Shen Yan subconsciously stretched out his hand to touch her head, just as he had done countless times when he was a child, but halfway through, he reacted and withdrew his hand without moving, “Let’s go.”
Not long after they had left, Xiao Yao came over in a carriage. She had Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi’s trip to the northern city last night on her mind, so she came earlier than usual today.
As soon as her foot stepped inside the door, she hurriedly called out to someone, “Yue’er.”
The yellow cake daughter-in-law came out from inside the house, “Miss Song and Young Master Gu have been picked up and left word for you not to worry.”
“Who picked them up? Where did they go?”
The daughter-in-law shook her head.
Xiao Yao’s heart sank, but her face did not move. When Huangcao’s daughter-in-law went to the pastry shop in front of her, she recruited a Gu family servant to ask, “Where did they go?”
“They were picked up by Shen Shizi and said they were going to the Capital Mansion.”
Hearing that they were going to the Capital Mansion, Xiao Yao panicked and instantly turned around and got out onto the carriage, instructing the driver to hurry back to the house.
A carriage parked in the shadows in the distance pulled out and followed not far behind.
Xiao Yao couldn’t stop urging the coachman, and when she reached the entrance of the house, she hurriedly got down, carried her skirt and walked quickly into the house, and told Duke Ding the news that Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue had been taken away.
After hearing this, Duke Ding was as anxious as ever, “Do you know what happened last night?”
Xiao Yao shook her head.
“Someone, go and call Xiao Zheng to come.”
Xiao Zheng was quickly shouted to, and after hearing this, he immediately turned around and headed out, “I’ll go and see what’s going on?”
“Stop right there!”
Xiao Zheng stopped.
“Let Yao’er accompany you, and remember, whatever happens, do not rush and do not let anyone see the end.”
Xiao Zheng answered and Xiao Yao and Xiao Zheng left the house.
Seeing that it was them who came out, the carriage in the distance drove away quickly and went back to the Wen Mansion, telling Wen Zhong everything he had seen.
“Keep going to keep an eye on it and see what Xiao Zheng’s reaction is.”
……
The capital magistrate looked at Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi at the bottom of the hall with a pang of headache, when he received this case he sent someone to investigate and soon got the news from Sun Commander of the Five Cities Military Horse Division, he was very happy and thought that this should be the fastest murder case solved, but he did not expect that Shen Yan brought the two of them.
“That’s them.”
The man who shouted last night testified angrily.
Broken wooden sticks lay on the ground in front of him.
Next to them were some people on their knees, all of whom had surrounded them last night.
Shen Yan sat carelessly on a chair to one side.
The capital magistrate stole a glance at him and saw that he looked indifferent, so he could not understand what he was thinking, but he knew that Song Wangyue was Xu Qingyuan’s daughter, so if he did not investigate the matter clearly and wrongly accused Song Wangyue, he would have done his job as the capital magistrate.
A heavy slap on the alarm wood, “Silence.”
The hall fell silent.
The governor of the capital looked at the man, “Did you see them break the sticks supporting the house on purpose last night?”
“I heard the sound of the house collapsing and came out of the house, and saw them walking out in a panic. If they hadn’t harmed Old Uncle Zhang, why didn’t they hurry to save him, instead of hurrying out?”
The governor of the capital looked at Song Wangyue and Gu Yi, “Tell me, why?”
Song Wan Yue presented the note, “Yesterday someone threw the note into my courtyard, I was so eager to find the truth for my mother back then that I went there without much consideration or gui when I saw what was written on it. The dead man was obviously alone, so how did he know that we were looking for the Wen family’s underlings? And how did he pass on the message? Clearly this was a trap! Having figured this out, we rushed outside, not realising that before we got to the door, the house collapsed and we were so young and frightened that we forgot to save people for a while, but they ……”
The words turned, Song Wan Yue pointed at the man and the crowd, “After they saw the house collapse, they also didn’t go in to save the people, instead they bit the bullet and said we killed that old man, I suspect it was all a setup by them, the purpose was to blackmail us for silver.”
“You’re spouting blood!”
The man retorted angrily, “We may be poor but we are not short of will, if we want to get silver we will sell hard labour and work for people as helpers, we will never blackmail you with old man Zhang’s life.”
“That’s right, that’s right ……”
The rest of the people kneeling echoed the sentiment.
Song Wan Yue was not flustered, “Then tell your lordships why you did not go in first to save the people?”
“We were afraid that you would run away.”
“And then blackmail me for Old Uncle Zhang’s silver?”
“You ……”
The man was gagged speechless.
A faint smile surfaced on Shen Yan’s face, extremely light and shallow.
The capital’s governor had two big heads. Song Wan Yue had a point, seeing the house collapse but not going in to save the people first, this is not like what a neighbour would do; but when the house collapsed, she and Gu Yi were also there, there was no third person to testify for them, and he also ordered people to look at the sticks carefully, there were indeed traces of human damage.
Xiao Zheng and Xiao Yao came just at the right time for this scene.
Xiao Zheng was relieved to see that the two were safe and sound.
Xiao Si also saw them and came over as usual, “Miss Xiao, Master Xiao.”
“What’s going on?”
Xiao Yao asked eagerly.
Xiao Si whispered what happened last night, “Young Master and Miss Song should be fine, please don’t worry, Miss Xiao.”
He stood in front of Xiao Yao, his body bowing slightly, for Xiao Zheng but said nothing other than shouting that.