I heard His Highness has supernatural powers

Chapter 59 The Victim Behind the Scenes

something?How can something happen to him?Xuan Jing hugged Fu Yun into his arms with a complicated expression.These few days are the most leisurely days he has spent in the county. Every day is nothing more than teasing the dog, basking in the sun, and waiting for the letter from the capital to be delivered by the good friend of the little sparrow in six days.On the contrary, it was Fu Yun who had to deal with Wang Chengyang's mess left over from the refugee rebellion, and at the same time had to face his death alone.

He must have been exhausted these days.

Xuan Jing reached out and raised Fu Yun's chin, carefully scrutinized his face, saw that his eyes were bloodshot, the lower eye sockets were tinged with blue, and even his cheeks became thinner, his eyes dimmed suddenly: "I'm sorry, I I didn't tell you my plan to fake my death."

Fu Yun smiled indifferently, and touched Xuan Jing's hand with his right hand: "I know you have your own considerations, and you don't tell me that the reason is to make sure there are no mistakes in the plan. I understand." As he spoke, he lowered himself a little unnaturally. With a trace of shame on his face, "Besides, you didn't say nothing. I understand the hint that afternoon."

Xuan Jing was a little surprised, he didn't expect that a cryptic hint that day would attract Fu Yun's attention.Although he really wanted to use this method to appease Fu Yun out of his selfishness, but based on his understanding of Fu Yun, if he saw his corpse, Fu Yun would definitely be in a mess. How could he think of his hint so quickly?

Before he could ask a question, Fu Yun continued: "But I didn't think of that at first, fortunately, I had that immortal's guidance."

"So that's how it is." Xuan Jing suddenly understood.It's no wonder that his little tricks are naturally invisible in front of the immortals.Thinking of Xiaodan's departure, he sighed, "When the little guy was around, he always felt noisy, but now that he's gone, he feels that the surroundings are too quiet."

"Yes, I hope Xiaodan can be safe in the heaven." Thinking of the fairy fate that the immortal named Xuanyuan bestowed on him before leaving, Fu Yun quickly told Xuanjing about it.

After hearing this, Xuan Jing was overjoyed.Although Fu Yun is very talented in martial arts, he has no foundation in cultivation.In terms of the immortal cultivators he saw in modern times, they are ordinary people without spiritual roots.Such a person, no matter how he cultivates, has no chance of being immortal.He used to worry about this, after all, it was rare for him to meet someone he liked so much, and he didn't want to lose him after a hundred years.Now the fairy helped him solve this problem.

He couldn't help lowering his head and kissed Fu Yun's lips: "That's great! That brother is really nice."

Brother?Fu Yun silently looked away, and swallowed Xiaodan's words that called that fairy his grandfather.

After a burst of excitement, Xuan Jing thought of something, and suddenly turned over and pressed Fu Yun under him, with a smirk on his lips: "My husband found a good book from Xiaodan, and we can try it in the future." try."

Seeing the malicious light shining in Xuan Jing's eyes, Fu Yun's heart skipped a beat, with a vague premonition: "What is it?"

Xuan Jing leaned into his ear with a smile, and blew: "Naturally it is the method of dual cultivation."

With a blast in his head, Fu Yun's face instantly turned red.Although he didn't know what the method of double cultivation was, he still understood the word double cultivation.Feeling under the quilt, someone's hand began to be dishonest, Fu Yun quickly took a deep breath, grabbed Xuanjing's hand with his hand and said: "Wait, now... now is not the time. There are too many things left over from yesterday. , we..." He stammered and explained, looking as if he wanted to get under the quilt.

Xuan Jing didn't intend to really do anything to Fu Yun at first, but he habitually molested Fu Yun before getting up, who knew he would think wrongly.Seeing Fu Yun's embarrassment, a flame suddenly rose from his lower abdomen.He couldn't help but cursed in a low voice, leaned over and kissed Fu Yun's lips heavily, until he kissed Fu Yun until his eyes were blurred, and he reacted before letting him go.In the end, the two of them didn't do anything, and got up after taking a fighting bath.

What Fu Yun said is right, there are still many things waiting for the two of them to deal with today.

Under Wang Chengyang's forced suppression, the disaster victims inside and outside the county have calmed down temporarily.Fu Yun has already dealt with most of the follow-up matters of the public trial and the assassination, leaving only a small part unfinished.For example, the re-incorporation of Wang Chengyang's subordinates, Wang Steward's interrogation, and leading the team to arrest the officials involved in Lin County.By the time Xuan Jing and Fu Yun had divided and cooperated to deal with these matters, a whole day had passed.

Among Wang Chengyang's subordinates, Xuanjing only kept a few who knew the current affairs, and killed all the others to avoid future troubles.As for Butler Wang, I didn't expect to find anything from him at first, but I just asked a few cursory questions, and after confirming that I couldn't get any useful information from him, I gave the other party a happy one.And some subordinate county magistrates who participated in this matter on the ledger were imprisoned one after another and guarded by officials.When the imperial court's follow-up disaster relief convoy arrives, Xuan Jing and Fu Yun will take this group of people back to the capital to report to the emperor.

As for the two most critical letters, Xuan Jing certainly had no intention of handing them over.This is an important reliance for him to incorporate a certain force after returning to Beijing.

In the evening, the night wind began to cool down.

Inside the Sheriff's Mansion, in a wide gazebo.Xuan Jing, Fu Yun, father and daughter Luo Youlan, who had been cleared of the charges and changed into different clothes, were sitting together.On the table were some home-cooked dishes and a wine jug.There was a faint aroma of wine in the air.

"Thank you Your Highness for saving your life, I am really grateful." Luo Haoyu stood up, raised his glass and offered a toast to Xuan Jing.

Xuan Jing hurriedly stood up and offered a cup of respect in return: "Master Luo is serious. It is His Highness's duty to investigate the case and restore Lord Luo's innocence. You don't need to thank him." That person is not yourself.If Luo Haoyu knew this, with his temperament of jealousy, he might not treat Xuan Jing and Fu Yun as he does now.

Luo Haoyu admired Xuanjing's neither arrogant nor impatient attitude.He was also the proud son of heaven in his early years, and he was promoted all the way to the first level of civil servants, which can be said to be famous.I have met many princes before the court, but I have never seen this fifth prince. I only vaguely heard some rumors in the harem, knowing that the fifth prince lost the favor of the emperor after the death of the imperial concubine and was placed in the cold palace. .I thought that a man who grew up in the cold palace and had no one to discipline him must be a gloomy person full of hatred, but now he sees him as an elegant and elegant gentleman, which makes him very fond of him.

After hearing Xuan Jing's resignation, he thanked Xuan Jing and Fu Yun respectively on behalf of Luo Youlan. From Luo Haoyu's point of view, without the care of Xuan Jing and others, Luo Youlan might not be able to live to this day.

After hearing this, Xuan Jing and Fu Yun looked at each other, and they both saw a deep meaning in each other's eyes.It seems that Luo Haoyu still doesn't know what happened between Luo Youlan and Shitou.

Luo Youlan sat obediently beside Luo Haoyu, bowed her head and said nothing, but a blush gradually appeared on her cheeks.

"Lord Luo is amazing. If Lord Luo hadn't risked his life to collect the evidence and handed it to Miss Luo for safekeeping, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to solve the case so quickly." Xuan Jing said.

Luo Haoyu shook his head, expressing emotion: "The person who collected the evidence was not a subordinate official, but a confidant of Wang Chengyang."

Xuan Jing raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"

"It's a long story." Mentioning that person, Luo Haoyu's tone became low.

It turned out that before the flood broke out, a confidant of Wang Chengyang had discovered that the water level of Luoshui was abnormal.The substantial increase in the water level is much higher than in previous years, which means that this flood is not at the same level as previous floods.And this confidant had married a wife in a small county in the middle of Luobei County without telling Wang Chengyang in the early years.Noticing the abnormal water level, he immediately thought of his wife's family downstream, so he quickly reported the water level to Wang Chengyang.But Wang Chengyang didn't take this matter to heart and ignored it.

Because in the past few decades, there have been no floods in Luobei County, but every time a flood breaks out, once the dams built on the Luohe River are opened to divert water, most of the water has been released to other nearby river basins, and there have never been any casualties , At most, it is to destroy the buildings in some counties near the upper reaches.And they can also take this opportunity to lie about the disaster situation and make a fortune from the court's disaster relief materials, so the flood is not a bad thing for them, but an opportunity to make money.No wonder Wang Chengyang reacted like this.

But that confidant knew that the flood this time was different from the past.The increase in the water level is too great, which makes people frightened.The confidant, who had trouble sleeping and eating, was so anxious that he had no choice but to set off overnight to find Luo Haoyu, the county magistrate of Yun County, behind Wang Chengyang's back.Luo Haoyu's reputation of being diligent and caring for the people has long been spread in Luobei County, and Yun County belongs to the upper reaches of the town, where there will be a messenger station specially provided by the imperial court. With the footsteps of a thousand-mile horse in the station, it only takes five days. Word of the flood spread throughout Los North County.In this way, these downstream towns will start to transfer people in advance.The lives of his wife's family were saved.

But when he arrived at Yun County and met Luo Haoyu, he realized that there was no communication station in Yun County.That money had already been swallowed up by Wang Chengyang and others.His wife is thousands of miles away, and without a thousand-mile horse, it would take half a month to drive there with the footsteps of an ordinary horse, even if the horse does not stop overnight.With the current rising tide, the flood is only seven or eight days away.

The confidant who learned of this was shocked.But he still didn't give up, and rode towards the town where his wife lived that day.Unfortunately, he is just an ordinary mortal after all.The flood broke out as scheduled and destroyed eight counties overnight. His wife's family was killed and there were no bones left.He survived by luck, and when he returned to the county, Luo Haoyu had already been put in prison as a scapegoat.Thinking of the fact that he helped the evildoers in the past, and ended up harming his wife and family, his confidants were very remorseful, and decided to expose Wang Chengyang and others in order to atone for their crimes.After that, he pretended to return to Wang Chengyang's side, stole the evidence of Wang Chengyang's collusion with some officials, and handed it to Luo Youlan under Luo Haoyu's instruction.

Seeing that Luo Haoyu did not take the initiative to mention this strong man after the pardon, Xuan Jing knew that this man's fate might not be very good.

Sure enough, Luo Haoyu continued to say: "One day after that, Wang Chengyang brought the man's body to the dungeon in an attempt to test whether I was really crazy. I saw that man was covered in blood, so he must have suffered a lot during his lifetime. , I was angry and depressed, but I had to continue to pretend to be crazy and laugh foolishly." Luo Haoyu drank a glass of wine, "It's really sad and ridiculous. Thinking about it now, I still feel uncomfortable."

Luo Youlan saw that Luo Haoyu was agitated, and comforted him from the side: "Father, now that Wang Chengyang's party has been arrested, he must have a soul in heaven, and he will be relieved a lot."

Luo Haoyu shook his head and said: "Lan'er, you are still young, you don't know much about this officialdom. The amount of money spent on water conservancy and flood control every year is not a small amount, and senior officials who can control the entire county are involved in this matter, and even some Beijing officials are attracted to it. The forces that turn their backs on their eyes are by no means easy. What we get rid of now are just some small fish and shrimps who are walking on the front line, but we haven't found the real people."

Luo Youlan fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Xuan Jing's eyes flickered slightly, and he put down his wine glass.Fu Yun beside him lowered his head with some guilt, his eyes complicated.

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