"Let her go!" Seeing this, He Tang suddenly felt bad. He had been too careless with him just now.
"Let her go?" Constable Han laughed in a hoarse voice as if he had heard a funny joke. He was like a lunatic who had lost his mind.
After a long time, he stopped laughing and said ferociously,"If you want me to let her go, then who will let me go?!"”The last sentence was basically shouted out.
"Ye Meng!" He Tang suddenly cried out in worry. It turned out that because of Constable Han's agitation, the sharp blade had cut a wound on her neck, and bright red blood flowed down.
"Haha, are you scared?" Constable Han suddenly laughed again when he saw this." I like to see you like this. Don't worry, it's your turn next."”
At this moment, Constable Han had been completely stimulated by the bright red blood. His entire person actually showed signs of going crazy with excitement.
" How about it? Will you die first or will this little girl…" The rough voice stopped. He Tang was about to summon his secret guards when he saw Constable Han loosen his grip on his sword with a look of disbelief.
Ye Meng was also surprised.
" Madam, you..." Constable Han's mouth was bleeding. He turned around and looked at Madam Han, who was panicking. He Tang then realized that Constable Han had a delicate dagger stuck in his back.
The dagger belonged to Ye Meng. When she was being held down, she tried to buy time while trying to pull out the dagger Qi Lu had given her from her sleeve and attack him from behind.
Unexpectedly, the dagger in her hand was suddenly snatched away just as she took it out. Ye Meng was just about to realize that she had been discovered when she heard the sound of a dagger stabbing into flesh.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Mrs. Han's face was already covered in tears. She looked at the blood on her hands in disbelief and apologized to her husband.
" Why did you..." Constable Han still couldn't understand that the person who gave him the fatal blow was his most cherished wife.
" I…" Madam Han looked at the blood on her hands and shook her head." Husband, I just want you to be free and not be bound by those illusory desires. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry…"
"Haha." Constable Han fell to the ground with a thud. A mocking smile hung on his face. At this point, what else could he use to free himself? However, facing his wife who was already in tears, he did not have a trace of hatred. Perhaps he could really be freed.
He closed his eyes and the weak sunlight shone on his body through the withered trees. He seemed to recall the first time he met his wife. At that time, he was still a small constable who abhorred evil, while she was a young lady from a noble family.
In order to be with him, she ignored the opposition of her family and eloped with him. In order to let her live a better life and not suffer with him, he had been working hard. In the end, he slowly climbed to the position of the constable. Later on, he began to be greedy. His desire for money and power was like a fermented steamed bun. The more he heated it, the bigger it expanded.
Release? Constable Han suddenly smiled.
Maybe.
"Ye Meng!" At this moment, a figure rushed in from the door and found Ye Meng and He Tang standing at the side. Constable Han was on the ground and Madam Han was crying.
" This is..." Qi Lu did not understand the current situation.
"It's okay. I'll tell you later.”Ye Meng turned her head, wanting to signal him to go back, but she was filled with mixed emotions, not knowing if this ending was good or bad.
"Wait, what happened here?" The sharp-eyed Qi Lu immediately noticed the wound on Ye Meng's neck. Although the blood had been wiped away, there was still a layer of blood on her neck.
"I'm fine." Ye Meng saw his worried face and wiped the blood off with a handkerchief. She waved her hand to indicate that he didn't need to worry.
"How about this, I'll deal with it for Miss Ye when we get back.”He Tang looked at the wound and felt that there might be signs of inflammation.
"Alright." Ye Meng nodded and left. Qi Lu instructed a few people to dispose of Constable Han's body before he got on his horse and returned to Ningzhou Prefecture.
Along the way, Qi Lu had many questions he wanted to ask, but he held them back every time he was about to say them. He was worried that asking too many questions would affect Ye Meng's wound.
"If you have something to say, say it quickly." Ye Meng saw Qi Lu's hesitant expression from the corner of her eye and said impatiently.
"Um, actually, I just want to know if you will continue to investigate this case?”Qi Lu thought for a moment and finally asked this question.
"I want to investigate." Ye Meng said," But there are no clues.”
The hierarchy of that group of people was particularly strict. One person was only afraid. His superior and subordinate had direct contact, so although they had obtained the letter that Constable Han had kept, there were only two or three people involved in the letter. When they investigated further, those clues had long been destroyed. Therefore, based on the current information, it was basically impossible to find a bigger fish.
"Oh." " Yes," Qi Lu replied. Ye Meng didn't know if it was her imagination, but she felt that his sigh was a little relaxed.
Did she say something that made him feel relieved? Or did he actually not want to continue investigating this matter? Ye Meng looked at him with a hint of confusion in her eyes. It was as if she could not see through Qi Lu.
"However, in this case of privately minted coins, the plot designed by these people is quite interesting.”He Tang suddenly said, distracting Ye Meng from her thoughts.
"Yes, I am." Ye Meng smiled. She remembered that when she came to investigate the case, she had complained that the imperial envoy was stupid for choosing such a route. She did not expect that he was just trying to divert others 'attention and spread the news that her fate was unknown. This way, there would be a reasonable explanation for his sudden departure.
As for the people sent by the government, he had thought that Arrester Han could use other reasons to brush them off, or that he did not dare to investigate because of the theory of ghosts and gods in East County. This way, no one would find his traces.
However, God's plan was not as good as man's. The investigation this time did not inform the local government, and Ye Meng and the others did not believe in ghosts and gods at all.
However, the local people were deceived. They used the temple on Mount He as their stronghold, killed a whole temple of monks, and hid in the underground palace to create the illusion of being haunted, causing everyone to be anxious.
Then, they bribed the leader of the bandits in Qi Mountain to help them do things. They sent people to spread the rumor that they should not go out at night and that there would be 'dirty things'. Of course, even so, there would still be bold people who did not believe it. They used extremely cruel methods to kill them.
Create more panic. Gradually, the people of East County believed that they would really encounter ghosts at night.
As a result, the streets were empty at night, and every house had turned off their lights early. The horses and chariots that they used to transport the copper coins could pass through the streets unimpeded without arousing any suspicion.
As for Constable Han, he helped them put on a show and pretended to bring a few constables up the mountain to investigate the case. After all of them died, only this person came back to continue to preach that there was really a ghost.
And this person was Constable Han himself. From then on, even the government did not dare to interfere in this matter.
Once night fell, the carriages would be transported back and forth outside one after another. However, no one in the entire East County was aware of this conspiracy. It could be seen how scheming the mastermind was.
In a certain courtyard in the capital, a man dressed in luxurious clothes was carefully applying lipstick on himself in front of the mirror.
The people kneeling on the ground lowered their heads and did not look at him. They were afraid that if they accidentally said something wrong, their heads would fall off.
"Yo, what's wrong?" The man put away his makeup and looked at the group of people. Suddenly, he pointed at one of the trembling people in surprise and asked with concern,"Are you cold?"”
"I…I'm not cold." When the man realized that he had been called out, his face turned pale and he almost fainted on the spot.
"Then get lost." His tone of concern immediately turned cold. He flicked his sleeve and swept everything away. He said angrily,"Get lost!" All of you get lost!"
"Yes." The group of people immediately stood up and scrambled out of the house, afraid that the last one would be eaten.
"Useless thing." After seeing all those people roll out, he took a sip in disdain. Only then did he calm down and point at the young eunuch who had just reported the situation in Ningzhou. "Continue…"
"Yes." After all, the little eunuch had been by his side for a long time. Although he was still a little afraid of him, he was not as scared as the group of people just now.
"The people in the East County of Ning Province have been completely annihilated.”The young eunuch said carefully.
"Completely annihilated?" Her slender fingers tapped on the table. There was a hint of suspicion in his tone. "Is there really no one left?"
"Not a single one left." Although the young eunuch didn't know what he wanted to express, he didn't dare to act on his own and could only speak the truth.
"Hehe, that's interesting.”The person lying on the ground was not angry. Instead, she smiled, her long and slender eyes carrying a terrifying gaze.
"Remember to get those people to clean BenGong up.”A moment later, he withdrew his smile and gave the young eunuch an order.
"Yes." The young eunuch nodded in acknowledgment.
He felt a little tired and waved his hand to let him go first. He lay on the soft silk blanket and closed his eyes in satisfaction. There was an unknown smile on the corner of his mouth.
After Ye Meng and the other two returned to Ningzhou City, they went to He Tang's clinic to get their wounds treated.
There was a white cloth wrapped around Ye Meng's neck. She looked like she was seriously injured. At this moment, she was lying comfortably on the chaise lounge at the side and eating the fruits that Qi Lu had washed for her. She said with a satisfied expression," Life is enough at this point." He didn't forget to laugh three times as he spoke."
"I didn't know that Miss Ye's life ambition was so simple.”He Tang, who was mixing the new medicine, teased," But Miss Ye, you should be careful. If you open the wound again, it won't heal easily.”
"Tsk, Ququ's wound is just a small matter.”Ye Meng said disdainfully, not forgetting to add a few words in the ancient language to make herself look cool.
"It's just that you pity me. My old injuries haven't healed yet, and I've added new injuries. No one came to comfort me." As she spoke, she pointed at the empty peanut plate and said with an aggrieved expression.
"Ye Meng, I didn't know you were like this before.”Qi Lu, who had run more than 30 times, finally lay on the chair in exhaustion. When he saw the empty plate in her hand, he very consciously handed her the peanuts he had just peeled.
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