In the dark night, all the secret guards who were facing the archers in front of them protected Cheng Jia more and more bravely, but suddenly a bronze short sword came out of nowhere and took advantage of the dark night and the chaotic battle.

Silent stabbing.

This stab does not have the slightest killing intent, but the angle is extremely tricky.

Everyone's attention was drawn to the front, even Cheng Jia protected Azhu with a bow and crossbow to meet the enemy, and everyone was engrossed, so it gave the lurkers in the dark the most advantageous opportunity to take advantage of.

A scream resounded throughout the reeds!

"Not good, Commander, there is an enemy behind us. One of the guards shouted.

Cheng Jia looked back, and there were shadows in the black reeds behind him, and the black shadows stinged in it, if it weren't for the firelight shining on the bronze sword in their hands, a faint cold light reflexively.

It is simply impossible to detect their existence.

In the next moment, another exclamation was heard, "Childe, there are enemies in the east too!"

"And down the hillside!"

Everyone's faces were cold, and at the same time they realized a problem: they were surrounded, and this was a trap and ambush set by the other party a long time ago.

Ya had already taken two steps first, making preparations to protect Cheng Jia to the death, clenching the sword in his hand and turning slightly, aiming the sharp blade at the oncoming enemy.

"Childe, we will concentrate in one direction later, you take Miss Azhu, you leave first, we will take the back!"

Cheng Jia's gaze quickly swept over the endless assassins around him, at this moment, his eyes had never been so cold, he couldn't understand that Yue Jiao had such a strong obsession with killing him.

He clenched the sword in his hand, ordered Azhu to follow him closely, quickly took off the torch on the carriage with one hand, and burned the reeds as soon as he saw them, which was the driest time of autumn, and basically the fire rose wildly as soon as he licked the withered yellow reeds.

He drew his sword at the same time, stared at the bottom of the hillside with cold eyes, bowed his body and suddenly exerted force, and shouted at the same time: "Kill back to Yingdu!"

"Everyone, kill!"

Hearing Cheng Jia's shout, Yaya led everyone to shout, and followed his example, pulled out the torch and began to set fire to create chaos, "Kill a way home!"

The fighting spirit was completely ignited by Cheng Jia's roar.

Everyone followed behind Cheng Jia, relying on the speed of descending the mountain faster than the speed of going up, and they were unstoppable, like a fierce beast with a sharp sword running through the mountain, rushing towards the slope of the mountain.

In the boundless night, the black stratus clouds fluttered and scattered above their heads, and the long wind swept their clothes, bringing the blood of the enemy or their own to float among the reeds.

Cheng Jia held the sword in his hand and looked coldly ahead, the sword in his hand was so fast that he couldn't see it clearly.

As long as the enemy is found, he will quickly stab him, and he will never kill anyone, at such a moment, it is not a principle that he can adhere to as a modern person, this is the battlefield of life and death, either the other party dies, or all of them stay here forever.

While killing the enemy, he saw that the fire was already big, and asked Ah Zhu behind him, "Ah Zhu, can you swim in the water?"

"Childe, I will!"

Azhu, who was tightly caught between him and Ago, nodded, she had learned before.

"Okay, then you will roll down later, this place is a reed, there must be water in the low-lying places, and if you roll into the water, you will definitely be able to protect yourself. ”

"What about Childe?"

Ah Zhu grabbed his sleeve in a hurry, "Childe come with me!"

"Hurry up, I can't take care of you!"

The two sheathed swords grazed their sides again.

Cheng Jia didn't say a word and pushed Ah Zhu down the hill, Ah Zhu quickly rolled down the hillside, fortunately this place was full of reeds, and basically fell into the lake behind the reeds without any injuries.

Ah Zhu submerged in the water, paddling his arms, watching the fire on the hillside grow bigger and bigger, almost illuminating the entire blackest night sky, and the sky finally revealed a shallow white of the fish's belly, illuminating Cheng Jia's blood-stained faces, dyed with a layer of magnificent golden red, and shouted with red eyes.

"Childe ——"

The shout seemed to pierce the sky.

Mi Huang suddenly woke up from a nightmare, and she dreamed that Cheng Jia and they were surrounded by endless enemies, all over the mountains.

She stiffened up from the bed, only to find that she fell asleep at some point, touched the oilcloth umbrella and jade pendant that were still beside her, she scooped it up and hugged it in her arms, and then rushed out of the bed curtain and shouted: "One arrow, go to the Criminal Prison Department to inform Chen Huang: Release people!"

Yang Yuji, who had been guarding outside the hall all night, commanded, "Yes, princess!"

Then he rode a fast horse to the Criminal Prison Division, "Chen Tingli, the princess, I order you to release Situ Nan!"

"Why?"

Chen Huang, who was preparing for today's trial, was puzzled that he didn't know what might happen to Cheng Jia, and Yang Yuji didn't get an order and didn't answer him, "This is the order of the princess!"

"No, we can't release people now, I already have new evidence!" Chen Huang resolutely refused.

"New evidence?" Yoyuki couldn't believe it.

"Yes!"

Chen Huang took out an anonymous submission he had just gotten, and not long after, Mi Huang also rushed over when he heard the news, "Do you have new evidence?"

"Yes, I don't know if someone stuffed this into the crack of the door of the yamen of our prison department last night. ”

Chen Huang ordered Li Ji to take out the confession, and at this time, the gate of the Criminal Prison Department was already crowded with people, including ordinary people, wealthy merchants, and the families or servants of various ministers in the court...... They all came to watch the trial of this shocking case, but until it was over, the door of the Criminal Prison Division had not been opened.

The people who reported the case and the onlookers were waiting outside the door for a long time and stretched their necks and said, "I've been waiting for so long, Lord Chen hasn't opened the hall yet, plus Aunt Liu died yesterday, and there was a big fuss about the wedding banquet, this case must have been stopped again today, I dare to bet." ”

"I have long guessed that Chen Tingli alone can judge Ruo Ao Duwei and even Ruo Ao clan. ”

"Anyway, let's wait a little longer, if it is noon and the court has not been promoted, it must be that this case will not be able to be tried, so we will disperse!"

The people shook their heads.

Cheng Qingqing also booked a private room in the teahouse opposite the Criminal Prison Division early in the morning, ready to see how Chen Huang would try the case today, but no one came out for a long time, and said anxiously, "This Chen Huang won't have temporary stage fright, right?"

"Miss, it's not that my uncle hasn't tried the case, and it's not that he hasn't been promoted. Qiao Yun smiled, "How can you have stage fright?"

"Miss's worry is not unreasonable, you didn't see so many people coming to East Street today, and I took a look at a few teahouses that were avoided, and they were all sent by other families to hear the trial. Evian also hung his head and said, "If my uncle can't bring Situ Nan and the others to justice today, I'm afraid that all the people will be disappointed in him." ”

"This is what Ruo Ao Yuejiao wants to see!"

Cheng Qingqing said angrily, "No, cheer up, Chen Huang will definitely do it today!"

Don't you know that the prison department suddenly received a letter of submission early in the morning without roots, and an urgent meeting was held.

In the submission, it was said that Ruo Ao Yuejiao killed people and exterminated his mouth, and clearly indicated the number of Xian Qi and all the thugs who were killed, the time and place of the killing, and even the name of each dead person, who wrote it clearly, and the total number of people they plundered in the Chu State in the past five years was also recorded, and they seemed to have plundered more than 50,000 people, where to arrest people, where to hand over people, all of them were explained, more detailed than the data they found and speculated.

Li Qi said excitedly, "Lord Tingli, this person is definitely an insider!"

Chen Huang was also very excited when he took this letter of submission, "Great, too girl, now we just need to find a breakthrough from Situ Nan again." ”

Mi Huang looked at the bamboo slip and frowned, "It's useless!"

"Why is it useless?

Li Ji and Chen Huang both held the bamboo slips and said excitedly, "We have been checking for so long, and finally someone can prove it." ”

"First of all, you can see that this bamboo slip, from beginning to end, is not the handwriting of a person, which shows that this person wants to hide himself deeply from anyone. ”

Mi Huang pointed to this long bamboo slip, there were at least four or five people with different handwriting from beginning to end, either crazy or grass or positive, "So this must be this person found a few people to write this book separately, and then reconnected it, if you submit this certificate, don't say I don't believe it, no one will use it as evidence." ”

"In addition, as long as this person does not show up, you take out this statement as evidence, which is still equivalent to a lawsuit, which is a serious crime. At the same time, the law clearly stipulates that the following lawsuits are clearly stipulated in the following lawsuits: from the lower lawsuit, the lawsuit should first receive 50 rods, and then flow thousands of miles. This person is afraid that he is also afraid of this kind of torture, so he does not dare to show up, and once he appears, he will inevitably cause Yue Jiao to chase and kill. Mi Huang analyzed, even Chen Huang and they couldn't sue them, and they were called false accusations by Lord Yin.

What's more, it's just a witness who pops up out of nowhere.

Even if he succeeds, he will be exiled for thousands of miles.

Even yesterday's death of Aunt Liu, they could not defend themselves.

Because Aunt Liu was assassinated first, she was killed later, which is also unattended, and the king of Chu will not convict Ruo Ao because of a person's death, especially now that her father is still pointing to Ruo Ao Ziyan's victory over the Jin Kingdom, he will not offend the important ministers of the court because of such a trivial matter.

As soon as Mi Huang thought of this, the so-called laws and rituals in the present world are all about protecting the "superiors", and the "subordinates" can only endure silently, and even resist torture, so she can't help but shake her hands into fists, and in the future, she must change all this.

Now that all the witnesses have been convicted of false accusations, and the evidence is insufficient, and it is only speculation, shouldn't we just do that? Li Ji was also a little disheartened, and the bamboo slip in his hand was thrown on the table.

"Let's not talk about it, let's open the hall first and find the missing relatives of the people. ”

Chen Huang groaned and said, he can't let Aunt Liu die in vain, thinking that if he hadn't rushed to Ruoao Mansion yesterday because he was busy with Yamen's affairs, he might have been able to prevent this tragedy.

"Well, let's start first!"

Mi Huang bent his fingers and tapped lightly on the table, "But judging from this letter of submission, it is completely certain that at that time, when Mao Ba and Yi Arrow were going down the mountain, Xian Qi was killed by Ruo Ao Yuejiao." This is completely consistent with all our previous speculations, and at least it gives us a glimmer of hope for Ruo Ao Yuejiao. ”

Yang Yuji suddenly spoke, "Lady, I suddenly remembered one thing, when Mao Ba and I were searching the entire slaughtered villa, we found a house where there were no dead people, could it be that this person who submitted the letter was the one who fled in a hurry that night and we didn't find it?"

"This is very likely! You take Xianqing to the morgue to identify the body, and according to the list of submissions, see if there is anyone missing from the dead? This is the most important clue we missed at the time, maybe this person was near the scene of the murder at the time, but he knew in advance and ran away in advance. If he really ran away, the person who was pointed out by Xianqing was missing must be the one who submitted the book anonymously. Mi Huang's eyes suddenly lit up and commanded.

Yang Youqi nodded, "Okay, I'll do it later!"

"This matter must be handled secretly!"

Mi Huang emphasized, "All our actions will shift from the light to the dark. ”

Yang Yuji was puzzled, "Lady, why is this?"

Speaking of this, Mi Huang's face, which had been frowning for a day, finally widened, "Because next, we have to sing the empty city plan." ”

"Empty city?"

Chen Huang had never heard of it.

"The art of war has clouds: water is impermanent, soldiers are impermanent, virtual and real, and there are infinite changes. Now that everything we have is on the bright side, the other party can easily see all the hole cards in our hands, see the moves, and even predict every move we make next, killing people before us. Therefore, we will come in reverse, so that he will not be able to understand our reality and truth. ”

"The void is empty, the doubt is doubtful, and when it is rigid and soft, it is strange and strange. ”

"As long as Ruo Ao Yuejiao thinks that we have no way to deal with him, he is helpless, and even compromises and admits defeat to him again, let him and the entire Ruo Ao clan relax their vigilance, and then continue to look for the person who surrendered!"

"But, lady, we finally caught him!" Chen Huang said puzzled.

"If I can catch him once, I can catch him a second time!"

Huang Man said with a slight slump in his eyes.

She didn't believe that Skynet could make them all run.

But compared to Cheng Jia and Ah Zhu's lives, Situ Nan let him be proud for a few more days.

"Okay, then I'll order someone to release him now!"

Chen Huang frowned and said, "It's a pity that time doesn't allow, otherwise I will now offer a heavy reward for the whole city to find this anonymous person who submitted the book." ”

Mi Huang nodded, looked at Chen Huang and said, "Chen Huang, the method you said can also be used. ”

"What do you mean?"

"First of all, let's make an assumption, once we really search for this person in the whole city, you said that with Ao Yuejiao's past methods, we will inevitably find this person in front of us to kill people, which actually has two benefits. First, the killing of Xian Gao and Situ Nan has temporarily shifted the target, because their current confessions alone are not enough as human witnesses, so Yue Jiao will not focus on them, but if we release the news that this person has a batch of account books in his hands, or even assume that this person is an important person such as Xianqi's tent or staff, do you say that this person is more dangerous to him than Xian Gao who has no evidence. ”

Mi Huang groaned slightly, and slowly analyzed.

She thought about it all night, but there was no way to crack it, and now that she finally had a new clue, she would never give up.

Mi Huang then said quickly: "Only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days, and if you want to prevent it, you can't necessarily prevent it, so like this, we might as well play a play for Yue Jiao." After all, if you want to sing the empty city plan, you have to be false and real, so that the other party can't figure out the real hole cards in our hands. At the same time, with the method you mentioned, we can search for this person in the whole city with great fanfare, and tell Yue Jiao that we have new witnesses and new and more conclusive evidence, so Situ Nan is useless to us. ”

After Mi Huang's words were finished, everyone in the entire living room said, "Okay, just do it!"

Mi Huang looked at everyone and smiled, "Okay, since everyone agrees, then let's play with them and see who wins in the end and loses in the end." ”