Chapter 29: Revenge (3)

The next day, when it was dawn, no one went to the Yamen to report the case, but the people rushed to tell each other, and soon the whole city knew about it, and when a family heard about it, they went to buy firecrackers and set them off, and someone asked him what was going on with the firecrackers, and this person replied: 'Celebrate the Wu family's early going to hell.' Soon it spread, so firecrackers rang out everywhere. There is a county government to catch Li Er at nine o'clock when he heard the news and hurriedly reported to the county magistrate Hong, this Hong Zhixian is a middle-aged man, with a goatee, two small eyes are very good at rolling, Lord Hong almost fainted when he heard the report, the corners of his mouth trembled and said: 'Is this news true?' Catch Li Er said: "It's true, I didn't believe it when I heard it, I went to see it in person, my legs were scared and weak at that time, and now the Wu family has been burned to ruins, and the corpse still exudes the smell of burnt meat, which is miserable. Hong Zhixian said: "You hurry up and find Wang Zhutou and Han Zhutou early, and I will wait for them in the lobby to give them something to order." Catch quickly, Li Er answered and left.

Hong Zhixian sat in the lobby and waited anxiously, and after a while, Li Er, Wang Zhutou, and Han Zhutou came to the lobby to greet him. Hong Zhixian said: "You have all heard about the Wu family. Wang and Han replied that they had heard about it, and Hong Zhi County said: "Han Zhutou, you take some catchers to arrest the murderer of the Wu family's tragedy." Han Zhutou said: "The city gate has long been opened, how many murderers have run away without a trace, we don't know what kind of people those murderers are, we don't know what kind of people those murderers are, we can really find them if we go there to arrest them, we can really find them, with our people not giving their lives in vain, then many masters of the Wu family compound have died in Jiuquan, so we know how powerful the murderer is." Hong Zhixian said: "But we can't help but act, this has to let Fan Shangshu, the uncle of the Wu family, know that he will not cure me for the death penalty." ’

At this time, the master also came to the lobby and interjected: "Lord Hong, I think so, I can't catch up now, you ask Han Zhutou to chase some people out of the city and come back in half a day, just say that there is no trace of the murderer." The adults and I took some catchers to the scene of the Wu family's compound to check on the scene and dispose of the corpses. Hong Zhixian said: "What the master said is reasonable, just do it, Han Zhutou, you take some people to chase outside the city, Wang Zhutou and Master Hou will bring people to the scene of the Wu family with me." Han Zhutou responded and went out of the city with the catcher.

Hong Zhixian took the two people to the Wu family compound in a small sedan chair, only to see that the entire compound was dilapidated, and there were embers of fire and smoke. Hongzhi County ordered Wang to catch the head and Hou Shi Ye to take people to the courtyard to check the number of people, and after the check, Hou Shi replied to report: 'Lord Hong, the corpses have been examined, there are 89 men, women and children, some of them have been charred, and 14 are black cloth masks. Hongzhi County said: "These fourteen masked men must be accomplices of the murderers, and they must be kept and transported to the gate of the county government, and then the whole city will be called to recognize them to see who they are." After a pause, he said: "Master Hou, you can arrange for each of the Wu family to have a coffin, and the silver will be paid from the Wu family's shop and land auction at that time, and then hire some people to dig a few pits and bury those courtyard thugs, and I'll go back first." After speaking, he sat in a sedan chair and went back with two catchers, waiting for the master and Wang to stay and dispose of it.

When Hongzhi County returned to the county office, he personally wrote two submission documents, one submitted to Qingzhou Mansion, and the other directly submitted to Fan Tongzhang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and then sent two arresters to immediately ride on fast horses to deliver the documents.

Zhang Lingyu was walking on the street, and everyone was smiling, just like a long drought and rain, talking everywhere, and they all suspected that the bearded hero did it. Zhang Lingyu was walking when she suddenly saw Liu Cui'e walking anxiously on the street, and secretly thought: "He must be looking for me to help her save Li Xiucai, and she must have suspected that I did the Wu family's case." So she walked over, stopped in the crowd a few feet away from her, and said to her with a secret message: "Miss Cui'e, don't worry, I'm a bearded man, I promise to rescue Li Xiucai, you go to the county tomorrow morning to beat the drum and voice your grievances, the county lord will help you re-interrogate, you must go, don't look for me, you can't find it." Liu Cui'e looked around and didn't find it, so she had to nod.

In the middle of the night, Zhang Lingyu disguised himself as a bearded man and came to the bedroom of Hongzhi County, lit the oil lamp, sat on a chair and faced the big bed where Hongzhi County was sleeping, Hongzhi County and his wife were still snoring and dreaming. What Hong Zhixian thought was: 'He took over all the properties of the Wu family, and every day there was silver flowing into his arms, built a large courtyard, and married four concubines, all of whom were as beautiful as flowers, and ate delicacies from the mountains and seas. Hong Zhixian was awakened, and it turned out that Zhang Lingyu slapped the table. Hong Zhixian was shocked when he opened his eyes, not only was the light on, but there was also a person sitting in front of the bed, and he wanted to scream when he was busy, but he was pointed at by Zhang Lingyu and his wife was clicked on the sleeping point.

Zhang Lingyu pulled Hong Zhixian up and sat down, and said in a deep voice: "Hong Zhixian, we have something to say, if you shout, I will twist your head off." Hong Zhixian trembled and nodded, and Zhang Lingyu's fingers flicked his acupoint. Hong Zhixian secretly thought: "Could it be that this is the murderer who killed the Wu family, I have to deal with it carefully, there is no reason to talk about such a murderer, and if I don't get it right, my head will move." Thinking of this, he trembled and said, "If a good man has anything to say, please speak." Zhang Lingyu said: "I want you to try the case of Li Xiucai and Li Ruiwen, and I want to acquit him and compensate for his losses, he was framed by you, and you know it very well in your heart." Hong Zhixian said: "Yes, yes, this is all forced by the Wu family, he always uses his uncle's criminal department book to pressure me, and I can't help it." Zhang Lingyu said: "You don't have to be afraid now, his whole family has been killed, although I didn't kill it, but I want to kill people more cruelly than the gang that killed the Wu family." Hong Zhi said: "Everything is listened to the good man." Zhang Lingyu said: "You'd better let go of all the people framed by the Wu family, and tell you that even the old Li Ge of the dynasty will not take him seriously." Hongzhi County said: "Everything should be done according to the good man's words, and if there is any violation, you will be dealt with." Zhang Lingyu said: "Okay, we'll see you tomorrow." After saying that, the figure disappeared, and Hong Zhixian breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this person was even more terrifying.

At eight o'clock in the morning of the next day, many people came to the Yamen of Qingyuan County, and Zhang Lingyu was among them, and no one knew that he was a bearded hero, because he was a hunter again. There are also fourteen masked corpses in front of the door, which Hongzhi County arranged here to ask the people to identify the corpses and see who these people are. There were two catchers standing on the doorway, watching, waiting for Hongzhi County to come and question the people.

Liu Cui'e had been at the yamen earlier, and she was a little timid when she wanted to beat the drums, and she was hesitating and wandering there. Suddenly, someone whispered, 'Miss Cui'e, don't be afraid, you can go and play the drums.'" Liu Cui'e knew that it was the bearded hero who came, so she mustered up the courage to go straight to the big drum next to the yamen, and as soon as she got to the door, she was quickly stopped by a catcher, and said viciously: "Why did you come to make trouble again, if it weren't for your insaneness, I would have put you in prison a long time ago, get out of here." As soon as he spoke, he stretched out his hand to push it, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, Zhang Lingyu pointed to the acupoint and couldn't move, and heard someone in his ear: "If you dare to stop it, you will immediately become a corpse lying in front of the elephant door, and go to report to Hongzhi County and hurry up to the court to clear Liu Cui'e's grievances." The catcher looked down for a while, but he didn't find who said it, so he ran in a panic towards the yamen. Liu Cui'e walked to the big drum and picked up the drumstick and beat it, and the other catcher didn't dare to stop him because he couldn't see anything, Liu Cui'e beat the drum and stood there waiting.

Hong Zhixian didn't get up until seven or eight o'clock, his head was still dazed, and he said to his wife: "Madam, I had a strange dream last night, and a bearded man told me to retry Li Xiucai and sentence him not guilty. Mrs. said: "I think you have heard that the bearded hero is powerful, and your conscience has also been discovered, and besides, the family is innocent, and the Wu family has also been destroyed, so you better be careful, master." As he was talking, he ran to catch a quick report and reported: "Lord Hong, Liu Cui'e is here to beat the drum again, I think this time it is not good, there must be a martial arts master who is secretly helping." Hong Zhi said: "What the hell is going on." Then he quickly told him about being warned by someone. Hong Zhixian shuddered in shock, and when he woke up, he knew that what the bearded hero said was not a dream, and hurriedly said: "Yes, if you want to be retried, you go and inform Wang Zhutou, Han Zhutou, and Master Hou to prepare to ascend to the court." The catcher was about to leave, and Hong Zhixian hurriedly changed into his official uniform and hurried towards the lobby.

When Hong Zhixian arrived at the lobby, he immediately went up to the hall to ask about the case, and sure enough, he redressed Li Xiucai's grievances, saying that Wu Tiande had framed him, and he compensated fifty taels of silver as compensation. Zhang Lingyu encouraged the people who were wrongfully imprisoned by the Wu family to shout their grievances outside, and used the sound transmission into the secret method to tell Hongzhi County not only to redress the grievances of the living, but also to compensate for the wrongful death, otherwise the county government will be washed in blood, just like the destruction of the Wu family, the county arrest is not left, these words Hongzhi County and the head catchers all heard it really, and they were all frightened and trembled. As a result, those who shouted grievances were redressed, those in prison were released, and those who died unjustly were compensated with silver, and the silver was paid from the Wu family.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon after Hongzhi County finished handling the case, and he came to the yamen without eating lunch, and told the arrester to quickly remove the masked black cloth of those corpses, so that everyone could see if they knew the origin. An hour passed without anyone knowing, and after a while, a middle-aged man walked up to the corpse and looked at it, and pointed to two of them and said, "These two seem to be thieves from Heifeng Mountain." Wang Zhutou immediately brought the middle-aged man to Hongzhi County, and Hongzhi County said: "You have looked carefully, and you are sure that it is a bandit from Heifeng Mountain." The middle-aged man said: "It must be, there are these two people when I am robbed, fortunately I am a horseman, otherwise I would have died." Hong Zhixian secretly thought: "I heard that the Wu family and the bandits of Heifeng Mountain have colluded, how can they be so ruthless again, this may be called self-inflicted." Hongzhi County ordered the head catcher to dispose of the body, and he returned to the Yanei lobby and wrote a report document and sent it to Qingzhou Mansion, asking to send troops to Heifeng Mountain to clear out the bandits. And the people dispersed with joy.

Fan Tongzhang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, received the report from Qingyuan County at home, and after reading it, he was furious and scolded: "Which thieves are doing this, we must catch them and light the sky lantern, kill his whole family, and destroy his nine clans." Mrs. heard this and muttered: "I have long said that you can't be too crazy, look at the Wu family is too domineering, there are too many grudges, and finally a catastrophe has fallen from the sky, and you, master, will also be more restrained in the future, especially the little Fan Hu should be simpler." Fan Tongzhang said angrily: "You are a woman's opinion, and to be a man is to coax and bully the subordinates, otherwise how could I be promoted to this official position." The lady said, "If you don't listen to me, there will be a day when you regret it." Fan Tongzhang said: "Why don't you always want me to be good, you don't have to worry about this matter, if you can't find a thief, don't think about it in Qingyuan County." The next day, Fan Tongzhang came to the Yamen of the Criminal Department and issued an official document ordering the Qingzhou Mansion to supervise the Wu family's tragedy, and asked the local soldiers to go all out to pursue and suppress the murderer.

When the official document arrived at Qingzhou Mansion, the Qingzhou prefect hurriedly supervised the matter, organized the two government offices of the prefecture and county to arrest quickly, and added a team of officers and soldiers to Heifeng Mountain to clear out the bandits. As a result, after searching in the mountains for more than ten days, there was no trace of the bandits, so they had to return in vain.

Besides, Zhang Lingyu saw that Li Ruiwen and those who were wrongfully imprisoned by the Wu family were released, and he secretly gave Liu Cui'e fifty taels of silver. The next day, he bought some incense candles and paper money and came to Black Pine Ridge, walked to the grave of his parents, put down his burden and bowed, lit the incense candles, burned the paper money, and said to himself: "Father, mother, rest in peace, the great revenge has been avenged, and when the child gets rid of the two accomplices, the child will send you back to your hometown. After saying that, he kowtowed six times, got up and burned some paper money for the maid and the coachman. When he was done, he picked up his baggage and walked to the roadside under the big tree and sat down to rest.

Zhang Lingyu sat under the tree with a lot of thoughts, thinking of the murder of his parents, the end of the world to revenge, from sadness to joy, his mood gradually relaxed, and he thought of Lianxiang and said to himself: "Sister Xiang, you are good, you have to wait patiently, I will definitely take you out to see the prosperous shijie outside the mountain." After speaking, he took out the jade flute and put it to his lips and played it, thinking about the good times with Lianxiang while playing, the sound of the flute was melodious and cheerful, which made people happy, cheerful and cheerful. As soon as I finished the song, I suddenly heard someone say: 'What a beautiful and beautiful tune, which is refreshing and pleasant.' Zhang Lingyu raised his eyes and saw a handsome and dashing man in white walking over.

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