Nan Chan

It is not the first time for Gu Shen to meet Donglin, he had a relationship with Donglin in his early years.However, no matter who saw Donglin, he would never think that he was a famous thief.Because Donglin is so hard to notice, when he was sitting curled up against the wall, Gu Shen even had to look around twice to find him.

"It's him." Cang Ji sized him up, "It's easy to find."

Jing Lin tapped his folding fan on his knee and said, "He didn't bring the copper bell with him today."

"Never mind him." Cang Ji showed his sharp teeth, "Eat him if you can't find it."

Gu Shen had already sat in front of Donglin, he and Donglin looked at each other for a while, and then said: "I didn't expect you to end up in such a situation."

"Evil comes with evil." Donglin took off his velvet hat, revealing his entire face.His half-drooped eyes seem to never be able to be opened, and his description is haggard, only the lines are still sharp and sharp.He also looked at Gu Shen carefully and said, "You haven't returned home yet."

"There has been no news for more than 30 years. How can it be so easy to return home? The matchmaker who abducted me back then has already been buried. I don't know how long I will have to look for it." Gu Shen raised his hand, and his subordinates handed over two jars of cold wine.He opened the mouth of the altar and threw it to Donglin.

The two bumped into an altar at the narrow corner, and each drank with their heads raised.Gu Shen wiped his mouth, turned the altar to his side, and said, "Speak."

"Chen Ren was obsessed with gambling and once owed me six golden pearls. My harvest this year was not good. Seeing that the end of the year was approaching, I had to collect some debts. Therefore, he visited me many times, but he repeatedly prevaricated me. As a last resort, I I had no choice but to go to his house late at night to ask for debts. Unexpectedly, his family was awake, and I had an argument with Chen Ren. The old man wanted to go out to report to the police. How could I allow him to do this? On a whim, I killed four members of the family. Clean." Donglin sipped cold wine, slowly exhaled hot air, and said, "...I just don't know that there is a little girl in his family. If I don't touch Zhier, I can only keep her."

"It's not difficult to get out of the city with your skills. When you leave the town, you can find someone for her to escape. Although I have an order to investigate here, but seeing that the time limit is approaching, I have to report to the higher authorities. Wait for three to five days. Only when the newly awarded documents are obtained can we go out of town to chase you." Gu Shen said, "How come you cast yourself into a trap at such a good time?"

"As soon as he met this Donglin, he turned from a tiger into a cat." Cang Ji grabbed Jing Lin's fan, pulled it to him, and asked, "He treats this person very differently, so others are not afraid that they will work together and work together?"

"It's just pity for each other." Jing Lin tapped the top of Cang Ji's head with a fan, and the villain immediately threw up his arms and legs.

"The Chen family deserves to die, but Cao Yu is not. When I see her, I think of my daughter. I have spent my whole life in hiding. I am not a good person." Donglin raised his eyes and looked through Gu Shen. Elsewhere, "Because of this, I was separated from my flesh and blood, and suffered the pain of cutting my heart out. I have not returned to shore, so why drag another one."

"If you hadn't killed her whole family, I would still be able to listen to these words, but you killed her whole family." Gu Shen put one foot on the stool, endured it for a while, and then said, "She is alone now, and the Chen family is surrounded by her." No more relatives, what do you call her..."

"The Chen family deserves to die," Dong Lin said.

"Death is more than a crime? You regard the law as nothing, yet you dare to say such a thing." The veins on the back of Gu Shen's hands were already bulging, "Donglin, are you really lawless?"

Dong Lin drank the cold wine, raised his hand and threw the altar, and said to Gu Shen: "I am already here, what are you waiting for?"

"I'm waiting for the truth." Gu Shen got up suddenly, "You said you killed it, and Qian Weishi said it was him. You two are vying to be the murderer. What is the reason?"

"I don't recognize that person." Donglin said dully.

"He may recognize you." Gu Shen said, "Qian Weishi, do you know who he is?"

The subordinate brought out money to become an official, but the master covered his face with his hands tied, and only glanced at Donglin with his eyes, saying, "I have never seen it before."

Donglin just sneered.

"Chen Ren has been wandering the streets all year round, and his ability to mess around is the most difficult. If Qian Weishi is in the hands, I'm afraid he needs to plan carefully. But because the master is thin and weak, even if he kills someone, he can't do it. Dong Lin is very skillful, and killing people is really easy, but dismembering a corpse is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and you can't finish it in a short while if you take care of the little girl of the Chen family." Said, "Could it be that the two join hands and divide the work?"

"If I want to find a helper, why should I find someone who reads?" Dong Lin put his hands on the table and let others tie him up. He said, "I still remember the process of killing and dismembering the body. I knocked Chen Ren unconscious first. In the inner room, I blocked the mouth of his wife Zhou, but saw that the old man and the old lady of his family were about to run and shout for help, so I took the first step and chopped down the old lady Chen with my saber. At this time, the old man Chen had arrived at the door, and I ran through him from behind. The two men were old and weak, and they were both dead. When I turned around, I saw Mrs. Zhou was about to jump over the wall and escape, so I grabbed her by the bun, dragged her into the courtyard, and killed him with a knife. Wait for me When he re-entered, he gave Chen Ren three swords and dragged him out of the room. When he passed the firewood room, he found that he was still breathing and was still struggling, so he grabbed the door latch and hit him several times in the face until he was beaten to a bloody mess. Just at this moment, I heard a gasp from the courtyard on the left, and saw an old woman with white hair panicking and scrambling to close the door. I wanted to kill her, but the corpse in the courtyard was inconvenient to keep for a long time, and I thought she must not have seen clearly who I was. Whoever, turned around and continued to take care of the corpse. I didn’t want to dismember the corpse.” Donglin’s voice was steady, showing the ferocity of a desperado at this moment, “But I don’t want to take advantage of Chen Ren like this, I cut him into pieces Not enough to vent my hatred. The knife for dismembering the corpse was stolen by me in the snow from a knife shop outside Santiao Street. It was inconvenient to carry, so I threw it in the gap of the woodshed, and scribbled to cover it up. I guess it would be nothing if you found it. Ask him, how did he kill someone? He’s afraid he can’t even lift a knife.”

Qian Weishi never looked at Donglin, his hands trembled every time Donglin said a word.

"No... I, I prescribe medicine at Chen's house two months ago..."

"Chen Ren will let you in? Besides, there are only women and children in his house. How dare you go there openly?" Dong Lin looked at Qian Weishi, "I don't know why you took the blame for me, but you and I don't know each other. I owe you this favor." Sorry."

Qian Weishi suddenly trembled and burst into tears, he choked up and said, "You..."

"Since I entered the rivers and lakes, the word 'Donglin' ​​has been a signboard. If you take my case, you will erase my name and steal my job." Donglin looked cold, "This revenge is as good as killing my father. Hate, don't you want to kill yourself?"

Cang Ji felt that Jing Lin seemed to pause after hearing this last sentence, the folding fan he was turning with his fingertips slowed down for a moment, and fell on his lap again.Although it passed by for a moment, Cang Ji felt that he was disturbed by these words.

Don't you want to die?

Cang Ji vaguely seemed to have heard it too.

The folding fan suddenly stood in front of him, Jing Lin looked sideways at him and said, "Why are you staring at me?"

"You are staring at you." Cang Ji said, "Look at you."

Jing Lin didn't answer.The little stone man poked Cang Ji's back again and again, and seemed not very interested.Cang Ji grabbed the little stone man's finger, turned around and asked, "Why are you suddenly unhappy?"

Stone tilted his head and kicked him lightly.

Qian Weishi below remained silent for a long time, and calmed down with his hands down.He wiped away his tears and was haggard, and his hair had turned gray in just a few days.

"The white-haired old woman could see clearly, but she pretended to be deaf and dumb." Donglin said, "Her child was peeing in the corner, and she clearly met me. Why did she turn her head and say it was someone else? These personal testimonies Chaos, did the government actually believe it?"

"Even if what you said is true, the clothes found in Qian Weishi's house are also true. The neighbors saw him and Chen Caoyu..." The subordinate wanted to argue.

"That has nothing to do with me." Donglin said, "I only accept my case."

"If you sincerely want Chen Caoyu to be good, you shouldn't cover up Qian as an official." Gu Shen refused to budge, "You must know each other."

"What will happen to Chen Caoyu in the future has nothing to do with me. What kind of person Qian Weishi is has nothing to do with me. You have involved people who have nothing to do with you, do you want me to give false testimony and kill people for you?" Dong Lin argued, "If there is such a thing I mean, it’s not impossible for me to help you.”

"I don't believe that you are so nonsense." Gu Shen said.

"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not." The shackles on Donglin's wrists "cracked", he pushed his arms and leaned over the desk, and said to Gu Shen, "The time limit for this case has reached, and the government should give an explanation to the higher authorities. It was a horrific massacre , the evidence is solid, if you don’t believe it, the magistrate must believe it.”

"You have calculated the deadline." Gu Shen suddenly understood, "If you stay in the town for a few days, what you are waiting for is the deadline for this case."

A smile slowly appeared on Donglin's face, and he circled his fingers around his neck, "Tell my head to fall to the ground, and everyone will enjoy it."

"I want to check clearly." Gu Shen said, "I need to check clearly!"

"Why be persistent." Dong Lin sat up straight, "Gu Shen, why don't you admit it? The case is already clear." His eyes drifted away again, and he murmured, "Hurry up and let me go, so that I can catch up with my daughter-in-law." .”

Gu Shen was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, but at this moment he heard Qian Weishi speak.Qian Weishi bent his front body and pushed away the messy hair on his face. In this move, he and Donglin met each other for the first time today.

"...I want to complain." Qian Weishi said tremblingly.

"You owed money to serve as an official! Your mother had an emergency, and there was no money in the cabinet, so you went to ask for money to serve as an official. He borrowed fifty copper beads from you, but there was no written proof." Gu Shen squeezed Between eyebrows, he pressed the buddy, "Yes and no!"

The man was terrified, his face pale.

"Because there is no written proof, so if there is something wrong with him, he doesn't have to pay back the money." Gu Shen hurriedly tapped the table with his finger, "What did you say to me? 'Young people never borrow money', if he didn't lend it to you With these fifty beads, what are you going to do to save your old mother!"

"Little one..." The man stammered poorly, "For, for handling the case..."

"Fart your mother!" Gu Shen said, "What's your plan, you want me to say it again?"

"No, dare not!" The clerk hurriedly knelt down and walked in a panic, "The little one did borrow his money... But, I didn't want to kill him! How dare the little one make nonsense when the government handles the case? He... ...He, he does often bring Chen Cao, Cao Yu... If he is not a ghost, how can the government find those evidences!"

"You confuse the public with false testimony." Gu Shen nodded between his brows, "You're fucking courting death!"

The clerk panicked and dragged Gu Shen's legs to beg him: "The little one really has nothing to do with this case! Gu, Brother Gu! Brother Gu is so clear! Ah, the little one is just afraid, afraid of being involved in this case, then I , my mother..."

"He saved your mother at least once." Gu Shen looked down at him, "You just repay it by prevarication with lies?"

"I can pay back the money, I can pay it back!" The clerk squeezed Gu Shen tightly, bursting into tears, "But if you are involved in prison...then...then..."

Gu Shen kicked him away, unable to let go.

Donglin was personally arraigned by the magistrate, thrown into prison, and the case was closed pending execution.Qian Weishi was imprisoned for several days, but he was able to get out unharmed.When he stepped out of the yamen, he saw Gu Shen.

Gu Shen's position is not enough, and all kinds of censorship later have nothing to do with him.The fast catcher seems to be prestige, but in fact he is not as favored as the one who pours the chamber pot by the adult's side.He squatted here early today just to wait for money to become an official.

"I saw Chen Caoyu last night, and I still want to ask my master something." Gu Shen said.

Qian Weishi returned the gift slowly, as if he was listening attentively.

"If Donglin doesn't come, you won't be able to escape the door-to-door beheading." Gu Shen stepped on the snow and approached, his old jacket was shortened, and some cotton shavings were exposed at his elbows.In fact, he has similarities with Qian Weishi, that is, the little loneliness left over from the slovenliness.He said, "I've thought about it, and I think you're interesting. There are at least a dozen children on this street, and you just want to stare at Chen Caoyu. Why? Girl. I tossed and turned, and simply thought about it backwards, and seemed to understand something true and false."

Gu Shen breathed out some steam, his face was hidden behind the emptiness, and said: "The child is so thin, he is not sick, but hungry. Ah Hong said that you fought with Chen Ren not because of what you did to Chen Caoyu, but because of what you did to Chen Caoyu. It's about you realizing what Chen Ren did to the child. Mrs. Qian—how did the Chen family treat her?"

Qian Weishi was wearing thin sleeves, his fingers aching from the sweat.He tried to speak several times, but was blurred due to trembling.

"...The Chen family deserves to die." Qian Weishi whispered hoarsely.