Xi Yu lowered his voice and asked, "I'll ask you, what do you think of your shopkeeper?"
When the waiter heard this, his face was filled with smiles and said hurriedly: "Customer, our shopkeeper is the best person! He is kind and never treats us guys harshly."
Xi Yu frowned slightly, a trace of suspicion flashed in his eyes, and he said, "Are you coaxing me? I see you won't tell the truth."
When the waiter heard this, he waved his hand in a hurry and said sincerely: "Customer, everything that I said is true, it is really the truth!"
Xi Yu stared at the waiter for a moment, and saw that he looked confident, he didn't ask anything more.
After a while, Xi Yu stood up and said, "I'm going to the toilet." After that, he hurriedly left.
The waiter watched the movie and didn't say anything.
As soon as the shopkeeper Ma Pingchang stepped into the inn, a majestic aura came to his face.
He is burly and dressed in a navy brocade robe.
His face was as sharp as a knife, with clear outlines.
Under the bridge of his high nose, a thin lips were slightly pursed.
The waiter hunched and leaned over to the shopkeeper Ma Pingchang's ear and whispered: "Shopkeeper, there is a customer who came to our store yesterday. Today, I'm here again. I'm going to wait for you."
The shopkeeper frowned and looked at the waiter with a sharp look.
"Who is it? Where is the person?"
The waiter said hurriedly: "The shopkeeper is a young man. He looks handsome, but he has a mysterious spirit. He said he has gone to the toilet."
The shopkeeper Ma Pingchang frowned slightly, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes: "So strange? Have you ever said what to do with me?"
The waiter shook his head: "No, I just said I want to see you."
At this time, Xi Yu walked back from the toilet slowly.
The waiter hurriedly pointed at Xi Yu and said to the shopkeeper Ma Pingchang, "The shopkeeper is this customer."
Ma Pingchang looked Xi Yu up and down, then clasped his fists, with a little doubt and vigilance on his face: "This friend, I am the shopkeeper Ma Pingchang. The waiter said you came yesterday and came again today, and you also came to me specifically, but I don't know what's going on?"
Xi Yu smiled slightly, held his fists and returned the greeting, but his eyes were as sharp as an eagle and falcon: "Ma Zhangguan, I have been looking forward to it for a long time. I came here for a secret matter in the past year. This matter concerns the lives of many people, and the shopkeeper, you seem to be the key figure in this secret matter."
A hint of panic flashed in Ma Pingchang's eyes, but he instantly recovered from calmness.
"Friend, I don't understand what you said. I'm just a person who runs an inn. I'm welcomed and sent him to you on weekdays. I don't know where the secret thing you said comes from?"
Xi Yu looked at Ma Pingchang with a look of a torch. He stopped going around in circles and said straight to the point: "Ma Zhangkeeper, I don't want to roam around you. I came here this time for Sun Qiushui. You designed to let her go to jail, and I want to know the truth of the matter."
When Ma Pingchang heard this, his face changed drastically. His originally calm face turned pale. A trace of panic and fear flashed in his eyes. His lips trembled slightly: "You...who are you?"
The waiter was confused when he listened, but when he saw that the shopkeeper looked wrong, he saw that Xi Yu was aggressive and he felt that Xi Yu was not good at the visitor.
He frowned, took a step forward, pointed at Xi Yu and said fiercely: "Don't talk nonsense here. If you dare to talk nonsense, I will not let you go!"
Xi Yu was not afraid at all. He just looked at Ma Pingchang coldly, his eyes as firm as a rock.
"It doesn't matter who I am. What's important is that you must tell the truth about that year, otherwise, even if you hide in this inn, you won't be able to feel at ease."
The atmosphere of the entire inn suddenly became tense, as if the smell of gunpowder was filled with the air.
Ma Pingchang sneered, and a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes.
"Hmph, ten years ago, Sun Qiushui worked in my shop. I treated her as my own, but what about her? She did such a deceitful thing as stealing. Things are so simple. She made a mistake, was punished, and was jailed."
Xi Yu's eyes became colder, like a cold pond in winter. He stared at Ma Pingchang tightly, without a trace of warmth in his voice: "Ma Zhan Guest, do you really think I don't know anything? I advise you to tell the truth, otherwise, the consequences are not something you can bear."
Ma Pingchang's mouth twitched slightly, but he still stuck his neck.
"What I'm telling the truth, don't bother me here."
The waiter was a little at a loss. He looked at the shopkeeper and Xi Yu again, feeling that a storm was coming.
At this time, Ma Pingchang quietly winked at the waiter.
So the waiter understood it, gritted his teeth suddenly, shouted loudly, rushed towards Xi Yu, and smashed the fist as big as a casserole toward Xi Yu with the sound of wind.
Xi Yu sneered, without any fear in his eyes, his figure flashed, easily dodging the punch, and then started a fierce battle with the waiter.
Xi Yu is agile and every move is extremely sharp, and he is hard to match with the waiter.
At the same time, he let out a whistle.
In an instant, several black shadows rushed out from various hidden corners of the inn. It was Xi Yu's well-trained dark guard.
They rushed towards Ma Pingchang like ghosts, and before Ma Pingchang could react, they had already controlled him firmly.
Ma Pingchang widened his eyes and looked full of horror. He never expected that Xi Yu would have such a move.
Ma Pingchang was restrained by the secret guards and could not move, his eyes were filled with fear and anger: "You... who are you? How dare you play wild in my territory!"
While fighting with the waiter, Xi Yu said coldly: "Hmph, it doesn't matter who I am. What's important is that you have to pay the price for your evil deeds. Sun Qiushui didn't steal anything back then. You framed her, right?"
Ma Pingchang's face was pale, but he was still quibbling.
"You...you swear!"
Xi Yu locked the waiter with a backhand, threw him aside with a forceful swing, and then slowly walked towards Ma Pingchang. The chill in his eyes seemed to reduce the temperature around him a little.
"I have already obtained enough evidence that you can't deceive your trick.
Xi Yu winked at the secret guards. The secret guards understood and rushed to the backyard of the inn with Ma Pingchang.
There is a hidden cellar there, which is a good place for interrogation.
The waiter was so scared that he saw the shopkeeper being taken away.
He knelt in front of Xi Yu with a "thump", kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said in a trembling voice.
"The customer, the shopkeeper did nothing to do with me! I am just a errand worker and I don't know anything!"
Xi Yu looked down at the waiter, with a look in his eyes.
"Oh? It really has nothing to do with you? Then why did you attack me just now? Why did you help the evildoer?"
The waiter cried and said, "I...I thought you were here to find fault. The shopkeeper was kind to me. I just wanted to protect him. But he didn't know... He really did a bad thing!"
Xi Yu frowned slightly, thought for a moment and said, "I hope you are telling the truth. If I find that you have hidden something, hum, the outcome is the same as him."
"Customer, I really didn't lie to you! I've been in this store for a long time and heard about the shopkeeper's scandal. He is a very beautiful woman. Once he got drunk and saw a beautiful woman resting in the inn. He became so lustful that he went to tease her. The female family was not easy to mess with. The guards around him rushed over and beat the shopkeeper to a bruised face. I felt like a mirror in my heart. I knew that the shopkeeper was not a good thing, but what could I do? I had no skills and no land, so I could only make a living here. I just worked every day, and I really didn't get involved in his bad things. You have a lot of them, so spare me!"
Xi Yu sneered and looked in the direction where the dark guard left.
"Hmph, now I can only wait for the results of the interrogation. If Ma Pingchang honestly explains, he may be able to suffer less."
The waiter still knelt on the ground and kept begging for mercy.
"Customer, please spare me. I have old friends and young masters. It's all up to me to make some money in this inn."
Xi Yu looked down at him with a slightly calmer expression.
"You don't have to panic, I'm not killing innocent people indiscriminately. As long as you are really as you said and have never participated in the bad things in Ma Pingchang, I will naturally not do anything to you. But if I let me know that you have a lie, don't blame me for being ruthless."
The waiter nodded quickly.
"I swear, everything I say is true and I will never hide it at all."
Xi Yu ignored him anymore, found a seat to sit down, and quietly waited for news from the secret guard, while the waiter sat aside, not daring to show up.
Time passed slowly in this tense atmosphere, and the waiter shrank in the corner, occasionally taking a sneak peek at Xi Yu who was sitting quietly.
Xi Yu's expression was cold, like an iceberg, which made people dare not get close to him.
The secret guards pushed Ma Pingchang roughly into a dim cellar and closed the door with a "slam".
Ma Pingchang staggered a few steps before he stood firm. His eyes were full of anger and confusion, and turned around and shouted at the secret guards: "What are you doing? Ma Pingchang, I, has been in this town for many years, and have been doing nothing bad. Why do you treat me like this?"
The secret guard in the head looked at him coldly, and his voice was deep: "Our master will not attack people casually. If we had not obtained the evidence of your evil deeds, how could we arrest you? You should just give it honestly."
Ma Pingchang was stammering his neck and looked stubborn.
"I have nothing to explain. You are wrongly accusing good people!"
At the beginning, no matter how threatened the secret guards threatened, he refused to admit it.
Seeing that he was so stubborn, the secret guards began to use their means at one glance.
Various punishments made Ma Pingchang feel in pain. The veins on his forehead swelled up and sweat was like rain.
Under endless pain, he finally collapsed.
"I said, I said!" Ma Pingchang gasped, his eyes full of horror, "Ten years ago, I did frame Sun Qiushui. Seeing that she was beautiful, I teased her many times, and even suggested that as long as she followed me, she could enjoy wealth and prosperity in the store. But that girl was ignorant and refused to follow her, and even spoke coldly to me. I was so angry that I planned to frame her for stealing things and let her go to jail so that I could exaggerate the anger in my heart."
The secret guard's eyes were like blades, staring at Ma Pingchang with a cold voice.
"Have you done other bad things besides Sun Qiushui? Don't try to hide it, otherwise you will suffer."
Ma Pingchang showed hesitation on his face. Under the gaze of the secret guards, he finally spoke: "I... I have harmed other girls. They are afraid of family ugliness, so they can only swallow their anger and dare not speak out."
When the secret guard heard this, his eyes were filled with anger. He stepped forward and slapped Ma Pingchang several times. The crisp slap echoed in the room.
"You beast!" the secret guard cursed angrily.
Afterwards, they escorted Ma Pingchang to meet Xi Yu.
When Ma Pingchang was taken to Xi Yu, he was already embarrassed and there was still blood on the corner of his mouth.
The secret guard informed Xi Yu of the relevant situations found during the interrogation. Xi Yu's face became more and more gloomy, and there seemed to be anger burning in his eyes.
"Ma Pingchang, you evil man is simply unbearable!" Xi Yu scolded angrily, his voice echoing in the inn like thunder.
The secret guard suddenly kicked Ma Pingchang's knee bend and shouted loudly.
"Don't kneel down yet!"
Ma Pingchang knelt on the ground with a "thump". A trace of fear and confusion flashed in his eyes. He looked up and asked, "Who are you... who are you?"
Xi Yu snorted coldly and took out a token from his arms, which shone with a majestic light.
"I am the Prime Minister. You treacherous and slandered person, you have committed such a sin and still want to escape?"
When Ma Pingchang heard the word "Prime Minister", he was so scared that his face looked like earth, his whole body trembled, and he kowtowed repeatedly.
"Prime Minister, please spare me, please spare me!" The waiter beside him was so shocked that he couldn't stop. He never expected that the guest in front of him was the prime minister. He hurriedly knelt down again, not daring to raise his head.
There was a dead silence in the inn, with only the sound of Ma Pingchang kowtowing and begging for mercy.
Xi Yu looked like a torch, staring at Ma Pingchang, and asked in a majestic tone: "Hmph, do you collude with the county magistrate who was in charge of the Sun Qiushui case back then?"
Ma Pingchang shivered, knowing that he could no longer hide it at this time, so he nodded quickly.
"There is...this matter. In order to ensure that I could successfully frame Sun Qiushui and went to jail, I gave the county magistrate a lot of gold, silver and treasures. After he collected the money, he convicted Sun Qiushui as I wanted."
Xi Yu frowned, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
"Explain the specific details of your bribery."
Ma Pingchang did not dare to disobey and mentioned the time, place, amount and other matters of the bribery.
Xi Yu asked again: "Is that county magistrate still in office now?" Ma Pingchang replied: "He is in office, sir."
Xi Yu thought for a moment and immediately ordered.
"The secret guard, keep Ma Pingchang under strict supervision in this store, and there must be no mistakes. I will go to the county magistrate to see if he dares to explain truthfully."
After saying that, he shook his sleeves and left the inn with a sense of majesty.
When the secret guards got the order, they immediately wanted to take Ma Pingchang away.
The waiter was trembling with fear and did not dare to leave. The entire inn was shrouded in a tense atmosphere.
Ma Pingchang looked at Xi Yu's figure that was about to leave, his face was full of horror, and his body trembled involuntarily.
He shouted, "Sir, then...what will I be punished? Do you want to be beheaded?"
Xi Yu stopped, turned his body sideways, and glanced at him coldly.
"Hmph, are you scared now? Wait here first, and wait until I have seen the county magistrate come back before deciding what to do with you."
After saying that, he ignored Ma Pingchang and walked out of the inn with great strides.
Ma Pingchang collapsed to the ground, his face as if dead, and kept muttering: "It's over, it's over..."
His eyes were full of despair, and the waiter was trembling, hoping that the storm would subside as soon as possible and not affect him.
In the small courtyard of Sun Qiushui's house, Sun Qiushui and Mrs. Mingyue's sisters were sitting at the stone table, talking about interesting things in recent days, trying to forget the pain they had before.
At this time, a villager rushed over with a little worry on his face.
"Mingyue, Miss Qiushui, I just heard something, saying that the Prime Minister came here. Do you think this Prime Minister is a fake?"
The villagers frowned, their eyes full of doubts, "Before, in a village, a woman spread the word that she had acquainted with the prime minister. Later, she found out that the prime minister was pretending to be a big joke and caused a lot of trouble."
Mrs. Mingyue frowned slightly, then smiled, looked at the villagers and said, "Thank you for telling me, but don't worry, this prime minister is true and there will be no mistake."
After hearing this, the villagers were still a little confused, but seeing that Mrs. Mingyue was so sure, she couldn't say anything else, so she said goodbye and left.
Soon, Xi Yu came to the county government with a majesty.
At the front of the county yamen, two yamen runners were leaning against the wall chatting, and sometimes laughing, and they looked completely less serious than those who were on duty.
Xi Yu frowned, a hint of anger flashed in his eyes, and he was extremely dissatisfied with this act of neglecting duties, but he still held it back and did not attack on the spot.
He stepped forward, his voice low and powerful: "I want to see the county magistrate."
The two yamen runners stopped chatting and looked at Xi Yu up and down. Seeing that he was dressed in extraordinary clothes but didn't know him, one of the yamen runners asked lazily: "Who are you? What's the matter with the county magistrate?"
"Don't worry about me."
"It's outrageous. What are you? If you want to meet the county magistrate, you have to beat the drum and make trouble. Otherwise, how could you see it?"
Xi Yu had an impulse to tell him his identity.
Suddenly, I felt that it was not time yet, so I said, "Okay, since that's the case, I will meet him in this way."
So he went toward the big drum on one side.
Xi Yu finally beat the drum.
The county magistrate asked the concubine to pinch her shoulders in the backyard. When he heard the sound, he felt very angry.
"It's really a disappointment. Who is so ignorant?" County Magistrate Han Chong said viciously.
The concubine also looked reluctant and had to let go.
Han Chonghuo hurriedly entered the county government and stretched his waist.
I didn’t sleep well last night, and someone beats the drum today. It’s so outrageous!
And Xi Yu entered quickly.
Han Chong patted the Neimu and asked him who he was, and then asked why Xi Yu didn't kneel down?
"It doesn't matter who I am. If I kneel down, you can't afford it." Xi Yu sneered.
"A bold madman, it's damn, you're so damn. Do you believe this county will make you have a slap in your butt?"
Han Chong was really angry, and no one had ever treated him like this!
"I said, you can't afford it. You'd better not ask me what my identity is, or it's important to be a serious matter."
Han Chong wanted to say something, but when he saw Xi Yu's sharp gaze, he was a little scared.
He secretly guessed, what is this person's identity? Is he a big shot?
Chapter completed!