Zhang Tong felt that his forehead was a little sweaty, but when he thought of the real identity of Chen Langjun opposite him and the warning from the eunuch, he had to tell the truth: "Ms. Jing gave birth to my son. I was young and frivolous at the time When she was listed for the first time, she covered her for a full two months, and she would continue to hold her, but who knew that she told me that she was pregnant... and my wife was already pregnant for six months at that time, so I couldn't take any risks. I could only... "
"Did you feed her abortion medicine?" Liu Che asked.
Zhang Tong lowered his head: "She is just an advocate, but my wife is a local gentry. Without my wife's support, how can I become an official? Besides, my wife already has a child in her womb. If something goes wrong, I am Mother is the first one not to let me go."
"So you let Jing Niang drink the miscarriage medicine?" Chen Ajiao asked.
"She refused to drink," Zhang Tong sighed, "Just saying that the baby in my womb has nothing to do with me. At that time, I was so upset that I threw down the money in a hurry and left Weinan County. I never set foot again, but the two Years ago, I only found out that her child had grown up, and Xiao missed my father, but she had died in a miserable way. At that time, I was determined to recognize the child. I fought and worked hard, but Madam unwilling."
He sighed: "I only dared to visit him secretly. After a few more days, Madam finally let go, but she wanted to confess her relatives with blood, and asked the child to be Xin'er's follower. I agreed. Finally, he came back. Maybe it's because I declared to the outside world that he was the maidservant of Madam. He has always been angry with me and was not close to me. But I always felt guilty. It happened that Song Lian died, and Madam wanted him to be with Duke Lu. The daughter gets married, so that in the future, the new son will marry a house to help, and he can also help the new son a little bit. At least it will be useful."
"Perhaps there is a spirit in the heavens. Lu Ping fell in love with him the first time she saw him." Zhang Tong sighed, as if he had aged a lot in an instant. Madam, Madam found out that Xin'er had sneaked into the Prefect's Mansion the day before the wedding, Madam panicked... I, I have no choice."
"Zhang Xin went to the prefect's mansion the night before Lu Ping's wedding?" The two were shocked.
Zhang Tong lowered his head: "Xin'er is actually not bad...Wu'er is actually not bad either."
"You're actually not bad," Liu Che looked at him, "You're just too useless."
Zhang Tong's eyes lit up, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he buried his head even lower...
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After leaving Zhang Gongcao's mansion, the two went to the prefect's mansion.
"I will go to Lanlian," Lu Gong smiled wryly, "every year I would take the time to go to Weinan County to look for Ah Xing, but after so many years, to be honest, neither I nor my wife are very happy to find him. What hope is there. Madam has been infertile for many years, and she has sought medical treatment everywhere, but to no avail. Seeing that I am almost sixty. Madam finally let go and agreed to take me as a concubine."
"On that day, I heard people say that there was a nobleman in the flower building, facing Yi Nan, so I hurriedly searched for it. Later, as expected, there were many sons and many sons. Madam made the decision and put She got married and came back. I don't know if it's because of inaccurate fortune-telling or because of Feng Shui, it's been two years, but her stomach hasn't moved at all."
Lu Gong said here and sighed: "I am fifty-seven now, not to mention my son, even my only daughter is gone. I really don't know what I did wrong to have such retribution. I don't know anything now. I don't want extravagance, I just want to find a child in the clan to adopt, at least some people will burn some joss sticks and paper money when they die in the future, so that my lineage won't be extinct."
Seeing that they couldn't ask anything useful anymore, the two exchanged glances and got up to say goodbye, but seeing Duke Lu suddenly rushing towards Chen Ajiao, Liu Che's heart skipped a beat: "Grand Lu?!"
"Ma'am, can you lend me the jade pendant in your hand?" Duke Lu's eyes glistened with tears.
Chen Ajiao hesitated, but passed the jade pendant over, Lu Gong took it with both hands, stroked it for a while, and said excitedly: "Go, go and invite Madam over here."
The two of them were startled, knowing that there must be something strange about the jade pendant.Not long after, she saw Mrs. Lu being helped out by a maidservant. She took the jade pendant handed over by Mr. Lu, burst into tears, and called her confidant maid to bring the jade pendant from the bottom of her box, and put the two jade pendants together. I can't see it right.The texture of these two pieces of jade pendant is similar, when you look closely, you can see that they were cut from the same piece of jade.
"Ah Xing, my A Xing!" Madam Lu cried bitterly.
Duke Lu was also very excited. He held back for a long time, and finally held back: "May I ask you, where did you get this jade pendant? Is it a boy about sixteen or seventeen years old?"
"It was redeemed from the tortoise from Dongdajie." Liu Che blocked Chen Ajiao, fearing that the two would get too excited, and rushed forward again. What you have devoted yourself to and what you have advocated."
"Zhang Wu?" The old couple looked at each other, "Could it be that he has seen our Ah Xing before?"
It has to be said that this idea made them very excited, so excited that they wished to see Zhang Wu immediately.But in the end, in order to avoid suspicion, Duke Lu endured it and persuaded his wife, but the eyes of Liu Che and the two became even hotter.
Since they could no longer ask for new information, Liu Che and Chen Ajiao still took the jade pendant, and then left the prefect's mansion for Song Biejia's mansion.
Compared with the desolate atmosphere in the mansions of Zhang Gongcao and Lu Taishou, Song Biejia is much more relaxed here—maybe because the son who thought he was gone has returned to him, or maybe because he firmly believes that Song Lian must be innocent, When Song Biejia saw Liu Che who replaced him, he still had a sincere smile on his face.
Song Biejia's wife also had a look of joy, she ate some snacks, then knelt beside Song Biejia, listening to their conversation, adding a sentence or two from time to time.
"The one who went to the mountains with Lian'er that day was the nephew of my wife's family," Song Biejia thought carefully during Liu Che's questioning, "of course there were also our servants. At that time, my wife and I were too sad to hear the news. , I went to the forest in person, but only saw half of the bloody clothes, so I really thought that Lian'er was gone."
"I sewed that dress with my own hands," Mrs. Song said, "but how can we give up on just a dress? We have to search for it, but the forest is quite big, where can we find it? It is also deserted, In the end, I just had to admit it.”
"I have a question," Song Biejia said, "my son will not lie. He said he was rescued by Orion back then, but I also asked someone to search that mountain, and there was no Orion at all. I am very uneasy, what happened, is Lian'er's disappearance man-made or accidental?"
"What's more," Mrs. Song said, "Aying and I hid in the countryside because we knew that Lu Ping was going to get married, but my son appeared after we left. We left three days ago, and my son is three years old. He was thrown at the gate of the city a few days ago. What’s the reason? He said he had been at home, but the servants didn’t believe him and drove him away. If it was a day earlier, even half a day, Aying and I would still be at home How can you not recognize him? If this timing is also a coincidence, it is too coincidental. Xiao Langjun, I am not trying to favor my son, but these things can be called coincidence separately, and it is too coincidental to connect them together. What a coincidence."
"Who made Lian'er unable to go home for two years, made us think that he died, made Lu Gong marry his daughter to the Zhang family, made Lian'er appear at the wedding so coincidentally, and let Lu Ping die." Song Biejia asked, "To tell you the truth, although Duke Lu doesn't let me interfere in this matter, all the unfavorable evidence points to Lian'er now, and I can't ignore it as a father. I have already sent my confidants to press Lian'er's Describe and try to find the Orion. If Mr. Xiaolang doesn’t trust me, please send someone to look for it together.”
"There are also people who said that Lian'er was shot to death by a bear, all resting in the backyard. If you need it, I will call them out immediately." Song Biejia said.
Mrs. Song held his hand tightly: "As long as Ah Ying and I are alive, anyone who wants to harm Lian'er has to step over our corpses. I have made Lian'er suffer for two years, but I can't do it anymore." Let him suffer innocent injustice."
----
In the middle of the month, Liu Che drew up a pen and listed all the evidences he had obtained so far on the silk. He looked at Chen Ajiao: "Sister Ajiao, what do you think?"
"They are all suspected," Chen Ajiao said, "Song Bie is not ruled out calling for a thief to catch the thief, nor is Lan Lian murdered, and Zhang Wu's suspicion cannot be ruled out. Let's rest, tomorrow we will go to Lan Lian and the others to ask them one by one."
Liu Che packed up his brushes and ink, then washed and lay down.He held Chen Ajiao's hand, and after a while he said, "Sister Ajiao."
"kindness?"
"Am I too meddlesome? Now it's the third day, and the five-day period agreed with Lu Gong may be broken," Liu Che said, "And we are investigating the case in Lingbao County. Keeping our names incognito, but we can’t escape the attention of interested people. Maybe our whereabouts have been exposed..."
The more he talked, the more frustrated he became.
"Then do you regret it?" Chen Ajiao asked him, "If you were noticed by someone with a heart and lost your life, do you regret it?"
"No," Liu Che replied earnestly, "Maybe I can't handle the world's unjust cases, but if I encounter one, I will. Sister Gillian, who do you think the murderer will be?"
"No matter who it is," Chen Ajiao said, "everything has a cause before it has an effect. Whether it is good or bad, it cannot escape a causal cycle."
"That's right," Liu Che said, "It's just that no matter how many times you cycle, you shouldn't take an innocent girl as a sacrifice. I don't know what the murderer is thinking."
Chen Ajiao is very tired now: "Go to sleep, tomorrow is the fourth day."
----
At this time, in Changle Palace.
"You didn't arrange this, did you?" Empress Dowager Dou asked Liu Qi after listening to the book.
"Mother thought I would use a human life as a whetstone?" Liu Qi sighed, "This time, I'm really in trouble."
"Tomorrow is the fourth day, and I don't know what evidence Jiaojiao and Yi'er have found," Empress Dowager Dou sighed, "How can they solve any case, the prefect is too harsh, five days is not enough."
"It's not necessarily true. They might be forced to perform some miracles." Liu Qidao, "I have great confidence in them."
"That's all, that's all," Empress Dowager Dou glanced at him, "Just wait, I don't know what's going on, Shit and the others, it takes Yan Qing three days late to write a letter, and it makes me feel dizzy now Ups and downs, yes, maybe they have already solved the case at this time. It’s just that the man of the Song family is really miraculous, and he can still survive two years after his death?”
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The next day.
Chen Ajiao and others first mentioned Song Lian.
Song Lian stands under the steps. Although he is thin, he does not lose his strength.
Liu Che glanced at his heart and nodded faintly: This person has a righteous look on his brows, and he really doesn't look like a person who can commit crimes.
"Although I lived in the mountains for two years, I rarely saw the hunter. He would come back every month or so and bring me something to eat. What he asked for was to copy the Tao Te Ching." Thousands of times, it was used to burn his mother, being entrusted by others, and being loyal. I copied it for him seriously, and occasionally wanted to go to find his parents, but every time I walked halfway, I was knocked out. Back in the small hut. Over time, I devoted myself to copying books for him, just hoping to finish it quickly. Unfortunately, in the end, I only copied more than 700 times." Song Lian said.
"Then have you ever entrusted him to tell your parents that you are still alive?" Chen Ajiao asked.
"Of course," Song Lian sighed, "it's just that he didn't tell my parents for me."
"What are the characteristics of that person?" Liu Che asked.
"That man," Song Lian hesitated, "has a beard, and the beard covers half of his face. There is a scar on his face, which is very hideous. He is as tall as me, and he has a strong Weinan County accent. He speaks carelessly. By the way, that man has a quirk. Once, when it was very hot, I saw him roll up the sleeve of his right hand when he was carrying firewood, and his arm was full of mud, while the sleeve of his left hand was put down. I thought it had fallen I tried to roll it up for him, but he yelled at me. It seemed like I couldn't touch that hand."
left arm?
Liu Che was in a daze for a while: "I seem to have heard about the left arm somewhere."
"Lu Gong's sons, Lu Xing and Lu Ping, have birthmarks on the inside of their left arms." Chen Ajiao remembered, "Could it be that Orion has something to do with Lu Xing?"
But where is Lu Xing?Lu Gong searched for him for 12 years but failed to find him. Lu Xing's jade pendant was in Liniang's hands. Liniang's son was Zhang Wu, and Zhang Tong once had a child with Jingniang.Then Liniang might be Jingniang.While Jingniang's child died at the age of three, Liniang's child lived to be 16 years old...
Among them, what is the abnormality?
"Sister Gillian." Liu Che looked at Chen Gillian, "Could it be..."
Chen Ajiao also thought of it, she ordered someone to take Song Lian down: "Call Mrs. Lan in!"
A crazy thought came to both of them: Was Lu Xing's disappearance really just a coincidence?
If not, then who set up this net, and how big is it?
Lan Lian came soon, unlike Song Lian, she still had a faint smile on her face, and she was not flustered at all.
"Sinister Lan Lian, are you convicted?" Liu Che asked.
"I don't know," Lan Lian smiled, "I'm just a concubine, what's wrong with me?"
"Isn't it your fault that you killed the young lady of the Lu family?" Liu Che asked.
"Killed the young lady of the Lu family?" Lan Lian covered her mouth, "Oh my god. She was killed by someone? I thought she was ashamed of herself."
The two were startled: "Is she ashamed?"
"Yes," Lan Lian smiled, "Lu Ping, the young lady of the Lu family, has already hooked up with Zhang Xin. Poor Zhang Wu is infatuated, but he doesn't know that he has a big green hat on his head."
"You say that Lu Ping has something to do with Zhang Xin, what evidence do you have?" Chen Ajiao asked.
"Lu Ping will go to the Taoist temple every month to stay for one day. You can ask her confidant maid He Xiang." Lan Lian smiled, "If it wasn't for a day when I felt strange and secretly followed her, I wouldn't know what was going on in her heart. She's a whore."
"Lan Lian, Lu Ping's character problems are not the reason why you can poison her for two years!" Chen Ajiao suddenly said.
Lan Lian was stunned, and suddenly smiled: "Little lady, are you trying to cheat me? Don't even think about it, if I want to poison her, where does the poison come from? I entered the Lu Mansion cleanly. .”
"Cheating you may not be useless," Chen Ajiao smiled, "Lan Lian, under normal circumstances, should you ask me what kind of poison is it? The medicine can last for two years? You are confused."
Lan Lian's smiling face suddenly froze, and after a while, she sneered: "I was just wondering, what kind of poison. The medicine can be taken for two years without being discovered?"
"This question is exactly what I want to ask you." Chen Ajiao smiled.
"How do I know?" Lan Lian sneered, "Ma'am, I'm just an advocate!"
"Okay, then let's not talk about poison. Regarding medicine, let's talk about your personal relationship with Zhang Wu first." Chen Ajiao said, "Tell me, how long has your personal relationship with Zhang Wu lasted?"
Lan Lian looked at her as if she was looking at a lunatic, and she sneered: "Secret love? Ma'am, have you read too many scripts? I don't have much contact with Zhang Wu. He loves Lu Ping wholeheartedly. How can there be so much selfishness?" Affection?"
"Guess, if you protect Zhang Wu like this, will he protect you with all his heart?" Chen Ajiao asked suddenly.
Lan Lian's face became even more ugly, and it took her a long time to say: "I don't understand what you say."
Chen Ajiao waved her hand: "Send her down."
The yamen servant next to him responded, grabbed Lan Lian's hand, and pushed her down.When she was about to go out, Chen Ajiao suddenly called out: "Ah Xing!"
Lan Lian paused and was urged by the yamen servant before continuing to walk outside.
"She knows a lot," Liu Che said, "It seems that Zhang Wu also has problems."
Not long after, Zhang Wu was sent up.
Liu Che tricked him in a clever way: "Lan Lian has already told us everything."
Zhang Wu's face changed slightly, and he smiled: "Oh."
Liu Che was not discouraged: "You don't plan to say something? Her words are not good for you."
"I don't know anything, what can I say?" Zhang Wu asked back.
"Are you so stubborn?" Liu Che smiled, "How about we start with your left arm?"
Zhang Wu was flustered for a moment, although it was only for a moment, but for Liu Che who grew up in the court and was very good at observing words and deeds, it was enough: "It seems that talking is not enough, let's take a look."
He motioned for the yamen servant to roll up Zhang Wu's sleeve, but to his surprise, there was no birthmark on that arm, only large areas of burns.
Liu Che really didn't expect this to happen, he was just taken aback, but Zhang Wu caught the strangeness.In an instant, the only panic in Zhang Wu's eyes disappeared.He said: "I'm not familiar with Lan Lian, if Mr. Lang wants to believe her, I have nothing to say."
In any case, at this moment, Liu Che's original advantage is gone!
----
You can't cheat any more, but if you take Zhang Wu back rashly like this, he is really unwilling to ask anything.
While hesitating, Yan Qing suddenly ran in: "Mr. Lang, madam, Zhou Bowen is back, and he brought some things outside."
Chen Ajiao immediately glanced at Liu Che: "I'll go out and have a look."
Yan Qing immediately led the way and took her out.
After a while, someone moved the things from the outside room in. Liu Che also smiled when he saw those things: "Why don't you tell me?"
"What did I say?" The change in Liu Che's attitude caused panic in Zhang Wu's eyes.He didn't know what evidence the young man in front of him had found.
"Turn around and take a look, you must be very familiar with it." Chen Ajiao said, "I found this based on Lan Lian's confession."
Zhang Wu glanced at it, and saw that it was a set of whiskers, a coarse fur sweater, and a fake face made of human skin.On the other side, there is a large pile of bamboo slips.His heart was beating wildly, and he immediately refuted: "How could Lan Lian know where the hut is?"
As soon as this statement came out, it was already enough!
Chen Ajiao smiled and said: "So you don't want to roll up your sleeves, because you are afraid that Song Lian will accidentally recognize you in the future? Are you telling Song Lian to engrave the "Tao Te Ching" for you? Two years ago, you were recognized by the Zhang family. back, and then joined hands with Lan Lian, discussing that together they would kill Song Lian and make you the son-in-law of the Lu family, and later..."
Duke Lu suddenly walked in: "Enough!"
His complexion was very bad: "Chen Langjun, Mrs. Chen, the truth of this case has come to light, please leave it alone."
This sudden turning point made Chen Ajiao and Liu Che stunned.
"Grand Lu," Zhou Bowen said, "I finally found this after crossing mountains and mountains. I haven't found the last murderer yet. Why do you say that the truth has come to light?"
"This..." Duke Lu sighed, "The family ugliness should not be publicized. This case is not to be blamed on others, but my family, Aping. It turns out that she had an affair with Zhang Xin long ago, but because Zhang Gong and Cao's family wanted to give Zhang Xin a chance She is rich and noble, so she doesn't want to marry her. She actually used Zhang Wu and told me that she would not marry unless Zhang Wu. Poor Zhang Wu is infatuated with her. It is our Aping who is out of luck. The case is over, and I don't want to hurt her again. And innocent. I beg you two to hold your hands high, let’s stop here.”
"May I ask Prefect Lu, how will this case be closed?" Chen Ajiao asked.
"A Ping committed suicide." Lu Gong said, "It will be treated as suicide."
"How to write the verdict?" Liu Che asked, "Why did Lu Ping commit suicide? There must be a reason for this?"
Duke Lu's expression changed, and he finally made up his mind: "Write according to the facts."
"I don't think that's a fact, it's pure nonsense!" Liu Che said suddenly, "If Lu Ping was going to commit suicide, why did she choose it on the wedding day? Also, she had been poisoned by chronic poison in her body for two years. Why?"
Duke Lu's expression turned pale: "Mr. Chen, you are just a white man. Although you have the name of a relative of the emperor, you should not worry about it too much..."
"Don't forget, Mr. Lu, I'd better stay away for now," Liu Che said.
"Chen Langjun was joking, don't drive, it's always Song Ying." Lu Gong said, "Come here, see off the guests!"
Hearing this, Zhang Wu couldn't help looking at Lu Gong in surprise, but Lu Gong still stared at Liu Che and the others, almost about to use force.
"What a just and honest Prefect Lu!" Chen Ajiao sneered, "In order to calm down and protect the murderer, he even gave up his daughter. Let me guess who is worthy of you? Oh, it's your son Lu Xing! So Yes, Lu Xing personally killed his twin sister Lu Ping, and you want to let your daughter die unjustly in order to protect the last bloodline of the Lu family! Hey, guess who is Lu Xing?"
Liu Che said with a smile: "That's needless to say? Of course it's Zhang Wu, the concubine who was recognized by Zhang Gongcao's family two years ago. After all, the only child of the former Jingniang and later Liniang and Zhang Gongcao, He died in Weinan County when he was three years old."
Zhang Wu's face changed drastically: "What nonsense are you talking about? What Lu Xing! I don't know him at all!"
"Ah Xing died a long time ago," Lu Gong reacted very fiercely, "There has never been any A Xing, never. I am still the parent officer here, even if you are a relative of the emperor, you must not talk nonsense like this. , Hurry up and see off the guests."
"Stop!" Liu Che restrained the servants who leaned towards him and Chen Ajiao, "Since I have already taken care of this matter, I will take care of it to the end."
Chen Ajiao took out the token that looked like I was there in person and handed it to Liu Che. Liu Che held it up high, and Chen Ajiao took the lead and knelt down and shouted.Prefect Lu finally knew that he had offended someone.He begged: "Xiao Langjun, I beg you, let's leave this matter alone."
"It can't be counted," Liu Che said, "Now let's do the math..."
Prefect Lu fell to his knees with a thud: "Young Lord, I'm just a single seedling, and it's all my fault. Young Lord, my son is still young, can you let him go this time?"
Zhang Wu raised his head, his eyes were red: "What are you talking about? Who is his son?"
No one cares about him, Duke Lu is still begging: "I beg my lord, I beg my wife, I only have such a son in my life."
"The state has state laws, and the family has family rules." Liu Che said without emotion, "Mr. Lu, if you don't want your son to suffer torture again, you'd better tell us everything you know."
"If you tell me, maybe you can give your son a lighter punishment." Chen Ajiao added next to her.
It was that sentence that made Lu Gong excited all of a sudden: "Okay, let me say."
When he married Mrs. Lu, Duke Lu was already in his twenties, so before that, he also had a lover——
"That's the only doctor's daughter in the village. Her name is Lu Ling. She and I are childhood sweethearts. In fact, if her father hadn't died and had to keep filial piety, I would have married her a long time ago. I waited for her for a long time. I will be able to marry her in a year, but I don't want to. I met A Yin. A Yin is a few years younger than Lu Ling. Although she is not as beautiful as A Ling, she is better than A Yin's family. I know that if I can marry A Yin, Then I have the chance to get the quota of Xiaolian, and then I have the chance to become an official. That's why I'm tempted." Lu Gong closed his eyes and said, "I'm tempted, but I can't bear to give up Lu Ling. So I made up a set of lies."
"After many years of marriage, Ah Yin has never been pregnant. A Ling thought that it was really not easy for me, so she waited until one day, she told me that she was pregnant and asked me to marry her. I dare not. At that time, I was It's Yingzhou county magistrate, if I marry her, I'll probably be nothing in the blink of an eye. So, I knelt down and begged her to abort the child."
"I'm sorry for her. She waited for me for so many years without a name, but in the end I asked her to take away the child. At that time, I was like crazy. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, I ordered someone to arrest her and forced her down. Fetal medicine. Soon, A Ling disappeared, and I was worried that the child might not be lost, after all, A Ling is also very good at medicine. But before I had time to think about it, I found out that my wife was pregnant." Lu Gong said When recalling the past, my heart is full of guilt.
Everyone present listened, but they couldn't sympathize at all.
"Today, Madam ordered someone to clean it thoroughly, but found the jewelry in Lanlian's room. I recognized it at a glance. It was given to A Ling by me. Why did I never think that Lanlian is only older than Aping?" One year old, why did I never think that Lan Lian and A Ling look so much alike." Lu Gong's face was full of pain.
"My God." Chen Ajiao couldn't help but let out a low cry, "Could it be that Lan Lian is..."
"She is my daughter," Duke Lu cried bitterly, "I just went to find her, and she admitted that she is my daughter, retribution, retribution. I actually took my own daughter as a concubine, retribution, retribution! My son joined forces with my daughter to kill my other daughter. Retribution!"
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At the city gate of Lingbao County, the four of them hadn't recovered from the shock of the day before.
"I didn't think that it was just a coincidence that Lu Xing got lost back then," Chen Ajiao sighed, "I thought that Jing Niang stole Lu Xing. But I didn't think it was really Lu Xing who lost his memory and lost his memory. Jing Niang still saved his life."
"When I first came to Lingbao County, everyone told me that the prefect of Lingbao County is a really good official, but it is such a good official who did such a thing that has no regard for human relations. It's a pity, it's a pity." Liu Che sighed.
"In the end, the Lu family still had nothing. Lan Lian was sentenced to death for murder, and Lu Gong personally beheaded him yesterday, and his son Zhang Wu was also exiled to the northwest by his own hands." Chen Ajiao said, "He is old. His complexion looks like he's dying soon."
"Perhaps in the near future, the prefect of Lingbao County will be replaced again." Liu Che said, "Sister Gillian, this is the first time I have solved a case in my life, and the truth has already come to light, but why am I not happy at all? "
The whole case is actually not complicated. More than 30 years ago, Lu Fan, who was not the Duke of Lu, had a private marriage with the village doctor's daughter, but because the daughter's father died and kept the filial piety, he missed waiting for three years. When the filial piety was about to end, However, Lu Fan was favored by the eldest lady of the Yin family. For the sake of wealth, Lu Fan betrayed the medical girl.But he was reluctant to let go of his lover, and kept cheating with words, and finally waited for the woman to become pregnant. In order not to lose his official career, he even forced her to drink the miscarriage medicine.
Fortunately, the woman had medical skills, so she spit out all the miscarriage medicine, hid it again, and gave birth to a daughter.However, due to production, he was seriously injured.
Lan Lian knew about this hatred since she was a child, and she had already made an oath to avenge her mother, but she was very eager to learn, so she learned a lot about that medical skill.When Lu Ling died, she boldly joined Hualou and became a noble lady.
Lu Gong lost his five-year-old son Lu Xing in Weinan County 12 years ago, but Lu Xing was photographed by someone.Due to a serious illness, the one who was photographed by Hanako thought it was unlucky, so she abandoned it by the side of the road.He was rescued by Jingniang, whose son had been dead for a year. After Lu Xing woke up, he could not see the past. Jingniang had selfish intentions, so she told him that he was only four years old and that he was her son.
When Lan Lian learned that Lu Gong was looking for someone, she paid attention to it. Originally, she knew that someone in Hualou gave birth to a son for Zhang Tong, the clerk of Lingbao County. I saw Lu Xing by mistake and found the birthmark.After probing again and found that Lu Xing had no memory, she deliberately scalded Lu Xing's arm with boiling water to erase the birthmark.
Afterwards, she kept in touch with Lu Xing frequently at the same time, and verbally induced him to avenge Jing Niang.
Later, the matter of Song Lian was planned by Lan Lian and carried out by Lu Xing. Lan Lian tricked Lu Xing into thinking that marrying Lu Ping would give him the capital to avenge the Zhang family. heart of.
But when Lan Lian accompanied Lu Ping to the Taoist temple and found that Zhang Xin fell in love with Lu Ping at first sight, she set up a trap.Let Zhang Xin and Lu Ping have an affair.Zhang Xin used this as a means of coercion, forcing Lu Ping to go to the Taoist temple every month to have sex with him.
After Lan Lian found out that Lu Xing was really in love with Lu Ping, she made an appointment with Lu Xing at the Taoist temple at the same time.Lu Xing was greatly stimulated after witnessing Lu Ping's affair with Zhang Xin.Lan Lian took the opportunity to suggest that she marry Lu Ping immediately, and then released Song Lian to disrupt the wedding, took the opportunity to kill Lu Ping, and blamed Zhang Xin.
Lu Xing was blinded by his feelings and agreed.
Lanlian is good at pharmacology, and can use simple medicines and even ingredients to produce poison.The medicine comes.She poisoned Lu Ping for about two years, and now it is actually very simple to kill Lu Ping, but there is another blind drug as a countermeasure.The fly in the ointment is that the attack will be slightly slower.
Lu Xing made this medicine into a sachet and sent it to Lu Ping secretly, asking him to wear it on his body during the wedding, and he tried his best to delay the time with Song Lian. Marrying Lu Ping, he took the first step and disposed of the sachet.Then lock Lu Ping in the new house for three days, until the smell of the medicine dissipates...
It was originally a seamless plan, but Liu Che and his party happened to be passing by Lingbao County at this time and intervened in this 'nosy'.
"It's a pity that Lan Lian did everything for revenge, even marrying her own father as a concubine." Chen Ajiao sighed, "She has lived in hatred all her life, and now she can die, which is a relief. "
Liu Che nodded: "Forget it, don't think about it, this matter is over... who is it?"
Seeing him shout in surprise, Chen Ajiao hurriedly followed the probe to look, and saw a drunk man with gray temples holding a wine gourd, took a sip of wine, staggered over, stared at her, and then smiled: "Hahaha, baby, when my old man was young, he used to go too fast... hiccup~hiccup~hahaha."
He took three steps and walked away while hiccupping.
"It's a drunk." Chen Ajiao heaved a sigh of relief.
"Let's rest, it's still far away from the next county." Liu Che had already straightened the mattress in the carriage.
Chen Ajiao looked at the drunk man walking away, and when she saw Liu Che's greeting, she responded.
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When the carriage drove away, the drunk suddenly stopped staggering and his eyes became much clearer.
He walked quickly, and came to a middle-aged man: "I see, it is exactly the same as the painting. It should not be wrong."
"Flying pigeons pass on a letter, telling your lord that the prince and concubine have left Lingbao County and may be going to Sanmenxia." The middle-aged man whispered.
"No problem," the drunk man said, "There are only two roads from Lingbao County to Sanmenxia, and ambushes are set up on these two roads. If the prince goes in, he will never come out alive!"
"Did you feed her abortion medicine?" Liu Che asked.
Zhang Tong lowered his head: "She is just an advocate, but my wife is a local gentry. Without my wife's support, how can I become an official? Besides, my wife already has a child in her womb. If something goes wrong, I am Mother is the first one not to let me go."
"So you let Jing Niang drink the miscarriage medicine?" Chen Ajiao asked.
"She refused to drink," Zhang Tong sighed, "Just saying that the baby in my womb has nothing to do with me. At that time, I was so upset that I threw down the money in a hurry and left Weinan County. I never set foot again, but the two Years ago, I only found out that her child had grown up, and Xiao missed my father, but she had died in a miserable way. At that time, I was determined to recognize the child. I fought and worked hard, but Madam unwilling."
He sighed: "I only dared to visit him secretly. After a few more days, Madam finally let go, but she wanted to confess her relatives with blood, and asked the child to be Xin'er's follower. I agreed. Finally, he came back. Maybe it's because I declared to the outside world that he was the maidservant of Madam. He has always been angry with me and was not close to me. But I always felt guilty. It happened that Song Lian died, and Madam wanted him to be with Duke Lu. The daughter gets married, so that in the future, the new son will marry a house to help, and he can also help the new son a little bit. At least it will be useful."
"Perhaps there is a spirit in the heavens. Lu Ping fell in love with him the first time she saw him." Zhang Tong sighed, as if he had aged a lot in an instant. Madam, Madam found out that Xin'er had sneaked into the Prefect's Mansion the day before the wedding, Madam panicked... I, I have no choice."
"Zhang Xin went to the prefect's mansion the night before Lu Ping's wedding?" The two were shocked.
Zhang Tong lowered his head: "Xin'er is actually not bad...Wu'er is actually not bad either."
"You're actually not bad," Liu Che looked at him, "You're just too useless."
Zhang Tong's eyes lit up, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he buried his head even lower...
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After leaving Zhang Gongcao's mansion, the two went to the prefect's mansion.
"I will go to Lanlian," Lu Gong smiled wryly, "every year I would take the time to go to Weinan County to look for Ah Xing, but after so many years, to be honest, neither I nor my wife are very happy to find him. What hope is there. Madam has been infertile for many years, and she has sought medical treatment everywhere, but to no avail. Seeing that I am almost sixty. Madam finally let go and agreed to take me as a concubine."
"On that day, I heard people say that there was a nobleman in the flower building, facing Yi Nan, so I hurriedly searched for it. Later, as expected, there were many sons and many sons. Madam made the decision and put She got married and came back. I don't know if it's because of inaccurate fortune-telling or because of Feng Shui, it's been two years, but her stomach hasn't moved at all."
Lu Gong said here and sighed: "I am fifty-seven now, not to mention my son, even my only daughter is gone. I really don't know what I did wrong to have such retribution. I don't know anything now. I don't want extravagance, I just want to find a child in the clan to adopt, at least some people will burn some joss sticks and paper money when they die in the future, so that my lineage won't be extinct."
Seeing that they couldn't ask anything useful anymore, the two exchanged glances and got up to say goodbye, but seeing Duke Lu suddenly rushing towards Chen Ajiao, Liu Che's heart skipped a beat: "Grand Lu?!"
"Ma'am, can you lend me the jade pendant in your hand?" Duke Lu's eyes glistened with tears.
Chen Ajiao hesitated, but passed the jade pendant over, Lu Gong took it with both hands, stroked it for a while, and said excitedly: "Go, go and invite Madam over here."
The two of them were startled, knowing that there must be something strange about the jade pendant.Not long after, she saw Mrs. Lu being helped out by a maidservant. She took the jade pendant handed over by Mr. Lu, burst into tears, and called her confidant maid to bring the jade pendant from the bottom of her box, and put the two jade pendants together. I can't see it right.The texture of these two pieces of jade pendant is similar, when you look closely, you can see that they were cut from the same piece of jade.
"Ah Xing, my A Xing!" Madam Lu cried bitterly.
Duke Lu was also very excited. He held back for a long time, and finally held back: "May I ask you, where did you get this jade pendant? Is it a boy about sixteen or seventeen years old?"
"It was redeemed from the tortoise from Dongdajie." Liu Che blocked Chen Ajiao, fearing that the two would get too excited, and rushed forward again. What you have devoted yourself to and what you have advocated."
"Zhang Wu?" The old couple looked at each other, "Could it be that he has seen our Ah Xing before?"
It has to be said that this idea made them very excited, so excited that they wished to see Zhang Wu immediately.But in the end, in order to avoid suspicion, Duke Lu endured it and persuaded his wife, but the eyes of Liu Che and the two became even hotter.
Since they could no longer ask for new information, Liu Che and Chen Ajiao still took the jade pendant, and then left the prefect's mansion for Song Biejia's mansion.
Compared with the desolate atmosphere in the mansions of Zhang Gongcao and Lu Taishou, Song Biejia is much more relaxed here—maybe because the son who thought he was gone has returned to him, or maybe because he firmly believes that Song Lian must be innocent, When Song Biejia saw Liu Che who replaced him, he still had a sincere smile on his face.
Song Biejia's wife also had a look of joy, she ate some snacks, then knelt beside Song Biejia, listening to their conversation, adding a sentence or two from time to time.
"The one who went to the mountains with Lian'er that day was the nephew of my wife's family," Song Biejia thought carefully during Liu Che's questioning, "of course there were also our servants. At that time, my wife and I were too sad to hear the news. , I went to the forest in person, but only saw half of the bloody clothes, so I really thought that Lian'er was gone."
"I sewed that dress with my own hands," Mrs. Song said, "but how can we give up on just a dress? We have to search for it, but the forest is quite big, where can we find it? It is also deserted, In the end, I just had to admit it.”
"I have a question," Song Biejia said, "my son will not lie. He said he was rescued by Orion back then, but I also asked someone to search that mountain, and there was no Orion at all. I am very uneasy, what happened, is Lian'er's disappearance man-made or accidental?"
"What's more," Mrs. Song said, "Aying and I hid in the countryside because we knew that Lu Ping was going to get married, but my son appeared after we left. We left three days ago, and my son is three years old. He was thrown at the gate of the city a few days ago. What’s the reason? He said he had been at home, but the servants didn’t believe him and drove him away. If it was a day earlier, even half a day, Aying and I would still be at home How can you not recognize him? If this timing is also a coincidence, it is too coincidental. Xiao Langjun, I am not trying to favor my son, but these things can be called coincidence separately, and it is too coincidental to connect them together. What a coincidence."
"Who made Lian'er unable to go home for two years, made us think that he died, made Lu Gong marry his daughter to the Zhang family, made Lian'er appear at the wedding so coincidentally, and let Lu Ping die." Song Biejia asked, "To tell you the truth, although Duke Lu doesn't let me interfere in this matter, all the unfavorable evidence points to Lian'er now, and I can't ignore it as a father. I have already sent my confidants to press Lian'er's Describe and try to find the Orion. If Mr. Xiaolang doesn’t trust me, please send someone to look for it together.”
"There are also people who said that Lian'er was shot to death by a bear, all resting in the backyard. If you need it, I will call them out immediately." Song Biejia said.
Mrs. Song held his hand tightly: "As long as Ah Ying and I are alive, anyone who wants to harm Lian'er has to step over our corpses. I have made Lian'er suffer for two years, but I can't do it anymore." Let him suffer innocent injustice."
----
In the middle of the month, Liu Che drew up a pen and listed all the evidences he had obtained so far on the silk. He looked at Chen Ajiao: "Sister Ajiao, what do you think?"
"They are all suspected," Chen Ajiao said, "Song Bie is not ruled out calling for a thief to catch the thief, nor is Lan Lian murdered, and Zhang Wu's suspicion cannot be ruled out. Let's rest, tomorrow we will go to Lan Lian and the others to ask them one by one."
Liu Che packed up his brushes and ink, then washed and lay down.He held Chen Ajiao's hand, and after a while he said, "Sister Ajiao."
"kindness?"
"Am I too meddlesome? Now it's the third day, and the five-day period agreed with Lu Gong may be broken," Liu Che said, "And we are investigating the case in Lingbao County. Keeping our names incognito, but we can’t escape the attention of interested people. Maybe our whereabouts have been exposed..."
The more he talked, the more frustrated he became.
"Then do you regret it?" Chen Ajiao asked him, "If you were noticed by someone with a heart and lost your life, do you regret it?"
"No," Liu Che replied earnestly, "Maybe I can't handle the world's unjust cases, but if I encounter one, I will. Sister Gillian, who do you think the murderer will be?"
"No matter who it is," Chen Ajiao said, "everything has a cause before it has an effect. Whether it is good or bad, it cannot escape a causal cycle."
"That's right," Liu Che said, "It's just that no matter how many times you cycle, you shouldn't take an innocent girl as a sacrifice. I don't know what the murderer is thinking."
Chen Ajiao is very tired now: "Go to sleep, tomorrow is the fourth day."
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At this time, in Changle Palace.
"You didn't arrange this, did you?" Empress Dowager Dou asked Liu Qi after listening to the book.
"Mother thought I would use a human life as a whetstone?" Liu Qi sighed, "This time, I'm really in trouble."
"Tomorrow is the fourth day, and I don't know what evidence Jiaojiao and Yi'er have found," Empress Dowager Dou sighed, "How can they solve any case, the prefect is too harsh, five days is not enough."
"It's not necessarily true. They might be forced to perform some miracles." Liu Qidao, "I have great confidence in them."
"That's all, that's all," Empress Dowager Dou glanced at him, "Just wait, I don't know what's going on, Shit and the others, it takes Yan Qing three days late to write a letter, and it makes me feel dizzy now Ups and downs, yes, maybe they have already solved the case at this time. It’s just that the man of the Song family is really miraculous, and he can still survive two years after his death?”
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The next day.
Chen Ajiao and others first mentioned Song Lian.
Song Lian stands under the steps. Although he is thin, he does not lose his strength.
Liu Che glanced at his heart and nodded faintly: This person has a righteous look on his brows, and he really doesn't look like a person who can commit crimes.
"Although I lived in the mountains for two years, I rarely saw the hunter. He would come back every month or so and bring me something to eat. What he asked for was to copy the Tao Te Ching." Thousands of times, it was used to burn his mother, being entrusted by others, and being loyal. I copied it for him seriously, and occasionally wanted to go to find his parents, but every time I walked halfway, I was knocked out. Back in the small hut. Over time, I devoted myself to copying books for him, just hoping to finish it quickly. Unfortunately, in the end, I only copied more than 700 times." Song Lian said.
"Then have you ever entrusted him to tell your parents that you are still alive?" Chen Ajiao asked.
"Of course," Song Lian sighed, "it's just that he didn't tell my parents for me."
"What are the characteristics of that person?" Liu Che asked.
"That man," Song Lian hesitated, "has a beard, and the beard covers half of his face. There is a scar on his face, which is very hideous. He is as tall as me, and he has a strong Weinan County accent. He speaks carelessly. By the way, that man has a quirk. Once, when it was very hot, I saw him roll up the sleeve of his right hand when he was carrying firewood, and his arm was full of mud, while the sleeve of his left hand was put down. I thought it had fallen I tried to roll it up for him, but he yelled at me. It seemed like I couldn't touch that hand."
left arm?
Liu Che was in a daze for a while: "I seem to have heard about the left arm somewhere."
"Lu Gong's sons, Lu Xing and Lu Ping, have birthmarks on the inside of their left arms." Chen Ajiao remembered, "Could it be that Orion has something to do with Lu Xing?"
But where is Lu Xing?Lu Gong searched for him for 12 years but failed to find him. Lu Xing's jade pendant was in Liniang's hands. Liniang's son was Zhang Wu, and Zhang Tong once had a child with Jingniang.Then Liniang might be Jingniang.While Jingniang's child died at the age of three, Liniang's child lived to be 16 years old...
Among them, what is the abnormality?
"Sister Gillian." Liu Che looked at Chen Gillian, "Could it be..."
Chen Ajiao also thought of it, she ordered someone to take Song Lian down: "Call Mrs. Lan in!"
A crazy thought came to both of them: Was Lu Xing's disappearance really just a coincidence?
If not, then who set up this net, and how big is it?
Lan Lian came soon, unlike Song Lian, she still had a faint smile on her face, and she was not flustered at all.
"Sinister Lan Lian, are you convicted?" Liu Che asked.
"I don't know," Lan Lian smiled, "I'm just a concubine, what's wrong with me?"
"Isn't it your fault that you killed the young lady of the Lu family?" Liu Che asked.
"Killed the young lady of the Lu family?" Lan Lian covered her mouth, "Oh my god. She was killed by someone? I thought she was ashamed of herself."
The two were startled: "Is she ashamed?"
"Yes," Lan Lian smiled, "Lu Ping, the young lady of the Lu family, has already hooked up with Zhang Xin. Poor Zhang Wu is infatuated, but he doesn't know that he has a big green hat on his head."
"You say that Lu Ping has something to do with Zhang Xin, what evidence do you have?" Chen Ajiao asked.
"Lu Ping will go to the Taoist temple every month to stay for one day. You can ask her confidant maid He Xiang." Lan Lian smiled, "If it wasn't for a day when I felt strange and secretly followed her, I wouldn't know what was going on in her heart. She's a whore."
"Lan Lian, Lu Ping's character problems are not the reason why you can poison her for two years!" Chen Ajiao suddenly said.
Lan Lian was stunned, and suddenly smiled: "Little lady, are you trying to cheat me? Don't even think about it, if I want to poison her, where does the poison come from? I entered the Lu Mansion cleanly. .”
"Cheating you may not be useless," Chen Ajiao smiled, "Lan Lian, under normal circumstances, should you ask me what kind of poison is it? The medicine can last for two years? You are confused."
Lan Lian's smiling face suddenly froze, and after a while, she sneered: "I was just wondering, what kind of poison. The medicine can be taken for two years without being discovered?"
"This question is exactly what I want to ask you." Chen Ajiao smiled.
"How do I know?" Lan Lian sneered, "Ma'am, I'm just an advocate!"
"Okay, then let's not talk about poison. Regarding medicine, let's talk about your personal relationship with Zhang Wu first." Chen Ajiao said, "Tell me, how long has your personal relationship with Zhang Wu lasted?"
Lan Lian looked at her as if she was looking at a lunatic, and she sneered: "Secret love? Ma'am, have you read too many scripts? I don't have much contact with Zhang Wu. He loves Lu Ping wholeheartedly. How can there be so much selfishness?" Affection?"
"Guess, if you protect Zhang Wu like this, will he protect you with all his heart?" Chen Ajiao asked suddenly.
Lan Lian's face became even more ugly, and it took her a long time to say: "I don't understand what you say."
Chen Ajiao waved her hand: "Send her down."
The yamen servant next to him responded, grabbed Lan Lian's hand, and pushed her down.When she was about to go out, Chen Ajiao suddenly called out: "Ah Xing!"
Lan Lian paused and was urged by the yamen servant before continuing to walk outside.
"She knows a lot," Liu Che said, "It seems that Zhang Wu also has problems."
Not long after, Zhang Wu was sent up.
Liu Che tricked him in a clever way: "Lan Lian has already told us everything."
Zhang Wu's face changed slightly, and he smiled: "Oh."
Liu Che was not discouraged: "You don't plan to say something? Her words are not good for you."
"I don't know anything, what can I say?" Zhang Wu asked back.
"Are you so stubborn?" Liu Che smiled, "How about we start with your left arm?"
Zhang Wu was flustered for a moment, although it was only for a moment, but for Liu Che who grew up in the court and was very good at observing words and deeds, it was enough: "It seems that talking is not enough, let's take a look."
He motioned for the yamen servant to roll up Zhang Wu's sleeve, but to his surprise, there was no birthmark on that arm, only large areas of burns.
Liu Che really didn't expect this to happen, he was just taken aback, but Zhang Wu caught the strangeness.In an instant, the only panic in Zhang Wu's eyes disappeared.He said: "I'm not familiar with Lan Lian, if Mr. Lang wants to believe her, I have nothing to say."
In any case, at this moment, Liu Che's original advantage is gone!
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You can't cheat any more, but if you take Zhang Wu back rashly like this, he is really unwilling to ask anything.
While hesitating, Yan Qing suddenly ran in: "Mr. Lang, madam, Zhou Bowen is back, and he brought some things outside."
Chen Ajiao immediately glanced at Liu Che: "I'll go out and have a look."
Yan Qing immediately led the way and took her out.
After a while, someone moved the things from the outside room in. Liu Che also smiled when he saw those things: "Why don't you tell me?"
"What did I say?" The change in Liu Che's attitude caused panic in Zhang Wu's eyes.He didn't know what evidence the young man in front of him had found.
"Turn around and take a look, you must be very familiar with it." Chen Ajiao said, "I found this based on Lan Lian's confession."
Zhang Wu glanced at it, and saw that it was a set of whiskers, a coarse fur sweater, and a fake face made of human skin.On the other side, there is a large pile of bamboo slips.His heart was beating wildly, and he immediately refuted: "How could Lan Lian know where the hut is?"
As soon as this statement came out, it was already enough!
Chen Ajiao smiled and said: "So you don't want to roll up your sleeves, because you are afraid that Song Lian will accidentally recognize you in the future? Are you telling Song Lian to engrave the "Tao Te Ching" for you? Two years ago, you were recognized by the Zhang family. back, and then joined hands with Lan Lian, discussing that together they would kill Song Lian and make you the son-in-law of the Lu family, and later..."
Duke Lu suddenly walked in: "Enough!"
His complexion was very bad: "Chen Langjun, Mrs. Chen, the truth of this case has come to light, please leave it alone."
This sudden turning point made Chen Ajiao and Liu Che stunned.
"Grand Lu," Zhou Bowen said, "I finally found this after crossing mountains and mountains. I haven't found the last murderer yet. Why do you say that the truth has come to light?"
"This..." Duke Lu sighed, "The family ugliness should not be publicized. This case is not to be blamed on others, but my family, Aping. It turns out that she had an affair with Zhang Xin long ago, but because Zhang Gong and Cao's family wanted to give Zhang Xin a chance She is rich and noble, so she doesn't want to marry her. She actually used Zhang Wu and told me that she would not marry unless Zhang Wu. Poor Zhang Wu is infatuated with her. It is our Aping who is out of luck. The case is over, and I don't want to hurt her again. And innocent. I beg you two to hold your hands high, let’s stop here.”
"May I ask Prefect Lu, how will this case be closed?" Chen Ajiao asked.
"A Ping committed suicide." Lu Gong said, "It will be treated as suicide."
"How to write the verdict?" Liu Che asked, "Why did Lu Ping commit suicide? There must be a reason for this?"
Duke Lu's expression changed, and he finally made up his mind: "Write according to the facts."
"I don't think that's a fact, it's pure nonsense!" Liu Che said suddenly, "If Lu Ping was going to commit suicide, why did she choose it on the wedding day? Also, she had been poisoned by chronic poison in her body for two years. Why?"
Duke Lu's expression turned pale: "Mr. Chen, you are just a white man. Although you have the name of a relative of the emperor, you should not worry about it too much..."
"Don't forget, Mr. Lu, I'd better stay away for now," Liu Che said.
"Chen Langjun was joking, don't drive, it's always Song Ying." Lu Gong said, "Come here, see off the guests!"
Hearing this, Zhang Wu couldn't help looking at Lu Gong in surprise, but Lu Gong still stared at Liu Che and the others, almost about to use force.
"What a just and honest Prefect Lu!" Chen Ajiao sneered, "In order to calm down and protect the murderer, he even gave up his daughter. Let me guess who is worthy of you? Oh, it's your son Lu Xing! So Yes, Lu Xing personally killed his twin sister Lu Ping, and you want to let your daughter die unjustly in order to protect the last bloodline of the Lu family! Hey, guess who is Lu Xing?"
Liu Che said with a smile: "That's needless to say? Of course it's Zhang Wu, the concubine who was recognized by Zhang Gongcao's family two years ago. After all, the only child of the former Jingniang and later Liniang and Zhang Gongcao, He died in Weinan County when he was three years old."
Zhang Wu's face changed drastically: "What nonsense are you talking about? What Lu Xing! I don't know him at all!"
"Ah Xing died a long time ago," Lu Gong reacted very fiercely, "There has never been any A Xing, never. I am still the parent officer here, even if you are a relative of the emperor, you must not talk nonsense like this. , Hurry up and see off the guests."
"Stop!" Liu Che restrained the servants who leaned towards him and Chen Ajiao, "Since I have already taken care of this matter, I will take care of it to the end."
Chen Ajiao took out the token that looked like I was there in person and handed it to Liu Che. Liu Che held it up high, and Chen Ajiao took the lead and knelt down and shouted.Prefect Lu finally knew that he had offended someone.He begged: "Xiao Langjun, I beg you, let's leave this matter alone."
"It can't be counted," Liu Che said, "Now let's do the math..."
Prefect Lu fell to his knees with a thud: "Young Lord, I'm just a single seedling, and it's all my fault. Young Lord, my son is still young, can you let him go this time?"
Zhang Wu raised his head, his eyes were red: "What are you talking about? Who is his son?"
No one cares about him, Duke Lu is still begging: "I beg my lord, I beg my wife, I only have such a son in my life."
"The state has state laws, and the family has family rules." Liu Che said without emotion, "Mr. Lu, if you don't want your son to suffer torture again, you'd better tell us everything you know."
"If you tell me, maybe you can give your son a lighter punishment." Chen Ajiao added next to her.
It was that sentence that made Lu Gong excited all of a sudden: "Okay, let me say."
When he married Mrs. Lu, Duke Lu was already in his twenties, so before that, he also had a lover——
"That's the only doctor's daughter in the village. Her name is Lu Ling. She and I are childhood sweethearts. In fact, if her father hadn't died and had to keep filial piety, I would have married her a long time ago. I waited for her for a long time. I will be able to marry her in a year, but I don't want to. I met A Yin. A Yin is a few years younger than Lu Ling. Although she is not as beautiful as A Ling, she is better than A Yin's family. I know that if I can marry A Yin, Then I have the chance to get the quota of Xiaolian, and then I have the chance to become an official. That's why I'm tempted." Lu Gong closed his eyes and said, "I'm tempted, but I can't bear to give up Lu Ling. So I made up a set of lies."
"After many years of marriage, Ah Yin has never been pregnant. A Ling thought that it was really not easy for me, so she waited until one day, she told me that she was pregnant and asked me to marry her. I dare not. At that time, I was It's Yingzhou county magistrate, if I marry her, I'll probably be nothing in the blink of an eye. So, I knelt down and begged her to abort the child."
"I'm sorry for her. She waited for me for so many years without a name, but in the end I asked her to take away the child. At that time, I was like crazy. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, I ordered someone to arrest her and forced her down. Fetal medicine. Soon, A Ling disappeared, and I was worried that the child might not be lost, after all, A Ling is also very good at medicine. But before I had time to think about it, I found out that my wife was pregnant." Lu Gong said When recalling the past, my heart is full of guilt.
Everyone present listened, but they couldn't sympathize at all.
"Today, Madam ordered someone to clean it thoroughly, but found the jewelry in Lanlian's room. I recognized it at a glance. It was given to A Ling by me. Why did I never think that Lanlian is only older than Aping?" One year old, why did I never think that Lan Lian and A Ling look so much alike." Lu Gong's face was full of pain.
"My God." Chen Ajiao couldn't help but let out a low cry, "Could it be that Lan Lian is..."
"She is my daughter," Duke Lu cried bitterly, "I just went to find her, and she admitted that she is my daughter, retribution, retribution. I actually took my own daughter as a concubine, retribution, retribution! My son joined forces with my daughter to kill my other daughter. Retribution!"
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At the city gate of Lingbao County, the four of them hadn't recovered from the shock of the day before.
"I didn't think that it was just a coincidence that Lu Xing got lost back then," Chen Ajiao sighed, "I thought that Jing Niang stole Lu Xing. But I didn't think it was really Lu Xing who lost his memory and lost his memory. Jing Niang still saved his life."
"When I first came to Lingbao County, everyone told me that the prefect of Lingbao County is a really good official, but it is such a good official who did such a thing that has no regard for human relations. It's a pity, it's a pity." Liu Che sighed.
"In the end, the Lu family still had nothing. Lan Lian was sentenced to death for murder, and Lu Gong personally beheaded him yesterday, and his son Zhang Wu was also exiled to the northwest by his own hands." Chen Ajiao said, "He is old. His complexion looks like he's dying soon."
"Perhaps in the near future, the prefect of Lingbao County will be replaced again." Liu Che said, "Sister Gillian, this is the first time I have solved a case in my life, and the truth has already come to light, but why am I not happy at all? "
The whole case is actually not complicated. More than 30 years ago, Lu Fan, who was not the Duke of Lu, had a private marriage with the village doctor's daughter, but because the daughter's father died and kept the filial piety, he missed waiting for three years. When the filial piety was about to end, However, Lu Fan was favored by the eldest lady of the Yin family. For the sake of wealth, Lu Fan betrayed the medical girl.But he was reluctant to let go of his lover, and kept cheating with words, and finally waited for the woman to become pregnant. In order not to lose his official career, he even forced her to drink the miscarriage medicine.
Fortunately, the woman had medical skills, so she spit out all the miscarriage medicine, hid it again, and gave birth to a daughter.However, due to production, he was seriously injured.
Lan Lian knew about this hatred since she was a child, and she had already made an oath to avenge her mother, but she was very eager to learn, so she learned a lot about that medical skill.When Lu Ling died, she boldly joined Hualou and became a noble lady.
Lu Gong lost his five-year-old son Lu Xing in Weinan County 12 years ago, but Lu Xing was photographed by someone.Due to a serious illness, the one who was photographed by Hanako thought it was unlucky, so she abandoned it by the side of the road.He was rescued by Jingniang, whose son had been dead for a year. After Lu Xing woke up, he could not see the past. Jingniang had selfish intentions, so she told him that he was only four years old and that he was her son.
When Lan Lian learned that Lu Gong was looking for someone, she paid attention to it. Originally, she knew that someone in Hualou gave birth to a son for Zhang Tong, the clerk of Lingbao County. I saw Lu Xing by mistake and found the birthmark.After probing again and found that Lu Xing had no memory, she deliberately scalded Lu Xing's arm with boiling water to erase the birthmark.
Afterwards, she kept in touch with Lu Xing frequently at the same time, and verbally induced him to avenge Jing Niang.
Later, the matter of Song Lian was planned by Lan Lian and carried out by Lu Xing. Lan Lian tricked Lu Xing into thinking that marrying Lu Ping would give him the capital to avenge the Zhang family. heart of.
But when Lan Lian accompanied Lu Ping to the Taoist temple and found that Zhang Xin fell in love with Lu Ping at first sight, she set up a trap.Let Zhang Xin and Lu Ping have an affair.Zhang Xin used this as a means of coercion, forcing Lu Ping to go to the Taoist temple every month to have sex with him.
After Lan Lian found out that Lu Xing was really in love with Lu Ping, she made an appointment with Lu Xing at the Taoist temple at the same time.Lu Xing was greatly stimulated after witnessing Lu Ping's affair with Zhang Xin.Lan Lian took the opportunity to suggest that she marry Lu Ping immediately, and then released Song Lian to disrupt the wedding, took the opportunity to kill Lu Ping, and blamed Zhang Xin.
Lu Xing was blinded by his feelings and agreed.
Lanlian is good at pharmacology, and can use simple medicines and even ingredients to produce poison.The medicine comes.She poisoned Lu Ping for about two years, and now it is actually very simple to kill Lu Ping, but there is another blind drug as a countermeasure.The fly in the ointment is that the attack will be slightly slower.
Lu Xing made this medicine into a sachet and sent it to Lu Ping secretly, asking him to wear it on his body during the wedding, and he tried his best to delay the time with Song Lian. Marrying Lu Ping, he took the first step and disposed of the sachet.Then lock Lu Ping in the new house for three days, until the smell of the medicine dissipates...
It was originally a seamless plan, but Liu Che and his party happened to be passing by Lingbao County at this time and intervened in this 'nosy'.
"It's a pity that Lan Lian did everything for revenge, even marrying her own father as a concubine." Chen Ajiao sighed, "She has lived in hatred all her life, and now she can die, which is a relief. "
Liu Che nodded: "Forget it, don't think about it, this matter is over... who is it?"
Seeing him shout in surprise, Chen Ajiao hurriedly followed the probe to look, and saw a drunk man with gray temples holding a wine gourd, took a sip of wine, staggered over, stared at her, and then smiled: "Hahaha, baby, when my old man was young, he used to go too fast... hiccup~hiccup~hahaha."
He took three steps and walked away while hiccupping.
"It's a drunk." Chen Ajiao heaved a sigh of relief.
"Let's rest, it's still far away from the next county." Liu Che had already straightened the mattress in the carriage.
Chen Ajiao looked at the drunk man walking away, and when she saw Liu Che's greeting, she responded.
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When the carriage drove away, the drunk suddenly stopped staggering and his eyes became much clearer.
He walked quickly, and came to a middle-aged man: "I see, it is exactly the same as the painting. It should not be wrong."
"Flying pigeons pass on a letter, telling your lord that the prince and concubine have left Lingbao County and may be going to Sanmenxia." The middle-aged man whispered.
"No problem," the drunk man said, "There are only two roads from Lingbao County to Sanmenxia, and ambushes are set up on these two roads. If the prince goes in, he will never come out alive!"
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