Afterwards, Feng Liao, Yong Ruo and others entered the village and found a room to catch up on sleep.
This time, Su Mingjian carefully inspected the house where they lived.
Feng Liao and Yong Ruo lay down with their clothes on. Although it was late, they couldn't fall asleep.
"What you said to Alan just now, are you trying to provoke her relationship with those bandits?" Yong Ruo asked Feng Liao casually, feeling that this was not Feng Liao's usual style of behavior.
Feng Liao nodded, and hummed softly again.
"Ruo Ruo, you have saved me twice in a row! This makes me feel useless. So these days, I have been thinking about what happened in Majia Village that night."
He sighed slightly: "I was thinking: Now that I am in the vortex, I can no longer go straight like before! In the future, when encountering things, I will think about it more, just like you... Think about it in reverse.
"Actually, Uncle Huang taught me some scheming tactics, but I've never taken it to heart, let alone used it on others. But now, I want to try to use tricks to solve some tricks. problem.
"I hope that in the future, I can be as smart as you. I don't need to rely on you to protect and save me, but to protect you in turn..."
Yong Ruo sighed slightly: "It's right to think more about things. In this way, at least others can't easily harm you. But you should not overcorrect... If you become paranoid because of this, it will be a bigger loss. "
"Don't worry, I understand."
They didn't get up until noon, and headed for Wulin County after lunch.
The thieves from Wuhu Peak were tied up by Wuhuada and taken to Wulin County; those trapped refugees were also strung together in a string and brought back to Wulin County together.
Feng Liao borrowed the government office of Wulin County and began to interrogate the rogues separately.
The focus of his interrogation is not the assassination case and the mastermind behind the scenes, but the details of Wuhufeng.
Although there are strong bones among those mountain thieves, more people are afraid of pain and death.
Coupled with Feng Liao's tricks of being detained separately, interrogated in isolation, and sowing dissension, it didn't take much effort to ask many details about Wuhufeng.
Afterwards, he threw most of the bandits into the prison in Wulin County. He brought three bandits who confessed quickly and in detail, and galloped to Xuezhouwei with Yong Ruo and the guards.
The commander of Xuezhouwei had already obtained Feng Liao's writing, and had already been rectifying the soldiers and horses, and arranging scouts to scout Wuhu Peak.
When they arrived at Xuezhouwei, Feng Liao directly mobilized Xuezhouwei's soldiers and horses with the Tianzi sword to attack Wuhufeng.
There weren't too many bandits on Wuhu Peak, but now they have lost more than 20 relatively strong fighting forces, and the leader is not there. The whole village is panic-stricken and lost most of their fighting spirit.
Under the leadership of the leading party, Feng Liao and others found the Wuhufeng cottage easily, and took down the entire village without much effort.
After successfully suppressing the bandits, Feng Liao and the commander of Xuezhou Wei jointly reported the victory to the emperor, and escorted all the criminals to Xuezhou Mansion for trial.
This time, Feng Liao did not interrogate those bandits in person, but asked the prefect of Xuezhou to interrogate the case, and he himself only listened to the trial.
The part about bandits and bandits making rebellion and robbery is okay.
When the prefect of Xuezhou found out that Yuan Cheng and others had set up a trap to assassinate Feng Liao, he was in a cold sweat during the trial.
However, looking at Feng Liao with a serious face next to him, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and try his best to dig towards the source.
Yuan Cheng firmly insisted: he didn't know who the person who instigated him was, and the person who contacted him was a shriveled old man who gave him a lot of money, but he kept a secret and refused to explain. He also knew the taboo, afraid of screwing up the deal, he didn't track down who this shriveled old man was.
Even if the prefect of Xuezhou imposed a severe punishment, he would not change his words.
The prefect of Xuezhou asked: "If you don't know who the other party is, how can you believe that the other party is really capable of promoting security and getting you promoted and rich? Are you not afraid of the other party's backtracking?"
Yuan Cheng hooked the corners of his mouth, sweating from the pain: "It's enough to just listen to these nonsense, who really believes it? Anyway, I was planning to turn against his mother, take a large sum of money, and then kill the prince What's wrong with being strong
"If we succeed in our rebellion, we don't need him to call for safety; if we fail, we don't dare to expect such insidious rats to save our lives... It would be good if they didn't come to kill people and silence them."
The prefect of Xuezhou still wanted to use torture to extract a confession.
Feng Liao stopped him and asked him to interrogate other bandits instead.
When interrogating other bandits, that Wu Er unexpectedly confessed: "There is a letter hidden in the handle of Yuan Cheng's saber, and a big red seal is stamped on the letter. This letter may have something to do with it." about the assassination."
Wu Er was the bandit who climbed out of the cellar to assassinate in Majia Village, but was caught by Su Mingjian and forced to confess.
"How do you know that the letter is related to the assassination? Have you read it?"
"I've seen it!" Wu Er seemed to have figured it out, he didn't want to take the pain of flesh and blood, and recruited everything quickly and thoroughly, "I thought that the things that Yuan Cheng hid so closely must belong to his property Secrets, such as land deeds and land deeds, so I took a chance to peek at them.
"The little one made a lot of guesses and recognized a few words. Yuemo guessed that the letter was related to the dignitaries in the capital, that is, it was related to the assassination, but he didn't know what the letter said."
Yuan Cheng's knife has fallen into the hands of the government as a witness.
The magistrate of Xuezhou found the knife, opened Yuan Cheng's handle in public, and took out the letter. Then he cleverly presented the letter directly to Feng Liao without opening it himself.
Feng Liao opened the letter, her lips pursed slightly, and her brows were deeply frowned.
The handwriting of this letter is very similar to that of his second brother Feng Shi; the big seal stamped at the end of the letter is also very similar to that of the Prince of England.
The letter did not say a word about the assassination, but only said:
He knew that the Yuan family had been wronged in the original case, and if he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely clear up the Yuan family's injustice.
I advise Yuan Cheng to turn around as soon as possible, abandon evil and do good, and stop being a bandit. If Yuan Cheng is willing to bring the bandits from Wuhu Peak to submit to the imperial court, he is willing to mediate and let the imperial court recruit them...
This letter with the seal of Prince Ying is a guarantee to Yuan Cheng.
This letter does not prove that Yuan Cheng's assassination was instigated by Feng Shi, but it can prove that Feng Shi and Yuan Cheng have a very close friendship.
But this kind of ambiguous evidence makes it easier for people to believe that Fengshi is the instigator behind the scenes!
Because anyone would think: Since the friendship is so close, who else could be behind the scenes if it wasn't Feng Shi? It's normal not to mention the assassination in the letter! For such a thing, just confess it with your mouth, who would write it down in black and white, and leave it for nothing
Even if the matter is leaked and the letter falls into the hands of the government, Feng Shi can still argue: I am just trying to persuade a person to return from the wrong way, and I don't know anything about the assassination.
Therefore, the emperor can not wait to see Fengshi. But for the sake of the old Prince Ying, as long as there is no conclusive evidence, he will not do anything to Fengshi.
Such a letter is a guarantee for Yuan Cheng; it is also safer for Feng Shi.
This can better guarantee the interests of both parties than a letter ordering an assassination, and it is more reasonable.
Feng Liao read the letter for a while, but she couldn't tell if it was fake, and her heart was heavy.
For that position, did his elder brother, who was a mother and a compatriot, really plan to put him to death so deliberately
He couldn't believe it, and he didn't want to believe it.
So, think about it the other way around, is there a ghost in this matter? Could it be that the second brother was framed? If the second brother was really framed, who is most likely to be behind the scene? brother? Or another cousin
Feng Liao endured the soreness in her eyes and thought about this question, but she still had no answer.
After a while, he slowly folded up the letter, put it in his arms, and said to the prefect of Xuezhou, "You all stand down! Let my guards stand around, and I will interrogate Yuan Cheng alone."
The magistrate of Xuezhou is really looking forward to it! He hastily agreed, and retreated with the yamen servants very recklessly, retreating far away, for fear of being suspected of eavesdropping.
Be good, have those princes fighting for the throne of the emperor already reached this point
Su Mingjian led the people with a serious face and guarded around the lobby.
Yuan Cheng, who was gagged, was quickly brought back into the hall by the guards, who forced him to kneel down in front of the hall.
"According to Wu Er's confession, I found this letter in your knife handle."
Feng Liao raised the letter in Yang's hand and asked Yuan Cheng, "Do you have anything to say?"
Yuan Cheng looked at the letter in surprise, and then at the handle of the knife, his face full of surprise: "Letter? What letter?"
Feng Liao was silent, and leaned back against the back of the chair: "The letter I took out from your knife handle. You don't mean to say that you don't know the existence of this letter?"
Yuan Cheng was silent, and slowly shook his head: "I really don't know. The thing I hid in the handle of the knife is a little property left by my family, a few land deeds, land deeds and house deeds. When did it become a letter? "
Feng Liao looked at him silently, thinking in her heart whether what he said was true or not.
Yuan Cheng also looked at him, and suddenly laughed loudly: "I understand! In the handle of my knife, the land deed, land deed and house deed suddenly turned into a letter; and that letter must be the person behind the assassination. Yes, right? Hahahaha...
"The knife and Wu Er have been in the hands of the prince for several days. The letter was stuffed into the handle by the prince, right
"Haha, my lord, if you want to frame someone, you should tell me first! In order to avoid the pain of flesh and blood, I must cooperate. Let me recruit that person in public in the courtroom, so that the evidence is conclusive... Ha ha!"
Yuan Cheng laughed until tears came out: "Although I am a bandit, I have also heard about some things in the court. I heard that because the emperor has no sons, the princes in the capital are trying their best to fight and grab Want to change father
"Hahahaha... change your father! For the sake of glory and wealth, you princes and grandchildren are more shameless than us ordinary people! Ouch..." Laughing too violently, he couldn't help moaning when he got to the wound.
Feng Liao remained silent and looked at Yuan Cheng laughing coldly.
Yuan Cheng panted twice, lowered his voice and said: "The sons born to me now all want to recognize someone else as their father, and I don't know how your own father feels about this? In order to change fathers, you even hesitated to intrigue, Open guns and dark arrows, planting and framing, all kinds of methods are eye-opening!
"I heard that Prince Heng's own father is dead? If he knew about these nasty things you did, would he jump out of the coffin in anger? Oh, I'm so ridiculous!"
Su Mingjian who was standing beside Feng Liao became more and more angry. If it wasn't for the rules, he would have wanted to kick Yuan Cheng a few times!
He attempted to assassinate the prince, but was caught by the prince and took over his lair, so he wanted to take revenge by pouring sewage on the prince? ! What a diabolical villain!
Feng Liao looked at Yuan Cheng for a while, then calmly waved to Su Mingjian: "Take Yuan Cheng away! Watch carefully, don't let him die."
He has already figured it out completely: the person behind the scenes is most likely his elder brother—Pingjun Wang Fengkuan.