The owner of the pair of eyes suddenly smiled, wearing a men's robe with light blue embroidered white lotus, and the plain color set off the face just right, like a pearl and jade. Although it can be seen at a glance that it is a woman dressed as a man, she has a calm and free temperament that can complement this man's dress.

Seeing that Gao was definitely not wearing his cloak, He Angelica asked, "Lord Gao, have you found your cloak?" Why are you back again? Or did you not find your sister-in-law? ”

Gao Jue put his hands behind his back, pursed his lips and did not speak.

He Angelica's eyes were quick, and he immediately saw what he was holding in his hand, and said strangely: "What are you hiding?" How weird and weird. ”

Gao Jue paused for a moment, withdrew his hand, handed over the things in his hand, and whispered: "This is for you, but seeing that you have changed into men's clothes, you can't use it anymore." ”

"Compensate me?" He Angelica raised her eyebrows in surprise and looked at it, there was a delicate blue hairpin lying in her big palm, crystal clear, and there was a faint flow of brilliance on the hairpin, Rao was well-informed, and she couldn't see what material it was made of for a while. He Danggui thought about it again and again, and finally understood the meaning of Gao Jue's words, when he was combing his true qi before, his wooden hairpin fell to the ground and was trampled on by him, so he really wanted to compensate for another one.

He Angelica directly refused: "I can't accept your hairpin, my wooden hairpin is a little plaything cut out with a knife, it is worthless, it will be broken if it is broken, and there is no need to compensate." Lord Gao has helped me so much, how can I bother with you about such a trivial matter again. ”

Gao Jue raised the hairpin to He Angelica's nose and said in a very bad tone: "If you give it to you, you will take it, I never owe people anything, and if it is broken, I will compensate." ”

Zhenjing next to him was taken aback, but He Angelica didn't think it was wrong, thought about it and said: "Since you want to compensate, then pay me this, oh, one three yuan, five is a total of fifteen yuan - take the money!" As he spoke, he shook the colorful face in his hand and reached out to ask for money.

Gao Jue threw the money bag to her with a dark face, she rummaged for a long time and found fifteen copper coins, and handed them to the guy in the ready-to-wear store. He Angelica smiled and left a yellow mask, handed the money bag and the other four faces to Gao Jue, and said, "These four are for you, even if it is a thank you gift for helping me carry the coffin, please accept it!" I picked it for a long time, and I am very compatible with you! "Bringing this with you during torture is more scary than your ice cube face.

Gao Jue took it silently, and then said: "I'm here to say goodbye, I'm going to Yangzhou to do some business, and I won't send you back to the Taoist temple." ”

He Angelica smiled: "We still have to go around the town, just hire a carriage to go back by ourselves later, and send each other off." However, there was something I wanted to inquire about with Duan Gongzi, but I forgot it for a while, and now I ask Master Gao the same. Seeing Gao Jue's puzzled face, she pointed to a piece of bluestone at the door of the store and said, "Let's go, let's go over there." She walked out first, and Gao Jue also followed, Zhenjing was a little afraid of him since she saw Gao Jue's crazy appearance, so she stayed in the store to look at the clothes.

"What I want to ask is, Lord Geng...... Is the name Geng Bingxiu? He Angelica turned to look at Gao Jue.

Gao never expected that she would suddenly mention Lord Geng, and the pseudonym of Lord Geng walking the rivers and lakes is "Geng Xin", and the people who know his real name are also their high-level subordinates, where did she hear it?

He Angelica saw that he was staring at himself and didn't speak, knowing that he had guessed correctly, the leader of this line of nine people was Geng Bingxiu, the "first cool official in the world". He Angelica clearly remembered that Geng Bingxiu in his previous life was the iron-blooded minion of three consecutive emperors, even if Emperor Jianwen withdrew the Jinyi Guard Mansion after ascending the throne, he did not cut off the power in Geng Bingxiu's hands.

In addition to being ruthless and ruthless, Geng Bingxiu is also notoriously unrecognizable to his six relatives, and when necessary, even his own brother can become a stepping stone for him. The most important thing is that He Angelica still has an impression that after the big unjust case that shook the government and the opposition was turned over, in order to calm the anger of the public, Emperor Jianwen asked Geng Bingxiu to thoroughly investigate the culprit of the unjust case. In the end, Geng Bingxiu was sent to prison by several subordinate generals who usually lived and died with him and worked together for many years.

In other words, if Duan Xiaolou, Gao Jue and the others had been working under Geng Bingxiu, then one day, they would all become victims of that incident!

In the past few days in the Taoist temple, she owes a lot of kindness to Duan Xiaolou and several people. Before, she just had the mentality of using them, but after ten days of contact with them, people can be ruthless, she has regarded them as friends, and she has never watched them go down a road of no return.

However, she was soft-spoken, and she could not persuade them to resign from the position of Jinyiwei, nor could she tell them prophetically that Geng Bingxiu would grow into a cold-blooded demon in the future, and they would all be persecuted by Geng Bingxiu. How can I tell Gao Jue what is in my heart and let him convey it to Duan Xiaolou and them? Even if they don't do anything now, at least they should be on guard against Geng Bingxiu and be vigilant.

Thinking of this, He Angelica looked up at Gao Jue and asked him, "Lord Gao must be very strange, how can I know Lord Geng's name, right?" I also know that he has a younger sister named Xiang Niang. Dare to ask Master Gao, how much do you know about Geng Bingxiu? ”

Gao Jue frowned and stared at her face, and said in a deep voice, "What exactly do you want to say?" I warn you, that it is a grave sin to disrespect the officials of the court in words, and is punishable by thirty lashes. ”

He Angelica chuckled, suddenly put on the yellow mask in his hand, and said: "Lord Gao, you are a straightforward person, and anything in your heart can be found on your face, and if a person wears a 'modest' face all the year round, and hides his true temperament and true thoughts all the year round, do you think this person is very strange?" ”

Gao Jue's face sank, and he asked repeatedly: "This person you are talking about is Lord Geng?" Did you know him before? You make it clear! ”

He Angelica said under the Facebook mask: "I have a story I want to tell to Master Gao, and I want to ask Lord Gao to convey it to others who need to know it." After speaking, without waiting for Gao Jue to say anything, she told the story to herself, "I grew up on a farm, and I had to go to the field every day to do farm work, plow the land, plant seedlings, weed, and water. In the summer when I was eight years old, the long-term workers on the farm were sweating in the fields, and I had to do some casual work on the ridges because my foot was injured by a plow. At this time, a brown and red horse ran on the official road in the distance, and a young woman was on the horse. Somehow, the horse suddenly ran out of the pipe, and rushed into the fields on a rampage, and trampled on a lot of loose ground, and ate the young leaves of the wheat seedlings, and the woman on the horse did not stop it, but laughed with joy. ”

Gao Jue looked at the two gazes that came out of his face, and was a little distracted for a while, listening to the elegant and beautiful female voice.

"Farmland is the lifeblood of croppers, so seeing this scene, four or five long-term workers surrounded her, stretched out their hands and scolded her. The woman whipped their hands away with her whip and shouted 'Bingxiu save me' at a carriage speeding up the official road! The carriage came in an instant, and a middle-aged man of nearly forty years old jumped out of the carriage, with a lean body, high and flat cheekbones, sunken eyes, and an extraordinary temperament between his hands and feet. He rushed up and asked, 'Xiangniang, have you offended people?' The woman stopped calling him by his name, but called him 'Second Brother,' and she said that she had just let her pet eat a few pieces of rotten grass when a group of wild men pointed at her with stinky fingers. After hearing this, the middle-aged man reprimanded the woman unhappily, and took out an ingot of ten taels of silver to compensate the long-term workers. The long-term worker was naturally overjoyed, and in turn reversed a reversal to make amends, so the two drove away. ”

Gao Juexin said, the appearance of the middle-aged man described in the obedient words was clearly Master Geng. But he is not a bully, his sister trampled on other people's farmland, he paid money to others, and he handled it very fairly.

He Angelica smiled mockingly: "This matter is over like this, the ending is happy, the five long-term workers each got two taels of silver, those who buy food buy food, those who pay off gambling debts pay off gambling debts, and those who marry daughters-in-law marry daughters-in-law...... Hehe, in turn, gratefully said that it was the God of Wealth who appeared on that day and sent the couple here. ”

She took off her face, a beautiful and refined face appeared, she stared at the bluestone in front of her, and slowly recalled, "One morning half a year later, a terrifying scene appeared, the five long-term workers on the village unknowingly collided with the demon along the way, and all their fingers were cut off last night. The most frightening thing is that the knife technique of sharpening the fingers is so neat and neat that each finger is pressed down with a cotton ball soaked in hemp, so that the long-term workers who have lost ten fingers do not feel that something is wrong until they wake up—or when the restraint of the sleeping hole is lifted. When their eyes fell on their hands, the screams of grief are unforgettable to this day. ”

Gao Jue coldly: "You mean, he did it at this time?" ”

He Angelica blinked innocently and asked in surprise: "I don't know who 'he' in the tall man's mouth refers to?" The little girl just wanted to tell an interesting story she witnessed in her childhood, so that the adults would have one more conversation when they returned to the capital after listening to it, so as to save others from blaming the adults for being boring. My lord, please don't be casually far-fetched, it is a great crime to frame the court officials in this dynasty, and you will be punished with fifty lashes. ”

Gao Jue snorted coldly, and also looked at the bluestone beside him, not knowing what he was thinking.

He Angelica continued: "At that time, no one linked the old things that happened half a year ago to the tragedy in front of them, and many people also said that these five long-term workers were probably disabled by gambling money and huge debts, and were recovered by people on the underworld. I watched from the sidelines, but I saw something else out of the ordinary. ”

Gao Jue hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The corners of He Angelica's lips straightened, and he couldn't tell whether he was laughing or gritting his teeth, and said: "At the age of nine, I know a little about medicine, and I look at the five of them as if they have been hit by poisons such as 'colic' on the side of Sichuan and Shu. However, when I expressed my opinion, no one believed me, but sneered and said that I should not think that since I came from a medical family, I was born to help people see diseases. After another month, the five long-term workers had recovered their spirits, and although they had all lost their fingers, they still had to continue to do the farm work, and their lives still had to go on. At noon, I pushed a small cart to deliver pumpkin soup to the people working in the fields, and the five people were the first to come and ask for the soup, and I handed them five bowls of soup, and watched as they swallowed the soup...... Suddenly, it trickled out of its belly and fell to the ground one by one. ”

Gao Jue also felt a little trembling in his heart when he heard this, what kind of poison is that colicated intestine powder, which can melt the flesh and blood of a living person, and make me unaware?

"Naturally, those five people didn't die, but they had an accident after drinking the pumpkin soup I brought to them, so I became a murder suspect, and I was taken to the county office in Duoye County on the spot along with a car of 'poisonous pumpkin soup'. My voice is not as loud as theirs, and my size is a few feet behind them. The county lord looked like he hadn't woken up from his nap, and he was about to charge me with the crime of 'poisoning and killing people for money', so I was in a hurry, so I ran to the ground car with everyone in a hurry, filled a bowl full of warm pumpkin soup, and drank it in one go. ”

Gao Jue's eyes showed a fierce look, and he said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect that I still have such a foolish official, during his tenure, I don't know how many unjust, false and wrongful cases there will be in Duoye County, and it must be thoroughly investigated!" ”

He Angelica smiled lightly: "Heh, this is not the point I want to say, Lord Gao, you are jealous and hateful, and it is really admirable, but that Duoye County is the county lord lost his father half a year ago, and he has stepped down and gone home to worry about it." The point I want to make is that when I drank three bowls of soup in a row and was still alive, everyone finally believed that the soup was not poisonous. At this time, the belated anticipation went up to examine the five corpses, and confirmed that the five people were poisoned and died, and it was definitely not possible to cause the poisoning overnight, it should be someone who continuously poisoned and fed them with anesthetics, so that most of their viscera were gradually eroded, but they still lived in ignorance. Such a vicious drug, except for the colication of Tangmen in Sichuan, I have never heard of a second poison that can be outstanding. ”

"Is there a final outcome to this case?"

He Angelica spread his hands: "There is!" The county lord said that according to his analysis, the five deceased were not ordinary farmers, but hidden martial arts people, because they offended the enemy, so they all 'died' in the grudge of the rivers and lakes, so the case was self-dismissed. ”

In all dynasties, the government also has the so-called "three regardless": life and death in the ring, each with a destiny, no matter what; In civil fights, where both sides stand on their own for life and death, and there are witnesses to the signature, someone is injured and killed afterwards, and the two do not care; The feuds between the rivers and lakes, and the vendetta of the rivers and lakes are beyond the reach of the imperial court, and if you want to intervene, the dog bites the hedgehog and has nowhere to put his mouth, so it doesn't matter.

Gao Jue gritted his teeth: "Bastard dog official, holding the official food of the imperial court and eating the official food of the imperial court, he handled the case like this?" "Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang hates corrupt officials the most, and once vowed to kill all the corrupt officials in the world.

He Angelica changed his words and suddenly said: "That day, I was called by Taishan to meet you, and Lord Geng also spoke to me, listening to him as if he had an accent in the Sichuan and Shu regions?" ”

Gao looked at He Angelica with determination, and asked: "Is the middle-aged man at the beginning of your story him?" Tell me, stop playing pantomime! ”