Master Luo Cao

The mattress in the big prison is really not comfortable. Although Fu Yunshu has always refused to admit it, he is still a spoiled young master after all. He squeezed the corner of the quilt and sniffed it, only to find the smell pungent and unpleasant. Squatting in a corner.It was extremely hot in midsummer, but at night it was cold all over the body, and the prison was even more chilly. Fu Yunshu could only hold his arms tightly and shiver, trembling, and he was tired and squinted in a daze. Eyes, survived the night in a trance, and when they were woken up mercilessly again, it was already daytime the next day.

The guards under Lu Tian clattered and rested the iron lock on the cell door. One of them pushed open the cell door, walked up to Fu Yunshu with arms folded, and said, "Master Fu, please."

Fu Yunshu was frozen all night, and his bones were frozen stiff. He tried to lift his neck, but felt the cervical vertebrae were "cracking". He stretched his muscles and bones a little, stood up with the help of the wall, and said in a hoarse voice : "What new tricks did the Marquis of Jinyang come up with today?"

The guard said with a sneer: "Your Excellency will know when you go."

Knowing that he was powerless to resist, Fu Yunshu didn't make unnecessary struggles, and followed them unsteadily.After walking slowly all the way, he finally arrived at a place that he was extremely familiar with—the Yamen of Jiuhe County.

And Lu Tian was sitting on top of the yamen court, with a bright mirror hanging under the plaque.

Lu Tian saw Fu Yunshu in a mess from afar, raised his eyebrows gloatingly, and said loudly, "Who is in the hall?"

His stern face in official uniform taught Fu Yunshu to think of the monkey in the story who thought he was an adult when he was dressed in clothes and a hat, and he swept across his face with disdain, and his eyes fixed on the kneeling under the hall. on another person.

Although Lianzi turned her back to him, she seemed to still be able to feel the suppressed anger in his eyes, and her thin body flinched, not daring to look back at him.

Lu Tian, ​​who was ignored, had a few flames in his heart, he patted the gavel hard, and said, "Who is under the hall?"

Fu Yunshu finally retracted his gaze, and landed lightly on Lu Tian, ​​with a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, and said word by word: "This county is the magistrate of Jiuhe County, Fu Yunshu. Dare I ask the Marquis of Jinyang to call me down before he gets down as an official?" Come on, what's the matter?"

"Fu Yunshu," Lu Tian said, "You rescued this Lianzi girl from the Caisheng Sect with your own hands?"

Fu Yunshu's eyes rolled, and he scanned the huge courtroom silently, and found that all the familiar faces in his yamen in the past were gone, and they were all replaced by people brought by Lu Tian himself.His heart sank slowly, and he said, "Yes."

"Then do you know what this Lianzi girl confessed to Ben Hou just now?" Lu Tian said.

Fu Yunshu said: "The lower officials don't know."

Lu Tian said: "She said, you are the young master of Caishengmen."

This sentence was like a thunderbolt falling on Fu Yunshu's Tianling Gai, but even though there was a storm in his heart, he still looked indifferent on his face, looking at Lu Tian indifferently.

The courtroom was dead silent.

After a while, Fu Yunshu finally moved, with a calm smile on the corner of his mouth, he said, "Young master of Caishengmen?" He pointed to his face, "Me?"

Lu Tian said, "That's exactly what she said."

"Hahahahaha," Fu Yunshu couldn't help laughing, no matter how much he thought about it last night, he never imagined that Lu Tian and the others planned to use this crime to frame themselves, "The young master of Caishengmen? Me? I'm so powerful, Jin Marquis Yang really had a whimsical idea, and I'm willing to bow down, but..." He stopped smiling, looked at Lu Tian coldly, and said, "Marquis Jinyang, tell me, is this a thief calling catch a thief?"

Lu Tian didn't change his face, and said calmly: "It seems that his identity has been exposed, and Master Fu has lost his mind. Benhou can't understand what you are talking about."

"Even if you want to put unwarranted charges on me, at least you should find a plausible excuse." Fu Yunshu said coldly, "If I were the young master of the Caisheng Sect, why would I expose the cases of Yunjian Temple and Yuanyang Pavilion?"

Lu Tian said: "Master Jin, the magistrate of Jiangbei Prefecture, has long been aware of Caishengmen, who has been hiding in Jiangbei for many years and secretly committing crimes. You are afraid that once the incident is revealed and you will be implicated, you will abandon the security car and cut off Yunjian Temple and Yuanyang Pavilion. In order to cover up people's eyes and ears, it's just an act of cutting off the wrist."

"This county is a Jinke Tanhua, a student of the emperor, a seventh-rank parental official of the imperial court. If you want to put such a big crime on me, do you just rely on a word from this girl of unknown origin?" Fu Yunshu shouted: "Jinyang With a verdict like Hou’s, not to mention the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple, I’m afraid even Jiangbei Mansion will not be able to pass it?”

Lu Tian frowned, smiled suddenly, and said, "It seems to be the same." He turned to Lianzi, who was kneeling beside him silently, and said, "Do you have evidence for what you said?"

Lianzi raised her head tremblingly, and said: "Everything I said is true, Brother Yunshu... Fu Yunshu told him that he is indeed the young master of the Caishengmen! I beg your lord to check it out!"

The little girl I rescued with my own hands was as poisonous as a snake and a scorpion. Although I had learned their tricks last night, and I heard it with my own ears again today, I still couldn't help feeling a little pain in my heart.Fu Yunshu said: "If it is true as you said, I am the young master of the Caisheng Sect, why did I save you from He Changfa and bring you back to the mansion for careful treatment?"

"Yes," Lu Tian propped his chin with his left hand, looked at Fu Yunshu as if watching a show, then at Lianzi, pointed at her, and said, "What he said makes sense, if he is really the young master of Caishengmen, Why bother to save you?"

"That's because... because..." Lianzi's throat twitched, the expression on her pale face changed, and she finally closed her eyes and shouted, "Because he likes me and wants to be with me in a fair manner, so he came up with this idea." He decided to take me into the mansion! He...he also said that if a little girl appeared in the mansion out of nowhere and was still close to him, there would be rumors that would hinder his official career, so...the so-called wronging me for a few days... Furthermore, last night...everyone saw what happened last night...what the slaves said is absolutely not false, otherwise they will be struck by thunder!"

Fu Yunshu only hoped that a thunderbolt would fall on the spot, killing these hideous-looking two people into scum.

It's a pity that there is no cloud in the sky today, not to mention heavy rain and thunder, and there is not even a slight breeze. The stagnant atmosphere around is also scorching hot because of the rising sun.

Lu Tian's eyes moved to Fu Yunshu again, and said: "I did see what happened last night with my own eyes, and there are many people who have seen it with me. Fu Yunshu's intention to use force on Lianzi can be said to be convincing evidence. Mr. Fu, do you still want to see it?" What can I say?"

"I do have something to say." Fu Yunshu looked at Lu Tian without fear, and said, "May I ask the Marquis of Jinyang if he has read the Four Books and Five Classics?"

Lu Tian said impatiently: "What does this have to do with this case?"

"Then I also want to say," Fu Yunshu said, "whatever happened between me and her last night, whether it was framed or slandered, has nothing to do with me being the young master of Caisheng Sect?"

Lu Tian was taken aback.

Fu Yunshu continued: "Since she slandered me as the young master of Caishengmen, she should show evidence, but she accused me of trying to be strong against her last night. Don't say that this is just an illusion she deliberately created, even if it is true. , should also be punished for a crime, how can it be attached to the Caishengmen?" He said, he smiled contemptuously, "Or, just because she is a member of the Caishengmen, if you touch her, you are also a member of the Caishengmen ? Thinking about it this way, I remember that Marquis Jinyang also took off his clothes and put them on her last night, so Marquis is now considered a member of the Caisheng Sect?"

Lu Tian was speechless by what he said, "You..."

Fu Yunshu said: "If Lord Hou is willing to admit that he is already a disciple of Caisheng, then the lower officials will naturally have nothing to say and can only confess."

"Presumptuous!" Lu Tian stood up from the chair, his chest heaved violently, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Do you really think that the Marquis has nothing to do with you? Someone, bring Yang Ye, the servant of Jiuhe County, here! After finishing speaking, a ferocious smile appeared on the corner of Lu Tian's mouth, and he watched Fu Yunshu's calm expression suddenly collapse with pride, and turned around in disbelief.

As soon as the words fell, two guards dragged a broken body into the hall, and when they raised their hands, the body was thrown to the ground lightly like an orange peel that had been peeled off, and lay on the ground. At Fu Yunshu's feet.

Fu Yunshu couldn't help trembling all over, his eyes turned red instantly, his teeth trembled, and he called softly, "Yang...Ye."

If Lu Tian hadn't explained it in advance, he would never have recognized the scrawny, blood-stained, dying man in front of him as the handsome, shy, tall and straight boy in his memory.He squatted down, his fingertips trembling, hesitated for a long time, and finally gently touched Yang Ye's deeply sunken cheek, "Yang Ye?"

Yang Ye's eyelashes trembled, and he slowly opened a pair of bloodshot eyes, staring blankly at Fu Yunshu, and only after a while did he squeeze out a few words, "...Master Fu?"

Fu Yunshu was so sad that he even forgot Lu Tian, ​​who was staring at him in front of the hall, and held Yang Ye's only hand tightly, and said in a mournful voice, "Yang Ye, why did you look like this? Who is it? , who did this to you?"

Yang Ye trembled all over, did not speak, and looked at Lu Tian who was aloof with fear.

"Yang Ye," Lu Tian said faintly, "You said, when you were trapped in Yunjian Temple, you saw their thief leader, didn't you?"

Yang Ye was stunned for a long time, then nodded slowly and stiffly under Lu Tian's kind gaze.

Fu Yunshu suddenly felt a "thud" in his heart, and unconsciously let go of Yang Ye's hand, and his broken hand fell to the ground.

Lu Tian said warmly, "Do you know this person?"

Yang Ye nodded again.

Lu Tian asked: "Is he in this court today?"

Yang Ye nodded slowly again.

The smile in Lu Tian's eyes was almost overflowing, and he asked, "Who is he?"

Yang Ye turned his head and glanced at Fu Yunshu.

Fu Yun met his gaze expressionlessly, feeling desolate in his heart.

After a long while of silence, Yang Ye slowly raised his hand as if struggling, pointed in a certain direction, and said, "It's you."

But what he was referring to was the Marquis of Jinyang sitting in the courtroom under the plaque hanging high in the mirror.