The back garden of Xie Mansion.

Ye Jing and others gathered here to listen to Chen Changkong's account of last night's trip to Yuan's mansion.

"Yesterday, I found the little guy's residence and learned that Mo Yuan's hometown is in a village eighty miles away from the capital, and his family's surname is Ren." Chen Changkong touched his chin, and continued, "I went to Renyazi to inquire before I came this morning, and said that there is a village called Lao Yazui, and the whole village is surnamed Ren. ”

"That's probably right here. It is advisable to divide the troops into two ways, some of them go to the old crow's mouth to find people, and the rest stay in the capital to stabilize the situation. Xie Jin said in a deep voice.

Shen Yingsian's face was haggard, and he frowned: "Li Kaichen is going to interrogate my mother today, as if he was forced by the rumors on the street. ”

"Now that the people in the capital are more or less staring at this case, they are afraid that he will jump off the wall in a hurry, so it is better to go to Dali Temple today to hand over the recital, and it will not be shelved." Ye Jingdao.

Xie Jin nodded and said, "Now that the influence has expanded, it should have attracted the attention of the higher-ups." ”

"Since Dali Temple received the complaint, Li Kaichen has no right to continue to hear the case, so it can be delayed for a period of time. It would also be safer to transfer my aunt from the county jail to the Dali Temple cell. Zhu Huo suddenly spoke.

Shen Yingshou clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "Okay! Then I will write a recital and sue Dali Temple! ”

Then the people divided into two groups and began to act.

Ye Jing, Zhu Huo and Chen Changkong rode to the old crow's mouth, which was not difficult for Ye Jing, after all, she used to like to ride horses, but she was a little rusty after not riding for a long time.

Ye Jing sat on the horse's back and carefully controlled the horse. The horse is a black horse with a docile temperament, but after taking a few steps, Ye Jing regained his senses and could trot.

It took only an hour and a half to get to the old crow's mouth, and seeing that they were almost at the entrance of the village, the three of them dismounted and walked.

There is an old willow tree at the entrance of the village, the shade of the tree is thick, and under the tree sit two or three elderly mothers-in-law, who weave willow baskets in their hands, and talk and laugh about the gossip of the Li family, the head of the family.

Chen Changkong stepped forward and took out a portrait from his arms, "Dare to ask Grandma, do you recognize the girl on this painting?" ”

A mother-in-law dressed in white linen squinted, looked carefully, and said softly:

"Isn't this the eldest girl of the Sanzhang family? There are moles on the corners of the eyebrows and eyes, big cow and grandma, can you take a look? ”

"I'll see." A white and fat woman came over, "Don't say it, it's really like, this girl just came back a few days ago, and the three of them still have to say goodbye, why haven't they moved until now." ”

She withdrew her body and asked, "Housheng, what are you looking for the eldest girl?" ”

"Back to grandma, it turned out that the eldest girl had been on duty in the Yuan Mansion in the capital, and the old man missed her parents, so he let her go home. Now, there is something going on in the house, so I specially came to answer it. Chen Changkong glanced at the board and said it in a good way.

When the woman heard that she was from the capital, she immediately smiled, "I see, blame my wife for not seeing the world, and I have nothing to do, go, my wife will show you the way." ”

So saying, the fat white woman put down the willow basket that had not yet been made, got up and walked towards the village.

Ye Jing stood behind, stunned and watched the white fat woman walking like a fly, hurriedly tied the horse to the tree at the entrance of the village, and followed quickly.

"Amazing, this grandma has good legs." Ye Jing sighed.

"Although Ah Jing's legs and feet are slightly inferior to them, they are not bad." Bamboo's cold voice suddenly came.

Ye Jing listened to his words, and always felt that something was wrong, she glared at Zhu Huo, and snorted softly in her mouth.

"Somebody just loves to make this kind of boring comparison."

Along the way, the white fat woman and Chen Changkong chatted about the gossip of the Mo Yuan family, what three Zhang just died of his wife last year, and his son died the year before last, and now there is only one daughter left. Thanks to the kindness of the Yuan family, otherwise no one would have supported the three of them. Ye Jing was dizzy when he heard it.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the fat white woman to stop, she pointed to a small courtyard in front of her, and said, "This is it, I'll go and call the door for you." ”

Ye Jing hurriedly stepped forward to grab her and said, "No need mother-in-law, you can send it here, thank you mother-in-law." ”

As he spoke, Ye Jing took out a silver hollow sachet from his sleeve, which was carved extremely exquisitely, and it was given to her by Jia Lianfeng a few days ago.

"Let's play with my mother-in-law and son, it's not a valuable thing, and I hope my mother-in-law won't dislike it."

The white fat woman took it carefully, and the folds on her face were all smiling, "Where do you say it, how can the old woman dislike it." ”

The woman happily took the sachet and left, Ye Jing glanced at Zhu, and then retreated to the side with Chen Changkong.

On the other side, Shen Yingshou went to the county government with the Dali Temple officials, and before Li Kaichen could ascend to the hall, he transferred Shen's mother to the cell of Dali Temple.

"Mother, don't worry, the child will never let you suffer unjustly." Shen Yingshou stood outside the cell, holding his mother's hand tightly through the wooden fence.

Shen's mother's hair was messy, she smiled at Shen Yingshou reluctantly, sighed, and said, "If I knew that something would happen to that tea cake, I would never give her a tea cake." Mother really didn't poison it, who knows why the poison appeared in the mother's room, which one killed a thousand knives, hey......"

"Aunt, don't be anxious, Li Kaichen already has the heart to cover up, and now that Dali Temple has taken over the case, he will never let the murderer escape justice." Xie Jin comforted softly.

Then he put his eyes back to the crow's beak eighty miles away.

Zhu Huo pretended to be a little maid in Yuan's mansion and knocked on the door of Mo Yuan's house.

After a while, I heard an old voice from inside, "Who?" It's coming, it's coming. ”

It was the father of the ink mandarin duck.

Sure enough, a man in his forties and fifties opened the door, looked at Zhu Huo, and said with some doubts:

"You are?"

"Below is Young Master Yuan's entourage, and Young Master asked me to invite Ah Gong to meet him, because there are some things to discuss with Ah Gong." Zhu Hummy is talking nonsense without changing his color.

Mo Yuan's father was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Find ...... Looking for me? I'll talk to the big girl. So saying, he walked into the house.

How could Zhu Huo let him really ask Mo Yuan, and grabbed him, "Ah Gong doesn't need to say it, the matter is urgent, let's go with me, if something goes wrong, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain to the young master." ”

"Okay, let's go." Mo Yuan's father seemed to be frightened by Zhu Huo's tone, and promised repeatedly.

Ye Jing saw that Zhu Huo coaxed Mo Yuan's father away, glanced at Chen Changkong, and walked into Mo Yuan's courtyard lightly, closing the door with his backhand.

The courtyard was empty, and I searched inside and out, but I couldn't see the ink mandarin man. When he was wondering, he suddenly saw Chen Changkong make a silent movement.

He pouted behind Ye Jing, Ye Jing turned his head, and saw an ordinary haystack behind him, stacked with many corn stalks.

She stared at the haystack carefully for a long time, and saw that the corner of the haystack seemed to be shaking slightly, Ye Jing immediately understood, and gently walked over and lifted the corn stalk.

Sure enough, the ink duck was curled up and shivering inside, and even if it was exposed, it didn't dare to move. Chen Changkong just wanted to grab her by the shoulders and pull her up, but before he could touch her, he heard her scream and muttered to himself:

"Don't catch me, don't arrest me, I'm forced, I'm forced......"

Ye Jing looked at the ink mandarin duck that shrank into a trembling ball, and couldn't believe that she had once threatened to cut Shen Mu with a knife.

She originally thought that it would be extremely difficult for her to speak, and she was going to lock her up and starve her for two days, and then pretend to be Mrs. Yuan to ask for her life, so as to frighten her to confide in the truth.

Now that I see her like this, I'm afraid I can save it.

Chen Changkong found a rope out of nowhere, and together with Ye Jing, he tied up the ink duck with teeth and claws and screaming. For this reason, Ye Jing was also scratched by the ink mandarin duck on his hand.

Ye Jing wiped his wound with a handkerchief, and said viciously: "Don't think that others don't know what you've done, let me tell you, Yuan Shan and his little wife have been arrested, and you can't escape." ”

"I'm forced, I'm forced......"

"Who forced you? Make it clear that if someone is persecuted, we may be able to help you. Chen Changkong's rare voice was gentle and said softly.

Mo Yuan's eyes widened, looking at Chen Changkong, and suddenly cried, "I said, I said, woo...... I'm sorry ma'am, I'm sorry ma'am. ”

She cried so much that her face was full of tears, mixed with sticky snot, and she was very embarrassed.

Ye Jing wiped her face with a handkerchief and said, "Don't dislike it, the blood on this is still caught by you!" ”

Chen Changkong glared at Ye Jing, but saw her stick out her tongue at him and make a grimace.

"Don't cry, say it now, and it won't be in vain for Mrs. to treat you with sincerity." Chen Changkong ignored Ye Jing and continued.

Mo Yuan sobbed and said: "After returning from the Shen family that day, Chang casually gave me a packet of medicine by the master's side, asking me to find an opportunity to sprinkle it in the Shen family's tea cakes, and asked me to give the tea to my wife to drink." ”

She sobbed, and then said, "Madame treats me like a mountain, and I don't obey it, but ...... But if I don't do that, the lord will sell me to the Qinglou, I can't help it, I can't help it, woo woo woo ......"

Ye Jing frowned and was puzzled: "Why did you sell you to the Qinglou?" What have you done? ”

"When I gave pastries to the lord for my wife, I accidentally broke the lord's white jade pen mountain, and often said that I can't afford to pay for ten, and the lord originally said that he would not pursue it again, but in the end he forced me to poison my wife." Mo Yuan choked and said.

Mo Yuan continued to speak incoherently, "I'm sorry Madame, I've been having nightmares for the past few days, I'm sorry Madame......"

Chen Changkong sighed, leaned into Ye Jing's ear and whispered: "She is also pitiful, but my aunt's case can't be delayed, so it's better to take her back quickly." ”

Ye Jingjing nodded, looked at Mo Yuan's almost crazy appearance, and said: "Take it away, if there is another accident on the road to the province, you go first, and I will rush over after Zhu Huo and I deal with Mo Yuan's father's affairs." ”

Over there, Zhu Huo took Mo Yuan's father to run around the village, ignoring Mo Yuan's father's several questions. After turning around, Zhu Huo finally saw Ye Jing at the back mountain pass, he suddenly became relaxed, and couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Young Master, Mo Yuan's father has arrived."