Back at the study in Houzhai, Situ Ce took out the scalpel, cut open the deer, and soon found the projectile in the deer body.

Judging from the appearance, it is very similar to the projectile found in the head of a female corpse! Situ Ce locked himself in the study, took out a microscope, and compared the traces.

The muskets in the Ming Dynasty were front-loaded guns, without rifles, and belonged to smoothbore guns. However, there were still many individual characteristic traces on the inner wall of the gun barrel. In a certain period of time, the traces left by this trace on the projectile will be relatively stable and can be used for identity determination.

After comparing the two projectiles, Situ Ce found that the main traces on it could overlap with each other, which proved that they were fired by the same musket! In other words, the gun used by the young master of the Pang family was the gun that killed the dead!

After Situ Ce told Helanbing about this result, the two of them muttered for a long time and finally finalized the arrest plan.

Pang Mansion.

Zhong Bingzhi Baihu and Pang Yuanwai's family had just finished their meal. This meal was quite sumptuous. It was a wild boar hunted with the Pang family. His favorite thing was the wild boar's tongue. After stir-frying, this thing was very fragrant. When it came to Zhong Bingzhi drooled. In addition, the wine was also very good, and the best Huadiao. Therefore, he had a full meal and had a lot of food and burped.

After dinner, he and Pang Yuanwai and Pang Yuanwai's son were sitting in the living room talking and chatting. He was humming a small song and picking his teeth with a bamboo toothpick. The maid made a pot of fragrant tea and put it down. He put down the toothpick and was about to get the tea cup. Suddenly, a servant ran into the door and knelt halfway and said, "Report to the master, the two masters of the county government are visiting!"

Pang Yuanwai was stunned. The face of the baby son Xiaopang next to him changed suddenly, and he was about to drill into the back room. Pang Yuanwai scolded: "Stop! Why are you panic!"

Xiaopang quickly stopped, his face looked very ugly.

"Sit down!" Mr. Pang.

Xiaopang sat down quickly.

Zhong Bingzhi was a little surprised: "Aren't it just the two yamen's masters, - it's Master Helan and Master Situ?"

"Yes, Master." The servant replied.

"That's fine. These two people can be regarded as good friends of my official. Please, please!"

"Wait!" Mr. Pang hurriedly shouted, "What did they say about me?"

"I said, I want to talk to the master about the disappearance of our maid Qinxiang, and I have some things to ask the master!"

Xiaopang was so scared that his face turned pale and he said tremblingly: "Dad!"

Seeing that his father and son looked wrong, Zhong Bingzhi said suspiciously: "Brother Pang, is there anything wrong? Why not tell me that Zhenhai County is not as unjust as my surname Zhong!"

Pang Yuanwai pondered for a moment and said to the servant: "I'll invite two masters to serve tea in the flower hall first, and say I'm having something to do, and I'll come soon after I finish!"

The servant retreated.

Pang Yuanwai immediately waved his hand and asked the rest of them to retreat, closing the door, leaving only him, father and son, and Zhong Bingzhi in the room.

Pang Yuanwai whispered: "Brother Zhong, I can't hide the matter anymore. I can only ask you for help in this matter and save my son's life!"

"What's so serious?" Zhong Bingzhi frowned.

"That's right. After you sent the batch of muskets, the child picked one of them and left them. He couldn't let it go and had to sleep with his pillow. He always yelled to go out to hunt with muskets. I agreed and took my family out, but in the end, something happened."

"What's wrong?"

"That day, the bow and arrow shot a few preys, but the child used the musket and couldn't hit any of them!"

Zhong Bingzhi smiled: "Although this musket is very powerful and is more powerful than a bow and arrow, its accuracy is a bit worse. It is used for hunting. Unless it is a big guy like Deer and Wild Boar, it is really not easy to hit."

"Yes, the child felt unsatisfied, but the weather was over, so he went home that day. When he got home, the child accidentally heard the maids and servants following him laughing at the hunting incident today. He thought he was deliberately ridiculing him and was very angry..."

"It's not that I thought!" Pang Yuanwai's son Xiaopang said angrily, "It's obvious that they deliberately mocked me for being inaccurate in shooting skills and not being able to hit the prey, and said I was useless, so I was angry!"

"Okay, okay, even so!" Pang Yuanwai seemed to spoil the child very much and followed him. "In a fit of anger, the child came out with a gun and aimed at the servants and maids. They were so scared that they ran around."

Xiaopang interjected again, "I asked them to run away. They were so scared that they knelt on the ground and kowtowed. I said you didn't say that my shooting skills were not accurate. OK, I just saw if I was shooting accurately. I counted ten and fired! You guys ran away! As a result, they ran away. I counted ten and fired randomly with my eyes closed. I thought I could not hit the target. When I was hunting, I aimed very hard, but they ran away again. How could they hit it? But it was really evil, but..."

"Hit?" Zhong Bingzhi asked nervously.

"Well...!" Xiaopang said dejectedly, "It just hit the maid Qinxiang in the head! She was dead at that time. I was also frightened, threw the gun and ran back to the house."

"Nonsense!" Zhong Bingzhi slapped the table, stood up angrily, beat him twice, pointed at Xiaopang and said, "You, you! How can you hit someone with a gun? This is also a play? Alas!" He turned around in place with his hands behind his back. He stopped after a few rounds, and said, "What's next?"

Zhong Bing said straight: "I have to come after I report it, and Qinxiang has already died. I immediately called all the maids and servants who were informed, and each of them gave me two taels of silver. He told me that no one was allowed to tell this matter, otherwise, be careful of the dog's life! I believe no one dared to say it. Last time the yamen came to investigate, they did not miss a single word."

"Then they come to the door now, maybe they just investigate it casually, and haven't found it yet?"

Pang Yuanwai shook his head and said, "No, they may have found it!"

"How can I see it?"

"At that time, I asked the servant to take off Qinxiang's clothes. I used a wooden stick to hit her head twice, pretending to be a robbery and killing people to silence her, and then threw the body into the river. As a result, Mr. Qin, who was teaching in the mansion, took off his robe and wrapped her body. After throwing the body, the body was discovered downstream. The yamen followed the clues of this robe and found Mr. Qin and asked about this matter. At that time, I knew that things were not good, and scolded Mr. Qin, but it was useless. Today they came straight to the mansion. I had a premonition that they must have obtained real evidence and were coming to arrest people!"

Zhong Bingzhi stamped his feet and said, "Human lives are at stake! Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

Pang Yuanwai said with a bitter face: "I thought I could fill the past. I didn't expect that the two yamen masters were very powerful and actually found us."

Xiaopang stepped forward and knelt down: "Uncle Zhong, you must save your nephew's life!"

Mr. Pang also received a total of: "Yes, my child is the only incense in my Pang family. If I have a few things, my Pang family will be the last one!"
Chapter completed!