I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

Cui Tao wanted to say "I don't know" for the third time, but Han Qi seemed to have expected her answer and didn't intend to listen at all. He turned around and called Wang Zhao, and gave him a few words in a low voice. After Wang Zhao nodded, he subconsciously looked at her. He glanced at Cui Tao.

It's late at night, I don't know what these two big men are talking about in front of her, they are not gentlemen at all.

Cui Tao simply ignored them and continued to look around, looking for any missing clues at the scene.In the end, I looked all over and couldn't find anything special.

If you stay in this room for a long time, you will feel a little stuffy. The lights are dim, shining on the dried blood all over the floor, which inexplicably makes people feel that the smell of blood is gradually getting stronger.Cui Tao pushed open the south window to breathe, and heard Li Yuan and Li Cai brothers who were guarding the door whispering.

"I heard from Wang Zhao before that the Ministry of Criminal Affairs asked about Cui's case today, and he seemed unhappy to know that he was not dead. He said that if there were no clear clues, the execution should continue."

Li Yuan sneered, "Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment has always been at odds with us, Baofu Yin, and he was just trying to find fault."

Cui Tao knew that if she couldn't find evidence to prove her innocence, the game would be over sooner or later.

She turned her head and inadvertently saw the blood splattered on the window paper, so she came out and looked at the east and west sides of the courtyard. A row of cherry trees are planted.These cherries are next to each other, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and they all grow higher than the courtyard wall.Across the dense cherry trees, I can only vaguely see the light of the next door.

Looking further to the west, there is only some firewood piled up at the base of the wall on the western wall, without any shelter. At a glance, the houses on the other side of the wall are lit with lights, and the figures in the house are shaking.

Brothers Li Yuan and Li Cai were in charge of guarding Cui Tao, and when Cui Tao came out, they followed her.

"What are you looking at?" Li Yuan asked.

"Aunt Qiu's family." Cui Tao said.

Li Yuan couldn't help laughing, "You really lost your memory, Aunt Qiu's house is over there."

Li Yuan pointed to the east.

Cui Tao was startled, her eyes lit up instantly, and she even laughed happily, "God help me too!"

Han Qi also came out, and Cui Tao immediately explained to him.

She pointed to the bedroom window on the west side of the main room, that is, the window with blood splattered, and then pointed to the east.

"Aunt Qiu lied, the new moon on the third day of the new year, the night is dark, so far away, and covered by so many dense leaves, it is impossible for her to lie on the wall at her house and see the blood splattered on the window here."

After Cui Tao finished speaking, she snatched the lantern from Li Yuan's hand, walked to the east wall, and began to illuminate the cherry trees beside the wall from the beginning.

At this time, the cherries are about to ripen, and there are red and green ones hanging on the branches.Because the cherries are well grown, there are basically fruit distributions on every branch.After Cui Tao inspected the two trees, he found that there were very few cherries in the area where the branches interlaced between the third and fourth trees.Then shine a lantern on the ground, and it can be seen that there are many rotten cherry stones on the ground.

These cherry pits fell on the dead leaves, and the color is very new, indicating that they are new pits this year.And judging from the softness and hardness of these cherry pits, this is not a fully mature cherry pit, which is much smaller and soft.

Following this trace, the branches were pulled away, and a small black trace was found on the top of the mud wall, which looked like dried blood.

Han Qi ordered Li Cai to report back to Kaifeng Mansion immediately, and summoned manpower to order Wang Zhao and Li Yuan to guard Aunt Qiu's residence quietly.

Han Qi and Cui Tao stayed in the courtyard and waited temporarily.

Cui Tao: "Is it true that Han Tuiguan is still worried that the three big men can't deal with a common woman?"

"How do you know there is no accomplice? There is no, and it's not easy." Han Qi's voice was calm and calm, and his clear face had a fascinating glow under the light of the lantern.

Too good skin is also a sin.

Cui Tao nodded in agreement, never expecting Han Qi to be so thoughtful.What he said made sense, if Auntie Qiu could easily kill two young adults, it would not be easy.If there are accomplices, there is really no way to catch them all with only three yamen servants.

The surroundings are quiet, and the crickets' chirping sounds particularly noisy.

At present, there is only one person guarding her, and he is a well-mannered official who does not know how to fight.

The environment made Cui Tao plan his escape route in his mind by the way.Based on her current physical strength recovery, she can barely escape the pursuit of Wang Zhao and Li Yuan and escape from this alley.However, Kaifeng Mansion would be under martial law before she reached the gate of the city, and in Tokyo, she had neither money nor trustworthy people to go to, so her prison attire was particularly eye-catching.Afterwards, if the Kaifeng Mansion announces that the whole city is wanted and her portraits are posted everywhere, no matter how capable she is, she will not be able to escape.

What's the point of living like a rat crossing the street, hiding here and there?She wants to go to Goulan Washing House to join in the fun, eat all the gourmet food in Tokyo, including Zhouqiao Night Market, Mahang Street Night Market, Suzakumen Wai Street Night Market...

Han Qi heard Cui Tao's frequent swallowing movements, and turned his eyes to look at her, thinking that she had recovered some memories caused by nervousness, so he asked her what she thought of.

"I thought of the unspeakable Kaifeng buckle bowl, the crock oven pancakes that are coke on the outside, and the fresh and delicious shrimp wontons, as well as fried sheep and white sausage, crispy candied fruit, almond tea, duck blood soup, and ice and snow cold balls with sugar... ..."

Han Qi took a deep breath, then looked away, and walked away from Cui Tao, as if he thought she was noisy.

Soon after, Wang Zhao arrived with the yamen team.Cui Tao stopped imagining food, and quickly followed Han Qi's pace.

A total of more than thirty yamen servants immediately dispersed quietly and surrounded Aunt Qiu's residence.

"Who?"

The people in the house probably heard movement outside, opened the door and walked out. It was a young woman of seventeen or eighteen years old.

Wang Zhao, Li Yuan and others immediately rushed into the courtyard to subdue him, but the woman's status quo immediately threw two darts and shouted to the room: "Master, run!"

The woman wanted to run away after shouting, but was stopped by Wang Zhao, who fought with her.

Li Yuan rushed into the house with the rest of the people, but found no one in the house, and then heard a sound from the rear window.Aunt Qiu wanted to escape through the back door, but was blocked by the yamen servants guarding the back yard.

Aunt Qiu resisted with a knife, and her moves were deadly and fierce. The servants did not dare to neglect, but they still wanted to keep alive as much as possible, so in the process of fighting with her, they tried to avoid the vital parts as much as possible, and finally stabbed Aunt Qiu in the leg .As soon as the knife was pulled out, a large amount of blood spurted out, Aunt Qiu fell to the ground with a cry of pain, and was captured immediately.

The yamen servants dragged him to the front yard, and found that Mrs. Qiu was bleeding more and more, leaving a heavy bloodstain along the way.Aunt Qiu's face was already pale, her body trembling uncontrollably.

The amount of blood was a bit abnormal, so Li Yuan hurried to report to Han Qi.

The young woman had already been captured and was shaking her shoulders, trying to escape.She was even more excited when she saw Aunt Qiu bleeding, and exclaimed: "Master! How are you doing? You have lost a lot of blood..."

Cui Tao guessed that Aunt Qiu must have a ruptured femoral artery, so she rushed over to give first aid.Because she couldn't find the cloth for a while, she tore off the corner of her clothes first, and bound Aunt Qiu's bleeding thigh.Then Li Yuan and others cooperated with Cui Tao, found some clean cloths from the house, and helped Cui Tao stop Aunt Qiu's bleeding.

When Aunt Qiu saw Cui Tao, her weak and half-open eyes immediately widened.

"It's you--"

"I need silver needles." Cui Tao raised her head and said to Han Qi, soon after the hand that pressed the wound was stained with blood.

Han Qi was still standing with his hands behind his back, with a gentle appearance, and he didn't seem to care that Aunt Qiu was almost bleeding to death.After hearing Cui Tao's words, he only gave a slight gesture with his eyes, and the three yamen servants immediately ran out to look for it.

Seemingly under the background of Han Qi's indifferent and calm attitude, Aunt Qiu looked at Cui Tao who was anxious to save herself, and suddenly smiled, she raised her head with all her strength, and said to Han Qi: "I killed the man, it has nothing to do with her .”

"The reason." Han Qi glanced at the arrested young woman.

"No, it has nothing to do with her, Ping'er just came to Beijing yesterday!" Aunt Qiu was suddenly excited, but she was still getting weaker and weaker, and it seemed that taking a breath was a luxury for her, "I killed their husband and wife, yes I wanted to threaten them to hand over the salt transportation map. I also wanted to kill her. But when I saw her falling to the ground in fright when she saw the dead person, and she was covered in blood, I thought it would be good to have a scapegoat, To save the yamen from suspecting me in order to... track down... the murderer."

The "she" mentioned by Mrs. Qiu refers to Cui Tao.

"How do you know that the map of salt transportation is in their hands?" Han Qi asked again without waiting for Aunt Qiu to finish her speech.

"It's...it's Tianji Pavilion...a high price was offered—" Aunt Qiu suddenly fainted.

Cui Tao went to check Aunt Chou's pulse, continued to press on the bleeding wound, and anxiously waited for the yamen servant looking for silver needles to return.

The arrested young woman named Ping'er cried loudly and kept calling 'Master'.

For a moment, except for Ping'er's crying, everyone fell silent, and Cui Tao's forehead slowly oozes fine sweat.

After a while, Cui Tao went to feel Aunt Qiu's pulse again, and then released the hand that was pressing on the wound.

"What are you doing? Why didn't you save my master?" When Ping'er saw Cui Tao let go, she became even more devastated and excited.

Cui Tao looked at Han Qi, who was also looking at her, and said softly, "He's dead."

The yamen servant took Cui Tao to wash his hands first.

When Cui Tao came back, Han Qi had already questioned Pinger.Ping'er really didn't know about Aunt Qiu's killing of Meng Da and his wife.

Li Yuan and others found a piece of blood-stained cloth in the ashes behind the house that had not been completely burned.Wang Zhao and others found two dried blood stains under the door frame of the kitchen.This should have been accidentally rubbed on by Mrs. Qiu when she was handling the bloody clothes after killing someone.

"There are very few bloodstains on the wall. She should have taken off her clothes after killing someone, threw the bloody clothes over the wall, and then climbed over the wall and went home to burn the bloody clothes."

Wang Zhao and Han Qi reported their inferences, and handed Han Qi a letter he had just found in Aunt Qiu's closet.

There were two portraits in the letter, and the people painted on the portraits were Meng Da and Mrs. Yu, and another piece of paper said, "Kill the male and female robbers, seize the treasure map, and reward ten thousand taels of silver."

From this point of view, this Meng Dayu family is a very famous "male and female thief" in the world in the past two years. It is rumored that the two of them have excellent stealing skills, and they can even enter and leave the palace invisible.It is very likely that they stole the salt transportation map from Yan Tiesi. What is interesting is that there has been no news of the loss of the salt transportation map from the imperial court so far.

Aunt Qiu came to look for the picture because she got news from Jianghu, so it was easy to explain.It's just that she has already killed someone, why is she still living next door?Could it be that because he didn't get the salt transportation map, he wanted to wait here and look for other clues?

Han Qi looked at Cui Tao.

Cui Tao felt that Han Qi's eyes were a bit strange, and hurriedly said: "Now the real murderer has been caught, and it has been proved that I am not the murderer and I am innocent. Can Officer Han let me go?"

Han Qi chuckled lightly.

Cui Tao was a little familiar with this smile, the last time she provided a clue to ask for Baiwei Tang, Han Qi smiled like this, and then played a trick on her.

Back in the courtroom, Cui Tao was in pain as if she had cut her heart out, and she cried miserably that she was pitiful as a scapegoat. Everyone in the court thought Cui Tao was doing stupid things for her lover.However, the real culprit is a middle-aged ugly woman who is nearly fifty years old and has a face like bootskin.

"It turns out that Chou is the one who made you cry, who is willing to take the blame for his crime, and who is heartbroken?" Han Qi's voice is extremely sweet, and even a bit of tenderness can be heard.

Han Qi smiled softly, but he was not ordinary and clear, he could be called handsome.If an ordinary woman saw it, she might not be able to help but blush and her heartbeat would beat, and she would even scream excitedly.But for Cui Tao, he just felt like a hairless chicken being pinched by the other party's neck and pressed to the chopping board.

Afraid that Han Qi would find out, she took advantage of the situation and hugged Aunt Qiu's arm, tears welling up in her eyes, "Should... be her? Although I don't remember why, I felt a sense of intimacy when I saw Aunt Qiu. , no wonder I tried so desperately to save her just now, presumably she treated me well before!?"