Chapter 160
The rushing sound of horse hooves came from the winding path.
In the woods beside the road, the woodcutter walked slowly with firewood. A long row of people and horses whizzed two or three meters away from him and rushed towards Shounian Mountain.
The sound of horse hooves gradually faded away from behind the woodcutter. The woodcutter was still walking leisurely, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
The clever little miscellaneous people who are self-righteous are thinking that they have made plans, but they know the true meaning of playing chess?
What you get is abandoned.
What you know is that I let you know.
What you do is my intention to make you do this.
I will pick the results you have done.
Everyone rode their horses to the end of the road and turned to the avenue. They rode two or three people from afar and welcomed them.
Zhang Ping stopped and the host was welcomed to turn over and dismount.
"Sir, the suspect disappeared this morning! Bei Jie Ren has been strictly guarding the top of the mountain, and I don't know how he escaped. Bei Jie Ren is incompetent and neglects his duties, so I ask for punishment from him."
Zhang Ping looked solemn and frowned and looked at the top of Shounian Mountain under the floating clouds.
In the lobby of Fengle County, the drums sounded again, and Feng Taisheng Hall was promoted.
Huang Zhiniang was still shouting loudly for the divine power and condemnation. Feng Tai ordered people to block her mouth and press it aside first. Amaranth kowtowed desperately to the hall: "Master, I will ask you to judge whatever you want. Please remember what you promised before, and spare my mother's life!"
The yamen runner scolded him for being rude. King Huai, who was sitting next to the head, looked at Feng Tai: "Feng Fu Yin, what promises do you have to do with this girl?"
Feng Tai replied sideways: "She is the daughter of the criminal Huang Zhiniang. When searching for her, she stopped the guards and told her mother about their actions. The guards just chased him to the earth cliff by the river, but they were still one step late and only got the crazy woman."
Amaranth was smart and immediately knew that King Huai was higher than Feng Tai, so he turned to King Huai to kowtow: "This noble master, my mother was just crazy and didn't really hurt the two young masters, but just locked them up. I, I have saved them twice. My mother was crazy and didn't know anything. She didn't mean it. I would like to be a slave and a servant, and I ask the noble master to let my mother go with a cheap life!"
Feng Tai slapped the awkward saying: "Bastard! Your mother kidnapped a child. Since you know, why didn't you report to the official early? Someone once went to your house to ask, why didn't you report to him at that time?"
Amaranth stuttered: "I, I fell asleep at that time."
Feng Tai smashed the groan again: "The bastard is still dared to speak nonsense! You and your mother are clearly accomplices! Who are you instructing, how to kidnap, how to commit crimes? How many people have you harmed before? Come quickly and get it from the real thing!"
Amaranth trembled all over and looked up at Feng Tai: "Sir, if I ask, can you spare my mother's life?"
Feng Tai looked even more fierce, and King Huai slowly spoke: "Miss, you will not have the qualifications to ask for before you find it. You can find the causes and consequences without telling them, and you can find them through other channels. Feng Fu Yin asked you, and he was giving you a chance. Don't be confused anymore."
Amaranth immediately kowtowed again: "Sir, the young ladies dare not deceive. I met those two young masters on the road. They asked if they could buy food from me, so I took them to my house. My mother is crazy, but she has never harmed anyone before. I really don't want to harm them sincerely!"
Feng Tai frowned and said to King Huai: "The only two children you meet? No one else?"
Amaranth cried, "There are only those two young masters and brothers."
Feng Tai glanced at Lanjue.
Lan Jue sat motionlessly. King Huai said again: "Do they tell you the origin of your life?"
Amaranth wiped his tears and nodded: "They said that their surname was Wu, one was Wu Ming and the other was Wu Ying. I think it must be a name made up. The two of them even called themselves the heroes. There are young masters who often run out of Beijing to go to the world. I took them home, thinking that if their family members were invited, they could receive some rewards. They really came by themselves, and my mother and I didn't rob anyone!"
King Huai was also silent. Yun Yu, who was standing beside him, whispered: "I think he just got out of the assassin's hand, he is so smart."
King Huai rubbed his eyebrows, and Feng Tai knocked on the awkward wood again: "Then why is your mother vicious?!"
Amaranth kowtowed again in tears: "Master Gong, my mother was really crazy! I guess it might be because of fire. My mother was afraid of fire. She could not enter the kitchen before, and she could not even see the red glow in the morning and evening, nor could she see fireworks. On the night of the Chinese New Year and the holidays, she had to lock the house and seal the windows. When my grandfather died, the food I ate was given by others, and my mother couldn't cook. Later, she went to Grandma Temple with others to burn incense. The Taoist priest gave her talisman water to drink, and she gradually got better. She also burned incense every day to burn incense and paper money for Grandma Cishou. She has been kowtowing and burning incense and demons over the years. Everything else is good, and others are looking for her to do work, really!"
Feng Tai frowned: "Why is it because of fire again? Simply put it in a key way."
Amaranth kowtowed again: "It was just that the fire in Shounian Mountain two days ago, and my mother suddenly had something wrong. She said that the gods were going to surrender to heaven. This time when I worshiped my grandma, I had a cold wind and cold weather. My mother guarded me, and did not go up the mountain to burn incense, nor did she offer a baby to my grandma. She might have thought that this was her fault and she had to apologize to her grandma."
Feng Tai looked fierce: "That is, he kidnapped a boy, burned, killed and sacrificed?!"
King Huai narrowed his eyes, Lan Jue sat expressionlessly, and the patterns on the armrests of the seat were deeply trapped in his palm.
Amaranth kowtowed hard: "My mother has never been like this before! It was all the fault of the folk girl. It was me who brought the two young masters home with greed for money. The two young masters happened to be nine years old and twelve years old, so my mother was even more crazy. The culprit was not my mother, it was me!"
King Huai said coldly: "What do you mean by nine or twelve years old?"
Feng Tai also replied sideways: "There were two boys who chose to serve the mud statues in the temple every three years ago. The children chosen were six years old, and the earliest two times were nine years old. It was related to another case. The crazy woman Huang was superstitious about bad customs, and it happened that nine and twelve years old were three years apart from six years old, so she touched her evil thoughts."
Amaranth cried and said, "My mother just thought it was God's will. She also said that if not, Grandma Cishou would surrender to the heavens and punish the people in the county... She just couldn't tell the difference. In short, it was me who brought the two young masters home to get these things. If the master wants to sue, I will punish me first!"
Feng Tai slapped the awkward again: "Ignorance and cunning child, let alone the identity of the person your mother wants to harm. Just kidnapping the child and intending to kill it is the crime of beheading. How many heads do you have? How can you bear it? Since you know that your mother is tying someone, why don't you report to the official?"
Amaranth's forehead was bleeding and she cried, "She is my mother, and I don't want her to be arrested. I thought she could let the person go...I am accomplice... Later, I saw that things were really bad, so I went to call for someone. It was because I was too late to report to the official and the two young masters fell into the water. My life and death are still unknown. Master, if you want to chop me, you will chop me first..."
Feng Tai looked down at her: "You have injuries on your cheeks and arms, where do you get the injuries?"
Amaranth continued to kowtow: "Men's stupid girl, I'm the one who kowtowed herself."
Feng Tai shouted, "Nonsense! It's clear that you were injured by your mother! Your mother also locked you up, so you can't report to the official. The knife wound on your body is to prevent your mother from committing crimes. Is it right? Filial piety is a great good, but filial piety and great evil is a great mistake. Did your mother hurt those two children?!"
Amaranth shook his head: "No. My mother really didn't hurt them. She said she had to give them a clean sacrifice. She just gave them some medicine to fall asleep after drinking... I also drank that one, so I won't hurt anyone. The two young masters ran away when my mother drove them to the river to take a shower. When I saw my mother was about to chase them, I went to report to the official. Anyway, when I finally saw them, they were not injured at all, really!"
Feng Tai nodded slightly.
King Huai said to Feng Tai: "If it's just falling into the water, send more people to search carefully along the river. Qitan water is good."
Feng Tai said simply: "There are enough people, but please don't worry." He ordered the guard to take Amaranth aside first, drag Huang Zhiniang into the hall, and take off the cloth towel that was stuffed into his mouth.
"The criminal Huang kidnapped two children with an intention to burn and kill them, but what you did?!"
Huang Zhiniang slowly looked up, and a strange light burst out in her eyes: "You group of stupid ordinary people have missed the time and things are irreversible. God's punishment is approaching, and none of us can escape. We will be burned to ashes by the punishment of fire!"
Feng Tai slapped the arbor: "Crazy woman, in the court, she dares to speak lies!"
Amaranth cried and said, "Mom, wake up quickly... Master, look at my mother, I really don't know what happened..."
Huang Zhiniang chuckled and said: "Crazy?! Ignorance, when you see it, you will know the power of heavenly punishment. The fire surrounds you, the heavenly soldiers and generals guard you, and no one can escape! No one can escape!"
Feng Tai looked cold and his tone suddenly slowed down: "Have you seen it? Where?"
Huang Zhiniang kept chuckling in her throat: "That fire burned from the eighteenth level of hell, and then the sky. No one can come out, no one can come out..."
King Huai frowned slightly again, Wang Yan leaned on the back of the chair, and Feng Tai continued to ask slowly, "Who did not come out?"
Huang Zhiniang screamed: "Cai Lang, Cai Lang, run away—! Come out quickly! Cai Lang—" She suddenly twisted desperately, trying to break free from the chains on her body, "Dad, let me go—I want to save Cai Lang—Don't stop me—let me die with him—! Cai Lang—! Cai Lang!!!"
Feng Tai raised his hand, and the guards took the cloth again, stuffed Huang Zhiniang's heart-wrenching roar, and pressed her body that was struggling like a crazy trapped beast. Feng Tai looked at King Huai and Yun Yu: "More than ten years ago, there was a Cai Mansion at the junction of Fengle County and Lin County, and the whole family was killed due to a fire. This young master of the Cai family who Huang Zhiniang was obsessed with was also killed during the fire. Only then did he have the words of God's punishment today."
King Huai said oh.
Feng Tai continued: "The head of the Cai family was an official in the court, and I have asked to transfer his resume and the fire case file at that time."
King Huai nodded again: "It is really a pity to suffer this disaster. However, this family had all died more than ten years ago. At most, it was the reason for this woman's madness. It was far-fetched to involve them in this case."
Feng Tai said: "Huang Zhiniang was not crazy because she witnessed the fire, but she was crazy. After witnessing the fire, the madness became even worse. Because of superstition, she used it as a punishment for God. But my mansion felt that the fragments of her crazy words were like a fire, and she was nearby and witnessed the passing."
King Huai said again: "Don't be too serious about a crazy woman's words. The most urgent thing is to find people. I hope the prefect Feng can distinguish between importance."
Feng Tai was solemn: "I will never dare to slack off." He sat upright again, slapped the agglomeration, "Take the head of Beiba Township!"
The constable led an old man into the room, but he was the village head of the place where Huang Zhiniang was.
The old man knelt down in the hall: "The old man Gong Ye, the head of Beiba Township, Shun'an County, kowtowed to the prefect and the lords."
Feng Tai said in a deep voice: "This case is urgent, so I will not talk nonsense. Huang Zhiniang and her daughter Amaranth have a real relationship with you."
Gong Ye was stunned and silenced: "The old man doesn't know..."
Feng Tai interrupted him: "There is no need to say anything that shirks. Our mansion has found that most of the fabrics and items at Huang Zhiniang's house are given by you, especially the girl Amaranth, and some of them are made by your wife himself. Our mansion can ask needleworkers to compare the clothes you wear on the spot, and then ask your wife for inquiries."
Gong Ye kowtowed: "The master was very careful. The old man had some friendship with Huang's father, so he often secretly helped him..."
Feng Tai slapped the awkward again: "It's nonsense! Your family is several miles apart from the Huang family, and there has never been any contact. Your family is treating a doctor in the middle county of the town, and never asked the father of Huang, a rural doctor. This mansion has found so much evidence, coupled with the eyes of Huang's amaranth, the truth is. Our mansion has sent someone to arrest your son, but you don't come here to the truth, don't blame me for using ruthless torture!"
Gong Ye leaned down tremblingly: "Master Qingtian Prefecture Prime Minister, the old man dared not deceive him anymore. Back then, the evil son was young and ignorant, and he did all his conscience. The old man was confused and actually covered him up. The evil son has been corrected for many years and has never done any wrong things again..."
Feng Taili shouted: "The bastard is raped by a woman with incomplete mental health. She has aggravated her madness and refused to recognize her daughter, causing her to survive in the criticism of the countryside. She becomes more and more crazy, and even becomes addicted to demons and kidnap children. Now all these are the crimes of your son and you. How can you decorate the words of young, ignorant, confused, and other words?"
Gong Ye kowtowed with tears and said he was guilty of his crime.
Feng Tai fell down to confess his confession, took the picture and ordered someone to capture Feng Ye's son. King Huai said: "Prince Feng, I'm a little confused here. Is this little girl born by Gong Weng's son raped Huang?"
Feng Tai replied: "It is. When I was checking Huang, I found out that Huang Zhiniang was pregnant inexplicably that day, and she felt a little strange. A girl with incomplete mental and beautiful minds was often raped by shameless people. Moreover, Huang was so crazy that her father died for several years. If no one secretly helped her, she would never be able to raise a daughter so smoothly."
Huang Zhiniang lives at the edge of the village. Her neighbors obviously don’t like her, and she doesn’t seem to be able to help her very carefully. But Huang Zhiniang is a crazy and weak woman with a little girl, but she has been living a good life. She has not been bullied by bullies and has been captured by bandits. Obviously, there have been people who have been secretly protecting her and the person who protects her is still in this area.
"Huang Zhiniang's chef has no shortage of rice and grain, and it is all fine grains, seasonings, and meat and eggs. Clothing, especially her amaranth, is not made in the local area, but weaving materials. The needlework techniques are different from many of Huang Zhiniang's clothes. He even has head oil, face-wiping ointment and soap powder for bathing shampooing can only be bought in shops in the city."
Even if Huang Zhiniang is a sound-minded woman, she can't afford it by her earnings from needlework and spinning.
What's more, she is obsessed with worshiping Grandma Cishou, and she also needs a lot of money for incense.
"When the village chief came to ask, Gong Ye's answer was very strange, as if it was covering up. I became suspicious in my heart, and then I found out the truth after a brief investigation. When Huang was young, he was very handsome. When he was seen by Gong Ye's son, he raped him at night. Huang was incomplete and thought that he was pregnant with a man named Cai, who was in love with his dear brother. His father had no evidence and could not get the criminal, so he could only speak out without saying anything. Gong Ye knew that his son had committed the crime, but he covered it up. He also thought that Amaranth was born by Huang and refused to recognize each other. However, he still had a trace of conscience and could not eliminate his bloodline nature. He kept secretly helping him."
Gong Ye crawled on the ground, not daring to look up. Amaranth knelt blankly, and two lines of tears dried up on his face.
King Huai nodded again: "This is really a pity. Feng Qing is really a god. However, the whereabouts of the emperor's nephew are unknown, and Gu Zhen has no intention of others."
Gong Ye, who was in the hall, heard Feng Tai claiming to be a minister, and now when he heard this sentence again, he was like five thunder slamming on the ground. Amaranth also turned his head to King Huai and trembled.
Feng Tai said: "The guards are trying their best to find them. I have just returned to interrogate them for all clues."
Wang Yan looked at Lan Jue comfortably, but Lan Jue was still holding the armrest of the seat and sat silently.
After Feng Tai's review of these things, he didn't listen carefully and was often in a daze. The situation when he was in a different village in the past, the situation when he was traveling to the water of the Orchid Hui appeared before his eyes.
Lan Hui likes to sway the water when taking a bath. She sways even more happily in the hot spring pond. She can float up by herself without any teaching. She patted the water and swam to the other side, and jumped straight on the rock edge: "Dad, Dad~~"
Chapter completed!