Although the Heavenly Dog Devouring Heart case had been solved before noon yesterday,
that had only been an impromptu interrogation at the scene. To formally close the case, they still had to bring the criminals back to Shuntian Prefecture and go through the proper court proceedings.
Then there were the detention orders, case files, sentencing recommendations, reports...
All those miscellaneous matters piled together, and it was well past midnight before they could barely call it a day.
Sun Shaozong had only slept for an hour or two after returning home before he had to hurry back to work. Since the case was so significant, superiors would inevitably send people to verify and question them, leaving him no chance to take leave.
Yawning all the way to Shuntian Prefecture, Sun Shaozong handed his horse over to the gatekeeper and was about to sneak off to his office for a nap when one of Jia Yucun's clerks was already waiting at the inner gate, saying that the Deputy Prefect wished to see him.
With no other choice, Sun Shaozong had to pull himself together and head to Jia Yucun's quarters first.
Once inside, he found Jia Yucun energetically writing something at his desk, while two enormous wooden chests sat in the middle of the main hall.
Seeing Sun Shaozong enter, Jia Yucun nodded toward the two chests and smiled. "One thousand taels in there is reward silver from the Ministry of Justice. The other two thousand are bonuses sent by the Ministry of Works in Vice Minister Ge's name. I've already secured the money for you; how you distribute it is none of my concern."
Tsk.
One life truly could not compare to another!
For the murder cases Sun Shaozong had solved before, receiving a dozen or so taels of silver from