Dongli drinks wine after dusk

Chapter 207

Things went unexpectedly smoothly. Jiuding Mountain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The bandits headed by Zhang Cong have been entrenched here for more than a decade. However, every time I failed, I failed to do so.

There were only more than fifty thieves, and Kong Xiangying led five hundred soldiers, but he still had no idea.

Sometimes, however, luck is on my side.

Just the day before Kong Xiangying led his troops into the mountain, this group of bandits played their trumpets happily and married Mrs. Yazhai. After rushing into the camp, everyone was still hungover, unable to carry a knife, unable to chop anyone, yet they were all captured so easily.

Kong Xiangying was so relieved that he won such a great victory without a single soldier being abandoned, and immediately went up to the court to question the case, and wanted to return justice to the Tao family.Even in order to calm down the panicked people in the county, this time the trial opened the door of the county government.

Zhang Cong categorically denied that they went down the mountain to rob Tao's house, saying bluntly that they were thieves with good principles. They only robbed money and never killed anyone. No matter what happened to Tao's house, it had nothing to do with them.

Moreover, they also explained that they had robbed a wealthy businessman who was passing by ten days ago. The wealthy businessman paid 100 taels of gold to buy the road, which was enough for the brothers in the cottage to live comfortably for half a year. In danger, he entered Lanling County to kill people and seize wealth.

Not only Zhang Cong, but also all the thieves under his command also called for injustice and refused to admit the crime of murder.

In the courtroom, under the eyes of everyone, Zhang Cong and others refused to admit to death. Even though Kong Xiangying's face became darker and darker, there was no way to close the case.

The cottage has been searched up and down long ago, and indeed no gold, silver and jade objects with the Tao family name on them have been found.

In this way, there is no personal evidence or material evidence, and if the criminal trial is to continue, it is called torture.

Kong Xiangying was a little uneasy. After all, it was only hearsay that these bandits were involved in the case, and now there is no evidence.

The turnaround came on the afternoon of the third day.Mrs. Yazhai, who was held alone in the prison, suddenly changed her previous tight-lipped and cried to see the county magistrate.

Kong Xiangying saw her.As soon as she came up, she knelt down on the ground and said something shocking: "My family is Tao Liangui's good concubine Luo family, my family pleaded guilty!"

"It's because the slaves are obsessed with ghosts. They didn't want to be betrayed by Tao Liangui, so they attracted this bandit to rescue the slaves. But I didn't expect that the bandits were so cruel that they slaughtered the entire Tao family. The slaves are really afraid. I'm afraid that one day they will come to rescue the slaves." Kill the servants and silence them, and ask your lord to make the decision!"

Even Kong Xiangying, who thought he was well-informed, froze in place.

What?A small concubine killed the entire Tao family?What a beauty!
"How did you collude with that thief, and what evidence do you have, why don't you invite it!"

"My family, my family is just angry, but my family only wants to scare the master, I really don't want his life!"

Tao Luoshi is a local, his father knows how to be a mason, and during the slack season, he helps people to build kangs and build houses. Although the family's life is tight, they can live on.Tao Luoshi's parents did not have the idea of ​​selling their daughters for glory, and wanted to throw their daughters to others as concubines.

But the little man, the fate is involuntary, Luo's father accidentally fell from the roof when he went out to work, and broke his leg. Although he can move freely after he is raised, he can't do heavy farm work, let alone go out work.

The family's situation plummeted, and as a last resort, the Luo family became Tao Liangui's concubine, and the Tao family paid 80 taels to buy her out for life.

The Luo family has been favored for two years, but has not given birth to a son and a half daughter. Tao Liangui wanted a son so much that his eyes turned green. In those few years, changing women was faster than changing clothes. I don't know how many hands were poured.

She is content to be able to stay in Tao's house safely, not to care about whether she is favored or not, to see her natal family often, and to secretly help her.

However, Tao Liangui was getting old, his daughter had recruited a son-in-law, and his grandson was growing up day by day. He was no longer obsessed with having a son, so he had the idea of ​​dismissing the concubines in the mansion.

If it was just sent home, the Luo family might be able to accept it, but Tao Liangui is a businessman by nature, and he doesn't want to suffer at all. These women in the backyard were bought back with money, and they have been eating and drinking for so many years. Let it go, how can it work?

As long as you become a concubine, regardless of whether you are a good concubine or a lowly concubine, the patriarch will kill them and seize the power. In the end, Tao Liangui wanted to get back some of the cost, so he just said lightly and sold them all.

The blood all over Luo's body turned cold, it turned out that this man was so cold!Leaving the land where she was born and raising her, and losing her status as a benefactor, she is already in her twenties, what else can she do?

When Luo Shi was thinking about how to escape this catastrophe, he inadvertently learned that the neighbor's brother Zhang, who was young, had fallen grass in Jiuding Mountain a few years ago, but now he is doing well and has the right to say what he says.

Bandits!Luo Shi's eyes are bright, as long as Second Brother Zhang brings a few people to pretend to rob Tao's house, and then pretends that he was hacked to death, wouldn't he be able to escape the catastrophe by feigning death?

Brother Zhang has no other shortcomings, but lust, and he is just right, and has no other advantages, but a good-looking face.

So through the relationship between the maid around her and her family, Zhang Cong got in touch with the Luo family. She was pleasantly surprised to learn that Brother Zhang liked her since he was a child. To propose marriage.

Naturally, Luo Shi did his best to fool Zhang Cong into a ecstasy, and agreed that he would rescue her from the Tao family's sea of ​​suffering, and they could live together in two places in the future.

Although being the Mrs. Yazhai was not what Luo Shi wanted, but when things came to an end, there was no other way to choose.

So taking advantage of the dark night and high wind, the bandits from Jiuding Village sneaked into Tao's house quietly.

The Luo family had already put a large amount of perspiration medicine in the well in advance, from Tao Liangui and Fang's to the gatekeepers at night, one by one, none of them escaped, and they all fell into a coma.

But the Luo family has made thousands of calculations, and if they haven't figured out the nature of bandits, how can they return empty-handed after entering Baoshan?They did not leave with a false scene of Luo Shi's death, but swept the entire Tao Mansion, and they did not let go of any valuable and easy-to-take items.

They stayed for so long that it was almost dawn, and the sweat medicine had lost its effect.

Those who drank little water were about to wake up. When they were about to leave, Zhang Cong's feet were caught by a servant who had fainted on the ground, and he was about to open his mouth and shout to his neighbors for help.

Zhang raised the knife from his hand and chopped down the servant directly. The blood was spattered high and his face was still warm.

(End of this chapter)