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087. The truth emerges

After a brief panic, Ma Yaozu calmed down and insisted that he was drunk in the restaurant yesterday and could not remember what he said to Xiao Shirong at that time.

Regarding the waiter's claim that none of them were drunk, Ma Yaozu said that it was normal for the waiter to misremember since he received so many guests every day.

Su Liang took out two questionnaires and snorted coldly, "One student said he saw you going to the well yesterday evening, and another said he saw you coming back from the well. What do you think about this?

Said?"

Ma Yaozu was standing. When he heard Su Liang's words, his legs trembled obviously and he lowered his head, "It was dark in the evening. They must have seen it wrong. I have never been there. Miss Su, please don't make false claims!"

"You won't shed tears until you see the coffin, right?" Su Liang put away the two pieces of paper, "Then we'll wait and see what Mr. Xiao will say when he comes."

After Su Liang finished speaking, he heard footsteps coming from outside.

Not long ago, two officers and soldiers who were arranged by Lin Shuzhi to invite Xiao Shirong to the Xiao family came back, carrying one person.

Su Liang didn't recognize him, but he intuitively felt that this person should be Xiao Shirong. He looked ordinary, but his clothes were very gorgeous.

Ma Yaozu's expression changed, "What do you mean?"

Su Liang walked over, cut off Ma Yaozu's hands behind his back, tied them with the rope he had prepared, and stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth.

Ma Yaozu struggled, and Su Liang took out another rope and tied his feet.

Lin Shuzhi was stunned for a moment.

Then Su Liang dragged Ma Yaozu behind the bookshelf, "Listen carefully to what Mr. Xiao said about yesterday's events."

Hua Luo came out from behind the bookshelf and pinched Xiao Shirong's man.

Xiao Shirong woke up after being knocked unconscious and looked at his surroundings with a confused expression. His eyes fell on Su Liang's face, which suddenly lit up a little.

Realizing that he was sitting on the ground, Xiao Shirong got up with a dark face, "I'm fine at home, who brought me here? In broad daylight, be careful, I will sue you!"

Lin Shuzhi vaguely guessed who did it, but of course he would not say, "Xiao Shirong, something happened in the academy last night, do you know?"

Xiao Shirong found a seat and sat down by himself, shook his head and said, "What's the matter? I got up late and I don't know anything."

Lin Shuzhi said seriously, "Someone poisoned the academy well and almost harmed everyone."

Xiao Shirong leaned forward, looking shocked, "How could something like this happen? Is everyone okay?"

Lin Shuzhi shook his head, "It was a near miss. Now we are investigating the poisoner, and we need to know the whereabouts of everyone in the academy in the past five days. Ma Yaozu said that he went to the restaurant with you yesterday, and he needs you to give him a certificate. I was going to go

Please, I didn’t expect you to come.”

Xiao Shirong frowned, "I don't know anything. I was kidnapped. Forget it, what did the dean just say? Ma Yaozu? Oh! That poor... classmate from Bei'an County? I know, what happened to him?"

Lin Shuzhi repeated the question again, and Xiao Shirong nodded readily, "We went to the restaurant together yesterday. He failed the exam and was devastated. I was about to go to Huixianglou for a drink when I met him and invited him to go with me."

"How much did you drink in Huixianglou? Are you drunk?" Lin Shuzhi asked.

Xiao Shirong shook his head, "I just drank a bottle, so I'm not drunk. It's broad daylight and it's easy to lose your temper when you're drunk."

Ma Yaozu, who was behind the bookshelf, widened his eyes in disbelief.

Xiao Shirong continued, "What did we say... This is related to Brother Ma's privacy. I promised not to tell anyone."

Lin Shuzhi looked serious, "Now that we know what happened last night, we should know which one is more serious."

Xiao Shirong frowned and whispered, "Poison... I thought he was joking..."

Lin Shuzhi's face darkened, and the people in the government next to him looked shocked, "Mr. Xiao, please make it clear!"

Xiao Shirong sighed deeply, "Didn't Xie Yuan Ningjing take the name of Prince Beijing to take the college examination in Bei'an County? He was tied with Ma Yaozu as the head of the case. This incident had no impact on him, but he always felt that his glory had been lost to Ningjing.

Mr. Ning was robbed."

Xiao Shirong sighed again, "Ma Yaozu has been fawning over me since he came to the academy. I know he sees me as rich, but I don't like him very much. He is better at reading than me, but he has a small belly and chicken intestines. Mr. Ning

Most of the bad things about me are spread by him, and I don’t know why he is so jealous of others.”

"I was not qualified to participate in the provincial examination this time, but I went to see it on the day the results were released. Mr. Ning had to learn about Yuan Dynasty, and when I saw that there was no name Ma Yaozu at the end. I was thinking about a classmate who was in a bad mood, so I asked him

Drinking to relieve his sorrow, who knows that he has been angrily scolding Mr. Ning, saying that Mr. Ning took advantage of his privileges and robbed him of the luck that should have belonged to him! There were also some dirty words, arranged between Mr. Ning and Prince Beijing,

I can’t even say it!”

"Of course I'm trying to persuade him to be more open-minded. It has nothing to do with Mr. Ning's achievement of Jieyuan by virtue of his own abilities. He's not very old. He studies hard and takes the exam again in three years. He still has a chance. I even said that we

The Xiao family can help him study."

"But he is as obsessed as a ghost. He keeps saying nonsense like making Mr. Ning pay the price and destroying Mr. Ning so that he can get ahead. He also said that he plans to do a big thing. As long as he succeeds, he will definitely make Mr. Ning famous.

destroy!"

"He was like that on weekdays. Of course I thought he was talking angrily, so I tried to persuade him a few times. When he calmed down, we went back."

"Although he said that yesterday, he can't do such a crazy thing as poisoning, can he?"

Xiao Shirong finished speaking in one breath, and at the end he said good things to Ma Yaozu with an innocent face, "I have told you everything I know. What did I do wherever I went in the past five days? Do I need to check it? I will tell the dean now.

, or write it all down?”

"Write it down." Lin Shuzhi said.

"Okay." Xiao Shirong stood up, "I'm going to see if my friend is okay first. If there is anything else that needs my cooperation, the dean just call me."

Seeing Xiao Shirong about to go out, Su Liang said, "Master Xiao, please stay."

Xiao Shirong turned around with a smile on his face, "I wonder who this beautiful girl is..."

"Sister Ning Jing." Su Liang said with a calm expression, "Please get Mr. Xiao a pen and paper and go to the courtyard to write. Once you have finished writing, you can leave."

"Miss Ning?" Xiao Shirong chuckled, "Although I don't know why I want to listen to you, Xiao will never refuse a beauty's request." After saying that, he took the pen and paper, went out and sat at the stone table in the courtyard.

Su Liang knew that this man was very scheming, and the truth was definitely not what he said. Ma Yaozu was jealous of Ning Jing, but he was not crazy to that extent.

She dragged Ma Yaozu out and took off the cloth that gagged his mouth. His expression was extremely ugly, "He is talking nonsense! He deliberately framed me! I never said those words! Nor did I poison him!"

Su Liang said coldly, "Ma Yaozu, based on Xiao Shirong's testimony, do you think you can survive when you get to the government? You said he framed you, why did he frame you?"

Ma Yaozu gritted his teeth and blurted out, "Because he wants..."

There was a sudden pause, and Ma Yaozu's face changed again and again, "I don't know why the Xiao family wanted to harm Ningjing, but what he just said was what he wanted to do, but he poured dirty water on me! Poisoning

The Xiao family must have secretly sent someone to do it, and they are fully capable of doing it!"

Su Liang looked at Ma Yaozu. He was clearly struggling to his death, but by now, he had fallen into the trap and it was too late to get out again.

"If it was really done by the Xiao family, it was too late to cover it up, so why would I tell you?" Su Liang asked coldly.

Ma Yaozu wanted to say something, but his words were incoherent and he couldn't answer the question at all.

Lin Shuzhi slapped the table hard, "Now that things have happened, why don't we tell the truth?!"

Ma Yaozu's face was ashen and his whole body was limp, "It was all Xiao Shirong who instigated me... He also gave me the poison. It was because of my temporary obsession..."

When Xiao Shirong in the courtyard heard Ma Yaozu's words, he lowered his head and smiled contemptuously, without anger or worry.

Ma Yaozu said that he was in a bad mood yesterday and ran into Xiao Shirong, who took the initiative to invite him to Huixianglou for a drink.

During the banquet, Xiao Shirong mentioned Ningjing and was very jealous of Ningjing. He suspected that Ningjing's path to the imperial examination was so smooth because of the backers behind him.

Ma Yaozu admitted that he has always been Ningjing because of the low self-esteem caused by poverty. Many people in Bei'an County compared him with Ningjing, saying that he studied hard for ten years in a poor family and could not compare with Ningjing, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

After the two of them said some slanderous words about Ningjing, Xiao Shirong said that he really didn't like Ningjing and had a plan to destroy Ningjing.

Ma Yaozu said that he thought Xiao Shirong was joking at the time, but Xiao Shirong took out a bag of poison and asked Ma Yaozu to poison it into the well after returning to the academy. He also gave him a jade pendant with the word "Ning" engraved on it and threw it beside the well.

At that time, everyone will think that it has something to do with Ningjing, and as a result, either Ningjing will die, or he will be regarded as Ning Yao who did it to harm Ningjing, and Ningjing will not end well.

"At that time, he said that as long as I was also poisoned, there would be no way anyone would suspect me! I didn't want to endure it for another three years, and I couldn't afford it. I was even more afraid of being ridiculed when I returned to my hometown. When I heard Xiao Shirong say that the Xiao family

He could sponsor me to stay in Pingbeicheng, and would give me a sum of money afterwards, but I was confused and listened to his instigation!" Ma Yaozu said bitterly, "He gave me the poison, he was the mastermind, and I was just an accomplice!

But I didn’t expect that he would put all the blame on me! Make me the scapegoat!”

Ma Yaozu's final confession was similar to what Su Liang had guessed about him. He was a poor scholar, and it was true that he had low self-esteem and jealousy, but given his courage, he would not dare to do such a vicious thing.

The real mastermind of all this is the Xiao family, and as powerful local gangsters in Pingbeicheng, they have found a scapegoat in advance.

If Ma Yaozu is not discovered, Xiao Shirong can completely stay out of the matter, and everything will be a matter for Ningjing or the Ning family.

When Xiao Shirong was brought to the academy, he knew that someone was doubting him, so he sold Ma Yaozu without any hesitation.

"Have you noted down the confessions of both of them?" Lin Shuzhi looked at the officials.

The man nodded, "It's all recorded. The poisoning was done by Ma Yaozu himself, and he has confessed. Ma Yaozu's claim that it was Xiao Shirong who instigated it is just a one-sided statement, which is too far-fetched and unbelievable. After all, neither Xiao Shirong nor Mr. Ning has anything to do with it.

What grudge."

These words directly showed the government's attitude.

At this moment, Ma Yaozu could only talk useless nonsense to complain, because even he didn't know why Xiao Shirong wanted to frame Ningjing.

Ma Yaozu, who was temporarily obsessed with jealousy and blinded by interests, ruined his future and ended up where he is now. Su Liang did not sympathize with him, but she hoped that the evil deeds of the Xiao family would also be made public.

Xiao Shirong appeared at the door holding a piece of paper. When he saw Ma Yaozu, he sighed deeply, "You are so confused!"

After finishing speaking, Xiao Shirong ignored Ma Yaozu's eyes and wanted to tear him apart, walked in swaggering, and handed the piece of paper to Lin Shuzhi pretending to be respectful, "Dean, please take a look. If there is nothing else, the students will go out first."

Lin Shuzhi took the piece of paper and said with a cold face, "Although there is no evidence to prove Ma Yaozu's accusation against you, since there is suspicion, please take them both away and interrogate them properly."

Xiao Shirong's expression changed and he quickly returned to his normal state, "Okay. Those who purify themselves will purge themselves. I am willing to cooperate with the government's investigation."

Ma Yaozu cursed loudly, and Xiao Shirong looked at him with a faint smile. The former was escorted away, while the latter followed him.

Su Liang and Lin Shuzhi were the only two people left in the room.

Lin Shuzhi sighed, "It seems that it was the Xiao family."

"But Xiao Shirong will be fine soon." Su Liang said, "We have no evidence."

Xiao Shirong was exactly the second generation ancestor that Su Liang had seen in the news in his previous life. He was lawless and fearless. But sometimes, it was really difficult to catch them.

A figure appeared at the door. Su Liang turned around and saw that it was Ningjing.

"Did you arrest Xiao Shirong?" Su Liang asked.

Ning Jing nodded and walked in, "I heard at the Xiao family that they would frame me not because of Zheng'er, but because they had secretly discussed cooperation with Ning Yao before I came to Pingbeicheng. Ning Yao's condition was that he would find a way

Let me die in Pingbeicheng."

Su Liang's eyes narrowed, "If the jade pendant last night was discovered by others, you would have been arrested by the government now. As long as the Xiao family manages it well, you may have no choice but to escape from prison to save your life, and don't think about your future."

Lin Shuzhi's face was ashen, "Damn it! Those people are simply lawless!"

Su Liang thought thoughtfully, "We have to find a way to get Xiao Shirong to confess and Ning Yao to confess as well."


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