Becoming a God from a Water Monkey

Chapter 585 Into the Prison

Chapter 585 Into the Prison
Awu and Aji stood guard.

Zhao Hongyuan was sweating profusely, and under the sunlight, he was shining with dense layers of light, like a half-melted white wax man.

Liang Qu leaned back in his chair, did not answer, and raised his arm to wave.

The chief constable bowed and approached.

"grown ups."

"Did you catch the rest?"

"Don't worry, sir. No one can escape! The prefecture judge personally ordered that the Zhang, Li, and Chen families were surrounded together this morning. There will be no fish that slip through the net! I have already sent someone to pass on your order."

The Zhao family changed their name to the Zhang family and have been in Huangzhou for nearly two years. Although their relationship with the local people is not that deep, it is not shallow either. They have gradually integrated into the local community and have married off two "goddaughters", both of whom are wealthy local families.

A few moments.

There were cries and shouts outside the door again.

The detectives brought in the crying women and the men with sore legs and feet.

Regardless of whether there is a problem or not, bring him to Liang Qu and make him kneel down first.

The whole compound suddenly became crowded and noisy.

Zhao Hongyuan lowered his head, not daring to look around, not daring to move, and not even crying out for justice.

The heads of the Li and Chen families stood outside the door, waiting anxiously as if their feet were walking on burning coals. They wanted to step forward and plead for mercy, but they were afraid that it was really a capital crime and they would be implicated.

Liang Qu looked around.

Incomplete.

missing one.

"Sir, Du Ming has been captured!"

Shouts were heard.

The villagers who were watching the excitement outside the courtyard avoided them as if they were the plague and scorpions, making way for each other.

Two constables strode into the room, picked up a middle-aged man who kept begging for mercy, and threw him to the ground.

"Your Majesty!"

"be honest!"

Du Ming, no, Zheng Xiang rushed in front of him, and the base of his palm was rubbed so hard that the skin was broken and bleeding, leaving two bloody marks.

“It’s finally all done.”

Liang Qu leaned back in his chair.

The key figure connecting the whole thing.

Zhao Xueyuan couldn't help but be frightened. After asking a few questions, he revealed who was waiting outside Chishanling.

"Butler Zheng, do you know me?"

Seeing Zheng Xiang panicking and at a loss, Liang Qu asked again.

Butler Zheng?
A long-lost title.

Everyone in the house knelt down.

Zheng Xiang realized something and began to sweat profusely. He wanted to look but didn't dare to.

Liang Qu was facing away from the sun, with a blurred shadow and a mixture of light and dark. The armchair was square and the martial artist stood tall behind him, as tall as a mountain.

He glanced several times, his head felt dizzy as if he had a heatstroke, and he felt fatigued for no apparent reason. He wanted to breathe, but his hunched and curled body squeezed his lungs, making it impossible for him to expand. After turning around for a long time, he finally matched the portrait he had just seen with its spirit.

"Sir, are you... the first place winner of this year's hunting competition?"

"I thought that a smart man like Butler Zheng would remember it clearly, but I didn't expect him to forget it too."

Liang Qu laughed.

"I am stupid, please forgive me, my lord. I am stupid, please forgive me, my lord..."

Zheng Xiang kowtowed repeatedly to apologize.

"Let's say it was three years ago." Liang Qu tapped the armrest with his index finger, interrupting Zheng Xiang's plea for mercy. "There was a hooligans in Yixing City, he was not productive, just idle, he learned martial arts for two days in a martial arts school, he was strong and fierce, he lived by beating the villagers, because he had a scab on his head, everyone called him bald head Zhang."

Yixing City, Bald-headed Zhang?
Several images flashed through Zheng Xiang's mind. His lips gradually turned gray and long-lost memories gradually revived.

"One day, the housekeeper of the Zhao family, a wealthy family in Pingyang Town, suddenly found the bald-headed Zhang and asked him to rob an orphan's fishing boat. The purpose was not complicated, but to destroy his livelihood and make him unable to survive so that he could sell himself.

"When the job is done, there will be a reward. I don't know how much it is. How much? How many taels? Butler Zheng, do you remember?"

Liang Qu's eyes dropped.

Zheng Xiang hesitated.

"Butler Zheng?"

The chief constable heard most of what was said and understood most of it. He grasped the scabbard and hit Zheng Xiang on the shoulder, causing him to fall to the ground, leaving blood on the stone slab.

"Speak! If you don't, I'll crush your rotten teeth! I'll cut off your tongue and teach you how to not speak even if you want to!"

Zheng Xiang felt pain and hit his head on the floor. He didn't dare to look up and said in a trembling voice.

"Okay, it seems to be five cents..."

"Five cents!" Liang Quzhong leaned back in his chair and looked up at the sky. "It's less than half a tael of silver... How much rice can you buy with that?"

The chief constable bent over.

"This year is a bumper harvest year, and rice is seven cents a pound. If you buy a lot, it can be cheaper."

"I can't buy more than 100 kilograms..."

"The younger one is guilty, the younger one is guilty!"

Zheng Xiang slapped himself hard, leaving red marks on his face that swelled up in a moment. He remembered.

I remembered it all.

Fisherman boy!

It’s that fisherman boy!
No one knows what happened between Pingyang Prefecture and Huangzhou, but the fact that he is sitting here upright and being ordered around like a servant by the powerful chief constable in the government office says it all!
Zhao Hongyuan felt cold hands and feet, and he also thought about the past and why Zheng Xiang forced people to sell themselves.

The memory is old yet not too old, fuzzy yet not too fuzzy.

Liang Qu sat here as if he had been away for a lifetime.

I feel dazed and confused, with all kinds of mixed emotions.

Zhao Hongyuan stood there in a daze.

The melting wax man solidified.

"I'm not here to ask for an explanation today." Liang Qu said calmly, "Bad-headed Zhang seized my boat and my food three years ago. If I hadn't happened to come to Huangzhou, I wouldn't even remember what Steward Zheng looked like. Well, this is supposed to be a festive day, so just tie them all up."

"Yes!"

There was thunder in the courtyard.

Constables came out from all directions, captured them one by one, and tied them up with ropes.

Master Zhao, the son of the Zhao family, and the butler were all taken away without exception and were transferred and escorted one by one.

The crying and shouting continued.

"My lord, you are wronged!"

"I am innocent!"

"I don't know, I don't know anything!"

Only Zhao Hongyuan remained silent, looking resigned to his fate.

Liang Qu looked at the Zhao family members who filled the yard.

With three sons, all of them are capable of running, and numerous servants, big and small, in a small town, who could possibly find an opponent?

To a small fisherman, he is a big shot who cannot be touched at all.

A blink of an eye.

Liang Qu looked at the blue sky and then looked back.

"Is that the head of the Li or Chen family outside the door?"

"Your Excellency wishes to see them?"

"Let them in."

"Yes."

moment.

The two old men followed the captain and greeted him carefully.

"I don't know what your name is..."

"Do you know what crime Mr. Zhang committed?"

The two shook their heads.

"Liu Shouping!"

Liu Shouping was alert, took half a step forward and talked about Mr. Zhao's past.

Upon learning that the Ghost Mother Cult was the remnant of the previous dynasty and that the Zhao family had colluded with them, the two old men were so scared that their beards stood on end.

"Your Excellency, we are fully aware that the thief Zhang has done this, and we have never been involved in it. We have always been doing legitimate business..."

"Whether it is true or not, you have no say." The chief constable stood beside Liang Qu, looking hawkishly, "In the next few days, there will be officials coming to your house, so it's better for the Chen and Li families to stay out of the house, to avoid someone being guilty and running away first, or secretly communicating with others."

"understand."

"Your Excellency has acted fairly and without question."

When it comes to treason, the two men know there is no room for negotiation. The only thing they can do is to behave better and let the matter be put behind them as soon as possible.

In just half an hour, the entire Zhao family was taken away under the watchful eyes of the people of Dushan Town.

"My dear mother, you can just take her away like that?"

"Who is that young man?"

"Why do you look like a dragon crossing the river?"

"A dragon crossing the river? What dragon crossing the river?"

There used to be two local tyrants in Dushan Town, namely the Li family and the Chen family. Later, when the Zhang family came, there was one more.

I really didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, the local tyrant of Dushan Town became a prisoner and dared not say a word.

“It’s a beautiful sight.”

The hunter who rushed back from Chishanling held his longbow with envy in his eyes.

The sky is full of frost and the wind is strong.

A real man.

evening.