In Songjiang County, Bao Zheng was sitting at the top in an official uniform, with a serious face, looking at Yue Qi who was sitting at the bottom like a torch, but seeing that he lowered his eyebrows and looked trembling and cautious, the hand holding the teacup was trembling slightly, Bao Zheng shook his head secretly, how could such a person have the courage to do the thing of instigating others to kill people and set fires, it can be seen that there must be hidden secrets.

Yue Qi was also nervous at this time, since the fire broke out in the backyard of the county government for no reason, he felt that something was wrong, and when he reacted and rushed to the cellar, it was already a step too late, and there was no one else in the cellar except for the stunned officer. Yue Qi knew at that time that he was afraid that it would be difficult to turn back in this matter, and now, Bao Zheng came to visit so soon, he must have come to test himself, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

Bao Zheng coughed lightly and said, "Lord Yue, this mansion is here for the fire that happened in Xue Mansion on the outskirts of Songjiang not long ago.

Yue Qi hurriedly got up and said: "Back to my lord, the next day after the Xue Mansion caught fire, he sent a catcher to investigate the cause of the fire, according to the arrester, the fire point of this case was in the firewood room, due to the serious burning at the scene, I can only guess that it may be due to the fact that the little guy in the firewood room did not check carefully before the evening break, and it was caused by a moment of negligence." Later, Lord Zhan claimed that he had come to inquire about the case on the orders of the adults? Why, is there another hidden story in this Xue family fire case?"

Zhan Zhao said: "When Zhan went to check that day, he found that the fire point of Xue's mansion was not in the firewood room, on the contrary, the firewood room was the least serious place in the entire Xue mansion, and Zhan also asked Lord Yue about this matter at that time, but Lord Yue did not give a reasonable explanation. ”

"This ...... Maybe the head catcher who went to check didn't know much about the layout of the Xue Mansion, and it was possible to be wrong. ”

Bao Zheng snorted and said, "More than 30 people from the Xue Mansion all died overnight, such a serious case, Lord Yue, you may have made a mistake with an understatement, and turned it over? What is the difference between this and the life of a careless person? Are you a parent official?"

Yue Qi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Lord Hui, at that time, I went to check on both the work and the head catcher, and the situation that the two of them said when they came back was the same, so the government thought it was an ordinary fire case. ”

"Then do you know that there are still two orphans in this Xue Mansion?" asked Bao Zheng

Yue Qi lowered his head and replied, "I don't know. ”

"You really don't know?" Bao Zheng raised his voice sharply.

Yue Qi lowered his eyes and was silent, and said after a while: "Xia Guan has never heard that there are two survivors in Xue Mansion, I don't know what the adults have been staring at Xia Guan to inquire about this matter, what does it mean?"

Bao Zheng said: "You don't know, the mansion will come to tell you, the eldest lady and the maid of the Xue Mansion escaped that night, they came to Kaifeng to find the mansion to avenge their grievances, they said that on the night of the incident, a murderer broke into the Xue family, and killed people when they saw them, just to rob the Xue Mansion treasure - red flame red porcelain, which is a murder, even if the body is burned by the fire, there will always be scars on the body, is it not detected at all?" If this arrester does not know the situation in Xue's mansion as you said, how can he know where the firewood house is, and how can he say that the firewood room is on fire? Yue Qi obviously deliberately covered up the case, and did not recruit it from the truth. ”

Yue Qi has already sweated like rain in this matter, he knows that Bao Zheng is like a god, and he also knows that if this case falls into the hands of Bao Zheng, sooner or later there will be a day when the truth will come out, but he didn't expect that this day would come so quickly, he also wanted to admit it and tell the whole story, but he couldn't, because he still had a pair of eyes staring at him behind him, if he confessed at this moment, the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming, and his family would die miserably.

Yue Qi was relieved, refused to admit it, knelt down on one knee and said: "Back to my lord, I listened to my lord's analysis just now, Xia Guan really thought about this case too simply, Xia Guan was guilty of dereliction of duty, but Xia Guan did not know that there were two other survivors in Xue Mansion at that time, if they came to find Xia Guan at that time, Xia Guan would definitely investigate this case clearly." ”

Bao Zheng laughed 'hehe' and said: "Since you say so, this government will believe you for the time being, this government is coming today, and there is one more thing to explain to Lord Yue." ”

Yue Qi hurriedly bowed his body, lowered his head, and motioned for himself to listen.

Bao Zheng glanced at him and said: "Yesterday, the Zhan guards caught a suspect related to this case, this person and his accomplices tried to assassinate the Zhan guards, and were captured by the Zhan guards, but his accomplices took advantage of the chaos to escape, this person was first guarded in the post station, this mansion wants to have people coming and going in the post station, it is very inconvenient, I want to borrow Lord Yue's cell, temporarily detain this person here, and wait for another accomplice to be arrested, and then escort to Kaifeng for trial, what do you think?"

Yue Qi hurriedly received the order and said: "The lower officials obey the order, so I will order to send a few more officials to take care of the prison." ”

Bao Zheng nodded and said: "This is very good, then wait a while, this government will escort people over, this person is very important to the case, and please take care of Lord Yue carefully, don't have an accident." ”

With that, he got up and took his leave.

As soon as Bao Zheng left, Yue Qi sat on the chair in a daze, his mind was in chaos, a cold dagger quietly crossed his neck, the chill made Yue Qi shiver instantly, his brain gradually calmed down, and said coldly: "Rouge, what are you doing here?"

Rouge squinted his eyes and said viciously, "I want to ask you, what were you going to do just now?"

Yue Qi tilted his head back slightly, slowly avoided the sharp blade, and said, "Since you have guessed everything, why bother asking me." ”

Rouge said: "I remind you, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, I don't want to see your son's painful appearance, so take care of your affairs, since Bao Zheng put Jia Ren in your prison, we just took this opportunity to kill people." ”

Yue Qi's chest continued to rise and fall, his fingers clenched into fists, he turned around suddenly, his eyes were full of anger and stared at Rouge and said, "Do you think Bao Zheng is so simple? How do you know that he didn't mean to test me? Since he already had doubts about me, how could he easily hand over such an important prisoner to me?"

Rouge withdrew the dagger, not to be outdone, glared back at him: "I don't care about this, the master said that only if Jia Ren is dead, we will be really safe, now such a good opportunity, sent to the eyes, I will never give up, you will do it tonight, kill Jia Ren, I guess Zhanzhao will definitely be on guard near the county government tonight, I just took the opportunity to go to the post station to kill those two women, there is no witness, I see what the bag of sunspots will take to judge the case." Lord Yue, I advise you to do your part well, don't say I didn't remind you, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, you and your children are still waiting for the master's antidote to continue their lives, can you bear to watch your son suffer to death?"

Yue Qi said angrily: "You poisonous woman, I was really blind at the beginning, how could I believe you at the beginning, Nuo'er is so close to you, how can you bear it... You..."

"Alright, alright," Rouge interrupted him impatiently, "let's just kill all those who get in the way tonight, or there will be nothing left, and we should get ready." After speaking, he walked away by himself, leaving Yue Qi alone, gloomy, and said to himself: I knew today, why did I ..... in the first place , okay, let's let this end as soon as possible tonight, No'er, Daddy is useless, he can't save you....

At night, Yue Qi slowly walked to the door of the prison in official uniforms, the official guarding the door saw that his own adults did not dare to slack off, and he was busy clasping his fists to salute, Yue Qi nodded slightly and motioned for the two to open the prison door, and walked into the cell, a dark and damp musty smell came to his nose, Yue Qi frowned, and searched the cells with his sleeves, and finally, at the innermost cell door, he stopped and said to the officials who followed: "Open the door, you guys avoid it for the time being, there is something important in this county to inquire about this person." ”

The official said earnestly: "My lord, the two Kaifeng Mansion masters who took this person here today said that this person is quite fierce, let me wait not to get too close, so as not to be injured, my lord might as well interrogate outside the door, and I will accompany my lord." ”

Yue Qi sneered: "Fierce? You see him like a rat crossing the street, crawling on the ground, unable to walk on the road, what is there to be afraid of? Don't be verbose, after opening the door, hurry up and go out, this county asks about the case, how can you be allowed to eavesdrop here?"

The official was bluffed by Yue Qi and didn't dare to say more, so he hurriedly opened the door and avoided it in a hurry.

Yue Qi waited for the official to walk away, Fang walked in, looked at the person lying on the ground curled up in a ball, and slowly squatted down without saying a word, and there was an extra white porcelain bottle in his hand at some point.

The man who was curled up on the ground raised his head with great effort, looked at the bottle in Yue Qi's hand, and said in a dumb voice: "You are finally here, what, are you going to poison me?"

Yue Qi half-squinted and said, "If you live, we all have to die, only if you die, we may still have a chance to live." ”

The man smiled and said, "Lord Yue, you asked me to kill Zhanzhao at the beginning, but now that the matter is revealed, you want to kill people and kill people, you are really good means." ”

Yue Qi didn't say much, poured all the pills in the bottle into his hand, grabbed the man's hair bun with one hand, forced his head to rise, and wanted to stuff the pills into the man's mouth with the other. At this time, a smile appeared on the corner of the man's mouth, and his hands, which were originally unable to move, suddenly firmly grasped Yue Qi's hand stretched out to his mouth, and said, "Lord Yue, what do you want to feed me?"

At this time, the prison suddenly lit up, and a pair of officers and soldiers hugged Bao Zheng and suddenly rushed in from the outside, and the prisoner who was originally curled up on the ground also jumped up, firmly grasped Yue Qi with one hand, snatched the pill in his hand with the other, and said loudly: "My lord, Yue Qi intends to poison me." ”

Yue Qi was taken aback and blurted out: "Jia Ren, you ....."

The person named Jia Ren smiled, wiped his face with his hand, and Ma Han's face appeared in front of him, it turned out that this Jia Ren was actually pretending to be Ma Han.

Ma Han said: "Yue Qi, I have worked hard for a while to get you hooked, and I have been waiting for you in this prison for a long time. ”

Bao Zheng looked at Yue Qi with a cold face and said: "Yue Qi, this mansion has given you a chance, but unfortunately you don't cherish it, now, what else do you have to say?"

Yue Qi smiled bitterly: "I have nothing to say in the next place, now that I have been caught by adults, I want to kill or chop, listen to you, if you want to know anything else, Yue Qi will not say a word more when he dies." ”

Bao Zheng said angrily: "Yue Qi, as the official of Songjiang's parents, but you disregard the law and discipline and do such illegal things, do you think that if you are bent on death, this mansion will fulfill your mother? This government will not spare you. ”

Yue Qi stood in place expressionlessly, not moving, as if he had made up his mind to die.

Bao Zheng was about to speak again, when he saw Gongsun Ce coming in a hurry, and after whispering a few words in his ear, Bao Zheng hesitated for a moment, and then nodded again. Gongsun Ce saw Bao Zheng nodding, so he said to Yue Qi: "Lord Yue, and go down to see someone, after seeing this person, if Lord Yue still decides not to say anything, then there is nothing to say below." ”

After that, a group of people escorted Yue Qi out of the prison and went to the county government living room.

In the living room of the county government, a 7.8-year-old child was eating steamed buns with relish, and when he saw Yue Qi coming in, he hurriedly put down the buns in his hand and shouted, "Daddy, so he pounced." ’

Yue Qi was at the moment when all thoughts were lost, and he suddenly saw his child standing in front of him, he was really shocked, and involuntarily reached out to protect the child, looked at Bao Zheng vigilantly and said, "Master Bao, what do you want to do?"

Zhan Zhao stepped forward to block Bao Zheng and said, "Yue Qi, don't get me wrong, after Lord Bao left today, what Rouge said to you was heard by Brother Yin, and he came to me to rescue the child together." ”

Yin Qing also stood up at this time, Yue Qi glanced at Yin Qing, who was dressed as a servant, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It turns out that Lord Bao has already arranged eyeliner in my county office, presumably you also put that fire, but how did you find my child?"

Yin Qing smiled and said: " Before setting fire to the backyard of the county government was really to get out of Jiang Ping, had to do it, today, I heard the rouge that child threatened you, I felt unfair in my heart, and after she left, I quietly followed her, I wanted to take the opportunity to catch her and ask her clearly, I never thought that she was so cunning, she found out and slipped away, in desperation, I had to go to the exhibition guard, or the exhibition guard alert, and took me to the Red Sleeve Pavilion, where we found the child, but the poor child was hidden in the dark room of the rouge room, and the water and rice had not entered for a day. ”

Yin Qing's words pierced Yue Qi's heart like a needle prick, he looked at the child who had not been seen for several days in distress, and felt regret and hatred in his heart, watching the child hugging him affectionately, his heart was horizontal, he knelt down in front of Bao Zheng, kowtowed a few heads, and said: "Yue thank you for saving each other, Yue knows that his sin is unforgivable, but the child is innocent, Yue has the courage to ask Mr. Gongsun to help save Nuo'er, and Yue will do his best to help Lord Bao solve the case." ”

Gongsun Ceqi said: "What is wrong with this child's body?"

Yue Qi said: "Nuo'er and I have been poisoned by the poisonous woman of Rouge, and we will have an attack every half a month, and in a few days it will be the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the Gu poison will attack, if there is no antidote, we will definitely die." ”

Gongsun Ce said: "Whoever is poisoned by Gu must first find the mother Gu, destroy the mother Gu, and the Gu poison will naturally be eliminated, if you can't find the mother Gu, at most you can only control the spread of the poison of the poisoned person, and there is no complete way to detoxify." ”

Yue Qi said: "This Gu is under rouge, she must know where the mother Gu is." ”

Bao Zheng said: "Where is the rouge?"

Yue Qi exclaimed: "It's not good, she said that tonight she will take advantage of your absence, go to the post house and kill the two girls of the Xue family, and now she should have done it." ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhan Zhao jumped and ran to the post house.