"Five steps again!" An Tingyu frowned slightly.
These cases seem unrelated, but the same problem appears again and again. That is, every time the clues are broken, they are related to Wubuzi. Every time when the investigation reaches a critical juncture, someone is always poisoned by Wubuzi.
"Miss, what should we do now?" Dang Yan asked.
An Tingyu pondered for a moment, and then said, "This case was caused by Tang Liuzhao. He may know something that we don't know, so we have to interrogate Tang Liuzhao."
At An Tingyu's words, Tang Liuzhao was brought out of the cell. But strangely, before An Tingyu could even speak, Tang Liuzhao said, "The evidence you want is in the room. The fifth book on the second shelf, and the seventh book on the third and fifth shelves. What you're looking for is there."
Hearing this, An Tingyu gave Dang Yan a look, and Dang Yan immediately went out.
"Master Tang, do you know what we are looking for?"
"A real account book!"
An Tingyu raised her eyebrows. "That's one of them, but I have another question. Since you already have evidence, why do you let yourself go to jail?"
"Because I don't know whether you are a god or a ghost." Tang Liuzhao said lightly.
"Do you know now?" An Tingyu smiled wryly, a cold look flashing across her beautiful eyes.
"If you have taken my concubine into your custody, then you must be a god. If not, you might be a ghost. Therefore, before I am sure who you are, I will not give you something so important."
"So you're not such a fool. You even know there are people around you you can't trust. Tell me! What's going on with Datong?"
"You even guessed Datong?" Tang Liuzhao was slightly stunned. "You are indeed a smart woman."
An Tingyu smiled slightly, "Then I have to thank Master Tang for the reminder."
After saying that, An Tingyu threw a brocade box to him, and that brocade box was actually the box that Tang Liuzhao had used to give her medicine.
It turned out that when An Tingyu pretended to faint, there was a note hidden under the family medicine pill that Tang Liuzhao gave her. There were only two words written on it: Madam.
At first, An Tingyu didn't know what Tang Liuzhao meant by "madam", but later, when Tang Liuzhao was imprisoned, the behavior of Tang Liuzhao's concubine made her feel suspicious, so she connected the two.
As for Datong, after spending these days with her, she felt that Datong didn't seem like a bad person. He was just an ordinary citizen. Except for the time when he first came to see her, Datong never asked about the case, so she suspected that maybe Datong had just called her here on behalf of someone. And for this someone, she could only think of one person, and that was Tang Liuzhao, because Zhu Xinbing would not be stupid enough to call her here.
"Tell me! What exactly happened?" An Tingyu said again.
"Of course, it's to get the evidence safely into the hands of someone who can speak for the villagers. My abilities are too weak, and I'm afraid I'll be killed before I even get it out. That's why I had no choice but to invite you here. But before I could find a way to invite you, something unexpected happened: Datong's wife and children were kidnapped."
"Kidnapping? Isn't she going back to her parents' home to visit her relatives?" An Tingyu frowned.
"I was visiting my parents, but the day after, Datong received a letter saying that his wife and child were in his hands. He said that if he wanted them safe, he had to file a complaint against me. Datong is a kind man and didn't want to frame me for his wife and child, so he told me about it. I just took advantage of it and made Datong act according to that person's wishes."
"What about Datong's wife and children? How are they now?" An Tingyu asked.
Hearing this, Tang Liuzhao sighed helplessly, "She's staying safely at her parents' house! She hasn't been kidnapped, so the kidnapping accusation is probably just a ploy to make Datong behave."
"This is a clever mastermind!" An Tingyu said lightly, but the doubt in her heart was finally resolved. She said that a good man like Datong, how could he frame Tang Liuzhao? It turned out that there was also a "kidnapping case" involved. No wonder this happened.
"Miss!"
As soon as Dang Yan's voice appeared, he walked in with several account books in his hands and handed them to An Tingyu.
An Tingyu opened the account book and frowned more and more as she read it. "Master Tang, thank you for your hard work these past few years!"
The account book records the evidence of the exploitation of the people of Xingfu Village over the years, but the one who exploited them was not the county magistrate Tang Liuzhao, nor the fence-sitter Zhu Xinbing, nor Tang Liuzhao's concubine, but a real corrupt official.
"Master Tang, I'll take care of this. Please go back to your house and rest first! I'll summon you if there's anything else." An Tingyu asked Tang Liuzhao to leave. Only after he left did An Tingyu throw her hands and look at the account book in anger. "Assholes! If I don't deal with these old guys, I'm not An."
"What's written in here? What's making you so angry?" Feng Yun, who had been silent the entire time, curiously picked it up and took a look. However, upon seeing this, Feng Yun frowned. "The Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, and... a mysterious person? What does this mean? Are there still unidentified people? And it's almost the same as what Datong said, except the culprit isn't Tang Liuzhao, but some elders of our dynasty."
"They are all big shots. No wonder Tang Liuzhao dares not to take it lightly and has to take risks. Any one of the people written here can make him disappear without a trace." Feng Yun said again.
"What should we do now? Go back and confront them on the spot?" Dang Yan asked.
"No, if we confront them like this, they won't deny it. Furthermore, Qingtian, who was stationed in the County Magistrate's Mansion, has been poisoned, so they must have taken precautions. We need to find more compelling evidence. In short, let's go back first! But before we go, take Zhu Xinbing's official hat off to me. Xingfu Village doesn't need two county magistrates anymore. Let Tang Liuzhao take charge!"
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