Chapter 32: Damned But Not Dead?
When Jiang Chuan led the people to the prefect's yamen, he saw the two Iron Eagle warriors in the courtyard and the corpses of the other servants who had been pinched off by the fake Wang Ke.
"Who did it?" Jiang Chuan glanced at the wounds on the corpses of the two Iron Eagle warriors and said, "They were all sneak attacked, and they are a master." ”
The rest of the people talked about the matter, Jiang Chuan thought about it, and had some eyebrows in his heart.
"The gates of the city continue to be sealed, and no one is allowed to enter or leave without orders." Jiang Chuan turned his head and ordered.
Ji Biao sent someone to give orders to the local garrison, and Jiang Chuan led people into the back office and saw Wang Ke who was unconscious.
Jiang Chuan picked up Wang Ke's hand and looked at it, and then said to Xu Qinglang, who was pale-faced behind him: "Look, is it the Jeju prefect you have seen?" ”
Xu Qinglang stepped forward and looked at it carefully for a moment and then affirmed: "Although the appearance is very similar, it is definitely not a person." ”
Jiang Chuan nodded and said, "Wake him up, and the answer will be there." ”
Xu Qinglang was simple and rude, brought a plate of water and poured it on Wang Ke's head, and after a while, Wang Ke woke up leisurely and looked at the group of people in front of him with a confused face.
"Tell me, who are you, and who is the one who replaces you?" Jiang Chuan sat on a Taishi chair brought by Ji Biao and asked slowly.
Wang Ke looked at the majestic young man in front of him in confusion, and hesitated: "Who are you?" ”
"I'm Jiang Chuan."
Wang Ke is still a little confused, he has been imprisoned for three years, and he doesn't know anything about the current situation today, and naturally he doesn't know who Jiang Chuan is.
Jiang Chuan didn't know how to explain, and finally said: "I represent the imperial court, you can say anything." ”
Wang Ke was skeptical, but in the end he told everything and everything.
"Qin Mu? Are you saying that your sworn brother imprisoned you for three years and impersonated you as prefect for three years? After listening to this, Jiang Chuan felt very absurd in his heart.
"Didn't your family and friends come to you in the past three years? He can't handle it every time, can he? Egawa asked.
"My family has all passed away, and I don't have a few friends. I had nothing to talk about before with Qin Mu, and he knew everything about me very well. Even if an old friend comes to visit once in a while, he can cope with it. By the way, he also read a lot of books when he was a teenager. It's only because I don't know anyone that I ended up like this. ”
Wang Ke sighed.
"He has a lot of martial arts?" Jiang Chuan thought about it and asked again.
"On my way to Beijing to take the exam, I encountered a group of vicious robbers, and many of my companions were killed. At last he suddenly came out and killed several of the bandit leaders, and the robbers retreated in fear. He told me that he had no father or mother, that he had grown up with a lame old man, and that he had learned martial arts from him. I didn't know what he had been through all these years, and eventually I didn't know him at all. ”
Wang Ke's words seemed to have a lot of regret for that Qin Mu.
"Can you draw a portrait of him?" Jiang Chuan asked.
"Yes. However, he is very good at disguise, and even if there is a portrait, he may not be able to catch him. Wang Ke said.
"If you draw it, I'll be able to catch him." Jiang Chuan said indifferently.
Wang Ke didn't say anything more, he felt a strong coercion from the young man in front of him, and what he said made people dare not disobey it easily.
There is a pen, ink, paper and inkstone in the study, as a jinshi of the year, the basic skills of Danqing are to be mastered.
Soon, the portrait was drawn, Jiang Chuan took a look, his heart moved, and then handed it to Xu Qinglang on the side.
Then, he turned his head to look at Wang Ke and asked, "He imprisoned you for three years, but he didn't kill you, and he could have killed you when he left, so that no one knew his true identity, why didn't he do it, why?" ”
Wang Ke was stunned and looked at Jiang Chuan with a blank expression.
Jiang Chuan also looked at him, and after a while, Jiang Chuan got up and said, "You recuperate first, you can't get away with the sin." ”
With a wave of his hand, two Iron Eagle warriors walked out with Wang Ke with a dazed face.
"Think about it, why didn't that Qin Mu kill Wang Ke? This is very counterintuitive. Jiang Chuan looked at Ji Biao and Xu Qinglang and asked.
Ji Biao frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "Although this person is bold, he may really be a person who values love and righteousness, so he will not kill Wang Ke." ”
Jiang Chuan was silent and looked at Xu Qinglang.
Xu Qinglang was extremely depressed in his heart, feeling that he had lost all the face he could in the past few days, and all of it was in front of the regent.
Although he doesn't seem to blame him for today's incident, in the final analysis, it was his own carelessness.
He knew that Jiang Chuan was asking him now to give him one last chance. If you can't perform well this time, then the future is really over.
"The subordinates thought that the reason why Qin Mu didn't kill Wang Ke was not because he valued love and righteousness, if he really valued love and righteousness, then he would not have imprisoned his sworn brother for three years in order to collect money. If he doesn't kill Wang Ke, it is very likely that he has a reason why he can't kill him. ”
"And what is the reason for this?" Jiang Chuan asked.
"The subordinates think that the relationship between these two people is not just the kind of sworn brotherhood that Wang Ke said, there must be a more important relationship, but the subordinates are still unknown." Xu Qinglang said in a deep voice.
"Okay, send someone down to post a notice in the whole city, Jeju Governor Wang Ke colluded with bandits, corrupted the law, disregarded people's lives, and the crime was not forgiven, and he was beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market three days later. In addition, Jeju General sentenced Ma Bangde to be promoted to the prefect of Jeju. ”
Jiang Chuan nodded and said.
Ji Biao and Xu Qinglang looked at each other all of a sudden, dazed, and couldn't figure out what was going on at all.
Shouldn't it be that Ma Bond was beheaded and Wang Ke was alive? How did this turn the other way around?
Jiang Chuan didn't explain, but said, "Just do it." ”
Xu Qinglang hesitated for a moment and finally came back to his senses and accepted the order in a deep voice.
Jiang Chuan said to Ji Biao again: "In the past few days, you have taken the local garrison to clean up all these rats, cockroaches and other things in the city." Kill what should be killed, catch what should be caught, can't have a broom, these things won't run away on their own. ”
"Hei Bingtai will find out all the unclean buttocks in this yamen, and if there are not enough people, I will adjust it for you, and I will give you as much as you want. It doesn't matter who is involved, it doesn't matter if the yamen in Jeju are empty. ”
After Jiang Chuan finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Xu Qinglang.
Xu Qinglang didn't expect that Jiang Chuan not only did not punish himself, but continued to entrust him with important tasks, he was grateful in his heart, his nose was sore, and he knelt down on one knee and said: "Son, his subordinates are full of liver and brain, and they will never give up." ”
Jiang Chuan helped him up and smiled slightly: "It doesn't matter if you make mistakes, I will give opportunities to those who do things sincerely." If you don't do things, you won't make mistakes, and you will make mistakes when you do things. Just be bold and do it. ”
Xu Qinglang's tears welled up all of a sudden, his lips moved and he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, just kowtowed three times on the ground and got up and left.
There was now a fire in his heart, and it made him feel that his limbs were full of strength.