It was already dark, the moon was dark and the stars were sparse.
At the county governor's office, three dark figures took advantage of the cover of night and quietly came under the big wall of the government office. It was Su Ling, Zhang Zhiyue and Du Heng. They first circled the county governor's office a few times and found that
The defense of the county governor's government office was quite lax. Except for six sleepy government officials standing guard in front of the main gate, there was no one else.
This is not surprising. The county magistrate's office often works during the day. At night, the county governor goes home and takes all important items such as the big seal to his home. There is nothing else in the government office except some ordinary furnishings and torture instruments.
There is no blind thief running into the government office to steal these worthless things, so the defense is naturally lax. In addition, Nanzhang County is deep into the hinterland of the current Sikong Xiao Yuanche, so compared with the war in remote areas
, it’s quite peaceful here.
But no one expected that Su Ling would fight back in the middle of the night and run back to the government office.
Su Ling looked at the big wall that was four to five feet high, bared his teeth at Du Heng and said, "Can you go up there?"
Du Heng nodded and said, "It's no big deal."
Hearing this, Su Ling said again: "Don't talk too much. It's okay for you. The problem is that you have to go behind my back."
Du Heng said with a speechless face: "You can imagine that I carried you over the wall and entered? Do you really think that I am a hero in the world?"
Su Ling shrugged his shoulders and said, "Then what should I do? I can't hit the wall with my body. With all your strength, just be a little more aggrieved and squat down!"
Du Heng said aggrievedly to Zhang Zhiyue: "Brother and sister, look at him bullying an honest person."
Zhang Zhiyue didn't expect Du Heng to blush when he said this, and spat at him: "You deserve to be bullied..."
Du Heng chuckled, squatted down, and Su Ling rode on his shoulders. Du Heng stood up and said, "Try and see if you can grab the wall. If you can, push my shoulders hard and go first."
Climb up, I’ll go up again, and then we’ll drag my younger siblings up.”
When Su Ling heard this, she thought to herself, I thought you were an honest guy. It seems that at the critical moment, one of the younger siblings shouted, Brother! That's okay!
Su Ling stepped on Du Heng's shoulders, stood up tremblingly, and pulled the top of the government office wall with his hand. Not to mention, it was just within reach, but it was the first time in Su Ling's life to climb the wall.
After spending a long time, I finally climbed up.
Du Heng took a few steps back without any effort, jumped up, put his hands on the wall, and jumped up.
The two then stuck their heads out and said to Zhang Zhiyue: "Zhiyue (sister-in-law), it's your turn."
Zhang Zhiyue followed suit, stepped back a few feet, sprinted, moved her waist slightly, and raised her body. When she was about to fall, Su Ling and Du Heng pulled her into the wall with one hand.
The three of them entered the government office. After entering, they began to turn around under the lights. During the day, they went straight to the main hall. At night, the lights were in the dark, and the government office was too big. Where could they find the morgue?
.
The three of them were running around like headless flies when suddenly the lights in front of them flashed. The three of them hurriedly hid in the dark. When they looked up, they saw that it was a watchman. He was holding a lantern in one hand and beating a gong with the other, walking back and forth, talking.
It also talks about the dryness of the sky and the dryness of things.
Su Ling's eyes lit up and she pursed her lips towards Du Heng.
Du Heng muttered a few words and slowly moved towards the watchman.
The watchman, who was already drowsy, suddenly felt a chill on his neck. He lowered his head and saw a bright plain knife resting on it. He was so frightened that he knocked the gong hard. Just as he was about to shout, Du Heng said coldly:
"Don't shout or struggle. I have something to ask you and I won't hurt you."
The watchman trembled with fear and said: "Good man, please spare my life. I have an eighty-year-old mother above me, and..."
Du Heng glared and said, "Why bother talking so much? I ask you where the morgue is?"
The watchman thought that the thief might be trying to steal something valuable, but he never expected that he would ask where the morgue was. He said somewhat strangely: "Good man, what can be stolen in the morgue? The waiters brought the corpse back.
The corpses have been searched inside and out, not even a copper is left..."
Du Heng felt a little dissatisfied with the verbosity of the watchman, so he scared him and said, "I'll go to the morgue to eat people!"
The watchman said to himself: "Oh, cannibalism, there are quite a few dead people in the morgue..." Suddenly he understood, he almost didn't scream, his calves were cramped, and he trembled.
: "If you want to...eat people...then don't eat me. I haven't had a bath in more than ten years and haven't washed my feet in more than twenty years..."
Du Heng resisted the urge to laugh and said, "Hurry, where is the morgue?"
The watchman pointed to the north and said: "In the far north, there is a big black house, that is..."
Du Heng really disliked his verbosity, so he knocked the back of his head with his hand, causing the watchman to faint immediately.
Du Heng came back and told Su Ling and Zhang Zhiyue, and the three of them headed north to the morgue without hesitation.
As expected, there was no light at all in the morgue, and even the people patrolling the morgue thought it was unlucky and would not come here.
Su Ling and the others approached, opened the door gently, and stepped in.
As soon as she entered, she felt a strong smell of corpses coming over her. Zhang Zhiyue couldn't stand it at first, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, her face turned pale, and she was about to vomit.
Su Ling said with concern: "Zhiyue, why don't you go outside and wait."
Zhang Zhiyue was speechless, but stubbornly shook her head.
With a stabbing sound, Du Heng tore the baggage originally wrapped with a simple knife into several pieces. He picked up two pieces and stuffed them into his nose, and handed them to Su Ling and Zhang Zhiyue. They hurriedly stuffed their noses as well, and then they found the corpse.
The smell is no longer so strong.
Du Heng fumbled a few times in the darkness and found a candle. He took out the candle and lit it. Only with the weak candlelight did the three of them see the morgue clearly.
No wonder the stench of corpses in the morgue was unbearable. It turned out that there were three corpses lying on the corpse bed in the middle of the morgue. Two of the corpses were already highly decomposed. It was difficult to tell whether they were male or female. There were also stains on the corpses.
Several blowflies were buzzing around, and the stench came from the two corpses.
Zhang Zhiyue had never seen this before. She was so frightened that she almost screamed and covered her mouth. There was still a look of horror on her pretty face.
Although Su Ling also felt a little scary, she was more disgusted. She held Zhang Zhiyue's hand and said, "Don't be afraid. They have been dead for who knows how long. I am here."
Zhang Zhiyue nodded.
The corpse lying on the innermost corpse bed was very complete, and there was not much corpse smell. Zhang Zhiyue tugged at the corner of Su Ling's clothes and whispered: "Su Ling, that is Deng Xuan."
The three of them quickly came to Deng Xuan and began to inspect it carefully.
Du Heng was an outsider, so he could only look at this damn ghost Deng Xuan with wide eyes and small eyes. While doing so, he said: "You see he is fair and pure. It would be a pity to die."
Zhang Zhiyue and Su Ling observed carefully. Perhaps it was the nature of a doctor. Zhang Zhiyue was no longer afraid. She stretched out her hand to lift Deng Xuan's eyelids and observed carefully.
Su Ling frowned. He didn't want to see Zhang Zhiyue's scallion fingers touching the corpse. He thought to himself, it seemed that he had invented something, and it wouldn't be difficult to make gloves.
Zhang Zhiyue looked at it for a while and whispered: "His eyes showed signs of poisoning, but his whole face didn't look like it. It's really strange. Unfortunately, there is no knife. If there is, I will look through his throat and see that there are
No blackening.”
Du Heng waved the big sword in his hand and said: "There is a knife, there is a knife!"
Zhang Zhiyue almost became angry and said: "I am cutting the throat, not chopping off other people's heads. With such a big knife..." Suddenly he shook his head and said: "Forget it, something is better than nothing."
Afterwards, he took the Dapu knife from Du Heng's hand and moved it back and forth on the throat of Deng Xuan's body. After all, the knife was too big, so it was really difficult to strike.
Zhang Zhiyue competed for a while, then held her breath and concentrated, using the tip of a plain knife to gently stir Deng Xuan's throat, and actually slowly made an incision.
The three of them looked at it carefully, and it was okay not to look at it. After looking at it, Zhang Zhiyue in particular felt extremely disappointed.
Deng Xuan's throat was of normal color, with no signs of blackening due to poisoning.
The three of them stood on the spot, feeling a little helpless.
Zhang Zhiyue said a little lost, "Is it really my grandfather who prescribed the wrong medicine?"
Su Ling shook his head and said: "Impossible, absolutely impossible! We must have missed a key place. Let's look for it again."
After that, Zhang Zhiyue and Su Ling lowered themselves again and searched back and forth among the mountain of Deng Xuan's corpse. Even Du Heng also lowered his head and searched carefully.
After searching for who knows how long, the morgue was stuffy, and the smell of corpses became stronger and stronger. The three of them could no longer stay there. Du Heng held a candle, which was peeling off, and accidentally dripped on it.
Du Heng felt a burning sensation in his hand, which made him almost cry out. He shook his hand holding the candle, and the candle light also flickered a few times.
In the flickering candlelight, Su Ling suddenly saw what seemed to be a strange mark on Deng Xuan's waist.
"Here!" Su Ling didn't hesitate anymore, grabbed the candle, and sprinkled several drops of the candle liquid on Du Heng's hand. Du Heng suddenly broke out in pain and sweat, and his face was red and he didn't dare to scream.
.It looks quite funny.
Zhang Zhiyue looked along where Su Ling pointed and found the strange mark.
The left side of Deng Xuan's waist was slightly bruised and swollen. There were two small red dots side by side on the dark blue skin. The small red dots penetrated deep into the skin and looked like two small holes. There was a gap between the two small red dots.
There is a distance of nearly two inches.
"What is this?" Su Ling asked with some confusion. But he was sure that although he didn't know what these were, the cause of Deng Xuan's death was definitely closely related to these two strange little red dots.
Zhang Zhiyue stretched out her hand and gently touched the two small red dots, and a rather turbid and viscous liquid flowed out from them. Zhang Zhiyue put her hand in front of her nose and smelled it, and suddenly she understood everything, word by word.
Said: "I know why Deng Xuan died. He did not die of illness, but of murder!"
As he spoke, he took a deep breath, stared at the two small red dot-like holes with good eyes, and said, "These are the holes left after being bitten by a poisonous snake. I just smelled the smell, combined with his father Deng Wu's description
, he was bitten by a bungara snake, and it was the venom of the bungara snake that killed him."
Su Ling was excited when he heard this and said: "What, the silver... bungara snake, the fourth most poisonous species in the world?! It is several times more poisonous than its close relative the golden krait. Who is so cruel?"
Zhang Zhiyue said in surprise: "Su Ling, how come you know so much about the Bungara snake? Have you ever seen it?"
Su Ling scratched his head. He couldn't say that he loved Chadu Niang when he was fine. He could only say: "Well, of course the master Shen Fuzi from my hometown told me."
It is really a good method to blame Shen Fuzi for everything that cannot be explained.
Zhang Zhiyue did not doubt that he was there, and then said: "No wonder those gangsters did not find out the real cause of death. They are originally from the upper branch and lower sect. Nanzhang County is located in the north, and most of the silver snakes were in the central and southwest of the Jin Dynasty, so most of them were
I don’t recognize it, and people who are bitten by a bungara snake don’t feel the pain of the bite at all at first. The two small red holes are not obvious at all at first, and they will only appear slowly after a while. This is Deng
Xuan had been here for a long time before it became so obvious. The snake bit him on the waist, so the upper body, throat and esophagus, where the joints are connected, did not have any abnormalities, but it was indeed as if he had taken the wrong medicine and died of poisoning.
.”
Zhang Zhiyue's starry eyes turned and she said word by word: "What is certain now is that my grandfather was indeed framed by someone, and the person who caused this..."
Su Ling said slowly: "It's not Deng Fang, but it has a great relationship with Deng Fang!"
Without hesitation, he shook Zhang Zhiyue's hand and turned to Du Heng: "Let's go to Deng Wu's house and bring him to the government office to complain. We will fight this lawsuit!"
The three of them climbed over the government office wall the same way they entered and disappeared into the night.
............
Zhang Zhiyue and Zhang Shennong had been to Deng Wu's home before. Naturally, they were familiar with the road. They left the main city. On the outermost side, to the east of a lake near the outskirts of the city, a lonely thatched house came into view.
It was Deng Wu’s home.
Zhang Zhiyue took the lead. She couldn't wait to save her grandfather, so she wanted to see Deng Wu as soon as possible.
Du Heng was just about to follow, but Su Ling stopped suddenly, stared at the thatched house in front of him with burning eyes and said slowly: "No..."
Zhang Zhiyue and Du Heng stopped in a hurry, turned around and asked, "What's wrong, Su Ling, something is wrong."
Su Ling pulled Zhang Zhiyue and said: "Zhiyue, let me ask you, can Deng Wu's family raise any animals such as chickens, ducks, and dogs?"
Zhang Zhiyue said: "There is a dog and about two or three ducks, because there is a lake in front of his house."
Su Ling's expression became quite serious, and he said word by word: "The three of us are already very close to Deng Wu's house, why don't we see the dog barking? And this duck doesn't care about day or night, and it's hot summer now, why are we passing by the lake?
When I went to the pond, I didn’t see a duck? Isn’t that strange?”
Zhang Zhiyue was smart enough to understand the meaning of Su Ling's words, and said with a stern expression: "Could it be...what should Su Ling do? Should we turn around and leave?"
Du Heng also seemed to sense something unusual, and said nothing as he watched Su Ling make up his mind.
Su Ling looked coldly at the lonely thatched house in front of her. The surroundings were extremely silent, except for the low whimpering sound of the wind, as if Deng Xuan, who died unjustly, was crying.
The thatched house was pitch black without a trace of light. If the yellow color of the thatched grass itself could not be distinguished slightly, it would have been swallowed up by the darkness.
Su Ling thought to himself: "Since we have come this far, let's go in!"
Then she turned to look at Zhang Zhiyue softly. Zhang Zhiyue already knew what he was going to say, so she quickly shook her head and said: "We are going, let's go together!"
Su Ling nodded, held Zhang Zhiyue's hand and said, "Don't worry, you have me!"
Then he turned around and whispered something into Du Heng's ear. Du Heng shook his head vigorously at first. Su Ling glared at him, and then he nodded reluctantly.
The three of them came to the thatched house and were about to knock on the door. As soon as Su Ling's hand touched the door, the door creaked, followed by a crash, and half of it fell down.
A strong smell of blood hit his face. Du Heng was the first to jump into the room and touched a candle to light it. Under the candlelight, a bloody and horrific scene appeared in front of the three people.
On the right side of the door, the body of a yellow dog is lying there. The head has long been gone, only the body. Blood is still gushing out along the big hole in front. And further inside, there is a person lying under the table, with blood on his lower body.
It had already accumulated into a puddle, and there were several horrifying deep wounds on the back of his body. The flesh that had been cut open by a sharp instrument was turning outwards mixed with blood. There was also a knife stuck in his chest that would eventually kill him.
dagger.
This corpse is none other than Deng Wu.
Su Ling's worries were instantly confirmed. It seemed that Deng Wu had really been silenced.
Suddenly, Su Ling stood up slowly, turned around and said coldly to the courtyard: "Since you have set up such a big situation and invited me into the urn, why don't you show up?"
Suddenly there was a burst of laughter in the courtyard, and the lights were brightly lit for an instant.
Du Heng then jumped outside with his sword, and Su Ling and Zhang Zhiyue also walked out.
There were already crowds of people outside, all holding daggers and torches, and they looked like they were officers from the county guard's office.
At the front of this group of people, Deng Fang, the patriarch of the Deng family, and Deng Xian, the county governor, looked at them with evil smiles.
Su Ling smiled coldly and said: "You collude with each other and work together, and you will definitely be punished."
Deng Fang said with a ferocious smile: "Retribution? Who dares to do anything to me? Zhang Shennong has already been put on death row. I am afraid that when he comes out, it will be the time to be executed. Now you are unable to protect yourselves, and you still want to stir up trouble. Don't think that you have obtained Deng Fang's death sentence."
The evidence of how Xuan died can bring down the Deng family!"
Su Ling nodded, as if he had expected it and said: "It turns out that all this was planned by you. No wonder the government office's defense was lax today. There was not even a single person in the morgue. It was a deliberate set up by you so that we could
You thought you had the evidence and led us to Deng Wu's home. You killed Deng Wu in advance and then lurked here to wait for me to frame us for killing Deng Wu, right?"
Deng Fang laughed loudly and applauded: "Your name is Su Ling, right? It seems that the A-Xian who heard the news said so. You are indeed quite capable. Why haven't I heard of you before? You can guess right."
It's all right, but you didn't expect that even the A-Xian who reported the news was arranged by us. We originally thought that if you go to the Yamen to watch your grandpa suffer with your own eyes, you won't be able to bear it and jump out, so that we can catch them all, but it didn't work.
I think you can save your temper, but so what, it’s just more work.”
As he spoke, Deng Fanghu's expression turned out to be somewhat sympathetic and he said, "Well, no matter what, Deng Wu is from the same clan as my family. Originally, he could have survived. Who allowed you to keep your temper in the Yamen so well, so you could only kill him." Suddenly.
With a fierce look in his eyes, he pointed at Su Ling and said, "It's all because of you! You even want to hook up with a good relative of my family!" After saying that, he actually howled a few times.
"Pervert!" Zhang Zhiyue cursed.
Deng Fang chuckled, looked at Zhang Zhiyue, with a squinting look in his eyes, swallowed his saliva and said: "Hey, isn't this Ah Yue? I haven't seen you look so lively in a few years. Wait until I finish cleaning up your grandpa.
, I’ll take good care of you, don’t worry, we know how good our medical skills are, and we know which supplements are beneficial to us, and we guarantee that you will be satisfied!”
When Zhang Zhiyue heard this, she felt sick and sighed several times.
Su Linghu's face turned cold, and he said coldly: "It's OK to humiliate me, but humiliate my woman, just remember, no matter when and where you are, you will die by my hands, and your death will be even worse!"
Deng Xian sneered and said: "What nonsense are you talking to them!" Suddenly he said loudly: "Su Ling, Zhang Zhiyue and others colluded with Zhang Shennong to kill Deng Xuan, and fearing being exposed, they killed Deng Xuan's father, Deng Wu, to silence them. Now they have stolen the goods.
If you win, you won’t win!”
After giving the order, the officers all raised their daggers and swarmed forward.
Du Heng jumped out, swung the sword in his hand and shouted: "Let me see who dares to come here without risking his life!"
He said that he would fight tooth and nail.
Su Ling said to him in a low voice and hastily: "Idiot, don't be obsessed with fighting. Don't forget what I told you!"
Du Heng then remembered, roared, swung the knife in his hand, and chopped down several of them. The officers were also from the upper and lower branches. Seeing Du Heng's desperate posture, they all flinched. Du Heng swung the knife again,
He opened a gap, and without further delay, he rushed forward into the night with all his strength, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"A rice bucket! A rice bucket! A rice bucket!" Deng Xian yelled in anger.
Deng Fang squinted his eyes and said, "It's okay. I ran away from the most insignificant person. It's not a big deal."
With that said, he slowly came to Su Ling and said, "What about you, you want to kill yourself too?"
When Su Ling heard this, he chuckled and said calmly.