The Red Mansions

Chapter 717 Jia Heng: Master Wang Wants Evidence?
Following the force-feeding of honey water, after a short while, Tushan regained some physical strength, or in other words, the grassland people were already physically strong, so when they were given honey water, they regained some physical strength.

Jia Heng looked at the big man coldly and asked, "Mongolian?"

There are also many differences in facial features between Mongolians and Manchus.

Tu Shan gave a "bah" and looked viciously at the boy opposite.

Jia Heng smiled, with a sudden cold smile, his eyes were even more contemptuous, and he asked, "You want to kill me?"

Tu Shan still looked at the boy with murderous intent, and cursed: "Han dog!"

Jia Heng waved his hands, stopped Li Shu, who was looking gloomy, and wanted to teach him a lesson, and asked, "Who is Lord Ten?"

Tu Shan snorted coldly and ignored Jia Heng.

"Even if you don't tell me, I know who it is." Jia Heng said coldly, looked at Tu Shan, and said: "Just now one fell into our hands, and it has already been recruited. The tenth master ranks among the tenth among the Jurchen disciples. Fifth, the name is Aixinjueluo Duoduo, what is he doing here?"

Hearing this, Tu Shan's pupils shrank slightly, and he said in surprise, "Saihan betrayed master?"

Jia Heng looked at the big man opposite, his eyes were dim, and he smiled and said: "He was tortured, so he had to confess, and not everyone has such a tough bone as your Excellency."

In fact, one of the Donglu who was shot down on the spot by a round of arrows earlier wiped his neck with a dagger, and when the big man in front of him was captured alive by him on the spot, he did not die immediately. Obviously, the deepest part of his heart did not want to die. It's not necessarily because of greed for life and fear of death, there may be other reasons.

Hearing the words, Tu Shan seemed relieved, but on his face he scolded angrily: "You Han dogs, you only use these low methods of torturing people!"

Jia Heng took the teacup from Li Shu, took a sip, then turned around and said, "Go get this strong man a bottle of wine!"

Tu Shan's complexion changed slightly, but he became more courageous and shouted: "If you want to kill, kill, I just frown, it's your grandson!"

Jia Heng looked at the blood-stained face of the big man, and said: "Your master wanted to assassinate me, but now he was stabbed by me, and his life or death is unknown. It will fall into my hands soon. With your master's mind, It shouldn’t be possible to return to the original place of residence, even if you keep it a secret, it’s useless, of course I don’t need to ask you.”

One was killed, one was injured, and one fell into his hands. Doduo would not return to the original place to wait for him to catch him. As for the most dangerous place is the safest place, this is not a policeman fighting wits and courage Bandit drama.

As long as there is a slight possibility, he knows the whereabouts, and it is a breeze to send someone to arrest him.

At this time, Li Shu came over and handed a wine jug to a fan who poured wine for Tu Shan.

I have to say that for Mongolian men, alcohol is the best painkiller.

Tu Shan gulped down the wine, the wine dripped down the nose and the beard under the jaw, but he didn't care, he couldn't help but let out a loud cry, it seemed that the pain on his body was relieved, and his hair was messy and blood-stained Swinging it away, the tiger's eyes stared at the boy.

No wonder the master wants to kill this little boy, this man is a hero!

Jia Heng spoke slowly, observing the face of the big man, and asked, "I'm curious, who helped you respond when Duoduo came to assassinate me?"

Tu Shan narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "You want to trick me?"

Jia Heng smiled and said: "You came to Yangzhou to assassinate, you want to hide your identity, collect information, and search the streets and alleys. If you don't have local people to lead the way, it is impossible. As a local merchant, Yangzhou salt merchants are familiar with the road. Is this official's banquet in Huanhualou the news that the salt merchants secretly revealed to you?"

Does he need the truth?There is no need at all, even if it is a crime, as long as all the salt merchants are not involved, it can be tolerated in the eyes of some people.

It is even possible to extort a confession by torture and torture, as long as he has no morals, no one can kidnap him morally, as long as he is willing to hold the script of cruel officials, there is no need for evidence at all.

Not everyone is Tushan.

And because he had just collected several 10 taels of silver from the salt merchant, arrested one, and kept his good words to others, and gradually they would split up.

As Jia Heng spoke, his eyes were deeply focused, and he came close, took a blue moon gemstone necklace from Tu Shan's neck who was silent, and said, "What is this?"

It was shiny just now, quite eye-catching.

"Take it here!" Tu Shan suddenly snarled with veins popping up on his forehead, and his body struggled violently. If it wasn't for the chains, he could almost break them.

Jia Heng looked at the blue moon gemstone necklace, gently put down the necklace, and asked, "Is it a gift from your sweetheart?"

Tu Shan stared at Jia Heng, his eyes were bloodshot, he breathed heavily of alcohol, and said nothing.

Jia Heng put down the blue moon gemstone necklace and said: "Those salt merchants are not important to your master, they are also Han dogs in your eyes, if you tell me which salt merchants have friendship with your master, they will come to Yangzhou , I can spare your life and let you go back to see your wife, child or sweetheart."

"I'm a great man named Wu Xun, so he keeps his word." Jia Heng sat down, held the teacup again, and took a sip.

Tu Shan's complexion changed, his eyes were gloomy and unsteady, he was clearly in the battle between heaven and man, he was not betraying his master, although those salt merchants had no direct contact, what did life and death have to do with them?

Jia Heng's face paused, and he said in a deep voice: "Since you don't say anything, come and follow me to ask Chahan, maybe he knows."

As he spoke, he got up from the stool, and as soon as he reached the door, he heard a roar from behind, "Wait!"

Jia Heng turned around, fixed his eyes on Tu Shan, and asked, "Have you figured it out?"

Tu Shan growled, "You keep your word?"

Jia Heng said: "I spit and nail, which salt merchant is colluding with your master?"

After Tu Shan uttered a name, he said, "I don't know, I just heard from the master that this man can win over. He has discussed business with the master a few times, and he is quite yearning for me, Da Jin."

Jia Heng finished listening expressionlessly, then turned to look at Li Shu, and said in a deep voice, "Go and arrest Ma Xianjun immediately, and torture him severely!"

A breakthrough has already appeared, or this is just an excuse.

Li Shu clasped his fists as he was ordered, and then quickly ordered his men to arrest Ma Xianjun.

"Are you still talking?" Seeing this, Tu Shan asked.

Jia Heng nodded, and said: "Of course I mean what I say, but you are all injured now, and you can't go far at all. Come here, find a doctor to treat his injuries, and give him wine first."

A guard of the Jinyi Mansion took the order, and immediately a fan lifted the jug and poured wine into Tushan.

Jia Heng asked Tu Shan, who was hiccupping, and asked, "What's your name?"

"Tushan." Tushan was dizzy from drinking at the moment, because of the promise just now, he couldn't help feeling a good feeling in his heart, and said in a low voice.

Jia Heng looked at Li Xing Baihu Shangming, and said, "Let him draw a pledge and name it."

After Tushan was greeted by Fanzi in Jinyi, he drew a bet, and Fanzi on the side drank wine for Tushan again.

Jia Heng said in a low voice to Shang Ming, who was punishing hundreds of households on the side: "Tomorrow, people will release news in Yangzhou City, saying that the gangster Tushan has confessed to assassinating the murderer of this official. For the Jurchen Fifteenth Baylor, called the Ten Master, he is seriously injured now, and the bounty is 2000 taels for those who capture it alive! The bounty is 5000 taels for those who get the corpse! The reward for providing clues to help the captors is 2000 taels of silver!"

Tushan: "???"

Shang Ming clasped his fists and said, "My lord, let's do it for the humble job."

Jia Heng turned his eyes and stared at the furious and unbelievable Tu Shan, nodded and said: "Tushan, when your injury recovers, I will send you back to Jurchen to recover from your injury."

Tu Shan struggled violently with the rope, roaring incessantly, saying, "I didn't betray you, you lied to me! You don't mean anything, you are not a hero!"

He didn't betray his master, so what if it was passed back to Jurchen?

Jia Heng smiled and said: "I promised to let you go back, but I didn't say that I would do nothing else. If I am not a hero, are you? You are a Mongolian, you are so big, you are determined to be a dog for the Jurchens ?”

Tu Shan's face was gloomy, he heard and scolded, his pupils were blood red, and he almost wanted to choose someone to eat.

"If you surrender to me and hand in the vote, I don't have to spread the news about you taking refuge in me. You still have a chance to go back to Jurchen to reunite with your wife, children or your sweetheart. I still count." Jia Heng said softly .

"You... Get out!" Tu Shan gnashed his teeth and roared angrily.

Jia Heng looked disobedient, and said: "Then you should think about it carefully."

As Jia Heng said, he took a handkerchief and wiped his hands. His slender and slender hands were sweaty. He left the room and looked up at Chen Xiao who was standing under the eaves.

Under the red lanterns hanging from the eaves of the corridor, the girl is still wearing a Shu brocade round-neck gown. Close breath.

Jia Heng asked: "What are you looking at, and you don't make a sound."

"You are despicable and shameless enough." Chen Xiao looked at the young man with sly eyes under Liu Ye's slender eyebrows, with a hint of sarcasm in the corner of his mouth.

Jia Heng's face was like black water, he looked at Chen Ling, and said in a deep voice: "The Han and captives are not equal, I am despicable and shameless, and I also want to make people in this land in the future not be like him, a seven-foot man, and be a tartar." slave."

Chen Xiao remained silent for a while, looking at the straight-talking young man, his starry eyes sparkled, and his heart seemed to be gently twitched.

Seeing Chen Xiao in a daze, Jia Heng's face was silent, and suddenly he leaned closer and whispered in Chen Xiao's ear: "It's also for your old Chen's family."

Suddenly seeing that young man approaching, a voice came from Chen Xiao's ears, her clear cheeks blushed, she pushed Jia Heng away, with a look of disgust on her face, she frowned and said angrily: "It's summer, you're so close, aren't you hot? "

I don't know why, but I always feel that this heir of the deposed prince, her cousin, seems to be... teasing her?
Jia Heng took a few steps away, looked at the girl with a faint blush on both sides of her icy face and jade cheeks, her eyes were a little darker, and she said nonchalantly, "Let's go to the official hall."

In fact, he didn't want to be such a "Korean drama male lead". He was not interested in Chen Xiao. For the long-legged type, it was enough for Xianning to let go and be able to contrast.

It's just that Chen Xiaoru gathered under his command as a tool man, so he can try to develop his own hidden power, and the manpower of Jinyi Mansion, no matter how well he uses it now, is ultimately from the palace.

There was indeed a lack of such a person by his side. Men tended to betray because of their power, but women were easier to control. Chen Xiao and the emperor had such a deep estrangement and complicated relationship, so their identity was more suitable.

Putting it this way, it's actually a bit unfair to cousin Xianning, it's all skill and almost no emotion.

As Jia Heng said, he came back to the front hall. At this time, Wang Shouqi was about to come out, and with fear on his old face, he asked, "Uncle Yongning, what's the matter with the old horse?"

"The prisoner has already been recruited. This guy colluded with the Eastern captives and plotted to assassinate this official. He needs to be interrogated strictly." Jia Heng said solemnly.

Wang Shouqi said: "It's just based on the bad guy's one-sided words, so he is biting... Does Yongningbo have evidence?"

The other recordings, Huang Rishan and Huang Cheng, mostly looked at each other in blank dismay, all looking at the boy in the python suit, and Lin Ruhai was also on the sidelines, ready to speak at any time.

Jia Heng said: "Master Wang wants evidence?"

Wang Shouqi said with a bitter face, "I still know what the old horse is like. Is there a misunderstanding? This must be more certain?"

Jia Heng's face was indifferent, he turned his head to look at the guards of Jinyi Mansion who were stunned behind him, and said coldly: "What are you still doing stunned, why don't you immediately send Tiqi to search the Majia Manor, arrest their relatives and stewards together, strictly More torture, looking for evidence of collaborating with captives and rebellious parties!"

Wang Shouqi and the salt merchants: "..."

Gu Ruoqing, who was sitting not far away, stared at the bright eyes under the beautiful eyebrows for a moment, stunned for a moment, his eyes were complicated, almost like the eyes of a dog official in the court, while Nan Ling's eyes were already looking at the green shirt with sparkling eyes. Straight-legged young man, staring intently, a little... heartbroken.

Li Shu and several captains in Jinyi looked serious, clasped their fists and said, "Yes, Dudu."

As he said that, he led several guards of the Jinyi Mansion, and rushed out of the Yanyuan Yamen in a hurry, preparing to call Tiqi to search Ma's house.

Jia Heng raised his eyes to look at Wang Shouqi whose face changed slightly, and said warmly: "Master Wang, this time Donglu sent people to plot to assassinate this official, and the few of you have suffered a lot. You are all shocked."

Involved in the whereabouts of a big man in Donglu, why are you still asking for evidence?
The criminal's oral confession is the greatest evidence. In this era, the oral confession is king, and verbal evidence is especially superior to physical evidence.

At this moment, Wang Shouqi was already a little dazed, or gradually realized the seriousness of the matter. This was not a play, and he cupped his hands and said, "Uncle Yongning, it's easy to say, easy to say, the assassination is something that no one thought of, it's just us Are you still waiting here?"

Jia Heng said: "This is actually not about Master Wang's business. Master Wang will go back with a few later. Don't worry, Master Wang. Although I am in charge of the brocade clothes and raised some orders for the emperor, he did not make random moves." The habit of false accusations."

This remark made Wang Shouqi feel a little more approving. Whoever was full enough to assassinate such an upstart in the imperial court just went south to Yangzhou and did nothing.

It's just Jia Heng's words, but it made several people's hearts twitch, and there was a smile on their faces, and they almost forgot that the imperial prison of Jinyi Mansion was really the place where Luo Zhi was wronged.

There is one thing to say, Jia Heng's reputation is actually not bad, at least since he took charge of Jinyi, he has never been accused of weaving, and he is based on evidence.

Xiao Hongsheng's eyes flickered, and he faintly felt that something was wrong, but the assassination really happened.

Jia Heng said: "The masters were also shocked. I will send the masters back. I will never forget the hospitality and understanding of righteousness before."

Wang Shouqi had no choice but to suppress the worries in his heart, and said with a smile: "Uncle Yongning is polite."

Feeling very depressed, once the old horse is caught, who knows if there will be other matters related to salt affairs, this matter needs to be discussed with Mr. Liu, how to rescue him.

With this in mind, I didn't want to stay longer, so I said goodbye and left.

Then, with Jia Heng and Lin Ruhai sending them off, a group of salt merchants left.

Wang Shouqi came out of the Yanyuan Yamen with a gloomy face. At this moment, Jiang Tong, who followed behind, looked anxious and whispered: "Brother Wang, what should I do?"

Wang Shouqi lowered his voice and said, "Let's go back first."

Then several servants and relatives of the salt merchant came in a carriage, and Wang Shouqi, Huang Rishan, Huang Cheng and others boarded the carriage with great concern.

There were eight people when they came, but now that Ma Xianjun has been arrested, there are only seven people left.

A few people went back all the way, all went to Wangyue villa in Slender West Lake, and entered Wang Shouqi's study, the seven salt merchants sighed, their faces were ugly.

Huang Rishan couldn't wait to ask: "Brother Wang, what does Yongning Bo mean?"

Wang Shouqi sighed, and said, "Uncle Yongning, the old man can't see through."

Cheng Peili frowned and thought hard, "I wonder if Uncle Yongning is trying to deceive us?"

But Bao Zuhui asked urgently: "Old Cheng, what's going on? Did the old horse inform the Tartars to assassinate that Jia?"

As soon as these words came out, the other salt merchants all looked at Cheng Peili, the son and daughter-in-law of Ma Xianjun, and the brains of the gang of four, Erhuang and Cheng Ma.

"How do I know that?" Cheng Peili shook his head and asked with a bitter face.

"You are the relatives of your sons and daughters, and you often vent your anger through one nostril, don't you know?" Jiang Tong frowned, and asked: "Now Yongning Bo is hiding a fire because of the assassination, and he is about to take someone's knife! You are honest , Is it because you and your son and daughter's relatives, Ma's family, and those Tartars joined forces to do this? I want everyone to fight against you together?"

Bao Zuhui also looked suspiciously, and asked with a sullen expression: "Old Cheng has always been a good idea, don't think about selling other people's tartars, and then borrowing a knife to kill people?"

"If Uncle Yongning died, he would die too, but now that he doesn't say anything, he has a chance to have an attack." Huang Cheng said coldly.

All of a sudden, verbal criticism and criticism were all looking at Cheng Peili complaining.

At this time, Wang Shouqi also looked at Cheng Peili, who frowned into a plain word, and asked, "Peili, I hope I will call you."

"Master Wang is pissing off this junior." Cheng Peili looked serious when he heard this, and looked at the gray-haired Wang Shouqi.

In fact, Cheng Peili was only around forty. At this time, the children were married early, and one of the children was related to Ma Xianjun, so there was some relationship, but it was not so much to say that one nostril was out of breath.

Wang Shouqi looked serious, and said: "I know that you and Ma Xianjun have done a lot of business with the Tartars in the north, and usually don't bother to pay attention to it. Businessmen are from all over the world, so it doesn't matter what, but this assassination of the imperial court official, last time The matter of the courtyard, who did it, the old man did not ask, the Linyan courtyard is the one holding the pen, no matter how bad it is, there will be no disaster, but this time it is someone holding the knife, how dare you mess around?"

Cheng Peili sighed: "Old man Wang, I really didn't do this. Who would have thought that this tartar would come and personally assassinate Yongning Bo?"

"Where's Ma Xianjun?" Wang Shouqi looked gloomy and frowned, "He's used to be ruthless, and he's used a lot of tricks over the years."

Cheng Peili said: "I don't know either. My son is on guard against such confidential matters. How could he tell me? But I don't have the intention to talk about colluding with Donglu."

Concern was seen on Jiang Tong's old face, and he twisted his gray beard under his chin with his hands, and said: "Now people have already used the knife to arrest people."

Cheng Peili looked calmly, and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Wang and everyone, whoever gets in will not carelessly bite on such a matter of losing his head. If he is involved, everyone will be finished. If he is not involved, the descendants of the Ma family will still be alive." Take care, Lao Ma is also a smart person, he knows what to say and what not to say."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the words, no one dared to say that their buttocks were clean.

Wang Shouqi nodded, and said: "That's what it means. Now that we're in, we should rescue them outside, and we will rescue them outside. It may not be a big deal if we think about it. The old man sees that Yongningbo is also a man who can collect money." , since the money can be collected, everything can be discussed, and it is really reckless to control the influence of this matter and prevent him from making a big fuss."

Huang Cheng's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile, "Mr. Wang, maybe we don't know each other without fighting."

Bao Zuhui also echoed: "Master Wang is a man of knowledge. When my old Bao looks at this official, he is not greedy. It's just because of his appetite. Some people don't seem to be easy to buy, but the price is high." , if you can afford this price, it’s the same kind of bird’s virtue.”

Xiao Hongsheng frowned tightly, but an inexplicable worry floated in his heart. Is it true that Uncle Yongning, a youthful success?
As the youngest and most senior salt merchant here, it is obviously not easy to interrupt indiscriminately.

But just because he is young, he is more able to abandon wishful thinking and see through the fog clearly.

And when several people were discussing, the steward outside suddenly reported: "Master, Mr. Liu has arrived."

Liu Shengzao was so frightened that he sobered up now, and after sobering up, he was startled and frightened.

Thinking back to the time when he was drunk, he made a lot of noise because of a woman, and he couldn't help regretting it. As for being assassinated, he was even more suspicious. Hearing that Yangzhou salt merchants had returned from the Yanyuan Yamen, regardless of the sprained leg, Immediately, he sat in a carriage, left the manor villa where he lived, and came to visit Wang Shouqi's mansion.

Yamen of Yangzhou Salt Court
In the official hall, the lights were bright and crowded.

Jia Heng asked Liniang, the madam of Huanhualou, who had finished taking notes, to lead the group of Yingying Yanyan away, and then only Gu Ruoqing and Nan Ling were left in the room.

Jia Heng frowned, looked at Si Dushi, Zhao Mo and other clerks beside him, and asked, "Why don't you let them go?"

Chen Xiao continued: "This woman is a little suspicious, she is wearing a dagger, as for this, she said she has recognized you as the master, and her body deed was given to her by the old bustard Liniang, saying that she will give it to you, or sell it to you. Or you can take a rough envoy as a maid."

Liniang, who is an old procuress, saw that she had offended the guards of the Jinyi Mansion, she was terrified, she didn't dare to stay in Nanling anymore, and planned to give Jia Heng a favor.

Jia Heng looked at Gu Ruoqing and Nan Ling in the red dress, his eyes fell on Gu Ruoqing, whose face was frosty, and asked, "What is Miss Gu doing with the dagger?"

"When you don't want to be humiliated, you can either take a risky blow or commit suicide to seek innocence." Gu Ruoqing looked at the young man opposite, with a clear voice, and a pair of bright eyes looked at the young man calmly.

Jia Heng glanced at Gu Ruoqing, then looked at the dagger in Chen Xiao's hand, and said, "It's a risky blow, and when you meet someone with high martial arts skills, you often can't get what you want. If you commit suicide to seek innocence, you still have to take advantage of... it may not be true." Stay clean."

He didn't have any sincerity towards this kind of woman who was in the middle of the fun, and he felt that the words just now were intended to attract his attention.

Previously, if he guessed correctly, it was to use him to get rid of Liu Shengzao's entanglement, and now Xu still has this purpose.

In fact, at his level, to put it bluntly, he can easily become the target of high-end peripherals and green tea. This is a real reality.

"Xiaoxiao, give the dagger to Miss Gu." Jia Heng said calmly, then turned to look at Nan Ling, and said, "You can go back with this Miss Gu."

Chen Xiao responded, took the dagger and handed it to Gu Ruoqing, and made eye contact with Gu Ruoqing, as if to say, I've already helped, so it's not good at all.

In fact, I don't want my senior sister to stay by Jia Heng's side. The senior sister has a deep scheming heart, and she has learned the master's methods of bewitching and manipulating people's hearts.

"Uncle, please accept me." Nan Ling looked at the young man in a daze, and suddenly knelt down on the ground with a "plop". Her little face was as white as jade, with a look of prayer in her eyes, and she said in a trembling voice: "If I go back now, my mother will sell it to others, and my uncle will accept me, serve tea and water, and make the bed."

Jia Heng looked at the girl and said indifferently: "I never accept anyone with unknown origins by my side. Since you have a deed, you can follow this Miss Gu and go wherever you want. As for Huanhualou Bian'er, just say what I said."

Yangzhou Shouma, mostly the daughters of poor people, has a miserable life experience, or there are pitiful things, but he really can't keep such a person of unknown origin by his side, who knows if it is the eyeliner of Wang Shouqi and others?

Otherwise, it would not be a big deal to have another maid like Lingguan and Fangguan in the garden.

Hearing this, Gu Ruoqing's bright eyes flickered under her fine eyebrows, she bent down, supported Nan Ling, and said softly: "Nan Ling, in life, don't kneel down to ruthless people, just follow me back."

Nan Ling had no choice but to get up, looked at the boy reluctantly, and lightly pursed her pink lips.

Being able to reject her several times like this, this person is different from those merchants who regard her as a plaything, and should be a good person.

(End of this chapter)