Chapter 126: Intrigues
In the master bedroom of a courtyard somewhere in Tian's Wu Fort, a young Langjun was lying on the couch and talking to a man on the couch, and another person was standing next to him, the young Langjun was Tian Yilong, the only son of Tian Zongguang, the head of the Tian family, the man on the couch was Bo Zhengtong, the lord of Bazhou, and the person standing next to him was the housekeeper.
"I don't know Zhang An, I've never dealt with each other." Tian Yilong said sickly, the housekeeper brought someone to say that the Yuwen envoy in the city wanted to handle the case and let people come to ask questions, so he was strong and let this Zheng Zhubo ask questions.
The housekeeper specially mentioned that it was the patriarch who ordered him to cooperate with the government, so Tian Yilong had to answer no matter how unhappy he was, he was not afraid of anyone, he was afraid of his father Tian Zongguang, and it was even more suspicious if he refused to see it.
"What was Lang Jun doing on April 12?" Zheng Tong asked.
"It's been more than half a year, where do I remember." Tian Yilong lay on the couch and looked up and replied.
"What enemies does Lang Jun have on weekdays?"
"It's too much to say."
Zheng Tong glanced at the other party and continued to ask him who he had befriended in the city on weekdays, how many times he had been to Xiyang City from April 10 to 20, whether he had been out of Bazhou or anyone who had done anything bad during this period, etc.
Tian Yilong's answers to these various questions are mostly vague, either he can't remember clearly, or it seems to, seem, maybe, probably, etc., and after asking it again, purely from the answers, the questions asked and those who did not ask are almost without substance.
Seeing that Tian Yilong was becoming more and more impatient, the butler standing on the side was also sweating on his forehead, this person in front of him was unruly, if he had a seizure, it was not a joke, and his primary duty was to prevent Tian Yilong from getting mad and hurting people, and it would not look good.
Another duty is to beware of this Zheng Zhubo suddenly rising up and taking Tian Yilong hostage, the sect chief has already arranged in advance, if Bazhou assassin Shi Yuwen Wen and his party want to see Tian Yilong, and he can't shirk it, he will respond on the side, so as not to be attacked by others.
Zheng Tong asked some more questions and then got up to leave. When the butler led him back to the hall, the banquet was almost over. Yuwen Wenzheng, who was drunk with red faces, and Tian Zongguang laughed and talked about the wind: "So to speak." If you talk about strength, Sect Chief Lu can also be regarded as a defeated general under Sect Chief Tian! ”
"I don't dare to be, it's just that when I was young, it was common for everyone to start dividing their superiors as soon as they didn't say a word!" Tian Zongguang laughed with the wine jug, Yuwen Wen was about to reach out and grab another wine jug to come over to fight for wine, and when he saw Zheng Tong stepping forward, he asked if it was over.
Seeing that Zheng Tong nodded, Yu Wenwen got up to say goodbye after saying goodbye, Tian Zongguang led the clan elder to send him and his group out of the dock fort, and only after Yu Wenwen rode away on a rickety horse with the help of his entourage, he turned around and walked back.
"How?" Tian Zongguang asked when he saw the housekeeper coming up, and after hearing the housekeeper say that there was nothing wrong, he turned his head to look at the back of Yuwenwen, who had turned into a black spot, and snorted: "Little fox!" ”
"Old fox!" Yuwen Wen snorted while riding on the horse, and now he no longer had the drunken and hazy appearance of Fang Cai, and a pair of eyes looked at Zheng Tong with bright eyes and asked if he had gained anything.
Zheng Tong said that Tian Zongguang's son, Tian Yilong, was pretending to be sick. Yuwen Wen glanced at him and said don't talk nonsense, Zheng Tong coughed several times when he heard this, and said that Tian Yilong was lying.
"There are many purposes for lying, what's the point?" Yu Wenwen seemed to have expected this answer for a long time and asked nonchalantly.
"He's covering up, he's clearing up, he's clearing up everything that might be reminiscent of a case." Zheng Tong smiled, and when he saw that Yuwen Wen was also smiling, he added: "I really want to cover up!" ”
Yu Wenwen asked, Tian Yilong denied that he had entered the city in April, and when he saw that the other party nodded, he asked him what he thought, Zheng Tong saw that he was left behind, so he rode his horse and whispered that it was very suspicious, because according to the previous city gate guards, in mid-April, Tian Yilong had entered the city once.
"Check, check what he did when he entered the city that day, find out the real evidence, come to the official to see what else the father and son have to quibble!" ……
Hengzhou. A middle-aged man in a torture cell in a state prison was being tied to a torture rack, his clothes in tatters and bruises all over his body. Hanging his head and not moving, a shirtless jailer next to him put down the leather whip in his hand, picked up a bucket of water and threw it on his head.
The cold water poured on his head and made the middle-aged man feel excited, and he reluctantly raised his head and looked at several people in front of him by the dim candlelight, one of whom was about twenty years old and looking at him with a smile.
"Li Dangjia, it's better to find a good burial method than to die anyway, and if you confess well, I will protect you on Wednesday and you can be buried together." After drinking a glass of water, the young man said that he was Zhou Faming, the younger brother of Zhou Fashang, the assassin of Hengzhou.
This middle-aged man who was tied up was the thief he met when Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County rushed to Bazhou to take up the post of assassin that day.
"You guys, hehe" Li Dangjia grinned, he swallowed hard and continued: "Aren't you just unable to solve the case, so you want to get all the cases on the border of Hengzhou on my head?" Bah! ”
"Whatever you want, get all the charges!"
"I don't see it, but you can see it, in that case, then you did what happened to the old woman who was harmed a few months ago." Zhou Faming sneered, and he motioned for the jailer to start recording.
"Today, Li Que'er confessed that on September 10, she saw an old woman on the outskirts of the state capital, and she had evil intentions, so she was taken captive to do that adulterous thing, and finally killed people and threw her body away."
Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a burst of laughter from Li Dangjia: "Hahahahaha!" I thought I was dark enough, but I didn't expect you to be even darker! ”
Zhou Faming sneered and said, You led a group of people to intercept and kill the merchant travelers, and you did a lot of evil, and the rape and murder of the old woman did not tarnish the notoriety of Li Da's family. He looked at what the jailer had written, nodded, and then added: "Even the old woman didn't let go of committing such a heinous thing, and Li Da Boss is afraid that he will be stripped naked and parade through the streets!" ”
"Zhou Faming! I can't curse you! Before Li Dangjia's poisonous oath was finished, he was punched in the face by the jailer and spat blood, and when he was dizzy, he only felt that his hand was being pulled up and his thumb was dipped on a piece of paper.
Zhou Faming looked at the piece of paper with a smile and said that he had solved another mystery case, and he was indeed a master of solving cases, Li Dangjia looked at him with tears in his eyes, and was about to swear a curse and swear poison, but when he saw the door open, a jailer walked in.
The jailer held a piece of paper full of words in his hand and held it in front of Zhou Faming with a smile and said that the people over there couldn't eat it, and they had recruited what they had committed with Li Dangjia in April, Zhou Faming took the paper and looked at it, and he was also smiling, he glanced at Li Dangjia and scolded "I don't know how to lift", and then turned to leave, leaving a sentence when he went out:
"Oh, this is stripped naked, and the old and young ladies are really panicked when they see you!"
Li Dangjia's face has become pale, looking at Fang Cai's posture, it should be that his subordinates can't stand the torture and confess a thing, seeing that he can't be buried with his body after death, and even has to be stripped naked before being tortured, he is so anxious that he is sweating profusely.
"No, no, Zhou Langjun, don't go! I recruited, I recruited! He shouted hoarsely, the matter has come to this point, death is definitely going to die, so he can only strive to die happily, bury it in the ground, and be able to have all the corpses of Amitabha Buddha.
Zhou Faming squinted his eyes and said that if you recruit all your subordinates, you won't work hard, Li Dangjia saw that the other party no longer took himself seriously, and shouted that he had an inside story that his subordinates didn't know, and when he saw that the other party was quite interested, he turned around and walked over, so he asked if what he said before counted.
"I'll calculate something with you, and after you cut off your head and show it to the public for a few days, you will be asked to collect the corpse, and the corpse will be buried together and the whole corpse will be reincarnated! Remember to be a good person in the next life! Zhou Faming said with a righteous expression.
"That being the case, I said, I said, I said it all," Li Dangjia was so grateful that he almost cried with joy, and he told the story of a case that he had not confessed to before: in April, he led his men to wait for rabbits on the official road, and as a result, he made a deal at the junction of Hengzhou and Bazhou.
"Nonsense, to the point!"
"I said, I said, they don't know what the name of the bitter lord is, and what is the whereabouts of him, but I know." Li Dangjia said with a spittle, and when he saw that the other party was interested, he told the 'insider': "When I searched the body, I found a worship post on the leader's body. ”
"I don't know anyone else, I know it, that person is from Xiyang County, Bazhou, surnamed Zhang Ming'an"
Zhou Faming heard that the other party said "surnamed Zhang Ming'an", and then his eyes narrowed, and he called the prison officials to record what Li Dangjia said and all the questions about this case, including the time, place and other details, and repeated them so that Li Dangjia could confirm that they were correct, and then draw them into custody.
After reading the confession carefully, he patted Li Dangjia on the shoulder and said that if he confessed earlier, he would not have to suffer such a crime, and the other party saw that he was about to leave, and shouted anxiously what to do with the old woman's case, he didn't want to be stripped naked and paraded in the street.
"Old woman? By the way, that old woman is actually an old sow who ran away with the boar next door, I remembered it wrong, I laughed, I laughed. Zhou Faming looked at him narrowly, "I don't think anyone believes that Li Dangjia will be interested in an old sow, right?" ”
Hearing this, Li Dangjia's mouth couldn't close together, and he wanted to say something but couldn't say it, Zhou Faming seemed to remember something, so he took the jailer in just now and shook the paper full of words in front of him, and asked him if he recognized what was written on it.
Li Dangjia looked at the content on the paper, and then was dumbfounded, but he seemed to be afraid of reading it wrong, and read it carefully a few times, seeing his suspicious expression, Zhou Faming kindly explained: "I don't blame you for not recognizing it all, this is a thousand-character text, and I can only recognize it after being taught by Mr. Mengxue." ”
"This and this turned out to be fake? They didn't confess? Li Dangjia asked in disbelief.
"Ben Lang-kun's words count, let you have a corpse." Zhou Faming said with a smile, he folded the paper and stuffed it into the other party's arms: "If you are a human being in the next life, you should be a teacher." ”
The surrounding jailers were relieved to see that this drama was over, and they all packed up the torture tools, and two people stepped forward to untie Li Dangjia from the torture rack and take him to the cell, Zhou Faming handed the confession to a jailer and ordered him to copy a copy.
"Twenty-three, you will take the copied copy and bring it to Bazhou immediately, and hand it over to Yuwen Envoy!" (To be continued.) )