Duan Yulou had a painted face and held a tiger-headed sword in front of him. Hou Siniang followed closely behind him. When passing by the theater backstage, he took out a green shirt and wiped the blood on his face. He then turned the clothes over his body to block the blood on his body. The two of them
He actually made it all the way out.
Everyone in the government office saw an actor striding out wearing make-up and clothing and holding a big knife. They didn't know why, but no one stopped him along the way.
As he walked unimpeded to the side door, he caught up with a young man carrying an empty carriage and was about to go to the stables. Duan Yulou grabbed him with a knife and pulled him out of the carriage. Hou Siniang followed closely and got into the carriage.
"Drive!"
The boy fell to the ground and was stunned. He didn't get up in a hurry until the carriage turned a corner and disappeared at the end of the street.
……
After a play, Jia Fei jumped off the stage happily.
As for the small coins and scraps of silver thrown in by the spectators in the audience, she didn't even look at them.
Mr. Fu Zun, who was sitting on the second floor, nodded in praise together with another examiner, especially since the examiner was a foreign official from the capital. He had never seen such a good martial arts student in the capital.
"If this boy were in a big opera troupe in the capital, he would be as red as the sun."
"Eh? This nephew Qian Shi is changing his clothes. How come he hasn't returned home after being gone for so long?"
After the magistrate said something casually, he turned to look at the side table and saw that the people Qian Ruyu had brought were gone.
……
After Jia Fei came off the stage, she jumped up and down and accepted the congratulations from everyone in the theater troupe. She was smiling and suddenly stopped where she was, with a pair of willow-leaf eyebrows frowning slightly.
At this time, Cheng Yu had already used his mind to tell the cat demon what happened on the rockery. The cat demon did not expect that such a big thing happened behind the theater, and no one knows about it yet.
She quickly found a deserted place, quietly jumped onto the roof next door, lowered her head and looked into the secluded garden. She saw a man with his body and head dislocated lying closest to the stage, and further away was a book boy in Tsing Yi, rockery stone
There was a man and a woman lying next to them in a pool of blood.
The man is still breathing.
Qian Ruyu was hit on the back of the head by the handle of the knife. She only fainted and lost two front teeth when she fell.
Cheng Yu landed on Jia Fei's shoulder, Jia Fei turned around and asked:
"The two of them escaped? Will the troupe be affected?"
Cheng Yu shook his head and thought: It's hard to say.
……
After about half a cup of tea, there was a noise at the door. It was said that two people in the theater troupe snatched the carriage of a gentleman's family and drove away.
Then the theater troupe discovered three dead bodies in the backyard, and the house suddenly became a mess.
At this time, Yulou's carriage had already left the outer city and galloped along an official road.
……
In the afternoon of the same day, Qian Ruyu woke up leisurely, and the three people closest to him had all died, and only a few servants were left.
One of them has quickly returned to Qingchuan County to report, and the rest must stay close to Qian Ruyu, so that the Qian Mansion can feel at ease.
Both the Qianjiang government office and the county government sent a large number of people to track down the two perpetrators, and the arrest notice was posted in both inner and outer cities early the next morning.
The entire theater troupe was also implicated. Except for Jia Fei, who won a lot of applause on her debut, the rest were imprisoned in the government prison.
Five days later, Qian Linhong led a large group of people, dozens of people, to Qianjiang Fucheng in a hurry.
The master of the mansion personally opened the central gate and welcomed Mr. Qian into the mansion. After all, the incident happened at his family's meeting, and Qian Linhong felt a little guilty when he first met him.
Qian Linhong did not show any good looks to the governor, but simply exchanged greetings with him while walking. He didn't even go to the main hall or sit down, and went straight to the side courtyard where Qian Ruyu lived.
After the fight, the governor was afraid that something would happen again, so he kept Qian Ruyu in the backyard of the government office and personally arranged for people to take care of it.
Qian Ruyu lay on the bed with her head wrapped around her head to rest. Suddenly she saw her father coming and burst into tears.
Qian Linhong endured his heartache and asked about the incident again.
After Qian Ruyu woke up before, she told the story to the palace master and the Kuaishou who were handling the case, but she omitted the private meeting with Xiao Yuexian's rockery queen and changed it to a chance encounter after changing clothes.
When Qian Linhong heard that Hou Siniang had come back from the dead, he felt a chill all over his body.
It turned out that the boy who reported the incident was in a panic and hurried back to the city. Qian Ruyu was still awake at that time. He did not know the details of the incident. He only thought that the trouble was caused by the jealousy between the uncle and the theater troupe. Therefore, Qian Linhong I didn’t know there was something about Hou Siniang involved.
At this time, the master of the palace justly took out the confession from the previous troupe. It turned out that Hou Siniang actually sank into the river and was not dead. She was rescued by the troupe and followed the troupe to Fucheng.
"It is said that this Hou Siniang was still the concubine of the royal family. How could she be rescued from the river by a troupe?"
Lord Fu Zun had just complained about Qian Linhong's lukewarm attitude, and had endured it all the way. At this time, he threw out the questions that had been pressing in his heart.
"This..."
Qian Linhong is a tyrant in Qingchuan County. He has not only committed dozens but also dozens of murders. Killing an aunt in secret is not a big deal, but if someone else takes advantage of him, especially if his colleagues in the officialdom have complicated factions, even though I am just a jobless person who works as a volunteer, but I am treated as a soft persimmon by the other faction if I can’t protect my safety, and they are willing to take advantage of people’s lives...
Mr. Qian thought about it secretly and then answered:
"Your Excellency, you don't know. This Hou Siniang is a female family member of the mansion. She accidentally fell into the water when she was visiting Longxiang River. I searched all over the mansion for a long time to no avail. We all thought she was buried in fish skin. Unexpectedly, she was killed by this person. She was rescued by a theater troupe. She had a quarrel with the manager Qian Lu and the eldest son Shutong, the two deceased people, so she must have been lurking to seek revenge."
The master of the palace smiled and said:
"But Xiao Yuexian was originally Qing Yi in this theater troupe, but she came with her nephew during the party, and she died beside him in the end. Could it be that there was a rift between her and Siniang Hou's acquaintance?"<
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Qian Linhong's heart sank when he heard this. There was something in this man's words. Could it be that this accident was carefully arranged by someone?
He raised his eyes and glanced at the Palace Master, then said with a deep smile:
"The actor must have been implicated for no reason and suffered jealousy, or maybe the other party accidentally beat him to death. I don't know."
Qian Ruyu next to him said immediately after hearing this:
"Yes, yes, that evil star with the colorful face was thinking about Yuexian when he was in Jiangkou Town. He must have seen her follow me and got jealous. He attacked me first and then killed little Yuexian. But my nephew
You are lucky, so you just escaped a disaster."
The master of the palace laughed loudly and said casually:
"I see, it's unbelievable that a murder case in the mansion is actually Brother Lin Hong's family matter, so I won't bother you and say goodbye."
After the master said that, he turned around and went out. Qian Linhong looked at the other person's back and cursed secretly: This old plague is so easy to live in. In just a few words, he characterized a major murder in your house as my own family matter.
I picked it clean myself.
Unexpectedly, the master just stepped out of the threshold with one foot, and seemed to suddenly remember something, turned around and asked:
"Brother Lin Hong, my nephew is injured this time. Can he still go to the provincial examination in three days?"
Qian Linhong glanced at his baby bump. He had also passed the provincial examination for three days and three days. After leaving the examination room, he felt like his skin had been peeled off. He never wanted to go back in his life.
If Yu'er goes in like this now, she probably won't be able to come out in the second scene.
Thinking of this, Mr. Qian immediately stood up, raised his hands and said to the Master:
"It doesn't matter if you are a dog, you will definitely pass the provincial examination. I have just arrived in Fucheng. I want to prepare a small amount of wine tonight, so please show me your favor."
……
Three days later, at Zi hour, the moon will be at the middle of the sky.
Three cannon shots were fired.
In front of the Lingxing Gate next to the Confucian Temple, lanterns and candles were flickering, and the scene was just like the night of praying for the New Year.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in front of the Confucian Temple. The Confucian Temple, which had been extremely deserted in the past, was as lively as a large gathering.
Outside the Lingxing Gate, relatives and servants of each family's candidates for examinations were gathered, and they were separated from the archway by a line of soldiers.
The examiners from both the inner court and the outer court have arrived one day in advance. At this time, the gantry is officially opened, allowing the candidates to line up to enter.
The soldiers maintained order. Thousands of scholars lined up in several winding queues, one by one, taking physical exams and entering the venue.
Zhuang Huaijin and Yu Wenpei were squeezed into the crowd, each holding a basket and walking slowly forward with the crowd.