Chapter 297 Nightmare Magic Meets the Five Ghosts
After lunch, I went to Wanping County for a quick tour and returned to the mansion just after 2:54 pm (3:30 pm).
It was still early for Xue Pan's dinner party, but it felt a little awkward to go to Daxing County for another inspection.
Sun Shaozong was just hesitating about what official business he should handle during this time, when Cheng Rixing came in hurriedly and reported: "Sir, something happened again! Lord Lin just received a report that Chen Zhu, the right councilor of the Ministry of Public Administration, was killed by his son with a flower pot!"
Right Councillor of the Ministry of Public Administration?
Isn’t that Xue Pan’s immediate superior?
Sun Shaozong hurriedly asked Cheng Rixing to call Lin Delu in and asked him about the case in detail.
It turned out that Chen Zhu's eldest son, Chen Bo, had suddenly gone insane for some unknown reason.
In the first two days he was just jumping around and making a lot of noise, but at noon today, when Chen Zhu went to visit him, he suddenly picked up a vase from the shelf and smashed his father's brains out!
The maids and servants present at the scene were all stunned, until Chen Bo was holding half of the vase and trying to stagger away, and then several servants rushed up and tied him up.
But Chen Bo refused to give in and kept saying that he wanted to wipe out all the demons in the world and restore peace and order to the world.
Tsk~
A mad child kills his father, this is truly a tragedy within a tragedy.
But since there were many witnesses who witnessed it, there wasn't much to investigate in this case.
So Sun Shaozong casually ordered: "In that case, let Wei Tongpan... Forget it, I'd better go there myself."
Although the Tongzhengsi was an idle government office, the Right Councillor was at least a fifth-rank official, and this was a major case that violated human ethics, so the Criminal Law Department should at least send an official who was capable of taking charge.
Originally, Sun Shaozong wanted to let Wei Ruolan deal with it, but then he changed his mind and realized that he had just asked Xue Pan to send a message to Wei Ruolan, and now he sent Wei Ruolan out to investigate the case. This inevitably gave the impression of saying one thing and doing another.
Therefore, he changed his mind temporarily and decided to personally go to Chen Bo's house to arrest him and bring him to justice - there was no such thing as a mentally ill person being spared from death right now, especially when it came to an unforgivable crime like patricide.
So he called Qiu Yunfei, Zhao Wuwei, and a dozen constables and hangers-on, and rushed to the Chen family in a hurry.
The head of the family died a violent death, the eldest son became the murderer of his father, and the mistress of the house died of illness two years ago. The only legitimate master now is the eleven-year-old illegitimate son of the Chen family.
Therefore, the Chen family has completely lost its backbone.
When Sun Shaozong arrived with his men, the mansion was already in chaos. Chen Zhu had been dead for more than two hours, but even the mourning hall had not been prepared and the body was just hastily carried to the living room.
Moreover, when everyone entered the hall, several concubines were tearing each other's clothes, and when they saw outsiders breaking in, they showed no intention of restraining themselves.
Although two of the concubines were quite pretty, and the spring scenery revealed under their collars was extremely attractive, how could Sun Shaozong have the leisure to look at this at the moment?
His face immediately darkened and he shouted, "Who are you? Lord Chen's body is still warm, how dare you be so disrespectful?!"
The concubines all looked at Sun Shaozong but did not loosen their hands.
Zhao Wuwei immediately took a step forward, staring at the pair of white chests with a righteous look, and said, "This is our Shuntian Prefecture's Governor Sun. How dare you women be rude in front of him?!"
Who doesn't know the name of Sun Shaozong of Shuntian Prefecture?
Even when Chen Zhu was alive, he would have been polite to Sun Shaozong, let alone these concubines of lowly status?
Everyone scattered around and greeted Sun Shaozong respectfully.
Sun Shaozong took a quick look around and asked solemnly, "Where is the housekeeper of this mansion?"
The concubines looked at each other for a long while, and finally the concubine who had made the most noise spoke up: "Reporting to the governor, I just wanted to have that patricide sent to the government office for punishment, but that dog slave stopped us!"
"Now he has taken over the firewood room in the mansion with a few lackeys, and won't let anyone get close to it!"
Look at the person who is so self-righteous, she is most likely the concubine who gave birth to the illegitimate son.
As for the "dog slave" she mentioned, he was most likely the confidant left behind by the previous mistress of the Chen family, so he disobeyed orders and instead brought people to protect Chen Bo.
Such intrigue and house-fighting drama was common in wealthy families. Sun Shaozong had no interest in paying attention to it, so he asked where the woodshed was and rushed there with his men.
When we got near the woodshed, we saw several strong servants, led by a middle-aged man, each holding a stick and a shovel, standing outside with a fierce look in their eyes.
“Bold!”
Seeing this, Zhao Wuwei rushed forward again, drew out his sword, and shouted: "How dare you block the way with weapons in front of Master Sun, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture? Are you trying to gather a crowd to resist the law?!"
The middle-aged man was already half-hearted when he saw more than a dozen officials rushing in. When he heard that it was Lord Sun, the "God of Judgement", who came in person, he had no intention of resisting at all.
Dang~
So the man threw away the shovel in his hand, knocked his head to the ground, and said sadly: "Please judge wisely! My eldest master is usually very filial and polite to others. If he hadn't been bewitched by dirty things, he would never do such a thing worse than an animal!"
As he said this, he knocked his head against the bluestone slab until it was bleeding.
This is a rare loyal servant.
only……
Sun Shaozong frowned and said, "Even if he has gone insane, patricide is still an unforgivable crime! This official..."
"grown ups!"
The housekeeper raised his bloody face and said angrily, "My young master is not crazy, but has been harmed by that evil woman!"
Sun Shaozong's heart moved, and he asked hurriedly: "The evil woman you are talking about is the biological mother of your second young master?"
"Exactly!"
"Then you keep accusing her, but do you have any evidence?"
"this……"
The housekeeper was speechless for a moment, and then he angrily said, "Although I have no evidence, that woman likes to make friends with monks and Taoists. She must have asked someone to cast a curse, causing the young master to become neither human nor ghost!"
After hearing this, Sun Shaozong lost interest. He originally thought that he would reveal some secrets, but he didn't expect it to be so mysterious.
Although Sun Shaozong's atheist stance was once shaken after traveling through time, but after more than a year of continuous criminal investigations, he has reaffirmed that there is absolutely no such thing as supernatural powers in this world.
So he waved his hand and ordered, "Come here, bring Chen Bo out to me."
The butler suddenly became anxious, and he struggled forward, shouting, "Sir..."
"shut up!"
Sun Shaozong shouted, "If you can produce some evidence, it would be fine. But now you are just making wild guesses. How dare you obstruct the government from arresting the murderer? Get out of my way immediately. Otherwise, don't blame me for arresting you as well!"
The butler was about to say something else, but the other strong servants came forward and pulled him aside.
So Zhao Wuwei immediately led his men in, and soon they carried out a young man who was tied up with ropes.
The boy looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old. His expression was dull but a little crazy. His eyes were red and swollen, and his pupils were dilated and unfocused. He didn't struggle with his body, but just twisted his head this and that, making one feel dizzy just by looking at him.
This look...
Rather than being crazy, it's more like he's taken too many ecstasy pills!
Sun Shaozong couldn't help but feel suspicious again, so he said, "Where is your eldest young master's room? Take me there to have a look first."
