Chapter Ninety-Five: The Cave
Since his debut, Pu Luochen has only shed tears because of two people. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoOne is his junior sister Wei Qingran, and the other is his master Jian Mei Daoren. Both of them were the closest people in his life, and they were also the people who hurt him the most. After arriving in Lingbao County, Pu Luochen also shed tears because of the murder of Zhai Xiaoyu, a maid in Zhai Mansion, and then because of the killing of Xiaotao's father and daughter in Taoyuan Village. As the saying goes, men don't flick when they have tears, but they don't get to the sad place. "When a person is really sad, the so-called tears are uncontrollable at all. At this moment, Pu Luochen looked at the human head hanging on the wooden pole, and finally couldn't help crying. In order to cover Pu Luochen's identity, the female disciple of Bixiu Palace did not hesitate to pretend to be crazy and stupid, and finally committed suicide due to humiliation. Pu Luochen is already deeply sorry for this. Now that her head has been taken by these wicked people to hang her head in public, it is no wonder that Pu Luochen is sad and crying. Wen Daolan saw it clearly from the sidelines, and immediately asked: "Pu Zhutou, why are you crying? Could it be that you are crying for the dead female thief?" Hearing this, Pu Luochen suddenly woke up, hurriedly wiped away his tears, and replied, "I...... I just think it's a bit too cruel to treat a woman like this......" Wen Daolan laughed when he heard this, and said: "Pu Zhutou, you won't be joking, right? Pu Zhutou is the head catcher of the six doors, and I haven't seen any punishment, but now I just saw a female thief with her head cut off, and Pu Zhutou felt cruel, which is a little rare and strange!" Pu Luochen's face turned cold and said: " Mr. Wen, this thief trespassed on the forbidden land stone waterfall, at most it is a trespass in the forbidden land, and the attempted theft is not a big crime, but you, Mr. Wen, beheaded the thief for public display, isn't it cruel to do this, what is it?" Wen Daolan raised his head and said: "The county magistrate has already clearly ordered that there will be no forgiveness for those who trespass on the forbidden land!" Pu Luochen listened, and said with a smile: "Hehe, there is no forgiveness for killing? In this way, I want to kill someone in Pu?" Wen Daolan also smiled and said: " Pu Zhutou is a member of the official family, and doing things for the official family is naturally a different matter!" Pu Luochen said: "Another matter? Pu Mou wants to hear it, how to be a different matter!" Wen Daolan said: "As an official, there are too few people who can achieve the word "innocence". The matter between Pu Zhutou and this female thief, Wen can not be held accountable, after all, the female thief is dead. There is no proof of death. As long as you keep yourself clean and no longer collude with any thieves, everyone will still be friends. I don't know what Pu Zhutou wants?" After Pu Luochen heard the word "collusion", he was quite unhappy in his heart, so he said: "Mr. Wen, it seems a little inappropriate for you to use the word collusion on Pu, right?" Wen Daolan said: "What? Could it be that Pu Zhutou thinks that he has not colluded with thieves? Did Wen wronged you?" Pu Luochen said calmly: "Mr. Wen, you must pay attention to evidence in everything, and if there is no evidence, don't talk nonsense!" Wen Daolan heard this, and couldn't help laughing: "Evidence? Pu Zhutou, the facts are in front of you, don't you want to admit it?" Pu Luochen looked at the stone waterfall in front of him, suddenly smiled, and said: "Mr. Wen, even if the facts are in front of you, you don't necessarily need to admit it, do you?" Wen Daolan raised his eyebrows and said, "Pu Zhutou, what do you mean by this?" Pu Luochen said: "If you want people not to hear, don't say it, don't know if you want people to know, don't do it." Mr. Wen, what you did at Stone Waterfall, don't think that no one knows, even if you get rid of me today, someone else will come here to track down the matter of Stone Waterfall one day. Pu Mou advised Mr. Wen, don't waste any more time!" Wen Daolan's face turned cold, and he asked sharply: "Pu Luochen, what do you know?" Pu Luochen said: "Pu only knows what he should know, as for the things that he shouldn't know, if Mr. Wen doesn't say it, how can Pu know?" Wen Daolan said: "Then what do you mean by what you just said?" Pu Luochen said: "What do you mean, Mr. Wen should know it!" Wen Daolan shook his head slightly and said: " Pu Zhutou, I disappointed you, Wen Mou didn't understand what he said about you!" Pu Luochen opened his eyes wide, looked at Wen Daolan, and asked in a surprised tone: "Mr. Wen, you actually said that you don't understand? It's really surprising!" Wen Daolan glared at Pu Luochen, and said coldly: "Please also ask Pu Zhutou to make it clear!" Pu Luochen snorted and said, "Mr. Wen, since you don't understand, Pu will explain it to you word for word!"
Speaking of this, Pu Luochen paused, and then continued: "Mr. Wen, the reason why Pu appeared in Stone Waterfall is just to track down the disappearance of the villagers of Niangniang Village. And you, Mr. Wen, on the first day of Pu's visit to Stone Waterfall, set up a treacherous plan to frame Pu, and there is only one reason for this, that is, your Mr. Wen doesn't want Pu to find out about Stone Waterfall. Because once the matter of the stone waterfall is made public, then you, Mr. Wen, and even that Lord Ye, will not be able to save their lives! Mr. Wen, Pu is not wrong, right?" Wen Daolan listened to it, clapped his hands and praised: "Well said, Pu Zhutou is really worthy of being the head catcher of the six doors! It's just that these words of Pu Zhutou, Wen always feels a little alarmist!" Pu Luochen squinted at Wen Daolan coldly, and said: "Alarmist? Mr. Wen, if Pu is really alarmist, then do you dare to bring Pu into the stone waterfall and open your eyes?" Wen Daolan said: "Pu Zhutou, the white stone wall in front of you is the Stone Waterfall, Wen has already brought you to the Stone Waterfall, could it be that Pu Zhutou didn't see it clearly?
"You ......" Pu Luochen was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while. In a hurry, Pu Luochen decided to go straight to the point and make things clearer, so as not to be passive everywhere.
"Mr. Wen, it seems that if Pu doesn't make his words clearer, you will keep pretending to be confused! In this case, Pu Mou can only get straight to the point!" Pu Luochen said loudly.
Wen Daolan quickly replied: "Wen should listen carefully!"
Pu Luochen said: "Mr. Wen, Pu only asks you one sentence, is the disappearance of the villagers of Niangniang Village related to you?"
When Wen Daolan heard this, he laughed, as if the other party was in the Arabian Nights.
Seeing this, Pu Luochen immediately asked, "Why is Mr. Wen laughing?"
Wen Daolan replied: "A dead person can actually let a living person tell the truth, how can such an unexpected gain not be happy?" Pu Luochen glared at Wen Daolan and said, "Mr. Wen, come and don't be rude." When you hear the truth, you should let others listen to the truth, right?" Wen Daolan said: "That's nature!" Pu Luochen said: "That is the case, then Pu wants to hear the truth from Mr. Wen!" Wen Daolan said: "Pu Zhutou wants to hear the truth, it's okay, but what Wen said, will Pu Zhutou believe it?" Pu Luochen said: "As long as it is the truth, Pu will naturally believe it!" Wen Daolan smiled and said: "Pu Zhutou, you don't want to deceive yourself anymore, what Wen said, you Pu Zhutou will never believe it!" Pu Luochen snorted heavily and said, "Mr. Wen, if you insist on thinking so, then you and I will have nothing to say." Wen Daolan said disappreciably: "No, no, no! Wen Mou means that from the words that come out of Wen's mouth, you may not believe it, but if you say it from other people's mouths, you may not believe it. Pu Luochen said: "Others, I don't know who Mr. Wen refers to?" Wen Daolan replied: "Villagers of Taoyuan Village." Pu Luochen couldn't help but let out a "huh" and asked, "How can the villagers of Taoyuan Village speak for your Mr. Wen?" Wen Daolan said: "Pu Zhutou, if you want to hear the truth, Wen naturally wants to tell the truth." However, what comes out of the mouths of the villagers of Taoyuan Village should be more convincing!" Pu Luochen said: "That's nature......! Where are these villagers now?" Wen Daolan said: "They are right in front of you!" Pu Luochen was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked around, only to see that there was no one around except for those officials.
Suddenly, Wen Daolan said: "Daren, go and call all the brothers who are doing things, Pu Zhutou wants to check it out for himself!" Tian Daren nodded yes, and then walked to the stone waterfall and shouted towards a bush: "Come out, someone wants to see you!" As soon as the words fell, I saw some people coming out of behind the grass one after another, and after those people came out, they consciously walked towards Wen Daolan, and after a while, they came to Wen Daolan. Pu Luochen recognized at a glance that these people were the young men who were carrying things at the Stone Waterfall yesterday, not from the government. Since they are not from the government, how can they speak for Wen Daolan?
I only heard Wen Daolan speak: "Folks, the one in front of Wen Mou (he stretched out his hand and pointed at Pu Luochen) is Pu Zhutou from the capital. Pu Zhutou received a report a few days ago, saying that someone was missing in Niangniang Village, so he came to check. Folks, tell him, is there anyone missing in Niangniang Village?" Those young men, you look at me, I look at you, and then replied in unison: "No, no one is missing! No, no......" Pu Luochen shook his head when he saw these people, and he was stunned. Seeing this, Wen Daolan said to Pu Luochen: "Pu Zhutou, these villagers are all villagers of Niangniang Village, they all said that no one is missing in Niangniang Village, it seems that Pu Zhutou has taken the wrong case!" Pu Luochen was speechless for a while.
"How so? They ...... How could they help Wen Daolan speak? Could it be ...... Are they Wen Daolan's people?" Pu Zhutou thought of this, so he immediately asked loudly: "You people all listen, this catcher wants to ask you a word, you must answer truthfully, and you are not allowed to deceive!" Those young men all nodded yes.
Pu Luochen immediately asked: "I want to ask you, are you really the villagers of Niangniang Village?" It was just a simple question, Pu Luochen asked, feeling that there was nothing, but those young men were in an uproar when they heard such a question. I only heard them babble and say: "We are from Niangniang Village! I have lived in Niangniang Village since I was a child! I have lived in Niangniang Village for decades, how can I not be from Niangniang Village......" These words were said a lot at once, Pu Luochen was very tired of hearing it, so he waved his hand and said: "That's it, Ben Zhu already knows that you are the people of Niangniang Village, you don't need to explain anymore!" Those young men heard Pu Luochen say this, and one by one they slowly closed their mouths. Although he had some doubts in his heart, he couldn't come up with any evidence, so Pu Luochen could only agree.
"If they are really the people of Niangniang Village, then why do they want to help Wen Daolan speak? Thinking about it, there is only one reason, that is, what handle on them has fallen into the hands of Wen Daolan. What kind of trick could it be? Pu Luochen thought quietly, his dark eyes rolling endlessly.
Wen Daolan saw that Pu Luochen didn't say a word for a long time, so he glanced at Natian Daren. Tian Daren immediately stepped forward and asked, "Pu Zhutou, Daren has the courage to ask here, do you want to continue to investigate this case?"
Tian Daren's questioning quickly disrupted Pu Luochen's train of thought. Pu Luochen had no choice but to stop thinking and replied: "Check!
Tian Daren couldn't help but be a little surprised, and said: "Pu Zhutou, the people of this Niangniang Village are all in the stone waterfall, no one is missing, what else are you investigating!" As soon as the words fell, he heard Wen Daolan reprimand sharply: "Daren!
"Don't retreat yet!" Wen Daolan said in a commanding tone.
As soon as the words fell, he saw that Nada Daren immediately stepped aside and stopped talking.
After Wen Daolan finished reprimanding Tian Daren, his eyes returned to Pu Luochen, and said: "Pu Zhutou, Daren, this brother is straightforward, if there is anything offended, please bear with Pu Zhutou!" Pu Luochen said: "It's okay, although Brother Tian is straightforward, but he said what others want to say the most, Mr. Wen, what do you think?" Wen Daolan's face changed slightly, and said: "Others, I don't know who Pu Zhutou is referring to?" Pu Luochen glanced at Wen Daolan and said: " Mr. Wen, there are some things that can be hidden for a while, but they can't be hidden for a lifetime, so far, how long do you want to hide it?" Wen Daolan pretended to be puzzled and said: "Wen Mou didn't hide anything? What Pu Zhutou said, how did Wen Mou get more and more confused the more he listened?" Pu Luochen snorted: "Wen Daolan, the facts are already in front of you, you still want to hide it, since you don't want to say anything, Pu Mou will go to find out in person!" As soon as he finished speaking, Pu Luochen turned around and walked straight towards the dense grass. Seeing this, Tian Daren was about to step forward to stop him, but was blocked by Wen Daolan's bamboo fan. Wen Daolan shook his head gently at Tian Daren, and Tian Daren had to stop.
Pu Luochen clearly remembered that those young men disappeared when they walked behind the grass that day, so after Pu Luochen came to the grass, he immediately went around to the back of the grass to find out. I saw that there was a hole in the ground behind the bushes, one end of the hole was close to the mountain, and some stone steps were built at the other end, and the stone steps stretched out into the hole step by step, which was the main passage into the cave. Beneath the stone steps is a wide avenue with torches on each side, making the cave clearly visible. After Pu Luochen stepped into the avenue, he couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that the avenue had been blocked by a huge rock, and there was no way out for a while. The color of the mountain stone is also very different from the ordinary mountain stone, green with white, mixed with some golden yellow. Pu Luochen has never seen a mountain rock of such a color since he was a child, so he couldn't help but step forward and stroke it carefully.
"There are obvious traces of excavation on this rock, could it be ...... Those people stayed in the cave just to dig up these rocks?" Pu Luochen pondered.
Although I don't understand it a little, I can guess the reason for it based on the current situation. Pu Luochen thought in his heart: "This mountain stone is not like an ordinary mountain stone, Wen Daolan and they have gone to great lengths to dig this cave, and it is not just to dig these mountain stones, for now, let's take this mountain stone back and study it well!" Thinking of this, Pu Luochen found a loose mountain stone, slapped it, and the mountain stone cracked in response, and then fell to the ground. Pu Luochen put away the rock, hid it in his sleeve, and then turned around and walked towards the entrance of the cave. (To be continued.) )