On the way here, Jiang Yunzhu asked one of the big men who looked easy to talk to what was going on.
The big man saw that she was a pretty girl who spoke nicely, and was afraid that there really was some misunderstanding, so he told her the whole story.
They are from Fengyuan Escort Agency in the east of the city. The sturdy man in front is their boss, whose surname is Li.
Li Yan's youngest son had a disease from birth, and he was weak since childhood. His family treated him like a treasure. A few days ago, Li Yan suddenly felt like riding a mule from the escort agency to go out for a stroll.
When he reached Hexi Street, an old lady suddenly rushed out and bumped into his mule.
Li Yan was only thirteen years old and seldom went out, so he was frightened immediately.
At this time, several people came out, pushed and shoved him, saying that he had hit someone and so on, robbed his mule, and took away all the valuables from him, and then threw him on the side of the road.
Li Yan returned home in shock and fell ill that night. When his family asked him what happened, he told them what had happened.
Li Biaotou and his companions had traveled a lot and had seen everything. They immediately realized that he had been blackmailed and were furious.
In the past two days, these people have been looking for people and mules in the county town. They happened to see Jiang Cheng leading their mule into the city, and naturally thought he was the murderer.
After Jiang Yunzhu heard it, the old lady bumped into the mule, why did it sound so familiar to her? Suddenly, she remembered that Liu once said that an old lady bumped into her carriage, and then she met Wei Kangping.
How could she not understand that this was a group of repeat offenders, which was why she just said, "We may have all been deceived."
Everyone looked at her, and she immediately told them the whole story.
She spoke clearly and every detail matched. Li Biaotou and others hesitated. Is that true
Jiang Chengze finally understood what was going on. He gnashed his teeth in anger. The man surnamed Wei was indeed not a good person!
The one who reacted the most was Liu. She opened her eyes wide, not daring to believe her ears. Wei Kangping had lied to her? What about her money... She went into the room like crazy, picked up the wooden box on the table and threw it to the ground.
The wooden box was broken into two pieces, revealing the house deed and land deed inside.
She rushed to the yard with the house and land deeds, and seemed to say to everyone, or to herself, "No, he left the house and land deeds with me. He is not a liar."
She was so excited that a property deed slipped from her hand and fell in front of Li Biaotou.
Li Biaotou took a quick look and said, "The owner of this house is surnamed Qian, whom I know. His surname is not Wei at all. Moreover, this official seal seems..." seems to be fake.
He didn't finish, but everyone understood what he meant.
Suddenly, all the house deeds and land deeds in Liu's hands fell to the ground. She fell down and sat there, tears streaming down her face, but she couldn't utter a word.
There were clues to some things a long time ago, for example, Wei Kangping never let her go to his house, and he asked her about the money several times, but she had never investigated it deeply before. Now that she thought about it, they were all flaws.
Seeing her crying like this, Li Biaotou began to believe that she had been cheated as well.
Gu Yongde was still relatively steady and asked the person next to him, "Is this the courtyard where Liu lives?"
A middle-aged woman squeezed out of the crowd and said that an old lady rented the yard from her and she had only paid one month's rent, which was about to expire.
The truth came out, the old lady was one of them.
What should we do now? Only by arresting Wei Kangping can we give everyone justice. Jiang Yunzhu asked Gu Yongde, "What do you think about this matter?" She wanted to report it to the police, but she didn't know the situation in Wuling County Government, so she wanted to hear Gu Yongde's opinion.
"Let's report to the police!" Gu Yongde said after a moment of thought.
The group went to the county government office.
The magistrate of Wuling County was named Meng. He had just finished his breakfast and was sitting in a chair with his eyes closed to rest.
Suddenly, a servant came in with something the size of a palm in his hand.
"Master, someone asked me to give this to you." The servant bowed.
"What is that?" Magistrate Meng looked at the servant's hand, and suddenly it slipped off the chair like noodles.
"Master." "Master." The maids and servants hurried to help him, but found that County Magistrate Meng seemed to have no bones and his whole body was limp.
It was with great difficulty that Magistrate Meng was helped back to his chair.
Magistrate Meng touched his neck first, then jumped up and grabbed the token in the servant's hand.
The token of Qilin Guard, that’s right!
A few days ago, he heard that General Wang and his group were captured by the Qilin Guards and taken to the capital. Now the capital is flooded with blood. A while ago, almost all the officials in Changfeng Prefecture were killed...
Now the token appeared in his hand, "Where is the person?" he asked in a trembling voice.
The servant was illiterate and had no idea what was written on the token, nor did he understand why the master suddenly became like this. The man just threw the token to him casually. If the man was not so good-looking, he would not want to pay attention to him.
"Gone." The servant replied, threw down the sign, and the man left.
"Gone?" County Magistrate Meng ran outside in a hurry. When he got outside, there was indeed no one there. He stood there at a loss.
Just then, someone was beating a drum in front of him, and the sound of the drum seemed to hit his heart.
When the court was opened, a group of yamen runners stood on both sides, and Magistrate Meng sat in the middle.
This was the first time in Jiang Cheng's life that he went to court. Without waiting for the bailiffs around him to call out to him, he knelt down on the ground, feeling anxious.
The others were not much better, they were all afraid.
However, the most nervous person in the hall was County Magistrate Meng. He looked around and didn't find anyone suspicious, but he always had the illusion that someone was watching him, and if he was not careful, he would be doomed.
Then everyone noticed that County Magistrate Meng was extra cautious when he was questioning the case today. In the past, he would often bang the gavel, scold everyone, and hit people with a stick, but today he only banged the gavel twice, and raised it high and dropped it gently.
Jiang Yunzhu had already sorted out the whole story for everyone, and County Magistrate Meng was very friendly, so Jiang Cheng and others told the story smoothly.
When County Magistrate Meng heard that there was such a villain in the area under his jurisdiction, he immediately sent constables to search for him.
But there was no way to find that person. At this time, Wei Kangping had already led his men out of the county.
County Magistrate Meng was furious. He thought that if he couldn't catch the person, it was not because he was not good at handling the case. Search, all the detectives, go out and catch the person. If you can't catch the person, you will all be beaten with a stick.
The detectives knew that the master was serious about this, so they did not dare to delay and went out to arrest the man.
Jiang Yunzhu was surprised to see County Magistrate Meng act so vigorously. There were not many officials like him these days. In ancient times, torture technology was backward, and it was hard to draw a portrait. She didn't have much hope, but now she felt that she could look forward to it.
Since they couldn't catch anyone for a while, County Magistrate Meng asked everyone to go back first. As for the mule, it was considered as evidence and had to be kept in the county government office first.
After coming out of the county government office, Jiang Cheng was extremely depressed. The money he had saved with great difficulty was gone.
"Dad, you can earn money again if you lose it. As long as you are safe, it's good." Jiang Yunzhu comforted him.
"Yes!" Gu Yongde also comforted Jiang Cheng.
Jiang Cheng forced a smile and said he was fine.
But someone had trouble. "Are you looking for death? Didn't you see the car?" a man shouted.
He was passing by in an ox cart, but Liu rushed over like a zombie and almost hit his cart.
The man scolded Liu, but Liu seemed not to hear him and just stared at the wheel.
Jiang Cheng looked worried. He hoped that nothing would happen to her again. But there were some things that he, as a man, couldn't say. He looked at Jiang Yunzhu.
Jiang Yunzhu understood, and took Liu's hand and said, "Aunt, the government will catch that man. Think about Lu Yuan."
When Lu Yuan was mentioned, there was finally some light in Liu's eyes. She looked at Jiang Yunzhu and suddenly tears fell like a dam bursting.
It was all her fault. She was a lowly person, but she coveted things that didn't belong to her, and in the end she had nothing.
She had previously suspected that Jiang Yunzhu had misunderstood, and that she was the stupidest person!
She was deceived, and the Jiang family was also deceived. She wanted to repay their kindness, but now she hurt them.
It's all her fault!
Fortunately, Jiang Yunzhu was not bullied by that man, otherwise she would never be able to atone for her sin even if she died.
She cried bitterly and was in despair. Jiang Yunzhu knew that no matter how much she tried to comfort her, it would be useless unless Wei Kangping was caught and the silver was recovered.
But, it's difficult.
Across the street, Shen Fengming and Yang Sheng stood there. Yang Sheng looked at the scene over there and said angrily, "We really can't count on those detectives. If our people were here, they would have caught those people long ago."
"When will our people arrive?" Shen Fengming asked.
"Wait two more days." Yang Sheng replied. Their horses were fast and they left the guards behind.
Shen Fengming nodded.
Yang Sheng also looked over there again. After two days, he promised to make those people regret coming into this world.
Jiang Cheng, Gu Yongde and Jiang Yunzhu returned to Changshi Village.
Jiang Cheng thanked Gu Yongde, but Gu Yongde waved his hands and said he couldn't help them at all, so he went home.
Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yunzhu went home and told Chen what happened. Chen covered her mouth and choked with sobs.
Jiang Yunzhu persuaded Chen again. In her opinion, it was really just a few taels of silver and it was fine as long as the person was fine.
Her attitude comforted Chen, otherwise she would have fallen seriously ill.
"Let's make lunch." Jiang Yunzhu said, they still had business to attend to.
Chen nodded quickly and got busy.
At this time, someone knocked on the door.
Jiang Yunzhu was in the yard and she went to open the door.
The door opened and she was stunned. The two people outside... Was she dazzled? She looked carefully and saw that they were Shen Fengming and Yang Sheng. Her face immediately darkened.
She wondered if Wuling County was a place with bad feng shui. First there was such a catastrophe, then people like Wei Kangping appeared, and now the God of Death had come again.
I've been really unlucky lately.
She thought that she might as well move away from this place when she made more money.
Yang Sheng: … Why does he have the illusion that he is being disliked again
At this time, Chen poked her head out from the kitchen and saw Shen Fengming and the others. She was also stunned for a moment, "Have you two sold all the grain you sold last time?"
Yang Sheng: … He nodded in confusion.
"I'm afraid the village has no grain to sell to you." Chen said. There are many mountains near Changshi Village, and the grain production is low. The price Yang Sheng paid for the grain last time was high, so everyone in the village who wanted to sell had already sold it to him.
"We are going to visit other counties this time. We just passed by here and came to see you." Yang Sheng did not lie. The case they were investigating was in another county. As he spoke, he took out a bunch of food like a magic trick, including citrus fruits, snacks, candied fruits and so on.
Just passing by, Jiang Yunzhu raised her eyebrows.
Chen was both surprised and a little worried. She was surprised that the two merchants who passed by actually came to see them, but she was worried because of what happened with Wei Kangping. Now everyone she saw looked like a bad person.
She knew she shouldn't think like that, so she immediately invited Shen Fengming and the other two in.
Arriving at the familiar side room again, Yang Sheng felt a little emotional.
At noon, since the two of them came to see Jiang Cheng and the others, and brought so many things, they were guests. Jiang Yunzhu prepared a table of food, and Jiang Cheng accompanied them, and everyone sat together to eat.
"This young man." Jiang Cheng said.
“Don’t call me Young Master, my name is Yang Sheng, he…” Yang Sheng looked at Shen Fengming. How should he introduce himself by his full name
Jiang Yunzhu also looked at Shen Fengming and suddenly held her breath. What if he said his name was Shen Fengming? Shen Fengming, the commander of the Qilin Guard, had been heard of by more than half of the people in the Xia Dynasty, if not all of them.
If Jiang Cheng and Chen heard him call him Shen Fengming...
"Shen Jieyu." Shen Fengming said. His name is Shen Fengming, and his courtesy name is Jieyu. Few people know his courtesy name.
Hearing him say this, Jiang Yunzhu somehow breathed a sigh of relief and continued to eat with her head down.
The Jiang family no longer serves breakfast. It is cold in winter and they go to bed early.
It was late at night and a north wind was blowing. Suddenly, Shen Fengming opened his eyes.
Next to him, Yang Sheng woke up a step slower than him, but also woke up.
"Someone." Yang Sheng said.
"Um."
The two of them quietly got up and followed the sound to the backyard of the Jiang family.
There is a mountain behind the Jiang family. At the foot of the mountain, several people are standing there shivering.
"Why hasn't the boss come yet? Didn't he say he would leave Wuling County after kidnapping the girl?" The man who spoke had shifty eyes and a knife in his hand. He was the one who followed Wei Kangping yesterday.
The county constables were trying to catch Wei Kangping like crazy. Wei Kangping didn't dare to stay in Wuling County any longer, but he was unwilling to leave like this.
This group of people always try to cheat whenever they can, and if they can't cheat or get caught, they will do anything.
Wei Kangping decided to kidnap Jiang Yunzhu tonight.
He knew that Jiang Cheng was the only young and strong man in the Jiang family. There were six of them, carrying knockout incense. They sneaked into the Jiang family, knocked the man unconscious, and then let him do whatever he wanted.
However, he had one thing to do before leaving. The silver he had obtained in Wuling County was hidden in a secret place.
He went to get the silver first, and then gathered with a few others at the back door of the Jiang family.
Yang Sheng stood on the high wall and used his arm to hit Shen Fengming. Fortunately, they came early, otherwise Miss Jiang might...
As a result, his arm hit nothing.
Shen Fengming had already jumped off the high wall.
"Woo..." The people below didn't even have time to scream.
"Leave two alive." Yang Sheng said anxiously in a low voice and quickly jumped off the wall.
There was another sound of broken bones, and Shen Fengming finally stopped and stood in the night like a Shura.
The remaining two people, an old lady and a thin man, were so scared that they wet their pants.
Yang Sheng pinched his nose. He felt scared now. Why should he have done that earlier? Why did he mess with this killer god when he could have messed with anyone else
He kicked the skinny man and said, "Get up. I have something to ask you."
I must ask where that guy named Wei went.
Also, there is so much blood on the ground. What if the Jiang family finds it tomorrow and scares them
The thin man and the old lady didn't know where Wei Kangping went, they only knew that he went west.
Then, the two men began to carry the bodies and clean up the scene.
The two men suspected that they had seen a ghost and did not dare to look up or speak.
Shen Fengming and Yang Sheng stood there, looking into the distance, waiting for Wei Kangping to come.
As a result, after waiting for more than half an hour, the ground over there had been cleaned, but Wei Kangping did not come.
The two looked at each other and decided to investigate in that direction.
Yang Sheng tied the thin man and the old lady to a tree, and then followed Shen Fengming all the way west.
After walking about a mile, the two suddenly saw a bundle on the ground.
When I opened it, it was full of gold and silver jewelry.
This can’t be Wei Kangping’s, right? What about the others
The two men continued forward with the bags, but saw no one, so they had to turn back with the bags.
"This is the boss's bag." The thin man recognized a bag of silver in the bag, which was the silver he had cheated from Liu.
"Where did he go?" Yang Sheng asked.
The thin man didn't know either. Logically speaking, Wei Kangping wouldn't leave the money behind and go away, unless...
"Interesting." Yang Sheng said, he looked at Shen Fengming and said, "Remember the case I showed you? The magistrate of Yuming County also disappeared just like that, and was not found until a month later. Tsk tsk, that's tragic."
"The first person to disappear was Minister Cao of Luzhou. Three years ago, he was in mourning at home and went to the temple to burn incense, then disappeared," said Shen Fengming.
"Is this true? I thought only people died in Yuming County." Yang Sheng asked.
Shen Fengming glanced at him. If he was just a county magistrate of Yuming County, how could the emperor agree to let them leave the capital? He checked a lot of files and found that this matter was not that simple.
"So, the murderer may have come to Wuling County now?" Yang Sheng asked.
“Not sure.” Shen Fengming replied. There was too little information.
"I hope so." Yang Sheng said. In this way, they wouldn't have to go to Yuming County. Besides, Wei Kangping was in that man's hands. He hoped that he could enjoy himself.
At this time, in a dark cave, Wei Kangping was awakened by a bucket of cold water. He looked at the person opposite him with a fierce look. He didn't expect that he would be pecked in the eye by a goose today after hunting geese all day.
He wanted to get up, but found himself tied to a big rock and unable to move at all.
"What do you want?" he asked.
The man did not answer, but reached out to untie his belt.
Wei Kangping was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled, "Let me go, I promise to let you..."
Then he saw what the man was holding, and his face was immediately filled with horror. “What are you going to do? Let me go!”
The screams like pigs being slaughtered were endless.
The next day, as soon as the city gate opened, Captain Hu led his men out of the city gate, limping out.
Yesterday, we didn't catch anyone, so the master really beat them each with five strokes of the cane. He also kept five strokes in mind, but didn't beat them because he was afraid it would be difficult for them to handle the case.
If we fail to catch the person today, we will get ten strokes of the cane.
These detectives were so angry that they decided to find those damn swindlers today.
At this moment, two figures carrying bundles came running towards them, shouting, "Help, help!"
Captain Hu immediately drew his knife and got into position. He wanted to see who was bold enough to commit murder at the city gate.
At this time, a constable next to him said, "Boss, why do these two people look so familiar?"
Doesn’t she look familiar? They had been looking for her all day yesterday. An old lady with a mole on her nose.
The detectives were overjoyed, as if a pie had fallen from the sky, and they quickly blocked the road to prevent the two men from escaping.
Then they realized that they were redundant and the two men had no intention of running away.
When they got close, they hid behind the constable, as if there was something terrible chasing them.
The detectives looked over there, but there was nothing!
"Help, help." The two men grabbed a few constables and seemed to be able to say only these two words.
Detective Hu quickly took his men back to report.
At this time, County Magistrate Meng was walking around anxiously in the room. He did not sleep well last night and got up very early this morning.
When he heard that someone had been caught, he was surprised and happy. He went to interrogate the person immediately and then asked Captain Hu where he had been caught.
Captain Hu was embarrassed and said, "At the city gate."
"What's going on?" asked County Magistrate Meng.
Captain Hu told the story of what happened before, but fearing that County Magistrate Meng would not believe it, he asked the constable next to him to tell the story. In fact, the scene was too weird.
Of course County Magistrate Meng believed what he said. Where the Qilin Guards were, anything could happen. He was only worried about whether he was doing a good enough job!
Early that morning, a constable knocked on the Jiang family's door and told them that they had caught two suspects and asked them to go and identify them and collect their money.
Recognizing people is easy, but collecting money? Jiang Cheng and Chen were so surprised that they kept asking the constable, "Can I really collect money?"
It certainly wouldn't be that fast. Even if the stolen money was found, it would have to wait until the case was over before it could be returned to the victim. But County Magistrate Meng was in a hurry, so he decided to do everything as quickly as possible.
This time Jiang Cheng, Chen and Jiang Yunzhu went to the county town together. In front of the county government office, they met Liu.
Liu looked very haggard, her eyes were swollen like peaches, and no one knew how many times she cried yesterday.
Chen was originally a little angry with her, thinking that if it weren't for her, their family would never have gotten into this kind of trouble. But seeing her like this, and knowing that the money had been recovered, she felt sympathy for her instead.
"Mrs. Chen, I'm sorry." This was the first thing Liu said when she saw Chen.
"Forget it, you didn't mean it." Chen sighed.
Liu wanted to cry but couldn't, she had cried all her tears yesterday.
Over there, Li Biaotou and his companions also arrived. Next to Li Biaotou was a young man with a very pale face and delicate features, looking frail and sickly.
Jiang Yunzhu knew that this was probably Li Yan.
"I was too impulsive yesterday." Li Biaotou was a cheerful man. Knowing that he had wronged Jiang Cheng and others yesterday, he apologized immediately.
"It's okay, you're anxious too." Jiang Cheng said.
The two men smiled at each other and put aside their grudges.
Everyone entered the lobby of the county government together.
Captain Hu dragged out the thin man and the old lady for them to identify.
Liu immediately recognized the old lady as the person who hit her car that day.
In addition to knowing the old lady, Li Yan also recognized the thin man as the one who blackmailed him that day.
After signing and sealing, Magistrate Meng pronounced a verdict on their case. The mule and Li Yan's stolen belongings were returned to the Li family, the nine taels of silver were given to the Jiang family, and the seventy-five taels of silver that belonged to Liu were also returned to her.
Coming out of the county government office, everyone had smiles on their faces.
"It's a pity that the guy named Wei hasn't been caught yet." Li Escort said bitterly.
"That's right." Jiang Cheng felt a lot more relaxed.
Li Biaotou looked at him and suddenly asked, "Do you want to buy a mule?"
Jiang Cheng didn't understand what he meant.
Li Biaotou patted the mule and said, "I almost hit the wrong person. So, I will sell this mule to you for nine taels of silver as an apology. This mule is also destined to be with you."
"How can this be possible?" Jiang Cheng quickly refused.
Li Biaotou glared and said, "Why not? Let's do it!" As he said that, he stuffed the mule's reins into Jiang Cheng's hands, not giving him a chance to refuse.
Li Biaotou led his men away. Jiang Cheng was leading the mule and was still a little slow to react.
Chen was happy and touched the mule. She felt that Li Biaotou might be right. This mule was indeed destined to be with their family. After many twists and turns, they returned to their home.
The family led the mule back home and told Old Man Chen what happened. Unlike yesterday when the whole family was depressed, the atmosphere at home today became noticeably cheerful.
In the side room, Shen Fengming and Yang Sheng were watching. Yang Sheng crossed his arms with a smile on his face.
Shen Fengming didn't smile, but his eyes weren't as cold anymore.