Rui Hegui

Chapter 29

Dali Temple, the three divisions will be interrogated.

At this time, Chu Bandit had already changed into a clean official robe, and arrived early, which was rare. He sat and leaned on the grand master's chair, with a leisurely expression, picked up the tea bowl, took a sip, and praised the spring tea of ​​Dali Temple to a nearby principal It really tastes good, as if someone came here to drink tea, the little master didn't know what the intention was, and nodded with a smile.

"Master Chu, if you think the tea here by Mr. Shen is good, you can bring some back later." Shen Mingwei happened to enter the hall, made a bow with Bandit Chu, and said with a smile, "Or, Mr. Chu can consider staying in Dali Temple, Shen must be good at entertaining you."

Bandit Chu also chuckled, and said, "Mr. Shen is really good at joking, what kind of place is Dali Temple, how can an idler like me just enter it casually?"

Shen Mingwei sat down next to Bandit Chu, straightened the hem of his robe, and said, "Maybe he really stayed in Dali Temple."

Bandit Chu finished his tea and said, "Then we'll wait and see."

A quarter of an hour later, Yushi Zhongcheng Zhang Zhao hurried over, and the interrogation began.

The jailer brought a thin and unremarkable man to the front of the hall.

"Lu Qing, [-] years old, qin master, from Huatian County, Hezhou, Jiangnan, entered Beijing last February, repaired Luming to live in, and stayed in Beijing until now, is there anything wrong?"

"No mistake."

"Is there any business relationship between Luming and Puyang Cloth Manor?"

"Yes, but my lord, grassroots business is a normal business, and I dare not break the law!" Lu Qing looked anxious, "It's all recorded in the accounts!"

Chu Bandit tilted his head and signaled his subordinates to bring up Lu Ming's account book.

"You said there was a record, but it wasn't. I asked someone to check that account book, and found out that you forged it recently." Bandit Chu raised his hand and put a document from the government office that came from Pu Yang on the public case, saying, " Besides, you don’t have any of the big cloth houses in Puyang, and the evidence is here, so what else can you say?”

"My lord, the grass people are wronged!"

"This is Dali Temple, whether you are wronged or not depends on the evidence." Chu Bandit smiled and said, "Also, you, Luming, rarely receive guests from outside, but the search found a large number of ingredients for Puyang dishes, and one A secret room, there are obviously more than a dozen people living here, but no one was captured during the search, who are they? Where did they go?"

Lu Qing's tongue began to tie up: "My lord... my lord, it's just that people from my hometown came, and the grass people had to receive them, and I felt that they would lose my identity, so let them..."

"But you are from Huatian County, Hezhou. Those people are obviously from Puyang, so how could they be from your hometown?"

Lu Qing couldn't speak anymore, and knelt down on the ground without saying a word.

"It seems that Lu Qing's problem is not small." Shen Mingwei took a look at the account and asked Chu bandit, "Then what happened when the people from Feixialou were arrested?"

Seeing that Shen Mingwei was delaying time deliberately, bandit Chu was not annoyed, so he took Lu Qingxian to the side and waited as he said, and called Ruan Yue, the proprietress of Feixialou.

Ruan Yue is the most famous beauty in the capital, when she was brought into the hall, the jailer couldn't help but be gentle, and let her take small steps without urging or pushing.

"Ruan Yue has met all the adults." Ruan Yue didn't kneel down to listen to the trial as soon as she came in, but bowed her head in a normal salute, her eyebrows were slightly frowned, her red lips were half bitten, and she showed her grievances in three or four parts. Pitiful.

Zhang Zhao opened his mouth at this moment, and said softly, "I just asked some questions, and you just answer them, and you can go back later."

Ruan Yue respectfully saluted Zhang Zhao, then stood there with her head bowed in aggrieved manner, as if she was about to fall when the wind blows.

Seeing this, Bandit Chu twitched a smile, and asked someone to go over and put Ruan Yue down on the ground. Ruan Yue has always been the one that men hold in the heart. Bandit Chu looked over, met Chu Bandit's sharp and cold gaze, and was taken aback, not daring to do it again.

"Feixialou, if I remember correctly, it is the largest restaurant in Beijing, but why did you have several transactions of incense and spices with Luming in your accounts?"

"My lord, although Feixialou is a restaurant, it is famous for its elegance. It is very common for customers to ask for incense, so there will be incense and spices bought."

"But the amount of spices you buy here, even if you don't distinguish between day and night, it will take ten years to use up. Could it be that you also use incense spices for cooking in Feixialou? I didn’t find out that you have a lot of spices stored in Feixialou.” Chu bandit smiled, threw another booklet in front of Ruan Yue, and said, “Besides, why does your Feixialou store a lot of axes, swords and weapons privately? This is a felony!"

Ruan Yue looked at the booklet in shock, bit her lips and looked at Zhang Zhao. Zhang Zhao understood, laughed twice at Chu Bandit, and said, "Perhaps some customers let it go, but maybe it's not certain."

"Really?" Bandit Chu narrowed his eyes halfway, and said, "What if it is suspected of privately opening iron mines and privately casting weapons?"

Shen Mingwei looked at Bandit Chu, and instead of looking at each other, he asked with a nonchalant smile, "Oh, is there such a big deal?"

Bandit Chu waved his hand and asked someone to bring up the two accounting books of the Hua family. Shen Mingwei's expression flickered, and then disappeared in a flash.

"Previously, Jin Luanwei was ordered to investigate the case of the Hua family to no avail, which made it impossible to further investigate the iron ore smuggling case. Fortunately, the Ministry of Criminal Justice obtained the ledger left by the Hua family, which recorded in detail the iron ore business between Puyang and the Hua family in Jingdu. , and Lu Ming's various actions, whether it is the long-term habit of receiving servants of Puyang, or the accounts that he and Puyang can't explain clearly, there are obvious suspicions."

"Similarly, there is obviously a problem with the accounts between Feixialou and Luming. It is hard not to have other suspicions. Besides, Feixialou found out a large number of weapons in private possession for no reason, and there have been five murders. Up to now Yushitai didn't say anything." Bandit Chu cupped his hands towards the north, and said, "The Holy Majesty ordered this officer to conduct a thorough investigation, and this officer should interrogate Lu Qing and Ruan Yue."

"Master Chu! This matter has nothing to do with me. The case requires evidence. Is it possible that I want to arrest people indiscriminately in order to close the case?" Zhang Zhao got up and excused himself when he heard that he was involved.

Shen Mingwei pulled Zhang Zhao back to his seat, patted his shoulder to comfort him, and said, "Master Zhang, how perceptive is Master Chu, if you are innocent, how can you be punished?"

Hearing the words, Zhang Zhao couldn't sit still anymore, and cast his eyes on Shen Mingwei for help, Shen Mingwei slightly nodded to indicate that nothing happened, Zhang Zhao just stayed there.

Shen Mingwei turned to face Bandit Chu, and said: "Looking at the current situation, both Luming and Feixialou are likely to be related to the Hua family's iron ore smuggling case, and they are all deduced from these two Hua family account books?"

Bandit Chu: "Exactly."

Shen Mingwei smiled and said: "Then what if the account books of the Hua family are fake?"

"Master Shen is talking a little bit of nonsense here. The account book of the Hua family is right in front of him, so it's clear at a glance whether it's true or false."

"I have witnesses." Shen Mingwei said, clapping his palms lightly, and saw a handsome man brought in by Prison Cheng.

Chu Bandit took a closer look, isn't this the same Lu Yong who still looked like a woman to Fu Fen a few days ago?

Lu Yong came in, knelt down and kowtowed, then looked up at Bandit Chu, laughed wildly, and said, "Master Chu, did you ever think that the grass people would survive?"

Chu Bandit took the tea handed over by the attendant, blew on the white steam and sighed, and said indifferently: "I really haven't thought about it."

Lu Yong then walked up to Shen Mingwei on his knees and began to yell for injustice: "Your Excellency, you must be the master of Caomin. Caomin is just an inconspicuous accountant in the Huafu, but he was coerced and lured by Master Chu to imitate the accounts of the Hua family. False account of slanderers! They said they would only change a few places, and they would give me gold and white taels, but they silenced them after the fact. If it wasn’t for your lord’s rescue, Caomin would have been a grievance!”

In the south of the suburbs of Kyoto, at the twenty li long pavilion.

Two carriages came rushing forward, with dozens of people guarding both sides. Walking in front was a young warrior with a scar on his forehead, with a crossbow on his back and a seedling knife at his waist.

The black-clothed assassin lying in wait behind the grass and trees on the road has been waiting for a long time, and the sword is ready to be unsheathed.

"The leader is Nan Xing, this is the team." The leader blew a whistle, and the killer in black rushed towards the carriage from all sides.

"Not one will be left alive!"

The two sides fought quickly, and the shouts of killing outside the Changting Pavilion shook the sky.

Nan Xing first unfolded the crossbow, inspired by the three arrows, and shot the person a hundred steps away. After several shots, the remaining men in black approached. Nan Xing drew out the Miao Dao to fight. carriage.

"Nan Xing has already been seriously injured, follow me!" The leader gave an order, and the men in black took the courage to attack again.

Sure enough, Nan Xing was gradually exhausted, a man in black passed him to the front of the carriage, opened the curtain and hacked in with a knife, but found that there was no one in the carriage.

Knowing that he had fallen for the trick, the leader raised his hand and ordered to retreat, and at the same time released a cloud-piercing arrow to report.

The showers are slowing down, the clouds are receding, and it will be dawn.

In the household office, Zhao Liangyue was busy with the documents in his hand, when a stone was thrown on the table in front of him, Zhao Liangyue looked up and saw Jingmo outside the window.

So Zhao Liangyue found an excuse to come out and talk with Jing Mo in a remote back alley.

"But what happened?"

Jingmo bowed to Zhao Liangyue and said: "Ningzhou's natural disasters and man-made disasters are far more serious than imagined. Now 11 people have brought Wanmin Letters to Beijing to appeal for grievances. The arrangements have been made properly, but the Ministry of War suddenly changed the city defense. Jin Luanwei was transferred to the palace. Wang Han People guarding the four gates of the city, the 11 people were stuck in the western suburbs of the city and could not enter. People from the hussars battalion blocked them in front, and people from Han Zhou chased them down. Come to ask Master Zhao for help!"

Zhao Liangyue frowned, thought for a moment, and asked, "Who is under General Hussars who guard the western suburbs of the city?"

"It's Wang Zhen, a distant relative of the Wang family."

Zhao Liangyue immediately recalled the obsequious fat man beside Wang Yuncheng, and said with a smile, "God helped me."

"Master Zhao has a solution?"

Zhao Liangyue nodded: "Well, I'll go to the Jinluan Guard Office, you can go to Xiao Rong for help, and make preparations in the west of the city to welcome people to Beijing."

Jing Mo got the order, smiled and cupped his fists at Zhao Liangyue, turned around and hurried away.

Zhao Liangyue also hurried to get a horse and drive to Jinluan Guard.

Although Xing Shuo is no longer the commander of Jinluanwei's office, he still has some prestige in a short period of time, and he can use the belt badge left before as a token to ask Jinluanwei to help perform the show.