Cross the doghouse to save Party A, Your Highness owes me ten mines

He is the only son of the younger brother of Lady Zhenbei Hou. He was weak since childhood, so after his grandmother Yang passed away, he left Wucheng and searched for medical treatment everywhere. Later, he settled in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

When he was young, he lived in the warm room of the grandmother of the Yang family in Wucheng with the eldest daughter of the Gu family. Later, when he became an adult, he asked someone to come to the Gu family in the northern border to propose marriage, but the marriage did not succeed.

Later, he lived in the south of the Yangtze River, bought an orchard, farmed and studied, concentrated on the imperial examinations, or traveled to famous mountains and rivers.

Someone asked him why he had to take the imperial examination in Jiangnan. After all, it was easier to take the examination in the north, and he had his ancestral home in the north.

He said he was weak and couldn't stand the cold.

But when the Gu family fell into trouble, the news spread to the south of the Yangtze River. Warlords were fighting for power in various places, smoke of war was everywhere, and bandits were everywhere. He passed through layers of checkpoints, bypassed dangerous valleys and dense forests, and braved the cold wind to reach Wucheng. However, his blind cousin had left him only a pile of ruins and rubble, lying in the charity hall of the yamen with a charred face that was unrecognizable.

Over the next month or so, he continued to investigate the truth and went to various brokerage firms to buy servants that had been sold from the shops.

County Magistrate: “Do you have any evidence?”

Master Yang: "The student has witnesses!"

When Zhang Tanzhi heard the word "witness", his face turned pale. He tried to remain calm, but his heart was in turmoil. The word "murder" kept ringing in his ears.

Gu Qi looked at him suddenly, his heart trembling. This child who had been deceived since childhood once again felt the same way as when he was deceived as a child.

He has always been smart, otherwise it would be impossible for him to have lived alone in Kyoto since he was a child without committing any serious crime under the instigation of a group of people, and to have been able to evade the officials and soldiers for so long when the disaster of annihilating his family came, until Kuishan found him.

Lou Junze stood solemnly on the second floor of a teahouse facing the street, staring at the expressions of everyone present from behind the veil dancing in the wind.

He waved his hand, and Qianli immediately ordered someone to bring a witness out.

Wangshan, the shop assistant who had been kicked out, immediately accused Zhang Youliang, the uncle of the Zhang family, of plotting murder:

"Your Excellency, I heard that night that my son-in-law's third uncle Zhang Youliang was plotting in the house. They were all gloating over my young lady's death. This incredible wealth and countless gold and silver treasures will all belong to the Zhang family..."

"You are talking nonsense!" Zhang Youliang immediately retorted: "My Lord is slandering me. When did I ever say such a thing?"

Wang Shan said, "I heard it with my own ears. What are you talking about, hiring a murderer? I asked my son-in-law to divorce my daughter a long time ago. You found out that I heard it, so you sold me to the pawnbroker."

"You're talking nonsense!" Zhang Youliang shouted anxiously, "I only said to let Tanzhi divorce your young lady, I never said..."

Before he could finish his sentence, his face suddenly turned pale. He looked around anxiously and found that the people watching were starting to talk about it.

"Without Miss Gu, you wouldn't be in this situation today. You would have drowned somewhere long ago."

"At that time, we only raided the Gu family. Who said you wanted to touch a married-out daughter? The eldest daughter of the Gu family is fine, but you chased her out. You just wanted to seize her property because her maternal family is gone and there is no one to protect her."

Yes, he was coveting the countless silver in this mansion, but he did not hire a killer. The third uncle of the Zhang family said, "Sir, I did not hire a killer. Master Yang, do you have any evidence?"

Young Master Yang: "The student has witnesses!"

County Magistrate: "Bring it up!"

The lucky surviving residents of Yan'er Hutong were brought up, and as soon as they came up, they pointed out:

"Sir, that day the nurse of the eldest daughter of the Gu family came to my house and rented the unused yard. A group of people moved in, and a fire broke out a few days later. That night, the smell of tung oil filled the air, and the fire was blazing. A group of men in black came to kill people. I heard the women in the backyard crying and shouting, and heard the men in black saying that someone wanted to buy their lives."

Hiring a killer to kill someone was the most widely circulated version in Wucheng. However, there were witnesses and innocent villagers were affected. However, because Wucheng's attitude had been ambiguous in the past few months, the case was delayed and unresolved until Wucheng was pacified.

During this period, only Young Master Yang was secretly running around to protect the witnesses.

The people were talking about it: "Someone hired a murderer."

"Then it definitely can't be Black Armor. Does Black Armor need to hire someone to kill him?"

"What if it's a fake?"

"In that situation, was it necessary for them to use a disguise?"

"Could it be that this Uncle Zhang hired the murderer?"

County Magistrate: "Silence!"

Zhang Tanzhi's face turned pale. The mention of hiring a killer again made him nervous. No matter where you are, hiring a killer to kill someone is a capital crime. Both the one who hired the killer and the one who killed the person would be beheaded.

Zhang Youliang, the third uncle of the Zhang family, shouted, "Then what makes you say that I hired someone to kill someone? My Lord, my Lord, I admit that I am greedy and ungrateful, but I really didn't hire someone to kill someone!"

Master Yang: "The student has witnesses!"

Do you have any more here?

The county magistrate: "Bring them all up at once!"

A group of servants came up this time, some of them even came directly from Zhang's house. What a joke, haven't you heard that their dowries are all going to be taken away? It's really unclear who they will live with in the future, and Young Master Yang has already contacted them.

The servant said, "Sir, I saw someone take out two thousand taels of silver notes from the accounting office at once."

Young Master Yang: "Each silver note has a unique ticket number. The silver note appeared in a silver bank in Qingzhou a few days later. It was redeemed by a killer organization in Jianghu. Here is the silver note, please take a look, sir." The Yang family used to be a wealthy family. More than ten years ago, they were able to support the military expenses of the Northern Border on their own. Even after more than ten years, their silver banks are still spread all over the place.

"What did you say?" Zhang Tanzhi's face turned pale with surprise. He didn't expect that even a silver note could be checked in such detail?

Xia Shi: Of course it was Miss Xia who scanned the account book using equipment. How could human power do that?

The county magistrate said: "Don't make any noise. Can you see who took the banknote?"

The old accountant said, "That day, the man was wearing a black cloak, and his face could not be seen clearly. He was holding my son-in-law's private seal, but I saw his shoes clearly. He was wearing the shoes specially used by the embroidery room in the mansion."

Zhang Tanzhi staggered. It was him. It was himself. What should he do? What should he do? He would soon be found out. The Yanyu Sect never disclosed the information of its guests. But what if he was found out? Who could he blame?

What to do? What to do? He doesn't want to die, he can't die.

The county magistrate said: "Come here, go to the mansion and get all the shoes of the people, and identify them one by one!"

"No need!" Zhang Tanzhi said. He walked step by step to Zhang Youliang's side, suddenly rushed over and shouted:

"Why? That was why you came to me to borrow money that day. Why? Why did you want to kill Yan'er? Why?"

Zhang Youliang, the uncle of the Zhang family, was completely stunned. He didn't say anything for a long time. Then he said dumbly, "No, no, nephew, why do you say such things? I just took a few taels of silver from your shop. When did I borrow two thousand taels..."