with words in mind

Chapter 353 The Memory Blocking Case 3
Kuizhou military camp, interrogating the tent.

Qi Ming: "Why did you escape from prison?"

"Wuuu. Noble Mingjian" a shopkeeper cried, "We are really innocent. Half a month ago, people from the army came one after another and bought the whole city's medicinal materials at low prices. Some of the supplementary medicinal materials are still on the way, and some need time. Refining, going back and forth, led to the price increase of medicinal materials in the city, it was not because we deliberately sat on the ground and raised prices that the military master indiscriminately arrested us all. We were afraid, afraid that if we entered here, we would definitely die! That’s why we escaped from prison.”

Qi Ming: "There are eight of you, how did you escape?"

"." The shopkeeper murmured, sneaking a peek at Feng Zhi but not daring to look straight in the face.
Qi Ming caught the other party's eyes and asked, "What did he promise you to escape from prison together?"

For a while, the camp fell silent
In the end, he still blocked himself from opening his mouth.

"Your Majesty, it was Vice General Qu who wanted to use them to take the blame. I had no choice but to take the risk and let them escape from prison."

"Deputy General Qu?" Qi Ming looked at Qu Ke on the other side, "Is there such a thing?"

"My lord Mingjian, the final general has nothing to do with this matter! It's all a play directed and acted by Feng Shouwei himself, and they are all in the same group!"

"Don't think you can get away with it!" Feng Zhi was very angry and cursed, "You sent the soldiers to search for medicinal materials, and they can all testify!"

"It's nothing!" Qu Ke argued with a righteous look, "The prince can let them confront each other, and the general will not be afraid!"

"You! You bought them all?!" Seeing that the other party wasn't nervous at all, Feng Zhi asked loudly!
"Why did Feng Shouwei say that? It's simply nonsense!"

"Bring here everyone who went to the city to buy medicinal materials." Seeing the two of them arguing, Qi Ming sat firmly in the chair and ordered without haste.

After some questioning, all the soldiers said that the shopkeeper of the medicine hall set the price on the ground, leaving all responsibilities behind!

"Ah, my lord!" The shopkeepers knelt down and begged for mercy, "You guys are really innocent! Everything you said just now is true!"

Qi Ming: "Where are the accounts?"

"It was taken away by the military master"

"My lord, the accounts can be falsified!" Qu Ke said disapprovingly, "You can't believe a single word of these unscrupulous people! This is clearly Feng Shouwei's scheme! He lied that he would be unfavorable to these shopkeepers in order to shift the blame. Your lord Let people search his camp, and they will definitely find evidence of crimes!"

"My lord!" Seeing this, Feng Zhi gritted his teeth and knelt down on one knee, and said sternly, "I would like to testify that this was all planned by Vice General Qu! He once recruited me to join the gang, and I kept all the money I got. I haven’t moved! There is another place where I eavesdropped on his silver deposit, it’s in the woods about two miles to the southeast of the barracks! I just hope that the prince can deal with me lightly!” As he spoke, he saluted!
"!" Qu Ke was surprised at first, and then he reacted immediately! "You said that the location of the Tibetan silver is mine? It's a ridiculous thing! Your lord, you've seen it too. This person is so random that he can't believe a single word!"

The two sides insisted on their own opinions, and the situation fell into a stalemate for a while.

Qi Ming kept smiling, didn't continue to ask questions, and didn't send someone to check Feng Shouwei's camp, but just whispered a few words to the waiting soldiers, and then drank tea and waited quietly.

About two minutes later, someone came from outside the camp.

"The last general, Qin Er, begged to see the prince."

Qin You is Yao Qing's confidant, Qu Ke was overjoyed when he heard that he was here, after all, he was also promoted by General Yao all the way up, so how could he not save him?What's more, now that the evidence is convincing, Feng Zhi not only let the prisoner go without permission, but also admitted that he had hidden dirty silver, he really dug his own grave!He deserves to be the scapegoat!

Qi Ming looked at Qu Ke with downcast eyes leisurely, and said in a pleasant voice, "Come in."

"Bring it in!" Qin You shouted outside after saluting, and continued, "This is a box found in the forest, and it is empty inside. This is a hundred taels of silver found in Feng Shouwei's tent." .”

When Qu Ke heard this, he immediately raised his eyes to look! !
how is this possible? !How can the box be empty? !Could it be that the bastard who blocked him transferred the money in advance? !

"Deputy General Qin, is this big box the same style as the medicine box outside?" Qi Ming asked looking at the evidence.

With a death-like expression, Qin You replied without any ups and downs: "Yes."

Hearing the prince's voice, Qu Ke immediately regained consciousness and hid his emotions, pretending to be calm!
"Feng Shouwei, is this the Zangyin you mentioned?" Qi Ming said with a cold face, very displeased, "I think you have been playing tricks on me from the beginning to the end! Put Feng Shouwei and these unscrupulous shopkeepers together." And put him in prison, waiting to be released! Deputy General Qu was released without charge!" After speaking, he walked out of the tent angrily with a flick of his sleeves!

Qin You didn't move, glanced at the astonished Yan Zhi and Qu Ke who had mixed feelings, and followed.

Yao Qing's tent.

"Great General. His Highness King Yi'an will detain Feng Zhi and those shopkeepers together, and release Qu Ke."

Yao Qing's face was full of worries and doubts: "Feng Shouwei, only a hundred taels were found. Where did the silver taels in the box go?"

"The soil where the box is buried has been washed away by the thunderstorm just now, so it's hard to tell when it was renovated, so." Qin You reported, and suddenly frowned slightly, "Qu Ke has indeed been a little arrogant in recent years, will it be?"

Yao Qing signaled to silence with his hand: "No rush, let's see if King Yi'an will take any action next."

The camp of King Yi'an.

"Master." Seeing that the person came back, Xiao Ren appeared from the shadows, "Subordinate Yinzi has been transferred, what should I do next?"

"You don't have to do anything, just sit back and wait." Qi Ming said in a good mood, and then he felt a little lonely again, and wanted to rush out several times, but finally stopped, "Wait a little longer, wait a little longer"

Xiao Ren looked back and forth between the tent exit and the master, showing a puzzled face, thinking, is the enemy so difficult to deal with this time?Why does the master seem a little restless?

As the night darkened, the barracks gradually fell into silence. After returning to the tent, Qu Ke thought about the missing piece of silver, but he didn't fall asleep until it was almost dawn. Who knows...
"It's not good! Someone escaped from prison!!"

choke choke—choke choke—

The soldier in charge of the night watch dozed off and was suddenly awakened by the sound of the gong!

"!" Qu Ke woke up in his tent and heard the sound of running gongs in the distance, "Every day, what happened?"

"Someone has escaped from prison again." The soldier outside the tent heard what the passer-in said, and replied to the inside of the tent.

"Prison escape again?! This is a military camp! Are the camp guards trash?!"

"The one who escaped this time is Feng Shouwei!" Xiao Bing repeated while listening to the message.

Qu Ke was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Absconding in fear of crime, it's absolutely amazing! Hahahaha~ Fight me, with his brain, even ten of them are no match for me!"

Following the ban on escape from prison, another riot broke out in the army, and his subordinate soldiers were also implicated. After several rounds of interrogation, they were all sent to jail!
In the next two days, the case of corruption of ink in the army was closed with Feng Yan as the culprit, and King Yi'an's accompanying car also slowly arrived.

After the matter was resolved, Qi Ming asked Xiao Lu Jiu to pack his bags.

Little Lu Jiu just arrived and was about to leave. He felt that this trip was too bad, but because of his master's order, he didn't dare to show it on his face.
In the afternoon, King Yi'an's car drove away.

And Qu Ke had been looking forward to this moment for a long time!
An hour later, on the pretext of going out on patrol, he took a few soldiers to hide from the main road and sneaked into the woods!

The box of silver disappeared last time, and now he misses another box of silver very much!
"Lieutenant General! I got it!"

"Take it out quickly!" Qu Ke looked anxiously, and when the lid was exposed, he opened it and checked it!

With a burst of silver light flashing, the crowd felt relieved, but luckily the box of silver is still there!Although the other half is lost, the rest is enough for everyone to enjoy for a while!

"Let's go! Change to another place to hide!"

Just before Qu Ke took a few steps with his suitcase, a group of ambush soldiers suddenly rushed out from all around!

"It's really stolen from everyone." Qin You showed no expression like a corpse, waved his hands and ordered, "Catch them all!"

Qu Ke: "!!!"

Back in Yao Qing's tent, Qu Ke knelt heavily!

"General, please listen to the general's explanation at the end! This is the dirty money I found! Ban this person for his tricks, and I finally found it!"

Before Yao Qing could turn around, a high-pitched voice sounded from outside the tent.
"Oh?"

That pleasant voice is easily recognizable.

Seeing King Yi'an step into the tent, Qu Ke was very surprised!
"My lord! My lord, listen to what the general said, this is the stolen goods that the general found!"

With his hands behind his hands, Qi Ming approached him with a smile: "Why is Vice General Qu in such a hurry? Bring it up!"

"The little one has seen the prince."

The one who came in was a gatekeeper, he was a little timid, hesitating whether to say
Seeing this, Qi Ming took his seat slowly, looked at Qin You and asked, "What should the military law do if you deliberately conceal the truth?"

Qin You still said indifferently: "Twenty army sticks."

"Speak, the little one!" The gatekeeper said eagerly when he heard this, "A few days ago, the little one saw Vice General Qu go to buy medicinal materials with an empty box, but found that the rut marks were strange. When you come back full of medicinal herbs, the ruts on the way back should be shallower, but the little one saw that the ruts on the way back were shallower."

Qu Ke: "!!!"

Qi Ming smiled lightly, and said in a cold tone, "How does Vice General Qu explain this?"

"That..." Qu Ke was so nervous that his heart trembled, "That..."

Qin You looked at everything and became impatient for a long time, but he still looked like a dead body, and said: "It means that when the box went out, it was not empty, and the things it contained were heavier than the medicinal materials."

Qi Ming: "It's very possible that it contains silver."

"No! No!! That's that!" Qu Ke pointed at the gatekeeper and cursed, "Then he deliberately framed it!"

"Bring it up!" Seeing that the other party was unrepentant, Qin You ordered outside the tent!
Those who came in were Qu Ke's soldiers.

Qi Ming glanced at the people kneeling on the ground, and continued to ask: "What about the military law for false testimony?"

Qin You still looked dead: "One hundred punishments with a stick, and if the circumstances are serious, they will be cut at the waist."

"Your Majesty is clear, I dare not speak nonsense!" The soldier guarding the gate immediately said clearly when he heard this!
Qi Ming signaled the little soldier to silence with his hand, looked at Qu Ke and continued, "Deputy General Qu's move is nothing more than a trick, the gatekeeper is careful, and he can see through the mystery at a glance!"

"No, no!" Qu Ke begged and looked at Yao Qing, but seeing that the other party hadn't turned around, she looked at Qin You again.
And Vice General Qin has only one expression from the beginning to the end: dead face!
"My lord, the words of a small soldier are unbelievable. It's really not that I blocked and united those shopkeepers and embezzled this military salary. I found it"

"You bought off your own little soldiers, but ignored the inconspicuous gatekeepers." No matter how contemptuous Qi Ming was in his heart, he still smiled politely, facing Qu Ke's various crying fathers and mothers, he didn't understand, Just looking at those subordinates, he said, "Why do you think the other box of silver disappeared? Some people want to eat it alone, so there are naturally a lot of fancy intestines."

"!" Qu Ke was just about to explain, but suddenly realized that these words were a trap!

Many soldiers: "."

"You should know better than this king what this person's usual conduct is." Qi Ming continued to laugh, "Is it really worth ruining your own future for the little profit at hand? This king will ask again. This is the last chance, you guys have to think clearly before answering."

When Qu Ke got nervous, she turned her head and looked at the soldiers!
Qi Ming: "Is this money embezzled by Vice General Qu?"

Complicity is the easiest way to create suspicion, no matter how Qu Ke warns with his eyes, once the seeds of doubt are watered, they will break through the ground.

". Yes, please give us a chance to reform ourselves! Little ones, don't dare!"

"We have all the witnesses and material evidence." Seeing the result, Qi Ming got up and said, "Leave the rest to the general."

"Where is the prince going?" Yao Qing finally turned around and asked.

"This king has nothing to do here." Qi Ming turned sideways, looking as if he had nothing to do with himself, and said, "I will also trouble the general to send someone to draft the memorial to the father and send it to In my king's tent." After saying that, he walked away without looking back.

After returning to the tent, as soon as Qi Ming took his seat, Xiao Ren complained.

"Master is doing all the things that offend people! Vice-General Qu was promoted by General Yao himself. Now, he definitely hates you!"

Qi Ming: "He won't hate this king. Because Qu Ke is his man, after this incident, this king helped him get rid of a cancer. He should thank this king."

Xiao Ren doubted: "But, will this matter be related to General Yao? Will the master continue to investigate?"

"Heh~" Qi Ming rubbed the silver tail ring, and said with a slight smile, "That's it. It's best if it has nothing to do with the general. Check it out."

"The subordinate understands, what about those silver taels?"

Qi Ming: "Tell Lu Jiu the location and ask him to send a message to Vice General Qin."

"Yes."

It has been half an hour since Xiao Ren finished everything.

After counting the Tibetan silver, Qin You followed Yao Qing's instructions and went to King Yi'an's camp to express his thanks.

"The responsibility is so that General Yao doesn't have to worry about it." Qi Ming said calmly, seeing that the other party had not left for a long time, he then asked, "What else does Vice General Qin have to do?"

Qin You: "Qu Ke was originally from a poor family, and he was a person who abided by his duties. Who would have thought that a few years of prosperity would change him. The general regretted it very much."

"Okay." Qi Ming said with a smile on behalf of the other party, "The dirty money is on the right track, and this king will not doubt General Yao. As for Qu Ke, I will not interfere with how the general wants to deal with him." .”

Qin You still had a dead face, but his tone was full of anxiety: "Will the prince really let go of this opportunity?"

"Heh~" Qi Ming chuckled, "If I want to fight in the nest, I have to wait until the foreign enemy subdues me."

Qin You: "."

(End of this chapter)