Chapter 87: It's really just a conspiracy
Shen Linfeng is right, as long as Xiuyun dies, there will be no more life, even if he wants to overturn the case, it is not easy.
"Then let's go to the Mad Tower?"
Shen Linfeng nodded: "At this hour, the city gate has been closed, and even if the people of the Hou Mansion go back to the house to report the news, they will open the city gate tomorrow." Therefore, it is not a hundred thousand urgent.
But the tricky thing is that we need to get to the bottom of the case before dawn tomorrow. Otherwise, Shi Shizi will be buried in a sealed coffin tomorrow, and if he wants to overturn the case, the movement will be big. I think that Xiuyun's cousin must have something unspeakable to hide, and she doesn't want this case to be well known. β
Leng Qinghuan just thought about it for a while: "If you want to make Aunt Xiuyun speak, it's not difficult to do this, I just have a plan here, whether she is really crazy or fake crazy, you can know it at a try." β
It is indeed a good idea to whisper his plan to the two of them at the moment.
Before Shen Linfeng got into the car, he hesitated a little: "Don't come forward in this case, cousin-in-law, after all, even if you find out the truth, you may be tired and unflattering, and you are likely to offend the Hou Mansion." β
His scruples are not unreasonable, if, as the three of them guessed, the murderer is Shi Mingze, then, after the truth is clarified, Shen Linfeng enforces the law impartially, and Shi Mingze will pay for the death of the prince. There are only these two sons in the Hou Mansion, and the Hou Ye definitely doesn't want to be old and helpless.
Leng Qinghuan has no support behind him, if he offends the Hou Mansion, it is not a wise move.
She received Shen Linfeng's kindness: "We have met Aunt Xiuyun first, and we will talk after finding out the truth." β
Shen Linfeng snatched the horse of another guard: "I am more familiar with the road, lead the way before riding the horse, and you sit on the car." β
The guard glanced at the tall guard, a little embarrassed, but he didn't dare not listen, and climbed into the carriage slowly. Several people took a detour to the Mad Man's Tower.
The madman tower is secluded, the lights have been turned out at this time, and it stands quietly in the night, which looks a little mysterious and terrifying from a distance.
Shen Linfeng wanted to step forward and knock on the door of the guard, but was stopped by Leng Qinghuan raising his hand.
"It's just a lock, can it be difficult to fall you?"
The tall guard didn't speak, took two steps forward, and his subordinates secretly exerted force, and the lock hanging on the door opened in response to the sound of "pop".
Simple and brutal, that's what you want to feel. Only a righteous gentleman like Shen Linfeng would talk nonsense with that woman, and he would have to pay some money.
A few mermaids rushed in, quietly moving inside, trying not to alarm the sleeping patients.
When he arrived at the cell where Xiuyun was being held, he was still concocted in the same way, and the tall guard stepped forward, as if he gently pinched it, and the big lock was opened. He winked at the other short guard. The short guard took his saber from his waist and crept into the cell.
Leng Qinghuan and Shen Linfeng quietly hid in the shadows of the lights.
Xiuyun was curled up on the quilt, perhaps because of mosquito bites, and she didn't sleep soundly. So, when a cold, murderous knife came to her neck, her eyes widened in horror and she was about to scream.
"Don't make a sound, I was sent by Shi Gongzi."
Xiuyun opened her mouth wide, but she didn't scream, she just curled up inside again, and smiled weirdly on her face: "Who is Shi Gongzi, hehe, who is he?" β
The short ghost-faced guard pressed the blade to her neck: "No need to pretend, Shi Gongzi said, you are pretending." β
Xiuyun's eyes widened, and he still looked crazy: "It's fun, it's fun." β
"Yes, it's fun, because you're going to die. Shi Gongzi said that as long as you die, this case will be closed, and he can sit back and relax and become the prince of the Hou Mansion, the future Hou Ye, and then marry his beloved woman. β
Xiuyun's body was obviously shocked, and disbelief flashed on his face, and after he was stunned, he still asked madly: "Marry, who to marry?" β
"You're a stupid woman, you're still stupidly kept in the dark, aren't you? Can't you understand that this is Shi Gongzi's plan? It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone, and at the same time removes the two stumbling blocks of you and the prince. He'll be able to marry that outer chamber into the door. β
The expression on Xiuyun's face first froze, then collapsed little by little, and gradually disappeared. She slowly sat up from the hay and shook her head in disbelief: "Liar, I don't believe it, he said that sooner or later he will come to rescue me from the Mad Tower." β
The grimace guard glanced outside, exchanged glances with the tall guard, and then sneered, "Let you take the blame for him, right?" He has already given me the silver, so that I will not survive, and you are still delusional? β
Xiuyun hugged her knees and pulled her unkempt hair fiercely: "It's me who is bad, it's me who killed my eldest brother by mistake, and I deserve to pay for my life." β
"Don't be naΓ―ve!" The grimace guard poured a basin of cold water on her again: "The prince was not stoned to death by you with a teapot, but died under an iron nail." β
"Iron nails?" Xiuyun raised his head suspiciously: "At that time, I just hit my eldest brother on the head with a teapot, and my eldest brother immediately fainted on the ground, and then Ming Ze told me that my eldest brother was dead." β
"Then why are you pretending to be crazy?"
"It was Ming Ze who said that he had to take care of the face of the Hou Mansion and not let the yamen intervene in the investigation of this matter. He told me to play crazy first, and he would try to get me out. β
"That's because he was afraid that the yamen would intervene and the Earl's Mansion would investigate deeply, and he would expose his crime of secretly harming Shi Shizi. So let you play crazy, this case is closed. β
Shen Linfeng came out of the darkness and paused word by word.
"Facing the wind?" Xiuyun was surprised.
"Cousin, don't you understand it yet? This case was a conspiracy of Shi Mingze from beginning to end. β
"How can he do this to me, we have been husband and wife for ten years!"
After Xiuyun was stunned, she hid her face and cried bitterly, her thin shoulders shook, looking pitiful and helpless.
"Can a man who can do such cruel to his own brother be expected to have a conscience for his wife?" Shen Linfeng asked indignantly: "What happened that day, you tell me carefully, I believe that the Earl's Court will definitely seek justice for you." β
Leng Qinghuan glanced around: "If you have anything to say, let's go out and talk in the car, right?" β
This is indeed not the place to talk, Shen Linfeng nodded. Leng Qinghuan stepped forward and helped to pick up the thin Xiuyun, and the group walked out of the Crazy Man Tower safely.
Xiuyun saw the light of day again, and had a feeling of being suddenly separated from the world, and drank a pot of tea in one go, only then did he choke up and explain the reason for the matter.
"I was taking a lunch break in my room that day, and Shizi suddenly broke into the room, his face was red, and his expression was very wrong. We live in a house, and we don't look up and see each other, and he has always been disciplined, and he rarely even gossips with me. So I was quite surprised, so I hurriedly got off the couch and asked him what was the urgency.
Shizi didn't say a word, just looked at me fixedly, and then suddenly pounced on me. I was startled and couldn't dodge. He threw himself on the bed and struggled. I didn't dare to shout for help, lest I be seen, and he and I wouldn't be human.
Who knows, there was not even a single subordinate in the courtyard that day, and no one stopped him. Shizi has great strength, and his demeanor is not normal, like crazy, and he wants to be violent to me.
I had no choice but to fumble with my backhand for a teapot on the couch next to me, and then without thinking too much, I smashed it on the top of his head. β