Feeling that something was fishy, Jiang Shu decided to look for Yu Zheng. However, as soon as she walked out of Jiang's house, Zhuiyun drove the carriage.
"Miss Jiang, the master has something important to ask you."
Tan Yu was overjoyed to see Zhuiyun: "Zhuiyun, are your injuries healed?"
"Everything is fine." Zhuiyun nodded, happy to see Tan Yu.
Leng Xing opened the car door and helped Jiang Shu get into the car.
After Yu Zheng's order, she changed from secret guard to open guard to protect Jiang Shu personally.
But after being alone in the dark for a long time, she was not used to taking off her mask and getting along with others openly.
Especially someone like Tan Yu who talks a lot, always talking in her ear, which makes her feel very noisy.
"Get in the car." Seeing Jiang Shu and Leng Xing get in the car, Zhuiyun reminded Tan Yu.
Tan Yu quickly got into the car, Zhuiyun closed the door, turned the car around and left.
Jiang Shu thought he was going to Prince Jing's Mansion, but after getting off the car, he discovered that it was actually Dali Temple.
"What are we doing here?" Jiang Shu frowned in confusion.
Zhuiyun said: "The master is inside, Miss Jiang will know when she goes in."
Zhuiyun took them to the hall of Dali Temple, where Yu Zheng, Zhou Boxu and Sun Hechuan were sitting in the hall, discussing matters with solemn expressions.
"Prince, Lord Zhou, Lord Sun." Jiang Shu greeted them.
"Miss Jiang." Sun Hechuan greeted Jiang Shu with a smile.
Zhou Boxu just nodded lightly.
Yu Zheng pointed to the seat next to him and motioned for her to sit.
"What did you ask me to do here?" Jiang Shu asked quietly after sitting down.
Yu Zheng said slowly: "We interrogated the bandits in Qi County and found out several other cases, one of which is related to your father."
Jiang Shu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he pursed his lips and said, "The guards I sent out found out that before my father's accident, someone had seen bandits nearby."
"That's right." Yu Zheng asked with some hesitation: "Do you want to go to the prison to hear the trial together?"
Jiang Shu nodded.
It was about her father, and she had to figure it out.
The group went to Dali Temple Prison.
The sun was scorching outside and the heat was unstoppable, but inside the prison it was eerie and cold, giving people goosebumps all over their bodies.
The group of people sat down in the interrogation room. The jailer brought one of the captured bandits over and tied him to the torture post with an iron chain.
The man's hair was disheveled and his prison clothes were stained with blood. He had obviously been tortured.
"On February 23rd, who ordered the mountain collapse you caused outside Jiangdu City?" Sun Hechuan asked sternly.
The kidnapped bandit looked at them and laughed, saying pointlessly: "I can't remember clearly, it's all on us."
There are too many lice and they are not itchy. They will definitely die anyway. One more crime and one less crime does not matter. And it can also add trouble to them, which is really enjoyable.
"I want to see if you are a tough talker or a tough-minded person." Sun Hechuan waved his hand and asked the jailer to proceed.
The jailer whipped the bandit with a whip dipped in spicy oil, and a shrill scream suddenly sounded in the prison.
Jiang Shu frowned upon hearing this. Tan Yu had never seen such a scene before and was too horrified to look at it.
As for Leng Xing, she stared straight at him, unmoved.
Yu Zheng and Zhou Boxu were sitting in the front. They were familiar with the criminal laws in prison and remained calm.
After one round of whipping, the bandit fainted from the pain, and his dirty prison clothes were stained with fresh blood.
Sun Hechuan ordered someone to pour cold water on him to wake him up and continue the interrogation.
However, the bandit gritted his teeth, spat out a mouthful of blood and said, "Even if you beat me to death, I won't remember it."
"Okay! I will remind you." Sun Hechuan was furious and asked the jailer to change the torture instruments and continue the torture.
"Wait." Yu Zheng suddenly stopped.
"It doesn't matter if he doesn't remember. There will always be someone among dozens of people who remembers. We will detain a few people for separate interrogations. Whoever remembers first will be given painkillers to avoid the remaining punishment."
"Yes." Mr. Sun took the order.
As soon as the gangster saw this posture, he knew that he would only suffer the consequences if he continued to speak harshly. After thinking quickly, he said: "I said it!"
Sun Hechuan turned back and ordered someone to take a pen and paper to record his confession.
"The mountain collapsed outside Jiangdu City, and it was two men named Jiang from Shangjing who were responsible for it. They gave us five hundred taels and asked us to cause an accident and kill their brother."
After hearing this, the rest is self-evident.
However, investigation relies on evidence, so Yu Zheng asked Jiang Shu to draw a portrait of Jiang's uncle and show it to the bandits for identification.
"But these two people?" Zhuiyun asked, holding the portrait.
When the bandits saw it, they nodded suddenly: "Yes, it's them."
Yu Zheng said: "Give him the testimony and sign it, and go get him immediately."
"Yes." Sun Hechuan responded, took the portrait and hurriedly made arrangements.
The interrogation was over. It was not suitable to stay in the prison for a long time due to the cold, damp and smelly conditions. Yu Zheng stood up and wanted to take Jiang Shu out of the prison and wait outside.
The bandit suddenly said: "If I commit another crime, maybe I can exchange for some meat and wine?"
Since he was caught, he has never seen meat and wine again, and he really misses it so much that he wants to taste meat and wine again before he dies.
"Come and listen. If the king is satisfied, I will allow you to have more meat and wine." Yu Zheng sat back.
The bandit looked at Jiang Shu, swallowed his saliva and said, "The two brothers named Jiang came to us later and asked us to kill this girl."
Jiang Shu was stunned after hearing this and was filled with shock.
Yu Zheng looked stern and asked in a deep voice: "When?"
The bandit said: "Just that time in Qi County."
Zhou Boxu, who had been silent all this time, frowned: "Isn't it King Jing that you want to kill in Qi County?"
They had already confessed to the murder of Yu Zheng, but the mastermind behind the scenes was very cautious and did not reveal his identity at all.
"Yes, but not entirely."
The bandit frowned in pain, looked at Yu Zheng and Jiang Shu and said, "This is a coincidence."
"The first thing we took over was the order from brother Jiang to murder Miss Jiang. Just as we were discussing the plan, someone else came to our door."
"The man took King Jing's portrait and gave him a hundred taels of gold, asking us to intercept King Jing."
"After taking these two investigations, I unexpectedly found that King Jing and Miss Jiang returned to Beijing together. The brothers were very happy at that time."
"So we worked together to create that landslide in Qixian County."
It was a foolproof plan, but Yu Zheng and Jiang Shu were so lucky that they jumped into the river and survived.
Fortunately, no one dared to ask them for a refund when they were doing this kind of business, but they only lost some reputation.
But for the bandits, it didn't matter whether they were famous or not, so they put the matter behind them.
Until Shen Changhuai started investigating them, they hid back in their lair to avoid the limelight.
If Yu Zheng hadn't led the army to encircle and suppress them, Shen Changhuai wouldn't have been able to do anything to them, and he could still be at ease when the news passed.
Unfortunately, they got into trouble with Yu Zheng.
The bandit's words shocked Yu Zheng and the others, and it took them a long time to recover.
They never thought that the landslide in Qixian County was actually two conspiracies.
Jiang Shaohua and Jiang Shaohe were really vicious. They harmed Jiang's father and Jiang Shu, and they were determined to destroy their family.
Fortunately, when he returned to Beijing from Lin'an, Yu Zheng invited Jiang Shu to come with him, otherwise Jiang Shu would have had a hard time escaping.
Yu Zheng clenched his palms, fearful after thinking of the landslide.
Jiang Shu was so cold that she couldn't help but shiver.
Blood relatives, brothers and sisters. Jiang Shu couldn't imagine how heartbroken and disappointed her father would be if he knew the truth.
