With quick eyesight and quick hands, General Ling cut off the man in black's hamstring with a short blade, and the man in black screamed.
General Ling brought the people to the stage, and the crowd began to boil again.
Baozhu and Qi Junce looked at each other, and everything went smoothly. General Ling pulled off the man's mask, but Baozhu didn't see the face he expected.
But Li Mu was even more shocked than Baozhu, and he stuttered when he pointed at the man. "Isn't this Mr. Huang?"
Some people with long necks in the crowd also saw the man's appearance, and immediately shouted like boiling water that it was Mr. Huang.
"Is it the sick young master of the Huang family?" Qi Junce asked.
Li Mu hadn't recovered from the shock yet, so he could only nod numbly.
At this time, a person rushed up from the crowd, and General Ling quickly protected Qi Junce.
The person who came was none other than Huang Xun, but there was no shock on his face. He just looked at Mr. Huang with sad eyes, full of regret.
Baozhu's eyes turned back and forth between the two of them. It seemed that Huang Xun was not entirely innocent.
Baozhu stood up and came to Qi Junce's side and whispered: "Your Majesty, there are many people here. Let's go back to the government office first and then try again."
Qi Junce nodded and instructed Li Mu. General Ling Xiao signaled to his men to capture Huang Xun as well, and carried them to the government office together.
Huang Xun and Mr. Huang knelt down together, Qi Junce's eyes fixed on the two of them.
"Huang Xun, I am surprised that you are actually involved. Okay, you two, tell us what is going on." Qi Junce said coldly.
Huang Xun bit his lower lip tightly, lowered his head, and said nothing.
But Mr. Huang stared at Qi Junce fiercely, his eyes almost bleeding. "It turns out that this was all just a show."
"Master Huang," Bao Zhu said, "your original name is Huang Xu, and you were born to Master Huang's first wife."
Baozhu handed the Huang Xu information he had just collected to Qi Junce and continued: "And you have been frail and sick since you were a child and have lived in seclusion. Are these correct?"
Huang Xu looked at the orb with disdain and snorted coldly. "You woman, who in Shenmu knows this?"
"Okay," Bao Zhu was not angry at his offense, "Then let's talk about something others don't know."
"It is actually false to say that you are frail and sick. Not only are you not sick, but you are very skilled. But you hate Mr. Huang. Do you think it was Mr. Huang's carelessness that killed your own mother, right?" Baozhu said.
Huang Xu's face looked a little ugly, and he squeezed out a yes from between his teeth.
"And you have been feuding with Mr. Huang for many years, and you have even begun to indulge in the martial arts that he hates most. Mr. Huang is extremely disappointed in you, and claimed that you were sick and that's why you were given to Huang Xun as the housekeeper, right?" Bao Zhu asked questions one after another.
Huang Xu Nuji laughed out loud, but still said with a nonchalant look on his face: "So what?"
"Although Huang Xun and you were not born from the same mother, he is very attached to your brother. He knew you made a big mistake, but he helped you cover up the crime. Huang Xu, Huang Xun, right?" Baozhu snapped. asked.
Huang Xu was silent, his face full of stubbornness that was not afraid of death.
Huang Xun sighed deeply and replied: "It's me. I saw my brother stuck in the mud, but I didn't persuade him, which made the situation become such an uncontrollable situation."
"So you admitted it?" Qi Junce said calmly, "The seven women who admitted that the death of Shenmu were all the work of your brothers?"
Huang Xun and Huang Xu were both silent, but not denying it was the best admission.
Jiang Heng could no longer control his emotions and slapped Huang Xun. Screaming and shouting: "Where is my little man, what did you do to her, what happened to her!"
Seeing this, Ma Dong quickly pulled Jiang Heng, who was out of control, and stood to one side to comfort him.
Bao Zhu looked at Jiang Heng, who was really anxious, and felt that the usually arrogant her was no longer so annoying.
"Come, go to the Huang Mansion and search, don't let go of a single hair." Li Mu ordered.
"Especially the small courtyard in the west corner of the courtyard, focus on the search." Baozhu said, remembering Yue Nu's words.
Qi Junce looked at the two handsome men, who were rare gentlemen in Shenmu. It's a pity that such a wrong thing was done, which is shocking.
"But I have something unclear. How did you, Huang Xu, a noble young master, get in touch with Maple Lady? And you killed seven people in a row. What on earth do you want to do?" Qi Junce asked.
But Huang Xu closed his lips tightly and said nothing.
Qi Junce was annoyed by this, his face full of displeasure. "Very good. If you don't tell me, my men will naturally ask you to tell me."
Qi Jun waved his hand, and General Ling grabbed Huang Xu and dragged him down. Upon hearing this, Huang Xun knew that Qi Junce was going to use torture to extract a confession, so he quickly kowtowed and begged.
"Second Young Master Huang," Baozhu said, "Now that your brother's crimes are too numerous to mention, you'd better tell us the truth. Otherwise, it's not certain whether the hundreds of people in the Huang family can be saved."
Baozhu's words were like a blow to the head, causing Huang Xun to suddenly wake up.
He walked forward on his knees and kowtowed to Qi Junce. "Please, Lord Yan, please don't torture my brother, he...he won't be able to bear it."
"Then the seven women who died tragically can bear it!" Qi Junce shouted angrily, echoing in the hall.
"You are confused, Mr. Huang." Li Mu said with hatred, "How can you cover up him to do such a wrong thing."
"I said, I said anything." Huang Xun regretted it and hit himself on the head.
Huang Xun’s autobiography.
My brother has been smart since he was a child, so my father naturally has great expectations for him. But as he grew older, he began to hear some rumors about the late wife.
The wet nurse who raised his brother told him that it was his father's rejection of his mother that caused his mother to die of depression.
When the father found out that the wet nurse had told his eldest brother, he was angry with her for instigating a discord between father and son. In a rage, he beat the wet nurse to death with a stick.
In the past, my father was busy with water transportation, so the eldest brother was almost raised by a wet nurse, so the relationship between him and me was naturally deep. The father's move undoubtedly made the eldest brother's suspicion grow wildly.
Since then, there has been a huge rift in the relationship between the eldest brother and his father.
And the eldest brother didn't know when he started to be addicted to all kinds of secret arts. This made my father even more angry. He impulsively announced that his eldest brother was seriously ill and gave me the power of housekeeping.
Although my eldest brother and I were not born from the same mother, my eldest brother has always been very kind to me. I respect him and love him. Over the years he had been trying to repair his relationship with his father, but to no avail.
Until four years ago, the eldest brother met that woman by the Shenmu River.
That was the first time I saw my elder brother so happy. He told me that he fell in love with a woman singing by the river. I went to look up the woman for him, but unfortunately the woman was already married to a boatman.
That woman was Maple Lady, and she had just married to Shenmu at that time. I told my elder brother truthfully about the matter. I originally thought he would give up, but my elder brother said it didn't matter and he could wait.
Thinking about it now, the eldest brother at that time had already embarked on the path of paranoia. I regret that I didn't find out in advance.
Later, Feng Niang's husband drowned. Soon after, Maple Lady followed suit and threw herself into the river.
I didn't take these things to heart at first, until Shenmu started missing young women, and when I found them, they were all missing parts of their bodies.
It was the last embroidered shoe that made me suspicious. I ran to ask my eldest brother if he did it, but he directly admitted that it was him.
I was so scared and didn't know why he was like this. But my elder brother told me that it would be over soon.
So I... I stupidly deceived myself, pretending that I didn't know and couldn't see.
Qi Junce looked at Huang Xun who was crying bitterly with cold eyes, while Baozhu also sighed silently. At this time, the person responsible for searching the Huang Mansion hurried back.
After whispering a few words into Li Mu's ear, Li Mu's expression changed drastically.
It turned out that a major discovery was made in the small courtyard Baozhu mentioned. Qi Junce and his party hurried to Huang Mansion. Jiang Heng kept praying on the way.
In Huang's Mansion, the closer he got to the small courtyard, the strong aroma of medicine rushed straight into his nose, and Baozhu couldn't help but sneeze.
The sun and moon slave didn't dare to get close, and could only smell the smell coming from this courtyard from a distance. Now Baozhu could smell the faint trace of blood in the smell of the medicine.
When they arrived at the courtyard gate, the servants told them that this was Huang Xu's own courtyard. Because of his withdrawn temperament and dislike of noise, he never allowed people to get close to him.
Qi Junce stopped Baozhu, who was about to enter together, "I'm afraid it will be very scary inside. You guys should wait outside."
Jiang Heng wanted to say something else, but Baozhu took her hand and stepped aside.
Qi Junce stepped into the main hall and saw Li Mu's men prying open a floor tile. Qi Junce asked what he was doing.
The person who came was Li Mu's subordinate Xia Zhu, "Replying to your lord, I searched both sides of the courtyard and found nothing. But when I stepped here, I found the sound of an empty drum."
Qi Junce looked at the knocked up floor tiles, and sure enough, a dark downward passage appeared.
"Down below, there should be the secret space created by Huang Xu." Xia Zhu said.
Qi Jun led Xia Zhu and his party to light torches and walked down. The space below was huge. It seemed that Huang Xu had been preparing for a long time.
As we walked further in, candlelight and red curtains began to appear in front of us. Xia Zhu took a step forward and opened the curtain, only to see a very strange and terrifying scene.
In the open space in front of him, black lines and red candle steps formed a strange formation. There were scattered talismans on the ground, and there was a strong smell of blood in the air.
Someone among the entourage pointed to the middle and shouted, Qi Junce looked over. In the center of the formation, lay a headless female corpse.
In other words, there is more than one body.
Qi Junce walked into the formation carefully not to touch the black line. There were incomprehensible inscriptions written in dried blood on the female body. The arms, thighs, and torso... corresponded to the missing parts of the seven women who died tragically.
It seemed that this was the place. Even though Qi Junce had been on the battlefield, he still frowned when seeing such a tragic scene.
Some of the entourage had already vomited, but Xia Zhu gave an order and everyone began to search the area.
Qi Junce looked around and found an incense table in front of the female corpse. There is a statue of an unknown deity enshrined above, but it looks full of evil and ferocious appearance.
Qi Junce thought about it and was about to take it off to take a look, but found that he couldn't lift it. Twist to the right, and a secret door slowly opens.
Qi Junce looked ahead warily, and a dungeon appeared in front of him. Those in the dungeon were Xiaoman, who had been missing for a day, and two other women.
