I really don't want to take shortcuts anymore

Chapter 405: Sent to Death Row
"Master Huo, is it too hasty to conclude the case like this?" Luo Qianhuai frowned slightly: "Not to mention that I haven't been to the farm for several months, but until now, I don't even know whether the deceased was a man or a woman, and what his identity was. I don’t even know. You didn’t even ask me a word. You just relied on me to give in. Do you think I will confess my crime honestly?”

Huo Yu smiled slightly and whispered: "Even when I'm about to die, I'm still as sharp as ever."

He clasped his hands and winked behind him. Immediately, a jailer stepped forward to unlock the door, lifted Luo Qianhuai up and left.

Xingxuan was anxious: "Where are you going to take my wife?"

Huo Yu ignored her, but the jailer glared at her: "My lord, do I still have to explain to you what I'm doing?"

"Take me with you, I want to be with my wife!" Xingxuan used her body to hold the cell door hard, her eyes were red.

"You're welcome." Luo Qianhuai turned around and said, "Don't worry, I'll be fine."

"Madam, just take care of yourself and don't worry about us." Xingxuan choked.

Luo Qianhuai understood what she meant, which was to let him run away when necessary to perform martial arts.

She definitely couldn't do such a thing, so she didn't respond.

Huo Yu knew her skills, so he naturally understood her. As he walked away, he glanced coldly at Luo Qianhuai. Seeing that there was no fear on her face, a sneer appeared on her thin lips.

"Don't even think about escaping." He said, "If you escape, not to mention these villagers, the Wen family and your newly found biological father's family will all be implicated."

Dayu implements the Baojia-sitting system, so Huo Yu's words are not a threat at all.

"Don't worry, sir." Luo Qianhuai said quietly: "Until the grievances are cleared, my little girl will not go anywhere, let alone admit a crime she has not committed."

As she spoke, she had been taken deeper into the dungeon. This place is completely different from the one above. The cell is not a wooden fence that is visible at a glance, but a two-meter-square box made of pig iron, leaving only a one-foot-long and wide window pane for delivering things.

Luo Qianhuai noticed that the windows of all the cells were closed from the outside. It was impossible to see who was in the cells, and he could not hear a single sound.

"This is a death row." Huo Yu noticed her looking around and gave a rare explanation, licking her lips slightly.

The oil lamps on the wall were dim and far apart, and Huo Yu's face was mostly immersed in darkness. He looked a little ferocious, but also had an unnoticeable excitement.

"Sir, my daughter has not been convicted yet. Isn't it inappropriate to be locked up in a place like this?"

Huo Yu gave her a meaningful look, but said no more. The person holding her was even more silent, but the strength in his hand was even stronger.

Luo Qianhuai was pushed into the innermost cell. Without saying a word, the jailer who held her before put the heavy shackles on her that were exclusive to death row prisoners.

Then, they all retreated and locked the door.

When the scattered footsteps disappeared into the distance, Huo Yu's face appeared outside the window pane again.

He didn't say anything else, but just looked at Luo Qianhuai quietly for a while. Fang took out a roll of bamboo slips from his arms and motioned for her to come forward and take a look.

It was a confession. In Luo Qianhuai's voice, she admitted that after she bought the farm, she had a grudge with the Jiang family who lived in a nearby villa, so she secretly ordered her farm owner to hide and spy, kidnapped him at night, and pushed him away. He fell to his death from a cliff and buried his body in the field. Underneath the confession was written his name, the handwriting was almost exactly the same as his own, with a bright red circle on it.

Luo Qianhuai has completely understood that everything from beginning to end was planned by the man in front of him.

He doesn't need to interrogate himself, and he doesn't care whether she pleads guilty or not, because the completed file must be flawless and can withstand the scrutiny of all superior officials.

Huo Yu put the bamboo slip away after Luo Qianhuai had seen it.

"Do you know how long I have been waiting for this day?" His mood fluctuated slightly, and his voice was not calm:
"When I was first questioned and exiled, when I thought of you, my mind was filled with hatred. I just wanted to send someone to catch you, cut you alive and feed you to the dogs."

Huo Yu didn't ask Luo Qianhuai if she had anything to do with the copper mine scandal. He was sure that she was not innocent.

In fact, this was indeed the case, so Luo Qianhuai did not mean to quibble, but just listened to him silently.

"But when I got to Judi, I worked hard in the cold wind every day, and I didn't live like a human being. I laughed to tears when I even grabbed a piece of black bread, so my thoughts slowly changed."

Huo Yu's eyes had returned to calmness, but they were even more frightening than the angry and crazy look just now.

Not sure whether it was because of this look or the heavy shackles on his hands and feet that were too cold, Luo Qianhuai shuddered involuntarily.

What fell into Huo Yu's eyes was that she was trembling with fear.

A touch of relief appeared on his face, and his voice became softer, softer, and more erratic:

"I told myself at that time that I must go back to Xijing. Then I would pay back all the humiliation you had inflicted on me in an even worse way."

"So you've been back for a year and you haven't shown up yet. It's not that you've forgotten what happened before, but you just want to find an opportunity to hit the target with one hit?" Luo Qianhuai asked.

"Not bad." A trace of appreciation flashed in Huo Yu's eyes: "You are indeed a young lady who can scheme against me. I was the one who underestimated you before."

"But this time, I won't make the same mistake as last time, and I won't give you the slightest chance." His eyes fell on the shackles on Luo Qianhuai's body, and a weird smile appeared on the corners of his lips:
"You have been taking chances before, but now it's too late even if you want to escape. These shackles are made of North Sea meteorite iron. No one can open it without the key."

Luo Qianhuai raised his head and looked at him, and suddenly asked: "How did the deceased Jiang in this case die? Could it be that you killed innocent people in order to put the blame on me?"

Huo Yu pursed her lips and sneered: "Want to trick me? Mrs. Luo, I advise you to live in peace. You have to stay here for a long time, and now is just the beginning."

After saying this, he closed the iron plate outside the window pane. The two-meter-square cell suddenly lost its light source, and it was so dark that it was difficult to see.

Luo Qianhuai recalled the direction he had seen before, groped his way and sat on the straw pile, and began to carefully consider the information he had just received.

The bad news is that Huo Yu has forged a confession and obtained witnesses. He will soon report it to Tingwei Mansion to close the case, leaving him little time.

The good news is, well, there isn't any good news just yet.