"That's this person, he is Hongdao."
A servant pointed, and the catcher silently came over to take a look. He saw a young man lying on the bed, tossing and turning. There was a layer of sweat on his flushed face, his lips were dry, and his closed eyes were unsteady, with his eyeballs inside. Moving around and making noises from time to time, it looked like he was immersed in a nightmare.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, that's him." The servant replied without hesitation.
The yamen servants were all veterans, and they could tell it was a real illness at a glance. They thought it was bad luck when they spat, and they were afraid of infection, so they did not come forward. The catcher said coldly: "You still dare to slow down your work at this time and drag him out. Is it possible?" You want me to do it!"
"Yes!" The officer had no choice but to go over and directly pull the person up and drag him to the ground.
Seeing that the man seemed to be awake but not yet awake, he didn't care. After confirming that it was this man, he tied his arms behind his back tightly and dragged him away.
"Wait!"
When the person was dragged out of the courtyard and almost to the front yard, a figure hurried over from behind, panting, making people worried that if he ran any faster, he would cough up blood on the spot.
"What are you doing?" The person who came took a few steps closer, took a look at the tied up people, and suddenly became furious.
"Hongdao is my eldest son's servant. Who are you? You went into Zhennan Bo's Mansion to arrest someone? Is there any royal law left?"
"Shut up!" As soon as he finished speaking, a cold voice came from the front.
"Father..." Xie Zhenqing saw that it was Uncle Zhennan who was shouting at him, and he had something to say, but he was immediately glared at by Uncle Zhennan.
This glance made Xie Zhenqing feel discouraged and looked back at his father with a look of reluctance.
"Pull him out, pull him out!" Uncle Zhennan felt very uncomfortable, but he had no choice. He waved his hand and asked people to quickly pull Hongdao out, out of sight and out of mind.
"Father, what on earth is going on?" Xie Zhenqing asked with a very ugly face.
Zhennanbo sighed: "Yin Tanping of Shuntian Prefecture personally brought people to bring Hongdao, saying that Hongdao was related to the imperial examination fraud case and wanted to take him back for interrogation... Alas! Even my father was confused about this matter, but Yin of Shuntian Prefecture personally brought him to Hongdao. I'm here to take someone, and it's such a big case. My father is just an ordinary nobleman, how can he take care of it?"
"But father, Hongdao is just a servant of Zhennan Bo Mansion and his son's servant. How could he be involved in the imperial examination fraud case?"
Xie Zhenqing said anxiously.
Seeing his son in such a hurry, Zhennan Bo felt uncomfortable. Although Hongdao was just a boy in Zhennan Bo's Mansion, if this matter continued to get deeper, who knows whether it would cause a huge disaster to Zhennan Bo's Mansion. ?
Now he only hopes that Zhennan Bo Mansion can escape from this whirlpool. As for the consequences of Hongdao himself, he can no longer control it.
Although giving up directly like this will have a slight impact on the reputation of Zhennanbo Mansion, and it will also make some people think that Zhennanbo Mansion can be bullied, but when it comes to such a major case, it is not easy to escape unscathed, where else can we go? Thinking of something else?
He looked at his son, lowered his voice, and persuaded: "Don't worry about him anymore. This is not your responsibility. If he is innocent, Shuntian Mansion will naturally release him. If he is really involved, then There are court laws to decide, and it has nothing to do with you, so remember this!"
With that said, Uncle Zhennan hurried back.
Xie Zhenqing, who was left where he was, looked at the retreating figures of those people, his expression suddenly gloomy.
"what happened?"
"Why did Shuntian Fuyin suddenly lead people to capture Hongdao?"
Hongdao was captured. The sudden occurrence of this incident broke the plan and made Xie Zhenqing feel that everything was out of control.
Everything these years has obviously been in his own hands, so how could such a change suddenly occur?
Xie Zhenqing felt something ominous. For a person like him, such a feeling was by no means unwarranted. The appearance of any intense emotion was a sign!
"Is the secret coming back from heaven?" He subconsciously touched his heart and thought to himself. Thinking of this, his face turned pale immediately.
"It seems that I won't be able to stay in this house for long!"
You don't need to go out to check, you can guess that there are probably people hiding around Nanbo Mansion in this town. If something like this happens, even if the person taken away is Hongdao, Zhen'an Bo Mansion will definitely be taken away by Shuntian Mansion or even Other forces are watching secretly, trying to dig out something.
He couldn't just go out like that, let alone call someone over.
Thinking of this, Xie Zhenqing walked forward slowly, but gradually got closer to the corner. Suddenly he took out an ordinary-looking pebble from his sleeve pocket and threw it out.
This stone is very small, but there are people outside who are watching, afraid that they will not notice this ordinary small stone without any writing.
But this is a code, and it has its own mystery.
He did not go to the front yard immediately, but walked slowly. Less than fifty steps away, in the grass nearby, a civet cat looked towards it and barked softly.
When others looked at it, they would only see Xie Zhenqing walking over and squatting down to tease the civet cat.
In fact, after Xie Zhenqing squatted down, he moved his hands and spoke quickly: "Listen, now there is a sudden change. Prince Zhennan is afraid that he will not be able to suppress it, so he is preparing to evacuate immediately! "
The civet cat nodded slightly to him and got back into the grass.
Xie Zhenqing stood up again, and this time, he sped up and walked towards the front yard.
"Is this Hongdao?"
Tan Ping was standing in the front yard with his soldiers when he suddenly saw a group of soldiers pushing a man over. The man looked young and his eyes were half-opened. He seemed to be confused. He looked up and down and asked. Such a sentence.
The responsible catcher immediately replied: "Yes, sir, this person is Hongdao! I will drag him out of his room!"
"What's going on with him?" Tanping asked with a frown when he saw Hongdao being pushed and fell directly to the ground.
Why does this person look a little wrong?
"Sir, this Hongdao is ill." Another clerk came over, grabbed Hongdao's hair, examined him carefully, and then touched Hongdao's forehead. His forehead was hot and his face was flushed. This was indeed an illness.
"It looks really hot."
"Is he really sick, or is he pretending to be sick? I'm here to take a look!" Tan Ping didn't believe it when he heard it.
How could things be such a coincidence? There had just been an imperial examination fraud case, and soldiers came to take Hongdao back, but Hongdao got a high fever? Is this malingering, or has someone poisoned me?
Could it be that someone else was involved? This Hongdao was just a cover, so someone wanted to kill people without anyone noticing, right?
As the governor of Shuntian, Tan Ping has handled many cases, but this has left a sequelae, that is, he is full of suspicion.
He walked directly over, leaned over, and took a closer look, trying to see if the kid was really sick and confused, or if he was pretending to be sick.
"Boom" came closer, and there seemed to be a faint muffled thunder in the distance, but Tan Ping listened carefully and found that it was gone again, and he couldn't help but frowned.
"Chunlei, is this a coincidence?"
(End of chapter)
