After Sheng Changbai left, Li Hao came back and said to brother Zhu Maniang: "I have sent people to investigate what you just said. Let's wait for the news together. If what you said is true, then you Even if this life is saved. If what you say is false, just think about how to die more happily. I can allow you to choose for yourself. "
After he finished speaking, his mouth was gagged again. Seeing this, brother Zhu Maniang still wanted to struggle. He was kicked twice by the servant before he calmed down. Then Li Hao asked people to watch him in the room and ordered: "No one is allowed to talk to him, and don't chat with each other when there is nothing wrong. If he does anything inappropriate, stop him first."
Then he left the house and ordered people to search where he lived and bring over all the title deeds for the farm and shop that Zhu Maniang's brother had mentioned.
After giving the instructions, he sat down in the yard and waited for Gu Tingye to come over.
After waiting for less than half an hour, Gu Tingye didn't come. Instead, the man who went to Zhu Maniang's brother's place to search for things came back. There were three land deeds in total, and I don't know if any of them had been sold. Gu Tingye hadn't discovered it yet. Li Hao couldn't help but sigh. Rich indeed.
After a while, Gu Tingye and Sheng Changbai arrived in a hurry. When they saw Li Hao sitting in the yard, Sheng Changbai asked, "Where is that person? Is he still inside?"
Li Hao replied: "Yes, I was watching him. When he came out, he was blocked and no one could talk to him. He was probably very frightened."
Hearing that someone was inside, Gu Tingye wanted to rush in, but Li Hao grabbed him and said, "Brother Gu, go in and ask what you want."
Gu Tingye suppressed his anger and said, "Of course I asked him directly. If he doesn't tell the truth, I'll beat him until he does."
After hearing this, Li Hao said: "This method can certainly work, but if Brother Gu comes to ask and let him recognize Brother Gu, I am afraid it will not be so easy to hear the truth. Now he thinks we are bandits who robbed our homes. Then you might as well ask this way, Brother Gu is listening on the side, if you have anything you want to ask, just tell me and I will ask."
After hearing this, Sheng Changbai also advised: "Zhonghuai, I know you still don't believe what I said, but you can hear for yourself whether what he said is true or false. I believe you can make your own judgment. How do you want to deal with it then? My cousin and I will follow you, okay?"
Gu Tingye calmed down at this time, took a few deep breaths, and said, "Okay, I won't talk when I go in. Let's listen to what he said first."
After hearing Gu Tingye's promise, Li Hao took out the three land deeds and said, "I just sent people to search these from that person's house. Brother Gu can first see if these belong to your family."
After Gu Tingye took it, he looked at it and confirmed: "This is my family's thing." After saying this, he seemed a little unbelievable.
After hearing this, Li Hao said: "Okay, I just want to confirm it in advance, so let's go in."
After saying that, he took the lead and led the two of them in. Li Hao ordered someone to take down the cloth covering his mouth. Said: "A lot of things were found in your house, but there are only three land deeds for the land and shop, and that's all. I heard that Gu Tingye has countless money shops, more than one million, you said your house My sister is his wife, that's all. Are you trying to trick me?"
Zhu Maniang's brother immediately defended himself after hearing this: "I would never dare to deceive you heroes. There were some who I exchanged money for and lost in the casino. But it doesn't matter. Now my sister has given birth to a boy and a girl to Gu Tingye. It's just that I'm favored. As long as you guys let me go, you will definitely give me a lot of money."
After hearing this, Li Hao laughed and said: "Do you think we are fools? If you let me go, if you can give me more money, you have to bring the officials to arrest me, right? I think you are dishonest, so be it, or Forget it. These three land deeds are your burial money, and I will help you find a good place to bury them."
Then he ordered: "Drag him down and deal with it." When the servant heard this, he came over.
Brother Zhu Maniang struggled quickly and said, "Hero, how can you trust me? What I tell you is the truth."
Hearing this, Li Hao asked everyone to stop, and then said: "It's not my fault that I don't believe you, it's because what you said is a bit outrageous. Who is Gu Tingye? He is the vanguard in the romantic formation and Zhao Zilong under the peonies. Your sister is considered a It’s hard for you to believe that anyone can climb his heights, you know.”
After hearing this, Brother Zhu Maniang cried and said, "But this is true. I really don't dare to lie to a good man."
At this time, Li Hao felt that the time had come, so he said: "Well, tell me how you let your sister come to Gu Tingye's side. If it is reasonable, then I will believe you, and you will sign your fingerprint for me. , saying that you owe me one thousand eight hundred taels of silver, then I will let you go."
"But if it sounds like a lie to me, then I have received the money you paid for your life anyway. I will make arrangements for you then, which will be considered worthy of you."
Brother Zhu Maniang said: "What I said must be true. If I tell lies, I will be struck by five thunders and my descendants will be cut off."
After hearing this, Li Hao laughed and said: "Come on, don't swear. If the oath can come true, many people will die. You should be honest, your life is in your own hands, hurry up. "
So next, brother Zhu Maniang told how he weaved a miserable life experience from Jiangzhou, how he pretended to be pitiful, how he approached Gu Tingye step by step as gently as water, and how he came from Jiangzhou to Bianjing step by step. As they talked, they talked about the excitement that the brother and sister had when they teamed up to play with Gu Tingye, and they were able to toy with the previously superior person while applauding. There was a feeling that was beyond words.
Hearing this, Gu Tingye couldn't bear it anymore and rushed over without even stopping Sheng Changbai who was standing next to him. Gu Tingye stepped forward, picked up Zhu Maniang's brother, and beat him. During the fight, his blindfold was also knocked off.
When Brother Zhu Maniang's eyes recovered and he saw that it was Gu Tingye who was beating him, he was completely stunned. Li Hao next to him was afraid that he would really beat the person to death, so he rushed to stop him, but was pushed away by Gu Tingye, so he had to ask the boy next to him to come up and pull Gu Tingye away.
After pulling away, Brother Zhu Maniang could only lie on the ground and moaned. Seeing this, Li Hao asked him to be taken to another room first.
After the others left, Li Hao said to Gu Tingye: "You just heard the specific things. It's up to you to decide how to deal with it later."
Gu Tingye stood quietly next to him, not sure if he heard Li Hao's words. After waiting for a long time, he came back to his senses and said: "Thank you so much, Brother Li and Chang Bai today. If it weren't for you, I would have been kept in the dark by that bitch. I will go back and deal with them first, and I will come back to the two of them later." Thank you."
After hearing this, Li Hao said, "Would you like me to lend you a few people for your convenience?"
After hearing this, Gu Tingye said: "No, the stone is outside. I'll let him take the man away later. I'll take my leave today."
After saying that, he turned around and walked away. After Shitou came over, Li Hao handed him over to Shitou.
After they left, Sheng Changbai said: "Zhong Huai really had a bad life. First he had such a stepmother, and then he met such a vicious woman."
After hearing this, Li Hao replied: "Maybe this is just a drink and a peck. It is precisely because Brother Gu lost his mother when he was young and was not loved by his father, so he longs for the warmth of family. And this Zhu Manniang just made a beautiful lie for Brother Gu , so that Brother Gu is trapped in it and unwilling to escape."
After hearing this, Sheng Changbai looked at Li Hao carefully and said, "What happened today made me look at my cousin with admiration. Although I knew that my cousin was smart in the past, I never thought that he could have such insight into people's hearts."
After hearing this, Li Hao smiled and said, "Then I would like to thank my cousin for the compliment." Then he changed the topic and said, "But I'm still worried that Brother Gu will become soft-hearted in the end and create complications."
After hearing this, Sheng Changbai said: "Probably not. Zhong Huai has always been strategic and decisive. Now that he has reached this point, he should not be soft-hearted."
Li Hao said: "If you're not afraid of 10,000, just be afraid of the worst. Let's give him some extra protection."
So Li Hao asked someone to call over the military patrol officer who was having a drink, and said: "There is something I need you to help me with. Tonight, I will go outside the house in Xiaotianshui Lane and guard all the passages going out. If there is any Then Zhu Manniang and the man arrested today will be detained immediately if they escape."
After speaking, he asked Fu Deng to give three taels of silver to each of the government officials present, and then said: "Everyone has worked hard today. This is money for everyone's hard work. I hope you will stay at Xiaotianshui Lane until the end of the day, and then you can leave."
However, later Li Hao thought of the overall malfeasance and slackness of the lower-level officials of the Song Dynasty, so he warned: "But I want to put an ugly word at the front. If someone is slacking off and someone escapes, don't talk about money. I have someone on my board." You also have to suffer.”
After hearing this, everyone below agreed, and then took orders to allocate places to guard.
After everyone left, Li Hao said: "Let's all go back and rest. The results will naturally come tomorrow."
After Sheng Changbai heard this, he said goodbye to Li Hao and returned to Sheng Mansion.
After a good night's sleep, when Li Hao was about to go to the Yamen the next day, he saw the Yamen servant who had arranged to go to Xiaotianshui Lane yesterday came to the house to report. After Li Hao asked someone to come in, he asked: "Why, are you here so early? .”
The yamen servant replied: "As expected, around 5:00 today, we saw a man and woman sneaking out of that house with a child and trying to escape, so we stopped them."
"It turned out that it was Zhu Manniang and the man from yesterday. They were originally going to bring them to see the adults. But not long after they were detained, Erlang of the Gu family came to ask for them. We didn't dare not give them, so we gave them to Gu Erlang. Then I Come and inform the adults and ask what to do next.”
After hearing this, Li Hao said: "You have done a good job. You can go back and tell them that they can all go back and rest."
After hearing this, the Yamen servant agreed and left.
After the others left, Li Hao felt that Zhu Manniang was doomed this time, otherwise if he were to let Zhu Manniang go, it would be unless Gu Tingye was really a fool.
So he went to the government office. After he was released from the government office, Li Hao returned to his house. He got the news from Sheng Changbai and found out that Zhu Manniang was dead. He reported her death and was buried immediately.
