The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, Chapter 18: The Plotter meets her disastrous end

The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty. 《成化十四年》Chengnian Shisi Nian
The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, Chapter 18: The Plotter meets her disastrous end

Tang Fan sighed, "Zheng Sun, no matter what, killing to pay for your life misery, the cycle of cause and effect, you should always know this, go back to the prefecture with us!"


Zheng Sun laughed, "Killing the killer to pay for his life? Why is it that the wicked always get no punishment for their wickedness, yet they force the good to kill themselves, and in the end to heal their evilness? Master Tang, you are fair in enforcing the law, but won't your conscience be troubled if you arrest me?"

Tang Fan: "Zheng Cheng's character is not a reason for you to kill him, if you don't like him, you can divorce him peacefully, so why do you have to do this?"

Zheng Sun seems to have heard some kind of joke: "Peaceful divorce? If Zheng Cheng doesn't die, how can he let me make peace with him? Although the Count of Yingcheng is my uncle's family, if I hadn't killed Zheng Cheng first, the Sun Family was worried that I would implicate them, so they rushed to help me fix the situation. Do you realize or not, I can only be free if he dies!"

Her face turned fierce: "I thought I had never done anything bad since I was a child. I wanted to be in harmony after marriage and follow the example of the ancients, but in the end, the heavens arranged a Zheng Cheng for me, how could I not hate it? I put up with that kind of man for five years, and I felt like vomiting at the sight of him, so I couldn't even think of making him confess to his crime! He deserved to die, this is a good death, Hahaha!"

Before he could stop laughing, Zheng Sun suddenly made a move and pounced directly on the nearest pillar!

Tang Fan: "Not good! Get her now!"

Sui Zhou also reacted quickly and immediately went forward to grab it.

Too bad it's too late!

When Zheng Sun entered the room, there was a difference between men and women, and although they were in the same hall, Tang Fan and Sui Zhou were both far away, and Zheng Sun's actions at this time were very decisive.

Nothing can stop a man with a certain determination to die.

Sui Zhou only managed to grab a corner of her sleeve, and as a result, it was torn open because of Zheng Sun's powerful speed, but even the torn sleeve did not stop her in the slightest.

With a muffled thud, Zheng Sun's body fell limply to the ground along the pillar.

The skull cracked, and the brains and blood flowed out together, red and white, and the force used was visible

She died on the spot.

The Marquis of Wu’an was stunned by this scene and sat in his chair, unable to move.

The underlings standing outside were also in disarray, and screams and shouts filled the courtyard.

Madam Cui rushed over, only to see the body of Zheng Sun, she pounced and howled.

"It's all you guys, it's all you who drove Big First Young Master Mistress to her death! Since she married into the Zheng family, she's always been a sad thing in the morning and in the evening, so what's wrong with her doing? But what did you do to her? Zheng Ying, you're old and a sage, and that old pious woman Mrs. Liu, you're not going to die easy because you can't teach your children! No good!" In her grief, she could no longer respect their status, pointing at the Marquis of Wu’an and cursing.

The Marquis of Wu’an thought that he had suffered too much from the blow, but he sat there in a daze, not saying a word, and let Madam Cui scold him.

The Sui Zhou wanted to take Zheng Sun back for questioning, but she died here, after all, in a different capacity, she had confessed to the crime, so that her body could not be taken away by force, or else it would not be possible to stop at the Count of Yingcheng Mansion for the amount of fuss.




Sui Zhou and Tang Fan instructed the Northern Administrative Court and Shuntian Prefecture men to survey the records, and then left, and of course the Marquis of Wu’an did not have the energy to retain them, and he was so struck by the series of accidents that he could not even stand up, and did not even look at Tang Fan as they did bid him goodbye, sitting blankly, allowing the hall to shake with the sound of crying, and the more people gathered.

It was not expected by anyone that things would end up in such a way.

Thinking about the scene where Zheng Sun killed himself just now, Tang Fan couldn't help but sigh, “The Marquis of Wu’an now that one of his sons is dead, and one of his sons is in the army, even his eldest daughter-in-law is dead, and when he's in his fifties, it's sad to see old people burying the young ones."

”Their family has done nothing to deserve it." Although General Sui Zongqi doesn't like to talk, the other party is Tang Fan and the man was not in his “Too lazy to talk to you" category.

He used to despise the whining sighs of civil servants. He always felt extremely they were too hypocritical. Whenever the people want to get up one over the other, most of them were fighting each other. If you were talking about the fake two-faced scholars that may seem fine, but Tang Fan was always different. He used actual actions to make Sui Zhou change than his thinking about civil servants than the Shuntian Mansion’s Master Pan the Bin kind of officialdom, natural or with Tang Fan dealing with such people more liking.

More importantly, the two have done the case together, but also established a preliminary friendship, from Sui Zhou to Tang Fan this pragmatic and practical work and talent is still more appreciated, studying well is one thing, but to use the knowledge to do things well is another thing, such a talent as Tang Fan has a great future, and to be able to work with such people, naturally will not be a torture.

After hearing Sui Zhou’s comment, Tang Fan let out another sigh and did not make a sound.

Is Zheng Sun pathetic? Pitiful

She is a petite woman, good birth, good upbringing, if she can marry a good husband, naturally from this life will go smoothly, no unsatisfactory, but the pearl secretly, married to Zheng Cheng, this kind of eyesightless son of a bxtch, only knows eating, drinking, whoring and gambling everything, the man is afraid to enter the wrong marriage, women are afraid to marry the wrong man, resulting is the rest of their lives are ruined.

Even if she didn't kill herself just now, she wouldn't have ended up in a better place. The Marquis of Wu’an Family won't let go of a daughter-in-law who plotted to kill her husband, and will definitely pursue the matter to the end, while the Count of Yingcheng Family will definitely abandon this niece in order to come out of the situation unscathed.

And Zheng Cheng. Does we hate him? Of course we hate.

Married to this kind of man, the wife is certainly doomed to a lifetime of stifling, Zheng Sun's but whoever got cowardly a little bit, bit her tongue and endured, but she is soft outside and her heart hardened inside, her husband is worthless, the husband is a lustful, the family mother-in-law always love to pinch the daughter-in-law dowry money to pay for her son extravagant life, to her rules, the stewards have always cared nothing about the inner house, Zheng Sun's patience, finally did not perish in silence, naturally broke out in silence.

But does that justify Zheng Sun's killing Zheng Cheng?

Feng Qingzi, this woman willingly became the sword in Zheng Sun's hand in order to be free and reunite with her brother, and finally chose to commit suicide in order to save her brother, her life was at her mercy.

There is also Lin Chaodong, the apothecary clerk, whose whereabouts are still a mystery. I’m afraid that he has been forced to do thing from a long time ago, and no one will care about the safety of a small person. If Tang Fan and Sui Zhou use this to inquire into the Count of Yingcheng Mansion, naturally, two out of five something will be pushed outside, and from the death of Zheng Sun, so the whereabouts of this person are destined to be found.

There was also the almost forgotten servant girl A-Lin, who would have been charged with the murder of her master's family member had it not been for Tang Fan and Sui Zhou, who had been tracing her life through all these layers.

If Tang Fan is not now an appointed official of the Imperial court, he can of course feel free to sigh and sympathize with the weak, but he is not, in his position, seeking his duties, even Zheng Zhi and Madam Hui such direct murderers have ambushed the law, Zheng Sun as the mastermind behind the scene, naturally has is no reason to escape judgment.

The atmosphere of the Marquis of Wu’an Mansion is very heavy just now, after walking some distance from the mansion of the distance, the two of them gradually ha a kind of relaxation after the truth is known, Tang Fan stretched out a lazy - this somewhat unseemly action in his doing was pleasing to the eye, lazy said: “This case makes me most happy is that A-Lin can finally get rid of ties!

Sui Zhou said, “That A-Lin was initially intent on colluding with Zheng Cheng, and it can be seen that she is not the daughter of any decent or good family."

Tang Fan laughed: "Whether she is of good character or not has nothing to do with whether she should be falsely wronged or not. To have fellowship with a person is the same as condemning a person, both on his deeds and not on his heart. Like General Sui Zongqi, you must have despised me in your heart at the beginning, but if I were to not make that determination to prove myself, would I be missing out on a good friend today if I didn't cooperate with you?"




The Great Ming Dynasty has come to this majestic today, and it has gradually begun to emphasize civilian officials over military posts. The military officers of the same level have to bow their heads in front of civilian officials. The Jinyiwei, though powerful, were usually feared rather than admired by civil officials, but Tang Fan said the other way around, and finally brought Sui Zhou to the position of a friend, a wonderful man.

Who can say something like that and not be used?

It is no wonder that people say that although Tang Runqing was not a scholar in the 11th year of Chenghua reign, he had friends all over the world, and this good reputation could not be denied. Pan Bin although he is slightly flawed on the character, but the fact that he got Tang Fan to become the Shuntian Mansion Prefect, of course, it was not just because Tang Fan was the junior student from the same master who Pan Bin learned from.

Sui Zhou gave him a deep look, "Where is that minced pork noodle stall you were talking about?"

This kind of heavenly question caused Master Tang to appear dazed for a moment: "Huh?"

Sui Zhou: "Last time you and Xue Ling went to eat."

Tang Fan suddenly said, "Do you like minced pork noodles too? Let's go, let's go, let's go! I know the owner of that stall. His soup base is different from other places in that it is made from pig bones and boiled for seven or eight hours, it is especially authentic and if you go more often and have a sad face, the owner will give you more... "

When it comes to eating, Master Tang was overjoyed to find a companion and brainwashed the other man while walking.

The two men walked towards the north of the city, their footsteps fading away.

The end of the first volume











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