Chapter 256: Inner Ghost
On the fourth day when the three ancestors and grandsons of the Hai family buried their heads in checking the accounts, the ghosts in the Chang'an Mansion were exposed.
In fact, it was not Zhang Pinggui and Wang Lao Liu who exposed the ghosts. The two of them didn't know anything about this inner ghost, but the former knew that Du Boqin had eyeliner in the prefect's yamen, and he could kill the prisoners imprisoned in the government jail unknowingly.
Zhang and Wang have been arrested for so many days, and now they are confessing day by day, revealing a lot of secrets of the Sun family. Although the Sun family in the capital has not yet received the news, it is impossible for Du Boqin, who is in Chang'an, to be unaware.
He knew that these two people knew some secrets about themselves, and they didn't dare to reveal them easily because they thought that the Sun family was deterrent. But now, even within the Chang'an avant-garde, it seems that many people know his past black history, and many people are secretly watching him, and it seems that he was sent by the Zhenguo Mansion. Where does he have any confidence in Zhang Pinggui and Wang Laoliu? Naturally, I guessed that they must have betrayed him!
He was uncertain, and he wasn't sure how much the two men knew. Although he has never met with them, and he will only send his henchmen to spread the word when there is something, the dead soldiers of the Sun family may exchange news with each other. Those dead soldiers who had lived in Du's Zhuangzi for half a year knew a lot about him. If they had told his secret to the new accomplice, wouldn't he have been completely exposed by now?!
The people of the Zhenguo Mansion are staring at him, are they trying to prevent him from escaping without permission?
Then why didn't they just come and arrest him? Is it because he is an official of the court of Zheng Sanpin, and he needs to have the will of the capital before he can be dismissed from his post and brought to justice?
Du Boqin was shocked and angry, and there was still a little fear in his heart, and he was unwilling to let his future be cut off. The person he sent to the capital walked for three or five days, and the letter had not yet been delivered to the Sun family, but he didn't know how many days he could hold on, and whether he could hold out until the Sun family came to save him. He'll have to find a way to save himself!
So, on the one hand, he raised the banner of complaining about his illness, no longer went to the guardhouse, but only retreated at home to "recuperate", and ordered those personal soldiers to surround his yard to protect his safety. On the surface, he seems to be desperate, but in fact he has been secretly preparing for a secret escape, with luggage, coils, dry food, horses, road guides, and even forged identity documents. He even prepared three secret doors and secret passages in his house that communicated with the outside world, so that he could secretly leave at any time under heavy surveillance.
It's a pity that the two girls who had waited for his concubine that he had sold before had already discussed with his family that he wanted to betray the Lord to save himself. All the preparations he made in order to escape were secretly revealed by his housekeeper to the people of the Chang'an Mansion. Governor Huang sent people to keep an eye on these three unknown exits, and also notified the people from the Zhenguo Mansion that they would definitely not give him a chance to escape!
Du Boqin did not know that he had been betrayed. But he still wants to continue to soar, so he will naturally use secret escape as a last resort. As an official of the imperial court, even if he has the support of the Sun family in the court, if he abandons the official and flees, it will be a black history that has been criticized, which will affect his promotion. Therefore, he will not choose to flee until he is cornered.
Since he didn't want to leave, he had to eradicate all the human and material evidence that could prove his guilt, even if the Zhou family knew that he had deceived them, there was nothing they could do with him.
Du Boqin set his sights on Zhang Pinggui and Wang Laoliu.
He didn't know how the former was caught by the Zhou family and where he was locked up now, but judging from the Zhou family's usual style of acting, Zhang Pinggui was related to the Jin family's murder, and the Zhou family would definitely send people to the government for detention, so he only needed to keep an eye on the government prison.
He had already used the eyeliner in the prison of the government to solve six killers before, and now he was just killing two more. In fact, if it weren't for the sudden loss of contact with that eyeliner, he would have already attacked Wang Lao Liu, how could he let the latter become a fish that slipped through the net?
Du Boqin didn't seriously think about it, why did his eyeliner suddenly break off? Only if the government is strictly investigated, the other party is afraid that it will be exposed, so it will cut off the contact by itself. Now that the matter is in a hurry, he can't care about the life or death of this eyeliner, so he directly sent his henchmen to find the eyeliner's home, handed the other party a bottle of highly toxic drugs, and asked the latter to poison the two killers who slipped through the net as soon as possible. The henchman threatened the eyeliner, claiming that if he refused to do so, or if he didn't, his wife and children would not be able to save their lives.
Then as soon as this henchman went out, he was taken down by Huang Zhutou.
Du Boqin's eyeliner placed in the prefect's yamen, a jailer, cried loudly when he saw this, and when he arrived in front of the prefect Huang, he recruited everything.
In fact, he was not willing to be Du Boqin's minion, but he had received the favor of the Du family's aunt in the past. When he was young, his family was poor and could not afford to bury his parents who died of illness, but thanks to the kindness of Aunt Du's aunt who gave him a few taels of silver, he was able to do things for his parents. Later, the aunt of the Du family helped him to take care of it again, and sent him to the prison of the government to be a small jailer, although he was a small position, but enough to support himself, he was grateful, and since then he has regarded the aunt of the Du family as a great benefactor. When Du Boqin found him and asked him to help with things, although he knew that it was wrong, he still remembered the kindness of the Du family's aunt, thinking that she and the Du Commander were a family, so he readily obeyed the order.
Du Boqin had helped Sun Yonglu solve an infringement case as an accomplice before, and he also dealt with the victim's family for one of his own personal soldiers, all through this eyeliner.
A few days ago, Du Boqin wanted to kill the seven killers in the government prison, and it was this eyeliner who moved his hand. It's just that as a jailer, he can't get in touch with the injured Wang Laoliu, who is being held separately, so he misses this person. He has been in the government for more than ten years, and he doesn't dare to go to the door of the Du family on weekdays, so he only offers lamps and prayers to the Du family's aunt in the temple, and there are not many people who know that he has received the great favor of the Du family. He has already had the experience of killing people, and he is also a little clever, and he does things normally every day, and basically no one suspects him.
When he heard the news of the death of the Du family's aunt, the whole person was stunned.
He knew that something was wrong, so he broke off his relationship with Du Boqin on his own, but secretly inquired about the cause of the death of the Du family's aunt. He's a little jailer, where can he find out such news? It wasn't until Huang Zhutou found the two maidens of the Du family and reached an agreement with them and their relatives to take people to live behind the government in order to protect their safety, that the jailer heard the truth.
He was in a state of confusion for a while, revealing a little strangeness, and was discovered by Huang Zhutou.
At this time, Du Boqin's crime has been known to many people, and the spies planted by the Sun family in Chang'an City have basically been caught, Huang Zhutou felt that the jailer was strange at this time, a little unusual, so he inquired more, and finally found an old errand who had been retired at home for many years, and heard from him that the jailer entered the government to follow the Du family's relationship.
Huang Zhutou immediately guessed who the ghost of the government was, and wanted to take a few people to the jailer's house to ask one or two, so that the latter would take the initiative to turn himself in, and he could also reduce some crimes.
Now that the jailer has recruited everything, he only hopes that Du Boqin, the murderer who killed his benefactor Du family's aunt, can be punished as soon as possible, as for himself? From the moment he killed the first person, he knew that sooner or later he would have such a day. Although he can't live with his wife and children, he has no other choice. Over the years, he has also had a small amount of savings, which is about enough for his wife and children to live a worry-free life for ten years, but what will happen after ten years depends on their own creation. He couldn't care more about that.
Since then, there has been one more witness who can testify to Du Boqin's crime.
Governor Huang had already sent the secret fold out, and he didn't plan to wait for a reply, so he wanted to unite with the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division to arrest Du Boqin first.
(End of chapter)