Chapter 181: Tainted Witnesses

The appearance of He Liu made the two people kneeling in this hall still not understand why they were kneeling here? He sold it!

Lao Zhang is okay, it is estimated that it is because he was tortured by Hu Yuhua last night, and he just looked at He Liu fiercely, but He Ji next to him was almost about to jump up, if he had a knife in his hand, he would have rushed up to unload this He Liu in this hall, but he didn't expect that he had been cautious and careful, and finally fell into the hands of his nephew.

Although Lao Zhang and He Ji couldn't believe that He Liu, who seemed to be honest and had no scheming, how could he suddenly betray them, but because everything between the two of them was handled by He Liu, so He Liu's trial was not all about pouring beans from the bamboo tube, except for Fufa to confess, there was no other way to go.

However, the three of them are not stupid, and they also know that there are some things that cannot be said, such as the affairs of the palace.......

From beginning to end, what He Liu said was how much the Liao people gave the two of them, how they betrayed Great Xia, and they didn't mention a word about the affairs of the palace.

Although He Ji and Lao Zhang gritted their teeth at this He Liu, they didn't dare to pull it on the palace, they knew in their hearts that the people who had been in contact with them were all sent by the palace, and Rao had some letters in the end, and they could only let the palace come up with a few scapegoats, but they were miserable, and they might not only lose their own heads in the end, but the lives of the whole family could not be saved!

He Liu wrote down their confessions 1510, and after giving each of them a handprint, they were put on death row, waiting to be reported to the Criminal Department.

Although An Yi never showed up in the back of the hall, he also heard it clearly, and as he expected, the information found on the Sushui River and the iron box:

"Three Hours, Simon"

It was the time that He Ji agreed with the Liao people to open the west gate of Lanzhou and let the Liao people in, and the date was actually Chinese New Year's Eve.

An Yi is palpitating when he thinks about it now, these two dog things are really planning to have a good year for the Great Xia Dynasty!

After the court trial, He Liucai turned back to the back of the hall, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the comfort of lying on his back in the rocking chair, sounding very distressed and crying: "Thank you for not killing!" For the villain, it is like reinvention, and the villain must change the past! Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! ”

An Yi glanced at him coldly and waved his hand: "He Baihu don't thank me first, the two of them have finished explaining their affairs, do you have to explain something to me?" ”

"Yes, yes, the villain told you everything he knew."

He Liu said as he spoke, and kowtowed three heads extremely humbly before straightening up and said: "My family's surname is Gu, I am a native of western Sichuan, and when I was a child, because of my poor family, I had no choice but to be the head soldier of the guard with my father, just to be able to eat."

At the beginning, my father and I were lucky to meet a hundred households surnamed He, who took good care of the two of us. Later, because of the Liao people's autumn wind, we were forced to help the border, although it belonged to the Chengdu Health Institute, but stayed in the border town of Gansu all the year round, and the head was no longer on the belt of the trousers, begging for a life under the knife of the Liao people.

Later, in a battle, my father was shot by the longbow of the Liao, you should know, that kind of longbow is with barbs, even if the general is hit, it takes many days to recuperate, but we are just a soldier with a mustard name, and no one cares about our life and death. Soon after my father returned to the camp, he died of an arrow wound, and the He Baihu took pity on me, and he himself had no children, and it happened that it was the sixth day of the ninth month, so he renamed me He Liu. ”

An Yi listened to him and nodded slightly, "It turns out that you and this He Ji are not uncles and nephews, is He Baihu who adopted you still here?" ”

He Liu shook his head, "A few years ago, I had already died on the battlefield, and as his son, I inherited his military title and became the hundred households of Chengdu's right guard." He Ji is his eldest brother, and he happens to be the commander of the left guard in Chengdu, so I also intend to be close to him, and I want him to take care of it. ”

"But I heard that He Ji doesn't seem to have a good relationship with you?"

He Liu smiled bitterly and replied: "I am not a member of the He family, and I am only a small hundred households, how can I have a good relationship with him and the commander of He Da?" At the beginning, when I colluded with the Liao people, only he and Lao Zhang found me later, which was nothing more than asking me to do some errands, and the two of them made a lot of money from the Liao people over the years, but they rarely gave it to me. I also thought that these things were not in sight and I didn't want to continue to do them, but he was going to threaten me that if I didn't listen to him, I would find a way to kill me, and I knew that I couldn't afford to provoke him, so I had to keep doing these things with him. ”

An Yi doubted him: "Then how did you have the courage to come to me this time?" Aren't you afraid that he will kill you? ”

"I didn't know who to tell before, but only when the adults came could they be regarded as having a backbone. I'm also forced to have no choice, this kind of thing is found to be a death, it's better for me to take the initiative to say, I can still find a way to survive by changing a tainted witness. ”

He Liu said sincerely, the expression on his face was more and more sad, and when he talked about the pain, he even dipped the corner of his sleeve with a touch of moisture in his eyes.

An Yi then asked, "Then who is this Lao Zhang?" ”

"Lao Zhang and he are cousins, and the two of them have always been in cahoots, they do a lot of things, and they never let me get involved."

After He Liu answered, seeing that An Yi didn't speak, he was busy knocking on the ground again, and answered: "My lord, we usually communicate with the Liao people by letter, and now we are far away in Qingcheng, and the Liao people should not know about He Ji's being taken. ”

An Yi didn't answer, but glanced at Jin Mingyin, who was standing beside him, and Jin Mingyin willingly handed the wooden pimple he got from Lao Zhang's hand to He Liu,

"He Liu, we can't open this thing, do you know what is written in it?"

He Liu looked at the comfort of sitting in the rocking chair staring at him, and then at Jin Mingyin, who was expressionless next to him, and thought about it a little in his heart, and said: "Tell my lord, it is written in the new time with the Liao people, and the Liao people proposed to change it, so I don't know the specific reason, I only know that the date was changed to the fifteenth day of the first month, and the time and place are unchanged." ”

"Shangyuan Festival?"

"Yes, sir!"

An Yi chuckled twice, and said in his heart that this Liao person is really interesting, either the Chinese New Year's Eve or the Shangyuan Festival, and he will really pick a day.

"He Liu, why should I believe you?"

He Liu arched his hand towards An Yi and said solemnly: "My lord, He Liu made a tainted witness and escaped by luck. But this military lord must not be protected, the villain is alone, and if he is expelled from the army, he will starve to death on the streets. The little one wants to take this opportunity to make meritorious service and make the adult's subordinates merciful, even if he no longer retains the hundred military lords, he only hopes that the little one can continue to stay in the army and stay alive. ”

After listening to his words, An Yi stood up from the rocking chair, walked slowly in front of He Liu, smiled and patted him on the shoulder, but He Liu did not see the meaning of trust from An Yi's smile,

"He Liu, you are very smart, you know that if you ask for something, you can make others worry! That's right, people with greed are the most reassuring. On this point, I will hand over this pimple to you, as for how the Liao people communicate with each other, it is your business, if I find out that you are playing smart with me, you know the consequences, I will definitely let you die without it! ”

He Liu knelt on the ground and said repeatedly: "The little ones don't dare, the little ones don't dare." ”

An Yi circled around him, then sat back in the rocking chair and waved his hand at him: "Get out, come and report in time if you have something." ”

He Liu saw that Anyi meant that he agreed, and hurriedly kowtowed again and again to thank him: "Thank you for your trust, the villain will not disgrace his mission!" ”

He kowtowed to An Yi again before standing up and humbly exiting the back hall.

An Yi watched him leave, and then turned his head and asked Jin Mingyin: "Is he telling the truth in that wooden lump?" ”

Jin Mingyin nodded, "Yes, word for word, I opened it last night and read it." ”

"yes, okay."

Jin Mingyin asked him with some concern: "Brother Yi, do you believe what he said?" ”

An Yi smiled, "I have never believed in this kind of person who betrays the Lord and seeks glory, you let Hu Yuhua stare at him a little bit, and report any trouble in time, I don't think things are so simple." ”

"Okay, I see."

"That's right!"

An Yi seemed to remember something, and raised his hand and ordered: "In the evening, let's go to death row, and I want to talk to that He Ji." ”

"Brother Yi, he is a person who knows that he is going to die, and even if he knows anything, he won't tell us?" Jin Mingyin was a little puzzled by the idea of comfort.

An Yi didn't plan to explain to him, he just made a gesture of "do as I say", he felt that He Ji might have some secrets in his stomach that they didn't know, but as for how to make him say it, it depends on his own means.

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Hu Yuhua followed the meaning of comfort, after He Liu walked out of the county office, he began to stare at him, he saw that He Liu did not go straight back to the barracks, but went around in this Qingcheng,

It stands to reason that He Liu is unlikely to find Hu Yuhua, first, the two of them don't know each other, and they haven't even fought face to face, and second, Hu Yuhua is very agile in reaching out, climbing high and low, even if he knows that someone is staring, he may not be able to find where Hu Yuhua is.

He Liu walked around this small city a few times like shopping on the street, and vigilantly swept the sides and behind him with his residual light, and after confirming that no one was following, he walked straight to the north lane.

The north alley is the Fengyue place in Qingcheng, of course, it may not be as generous as Chengdu Qianyunlou, but rows of small houses are gathered together, and the whole alley is dressed up outside the flowers, heavy makeup and glamorous kiln sisters, waving the silk handkerchief in their hands to attract merchants.

Now at this juncture, the merchants are basically gone, and most of them are big-headed soldiers like He Liu who come to look for flowers and willows.

He Liu seemed to be a regular visitor here, and watched from afar as he hugged a girl in a pale pink dress with a lewd smile on his face, and then skillfully walked towards one of the low houses.

Hu Yuhua followed quickly with his hands and feet, climbed up to the roof in three or two clicks, and watched He Liu enter the house and then turned over and went down to the bottom of the window at the back of the house, where was the cat listening to every move in the house.

Sure enough, as he expected, how could He Liu's small body withstand him to have fun for a long time?

When he entered the house, he turned and closed the door, and then glanced at the girl he had brought in.

The girl thought that she should be an acquaintance, and she knew what he meant by looking at He Liu's eyes, and she raised her head and began to moan out of the window. groaned, so that the people outside could hear that it seemed that two people were enjoying the joy of fish and water in the house,

The screams were getting louder and louder, but the girl's hand did not stop, she turned to the bed, leaned down, put her arm into the crack of the bed, grabbed something, and turned it hard,

"Giggle~"

This small sound is like someone holding two large stone slabs and rubbing each other's foreheads,

"Ah~Ah~Ah~"

Then the girl's cry became louder, and the sound was muffled.

In response, the originally flat floor sank down for a while, revealing a staircase leading to the bottom,

After He Liu made a gesture to the girl, he walked cautiously along the steep staircase,

It wasn't until the girl leaning behind the bed heard the knocking sound from the metal pipe that was deep into the ground next to her ear, that the hand that reached into the crack of the bed turned in reverse again.

"Giggle~"

The voice sounded again, and the ground slowly returned to leveling, and the girl pulled the dirty gray floor that had been lifted next to it, and laid it on the ground again, and now no one could see the mystery on the floor.