Chapter 96: Zhao Laohu did not disappoint

The group of people went directly to the prison under the leadership of the prison. The prisoners here also understood the rules, so Ke Changming's prison still maintained his appearance when he died.

Ke Changming, who was exposed, hung on the iron fence of the cell. According to the scene in front of him, he took off his pants while not smashing his legs, tied his pants to the iron fence, and put his neck in and started to turn around. The tighter and tighter he tightened himself.

The color and shape of the face of the person strangled were really terrifying. Tang Cheng took a look and didn't look at it anymore. He knew that he was not a professional, and even if he looked at it, he couldn't see anything. Why should he suffer this again?

After holding on to the nausea, the magistrate Zhang waited for a while and waved to the coroner to come for an autopsy. Zhao Laohu refused to ask him to sit in the office outside, but he actually wanted to wait for the result here.

Seeing the angry look on County Magistrate Zhang's face, Tang Cheng felt a little moved: "Can he see something too?"

A man watched the coroner work in a turbid air cell silently in the turbid air cellar. The atmosphere was very depressing, but the final result was the same as the return of the forbidden son. Ke Chang clearly committed suicide.

After waiting for a long time to get such a result, County Magistrate Zhang said nothing after hearing the news and went straight back to the back house of the yamen. Tang Cheng was speechless on the way back. However, when he arrived at the gate of the back house, County Magistrate Zhang said depressedly, "You go back and prepare, and send me a document to the prefecture city tomorrow."

The county government office has always been responsible for sending official documents to the prefecture city. At this time, the county magistrate Zhang specially ordered him to go. Obviously, the official document he was going to send was unusual. Looking at the heavy face of Zhang County Magistrate Zhang, Tang Cheng said nothing and nodded, "Okay!".

After such a lot of trouble at night, the original joy was gone. It was already very late. Tang Cheng, wearing a moonlight, did not leave the county government and went home directly. When he passed by the front yard, he turned into the east yard.

The lights in Zhao Laohu's office were still on. When Tang Cheng walked by, someone came towards him. When the man saw Tang Cheng, he did not come forward to greet him. Instead, he avoided something and suddenly lowered his head and hurriedly walked away from the side. The steps under his feet were really fast and urgent.

It was night. Tang Cheng could not see his appearance clearly when he deliberately avoided it. He could only recognize that the clothes on him should be the public uniforms of the prisoners in the prison.

Seeing this, Tang Cheng was shocked and quickly walked to Zhao Laohu's office.

There was a five-lantern stand in Zhao Laohu's office room, but at this time, only the five-lantern on the lamp tree lit up the bottom one, which made the whole house look a little dim. Coupled with a cup of wine on the desk and Zhao Laohu who was drinking silently, Tang Cheng, who walked into the office room, suddenly felt an indescribable sad smell.

"Sad! How could this happen?" Tang Cheng smiled mockingly. Seeing that Zhao Laohu didn't even greet him, he wanted to go forward and light up the other four lamps on the lamp tree.

"It's the lamp I've turned off, let's do it." Zhao Laohu's voice was a little low, and there were some inexplicable emotions in this low voice. But Tang Cheng couldn't tell what these emotions were.

After Zhao Laohu said this, he said nothing more. He picked up the wine cup in front of him and drank it all. Tang Cheng, who put down the scythe in his hand, took the wine cup and poured it all over the empty wine cup.

"Open the window", Zhao Laohu's words were strange because the window he signaled to open was facing the lamp tree. Once the window was opened, the night wind blowing in must also blow out the only lamp.

Tang Cheng had heard of Zhao Laohu's old stories, saw Zhao Laohu's scheming, and also saw Zhao Laohu's pretending to be rude. However, the only place he had never seen since he met was Zhao Laohu's sadness. This is really rare. Even when he was injured in the lower Erlong Village a few days ago and there was no hope of attacking the mountain, Zhao Laohu in Tang Cheng's eyes was still firm and did not look at all depressed and annoyed.

Zhao Laohu tonight is really special!

Tang Cheng waited for a while, and saw that Zhao Laohu didn't say anything else, he walked to the window and pushed open the carved wooden window. As the window opened, there were also a faint night breeze coming in with a hazy starry glow.

The last oil lamp on the lamp tree was swayed for a few times, and finally it went out in dismay. The room suddenly became dark, and only the starry light shone with faint light.

Tang Cheng turned around and sat down after Hu Tang. He was facing Zhao Laohu across a desk.

Zhao Laohu drank. Tang Cheng took the bowl and poured it three times. Tang Cheng poured the fourth cup and took the wine bowl in his hand aside: "The leg injury has not healed, so it is not advisable to drink. If you use alcohol to drown your sorrows, it is even more worrying. This is the last cup."

Zhao Laohu, who had already picked up the wine cup and put it to his mouth, heard this, looked up at Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng's eyes looked a little brighter under the starry light in the window. Facing Zhao Laohu's eyes, he did not give in at all.

After the two looked at each other for a while, Zhao Laohu turned his head and looked out the window, but the wine cup in his hand was silently put down.

Tang Chenggang put the wine bowl in his hand on the ground beside his legs, and Zhao Laohu's voice was already silently sounding, "The year I entered the county government was twenty-one years old, and Yao Dongqi was twenty-six, working as a sword pen in charge of the name of the punishment in the East Courtyard."

Tang Cheng was slightly stunned, and then he realized that the "Yao Dongqi" mentioned by Zhao Laohu should be the chief clerk Yao.

"Before entering the county government, I was a young gangster. In addition to knowing that my fists were hard and people were ruthless, I knew what tricks were going to be crippled. The tolls at that time had originally looked at me with thorns, but when I saw me making a mistake, I even laughed so hard. After less than a month after I joined the government government, I wanted to tear up the soap clothes and give up the bird's errand." At this point, Zhao Laohu paused slightly, and after a while, he said, "If I had done this back then, would you know I was there again?"

Although Zhao Laohu was asking for a tone of questioning, he had no intention of asking Tang Cheng to answer. After asking, he pointed to the space outside the window, "I have thought about this question many times over the years, but there is only one answer... the cellar! Just like the green-skinned heads of Sun Saner and She Qi who I caught with my own hands, the majesty that everyone outside feared was actually a joke. The iron ruler, chain and water and fire stick in the hands of the tollers are the real ones."

Tang Cheng can understand what Zhao Laohu said, and he can get on the street. At least he is in a small place like Yunxicheng. In fact, he doesn’t have much brains to use. In an environment with too small structure, as long as the person is ruthless and his fists are hard enough. But if he gets on the yamen, that’s another concept. After all, there are many constraints here that make you unable to fight against each other at all.

Not only did Zhao Laohu receive a large reward for killing tigers, but he also wore a tolerant soap suit. It was expected that other husbands would dislike this former green skin because they were jealous. After all, he was an anomaly. The meaning of anomaly is abnormal. Abnormal things or people can easily get hindered people's eyes.

"The only difference between the entire East Courtyard was Yao Dongqi. When I couldn't hold back my dirty anger and wanted to work with the boss, he forced me down. This time, he held hands this time, and I was completely different in my life." Zhao Laohu's voice was quiet and plain. It was filled with infinite memories. "Yao Dongqi is a miserable man. His father died early since he was a child. He was raised by his widow's mother washing clothes for the man. At the age of eleven, he went to the county Xuexuezheng family as a servant to make a living. Xuexuezheng family came from Jiangnan. Good knowledge is good, but the good male style is not well tuned. He worked in Yunxi for eight years. Yao Dongqi stayed at his house for eight years. When Lao Xuezheng was leaving, he recommended him to the county government. So, although Yao Dongqi was only five years older than me, he knew too much more than me."

This was the first time Tang Cheng heard about Yao Dongqi's origin, but he didn't expect that this person who made him hate the ground was so tiring that he had such a difficult past.

"I can continue to stay in the yamen, and later I can establish a good relationship with the leader, and even take over the position of the chief inspector. Yao Dongqi taught me a lot, a lot... It's a pity that later..." In this regard, Zhao Laohu smacked his lips silently, but he didn't say anything anymore.

Zhao Laohu must have had a rupture with Yao Dongqi later, and the collapse this time left an irreparable crack in the relationship between the two, so that although they were still able to maintain a large-scale relationship with colleagues, they could no longer return to the same kind of friendship as before.

Thinking of the days when he heard that Zhao Laohu was promoted to county magistrates for a year or two, Tang Cheng seemed to understand something. But if the person involved had not spoken in person, no matter how smart he was, he would not be able to guess the specific reason.

Zhao Laohu was silent for a long time. Tang Cheng didn't say anything. He knew that Zhao Laohu needed only remembrance. This remembrance is both a summary of a person, a certain thing, or a certain feeling in the past; perhaps it was also the prelude to Zhao Laohu's decision to make an important decision after experiencing these things tonight.

After a long silence, Zhao Laohu picked up the mud wine, but stopped at his mouth and didn't drink it. "Whether in terms of ability or method, Zhang Wupo is far inferior to Yao Dongqi. Unfortunately, he is only one less fame and fortune! With a difference in fame, Yao Dongqi can no longer sit in the main hall. Now he is even going to take his own life..."

After muttering two "fame" sounds, Zhao Laohu raised his neck and drank the wine in the cup. "Fame and fortune!", and a long sigh, as Zhao Laohu relaxed his hand, with a "bang", the empty wine cup fell into pieces on the ground.

Zhao Laohu was talking about Yao Dongqi, but in fact he himself was not the case. If he hadn't had a green background, he had no fame. In terms of ability and political achievements, he would have long been promoted to the state to be Sima in charge of criminal titles. These thoughts flashed through Tang Cheng's mind. Now he had no intention of sighing about this. What echoed in his heart was the last sentence Zhao Laohu had just said about Yao Dongqi, "Now he is even going to take his own life..."

It seemed that all the energy in his heart was vented with the action of falling. Zhao Laohu got up and closed the window, and then turned on the five oil lamps on the lamp tree one by one. For a moment, the office room shone brightly, and Zhao Laohu in front of Tang Cheng returned to his calmness. There was still a little bit of the depression just now?

If he hadn't been sitting opposite Zhao Laohu, Tang Chengzhen was a little suspicious that everything had happened just now had happened. In addition to sighing, he also made him know Zhao Laohu a little more.

"With Yao Dongqi's mind, he wouldn't have done such stupid things. Unfortunately, his age and mind are too eager, and he is so vigilant! Acheng, you must remember these four words firmly and remember them for a lifetime!"

Tang Cheng did not listen to Zhao Laohu's words because his attention was attracted by the few pieces of paper that Zhao Laohu pressed on the table.

These were a few bamboo papers with blood-red handprints. As soon as Tang Cheng saw the word "Exhortation" on the head, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated a little. His eyes didn't stop on the main text at all, and he turned to the bottom corner on the right side of the last piece of paper. After seeing a crooked and irregular circle and heavily pressed handprints on the three words "Ke Changming", Tang Cheng let out a long sigh.

Zhao Laohu did not disappoint!

"When I went to Zhoucheng, I took Zhang Xiangwen and Lao Gantou with me." Zhao Laohu pushed Ke Changming's confession to Tang Cheng, "Zhang Sima of Zhoucheng is Zhang Xiangwen's second uncle. It is more stable to do things with him. As for Lao Gantou... he is a prison sentence, but he saw Yao Qingguo leave in front of Ke Changming's prison..."

What a Zhang Xiangwen, he really doesn't show off his face! Although Tang Cheng knew that Zhang Xiangwen's family was not simple, he didn't take the initiative to inquire about the situation of Zhang Xiangwen's family because he didn't want to show off. After all, this sworn brother is much richer and richer than him. If he deliberately asked, it would seem a bit clingy.

He didn't ask, and Zhang Xiangwen didn't take the initiative to say anything. He just mentioned that there were five brothers from his father and four uncles in the family. However, he didn't expect that these uncles were not simple. Except for the one he didn't know, the other three were the chief inspectors of this city. One was the owner of a big restaurant. The other one just came out and was actually Sima of Jinzhou. This is the third person in this state!

After being surprised, the image of Zhang Xiangwen in Tang Cheng's heart seemed to be different from before. He used to think that this sworn brother was loyal enough, but he couldn't help but think of him as a half-aged child. After all, Zhang Xiangwen was too unfair in appearance, but now he thought about it when he thought about it carefully. A person who likes to be so funny can hide family affairs so tightly, and his family is prominent but he can show off at all. He can do this without any ostentatious people?

Following Li Yingwan's incident that day, Tang Cheng sighed again: "Where is a person? It's so fucking complicated!"

Because of Zhang Xiangwen's incident, Tang Cheng was not so surprised that Old Gan Touer saw that Yao Qingguo came out of Ke Changming's cell. As for what Zhao Laohu said, Yao Qingguo forced Ke Changming to commit suicide. He did not ask much about it.

No matter what Yao Qingguo was holding, he could force Ke Changming to commit suicide, importantly, he did it, and was seen and heard, and more importantly, Yao Qingguo was Yao Dongqi's nephew, and when he forced Ke Changming to death, he mentioned Yao Zhuzhu more than once. Dog meat could not be on the table, and Yao Qingguo, known as the "two-tailed man", must have been very scared when he was doing something to force someone to commit suicide. He didn't notice that there was a prison-in-law who usually nodded and bowed when he saw him.

Originally, he died with Ke Changming's suicide. Although there was a confession, there was no room for a defense in the death. However, as soon as Yao Qingguo's incident happened, he left a personal testimony like Lao Gan Touer, and the ending of Yao Zhubu was already destined.

Should this series of events tonight be said to be "the net of heaven is vast and unrevealed"? Or should it be said that Yao Qingguo is too useless? Or is Zhao Laohu's thoughts and ruthless methods?

With that confession in hand, Tang Cheng was on the way back to the back house of Zhang County Magistrate Zhang from the East Courtyard, and suddenly remembered what Zhao Laohu said to him that day, "If you are not 100% sure, don't tear someone's face casually... Do you know what I would do if someone else tear my face?... Whoever wants to tear my face, I will kill him..."

The floor lamp in Zhang County Magistrate's study was on until very late. On that night, when Tang Cheng returned home, the hazy moon had risen high to the sky. On that night, he did not walk as fast as he usually did. On that night, he thought about a lot and seemed to have understood a lot...

The next morning, Tang Cheng got up early and came to the city gate, and got on Zhang Xiangwen's carriage that was coming from behind. At this point, Tang Cheng finally saw clearly the old Gan Tou who deliberately avoided him passing by last night. His ordinary appearance and wrinkles on his forehead. When he saw him getting on the car, he showed a humble smile. The old Gan Tou, who was not wearing a bad suit, could not see any difference from the 50s and 60s-year-old village households in the village.

Perhaps Yao Dongqi, who usually saw Lao Gan Tou, didn't even bother to say a few words, but this kind of person who looked ordinary and could not be more ordinary completely cut off the life of Yao Zhubu.

On a quiet night, the civic full of death air, Yao Qingguo whispered to Ke Changming under the swaying light. He was covered in cold sweat and didn't notice that there was a hunched old Cangtou standing in the side corner not far behind him. This was a dark corner of the light shadow. Old Cangtou quietly looked at everything in front of him, watching Yao Qingguo forcing Ke Changming, watching him help Ke Changming pull down his pants, watch Ke Changming tied his pants to the iron fence, and slowly stretched his head in, and watched Ke Changming twist and tighten, perhaps at this moment he had hesitated whether to shout to stop Ke Changming from committing suicide, but Old Cangtou finally didn't move. He quietly looked at Ke Changming strangled himself, and watched Yao Qingguo leave the cell in a hurry...

Looking at the old Gan Touer with a humble smile in front of him, this kind of scene appeared in Tang Que's mind, and these scenes were finally frozen in the eyes hidden in the shadows.

Sitting in the same carriage with Lao Gantou, Tang Cheng always felt a little chilling inexplicably facing the half of his body, and he had no intention of talking to Zhang Xiangwen. As soon as the carriage moved, he closed his eyes and pretended to sleep and rest.

After arriving at the Zhoucheng without saying a word, Zhang Xiangwen instructed the coachman to drive the carriage to the Baohe Building of Jinzhou. After tiring up the meal, it was almost dusk outside, and it was the time when the state yamen was off.

After Zhang Xiangwen greeted Tang Cheng, he took Old Gan Tou out. Needless to say, he went to find his second uncle Zhang Sima. Tang Cheng did not go with them all the way. After leaving Baohe Building, he went straight to Wu Yujun's tea shop in Taipei City.

The person who was sitting in the tea shop was still the big waiter. Although this guy had a bad face, his memory was not bad at all. After lifting the curtain and entering, the dough boss Wu Yujun came out.

"Brother, you're a coincidence! If my shop was a little later, it would be closed. It would be difficult for you to find me at that time." Wu Yujun smiled and narrowed his eyes and could hardly see them. After walking to Tang Cheng, he reached behind and smiled and said, "What, the matter between Erlong Village is gone?"

"It's settled five days ago," said with a smile. Tang Cheng grabbed Wu Yujun's arm with his backhand, "I won't go inside. I didn't feel happy last time I was suppressed. Today, I have to fight with Brother Wu anyway."

In the Baohelou Accord, Tang Chengxun’s old example of Wu Yujun that day, only two people sat opposite each other. After drinking for three rounds, he started talking about serious matters.
Chapter completed!