Chapter 26: A night banquet at the mansion for the young general.
Sha Jingtian, male, registered in Longsha Town.
He was unmarried and had no children, and was nicknamed Shar Pei.
He was born thin and had a strange appearance, with deep wrinkles on his forehead and rough skin.
His eyes were covered with a towel and his hands were tied tightly with chains behind his back.
One end of the rope was tied to the handcuffs around his wrists, and the other end was hung high up, with his feet touching the ground.
"Sir, please forgive me. I won't dare to do it again." Sha Jingtian wailed, his fear doubled because he couldn't see.
The warden in charge of taking notes pretended to be deaf and just kept writing.
Tongpan: Do you know your crime?
Sha: My Lord, I owe the casino money, but the dealer is cheating at the table, so there must be something wrong with the dice!
Tongpan: Don’t talk about irrelevant things!
You just entertained me truthfully. When you entered the city on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, what was in the coffin you brought with you?
Did you kill the six people in Lu’s Tavern?
Sha: I, I, how dare I kill anyone.
The judge: Still trying to quibble! Humph, I'm going to ask you to eat the yellow rice that's just out of the pot. If you dip it in cold water, the moment it enters your stomach, it will emit hot steam and burn your intestines.
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The constables on both sides rushed up with bowls of rice and stuffed them into Sha Jingtian's mouth.
"Wuwuwu." Sha Jingtian struggled hard, he was so scared that tears and snot came out, and he even became incontinent.
"Leniency to those who confess, severity to those who resist! The Danu man you hid has already confessed everything." The judge continued to threaten.
As a gambler, Sha Jingtian is a spineless person.
In the face of the authority of the official, they couldn't hold out for more than a quarter of an hour before they were exposed.
It turned out that he was addicted to gambling and lost too much money, so he was blacklisted from both casinos and money houses.
Afraid of being caught by the loan sharks, he had no choice but to run away.
"I've got a permit to go back to my registered place of residence, but I only dare to wander around outside the city."
Sha Jingtian burst into tears, and the wrinkles on his forehead twisted together into an ugly lump that could not be untied.
He didn't care at all when his biological mother passed away. He was too cruel to return to his hometown to hide.
"Somehow, I was captured by the Danu people."
"Give me a hundred taels of silver if you can bring them into the city."
"With a knife at my neck, I dared not disobey. The gangster you captured is in that coffin. He forced me to do this!"
Sha Jingtian was like an innocent citizen who was wrongly accused, with tears streaming down his face, still crying out that he was wronged.
His wrists were red from being strangled, and his arms were in so much pain that they were almost dislocated.
Once the mouth is opened, it's like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube, telling everything.
What happened next was full of coincidences.
The Danu people originally wanted to find out the camp layout and troop strength of the First Army of the Northern Border Defense, and then wait for an opportunity to pass the news through Shajingtian.
But that night was dark and windy, and when they passed by a nearby tavern, the two men started arguing.
"We agreed on one hundred taels of silver, but this is only fifty taels." Sha Jingtian bravely asked for money.
People die for money, and birds die for food.
Fifty taels barely paid off his debt, and the remaining change was not even enough for him to play a few rounds of Pai Gow.
"I will give it to you. I have to deliver it all. Message."
The Danu spy's official language was not very standard, and he had little patience with the greedy and cowardly Sha Jingtian.
He was tall and strong, with a fierce look in his eyes, like a beast about to pounce on its prey, which made people shudder.
But it's just a little quarrel, not a big deal.
It would be fine if Shajingtian failed to raise the price.
But the head of the Lu's Tavern got up at night and heard some voices. He suspected that it was a thief, so he picked up a stick from the corner and walked out.
"Shar Pei, why are you here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"
The boss's angry shout was like a thunderclap.
It's over.
Sha Jingtian's eyes were filled with blood.
In an instant, blood spurted out from the boss's throat.
Half of his neck was cut open, leaving only a gap large enough to fit a steamed bun in. A warm current flowed down his neck, as if he were drowning, unable to breathe.
The trachea is full of blood and is blocked.
The scimitar was unsheathed so quickly.
Sha Jingtian was trembling and at a loss, his body seemed to be falling apart and he was about to collapse to the ground.
"Drag the body in." Spy Danu gestured, and seeing that he was in a hopeless situation, he took action on his own.
The scimitars commonly used on the grasslands are different from those in the Central Plains, and murders will definitely leave clues.
Danu's spy sneaked into the kitchen of Lu's Tavern.
The strong man, as strong as an iron tower, picked up a kitchen knife, chopped off the head of the boss with a loud noise.
Just at this moment, the cry of a baby broke the silence again.
"He stabbed people with a machete and then chopped them like minced meat..." As Sha Jingtian spoke, the brutal scene appeared in front of his eyes again.
With a "wow" sound, acid came out of his stomach.
No one in the family of six was spared.
Guizhier, who was listening outside the prison, sneered.
She whispered to Luan Shuangbai, "You saw it during the autopsy. The knife marks from repeated chopping were messy and varied in depth. The key point is, there were a lot of them."
"You said, didn't he participate in the destruction of the body?"
Luan Shuangbai was startled.
At this point, the two bloody clothes abandoned in the well found their owner.
They were less than seven feet tall, one was burly, the other was frail, but both were satisfied.
Sha Jingtian was afraid that his life was in danger, so he had to take the Danu spy into the casino and hide him.
The population here is complex, and there are often gamblers who live and eat here day and night, trying to hide the truth as long as possible.
The case has been roughly sorted out.
County Magistrate Luo prepared a dinner, ostensibly to thank Gui Zhier and Luan Shuangbai for their great help.
That night the Milky Way shone obliquely and the stars twinkled.
The stars were so low that they seemed to be within reach. Guizhi walked slowly into the residence of County Magistrate Luo and was still slightly surprised.
It is hard to imagine that a sixth or seventh rank official could recreate the Jiangnan landscape gardens in such a cold and harsh place as the north.
There are piles of fake rocks and gurgling water.
Green plants cannot survive in the cold winter, so small Pinus massoniana and Cypress trees are used instead.
Servants carried various exquisite lanterns to lead the way.
"Young General Luan, Miss Gui." County Magistrate Luo was still wearing a long robe and looked very elegant.
"It is a great honor for you two to visit my humble home." He stroked his long beard with his left hand and made a welcoming gesture with his right hand.
Guizhier and Luan Shuangbai had no idea what he was up to.
The two followed up the entire case and had already figured out the county magistrate's style.
When encountering problems, he is afraid and hides, and has no opinion of his own.
Now he is rushing to get close to me, which is definitely like a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a chicken - he has no good intentions.
"Your Excellency is too polite. You are kind to the people and impartial in enforcing the law. It is a blessing for me to be invited by the officials of Linghe County."
Isn't it just praise? Compliments don't cost money, so Guizhier just opens her mouth and says it.
Luan Shuangbai's eyelids twitched.
With his emotional intelligence in the officialdom, he could only manage to come up with a few words.
County Magistrate Luo was so coaxed by the two that he looked delighted.
"I didn't expect the girl to praise the county magistrate." Luan Shuangbai glanced at the woman next to him and secretly signaled with his expression.
Looking at your thick eyebrows and big eyes, you actually know how to flatter.
"Hello, young general." Guizhier mouthed.
She playfully raised her thumb, the corners of her mouth slightly turned up, and her bright eyes were curved like crescent moons.
The light and shadow of the lantern swayed, making the woman's face look dreamy. The two of them walked side by side, close together.
A social dinner isn't always a bad thing, especially since the moon is so beautiful tonight.
Luan Shuangbai thought.
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