There was a little smile on the magistrate's face. It could barely be called a smile on that majestic and slightly old-fashioned face.
"It's really nice to be able to say this at such a young age."
"Come here, take the others down first."
Gu Zheqi and Gu Wensheng looked at each other, neither looking very good.
What did the magistrate mean by this? Could it be that he didn't believe that they believed Gu Zheqi?
"Do you know why you were left alone?"
The magistrate looked at Gu Jiu with deep eyes, as if he was recalling what happened a long time ago through her.
"This trick of yours, I... experienced it with my own life thirty years ago." It's exactly the same!
Gu didn't speak for a long time, and couldn't help but think about what the magistrate was referring to.
After reminiscing, the magistrate looked a little sad and sighed heavily: "I wish I had a brain like you back then." This way, he would not be taken advantage of and demoted to a small county magistrate.
I am really ashamed of my young self, who was upright and full of ambition and ended up serving as a county magistrate all his life.
"What do you want to do next?" The magistrate looked at Gu Jiu and focused his eyes on Gu Jiu again.
Gu Jiu: "Folk girl... I wonder what you are referring to?"
"I have seen the move you used to deal with Lu Qiuzhi thirty years ago. I have thought about this type of technique over and over again for thirty years, at least thousands of times. It is impossible not to see it."
Gu Jiu remained silent, unable to tell whether the magistrate was an enemy or a friend.
Judging from the establishment of Jingchangkou, he wanted to control Lu Qiuzhi's group of people, but... the so-called official protection can also be said to be a means of protection.
"Your Excellency, do you want to regain control over the affairs of the academy in the county?" Gu Jiu asked tentatively.
"My understanding of Lu Qiuzhi is no better than yours."
After hearing this, Gu Jiu basically judged the magistrate's thoughts, but after all, she was just a commoner, and it was inconvenient for her to reveal her thoughts before the magistrate named her intentions.
After all, Lu Qiuzhi's overall power in the county is not much greater than that of the county magistrate. If she has the ability to scheme against Lu Qiuzhi today, she will naturally have the ability to make the magistrate's life miserable tomorrow.
Once the magistrate has this idea, no matter what Gu Jiu does in Yuncheng in the future, it will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Therefore, Gu Jiu planned to pretend to be stupid and avoid the important things.
"The daughter of the people has spoken to Mr. Lu several times. Mr. Lu's spirit of seeking knowledge is really admirable."
"Ah."
The magistrate chuckled lightly, as if he had thought of Gu Jiu's concerns, and said straight to the point: "I know what you are thinking. Don't you just want to use my hands to expand the conflict and involve Lu Qiuzhi?"
"As for those two people just now, they are just clowns responsible for promoting your plan."
"If I guess correctly, you were the one responsible for last night's theft!"
Gu Jiu:! ! ! How did you get it? So smart? The madam said he was smart, but he didn't say he was smart to this extent! With this kind of strength, you have to bend your talents to be a county magistrate!
The magistrate's behavior exceeded Gu Jiu's prediction. Looking at the floor in front of him, Gu Jiu forced himself to calm down and quickly and seriously recalled the conversation between the magistrate and himself.
I experienced it myself thirty years ago...
Is this statement true?
Take a gamble!
"If you are upright, why would you violate the law because of a few words from others? The daughter of the people thinks that this is the original intention of the uncle and cousin, and the words of others only speed up the process."
"Sharp-tongued." The magistrate became more serious: "I'll ask you again, how will you be doing next?"
"If you have something on your mind, the girl will volunteer to help. As for the girl herself, she will of course live her own life."
The magistrate looked at Gu Jiu and vaguely saw the opportunity for him to leave.
When he was assigned here, the order from his superiors was that he could leave only after he had achieved results. But the forces in this place have long been entangled and cannot be shaken for a while.
Thirty years ago, when he first came here, he thought that it would take at least ten years to pry away these "local snakes" one by one. However, the more he managed, the more difficult he found that it was beyond his imagination.
To this day, he has spent thirty years only weakening them and allowing himself to gain a firm foothold.
As for completely taking back power, or making them obey from the heart, it seems to be an extremely distant thing.
"In this case, I want you to serve the imperial court."
"It's an honor for a citizen girl."
"Very good! Someone, bring those two people in!"
The magistrate was still sitting there giving orders, and the traces of time still lingered on his face, but suddenly people felt a kind of vitality, and this kind of vitality often only appeared in successive generations of young people.
Gu Zheqi and Gu Wensheng were brought in again.
"Gu Zheqi, a grassroots man/Gu Wensheng has met the adults."
"Can you two admit your mistake?"
Hearing this, both Gu Zheqi and Gu Wensheng were startled.
"Sir, it was Gu Jiu who made the mistake, not us!" Gu Wensheng raised his head and said.
The magistrate patted the gavel and raised the letter in his hand.
"With all the witnesses and material evidence, what else do you two have to argue with? You two not only stole but also tried to frame them. It is a heinous crime! Come on, take them outside and beat them with a cane. Each of you will receive thirty slabs!"
"Sir! We were wronged!"
"Yes, sir, you can't just listen to Gu Jiu's words! My mother was really killed by her!"
"grown ups!"
"..."
The sound gradually became quieter from near to far, until suddenly there was no sound at all.
Gu Jiu knew that it was because the two of them saw passers-by and chose to keep silent in order to maintain their image.
The magistrate returned the letter to Gu Jiu and asked her to go back after saying a few words.
"Done?"
The madam waiting outside asked.
Gu Jiu nodded and looked at the Madam with some surprise. It was rare for this person to leave Hongxiang Pavilion.
"I think the county magistrate himself wants to mess with Lu Qiuzhi."
Looking at the letter in his hand, Gu Jiu analyzed it. The letter is actually just a cover. To be honest, this letter does not play a big role in proving whether Gu Jiu committed murder. But as the saying goes, there is no smoke without fire, and groundless things are always easier to expose.
So she looked for something that actually existed.
As long as this farce is successful, it will be the credit of this letter, Lu Qiuzhi's ability and ancient mind, and the righteousness of annihilating relatives!
But the current attitude of the county magistrate seems to make everything go more smoothly.
"How to say?"
The madam asked while looking at Gu Zheqi and Gu Zheqi who were being slapped on the street.
"He saw my purpose clearly, but still chose to help me."
Gu Jiu pointed at the two people who were being beaten not far away and continued: "Look at the executioner, he was obviously under orders. Every move he made was an execution, but in fact, what he wanted more was to attract more people to come and watch. .”
"And the more people watch, the easier it will be for us to spread later, which is obviously helping us."
The madam nodded.
"It's a good thing."
Then he looked at Gu Jiu: "But there is another good thing for you."
As she spoke, the madam's voice was filled with a smile, and her eyebrows were full of charm, as if she were inviting guests to come and have fun at night.
"You little girl, you have a financial backer. Your little shop is about to double in size!"
Gu Jiu: Could it be that someone took a fancy to her business talent and wanted to invest in her! ! !
"Then let's go back quickly! Don't keep people waiting!"
"Um."
Before leaving, Gu Jiu suddenly saw a familiar figure out of the corner of his eye, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Shi Yuyan.
Seeing Shi Yuyan running towards Gu Zheqi quickly, Gu Jiu was both disappointed and a little happy.
Disappointed because Shi Yuyan was really pathetically stupid. Gu Jiu didn't believe that Shi Qiusheng, a cunning and cunning person, couldn't figure out what Gu Zheqi had planned. And Shi Qiusheng cared so much about Shi Yuyan that there was no way he wouldn't tell her.
But even if her close relatives told her the truth, and Gu Jiu hinted it very clearly, Shi Yuyan still didn't see the essence of the matter.
And Gao Xing... Shi Yuyan belonged to the Shi family, so she was easily treated as an after-dinner object by the people. If she comes to make trouble, the plan will get twice the result with half the effort!
With the help of Ji Yuan, Shen Xianyue relied on Gui Gu's power to subdue Gu Qingze almost easily.
"Master Young Valley, the people can be treated within three days at most."
"Well, let's go back to Beijing."
At this moment, the city of Shangjing was in chaos, and everyone was looking at each other.
Evidence of corruption was exposed one by one, and the Xiao and Yu families were almost ruined.
Everyone in the major families was in danger and looking for another way out, but at this moment, there was no voice from the emperor in the palace.
While everyone was guessing, Concubine Lin took over and read out a testament naming the prince as the next king.
For a while, people didn't know if it was an explosion or if it was true, but they couldn't help it because they wanted to support the prince they were loyal to as king.
Gu Qingze does have strength, but so what? After all, he is not in the palace now!
Far away in Qicheng, when he receives the news and rushes back, won't everything be over?
The second prince led the troops and took the lead in launching the palace coup, while some forces wanted to wait until the second prince was almost exhausted before taking action.
After three days of bloodshed, the second prince finally won, killed Concubine Lin, obtained the imperial edict, and edited it. After all, no one wanted to be known as a traitor.
But what a coincidence, Zhou Tingyue came back at this time.
The scene fell into an extremely embarrassing situation for a while.
Zhou Tingyue stood still, but did not meet the new emperor. Others could not guess what Zhou Tingyue wanted to do.
Suddenly, people thought of Gu Mozhu, who didn't know whether he was sick or not. They made guesses for a while and started to do things in the dark.
So that you can survive at any time.
When Shen Xianyue returned to Shangjing again, Shangjing was "peaceful", and the sounds of buying and selling and shouting came to mind one after another.
At the entrance of the palace, she saw Zhou Tingyue, and they looked at each other. Needless to say, the answer was already in her heart.
In fact, after Zhou Tingyue left, Shen Xianyue still didn't believe that he could be so confused. She studied the token repeatedly and finally found that words had been written on it with a special potion.
