Chapter 20: The Truth

Half an hour later, Ogawa was found in the cellar of his neighbor's house next door.

The secret door was hidden behind the rounded cabinet in the kitchen, but the little shepherd boy pushed it open without much effort. Cai Ling asked, "Is there no one in this house?" How to push the door and dare to enter? ”

"Yes, but she never goes into the kitchen." The little shepherd boy walked into the darkness, "Besides, she is dead today." “

Cai Ling's brain seemed to explode in an instant, "This is Miss Zhang's house?" “

Suddenly, a cool breeze poured in from the back of his neck, propping up the wall, and he wanted to fall.

"This was originally Grandpa Chu's home, and he dug deep tunnels during the war. After my grandfather passed away, this became our secret stronghold, and it wasn't until Miss Zhang moved in that we didn't come often. “

"Are you sure Ogawa will be there?" Cai Ling pointed to the deep tunnel, "She doesn't look like she's going to play with you kids. “

"She likes to be lonely, but that doesn't mean she's stupid. Everyone in the village called her stupid, but in fact they were the stupidest. The shepherd boy is serious, "She likes it here, I just know it." ”

True to their expectations, they found Ogawa in the cellar at the end of the tunnel.

The little girl curled up in a ball raised her hand to cover the glimmer of the oncoming oil lamp, and the fist of her right hand was stained with blood but clenched tightly, as if she wanted to dig her nails into the flesh.

"Xiaochuan, your father was taken away. My aunt is here to look for you, and then she'll find a way to save your daddy. You and your aunt will get out of here first, okay? ”

She wanted to call herself her sister, but the little girl in front of her was only the same age as Yuan'er, and she felt pity in her heart and accidentally set it up.

"Auntie?" After a moment, Xiao Chuan lowered his hand from his face, but his fist was still clenched tightly, and his eyes murmured hollowly.

"My aunt is my father's sister." The little shepherd boy suddenly explained.

Xiao Chuan's black eyes were a little brighter, and he said in an inaudible voice: "I saw you a few days ago......"

"Yes. I've been looking for your daddy. On that day by the lake, could you eat the snacks brought by your aunt? Is it tasty? Cai Ling asked hurriedly.

"It's not as good as my mother did." Xiao Chuan suddenly changed his words, "There are eighteen orchids. “

Cai Ling didn't know why, she just thought that she was sick and caused her auditory hallucinations, so she squatted down and explained: "My aunt is naturally not as good as my mother." But Ogawa, our top priority now is to save Daddy, right? Xiaochuan doesn't want his father to be punished, right? “

"Daddy, he didn't kill anyone......" Xiao Chuan suddenly puffed out his big eyes, his hands trembled slightly, and his right fist was still clenched tightly.

"Auntie, why are you sweating on your forehead in the winter?" The little shepherd boy held the oil lamp and approached and asked.

Wind cold and dehydration, dizziness and lower abdomen pain, it is really a disaster. She was annoyed for a moment, then raised her hand to wipe the beads of sweat from her forehead, "Let's go out first." “

She reached out to pull Ogawa, she avoided her right hand, walked to her right and grabbed her fingers with her left hand. The three of them groped their way out of the tunnel. In the courtyard, I don't know when the torches were lit, and the sound of rustling made Cai Ling's heart palpitate.

The little shepherd boy said: "Maybe the government has found it." I'll go to the front yard and lead them away, and you will run through the back door. “

Cai Ling glanced at the back door he pointed, and then glanced at him who was about eight years old gratefully, "Aunt will bring you almond crisp another day." He turned around and ran away with Xiaochuan in his arms.

But the government under the leadership of Wu Fu set up a net in the village, they ran out of the bamboo forest and were surrounded by people, Wu Fu led by a very cold smile, "Lao Tzu advises you pottery merchants in Yongzhou to leave my Huaiyuan gossip, now escape, Lao Tzu can spare your life, if you don't know each other, don't blame Lao Tzu's knife for not having long eyes, and get rid of you!" “

The implication is to kill people and kill people? Cai Ling was furious and protected the shivering child hiding behind her, "This is just a five-year-old girl, even if his father makes a mistake, what does it have to do with her?" Is there any royal law? ”

"Wang Fa?" Wu Fu laughed like crazy, and when he glanced at the entourage around him, everyone also laughed, "In the border of the northern country, you tell me about the king's law?" Lao Tzu is the king's law! ”

After that, the two strong men came with pig-killing knives, and Cai Ling's brain turned quickly, thinking about how to fight back. Two flying knives shot like the wind, stabbing straight into the thighs of the two strong men, and in the painful wail, a woman dressed in black flashed in front of Cai Ling to protect her, it was Manyun. She was joined by two guards standing in the crowd.

This girl wanders around all day long, and she is indispensable at critical times. Cai Ling said in her heart, she was already very grateful.

Where can the reckless men of the mountains and fields be worthy of the masters of the Tingwei Bureau, but in a few rounds, they are all defeated. The three of them hurriedly escorted Cai Ling and Xiao Chuan into the carriage, and the horses neighed and drove quickly out of the cloudy valley.

The entrance of the vegetable market in the west of Huaiyuan County, even though it is already three o'clock in the morning, it is still surrounded by people who come to see the excitement, and the fire is shining in the sky, and the "main culprit" of the Peach Blossom Valley murder case, the painting fairy Yu Moyan, will be executed here.

"Keep people under the knife!" The carriage rushed through the crowd and galloped towards it, and before the car could stop, a dusty woman stumbled out and rushed to the execution rack, "I have eyewitnesses. ”

The hand raised by the executioner stopped in mid-air, and turned to look at Zhang Xianling, who was sitting behind the desk not far away with a sad face.

The executioner is not stupid, knowing that the person under the knife is deeply loved by Emperor Tuoba, and when he is in a dilemma, fortunately, this girl rushed out to save people, and a hanging heart was a little calm.

On the other side, behind the crowd, Tao Tao drew his sword out of the sheath and was about to fly up, several secret guards were also mixed in the crowd, just waiting for him to give an order to save people, Tao Tao was standing next to the brocade boy squinted his eyes slightly, only slapped his arm, and the sword was instantly retracted into the sheath.

"Who's here? Dare to break into the execution ground, can you know the capital crime? The master of the yafu shouted.

"In Xia Yong'an, Song Lingling." Cai Ling glanced at Yu Moyan, who was tied to the torture rack but had no fear, he was wearing a white bloody prison clothes, and they actually tortured him! Cai Ling endured her anger, "It can be proved that Miss Zhang was not killed by Yu Moyan." “

"Joke! The murderer himself has been recruited, what else do you have to prove? The master said fiercely.

Cai Ling glanced at Yu Moyan in disbelief, he hung his head to avoid her gaze, and then turned his head to see the Zhao family father and daughter in the crowd wearing plain white clothes and tears on their faces. If it is really no different from what she guessed, in order to save his father-in-law and sister-in-law, he didn't even want his life, how could he care about half a point of his reputation?

Although he is not greedy, thoughtful or afraid, she can't ignore it. Not to mention the little friendship accumulated over the past few days, just to say that the paintings in the Moyuan Pavilion will be reduced to waste paper due to the destruction of his reputation, and she must protect him.

However, a thought in his mind quickly turned, if he died unjustly this time, the paintings stored in her Moyuan Pavilion on the day of June Frost and the truth were revealed, I am afraid that they would not only be worth thousands of gold, but they would be a priceless treasure that deservedly deserved.

She tilted her head, only to quickly extinguish the thought.

"This is Yu Moyan's daughter. She was also at the scene at the time, which can prove Yu Moyan's innocence. Cai Ling led the little girl behind her to Zhang Xianling.

The little girl squirmed, raised her head timidly and glanced at everyone, her face was already flushed, Cai Ling squatted down and whispered in her ear: "The person who loves us the most in the world is my father except my mother, right?" If something happens to the father, the daughter should be brave enough to save him, right? Your aunt is by your side, you only need to tell the prefectural magistrate everything you see during the day, and leave the rest to your aunt. “

"The stupid daughter of a murderer, what else is there to defend herself?" Someone in the crowd shouted, and the noise gradually increased.

"My dad didn't kill anyone!" Xiao Chuan squatted on the ground, covered his ears tightly with his hands, and kept muttering.

Even so, her right hand clenched into a fist.

"What can she prove if she's a fool?" Someone shouted again.

"This official is in a time of grief, Miss Song, please go back." Zhang Xianling slapped on the table with a bang.

"That girl......" Cai Ling pointed to a woman in a flower jacket in the crowd, "please stand here." ”

The woman stood up at the instigation of the crowd, Cai Ling took off the cloak she was wearing and wrapped it, and asked Xiao Chuan loudly: "How many butterflies can you see embroidered on the jacket worn by this sister?" ”

"Eight." Ogawa replied.

Cai Ling untied the cloak that wrapped the woman, and asked the other to count, it was really eight butterflies, everyone was shocked, and some stood up unconvinced, "My dress is stained with ink, if this female doll can see how many ink spots there are at a glance, it can prove that she is not stupid." “

Under the firelight, the man in white turned in a circle, and Xiao Chuan's immature childish voice began: "Sixteen ink dots." “

The man laughed, "It should be fourteen, I have nothing to do this morning, if it is sixteen, I still wear this dress to do anything, it is better to throw it away!" “

"Then you should have thrown it away as soon as possible. There are two more on the belt. Ogawa said coldly.

The man was surprised, although he counted his clothes this morning, he forgot to count the belt, but he did not expect that the belt was also stained with ink, and he was ashamed and disappeared into the crowd.

"Lord Prefectural, this has proven that Xiaochuan is not stupid, but smarter than children of the same age." Cai Ling hurriedly said.

Before, in the carriage, she also suddenly remembered that Xiao Chuan had said 'eighteen orchids', which was the number of spring orchids embroidered on the corner of her rabbit fur cloak that day.

"Little girl, tell me about it." Zhang Xianling's expression was slightly dark, "What did you see today?" ”

Xiaochuan glanced at his father again, and then buried his head and said: "Aunt and grandpa went up the mountain to dig sweet potatoes, and my father was drying herbs in the yard, and my hydrangea rolled under my father's bed, so I went in to pick it up, but suddenly I saw someone carrying my sister in red into the house, and my sister's hand hung down, and the blood also flowed down, dyeing all the way." I was scared, but I accidentally kicked the hydrangea, and the ball rolled out, and the man lowered his head and saw me hiding under the bed. He held up a knife to stab me, but I bit him on the arm, tried to break free, and met the shepherd boy brother in the back mountain, who hid me in the cellar of Grandpa Chu's house. ”

"Do you know the murderer?" Zhang Xianling propped himself up and asked.

"Old Zhangtou, don't be fooled by this little girl. I was the first to arrive at the scene, Wan'er's death is really tragic, you must not have half any mercy for the perpetrator, it is better to kill him as soon as possible to pay for the blood debt, so as to prevent future troubles! Wu Fu jumped off his horse, a sharp sword in his hand pointed directly at Cai Ling's throat.

Bang, a stone was thrown from the air quickly, and it happened to hit Wu Fu's wrist, and the long sword fell in response, "Who is plotting against Lao Tzu!" Before the words fell, his legs were shaking.

In the crowd, Tao Tao turned his eyes to look at the brocade boy beside him, and couldn't help but show a meaningful smile.

Cai Ling thought it was the clouds helping her, so she only asked Wu Fu aloud: "Since you are the first to go to the Yu Mansion, do you know who reported to the official?" “

"No one reported to the official."

"Since no one has reported to the official, how can you leave your post and go to Peach Blossom Valley without permission?" Cai Ling is aggressive.

Wu Fu was a little flustered: "Lao Tzu went to visit his daughter-in-law who didn't pass through the door, do you still want to say hello to you?" “

"Wu Gongzi and Miss do have a marriage contract." Master added.

"You go to see your daughter-in-law who hasn't been through the door, so go to her house, what do you want to do when you go to the Yu house?" Cai Ling said to everyone, "The truth of the matter is already very clear, this Wu Fu Gongzi went to Zhang Wan'er's house to plot against him, was resisted by Miss Zhang, and killed him in a fit of rage, and then threw the body of the Yu family to blame, but the daughter of the Yu family saw the truth, so he searched in the Peach Blossom Valley for a night, bent on killing people!" Yu Moyan was framed, and the county magistrate was asked to investigate! “

"Please be aware of it!" Someone in the crowd immediately echoed, and Cai Ling saw that it was a few Lang Zhong in the medical hall.

"Don't be deceived by the demon girl from the south. Maybe it has something to do with her. If not, why did she go to Peach Blossom Valley for many days, not to see the clay, but to find Yu Moyan? In the crowd, a slightly chubby middle-aged man in a gray fur pointed at Cai Ling and was angry.

Wu Yuanwai is reasonable. This man's behavior is indeed suspicious. The master gave his hand to Zhang County's order.

This person is Wu Fu's father.

"Put them in a cell!" Zhang Xianling tightened his eyebrows, "Wait for this official to deal with Wan'er's aftermath and then come to judge you well!" "It's Cailing.

The officials approached step by step, Xiao Chuan suddenly stood in front of Cai Ling to block her, and his blood-stained right hand slowly stretched out, and a tiger skin jade in his hand exuded a ghostly light in the firelight.

Xiao Chuan's voice was immature but sonorous: "The murderer hugged me, and when I broke free, I tore this jade off his jade belt. Although you don't want to look at the tooth marks on his arm that I bitten, you must not know this jade, right? ”

The crowd immediately turned heads and ears, and boiled.

Within the county, only the Wu family dared to wear tiger skin jade, and the son of Wu Fu wore a jade belt decorated with tiger skin jade outside the coarse cloth uniform, which is a well-known fact.

"Wu Fu!" Zhang Xianling was grief-stricken, "You put your arm up and show it to the official......"

"Daddy......" The man who was fierce and vicious a moment ago was already holding his father's trouser leg at this time, trembling with fright, "I didn't mean to kill her!" I just want to persuade her again, what's so good about that Yu Moyan! ”

"you!" His father kicked him half a foot away, and he was about to break up with him.

"Miss Song......"

Yu Moyan came down from the torture rack, although he was still wearing a prison suit, his face was more energetic than before, and he looked at Cai Ling with affection, Cai Ling only held back his cough and smiled, "Yu Gongzi." “

But physiologically, you can hold back crying, holding back laughter, the most unbearable thing is coughing, she buried her head and coughed twice, only to feel more comfortable in her chest, and then raised her head, the son in front of her was already staring, and the knuckled hand was soon attached to her pulse.

It's good that the miracle doctor is finally coming back again!

Cai Ling showed a pleased smile, she should be so happy, she suddenly felt that the world was spinning, trying to stabilize her figure, but she felt that it was in vain, and the son in front of her gently hugged her and let her lean on her shoulder.

Sou......

Tao Tao only felt like a bolt of lightning, and the brocade-clothed boy beside him had already swept up and stood in front of the two of them.