Chapter XXIII

"It's poisoned, as long as those two beasts eat it, they will be killed. Update the fastest to go to the eye fast dm" Ma Fugui smiled and opened an oiled paper bag in his hand, which contained a few pieces of fresh pork.

"If you can win Wang San this time, this official will give you the first credit." Li Yuntian laughed when he saw this, he didn't expect Ma Fugui to come in handy at a critical moment.

"Master Xie." Ma Fugui bowed to Li Yuntian with a sneer on his face, and then came to the corner of the wall and jumped agilely, and jumped on the wall lightly.

Li Yuntian couldn't help but shake his head when he saw this, this kid moved neatly, in one go, without dragging mud and water at all, it seems that he usually doesn't see this kind of trick of turning over the house and crossing the yard, stealing chickens and touching dogs, no wonder he seems familiar with doing things.

"My lord, I've blown smoke into the room, you can go in and arrest someone." After about a cup of tea, the courtyard door creaked open, and Ma Fugui came out of it and said to Li Yuntian quite proudly.

Li Yuntian smiled approvingly at him, and walked into the courtyard, where there were two yellow-haired dogs in the open space, bleeding from their mouths and noses, and it seemed that they had been poisoned by Ma Fugui.

Ma Fugui not only blew smoke, but also used a dagger to pick open the deadbolt of the door, which made Li Manshan and the others enter the room without any effort.

The four sleeping men were quickly lifted out of the different rooms, each with a colorful tie and a cloth in their mouths.

A bald man with a stout body, triangular eyes, a collapsed nose, and a fierce face was carried in front of Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian knew that this guy was Wang San, his fists couldn't help but clench, his eyes were full of murderous intent, he had never wanted to kill someone like now.

Then he let go of his fist, his gaze gradually softened, turned around and walked away expressionlessly, now it is still useful to keep Wang San, let him live for a few more days.

The next day, Wang San's concubine woke up and found that Wang San didn't know where he went, but there were one or two hundred silver on the table at the ** head, and then he thought that Wang San had something urgent to go, so he didn't think much about it.

What made her a little troubled was that the two dogs in the family didn't know where they went, and they didn't find it after looking for a long time.

This is a bureau deliberately set up by Li Yuntian, the purpose is to stabilize Wang San's concubine, so that the news of Wang San's arrest will not be spread, so as not to startle the snake and make Zhang Youde prepared.

In order to maintain secrecy, the people involved in the arrest this time were all given gag orders, and they did not know that the person arrested was the famous water bandit leader Wang San.

Although Li Yuntian had a lot to ask Wang San, he didn't know that he couldn't be in a hurry with a bandit like Wang San, and he had to consume him first and put pressure on him mentally.

Therefore, he did not interrogate Wang San in a hurry, but asked Li Manshan to put Wang San, Ergou and others in boxes and transport them out of the city early the next morning, and sent them to Chen Mansion in Baishui Town in the name of congratulatory gifts.

In his opinion, the Chen family in the entire Hukou County is the most suitable place to detain Wang San, he is now the quasi-uncle of the Chen family, and Chen Bozhao will definitely help him.

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the wedding banquet of Li Yuntian and Chen Ningning was held in the Chen family's mansion.

Since this matter was handled by Chen Bozhao, not only Hukou County, but also many well-known figures in Jiujiang Prefecture came, the scene was grand and extremely lively, and people who didn't know thought that someone in the Chen family had a wife today.

As a matchmaker, Han Anyu, the same acquaintance of Jiujiang Mansion, naturally wanted to eat this wedding wine, and his arrival immediately raised the level of the wedding banquet a lot, which made Chen Bozhao feel honored, and his face became a flower with a smile.

Although he was against Chen Bozhao, Zhang Youcai had to attend this wedding banquet, and he also had to give a generous gift, so he naturally did this for Li Yuntian.

Looking at the high-spirited Chen Bozhao, Zhao Youcai's heart was quite unpleasant, and he was drinking there alone.

After the wedding banquet, Li Yuntian stayed in Baishui Town, and he was tired of being with Chen Ning every day.

Chen Ningning felt that Li Yuntian, as the parent official of Hukou County, should be diligent in government affairs, and he couldn't always be so fond of his children, not only ruining government affairs, but also letting the outside world gossip.

Whenever she persuaded Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian either did something perfunctory or talked about him left and right, which made her helpless, she couldn't blow Li Yuntian away, but deep down she was beautiful.

Since Baishui Town is Chen Ningning's maiden home, Chen Ningning still lives here after becoming Li Yuntian's concubine, which is convenient and to avoid encountering the green calyx.

After all, the county government only needs a hostess, and if both of them live there, there will inevitably be some bumps and bumps between them.

Chen Ningning would never have thought that Li Yuntian, who seemed to be unmotivated on the surface, stayed in Baishui Town in addition to getting together with her, but actually had something important to do, that is, to interrogate Wang San.

On the last day of January, Li Yuntian decided to meet Wang San, and Wang San was left to dry by him for half a month, and it is estimated that he is now eager to know what happened.

In the evening, accompanied by Chen Bozhao, he went to a courtyard of Chen's house to store sundries.

Upon entering a warehouse, a large, round-faced man removed an inconspicuous stone slab from the ground, revealing an underground passage that turned out to be a basement underneath.

This basement was specially built by the ancestors of the Chen family when they built the Chen Mansion to take refuge, although it has not been used for decades, but the successive heads of the Chen family have carefully maintained it in case of emergency.

The basement was lit up, and down the stairs was a hall, and on the other side of the hall was a corridor with a row of rooms on each side of the corridor for living and storing food and fresh water.

The two big men were sleeping on a table in the hall, and when they saw Li Yuntian and Chen Bozhao, they hurriedly got up to greet them.

"In which room is Number Two in?" Li Yuntian glanced at the rooms on both sides of the corridor and asked quietly.

When the two big men heard this, they led him and Chen Bozhao to a hut, the door of the house was closed, and a lock was added to the outside.

"Father-in-law, now they probably can't hold it anymore, let's see what we have gained." After the lock on the door was opened, he smiled at Chen Bozhao and pushed the door and walked in.

The room was dark, dark and damp, and there was a pungent stench in the air, and when a big man with a round face brought an oil lamp, he saw a man in shackles lying asleep in a haystack.

"Wake up!" Another big man with thick eyebrows stepped forward and kicked the man.

"Dinner?" The man sat up, his beak sharp, yawned and said, sluggish and blind.

"What's your name?" Li Yuntian glanced at him and asked in a deep voice.

"Little Ergou, are you ......" The man found that there were a few people standing in the room, rubbed his eyes, and looked at Li Yuntian suspiciously.

"We've dealt with each other." Hearing Ergou's voice, Li Yuntian couldn't help laughing, he recognized this voice, it was this voice that shouted to him arrogantly when the water bandits attacked that night.

"Little clumsy, I don't know where the uncle is sacred?" Ergou stared at Li Yuntian for a long time and didn't remember where he had seen the young man in front of him, so he arched his hand at Li Yuntian and asked tentatively, "Uncle, I don't know where the little one offended the uncle, is there any misunderstanding here." ”

"Didn't you give this official a nice gift that night, and now you forgot about it so quickly?" Li Yuntian sneered, his eyes flashed cold, and he stared sharply at Ergou.

"You...... You...... You are the county leader of Hukou County! Hearing the word "this official", Ergou was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, his eyes flashed with a look of horror, and he stammered and looked at Li Yuntian.

"Do you know why you're being locked up here instead of the county jail?" Li Yuntian sneered and asked expressionlessly.

Ergou shook his head, his expression was frightened, he couldn't have imagined that the person who captured him and Wang San turned out to be Li Yuntian, this was Wang San's mortal enemy.

"This official has been thinking about how you will die, if you cut off your head with a knife, wouldn't it be too cheap for you." Li Yuntian looked at Ergou and said in a cold voice.

Ergou couldn't help but shudder when he heard this, his already white face immediately became bloodless, he didn't think that Li Yuntian was scaring him, if it was according to the general process, they should be in prison.

"On the way here, the official wanted to have someone cut you off with a knife and avenge those who were killed by you, but the official has changed his mind now, death is a relief for you, and the official wants you to spend your whole life to atone for your sins." Li Yuntian glanced around and said with an indifferent expression, "This official thinks that you should repent of your previous crimes in such a dark place. ”

"Big ...... Adult, small ...... The little one is forced to be helpless, all the things are done by Wang San, the little ...... The little ones are willing to wear the guilt and make meritorious contributions, please be merciful to the adults and spare the lives of the little ones. Hearing that Li Yuntian was going to lock him up here for the rest of his life, Ergou's face turned green all of a sudden, and he quickly knelt there and kept kowtowing to him.

When they were first locked up here, Wang San, Ergou and the others were still shouting and scolding, but no one paid attention to them, only occasionally someone brought a bowl of water and a piece of coarse grain cake, and then every once in a while the door was opened to let in the bright light of the oil lamp outside, and the rest of the time was spent in darkness and silence.

After a few days, they wilted, their spirits began to become sluggish, their mood was irritable, and the whole person was in a trance.

Then, they began to yearn to see the people who delivered the food, to see the light of the oil lamps in the corridor outside, and began to talk to themselves, feeling inexplicable fear and confusion.

For Ergou, he would rather be cut off in the head with a knife than endure this inhuman torture in such a ghost place, which is more uncomfortable than letting him die.