mtl008 Chapter 124 Who gave you the courage?
Chapter 124 Who gave you the courage?
Xu Sanshi was of course not dead. In fact, it had been less than a quarter of an hour since he was tied up.
He was not dead, but half of his soul was gone. When he heard the noise, he didn't even have the strength to struggle. He just opened his mouth and whimpered twice: "I confess, I confess everything."
Ling Chuan gave Duan Xifeng a smug look, and then began to interrogate him: "What's your name?"
Xu Sanshi smacked his lips and said, "My name is Xu Sanshi. Can you stop the bleeding for me? I feel like my blood is almost gone. If it continues like this, I'm going to die."
Ling Chuan snorted: "Then you should confess quickly. I will stop your bleeding when you finish."
Xu Sanshi swallowed his saliva and said, "Sir, then ask quickly."
"Was it your Xu family who murdered the Huang family?"
"Sir, I am just a security guard. I really don't know this."
"Don't know? Then just keep bleeding. Don't worry, I will definitely not let you die. I will let you go after I have drained four or five kilograms of your blood. Whether you will become stupid or not depends on your luck."
"No, no, no, sir, I admit it, I admit it."
Xu Sanshi sobbed twice and began to recall: "Speaking of which, the Huang family and our Xu family also have some grievances. More than half of the fields in Hexi Village belong to our Xu family. Apart from that, the Huang family has the most fields. The clan asked him several times to sell the fields to us, but he refused. Later one day, Huang Dongquan's youngest son fell into the river and drowned. He went to the county government to sue us, insisting that we were the ones who killed his youngest son."
At this point, he paused and said, "Can you give me some water to drink?"
Ling Chuan gestured, and the guard fed him two sips of water before he continued, "In the county government hall, he said that his son had been good at swimming since he was a child and it was impossible for him to drown. However, all those who drowned were good at swimming, and he had no evidence, so the matter was left unresolved. However, less than a month later, one of Huang Dongquan's uncles died again, and then he brought his family to the door..."
Ling Chuan was a little impatient: "Just pick out the important things. If you keep going like this, your ten pounds of blood won't be enough to shed."
Xu Sanshi was startled and spoke faster. "In short, someone from the Huang family died every now and then, and they had to put the blame on us, but they had no evidence. In the end, Huang Dongquan's wife died, and when he and his eldest son were the only ones left, he came to the elders of the clan to plead for mercy, and sold more than 300 acres of land to our Xu family. Then they left. It was only after a long time that I heard that they died on the way to the capital. The adults in the capital also came to investigate this matter, and it has nothing to do with our Xu family."
"that's it?"
"My Lord, I...that's all I know."
"Then you can just keep hanging it here." Ling Chuan squatted down and flicked the copper basin with his finger: "Did you hear me? It's already half full."
"Sir, sir, this is all I really know. I am just a security guard..."
"Just keep an eye on it. Add another pound and a half and it will be about right."
Xu Sanshi heard the noise and thought Ling Chuan was about to leave, so he started crying again: "My lord, my lord, I have something else to say."
Ling Chuan stopped and said, "I'll give you one last chance. If you dare to hide it again, I'll give you five and a half pounds, and you'll definitely turn into a fool."
"Sir, I also heard about this. It was said that Huang Dongquan knew some secret of our family, so..."
"What secret?"
"I don't know. I just heard that it was related to business. It was said that someone came from the west and was caught by Huang Dongquan. I really don't know anything else. My lord, please let me go. I have told you everything I know. Wow."
When Ling Chuan and Duan Xifeng exchanged glances, they knew they had a clue.
In the west, except for the State of Yue located southwest of Dasheng, there is no place that can be called the west.
Ling Chuan waved to Fanzi and went out with Duan Xifeng.
The guard put Xu Sanshi down, and he immediately tore off the black cloth from his eyes. Then he saw the scabbed wound on his wrist and the half basin of water in the copper basin that was only slightly red.
He still couldn't believe it, so he rubbed his eyes and looked again. The guard next to him tied him up again and slapped him on the head at the same time: "Don't look, you didn't bleed much at all. Look at your ugly face, you scared yourself to death."
Xu Sanshi breathed a sigh of relief, but he was not as fierce as before at all. His heart was filled with gratitude for surviving the disaster.
At this moment, there was a loud shouting outside. It was obvious that someone from the Xu family came to rescue him. Xu Sanshi was suddenly excited, but soon he was no longer happy because he had said everything he should and should not have said.
If I were covered in bruises, I might be able to explain it when I go back, but there is only a shallow cut on my wrist, and no one would believe me if I said I was forced to confess.
Ling Chuan and Duan Xifeng were standing in the yard at this time. The so-called yard in this village was nothing more than a half-person-high adobe wall, and there were hundreds of people outside. Such a small yard with only five dilapidated tile houses could not stop anyone at all.
"What are you doing? How dare you attack the police?"
The person who spoke was Duan Xifeng. Compared with Lingchuan, Duan Xifeng was more like an official, and he had been practicing martial arts for many years. That aura was something Lingchuan could not learn.
A middle-aged man in his forties or fifties stepped forward from the crowd and simply bowed: "Sir, there is no need to accuse us. We are just here to look for our tribesmen who were kidnapped by criminals."
Ling Chuan took a step forward: "You said I'm a bad guy?"
A servant came up to him and whispered something. The man snorted and said, "I don't know if you are a bad guy, but you did kidnap one of our clansmen. Hand him over and we'll let this go. Otherwise..."
Duan Xifeng slammed the bright silver spear in his hand to the ground: "What else? Do you still dare to threaten the officials of the imperial court?"
Ling Chuan reached out to stop Duan Xifeng who was about to lose his temper: "Don't be impatient, let him finish. I want to know who gave them the courage to ignore the laws of the court."
The man curled his lips and showed a disdainful smile: "You are just a ninth-rank official, and you dare to act so presumptuously in Ruyin. As for the court laws, you have neither informed the local county magistrate nor the official approval. How dare you kidnap people in the street? I advise you to be sensible and hand over the person obediently."
"What if I don't hand it over?" Ling Chuan sneered, "Who do you think you are? How dare you say such nonsense here? If you have the guts, call Xu Hongtu over and see if he dares to ask me to hand it over."
"How dare you mention the name of our clan leader?"
As soon as Ling Chuan said this, the hundreds of people on the other side became excited and shouted and cursed.
"Xu Hongtu is just a commoner, why can't I mention his name?" Ling Chuan chuckled: "How about this, you can go back and call an official from your Xu family, as long as he has a higher rank than me, I will recognize him."
The other party was stunned by Ling Chuan's rudeness at first but then his respectfulness. However, Ruyin County is still within the territory of Yingtian Prefecture. Officials from the Xu family who serve in the court are naturally all in the capital, and there is really not a single one in Ruyin County.
But at this moment, a group of yamen runners pushed through the crowd and squeezed in. Then an old man in official uniform and with gray hair walked to the front of the yard. The first yamen runner said, "The county magistrate is here."