Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 43
At night, dark clouds covered the sky, and it was too dark to see hands and feet.

In the prison where Liu Jin was held.

A man with disheveled hair sat facing the wall, motionless.

Suddenly, a black shadow fell behind the man.

It was only under the dim light in the prison that the black figure could be seen clearly. It turned out to be a viper in a green robe and a mask.

Viper walked over slowly and said, "Liu Jin, you are so useless, you'd better die!"

The man with disheveled hair seemed not to have heard him, but suddenly turned around abruptly, Viper sensed something was wrong, and was about to back away.

A palm hit the Viper's chest, and the Viper fell heavily to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Just as Viper was about to get up, at some point, the man with disheveled hair had a knife in his hand and slashed at him head-on. Viper had no choice but to roll away from the ground like a lazy donkey.

At this moment, a dagger stabbed at him, and Viper suddenly slapped the ground, jumped up, just as he jumped up, a man with disheveled hair dropped from the sky and kicked Viper directly in the stomach.

The Viper was kicked heavily to the ground, and another mouthful of blood was spurted out. After crawling several times, it failed to get up after all.

The man with disheveled hair slowly walked up to Viper, who was not Liu Jin, but Li Yuanfang.

Li Yuanfang looked at Viper coldly, and said, "Didn't expect that, old friend!"

Viper smiled and said, "I didn't expect that."

And the person with the dagger was Wang Mang, who accompanied Di Renjie and walked in slowly from outside the prison.

When Viper saw Di Renjie coming, his eyes showed extreme fear.

Di Renjie walked in front of him and said slowly: "Now let's see your real face!"

With that said, Di Renjie stretched out his hand and gently took off Viper's mask. Under the mask was a very familiar face - Hu Jinghui!

Di Renjie let out a long sigh, and said sadly, "It's really you!"

Hu Jinghui smiled awkwardly: "Yes."

Di Renjie recalled: "I have doubted Yuan Fang, Jing Yang, and even Li Er, but I have never doubted you!"

Hu Jinghui smiled wryly, "Really? That's really my honor."

Di Renjie asked heartbrokenly: "Why? Why did you do such a rebellious thing? The emperor has shown you great kindness, and you have already achieved the rank of Qianniuwei Zhonglang, a fourth-rank official, before you were 45 years old. I understand, what are you doing for?"

Hu Jinghui first looked at Wang Mang, then smiled wryly, "Does your lord know why my surname is Hu?"

Di Renjie froze for a moment, exchanged glances with Li Yuanfang, and shook his head slowly.

Hu Jinghui continued: "Actually, my surname is not Hu, but Viper."

Di Renjie took two steps back in shock: "You, are you a descendant of Queen Wang? Your surname is Wang? Then Wang Jingyang, Wang Jinghui, what is your relationship?"

Wang Mang was prepared for this, and said with a wry smile, "Yes, I am his younger brother."

Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang exclaimed, "What?"

Di Renjie couldn't believe it: "You are brothers, so you are also the nephew of Queen Wang?"

Wang Mang said to Di Renjie: "My lord, I said before that I came to Youzhou for one person, and that is my brother, Hu Jinghui."

Di Renjie shook his head with a wry smile: "At that time, I thought you were related to something else, but I didn't expect that you were really brothers."

Hu Jinghui nodded: "Yes, we are the queen's nephews. 45 years ago, Wu Zetian framed the queen, and all the men of the Wang family over the age of 15 were killed. Only the sixth uncle was not in Chang'an and escaped with his life. Only then did Jing Yang later appear.

At that time, when I was just full moon, Empress Wu Zetian gave me the surname of Viper, and sent me and my family to Lingnan.When I was ten years old, my aunt and sister died of the plague, and since then, I have been wandering alone in the world..."

Hu Jinghui continued: "You said that the emperor treats me with great kindness? I can't wait to eat his flesh, sleep on his skin, and avenge my dead relatives!"

Wang Mang said at this time: "Brother, is what you are doing now really for revenge?"

Hu Jinghui was speechless for a while, and sighed heavily.

Di Renjie shook his head slowly, and sighed: "Jing Yang, help him up."

Hearing this, Wang Mang supported Hu Jinghui and leaned against the table.

Di Renjie shook his head sympathetically, sighed heavily, and asked, "Afterwards, how did you join Qianniuwei and become the leader?"

Hu Jinghui took a breath, and continued: "Later, the Turks invaded the border, and the imperial court conscripted me. I enlisted in the army and changed my surname to Hu. Because of my bravery in battle, I made many military exploits, and was promoted to General Leopard Guard. Empress Wu Zetian held a military parade in Nanyuan, said that I was brave, and promoted me to Qianniuwei Zhonglang General."

Hu Jinghui looked at Wang Mang again, and said to Di Renjie, "My lord, you are the person I admire the most in my life.

Died at your hands, Jing Hui has no complaints, but Jing Yang is innocent, please let him go.

But, before I die, I want to know, how did you think that I am a 'viper'? "

Di Renjie let out a long sigh and said, "Do you still remember that night in Daliushu Village where there was thunder and lightning?"

Hu Jinghui nodded.

Di Renjie said: "I was awakened by the thunder, sat up from the kang, reached out to pick up the water bowl from the kang table, a flash of lightning made a short burst of light, and I found some fine dregs in the water bowl.

I picked up the drinking bowl again, and watched through the light from the lightning outside the window..."

Li Yuanfang asked curiously: "What is the dregs in the water bowl?"

Di Renjie said: "Sweat medicine! At that time, there were only three of us. I was not sure which one of you gave me the medicine, so I quietly went to the outer room.

Jing Hui was lying on the bed, but Yuan Fang was not in the room.So, I suspected it was Yuan Fang. "

Li Yuanfang smiled and said, "It turns out that I was once suspected by adults!"

Hu Jinghui asked curiously: "So, since when did your lord start to doubt me?"

Di Renjie said: "What really made me suspicious of you was Jing Yang's words and actions when we were interrogating Zhao Chuanchen."

Wang Mang touched his nose in embarrassment, but he didn't expect to deceive his brother.

Di Renjie took a breath, and his voice was a little choked: "You know, deep down in my heart, I regard you, Yuan Fang and Jing Yang as my sons. I really don't want that vicious and cold-blooded killer' Viper" to be you one of them."

Li Yuanfang let out a long sigh, and Wang Mang also sighed heavily.

Di Renjie continued: "However, I still have a glimmer of fantasy in my heart, maybe you didn't do all of this.

Because, after all, I have no direct evidence.

So, last night I found a key witness——Zhang Laosi.

At the beginning, Zhang Laosi dared not say who threatened him to betray him in the court, but after my repeated assurances, Zhang Laosi told me that it was you, Hu Jinghui."

Di Renjie said with deep regret: "The conversation with Zhang Lao Si completely dispelled my illusions about you. Therefore, Yuan Fang, Jing Yang, and I decided on this snake-catching strategy.

First of all, we predict that you will go to assassinate Liu Jin.

So, I asked Yuan Fang and Jing Yang to pretend to go to Xiaolianzi Mountain, and then come back to wait for you. What I didn't expect was that you sent a fake viper to confuse us, but Yuan Fang recognized it as a fake viper.

So I asked Yuan Fang to pretend to be Liu Jin, and sure enough you came. "

Hu Jinghui sighed and said: "I also sent a fake Viper to be a suspect, making you think that Viper is dead, so I can attack, but I didn't expect..."

Di Renjie nodded and let out a long sigh: "After the death of the fake viper, I still have a glimmer of hope. I hope that we have wrongly blamed you. But now, I am disappointed!"

Hu Jinghui lowered his head slowly, and said softly: "In the past, I used to think that I was the smartest. But now I understand, I was wrong. In the hands of the adults, Jinghui is convinced."

Di Renjie asked: "Jinghui, what should I do with you?"

Hu Jinghui said: "My lord, what I want to tell you is that Jinghui is clear about the whole story of this incident. However, if you want to get the truth from me, it is absolutely impossible! Therefore, I I advise you to kill me as soon as possible."

Di Renjie said, "I won't force you."

Hu Jinghui said emotionally: "Thank you sir."

(End of this chapter)