Zhao Yu obviously didn't expect this to be a game.
He looked at Lu Ke for a moment, and also thought about Lu Ke's identity. After thinking for a long time, he recalled vaguely. This man looked like a yamen official. Although he was wearing ordinary clothes, his eyes and the aura around him were quite different from ordinary people, but why? Well, everyone has been tricked, he has played tricks on everyone in the yamen for the first time, and now he has played tricks for the second time, how did he expect that he would come here
He clenched the knuckles of the ax slightly, looked at Luke and the people behind him, and knew that he was in danger.
"Brother Yu from Zhao's class?" Lu Ke suddenly said.
Zhao Yu frowned, his eyes were a little surprised, as if he didn't expect Lu Ke to reveal his identity in a single word.
Lu Ke's eyes were clear, "If I remember correctly, you have been in the garden for almost three years, and you only started serving Yu Xun a year ago. From then to now, you have been preparing for a long time. You and the garden manager The report is eighteen years old, I guess you are the four-year-old child who survived the Zhao family class back then."
The children who survived at that time were four years old and the other seven years old. According to calculations based on similar ages, he should be Zhao Yu.
Zhao Yu stared at Lu Ke, "So you all know."
Lu Ke said indifferently: "Not only did I know, but I also dug up the corpses of your master, mother, senior brother..."
This statement immediately angered Zhao Yu, "How dare you—"
Lu Ke said calmly: "Yu Xun and others are all from Zhao's class, and the confession is false, and the Yamen has no way to go back, and finally found out the old things fourteen years ago, and wanted to find out what happened that year. What's the matter, I just found their graves, you are afraid that they will be uneasy if their graves are dug up, but if you do this, if their spirits in the sky look at it, they will feel that something is wrong."
Zhao Yu smiled coldly, the noise caused by the fire in the distance continued, but people began to walk towards this courtyard. Soon, Wu Xiang led two people into the courtyard first, and when he saw the scene inside the house, Then he understood the cause and effect, and then thought of Luke's strange behavior these past few days, some understood, but some did not understand.
For Zhao Yu, it was impossible to escape from such a situation. His back was stiff for a moment, and finally he threw the ax in his hand to the ground with a bang.
Lu Ke nodded to the two behind him, and they immediately stepped forward and grabbed Zhao Yu.
Zhao Yu didn't resist, but the panic on his face was replaced by indifference. When he was escorted out, he didn't even look at anyone around him.
Wu Xiang scratched her head and walked towards Lu Ke, "Captain Lu, what do you say?"
Lu Ke handed the oil lamp in his hand to the Yamen, and said in a low voice: "The murderer wants to kill. In the past, he did it according to his age, but now that time is running out and the Yamen is watching closely, the murderer must also want to do it earlier. We will The focus fell on Chen Mo, but he intentionally left a hole around Liu Qing, and the murderer is a person who can divert the tiger from the mountain and attack the west, so he naturally wants to seize this opportunity."
Wu Xiang immediately realized the weird layout in the garden these days. They kept guard for many days, just to put pressure on the murderer, but they specially left a loophole for the murderer to find out. The temptation and persecution made the murderer have to leave into this game.
Wu Xiang was dumbfounded, and thought of the camphor forest behind the bird garden for a moment.
The forest is covered with nets, and rare birds are kept inside. Ordinary birds obey the orders of the taming masters, but occasionally there are fierce birds that don’t want to go back to the cage. The taming masters don’t want to hurt the birds, so they beat the trees from all directions. While putting the most attractive water on the ground, the birds were surrounded and threatened, and when they saw the attractive food, they naturally had to obediently fly to peck the food. The master who trained the birds easily caught the birds.
"Wu Butou, you are here to take care of the aftermath. I will report to Lord Hou and bring him back to the Yamen for interrogation."
After Lu Ke finished speaking, Wu Xiang hurriedly responded, and not long after, Lu Ke took people to Jingzhaoyi Yamen.
It was already very late at night, but not long after the news was sent out, Huo Weilou brought Bo Ruoyou to the yamen, and Bo Ruoyou was also a little surprised when he saw Zhao Yu kneeling in the main hall.
When he went to the Bird Garden for the first time, as Yu Xun's servant, Zhao Yu was both shocked and frightened. He looked humble and pitiful, giving off a feeling of innocence and harmlessness. Who would have thought that he was the murderer
Sun Zhao also got the news of the murderer's appearance, and hurried to the Yamen at night. He was the chief officer of the case, and he sat on the first seat in the main hall for questioning.
"What is your identity?"
Zhao Yu knelt down in the hall in a coarse green dress, his eyebrows slightly frowned, and he looked quite calm, "Zhao Yu, eighteen years old, his ancestral home is Qinzhou in the northwest, and he moved to the capital due to a natural disaster."
"So you were the one who survived the fire?"
"yes."
"Where are the other two?"
"They're all dead."
Sun Zhao frowned, and Zhao Yu said, "There were three people who survived that year. Uncle Qian got sick and passed away five years ago. Senior brother suffered severe burns and died not long after."
Sun Zhao looked at Huo Weilou and saw that Huo Weilou had no intention of opening his mouth, so he continued: "Fourteen years have passed since this incident, and you committed such crimes to avenge your master? What happened back then? "
"It's revenge, back then..." Zhao Yu squinted his eyes, "Back then, Master was kind enough to adopt many orphans with the proceeds from the theater troupe. In those few years, there were many refugees in the capital, and I was one of them. Someone with some strength came anyway. I can find a job and beg for food, but a half-grown child like me can only be a beggar, if there is an illness or disaster, he will not be able to survive."
"Master has adopted at least ten children. He does not adopt children under the age of ten. They are as young as three or five years old and as old as eight or nine years old. Master taught us juggling and juggling, and asked us to learn a craft. At the age of three, the master didn't stop me if I wanted to leave, and when the five of them were sent away, the troupe really couldn't hold on."
"They are shrewd, quick-witted, and have learned some real kung fu. They can make a living even if they leave. I was only four years old at the time of the five masters left behind, and one senior brother was seven years old, and the other three senior brothers were all eight or nine years old. At this age, we are either sick or very clumsy, naturally, Master also thinks that we have good character and is willing to raise us like his own sons."
"The five of them were not the only ones who were sent away. There were also a few older brothers who had been away for a long time. The five of them came back after three months of absence. We were defenseless. I can't remember the other things. I just remember that Master found out that there was a problem with the well water, and before they entered the door, he stuffed me into the cabinet in the house."
Zhao Yu's eyes trembled, "I saw how they killed master, mother, and several senior brothers. Originally, they wanted to kill Uncle Qian and the others too, but they were scared. There was a risk of being discovered, so they set fire to it."
Sun Zhao sighed, "All three of you survived back then, and buried your master's body. Since you knew who the murderer was, you also reported it to the officials. Why didn't you tell the people in the yamen?"
Zhao Yu raised his bloodshot eyes and looked at Sun Zhao sharply, "Tell the people in the yamen? Is it useful to tell them? I was injured at the time, and I was only a four-year-old child. I said I saw the murderer." They are my master's former apprentices, but no one believes them, they don't want me to tell, and they don't want anyone to take the trouble to capture them, and the officials even asserted that Master and the others were burned to death in a fire."
After he finished speaking, he smiled miserably, and Sun Zhao felt a little flustered at the sight.
Huo Weilou was sitting first on the left, and Bo Ruoyou was sitting next to him. After hearing this, both of them naturally understood that the Yamen had committed the crime of dereliction of duty.
Sun Zhao pondered for a moment, "I think you have grown up well these years, why did you come here to seek revenge after such a long time?"
Zhao Yu's back froze for a moment, he knelt straight, his expression was calm and indifferent, even when he was fierce, he never showed the fragility of fear and panic, but Sun Zhao's question made his pupils reveal a few It's a long-lasting sorrow.
"Indeed, it has been a long time. The alley where Master used to live has now become a new folk square, and the yamen has taken on a new look from top to bottom. In the capital, no one remembers that there was a strange fire in the south of the city fourteen years ago. "
"Everything is over, and everything seems to be settled, except for those who witnessed the case." The sadness in Zhao Yu's eyes dissipated, and then turned into a deep dry well, "Your Excellency must have never experienced the feeling of losing a loved one. I will not be indifferent because of time. Since I was able to make a living by myself, I have been tracking down the whereabouts of those people. It was not until four years ago that I found out that they returned to the capital. It is for nobles to amuse, but also to live in luxury."
"How can this be? Master taught that people should be punished if they make mistakes. If they make mistakes, they will not be punished. Then everyone in this world does not have to distinguish between right and wrong. They killed the master and mother who had the grace to raise them, and killed Brothers who love brothers and sisters, they have harmed so many people, how can they still live their lives comfortably?"
"The victim is suffering in a nightmare, but the perpetrator can sit back and relax. What's the reason? Killing people is wrong, but no one can uphold justice for the dead master and mother, so I decided to avenge them."
Zhao Yu's eyebrows and eyes showed a bit of evil, "I killed them and used the same method, but even so, it still couldn't relieve the hatred in my heart, because the master and the mother have turned into a pile of bones, but they survived this time safely. For more than ten years, the world is unfair, the world is really unfair, they should have paid for their master fourteen years ago! I avenged it, but it was too late, and now you know that it was not a fire, but it was too late, really Too late… "
His hands hanging by his sides were clenched into fists, and looking from Bo Ruoyou's direction, he could see his grief and indignation. At this moment, she seemed to be hit by a cold arrow, and her heart suffocated and pained, Not only did she understand Zhao Yu's state of mind, but even a few fragmentary images appeared in her mind amidst the dimly dancing lights in the hall...