Chapter 27: Three Birds with One Stone
Ye Caitang didn't know what Ding Lang was like before, but his current appearance is really not very good. At least not like a person with two thousand taels on his body.
The clothes didn't fit out of nowhere, and some of them were torn and patched. His hair was in a loose bun, and his face was blue and purple and his skin was broken.
"My lord, my lord, I was forced." Ding Lang knelt on the ground, crying with tears and snot: "I don't want to kill him, it's he who wants to rob me of my silver......"
Xia Yue knocked on the table and said in a deep voice: "Carefully, how did you get the two thousand taels of silver on you?" ”
Ding Lang said that this is a bad person, he has done eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling and killing, saying that he has a ghost idea, and he is quite sincere.
He even said, "Yes, two thousand...... Zero fifty taels. ”
How can there be any bits and pieces, everyone immediately thought of what Yuan Weimao said before, there are fifty taels of silver missing in the house, but no one has turned it over, it should have been taken away by his wife He Ningqiu.
Ye Caitang blurted out: "This is He Ningqiu's money?" ”
Ding Lang nodded timidly.
There is a problem with this question, and there is a problem with the answer.
Xia Yue frowned and said, "What about the remaining two thousand taels?" ”
Ding Lang nodded timidly: "It's also He Ningqiu's." ”
It is not easy for He Ningqiu's family to have fifty taels of savings, and two thousand taels is impossible.
Ding Lang said: "I owed money to the gambling house a few days ago, and I couldn't stand being chased by them, so I wanted to get some money." ”
"Lao Yuan and I had a little misunderstanding before, and the trouble was not very good, but I think that now that we are both in the capital, maybe he can see that they are all fellow villagers, borrow me a little turnover, and I will go."
It sounds like this, there is really nothing between Ding Lang and He Ningqiu, even if He Ningqiu is a lover, he is also a bystander.
Saying that, Ding Lang's eyes lit up: "As a result, I saw He Ningqiu having a private meeting with a man......"
"Who?"
The brilliance in Ding Lang's eyes immediately dissipated, and he said with a defeated face: "I didn't see it clearly, that man ran too fast, and I was stopped by He Ningqiu." ”
At this time, everyone was very disappointed, but Ding Lang had no need to lie at this moment, whether it was two thousand taels or fifty taels, no one could save him if he killed him.
Ding Lang said: "The man ran away, but when I saw He Ningqiu's scared look, I said in my heart, isn't this just right, I will threaten her and give me money to seal up." ”
The master put pen to paper on the side, and remembered it in a hurry.
"I know that the Yuan family's family background doesn't have much money, but I think He Ningqiu may have jewelry and a private house, so I asked for five hundred taels...... As a result, she gave me fifty taels, didn't she make me happy? ”
An ordinary family asks for five hundred taels, and Ding Lang really dares to ask for it.
"I was angry, so I told her, 'If you don't give me two thousand taels, I'll shake it out.' Yuan Weimao will definitely kill her. Give me two thousand taels, and I will leave the capital and never come back for the rest of my life. ”
It is really the wicked who have their own evil grinding, and in some cases, there is really no survivor.
"I was actually just talking, but I didn't expect that the next day, He Ningqiu really took me two thousand taels." Ding Lang thought about the scene at that time and his heart was still beating faster: "Two thousand taels, I have never seen so much money in my life, and she doesn't know who her concubine is, she is so rich." ”
A name came to everyone's mind at the same time.
Lu Waibei.
Involved in this case, the only one who can come up with so much money at once is Lu Waibei.
Although they have checked the accounts of the Lu family, but no one in such a family has a private money, if Lu Waibei wants to bypass the account office in the house and secretly take out two thousand taels, it is not a difficult task.
Xia Yue said: "When you saw that He Ningqiu really brought you two thousand taels, you didn't think that two thousand taels was too little, and you wanted to ask for more?" ”
Two thousand taels is a lot, but the heart is not enough to swallow an elephant, and if you have two thousand taels, you want four thousand taels.
Ding Lang's head shook like a rattle, but after shaking it twice, he nodded in frustration.
He grabbed a handful of hair in despair: "I really want it, I think two thousand taels is so refreshing, it should be okay to have more." But I didn't dare, I thought this person must be rich and powerful, if he was in a hurry, he might kill me, and two thousand taels would be enough for the rest of my life, so I ran away in a hurry......"
Ye Caitang said: "You turned your home into a mess, are you afraid that he will kill people?" ”
Ding Lang nodded: "Who knew that I was unlucky, I broke the temple that night and ran into a homeless man, he ...... My lord, I'm not trying to kill him, it's him who robs me of my money, I'm defending myself......"
Ding Lang became emotional when he talked about killing people. It's a bunch of upside down.
Everyone pieced together and understood.
Ding Lang quickly left the capital with the money, and spent the night in the broken temple, who knew that there was a homeless man, and he was not a good person, looking at him with a wary look, he suspected that he had money on him, and he wanted to rob it.
Who knew that Ding Lang had money on him, so he was extra vigilant, and he also went out to be ruthless, but he stoned the homeless man to death.
After the person died, Ding Lang ran in a panic at first, ran two steps, and suddenly felt that the homeless man was similar in height and body to himself, so he moved the idea of stealing the day.
If everyone thinks that he is the one who died, then no one will suspect him of murder, and He Ningqiu's concubine and the casino will no longer collect debts.
It killed three birds with one stone, it was perfect.
So Ding Lang changed the homeless man into his own clothes, and tried his best to make him unrecognizable, but he couldn't count the six doors that were not rice buckets, and easily identified the identity of the corpse.
Ding Lang collapsed on the ground and cried.
"If I had known that I wouldn't want two thousand taels, I would have asked for those five hundred taels...... I won't kill anyone, I'm old and young, please spare me, adult......"
Xia Yue saw too many people who died like this, crying and grabbing the ground, and his heart was unwavering, and he waved his hand to ask someone to take him away.
Wang Tong rubbed his hands and said, "My lord, then I'll go and arrest Lu Waibei now." Lin Ling is hard to say, but He Ningqiu was killed by him nine times out of ten. ”
Ding Lang is just a small fish, and the case of the homeless man was only turned over by the way, and he couldn't enter the door of the six doors at all.
"There's no hurry." Xia Yue said: "Liu Sha has already gone, if he finds clothes missing silk ribbons from Lu Waibei's house, he will bring people back directly." ”
Wang Tong nodded, and said in a relaxed tone: "If it is really Lu Waibei, then he is really crazy, killing people in his own house, and the money is burned in a panic, so the house is not bought for nothing?" ”
That's why they hadn't been suspicious of Lu Waibei before.
Such a big house, even if the Meng family is down-and-out and sold cheaply, it is not a small amount. Even if Lu Waibei burned a lot of money, he shouldn't kill people in his own house.
I'm afraid that the house will be a year and a half, and it won't be able to live in it, isn't this a loss of your own money?