Chapter 20: It's Crazy
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Su Xu walked too quickly and too fast, almost tripped on the gravel road, stumbled into Gu Changming, and reached out to grab his clothes. Gu Changming didn't see anyone move, and Su Xu's hand fell into the air.
"Why didn't you ask me yesterday!" Su Xu instead said, "I don't want to say it, you just forget it, it's not like your usual style." β
"You said that the matter is important, and you can't implicate others." Gu Changming looked at him calmly, "You have already helped, I will not chase after him." β
"I remember, you went to Quyang County a few days ago, and you also investigated the case. The person Wu Wei is trying has a lot to do with Quyang County, do you know him? Su Xu narrowed his eyes, remembering that all the people who appeared around Gu Changming for a while were all he had seen when he sent the third princess to the Liao Kingdom, "Or are these people who want to know the answer urgently?" β
Gu Changming was no longer taboo when he heard Su Xu's words, and he understood that the situation had changed. He wouldn't be naΓ―ve to think that Su Xu really hadn't slept well all night, and he felt guilty before he came over to make it clear. The corners of his mouth tugged lightly: "Wu Wei can't do anything about that person, and in turn, he entrusts you to act conveniently?" β
Su Xu's face suddenly became very strange, thinking that he was hiding it well, but he was seen through by the other party at a glance, so he didn't mention it. Anyway, over the years, it's been a habit for a long time. He asked with some resentment: "Why can't you think about it, I sincerely want to help you?" β
"Because you're too cowardly to dare." Gu Changming really didn't leave him any face, "Wu Wei opened his mouth, you think about the two sides just run in, and accept the favor on both sides, it is definitely a good thing for you." β
"Gu Changming, you're enough, you're too much!" Su Xu couldn't wipe his face away, how dare he look directly at Gu Changming's gaze, turned his face to the side and asked, "You just give a word, help or not." Wu Wei said that as long as you go alone, you know that you have the ability to draw the true face of the suspect according to subtle clues. He needs your help. β
"Go, why don't you go?" Gu Changming suddenly got such a good opportunity to meet Sun Youxiang, and he said that he would not give up anything, "When is it convenient, now?" β
"Let's go!" Su Xu's chest was a little stuffy, didn't he say that smart people know how to be restrained, Gu Changming is so straightforward, but who in the government and the opposition doesn't mention that Changming Gongzi is smart?
Gu Changming only had time to give a few words of advice to the little phoenix, let the fruit recuperate well, and wait for him to bring the news back. The little phoenix wanted to follow, but was stopped by him. Wu Wei's suspicion was great, and he must have really had no choice but to ask for Su Xu. Su Xu conveyed his will to the emperor, and Sun Youxiang's case was not a secret in front of Su Xu.
Su Xu came by car, and when Gu Changming bent over and sat side by side with him, he asked in a low voice, "Where was there a flaw in my performance just now, how did you see it?" β
"Although you don't know martial arts, you won't be able to pant like that when you run all the way in from the gate of the Gu family's courtyard." Gu Changming pointed out to him one by one, "I said that I didn't sleep all night, so I want to make it clear to me." This is not something you and I can say clearly, you know too little, and even less than what I have in my hands. Of course, more importantly, I know you too well, and it is difficult for you to lie in front of me. β
"Then can you tell if Wu Wei is lying?" Su Xu retorted unconvinced.
"Wu Wei is scheming and hidden, and it is definitely not something you can compare. And he's too wary of me, and he's half a colleague, and he's going to deliberately hide the obvious, putting on the surface something else he thinks I can see through. Gu Changming didn't like Wu Wei, and he had to deal with him, "I can choose to watch it or not." β
"Wu Wei is about to be driven crazy by that man." Su Xu suddenly gloated, "It doesn't seem to be as powerful as you say, otherwise a scholar who is powerless will not be able to hold the vital point." β
"Sentenced?" Gu Changming's tone was light, not like he was very concerned.
"At first, it seemed like a once-in-a-time session. The man didn't know what to say to Wu Wei, and Wu Wei didn't have a second time. Su Xu's arm touched him, "Guess what he said?" β
"If you have an old disease in your heart or in your skull, you will not be punished. The result of not being able to stand it is not to speak the truth, but to die directly. "Gu Changming especially remembered the last time he saw Sun Youxiang, he was still in a shimmering spirit," Wu Wei definitely didn't believe it, the other party directly showed symptoms to him, and he panicked, and hurriedly didn't dare to continue the torture. β
Su Xu's eyes widened and he looked at him: "Did you see it with your own eyes or hear it with your own ears!" β
"You ask me, I just came up with it." Gu Changming didn't take these to heart, "Wu Wei can't torture him, so he can only use gentle methods, but that person doesn't eat soft and hard, and he doesn't eat oil and salt." Seeing that the deadline given by the emperor was less than one day by day, Wu Wei felt weak. β
"I haven't seen the suspect." Su Xu's curiosity was all aroused at this moment, Wu Wei has real skills, otherwise after Gu Wuduo resigned, he would not have taken over the jurisdiction of the Criminal Division so quickly. Who could play Wu Wei around, but when he thought of that person's crime, he felt that it was not surprising, "Don't you want to know what crime this person has committed to be interrogated in such a secret?" β
"You said, there is still a moment to the Criminal Division, enough for you to finish." After Gu Changming finished saying this, his eyes drooped slightly, and he didn't look at Su Xu anymore.
Su Xu was so angry that he gritted his teeth, this person is really pampered and coquettish! I don't pay attention to anyone anymore, talk well, and close my eyes to look down on him!
"I didn't mean that, I just saw your eyes dodging and wanted you to relax." Gu Changming obviously closed his eyes, but he guessed the change in the expression on Su Xu's face at all, "The emperor put pressure on the Criminal Division, why do you have to do this?" β
"The emperor hasn't been in court for three days." Su Xu finally said the root of the problem, "The things in this person's hands have made the emperor almost to the point of having trouble sleeping, he can't find out the source for a day, and the emperor can't be at peace for a day, how can he not be anxious as a courtier!" β
"Let me tell you a few clear words, the suspect in Wu Wei's trial is surnamed Sun Youxiang. It was originally the main book of Quyang County, and it does have some relationship with me. When this person was in office, his official reputation was excellent and the people loved him. For some reason, I resigned and returned to his hometown, I thought that he would live the rest of his life in peace, but I never thought that in just a few months, he would be arrested and returned to Kaifeng Mansion on such a horrific charge. Gu Changming always closed his eyes, "I think he may have been wronged, and I hope he was wronged." β
"There is no possibility of being wronged, the emperor has too much evidence in his hands. Regarding this person's every move, it is said that someone checked it for more than a year before it was determined. Su Xu pinched his fingers, so to speak, when Gu Changming arrived in Quyang County, Sun Youxiang had already been monitored by the emperor.
"Since every move is under the control of the emperor, what does Wu Wei want to judge?" Gu Changming's doubts rose, "Directly follow those convictions that are found." β
"Where is it so simple, it is all his own who finds out. But is it possible for one person to succeed in such a big case? As you said, he has been in charge of Quyang County for several years, but his official position is not large, but he has trapped him. You said that the master can't leave the yamen twice in three days to do his own private affairs, Sun Youxiang is just a matchmaking medium, and there are more powerful characters above. What Wu Wei wanted to find out was that person or those people. When Su Xu said this, Gu Changming was willing to open his eyes, turned his head to look at him, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, and Su Xu's heart trembled, and he almost wanted to reach out and cover the other party's eyes again.
"The Criminal Division has arrived." Gu Changming jumped out of the car first, and the emperor sent someone to squat in Quyang County for more than a year, did Sun Youxiang know or not? So about the matter of gold, have the people who are squatting have found out the upper family, and have they ever returned to the emperor?
Su Xu shook his head and said, "Wu Wei said that as long as you go in alone, I will wait outside." He wants you to help him, but he is afraid that many people will be present and someone will testify to it. This is his weakness, and I don't need to provoke him. β
Gu Changming is familiar with the Criminal Division, most of the people who do things know him, and Wu Wei should have deliberately arranged it, he came in all the way, and the few people he saw were not as many as the suspects who were detained.
Walking to the end of the ground floor, Gu Changming turned a corner and walked down the long steps. When he reached the thirtieth level, someone came to him with a lantern in his hand and asked him for directions.
Gu Changming glanced at the other party, what a coincidence. This person couldn't come to report the news, but they met again in the Criminal Division. Neither of them took the initiative to speak, neither of them had to pretend that they had never met, nor did they have to politely perfunctory each other.
After walking for a while, the man let go of a door behind him, took out the key to open the outer layer, and then nodded at Gu Changming, put down the lantern and turned to leave.
Gu Changming was not surprised at all when he saw that the door lock turned on its own again after he left. This is a special door lock mechanism in the Criminal Division, the people inside can open it directly, and the people outside can only open one layer, so that the two objects similar to the door bolt inside fall and make a sound, reminding the people inside, if it is convenient, you can open the door.
Wu Wei must have opened the lock inside, Gu Changming patiently waited for the door lock to turn around three times, and there was a dull sound, and the stone door slowly opened, and a figure appeared inside.
Gu Changming heard Su Xu say that Wu Wei was about to go crazy, but he thought that his words were exaggerated, and when he saw Wu Xu's face at this moment, it was like a world of difference from what he saw outside the door of the elm house that day, at least he was more than ten years old.
"Changming, you're here." Wu Xu's voice was hoarse, as if it had been polished on the roughest grains of sand, "Come in." β
Gu Changming saw that he occupied almost the entire stone door, and unless he squeezed past him, he couldn't enter at all. He stood still.
Wu Wei grinned as if he wanted to laugh, but it was uglier than crying: "I asked you to help, will it hurt you!" β
Gu Changming smiled slightly: "It's not me who is blocking the door." β
He can be the gentlemen who is as gentle as jade, or he can make people half dead with one mouth. Wu Wei's face turned white and red for a while, and he remembered that it was his own problem, but Gu Changming was a generation shorter than him no matter what he said, so instead of giving face, he made teasing him.
Wu Wei was about to be angry at first, but then quickly calmed down. Obviously, he has asked for others, Gu Changming's attitude is normal, is it still the person who is asked to whisper.
"It's my negligence, come in with me." Even Wu Wei himself didn't notice that the tone of this sentence was much gentler, "There is a place to sit and talk." β
Gu Changming didn't mean to make things difficult, so he lowered his head and passed the stone door, walked into the stone room, and first saw Sun Youxiang sitting in the middle.