After losing the vest at the beginning, the female general was forced to marry the scheming prince

Chapter 99
Ning Youbei pondered from the side:
Who was the prince who met the Nanyue city lord late at night?King Jing?King Huai?Or King Jiangyue?
If it was King Jing, he would have to go through Mount Dian from Jingcheng to Nanyue. I don't know if there is any news from Lingxiao Pavilion?
It's just that no matter which prince it is, this Nanyue city lord is not a simple person, otherwise he wouldn't have to hide it from others in the middle of the night.

Presumably there must be some conspiracy!

……

Qu Chu also thought a lot in her heart like Ning Youbei, but she didn't show it.Instead, he continued to ask the old man: "What else?"

This time, the old man didn't speak.

Qu Chu threw him a piece of silver.

The old man thought for a while, "Half a year ago..."

half year ago

Suddenly, many people were arrested in the cell where he lived.But these people are not natives of South Vietnam, but people passing through South Vietnam.

And a strong man.

After these people were arrested, they complained every day, saying that they did not commit any crimes, so why should they be arrested?

But no one paid any attention to them.

One day, the prefect of Nanyue City suddenly entered his cell.

The cells where the old man lives are full of thieves, and the things they commit are trivial, so except for the cell boss who guards them, almost no other officials have come.

When the Nanyue prefect came that time, he took all those outsiders away.The old man counted, and there were 26 people in total.

The old man didn't know what the 26 people were doing after they were taken away, but he never saw any of the 26 people since then.

Ning Youbei kept this incident in his heart, and he would definitely find out the whereabouts of those 26 people if he had the chance.

After hearing this, Qu Chu asked, "Apart from these 26 people, did anyone else disappear later?"

"It's not good to say."

The old man said:
"I have been in and out of prison for more than ten years, and some outsiders will always be caught in and then taken out. As for where they are taken, who knows.

However, there has never been as many as half a year ago, when 26 people were taken away at one time. "

Qu Chu continued to ask: "Then how many people were there when it was the most?"

The old man thought for a while, "Sometimes one or two people, sometimes three or five people."

Ning Youbei interjected from the side: "Then no one usually goes to Nanyue to find someone?"

The old man said:
"You also know that South Vietnam is different from other places. There are mixed fish and dragons, and there are all kinds of people. It has always been chaotic. It is common for a few people to disappear or die here."

Ning Youbei said to himself:
"Then it's really not easy for you to live to this day alone."

Qu Chu thought:

is not that right?The old man looked thin and weak, but he really had some ideas in his heart.

Qu Chu didn't continue to ask about it, but looked at the old man, "Is there any more?"

The old man said:
"No, what can I know as a lonely old man, and I don't know if the things I just said are useful? Actually, I am not the only one who knows those things just now."

The awareness of prevention is very strong!
Qu Chu said:
"Since you've said so much, you might as well say a little more. You don't want to spend the rest of your life in prison, do you?"

After speaking, Qu Chu took out an ingot of twelve taels of official silver.

However, this time Qu Chu didn't throw the money to the old man, but put it on the table next to him.

The old man's eyes sparkled when he saw the twelve taels of silver.

With this ingot of silver, he could rent a small room for several years and eat enough every day.

"If I say this ingot is mine?"

"That depends on whether what you say is worth the price."

The old man thought for a while, "Is the old thing from more than 30 years ago okay?"

"You talk about it first."

"That was 32 years ago..."

The old man lost his parents when he was young, and spent his days doing odd jobs for others.

Thirty-two years ago, he was still a man in his prime, but because of poverty, he has never been able to marry a wife. When he usually has income, he will go to the lowest brothel to get addicted.

On that day, he went to the brothel he was familiar with as usual, but there was a murder in the brothel that day.

Due to the large number of exiled prisoners in South Vietnam, it is not uncommon for there to be fights and deaths on weekdays.

But the old man felt a little strange at the time, because the person who died didn't look like someone who came to such a low-level brothel.

Although he was dressed in plain clothes, he was wearing moccasin boots, and he was well-groomed.

Moreover, the murderer was not a native of South Vietnam, and the method of killing seemed very neat.After he killed the man, he took away something from him, including a dark purple belt.

Having said that, the old man looked at Qu Chu and hesitated to speak.

"Do you know what this waist card is?"

The old man said: "I didn't know what it was at the time, but later I saw that the waist badges of the government are almost the same, but the colors and patterns are different."

Ning Youbei thought for a moment, "Do you still remember the waist badge?"

The old man thought about it carefully, and slowly described the shape of the waist card.

After hearing this, Ning Youbei asked Yanhong to bring a pen and paper over, and drew a waist badge according to the old man's description.

After finishing the painting, Ning Youbei showed it to the old man, "Is this the waist card you saw?"

The old man's cloudy eyes flickered, "Yes".

Ning Youbei said word by word, "You lied, this is a story you made up."

After finishing speaking, Ning Youbei went to get the silver that was placed on the table next to Qu Chu.

The old man became anxious and said loudly:
"I didn't make it up, it really happened. The waist badge looks similar to the pattern you drew, but there are still some differences."

Ning Youbei sullenly, without a smile, "Have you thought it through?"

"Yes, I figured it out. This place is wrong in the pattern you drew, it's not like this."

"What was that like?"

The old man took the pen, recalled slowly, and clumsily drew a pattern.

"It's pretty much the same pattern.

It's been too long, and I didn't remember the pattern very clearly at first, but when I saw your painting just now, I remembered it again in my mind. "

Qu Chu leaned forward to look, but he had never seen such a pattern.

Ning Youbei took the pen and redrawn it according to the old man's description.

"Yes, yes, that's it, I will definitely not remember it wrong this time."

Ning Youbei asked again: "You said that the murderer took something from the dead man, what was it?"

"It's a small box, not too big, but that box looks very expensive."

Then Qu Chu and Ning Youbei asked the old man some more questions, but that was all he knew, and he couldn't get anything out of it.

Qu Chu said to the old man with a cold face: "You haven't seen us today, and you haven't said anything to us, do you know?"

The old man nodded repeatedly.

Although the old man did not find out the news of the collusion between Nanyue and Nanyi and Nanshu, it can be confirmed that the Nanyue city lord is not innocent, and also knows an old incident more than 30 years ago, so it is not a waste of time to go to prison.

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(End of this chapter)