Dong Ce is really a hundred secrets, he actually saw from the confession last night that Xiaolian had a problem, but he felt that it was not time to arrest her, after all, there was no evidence at all, just because the confession was wrong, people could remember the wrong thing. But I never thought that there was no parole in these years, let alone the control of witnesses, as long as the case is understood, who cares what you do.

"Then what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and arrest someone!" Dong Ce was almost speechless to death.

"Don't worry, no one who has been targeted by our Jinling Capture has yet been able to escape!" Fang Shuwei smiled and rushed out of the restaurant like a gust of wind.

"I hope you don't blow the cowhide out!" Dong Ce looked at Fang Shuwei's back and sighed lightly.

"Dong Gongzi, what are we going to do next?" Shi Mao asked.

Dong Shizhi groaned, and said: "The maid Xiaolian absconding does not mean that the man will also follow along, it is likely to flee separately, and it may also be hidden in Jinling Mansion, so I am afraid that you will have to search the whole mansion!" ”

"Ahh But we don't know what that man looks like! Shi Mao exclaimed.

"Don't you have the characteristics of a criminal in that box!" Dong Ce pointed to the wooden box beside him.

"Ugh! Yes, I forgot about this, there are footprints and broken jade, and there are torn robe fabrics, as long as you ask around first, you may be able to find clues! Shi Mao said overjoyed.

"By the way, that man should be about six feet tall!" Dong Ce reminded.

"Hey, how does Dong Gongzi know?" Shi Mao took a breath and said in a slightly surprised way.

"Don't forget, his jade belt was broken when it hit the fence, judging from the distance between the traces on the fence and the ground, it was about to come out." Dong Ce said with a smile.

"I see!" Shi Mao was greatly admired and bowed his hand to Dong Ce, and said ashamedly: "I didn't expect that Dong Gongzi was so proficient in investigating the case, and I hope Dong Gongzi will not blame him for his previous offenses." ”

"Do more work and talk less nonsense, close the case quickly, I don't have that spare time to spend with you." After Dong Ce finished speaking, he ignored Shi Mao and took care of the wine and food that had just been served.

It is undeniable that the efficiency of Jinling is indeed very high, under the order of Mr. Fang, twenty-two fast soldiers began to search in four ways, and notified all the large and small checkpoints, and in the morning of two days later, in the roadside inn leading to Jinling Mansion, the maid Xiaolian was captured!

It's a pity that Xiaolian is alone, following a caravan, but the man who committed the murder can't be found!

When Xiaolian was escorted back to the Yamen, the woman still wanted to explain it and pleaded not guilty, but when Shi Mao showed the evidence collected by Dong Ce, she cried bitterly and admitted that the murderer was indeed someone else, but this person did not appear again after killing Jia Yuniang, and the Yamen could only send a painter to ask Xiaolian about the appearance and characteristics of the murderer, and his height was not different from the six feet that Dong Ce expected, which once again made the criminal arrest room admire this son of the Dong family!

As for the occurrence of the whole case, in fact, Xiaolian is not very clear, but said that she heard a slight noise in the building that day, she felt strange, and was attached to the door to listen carefully, and was suddenly pulled in by a person who opened the door, and when she entered the house, she immediately found that Jia Yuniang had fallen to the ground with a knife, and she was already angry.

After that, the man threatened Xiaolian, and when Dong Yuanchang on the bed woke up, he used his screams to attract the neighbors, so that she could also escape!

Because Xiaolian and Jia Yuniang both had an affair with this man, Xiaolian was also worried that after the man was caught, she would not be able to escape suspicion, so she helped the murderer.

However, Xiaolian also told that she first had an adulterous affair with a man, and then the man coveted Jia Yuniang's beauty and forced Xiaolian to help him tempt Jia Yuniang, so Jia Yuniang didn't know about their adultery until she died, and only thought that the man was Xiaolian's brother.

This made Fang Shuwei blush again, because Dong Ce guessed correctly again, and although her whimsy was right, it was a pity that it went too far!

Although the case is not over, Dong Yuanchang was still acquitted, and he can be regarded as understanding Dong Ce's thoughts.

But is it really that simple behind the scenes?

In the north city of Jinling Mansion, in another Dong family's mansion, Dong Yantao, who was wearing an embroidered tiger silk robe, sat calmly in the study, closed his eyes and listened to the report of his son Dong Ziquan.

"You didn't reveal your identity, did you?" Dong Yantao said in a deep voice.

Dong Ziquan smiled and said: "How could the child jump into the pit by himself, just a letter written that Dong Yuanchang knew about their adultery can be done, but this guy is really bad, I originally hoped that he would kill Dong Yuanchang, but I didn't expect that he would kill Jia Yuniang, but this can be regarded as dragging Dong Yuanchang to prison!" ”

"Well, then again, I didn't expect that stinky boy to have such skills! Even Dong Yuanchang can be rescued after he confesses, it seems that I will pay more attention to this kid in the future! Dong Yantao slowly opened his eyes, and an aura of non-anger and self-authority instantly hit Dong Ziquan, making the latter feel a thrill all over his body.

"Dad, anyway, we didn't think that we could easily kill Dong Yuanchang before, as long as we held him hostage for a few days, this is also to ensure that nothing goes wrong, otherwise he will notice that the merchant ships of Luzhou and Yuezhou have arrived at Huating Mansion at the same time, and I am not sure that he will have any means of prevention, and now that he has come out, he will definitely not be able to catch up in time, and Huating Mansion will definitely stage a good show now!" It's a pity that we can't find out the route of their westbound caravan until now, otherwise...... Hum! Dong Ziquan smiled sadly.

"Hmm!" Dong Yantao also felt quite sorry for the response, and continued: "Although this flood has made us suffer a lot of losses, it also just gives us a good opportunity to eradicate the merchant guild in one fell swoop, and also, don't show up again over there in Huating Mansion, the situation in Jiangnan is not as simple as it seems, this is all played by those Dashi clans, we had better get involved less." ”

Dong Ziquan's eyes flashed a few times before he arched his hand and said, "The child knows!" ”

As the saying goes, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and Dong Yuanchang just walked out of the dungeon here, and on the other side, an amazing news came from the east and approached the Dong family!

Dong Yuanchang went home the first night, he has been thinking hard about life in the bedroom, he didn't expect to come back alive, after all, he suspected that he had drunk too much and killed Jia Yuniang by mistake, even if it wasn't, but in the case of people and stolen goods, he couldn't justify, besides, thinking that after the death of his wife and father, his son was a stranger to him, and now that Yuniang is dead again, he suddenly felt that life was boring, so he simply confessed.

However, Dong Yuanchang never expected that his son, who had always been indifferent to him, would take the risk of overturning the case for him and rescue him from the dungeon in a good manner, which made Dong Yuanchang sigh at what his son had done for him, and he didn't know how to face it!

All day, Dong Yuanchang stayed at home, because he felt that he had no face to see his son, and he didn't know how to face it, what to say, thank you, or .......

Under the difficult choice, Dong Yuanchang had insomnia all night, and when he couldn't stand the exhaustion, he was about to go to bed, and suddenly came out to report.

"Master, something is wrong!" Song Geng suddenly rushed open the door, staggering and almost falling to the ground.

"What?" Dong Yuanchang frowned.

Song Geng wiped his sweat and said tremblingly: "I, the sea ship we came back from Luzhou and Yuezhou, at the same time, in, in Huating Mansion, when we changed boats, we were robbed by the victims of the riot!" ”

"What!" When Dong Yuanchang heard this, his eyes instantly darkened!

"The merchant ships in Luzhou came back three days late because of the incomplete procurement of goods, but they never expected that the return time would arrive at Huating Mansion on the same day as the merchant ships that rushed back from Yuezhou, and what was more coincidental was that the victims of Huating Mansion suddenly rioted on the same day, all the goods and goods were gone, and even eight large sea ships and seventeen merchant ships sailing the river were gone! Master! ”

When Song Geng heard these news, he was not the same as Dong Yuanchang at this moment! Even the steward of the ship is still his brother Song Cong, now not only the ship and cargo are gone, but even the hundreds of shipwrights and the ship's shopkeeper have no news, only a dozen boatmen with good water nature dived to avoid the dock and sneaked back to report the news!

These news kept hitting Song Geng's mind, but he still managed not to fall down and came back to report, but this does not mean that Dong Yuanchang can be as strong as him!

Dong Yuanchang's eyes suddenly turned black, and he fell to the ground!

On this day, the major events that shocked the entire Jiangnan and even the whole country spread rapidly.

Two months after the great flood in the south of the Yangtze River, a large number of victims who had not been relieved by the imperial court for a long time began to riot inland from Huating Mansion, and the scope of spread swept the entire Huzhou in just two days, affecting three prefectures and sixteen counties, and there were smashes and lootings everywhere, among which the Yamen was the most important, and I heard that there was a prefect and four prefects who died tragically in the hands of the victims of the riot!

Although there is still some distance between all this and Ningzhou Jinling Mansion, many people are also implicated, especially the business guild!

As many as nearly a million pieces of goods were all gone in an instant, and among these goods, only two percent belonged to the Dong family, and the remaining eighty percent were goods from other owners of the commercial guild and some merchants who paid for towing, and the ships of the Dong family's commercial house also disappeared collectively, these are the foundation of the Dong family! If it is said that it is gone, it will be gone, how can the Dong family bear it?

"Dong Yuanchang, get out of here!"

"Nephew Dong, we have been following your father to following you for more than 30 years, and now that such a big thing has happened, why do you have to show up and give us an explanation!"

"What do you want him to explain, just pay for it!"

"It's light to say, how to pay? What else does his Dong family have to compensate us now? ”

"I know how to compensate, don't their Dong family still have westbound caravans, take those compensation!"

"There's ours in those goods, so don't touch them!"

"What can't be touched, why can't you touch, I'm not a member of the merchant guild, I'm just consigning, the deposit has been given, and the notes have been signed, why can't you take the goods from the merchant guild to pay us?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you know how the shipwrights are doing? My man is a shipwright in the merchant guild fleet, what happened to him? Please tell me, gentlemen! ”

"Get out of here, it's because your man is too bad that he robbed Lao Tzu's goods, it's not bad that Lao Tzu didn't trouble your family, but you came by yourself!"

At this moment, the crowd outside the Dong Mansion is angry, clamoring for the Dong family to lose money, there are also arguing and spitting at each other, and there are even family members who come to ask for the safety of the shipwright, all in all, this indicates that this business association is going to die, and the Dong family is dead!

"Young boy, you have a lot of ideas, you can think of a way!" Liu Fu listened to the commotion outside, and asked in a panic about Dong Ce, who was sitting on the stone bench and was in the mood to make tea.

"You and I are a god, this situation is only over!" Although Dong Ce was also very depressed, he didn't panic, besides, what else could make him panic in this life? I've died once, so why be afraid of this?

However, this trick was indeed played beautifully, and even Dong Ce couldn't help but applaud.

In fact, as soon as the problem appeared, he roughly guessed who was behind it!

The victims are not chaotic in the morning, not chaotic in the evening, not chaotic in Ningzhou, not chaotic in Suzhou, chaotic in Huzhou, but their merchant ships arrived at Huating Mansion at the same time as the rebellion, you said that all this is not related, and you don't believe it when you kill Dong Ce!

It is definitely the opponent of the merchant guild, and it is a message to some lawbreakers, otherwise how will the victims know when the ship of the merchant guild will arrive, and when the government and the army learn the news, they will not care about this, and they will rush to suppress the chaos, who cares about your goods, even if it is taken from the hands of the chaos, it will be confiscated as military salaries, and they can't work in vain!

All this has obviously been premeditated for a long time, and he has a certain strength to fan the victims, but this one he played, can the big man who is ready to close the net agree? Maybe there is a connection between them, but all in all, this move really killed the Dong family in seconds!

Just when Dong Ce was guessing this, in a single building on the bank of the Qinhuai River in Jinling Mansion, Bai Xuemoth, who had just come down from the Jinxiang Flower Boat yesterday, was quietly listening to the report of his subordinate Hei San.

"In this way, the Dong family is completely dead!" Bai Xue Moth was unbelievable, you know, Dong Ce has always given her an unfathomable feeling, but why did his family suddenly lose? And why didn't the forces behind him come to the fore? Could it be that he has been confusing himself all this time? In fact, he is just a strong outsider?

"White lady, do you want me to go to Dong's house tonight and completely cut off his roots!" Hei San said viciously.

Bai Xue Moth shook his head and said: "If he is really lustful, we don't need to care about these few days, the top priority is to gain a firm foothold in this disaster, we have already lost to the Five Fire Hall, I didn't expect them to fight such a beautiful battle in Huating Mansion, this fire is indeed burning well, if we don't take precautions, our forces in Jiangnan are likely to be swallowed up by them!" ”

"Those guys in Wuhuotang are all fanatics, if we make such a fuss, this section of the river basin will be blocked, and even if we win the Humen warship, we won't be able to go to sea!" Black Trinity sighed.

"The ship is secondary, the top priority is to stabilize people's hearts, step by step, and don't mess up!" The white snow moth calmed down and said leisurely.

Hearing Bai Xuemo's words, Hei San couldn't help but be stunned, and said curiously: "Shouldn't it be a big deal to win people's hearts at this time?" ”

"Win people's hearts, heh!" Bai Xue Moth smiled and whispered: "Our Lady once said that few people in the world can see through the scheming of the old poisonous woman, if she doesn't make a move, the situation will be reversed, I think this Huating Mansion riot is likely to be played by her!" ”

Bai Xue Moth was stunned when he heard what he said, and couldn't help but be curious: "No, it's not good for her to be in chaos in the world, and she doesn't provide disaster relief, so why do you want to add to the chaos?" ”

"You know what." Bai Xue Moth snorted coldly and said: "If she pays money, it is equivalent to raising tigers, if she doesn't pay, she will give the hearts of the people to others, this trick is too beautiful, but if the person who casts the net does not collect the net well, or even is pulled into the water by the big fish, it is equivalent to sending him to the funeral!" Therefore, the old poisonous woman will give him a big fish! ”

Hei San became even more confused after hearing this, feeling that the more he listened to this matter, the more puzzled he became, he simply stopped asking about it, anyway, these things were beyond his scope, so why bother.