The governor of the capital was appalled and hurriedly took a few steps to reach Shen Yan, “Shen Shizi, this is ……”
“The person that Wen Zhong killed back then.”
Wen Zhong killed the person, so here is?
“The old Wen family home.”
True to form.
The governor of the capital could not be bothered with pleasantries and immediately sent the sheriff to call the coroner over, “Bring the man in quietly and don’t alert anyone.”
The sheriff’s head took orders and went away.
The governor walked to the dug-out pit and leaned down to look at it by the moonlight, “Shen Shizi, please ask your men to continue helping.”
Shen Yan waved his hand and several guards carefully dug up again, more white bones were dug out and laid to one side.
Shen Yan’s face was as gloomy as this dark night.
It seemed that the capital’s governor had sensed his scent and moved slightly away from him. He thought to himself that it was time for Wen Zhong to be unlucky, even if he had a father-in-law who was the Minister of Household Affairs, it would not help.
Only two skulls were unearthed on this side, and the guards moved to another large tree to continue digging.
The coroner came with the sheriff and was horrified to see the scene before him.
“Examine it.”
The governor of the capital ordered.
The coroner pieced the white bones together to make two human figures. He almost got on top of them and examined them carefully, but the moonlight was too dim to see them clearly.
“My lord, could you light a torch?”
The magistrate of the capital looked at Shen Yan, digging up the bones was proof of the evil deeds committed by Wen Zhong, but Shen Yan was hesitant to say anything, and he did not dare to easily mobilise the magistrates to arrest the man, let alone say light a torch.
“Bam!”
The shovel in the guard’s hand touched something and made a loud noise, drawing the attention of the crowd.
The guard removed the shovel and leaned down to pick it up a few times, feeling for something and taking it out, shaking the dirt off it, it was a gold pin.
Before the guard could hand it over, there was a flash of a figure in front of him and the gold hairpin was already in Shen Yan’s hand.
“Light the torch.”
A torch was quickly lit.
Shen Yan held the gold pin tightly and slowly lifted it up, the word “Shen” engraved on the end of the pin was clearly reflected in Shen Yan’s eyes.
This was a token of affection that he had had made in the most famous jewellery shop in the capital and had given to Xu Qingyuan. She liked it so much that she wore it on her head almost every day, and she must have done the same on that day.
Shen Yan once again held the gold hairpin tightly in his hand, and his words were as bitter as the cold winter wind blowing into the capital’s governor’s heart, causing him to shiver.
“The evidence is overwhelming, what is the Prefect waiting for?”
The magistrate of the capital did not delay for half a second, “Sheriff Hu, gather all the men and arrest Wen Zhong for the crime.”
The Wen Mansion.
It was exceptionally silent today.
After several days of work, the subordinates in the house were so tired that even the spirit guards were unconsciously dozing off.
Mrs. Wen and her two children also went to bed early, and the lights in Wen’s and Xu Ling’er’s courtyard had been turned off long ago.
Only Wen Zhong, who had been feeling uneasy since last night and continued to do so until now, always felt that something was going to happen, and he went to his study on the pretext that he had something to take care of.
At this moment, he is sitting on the chair in the study, not even half asleep.
He sat up straight with a jolt and asked, “What’s going on?”
“My lord ……”
The janitor rolled in, “Kyung, Kyung, Kyung ……”
Before he could finish his words, Sheriff Hu barged in with his men and waved his big hand, “Take Wen Zhong down.”
Several magistrates rushed forward and restrained Wen Zhong.
Wen Zhong was horrified, “What are you doing?”
No one paid any attention to him, they just escorted him outside.
The steward stumbled and came running. He had already fallen asleep, but when he heard that someone had entered the house to arrest his master, he was scared out of his mind, so he grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on and ran over, not even having time to fasten the buttons.
“What are you doing? Our master ……”
The words were not finished when Sheriff Hu’s token was already raised in front of him, “The capital government is taking people, if you dare to obstruct them, you will be sent to prison.”
The Beijing Zhaofu?
The butler’s brain rumbled.
“Quickly go and tell Madam.”
Wen Zhong shouted as he struggled.
The butler stumbled and ran to the main courtyard, “Madam, it’s not good, the master has been taken.”
Mrs. Wen Zhong, who had already slept until she was unsteady, almost lost half of her life when she heard the shout, “What, what’s going on?”
The steward gasped, his voice trembling, “I don’t know.”
“Quickly, send someone to tell my father.”
The steward stumbled and ran out the door.
……
While the Wen family was thrown into chaos, Song Wan Yue slept well and slept until dawn.
As usual, she got dressed and went to the back garden for a walk to get some exercise, but when she was halfway there, she ran into Xu Yan.
Xu Yan had not slept all night, waiting for news from Shen Yan. He was waiting for news from Shen Yan, but he hadn’t sent anyone until now, so he couldn’t wait any longer and was on his way to the Shen residence.
“Uncle!”
“Just in time, you can accompany me to the Shen Mansion.”
“Now?”
“Now.”
Xu Yan couldn’t wait a moment longer and called out to the coachman to set up the carriage and go to the Duke of Zhen’s residence.
There were already pedestrians on the road, chattering excitedly.
“Have you heard? Squire Wen was suddenly taken away in the middle of last night.”
“I have heard, and guess if conclusive evidence has been found?”
“I think it’s possible, otherwise the capital government could come to the door in the middle of the night and arrest someone?”
……
“Stop!”
Xu Yan suddenly uttered.
The driver hurriedly tightened the reins and the carriage stopped. Xu Yan lifted the curtain and looked at the people who had just spoken, “Is it true what you just said?”
Several people did not expect the carriage to stop suddenly and that the person on the carriage would question them, so they did not dare to answer for a moment.
“Don’t be afraid, I just happened to overhear what you just said and wanted to ask if it was true or not?”
One of them was braver and looked carefully at the carriage, which did not look like a government house, before he dared to answer him, “Of course it’s true, if you don’t believe me, you can ask around with other people, most of the people in the capital know about it.”
Xu Yan swiftly dropped the carriage curtain, “Turn around and go back to the house.”
Since so many people had seen it, it must be true, which meant that Shen Yan had really found the corpse in the Wen family’s backyard. He had to go home and take his little sister to the Capital Mansion, and this time he could not let Wen Zhong off the hook again, no matter what he said.
“Uncle, don’t worry, the Capital Mansion will naturally interrogate him after they take him, and with Wen Zhong’s character he won’t just confess so easily, it would be a waste for us to go now.”
“There is already conclusive evidence, he can’t confess even if he doesn’t. The capital’s jail is not for show.”
“So, let’s just wait and see. Once we have the results, the governor will come and tell us. All we have to do now is to go back to our house and tell our families the good news so that they can be happy too.”
……
“Asshole!”
The emperor slammed the zhengzhi on the dragon case, “The capital’s governor.”
“I am here.”
“You have three days to investigate the matter clearly, and if anyone dares to plead for Wen Zhong, they will be punished with the same crime!”