Chapter Seventy-Three: Filial Piety
Zhuang Rou turned Li Zhongxin's house upside down this time, and did not let go of everything that could be taken away and valuable, even the books on the table, she carefully rummaged through them, maybe there was some evidence in them. And Chen Mufeng followed behind her, looking carefully at her rummaging for things.
After all the outer rooms were turned out, Zhuang Rou came to the inner room again, jumped directly on the bed, grabbed the iron rod, and broke the lock roughly. This time, she came to raid the house in a bright light, so naturally she didn't need to pick the lock, just smash it directly.
She pulled out both drawers, looked at them and saw that they were still there except for the deed she had stolen last time, and prepared to take them all.
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside, the door was pushed open, and a bunch of people rushed in.
Zhuang Rou looked up and saw that the leader was a woman who looked very noble, and the posture should be Chen Shangshu's wife. According to his age, he should be in his fifties, but the maintenance is exceptionally good, and he looks like he is only in his forties.
Mrs. Shangshu just broke in, and Chen Mufeng found that it was not good, why did her mother come again! And look at the posture, and the mother-in-law behind him, he is here to arrest people.
He suddenly became anxious, thinking that Zhuang Rou had some skills, what should he do if he hurt his mother when the time came, so he hurriedly blocked between the two, "Mother, calm down, this is ......"
"Shut up!" Mrs. Shangshu scolded, and then looked at Zhuang Rou arrogantly, and looked at her unceremoniously, "Last time, you led me at the back door at night and asked him to do something rude. ”
"My family will not accept people with bad morals, women like you who do not abide by women's morals, let alone accept them as concubines, even if they are intercourse, I will not agree!" She shouted at the servant behind her, "Take her down for me, I want to ask, where is this woman, all the means have been played on my Shangshu Mansion!" ”
Zhuang Rou only glanced at her and didn't look at it anymore, bowed her head and sorted out the things in the drawer, these are all evidence, all of them have to be taken away. Hearing Madame Shangshu shouting to take him down, he raised his head and grinned at her.
"Take me?" Zhuang Rou looked at her and those mothers-in-law with a smile, "Mrs. Shangshu, I am Ying Arrest from Douhu County, and I am here to handle a case, and I have already seen the second son in the front hall before." I wonder if you're trying to get in the way of my case, or if it's just a misunderstanding? ”
Mrs. Shangshu sneered, "I've never heard of any women who should be arrested, and if you want to lie to me, it's a great crime to teach my son badly." It just so happened that someone was sent to find someone from Ying Tianfu to come over, arrest this woman for me, and interrogate her well! ”
"Mother! She's really a shop, I made it up to lie to you last time, you have to believe me this time! Chen Mufeng was anxious and quickly explained.
But now Mrs. Shangshu is so angry that she can't hear it at all, someone has already proved that the woman that night is her, and the idea has hit her son, what a bold act!
"Don't go up up and take it for me!"
A few strong mothers-in-law rushed up, Chen Mufeng hurried to block them, and was immediately hugged by the two mothers-in-law, and the other three gritted their teeth and pounced on Zhuang Rou.
"Really, why don't you listen to people." Zhuang Rou sighed, raised her hand and punched each of the three mothers-in-law, and directly knocked the person to the ground and couldn't get up from the injury.
The room was suddenly quiet as if no one was there, Zhuang Rou jumped off the bed and walked towards everyone. This time, Chen Mufeng quickly shook off the mother-in-law who was holding him and was stunned, and blocked in front of Mrs. Shangshu, "Sister Zhuang! This is my mother, she is unintentional, don't do anything to her! ”
Zhuang Rou looked at him with her eyes, but the person walked to the outer hall, and everyone surrounded her and didn't dare to move. I saw her take out a wrapping cloth from Li Zhongxin's cabinet, walk back again, put all the belongings she found in it and bread them, ignore them and walk out with her baggage.
Chen Mufeng saw it, and hurriedly said to Mrs. Shangshu: "Mother, I'll go out for a while." After saying that, he ran out, caught up with Zhuang Rou and snatched the burden in her hand, and carried it in his hand to accompany Xiao Xiao all the way out.
"This unfilial son!" Mrs. Shangshu hurriedly walked to the door, just saw this scene, and only felt that her son seemed to be a little follower at this time, and suddenly felt heartbroken, who was this woman, who actually harmed her son so much!
Chen Mushan was dealing with the affairs of the government, and Li Zhongxin's arrest was irrelevant to him, but he heard that he had a lot of property, so he wanted to check the accounts. If this Li Zhongxin is greedy for the money in the house, he naturally has to come back all of them, and he can also use this matter to beat other housekeepers.
At this time, someone rushed in, and reported in a panic: "Second master, the back house girl came to report, the old lady was very angry with the ninth young master, and now she is furious." It is said that she took a woman to the housekeeper's house for a private meeting, and the old lady took someone to arrest her, but she didn't expect the ninth young master to escort the woman and run away. ”
"Nonsense!" When Chen Mushan heard this, he suddenly felt that his head was as big as a fight, just because it was a woman who investigated the case, how could it be rumored by them to be a private meeting!
He sighed speechlessly, and had to go to the back house, first to appease his mother.
Zhuang Rou didn't care what Mrs. Shangshu thought, she didn't have time to do this kind of idle thing, when Mrs. Shangshu was still making trouble inside, she had already left Shangshu Mansion with Chen Mufeng on horseback and returned to Douhu County.
"Sister Zhuang, my mother is so nervous, don't you mind." Chen Mufeng rode on the horse and preached apologetically, Zhuang Rou was not there last time, this time she was a joke.
"It's okay, I think you can get married quickly, and your mother won't be so nervous." Zhuang Rou didn't care, anyway, it wasn't that she was half angry to death, so she said casually.
When Chen Mufeng heard this, he quickly shook his head and refused, "Men are ambitious in all directions, what's the point of marrying a wife and having children, I still want to be a soldier." It's a big deal to change my identity and not let others know that I am the son of Chen Shangshufu. ”
Zhuang Rou tilted her head to look at him, and said with some surprise: "You want to go so much?" I thought it was just a whim, so I said it casually. ”
"Of course it's true, as long as I find an opportunity, I will definitely go!" Chen Mufeng said firmly, he thought about it and wanted to be a soldier, and he must be a hero like that person.
"Then you work hard, and I'll see you off when the time comes." Zhuang Rou smiled.
The two returned to Douhu County, and when they entered the door, they heard screams coming from the lobby, and when they walked in, they saw that Zhu Dianshi was torture Li Zhongxin. Lin Laicai had already been tortured, and his hands were lying on the ground with bloody flesh and blood, motionless as if he was dead.
Chen Mufeng frowned, he had never seen this kind of scene, and Li Zhongxin was someone he had known since childhood, so he suddenly felt very uncomfortable.
Zhuang Rou took the burden and went over from the side, handed over the things to Zhu Dianshi and the master, and when he saw that there was so much property, Li Zhongxin refused to confess, so Zhu Dianshi asked Ma Dezheng and them to continue to torture.
"What about the Lin family, why aren't you here?" Zhuang Rou stood beside Diao Yi and asked curiously.
Diao Yi held the killing rod and said: "Locked in the back, the woman brought it up and cried wildly, it was too annoying to listen to, so I put it in prison first." ”
Seeing that the torture had been being used in the hall, Zhuang Rou asked curiously, "No one recruits?" ”
"No tricks, both of them bit to death and didn't kill anyone. As for Lin Yubao's corpse, unless you find the women who married before, it's hard to say. Sister Zhuang was there when the carriage hit someone, and no one pushed her, she rushed out by herself, and it was hard to say that they killed her. Although Diao Yi has not solved any cases in a few years, he has been a person who should be arrested since he was an adult, and he is much more sophisticated than her.
He said, "But it's okay, if you don't have evidence, just get a trick." ”
Zhuang Rou thought for a while and said, "I'm going to see the Lin family, what does it mean to be beaten into a trick, doesn't it seem that I am handling the case randomly." ”
So she went out of the lobby and went to the cell, and after a few days of not coming, the smell of the place became stronger. She glanced at the people in the Jinbao Gambling House who were still here, these people were the ones who made this place stink, why hadn't the little prince solved the matter yet?
The Lin family was locked up in the prison next door, and the women's prison in the county government was very small, not as big as the next door. Zhuang Rou walked out of the cell and saw her huddled in the corner, and the little girl was locked in another room, except for a little fright.
Zhuang Rou walked over and looked at the Lin family through the cell, and said, "Originally, I wanted to say something about the fact that girls are also pitiful, they shouldn't die like this, come to show affection and let you confess." ”
"However, just now I saw Lin Laicai and your son being tortured in the lobby, and I think Lin Yubao and the others should feel very happy to see it in the sky, so I don't plan to persuade you."
As soon as the words fell, the Lin clan suddenly rushed over from the corner, rushed to the cell door and shouted like a cannibal: "We didn't kill anyone!" If you arrest people indiscriminately, I will not let you go! ”
Zhuang Rou smiled, walked to the steps of the door and sat down, only this position in the whole cell had sunlight in, she sat there and flicked the straw stained on her clothes, looked at Lin and said: "As long as you don't recruit for a day, we will torture Li Zhongxin every day, in fact, I don't care if you recruit or not, anyway, after being beaten half to death, just pull your fingers and press the handprint." ”
"However, the brothers haven't solved the case for a long time, and this punishment always has to be practiced. Lin Laicai has already passed out, it doesn't matter, he will wake up after splashing water on it, and then he will be tortured. But your son is really a man, his fingers are broken, and he still doesn't say a word. ”
But he kept screaming, and he was still afraid of pain. Chen Shangshu Mansion I just passed, and they felt that your son had lost the face of Chen Mansion, so they didn't care about him anymore. Those of us who should be arrested, I like you people like you who have no power and no power, a little bit of money and have committed crimes, you can toss it casually. She stretched out her hand, looked up in the sunlight, and said with a smile.
Lin clung to the stake of the cell and yelled, "You are not human! I won't let you go! ”
Zhuang Rou withdrew her hand, looked down at her and smiled slightly, and said in a calm tone: "My parents passed away when I was very young, so I envy you very much, because my parents can no longer let me be filial." But you can, Li Zhongxin doesn't recruit no matter how he tortures now, just to save the lives of you and your wife. ”
"Even if his hands are broken, his legs are broken, and he is still sentenced to beheading, he wants to do his last filial piety to you in his life. No matter how cold he was to you before, but now is the last moment, and you can rest assured that he will not confess. ”
She stood up and walked up the steps, suddenly stopped, looked back at Lin and said with a smile: "So, I will fulfill him, and I will go to the Falcon Gate to ask the cool officials to come over in a while." They always have some new gadgets to make, and now that the world is peaceful, there are not many opportunities to try them out, and your son can try them all. ”
"Enjoy your son's last filial piety to save you, anyway, in the end you all have to die together." With that, she turned her head and strode up the steps.
At this time, he heard a heart-rending scream from the cell behind him, "I'll move!" I'm willing to recruit! Stop torturing my son! ”
Zhuang Rou stopped, turned to look at her and smiled.