conspiracy crime 4

Chapter 22
Although Su Bicheng didn't know Mr. Wei, but seeing the rank of official uniform on his body, he knew that the imperial envoy must have arrived. He was secretly startled, and was about to go up to pay homage when he caught a glimpse of Su Bi'e Qin Yuemu standing behind Mr. Wei The two girls felt as if they had been hit by a sap, their brains buzzed, their bodies swayed, and they almost fell over, crying inwardly: Didn't this girl Qin Yue be killed by Jiang Jianhan in the Yangtze River by mistake because she was dressed up as her mother? Did you win?Didn't this bitch Bi'e die at the hands of Tong Zhifu?Why... hurriedly turned back to look at Zhifu Tong with a look of surprise on his face.Tong Ziang smiled wryly at him, without saying a word, he silently stood behind Lord Yushi with his head down.Su Bicheng's face changed, and only then did he faintly feel that something was wrong.

Mr. Wei swept his eyes away, without getting angry or prestige, the room was immediately silent, and no sound was heard.Master Wei looked at him and shouted: "Su Bicheng, are you convicted?"

Su Bicheng trembled all over, pretending to be calm, knelt down and paid homage to Master Wei, saying: "My lord, what is the crime of the little people?"

Qin Yue couldn't help but took a step forward, her gaze was directed at him like a sharp sword, and she said angrily, "You have just confessed to Tong Zi'ang that you committed the crime of murdering the dead, Master Wei and I are standing outside the window listening Be clear, don't you still want to deny it? To tell you the truth, when Tong Ziang was murdering my mother this morning, Mr. Wei, the patrol censor, arrived ahead of time and bumped into him. Both Tong Ziang and Yao San were dead. Plead guilty. Tong Ziang has long been dismissed from his position as magistrate. The reason why he still comes to see you as magistrate is actually a trick set up by Master Wei to invite you into the urn. In fact, I was the one who found out the real identity of the unnamed female corpse. I was also the one who found half of the centenarian leaf in the hairpin on the head of the unknown woman. I knew that the half centenarian leaf would be an important clue for me to find the truth and must be properly preserved for future use. So at that time I Use absorbent daylily paper to absorb the water from the half of the leaf, and then clamp it with a book, and keep it well. I searched almost all over Qingyang City, but I couldn’t find this centenarian with broken leaves. Last night when I sneaked into the Su family compound through the back door to save my mother, I accidentally found a centenarian orchid in the back garden of the Su family, and the leaf of this centenarian orchid happened to be broken off. The half of the centenarian orchid leaf I got from the unknown female corpse that I kept properly is a pair of broken leaves of this centenarian orchid in the Su family. When you raped that foreign woman at Bai Suilan, you accidentally cut it off with her hairpin and left it in her hair. Then it reminds me that you sent someone to assassinate my mother, and you always wanted to put my mother to death , I have secretly doubted you."

Lord Yushi continued: "This morning, after rescuing Su Shi, Tong Zhifu, and Yao Butou pleaded guilty, Miss Qin shared her opinion with me. But I know that according to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", only by This half of the centenarian orchid leaf cannot directly prove that you are the murderer of the woman surnamed Liu from other places, unless you confess the crime yourself."

Tong Ziang said: "Master Wei is wise and decisive, so setting up this plan is also a chance to make redemption and meritorious service in the next one. Since you don't know what happened in the magistrate's yamen, my lord sent me to come to you as the magistrate. Here you come here to shake the mountain and shake the tiger, and get a confession. The censor is very good at predicting things, and Chengzhilang really hit the trick."

When Su Bicheng heard this, he knew that he had been tricked, the general situation was over, and it was too late to regret.He felt dizzy, his eyes turned black, he staggered back a step, and almost fell to the ground.

Master Wei shouted: "Su Bicheng, you are familiar with the books of sages and sages, you have been taught by Confucius and Mencius, and you are a model of scholars in the south of the Yangtze River. Cheng Zhilang of the imperial court actually committed such rape and murder. What's worse is to commit suicide. After the murder, in order to cover up the crime, he actually framed others, falsely accused the virtuous, killed Qin Jutian unjustly, and forced his old parents to death. , This is unrighteousness. You are unfaithful, you are disloyal, you are unfilial, you are unkind, you are gentle and sweep the floor, and you are a scholar in vain. A case, five lives, can you be convicted? Why don't you take him down quickly?"

Before he finished speaking, two police officers from the magistrate's yamen flashed out from the left and right, agreed, clattered, shook the iron chain in their hands, and put it on Su Bicheng's head.At this moment, the window suddenly swung open, and a person jumped in from the outside. The sword light flashed, and the two policemen were hit by swords in their wrists, and the iron chains jingled to the ground.

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Su Bicheng took a closer look, and found that the person who rescued him was Jiang Jianhan. Surprised, he hid behind him as if he had caught a life-saving straw, grabbed his clothes, and said in a trembling voice: "He, they conspired to frame me as a murderer." Someone, please save me, save me."

Jiang Jianhan protected him behind him with a horizontal sword, and said, "Don't worry Su Xianggong, with Jianhan here, he will never let you fall into their hands."

Mr. Wei frowned, and shouted: "Who are you? How dare you openly protect the murderer and obstruct the imperial envoy's handling of the case, do you still have the king's law in your eyes? Take them all for me." With a wink, two people jumped out from behind him The guards in brocade clothes shouted loudly, drew their swords in both hands, and slashed straight at Jiang Jianhan.

Jiang Jianhan knew that these two men were masters from the capital, he didn't dare to be negligent, he suddenly rushed out from the light of the saber, stabbing their backhands in the back.

The two guards in brocade clothes saw that he was able to calmly rush out from under the attack of his own two knives, they were secretly surprised, and praised at the same time: "Good skill." Slashing Jiang Jianhan's waist sideways, the two of them attacked, defended, advanced and retreated, the coordination was ingenious and extremely powerful.

Swords and swords criss-crossed, figures swayed, the two sides fought for more than ten strokes, Jiang Jianhan suddenly made a sword, and pointed directly at the forehead of a guard in brocade.The opponent didn't expect his sword to come so directly, his expression changed slightly, and he hastily raised his saber to block.

Unexpectedly, before the sword and sword met, Jiang Jianhan flicked his wrist, and the sword came to life like a spirit snake. It turned suddenly in mid-air and stabbed at another unprepared guard in brocade.

There was only a sound of "chi", and the sword tip had pierced the bodyguard's shoulder and shoulder Jing acupoint.The guard suddenly felt numb in his right arm, and could no longer lift the knife, so he had to retreat to the side covering the bleeding wound.There was only one guard left, and Jiang Jianhan was even more fearless, as soon as his sword changed, he had already pierced his shoulder blade.

Jiang Jianhan repelled the two of them, he didn't dare to stay longer, he shouted: "Go." He grabbed Su Bicheng and ran towards the window. "Stop going, look at the sword." With a coquettish shout, Qin Yue flew over, the tip of the sword trembled slightly, weaving into a sword net, which had already sealed the window.

Jiang Jianhan stopped and said: "Xiaoyue, you are not my opponent, get out of the way quickly."

Qin Yue pointed the sword at Su Bicheng, and said: "Master, you keep him, and I ask Lord Wei to let you go."

Jiang Jianhan smiled wryly, looked back at Su Bicheng, and said to her: "Xiaoyue, I know that he has done a lot of bad things, but no matter what, he once saved my life, and now he is in trouble, how can I be happy?" Do you want to repay your kindness or not save you? As a teacher, I have helped you wherever I can, so please forgive me this time."

After hearing his last words, Qin Yue's heart moved, and she suddenly realized: "It turns out that you deliberately let me live in the reeds of the Yangtze River that day. In fact, you already knew that my mother and I changed faces, didn't you?"

Jiang Jianhan nodded and said: "If it was your mother who was sitting in the black-covered boat, how could your white horse run along with the boat on the river embankment? If the teacher really wanted to kill you, then the sword would have already killed you." Piercing your heart, how could you have survived till now? If you hadn’t spoken and hinted for the teacher, how could you have saved your mother?”

Su Bicheng stood at the back, heard their conversation, suddenly understood, and said angrily: "I said, how could this girl Qin Yue come back from the dead, and suddenly something bad happened to me, so it turned out that you were helping her in secret. You, do you know I know, because of your benevolence, I have been defeated, and I will never recover! You, you..."

Jiang Jianhan said sincerely: "Mr. Su, as the old saying goes, if you do many injustices, you will kill yourself. At the beginning, you asked me to pretend to be a killer and kill your own sister Su Bi'e with a sword. I didn't think too much about it. I obeyed the order with a heart of gratitude. It was not until Qin Yue appeared to save my mother that I vaguely understood that there seemed to be a huge conspiracy hidden in the middle. Although you gave me this life, it cannot be for the sake of repaying you I helped Qin Yue secretly because of the grace of saving my life. When I help Qin Yue, I am actually helping you, helping you to alleviate the evil."

Su Bicheng was furious and despondent, jumped up and scolded: "Fart, you are not helping me, but hurting me. If you killed this little bitch back then, why would Su be in such a mess today?"

Jiang Jianhan was angry in his heart, and said with a downcast face: "Why do you want to hurt others? Anyway, Jiang gave up his life today, and he will rescue you. You gave this life, and the worst is to pay you back." .”

Qin Yue sneered and said, "Stop dreaming, Mr. Wei has already arranged three hundred archers around the study, even if you can escape from this study, you will not be able to escape the fate of thousands of arrows piercing your heart."

Su Bicheng's face changed, and the glimmer of life that had just ignited in his heart went out again.He knew that although Jiang Jianhan's martial arts was high, it was absolutely impossible for him to withstand the attack of [-] archers.It seems that today is doomed, and despair surges in my heart like a tide.

He stood behind Jiang Jianhan, looked at his back, gritted his teeth, and thought to himself that the reason why he lost today was all because Jiang Jianhan didn't kill Qin Yue that day, which gave her a chance to fight back.Resentment, like fire, suddenly burned in his heart.With murderous intent flashing in his eyes, he quietly took out a dagger from his sleeve for self-defense, and stabbed it viciously into Jiang Jianhan's back.

Jiang Jianhan was defenseless, the sword was hit in his back, and the dagger sank into the hilt, reaching his heart.

His whole body was shaken, and he already understood what happened, his face turned extremely pale in an instant, he turned around slowly, looked at Su Bicheng and said in surprise: "Mr. Su, this, this is..."

Su Bicheng sneered ferociously and said: "This is the fate of you betraying me and betraying me. Since there are archers ambushing outside the door, we have no hope of escape. Why don't you let me kill you with my own hands to eliminate the hatred in my heart."

Jiang Jianhan felt cold in his heart, smiled helplessly, and said: "Mr. Su, you have fallen into Qin Yue's trap. In fact, I have already checked the surrounding situation, and there is no, no archer at all... Originally, with a green handle in my hand, Steel sword, it is not difficult to keep you out of the encirclement, but now it seems that it is impossible... This, this is also good, my life was originally given by you, and now I will give it to you. We owe nothing to each other..."

It wasn't until he turned around completely that Qin Yue saw a dagger stuck in his back, and was almost stunned.The dagger was extremely sharp, even though it was inserted from behind, it stabbed Jiang Jianhan right in the heart.

He felt chills all over his body, and he couldn't hold on any longer. The long sword in his hand fell to the ground, and he also slowly fell backwards.

"Master..." Qin Yue lost all her beauty, and rushed forward to hug him.

Jiang Jianhan lay in her arms, smiled wistfully at her, raised his eyes to look behind her, and asked, "Xiaoyue, why didn't you see your brother Qin Ming, haven't you rescued him yet?"

Qin Yue saw that he was seriously injured and his life was in danger, but he was still concerned about his family's affairs. She couldn't help but shed tears and said, "Master Wei has already released my brother from the prison in the prefect's yamen. He is in prison. I have suffered a lot here, my body is very weak, and I am resting at home now. Master, you, you now..." His voice was choked up, but the following words could no longer be said.

Jiang Jianhan felt that his body was getting colder and colder, so he shivered involuntarily, closed his eyes and rested for a while, gathered up the last bit of strength in his body, slowly stretched out his cold right hand, and gently held her hand, reluctantly With a smile, he said: "Xiaoyue, I don't like you calling me Master, I prefer you calling me Brother Jianhan... Xiaoyue, I understand your thoughts, but in fact, I have been waiting for you, waiting for you... to grow up ..."

His body was getting heavier and heavier, his voice was getting softer and softer, his head was slowly turned away, his eyes were slightly closed, and he was smiling, as if he was sleeping sweetly in her arms.

"Brother Jianhan..."

Qin Yue let out a mournful cry, his heart hurt like a tear, and tears fell silently on his face, but he would never be able to feel it...

Su Bicheng slipped to the wall, looked out the window and saw that it was calm and there was no ambush, thinking of Jiang Jianhan's words, he secretly regretted it.Seeing that everyone was focusing on Jiang Jianhan and Qin Yue, he thought he had an opportunity, so he quietly climbed up the window, and was about to jump out of the window to escape, when Master Wei suddenly shouted: "Su Bicheng, you have committed a heinous crime, do you still want to escape?" ?”

As if hearing a thunderbolt, Su Bicheng was so frightened that his whole body trembled, his bones were limp, and he fell off the window sill with a grunt, his whole body was limp, his face was ashen, his crotch was wet, and he could no longer stand up...

(End of this chapter)