Chapter 182: Innocence(1/2)
"Do you doubt him?"
Qin Lang nodded and said, "I did not feel the soul of King Liang at the scene of King Liang's murder today. There is no reason why his wronged soul will dissipate in such a short time."
Gu Xiefei said: "You mean someone used a Horcrux to detain King Liang's unjust soul?"
"This possibility is not ruled out."
Gu Xiefei said: "Even if someone does this, it's too late now. After so long, King Liang's soul has been destroyed by someone."
Qin Lang said: "There is another way."
Gu Xiefei blinked his eyes, but he couldn't think of any other way to reverse it.
Qin Lang whispered: "You can only punish Prince Qing if you have witnesses, evidence, and evidence."
Gu Xiefei said in surprise: "Do you want to destroy the evidence? The witnesses and evidence are all in the prison of the Ministry of Justice. Do you want to sneak into the prison and kill the witness?"
"This is not an extreme approach until the last step."
"Have you ever thought that if someone discovers it, it will be completely finished?"
"Brother Gu, don't worry, I'll make arrangements. I want you to help do another thing."
Through this day's visit, Qin Lang had already made plans in his mind. The last step was to destroy the evidence and witnesses. Of course, he would not take action. He had to use Sang Sangen's fighting soul at the critical moment. When Yan Ruyu was not injured, her soul body could come and go freely in Yongdu City, not to mention Sang Sangen, who was stronger than her. As long as Sang Sangen takes action, this matter should be sure to be done.
However, before this, Qin Lang had to do two other things, one was to investigate what happened to the steward of the royal family and several servants, and why they sold their owners for honor. The other was to create public opinion and use the methods of Long Xixi to deal with him and Chen Weiyu to deal with the layup.
Overnight, there were many leaflets in Yongdu City. This was Qin Lang's arrangement. Zhao Changqing and Wang Houting joined forces to rub the prints. Gu Xie did not distribute them himself, but there were words and pictures, which described the scene of the Prince's Mansion in Qing County.
Of course, all these scenes were speculations by Qin Lang, and the target was directly aimed at He Shanming. Now that things have come to this, Qin Lang decided to create public opinion and force He Shanming to take the initiative.
In the early morning of the seventh day of the lunar month, the temperature dropped sharply, and there were few pedestrians on the streets. It was dawn, and Qin Lang appeared in front of a cake shop in Xicheng.
The hardworking shop owner and his wife had already gotten up and were busy. The business was a little light due to the weather. When Qin Lang came over, the middle-aged man in a green hat smiled honestly and said, "What are you eating, young master?"
Qin Lang ordered two scallion pancakes and when he paid, he handed the middle-aged man half a jade pendant. This half of the jade pendant was given to him by Xiao Honglei, the helm leader of Bailongjiang in Banyuemen. When Qin Lang encountered something difficult to solve, he could take the half of the jade pendant to ask for help according to the address she gave.
When the middle-aged man saw the half of the jade pendant, the honest smile on his face instantly faded. He took the jade pendant, lifted up the hem of his clothes, took out the half of the jade pendant, and the two jade pendants were combined into one, and the silk was tightly sealed, and turned around and said to the wife: "You take care of the business." Then he said to Qin Lang: "Your Majesty, please come with me."
Qin Lang and he came to the backyard, and the middle-aged man clasped his fists to Qin Lang and said, "Pang Wenfeng has met Mr. Qin."
Before Qin Lang could introduce himself, he could not have thought that the other party had already recognized him: "Do you recognize me?"
Pang Wenfeng said: "Mr. Qin is famous in Yongdu. No one knows who knows it. But I didn't expect that this jade pendant is in the hands of the young master. I wonder what the young master has to give?"
Qin Lang did not go round and told Pang Wenfeng about his purpose. He wanted Pang Wenfeng to help investigate the housekeeper of the royal family and the servants involved in the murder of King Liang, to find out their family background and kinship, and of course, to find out where the witnesses of the housekeeper of the royal family were imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice.
Pang Wenfeng agreed without hesitation.
On the way back, Qin Lang passed by the Prince's Mansion of Qing County. Several roads leading to the Prince's Mansion of Qing County were blocked. Without the order from the Ministry of Justice, no one was allowed to approach the Prince's Mansion. Qin Lang thought to himself, I wonder what Xixi is doing now?
However, with Long Xixi's wisdom, she should not act rashly, and there is no problem with her ability to protect herself. She shook her head and temporarily put the matter aside. If you want to solve the problem of the royal palace, you must first start from the fundamental point.
A gust of wind blew, blowing a piece of white paper in front of Qin Lang. He reached out and grabbed it and saw that the content on the paper was the flyer he instructed Gu Xiefei to distribute. This picture was a painting, which was a military general wearing Jinlin Guard costume throwing a child into the pond.
The direction of this painting is quite clear. At a glance, insiders knew that the general was referring to He Shanming, and the child was the murdered King Liang.
When Qin Lang was about to leave, he saw a monk wearing a straw hat walking towards him with a Zen stick in one hand and a golden bowl in the other. He recognized that the monk was Kōhai. It was not far from Dabao'en Temple, so it was not surprising to meet him.
When Kong Hai saw Qin Lang, he gently inserted his Zen stick into the snow, and walked with one hand and said, "Amitabha, donor Qin is fine."
Although Qin Lang had a fight with him, that was already a thing of the past. Qin Lang was not a revenge, so he turned over and dismounted and said, "Master Konghai, did you go out so early?"
Kokai: "Master asked me to walk more in the world and see more sufferings in the world. The Heart Sutra written by the donor of Qin made Kokai admire him sincerely."
Qin Lang smiled and said, "That's not what I wrote, it's just the Buddhist scriptures I have read. I wrote them down based on my memory, which made the master laugh."
Kokkaido: "If Donor Qin has time, can he give some advice to the monk?"
Qin Lang shook his head and said, "Sorry, I have encountered some things in the royal palace these days. Qin Lang is running around for this matter, I am afraid that Master Konghai will be disappointed."
Kokaido: "The donor of Qin does not need to worry, as the donor's poem says - Bodhi has no trees, and the mirror is not a platform. There is nothing in it, so where can dust be caused!"
Qin Lang couldn't help laughing. The poem he plagiarized could not have been used by Kong Hai to educate himself so soon. Qin Lang said: "Although I wrote this poem, I am a vulgar person and can't achieve this state."
Kokaido: "If there is no realm, how can I write this poem?"
Qin Lang didn't want to continue talking to this monk, so he took the initiative to make way for Kōhai and asked Kōhai to go first.
Kong Hai insisted on asking him to go first, so Qin Lang had to get on his horse and leave.
When he returned to his residence, he found that the Jinlin Gu Wei had surrounded the place. The person who led the team was Yuan Menkun. Gu Xiefei was the only one in the family. Gu Xiefei was holding a peach wood sword and confronting them, but the Jinlin Gu Wei wanted to go in and search, but Gu Xiefei did not allow it.
Because they had known each other for a long time because they were escorting Chen Weiyu to Yongdu at that time, they were polite when Yuan Menkun came to the door, but Gu Xie was not a soft or hard person, and the two sides soon started to clash.
Qin Lang's appearance saved both sides. Yuan Menkun smiled bitterly and said, "Young Master Qin, we are ordered to search the suspect, but Mr. Gu said he would not cooperate with anything."
Qin Lang said: "I'm ordered!"
Yuan Menkun nodded.
"Whose order was taken?"
Yuan Menkun handed over the search warrant. He had seen Qin Lang's power. Not only did Qin Lang rescue Chen Weiyu alone, he even dared to break through the Dabaoen Temple. Such people must be treated with caution.
Qin Lang glanced at the search warrant and said, "Jinlin Guard wanted to search my place, so he should have cooperated."
"It's still Mr. Qin who understands the truth."
Qin Lang changed his tone: "But do you know that this is the location of the armored cavalry of Tiance Mansion? Have you ever received permission from Tiance Mansion before coming here to search?"
"It seems that there is no need for this!"
Qin Lang nodded, signaling Gu Xie to let him go in and search, but there was a request to let everyone leave their weapons in the yard.
After all, Yuan Menkun didn't want to break up with him. Although Qin Lang did not treat him as a county horse, he was Sang Jingtian's godson after all. I heard that Sang Jingtian would soon succeed as Prime Minister.
Yuan Menkun led everyone to search inside and outside, and Qin Lang asked Gu Xie to monitor him throughout the whole process to avoid these Jinlin Guards from framed him.
Qin Lang estimated that the arrival of these Jinlin Guards was related to those leaflets. Since he could suspect He Shanming, He Shanming would definitely be able to suspect him. It was a bit of a pediatrician to come here to search for evidence of crime. Gu Xiefei is a veteran in doing these sneaky things, so he could not leave any handles here.
The group of Jinlin Guards got nothing and were about to leave with their weapons, but saw Qin Lang holding a vase in his hand, admiring it, stepping on the Jinlin Guard's weapons under his feet.
"Searched?"
Yuan Menkun nodded: "The search is over!"
Qin Lang said: "What did you find out?"
Yuan Menkun shook his head: "I'm disturbing!"
Qin Lang smiled and said, "Is it considered disturbing? How about Commander Yuan looking at my vase?"
Yuan Menkun said: "Not bad, not bad!"
Qin Lang handed it to Yuan Menkun: "Look carefully."
"No!"
Qin Lang smiled and said, "Look, there is a secret inside."
Yuan Menkun could not resist his diligence, not to mention that Qin Lang handed the vase to him, so he could only reach out to pick it up. Before his finger touched the vase, Qin Lang had already thrown the vase to the ground and smashed it with a clang.
Yuan Menkun was stunned. What does this guy mean? Do you vent your dissatisfaction?
Qin Lang said: "Commander Yuan, why did you throw my vase if you are angry?"
Yuan Menkun said: "I don't..."
Gu Xiefei rushed up and pointed at Yuan Menkun's nose and said, "I'm actually quibbling. I can clearly see clearly that you fell!"
Yuan Menkun was so amused that Qin Lang actually played such a trick, but Qin Lang's next words scared him to death.
"General Yuan, do you know that this vase is a wedding gift given to me by the Queen Mother. You actually fell down. What should you be guilty of?"
When the vase was broken, the other Golden Scale Guards were in the distance, and no one could see the details clearly. Gu Xiefei witnessed it on the side, but he certainly would not tell the truth. Yuan Menkun cried out: "It's not me, it's obviously you..."
"Then we two might as well go to the Queen Mother to judge the matter and see if she believes you or me?"
If Yuan Menkun knew that Qin Lang was so sinister, he would not come in to search anything. It would be too late now. He pointed at his subordinates and said, "They have seen it all."
"They stood so far and could not see at all. Even if they saw it, they would have perjury. I might as well remind you that whoever gets involved in today's affairs might be a death sentence!" Qin Lang was frightened and frightened. None of the Jinlin Guards who followed Yuan Menkun came forward to testify for him. The key was that they really didn't see clearly from far away. I heard that they had fallen into the vase rewarded by the Queen Mother. This was amazing. No one dared to easily get into this muddy water.
Gu Xiefei was really convinced by Qin Lang. He thought that Qin Lang was too cowardly to come in and search casually. Unexpectedly, the secret trick was waiting behind him. Seeing Yuan Menkun so scared that his face was bloodless, Gu Xiefei was happy and deliberately said to Qin Lang: "I'll tell Eunuch An now!"
When Yuan Menkun heard that they were really going to expose this matter, his inner defense collapsed instantly: "Don't! Don't! Lord Qin, it's just a small matter, why bother to make a big deal?"
"A small matter? You actually said that the Queen Mother's affairs were small matters?" Qin Lang looked at Yuan Menkun disdainfully. His IQ was far from playing with him.
Yuan Menkun was getting more and more wrong. He almost knelt down for Qin Lang and sighed: "Mr. Qin, I'm here too. You have a lot of me. Don't make things difficult for me. I'll compensate you for this vase."
Qin Lang said: "Can you afford it?"
Yuan Menkun was determined to be inferior to others. He admitted his mistake today and passed this level first and then went back to seek justice.
Qin Lang's lion spoke loudly, "One thousand taels of gold."
Yuan Menkun was so shocked that his chin was about to fall off: "What? Master Qin, you can't do this."
Qin Lang said: "How much do you say?"
Yuan Menkun gritted his teeth and said, "One hundred taels of gold." He was willing to bargain, mainly because he felt embarrassed to say it no matter how low he was.
"make a deal!"
To be continued...