Section 2: Murder

Zheng Yuanwai pinched Su Ziang's thin neck with both hands, thinking in his heart that if he crushed this nasty little bedbug to death, he could bully Su Ziqing and Zheng at will in the future, and he was smug when he suddenly felt a pain in his abdomen, and hurriedly looked down.

A short sword was plunged into the stomach, and with a "poof" sound, dirty blood spurted out of the blood grooves on both sides of the blade.

"You dare to kill me?" Zheng Yuanwai's triangular eyes were full of disbelief, and the strength of his whole body was quickly drained, and after a period of spasmodic struggle, his body fell to the ground softly.

Su Ziang gasped a few breaths, got up and saw that the intestines were slowly bursting out from the sword wound under Zheng Yuan's outer abdomen, and bright red blood flowed all over the ground, and the first sentence in his heart was that his father often said when he was alive, kill people to pay for their lives, and pay off debts!

The garden fell silent, and in the vast twilight, a terrifying atmosphere permeated!

"Dead?" Su Ziang was unwilling, first probed Zheng Yuanwai's nostrils, but couldn't find a trace of vitality, and then reached out and slapped Zheng Yuanwai's fat face, and shouted in a low voice: "Shameless old man get up, get up and grab the little lady......"

After a dozen breaths, Su Ziang concluded that Zheng Yuanwai, who was still arrogant just now, was already dead!

A cool autumn wind blew from the air, Su Ziang's whole body was shivering like chaff, and under the huge fear, the young man did not dare to stay for a moment, and jumped towards the big tree on the side of the garden, and the twilight surged up behind him, shrouding the garden in darkness.

At dawn the next day, in the quiet peach blossom town, the villagers were talking about one thing: the old pervert Zheng Yuanwai died, and he was disemboweled!

The crime of homicide is one of the heinous crimes in the ancient kingdom of Great Xia, and it must be reported to the official, and the person who died is still the younger brother of the Jiangshang County Order.

At noon, Zheng County Ling led a large group of people to ride horses and gallop to Peach Blossom Town, and immediately sat in Zheng's Mansion.

When the villagers saw the money, someone reported it.

Last night, I saw Su Ziang appear outside the Zhengfu Garden before and after dark, and someone donated a bloody clothes, according to the size of the bloody clothes, a child said that the clothes belonged to Su Ziang, and then sent someone to find Su Ziang, but it was gone.

"Arrest all the Su family!"

Zheng Xian Ling ordered with a gloomy face, and the catchers were shocked by Zheng Xian Ling's wolf-like howl, and hurriedly caught Su Mu and Su Ziqing to Zheng Mansion.

After Su Ziqing went out last night, he waited for a while and saw Zheng come back alone, and as soon as the two of them talked, they hurriedly searched for Su Ziang in the dark, and when they learned from the villagers that Zheng Yuanwai had died in the mansion, Su Ziqing suddenly felt uneasy when he thought of the short sword that Su Ziang took away.

Zheng Fuzhong, in front of the hall.

"Listen to Zheng, this official suspects that your son Su Ziang is a murderer. Zheng County Ling pointed to Zheng Yuanwai's coffin and said: "Zheng Yuanwai died in the mansion, hand over your son Su Ziang, this official has something to ask." After speaking, he ordered the arrester to quickly reveal the evidence, bloody clothes and villager testimony, Zheng's face turned pale, she couldn't believe that Su Ziang dared to kill.

"Lord Zheng, I killed the person, so there is no need to interrogate. Su Ziqing suddenly said, at that moment, the girl had already made up her mind to exchange her life for her brother's life to keep the continuation of the Su family's only incense.

"Girl, are you crazy?" Zheng woke up from the momentary panic and shouted: "Don't believe her words, my daughter, I have been with the slave family last night, how can I have time to kill, not to mention that she can't kill Zheng Yuanwai with her strength." ”

Zheng County's eyes flickered, as if he was thinking about something important, he didn't say a word with a gloomy face, and when Zheng saw this, he immediately distinguished: "It must be a bearded thief outside the town who went to Zheng's mansion to rob and kill people, and also kidnapped my son, please ask the county commander to send someone to fight the thief, and return the Su family a fair ......."

"Hehe, return the justice of the Su family?" Zheng Xianling seemed to have figured out something, sneered gloomily, and asked Su Ziqing: "You said that you killed Zheng Yuanwai, what murder weapon was used?"

"A short sword. ”

"Where's the sword?"

"After the killing, I panicked and didn't know where to abandon it. ”

Su Ziqing confessed to killing herself, Zheng said that she had not killed anyone, and Su Ziang, who was identified by the villagers, was missing. Zheng County's order grimaced and said in an official tone: "First escort Zheng and Su Ziqing to the county prison, and then send someone to arrest Su Ziang, and judge them together after Su Ziang returns to the case." ”

"Wronged, my lord......"

"Shut up. Zheng Xianling pointed to the coffin behind him and roared: "The person who should shout the most injustice is him, come on, lock Zheng and Su Ziqing in the county prison first." ”

"No. "A group of hunters rushed up like tigers and wolves......

After Su Ziang escaped from Zheng's Mansion that night, he was afraid that the people of Zheng's Mansion would chase him to his home, so he ran to the mountains and hid all night.

"I killed the people, what are they doing with my mother and sister?" In a hurry, the fourteen-year-old boy chased all the way down the official road, with only one thought in his heart, to rescue his mother and Su Ziqing! The horse team galloping on the official road in front of him was like flying, and gradually disappeared.

In the autumn breeze, the young Su Ziang's figure was thin, and he chased towards the end of the official road step by step with firm steps, chasing into a strange and vast rivers and lakes.

Two days later, in the Jiangshang County Ya, Zheng County ordered a copy of "Ancient Xia Law" carefully searched for several times, hesitated in his heart, according to many years of experience as an official, when he was in Zheng's mansion, he concluded that Zheng Yuanwai was forced to marry Su Ziqing, and was finally stabbed to death by Su Ziang, and his younger brother had died on the color character, and he wanted to sentence Su Ziqing to death, and then buried with Zheng Yuanwai with Yin marriage, fulfilling the last bit of his brother's thoughts in the yang world.

However, the "Guxia Law" is extremely harsh on the sentence to death, one is to have a clear crime, the other is to have relevant evidence, and finally it needs to be submitted to the Criminal Department of the Guxia Dynasty for review, and only after the approval can it be beheaded.

After smashing the "Ancient Xia Law", Zheng County Ling stubbornly found out a crime, and the ancient Xia Law stipulates that killing a husband is a capital crime of disobedience! Since Zheng Yuanwai had given the Zheng family a dowry, he convicted Su Ziqing of murdering his own husband, and then slowly arrested Su Ziang.

"Come on, ascend to the hall, and bring Su Ziqing and the Zheng family to the hall. ”

Su Ziqing has been separated from Zheng and detained, and today he went to the court, and when he looked up, he first saw that everything was safe in the Zheng family, and he didn't see Su Ziang appear, so he immediately relieved himself and ignored Zheng County's order.

"Su Ziqing. Zheng Xianling slammed the table and roared angrily: "This official asked you, did you kill Zheng Yuanwai?"

"It was the people who killed her. ”

"Since you killed it, do you dare to sign it?"

"Bring pen and ink. ”

"My lord, I am wrong, the daughter of the slave family has been in front of me that night, and she has not gone to kill, not to mention that she is so thin, how can she kill people?" Zheng's mother shouted injustice while supporting her daughter: "Girl, are you crazy? This is a capital crime! My mother told you that it was a thief who killed her, why didn't you listen?"

Zheng Xianling had a straight face, watching Su Ziqing sign the confession, after he received the confession and carefully checked it first, a cold light flashed in his triangular eyes, and he slapped the shocked wood with a "bang", and roared angrily:

"Diao woman Zheng's family, noisy court, come here, drag down and slap your mouth for twenty ......"

"No. The catchers rushed up.

Zheng County Order took advantage of the opportunity for the arresters to drag the Zheng family down, and sentenced loudly: "In the case of Zheng Yuanwai being killed in Peach Blossom Town, Su Ziqing signed and pleaded guilty in court, and this official today sentenced the people's daughter Su Ziqing to be convicted of murdering her husband, and she was sent to the county government prison together with her mother Zheng!"