Chapter 352 The perpetrator should pay with his life
Qin San and his companions all staggered in their hearts. They had never heard such an order before. It was clearly the tone of an evil housekeeper commanding the servants to guard the house.
But they still had to do it. Several people covered their faces and rushed out. Jiang Baipin signaled his brothers to follow them, but he himself stood beside Su Qianqian and watched the fun, just thinking it was interesting.
After just three or five moves, the followers really fell down. The people in the carriage realized something was wrong and asked, "Who are you? If you want something, just ask. Why use these means?"
Qin San and the others didn't know what to do next, so Su Qianqian ordered Xue Ke: "Tell them to pull the man out, stuff rags in his mouth, put him in a sack and tie him up!"
Xue Ke ran over immediately.
Qin Shiliu understood it. This was clearly being a kidnapper, and he liked it!
He jumped onto the carriage and pulled the people out. No matter what he wanted to say, he stuffed the clothes torn off the followers into their mouths, put them in sacks, tied them up, knocked them unconscious with a palm, and stuffed them into the carriage.
Su Qianqian gave Qin Shiliu a thumbs up.
"Who is this person? What do you want to do?" Jiang Baipin was confused by her.
"Bad guy." Su Qianqian said perfunctorily, and kicked the man after getting on the carriage.
Qin Hanzhang, who was not far away, couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips. He just wanted to see what Su Qianqian was busy doing all afternoon, but then he saw this ridiculous scene. The Yuwenlang of the Ministry of Justice, the mistress of the Wuning Marquis' Mansion, was now a kidnapper.
Su Qianqian brought her people back to the inn, secretly gave him an injection of sleeping pills before getting off the car, and asked Qin San to put straw in the carriage to cover it to prevent him from freezing to death at night.
When she returned to the guest room, Qin Hanzhang was leaning on the bed with his eyes closed and dozing off. He stood up when he saw her come in. After she changed her clothes and washed her hands, he handed her a bowl of hot glutinous rice dumplings.
"Where are they from?" Su Qianqian was a little surprised. The inn should not make these desserts.
"I went out for a walk and saw a dessert shop, so I bought a bowl." Qin Hanzhang replied casually.
Su Qianqian felt a little guilty. Jinning City wasn't very big, and there weren't many shops that could sell sugar water...
Sitting down to eat the rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice, Qin Hanzhang also sat beside her and watched her eat. Su Qianqian somehow scooped a spoonful and handed it to Qin Hanzhang:
"Would you like to try it too?"
After she said this, she remembered that this was the spoon she had used. She quickly tried to take it back, but Qin Hanzhang grabbed her hand and ate the dumplings from that spoon.
"It tastes good." Qin Hanzhang commented calmly, not knowing that his red ears had already betrayed him.
"I have prepared the antidote, but don't take it in a hurry. We need to let Duke Xuanguo let down his guard. If you really push him into a corner, he will do something desperate. My sister and her son..."
Su Qianqian sighed and pretended to be sad in order to win Qin Hanzhang's sympathy.
Treason is a serious crime punishable by confiscation of property and extermination of the entire family. Qin Hanzhang has no obligation to cover up for the Zhu family, and she might be implicated in the future. But before that, she still has to find a way to rescue Su Xinxin and her son.
"There is no way to verify the matter of Duke Xuanguo for the time being. I will not report it to His Majesty. Your sister... in order to avoid being convicted of the same crime as the Zhu family, we must think of a proper way to get her out of this situation. Arrange it as soon as possible after returning to the capital."
Qin Hanzhang saw what Su Qianqian meant and said it for her first, which surprised Su Qianqian a little.
Qin Hanzhang must understand how serious this matter is. It is obviously unwise to risk the fate of the entire family for her sister. Even fathers and sons and couples often betray each other in order to save their lives and gain merit.
"My Lord, you should know what kind of responsibility you will have to bear if you say this..." Su Qianqian was not sure and reminded him tentatively.
"Of course I know that, but your sister and her son are innocent. If Duke Xuan insists on seeking his own death, we are powerless to save others, but we cannot stand by and watch our blood relatives die."
Qin Hanzhang's eyes were firm and clear, without a trace of hesitation.
Su Qianqian looked at Qin Hanzhang steadily, the man whom she initially despised.
She originally thought that there must be something hateful about pitiful people, and that cannon fodder naturally has reasons for being cannon fodder. However, after spending these few months together, Qin Hanzhang's calmness, prudence, bravery and responsibility, his attentiveness, thoughtfulness, open-mindedness and kindness, all made her wonder: Why should he die?
Why should the Qin family die?
Is trust wrong?
Is there anything wrong with loyalty?
Isn't it the protagonist's fault?
Just because the plot requires it, just because the Qin family is flawless, they have to become the stepping stone for the protagonist?
Su Qianqian suddenly put herself in the role of the Qin family and felt extremely unwilling.
Even if it wasn't for the power of merit, she wanted to reverse the fate of this family. Even if they died, it could be a life of idleness and waiting for death, or a natural death due to old age, but it couldn't be an innocent death!
"Eat quickly, it won't taste good if it gets cold." Qin Hanzhang interrupted Su Qianqian's thoughts and urged her softly.
Su Qianqian lowered her eyes and ate slowly, hiding the emotions surging in her eyes...
Early the next morning, Su Qianqian and Qin Hanzhang and their group set off, but with an extra carriage. Qin Shisan and Qin Shiliu sat in Xue Ke's carriage, which also had a sack inside.
Behind them, the captain of the police sent by the magistrate of Jinning County was escorting Gu Shengda's prison van, as well as the money found in his home, along the way.
Not far from the city gate, Qin San stopped the carriage. Xue Ke opened the curtain first and asked Su Qianqian to get off. Aunt Wu was sitting by the carriage with four children. Her lips were a little blue, obviously she had been waiting for a long time.
"Kneel down and kowtow to your benefactor!" Aunt Wu ordered the four children.
The three girls and their brother knelt on the cold roadside and kowtowed three times.
"Sir Su, I have heard about the matter of County Magistrate Gu. Even if my late husband's injustice cannot be redressed, I will offer a longevity tablet for you. You are the benefactor of our family!"
Aunt Wu handed the food box to Xue Ke, and took a wooden box from Yi Qiao: "This is something my late husband left behind. I am illiterate and don't know what it is for, but he always valued it very much, so I hid it later, hoping it will be useful to you, my Lord."
"Sir, I am sorry for the offense." Aunt Wu said as she moved closer to Su Qianqian and said a few words, which were exactly what the system had found.
"Mr. Wu, Hu Qiao's injustice will be redressed, and the perpetrators must pay with their lives."
After Su Qianqian finished speaking, she turned around to look at the carriage behind. Aunt Wu followed her gaze and saw Qin Shiliu lifting a corner of the curtain, revealing the face of the Zhu family's patriarch, who had his mouth gagged and looked embarrassed.
Su Qianqian nodded and got back on the carriage. Aunt Wu knelt on the side of the road with tears in her eyes and kowtowed again until the carriage drove away.
In the carriage, Su Qianqian opened the wooden box, on which was a seal. Su Qianqian looked at the engraving and found that it was Hu Qiao's private seal.
Below were several bound booklets. Su Qianqian flipped through them casually and felt something in her heart. She gradually sat up straight and looked at them carefully.
"What is it?" Qin Hanzhang, who noticed Su Qianqian's changes, asked.
"A key to unlock what happened back then." Su Qianqian replied excitedly.
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