Pampering Big Cat Wife

18

It's a pity that private advisor Cao didn't know that his pair of eyes that proclaimed to have read an innumerable number of people would have one day been absolutely wrong.

Zhao Shi Cheng may be upright, but he also had his cleverness. He was definitely not easy to deceive. As for Tang Wan, she seemed to be deep and shrewd, but in reality, she was simple-minded and merely knew how to eat everyday. Moreover, her criteria for judging people was really different from normal people...

After Zhao Shi Cheng officially assumed office, the capital was calm and tranquil, even the people who came up to report cases decreased. For period of time, he even had some sort of misconception that serving as the magistrate seemed to be not as difficult.

However, this kind of carefree lifestyle only maintained for three days before a murder case actually occurred in the capital. The scribe of the Department Of Chancellery was discovered to have died a tragic death in a dark alley. The corpse was a mass of bruises, too tragic to look at. Although the scribe wasn't an important official, but he still was a capital official. This matter made a stir in the entire capital.

Because the ruffians who previously robbed Zhao Shi Cheng hasn't been captured yet and now a tragic matter like this happened again, the people in the capital naturally linked these two matters together. As a result, the rumor of the notorious robber scurrying in the capital spread like wildfire.

Only Zhao Shi Cheng knew that the three robbers from last time was definitely not the murderer of the office clerk murder case. With just their momentum, these three people fell short of several streets and was even beaten by Tang Wan into a pighead. It was impossible for this kind of coward to commit such a grave crime. In spite of that, he found it hard to mention this matter. Once he said it like this, he will definitely be deemed to be evading important matters and dwelling on the trivial, hence he quickly found a coroner to perform an autopsy, hoping that it would reveal some clues.

It's really a shame that while the coroner verified that the scribe was stabbed by a sword and an axe, but he also didn't have even more clarified evidence.

Zhao Shi Cheng could only order the magistracy officer to search the capital. However, this action was like finding a needle in a haystack. It was a futile effort.

Just as the case fell into a deadlock, there was actually another major case that happened. The eunuch from the inside the palace secretly went out and was also found dead beyond the place walls. The way he died was as heartrending as the scribe's death.

Before discussing about what this eunuch was doing outside the palace, but he indeed bore an official position, a dignified rank five palace caller. The deceased's rank was raised so high that the right prime minister, Yang Wen Chang was enraged by it. He instructed Zhao Shi Cheng to solve the case as quickly as possible.

It was around the time for the imperial court to hold the locked room test. At this time, the capital's public security appeared to be even more important, yet, it was extremely jittery. At the present moment, Zhao Shi Cheng was very annoyed and didn't know how to take care of this matter. He practically used the yamen as his home. Yet, this run-down yamen didn't have anything he needed. The allocated funds was already used to repair the prison cells, so the magistracy officer's equipment was simple and crude as usual. You can't make bricks without straw.

For this reason, when Zhao Shi Cheng first assumed office, he suffered extensive criticism. The scholars from the locked room test even thereby wrote volumes of it. It also implicated Zhao Zhong Shi, who was affected greatly. There was a remonstrance nearly everyday lashing out at him. Originally, when the civil and military officials were in opposition in the imperial court, the military officials had the upper hand a little. But now, they were suppressed by the civil officials to the point where they nearly couldn't lift their heads up.