"Lord Wang, in the afternoon, the six people you sent to escort Zhou Tingxue to chase after General Shentu, they had just left Wangcheng County less than ten miles away, and they met robbers, who killed five of our brothers, robbed Zhou Tingxu and left. Only one of the brothers, covered in blood, ran back and reported the news. ”

"What about others?" Jack Ma asked.

"Lord Wang, he was very injured and had passed out."

Ma Yun frowned and said, "Why don't you hurry up and find a doctor to treat him, well, by the way, how can you say that Zhou Tingyu is dead?" ”

"That brother said that they couldn't protect Zhou Tingxue, and they knew that Zhou Tingzhi was very important, so just before Zhou Tingzhi was robbed, they stabbed Zhou Tingxue twice, and he should be dead."

Ma Yun sighed and said: "Send someone out, find the bodies of the five guards, send someone back to Jiangling for proper burial, you go down, wait a while, I will go to see the injured guard." ”

Seeing that Ma Yun was a little unrelieved, Ziying said on the side: "I knew that I would escort Zhou Tingxue." ”

Ma Yun smiled reluctantly: "If you go, won't I be even more worried." ”

Jing Niang said: "What's the matter? There are still people who want to rob him. I don't know who it is? ”

Before anyone else could speak, Qiao Niang pouted and said, "How can there be anyone, in my opinion, it must be that Ma Guangliang." You see, as soon as we sent Zhou Tingzhi out, he came, isn't this obviously pestering the prince so that his subordinates can do things quietly. ”

Ma Yun glanced at Qiao Niang, shook his head, and said, "No." ”

"Why not, I think it's him, otherwise how could it be so coincidental?"

"Qiao Niang, don't talk nonsense, well, if you want me to say, we didn't do this very well, and we didn't look fair. So far, people have been robbed, and they have made themselves suspicious. Husband, I don't think we should think about it, anyway, this matter has nothing to do with you, let him rob him, and you can get rid of it. ”

Seeing Ziying say so freely, Ma Yun couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Hey, forget it, don't talk about it." Hehe, it's also in vain, I'm hungry when I eat. ”

Ziying looked at Ma Yun's expression and knew that he was just pretending to be relaxed, but she didn't know how to persuade him, so she stopped talking at the moment and helped Ma Yun to serve the food.

Not to mention that Ma Yun's family is eating reunitedly, just look at Ma Guangliang and Li Gao who returned to the Dao Inn.

As soon as Ma Guangliang sat down, Li Gao asked, "Lord Wang, what do you think of this matter?" ”

Ma Guangliang said with a smile: "Fifth brother, after all, he is young and inexperienced, so he is a little reckless. This is the end of the matter. ”

Li Gao looked at Ma Guangliang in disbelief, and asked as if he was a little puzzled: "Lord Wang, do you really believe what the Fifth Lord said?" ”

"What the fifth brother said is untrue, and there are indeed doubts, but we are late, and now we have no evidence, so what's the use of saying this? Master Li, do you really think that killing a small Wangcheng County magistrate can make your father punish the fifth brother in a big way? ”

"Hey, according to the king's temper, don't say that this Zhou Tingzhi is greedy for ink first, even if he is a clean official, this death is considered a vain death. However, Lord Wang, now that I finally have such an opportunity, isn't it a pity to let it go gently. ”

Ma Guangliang looked at the candlelight silently, and said after a while: "We are unlucky, we are a step late." ”

"To be honest, we were a step late, but he didn't do it cleanly, or rather, he left too many doubts. Sometimes, doubts are sufficient evidence. ”

The candlelight flickered, and Ma Guangliang's eyes were cloudy.

"The fifth prince left at least a few doubts this time, first, it is a witness. This witness, his death is too inopportune. Looking at the expression of the fifth prince at that time, he was surprised, shocked, and incredulous, but how did this witness die? Why did he die at that time? Second, in the account room of the Foundry Bureau, a hole in the east gable wall was obviously demolished, and when we said that it was broken, the expression of the fifth prince, although he concealed it well, but the panic of being peeked into was indeed obvious, which showed that the fifth prince also knew that there was an account book in that place. ”

"But why didn't he take it out?" Ma Guangliang asked.

Li Gao said with a smile: "There are two reasons why he didn't show it, first, the witness and the information we got are all fake, that is, the east gable, there is no account book at all, if this is the case, the death of that witness can also be interpreted as suicide in fear of crime." The second reason: he got the ledger, but based on some considerations, he took it himself. ”

And he swallowed the account book privately, there are two possibilities, the first is that the account book involves a huge network of relationships, the fifth prince, he is afraid, or he wants to use this handle, so he hid it. Second, this ledger refers to the fifth prince himself, so he is in a hurry to try the case, and you have not found it, the old Gao with Zhou Tingzhi's swollen mouth, I am afraid that he was beaten before the trial. ”

"You say, it was the fifth child who swallowed the money privately? Impossible. He shouldn't have any contact with this Zhou Tingxue. Ma Guangliang said suspiciously.

"I don't believe either, the Fifth Prince and Zhou Tingxue originally knew each other. But in this case, the third suspicion is Zhou Tingyu's death, his death was too coincidental, he didn't die sooner or later, but he died after the fifth prince finished trying the case, and we just came, and we didn't have time to try the case. And he, like the witnesses, the people who took care of them were all the guards of the five princes, hehe... The fifth prince thought about the problem, and it was too simple. He originally wanted to make meritorious contributions, but he didn't expect to cause a big problem in the end. ”

"Yes, there are too many coincidences in this case. What a hassle. It's hard for the fifth child this time. ”

"In my opinion, there is one thing that makes sense and is very simple."

"How?"

Li Gao said slowly: "That is, the Fifth Prince and Zhou Tingyu originally met!" They are all the way. ”

"How is this possible, most of us know what Lao Wu has done over the years. Yes... You mean... Ma Guangliang understood Li Gao's intentions, and his heart couldn't help pounding. There are a lot of suspicions in this case, so chasing the wind and making some rumors out, the fifth child will not be so clean. Hehe, what a way. However, this old five is under his nose, what if he is in a hurry?