Chapter 90: The Killer
When he got home, Wu Zhi immediately found disinfectant alcohol, then unwrapped the bandaged handkerchief, gritted his teeth to endure the pain, and after using disinfectant alcohol to detoxify the wound, Li Tianjiao found clean gauze and bandaged the wound again. He had to be careful about taking precautions, for fear that the blade of the steel knife would not be clean, which would cause wound infection, just in case.
Li Tianjiao bandaged his wounds with his hands and feet, calm on the surface, but very distressed in his heart. Wu Zhi's feat of standing up to protect them just now touched her, Jin Lian and the other sisters. Now that Wu Zhi has been injured for them, they also feel very sorry.
After settling the four girls, Wu Zhi then called Dahu, went out in a carriage, and came to the "Hongyi Society" station near Baokangmen, called Li Hongyi, Qian Mancang and dozens of other people, brought enough ropes, drove ten carriages, and rushed to the scene of the accident. In order to make it convenient for everyone in the "Hongyi Society" to travel and do things, Wu Zhi had already equipped them with ten carriages.
When the people of the "Hongyi Society" came to the scene of the accident, they were amazed to see three young men standing aside with wooden sticks and 20 people lying on the ground.
Before he had time to explain, Wu Zhi immediately ordered everyone to take out ropes and tie up the masked men lying on the ground and Xiang Huaiyu and the other four people, and then lifted them one by one and threw them into the carriage, and sent them to the "Hongyi Society" station with knives.
At the "Hongyi Society" station, Wu Zhi conducted a surprise interrogation overnight.
The masked man who was woken up by the cold water, those who had seen the martial arts of Wuzhi were all terrified, and then under the coercion of the people of the "Hongyi Society" like wolves, except for the six masked people who were cut by the knife, they were speechless, and the rest of the ten masked people obediently confessed.
It turned out that these sixteen masked people were all felons or death row prisoners in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion, and the son who came with Xiang Huaiyu was named Cai You, who was Cai Jing's eldest son! On the morning of the Shangyuan Festival, Ma Wei, the patrol envoy of the left army of Kaifeng Mansion, led Cai You and Xiang Huaiyu to the prison of Kaifeng Mansion, coerced and lured these sixteen people by name, and asked everyone to give them a vote to kill and rob them on the night of the Lantern Festival. Originally, they planned to rush directly into Wu Zhi's house in the middle of the night to commit the crime, lurking around and waiting for an opportunity, and when they saw Wu Zhi leading Jin Lian, Xiao'e and other beautiful girls out to enjoy the lanterns and guess the lantern riddles, Xiang Huaiyu and Cai You temporarily changed their minds, followed Wu Zhi and others to the vicinity of the lane, intending to kill and rob in the quiet lane, but they were put to the ground by Wu Zhi and others!
Hearing the confessions of these masked people, Wu Zhi couldn't help but blow up, and Li Hongyi, Qian Mancang and other "Hongyi Society" people, as well as Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo, Si Fangguo and Dahu, were also indignant, furious, and shouted that they were going to bury them alive.
It is impossible to use the felons or death row prisoners in the prison of Shangkaifeng Mansion without Cai Jing's approval and instructions, and this matter must be inseparable from Cai Jing and Cai You's father and son! As for how Xiang Huaiyu hooked up with Cai Jing and Cai You's father and son, Wu Zhi is unknown. Damn Cai Jing! Damn Xiang Jia!
These people, so daring, are simply looking for the rhythm of death!
Wu Zhi is not a saint, although he is also very loving and compassionate, but he is not so merciful as to let the tiger return to the mountain to sympathize with the enemy of life and death! Now that all the enemies of life and death are in his hands, Wu Zhi does not intend to let it go, and he will not revenge a gentleman!
The confessions of the masked men made Wu Zhi fall into deep thought. What should be done with these masked people and Xiang Huaiyu, Cai You and others? This became his most urgent problem.
These masked people are easy to deal with, they are all felons or death row prisoners in the court, and they will be killed if they are killed, plus they robbed and killed the court officials in the middle of the night, and they are innocent.
And Xiang Huaiyu and Cai You are quite tricky to deal with, although they do a lot of evil on weekdays, but their family background is illustrious, powerful and powerful, if they are not handled properly, it will cause a series of chain reactions and cause unnecessary trouble. But now that they are in their own hands, Wu Zhi will not let them go back to do bad things no matter what!
Wu Zhi has more important things to do, and he doesn't want to get entangled with these unscrupulous gentlemen anymore and waste time and energy in vain.
Then the only way to cut through the mess with a quick knife is to kill the killer!
Wu Zhi paced and thought about it for a long time in the courtyard full of moonlight, and after weighing the pros and cons back and forth, finally
Put your heart sideways, make up your mind, come and not be rude, since the enemy is unkind, then don't blame him for being unjust!
After making up his mind, Wu Zhi pulled Li Hongyi and Qian Mancang to the side, conspired together, and decided to set up a suspicious formation, divide the troops into two ways, and let the people of the "Hongyi Society" implement the beheading plan. This is exactly what Li Hongyi, Qian Mancang and others want, and now they are very satisfied with the master of Wu Zhi, and they are all obedient and loyal.
Wu Zhi didn't want Dahu, Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo to get involved in these killings, and everyone in the "Hongyi Society" was born in a gang and had experienced fighting, killing and killing, and it was most appropriate for them, the former bandits, to deal with this kind of thing, familiar with the way, convenient and effective.
After receiving Wu Zhi's instructions, Li Hongyi led 14 of his men to raise their knives without hesitation, killed 14 of the 16 masked men one by one with the steel knives of the masked men, and then loaded them into a carriage overnight, pulled them to a remote place near Nanximen, threw them on the ground, and stuffed the steel knives into their hands, and sprinkled a lot of copper coins, silver taels and money bags on the scene, pretending that the masked people killed each other because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, and two of them absconded with money. After the bloodstained carriage was brought back to the "Kogisha" station, it was also cleaned overnight, leaving no trace.
As for Xiang Huaiyu and Cai You, as well as the two family members and the remaining two masked men, Qian Mancang led the team, packed the six people into six large boxes, loaded three carriages, and took six subordinates to take advantage of the bright moonlight to send them out of the capital overnight and go to the lower reaches of the Huimin River. At about four o'clock in the morning, Qian Mancang led the crowd to a place more than ten miles away from Zhuxian Town, found a secluded and uninhabited river bay, and killed Xiang Huaiyu and Cai You, as well as the two family members and the two masked men, one by one, with steel knives, and firmly tied big stones to them, sank them into the deep river one by one, and fed the king in the river!
Afterwards, after cleaning the six boxes and carriages, Qian Mancang took six of his subordinates to Weishi County overnight under the moonlight, and decided to return to Weishi County first to avoid the limelight and return to the capital after the wind passed.
After dealing with the fourteen masked people and seeing Qian Mancang leading the crowd to Huaiyu and the other six, it was already five o'clock in the morning, and in the dead of night, Wu Zhi hurriedly took Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo to sit in the carriage, which was driven by the big tiger and quietly rushed home.
The next morning, Wu Zhi immediately summoned Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo, Si Fangguo, Dahu, Jin Lian, Xiao'e, Liu Yue and Li Tianjiao and other eight people together, unified the voice of last night's incident, and unanimously claimed that when they went home after watching the lanterns and guessing the lantern riddles last night, they didn't meet anyone or anything, and everyone returned home smoothly.
This is called death without proof!
At noon, the astonishing news of the tragic death of 14 masked men spread throughout the capital, which made the entire capital panic.
After Kaifeng Mansion received the report from the masses, Ma Wei, the patrol envoy of the left army, and Zhu Kang, the patrol envoy of the right army, hurriedly led the officials to the scene of the murder.
Except for Ma Wei who understood what was going on, everyone else felt incredible, how could the criminals in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion run to the street in the middle of the night to fight? And so many people died at once? This is definitely the biggest scandal and malfeasance in the history of Kaifeng Mansion!
The situation was serious, Ma Wei and Zhu Kang could only order the scene to be blocked, and solemnly warned all the officials present to keep their mouths shut and never leak any information to the outside world. Then, the two hurriedly rushed back to the Kaifeng Mansion Office and reported the situation to their bosses.
Cai Jing, Lu Jiawen, Situ Changling and the newly appointed Zuo Hall Judge Yu Zezhong were all shocked when they heard the news, if the identities of the masked people were leaked, it would definitely cause an uproar, and if the court and the officials were to blame, the officials of Kaifeng Mansion and the four people present would not be able to eat and walk around, and it was estimated that they would have to take off a layer of skin!
Cai Jing, who knew the inside story, was even more panicked in his heart, if the official Zhao Xu knew that he instructed these prisoners to be released privately, then he, the head of the household department and the right to know Kaifeng Mansion Yin Ke, would have to do it! What's worse is that there are still two prisoners who have not been found, which has become two fatal factors that are very uncertain that they will detonate at any time. And what made Cai Jing even more worried was that his eldest son Cai You did not return overnight.
It seems that with those two prisoners disappeared for no reason!
The dumb eat coptis, and everyone can't say that they are bitter. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Cai Jing and other four Kaifeng Mansion giants could only strictly order all the officials and officials of Kaifeng Mansion to keep silent, and quickly ordered the officials to clean up the bodies of the fourteen masked men and bury them on the funeral post, and claimed that the bandits outside the city entered the city to fight for the spoils, and the case was closed early.
A few days later, the murder storm gradually subsided, and the people of Bianliang City returned to calm. But Cai Jing and Xiang Jia were like ants on a hot pot, they couldn't sit still anymore and were panicked. Because Cai You, Xiang Huaiyu and the two family members of the Xiang family are also missing like those two prisoners! The six people disappeared like evaporation from the world, and they didn't see anyone alive or dead, and they didn't see their bodies, which frightened Cai Jing and Xiang Zonghui and other families, and the six gods had no owner.
Cai Jing and Xiang Zonghui couldn't figure out what was going on, the matter was out of their control, they suspected that this matter should have a lot to do with Wu Zhi, but because there was no evidence, the two of them couldn't do anything about Wu Zhi, so they could only send all the family members in the mansion to search for and inquire about the whereabouts of Cai You and Xiang Huaiyu and others all over the capital.
But even if they dug three feet inside and outside the capital and turned the capital upside down, they couldn't find Cai You and Xiang Huaiyu and other six people. I am afraid that such a result is already more auspicious, which makes Cai Jing and Xiang Zonghui unable to accept it, and they are in pain.
When the Queen Mother heard the news, she was also grief-stricken, Feng Yan was furious, and quickly issued an edict, ordering the Criminal Department to immediately file a case for investigation, threatening to arrest the murderer and frustrate the ashes!
Zhao Xu was also taken aback when she heard the news, and acquiesced to the Empress Dowager's edict, and she gave orders for the Criminal Department to investigate the case. He also wanted to know who had such a bear-hearted leopard and dared to offend Cai Jing and the Xiang family at the same time.
After the Criminal Department received the decree of the Empress Dowager Xiang, the Criminal Department Shangshu did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly organized manpower to investigate, under the testimony of Cai Jing and Xiang Zonghui, the officials of the Criminal Department questioned Wu Zhi and his family, but failed to ask any useful clues.
After the caliber was unified, Wu Zhi and his family's answers were the same, and the officials of the Criminal Department did not dare to torture Wu Zhi and his family to extract confessions, and there was no evidence of death, so naturally they couldn't ask anything.
As for the victim's side, because Kaifeng Mansion itself also has ghosts, and he is afraid that the matter of letting the prisoner away without permission will be exposed, he has always concealed it, and the Criminal Department naturally can't find anything.
A few days later, because there were no clues and no physical evidence, the investigation of the criminal department could not continue, so it could only be abruptly stopped. As for Cai You, Xiang Huaiyu and others, since they could not see anyone alive or dead, they could only be characterized as ordinary disappearances, and ordered Kaifeng Mansion to investigate slowly.
Xiang was furious when she heard the news, but she was helpless. After Zhao Xu asked, although he was very puzzled, he had no objection. Cai Jing and Xiang Zonghui were also dumbfounded, which made them where to check?..
In this way, this homicide case became a headless public case, and no one cared about it. The disappearance case is also clueless, untraceable, and has become an unsolved case.
After hearing that the two cases were no longer over, Wu Zhi and his family were greatly relieved, completely relieved, and returned to their former peaceful life.