But Ding Jinzhi came to the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Justice in a sedan chair to plead with Lu Wenzheng for Xiao Yongnian's matter.
Unexpectedly, Lu Wenzheng said that he had finished handling the case, which made Ding Jinzhi feel confused.
This is too fast! It was so fast that he was completely unprepared and all his plans were ruined.
Lu Wenzheng said calmly: "Exactly. The case is as follows: the night before yesterday, Yu Qingcheng and Wen Bingqiu had a tryst at Yu Qingcheng's silk and satin shop. It happened that Xiao Wu from your mansion also went to the silk and satin shop to see Yu Qingcheng. , happened to bump into him, and couldn't help but get jealous.
"On Wen Bingqiu's way home, Xiao Yongnian beat him to vent his personal anger. Passers-by Liu Ren and He Xiaoliu happened to be passing by and witnessed this scene; after that, Xiao Yongnian walked away.
"Wen Bingqiu returned home with his disabled body, but unfortunately he was killed by a masked man. Unfortunately, Wen's mother also suffered from Chi Miao and was killed together. After that, the murderer fled."
Ding Jinzhi said: "Master Lu, are you saying that there is someone else who killed Wen Bingqiu?"
"Exactly."
"How can I see it?"
Lu Wenzheng said: "I ordered Dong Wu and Yuan Ping to check the injuries of Wen's mother and son. Their fatal injuries were caused by a strange shadowless palm. It seems that this palm has killed people without touching the human body.
"Those who can master this kind of palm technique must be first-class martial arts masters, and their skills are unpredictable; even Dong Wu and Yuan Ping are incomparable. And Master Xiao's martial arts skills are not superior to Dong and Yuan, so , we infer that the murderer is someone else."
Ding Jinzhi had a stern look on his face and sneered: "Master Xiao's martial arts are mediocre, but I guess it would be difficult to find anyone who can match him in your mansion?"
Lu Wenzheng said: "I hope that's not the case. I expect that when Commander Ling comes back, he may be able to restrain the murderer, clear Martial Master Xiao's name, and at the same time give an explanation to Wen's mother and son who have been wronged."
Ding Jinzhi said: "Oh, Commander Ling is not in the mansion?"
Lu Wenzheng said: "He has gone out to do business and will be back in a few days."
Ding Jinzhi said: "Then how did Mr. Lu handle this case?"
Lu Wenzheng said: "I have ordered people to bury the deceased, and sent people to continue to investigate the murderers. As for Master Xiao, I have punished him forty times and then released him."
Ding Jinzhi said: "What, the rod punishes forty?"
Lu Wenzheng said: "Yes, the execution has just been completed. I originally wanted to send someone to take him back to the house, but it was not as good as it was to arrive early. Lord Ding happened to come to the Ministry of Punishment, and he could be brought back together. If I If I act rudely, please forgive me, Lord Ding."
Ding Jinzhi felt angry in his heart, but he said calmly: "Where is it? Mr. Lu does things cleanly and neatly, and the subordinates admire him. Come back home!"
Coming here in good spirits and returning in bad mood, Ding Jinzhi only felt suffocated and angry.
Returning to the house, he watched Xiao Yongnian being carried away in a state of embarrassment; looking at the gloomy faces of Luo Zhenyi and Jiang Chun, Ding Jinzhi sighed angrily, and his hatred for Lu Wenzheng increased a few times. point.
He originally promised Luo Zhenyi that he would bring Xiao Yongnian back to the house unscathed, but who would have thought that it would end like this. He just felt how passive he was in this competition, how embarrassed and hasty, and how shameless he was.
Of course, the most miserable and embarrassed person among them was Xiao Yongnian. Forty big sticks were used, beating him until his skin was torn and his flesh was dripping with blood. He did not dare to move while lying on the bed.
He wondered if his legs would become disabled. The more he thinks about it, the more he hates the person who harmed him: Yu Qingcheng; followed by Lu Wenzheng.
Ouyang Zhen was busy greeting the doctors and attendants, but she ignored Xiao Yongnian.
After everyone had dispersed, Ouyang Zhen sat beside his bed, her face as sinking as water, without saying a word, just staring at the wall in front of her in a daze.
"Azhen," Xiao Yongnian finally couldn't help but said: "Your husband has become like this, don't you even have any words of comfort?"
Ouyang Zhen snorted and said, "What do you want me to say? You are bringing this upon yourself."
"You..." Xiao Yongnian was speechless.
Ouyang Zhen glanced at him coldly, turned her back, wiped the tears on her cheeks with a handkerchief, raised her face and sighed softly, and walked away.
There are no words that can describe Xiao Yongnian's mood at this time. Under the pain, he suddenly felt a little dizzy. He slowly closed his eyes and simply didn't think about anything.
In the haze, scenes from the past flashed through my mind in a chaotic manner, sometimes it was my wife and children, sometimes it was my eldest brother and third brother.
Suddenly, a man with a face covered in blood and a scholar-like appearance, with a pale face and dull eyes, approached him step by step...
"Wen Bingqiu!" he exclaimed, backing away repeatedly while saying, "No, it's not me...it's not me!..."
Unconsciously, he had retreated to someone and almost tripped. When he looked back, he saw that it was Yu Qingcheng! He felt his head buzzing and woke up suddenly.
There was really someone in front of him who was supporting him, and it was really Yu Qingcheng.
But her face was as dark as water, the cold moonlight reflected her cold face, and her eyes were full of murderous intent.
He felt a chill in his heart and said tremblingly: "I...isn't this a dream?"
Yu Qingcheng said coldly: "No."
Xiao Yongnian was so frightened that he sat up and said in horror: "Then, what do you want to do?"
"Kill you!"
"Why?"
"Don't pretend to be confused. I don't know anything else, but you finally understand the principle of killing someone to pay for life, right?" Yu Qingcheng said, and the long sword flashed and was forced to his neck.
Xiao Yongnian said repeatedly: "No, no... I didn't kill the person, really not! Don't you know Mr. Lu's sentence? There was someone else who killed Mr. Wen!..."
Yu Qingcheng sneered: "Humph, what kind of thing is Lu Wenzheng? Which of the so-called upright officials in the officialdom is not showing off? How do you know that he and Ding Jinzhi are not colluding with each other? Lu Wenzheng said that the murderer is not you, and it is more like fooling a three-year-old child. , do you think I will believe it?"
"It's impossible. Master Lu and Master Ding have always been at odds with each other. You know this. ..."
"Stop quibbling and go to hell!" Yu Qingcheng was impatient to listen to his ramblings anymore, so he raised his sword and cut it straight.
There was only a "crack" sound, and the tip of the sword was blown away by something! The force was so great that Yu Qingcheng's mouth went numb and he couldn't help but take two steps back. She couldn't help but lose her beauty.
Xiao Yongnian thought he was going to die, but he didn't expect to be rescued unexpectedly. He opened his eyes and looked, but no one was there, but he heard a deep voice outside the window: "You did wrong him. He really didn't kill him." This was obviously directed at Yu Qingcheng.
Yu Qingcheng was stunned and said: "I don't understand."
The man said: "You come with me."
Yu Qingcheng floated out of the room and followed the man. The watery moonlight swayed the dark shadows of the trees and the two figures flying like birds under its eyelids.
The person in front finally stopped. Yu Qingcheng stepped forward and glanced at the other person, only to see that he was dressed in black and had a mask on his face.
She looked at the pair of bright, somewhat sinister eyes on the other party's face covered with a black scarf, and called out: "Gang leader."
The man just snorted and said nothing.
Yu Qingcheng said: "I wanted to kill him just now, why did you stop me?"
The masked man said: "I have already told you, Xiao Yongnian was wronged. He was not the murderer who killed Wen Bingqiu."
Yu Qingcheng said coldly: "If it's not him, who is it?"
"it's me!"
Yu Qingcheng only felt that his eyes were dark. She stared at the masked man in black for a long time, then came back to her senses after a while, gritted her teeth and said, "Li Ruiyun!..."
It turned out that the masked man in black in front of him was Li Ruiyun, the leader of the Tianxiao organization.
Li Ruiyun said calmly: "I didn't expect that after so many years, you would still be so uncool when things happen. However, this just proves that you have sprouted lust and fell in love with that damn ghost! It's a pity that you two are not destined."
Yu Qingcheng said tremblingly: "He is so innocent... Why, why do you want to kill him?"
"It's very simple. His mother and son already know your details."
"What?"
Li Ruiyun said: "Have you not been to the Wen family? Then hasn't the old lady of the Wen family already recognized you as Lian Achun from Lianjiatun in Dingyuan? Lian Achun is Lian Nanchun... Huh, tell me, can you Are people like this allowed to remain in the world?"
Yu Qingcheng gritted his teeth and said, "Is this why you killed their mother and son?"
Li Ruiyun said: "This can already constitute a very sufficient reason."
"anything else?"
Li Ruiyun pondered for a moment and said: "Actually, I think it's not worth it for you to pay so much for such a person. As the leader of a gang, how can I bear to watch you fall for a scholar!"
Yu Qingcheng said angrily: "Whoever I associate with is my freedom, what does it have to do with you? I can love whoever I want to love..."
Li Ruiyun said: "Then I will kill whoever I want to."
"Li Ruiyun, you..." Yu Qing was choked with anger. After a long while, she sneered and said, "Kill whoever you want to kill - huh, I'm afraid you may not be able to kill some people."
"oh?"
Yu Qingcheng said: "I want to find a man with strong martial arts, and this man's martial arts must be higher than yours."
"A person whose kungfu is better than mine?" Li Ruiyun chuckled and said, "I'm afraid such a person hasn't even been born yet."
"Don't be too smug, let's wait and see." After Yu Qingcheng said this, he flew away with a delicate body and a graceful figure.
Li Ruiyun watched her slim figure gradually blending into the vast night, with an unfathomable smile appearing in his sinister eyes.
Since Wen Bingqiu's death, Zhou Shen noticed that Yu Qingcheng had become much thinner and haggard.
These days, she only let Wednesday Shen take care of the business in the store, and she never came forward, which made those customers who came here because of reputation and not interested in drinking, come in joy and return disappointed. As a result, the business in the store became much deserted.
Several times, Zhou Shen even saw Yu Qingcheng alone, looking at herself in the mirror, and she burst into tears when she was sad.
Wednesday Shen couldn't help but secretly sigh: It's rare for the boss lady to be truly affectionate, but she ended up with this result. Alas, what a fate of God!
Unexpectedly, one day, Yu Qingcheng suddenly called Zhou Shen and asked him: "Steward Zhou, you are well-informed and familiar with things in the capital. Tell me, who has the highest martial arts in this capital?" ?The most famous?”
Wednesday Shen felt strange about Yu Qingcheng's question, but he still told the truth: "Ordinarily, the person with the highest martial arts skills in the capital is Ling Yun, the third-rank guard commander of Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Justice."
"Ling Yun?" Yu Qingcheng asked doubtfully: "Which one of the people I saw last time in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice is him?"
Zhou Shen said: "Ling Yun was not in the hall at that time."
Yuqing said: "Oh?"
Shen said on Wednesday: "I heard that he took a leave of absence to go out."
Yu Qingcheng nodded, thoughtfully. She pondered for a moment and then said: "I have heard of Ling Yun's reputation, but I just don't know what kind of person he is?"
Zhou Shen said: "What an amazing person! Not only is he good at martial arts and handling cases well, he is also handsome and has first-class character..."
Yu Qingcheng smiled and said: "I'm afraid he is also a man who eats fishy food!"
Zhou Shen said: "No, Ling Yun has a decent style, which is rare -"
"hypocrite?"
Zhou Shen said: "Mrs. Boss, you've interrupted me again. To be honest, Ling Yun is indeed an upright and honorable man."
Yu Qingcheng snorted and said, "I don't believe it."
Zhou Shen said: "I can bet you that if Ling Yun is a hypocrite, I would rather crawl on the other side."
"Really?" Yu Qingcheng smiled and said, "Then you will definitely lose this bet."
Zhou Shen said: "Boss Boss, sometimes you may not take everything so absolutely. There are good people in this world after all."
Yu Qingcheng smiled bitterly and said, "Really?"
She breathed a resentful sigh, turned back and looked out the window silently, muttering: "Ling Yun..." as if she was thoughtful...
Let’s talk about Ling Yun. He and Mrs. Ruan traveled at dawn and stayed overnight, hungry for food and thirsty for drink, and hurried back. On this day, we came to a picturesque mountain peak.
But seeing the clouds and mist on the top of the peak, the fairy clouds lingering, and the auspicious aura of auspicious clouds, it is like a fairyland on earth. Walking further inside, I saw a lot of tourists, all of whom were very interested. Coming and going, the flow is endless.
Ling Yun sat in front of the car and walked on the mountain road. He turned back and asked his mother in the car: "Mom, the scenery here is beautiful. Would you like to come down and have a look?"
Mrs. Ruan said: "I don't want to see it."
Ling Yun had no choice but to remain silent. He had noticed that his mother was a little depressed along the way; now when he asked, Mrs. Ruan was even more unhappy, so he had no choice but to say nothing more.
Suddenly, a young man in gorgeous clothes hurried towards this side. Because he was walking in a hurry, he almost collided with the carriage.
The coachman hurriedly tightened the reins, but the young man turned around and narrowly escaped. The driver could not help but curse: "You are seeking death!"
The young master turned around and was about to say something in return when he saw Ling Yun and said with surprise and joy: "Who do I think this is? Isn't this Commander Ling? We are really destined!"
Ling Yun looked over and couldn't help but smile: "Oh? So it's you!..."
