Nongmen Shenjue

In order to prevent his accomplice from stealing a confession, Xiaoyu and others were detained separately.

Naturally, the environment in the prison is not good. If a good person goes in and is locked up for a few days, he will lose half his life if he comes out.In ancient times, many women would rather die than enter a prison cell. In such a place, not only the prisoners fight each other, but they are also bullied by the jailer. The more beautiful and young the woman, the more difficult it is.Xiaoyu is not absolutely beautiful, but she has a demeanor that makes me feel pity. Her complexion is fair and tender, and she is also a female liar who sets up tricks all the year round. The jailers have already spotted her.

At this moment, because Xiaoyu had to go to court, the guards did not dare to mess around, for fear of leaving traces or arousing Xiaoyu's resistance and being held accountable.

Xiaoyu is even more aware of this, and she has to pay attention to it every night when she goes to sleep.

Mu Qingyan asked to see Xiaoyu, the county magistrate made it easier and ordered the arrester to bring him here.

It is daytime now, but there is only one side of the cell with high windows, the light is limited, the cell is semi-dark, damp, and smells bad.Xiaoyu was in the third cell, which was very small with straw on the floor and a wooden barrel in the corner.Xiaoyu is wearing an autumn-colored jacket and a blue embroidered cotton skirt, with a crescent-like slender waist pinched out, her hair is fairly neat, only the hairpin rings on her head are gone, her originally fair face is also stained with dust, and her complexion is exhausted. There was fear in his eyes.

Xiaoyu is equivalent to the second voice in the gang. She has a very smart mind and is especially talented in deceiving men.Even so, she was still a young woman. She had heard that the prison was terrible, but this was the first time she had fallen into such a situation.

She used to be bold and ambitious, but she also had a sense of conceit and pride, so she never expected to be arrested.

Generally speaking, if cheaters like them escaped at the time, it would be difficult to catch them afterwards.

Xiaoyu rolled her eyes, her eyes fell on Mu Qingyan, and she looked carefully: "You..."

Mu Qingyan smiled faintly: "I'm Fenglin Mu Qingyan, someone asked me to find you liars."

Xiaoyu's eyes widened, and she quickly remembered who he was. After all, they usually pay close attention to this news.Xiaoyu thought it was someone who showed his feet and was noticed by the local county government, but he didn't expect to be found by Fenglinlai's people. He couldn't accept it for a while: "It's you?! Impossible! You, how did you find us?"

"I have no obligation to explain to you!" Mu Qingyan said coldly, and asked her: "You are a smart person, now I have a question to ask you, if you cooperate, I can ask Catcher Zhao to take care of you."

Xiaoyu suppressed her resentment, and showed cooperation in a timely manner: "Mr. Mu, what do you want to ask?"

"Lu Yunniang."

Xiaoyu was stunned, unexpectedly: "You, you asked her? How did you know..."

Mu Qingyan looked at her indifferently.

Xiaoyu bit her lips and sighed lightly: "I knew I would have listened to my wife, and I wouldn't have ended up in this situation." Without much struggle, she said: "Lu Yunniang is my old master. I was raped by her when I was five or six years old." Bought home to be a maid. She is a maid in name, but in fact she is a female liar, pretending to be a widow whose husband died. If there is a suitable partner, she will be used as a maid, or directly cheat a sum of money as a gift.

Eleven years ago, she followed a man to the capital.The first six months were very peaceful, the man was very rich, he placed her in a single-family house, gave her hundreds of taels of silver to spend every month, new clothes and jewelry from time to time, and there were often others honoring his things , he gave it all to his wife, and the day was rich and smooth, except for having no status, it was really not bad.At that time, the wife thought that if she could have a child, she would always follow that man.Unexpectedly, one day my wife took advantage of the man leaving the capital and ordered me to pack up the important things, and left the capital overnight by going to the temple to offer incense.I asked her, and she only said that she couldn't stay in the capital, and that she planned to settle down.

Later, she returned to Fujiang Mansion, which was her ancestral home.Back then, her parents took her out on business trips, and they said they were businessmen, but they were actually cheating.According to her, since she was 12 years old, she was led by her parents to get married everywhere, and her parents took her dowry money and sent her to the man's house, and she found a chance to escape.This kind of life has passed for many years, and once she was caught by someone, her parents were beaten to death, but she ran away without daring to look back.

She returned to Fujiang Mansion and met Mr. Du.At that time, Third Master Du was very down and out, not to mention penniless, and was hunted down by the government. For some reason, his wife saved him.If he hadn't hidden him at that time, Mr. Du would have died long ago, and he would have been regarded as a water bandit.Later, my wife married Mr. Du, and gave him money to set up a family business... I have to say, I didn't understand it was my wife at the beginning, but now, it's not my wife who was wise back then. "

"Tell me about that man in the capital."

"That was all ten years ago." Xiaoyu frowned and recalled: "The man's surname is Cai, his name is Cai Mingchang, he is 31 years old. Of course, he must be in his forties now. My wife met him in Songling Mansion Yes, according to him, his ancestral home was in Songling Mansion, and he went to the capital to join his elder brother. My wife and I have never met his elder brother. We only know that he is very dignified. Cai Mingchang is very afraid of him, but Cai Mingchang dare not No. My wife also asked, and Cai Mingchang was quite arrogant in his words, saying that his brother worked for noble people. There are many rich and powerful people in the capital, so it should not be a lie. I don’t know anything else, my wife may know Even... When my wife left the capital suddenly, I always felt that something happened, because my wife was very scared, and I have never seen her so scared. "

"Nothing else? You left the capital and went directly to Fujiang Mansion?"

Xiaoyu nodded, then shook her head again: "At that time, my wife was like a demon, and she was desperately traveling, but she fell ill. She had some old illnesses on her body. She had been traveling for several days, and she caught a cold in the rain. She suddenly had a severe attack and had to stay in the temple. By the way, it is in Fenglin County, Meixiang Temple outside Fenglin County. My wife lived in the temple for three or four months, and she got acquainted with a rich wife in a county town, and resold a pair of agate cups. The price is 800 taels of silver. It is a very good pair of objects. My wife said that it is worth a few thousand taels, but it is a dead thing in my hand. It is better to exchange some silver for it. I think that my wife seems to be jealous of that thing. If it was in the past, she would definitely keep these precious items, after all, she didn't have money in her hand. We left Fenglin immediately after reselling the things at that time, because we were afraid that the night would be full of dreams."

When Mu Qingyan heard the "agate cup", he knew it already.

I didn't expect that it was Lu Yunniang who sold the things at the beginning!

In fact, it's nothing to spread things around, but Lu Yunniang's behavior of fleeing the capital was quite strange, and she sold the agate cup at a low price, maybe it was because of that hidden secret.

For a while, I was a little emotional, and I couldn't wait to find out the identity of that Cai Mingchang!

Looking at Xiaoyu in front of him again, he glanced at the policeman not far away from the corner of his eye. He knew that the other party was listening to their conversation, but... the old things from many years ago, the agate cup, maybe no one knew about it except Wen Jixue. It's nothing if you know it.

He didn't remind Xiaoyu that "disaster comes from his mouth", because the county government will definitely interrogate Xiaoyu afterward about what he said. If he specifically asked the other party to conceal it, it would arouse suspicion.Xiaoyu is quite clever, and if he didn't know what was involved in the matter, he probably thought he had gained some bargaining chips and went to negotiate with the county government. The exact name "Cai Mingchang", it is hard to say what will lead to it.

Therefore, he simply said nothing.

Mu Qingyan didn't delay, he asked Gao Chun to prepare the car when he came out of the prison, and he was going back to Fujiang mansion that day.There are some things Xiaoyu doesn't know, but Lu Yuniang definitely knows, such as Cai Mingchang's specific identity, and even his brother's identity.I don't know if it has anything to do with the matter of the Xue family.

"Have you delivered the letter?" Mu Qingyan asked.

"Yes, I entrusted the bodyguards, and they will send each other's caravans to Xianghua Mansion."

The letter Mu Qingyan asked Gao Chun to send was for Yan Heng, and by the way, only Xu Shaoyang would say it.He didn't say anything else, only that the liar was found and he was locked in the prison of the Anzhou County Government.He doesn't care whether the other party pays the final payment, and what the other party wants to do has nothing to do with him. As far as he is concerned, this entrustment is over.

It was already dark when they arrived at Fujiang Mansion.

He traveled by water by boat and landed at the ferry, where the lights on the shore were bright.As soon as he stepped on the deck, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head and saw a man in red standing under a tree on the bank. It wasn't Wen Jixue who was it!

A smile appeared on Mu Qingyan's face, and his footsteps were a little faster: "Ji Xue!"

Wen Jixue came up to meet him, and it was difficult for so many people to hug him in front of the ferry, but she also used the cover of her sleeves to hold his hand: "I thought I would have to wait a few more days."

"It's going well there. When did you come here?" Counting the time, it has been more than a month since I left Fenglin, and the time was spent on the road.

"I arrived last night. I wanted to go to Anzhou to find you, but I was afraid that I might miss it."

"You went to see Zhu Yi, what's the result?" Mu Qingyan kept looking at his face under the light of the lamp, and couldn't see anything wrong.

"Zhu Yi does have a solution, but the risk is very high. I have not agreed yet." Wen Jixue did not hide it from him.

"Maybe with a little more time, he will develop a safer antidote." Drugs are meant to be continuously tested and improved. Time is very important, and Mu Qingyan thinks that he can still look forward to it.He was mainly worried about Zhu Yi's request. After all, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and Zhu Yi is not a bad person.

"Perhaps." Wen Jixue spoke calmly, as if talking about other people's affairs.

There is no point in discussing such fruitless things, so Mu Qingyan simply stopped talking and told him about the harvest in Anzhou.

"Cai Mingchang, Songling Mansion..." Wen Jixue thought about the name: "There are indeed a few officials with the surname Cai in the court, but none of them seem to be from Songling Mansion. Cai Mingchang said that his elder brother is working for noble people, or maybe not Officials, but stewards or subordinates."

"Ask Lu Yuniang first, and see what she says."

Wen Jixue's heart is not as calm as it seems on the surface. Although she is intellectually clear, it may be a waste of time to fetch water from a bamboo basket, but she still can't restrain herself from exploring.What if there is a clue, what if there is a connection...

Mu Qingyan didn't understand his urgency, so he said, "Let's go now."