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Chapter XXII

"With such a deep blood feud, how could the Li family's orphan give up on revenge so easily? Since their enemy's position is extremely high, and they don't even have any place to sue, they will naturally look for another method. "

"You …" Rong Niang lifted her head, and looked at Xu Chu's gentle eyes. She couldn't help but straighten her back, and looked at Sun Xingwei with an angry expression.

Xu Chu looked at Rong Niang and saw that she was already crying so she could not help but continue: "The two of you siblings had helped each other to escape death and were raised separately. It was only when you met the so-called Li Jin in Yunzhou City that you finally understood the secret behind the tragic death of your family. Thus, you willingly entered the brothel, and after a few attempts at planning and enduring humiliation, approached Li Jin. You've discovered his secret and wanted to report him to the officials, but the biggest official in the Cloud Prefecture turned out to be Lord Sun. So, you can only clench your teeth and swallow your grievances once again. "

"After that, you went to see your elder brother. The two discussed things, but discovered that there was no door to redress your grievances. In the end, the only thing you could do was to commit the so-called murder of evil spirits."

"As for the so-called Phantom s on the south coast, I'm afraid that you siblings would infiltrate the village overnight. When you cry above the ruins, you would cause the phosphorescence underground to rise and produce the so-called will-o '-the-wisp. Am I right? "

"The girl is right. My father had long been killed by Sun Xingwei, the unconscious official, so how could he revive from the dead? The Li Jin who appeared was merely the person who followed him like a mountain. Only after I begged the person who saved us back then did I know that that person was the bandit chief from back then. "As for those criminals, I'm afraid they have already escaped …" As matters stood, Rong Niang was quick to respond. As long as she could take revenge, she wouldn't hesitate to break her bones.

Her words caused everyone to suddenly understand. No wonder, it was actually like this. Xu Chu was also silent in her heart, and it was as she had guessed, the several hundred thousand taels of silver was enough to support the fake Li Jin spending his money like dirt. The business of the tea merchants was nothing more than a cover for the dirty silver.

"Why did the Zhang Family and the Liu Family become your targets?" The matter had already been made clear, but Xiao Qinglang still had to ask and use it as a witness statement.

"They... Hehe, they are all a bunch of executioners. In order to deceive people, Jiang Dakui had strangled my mother to death and cut off my grandmother. When the Zhang Family and the Liu Family saw that my family had been killed, not only did they not help, they even helped Sun Xingwei and the others to cover it up, in exchange for benefits. How could I let such a neighbor who is not even comparable to a beast go? " After saying that, Rong Niang's face turned sinister. When she thought about it, her father had first ran out to ask for help, but those few families had long heard the sound and were so scared that they didn't dare to save him. In the end, they even falsely accused her father's corpse of being Jiang Dakui, while his grandfather, who was gasping for breath, was an injured bandit.

Now that he thought about it, it was truly sad. His grandparents had been good people to his parents all their lives, and in the end, they even had to confess their crimes for him.

As for Jiang Dakui, not only was he free to indulge himself, he had long since changed his identity as a father, which had long since become his.

"I'm guessing that after you entered the brothel, you discovered Zhang Zhang Zhang's figure, so you secretly fought around to let him meet with Li Jin. Zhang Zhang Zhang's wife once said that he was very excited when he returned home. She said that his family would soon be rich, and she was afraid that Li Jin had given him some sort of promise. "

"No, I did it alone. It had nothing to do with my brother. "He doesn't know anything …" Rong Niang's face was pale white, he was shivering from exhaustion, and spoke with determination, "Later on, I burned Wu Song and a few other phosphate powder with gunpowder and oil to death. If not for Cheng Ya Jin who suddenly appeared, I am afraid that Sun Xingwei, this dog official, would already have lost his life in my hands. "

Xu Chu stared intently at Rong Niang, and after she finished speaking, she said indifferently: "But the one who died was not Wu Song, but Liu Da Fu. Furthermore, after my autopsy, I found that Jiang Dakui died by his hands. He is a burly man who has killed many times for money, how could he be easily dealt with by you? Even if you use a camouflage drug, you might not even be able to drag him down, much less tie him to a wooden stool and hold him down. "Since it's like this, why do you need to hide it?"

Rong Niang stammered, and was forced to shake her head repeatedly because of Xu Chu's words, but she did not know how to refute.

"Metal, wood, water, fire and earth should correspond to Lord Zhang Zhang, Jiang Dakui, Liu Da Fu, Liu Da Gui and Lord Sun Xingwei Sun. And in the Wu family, Wu Daqing should be the one who saved you back then. " Xu Chu lowered her head to look at the changes on Rong Niang's face, seeing that she was suddenly startled, he confirmed the last guess in her mind, "You said that someone used a corpse to replace the two of you, and the only person in the village who has the chance to do so is the coroner's Wu Da Qing. In order to protect you two, he also put in a lot of effort. She not only did evil to acknowledge evil, but she also raised you two as great-grandchildren. After being separated for so many generations, even if they moved to the Yunzhou City, no one would be able to notice the Sun family's difference … "

As soon as she finished speaking, a group of villagers looked at each other and snuggled up to each other. After repeatedly looking at each other, their gazes suddenly landed on a few unfamiliar faces behind them.

"The so-called ghost last night wasn't someone you wanted to scare, nor was it someone who wanted to drive us away like I originally guessed. Instead, it was someone who wanted to borrow my hand to rewash the grievances between us in the Li family. Is that possible? "

A few people in the crowd laughed miserably, taking a few steps forward to stand beside Rong Niang. Wu Haoyu and Lady Wu even bent down to help Rong Niang up, and said with a pained heart: "It's been hard on you. If there was a day like this, father and mother would have definitely advised your grand father to bring the secret into the soil."

If not for the fact that Great Master Wu unhappily revealed that the current Li Jin was Jiang Dakui, the two children would not have been fooled by hatred. They only wanted revenge. She and her Master Wu Song had never had the good fortune to have children, so when she raised Wu Yu and Rong Niang, she paid extra attention to them.

"Mother …"

"Sigh. Good children are not afraid, but our family is still together, and we are not lonely on the Road to River Styx. " Madam Wu was no longer as aggressive and annoying as when Xu Chu was investigating the case back then. Her tone of voice was filled with deep love for the child.

At this moment, the crowd was already in an uproar. Several tens of villagers were shocked and terrified, as if they couldn't believe that the root of the evil spirits' calamity had been planted twenty years ago.

As a result, the death of Liu Daju in the water today was not an accident. Furthermore, it was not a water ghost that found a substitute, but …

Wu Dai took a deep breath and said, "It seems that the lady has guessed how I did it to the Liu brothers."

"Of course," Xu Chu said in a low voice as she looked at the man who was originally a handsome and elegant man, but now, her eyes were filled with pain and despair. "You must have asked Wu Se to send a message to the Liu brothers, saying that there was a chance of him making a fortune, and then coaxed him to go out to eat wine. After you have had your fill of wine and food, you hold people on top of carriages, and you burn people to death with tools that produce ghost fires and burn them more fiercely than real ghost fires. "Because most of the items were following the carriage with the wind, they were not powerful enough to burn the carriage to ashes. However, Liu Da Fu had plenty of them, so he was not able to escape …"

"Yes, you're right." Wu Yu looked at Xu Chu in a daze. If there was such a person in Chang Ping County back then, would his parents and grandparents not have died in vain?

At this moment, the emotions in Wu Haoyuan's eyes had already stabilized. After an unknown period of time, he finally said with difficulty: "When did you suspect me?"

"I've had my doubts since the moment Li Jin died. Why didn't the Five Elements rumor spread earlier? It only started after the death of a second person." Furthermore, when I went to the Wu Clan, you and Madam Wu were too calm. Even if Madame Wu had been rude to me, she would only have revealed some annoyance and not grief. " Xu Chu heaved a long sigh, "Let alone the Zhang Family and Li Family, the words of an evil spirit cause terror in the hearts of the people, the entire residence is filled with runes and peach branches. It was just like how every household had asked for a talisman to ward off evil spirits. In contrast, the Wu Clan is far too peaceful. In fact, both you and Madam Wu might still be in the mood to go out and buy autumn clothes.

With that, Xu Chu turned to look at Lady Wu, seeing that even though she was dressed in simple attire, she still wore a small golden hairpin flower.

"I think the hairpin on Madam's head is a beloved gift from Master Wu."

According to the rumors, the two of them had a good relationship. If something really happened to Wu Song, Lady Wu would probably not be able to dress up, let alone bring gold with a hairpin.

At the moment, the place was extremely quiet, and everyone's gaze was at a loss of what to do as they looked back and forth between Xu Chu and the Wu Family. Back then, because the bandits were too brutal, many people only dared to leave their homes after the soldiers had cleaned up the south coast. Thus, there were many things that they did not know.

The sun slowly rose from the east, dispersing the darkness and gloom of the small village. Golden rays of light covered the ground in an instant, as well as the corpses.

At this moment, the sound of galloping horses came from the village. After that, the well-trained hidden guard respectfully stood beside Xiao Qinglang, and the man in the lead reported in a deep voice: "Royal Highness, your subordinate has already brought people to dig up dozens of boxes of silver from the Lee family fake mountain. They have now been registered and are waiting for someone from the capital to come take over. Furthermore, according to the orders of the Prince, I have ordered my subordinates to capture all of the bandits who were taken away by Li Dutong that year. Only one person has gone missing, and the magistrate court has also ordered them to go all out to capture them. "

As matters stood, even the dirty silver that Jiang Dakui was hiding in was found by someone sent by the King Jing'an. Sun Xingwei could not help but tremble and sit on the ground soullessly, he only felt a cold wind blowing on him, causing him to tremble uncontrollably.

He was not allowed to quibble about what happened next. Xiao Qinglang didn't even give him a chance to speak, let alone confess his grievances.

Xiao Qinglang waved his hand, gesturing to the guards who had reported what had just happened to withdraw, and then turned his head to look into the depths of the torchlight, as he coldly asked: "Master Lu, have you remembered all of the prisoners' confessions?"

The crowd parted, and a grey-clothed old man walked out. "In reply to Your Highness, this humble one has already recorded down the confessions without a mistake." In addition, Sir Sun's crimes have been recorded so that the Prince can look them up. "