Xu Ling has decided to leave.
Xu Ping and Xu An couldn't persuade him and wanted to go with him.
Xu Ling refused.
"Don't worry, I will be careful in everything I do in the future. You should accompany your sister-in-law back, be careful on the way, and wait for my return at home."
Xu Ling looked at Gu Tao. Gu Tao's brows were filled with sadness, but he did not try to dissuade him.
Xu Ling was sweating all over after running away late at night, and now the cold wind blew, making his whole body feel cold.
"Go back quickly and tell Brother Daliang not to sell the land."
Xu Ling looked at her seriously, left these words, pulled the empty cart, turned around and ran towards the dock again.
"elder brother!"
Xu Ling ignored the shouts behind him. He was afraid that if he hesitated again, he would lose the idea of working hard.
The moon shone on the river and the mountains and forests on both sides, reflecting a silvery light. Before Xu Ling got on the boat, he looked back and saw a slender figure standing on the stone, waving to him.
Xu Ling left and came back.
As soon as I got off the boat and arrived at the pier of Lingbao Town, I noticed that the atmosphere today was different from usual.
Pedestrians coming and going stood together in twos and threes, exchanging yesterday's big news.
"Did you hear about it? Yesterday, a murderer escaped from death row, released many prisoners, and even went to the county magistrate's house!"
"I heard someone said that the county magistrate was also killed by him, and his head was cut off and hung on a plaque in the government office. It was scary to death!"
"What kind of thief is this? How did he come to our land?"
"Who knows, but I have also heard that this kind of thing happened in other places. Many people couldn't survive and simply turned into bandits. I don't know how long this peaceful life will last!"
"Shhhhhh!" His companions quickly stopped him: "You dare to say this, and it will cost you your life!"
"In my opinion, it's not that bad. The thief killed the county magistrate. There are still many people waiting to become officials in the court. How can we leave the position vacant? Maybe a new county magistrate will take office soon. We still have to worry about ourselves. Bar!"
"I don't know what kind of temper the next magistrate will be. If he is worse than this stupid pig magistrate, then we will be out of luck!"
After death, the tea is cool. The people used to keep the magistrate secretive, but now they dare to call him a stupid pig before he has even passed his first seven years.
"Perhaps it can be even more greedy than this! Do you know? Someone was robbed of a boat last night, and all the good things on the boat were moved from the county magistrate's house! Three boats were loaded! Even the young and beautiful There are ten or twenty women!”
"seriously?"
"What do you think? The boats that were robbed belonged to the Wei family and the Lin family. What a bad luck!"
Xu Ling stopped and listened for a long time, until he couldn't hear any information, then he pulled the cart and left.
He went to the tea shop again, and almost everyone everywhere he went was talking about what happened last night.
Xu Ling summarized the information he heard. The scalded man did not commit the crime alone, but a premeditated gang of at least ten people.
A group of people broke into the death row to rob the prison, and a group of people responded outside. After killing the jailer, they went straight to the magistrate's house. When the magistrate was unprepared, they pulled him out of his bed, asked him where the treasure was, chopped off the dog's head with a knife, and hung it in the palace. On the county government plaque.
Then these thieves robbed the gold and silver treasures, fled to the dock, robbed three boats of the Lin family and the Wei family, and fled to the river with the money and disappeared.
Except for the county magistrate, the county clerk and the county magistrate did not know whether he was dead or not, but compared to the thieves who robbed prisons and killed officials, the unlucky ghosts who escaped from the death row did not pay much attention.
This means that Xu Ling will not be in any danger in Lingbao Town.
No, no, he was not sure where Wang Zhu was currently. If he bumped into Wang Zhu, he was afraid that another conflict would break out.
Thinking of Wang Zhu, Xu Ling thought of Liu Niang.
I don’t know where Liu Niang’s bones were buried.
Xu Ling wandered around the city, put the cart into the space when no one was around, changed his clothes, and then wandered around.
Ma Tou Street is still very lively, and the murder at the tea shop in the other courtyard has not affected the livestock trading here.
Xu Ling mingled among the merchants, pretending to look after the livestock, but in fact he wanted to inquire about the tea shop in another courtyard.
Soon, someone was heard discussing.
It turns out that after the murder, the family in the backyard moved out quickly, and the originally nice courtyard became a haunted house. It would be impossible to rent it out for a while, and the price would also become low.
But Wang Zhu, whose wife was killed, was infatuated and is still living there.
Xu Ling pretended to be curious and stepped forward and asked, "Isn't he afraid of ghosts?"
"Haha, he owes the gambling house dozens of taels of silver, and he has no other place to go if he's afraid of ghosts!"
It turns out that Wang Zhu is a gambler! Xu Ling's eyes darkened, and he chatted with someone leisurely for a few words, then strolled away.
As the night gets darker, the merchants on Ma Tou Street disperse in all directions. There is no one in front of the noisy tea shop. The autumn wind blows, the fallen leaves are swirling, and the cold wind goes straight into people's trouser legs.
Wang Zhu was so drunk that he stumbled and took out the key to the door. Unable to lock the key several times in a row, he hurriedly knocked on the door and shouted: "Mei Liu! Open the door for me!"
After shouting a few times, I realized something was wrong and started crying again.
Xu Ling waited impatiently in the dark, scolding Wang Zhu for being a thief over and over in his heart.
A cat cries over a mouse, which is false compassion.
Wang Zhu cried and fussed outside the gate for a while, causing the dogs to bark. Then he finally got up and opened the door.
The dark red door slowly opened. He turned around and wanted to bolt the door. At this moment, a big stick fell from the sky and knocked him until stars appeared in his eyes.
"Who is it?" A thought came to Wang Zhu's mind. He turned around and saw, who was that pretty boy behind the door that wasn't Xu Ling?
Xu Ling saw that he was still not down after being hit with a stick. Heng Xiaxin swung the stick and hit Wang Zhu on the head one after another. Adrenaline surged, and Wang Zhu fainted to the ground. His heart was beating fast and his eyes turned white.
Then he stepped over Wang Zhu's body, bolted the door, and locked the two of them in a separate courtyard where no one else was.
When Wang Zhu woke up, his head was in severe pain, and the oil lamp in the room was dim. He slowly opened his eyes, and what came into view was Xu Ling's familiar face.
Immediately my heart was shocked, "Xu Ling!? Why did you get out of the prison!"
Xu Ling stared at him, and while he was unconscious, he checked the furnishings in the room, and finally found dark blood stains on the corner of the footrest in front of the bed.
"Liu Niang was beaten to death by you." Xu Ling said coldly.
For some reason, Wang Zhu just felt that Xu Ling tonight was different from his usual good-natured self. He was in a state of confusion. He realized that he was tied tightly to the chair with a rope. The more he moved the rope, the tighter it became. He was filled with fear. It has reached its peak.
"I...I didn't mean it! That bitch ruined my good deeds and wanted to make peace with me. I didn't want to make peace with her, but I just slapped her accidentally!"
Wang Zhu explained laboriously.
Xu Ling's expression darkened, and he was close to what he had guessed.
"Last question, where are you buried Liu Niang?"
"Yi...Yizhuang. She hasn't been buried yet, and I have no money. I thought I would bury her if I won the money. Xu Ling, please let me go. I will go to the government tomorrow and tell them that you were wrongly accused!"
Xu Ling took a deep breath and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
It seems that Wang Zhu is addicted to gambling and does not know what happened last night.
That's fine, a dead person doesn't need to know that much.
