After killing his younger brother and uncle one after another, Wang Tong finally paid the price of his conscience in exchange for a way out.
In front of the government office of Dali Temple, his vicious gaze had not dissipated. He was like a swallow taking a dip in the water, easily dodging the people who were chasing him and running to a distant place where he could escape.
"Haha, Lao Xue, it's your turn to show off,"
At this time, Xue Rengui and Luo Feng, who had been waiting in ambush outside Dali Temple for a long time, had just heard the fierce fighting inside, and had long wanted to rush in and fight fiercely. However, their duty was to guard the exit, so even today Not a single mosquito will fly out of Dali Temple.
Xue Rengui grinned, took off the strong bow on his back with his backhand, took aim with the arrow, and aimed it at Wang Tong.
"Old Xue, Wang Tong's Qinggong is not weak, you are sure that he can hit it with one arrow," Luo Feng held his hands in his arms, leaning against the wall and looking lifelessly at Wang Tong, who was fleeing in the distance. He was afraid that he would He wouldn't have thought that there would be a tiger in the corner staring at him.
"Lao Luo, today I'm going to let you open your eyes and watch carefully." Xue Rengui, whose strength was already there, suddenly quickly took out three more arrows from his quiver, opened the bow and drew the arrow vigorously, opened the bow with one hand, and clenched it into a fist with the other hand. , with a bang, four arrows shot out like four black blasts of wind.
At the same time, Wang Tong ran out of the door only ten steps away. Before he could take the eleventh step, he was pushed forward hard as if by some invisible force, and then he lay down straight. The ground, legs, and hands had been penetrated by four black arrows, and blood was slowly oozing out. Wang Tong, unable to withstand the pain, suddenly fainted.
"Well, not bad, one bow and four arrows," Luo Feng looked at the graceful arc of Wang Tong's fall with great interest, and said with dissatisfaction: "If I take action, Wang Tong can't run more than fifteen, hey, let's count. Now, just think of me as letting you do it this time." Luo Feng, this kid, has completely inherited Meng Xinghe's shameless mantle and has great ideas to carry it forward. Xue Rengui put away his bow and arrows and followed him slowly towards the Dali Temple. Ya Nei Tang.
Although Wang Tong was heavy with four arrows, fortunately he was not killed. The guards tied him up and carried him in regardless of whether he was injured or not.
The guards of Dali Temple handled the battlefield very quickly, and the scene that had been filled with blood before was restored to its original appearance in a short while. However, the faint blood stains on the ground were enough to testify to how intense what happened here just now was.
Meng Xinghe returned to the center of the hall again. The case of imperial examination fraud was not over yet, and he was still guilty. However, at this time, Meng Xinghe had obviously proven his innocence.
"The criminal Wang Tong is indeed the main culprit in the Liaodong government office murder case ten years ago. The student was indeed framed by him. I hope you will learn from it." Anyway, I am already innocent. If I say a few good words, the presiding officer will be more efficient.
Wang Tong has passed out, and the case has yet to be re-tried on another day. However, the presiding judge does not dare to say whether Meng Xinghe was wronged. What happened today is too unbelievable. After repeated thinking, the Third Division decided to set another day. The trial was re-opened, and Wang Tong was put in prison first, while Meng Xinghe could not convict the case due to insufficient evidence. He had to wait until the truth came out before he could convict.
"Quit," a sound was heard. Although there was no case of imperial examination fraud today, another unjust murder case was unexpectedly involved. Therefore, everyone unanimously cast their curious eyes on Meng Xinghe, and they were even more confused. What is puzzling is how he knew that the three Wang brothers were the murderers and was able to solve the case in a very short period of time. It is simply incredible.
However, they came to the conclusion that this person was too abnormal to be treated as an ordinary person.
Seeing everyone slowly leaving, they just retreated. Why didn't I be acquitted and acquitted? The most disturbing thing was that nothing happened. Meng Xinghe stood in the middle of the lobby. Hearing this case that had a beginning and no end, he wanted to question the two in public. As he was still speaking, a man dressed in Tsing Yi walked up behind him.
"Mr. Meng, my master would like to invite you to the back hall for a gathering."
Meng Xinghe looked back and felt that this man looked familiar. He quickly remembered that this was the man named Wei Ming he met at the end of Mengjia Village.
"His master is not the big boss behind the screen, the person who I guess may be Tang Taizong," Meng Xinghe's head was a little confused. A few days ago, he had met his master in the Prince Xian's Mansion in the East Gate. Could it be that he also set off a smoke bomb that time?
Damn it, why was Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty so insidious and playing tricks on me again and again?
Meng Xinghe cursed angrily in his heart, and the people in the distance focused their attention on the green-shirted student. Of course they knew the identity of the man named Wei Ming, and they knew better who invited Meng Xinghe to the back hall, but They had all been hanging out in the court for decades. They took one look, silently remembered it in their hearts, and then turned around and walked out. As for what to do, that was a matter of secret discussion.
"Okay, let's go," Meng Xinghe asked Luo Feng and Xue Rengui to wait for him outside, and he followed Wei Ming into the inner hall.
The back hall of Dali Temple was much better decorated than the outside, but at this time all the officials, large and small, had been summoned to the courtyard outside the back hall, leaving only one person with a relatively high status sitting inside.
When he pushed the door open and walked in, what he saw was an old man in a yellow robe with a gray beard and a very energetic man. He was reading a book with more interest at the moment, with an elusive smile on his face.
Wei Ming wisely exited the room and closed the door. The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense.
Meng Xinghe found a chair and sat down without saying a word. There was a time when he had thought about what Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty looked like, imagining that he should be as heroic and majestic as the history books said, but now he knew that he had long been the same as Tang Taizong. He had met him once, and Meng Xinghe became very calm. However, Meng Xinghe did not dare to be careless. The old man sent him smoke bombs several times, which was in line with the sinister emperor's style.
"How do you know that Wang Tong and the other two were the main culprits in the Liaodong massacre?" Li Shimin asked in a deep voice after reading the brochure.
"Guess," Meng Xinghe replied not lightly.
Don't forget, in Chang'an, Meng Xinghe also has a secret organization called Blood Fiend brought from the Jiangdu Dragon Gang to protect him. This team, trained by Xue Rengui and Luo Feng, is distributed around the Imperial College to protect Meng Xinghe at all times. As for the ability to investigate cases, they are much better than the gang in the Yamen. After Meng Xinghe was framed after the imperial examination, the members of the Blood Demon were distributed throughout Chang'an to investigate secretly. They accidentally heard Wang Sheng, who was having fun in the brothel, bragging. He had committed murder before, extorting goods, destroying families and destroying corpses. Everyone thought he was drunk, which made everyone laugh.
But everything happens for a reason. The Blood Demon members listened to their hearts. They went down and found out that the three uncles, Wang Tong and nephew were all from Liaodong. They came to Chang'an in a hurry ten years ago for unknown reasons, and were later used as official servants by someone to smooth the relationship. , As for who was rescued, the person who suffered from the blood evil has not yet been found.
Because of this opaque matter, I was caught by the Blood Evil members. Unexpectedly, I continued to investigate and discovered an unjust case in Liaodong ten years ago. At that time, it was rumored that 27 members of the Liaodong governor's family were bloodbathed overnight. The whole family is full, because the murderer destroyed all the evidence, and it is still an unjust case that has not been decided yet.
The members of the Blood Fiend handed over all the information they found to Meng Xinghe, but they did all these things in secret and no one knew about it. That's why Meng Xinghe was so relaxed after the scientific examination. On the surface, he didn't care about being framed, but Secretly, everything is already being planned.
Playing dirty has always been Meng Xinghe's strength, and no one is half as good as him.
After holding all the information in hand, after careful analysis, Meng Xinghe decided to set up a game to lure Wang Tong and the others. Unexpectedly, his boldness at the time led to Meng Xinghe's good luck and accidental collision.
"How do you know that I will continue to act out the play for you?" The book was stained with blood, but it was not the document that the Liaodong governor was preparing to hand over to the Liaodong officials for corruption, but a beautiful script written by Meng Xinghe in long lines. The script contains a scene to be performed, and the purpose is to expose the three of them, Wang Tong, uncle and nephew.
"Because you have to act, and the Third Division also has to act, because the corruption case in Liaodong was so big that it even affects the foundation of the entire Tang Dynasty even now, and the main criminal is still at large. If the case is not solved, you will be the one who is in trouble in the bedroom. , not me, Meng Xinghe," Meng Xinghe said very straightforwardly, without any honorific or humility in his words.
Li Shimin frowned. No one dared to sit in front of him and speak in such a tone, especially you. No one has dared to speak in front of him for many years. This made Li Shimin suddenly think of a person, Meng Xinghe and He is so similar.
"Aren't you afraid that I will chop off your head?" Li Shimin said, but no one dared to question whether he was telling lies because he was not joking.
"I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid. My life is just an ant in the eyes of the emperor, but an ant still lives in vain. Why do I, Meng Xinghe, think about dying?" Meng Xinghe told the truth, but he cursed in his heart, "If you die, I will return the favor." Strong, but how could Old Man Li, who was firing off smoke bombs in front of him again and again, hear these words? He would really die in that case.
"Oh," Li Shimin seemed to understand Meng Xinghe's difficulties very well. He opened his mouth and said, "Someone is here. Drag this unruly man from Taoyuan out and kill him."
"Ah, what?" Meng Xinghe's eyes were as big as buckets. "Hey, old man, I'll kill you no matter what you say." Meng Xinghe was still saying the words when soldiers rushed in from outside. It's true that accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. If you fail to say a word well, you will be killed. It seems that I am not suitable to hang out in the court after all. I may lose my head that day.
Li Shimin closed his eyes and didn't hear Meng Xinghe's resistance at all. Killing someone. To him, it was normal for him to review the memorials for killing people every day.
I am really going to be killed. I am dying. I have to die tragically. Meng Xinghe didn't know why his strength became so strong. He easily pushed away the two guards who were holding him up, pointed at Li Shimin's nose, and cursed. : "You tyrant,"