The group went directly to the prison under the leadership of the forbidden son, and the forbidden children here also knew the rules, so Ke Changming's prison still maintained the same as when he died.

Ke Changming, who was naked, hung on the iron fence of the prison like that, and according to the scene in front of him, it was speculated that he took advantage of the moment when he didn't smash the shackles, rubbed off his pants, tied his pants to the iron grille, put his neck in and began to spin in circles, and then strangled himself to death after tightening it tighter and tighter.

The color and shape of the face of the person after strangulation are really human, Tang Cheng didn't look at it anymore, he knew that he was not a professional, even if he looked at it again, he couldn't see anything, why should he suffer this crime again.

After Zhang Xianling endured his nausea and looked at it carefully for a while, he beckoned and ordered him to come up for an autopsy, but Zhao Laohu asked him to sit in the official room outside but refused, but he wanted to wait for the results here.

Seeing the angry look on Zhang Xianling's face, Tang Cheng's heart moved: "Could it be that he also sees any clues?" ”。

A pole man silently watched the busy work in the turbid prison cell, the atmosphere was very depressing, but the final result was the same as the forbidden son's return, this Ke Chang obviously committed suicide and died.

After waiting for more than an hour to get such a result, Zhang Xianling didn't say anything after hearing the report, and went straight back to the back house of the Yamen, Tang Cheng was speechless on the way back to send him back, but when he arrived at the door of the back house, Zhang County Ling said sullenly, "You go back and prepare, and send me an official document to the state city tomorrow."

The county government has always had a special person responsible for sending the official document to the state capital, at this time, Zhang County Ling specially ordered him to go, obviously the official document to be sent is unusual, looking at Zhang County's heavy face, Tang Cheng didn't say anything, nodded and said: "Okay!" ”。

After such a toss in the evening, the original joy was gone, and it was already very late. Tang Cheng, who was dressed in moonlight, did not go home directly from the county office, and turned into the courtyard in the east when he passed by the front yard.

The floor lamp in Zhao Laohu's office was still on, and when Tang Cheng walked over, there happened to be a person coming over, but when that person saw Tang Cheng, he didn't come forward to greet him, but suddenly lowered his head and hurriedly walked away from the side, the steps under his feet were really fast and urgent.

It's night. Under the deliberate avoidance of that person, Tang Cheng couldn't see his appearance clearly at all, and could only recognize that the clothes on his body should be the official clothes of the imprisoned children in the prison cell.

Tang Cheng was shocked when he saw this, and walked quickly to Zhao Laohu's office.

There was a lampstand with five lamps in Zhao Laohu's office, but at this time, the five lights on the lamp tree only lit the bottom one, which made the whole room look a little dim, coupled with a pot of muddy wine on the bookcase and Zhao Laohu, who was drinking without words, Tang Cheng, who walked into the office, suddenly felt an indescribable sad taste.

"Sad! How could this be? ”。 Tang Cheng smiled self-deprecatingly, and seeing that Zhao Laohu didn't greet him, he wanted to step forward and light up the other four lamps on the lamp tree as well. "It's me who turned off the light, so be it", Zhao Laohu's voice was a little low, and there were some inexplicable emotions in this low voice, but Tang Cheng couldn't tell what these emotions were.

After Zhao Laohu finished saying this, he didn't say anything more, and drank the wine cup in front of him. Putting down the fire sickle in his hand, Tang Cheng saw this, took the opportunity to lift the wine jar, and poured the empty wine cup full of wine.

"Open the window", Zhao Laohu's words were very strange. For the window which he signaled to be opened was facing the lamp tree, and the night wind that blew in when the window was opened must have blown out the only lamp.

Tang Cheng had heard of Zhao Laohu's old stories, seen Zhao Laohu's old scheming, and seen Zhao Laohu pretend to be rude, but the only thing he hadn't seen since he met was Zhao Laohu's sadness, which was really rare, even when he was injured in Erlongzhai a few days ago and had no hope of attacking the mountain. Tang Cheng's eyes were still firm, and there was no look of frustration or chagrin.

Tonight's Zhao Laohu is really special!

Tang Cheng waited for a moment, and saw that Zhao Laohu didn't say anything more. He walked to the window and pushed open the carved wooden window, and as the window opened, a faint night breeze came in with a hazy starlight.

The last oil lamp on the lamp tree flickered a few times, and finally went out, and the room was dark for a while, except for the faint light of the stars.

Tang Cheng turned around and sat down on a stool, facing Zhao Laohu across a table of books. Zhao Laohu drank, and Tang Cheng poured it. Pour three and drink three. After Tang Cheng poured down the fourth lamp, he took the wine ou in his hand aside: "The leg injury is not healed, so it is not suitable to drink." Borrowing wine to drown sorrow is even more sorrowful, this is the last light."

Zhao Laohu, who had already picked up the wine cup and brought it to his mouth, heard this, looked up at Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng's eyes looked a little shining under the starlight through the window, and he didn't back down at all when he met Zhao Laohu's eyes.

After the two looked at each other for a moment, Zhao Laohu turned his head to look out the window, but the wine cup in his hand was put down silently.

Tang Chenggang put the wine jar in his hand on the ground next to his lap, and Zhao Laohu's voice had already sounded faintly, "I was twenty-one years old when I entered the county government, and Yao Dongqi was twenty-six, and I was working as a knife and pen in charge of the criminal name in the east courtyard."

Tang Cheng was slightly stunned, and then understood that the "Yao Dongqi" in Zhao Laohu's mouth should be Master Yao's book.

"Before I entered the county government, I was a green-skinned gangster, in addition to knowing that my fists should be hard and people should be ruthless, what kind of cunning did I know about the cunning of the yamen? Recklessly made a lot of mistakes, those tolerances at that time originally looked at me with a thorn in the eye, and when I saw that I made a mistake, I laughed even more, just entered the yamen as an errand for less than a month, I can't wait to tear up the soap clothes and give up this bird errand", at this point, Zhao Laohu paused slightly, and said after a while: "If I really did this back then, do you know where I am now?" ”。

Although Zhao Laohu was in a questioning tone, he didn't mean to ask Tang Cheng to answer, and after asking, he pointed to the sky outside the window to the west, "I've thought about this question many times over the years, but there is only one answer...... Prison Guard! Just like Sun San'er and She Qi, the green-skinned leaders I caught with my own hands later, the majesty that people outside are afraid of is actually a joke, and the iron rulers, chains, and water and fire sticks in the hands of the tolerance are real."

What Zhao Laohu said Tang Cheng can understand, mixing on the streets, at least in a small place like Yunxi City. Its practical use is not too much brain, and in an environment where the pattern is too small, as long as the person is ruthless enough and the fist is hard enough. But the mixed yamen is a different concept, after all, there are a lot of constraints here that make you can't just throw your fists at the slightest disagreement.

Zhao Laohu received a large reward for killing the tiger, not to mention, and because of this, he wore a tolerance soap suit, and it was not surprising that the other husbands were not pleasing to this former green skin under the hot eyes, after all, he was an outlier. The meaning of the anomaly is abnormal, and the abnormal thing or person is easy to obscure people's eyes.

"At that time, the only thing that treated me differently in the entire East Courtyard was Yao Dongqi, that time when I couldn't hold back my filthy anger and wanted to work with the team leader, it was he who forced me down, it was he who pulled me down this time, and I became completely two things in my life", Zhao Laohu's voice was faint. It's very bland, plain filled with infinite memories, "Yao Dongqi is a hard-working man, his father died early since he was a child, and he was raised by his widowed mother to wash people's clothes, and at the age of eleven, he went to the county school at that time to learn to be a servant to make a living, and that Xue is a person from Jiangnan, and his knowledge is good, but the tone of a good man is not good." He worked in Yunxi for eight years, Yao Dongqi stayed at his house for eight years, and when Lao Xuezheng was leaving, he was stunned to recommend him to the county government, so although Yao Dongqi is only five years older than me, he knows too many more things than me."

This is the first time Tang Cheng has heard that Yao Dongqi was born, but he didn't expect that this person who made him hate once had such a difficult past.

"I was able to stay in the yamen and get on good terms with the head of the class. Even later to be able to take over the job of chief arrester, Yao Dongqi taught me a lot, a lot...... It's a pity that it ...... later". At this point, Zhao Laohu smacked his lips silently, but he didn't say anything more.

Zhao Laohu must have had a falling out with Yao Dongqi later, and this collapse left an irreparable rift in the relationship between the two, so that although they were still able to maintain a large colleague relationship later, they could never return to their previous friendship.

Thinking of the fact that these days in the yamen I heard that Zhao Laohu was promoted to county lieutenant for a year or two, Tang Cheng vaguely seemed to understand something, but if the person concerned did not say it in person. No matter how clever he was, he couldn't guess why.

Zhao Laohu was silent for a long time. Tang Cheng didn't speak, he knew that all Zhao Laohu needed now was remembrance. This kind of remembrance is not only a summary of a certain person, a certain event, or a certain feeling in the past; Perhaps it is also the prelude to Zhao Laohu's important decision after experiencing such things tonight.

After being silent for a long time, Zhao Laohu picked up the muddy wine, but stopped at his mouth and didn't drink it, "Whether it is in terms of ability or means, Zhang Wupo is too far behind Yao Dongqi, but unfortunately, it's a pity that he is one less famous!" With a difference in fame, Yao Dongqi can no longer sit in the main hall, and now he even has to put his own life into it......".

After muttering "fame" twice in his mouth, Zhao Laohu raised his neck and drank all the muddy wine in the cup, "Fame!" In the long sigh, as Zhao Laohu's hand was loosened, there was a sound of "pop", and the empty wine cup fell into pieces on the ground.

Zhao Laohu said that it was Yao Dongqi, in fact, he himself was not like this, if it weren't for his green skin background and no fame, in terms of ability and political achievements, he should have been promoted to the state to be the Sima in charge of the criminal name. These thoughts flashed in Tang Cheng's mind, and now he didn't have the heart to sigh about this, what kept echoing in his heart was the last sentence that Zhao Laohu just said about Yao Dongqi, "Now I even have to put ......my life into it."

It seems that all the spirit in his chest has been vented with the action of smashing the lamp, Zhao Laohu got up and closed the window, and turned on the five oil lamps on the lamp tree one by one, and for a while the official room was full of light, and Zhao Laohu in front of Tang Cheng returned to Su Ri's composure, where there was still a little bit of depression just now? If it weren't for the fact that he was actually sitting opposite Zhao Laohu, Tang Chengzhen was a little skeptical that everything just now was really born, and while sighing, it made him know more about Zhao Laohu.

"Yao Dongqi's mind would not have done such a stupid thing, but unfortunately his age and mind are too eager, and Li Lingzhi is dizzy! Ah Cheng, you must remember these four words firmly and remember them for a lifetime! ”。

Tang Cheng didn't listen to Zhao Laohu's words, because his attention was all attracted by the few pieces of paper that Zhao Laohu pressed on the table.

This is a few pieces of bamboo-patterned paper full of blood-red handprints, after Tang Chenggang saw the word "confession" on the head. His heartbeat suddenly accelerated a little, his eyes didn't stay on the text at all, and he turned directly to the bottom corner of the right side of the last piece of paper, and after seeing a crooked and irregular circle and a heavily pressed handprint on the three words "Ke Changming", Tang Changcheng let out a long breath.

Zhao Laohu really didn't disappoint!

"Take Zhang Xiangwen and Lao Gantou with you when you go to the state city", Zhao Laohu pushed Ke Changming's confession in front of Tang Cheng, "Zhang Sima of the state city is Zhang Xiangwen's second uncle. With him, things can be done more steadily. As for the old Gan Tou...... He was a prisoner, that is, he saw Yao Qingguo leave ...... from in front of Ke Changming's prison".

is a good Zhang Xiangwen, it's really inconspicuous! Although Tang Cheng knew that Zhang Xiangwen's family was not simple, because he didn't want to be too cheesy, he didn't take the initiative to inquire about Zhang Xiangwen's family, after all, this sworn brother was much richer than him, and if he deliberately asked, it would seem a little clinging.

He didn't ask. Zhang Xiangwen didn't take the initiative to say anything, but he only heard him mention that there are five brothers in the family, his father is the eldest, and there are four uncles. But I didn't expect that his uncles were not simple, except for the one he didn't know, the other three one was the chief arrester of the city, and the other was the owner of the restaurant, and the one that just came out turned out to be Sima of Jinzhou, this is the third person in this state!

After the surprise. The image of Zhang Xiangwen in Tang Cheng's heart seems to be different from before, he used to only feel that this sworn brother was righteous enough, but he couldn't help but have some thoughts in his heart about treating him as a half-grown child, after all, Zhang Xiangwen is usually too unorthodox, but at this moment, if you think about it carefully, a person who likes to be funny so much can hide family affairs so tightly, and his family is prominent but he can not show off at all, and people who can do such a thing without publicity really have no scheming?

Following the events of Lee Young-kun that day. Tang Cheng made the same exclamation again: "People, it's so complicated!" ”。

Because of Zhang Xiangwen's rush, Tang Cheng was not so surprised that Lao Gan Tou'er saw Yao Qingguo coming out of Ke Changming's prison. As for what Zhao Laohu said, Yao Qingguo forced Ke Changming to commit suicide, he didn't inquire much.

No matter what Yao Qingguo was holding in his hands, he could force Ke Changming to commit suicide and die, the important thing is that he did it, and it was seen and heard, and more importantly, Yao Qingguo is Yao Dongqi's own nephew, and he mentioned Yao Master Book more than once when he forced Ke Changming to die. Dog meat can't get on the main table, Yao Qingguo, known as the "second tail", must have been very scared when he did something to force people to commit suicide, and he didn't notice that in the dark shadow not far from him, there was still a imprisoned old man who usually nodded when he saw him.

Originally, Ke Changming committed suicide and died, although there was a confession. But without proof, Master Yao's book did not have room for argument. But as soon as Yao Qingguo's incident came out, he left behind such a personal witness as Lao Gantou. The end of Master Yao's book is already doomed.

Should tonight's series of events be said to be "Skynet is restored, negligent but not exposed"? Or should I say that Yao Qingguo is too wasteful? Or is Zhao Laohu's mind too deep and his methods too ruthless?

With that confession in his arms, Tang Cheng was on his way back to Zhang County's mansion from the East Courtyard, and you Ran remembered what Zhao Laohu said to him that day, "If you are not 100% sure, don't tear people's faces casually...... Do you know what I'd do if someone tore my face? …… Whoever wants to tear my face, I will kill him ......."

This night, Zhang Xianling ordered the light in the study to be turned off very late, this night when Tang Cheng came home, the hazy moon had risen high to the middle of the sky, this night when he went home was not as fast as usual, this night he thought a lot, and seemed to understand a lot......

The next morning, Tang Cheng got up early in the morning and came to the city gate, and got into Zhang Xiangwen's carriage that came from front and back, so far Tang Cheng finally saw clearly the old Gantou who deliberately avoided him last night, with an ordinary appearance, full of wrinkles on his forehead, and showed a humble smile when he saw him get on the car.

Maybe Yao Dongqi didn't even bother to say a word when he saw Lao Gantou in the county office, but it was such an ordinary person who couldn't be ordinary anymore that completely cut off Yao's life.

In the silent night, in the prison full of dead turbidity, Yao Qingguo whispered under the flickering light to force Ke Changming to commit suicide, and he didn't notice that in the side corner not far behind him, there was an old man standing with his waist bent. This is a dark corner of the shadow of a lamp, the old man quietly looked at everything in front of him, watched Yao Qingguo force Ke Changming, watched him help Ke Changming pull down his pants, watched Ke Changming tie his pants to the iron fence, his head slowly stretched in, watching Ke Changming tighten more and more tightly in a circle, maybe he also hesitated at this moment to shout to stop Ke Changming from committing suicide, but the old man didn't move in the end. quietly watched Ke Changming strangle himself, and watched Yao Qingguo leave the prison in a hurry......

Looking at the old Gan Tou with a humble smile on his face in front of him, Tang Que had such pictures in his mind, and these pictures were finally fixed on the eyes hidden in the shadows.

Sitting in the same carriage with Lao Gantou, Tang Cheng always felt that the half of his body facing him was a little inexplicably cold, and he didn't have the heart to talk to Zhang Xiangwen in his mouth, as soon as the carriage moved, he closed his eyes and pretended to rest.

All the way to the state city without saying a word, Zhang Xiangwen instructed the coachman to drive the carriage to the Jinzhou Baohe Building, and after hurriedly freshening up and eating, the sky outside was approaching dusk, which was the time when the state government was disbanded.

After Zhang Xiangwen said hello to Tang Cheng, he went out with Lao Gantou, needless to say that he was looking for his second uncle Zhang Sima, Tang Cheng didn't follow them all the way, and after leaving Baohe Building, he went to Wu Yujun's tea house in Beishi.

The one sitting in the cabinet in the tea house is still the little second who is the big horn, but although this guy's face is stinky, his memory is not bad at all, and after lifting the curtain and going in, the boss of Wu Yujun, who is dough, came out.

"Brother, you came by coincidence! If it was a little later, my shop would be closed, and it would be difficult for you to find me at that time", Wu Yujun's eyes narrowed almost invisibly when he smiled, and after walking to Tang Cheng's side, he stretched out his hand to the back, and said with a smile: "What's the matter, what's wrong with Erlongzhai?" ”。

"It's over, it was settled five days ago", said with a smile in his mouth, Tang Cheng grabbed Wu Yujun's arm with his backhand, "I won't go inside, I didn't drink it last time, I didn't drink it last time, I have to fight with Brother Wu no matter what."

In the Accord of Baohe Building, Tang Cheng followed the old example of Wu Yujun that day, only two people sat opposite each other, and after three rounds of wine, he began to talk about business.

As Tang Cheng said more, the smile on Wu Yujun's face became less and less. What an effect, completely dizzy! Book friends who still hold their monthly tickets and refuse to vote, don't tease Xiaoyezi anymore, okay! Give it what it should give, anyway, it won't give birth to a doll if you keep it! Please, hands