It's a pity that God's calculations are not as good as those of humans. Ma Jicheng failed to predict the general of the army and the young minister of Dali Temple would suddenly arrive.
There was no other way. Ma Jicheng could only quickly change his mind with Chen Zhizhou - don't think about whether to take it or not, let's think about how to get rid of this matter first and save himself.
Therefore, as soon as the special envoy left, the Ma family closed their doors to thank guests and stopped going out.
Fortunately, the noise in Yunyang City was a bit tight at this time, and all the major families heard some of it and didn't run around, and the Ma family's behavior didn't seem strange at all.
What the Ma family has to do now is three things. The first is to cut off the clues to smallpox and prevent the young minister of Dali Temple from finding out about them. The second is to shut up the person who framed the Yao family.
No matter how much evidence the Yao family presented to prove that the formula was theirs, Chen Zhizhou could clear it out by simply saying, "The case is still under investigation." The third thing was to shut up the Yao family.
In this world, there are many ways to silence people, but there is only one safest way, and that is to "dead people".
On the day when the general of the town army and the young minister of Dali Temple appeared, Chen Zhizhou knew that something was wrong as soon as he heard that they were coming for the Yao family, and directly used the name of smallpox to shut up the person who framed the Yao family in advance.
As for the government officials who took smallpox patients to jail...
Sorry, he died suddenly after returning home. It was just that he died on the road and no one found it, so his family didn't know about it and thought he had gone out to handle a case.
When Chen Zhizhou heard this, he had a pitiful expression on his face: "Alas... Our yamen servants in Yunyang City are responsible and loyal to the country. They stick to their posts regardless of wind or rain, and they also have to fight wits and courage with gangsters.
I don’t know how many hidden wounds and fatigue have been left on my body..."
It seems as if the people under him are really working hard.
It's a pity that Chen Zhizhou underestimated She Hongwen, the young minister of Dali Temple. He was able to sit in this position not only because he was fair in handling cases, but also because he was able to handle complicated and confusing cases, and he also had amazing knack for fraud.
Therefore, Detective She Hongwen will know whether the body of the government servant died suddenly or was killed by someone else.
However, She Hongwen was very smart and he did not show it.
Others only know that people will shut up and stop talking when they die, but they don't know that it fell into the hands of She Hongwen, "Corpses love to tell the truth more than living people."
When Chen Zhizhou and others threw the body into his hands and thought they were careless, they actually sent the evidence to She Hongwen. Coupled with the secret order from Emperor Mingguang, She Hongwen was already very sure that the Yao family
Being sent to jail is not an easy matter, and it is no longer something that he, a young young minister from Dali Temple, can decide.
She Hongwen didn't say anything. He would investigate what should be investigated and arrest what should be arrested.
On the surface, he looked like he was in prison, and he looked like he was scared to death of smallpox and vowed to fight it to the end. In fact, after meeting Gu Qingling, he had made second-hand preparations - to paralyze the enemy, and
Secretly gather forces to re-investigate the Yao family's imprisonment case.
night.
After Ma Jicheng finished taking care of his subordinates, he prepared to go back to his room and sleep.
Originally, he wanted to sleep in his wife's room, but then he remembered that his concubine's maid came to him in the afternoon and said that she was not feeling well, and hoped that he could come and take a look.
Ma Jicheng didn't know that the so-called "feeling unwell" was just a way to win favor.
It happened that the wind in Yunyang City was very tight during this period, and he was busy with everything under the huge pressure. He was not in the mood to run to the backyard, so he left them in the cold. He probably thought that he had fallen out of favor, so he used some
Use small means to "intercept" people.
If Ma Jicheng was intercepted on the way back to his room, he might be a little unhappy, feeling that his whereabouts were being controlled by others, and there were also people trying to influence his whereabouts. But if he was informed in advance like Chongconcubine, as for going
Rather than leaving it up to him to choose, Ma Jicheng was quite willing to give his concubine some face when he was in a good mood.
So Ma Jicheng is a strange person. If you don't really know him, it would be difficult to know what he is thinking.
When he walked to the concubine's yard, the lights were still on, but he came a little late, and the servants waiting in the yard had already gone to bed.
Only an old woman in charge of locking the door remained at her post. When Ma Jicheng walked inside again, it was very deserted.
He pushed open the door and saw that his concubine had fallen asleep on the bed. The only lamp on the table was still on, which should have been left for him.
It was already time to lock up, no wonder his concubine didn't wait for him. In a good mood, Ma Jicheng showed a tolerant smile on his lips and walked towards the bed.
However, just when he opened the bed curtain and prepared to wake up the person on the bed, the "woman" with her back to him suddenly turned over and struck his neck with a knife.
Ma Jicheng's face was full of shock: Wait, this face...
When he passed out, he was still awake. Where was his cute and charming concubine? How could she become so ugly?!
"I thought the Smiling Tiger of the Ma family in Yunyang City was so great, but it turned out to be a chicken that was killed in vain, tsk tsk tsk tsk..." A man dressed as a woman was carrying the skinny Ma Jicheng with a look of disgust on his face.
Another man who was taller than him jumped down from the beam and said helplessly: "Okay, don't be angry. I didn't mean to let you wear women's clothes. You are the smallest among us and you are the most dressed up."
Like a woman?"
The man rolled his eyes at him and said angrily: "Just wait, one day I will be taller than you."
"Yes, yes, you go back, eat more food, and exercise more with the general, that's all. Don't delay, tie up the people quickly, they are still outside to meet us."
The man was angry, but he also knew that important matters could not be delayed. He quickly blocked Ma Jicheng's mouth with a handkerchief, tied him up with a rope, and followed the man out of the window.
That night, there was no peace in the Ma family's house. As long as they were the masters, no one was attacked and kidnapped at night.
When Ma Jicheng woke up, he found that he had been changed into clothes, given medicine, and stuffed into a cage with a sallow face.
This is where?!
Ma Jicheng looked shocked and almost died of fright.
Upon closer inspection, I found that the people in the cage were all familiar people.
His father, Uncle Ma, the second and third uncles Ma, with whom he has always been at odds, and several cousins...
Except for the female family members who are not here, the entire Ma family, young and old, are all in cages, and like him, they have been fed medicine, changed their clothes, and look like beggars.
Ma Jicheng was so frightened that he wanted to open his mouth to speak, but found that he could not make a sound at all.
He turned around to look for it, and then he realized that there were several cages behind him, and the women were locked in them. One of them, with gray hair, was his grandmother, Mrs. Ma, who loved him very much, wasn't it?
Just, what's going on?
How come their family was kidnapped?
If it weren't for the military master who escorted them, Ma Jicheng would have almost thought that he had been kidnapped.
Wait, Master.
Ma Jicheng turned around to look for the flag, but didn't see it. He vaguely heard someone mention the "Yao family", saying that there were so many Yao family members, and it was really troublesome to have to serve so many people along the way. Fortunately, Yunyang City was far away from the capital.
