164. The thief shouts to catch the thief
As soon as Sheng Mingyi came back, she was stopped by Sheng Mingzhu, this afternoon, she was thinking about the content of the letter, the more she thought about it, the more frightened she felt, in her previous life, she only knew the cause and effect, and the King of Chu didn't know anything about the details of the disaster relief, and all she heard was a few words.
This place is more than ten days away from Kyoto, and the sky is high and the road is far away, if it weren't for Meng Zhaoyue's incident, she might never set foot here in her life.
Sheng Mingyi took the letter in her hand, read it line by line, the expression on his face changed from careless to solemn, and when he finished reading all the contents, his eyes fell on the last name, and his eyes stared at it for a long time before he put down the letter in his hand.
"Where did you get this letter?" Sheng Mingyi asked, his eyes were stern, Sheng Mingzhu was not stupid, especially on such an important matter, there was no ambiguity, and immediately the matter of them sneaking into Li Xuanzhen's private house today was all trayed out from beginning to end.
Including what he saw and heard in the house, he told him everything.
Speaking of the source of the letter in the end, Sheng Mingzhu paused, and still told the truth, "I didn't find this letter, it was found by Mu Gongzi, I ...... He gave it to me when he came back just now. ”
Sheng Mingyi's gaze suddenly became sharp, "You didn't see him get this letter from Li Xuanzhen's mansion with your own eyes, did you?" ”
"No, though, he's not like that." Sheng Mingzhu knew what Sheng Mingyi was thinking, and she didn't doubt the authenticity of the letter just now, but after thinking about it carefully, Mu Changqing didn't seem to have such a motive.
He has little to do with the king of Chu, so why would he frame such a big crime, and the content of this letter can easily be verified to be true or false, if it is proved to be forged, he is the first suspect.
Why did he have to wade into such troubled waters when he was so free.
"How do you know?" Sheng Mingyi glared at her, "Don't spread the content of this letter first, and that Mu Changqing, you stay away from him, although he is out now, I don't know how many eyes are staring at him outside, the current situation in the DPRK and China is surging, who knows when it will be involved in you and me, if you are not careful, there are not even bones left in the end, you give me a long snack." ”
Sheng Mingzhu muttered and didn't speak, she was already sane and sober enough, obviously he himself treated her as a child every day.
"I know what you said, Li Xuanzhen still has that prefect, when dealing with each other in the past few days, you must pay attention to it, but don't fall into their trap. By the way, I heard that you went out just now, and there is news about the villagers? ”
"No, the county government has seen it in the past, and now all I know is the cause of death from the wound, and the nearby official road has also sent people to investigate, but no conclusive evidence has been found."
Sheng Mingzhu thought for a while, lowered his voice and said, "Could all this be that they are thieves shouting to catch thieves." ”
"Are you saying that the people in Tu Village are people from the government?"
Sheng Mingzhu nodded and conjectured, "You said that if there is really such a group of fierce and vicious bandits near Longan County, the government will not know about it, and there will be no rumors below; On the first night we came here, we met the Assassins, and the Assassins had a clear goal, they were coming for us, and you said that we had been on the road for so many days, and if someone in Beijing didn't like us, we should have started on the way, so why wait until now. ”
"In the huge county town, who do you say has such the ability to raise such a group of people, and the family members who fight with us today are not weak, I suspect that they have private soldiers in captivity in private."
"What was the purpose of their slaughter? We can't just kill the whole village just because we went to the village! Sheng Ming said.
"Listen to me tell you, Li Xuanzhen secretly raised a group of private soldiers with strong martial arts, these people lurked in the shadows, doing some shady things for him, such as hiding near the official road and hijacking passing vehicles, Meng Zhaoyue and a few of them passed by here, the carriages and horses were swaggering, they must have entered their eyes, killing people and robbing goods, and then found out that the person who intercepted and killed was related to our Guogong Mansion, and the prefect and Longan County received a letter from his father, in order to avoid trouble and clear the suspicion, the best way is to throw away all the corpses and luggage, not at all, As for why the village was slaughtered, it should also be related to this matter, otherwise how could it be so coincidental? ”
"What you said is your own speculation, before there is conclusive evidence, it's not good to talk nonsense, don't say these things casually to outsiders, you know? Beware of others who will charge you with spreading rumors and causing trouble, slander and slander. Sheng Mingyi's voice was accentuated by the word outsider, which meant something.
"What do I say to outsiders, isn't this my own person with the second brother?" Sheng Mingzhu understood the meaning of the outsider in his words, and said with a forced smile; "Is there any news from Meng Zhaoyue and Meng Caiguang?"
"No, I've searched everywhere around the village, but I haven't found any suspicious bodies."
Sheng Mingzhu glanced at him and said firmly: "Then the two of them must not be dead." ”
"Are you so sure?" Sheng Mingyi said strangely.
Sheng Mingzhu snorted coldly and sneered: "In the world I experienced before, she Meng Zhaoyue was very beautiful, I heard that she was going to marry His Royal Highness King Xin, and she would run to my corpse in the middle of the night to mock and laugh." ”
Sheng Mingyi frowned, his face turned cold, and he was a little reluctant to listen to her words, "Even if she doesn't die now, she is still a grasshopper after the autumn, and she can't jump for a few days, and when my second brother is here, she will never let her bully you a point." ”
"Since she is not dead, she either hid by herself, or was arrested and controlled, and the two brothers and sisters have no carriage and no salute to eat, even if they are lucky enough to escape, they can't run far, and they are probably still in Longan County."
"I'm sending someone to find it tomorrow." After Sheng Mingyi finished speaking, he said: "Don't worry about this matter for now, I have already sent a message back and asked my eldest brother to send someone to pick you up." ”
"Why? I'm back, but what about you? ”
Sheng Mingyi glanced at her and said angrily: "I'm not the one who drags his feet. ”
"You have given me less to go out these days, and don't worry about the soup soup in the morning, they are such a big county government, with the court's money, can't they find a person who works, and want you, the county lord, to take the lead and block the front?"
"Didn't I want to do something for the people of the city?"
"Okay, I know that you care about the people and the common people."
Sheng Mingyi perfunctory two sentences to him, then went back, and after going back, he withdrew from everyone, took out the letter that Sheng Mingzhu had shown him just now, turned it over and read it a few times, his brows became more and more wrinkled, and finally he sighed helplessly.