Because there were too many letters and documents collected from Jiang's house, and it was close to the time to close the pen, the prefect's yamen worked overtime every day to sort out, because the case involved a serious case that had not been solved in the nearby state capital, the prefect saw that he was too busy, so he had to send someone to the relevant state capital to borrow someone to come over to help.

Among the state capitals that received the notice, some people were happy to send people to come, but some people were not very happy, think about it, the unsolved serious case on their own territory, the prisoner was actually arrested by the prefect of Shuilan City? If the emperor knew, would he think that they were too incompetent?

Thinking about it like this, I feel that the prefect of Shuilan City is in too much control, and his hand is too long.

It's just that everyone has sent people to ask for support, if they really don't send someone to help, and turn around that guy to complain in front of the emperor, those of them who can't solve the case will only wait to be cut!

If you mix in officialdom, there will be no fools, no matter how unhappy you are in your heart, you still have to show a smile on your face, and you have to pretend to agree happily.

The Jiang family's in-laws are many old and old people all over the place, and when they learned that the old lady Jiang was involved in the unsolved case, everyone was stupid, and they sent people to the Jiang family for verification, and for a time the Jiang family had many guests, although the Jiang family denied it, but who couldn't see that there was a problem, besides, if it really didn't matter, the old lady Jiang was so sick that she couldn't live, why didn't the old lady Jiang show her face?

Everyone speculated, only the Jiang family didn't say anything, they didn't have a problem, but two of them were engaged to the Jiang family, so they rose up to withdraw from the marriage, one of them because they couldn't resist their son like the Jiang girl, reluctantly agreed not to withdraw from the marriage, the other was bluntly said that their daughter was weak, a few days ago by the cold, she has been sick in bed, and I don't know when it will heal, in order not to delay the prospective son-in-law, can only withdraw from the marriage in tears.

did not give Mr. Jiang Si and Mrs. Jiang Si a chance to react, returned the marriage book, as well as the original gift to the woman, and the person ran away, leaving only the matchmaker waiting to get back the woman's marriage letter and tokens.

Master Jiang Si was still a little stunned, Mrs. Jiang Si's henchman had already reacted, and returned the woman's things to the matchmaker, and before she could give the reward, the other party ran away, as if the Jiang family was a flood beast, and fled in fear.

After Mrs. Jiang Si reacted, she was so angry that she jumped to her feet, but what was the use of scolding at this time?

With the help of other prefects and counties who sent support, the prefect was more comfortable in handling things, and he quickly sorted out the documents and letters collected from the Jiang family.

After several adults saw it, they were a little stunned, they couldn't imagine how the old lady Jiang, who was a squire, had an intersection with Prince Jing.

One is that he rarely goes out of Beijing, and the other has never traveled far since he was a child, and where did they meet? How could Old Lady Jiang do things for Prince Jing? How did they get in touch with each other?

A series of questions haunted their hearts, causing everyone to sleep badly, so they simply went to the prison together to interrogate Mrs. Jiang.

Old lady Jiang is now no longer the same as before, he has fallen to the ground heavily, lost his teeth, and has bruises on his face, it is impossible to freshen him in prison, so the slippery and shiny hair that he used to care for is now knotted, and there are still food residues left in it.

His current image has long since lost its glamorous and decent, how decent can he be when he is a prisoner? A few adults didn't care about the dirty smell on his body, and ordered the jailers to bring tables and chairs, and several adults sat down in groups, so that people could wake up Old Lady Jiang.

What followed was a series of problem bombardments, Old Lady Jiang had already fallen asleep, and was suddenly called up, anyone would have a bad temper, but Old Lady Jiang, who had always been angry at the slightest mishap, now did not dare to lose his temper casually.

This is in prison, not in the Jiang family.

In the face of the questions of the adults, he only had to answer honestly, but he was injured before, he was old, and he was quarreled with from a dream, and when he replied, he was upside down, and his voice was still a little vague, and he couldn't hear what he was talking to, and the few adults sitting outside the cell couldn't hear it clearly, and the eldest brother sitting next to Mrs. Jiang helped reply, and the people outside knew what he said.

The pigeon guards who mingled in it were very clever, and from time to time they warmed the hands of a few adults with hot tea, so that the adults appreciated this jailer who looked a little dull, but was actually very clever.

How could a person who is so good at doing things stay in prison as an errand boy? If he has such ability, he would have climbed up a long time ago! Several adults looked at the prefect of Shuilan City one after another, and the prefect of Wang smiled, "This kid just came, I heard that he is the eldest in the family, and he has been clever and sweet since he was a child, and he saw that he was old at home, and felt that he could not be idle at home, so he made up for him, but at the end of the year, there was nothing to be lacking elsewhere, so he was let go to the prison to be an errand first, so he didn't have to go out to blow the cold wind." ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, the elders in the family love the children like this, and their parents are not like this, a few adults chatted, Mrs. Jiang has slowly sobered up at this time, and when she saw several adults outside the cell, her heart was terrified, what kind of battle is this!

In the middle of the night, these nobles didn't sleep, but ran outside his cell to gossip and talk about daily things?

Or the pigeon guard timely reminded a few adults, you want to try quickly, but don't judge the prisoners, now the weather is cold, don't think that if you can't blow the cold wind in the prison, it won't be cold! This cell is covered under the ground, it is already cool, it is the middle of winter, this cold index is a few points higher, the prisoners in the prison do not have a thick mattress to keep out the cold, the night is heavy, and they have to deal with the interrogation of adults, but don't be unable to bear a disease in two days!

These jailers have to eat and hang.

After several days of night trials, several adults were very satisfied with Mrs. Jiang's answer.

Every time Mrs. Jiang is woken up from his sleep, he will not be awake for a while, at this time, he is almost an intuitive reaction to all the questions, and it is also the most real, but when he slowly wakes up, he no longer remembers the previous answer, and he will reject the questions, and then ask him again, his answer will have to be discounted.

But fortunately, he was old, and from being woken up to waking up, there was almost an hour, which was enough for them to question.

Master Li, who is also familiar with the Yamen, got the content of the question in a few days, and after reading the content, he couldn't help but be surprised, grabbed these things and went straight to the hot spring inn to find Li Qianqian, but the maids said that the sect leader and Feng Gongzi were talking, and he had to go to see Liu Er first.

When Liu Er saw him coming, he casually covered the documents he was reading with other documents, stood up with a smile and said, "Why is the eldest master here?"

"Look at this. ”

Saying that, he handed over the things in his hand to Liu Er, Liu Er looked at it, and was happy, isn't this what he was just looking at? He asked, "Where did you get it, sir?" and this thing doesn't flow out, so you have to be careful." ”

"I know, I am familiar with the head catcher of the Yamen, he knows that Mrs. Jiang is my uncle, and he is afraid that my family will be affected by him, so he specially brought it out for me to see if he has pulled my family in. ”

Liu Er smiled when he heard this, "The eldest master has really made a good friend." ”

"That's it. Master Li sighed lightly, "Gao Zhutou has been a smart and righteous person since he was a child, since his father passed away, his family has fallen into the middle of the road, in order to make a living, he has to go to the yamen as a catcher, but he is also very good, in the county yamen for a few years, because of his serious work, he was taken by the county order of Gao Sheng, and went to the post together, and Zhou turned back to Shuilan City, and has been transferred from the county yamen to the prefect Yamen as the head catcher. ”

Liu Er nodded, he had heard of this high catcher, he was a capable person, he followed the prefect Wang's side to do things, did a lot of errands, and his skills were not bad, he seemed to be from a famous martial arts family, but he didn't expect that he was so young as Master Li.

"I heard that the eldest brother is the one named Gu Chun, a son of a Shaolin layman, and his skills are very good?" Liu Er asked, "When he first arrested someone, it must have been this high-level catcher who caught him, right?"

Although he led people to arrest him, but listening to him, the eldest brother and they all seemed to have been drugged, and he originally thought that he could fight Gu Chun, but unfortunately Gu Chun's internal strength was not good, and he fell on his stomach after two fights. ”

"Really?" Liu Er snorted, they did drugged the tea at that time, but Gu Chun's companions seemed to have recorded this account on Old Lady Jiang.

It's great to be able to take people down without moving.

Liu Er, they don't care, outsiders don't know their merits, as long as the sect leader knows.

"These bloody cases, is it really Old Lady Jiang who asked people to do it?"

"Originally, the evidence was not very sufficient, but he recruited himself, although it was an order from Prince Jing, but he was the executor, so he ......" And I don't know what the emperor's attitude is towards his brother's family, so the prefect and they don't know how to sentence the old lady Jiang for the crime.

Master Li sighed, no matter what the emperor's attitude towards Prince Jing's family was, it probably had no effect on Old Lady Jiang, because he recruited himself, and he sent people to carry out these bloody cases, killing people to pay for their lives, so many lives, and he had no grievances, he just let people kill their entire family, even the infant toddlers, and the degree of ruthlessness was staggering.

Not to mention others, even he, who has been the nephew of Mrs. Jiang for decades, can't believe that that amiable old man has such a cruel side!?

But if you think about it carefully, you shouldn't be so surprised, because isn't his old man also very cruel to his two brothers? They are still in the filial piety period, so he designed the two of them to be reluctant, and thanks to their brothers' good luck, they avoided it, otherwise how could the two of them raise their heads and be human beings?

The octagonal pavilion in the garden, because the doors on all eight sides are closed, so although they are by the lake, they don't feel cold, Li Qianqian and Feng Gongzi are looking at the news sent by Liu Er, which is sent by the pigeon guard in the potential cell.

After reading it, Feng Gongzi said, "Actually, I'm quite suspicious, those bloody cases were really instructed by Prince Jing's people?"

"Huh, why do you say that?"

"Look at this time, there are still these people, don't you think it looks like someone is holding a grudge and taking revenge, because the other party is stealing business with them?" Feng Gongzi paused, reached out and poured two cups of hot tea, one for Li Qianqian, and then picked up his cup and took a sip.

Li Qianqian hadn't paid attention to it at first, but after he said this, he found that there was indeed some problem with the time, "From the conflict between these people to the destruction of the door, this amount of time seems to be only enough to send the news back to Beijing, but not enough for Prince Jing's Mansion to send a letter back to Shuilan City." ”

"Perhaps, the person who ordered Old Lady Jiang to send someone to kill people was just someone sent by Prince Jing's Mansion to communicate with him! It was not an order from Prince Jing or Prince Jing's mother and son at all. ”

But so what? In the eyes of Old Lady Jiang, it was all an order from Prince Jing, but he didn't know that Prince Jing had been decadent for many years, and the high-spirited young man he met back then was long gone, and the current Prince Jing had already emptied his body because of wine, and because his feet were disabled, he had become a person with limited mobility, and no one helped carry him, and he couldn't go there, let alone come to Shuilan City.

"However, Prince Jing's son, princess and princess all have cronies or relatives who have profited from these cases, so if they don't know, they should only know about it beforehand, right? ”

"Maybe!" Feng Gongzi's expression was a little complicated, "This reminds me that our Fengjiazhuang hierarchical license management, there shouldn't be such a thing, right?" You know, even if they are miscellaneous servants in Fengjiazhuang, they all have martial arts, maybe not very strong, but compared with the powerful market gangsters, they can still bear it, if they are as selfish as the person who served Prince Jing as a connector, the damage caused will definitely be dozens of times stronger than the harm that that person brought to Prince Jing.

"That's why we have to be careful from time to time, and it's best to set up a monitoring unit, and they usually visit the rudder in various places to see if anyone has selfish intentions and intends to endanger Fengjiazhuang. Li Qianqian patted his hand.

"In fact, our Ruiyao Sect used to set up Dharma protectors to let them do such things, but then their minds were crooked, and they were supposed to monitor other people's people, but they turned around and became selfish with the intention of using Ruiyao Sect's public center to satisfy their selfish desires. ”

Feng Gongzi looked at her quietly, and waited for her to finish before he said, "These people don't represent all people, don't count all the Dharma protectors just because these people are selfish." ”

Li Qian smiled and squinted at him, "What you said is true, however, our Dharma protectors are really all selfish, and the Rui Yao Sect actually has shortcomings in this regard, because not only the elders, but even the Dharma protectors are all passed down from father to son, so it has been passed down from generation to generation, unless the previous Dharma protector or elder has no children to inherit, otherwise almost all of them are passed down according to this model." ”

Feng Gongzi thought for a moment and asked, "Could this be because the founding sect leader is the son of the former Chaoxian prince?" In other words, the Ruiyao Sect was actually established by the private property of the founding sect leader, just like his family's inheritance, the father died and the son succeeded, because the sect leader was passed down in this way, so the positions of elders and protectors were also handled according to this example.

"It should be!" Li Qianqian said, "But it's not good to do this, although in this way, a lot of inheritance can be continued, but because of this, it is easy for these people to sell the old and bully the young master." ”

This was the case with the former Great Elder, although the Second Elder did not persecute Li Shu, but because the Great Elder was busy fighting with Li Shu, the young master, he had the opportunity to take advantage of it and made a lot of money from the public school, as his own private property, and the Third Elder, this person's behavior is also very negotiable.

It seems that he moved away from the helm for the sake of his wife and daughter, but on the other hand, his actions were also intended to force Li Shu to marry his daughter, otherwise he, as an elder, would not do anything.

The four elders grew up with Li Shu and had different friendships, he helped Li Shu survive all the way, but unfortunately, the wife he married was not the same as him.

"I'll have to go back and have a good discussion with my eldest brother to see if there is a way to prevent our people from making the same mistake as the connector. ”

Li Qianqian wanted to correct him, but she didn't know if there was a problem with the connector! But after thinking about it again, whether that person had a problem or not, it had nothing to do with what Feng Gongzi wanted to do, so she went with him.

"But who could this connector be?"

"Who knows?"

The first generation of connectors suffered as early as Prince Jing's accident, and the connectors who were later made up were a wealthy businessman who passed on news to him by doing business with Mrs. Jiang, and even the first batch of Jianghu people were brought by him and handed over to Mrs. Jiang for placement.

However, this person didn't seem to have very clean hands and feet, and was later disposed of by Prince Jing.

The identity of the third-generation connector is very mysterious, because when Mrs. Jiang talked about him, her attitude was very peculiar, and she seemed to be defending each other everywhere, and she didn't want to confess to them.

Governor Wang was very interested in this person, and always felt that as long as he found out the identity of this person, there were many problems that could be solved.

However, they have tried a lot of methods, but even if Mrs. Jiang has just been quarreled from her sleep, when she asks this question, she is very guarded, almost telling everyone that there is a problem with this person's identity, but they have been unable to break through Mrs. Jiang's heart defense for a long time, and they can't ask the true identity of this person!

The others don't know what the prefect is struggling with, and the old lady Jiang has already confessed a lot of things, so much so that it is not too much to cut off the head of the old lady Jiang a few times!