This provincial examination went smoothly, and soon the first provincial examination ended. After more than 2,000 candidates rested for one night, they obediently returned to the tribute school to take the second exam early the next morning.

But it was different from the candidates, but the examiner did not say that he had a rest. When the first exam of the candidates ended, it was the busy start of the examiner. Nine of them had to review more than 2,000 test papers.

This is true for everything. While they obtain rich political resources, they also need to put in great energy and bear certain risks.

Since Lin Qingran was in charge of the examination at the Gongyuan, he naturally could not handle the affairs of the Guangzhou Government Office, so the affairs were temporarily handled by Murong Gang, the Tongzhi of Guangzhou Government.

Murong Gang is over 50 years old and is one of the few honest officials in the Ming Dynasty, but his abilities are not outstanding. But he doesn't know whether it is because of his lack of backstage or the Ministry of Personnel's questioning his personal abilities, so he has been unable to pass the prefect for a long time.

The threshold.

Lin Xunran is not in the government office, and the affairs of the government office are also on his shoulders. He handles the affairs of the government office in an orderly manner. But he is afraid of anything. A murder suddenly occurred in Guangzhou City, which has been peaceful for a long time.

Solving cases has never been Murong Gang's strength, and it is even the incident he fears the most.

In the past, it was when dealing with a murder case that he gave the inspector an extremely bad impression and had the risk of being dismissed from office by the court. However, when such a vicious case occurred, his comrade had to investigate.

Anime.

The incident happened not in Guangzhou City, but in a small tree in the upper reaches of the Pearl River. The deceased was a tea merchant.

"The villain is called Zhang Wang. He works at Pier 11 in front. He usually likes to go to this forest to enlarge the size. But today I smelled a stinking smell. I thought it was a dead pig, but it turned out to be a dead person. It was scary.

It's a little bit!" Zhang Wang looked innocent and pointed to the corpse not far away and explained.

Murong Gang covered his nose, hesitated for a moment, walked towards the corpse, listening to the buzzing sound of flies. He just saw the dry blood on the face of the corpse on the ground and the staring eyes, and felt the whole person

A moment of dizziness, and then there was a darkness in front of me.

"Sir! Sir!"

Before he fell into a coma, the people around him rushed towards him, but he still fell to the ground in a mess. Obviously, he was going to be confused and his career was covered with another shadow.

Murong just woke up again, as if it had been a long time, and as if it had been a moment.

"Sir, are you okay?" The clerk of the execution room who was accompanying him asked with concern when he saw him awake.

Murong Gang's face was not good and his body was a little uncomfortable, but he raised his hand and said, "I am fine!"

"Sir, the young man has just checked the body! This person was hit on the head with this stone and died. The death was about three days ago!" The coroner stepped forward and reported the results of the inspection.

Murong Gang nodded slightly and asked again: "Can you know the identity of the deceased?"

"I just arrived at Pier 11 and asked someone to come over to identify it. They all said that this was Li Er, a tea merchant living in Xiguan. He usually took their own way to Xiangshan from here!" The clerk of the Zhengfang pointed at the

A few strong men reported seriously.

Murong Gang looked at the strong strength of the body and knew that the identity of the deceased should be correct, so he immediately ordered: "Let's go to Li Er's house!"

Because there was a heavy rain last night, the road was a little muddy, and Guanqiao seemed to be neither fast nor slow.

Back in the city, the sedan chair went straight to Li Er's house.

Li Erben is a small businessman, but the tea business has been booming recently. Especially in Xiangshan, the tea in the shortage of demand, which made him make a lot of money. He recently bought this second-entry blue brick house.

But when I arrived in front of Li Er's house, I found that there were more than a dozen people gathered here.

"What's going on?"

Murong just walked out of the official sedan chair and first scraped off the mud from the soles of his shoes on the curb, asking in confusion.

"Report to the Lord, it's Captain Zhang who is working on the job!" The clerk of the Zhengfang room replied respectfully.

Murong Gang's brows frowned slightly, but he didn't know which episode was singing by Captain Zhang, or just a coincidence.

"I've said it long ago! That Ma's water-based poplar flower!"

"Isn't it? Li Er worked hard to make money outside, but she raised a man at home!"

"I have heard that this Ma family is a vicious woman with a vicious heart. She and her lover have conspired to murder Li Er!"

...

The women watching stood in front of the door and ate melon seeds. Their voices didn't look very loud, but they were very penetrating. I'm afraid they could hear their conversation at the entrance of the alley.

Huh?

Murong Gang was shocked when he heard the following sentence.

He hurriedly left the city after receiving the report and rushed to Li Er's house. Captain Zhang actually took the lead before him. However, the case went smoother than he thought. It turned out that the murderer was Li Er's wife and adulterer.

Just listening to the unscrupulous conversations of the women, they were really like a hundred flies buzzing in their ears, and immediately pulled down their faces and said, "This is not a vegetable market, so they are coaxed away!"

"My lord has his life, and all the idle people will leave here!" The clerk of the Ministry of Justice immediately accepted the order, and the gang of wolf-like yamen runners who followed along came forward to drive away the onlookers.

The house is not big, but it is much better than ordinary families. Murong just entered the courtyard inside and found that not only Captain Zhang was here, but also Lord Fuzun's real sister.

He had to respect this cute and righteous little girl, regardless of whether he liked it or not, in front of Lin Yanran's power and the bullfighting uniform worn by Hu Niu.

What's more, Lin Qinran has the kindness of knowing him. The current position of Tongzhi of Guangzhou Prefecture is due to Lin Qinran's operation, and Lin Qinran's mark has been stamped on him.

"I've met Lord Murong!"

Hu Niu, wearing a bullfighting suit, looked energetic, and her bright big eyes looked even more energetic. She found Murong Gang coming out and bowed to Murong Gang in a decent manner.

Murong Gang naturally did not dare to be arrogant, and also replied, "Hu Niu, you don't need to be polite to me!" As he said that, he watched Captain Zhang harbor a pair of men and women, and asked Captain Zhang, "Captain Zhang

, What's going on?"

"Qi reported to Lord Tongzhi, we received a report from Li San, claiming that he found that his second sister-in-law had committed adultery with Ma Quan and conspired to murder his second brother, so he came here to investigate! When we arrived here, we really found that these two were on the bed.

Do something miserable!" Captain Zhang pointed at the pair of men and women and said in anger.

"Sir, we did not kill Li Er!" Ma Quan and Ma were kneeling down and immediately shouted injustice.

"How do you know that Li Er is dead?"

Murong Gang's heart moved slightly and immediately asked in a deep voice.
Chapter completed!