Chapter 254 Ghosts
After a while, the constables escorted a limping middle-aged man out of the cave. The man's calves were covered in blood, and it was obviously bitten by the little black dog. Xiao Hei followed behind with his head raised.
The follower Chang Fu recognized the man at a glance and said to Yang Qiuchi: "That's right, it's Wang Zhaoli and Wang Dianshi!"
The horse succeeds! No, it should be the dog succeeds!
Yang Qiuchi walked up to the man and asked, "Wang Dianshi, do you know why we were trying to capture you?"
Wang Dianshi didn't know Yang Qiuchi, but when he looked at the county magistrate uniform he was wearing, he guessed that he was the new magistrate. His face turned pale and he was trembling and unable to speak.
At this time, several detectives also walked out carrying a large bag of things and placed them at Yang Qiuchi's feet. Yang Qiuchi opened one of them casually, which was filled with gold, silver and jewelry.
Yang Qiuchi smiled and said, "Wang Dianshi, it seems that you have plundered a lot of people's wealth and ointment over the years!" Then, he looked stern and shouted, "Where is your concubine Zhao Qinglan?"
Wang Dianshi said dejectedly: "She, she went down the mountain to buy things seven days ago and never came back."
Yang Qiuchi then understood that Zhao Sulan might have escaped privately, leaving Wang Dianshi alone in the mountains, so hungry that he had to risk going down the mountain to buy things. Unexpectedly, his actions were exposed as soon as he appeared.
Yang Qiuchi asked: "Has she escaped? Have you ever said anything before leaving?"
"Qinglan won't leave me and escape, she didn't take her clothes, gold, silver and jewelry."
Oh? Yang Qiuchi was slightly surprised. This was strange. If Zhao Qinglan wanted to escape, with her martial arts, Wang Dianshi would not be able to stop him. Even if she cared about the love between husband and wife and did not stole Wang Dianshi's stolen money and goods, her own belongings and gold and silver jewelry would probably be taken away. Now it seems that something might have happened to her.
Yang Qiuchi asked, "Wang Dianshi, you killed Yun Lang's wife and brother-in-law and then blamed Yun Lang, right?"
Wang Dianshi knew that since this county magistrate could lead the constable to find him, his own cicada would not succeed, and his crimes had been exposed. If you want to hide it, you can't hide it. It's better to honestly confess and strive for a good attitude to see if there is a glimmer of hope and honestly confess:
"I did it. That morning, Su Lan and I were drinking in the tavern. When I saw Yun Lang's wife and a man walking down the restaurant, I was moved and wanted to take revenge on Yun Lang's revenge for breaking my legs. They didn't know my concubine Zhao Su Lan, so I asked her to go down and find a way to get close to them. They led them to a secluded alley behind the yamen and knocked them unconscious."
Yang Qiuchi said: "Your concubine, a female, dealing with two people, is she capable of doing this?"
"My concubine used to be a good person in the world and had some martial arts skills."
"You knocked them out and you have to transport them to the inner yamen. How did you hide it from the eyes of the other people inside?" Yang Qiuchi asked.
"My Didian Shi Neiya is on the high wall of the alley. In order to facilitate private entry and exit, I secretly opened a small door on the side of the alley in the yamen. A small house was built outside to cover it. We transported them into the inner yamen through the small door."
According to the rules, the yamen can only have one main door, and it is not allowed to open a small door in another place. Yang Qiuchi teased: "It turns out that the back door started with you! You must have done a lot of bad things in and out of this small door! Okay, you can continue."
Wang Dianshi wiped his cold sweat and continued, "We hid them secretly in a small hut, and then I strangled the man to death... After raped Yun Langdi's wife, she also strangled her to death."
Yang Qiuchi slapped in the face and cursed: "You thief, you raped someone's wife and killed someone to silence her. It's so cruel. This slap was for Yun Tianqing! Then he said!"
Wang Dianshi was slapped by the slap in the face, and he covered his mouth and screamed, "We were going to find time to transport it out of the city and bury it, but at noon that day, the official Mulong of Zhenyuanzhou ran to the county town to find me and told me that the Inspectorate was investigating my taxes, favoritism, corruption and abuse of law over the years."
"I was very scared. After seeing him off, I saw Yun Lang with a waist knife on the way back. I secretly heard him asking if anyone saw his wife and his wife's brother-in-law. I came up with this way to escape. I ran back to the yamen and asked my concubine Zhao Sulan to trick him into the alley and then knock him out and then transport him into the inner yamen and hide it in the study."
"That night, I deliberately asked my concubine and I to work in the study and asked my follower Qian Gui to go back to sleep first. Then we took off our clothes and put on the body of Yun Lang's wife and his brother-in-law, stabbed them a few times, and applied their faces with blood, so that Yun Lang could not recognize them. Then I shaved my head, put on Yun Lang's dress, pretended to be Yun Lang's face, covered my face, and asked my concubine to go to the bedroom to set fire."
Yang Qiuchi interrupted and asked, "Run to the bedroom to set fire? Why don't you put that effort into it? Why don't you put it in the study?" As soon as he finished asking, he immediately understood, "Oh, you want to keep the fire farther away, so that there is a buffer time to fake the scene. It's so cunning, let's continue!"
Wang Dianshi was surprised by Yang Qiuchi's rapid reaction. He opened his mouth wide and looked at Yang Qiuchi. He heard that he wanted to continue saying that he continued: "After the fire started, my concubine saw Qian Gui running from the window and calling us. After gestured to me, I pretended to commit murder and stabbed the body with Yun Lang's waist knife. Qian Gui was scared away."
"I then stuffed my waist knife into Yunling's hand, poured water on his face, and hid immediately. When Yunling woke up, the room was already full of smoke. He ran out without recognizing it after seeing the body. Then my concubine and I secretly escaped from the small door and fled here."
The truth is revealed, but unfortunately, I didn’t catch my accomplice Zhao Qinglan.
Yang Qiuchi asked the constables to go into the cave and search carefully to see if there were any other exits and hiding places. After a while, several constables came out of the cave with torches and reported that the cave was not too deep and there was no other exit.
Yang Qiuchi ordered Wang Dianshi to tie him up and walked down the mountain along the direction he pointed out that Zhao Sulan went down the mountain, preparing to search along the way to see if there were any traces of Zhao Sulan.
There is no road here, all of them are driving the way down the mountain in the thorns. The speed of travel is relatively slow. After walking for about an hour, Xiao Hei, who was following Yang Qiuchi, suddenly stopped and yelled. Yang Qiuchi knew that Xiao Hei would not scream for no reason, so there must be something wrong.
Waving his hand to stop the team from moving forward, Yang Qiuchi squatted down, touched Xiao Hei's head, and said, "Search it!"
Xiao Hei and Yang Qiuchi have been together for so long, and have been able to accurately understand his orders. They lowered their heads and sniffed east and west in the grass. Yang Qiuchi and others followed it and slowly searched down the mountain.
After a cup of tea, Xiaohei stood up and barked towards Yang Qiuchi, reporting that he had found something.
Yang Qiuchi also stood up and looked forward. It was already evening. The sky in the jungle was already dark, and the scenery around was even more hazy, as if the ghosts in the jungle had begun to rise slowly from the grass, wandering among the woods. The mountain wind blew, and the whimpering sound seemed to be their grim smile.
Song Yuner was a little nervous and couldn't help but grab Yang Qiuchi's arm, her voice trembling: "Brother, it's so scary here..."
Are you wrong? Yang Qiuchi thought to himself, you have martial arts skills and your master is also by your side. If you don’t ask your master for protection, what’s the use of holding me a weak scholar?
Along the way, Song Yuner was very intimate with her, intentionally or unintentionally acting like a little girl and eager for her own care. Did she subconsciously make it for her master Liu Ruobing?
You know, women are very sensitive to emotions, even if they are a carefree tomboy like Song Yuner. Yang Qiuchi thought to himself, did she realize that Liu Ruobing had an unusual relationship with her, and deliberately used this method to declare her early occupation?
No, Yang Qiuchi doesn't believe that Song Yuner has such a scheming. With her personality, if she finds something wrong, she will definitely explain it to herself in person, and will not use this method. It's almost the same if she likes to be smart.
Although Song Yuner has martial arts skills, she is actually born timid, so her fear is not her pretentious. Understanding this festival, Yang Qiuchi patted her little hand very manly and comforted her: "Don't be afraid of Yuner, I have a brother here."
Song Yuner nodded, grabbed Yang Qiuchi's arm and approached him tighter, and his eyes looked around with caution.
Yang Qiuchi looked carefully into the jungle that had already begun to dim ahead, but found nothing. There was a waist-high thatched grass and thorns in front of him were densely covered with woods. He looked at Liu Ruobing nervously and asked with his eyes whether there was an enemy in front of him.
Liu Ruobing seemed not to notice the intimate actions of Yang Qiuchi and Song Yuner just now. He listened carefully and shook his head gently.
Yang Qiuchi was a little strange and squatted down and touched Xiao Hei's little head: "Hey! What are you doing? Why are you calling me without anything?"
The little black dog sobbed twice, looked at Yang Qiuchi with little eyes, and looked aggrieved.
Yang Qiuchi was wondering. At this moment, Liu Ruobing suddenly shouted: "Mr. Yang!"
Yang Qiuchi stood up and looked at Liu Ruobing.
Liu Ruobing raised his hand and pointed at an ancient tree dozens of steps ahead: "There is something on that branch!"
Yang Qiuchi put on a pergola in his hand and looked towards Liu Ruobing's finger. The jungle was dark, and he saw only the shadows of the trees swaying. He didn't notice anything special. He said to himself: "Nothing!"
Chapter completed!