The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

The time of the horse robbery case was beyond Xun Zhen's expectations. He thought that he would have to wait another three or four days at the earliest, but on the third day after Xu Zhongye's visit, officials from the county came to convey the information of the county magistrate. Order: "Yesterday, there was a case of robbery of horses in Changshe County. After the incident, the thieves fled. According to witnesses, some of them escaped into our county. If any abnormality is found, report to the county court quickly."

Xun Zhen took the order, and the official added: "This group of thieves is very fierce and unusual, and they did not shy away from the local pavilion in the case they did on the official road. The dozen or so guards accompanying the horse merchants were all killed. Xunjun, if you When you meet them, you must be careful, and don’t let ordinary thieves look at them.”

"Yes."

The official had to rush to other pavilions to give orders, and left in a hurry without staying any longer. When Xun Zhen returned to the residence, Du Mai and Chen Bao gathered around, and they all guessed that the case must be the work of the Huang family. Brother Fan's eyes lit up and said, "Then the Huang family really did this case! ..., Xun Jun, what are you waiting for? Quickly send Wu Gui to the official temple and tell the county lord that the Huang family committed the case! Great credit!"

Xun Zhen asked Du Mai, Huang Zhong and others, "What do you think?"

Huang Zhong was the first to speak: "Wan Wan Xiaoke!"

"Oh?"

"Think about the Huang family's reputation in the county, and as many assassins as dead men. Compared with him, we are like eggs and stones! If the matter of his family is damaged, the consequences will be disastrous. According to Wu Gui, they originally wanted to Ben Ting committed the crime, although I don't know why I changed the location of the crime, but it's a good thing! Since I didn't commit the crime in Ben Ting, it has nothing to do with me, so why should we take the initiative to provoke his family and bring trouble to the upper body? ..., it's better to pretend You're a fool, just pretend you don't know!"

Fan Shang was eager for fame and hoped to make a contribution to this matter, and suddenly became dissatisfied, and said, "What if the Huang family is powerful? How can a man stand upright in the sky, how can he keep silent because he is afraid of his family's power!"

"Last March, there was a case in Chenliu. Xiaofan, do you remember? There was a husband in Chenliu County who offended the local wealthy Gao family. Three days later, he was stabbed to death by a swordsman from the Gao family. , not to mention me waiting? ..., Xun Jun, don't be impulsive, think clearly about the consequences!"

Fan Tan said, "Our job is to ask thieves to ask thieves. How can we pretend not to know because of fear of revenge? Besides, wasn't the Gao family's case also solved later?"

"It's broken, but the swordsman was caught, the Gao family was unscathed! Xun Jun, it's not wrong to ask the thief to ask the thief, but the Huang family didn't commit a crime in Benting, so why bother? ... Besides, this The Huang family is far more arrogant and domineering than the Gao family!"

Xun Zhen nodded and asked Du Mai, "What does Du Jun think?"

"..., Brother Fan's words are not bad. It's our job to beg thieves to catch theft, but what Huang Gong said is also very correct. First, the Huang family did not commit the case in Benting, and secondly, the Huang family is powerful and also It's really not something we can provoke."

"So, does Jun Du agree with Duke Huang?"

Du Mai didn't speak, he acquiesced.

"A Bao, A Yan, how about you two?"

Chen Bao said in his heart, "Jun Xun told me to check the pavilion secretly before, but I saw what he meant and didn't seem to want to make a big deal about it." Because of what Xun Zhen said, he said, "I think what Du Jun and Huang Gong said is reasonable. ."

Cheng Yan was not as clever as Chen Bao. He didn't know what Xun Zhen was thinking, so he simply said, "Just do what Xun Jun said!"

The situation is very clear, except for the Fan family brothers, none of the rest agreed to expose the Huang family.

Xun Zhen was friendly with Yan Yue, and said to the Fan brothers: "I'm not afraid of Huang's power, but a rogue in Wugui's country, if he finds that 'Uncle Wu', it may be more convincing, but now only Wu Guiren's words, if there is no other evidence, is to send him to the county court. I am afraid that it is useless and cannot convict the Huang family. Otherwise, wait and see if there is any other change, if found If there is other evidence, or if the thief who steals the horse has been caught, or a confession is obtained, we will present Wu Gui before it is too late."

Although the Fan brothers were reluctant, they had to admit that Xun Zhen was right. With the power of the Huang family, it is indeed difficult to convict only based on the testimony of a rural rogue Wu Gui. The two brothers looked at each other and said sullenly, "Just follow what Xunjun said."

"The officials of Shicai County said that some thieves who stole horses escaped into our county, gentlemen, you need to cheer up these few days, and don't be careless." Xun Zhenzhi was unwilling, and said with a smile, "Tomorrow again. It’s time to practice, Du Jun and A Bao are not free, Da Fan and Xiao Fan, the task of patrolling the pavilion and hunting down thieves is left to your brothers!”

Hearing the words, the Fan brothers immediately cheered up and responded, "No!"

...

Although the spirits of the Fan brothers were lifted, their luck was not very good. After two days of investigation and search, apart from some passing travelers, they didn't even see the hair of a horse thief. On the afternoon of the third day, news came that a thief was caught in a pavilion next to Yang Zhai.

When the Fan brothers heard the news, they were very annoyed; but they couldn't help but feel fortunate when they heard that two patriarchs had died in order to capture the thief. Huang Zhong said: "I haven't seen such a fierce thief for many years! Four or five people rounded up one person to attack the few, but they actually damaged the other two. ... This thief is too agile, but I don't know how he was discovered. ?"

Subsequent news came one after another, and the events were presented in front of everyone.

It turned out that the thief stole the horse and fled with his accomplices. When passing by the pavilion, the local pavilion found that the corner of his clothes was **** and questioned because of cross-examination. The thief violently wounded people, and the Ting **** who was interrogating was killed first, followed by the second Ting pawn. After the death of two people in a row, the local pavilion chief and the thief only reacted and rushed to lead people to hunt him down. Therefore, the thief was brave and could not come forward. In the end, he shot him down with an arrow before he was caught.

Fan Shang felt a little jealous after he was fortunate, and said tastefully: "Although two pavilion soldiers died, the pavilion chief of this pavilion has also made a great contribution. It took only a few days to catch one of the perpetrators, sure I can get the reward from the county lord." He asked Xun Zhen again, "Xun jun, the criminal has been arrested, can we hand over Wu Gui?"

Xun Zhen said: "Don't worry. The criminal has just been sent to the county court. Whether he will confess is still between the two. Wait and see what he will say."

...

After a day of waiting, the results came. The thief had no chance to confess at all, and before he even had time to be sent to Xu County, he was assassinated in prison that night. When the news reached Fanyang Pavilion, the fans of the Fan family were pale and dared not mention the matter of sending Wu Gui to the county.

Not only the two of them were shocked, but Xun Zhen was also shocked. He said to Chen Bao privately, "I knew the Huang family was illegal, but I didn't expect them to be so illegal! They dared to assassinate the criminal in the county court."

This was not the only thing that shocked him. Another thing that shocked him happened that afternoon. Two of Xu Zhong's friends came back from Xu County to help the coffin, and came to the pavilion to tell Xun Zhen that Xu Zhong was robbed and killed on the road, and asked to release Xu's mother back home.

Although Xun Zhen knew that this was false, she still pretended to be surprised, and asked suspiciously, "I was robbed and killed on the road?"

Xu Zhong's two friends opened the coffin and invited him to watch. Xun Zhen leaned forward to look and saw that there was a corpse in the coffin, with a lot of knives slashed on the face, and he couldn't recognize the original appearance, but in terms of body and skin color, it was indeed similar to Xu Zhong.

Xun Zhen's feigned surprise turned into real surprise, and he asked, "Is this Xu Zhong?"

"good."

After hearing the affirmative answer from Xu Zhongyou's friend, Xun Zhen was silent. He looked at the corpse and thought, "This corpse hasn't smelled yet. It's obviously not long since he died. Looking at his clothes, he looks like a traveler." Innocent was killed. When he suggested Xu Zhongxiao die, he never expected this outcome. His original intention was to "deceive death" without necessarily having a corpse, just saying that he was infected with an epidemic, and he was afraid of contagion, so he would be cremated. Xu Zhong.

"I don't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me."

...

Now that it's over, it's useless to think about anything else. Xun Zhen had no choice but to accept the fact, and finally glanced at the innocent deceased who didn't even know the name, and instructed Xu Zhong's friend to close the lid of the coffin, and ordered Du Mai to report to the county.

Xu Zhong's murder was a major case, and the county magistrate always took it seriously. Therefore, despite the fact that a horse thief was stabbed to death in prison, the county quickly sent someone to examine the body and verify the identity of the deceased. This is just a passing scene. After the inspection by the county official, he immediately announced on behalf of the county lord that he can release Xu's mother and return home.

With Xu Ji's advance notice, Xu's mother knew that it was not Xu Zhong who died, but she was kind-hearted, and when she saw that there was a corpse in the coffin, she quickly guessed the reason. She was not crying for Xu Zhong, but, like Xun Zhen, was sad for this innocent murdered person. Under Xun Zhen and Xu Jidi's repeated consolation, she reluctantly stopped crying and helped her coffin to go home.

Before leaving, she held Xun Zhen's hand and said with tears in her eyes, "Azhen, I am in the house thanks to your care! Without you, the old concubine would have suffered so much! I don't want to be you!"

"Don't worry, grandma, I will go home often. If you miss me, you can also ask Xiaojie to come to find me in the dormitory. No matter how busy I am, I will visit your old man!"

Hundreds of years from the Han Dynasty to the present, the family members of prisoners who have been detained in pavilions all over the empire are in a hurry when they are able to leave.

...

That night, Xu Zhong came again. After seeing Xun Zhen, the first thing he did was to bow down and apologize, saying, "The man in the coffin was not killed by me, but by my friend. I didn't know about it in advance. Although this person was not killed by me, To die because of me is indeed Xu Zhong's sin!"

There was no need for Xu Zhong to tell lies about this matter, Xun Zhen believed him and sighed: "Now that the matter has come to this, what can my husband say? I just don't know who the deceased is, and whether there are any relatives at home? Brother Zhong, you He has his mother; he may have his mother at home too!"

"I will find out in detail and do my best to compensate his family."

"That's the only way it can be.... Brother Zhong, you've fooled the county center about pretending to be dead~www.novelmt.com~ My mother has been released and returned home. What are your plans for the next step?"

"I plan to spend a few days with my mother first."

"In my opinion, Brother Zhong can't stay at home for more. If the news leaks and all the previous achievements are lost, it's better to leave the house early, hide away for a while, and then settle down and wait for the limelight to find another opportunity to pick up the mother and the youngest Go. So, the formula is perfect."

Xu Zhong took out his patina and stroked his face a few times.

"Brother Zhong?" His move was completely unexpected by Xun Zhen, and he couldn't stop him. Xun Zhen dropped the knife and hurriedly looked for medicine, cloth, etc., and asked in surprise, "What are you doing?"

"My old mother is very old, and she definitely does not want to go to another country. Xu Zhong is unfilial to his old mother, so how can he make his old mother move? From the moment I accepted Xun Jun's suggestion, I decided to do so. It's gone." Destroying his own appearance, so that he doesn't have to worry about being recognized by others, and he doesn't have to move his mother to another place.

Xu Zhong's attack was so ruthless that the flesh on his face was turned over. It was **** and terrifying. He felt unbearable pain just by looking at it, but his tone was steady and he didn't take it seriously. Xun Zhen didn't know what to say, so she helped him apply medicine and wrap the wound, and said, "Brother Zhong's face is injured, and it is not easy to show up until the injury is healed. You should stay in the pavilion for a few days."

"How can I live in a pavilion because I am on the run? If outsiders know about it and guess something is wrong, it may affect Xun Jun."

"You can disfigure your mother, and your filial piety touches the world. Why can't I hide your majesty's pavilion?" Zhong refused to let him down, so he settled on the matter.

...

The next day, Du Mai, Chen Bao and others found that there was one more person in the pavilion. Xun Zhen only explained that it was: "A friend from other places encountered a thief on the road and was injured." Although Du Mai and Huang Zhong were suspicious , but Xun Zhen's prestige was established, but no one asked any more questions.