CHAPTER XXII

"There is a deep hatred in the sea of blood, how can the orphans of the Li family give up revenge so easily? Since the enemy's official position is extremely high, they have nowhere to even sue, so they will naturally find another way. ”

Hearing this, not only the people in the village, but even Rong Niang, who had been looking embarrassed and silent, looked at Xu Chu in shock. I saw Rong Niang open her mouth, trembling and shedding two lines of tears.

Xu Chu walked up to her and said softly, "Is it me who says it next, or does the girl say it herself?" ”

"You ......." Rong Niang raised her head, facing Xu Chu's gentle eyes, she couldn't help straightening her back, and looked at Sun Cheng with an angry expression, she really hated to eat his flesh and eat his blood.

"Back then, my father and mother were honest people, with little knowledge, and they had always lived a life of sunrise and sunset, and they rarely even went to the town, let alone the county seat. One day, when they were returning from going to the field, they met Sun Xing, who had come to the village to look for bandits. At that time, a few people should have walked for a long time, hungry and thirsty, and my father and mother kindly let a few people come to the house to drink saliva and be warmly entertained. The grandparents even took out the only wheat noodles in the family to cook for a few people to satisfy their hunger, but they didn't expect that Sun Xing and that person were harboring evil intentions at all! Speaking of this, Rong Niang's eyes burst out with fierce hatred, and the monstrous resentment seemed to shoot at Sun Xing, she gritted her teeth and said, "That day and night, if someone hadn't found the clues, found the corpses of two children and threw them into our small courtyard, and hid me and my brother, I am afraid that we would have been poisoned by them a long time ago." ”

Referring to the past, Rong Niang was extremely sad, she shouted hysterically: "Why is God so unfair, he let the murderer go free for many years, but he lives comfortably with the bloodstained silver, and Sun Xing, the initiator, is even promoted to get rich and enjoy all the glory and wealth!" ”

Xu Chu looked at Rong Niang and saw that she couldn't cry anymore, so he couldn't help but continue: "You two brothers and sisters escaped death with the help of others, and then they were raised separately, until you met the so-called Li Jin in Yunzhou City, and you learned the secret of the tragic death of your family back then. So you willingly stooped into the Qinglou, and after several plots, you endured humiliation and approached Li Jin's body. You found out his secret, and you wanted to report to the official, but you found that the biggest city official in Yunzhou turned out to be Lord Sun, so you can only grit your teeth and swallow the complaint and grievances again. ”

"Then you went to see your brother, and the two discussed it, but found that there was no way to redress their grievances, and in the end they could only do the so-called evil ghost murder case."

"As for the so-called haunting of the South Bank, I am afraid that your brothers and sisters sneaked into the village overnight, and when they wept bitterly above the ruins, they caused the phosphorus gas in the ground to rise, thus creating the so-called ghost fire. Am I right? ”

"The girl is right. My father has already been hacked and killed by Sun Xing, a dumb official, how can he come back from the dead? And the Li Jin who appeared was just the person who followed him like a mountain back then, and later I begged the person who saved us back then, only to know that that person was the original bandit leader at all. As for those bandits, I'm afraid they would have fled a long time ago......" So far, Rong Niang has just responded. As long as she can take revenge, she will not hesitate to break her bones.

Her words, but people suddenly realized, no wonder, it turned out to be such a thing. And Xu Chu was also silent in her heart, and sure enough, as she guessed, the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were enough to support the days when the fake Li Jin spent so much money over the years. The so-called tea merchant's business is just a cover for the dirty silver.

"Then why did the Zhang family and the Liu family and the Wu family become your targets?" The matter is basically clear, but Xiao Qinglang still has to ask questions for the final testimony of the case.

"They...... Hehe, it's all a bunch of executioners. In order to hide from the world, Jiang Dakui strangled my mother with his own hands and hacked my grandmother to death. And when the Zhang family and the Liu family brothers saw that there was a bloody case in my family, not only did they not help each other, but they even helped Sun Xing and Jiang Dakui and others to cover it up in exchange for benefits. How could I let go of such a neighbor who is inferior to a beast. Speaking of this, Rong Niang's face couldn't help but turn hideous. At the beginning, her father ran out to ask for help first, but the families had already heard the sound and were too frightened to save people, and in the end, they all pointed out that her father's body was Jiang Dakui, and the gasping grandfather was an injured bandit.

It's really sad to think about it now, grandparents and parents have been good people all their lives, and in the end they have to confess their guilt for the gangsters.

As for Jiang Dakui, not only can he spend all his time drinking, but he has also replaced the shadow graphics on the identity document a long time ago, and his father's identity has long been his.

"I guess after you entered the Qinglou, you found Zhang Da's figure again, so you secretly let him and Li Jin meet. Zhang Da's daughter-in-law once said that he was very excited after returning home, saying that his family was about to become rich, and he was afraid that Li Jin gave him some promise. ”

"You're right, Zhang Da has been doing business abroad for many years, and he is no longer a small mountain man who was only a promise twenty years ago. How big his appetite is, just by looking at how cold-blooded he was. He blackmailed Jiang Dakui on the pretext of exposing Jiang Dakui, but how could Jiang Dakui be easy to provoke, I only needed a few words of provocation to make him murderous to Zhang Dakui. Rong Niang was crying and roaring, and now she was already a little exhausted, slumped on the ground and supported her body diagonally, and laughed miserably, "That Jiang Dakui is a bandit who drinks blood and kills people like hemp, even the jailer dared to kill him before, and he didn't need to think about it at all if he only killed Zhang Da." ”

"It was also the first case that your brother was worried that you would be involved, so he released the rumor that the Five Elements Evil Ghost was asking for his life, in a vain attempt to cover you up?"

"No, I did it alone, and it has nothing to do with my brother. He doesn't know anything...... Rong Niang's face turned pale, and the whole person was trembling from exhaustion, and she only said with an iron heart, "Later, I burned Wu Song to death with phosphorus powder with gunpowder and oil. If it hadn't been for the halfway way to bite the gold tonight, I'm afraid that Sun Xing's life would have been lost to me. ”

Xu Chu stared at Rong Niang tightly, and after listening to her, he said lightly: "But it was not Wu Song who died, but Liu Dafu, so what should I say?" Besides, my autopsy found that Jiang Dakui died of veneers, how can he, a big man who is five big and three rough and has killed people many times, be easily at your mercy? Even if you use sweat medicine, you may not be able to drag it hard, let alone tie him to the wooden bench and hold it down. Is it necessary for you to hide it now? ”

Rong Niang snorted, forced by Xu Chu's words to shake her head again and again, but she didn't know how to refute, so she could only insist that there was no one else.

"Jinmu, water, fire and earth, corresponding to Zhang Da, Jiang Dakui, Liu Dafu, Liu Dagui and Sun Xing are Sun Da. And the Wu family, Wu Daqing should be the one who saved you in the first place. Xu Chu lowered his head and carefully looked at the changes on Rong Niang's face, and when he saw that she was suddenly shocked, he naturally determined the last conjecture in his heart, "You said that someone replaced your brothers and sisters with corpses back then, and the only person in the village who had the opportunity to do it was Wu Daqing, who was a puppet." In order to protect the two of you, he also tried his best to not only do the evil man admit his bad feelings, but also raise what you think is your great-grandson and great-granddaughter. With such a gap of several generations, I am afraid that after moving to Yunzhou City, no one will notice the difference in the Sun family......"

After saying this, Xu Chu set his eyes on the inconspicuous few people in the crowd, and then asked: "Master Wu Song, Master Wu Yong, Young Master Wu and Mrs. Wu, do you think my reasoning is reasonable?" ”

As soon as her words fell, she saw a group of villagers looking at each other and snuggling up to each other, and after looking at each other repeatedly, they suddenly fell on a few unfamiliar faces behind them.

"The so-called haunting last night was not because you wanted to scare anyone, nor did you want to drive us away as I initially guessed, but because you wanted to use the hands of me and the prince to rewash the Li family's unjust case. Can this be the case? ”

I saw a few people in the crowd laughing miserably, and stepped forward to stand beside Rong Niang in a few steps. And Wu Yong and Mrs. Wu bent down to help Rong Niang, and said distressedly: "I'm sorry for you, if I knew that there was today, my father and mother would have persuaded your grandfather to bring the secret into the soil." ”

If it weren't for Mrs. Wu's indignation back then and the fact that Li Jin is Jiang Dakui now, I am afraid that the two children would not be blinded by hatred, and they only want to take revenge. She and her old man Wu Song have not had the blessing of having children in their lives, so they are particularly concerned about raising Wu Yong and Rong Niang, but they don't want the two children who are already smart and clever to be planted in this hatred and can't get out.

"Mother......

"Hey. Good children are not afraid, our family is still together, and Huangquan Road is not lonely. At this time, Mrs. Wu no longer has the same pungent and difficult as when Xu Chu investigated the case and heard the news, and her words are full of deep love for the child.

At this time, there was already an uproar in the crowd, and dozens of villagers who were born and raised in their villages were shocked and frightened, as if they couldn't believe that the bane of the evil ghost had been planted twenty years earlier.

Therefore, Liu Dagui, who died in the water today, was not an accident at all, and it was not a water ghost looking for a substitute, but ......

And Wu Yong took a deep breath at this time and said, "It seems that the girl also guessed how I did it to the Liu family brothers?" ”

"Naturally," Xu Chu looked at the man opposite who should have been in the wind, but now his eyes were full of desolation and pain, and said in a low voice, "You must have asked Wu Song to send a letter to the Liu family brothers, saying that he had a chance to make a fortune, and then coaxed him to go to eat and drink." When you have had enough to eat and drink, you press the man on top of the chariot and burn them to death with the tools that produce the fire and burn it even more fiercely than the real fire. Because most of the things moved with the wind around the carriage, the power was much smaller enough to burn the carriage to ashes, but Liu Dafu had a lot on him, so he couldn't be spared......"

"Yes, you're right." Wu Yong looked at Xu Chu with a trance-like expression, if there was such a person in Changping County back then, would his father and grandparents not die in vain?

At this time, Wu Yong's emotions in his eyes had already stabilized, and he didn't know how long it took before he said with difficulty: "When did you doubt me?" ”

"Probably from the time of Li Jin's death, I had doubts about why the rumors of the Five Elements did not spread earlier, but only after the death of the second person. Moreover, when I went to Wu's house, you and Mrs. Wu behaved too calmly, and even if Mrs. Wu spoke rudely to me, she only showed a little boredom, not sadness. Xu Chu sighed, "Not to mention that both the Zhang family and the Li family are terrified because of the evil ghosts, and the house is full of charms and peach branches." Let's just say that between the markets, now every household has asked for amulets to ward off evil spirits. But in contrast, the Wu family is too calm, and even you and Mrs. Wu still have the heart to go to buy autumn clothes, which shows that there is a lot of strangeness in it. ”

As he spoke, Xu Chu turned his eyes to look at Mrs. Wu, and saw that even though she was dressed in simple clothes now, she was still wearing a small golden hairpin in her hair.

"I think the hairpin on Mrs. Wu's head is probably a beloved thing given by Master Wu."

I heard from outsiders that the two of them have a very good relationship, if something really happens to Wu Song, I am afraid that Mrs. Wu will not be able to dress up for a long time, let alone hairpins with gold.

At this moment, the surroundings were quiet, and everyone's eyes were a little overwhelmed and turned back and forth between the Wu family and Xu Chu. In those days, because the bandits were so vicious, many people dared to go out of their homes after the officers and soldiers had captured people and cleared the south bank. So a lot of these things, they don't know.

The people in the mountains have always been simple, and their trust in the official court is almost blind, so after the government said that the bandit leader was killed and the bandit was beheaded, they also trusted it very much. It was also the Zhang family, the Li family, the Wu family, and the Liu family that went to the Yamen to receive the reward, and they moved away from the south bank one after another, especially the Li family, and several members of the family did not return to the village at all, and I heard that they bought a house and bought an industry directly in the city......

The sun slowly rose from the east, dispelling the darkness and coldness of the small village, and in an instant a golden light shrouded the earth and the bones.

At this moment, there was another sound of galloping horses' hooves in the village. Then the well-trained secret guard stood respectfully beside Xiao Qinglang, and the man led by him replied in a deep voice: "Lord Wang, my subordinates have already led people to dig out dozens of boxes of silver under the Li family's rockery, and now they have asked people to register just waiting for someone from the capital to take over." And according to the prince's explanation, his subordinates sent people to take down several bandits who were absconded by Li Daitao, only one of them was missing, and the government had already ordered people to go down and arrest them with all their might. ”

Now, even the dirty silver hidden by Jiang Dakui has been found by the King of Jing'an, and Sun Xing couldn't help but sit on the ground as if he had lost his soul, only to feel that the cold wind passed by and made him shiver.

What happened next, he couldn't quibble. Xiao Qinglang didn't even give him a chance to speak again, let alone shout and confess.

Xiao Qinglang waved his hand to signal the guards who had just returned to retreat first, then turned his head to look into the depths of the torch, and asked in a cold voice, "Master Lu, can you write down the prisoner's confession?" ”

I saw the crowd parting from the middle, and an old man in gray walked out of it, "Back to the prince, Xiaomin has already recorded the confessions of several people. In addition, Lord Sun's crimes have also been ordered to be recorded so that the prince can check them. ”