Gui Yuan

When Ning Qing and Wei Yao arrived at the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Huang Jun was already sweating profusely. Seeing them, he seemed to be grasping for help: "Grandpa! You are finally here, I am looking forward to the stars and the moon waiting for you!" ah."

Wei Yao frowned and waved his hands: "Okay, don't talk about this anymore, where are you?"

Huang Jun took them to Shisan's cell. The man who was fine yesterday was lying on the haystack with his eyes lowered, as if he was bowing his head in deep thought, but the red streak on his neck was extremely conspicuous.Shisan was still holding a piece of bloody tile in his hand, and there was a broken rice bowl at his feet.

Wei Yao looked at Huang Jun, the questioning in his eyes was self-evident.Huang Jun said with a sad face: "Your official was really wronged. I didn't even dare to use the torture tools when I questioned you yesterday. I went back to the house to rest for a while after asking no results in the middle of the night. Who would have thought that this, this thirteen smashed his job and killed himself with a smear of his neck." Already!"

Ning Qing looked at Shisan's face with a calm expression and no color at all. When Wei Yao looked at him, he turned his head and said, "Since he is like this, he can't. Anyway, the evidence cannot be denied. He already admitted it with his own mouth yesterday. Now that he is dead, I want to ask There is nowhere to ask."

Ning Qing's tone was cold and calm, but Huang Jun pointed at him and finally heaved a sigh of relief. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve: "Yes, but how will the emperor and the prince respond?"

Only then did Wei Yao remember that Tao Ji was not there: "Where is the third prince?"

"The prince entered the palace this morning, and I haven't had time to notify you yet."

"It's enough to report the truth. Mr. Huang has worked hard for nothing this time. His Majesty will not blame you if you read this." Ning Qing said flatly.

"Yes, yes." Huang Jun quickly responded.An Guogong alone is enough to make people tremble, unexpectedly even the one he married was not a good person, Huang Jun secretly thought that people like like flock together.

Wei Yao glanced at Ning Qing, and said to Huang Jun, "If there is nothing wrong, you should dispose of the corpse first."

"Okay, the next official will order someone to deal with it."

After the man left, the jailer next to Huang Jun reminded embarrassingly, "My lord, what should I do with that man?"

Only then did Huang Jun remember, and secretly yelled something bad, cursing: "Bastard, I didn't know to say it earlier!"

Wei Yao Yu Ningqing just walked to the door when he heard Huang Jun yelling in that broken gong voice: "Grandpa, please stay!"

Huang Jun was out of breath after only running a few steps, seeing that Wei Yao's eyes were no longer impatient, he said: "Grandpa, there is one more matter, we can deal with it only if you give us some advice."

"What's the matter?"

"On that day, Mr. Ning asked him to mention him, so we put him in prison. We are busy with the third prince's affairs these days and have no time to talk to him. It's just that the jailer said that the man was really restless. If you want to howl, how do you see how people deal with it?"

Only then did Ning Qing think of him. These days, he has completely forgotten about this man. The poor man is still suffering in the prison.

Ning Qing also felt a little sorry, and asked, "Where is the man?"

He said to Wei Yao, "I'll go and have a look."

Wei Yao sneered: "You really don't care about things, you care about everything."

Ning Qing didn't bother to talk to him, and followed Huang Jun to the cell, Wei Yao followed despite what he said.

The big man in the cell was plucking the hay on the ground in boredom, and when he saw any movement, he was like a hungry wolf seeing the meat, and rushed to the cell door and shouted: "Finally someone has come, how long will I be imprisoned! I said I didn't do it..."

When he came to him, he immediately recognized Wei Yao as the person who wanted to arrest him and bring him to the government that day.

"You, it's you, why do you arrest me!" He reached out to pull Wei Yao, but Wei Yao frowned and slapped him away.

Huang Jun said in shock: "Bold, you are a person who is restless after entering the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and dare to be unreasonable to Mr. An. I think you don't want to live!"

Finally someone did what he had always wanted to do, Ning Qing couldn't help turning his head away and sniggering, Wei Yao noticed with sharp eyes: "What are you laughing at?"

"No." Ning Qing recovered, looked at the man, only to find that his face was bruised and purple, and asked Huang Jun, "What's going on with his face?"

Huang Jun quickly shook his head: "My lord misunderstood, how dare the lower officials carry out punishments? It was this unruly person who saw that no one was paying attention to him."

Ning Qing looked at his rather unattractive and even horrible face again, and thought: He really can do it, a capable person.

"Okay, Mr. Huang is busy with his own work, and my father-in-law and I can just ask him."

Huang Jun was willing to listen to this sentence, what happened this time scared him completely, so don't get involved in what is the best policy.

"Yes, both of you feel free to ask, the lower officials will leave first." Huang Jun left happily, and the jailer opened the door for them, moved two stools, and also left.

Ning Qing entered the cell door and looked around.It's the same cell, but this person's is messier than the others'. It seems that he has been tossing a lot in the cell these days.He was about to sit down, when he heard Wei Yao cough, he got up quickly and smiled, and served attentively: "My lord, please sit down first, do you still want a cup of tea?"

There are outsiders present, Wei Yao is not easy to get angry, so he just whispered: "Don't be joking, go do your own business."

Ning Qing ignored him and walked up to that person. She didn't pay attention at Jukezhai that day, but only saw clearly today.This man was quite tall. Although his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, he could vaguely see his original appearance. He could not be said to be handsome and handsome, but he had a masculine majesty, which was eighty percent similar to those of Wei Yao's soldiers.What is rare is the demeanor that is neither humble nor overbearing. Although the person is sitting, he does not lose his momentum. This pair of eyes is not to be outdone, and is also examining him.

Ning Qing simply squatted down: "Hey, brother, what's your name?"

He turned his head a little arrogantly and said, "Fei Tian."

"Oh, so it's Brother Fei." Ning Qing got up, went to the chair and sat down, crossing his legs like a gentleman, "Can you tell me the reason why you were arrested in Jukezhai that day?"

When Fei Tian heard this, he got up, with an excited expression: "I've said it several times, I just went to Juke Zhai for dinner. Why is it written at the entrance of the store that only royal relatives and dignitaries are allowed to enter? Money, you will be slandered when you go in except for food, this is still at the foot of the imperial city, is this how your imperial capital bullies the common people?"

It's strange to hear him say that. Shopkeeper Yuan of Jukezhai has no reason to slander others for no reason, so it seems that there is something strange in it.

"Treasurer Yuan said you stole things from his master's house, what do you say?" Wei Yao interjected.

"Impossible, I haven't stolen anything since I entered the imperial capital..." As he spoke, his voice became smaller and smaller.

"Oh?" Ning Qing stared at him and said with a smirk, "Brother Fei, did you slip the tongue?"

Fei Tian turned his head and said, "I don't know."

Ning Qing leaned close to his face, and he turned to one side, then followed and turned to the other side. Fei Tian finally couldn't bear it a few times: "I don't call it stealing, it's stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Those merchants are all rich and rich. Not willing to take out a penny and a half, I will steal some of it for Tian Xingdao and distribute it to the poor people."

Regardless of how this "robbing the rich and helping the poor" is for the time being, at least it has something to do with the word "stealing", Ning Qing asked: "Then why do you swear so firmly that you didn't steal from Master Yuan's house?"

Fei Tian said helplessly: "To tell you the truth, I have stolen many places in the past few years from the south all the way to the imperial capital. Who knows which one is his master? Besides, I have never done anything in the imperial capital. He It's just inexplicable!"

Hearing what he said, Ning Qing became a little interested: "Amazing! Hey, then you have been stealing in the Jianghu for so long and you don't have a name or something?"

"Of course I have." Fei Tian patted his chest and said, "I've become famous for robbing the rich and giving to the poor all these years. Thanks to everyone's love, I was given the name 'Black Clothes Under the Moon'."

Ning Qing pretended to be shocked: "It's terrible, a big celebrity. The name 'Black Clothes Under the Moon' sounds like thunder, but it's a pity that I'm ignorant and have never heard of it."

Fei Tian was complacent, but he became furious when he heard his last words, "You, the people in your imperial capital are ignorant of worldly affairs, and I am well-known in the south."

"Yes yes yes, what you said is correct." Ning Qing teased him that he felt much happier now, and sat down with a smile.

"According to your words, you are from the south?" Wei Yao asked.

"Yes, I am originally from Xingchuan."

Ning Qing recalled the frontier map of the Great Wei Dynasty in his mind, and smiled: "You are actually from southern Xinjiang? Why don't you come to the imperial capital thousands of miles away?"

Fei Tian sighed: "Why, there was a severe drought in Xingchuan five years ago, and countless people starved to death. I was an orphan, and I didn't have much love for my homeland. I went north to seek a way out just to survive. I had nothing else. 'Craft' and physique are cultivated since childhood, and they originally made a living by stealing, but it's just a change of place."

Ning Qing lost the idea of ​​joking when he heard the words, Wei Yao even stood up and questioned: "Xingchuan is close to the land of the Southern Barbarians, there are many mountains and few fields, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. An important place for caravans and the imperial court to transport materials. Although Xingchuan is short of arable land, the imperial court allocates food and funds every year. How could it be as you said?"

Fei Tian said angrily: "Grain allocation? Yes, but the county magistrate above said that the government's food supply is limited, except for the government's military rations, the rest can only be sold in grain shops, but that's like a big mouth for ordinary people. How can I afford it? How is it different from forcing people to starve to death!"

Fei Tian recalled the tragic scene he saw in Yingchuan five years ago.Outside the city of Xingchuan, hunger is everywhere, wild vegetables and mountain treasures have long since disappeared, and even bark and grass roots can only be snatched by a strong man.Since then, the city of Xingchuan has been virtually split into two halves, one side is singing and dancing, and the other side is purgatory on earth.