Volume 2 The Remnant of Time Chapter 129 Interrogation
Lu Sandao's attitude made Lu Haocun realize that the comer was not good.
"Qingque Peak has been in the sky for many years, and indeed because of the relationship between the little uncle, it has a transcendent status in Tianhang Mountain."
"But this doesn't mean that Lu Zhenshou can act recklessly and ride on other peaks to make a fortune!" Lu Haocun also turned cold, looked at Lu Sandao, and said.
Lu Sandao only blinked when he heard this, and asked, "So you can't take my paper?" ”
Lu Haocun naturally subconsciously wanted to refuse, after all, this matter of judging himself was indeed too ridiculous.
But before the words of refusal came to her lips, the woman in front of her suddenly took a step forward, and a fierce killing force wrapped Lu Haocun.
Lu Sandao still looked calm, but Lu Haocun knew that if he didn't say another half of the word, he would have to end up being cut off by the other party.
With Lu Sandao, he has always acted perversely, this is by no means impossible.
Lu Haocun swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and finally recognized the reality.
"Good!" He gritted his teeth and said, "Then what does Lu Zhenshou want to sue me?" ”
Seeing Lu Haocun's answer, Lu Sandao suddenly smiled: "I didn't sprinkle." ”
"I just want to accuse you of Lu Haocun's deliberate murder."
"Intentional killing?" Lu Haocun was stunned when he heard this, but his heart jumped suddenly.
At the first time, he naturally thought of Zhu Renzhao who died in his hands.
But what he couldn't understand was that Zhu Renzhao, an outer disciple, had never made any decent achievements in this Tiantian Hanging City for many years, how could he know a character like Lu Sandao with his status.
Thinking of this, he almost couldn't help but ask, but fortunately, when he spoke, he caught a glimpse of Lu Sandao's strange gaze with a slight expectation thrown at him.
He suddenly came to his senses and suppressed the idea of not admitting himself.
"What is Lu Zhenshou? I, Lu Haocun, have always been cautious in my work, how could I ever kill someone? Although he is not as powerful as Lord Lu, he is also cautious in his words and deeds, if he offends Lu Zhenshou in any place, the town guard can speak out, and there is no need to deliberately frame it! Lu Haocun immediately stabilized his mind and said.
And as he expected, Lu Sandao, who heard this, suddenly looked depressed.
She turned her head behind her and said with a bit of complaint: "I'll just say that this trick doesn't work!" ”
This reaction was beyond Lu Haocun's expectations, he was a little stunned, but he saw that in the crowd around him, a young man suddenly came out of the crowd and walked to Lu Sandao's side: "After all, Lu Haocun has been a deacon in Qingquan Peak for many years, and he has seen strong winds and waves, this method is already tricky, and it is reasonable that it will not succeed." ”
"If you want him to admit that he is the real murderer who killed Zhu Renzhao, you have to come up with real evidence, and it is really not so easy to rely on such cleverness."
Lu Sandao also looked at the young man, frowned and nodded: "The truth is indeed the truth, but do we have evidence now?" ”
"Not yet, but try letting him take it out himself." The young man said, turning his head to look at Lu Haocun at this moment.
……
The conversation between the two was not deliberately hidden.
The passers-by around the Sword Holding Hall, as well as the disciples in front of the Sword Holding Hall, and even Lu Haocun himself, listened to the conversation between the two of them very clearly.
The gazes of the people around him suddenly became strange.
They couldn't figure out for a while whether the young man and Lu Sandao in front of them were missing a string in their brains, or if they really had something to rely on.
As a party, Lu Haocun's face turned pale, and his eyes were filled with anger.
"Have you finished singing the double reed? After singing, Lu is about to go back to the house to do errands, Lu was ordered to be on duty in the sword hall this month, but there are no two of them who are so idle, and they can accompany the two of them to mess around! ”
When he had said this, he turned around and was about to go into the house.
"Lord Lu!" But just before he turned around, the young man said loudly: "Is Lord Lu busy going back to destroy the evidence of the murder?" ”
Lu Haocun's steps were paused at that moment, he looked back at the young man and asked, "Who are you?" ”
"Chu Qingxiao." The young man responded with neither humility nor arrogance.
"Chu Qingxiao?" Lu Haocun frowned, he thought about it seriously in his mind, and determined that there was no such number one person in the nine divine peaks of the entire Tianhang Mountain.
He felt a little relieved, and read that the other party seemed to be quite familiar with Lu Sandao.
He didn't make a move, but suppressed his anger and said: "I don't know Zhu Renzhao in the mouth of the two, if the two really want to sue the next, then take out human and physical evidence, just a few words are like slandering a deacon of Tianhang Mountain Divine Peak, Lu Zhenshou is still too high-flying, right?" ”
Chu Qingxiao didn't care about the sarcasm in Lu Haocun's words: "Lord Lu, since you just agreed to review the case in front of everyone, then according to the rules of Tianhang City, how can you also ask for some human and material evidence, right?" ”
"If you haven't done anything, you have to settle the case hastily, isn't it a thief?"
The anger that was already piling up in Lu Haocun's heart couldn't be suppressed completely under Chu Qingxiao's intentional ridicule: "I, Lu someone, is sitting upright, it's a frame-up thing, how can I try it?" What's more, how can there be a reason in this world to judge yourself! ”
"We don't mind if the adults try themselves, not to mention that there are so many people watching around, if there is no evidence to prove that the adults are the murderers at the end of the trial, can it be that we can still beat Lord Lu into a trick?" Chu Qingxiao asked rhetorically.
When Lu Haocun heard this, he looked at the people around him, and everyone looked at him directly, Lu Haocun knew that the young man in front of him was deliberately using everyone to coerce himself and force himself to comply.
"If Lord Lu is really unwilling to cooperate, then we can only trouble Lu Zhenshou to report this matter to the head of the sect and let him decide!"
"Teacher?" Hearing this, Lu Haocun's face changed: "This kind of trivial matter, still use the palm to come forward?" ”
"This is not a trivial matter, that Zhu Renzhao is a personal disciple that this girl values, he died mysteriously yesterday, if this girl can't seek justice from you, then she can only go to the court to teach her!" Lu Sandao said at this time.
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar around.
In a place like Tianhang Mountain, only the mountain lord, elders, and people in such important positions as the town guards can the disciples they accept be called personal disciples.
And most of these disciples are the mainstays of the future Tianhang Mountain, and their status is also very transcendent.
They originally thought that this was just a guy in Lu Sandao Heavenly Hanging City who was administering justice, but when they heard the words, they realized that this was a major event involving the mysterious death of a disciple of their own lineage.
And such a thing, if you can't find out the reason in the Heavenly Hanging City, it is indeed enough to report the above to the place where you are in charge.
For a while, everyone inquired about who the guy named Zhu Renzhao who died yesterday was.
Lu Haocun's face also changed, he looked at Lu Sandao in astonishment, and said angrily: "Lu Sandao, don't deceive people too much, how can a guy like Zhu Renzhao become a personal disciple!" ”
Others don't know what kind of goods Zhu Renzhao is, but he Lu Haocun knows it.
Zhu Renzhao is already in his early fifties, and his cultivation is still in the Three Realms, such a person, let alone a disciple, it is impossible to enter the inner gate, Lu Sandao is obviously deliberately arranging an identity for the other party to put pressure on himself.
His heart was naturally full of anger.
But when these words came out, Chu Qingxiao looked at him with a smile on his face: "Didn't Master Lu just say that you never knew any Zhu Renzhao?" Then how do you know that he can't become a disciple? ”
Lu Haocun was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly realized that he had said the wrong thing.
His face was ugly, his brows were furrowed, and he hurriedly said, "I mean, Lu Zhen has been guarding Tianhang Mountain for so many years, and he has always lived a life of idle clouds and wild cranes, how can he recruit disciples from his own lineage!?" ”
"This is clearly deliberately using my name to press me! I was so angry that I didn't choose what to say! Could it be that if I made a mistake in my speech, you would charge me with murder? ”
Lu Haocun's words were righteous and awe-inspiring, but the surrounding spectators looked at him a little strangely at this time.
Obviously, that gaffe had already made the surrounding people suspicious of Lu Haocun.
Lu Haocun, who realized this, also looked a little ugly.
He knew that he had said this step, and it was impossible to casually perfunctory about it, firstly, there were many visitors, and the matter spread, it was a trivial matter to ruin his reputation, so that Qingquan Peak would suffer unnecessary losses, and the pressure on Shenfeng that he needed to face was the trouble, and secondly, although he didn't know what the relationship between Lu Sandao and Chu Qingxiao was, if he didn't solve this matter today, being targeted by a bad star like Lu Sandao was enough to make Lu Hao sleep.
Lu Haocun thought about this, he thought about it seriously, and after making sure that he did not show any hindrance in killing Zhu Renzhao, he immediately took a deep breath and looked at Chu Qingxiao and Lu Sandao.
"Since Lu Zhenshou has to be embarrassed, then simply let the entire Tianhang City people see the jokes of our Tianhang Mountain, and Lu will take over this case today and try himself for trial!" He spoke loudly at this time, and then said: "But if the two of you can't come up with evidence, I will also report to the sect for this nonsense!" May you do it for yourselves! ”
……
The guard on duty in the Sword Hall was accused of premeditated murder.
And then you have to interrogate yourself in public.
When such a thing spread, the entire Tianhang City was boiling, and many people came to the Sword Hall to see the excitement, blocking the gate of the entire Sword Hall.
"You said you saw Zhu Renzhao walk into the Sword Hall the night before yesterday? And then when I see him the next day, he's already a corpse, right? Lu Haocun took a deep breath, he knew that things had reached such a point, and there was no way to calm things down, he looked at Chu Qingxiao and asked.
"Yes." Chu Qingxiao said.
"But I was in the Sword Hall the night before yesterday, why have I never seen it?" Lu Haocun asked rhetorically.
"Because you lied." Chu Qingxiao said calmly.
When Lu Haocun heard this, he secretly felt funny: "Young man, you don't think that you can be convicted by relying on your sentence that I lied, right?" If you want to prove this, you have to have either human evidence or physical evidence. ”
"There is indeed no physical evidence, but the human evidence is in the Sword Hall!" Chu Qingxiao said.
"If Lord Lu has a clear conscience, then let all the disciples in the Sword Holding Hall come out, let me inquire one by one, someone must have seen Zhu Renzhao."
Lu Haocun sneered in his heart, the Sword Hall is on duty every month, and at the same time, the disciples who work under the door will also rotate, and he will be on duty this month, so they are all disciples of Qingquan Peak who come to assist him in doing things, he has already made some connections, and these disciples will never betray themselves for an outsider.
Originally, when he saw Chu Qingxiao coming menacingly, he thought that this young man had some evidence in his hand, so he was cautious, but after several interrogations, except for his own repeated claims that he had seen Zhu Renzhao come to the Sword Execution Hall, he could no longer produce any other evidence, which made Lu Hao settle down, and regarded Chu Qingxiao as the kind of stunned young man who did not understand the world.
"The Sword Hall is responsible for the affairs of the entire Tianhang City, and it will affect the operation of the Tianhang City, young man, you are now supported by Lu Zhen, I have to rely on you, but you have to think clearly, if you can't find out anything by then, Tianhang Mountain will blame it, and Lu Zhenshou will have a little uncle to protect you, and you will have no one to protect you!"
"Out of kindness, I advise you to stop now, otherwise you will ruin your future when the time comes, and there will be others who will hold grudges against you and find you trouble."
Lu Haocun whispered, his words full of threat.
When Chu Qingxiao heard this, he just smiled faintly: "Lord Lu, human life is at stake, let's do it." ”
"Obsessed!" Lu Haocun snorted coldly, and immediately looked behind him, and the disciples behind him hurried to the Sword Holding Hall at this time, and within a moment, more than 100 disciples in the mansion came to the front of the mansion at this time.
"All the disciples in my Sword Hall are here, little brother, do you want to ask them one by one, or do you want everyone to ask together!" Lu Haocun looked at Chu Qingxiao and said, his tone was dry and arrogant and mocking.
Chu Qingxiao didn't pay attention to the ridicule in Lu Haocun's words, but turned his head to look at those disciples, his eyes swept over them one by one.
"I thought about it, Lord Lu is right, there is no need to work so hard in this matter, so let's just choose a few senior brothers to inquire, and the rest should go back to the mansion first, and it is important to do the right thing." Chu Qingxiao said with a smile.
These words made Lu Haocun stunned.
Although this Chu Qingxiao is stupid in his opinion, the strength he showed before to tear his face with him is still a little jealous.
Lu Haocun has seen a lot of such people, although most of them ended up miserable, but I have to say that being targeted by such a person is not a very good experience for the parties involved.
At this moment, Chu Qingxiao suddenly changed his tone, which made Lu Haocun a little unexpected.
But after thinking about it for a moment, I took it for granted, probably because Chu Qingxiao also realized that he had no evidence that could threaten Lu Haocun at all.
Thinking of Lu Haocun here, he couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart: "I reminded you before, but you insisted on letting the disciples of the Sword Holding Hall come out, and now you feel that it is inappropriate, little brother, there are not so many regret pills in this world." ”
"Then since you have lost your way, you can find a few you want to inquire about."
He sneered like this, and in his heart, he could probably foresee the scene of Chu Qingxiao kneeling in front of him and crying bitterly and begging for his forgiveness in the near future.
But Chu Qingxiao still didn't pay attention to his sarcasm, but after hearing the words, he nodded, and then looked at the disciple of the Sword Holding Hall in front of him.
He casually stretched out his hand and nodded towards the crowd: "You, you, and the two of you, just the four of you, you come out, and the rest of the people go back, what should you do." Chu Qingxiao said.
This seemingly casual move made Lu Haocun, who was still complacent, suddenly change his face, and the four disciples who were pointed out by Chu Qingxiao also showed strange expressions, looked at each other, and the expressions on their faces were a little hesitant.
There is no other reason.
Chu Qingxiao seemed to be just pointing at random, and the four people he pointed out were the four disciples who tortured Zhu Renzhao the night before yesterday under the instruction of Lu Haocun.
They participated in the whole process of killing Zhu Renzhao and throwing his body.
Lu Haocun thought about it carefully, and no one saw the whole process of their crime......
But if all this is just a coincidence, more than a hundred disciples, Chu Qingxiao happened to choose the four people involved in this matter, what is the probability of this?
"Why don't you come out? Could it be that the four of you happen to be the accomplices who killed Zhu Renzhao? Chu Qingxiao saw that everyone hesitated, and asked with a smile at this time.
The hearts of the people who heard this jumped, and their faces became even more ugly.
"Didn't you hear this little brother? The body is not afraid of the shadow slanting, come out, and the other people go back, what should you do! Lu Hao said at this time.
His words gave a few people a little confidence, and the four of them stepped out and walked to Chu Qingxiao, while the rest of the people retreated according to Lu Haocun's instructions.
"Little brother, you can judge it, I want to see how you reversed black and white." Lu Hao said at this time.
Although he was a little uneasy in his heart, he couldn't find out where his flaws were after thinking about it, so he decided to suppress the uneasiness in his heart and said so at that time.
Hearing this, Chu Qingxiao turned his head to look at the four of them and asked, "Did the four of you ever see Zhu Renzhao in the Sword Hall the night before yesterday?" ”
It could be seen that the four of them were a little nervous, and when they heard this, one of them said, "No! We...... We don't know who Zhu Renzhao is! ”
Seeing this, the other three also echoed it.
Probably because Chu Qingxiao pointed out the four of them, these people were a little nervous and didn't dare to say more.
And getting such an answer was also something Chu Qingxiao expected, he was not impatient, and then asked: "Then where are you all after the time, and what are you doing?" ”
One of them hurriedly said: "We are all in our own rooms, practicing and resting, and we have not been out of the room, and we don't know who has come to the Sword Hall. ”
The rest of the people also continued to echo: "Yes, yes, Senior Brother Li is right, we are all in our own rooms. ”
It can be seen that among all the people, only the man surnamed Li has the most resolute heart, and he is the only one who can still answer Chu Qingxiao's questions in an orderly manner at this stall, and does not show any flaws, while the other three are extremely nervous, their words flickering, and they can only echo one by one.
This was a non-problematic answer, but Chu Qingxiao, who heard this, frowned, and simply looked at the man surnamed Li and asked, "This senior brother, you just stay in your own room and practice, how do you know that the three of them are also in the house?" ”
With that, he looked at the other three and asked, "How do you know what the other three are doing that night?" ”
When the man surnamed Li heard this, his face changed slightly, and he looked at his companions around him, who also had ugly faces and became more and more flustered.
The man surnamed Li, who also knew that he had said the wrong thing, hurriedly remedied: "At that time, it was because of ...... Because we live in one house. ”
When these words came out, the three people around them seemed to grasp the life-saving straw, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, we live together!" ”
"The wing room in the sword hall is tight, so three or four people live in the same room......
"The four of us happened to have nothing else to do the day before yesterday, so we stayed in the house and didn't go anywhere."
Everyone sang and harmonized, and finally found a reasonable explanation.
thought that this could be confused, but Chu Qingxiao, who heard this, was still not the slightest bit annoyed.
"Oh? And how big is the house you live in? Chu Qingxiao asked again.
This is a question that doesn't seem to be related to the previous topic.
But based on the pressure brought by Chu Qingxiao's previous point out of the four of them, the four of them were a little nervous.
"It's just an ordinary house, not too big." One of them replied carefully.
"Then don't you sleep on the bunk?" Chu Qingxiao asked again.
"Poor...... Pretty much. The man answered.
And Chu Qingxiao, who got such an answer, suddenly had a smile on his face.
He glanced back behind him, and at this time, Chu Zhaozhao Yuejian and Meng Jin Ziyu suddenly walked out of the crowd, and they all walked up to the four people with the pen and ink they had already prepared in their hands.
"Trouble the four of you to stand apart!" Chu Qingxiao said.
Lu Haocun, who had been watching from the side, felt faintly uneasy in his heart when he saw this.
And the four disciples also felt a little frightened, and they all looked at him as if asking for help at this time.
Lu Haocun frowned: "What are you going to do?" This is the Sword Hall! ”
As he spoke, he stepped forward.
But he didn't just take a step, but Lu Sandao, who was also looking at the scene in front of him, said: "I think, you'd better do it, otherwise you will interfere with the collection of evidence, and this girl will be blocked by you for fear of crime!" ”
The woman said, one hand still pressed on the saber at her waist.
That posture made Lu Haocun's heart froze, and he didn't dare to stop it after all.
And when the four people saw Lu Haocun like this, they didn't dare to disobey, and at Chu Qingxiao's request, they all bloomed one after another, and then one of the left and right people faced west, one faced east, and the middle two, one facing north and one facing south.
None of the four could see each other at the moment.
And Ziyu and the others also handed over the brush that was already stained with ink in their hands, and at the same time handed the wooden plate where the rice paper was placed to the other party.
"Since all four of you said that you lived together the day before yesterday and stayed in the house until dawn, then I would like to ask you to write down the order in which you lay down in bed that night."
Chu Qingxiao's voice sounded at this moment.
"Of course, the first person to sleep probably won't know the following order, but it doesn't matter, you just write it before you go to bed, and you know the order in which a few companions fall asleep."
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the four people suddenly turned ugly.
That night, they tortured Zhu Renzhao as best they could under the instruction of Lu Haocun all night, why did they stay in their own room all the time, that was what they made up, this Chu Qingxiao asked them to write out that they knew the order of falling asleep, even if the four of them had a tacit understanding, it was impossible to make the answers they gave match without discussion.
Chu Qingxiao saw them like this, and the smile on his face was even worse, and then said: "Everyone, hurry up and write, think about what happened, by the way, I forgot to remind a few people, if you really don't know how to lie and make up a proper order, you can write that you fell asleep together at the same hour." ”
These words made the eyes of the four people with cold hearts light up, as if they had grasped a life-saving straw.
But Chu Qingxiao lowered his voice at this time, stared at the four of them coldly, and said quietly: "If the guest is really so coincidental, then please write the time when you fell asleep after it, to be accurate, if there is also a deviation, it is someone lying." ”
"In this kind of case involving the death of a disciple of the Taoist lineage, if you deliberately conceal the news, or even lie to exonerate the culprit, you should know what the price is, right?"