Another morning, before the weather was completely hot, Cheng Qiuyu hurried to the governor's office, then took out the towel and handkerchief, wiped his forehead, sweating from the road, and walked into the door carefully.

As a native of Wuchang who only had the reputation of a juren, he was very lucky to be promoted to the position of governor of the government at the age of 40. You should know that the fifth-rank assistant official of the provincial government is already the highest position that many civil servants other than the two Jinshi can achieve. Many colleagues from the same Jinshi are very jealous of this.

Of course, Cheng Qiuyu was able to obtain this official position because there were a series of accidents in Wuchang City, which led to many formerly high-ranking adults being imprisoned and vacant of many positions, which allowed him, who was originally very inconspicuous, to be promoted to multiple levels. Because of this, he valued this opportunity more and more. When he learned that Lord Li was going to see him today, he did not dare to neglect and rushed to the governor's office to meet him early.

After respectfully inquiring about Lord Li's arrangements for him to wait in the side hall of the Second Hall, Cheng Qiuyu quickly walked straight into the interior. Standing at the door of the hall, he saw a person sitting in front of him, looking like he was coming from Lord Li's order.

When the other party heard the sound, Cheng Qiuyu and he were stunned, and then smiled and said hello: "Brother Qiu, are you here too?" This person, Qiu Chaoran, who was also not proud of the officialdom in Wuchang, was just promoted to the sixth-rank patrol in the governor's yamen, and was in charge of the city's robbery.

Qiu Chaoran also smiled: "Yes, Lord Li suddenly sent me an order to wait here, and I put the errands aside. Why, do you know why Lord Li called us here?"

Cheng Qiuyu shook her head: "You don't know if you work as a servant in the governor's yamen, how could I know?" As she said that, she sat on the chair next to the other party and guessed, "Maybe there is a case that needs to be handled by us."

While they were talking, another official quickly came to the front of the hall. The two turned their heads and looked at each other, and then they looked strange: "Brother Tang, are you also ordered to come?"

Tang Duanfang also showed an unexpected smile after entering the door: "Yes, I didn't expect that the three of us would gather here." He is a sixth-rank prison envoy who specializes in prison affairs, and he has some real power in his hands. However, like his two friends, they were promoted after the Wuchang incident. They were just marginal figures in the yamen before.

The reason why the three of them can make friends is that they have relationships in their respective positions and have the same sympathy, because before that, they were all unpopular people in their respective yamen, and the last reason is that they have a common friend.

The three of them talked for a few words in anticipation and confusion, but still couldn't figure it out. At this time, with a long shout, "Mr. Li is here!" The few people had already strode to the front of the hall, and the leading official in the breeze robe was Li Ling.

Seeing him coming, the three of them quickly stood up to greet him: "I have seen Lord Li." Li Ling stepped into the hall, waved his hand casually, and said with a smile: "No need to be too polite, just sit down." After saying that, he had sat down at the top of the head at random, while Li Moyun and Yang Zhen stood beside him, one left and one right. The three of them looked back and forth on the three of them, making them feel a little scared, but they didn't know what to say.

After looking at them for a while, Li Ling smiled and said, "You must be very surprised. Why did this official suddenly call you here? It's not to hide it from you. There is indeed an important matter that I hope to get the answer from you."

"I don't know what you have to ask about. As long as you can do it, you will do your best to live up to your previous support." Cheng Qiuyu said the first, and then the other two followed up quickly.

Li Ling smiled with satisfaction and then said, "You and the prison camp should be familiar with Shi Wang, right?" As soon as he said that, his eyes had settled on the three of them to see how they reacted.

After some careful investigation yesterday, Li Ling locked the suspicious target on the three people in front of him.

During the past or two years, the three of them had contacts with Shi Wangduo, and often drank together. At the same time, for some reasons, they could always have relationships with wealthy families like the Hu family. These wealthy families often do things that harm the village on weekdays, and naturally they had to deal with officials who were in charge of case handling. Even though these three people were unable to have in-depth negotiations with the head of a family like Hu Wenze because of their identities, it was difficult to guarantee that they had never had any contact in secret.

So today Li Ling called all three of them, trying to test through conversations to find out who was the secret son of the Luo Tian Sect. Anyway, in his opinion, one of these three must be the culprit, and for safety reasons, he let Li Moyun and the others face each other.

However, the first test did not work. The three of them did not show panic or flaws because of his mention of Shi Wang's name. They all nodded honestly and calmly: "What the sir is saying is that Shi Wang and we are indeed friends, and we will drink together every three or five days."

Qiu Chaoran then added: "Sir, we are friends in private, and we dare not give private lessons in official business."

"Haha, so you really have a deep relationship with him, but don't know if he knows his character?"

"This..." The three of them looked at each other and then Tang Duanfang said, "Compared with the few Xiaguans, Shi Wang has more real power. After all, he has control over the prison city, and there are still two or three hundred people under his command to listen to it, and hundreds of prisoners, so there are only more oil and water. I heard that he was quite greedy for money in the past."

"Oh, it seems that you really know him well. What step do you think he will do for money?" Li Ling continued to ask. The three of them didn't know how to answer, but one thing was clear. It was obvious that something happened to Shi Wang, and Master Li was looking for them, which made the three of them look more serious and nervous.

After a while, Qiu Chaoran hesitated: "The following officials know Shi Wang. Although he is a little greedy for money, he is not as brave as lawless as he is. He only gives some prisoners who are willing to pay some money to take care of them, or make some conveniences and lets people go to the prison to visit them."

"I thought he might be more courageous." After pondering for a while, Cheng Qiuyu decided to "betray" his friends in order to clear his relationship with the things he might have committed. "Her one time was drunk half a year ago, he revealed that you still remember the incident of the young master of the Ding family seriously injured Yu Fangxuan, right? Didn't Mr. Ding be sentenced to a serious crime at that time? Afterwards, he took hundreds of taels of silver from the Ding family and let Mr. Ding go privately."

"Wait, didn't Young Master Ding die of an emergency illness in prison? Someone from the Ding family ran to the yamen for a fuss..." Tang Duanfang still remembered this matter freshly and couldn't help but question it immediately.

"Anyway, Shi Wang said he had let the person go. As for the so-called "Young Master Ding" who died of illness, he found a scapegoat who looked a bit similar to Young Master Ding. Of course, I can't say how true this matter is. However, during that period, he was indeed much more abundant, as if he had made a fortune." After Cheng Qiuyu finished speaking, seeing Li Ling smiling with satisfaction, he couldn't help asking again: "Sir, did Shi Wang do something wrong? In fact, although we have some friendship with him, we really don't know many of his activities in his choreography, and it's even more impossible to have any collusion with him!"

"Yes, sir, I have always been diligent in my work, and I dare not make mistakes. If Shi Wang really made any big mistakes, we are innocent..." Qiu Chaoran also said. Then the three of them stood up and bowed again, and took the pose of asking Lord Li to believe that we are the kind and good officials.

Li Ling's eyes slowly swept over the three of them again, capturing any subtle changes in their expressions. But what surprised him was that the three of them were almost the same, and no one showed any abnormality, whether they were too panic or too calm.

This made Li Ling a little troubled. He thought that after calling the few people, asking carefully, and then ignoring the indirectly, he could always see the flaws. But now it seems that he underestimated this secret son. His reaction was completely consistent with his own identity: he was uneasy, hesitant, and had a little intention of trying to clear himself. It can be said that the three of them were in a completely consistent state.

If there is really a secret son of Luo Tian Sect here, then his psychological quality and acting skills will be really amazing. No wonder he was able to lurk in Wuchang for so long and do such a thing at this deadly moment!

However, Li Ling did not give up, but chose to give them greater excitement: "Since you have asked this, I will not hide it from you. Shi Wang is already dead!"

"What?" The three of them also showed shock and panic. Obviously, the news far exceeded their expectations and shocked them.

After seeing their reactions, Li Ling added: "Also, he is probably a member of the Luotian Sect, because just before his death, many important figures from the city's wealthy families headed by Hu Wenze in the prison were poisoned because of his arrangements, but their deaths were closely related to the Luotian Sect!"
Chapter completed!