At the mention of the housekeeper, the two peasants looked at him like torches, and were very resentful, "Of course I know, even if he is burned to ashes, we will remember." ”

Liu Chunyan smiled, "As long as you remember, this matter will take a turn." ”

At this time, the two farmers seemed to feel that something was wrong, and they looked at each other.

"Let's just tell us everything you know, and we'll ......" Before Liu Chunyan finished speaking, the two farmers immediately knelt on the ground.

begged in his mouth, "The three big lords, you will let the people go, the three of them have seen it clearly, we have neither gold nor silver, nor good land, spare us." ”

The farmer's move surprised Liu Chunyan, who didn't know what was going on, and ......

"What are you doing, I don't want your gold and silver, and I don't want your fertile land, we just come to redress the grievances of that farmer, you get up quickly." Liu Chunyan stood up and pulled the two farmers up.

The farmer didn't seem to believe what Liu Chunyan said, so he kept kneeling on the ground and kept begging for mercy.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Siguan spoke, "We are the Qin messenger sent by the emperor, who is in charge of this case, and the official of the capital you said has been imprisoned, and now the three of us are here to find evidence to convict him." ”

Hearing Lu Siguan say this, the farmer looked at Lu Siguan with wide eyes, and seemed to swallow his saliva excitedly.

"Are you right?" The farmer asked quietly.

Nangong Yi then got up and walked to the two of them, "If you said that we were going to attack the two of you, why wait so long, we would have already done it at the previous crime site." ”

Seeing that Liu Chunyan and his party all said this, the farmer began to believe Liu Chunyan's words.

So he cried and said, "Lord Qingtian, you have to be the master of the small people, this bully and the county order are simply not human." ”

"Hurry up, get up, tell us what happened, you will definitely make the decision for you, and give justice to the victims." Liu Chunyan picked up the two farmers who were kneeling on the ground and poured a cup of tea.

"Why are you so afraid of the three of us?" Liu Chunyan then asked.

The farmer drank all the tea he was playing with, wiped the residue from the corner of his mouth, and said, "It's not that I'm afraid of the three of you, it's that the two of us are very afraid when we see the people from the capital. ”

The farmer's wife continued, "After the incident, many people in the capital came to this Mei County, and they would come to our house to intimidate us old couple, and they said that if I dared to mention this matter in front of outsiders, they would burn us alive. ”

"How can this be reasonable, it's child's play to be the king's law." Liu Chunyan took the case, and it was really difficult to hide the grief and indignation in her heart.

"Three months after the incident, the county magistrate has been arranging for bullies to watch our old couple in my courtyard, just eating and drinking us all day, and finally seeing that the case has subsided, the bully left, in order not to let us go around to talk, and not let us go to the yamen to testify."

Liu Chunyan had already guessed that someone would go to the scene of the crime to prevent the witnesses from testifying, but she didn't expect the means to be so despicable that she didn't even let go of these two old men.

"Don't be afraid, now that the three of us can definitely protect your safety, if you let the two of you go to the capital to testify together, I don't know if you are willing?" Liu Chunyan wanted to take the two back to the capital, and the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion.

The farmer and his wife looked at each other, and replied directly, "Yes, we are willing, anyway, we have lived for sixty years, and we must accumulate a little yin virtue for ourselves, and I will go with you to the capital to testify, and by the way, I will see the poor sister." ”

The victim in the capital was originally a distant sister of the farmer, and after the incident, the two wanted to take her home to recuperate, but the bully had been occupying the house, fearing that the bully would not be good for his sister.

"You don't have to worry about this sister of yours, she is in the capital, I have arranged for someone to take care of her, and you can be reunited when you arrive in the capital.

"Thank you so much, thank you for my brother in the underworld." The farmer's wife said excitedly when she heard this, "I didn't expect to meet a good person like you, there is still righteousness between heaven and earth." ”

"Get up quickly, it's actually us who should say thank you, you have done me a great favor, and you have also eliminated harm for the sake of the name." Liu Chunyan said with a smile.

"Eliminate the evil in the name......" shouted the farmer, and his emotions seemed very excited.

"Well, I'll have dinner at my house today, and after lunch, my wife and I will go to Beijing with the three of us, don't dislike this farmer's coarse tea and light rice, although it is not worth mentioning, but it is also a piece of our old couple's heart." The farmer said with a smile.

The three of them nodded again and again, looking at the joy on the farmer's face, and the three of them were in a much better mood.

"Old woman, what are you still doing in a daze, go cook."

After hearing this, the farmer and his wife went out of the house and went out to cook.

"Old man, there's no water, you go outside and get a bucket of water from the well." Liu Chunyan, who was sitting in the room, heard the cry of a peasant woman asking her wife to fetch water outside.

In the room, Liu Chunyan also looked at Lu Siguan, and Nangong Yi discussed what he had just heard from the farmer.

"This county order is simply inhumane, but I don't know who the high-ranking officials in the capital are mentioned by Lu Da's mouth?" Nangong Yi asked curiously.

"Lu Guozheng, don't you know, he has been placed under house arrest by the emperor in the Lu Mansion." Liu Chunyan said coldly.

When Nangong Yi heard this sentence from Liu Chunyan's mouth, he was stunned for a moment, he thought of this Lu Guozheng, isn't this Liu Chunyan's father in front of him.

"Your father?" Nangong Yi then asked, seemingly a little unconvinced.

Liu Chunyan raised her head, looked at Nangong Yi's eyes and said very firmly, "Yes, it's Lu Guozheng, my father." ”

"Are you alright?" Nangong Yi was worried that Liu Chunyan was sad about what the farmer said just now, and asked softly, he didn't know that Lu Huaixiang in front of him was not Lu Guozheng's biological daughter.

The real Lu Huaixiang is dead, and she has long been frozen to death in that ice and snow.

So Nangong Yi didn't say anything more, but he still had a lot of questions in his heart, and he was also a little worried about Liu Chunyan.

"Lord Lu, what do you think?" Liu Chunyan looked at Lu Siguan and asked.

As soon as he said that, he suddenly heard a wail outside, "Old man, what's wrong with you?" ”

Hearing this, Liu Chunyan and his entourage hurriedly went out of the door of the room, and just after a few steps, they saw the farmer lying on the ground, the bucket overturned on the side, and the farmer's wife held it tightly in her arms, and kept shouting "old man...... Old man......"

But the farmer never responded, but lay motionless in her arms.

Liu Chunyan hurriedly ran over, picked up the farmer's wrist, checked the pulse, and felt that the farmer's heart had stopped beating.

"Old man, don't be too sad, take care of your health." Liu Chunyan comforted the woman and said.

Liu Chunyan also blamed herself in her heart, feeling that she had killed the farmer, and she was fine before, but this happened when she asked about the case.

When she was looking down and feeling sad, Liu Chunyan found that the corners of the dead farmer's mouth were a little foamy, so she quickly re-examined the farmer's body, she took off the silver hairpin on her head and wiped the white foam on the corner of the farmer's mouth.

Liu Chunyan found that the silver hairpin had turned black, and said that the farmer had died of poisoning.

So Liu Chunyan hurriedly tested the remaining water in the bucket with a silver hairpin, and found that the silver hairpin quickly turned black.

"This water is poisonous!" Lu Siguan said coldly on the side.

So he hurried to the well to take a look, and found that there was a very messy footprint beside the well, and from the size of the shoe prints, it was easy to tell that these shoe prints did not belong to the farmer.

A few days ago, it rained heavily for two days and two nights in Meixian County, and when Liu Chunyan and his party first arrived in Meixian, it was just clear, and this footprint could not have been left before, so Lu Siguan guessed that it was not left last night, or someone had just come here.

Lu Siguan took Liu Chunyan to the well and let her see the clues she had found.

After inspecting the scene, with the help of Lu Siguan and Nangong Yi, the farmer's body was brought to the room.

The woman was extremely sad when she saw that her wife was dead, no matter what Liu Chunyan and her party said to her, she didn't say a word, and the three of them had no choice but to go out of the hospital to discuss the next strategy.

"I don't think these people will give up, I should have released such a thing after I went to the scene of the crime last night." Liu Chunyan said coldly, and it could be seen from the look in her eyes that she hated those who poisoned her.

"The farmer is dead, we have to protect this old woman, we can't let her have any more accidents, in addition, this bully is still in Meixian, at this time it must be related to them, we must lead someone to arrest these bullies in prison first, otherwise it will hurt our affairs." Lu Siguan then said.

Nangong Yi on the side kept nodding and said, "What the two of you said makes sense, so what should we do?" ”

"There is no time to delay, let's go our separate ways, the two of you stay here to protect the old woman, and I will go to the Meixian County Government to mobilize people to arrest the bullies." Liu Chunyan said.

"No......" As soon as Liu Chunyan finished speaking, Lu Siguan and Nangong Yi replied in unison.

Lu Si saw that Nangong Yi had the same idea as himself, glanced at him, and said directly, "You don't know martial arts, you are also here in Meixian, you are not familiar with the situation here at all, and there will be danger." ”

"I have the same opinion as Lord Lu, you were attacked yesterday...... So it's a different arrangement. Nangong Yi looked at Liu Chunyan and said.

Liu Chunyan knew that there had always been a force secretly following her in Meixian County, but when she first arrived, she didn't seem to be able to do anything about those people.

In fact, when Liu Chunyan left the gate of the capital, there were already many killers in the rivers and lakes who rushed to Meixian.

Legend has it that there are high-ranking officials in the capital who secretly offer a reward of Liu Chunyan's head, and a huge reward of 1,000 taels of gold, and at this time, Lu Siguan and Nangong Yi did not know about it.

Danger is slowly approaching, and yesterday's attack and today's poisoning are just the beginning......