The running time was a bit long, Gu Chenghan was panting at this time, standing in front of him and pointing not far away to show him.

Gu Chenghan looked in the direction of the prefect's finger, and then saw that the officials were digging, and then he looked at Zhen Chutian.

"That's supposed to be the hiding place of those eighteen people, let's go over and have a look." Zhen Chutian knew what Gu Chenghan meant, so he walked over there with him.

"Zhen, you will be in charge of interrogation later."

"Yes, sir."

The prefect doesn't know where Gu Chenghan and Zhen Chutian got their confidence, they haven't found anyone yet, how can they be sure that they will be able to find someone?

With such a question, the prefect followed.

By the time the three of them reached the officials, they had already dug a hole and covered it with a wooden door.

"My lord, there is a door."

"Open, you two go in and have a look." The prefect looked at the official excitedly.

"Yes, sir." The official was ordered to open the door and go down the hole.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the people inside ran out in a panic, "My lord, there are people inside." ”

"What are you waiting for, hurry up and bring it out." The prefect took a step forward to see if the official was okay, and then ordered the rest of the people to follow in.

The rest of the officials followed down the cave, and after a while, they saw the officials helping some people out, three or five times, before and after, and then they helped all the people inside.

Zhen Chutian counted the heads, and there were exactly eighteen people.

It seems that the guess just now is correct, this kidnapper is really premeditated, but why is he?

The eighteen people were still a little groggy at the moment, and they were about to lose their breath, but they were rescued by the officials at this time, they cherished the air in front of them very much, and breathed desperately.

After they eased up a little, Zhen Chutian came to one of them, "How did you get kidnapped, do you remember?" ”

At this time, although Zhen Chutian was expressionless, she was very gentle, she knew that if she wanted them to tell the truth now, she had to let them give her unscrupulous first, otherwise it would only backfire.

"You, who are you?" This man looked around and saw that it was a mass grave, and his body was trembling with fright.

The prefect still knew each other, and when they saw him standing behind Zhen Chutian, they knelt down and said, "My lord, save us, save us." ”

"This is Lord Zhen from the capital, this is Lord Gu, if you have something to say, just tell these two adults." The prefect looked at Gu Chenghan and Zhen Chutian, and motioned to the rescued people to tell them directly.

These people face each other, and when they see the prefect like this, they don't say anything, "My lord, in fact, what happened that day, the villain doesn't remember." ”

"I don't remember, anyway, the person who took you didn't know that we found you, and then threw you into the hole, waiting for him to throw himself into the net." Zhen Chutian looked at the person in front of him fiercely.

Seeing Zhen Chutian say this, those people were a little anxious, "You, you can't do this." ”

"Why can't you do this, you've been trapped for so many days, if we hadn't saved you, would you really have survived today?" Zhen Chutian looked at these eighteen people domineeringly.

Having said that, she can't really risk her life.

"You are the officials of the imperial court, you can't be so careless about people's lives!" Some of the eighteen people became impatient and got up to confront Zhen Chutian head-on.

Seeing this, Zhen Chutian smiled slightly, "You still know that we are officials of the imperial court, do you know what kind of crime it is to conceal and not report?" ”

Sin?

These people didn't think much of it.

"This official warns you, if you don't say that you will die here today." Gu Chenghan looked at the person opposite fiercely.

He had wasted a lot of time coming to this mass grave, and now he was still fighting with these people here, how could he bear it.

"My lord, my lord's life, let's just say it." The timid person was frightened by Gu Chenghan like this, and directly began to beg for mercy.

This person took the lead, which naturally played an inflammatory role, and then someone began to beg for mercy.

As soon as it was flipped down, all eighteen people said that they wanted to tell the truth.

"Since you have the heart to live, then explain the situation alone." Zhen didn't want to listen to eighteen people babbling in her ear.

Inspecting a kind, Zhen Chutian pointed to the person closest to him, "Let's talk about you." ”

Seeing that he was named, the man was still a little confused, pointed at himself, and then looked at Zhen Chutian.

"That's you, tell me, how you got here, what happened, what did you people do, who did you offend." Zhen Chutian said everything he wanted to ask in one breath.

At this time, Zhen Chutian was sure of the eighteen people in front of him, knowing why he was kidnapped, otherwise they would not look like they were at a loss.

This person was frightened by Zhen Chutian's eyes, he would blink his eyes, not knowing whether to say it or not, and he would look at the people around him from time to time.

When the man was looked at by him, his heart was also a little hairy, and he looked at him angrily, "Look at what I have done, my lord will let you say, and you will just say it." ”

"That's what you told me to say, didn't I betray you?" The man looked timidly at the crowd.

When he said this, the rest of the people had a feeling that there was no silver here, and they no longer looked at the person with a helpless face.

So he let it go.

"Okay, then I'll say it."

"If you ink again, even if Master Gu and Master Zhen don't do anything to you, this official will definitely not let you feel better." The prefect is not a person who twists, and when he sees him so hesitant, his heart is irritable.

"Yes, yes, sir, I say."

This person told the story back and forth, and Zhen Chutian also knew the reason why they were tied up.

It all started on Halloween.

Naturally, it was last month, and now this month's Halloween Festival is about to be held, and they are a little afraid that they will show their feet.

The thirty of them came back later because they went to build a dam together on Halloween last month, but on the way back, they encountered an injustice of bullying men and women, but because the other party was a group of bullies, they pretended not to see it and stood by.

"How many people are there on the other side, and the thirty of you are scared like this?" Zhen Chutian is really puzzled, thirty people are mighty, even if they are bluffing, they can bluff it, why don't they save it when they see death?

"My lord, there are not many people on the other side, but they all have a guy style in their hands, the sword and sword, looking at us, they feel pestle, so dare to do it."

The justifications are all quibbles, if their relatives are bullied by bullies, even if they are outnumbered, they will take action.

Zhen Chutian clenched his fists and looked at the eighteen people viciously.

plus the twelve people who died, there were thirty people, and according to the testimony of the other party, there were more than ten bullies at most.

Damn, even if they have weapons, they won't necessarily lose if they really fight.

Yes, it doesn't matter, they can pretend not to see it, but they can really sit idly by and watch the woman and the man be killed?

"My lord, we all have a family, we all ate some that day, and we came back late, and we don't want to miss Halloween, otherwise the family will suffer disaster, don't we choose to leave?"

"And then?" couldn't listen to it anymore, Zhen Chutian had no choice but to continue asking, after all, what had happened could not be changed even if he was angry again.

"Later, when we returned to town, I don't know if it was because of the food and drink, or because we were frightened by the scene we just passed by, we made trouble on Halloween, and you all know the rest of the story."

After the man finished speaking, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly into Zhen Chutian's eyes.

"How did you get caught, who is your captor, and I haven't said you yet?" Zhen Chutian was not in a hurry, and had a guess in his heart that Bacheng was the family who came back to take revenge.

Of course, this is not difficult to investigate, as long as according to their testimony, let the prefect find the bully of that day, and then you can understand all the facts of that day.

"We speculate that the people of that day should have come back to take revenge, because it was 30 of us who were kidnapped, and a few days ago we were supposed to carry out the second dam repair, and we fainted collectively before we went out, because it was our practice that took our hands and feet.

When we woke up, we were already in the mass grave, and I saw the man's face, although he was blindfolded, but his eyes were exposed, and I knew that it was the man of that day, and the man was not dead, only his wife and daughter should have died. ”

It seems that at this time, they have a sense of guilt.

Everyone lowered their heads and their faces were full of discomfort.

"What's going on with those twelve?"

"In the mass grave, after all, there are many of us, and the amount of food is different, they may have a small amount of food, so they are awake than us, just when he pushed us into the hole, they ran away, my lord, we really don't know what happened next, we still think we are going to wait for death in this dark place?"

"Thank you, thank you, thank you."

Eighteen people began to bow down to Gu Chenghan and the others.

At this time, Gu Chenghan and Zhen Chutian glanced at each other, then looked at the prefect and said, "Send someone to find that man to see what is going on?" ”

"Yes, sir."

"There should be news from the corpse, let's go take a look." After speaking, Gu Chenghan left directly with Zhen Chutian.

The prefect followed closely, looked at the eighteen people again, and impatiently asked the officials to take them back for careful questioning, and after asking clearly, they would release them.

Although the eighteen people in the back were dissatisfied, after all, they were saved by these court officials in front of them, and they could only endure it at this moment.

It was late when she returned to the town, and Zhen Chutian was a little hungry, but thinking that Song Jiang was still next to the twelve corpses, she couldn't help it.

The three of them came to the mortuary yard, and as soon as they entered, they heard Nanhong's cry for help, and then saw a figure running out of the house.

Take a look, it's Nanhong.

Nan Hong, who was panting, her body was still trembling, Han Shuangyi's kid was next to her, and the two hugged each other tightly, as if they had encountered something terrible.

Zhen Chutian walked quickly to them, and before she could speak, Nan Hong, who saw her first, directly hugged her in her arms, "Chu Tian is scared to death, it's too scary, it's the first time I've seen something like this in such a long time." ”