Gao Hongtu's face is no longer very good-looking.

Zuo Guangxian hadn't found out yet, and said to himself: "As long as Ma Mingluo dies, everything will be dead without proof, isn't it what we say?" It is impossible for Lu Zhenfei and Jin Xuan to find out what is going on. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about? What's the first strike? Gao Hongtu said angrily, "The Metropolitan Procuratorate raided the Internal Affairs Office and sent Ma Mingluo, the deputy director of the Internal Affairs Office, to prison because of the Tongkou case, where is the beginning and end of this case?" What's there to be afraid of? Lu Zhenfei and Jin Xuan want to check, so let them check. ”

"Huh?" Zuo Guangxian looked at Gao Hongtu with a blank expression, and his whole person was messy.

The Tongkou case? Gao Ge Lao, do you know that Zhan Yangzhi and Ma Mingluo did not have an affair with Haikou at all, this is simply the dirty water we splashed on Zhan Yangzhi and Ma Mingluo's heads, okay? You actually said that you are not afraid of checking?

But soon, Zuo Guang reacted first, and a pair of eyes slowly lit up.

"Shut up!" Zuo Guangxian just wanted to speak, but was stopped by Gao Hongtu, "Hurry up, come to me if you have nothing to do, and don't talk nonsense to people everywhere with a big mouth, give me some peace during this time." ”

"The subordinate officer takes the order." Zuo Guang said first.

……

Wu Linzheng, Wu Ganlai, and Chen Liangmo also gathered in Meng Zhaoxiang's duty room.

"Have you heard about it?" Wu Ganlai said in a deep voice, "In the past few days, the streets and alleys have suddenly spread all over the big case of Zhan Yangzhi, a wealthy businessman in She County, colluding with Haikou!" ”

Meng Zhaoxiang snorted coldly and said: "Don't mention it, on the way to Shangzhi just now, I even heard two beggars squatting on the side of the road talking about how many bird guns Zhan Yangzhi gave Gu Sanmazi, and Gu Sanmazi promised Zhan Yangzhi how many benefits he would give him after the attack on Nanjing. ”

Wu Lin Zheng said: "Uncle Zong, there must be a black hand behind this. ”

"yes." Wu Ganlai said, "Otherwise, it would never have spread so fast." ”

"Isn't that obvious?" Meng Zhaoxiang said coldly, "The Holy Lord is about to return to Beijing, if they can't handle the Zhan Yangzhi Tongkou case into an iron case before the Holy Lord returns to Beijing, they will be very passive." ”

Wu Lin Zheng said: "But as long as Boss Liu Zongzhou is there, they don't want to succeed." ”

"In my opinion, Boss Liu Zongzhou is afraid that it will be difficult to protect himself." Meng Zhaoxiang sighed and said, "This old man is steep and steep, and he values his reputation more than anything else, and those people before were also afraid of the identity and reputation of Liu Zongzhou, so they didn't target him, but now that the Holy Dynasty is about to return, there is not much time left for these people, they can do anything, and within three days, those imperial historians should attack in groups." ”

Chen Liangmo said when he heard this: "No wonder Lu Lang, Huang Erding and their gang are sneaky in the past few days, and they dare to plan to attack Liu Zongzhou, we can't sit idly by." ”

Wu Ganlai said: "What Brother Shiliang said is extremely true, we must stop them. ”

"It's useless, we can't stop it at all." Meng Zhaoxiang sighed and said, "You still can't see it now?" The entire Nanjing officialdom is their people, and no one can stop what they want to do, and Shi Gelao, as the head of the cabinet, was also forced by them to go to work at home. ”

Chen Liangmo said: "The lower officials don't believe that they can really do whatever they want. ”

Meng Zhaoxiang said: "At least in Nanjing, they can really do whatever they want. ”

……

The time came to the twenty-fifth day of July in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, which was the hottest season of the year.

The prison of the Nanjing Criminal Department was even hotter, and Ma Mingluo was sweating all over his body when he sat still, but this little physical ordeal was nothing to Ma Mingluo at all.

What really made Ma Mingluo feel sad was the ignorance of the people of Nanjing.

These foolish people have no idea that they have been fooled by others.

Thinking of this, Ma Mingluo hated those people in the Donglin Party even more, these people really have no bottom line, they can really do anything, they are as hateful as the eunuchs.

It's ridiculous, and he once thought that the Donglin Party members were all upright.

However, it turns out that these people are no different from the eunuchs at all. Phew!

"Boom." Ma Mingluo turned sideways, and the iron chain tied to the shackles immediately made a crisp sound, because he was the only one in the entire prison, so it was particularly abrupt in the quiet prison.

But soon, a light footstep came to Ma Mingluo's ears, and someone came over.

Ma Mingluo couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, since he was imprisoned in this big prison of the Criminal Department, the prisoners in the same cell and the adjacent cells have been transferred one after another, it is said that he is worried that he will use these prisoners to communicate with the outside world and pass on the news.

Besides, he hasn't been arraigned once since he was imprisoned.

The cell boss told him privately that it was because Liu Zongzhou, the Zuodu Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, was deliberately dragging it, otherwise he would not have known how many times he had passed the court, and maybe he had already been sentenced many times.

Looking back, I saw the cell boss emerge from the shadows of the passage.

To Ma Mingluo's surprise, the cell boss didn't just say a few words to him this time, but opened the big iron barred door of the cell directly, and even took out the key to untie the chains on his body.

"Wait." Ma Mingluo instantly became vigilant, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Shh The cell boss made a silent gesture and came to untie his chains.

Ma Mingluo turned to the side to avoid the key of the cell boss and said, "What do you want to do?" ”

"Adult, villain let you go!" The cell boss lowered his voice and said, "The villain knows that you are actually a good official, and you were wronged by others when you went to prison this time, but those people have already made up their minds to make this case an iron case, and for this reason, they even made Liu Zongzhou's hometown back to his hometown in Shanyin." ”

"What?" Ma Mingluo said, "Boss Liu Zongzhou has returned to his hometown in Shanyin?" ”

"Not really." The cell boss said angrily, "Those people are really inferior, Liu Zongzhou is almost seventy years old, and he has always been strict with himself, who in the world does not know about being cautious?" ”

"But what kind of dirty things do you suppose?"

"They actually forcibly drunk the old man and carried him to the boudoir of Zhu Susu, the top brand in the South Courtyard."

After a pause, the cell boss sighed again: "After the old man woke up, he almost didn't die headlong, and in the end, although he was rescued by the servants and Zhu Susu, he didn't have the face to stay in Nanjing as an official, and he returned to his hometown on the same day." ”

"Hateful!" Ma Mingluo said angrily, "These people are really doing it!" ”

"So, there's nothing they can't do." The cell boss reached out again to unlock the chain, "My lord, if you stay in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, you can only die." ”

"The villain will untie the shackles and shackles for you first."

"Then you and the villain get out of here and find a place to hide."

After a pause, the cell boss said again: "The saint is about to return to Nanjing, and you will be fine when the saint returns to Beijing." ”

"Wait." Ma Mingluo stopped the cell boss again and said, "What did you say? Is Shengshang going back to Nanjing soon? ”

"Yes." The cell leader said, "The Holy Luanjia left Xuzhou seven days ago, and this should have passed through Huai'an Mansion, so those people are in such a hurry to drive away Elder Liu Zongzhou." ”

After hearing this, Ma Mingluo said, "If this is the case, I can't go." ”

"Not leaving?" The cell boss hurriedly said, "My lord, if you don't leave, you will die." ”

"My life is not worth much, if they want to, they can take it." Ma Mingluo smiled and said, "But if this official escapes from the prison of the Criminal Department today, it will really be yellow mud falling into the crotch of his pants, if this is the case, this official will not only not be able to help the saint, but will only make trouble for him." ”

"How so?" The cell boss hurriedly said, "The saint is a saint who has already attained enlightenment, and his heart is like a mirror!" ”

"The Holy One is naturally like a mirror." Ma Mingluo subconsciously wanted to raise his hand in the direction of Xuzhou, but he couldn't lift it with shackles, so he had to give up.

After a pause, Ma Mingluo said again: "But how ignorant the people of Jiangnan are, they can't tell at all, who is really good to them, who is just verbal, if this official really follows you out of the prison today, the news spreads, and the people of Jiangnan will only think that I, Ma Mingluo, am afraid of crime and abscond." ”

"This ......" The cell boss was stunned for a moment.

Ma Mingluo shook his head and said: "At that time, if the Holy Lord really wants to exonerate my Ma Mingluo, won't he become a faint king who bends the law for personal gain, so that my Ma Mingluo will really die and will not be able to atone for his sins." ”

"In this way, the villain has lost his mind." The cell boss was stunned.

Ma Mingluo said: "Cell boss, I know that you have good intentions, I don't blame you, but this matter is not good." ”

"That's it, Master Ma cherishes it." The cell boss sighed and knelt down and kowtowed to Ma Mingluo.

……

This cell boss obviously really heard some rumors, and he really didn't want to harm Ma Mingluo when he released people in private.

Because early the next morning, another cell boss brought Ma Mingluo a sumptuous feast.

Seeing this, Ma Mingluo understood everything, those people didn't even bother to try the case, and directly convicted him and beheaded him immediately, which was really anxious like something.

Ma Mingluo didn't waste this severed meal.

When the cell boss unshackles and chains, he began to feast.

Full of wine and food, Ma Mingluo hit a drink, stood up and said, "Let's go, it's time to go on the road." ”

When he got into the prisoner cart and came to the street outside, he saw that the street was already crowded with onlookers, and when he saw Ma Mingluo's prisoner cart come out, these citizens threw rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, and even filth at him one after another.

Within a moment, Ma Mingluo's face, body, and prisoner car were covered with all kinds of filth.

After walking along Gongyuan Street for several miles, he finally walked out of Nanjing from Sanshanmen and came to the riverside Dharma field.

(End of chapter)