Chapter 22
When Zhan Zhao arrived at the post station, the post station was in a mess, obviously just after a vicious fight, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu were all hung up, Xue Feifei was busy bandaging everyone's wounds, seeing Zhan Zhao coming back, he hurriedly stood up and said: "Lord Zhan, just now Rouge suddenly broke into the post station, wanting to be unfavorable to Miss Xue and Miss Xiaoxi, I don't know what she used*, it is very powerful, I was defenseless, and I actually caught her way, fortunately, Lu Daxia just arrived, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable." β
Zhanzhao looked at the injuries of the two, fortunately they were all skin injuries, it can be seen that the target of Rouge is only Xue Feifei and Xiaoxi, and seeing that Feifei is busy, obviously not injured, he felt relieved, and looked around again, but he didn't find Xiaoxi, so he frowned and asked, "Where is Miss Xiaoxi?"
Zhang Long said: "Rouge took her hostage and took her away, Lu Daxia has chased her and has not come back yet." β
Zhan Zhao said: "That rouge is cunning, Lu Daxia is afraid of being fooled when he chases him alone, so I will go to answer him." β
As he was talking, Lu Fang had already turned back, and saw that his steps were vain, his face was earthy, his lips were purple, and he said in his heart: "It's not good, I'm afraid it's poisoned," and hurriedly stepped forward, helped Lu Fang, and took advantage of the situation to point a few acupoints on his body to delay the onset of virulence. Lu Fang took advantage of the situation to sit cross-legged, and with the true qi that Zhan Zhao lost to him, he forcibly suppressed the poison with internal strength, and after a while, he exhaled deeply, and Fang said: "Thank you Brother Zhan, fortunately, this poison is not too powerful, and I can still suppress it." β
Zhan Zhao said: "Lu Daxia, what happened just now, how could you be poisoned?"
Lu Fang said: "I came to find Master Bao to inform him that Jiang Ping had woken up, who knows, just arrived at the post station and heard the sound of fighting, I saw that Rouge wanted to assassinate the two girls, so he and Rouge entangled with Rouge, the melee Xiaoxi girl was somehow caught by Rouge, Rouge took her hostage and took the opportunity to escape, I took advantage of the situation to chase over, just in front of the path, I don't know why I felt uncomfortable as soon as I entered, I didn't dare to make a time, so I retreated. β
As he was talking, Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce Dynasty Ma Han took Yue Qi back to the post station, looking at the mess inside, knowing that there must be a vicious fight just now, and after looking around, he saw that everyone was fine, so he relaxed a little.
Zhan Zhao told Bao Zheng about what happened just now, Gongsun Ce hurriedly diagnosed Lu Fang's pulse, and took out an antidote pill for him to take, Fang said: "Lu Daxia's is a unique miasma poison in Miao Jiang, although it is not a highly poisonous, but if it is inhaled for a long time, there will be a worry about life, and most of the small roads have already been manipulated by rouge, fortunately, Lu Daxia is alert and withdrew in time, and it is now fine." β
Bao Zheng said: "Now the top priority is to find Miss Xiaoxi, Wang Dynasty Mahan, you two go to find it again in the direction that Lu Daxia just said, don't separate on the road, be careful." β
Gongsun Ce hurriedly gave the two of them two antidote pills, and the two took the order to go, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu waited for Feifei to bandage them, because they did not protect Xiaoxi in their hearts, so they asked Bao Zheng for life to find Xiaoxi girl, Bao Zheng saw that the two of them were resolute, so they had to agree.
The four of them looked for Xiaoxi for a night, and they all returned empty-handed, Bao Zheng was worried, and when he saw that the four of them were exhausted, he asked the four of them to go down to rest first. Gongsun Ce saw Bao Zheng's anxious face, so he comforted him and said: "My lord, don't worry too much, the students think that Miss Xiaoxi has no worries about her life for the time being, if that rouge has the intention to kill, they will never look for a night without results, there is no corpse, there is still a glimmer of hope." β
Bao Zheng said: "The government is also anxious about this, now Xiaoxi is in the hands of Rouge, if it is delayed for a while, there will be a crisis, but there is no news after looking for a night, the two of them seem to disappear out of thin air, why is the government not in a hurry?"
As he was talking, Zhan Zhao came over and said that Lu Fang and Jiang Ping came to wait in the hall, and Gongsun Ce said to Bao Zheng: "My lord, hope is coming, the students think that the adults might as well interrogate Jiang Ping, Zhang San and Yue Qi first, perhaps, they will get new clues." β
Bao Zheng nodded, agreed, and asked Zhan Zhao to bring Zhang San and Yue Qi to the hall for questioning.
Jiang Ping was seriously injured and was resting weakly on a chair at this time, and when he saw Master Bao coming out, he struggled to get up, Bao Zheng signaled him to excuse himself, and Jiang Fang sat down again.
At this time, Zhan Zhao also brought Zhang San and Yue Qi to the hall, Jiang Ping was excited when he saw these two people, his face was red, his ears were red, he coughed again and again, his eyes were red as if he was about to breathe fire, and he glared at the two of them angrily.
Seeing this, Bao Zheng asked Jiang Ping: "Jiang Daxia, don't be too excited, say something slowly." β
Jiang Ping took the tea handed by Lu Fang, took a sip and said, " Back to the adult, the grass people had posted a hero post a few years ago, asking friends in the rivers and lakes to find the senior brother Jia Ren who had been missing for many years, and there was no news over the years, but a few days ago, the grass people suddenly received a letter on the empty island, which wrote that the grass people had been missing for many years The senior brother Jia Ren has been whereabouts, let the grass people go to the Songjiang Red Sleeve Pavilion to find a girl named Rouge, the grass people wanted to find the senior brother, and didn't think much about it, so they came to the Red Sleeve Pavilion to find the rouge, she told me that the letter was written by her, she was Jia Ren's confidante, Jia Ren had an accident and was taken into custody by Songjiang County Ling Yue Qi, he was desperate, so he had to trust Rouge to believe in me, begging me to find a way to save him, I was eager to save peopleAt first, he pretended to admire the name of the Five Rat Men and promised me to thoroughly investigate Jia Ren's affairs, and then asked me to stay and drink a glass of water and wine, alas! β
When Bao Zheng heard this, he was not furious, looked at Yue Qi on the side and asked, "Yue Qi, what Jiang Ping said just now is the truth?"
Yue Qi knelt on the ground, lowered his head, and said guiltily: "Lord Hui, Xiaguan... Xiaguan... This is indeed the case. β
Bao Zheng snorted coldly: "As a parent official, you actually did such a pickled thing, and you still have the face to call yourself an official and take off his official uniform." β
Zhan Zhao stepped forward and grabbed Yue Qidi's arm, gently lifted it up, easily pulled Yue Qi up from the ground, neatly peeled off Yue Qi's official uniform, took off his official hat, pressed him on the shoulder with one hand, and Yue Qi knelt on the ground softly.
Yue Qi was so frightened that he didn't dare to answer, he just kowtowed, Bao Zheng ignored it, and said to Jiang Ping: "You go on, what happened later?"
Jiang Ping said: " The grass people saw Jia Ren on the second day of their imprisonment, but he was not taken into custody by Yue Qi as he said before, but took the grass people's weapon --- the water Emei thorn, to force the grass people to use this weapon, the grass people at this time only knew that my senior brother was in collusion with the dog official to deceive me to seek my martial arts method, I naturally refused to tell me, my senior brother, no, Jia Ren saw that I didn't say, so he wantonly beat me, although I had no intention of telling him the heart, but I was also very puzzled, why Jia Ren wanted to collude with the government to go around this big circle to do this, until the eldest brother rescued me, I knew that he was actually trying to blame me for killing, the real jackal's mind, but Jiang Ping didn't know, Jia Ren is my senior brotherWe grew up together, why do you hate me so much?"
Bao Zheng said: "For all kinds of reasons, I can only know if I have personally asked your senior brother, Jiang Ping, let's see, is there your senior brother here?"
Jiang Ping had already seen Jia Ren, so he pointed at Zhang San and said, "It's this person." β
Bao Zheng snorted, looked at Zhang San and said, "Zhang San, what else do you have to say?"
Zhang San looked at Jiang Ping and said, "You said that I am your senior brother, but what evidence do you have?"
Bao Zheng smiled and said, "Yue Qi, you can tell him." β
Yue Qi's face was like earth, and he whispered to Jia Ren: "So far, I won't hide it from you, that day Rouge fled back to find me, and asked me to find an opportunity to kill you, it just so happened that Lord Bao came to the county government yesterday and said that he wanted to detain you here, I believed it, so I came to the prison overnight to kill you, who knows, I was caught in the trap of Lord Bao." β
When Jia Ren heard this, he kicked at Yue Qi, Zhan Zhao hurriedly stretched out his hand and pressed him, Jia Ren scolded: "What a poisonous woman, what a good Yue dog, I didn't see that you were so vicious, it's just that, so it's no wonder that I'm not surprised." After that, he faced Bao Zheng, kowtowed heavily and said: " Back to the adult, the grass people are indeed called Jia Ren, is Jiang Ping's senior brother, in the early years of jealousy of the master bias Jiang Ping, so he left the master to break into the rivers and lakes, and then was Zhang Yao into the door, secretly turned to him to do some treasure robbery and murder, this time Zhang Yao ordered me to go to Xue Mansion to grab the red flame red porcelain, and the water Emei stabbed me, the grass people recognized this weapon, it is the master's guard weapon, and also knew that to use this weapon with a unique heart to do, I learned that Jiang Ping was in the hands of Yue Qi, so he had a vicious mind, and wanted to force him to comply, who knew that he was unwilling, and Zhang Yao urged him tightly, so he had to take the Emei thorn to snatch the treasureγ β
When Bao Zheng heard this, he said to Gongsun Ce: "Mr. Lao Fu went and asked Miss Xue to come over." β
Gongsun Ce understood in his heart, so he hurriedly went to invite Xue Feifei.
After a while, Xue Feifei came to the hall with Gongsun Ce, and saw two people kneeling in the hall, and he already understood most of it, Bao Zheng looked at Xue Feifei and said, "Miss Xue, take a closer look at these two people, is there anyone who stabbed you that night?"
Feifei looked at the two of them carefully, shook his head and said, "Back to my lord, no." β
Zhan Zhao was shocked and said, "Miss Xue, have you looked carefully?"
Feifei nodded affirmatively and said: "It's true, it was very dark that night, although I couldn't see the person's face clearly, but I remember the person's figure clearly, the person was long and thin, and these two, one was slightly shorter and the other was slightly fat, neither of them was the person who was that night." β
Zhan Zhao asked, "What about the weapon?"
Feifei said: "That day, when Xiaoxi first found it, Master Bao asked him, and Xiaoxi said that it was a water-splitting Emei thorn, but I thought about it carefully afterwards, but I had never seen this weapon, and the weapon that stabbed me was a long sword. β
Zhanzhao said, "Are you sure?"
Feifei said: "I was so sure of Xiaoxi when I saw it, and I wasn't sure, but later I asked Sister-in-law Lu to see the wound on my body, and I was sure that it was indeed a sword wound." β
Lu Fang couldn't stop nodding on the side, it was true.
Seeing this, Jia Ren took the opportunity to quibble: "Lord Hui, what Miss Xue said is right, the grass people have indeed not seen Miss Xue, so why not stab her." β
Bao Zheng sneered: "Even if you don't succeed in plotting to kill my Miss Xue, but doesn't the lives of more than 30 people in the Xue Mansion have nothing to do with you? Doesn't the fire that burned down Xue's house and destroyed the corpses have nothing to do with you? How did the red porcelain get into Zhang Yao's hands? Bold murderer, until now, you still dare to cover it up, and you haven't recruited it from the truth. β
Jia Ren's face turned pale, knowing that if he didn't explain things clearly today, he couldn't get over it, so he nodded and said: " Yes, the grass people did kill people that night, but they didn't kill so many people as the adults said, the grass people were only bent on grabbing the treasure that night, and didn't want to kill more, but for some reason, when the grass people stabbed that Emei, they were like a demon, only gently waved the weapon, and many people fell in front of them, at that time, the grass people were also a little confused, but they were eager to find the baby, and they didn't think about it, and then they came to the study, killed Master Xue, looked for a circle and didn't find the red porcelain but found the dark room, chased all the way to the dock, found clues, jumped into the river to catch up with a girl, found that she didn't have red porcelain, and then went back to find Zhang Yao, these are all done by the grass people, the grass people have recognized, but, The red porcelain is indeed not taken by the grass people, and they have not done anything to slaughter people and set fire to their mouths, and the adults and grass people are now all recruiting, and they know that the death penalty is inevitable, and they will never hide it again, but this has not been done, even if the grass people are already a capital crime, it is difficult to confess. β
Seeing his resolute attitude, Bao Zheng stopped asking questions for the time being, but turned to Yue Qi, who had been silent, and said, "Yue Qi, you and Jia Ren are in cahoots, and he said he doesn't know, so what about you?"
Yue Qi lowered his head and said, "The grass people don't know. β
Bao Zheng slapped the table and said, "Yue Qi, you raised your head and looked at this mansion, do you really not know?"
Yue Qi was frightened by Bao Zheng's table, looked up at Bao Zheng staring at him, glaring at himself, he couldn't help but be so frightened that he couldn't speak, and he rolled his eyes and fainted.
Bao Zheng frowned, sighed heavily, and after signaling someone to take Yue Qi down, he said to Jia Ren: "Jia Ren, since you have admitted to the murder, this government will take you back to Kaifeng Mansion to await trial, can you plead guilty?"
Jia Ren nodded and pleaded guilty, and Bao Zheng also took him down.
Feifei saw that there was nothing wrong with her, so he also retreated, before leaving, he looked back at Zhan Zhao, and happened to bump into Zhan Zhao and looked at her, the two looked at each other, Feifei blushed, and hurriedly turned around and walked out of the hall, Zhan Zhao smiled at the corner of his mouth, his eyes looked at Feifei's back as gently as a spring water, Gongsun Ce saw this, his heart moved, he didn't say anything, pretended not to see it, coughed softly, Zhan Zhao immediately came back to his senses, looked at Gongsun Ce, saw Gongsun Ce was looking at himself playfully, slightly embarrassed, hurriedly withdrew his eyes, looked at Bao Zheng, saw Bao Zheng with a worried face, and asked: "My lord, it seems that most of this case has been solved, why are you still worried?"
Bao Zheng shook his head and said: "One is that the rouge involved in the case has not been arrested, and the other is that the life and death of Miss Xiaoxi are unknown, and the government wants to find a few more days, but the deadline given by the emperor is approaching, and I can't afford to wait. β
Gongsun Ce asked: "What the adults said is very true, according to the students, the matter of Xiaoxi girl is not as good as asking Lu Daxia to pay more attention, as for rouge, when the adults return to Kaifeng Mansion, they can issue sea fishing documents, even if the rouge escapes to the ends of the earth, the students believe that there will always be a day when the sky net is restored, and now, the ten-day deadline set by the emperor is approaching, and the adults should go back to Kaifeng Mansion first to arrest that Zhang Yao, so as not to have too many dreams at night." β
Bao Zheng looked at Gongsun Ce approvingly and said: "In the end, Mr. Gongsun is thoughtful and thinks so well for this mansion, even so, we will leave for Kaifeng Mansion tomorrow." β