The Little Lucky Girl

The parrot suddenly said, "I'll always miss you when I come back. I'll always miss you when I come back."

The scholar burst into tears and cried, "This is the poem that my husband and I often chant, 'In life I shall return, in death I shall long miss you.' This parrot is also very stupid. After teaching it so many sentences, it only learned these few words. Yao Niang, if you know what is happening in the afterlife, can you come back to see me, even in a dream, so that you know how much I miss you?"

The whimpering sound moved the onlookers. Magistrate Tao sighed and waved his hand, asking the bailiff to catch the parrot back.

A fat yamen runner stepped forward and held the parrot in his arms. Just as he turned and took two steps, the parrot flew into the air again, circled around, and rushed straight towards a young woman, shouting, "You are the one who hurt me, you are the one who hurt me."

The woman was the scholar’s ​​concubine. She screamed in fear, slapped her hands in front of her, and ran away to avoid it.

The fat bailiff groaned, as if annoyed that he had messed up his job, and immediately went forward to catch it, but the parrot escaped from his arms again, and this time flew in front of the scholar's mother, flapping its wings on her face, "And you, and you."

The scholar's mother suddenly collapsed to the ground, trembling and saying: "Don't blame me, don't blame me, who told you to..."

"Mom!" the scholar suddenly shouted, bringing the old lady back to her senses. She fell to the ground and fainted with her eyes closed.

Everyone felt that the fainting was a bit fake, not to mention the doctor invited by the government. As soon as he put his hand on the pulse, he knew that it was fake. He immediately pulled out a thick silver needle and whispered: "This needle will hurt a little. If you don't wake up now, don't blame me."

The old lady's eyelids were trembling, but she remained firm and did not open her eyes. The doctor shook his head and inserted the needle. The old lady screamed and sat up. When she looked up, she saw the parrot landed on the doctor's shoulder, staring at her and shouting, "You are hurting me, you are hurting me."

The old lady rolled her eyes and this time she really fainted.

The parrot turned its head and stared at the concubine again, frightening her so much that she stepped back repeatedly, but her legs weakened and she fell to the ground, half crawling to avoid him, saying, "You, don't come over here."

It happened so fast that everyone was stunned for a moment, then they reacted and started talking about it.

"Is the parrot showing its spirit? It must be possessed by the young lady."

"This reaction is obviously a guilty conscience. I didn't expect that the scholar was really problematic. I was almost fooled by him."

"That's not necessarily true. The ones who are guilty are my mother and my concubine. Maybe you, the scholar, have also been kept in the dark."

Zheng Huan and the other two also thought that the parrot was extremely strange. Not to mention its eyes, it could accurately tell what to say to whom. Even the birds raised in the imperial garden could not do this. If they said that it had the power of ghosts and gods, it seemed, as if, that might be acceptable.

Ming Youyou looked at the fat yamen runner curiously. Such a figure was too conspicuous, but she had been in and out so many times, why had she never seen him in the county government office?

Magistrate Tao still looked at the scholar with a sympathetic expression, "Don't you have anything to say in this situation?"

The scholar stopped crying and said seriously, "It's just that my family was frightened by a bird. What else do you want to hear?"

Magistrate Tao nodded, not looking disappointed. "If that's the case, then I'll do the talking."

"One of the important witnesses in this case is Doctor Zhao, who has been treating your family for many years. Three months after Qi Jiang's death, Doctor Zhao also left Pingyang City and has not been heard from since. This has also made it impossible to make any progress in the investigation of drug poisoning in this case."

The Pingyang County Magistrate, who was listening in the hall, could not help but nod his head. That's right. It was this important link that was missing that made it impossible for him to continue solving the case.

He searched Doctor Zhao's hometown, relatives' homes, good friends' homes, and even a few places he often mentioned, but it was as if this man had evaporated from the face of the earth, without leaving any trace, which made him wonder if he had been silenced.

Now that he had changed his position and knew that Magistrate Tao was also unable to find anyone, he seemed to feel more relieved. This was the reality of his fame.

Magistrate Tao said, "I checked the people who left Pingyang City at the same time as Doctor Zhao. Within a month, a total of 329 people completed the procedures to leave the city. Excluding those who left to do business, study, or visit relatives, a total of 27 people left and never returned."

He smiled at the scholar whose expression had returned to normal, "Guess, is there anyone we are looking for here?"

The Pingyang County Magistrate was also shocked after hearing this. How come County Magistrate Tao was investigating so many people and things in his territory, but he was completely unaware of it?

He glared at the county magistrate beside him. The county magistrate felt a chill down his spine and bowed, saying, "Magistrate Tao only brought four people to check the files. You said you would fully cooperate, so I showed them the files."

The key point is that he understood the meaning of "full cooperation" and only allowed them to read it in the yamen and not even allowed them to go out. Who would have thought that Magistrate Tao's subordinates were so capable that they finished reading the information in just five days and quietly checked the movements of hundreds of people under their noses.

As the saying goes, a strong general has no weak soldiers under him. Look at himself and then look at their county magistrate. He still wants to compete with others. The county magistrate thinks that their county magistrate is taking it for granted.

When a county magistrate's term of office expires, he will often be transferred to another place; but these county secretaries and county lieutenants will not move. Thinking of the rumors about County Magistrate Tao taking over as the governor, the Pingyang County Magistrate's eyes flashed, and he decided to avoid their county magistrate for a while and have more contact with the county secretaries here. They are all in the same industry, so they should communicate more when they have nothing to do.

He made up his mind and turned his attention back to the hall, only to hear Magistrate Tao say, "Seven or eight streets away from Doctor Zhao's Huichun Hall, on the east side of the city, there is a young widow whose husband died on the battlefield. It is said that her hometown introduced her to a good family, and she hurried back to her hometown to get married without even negotiating with her in-laws about the pension."

He suddenly slammed the gavel and asked solemnly, "Qi Ming, do you know this man?"

Qi Shusheng was startled, but quickly calmed down and shook his head, saying, "You are joking, sir. How could I know a woman?"

County Magistrate Tao did not dwell on it. "You may not remember after so long, but it doesn't matter. The widow still remembers you because her cousin said that you were the one who arranged the marriage and gave her a lot of gifts. Oh, by the way," County Magistrate Tao smiled, "this cousin is the steward of your Qi Mansion."

"We sent people to the widow's hometown and brought her here, as well as her current husband," Magistrate Tao said with satisfaction as he watched the scholar's expression change. "Don't you want to know who this man is?"