Seventy-two

"Why did you come to me out of the blue and ask this?"

Chen Tongsheng scratched his face, and looked at him left and right: "It's just that I've been reading and reading some books recently......"

Zou Shiyun grinned and showed a knowing look. It's quite normal to sneak a peek at some strange and weird things, and when he was young, he often did these things behind his master's back.

After the case of Shen's father and son, Liu De was dismissed and punished, and the Shen family was beheaded, and Chi Yongna's distant relatives who survived the disaster back then did not escape this disaster.

Zou Shiyun is the sole secretary of Dali Temple, although it seems to be promoted, but in fact, the power in his hands has risen greatly.

Zhang Yunhua, the head of the household department, was dismissed from office for the crime of withholding arms and accepting bribes, but because he is now dead, and finally reported a considerable part of the rice worms in the household department who ate public food and bribes, there is no longer accountability.

And Chen Die personally admitted in the third trial that Zhang Huan did not do anything wrong with her, but at the same time she also emphasized that she did not kill Zhang Huan - but since the latter words have lost their credibility and no one expects them, they are ignored like this.

And the prodigal son Hong Wu, on the night of the end of the third division, that is, when he learned that the Shen father and son were in prison, he hanged himself, and when the officials of Dali Temple were ordered to go to the dungeon for interrogation, they had already seen him strangle himself in prison with a rope. I don't know who promised him to bring in that tough hemp rope so that it would not be discovered.

But when everything was almost settled, there was another news from Dali Temple, Liu De finally let go of the criminal Chen Die, so that he disappeared without a trace when everyone was unprepared, and Liu De got along with the same crime. I heard that Zou Shiyun personally took someone to Liu De's house and arrested him in prison.

When Chen Tongsheng learned the news, Liu De had already been executed, and she had no way to ask about Chen Die's whereabouts, so she had to speculate in the direction in which she might have escaped.

This is actually not difficult to guess, after all, the Chen family has long been controlled in other counties, and Chen Die will run in the direction of his family when he escapes.

So Chen Tongsheng's Chen Die intercepted her on the second night of her escape.

She was dressed in an ordinary cloth dress and her hair was unkempt, but both mentally and in her state of action, she was much better than when she was in prison.

Chen Die didn't even ride a horse, or she should have abandoned her horse to avoid attracting attention when she left the city or crossed the city gate. Only chose to walk through the path at night, if she hadn't been so thirsty at the intersection and came to the well to fetch water to drink, Chen Tongsheng might not have been able to spot her so quickly.

As soon as the rope in her hand was loosened, the wooden barrel full of clean water "coo" sounded muffled, falling from the mouth of the well to the well water, Chen Die squinted and recognized her, and immediately stared at her as if she had blown up, but she had not yet opened her mouth to shout, or pulled her legs to run away, Chen Tongsheng flashed in front of Chen Die in a few leaps, covered Chen Die's mouth, and dragged her into the bushes by the well.

In just a moment, three or four more people flashed out from the other two directions, Chen Die didn't know, but Chen Tongsheng recognized them, they were all wearing whale-patterned robes in the dark night - they were dark guards.

Hunting down fugitives is also one of the duties of the secret guards. But what kind of order did they receive this time, Chen Tongsheng can't guarantee it, maybe it's arrested, maybe it's intercepted and killed on the spot, after all, Chen Die is useless, instead of wasting time in pursuit, it's better to kill with a knife.

Chen Die's eyes widened in horror, the two of them hid in the dark with bated breath, and saw that the secret guards checked the well, and then scattered in all directions, Chen Die wanted to move when she saw this, but Chen Tongsheng's hand was so strong that she couldn't move.

After such a stalemate for a while, Chen Die's legs were numb, but Chen Tongsheng didn't move, she was puzzled, so she didn't dare to move—at least she could confirm that Chen Tongsheng would not kill her. Chen Tongsheng may use various means to deceive her and arrest her back, but he will never kill her. And from the perspective of body shape and temperament, the people just now looked more like they came to take her head.

The silver-gray clouds merged and scattered, piled up to obscure the moonlight, and slowly dispersed, the clouds moved, the moonlight well, and the surroundings were silent, and even the insect whispers of the end of summer were no longer heard, and they were about to be dead and hidden. Chen Die's hands and feet were cold, but because he was very close to Chen Tongsheng, his body was not particularly cold.

Finally, when the clouds closed again, obscuring the moonlight, the surrounding trees shook slightly, and the figures of the dark guards flickered, and this was the departure from this place.

Chen Die gasped out, pushed Chen Tongsheng away, and said coldly, "What do you want to do?" ”

Chen Tongsheng looked down at her in the dark night, his eyes were unusually bright: "Who released you?" ”

Chen Die was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Don't you already know?" ”

"Who is it, let you out?"

"Liu De."

"Why?"

"How do I know?"

"Why!"

Chen Die's shoulders trembled subconsciously when he was frightened by this sudden sound, and his eyes narrowed and said, "If you come to ask me, why don't you ask him personally!" I don't know. ”

She stood up and was about to leave, but because of the numbness of her feet, Chen Tongsheng reached over and clasped it tightly on her shoulder, and Chen Die suddenly felt indescribable pressure.

"You...... You let go! Chen Die tried hard to pull off Chen Tongsheng's hand that was pressing on her shoulder, and said in a low voice, "What do you want?" Haven't you achieved your goal? Didn't you already win! Why are you chasing me? ”

Chen Die turned his head and glared at her, those eyes were unusually bright in the dark night because of tears and anger: "Our Chen family has raised you for more than ten years, even if we have no warmth for you, we have kindness, even if food, housing, clothing and transportation are not as good as your current scenery, but this identity is given to you by our Chen family, otherwise you are just a daughter of a trick!" Why are you so unforgiving? ”

This is true, Mrs. Chen has hated Chen Tongsheng for so many years, and Chen Die also hates her, but that is based on the fact that Chen Tongsheng is the child born and raised by Master Chen with other women outside, if the identities are reversed, then they can directly point their noses and scold Chen Tongsheng, saying that she is a child born by men and women.

And Chen Tongsheng recalled so many years of life, did Mrs. Chen and Chen Die have any physical actual violence against her? Did they beat her up like the people they met on the frontier? Are they like the disciples of the Mi Tian Division, trying their best to interfere and change her, just to make fun of her, just to use her to cheat some money from the new disciples?

Actually, no.

Chen Die's rejection of her is just the rejection of the family full of jealousy and dissatisfaction. It's very hateful, but it's actually nothing compared to the malice that Chen Tongsheng has encountered before.

What's more, the Chen family has really given her an upright identity for so many years. can make her a serious lady, not a wandering orphan with unknown origins and obsessed abilities.

Chen Tongsheng shook his head under Chen Die's angry gaze, and sneered at the corners of his mouth, and then Chen Tongsheng said seriously: "He knows where your parents are, and the secret guards will be waiting for you along the way, along the way, if you go back like this, you will also be arrested." ”

She let go of her hand and said softly, "I just want to mention and remind you of this." ”

Chen Die looked at her in silence for a moment, didn't say anything, then turned around and burrowed into the woods, and his figure quickly disappeared in the darkness.

However, less than half a moment later, when Chen Die walked through a mountain path and was about to cross the road at night, she poked her head out to look around, and suddenly a strong wind hit on the left, she panicked and dodged back, but tripped over the weeds, fell to the ground with a muffled sound, and the black shadow followed, pressed down from above, and pressed her firmly to the ground.

Chen Die's eyes widened.

"Why, take this path?" Chen Tongsheng looked at her coldly and asked word by word: "Why, do you want to change lanes?" ”

Chen Die tried to pull Chen Tongsheng's hand, but quickly gave up, because Chen Tongsheng's hand was as hard to shake as iron, revealing her unusually strong determination.

"Because I persuaded you. Because you're afraid of being caught and caught by the guards. Chen Tongsheng said: "But Chen Die, aren't your parents already dead?" ”

"Haven't you already recognized their corpses, corpses?"

"When I said, 'He knows where your father and parents are,' you didn't, didn't contradict me, didn't have an accident, and you didn't even suspect me, and you were lying to you." Chen Tongsheng approached and looked at her irresistibly: "Who is this him?" ”

Chen Die's pupils flickered, she was silent for a moment, and suddenly closed her eyes, which was a gesture of resisting cooperation.

"If you don't, don't cooperate with me, then I'll, no, let you go." Chen Tongsheng said: "You just go back and confess to the officials of Dali Temple." ”

“……”

After a long time, Chen Die finally asked, "What good is this for you?" ”

She said, "Isn't that perfect enough?" The person you want to arrest has been caught, the person you want to be promoted has been promoted, and your goal has been achieved, what else should you do? She looked at Chen Tongsheng and said, "What do you want?" Isn't it a good thing for everyone that Dr. Yushi has been arrested! ”

Chen Tongsheng immediately said keenly: "What do you mean?" ”

"Good for whom? Who is promoted? What purpose? ”

She couldn't help but ask strangely: "Why do you think this is a good ending?" The Chen family, the family moved away, you were ruined, and you were sentenced to be hanged...... Why, it will be good? ”

This passage sounds like there is a logical logic in it.

It seems that Liu De was arrested, and the Shen father and son have fallen to the point where they are now, as if they have already been preset goals.

And Chen Die didn't have such a deep resentment about this.

The words she revealed at this moment were fundamentally different from before, she didn't particularly resent that she was involved in this matter, and she didn't think that her innocence was ruined, and she could only live in hiding in the future. On the contrary, she was anxious to leave Kyoto and return to where the Chan couple were.

"Liu De, there's no reason to let you go again. This will make him, and himself, unable to escape the blame. Chen Tongsheng said: "It's ...... who let you go." Zou Shiyun? ”