After Zhu Pingan had worked out the method of ordering the books, he asked Old Li and Old Ma, who were responsible for cleaning the Book Depository, and was prepared to mobilise the two of them to work together to tidy up the Book Depository, then found that the two of them were not literate at all, so he could only call it quits.
It seems that one can only be a lonely beautiful man.
But just when Zhu Pingan rolled up his sleeves and was ready to start his journey alone, he heard a clamour coming from the Hanlin Academy, and then saw Zhang Siwei, who was working in the Recorded Books Office, walk in from outside with a constipated face.
“Zi Hou, quickly come out with me, something strange has happened.” Zhang Siwei came in and pulled Zhu Pingan outside, the afterglow of astonishment still lingering on his face.
“What is it? How dare it make our knowledgeable brother Ziwei change his colour?” Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but ask curiously as he walked out with Zhang Siwei.
“Follow me out and you’ll know.” Zhang Siwei pulled Zhu Pingan to quicken his pace.
Soon walked to the Hanlin Academy one into the hall, in the hall there are a lot of people, Li Chunfang, Yuan Wei, Zhang Juzheng and others are in, in addition to the people of the Hanlin Academy, there are also two officials, one of them dressed in the fourth grade Yunyan uniforms about fifty years old officials, this person Zhu Pingan has had a one-sided acquaintance, it is the ShunTian government governor Zhou Houjie Zhou Lord, who gave himself a big red silk draped in the Royal Street when he complimented the official, in the Zhoujie Zhou Lord, the head of the Zhoujie Zhou Lord also sits A seventh-grade magistrate.
After Zhu Pingan and Zhang Siwei came in, they saluted the officials present, and Li Chunfang nodded to indicate that Zhu Pingan and Zhang Siwei should be seated.
“The Hanlin Academy handles literature and history, and is well versed in historical materials and diaries, have you ever heard of ghosts from the previous dynasty or at that time?”
Shun Tianfu governor Zhou Taoshi sitting on the upper seat, at the moment the face is a little pale, seems to have endured something unimaginable, drank a mouthful of tea to suppress the shock to all the Hanlin in the seat asked.
“Wild news quite a lot, as for the official history is a few unheard of.” Li Chunfang shook his head.
“This official saw a ghost the night before last.” Lord Zhou, the governor of Shun Tian, clearly stated the news that he had seen a ghost the night before, word by word, seriously and formally.
“Eh?” Li Chunfang was slightly stunned, and everyone else also had surprised faces.
If one has been in the capital for a long time, one would know that Zhou Houjie, the governor of Shun Tian, is a serious and never lying official, diligent and loving to the people, serious and conscientious in what he does, and never says anything that is unfounded; in addition, Lord Zhou’s ability is also very high. Otherwise it is not possible to achieve from the seventh grade governor to the fourth grade governor. It is also because of knowing Zhou Houjie’s person, Li Chunfang and others will be surprised.
“The matter is like this ……” Lord Zhou took a sip of hot tea and slowly told the original story.
This matter is also related to the seventh grade magistrate sitting at the head of Lord Zhou, Zhou Houjie is diligent and loves the people. Doing things more seriously, in the examination of the subordinate counties submitted to the prison lawsuit file, found one of the Wanping County submitted file, there is a murder case prison lawsuit file material flaws, the case seems to have a mistake.
The magistrate of Wanping County was the seventh-ranked magistrate sitting at the head of Zhou Houjie. Zhu Pingan saw that this person was about forty years old, with an ordinary appearance and no special features, and he was sitting upright without any unusual colours.
Continuing from the above, Zhou Houjie discovered the problem with the dossier and sent someone to bring the case to trial. As Wanping County is part of the capital, the magistrate of Wanping County quickly brought the detainees and relevant evidence and witnesses to the Shuntian Prefectural Office.
Zhou Houjie personally arraigned the prisoners and witnesses and gained a deeper understanding of the case. As usual when encountering difficult cases, Zhou Houjie stayed at the Yamen that night to study the relevant dossiers and materials of the case all night long.
This night, Zhou Houjie in the Yamen pick light oil lamp. Sitting by the window all night to study the file.
This night it happened to be raining lightly, that is, Zhu Pingan for the release of vegetables before the ceremony of the rain, the night rain, outside the dark clouds cover the moon is very dark, reach out and do not see five fingers.
Zhou Houjie in the oil lamp to study the dossier into God, suddenly heard outside the window came a hidden cry, the sound from far and near, so desolate.
“Tang San, go and see who is crying outside.” Zhou Houjie instructed Tang San, the errand boy on duty, to go and see who was crying and if there were any grievances.
In ancient times stopping the road to cry out for grievances. It was even common to cry and shout for grievances outside the yamen, but it was rare to see people crying inside the yamen.
“As you wish, my lord.” Tang San was a man who was on the thin side and nodded his head as he listened to Zhou Houjie’s command and left the room.
It was almost a second later. Zhou Houjie, who was reviewing the research dossier against the oil lamp, then heard a shriek, followed by the sound of clanging and falling to the ground.
“What happened?” Surprised, Zhou Houjie carried the oil lamp out of the room.
Tang San, who had just gone out to investigate as instructed, was now lying on the ground, having just fainted after a shriek.
Seeing this, Zhou Houjie is even more surprised, this Tang San is also a good man with hands. He is also in Tang San’s hands to transfer him to the side of the entourage, I did not think that only had time to let out a scream and then fainted on the ground.
What happened?
Zhou Houjie lifted the oil lamp and then looked out, and then saw a scene that made his scalp numb, only to see the room outside the door not far from the bottom of the steps kneeling cloaked hair, full of blood stains on the face of the person, dressed in a knife cut with blood stains on the clothes.
Very eerie.
Because there was a light rain on this night, the sky was dark and the oil lamp’s light was small, and it was not possible to see as clearly as in the daytime.
“Who art thou?” Zhou Houjie pinched himself and raised his courage to ask loudly.
Zhou Houjie’s words just fell, then heard kneeling at the bottom of the steps cloaked hair, face full of blood stains of that person vaguely grudging while kowtowing while talking back.
“Your Honour, I am the dead ghost that was killed in the murder case that Your Honour arraigned today, I have a grievance to report back to Your Honour. The Wanping County officials made a biased generalisation and arrested the wrong person, allowing the real culprit, Zhang Dalin, to go free. The man who killed me was Zhang Dalin, not Lin Dafu in prison. I have come here today to air my grievances and to implore Your Honour to catch the real culprit so that I can rest in peace in the ground.”
“This official knows.”
Zhou Houjie nodded, his hand holding the oil lamp trembling slightly.
As soon as Zhou Houjie’s words fell, he saw the kneeling dead ghost kowtow once more before drifting away.
In the dead ghost left, Zhou Houjie still hold questions about this, in the morning after Zhou Houjie will once again arraigned in custody of the prisoners and witnesses, carefully questioned the deceased body fat, thin, tall and short, as well as the death of the clothes worn on the day of the shoes and socks styles and colours.
After asking, Zhou Houjie felt numb, tall and thin, navy blue Chengzi clothes, black shoes and white socks ……. and last night that dead ghost was actually exactly the same.
Then, Zhou Houjie will be Wanping County, this murder case overturned, the prison detained suspects to be released, and exclude the police officers will be dead ghost mouth said the real murderer Zhang Dalin arrested, personally arraigned.
Zhou Houjie was personally responsible for the arrest and interrogation of Zhang Dalin.
The magistrate of Wanping County did not agree with Zhou Houjie’s reversal of the case and pleaded his case many times, but all he got was Zhou Houjie’s words: the southern mountains can be moved, the northern sea can be filled in, but this case cannot be reversed.
The magistrate of Wanping County insisted on pleading his case, and the real culprit, Zhang Dalin, refused to admit his guilt under strict interrogation, so Zhou Houjie, Lord Zhou, came to the Hanlin Academy to look for similar records to add supporting evidence to the case.
