conspiracy crime 4

Chapter 20
Her face was pale, and she groaned secretly in her heart, trying to recall what happened and why she was here.She remembered that after she returned to the Su family's mansion, she and her brother Su Bicheng settled the matter of overturning the Qin family's case, and then his brother asked her to have dinner.After eating, she felt very sleepy and fell asleep without knowing it. She vaguely felt someone lifting her in her sleep, but she was so deep in sleep that she didn't even open her eyes to look.Then when I woke up, I found that I had arrived here.

What is this place?With so many instruments of torture piled up, the solemn atmosphere is frightening. Could it be the magistrate's yamen?What the hell is going on here?I was clearly in the Su family's mansion, why did I come here all of a sudden?Where is my brother?Where did he go?This dog official Tong Ziang is looking for me everywhere, how could I have thrown myself into a trap and appeared here?How is Qin Yue?Will she come to my rescue?How will Tong Ziang deal with me...

The more Su Bi'e thought about it, the more frightened she became, her whole body couldn't stop shaking.

Tong Ziang stared at her for a while, then suddenly asked her: "Are you Su Bi'e?"

Su Bi'e was in a dangerous situation, she had already lost her position, and she didn't know how to hide it, so she nodded her head tremblingly, and let out a "woo woo" sound from her mouth.

Only then did Tong Zi'ang feel completely at ease, thinking that he had already proven his integrity through experience, and this time he would not make a mistake in killing.As long as this bitch dies, sir, I can sit back and relax and wait for my promotion.

He turned around, walked in front of Yao San, stretched out his hand and made a decapitating gesture, and said in a low voice: "Kill her first and then dismember her body. Make sure to cut her face to pieces. Even if someone finds out, you won't be able to distinguish her face." , I can’t see the identity. Then I packed it in a sack, carried it to the back mountain, dug a deep hole and buried it. Only you and the four of them can know about this matter, and there must be no news of it. After the matter is completed, everyone You will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, and after my master, I am promoted to be Huguang’s procuratorate, all of you will follow me to Wuchang Gao.”

Yao San was full of joy, and whispered: "Don't worry, my lord, and I promise to do it properly."

After Tong Ziang finished explaining, he looked back at Su Bi'e, smiled triumphantly, stopped talking, turned around and walked straight to the door.

Yao San understood what he meant, as soon as he turned around, he immediately took the knife in his hand, walked around behind Su Bi'e, raised the knife and slashed at her neck with a hey sound.

Tong Zhifu's front foot was about to step out of the gate of the signing room, and the steel knife in Yao San's hand had just touched Su Bi'e's neck, when he heard a loud shout from outside the door: "The imperial envoy is here to inspect the censor Wei."

Like a thunderclap on the ground, Tong Ziang's surprise was really serious, Yao San was so frightened that he trembled all over, the steel knife couldn't hold it, and fell to the ground with a bang.

Only a sound of footsteps was heard, and an adult with a strict appearance and three beards fluttering under his chin had already led a few attendants through the lobby of the magistrate's yamen, and walked straight to the signing room.

Tong Zhifu had met this lord when he went to Beijing to report on his duties, and knew him to be Mr. Wei Zaihou, the censor of Zuo Du of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. This really frightened him.

He was going to tell Yao San to hide Su Bi'e, but how could there be time?I saw Mr. Wei walked lightly, and had already strode into the signing room.

"The next official, Tong Zi'ang, prefect of Qingyang, has a meeting with the imperial envoy."

Although Zhifu Tong had ghosts in his heart and was sweating all over, he had no choice but to force himself to calm down and stepped forward to pay homage.

At the same time, he had secretly made up his mind that if Lord Wei saw Su Bi'e lying in the corner and asked him, he would say that she was a female suspect just caught by the arresting room and was being interrogated in the signing room.

Anyway, the imperial envoy didn't know Su Bi'e, and Su Bi'e was speechless, so there was no flaw in his reply.As soon as Mr. Wei left the signing room, he immediately ordered Su Bi'e to be executed. Even if Mr. Wei investigated the case between the Qin family and Su Bi'e in the future, no one would do anything to him if there was no proof of death.

Lord Wei glanced at him, nodded slightly, and said, "Prefect Tong doesn't need to be polite."

Seeing that he was not in a hurry to ask about Su Bi'e, Tong Ziang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to stand up, but suddenly a girl appeared from behind Master Wei, shouting: "Mother!" and rushed towards Su Bi'e who was lying on the ground .

When he looked up, his face turned pale and he complained endlessly.

He knew this girl from Qin Jutian and Su Bi'e's daughter, Qin Yue.

He never dreamed that Qin Yue would come with the imperial envoy, and he panicked immediately.

Qin Yue rushed to her mother, untied the rope for her, and took out the walnut stuffed in her mouth.

Su Bi'e's narrow escape was like a nightmare.

The mother and daughter reunited after the catastrophe, as if in a lifetime, with mixed feelings, they couldn't help crying.

After crying for a while, Qin Yue suddenly remembered something, hurriedly wiped away the tears from her mother's face, pointed to Mr. Wei and said, "Mother, this is Mr. Wei, the inspector censor from the capital. He was still resting in Ningdu County. , it was my daughter who went to Ningdu and asked him to come and save you at Xingye."

Su Bi'e hastily suppressed her mourning, looked towards Mr. Wei, and suddenly rushed over, knelt down at his feet, and begged in tears: "Mr. Wei, the woman almost became the victim of Tong Zhifu's sword, please." My lord is the master of the women."

Qin Yue also had tears in her eyes, and then knelt down, saying: "My lord, what the Minnv said last night is true, please be aware of the details, be the master of the Minnen, and avenge our Qin family."

10
How could Qin Yue be with Master Wei? What did she say to Master Wei last night?

It turned out that yesterday afternoon Qin Yue felt that it was dangerous for her mother to join her uncle, so she immediately rode to Qingyang City.

Because she once made a big disturbance in the court and injured the servants, and the official documents of the magistrate's yamen wanting her were still pasted at the gates of the four sides of the city, she did not dare to enter the city through the four gates on horseback. It was already dark.

She passed by the Meijiakeng, took a detour through the small path and entered the back door of the Su family's mansion, and lurked in the back garden for a while. Seeing that the Su family was doing well, she dared to sneak into the front yard to check on her mother's Xiaoluo.

Finally, she found her mother in a very remote hut in the west, and as she expected, her mother had already passed out under the sweat medicine secretly poured by her uncle Subicheng.

She was about to jump in to save people, but she heard her uncle Su Bicheng instructing the two servants in the room, telling them to take her mother out before Haishi and quietly place it at the gate of Yao San's house.

Qin Yue was shocked when she heard this: put my mother at the door of Yao San's house, Yao San will definitely report to Tong Zhifu immediately after she finds out, if my mother falls into the hands of this dog official, will she still survive?

She felt cold: what a poisonous plan to borrow a knife to kill someone.Angrily, as soon as he gritted his silver teeth, he wanted to jump in and kill the wolf-hearted uncle with one knife, and save his mother.

When she was about to start, she suddenly heard someone coughing lightly at the door. She was lurking on the roof, looked down carefully, and then realized that her uncle's personal guard, that is, her master Jiang Jianhan, was guarding the door of the room. She was startled. I thought to myself that since master followed his uncle's advice and pretended to be a killer to kill my mother, then he and uncle would naturally be the same as each other. Fortunately, I was not in a hurry to do it, otherwise I would not be able to kill my uncle or save my mother if I rushed down. I can't get away either.

Although she couldn't understand why her uncle did this for a while, judging from the current situation, her mother's life was not in danger for the time being.

Since there are experts like Jiang Jianhan guarding her side, and there are many martial artists and servants in the Su residence, it is not easy for her to rescue her mother tonight.

She frowned and thought about it, then suddenly made up her mind, quietly retreated from the back door of the Su family's back garden, and rode her horse towards Fuzhou.

She had already heard that Mr. Wei, the imperial envoy from the capital, had left Fuzhou and was on his way to Qingyang.

If the uncle's plot is successful, her mother will fall into Tong Zhifu's hands tomorrow morning. The prefect's yamen is heavily guarded, and it is even more difficult for her to save someone from Tong Ziang.

For now, only by finding the imperial envoy, telling him everything, and asking him to come forward to save people, can her mother have a chance of survival.

So she galloped to greet Master Wei on the road he came to Qingyang, and finally found Master Wei in Ningdu County, tens of miles north of Qingyang City.

Relying on her skill and courage, she broke into Mr. Wei's residence at night, and cried out her family's grievances to him, asking Mr. Wei to save her mother, severely punish corrupt officials, and avenge the Qin family.

Mrs. Wei is a strict official, although he is skeptical of her one-sided words, but human life is at stake, and it involves the court officials he is about to assess next, so he attaches great importance to it, and immediately keeps things simple, and brings a few attendants with Qin Yue. Let's go to Qingyang City together in the starry night.

As soon as he arrived at the Yamen of Qingyang Zhifu, Mr. Wei immediately identified himself and asked the yamen guard Tong Zhifu where he is now?

When the yamen servant saw that he was an imperial envoy, he didn't dare to neglect him, so he had to tell the truth.

So Master Wei went straight to the signing room, and finally arrived before Zhifu Tong murdered Su Bi'e.

Mr. Wei's eyes were like lightning, as soon as he entered the signing room, he saw a cowardly woman tied to the ground, surrounded by a few fierce servants, a shining steel knife fell on the woman's head, and he understood in his heart Eighty-nine points, and seeing Tong Zhifu's face, and the scene of Qin Yue's mother and daughter crying in each other's arms, I believed in my own judgment even more.

Tong Zhifu wanted to kill Su Bi'e to silence her, paving the way for his promotion, but he was hit by Mr. Yu Shi who came ahead of time, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.He tried to stay calm, stood by the side of Lord Yushi, and secretly observed the expression on his face, seeing his face was livid and sinking like water, he secretly screamed in his heart that something was wrong.

However, he is a shrewd person, and he has been in the officialdom for many years, so he is quite adaptable. When he saw that the censor's face was unkind, and the situation was not good for him, his thoughts changed, a sly light flashed in his eyes, and he had already figured out a countermeasure.

As soon as Lord Yushi spoke to ask, he immediately denied it, and insisted that Qin Yue spouted blood out of nothing and framed the court official.

As long as you pass the hurdle of Mr. Yushi in front of you, you will find a way to spend money to settle the matter in the future.

All of a sudden, the signing room was so quiet that only the beating heartbeat was left. Everyone had their own concerns and quietly waited for Lord Yushi to speak.

Unexpectedly, Master Wei's stern gaze swept around the room, and suddenly stared like a nail on the face of Yao San, the chief arrester of the prefect's yamen, his face darkened, and he shouted coldly: "Yao San, are you guilty?"

Yao San never dreamed that the imperial envoy would actually take the knife on him, so he trembled in fright, his knees softened, and he knelt on the ground with a plop, and hurriedly kowtowed and begged for forgiveness to evade his guilt, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, spare my life, my lord, it's okay The villain's affairs are all instigated by the prefect, and the villain is just following orders... He, he took a lot of money from the Su family, killed Qin Jutian, forced Qin Jutian's old parents to death, Qin Jutian's son Qin Ming was imprisoned, and his daughter Qin Yue was wanted... It was only after Su Bi'e unexpectedly appeared that he realized that he had committed a huge injustice. Even his life is at stake. In order to cover up the truth and deceive the imperial envoy to preserve his political achievements and future, he came up with a murderous plan, asking the villain to set up an ambush on Su Bi'e's way back to his hometown, killing people and destroying the corpse and destroying the evidence... ...The villain is completely forced by Qin Mingxing, I hope my lord will see clearly, please spare my life..."

Lord Wei sneered, without speaking, and looked straight at Tong Zhifu with lightning-like eyes.

Tong Ziang never dreamed that Lord Yushi would open the gap on Yao San first, the countermeasures he had thought up in advance were completely useless, before Yao San could finish speaking, his eyes darkened and he collapsed on the ground...

When he heard the news that Lord Censor Wei came to Qingyang City ahead of time, Su Bicheng was having breakfast in the dining room of the Su family's mansion. At that time, he only smiled and did not show too much concern.

At the end of the game, he was playing chess with Mr. Liu, the accountant, when suddenly someone came to report: "Master Zhifu is here to visit."

Su Bicheng was stunned, a chess piece in his hand dropped on the chessboard, hesitating for a while, and said: "Please meet him in the study."

Su Bicheng left the chess room and just entered the study when a servant led Tong Zhifu in.

Su Bicheng hastily greeted him at the door, made a big salute, ordered people to watch the tea and said: "I heard that the imperial envoy arrived in Qingyang City early this morning, and the prefect didn't stay with him in the yamen, but came to the humble house, I don't know why See you?"

Tong Zhifu said: "Mr. Yu Shi has just arrived in Qingyang, and Su Xianggong already knew about it. It seems that Su Xianggong is really well-informed. Mr. Wei came to Qingyang for the first time, and he was resting at the Yamen Hotel. Since I have free time now, I came here specially to express my thanks to Mr. Su."

Su Bicheng wondered: "Thank you? Thank me for what?"

"I would like to thank you..." Tong Zhifu just said this half of the sentence, but suddenly stopped talking, and cast his eyes on the servant of the Su family standing at the door, showing hesitation.Su Bicheng understood his intention, frowned slightly, and waved the servant back.

Tong Zhifu immediately got up, poked his head out of the door to look around, then turned around and closed the door tightly, and said in a low voice: "I came here to thank Su Xianggong for killing my relatives righteously, and handed over my younger sister Su Bi'e to my disposal."

Su Bicheng's expression changed when he heard the words, and he said in a trembling voice, "You, what did you say?"

Zhifu Tong smiled, stretched out his hand and made a decapitation gesture, and said proudly: "Now Lingmei has been properly dealt with by this official, and Lord Yu Shi has not aroused any suspicion at all. My confidant's serious troubles have been eliminated, and my official career is not hindered. Come to the door and say thank you to show your gratitude."

Su Bicheng trembled all over, but didn't notice the scalding hot tea spilled on his hand, he blurted out and asked: "You, how do you know that I put her..." As soon as the words came out, he suddenly realized that he had slipped his mouth, and hurriedly shut up. He closed his mouth, but his eyes looked at him hesitantly.

Tong Zhifu looked at his face, pretended to be relaxed and smiled slightly, and said: "As the governor of a prefecture, I still have some eyes and ears in this Qingyang City. If there is any trouble in the city, I want to hide it from me. But it's not easy. To tell you the truth, when you sent someone to leave Lingmei at the gate of Yao San's house this morning, one of my subordinates happened to see it, and he also recognized the two people as servants of your mansion. so……"

11
"What, what?"

As if struck by lightning, Su Bicheng shook his wrist, and the teacup fell to the ground with a bang and broke.

He quickly realized his gaffe, forced himself to remain calm, and said, "My lord, what are you talking about? I can't understand anything next time."

Tong Zhifu laughed, walked over and patted him on the shoulder, pretending to be intimate and said: "I told you what was on your mind, right? You don't need to be nervous, and you don't need to be afraid. I have absolutely no intention of pursuing this matter. Besides, you have helped me." This official is very busy, I am promoted to get rich in one fell swoop, thank you before it is too late."

Under Su Bicheng's panic, he saw that the magistrate had no intention of blaming him, so he felt relieved, looked at him and asked, "Is your lord telling the truth?" It was placed in front of Yao San's house.

Tong Zhifu laughed and said: "Of course what I said is the truth, what I say is true, and if I don't pursue it, I will naturally not pursue it."

Suddenly the topic changed, and he looked at him again and said, "It's just that I still have one thing that I don't understand, so please don't hide it from Mr. Su."

Su Bicheng said: "What's not clear, my lord?"

Tong Zhifu said: "According to common sense, you should be very happy to make my sister come back from the dead and return to my hometown. You should be very happy to welcome her warmly. Why would you want to send a sheep to the tiger's mouth instead, and make your sister..."

Su Bicheng's expression was gloomy, and he sighed and said: "To be honest, I did this for two reasons. First, my sister is not a woman, and as a married woman, she ran away with others, and lost our Su family." The face of a scholarly family has no face to live in the world; secondly, I am afraid that my sister will insist on overturning the case for the Qin family. If the government pursues it, Su will not escape the crime of false accusation. At present, the imperial court is preparing to award a batch of third-rank and above Official, I am honored to be on the list of candidates. If something goes wrong at this critical moment, it will be a great disadvantage to me, Su. It just so happens that I know that the magistrate has the same worries as I, and is trying to find my sister Whereabouts, so Su made a favor after his sister was stunned."

Tong Zhifu squinted at him, and said with deep meaning: "No way, falsely accusing a virtuous person is not a serious crime of beheading. In order to cover up this small crime, it will not make you, a famous scholar in the south of the Yangtze River who has read all the books of sages and sages, an imperial court successor. Zhilang is willing to risk his reputation and ruin his brother and sister's family relationship, and send his sister to hell?"

Su Bicheng looked sullen, stared at him and said: "I don't know what your lord's intentions are when you say this? Could it be that your lord suspects that there is something hidden in the righteous killing of relatives?"

Zhifu Tong refused to give an inch, staring at him and said: "Well, I will ask you now, what happened to the unnamed female corpse found in Meijiakeng three years ago?"

Su Bicheng was startled, and asked, "What nameless female corpse?"

Tong Zhifu said: "Three years ago, the corpse of an unknown woman was discovered in Meijiakeng. At the beginning, Su Xianggong insisted that it was his sister Su Bi'e. The government was deceived by you and believed it. Now that your sister has returned safely, the corpse of the unknown woman is another who?"

Su Bicheng's expression changed, he stood up abruptly, flicked his sleeves and said angrily: "That's none of my business, how can I know who the nameless female corpse is?"

Zhifu Tong stared at him and sneered, "If it really has nothing to do with you, Mr. Su, why would you try your best to cover up the truth, even betraying your own sister? If I guessed correctly, the nameless female corpse must have something to do with you." related."

Su Bicheng raised his head suddenly, looked at him without fear, smiled coldly, and said in a mocking tone: "Master Zhifu, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately. Because of the place that appeared in Meijiakeng With an unnamed female corpse, you have already unjustly killed Qin Jutian, does your lord still want to unjustly kill another Su Bicheng?"

Tong Zhifu couldn't help but change his expression when he poked the sore spot in the center, and said: "Okay, since Mr. Su insists that he has nothing to do with the unknown female corpse, then I have nothing to say. I just want to tell you Mr. Su has three things."

Su Bicheng was angry, and said angrily: "My lord, please speak, I will listen carefully."

(End of this chapter)