Chapter 40 Transactions
An Ge's words were like a heavy hammer, smashing into Xiao Yuan's soft underbelly. Panic, anger, and a hint of fear wrapped around his heart like vines.
Xiao Yuan's two eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets, but he didn't dare to roar at An Ge as before.
He took two deep breaths and said in a fairly calm tone: "What new evidence does Zheng Zhutou have to retry Lei'er?" ”
"Evidence? Do you need it? An Ge looked at Xiao Yuan's eyes, as if the other party was a fool.
"You don't have to fight Old Madam Mu's idea anymore, in three months, the current governor will have to leave in a flat manner." An Ge said casually.
At the beginning, Xiao Yuan asked Liu Yemei to go to the old lady Mu who was the current Zhizhou's mother, and An Ge's words undoubtedly broke Xiao Yuan's last hope.
"How much ...... do you want," Xiao Yuanran's voice was hoarse and weak.
"I don't want money." An Ge stared at Xiao Yuan's eyes, "I want someone to ......" The enchanting smile did not bewitch Xiao Yuan again, Xiao Yuan seemed to see a demon locked in his deep pool-like black eyes.
"Who?" Xiao Yuan subconsciously took a small step back, and the danger he instinctively perceived made him just want to stay away from An Ge.
"Stone girl." An Ge's voice carried a hint of longing, and in Xiao Yuan's eyes, it seemed to be a person he had admired for a long time.
The stone vines far outside the city shivered inexplicably, and seemed to have a strange feeling of being targeted as prey. She looked around, and there was no one in the wilderness, no birds and beasts. Only the silly-looking roe deer demon in front of him was almost sunk deep in the dirt pit, revealing a round and plush buttocks, and a hooked snake that seemed to be "overseer".
"Did you find it? If you dig again, you'll bury yourself. The little hooked snake wandered impatiently in place.
"Found it!" Lu Guang's muffled echo came from the mound, and he kicked his hind hooves twice.
"I'm stuck." Lu Guang's hind hooves kicked irregularly, and when he found that he couldn't retreat, he asked Shi Manman for help.
Shi Manman hesitantly glanced at Lu Guang's two hind hooves stained with black soil, and his gaze wandered off the short tail in the middle of his round buttocks. Reaching out to hold her tail, she seemed to feel Lu Guang's body stiffen. With a slight strain on his wrist, he pulled Lu Guang out of the pit, patted the few strands of fluff on his hand and looked at the roe deer that was as stiff as a sculpture.
A strange smell permeated the surroundings as Lu Guang emerged from the pit. The stone vines were smoked by the complex smell and frowned again.
"How does it taste different?" Shi Manman swung hard at the mouth of the pit dug by Lu Guang, and the smell inside became even stronger. The sand piled up at the mouth of the pit was pushed into the cave by an invisible force, and the pungent smell faded a little.
"When we male musk deer reach adulthood, they secrete incense around their navel, and every few months this incense makes our abdomen painful, so we bite it off and use it with ...... Use...... Well, something smelly buries it to cover up the smell. Lu Guang held a ball of musk in his front hooves, and looked at the stone vines and small hooked snakes that were retreating in embarrassment.
"It's a smelly thing...... ? Stay away from me!! The little hooked snake seemed to think of something, and almost screamed and fled into the distance. This is another reason why he doesn't like roe deer.
Shi Manman glanced at the embarrassed Lu Guang, then looked at the little hooked snake in the distance and said, "There's no time, don't be emotional." Let's go. As he spoke, he ignored the two demons and returned the way he came. In a few breaths, the little hooked snake caught up with the stone vine, muttering "Don't walk with the-smelling roe deer" and burrowed back into the stone vine's sleeve.
In the county office, in the stuffy room, the fat Zhixian was lying on the bib bed only in a shirt, and under him was pressing a thin pure gold mat like a cloth, which he had "dissolved" in order to facilitate the carrying. At today's temperature, it's just right.
The master stood beside him, watching the maid fan the goose feather fan and fan the ice cubes that had almost melted in the high basin in front of him.
"Zheng Zhutou said that he would retry Xiao Xiucai, when do you plan to set it?" As the master spoke, he inadvertently glanced at the golden silk mat a few times, and the ** in his eyes was hidden behind envy.
"There's no hurry." The magistrate moved his huge ass before turning sideways. It was in the afternoon when he was sleepy, and he would wait until he had slept enough to discuss it.
"If the magistrate is not in a hurry, then how about the prisoner being tried by me?" A gloomy voice came from outside the ventilated and unclosed door.
The sultry room seems to have dropped a few points as a person enters, and in addition to An Ge, who in this yamen would dare to trespass into the county study without passing the word.
The magistrate didn't know what the relationship between An Ge and the person who instructed him was, as long as he knew An Ge, he couldn't afford to offend. But as a magistrate, he still can't lose his manners in front of people, he seems to get up slowly, but in fact, he wants to act faster than anyone else.
"I'll wait for Zheng Zhutou to retrieve the evidence, and you go to the prison to raise the suspect first. The official was immediately promoted. Under An Ge's cold eyes, the magistrate felt that he was uncomfortable with every behavior, and found an excuse to send people to prison and take prisoners.
An Ge didn't even want to give the magistrate a superfluous expression, turned around and took the little catcher behind him to the direction of the cell. Zhixian looked at his departing back, his face was blue for a while, and he didn't dare to reprimand for a while.
When An Ge first came to Shicheng, many officials despised him because of his appearance. What's more, he used frivolous language and ** eyes to tease An Ge.
And their fate is that they were gouged out or their tongues cut out by gangsters during the mission. When they realized that something was wrong, they had already broken more than half of the servants. Because there was no evidence, they could only guess how much the incident was related to Ange. So far, except for that little catcher who looks like a fart, no one in the whole province dares to look directly at An Ge.
The cells dug in the ground seemed to isolate the stuffiness of the ground, with a damp gloom and coldness. The jailer guarding the cell saw An Ge's arrival, and hurriedly opened the door for him, not daring to look at An Ge's appearance, and rubbing his hands repeatedly and uneasily.
"Which cell is Xiao Gongzi in?" The little catcher who followed quickly looked at the mottled torture instrument eroded by blood in disgust and asked.
"Li...... Inside, the small ones take you there. The jailer hunched over and waved his hand to lead the way.
The cell is lit only by candlelight, and it is impossible to distinguish between day and night. Shi Lei estimated that he might have only been in this prison for a day, but mentally he felt that a spring and autumn had passed.
When he saw An Ge, he was still a little surprised.
"Xiao Gongzi seems to be living well here." An Ge looked Xiao Lei up and down, he was not as decadent as a murderer An Ge had ever seen. Xiao Lei's robe was meticulous and didn't even rub a little dust, except for his pale face, which looked like a person who had been in prison.
Xiao Lei looked at An Ge calmly and was silent, he was waiting for the other party to say his purpose.
An Ge also looked at Xiao Lei, Xiao Lei's calm appearance made him feel the urge to tear apart and destroy, hooked the corners of his mouth, took a step forward, and whispered in the voice that the two of them could hear: "Xiao Yuan, that old man promised me one thing...... As long as I can rescue you, he will help me get the stone girl......"
After the words fell, he took a step back, ready to admire Xiao Lei's broken expression.