Chapter 12: The Lights
A moment later, Wuhou Hu Bing took a few Fang Ding who were still squinting and turned into the alley where Sun Batian's small courtyard was located.
Earlier, the night guard found that this courtyard was full of flames and shouts, and the husband knew what this place was, so he didn't dare to come alone, so he ran to Hu Bing's house to report and left without looking back.
After Hu Bing got the report, he sent people to the county government to inform the arrest of the head, and at the same time asked people to go to each household to wake up the fangding. waited for nearly half an hour, and then waited for a few fangding who were pulled up from the bed. Hu Wuhou guessed that Sun Batian should be fighting with someone, it was not good to go early or late, and then waited for the tea, thinking that Sun Batian should be finished, so he took the nearly ten people gathered and walked towards the small courtyard.
Since the first few defeats under the hands of Sun Batian's brothers, Hu Wuhou has extinguished his mind to eradicate this group of people, and just wants to finish this term in peace and save some money for retirement.
walked towards the small courtyard with apprehension, and when he walked to the mouth of the alley, he found that there was also a group of people walking on the opposite side, and he secretly ordered everyone to be on guard. It was only when the person on the other side came closer that he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Isn't this He Fangzheng?" said Hu Bing in a loud voice.
"It turned out to be Hu Wuhou, Wuhou is not resting at home so late, why are you here?" Out of the opposite procession came a middleman in his forties, with a short beard and dressed as a scribe.
"Didn't He Fangzheng take a break? A certain family got a report, saying that there was a fight here, so they brought someone to take a look. ”
"I see, I also got the news that there are bandits here, so I took my family to take a look. He Chang said suddenly.
Hu Bing knew that He Chang's home was separated from here by most of Chongrenfang, and now he actually arrived at the same time as himself, I was afraid that there was something hidden. However, he didn't want to be nosy, so he walked with He Chang to the small courtyard deep in the alley.
He Chang did get the news very early, about when Xu Chen attacked the main gate, the door of He Chang's mansion was knocked, the housekeeper opened the door to see, there was no figure, only an envelope in front of the door was left, the housekeeper was also an old man, quietly picked up the envelope, closed the door and came to He Chang's bedroom.
He Chang was awakened in the middle of the night, and after listening to the butler's narration, he took the envelope and opened it, and suddenly fell asleep. I saw that it was written on the white paper: "If you want to turn positive, come to Sun Batian!"
He immediately got dressed and led a group of family kings, Sun Batian, to rush here, he knew that no one would come to play him in the middle of the night for no reason, something must have happened to Sun Batian, and he was full of thoughts about kicking Du Rong away and being the boss himself. Although it is only a small square, no one would want to add a sub-word before this.
As he expected, when he arrived, he only touched it lightly, and the gate of the courtyard fell. When he saw the situation in the courtyard and in the lobby, he was immediately shocked, but then he was enveloped in ecstasy.
He immediately thought that it was not good for him to be alone here, so he withdrew from the alley and hid in the far corner, and quickly sent someone to report to the county lord, and also sent two people to Du Rong's house to wait, just to stop Du Rong a little and buy more time.
Not long after, Wuhou Hu Bing came with Fang Ding, and when he saw this, he immediately greeted him and made a chance encounter.
Hu Bing He Chang walked to the gate of the small courtyard, and without waiting for Hu Bing to say more, He Chang waved his hand, and the two family members immediately came to the gate, making a look of slamming the door hard, and only after a few clicks did they knock the door open.
With a "boom", the gate fell in response, and Hu Bing raised his eyes to see that the yard was full of scorched marks, several corpses lying horizontally, and a few charred black objects that could be vaguely identified as humanoids.
In the hall farther away, the candlelight is still bright, clearly reflecting the qiē in the hall, in the middle of the hall, there are two corpses, one large and one small, both of them are holding steel knives, the steel knives in the hands of the smaller people are still stabbed in the chest of the larger people, and there are more than a dozen corpses around, the crimson blood is still left, and the ground in the hall is full of blood, and there is no trace of the original color of the ground.
Hu Wuhou walked in with everyone, He Chang pretended to vomit and felt uncomfortable, and followed behind.
Everyone slowly walked to the front of the lobby door, looking at the blood-red purgatory scene inside, the timid fangding had already weakened their legs.
Hu Wuhou walked closer and took a look, only to find the two corpses in the middle, he actually knew both, the eldest was the "Dongcheng Yiba" Sun Batian, and the smaller one was actually Du Tian, the son of Fangzheng Du Rong.
Hu Bing looked at the surroundings and looked at Sun Batian, who was already dead, and sighed inexplicably for a while.
"Hu Wuhou, Lord Xianzun will be here in a moment, how do you look good?" He Chang said "uncomfortable" He Chang said "uncomfortable" while holding his chest with one hand.
Hu Bing turned his head to look at He Chang, pondered for a while and said, "I will only report truthfully!"
"That's right!"
"What's going on here?" said a deep voice outside the courtyard.
"It's not good," He Chang said secretly, and quickly led the family to prepare to stop Du Rong, how could his vigorous posture be half uncomfortable.
"Tian'er!" Du Rong entered the courtyard, looked at the courtyard and was also surprised, then glanced into the lobby and shouted.
He Chang led all the family members and surrounded Du Rong who was about to step forward, but Du Rong was only left with two family members.
At dinner today, Du Rong went home and found that Du Tian was not there, so he hurriedly sent someone out to look for him, but he didn't think much about it, Du Tian had also lingered in brothels all night before. It's just that recently, his big event is approaching, and he doesn't want to cause any extraneous branches, so he forced Du Tian not to stay up all night and not return.
The family members sent out never returned, and Du Rong began to realize that something was wrong, and hurriedly sent more people out to find him.
waited until the time was about to pass, and the family who came back to report the news said that Sun Batian was in flames here, and there was the sound of fighting. Du Rong hurriedly gathered his men and walked towards Sun Batian. Who would have thought that on the road that must be passed, he actually overturned a few fully loaded trucks, and the full of goods made it difficult for people and animals to travel in the alleys, so Du Tian had to take two family members to walk around the distance.
As soon as I entered the courtyard, I was full of messes. When he looked up, he only remembered that his son Du Tianzheng was lying in a pool of blood, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
Suddenly, a stream of blood rushed straight to the back of Du Rong's head, and he rushed over regardless of it, but he didn't expect to be surrounded by He Chang and others. At this moment, Du Rong didn't know that he should be calculated.
"What do you want to do?"
"Du Fangzheng, there is a murder case here, and no one is allowed to enter the scene until the county lord arrives!"
"What if I have to go in?"
"In the next duty, there is only offense!" said with a wave of his hand, and the family members leaned up tightly.
Du Rong was in a hurry, how often did he come prepared, if he waited for the county lord to arrive, how could he explain it clearly, and he would make up his mind to break through.
At this moment, there was a "clang", the gong opened, and a green-shirted scribe rode a tall horse and led a group of catchers to the gate of the courtyard.
"The county lord has arrived!"
He Chang finally breathed a sigh of relief, but his body did not move a bit, still blocking Du Rong tightly.
"Lord County, you are wronged, you have to be the master of the small people!"
Without waiting for the county lord to enter the courtyard, three young people dressed as ruffians sprang out from the corner, and as soon as they arrived at the county honor, they bowed their heads and shouted loudly.
The county lord looked at the few ruffians who suddenly appeared in front of him, and the road in front of the gate had been blocked, so he had to respond: "If you have any grievances, come quickly!"
The gangster in the middle, kneeling forward a few steps, it was the "empty hand", kowtowed and said loudly: "The county lord wants to be the master of the villain!"
"Young Master Du Tiandu, come to our boss tonight and say that there is something important to discuss,......
"That's it, that Du Tian drugged our food, and when we fell asleep, he began to kill! A few of us escaped with our lives under the desperate protection of the boss, and we were about to shout grievances to the county lord, begging the county lord to call the shots!"
At this time, all the people in the courtyard also came out.
When Du Rong heard that this ruffian was opening his mouth, he couldn't help but step forward, but he was stopped by He Chang and others. I had no choice but to shout at the county honor: "Don't listen to this ruffian's nonsense, the child will never be able to do such a hurtful thing!"
"Whether it is nonsense or not, the county has its own conclusion, and there is no need for Du Fangzheng to say more!" Then he asked He Chang and Hu Bing one or two.
Du Rong saw that this was the scene when they both came with one bite in one bite, and he panicked for a while.
"Adult ......"
"Okay! I will go forward to conduct an autopsy, Wu Zhutou, you go to check the scene and see if there are any clues. ”
"Yes, sir. ”
"My lord, Du Gongzi is not dead, but he fainted from excessive blood loss. He said.
"Bring it back to the county office, ask the doctor to heal the wounds, and bring these three insiders back to be strictly guarded, no one can approach without my order!"
"Du Fangzheng, go home and wait, before the case is known, you can't move around at will!" said the county lord and did not forget to advise.
The lights went out, and the courtyard, which had been noisy all night, finally quieted down. But tonight is destined to be a sleepless night for many people......
In the early morning of the second day, as soon as the subordinates of the county mansion opened the door, they saw Du Rong of Chongrenfang standing respectfully in front of the door with a prayer post.
After the report was made, Du Rong was introduced into the living room, and after sitting down to watch tea, Du Rong began a "long" wait......
In less than a quarter of an hour, Du Rong seemed to be ten years old all of a sudden.
After the county lord came out, Du Rong got up and saluted, bowed down, and bowed his body at a right angle of ninety degrees.
"Du Fang is visiting this morning, I don't know what's going on?"
"Back to the county, the villain got two pearls a few days ago, and I heard that the adults like to collect jewelry and jade, so they brought them to the adults to enjoy and play. ”
With that, Du Rong took out a rectangular brocade box from his arms, bowed down and handed it to the county lord.
The county lord opened it and took a look, and suddenly two rays of light shot out, and the morning sun outside the hall could not hide the light of the pearl at all.
The county respected it silently for a long time, and said softly: "Du Fang has a heart." ”
Hearing this, Du Rong, who was still bowing down, breathed a sigh of relief, "If you are willing to accept things, it will be easy to do." ”
"After bothering the adults for a long time, the villain has retired. ”
"Fang is going back to rest and rest, and the county will not send it. ”
"Your Excellency, stay along. ”
Walking out of the door of the county mansion, Du Rong, who had not slept all night, felt a trace of tiredness coming.
It's just that what he didn't know was that before him, the door of the county mansion had been knocked open by another person, and it was none other than Chongrenfang's deputy fang.
What he didn't know was that looking at the figure he walked out, the county lord once muttered,
"This Du family is really rich!"