Chapter 146: Pit Daddy
So, while instructing her son to change his clothes quickly, Mrs. Gu sent her henchman Gu Zhong to investigate the situation in the Andingmen area. Not long after, Gu Zhong came back and reported that Feng Sheng had been taken to the official. At this time, Zheng Guoqi found that the jade pendant he was carrying was missing. I don't know if Lu Dao fell at the scene of the murder. If so, it was likely to be picked up by Feng Sheng.
Out of the instinct to protect her son, Gu Niangzi became crazy. Not only did she conceal the truth about her son's murder, but she also used her family's relationship in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to start extorting a confession from Feng Sheng, bent on making Feng Sheng confess as soon as possible, so as to protect her own child.
She also arranged for someone to follow the team of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and went to Feng Xiaoxian's body and house to search for the jade pendant. But I couldn't find anything. It was precisely because of this worry that Gu Niangzi was extremely anxious, and she must behead Feng Sheng as soon as possible, lest Feng Sheng bite back and attach Zheng Guoqi out.
She also blew the pillow wind on Zheng Xiao, telling Miss Yin San's pity and Feng Xiaoxian's ingratitude, which aroused Zheng Xiao's "sense of justice". Zheng and Feng were originally world friends, and Miss Yin San was treated like their own daughters by Zheng Xiao and his wife. Feng Xiaoxian, who is not as good as such a beast, how can he be allowed to be free?
Although Zheng Dadutang was busy with official business, he didn't have time to inquire into this matter in detail. But as long as he said hello to the old man, wouldn't the officials of the Five Cities Terracotta Division surround Feng Sheng like they were beaten with chicken blood?
In this way, a backbone of the court who prides himself on being honest and honest has no idea that he has become an accomplice who shields his son and frames innocents.
After listening to Mrs. Gu's words, Zheng Dadutang was like five thunderbolts, fell on the chair, and was speechless for a long time.
After being stunned for a long time, he trembled and pointed at his wife: "You, you, you...... You've done a great job! ”
Gu Niangzi took Zheng Xiao's hand and said, "Master, say a thousand ways and ten thousand, now find a way to rescue the four officials." ”
Zheng Xiao sighed deeply and said angrily: "What else to save?" Murder pays for life, and it is justified. You two did such a good thing behind my back, and you have to blame that Feng Sheng innocently! The old man's reputation in his life will be ruined on the head of you female villain! The old man will write an excerpt and take the lead on behalf of the four officials. How should he be sentenced, and dealt with according to the law of the land, so that he will not be tortured more irlevantly! ”
When Mrs. Gu heard this, she was anxious, her mouth opened, and the tears spurted out like a waterfall: "Master, master, you don't care about your concubine for many years, but you also have to take care of the four officials, he is only twenty-one years old." When I was young, I was happy in front of your knees, but I haven't waited for the time to fulfill my filial piety! He's a child, usually pampered, and if he does something wrong, won't he be given a chance to repent? Hard-working son, you are leaving, my mother is also looking for you, let's be a companion, so that you will not be lonely and afraid on the Huangquan Road! ”
Mrs. Gu cried and made trouble like this, no matter how much you are iron and steel, you will be ground into tofu. What's more, Zheng Dadutang is nearly sixty years old, how can he not love this old man in his heart? was pestered by his wife several times, and finally he couldn't give up, and really sent his son to the court to eat that knife.
However, now that people have been caught, what can they do? Zheng Dadutang has always stood on the moral high ground and pointed out the inappropriateness of others, but now that the matter is approaching, it is inevitable that he will be at a loss. After pondering again and again, I couldn't hold my mind.
Mrs. Gu saw that he hesitated, only when his inner sense of morality was troubled, and he was remorseful, she quickly turned her face and said:
"Son! O son of my wretchedness! Who would have thought that your father, who claims to be in charge of the science and road on weekdays, suppresses the six departments, and is not afraid of what the three assistants of the DPRK and the Central Committee are. When it came to the end, he became a turtle with a shrunken head.! Anyway, your father doesn't care about this matter, or your mother takes care of it! ”
After that, he turned to Zheng Xiao and said, "Master, I will write a letter and ask someone to send it to his hometown in Shanxi, and ask Yang Dasima to say something from it." Let my four-dimensional nephew go and dredge up people's feelings. How much silver taels do you have to spend to let go of my child, I will make up as many silver taels as I want, it's a big deal that my Gu family is bankrupt, save this child surnamed Zheng, and you don't have to spend your Zheng family's silver money! ”
Zheng Xiao saw that his wife was splashed, and hurriedly said, "Madam, I didn't say I didn't care." It's just that I was in a mess for a while, and I couldn't come up with a charter in a hurry. I'll send someone to invite our in-laws to see if he can think of a way. Hey, if you do this, if you explain it carefully to the old man earlier, maybe you can mediate and find a way out. Who told you to go and slander the good people? Now, in order to wronged Feng Sheng, Gao Gong has been offended, and Jinyiwei has also intervened. If there is really the mastermind behind the Yan Mansion, it is not easy to save the four officials. After all, father and son are connected, Zheng Xiao also shed a few old tears when he said this.
When Gu Niangzi heard that her husband was really willing to save her son, she gradually accepted her grief, and said, "Master, please calm your anger for what the slave family did before." Now without further ado, even if it is on the side of the in-laws, I am afraid that it will be difficult to have any high strategy. According to the concubine's body, the bell needs to be tied to the bell. Since most of the people behind the scenes are the Yan Mansion, then to save the four officials, it still has to fall on the Yan family after all. As long as Yan Ge is willing to say something, won't our children be released? ”
Although Gu Niangzi is just a woman, what she said is not unreasonable. Zheng Xiao was also stunned in an instant. With the virtues of Yan Song and Yan Shifan, of course, he will not really avenge Feng Sheng, who can't be beaten with eight poles. Bacheng took advantage of this incident to take the opportunity to attack the Metropolitan Procuratorate to pressure himself to bow to the Yan family.
It is said that Zheng Xiao is upright, and he also knows that Yan Song is powerful, but he has never succumbed to him. As long as the struggle in the court involves issues of principle, it is bound to not yield an inch. Although the former Jingcha suffered a big loss, and his subordinate officials were beaten and demoted, and more than 30 were cleaned up, they were still defeated again and again.
But now that his son has fallen into the hands of Jinyiwei, the situation is different. The body is not afraid of the shadow, but Zheng Guoqi really did that evil thing, so can he escape from the palm of his hand? Do you really want to give up your principles and bow to Yan Fu for the sake of such a precious son? But in that case, it will become a joke to uphold the right path for decades. Thinking of Yan Shifan's sinister smile, Zheng Lao Dutang's heart was a faint pain,
Gu Niangzi saw that Zheng Lao Dutang was still hesitating, so she stepped up and said: "Master, the slave family also knows that the old man is very well-known. However, if the four officials were allowed to be in the edict prison, not only would they lose a small life, but this matter would be exposed, and the reputation of the Zheng family would be completely ruined. Master, for the sake of our family, you should bow your head to Yan Ge. What kind of court loyalty and traitor, after a few decades, it will be a pile of soil, who can say it clearly! But if something happens to the four officials, he won't be able to live. I heard that Mo Huaigu, who assassinated Yan Ge Lao a few more time ago, his wife and daughter were ransomed by Yan Mansion from the Jiaofang Division. You go and make friends with Yan Ge Lao Lala and save the lives of our four officials. I beg you, sir! ”
After that, Gu Niangzi really knelt down and wanted to kowtow to Zheng Xiao.
How could Zheng Xiao really make this pillow person who has been with him for more than 20 years so embarrassed? He quickly picked up his wife and let out a long sigh. For the sake of his son, he can't care about his reputation and face, or what loyalty and treachery. In the future, wait to pretend to be deaf and dumb in the court.
At that moment, Zheng Xiao instructed the old housekeeper: "Prepare clothes for the old man, follow the sedan chair outside the door, and pay respects to guests in the Yan Mansion." ”
In the Jinyi Guard's prison, the lights are dim, and the wind is miserable, which makes people shudder. The Ming Dynasty didn't know how many loyal ministers and righteous people were here, with grievances and anger, and they should not shout, and finally turned into a pile of white bones, with hatred for Jiuquan.
In a specially vacated interrogation room, Zheng Guoqi sat on a chair, his face like ashes. Behind the public desk opposite, Yan Hong looked at him with a thief on his face, as if a hunter was admiring his prey.
Since the day he made up his mind to arrest Zheng Guoqi, Yan Hong has never thought of arresting him through regular means. Combined with his life experience in his previous life and personal experience, he came up with a way to touch porcelain. After all, as the insurance industry, I am really familiar with this set of fruits, all kinds of successful and unsuccessful porcelain, and all kinds of clever and inferior porcelain-touching skills. Designing a set for the ancients hundreds of years ago is really handy.
Therefore, he pretended to be drunk and went to provoke Zheng Guoqi. It was also that Zheng Guoqi was young and vigorous, and he started directly, and Yan Hong took the opportunity to fall to the ground and pretend to be dead. Jinyi Wupin Qianhu was killed on the spot, at this time, the accompanying Jinyi Tiqi can directly arrest people, without having to apply for any driver's post. Moreover, the matter of killing the Jinyi official is naturally to be tried by the Jinyi Guard, and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division has no right to intervene, so it also bypasses the interference of those patrolling the city.
As for how to explain that Yan Hong is not dead in the future, is this still a problem? At that time, he was knocked unconscious, and his companions made a mistake in judgment, and they were rescued and rescued after they went back, is there anything wrong with this?
As for Zheng Guoqi, this mood is really terrible.
Originally, when he was in Shanying Temple, it was Shao An and Tao Zhi who carried Yan Hong out of the house, but Yan Hong closed his eyes tightly and his hands and feet were straight. However, when he was not far away from Shanying Temple, Zheng Guoqi found that Yan Hong, who was originally dead, suddenly came back from the saddle lying on his stomach full of blood, raised his head and looked around, and complained vigorously, why there are no female brocade guards in the imperial court establishment, otherwise there would be no need for Shao An Taozhi, two big men who pick their feet.
At this time, Zheng Guoqi realized that he was in the scheme. It's just that at this time, his two arms were dislocated, and Zhou's upper and lower acupoints were restrained, and he couldn't use any strength, and he was even more tied to the rope, and he couldn't do anything he wanted to do. He was also stuffed with hemp kernels in his mouth, and he couldn't even shout. could only watch Yan Hong triumphantly and escorted him all the way to the edict. This time he was angry, anxious and afraid, and almost fainted.
At this moment, in the edict prison, the hemp core in Zheng Guoqi's mouth has been gone, and the rope has been loosened, but the acupoint has not been untied. He only felt unbearable pain in his shoulders, beads of sweat running down his cheeks. Although this prince has practiced martial arts, he has been pampered since he was a child, when did he suffer such a living crime? Therefore, I can't care about the proverb that a good man sheds blood without tears, and he can't stop moaning.