But Mrs. Ruan, because Yu Qingcheng's incident involved Ling Yun's marriage, she kept urging Ling Yun to get married as soon as possible; and she said that besides Linglong, she also had a girl in mind for him.
Ling Yun had no choice but to ask absently who it was?
Mrs. Ruan said: "Miss Lu."
Ling Yun nearly spit out his mouthful of rice: "She?...Mom, why do you think of her?"
Mrs. Ruan said: "Mom can see that she has come to see you several times and is very interested in you."
Ling Yun smiled bitterly and said, "She must be concerned about her own affairs!"
Mrs. Ruan said: "Of course she is concerned about her own affairs! I think you are a good match for her; besides, she is the daughter of Shangshu Mansion, and you are a close confidant of Mr. Lu. If one day you Wouldn't it be the icing on the cake to really become Mr. Lu's son-in-law?"
Ling Yun thought to himself: Why is my mother so snobbish? It was not easy to go against his mother's will, so he put down his job and said, "Let's talk about this another day! There are still many things to do in the house today. If I delay any longer, I may be scolded by Master Lu again. Mother, I'm leaving first. "After that, he got up and left.
Mrs. Ruan looked at his back, shook her head helplessly, and sighed: "Oh! This child is always so turbulent all day long..."
Besides, Lu Wenzheng was discussing Xiao Yongnian's case with Xu Zhi. At this time, both of them thought of one person at the same time: Jiang Chun.
Jiang Chun testified at the time: The assassin was chased to the end. Before he died, he said that he was organized by Tianxiao and was instructed by Taoist Priest Yuanzhen.
Now, it has been discovered that Xiao Yongnian and Ouyang Zhen are killers of the Tianxiao organization and are related to the assassination of Ding Jiwu. Doesn't this prove that Jiang Chun is committing perjury?
But why did he perjury, and who ordered him to do so?
Lu Wenzheng ordered Yang Zhen to go to Ding Mansion to arrest Jiang Chun and confront him.
Yang Zhen came to Ding Mansion with the dragon and phoenix jade talisman and explained his intention.
When Ding Jinzhi heard this, he felt he was in bad luck and reluctantly ordered his housekeeper Ding Yurong to call Jiang Chun.
After a moment, Ding Yurong turned around and said with a look of regret on his face: "Master, Colonel Yang, Jiang Chun is not in the house. I heard from his servant that he went out last night and hasn't come back yet."
Did he abscond out of fear of crime? Ding Jinzhi frowned and sighed, hating that he did not check the people he employed and actually led this ambitious man to create trouble in the house.
Yang Zhen had to return home to recover. Lu Wenzheng was so angry that he stood up and said, "It seems there is something wrong with Jiang Chun!"
So Ling Yun, Yang Zhen, and Yuan Ping were ordered to separately arrest the suspects Jiang Chun and Ouyang Zhen.
Lu Qiuyue also heard about Jiang Chun's incident from Caiming and Xiu Ming, and couldn't help but feel uneasy.
Thinking about the quarrels she had with Ling Yun in the past, she really didn't want to go to him; when she went to ask Yuan Ping, Yuan Ping had already dressed up and set off.
He went to find Yang Zhen. Yang Zhen felt that the matter was of great importance, so he excused himself vaguely and evasively and ran away. Lu Qiuyue was so angry that she just stamped her feet.
As for her father and Xu Zhi, it was even harder for her to ask.
"I'm feeling too bored today. I'm complaining about the red peach, then the banana, I'm always complaining about the spring night..."
Lv Qiuyue was upset and sitting alone in the back garden, stroking the Yao Qin and making it clank.
The annoying spring breeze ruffled her messy hair, and she just felt melancholy.
The guqin is too vulgar and outdated, and the new music is too unfamiliar and difficult to play. She was so distraught that she simply threw the harp down. Amidst the clanging sound, the strings broke and the harp was destroyed.
Suddenly someone snorted softly behind him.
Lu Qiuyue was startled, thinking it was an illusion, but the light of the bronze furnace candle had already pulled a person's shadow closer to her.
Lu Qiuyue suddenly looked back and almost fainted. The person standing behind him turned out to be Jiang Chun!
She suddenly wondered if this was a connection between her two minds. Just now she was thinking about him, and now he really appeared in front of her.
"Miss." Jiang Chun whispered.
Lu Qiuyue calmed down and said in a stern tone: "What are you here for?"
Jiang Chun said in a low voice, "I'm here to say goodbye to the lady."
"Farewell, where are you going?"
Jiang Chun said sadly: "Another world."
Lu Qiuyue didn't come back to her senses for a moment, "What?"
Jiang Chun said: "Miss, I was sorry for you at the beginning and I should not have given false testimony. Now I am in a dilemma with no way out."
Lu Qiuyue said: "How come there is no way out? As long as you go to my father and tell the truth, you can make up for your mistakes. At that time, my father will forgive you without my intercession."
Jiang Chun said: "How can I betray my second brother and sister-in-law? When I discovered that my second brother and second sister-in-law conspired to assassinate Ding Jiwu, they begged me in every possible way not to tell the truth. As sworn brothers, I Can you betray your friends?"
Lu Qiuyue said: "But they are members of the Tianxiao organization, did you know that?"
Jiang Chun sighed and said: "I only found out about this after the fact. Because of this, I dare not say it, because once this matter is leaked, they will die immediately! I feel like brothers with them, and after thinking about it again and again, I also I have to apologize first, Miss. Miss, can you forgive me?"
Lu Qiuyue was stunned for a moment and said: "If you can change your mind, tell the truth, and testify in the lobby..."
Jiang Chun said in pain: "Impossible! If I testify against my second brother's crime, wouldn't it mean that he will die? I...I can't do this..."
Lu Qiuyue said: "Jiang Chun, why are you so stubborn? You can't bear to testify against his crime. How can you bear to watch my father be convicted?"
Jiang Chun said miserably: "So I am in a dilemma and there is no way out... Miss, look, someone is coming over there!"
Lu Qiuyue looked back; Jiang Chun sighed softly, suddenly drew out his long sword and wiped it on his neck!
Lu Qiuyue came back to her senses and couldn't help but turn pale with shock. She rushed forward desperately, grabbed the hilt of his sword with both hands, and cried: "Jiang Chun! Jiang Chun!..."
Her action was a little too late, Jiang Chun's long sword had already made a cut on her neck, and blood surged like a fountain; his body swayed and fell down.
Lu Qiuyue shook him desperately and said with tears streaming down her face: "Jiang Chun, why did you do this, why?..."
Jiang Chun said weakly: "I can't be sorry to them, let alone you...Miss, I..."
With all his strength, he raised his hand tremblingly, then dropped it weakly to his chest.
"Jiang Chun, you can't die, you can't die..." Lu Qiuyue murmured. She suddenly remembered something and shouted loudly: "Someone, come quickly! Someone, come quickly!..."
Her cry alerted the girl Caiming; Caiming quickly called for Yuan Ping who was on duty.
Yuan Fangcai had already gotten the general idea from Caiming's intermittent narration, and asked at this time: "Jiang Chun, how do you feel now? Just hold on, I've arranged for someone to go find the doctor!"
Jiang Chun was so angry that he could no longer speak. He just pointed at his chest with trembling hands.
Yuan Ping looked at him blankly, confused. He tentatively and gently removed Jiang Chun's hand, as if there was something in his arms.
Yuan Ping couldn't help but feel shocked, and took out the thing with trembling hands. It turned out to be a brocade letter, stained red by blood.
He carefully unfolded it and browsed it hastily, and couldn't help but feel happy. It turns out that this is a confession letter from Jiang Chun:
"When a person is about to die, his words are also good. I know my crime, but I don't report it, and I hide the criminal. It is unacceptable under the law.
"But how can we betray the sworn alliance and brotherly love? Selling friends for glory is despised by the world. When we are in a dilemma, when we are in a dilemma, I can only repay it with death.
"No one knows what will happen after death. No matter how the world comments on it, everything will be in vain..."
The following is his confession.
The confession begins with the sworn hatred between Ding Jiwu and Xiao Yongnian; until Xiao Yongnian saw Ding Jiwu return to the capital, he was afraid that the enemy would meet on a narrow road and he would not be able to live in it, so he had evil thoughts and took action first. powerful.
And because Xiao Yongnian's stick injury had not healed at that time, he asked his wife Ouyang Zhen to do it for him, and bribed Fang Xiaohei and Zhang Lin'er to kill them at the banquet in Yuxianchi;
Later, Ouyang Zhen took action to kill everyone and killed all the insiders involved in the matter with hibiscus flower poison...
Jiang Chun said in his confession that when the assassin fled, he chased him and witnessed Fang Xiaohei being killed by Ouyang Zhen with a poison dart.
But at the time, he didn't know that she was from the Tianxiao organization. It wasn't until Yuan Ping asked an expert to identify the hibiscus flower poison that he finally realized it.
But because I thought about my friendship with my second brother and second sister-in-law, I couldn’t bear to hurt them, so I kept hiding it, which led to today’s disaster, and so on...
Yuan Ping looked at Jiang Chun's confession carefully, thinking about everything.
At this time, several guards had also led Doctor Ma from the mansion to arrive in a hurry.
Lu Wenzheng, Xu Zhi and others already knew about this. After hearing Yuan Ping's report on what happened tonight and presenting Jiang Chun's confession and confession, both of them felt that something had happened suddenly.
After Lu Wenzheng repeatedly reviewed the confession, he handed it to Xu Zhi.
Xu Zhi couldn't see any flaws for a while.
Lu Wenzheng called Doctor Ma, who was treating Jiang Chun, and asked him how Jiang Chun's injury was.
Doctor Ma said: "He was seriously injured. If the young lady hadn't stopped him in time, he might have died a long time ago! Now we can only do our best and listen to God's will."
Lu Wenzheng twirled his beard and thought deeply before sending Doctor Ma down.
Yuan Ping said: "Jiang Chun is loyal and courageous, and he deserves to be a man of iron bones! It is really touching to see him die today. If such a person can do something for us..."
Xu Zhi said: "Captain Yuan, what you said is a bit premature."
Yuan Ping was stunned for a moment and looked at him suspiciously.
Xu Zhi didn't say anything else, just said: "Fortunately, we still have Jiang Chun's confession; it would be better if he could survive and escape this disaster - because in this way, all the problems will be solved It will be solved easily!”
Lu Wenzheng nodded.
Without further ado, Lu Wenzheng immediately ordered the guards on both sides to go to court for questioning.
Mr. Lu ordered people to escort Xiao Yongnian to the lobby and asked: "Xiao Yongnian, now that Jiang Chun has accused you of assassinating Ding Jiwu in Yuxianchi to avenge an old grudge, what else do you have to say now?"
Xiao Yongnian couldn't believe his ears, "What, Jiang Chun?..."
Lu Wenzheng ordered Yang Zhen to show him Jiang Chun's confession.
Xiao Yongnian glanced at it and his face immediately turned pale. He didn't believe that a friend like Jiang Chun, who valued love and righteousness and was his sworn brother, would betray him so ruthlessly?
Lu Wenzheng said: "Now, aren't you going to confess?"
Xiao Yongnian said: "I want to see Jiang Chun, I want to confront him!"
Lu Wenzheng said: "In order to fulfill your brotherhood of living and dying together, he has committed suicide."
Xiao Yongnian was stunned for a moment. What else can he say now?
At this time, he only complained about one thing: Jiang Chun, you are so stupid. Why did you have to betray me before you fulfill any brotherhood?
He couldn't even figure out what cunning and despicable means the people in the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Punishment used to force Jiang Chun to submit?
But now there is no use in complaining. When the guard brought the confession written by Xu Zhi to him, he could only mark his signature blankly.
Lu Wenzheng ordered Xiao Yongnian to be escorted back to prison, and they would make a joint decision after Ouyang Zhen was caught.
After the trial of the case, Lu Wenzheng came down from the court. Accompanied by Xu Zhi, he was going to see how Jiang Chun was doing.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw Lu Qiuyue sitting on the side with a forlorn expression, her temples were half tilted, her eyes were red, and her appearance had faded and haggard after not seeing her for a day. Caiming and Xiu Ming looked at each other in confusion.
Lu Wenzheng was unhappy, thinking that this girl was too indecent, why would she be standing here alone? Wouldn't it make people laugh when they see it?
Then he ordered the two girls to serve the young lady first.
Lu Qiuyue was dissatisfied, but she didn't dare to go against her father's wishes, so she snorted angrily and left without looking back.
Seeing that Jiang Chun's face was pale and unconscious, Lu Wenzheng asked Dr. Ma: "How is his injury now? Is he feeling better?"
Doctor Ma said: "Fortunately, the point where the sword entered the neck was a little shallow, otherwise he would have been dead long ago. I will spare no effort to treat him. As for the result, we can only wait and see the effect after twelve hours!"
Lu Wenzheng let out a light sigh. If Jiang Chun really died like this, wouldn't it be a pity?
This is not just a matter of him needing this person to testify for him again, nor is it just a matter of needing talents like him in his Lu family.
Lu Wenzheng and Xu Zhi walked out of the room and looked up at the sky. It was already the moon rising over the pond and the lanterns were starting to light up.
Xu Zhi said: "Sir, is it time for dinner?"
Lu Wenzheng said: "No, go to the Penal Department Prison first."
It can be said that Xu Zhi and Lu Wenzheng are in sympathy with each other. They know the elegant meaning of the string song as soon as they listen to it, so they and Lu Wenzheng rush to the prison where Xiao Yongnian is imprisoned.
Before the two of them got close to the cell door, they heard Dong Wu shouting: "There is an assassin!" They left the two guards who came with them and walked quickly to the southwest.
Xu Zhi looked at Lu Wenzheng and asked the two guards, "What's going on?"
