Chapter 27 The Beginning
"Eh, have you heard, last night the Liuxiangfang by the lake was in flames, many people were injured, and several people were burned to death!"
"Yes, yes, my family lives on the other side of the lake, looking at the firelight, tsk, it's all burned red half of the sky! I heard that the Yingge girl in the willow lane square was burned beyond recognition and burned alive!"
"I also heard that the murderer who set fire was Meng Xiu's son of the Meng family, and now, all the people in Liuxiangfang last night were imprisoned!"
"Nonsense, what kind of detention, then Meng Xiu is not in the Meng family now, stay well!"
In the early morning of the next day, there were different opinions in the market about the fire in Liuxiangfang last night, and the discussion was in full swing. Zhuo Yucheng took Xin Yao and Lin Xiao to sit in the tea shop on the side, listening to all the remarks in his ears. Xin Yao was not interested in Liu Xiangfang in this discussion, lowered her head, and drank her own tea by herself, Zhuo Yucheng was on the side, closing her eyes and recuperating, and she also looked leisurely, only Lin Xiao looked at Zhuo Yucheng, and stopped talking.
"Whatever you want, just ask. Looking at his staring at him, if he didn't let him speak, I was afraid that he would suffocate to death, so he opened his mouth and let Lin Xiao speak freely.
"Didn't you plan this Liuxiangfang in advance?" he felt strange, he asked him to go to Liuxiangfang last night, and after the two left, Liuxiangfang had an accident, and he came to his house early this morning to pull him out, and sat in this tea shop to listen to these market words. No matter how you look at it, it looks like a pre-planned game.
Zhuo Yucheng opened his eyes, stretched out his hand to pick up the tea bowl on the table, and tasted the tea in the bowl carefully. "Otherwise, he'll have to bother to set up another game.
"So, isn't the water in Liuxiangfang in your plan?" Lin Xiaohu looked at Zhuo Yucheng suspiciously.
"If I want to set up a situation, how can I use such pickling methods, in your eyes, am I so unpopular?" As soon as Zhuo Yucheng said this, Lin Xiao and Xin Yao glanced at each other, with infinite meaning, both of them said in their hearts, if it were you, you should really do such a shameless thing.
Seeing that the two of them were silent and did not deny it, Zhuo Yucheng couldn't help but sigh softly: "Hey, I am also the head of the Xuanqing lineage, the emperor personally named the Shenwu Monarch, but in your hearts, I am such a faceless and skinless person, it really makes me feel cold." ”
"Gotta gotcha, I'm scared of you. Seeing Zhuo Yucheng's loveless appearance, although Lin Xiao knew in his heart that it was not sincere, he really didn't want to be tricked by him like this, so he spoke out to stop him.
"You went to Liuxiangfang last night, don't you know why the fire started?" Xin Yao asked with a puzzled look as she looked at the two of them. Lin Xiao didn't know, she didn't think it was strange, but Zhuo Yucheng wouldn't not know, even if they walked on the front foot, everything that happened later, as long as someone had the heart to probe it and inquire a little, they would be able to know the cause and effect.
"This ......" Lin Xiao scratched the back of his head and was silent.
"I asked Zhao Pang to investigate, and the fire in Liuxiangfang last night was caused by Meng Xiu. Zhuo Yucheng shocked the two people present with a word. Meng Xiu?!How could he?
Seeing the surprise on the faces of the two of them, Zhuo Yucheng smiled, took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and continued: "Last night, Lin Xiao, do you remember what turmoil Meng Xiu caused?"
Lin Xiao replied: "He, he wasn't with Yingge last night, but chose another girl, like, what is the name of Taoyan, that Yingge began to sprinkle on the girl unrelentingly, and hit people again, and cried non-stop, tsk, that appearance is extremely ugly." Thinking of the face of the warbler crying flowers, Lin Xiao felt a chill behind him, and then said: "That Meng Xiu is also a master who likes the new and hates the old, seeing that the new love is being bullied, it is natural to want the hero to save the beauty and take action to maintain it, what about me, I didn't pay much attention to the pickled things between them, picked up Meng Xiu's clothes on the ground, took the jade pendant and left, as for the later, I don't know, I have to listen to you, brother, and tell me to listen." ”
Later, Meng Xiu was annoyed by Yingge's toss, so he kicked Yingge's chest, and Yingge lost face in public, how could he give up like this, and he found a sharp blade from nowhere, and he was about to stab Meng Xiu. Zhuo Yu Chengfang said this, Lin Xiao was amazed in his heart, tsk, this fireworks woman, she is quite bold, Meng Xiu is a son-in-law who is valued by the family, she really dares to make a move!
Meng Xiu also has some martial arts, more than enough to deal with a woman, and dodged the knife sideways, who knew that Yingge's knife was off, and he actually knocked over the candlestick and lit the curtain, which caused a fire. "It turned out that this was the kind of fire that started. The doubts in Xin Yao and Lin Xiao's hearts were finally solved.
"In that case, this fire is just an unintentional move, and it has nothing to do with Meng Xiu!" After Lin Xiao heard this, he still felt that something was wrong, this fire was caused by the Yingge overturning the candlestick, what does it have to do with Meng Xiu? Why are there still rumors that Meng Xiu is the murderer?
"You're stupid. Glancing at Lin Xiao, Xin Yao spoke: "A small candlestick, lit with a curtain, how much fire can it cause! It's not that there is no water in the Liuxiang Fang, so many people can't extinguish the fire? There must be another hidden secret!"
"Hey, brother, you little girl... Seeing Xinyao's disdainful and mocking look at him, Lin Xiao turned to Zhuo Yucheng with a look of grievance.
Zhuo Yucheng ignored him, let him be aggrieved there, and said: "Xinyao is right, what I know is only the news that Zhao Pang heard in the market, and these news, naturally, some of the inside stories have been covered. However, according to my guess, it should be so, Yingge was impulsive and stabbed Meng Xiu with a sword, and Meng Xiu made a mistake when he resisted and dodged, killing Yingge. A child of a family, in front of so many people, killed people, naturally afraid that these people would spread the matter, after all, killing people pays for life, and the emperor has always been disciplined during his reign, upholding the fact that the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people. ”
Therefore, Meng Xiu had an idea. Xin Yao followed Zhuo Yucheng's words and analyzed it on her own: "Let everyone present shut up." So he chose a fire and burned Liuxiangfang, so that all these people were buried in the fire, because only the mouth of the dead is the most reliable. ”
Smart, Zhuo Yucheng praised Xin Yao in his heart: "It's just that what he didn't expect was that people's desire to survive is very strong." In order to survive, one can do anything. Meng Xiu relied on his three-legged cat's kung fu to throat these powerless civilians one by one, and then put them in the fire, but he didn't expect that in the Fengyue place, there was also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Zhao Pang told me that he had seen Meng Xiu when he first came out of the fire, his clothes were disheveled, and he still had scars on his body. The injury, the force is neither light nor serious, it doesn't look like it was injured by a blunt object, it seems that he has met a capable person. ”
"Who is this? Can you find it?" When Lin Xiao heard this, there was such a strange person, and he really wanted to meet him for a while.
"I haven't found anyone yet, but it's definitely not human. Zhuo Yu became enlightened, took out a piece of letter paper from his hand, unfolded it, and on the paper, a pattern was depicted, resembling a cyan snake.
"What is this?" Lin Xiao was confused, why did he suddenly show them this?
"This is the shape of the scar on Meng Xiu's body, in the form of a green snake, exuding a slight demonic aura. This person, with an extraordinary identity, is by no means an extraordinary person. Zhuo Yucheng explained.
Demon! Xinyao immediately knew that there was a demon hidden in this willow alley!
After a while, Zhuo Yucheng folded the letter and put it in his sleeve. Thinking in his heart, what is the identity of this demon, he will send someone to investigate it well, and now, the most important thing is Meng Xiu. Then, he took out Meng Xiu's portable jade pendant from his arms and looked at it carefully.
Now when he saw the jade pendant in Zhuo Yucheng's hand, he put the monster behind him, and asked Zhuo Yucheng, "What are your plans for this jade pendant?"
Zhuo Yucheng looked at Yu Pei, and after a while, he said, "Meng Xiu will definitely not be able to escape this time." The yamen has now taken into custody all the people who survived last night. The old bustard in Liuxiangfang cried all day long, how could he not shake off the things Meng Xiu had done one by one, the children of the family killed people and killed people, deliberately set fire to the murder, this matter has a lot to do with it, and it is naturally to be handed over to Dali Temple for trial. Do you think that the Meng family, our Royal Highness the Great Prince, will really hand over Meng Xiu so easily? His Royal Highness the Great Prince still hopes that Meng Xiu can replace Yang Ming and sit in the position of the secretary of the ministry, this person, he must come forward to guarantee. How can I get him to his heart's content. After speaking, his fingers tightened, and he clutched the jade pendant in his hand.
"So, how are you going?" Xin Yao asked as she looked at him.
This jade pendant is a personal jade pendant of the Meng family, one for each person, engraved with their own name, which is a symbol of status. The eldest prince must have been so bad that he didn't admit his idea, so many people were detained, but only Meng Xiu was able to return to Meng's mansion, it must be because His Royal Highness had someone to take care of it, he just wanted to make Meng Xiu insist that he was not in Liuxiangfang last night, so as to exonerate himself. That piece of jade pendant... At this point, Lin Xiao and Xin Yao suddenly realized.
Yes, if this jade pendant appears at the scene of the crime, no matter how much he Meng Xiu wears out his mouth, he will not be able to wash away the guilt on his body!
"It's just that this jade pendant has been sent to the special person to be used as evidence. Xin Yao said to Zhuo Yucheng: "The eldest prince has just come to look for you, you must not be able to go." ”
"Don't worry, don't we have an alliance waiting for the opportunity to make a stand to His Royal Highness the Second Prince. Zhuo Yucheng reminded with a smile.
Fu Qingqing! The two of them reacted immediately, and looked at Zhuo Yucheng together,
"Let's go, let's go to the study. The three of them got up and walked in the direction of the study.