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Chapter 66 A Thief Has Been Found Among Us!

"Brother, do you want to leave some room? After all, her surname is Xie, and I heard that she is still a Qi trainer with good potential."

"Room? Second brother, since you have entered the game of Dragon City, you have tacitly accepted that everything will be played according to the rules. Regardless of princes, generals, nobles, no one wants to stay out of it, you have to fall into the mud and roll." .

"Our Liu family is like this, the new county magistrate is like this, and the daughter of Xie's Tianjiao is also like this. Doesn't that great Confucianist of the Xie family know the world of this place, so he still keeps his daughter in the Su's house. Besides, letting Qi practitioners enter the venue, instead The biggest thing is not to pay attention, so what else should we pay attention to?
"No matter how expensive the Xie family is, how can it be more expensive than the Wei family who is in power? Even the Wei family was cheated by their Baogan faction and accidentally let in a wolf disguised as a little white rabbit. Shi?

"Second brother, since the Liu family has already joined the team, don't worry about whether the knife is dirty or not. The dirtier it is, the easier it is for Wei to throw it away."

"But brother, a dirty knife will always be thrown out one day."

"It's okay, as long as that thing can be born, as long as it is there, no matter how dirty the knife is, it can be washed clean, and there is even a chance for our Liu family to get rid of the shackles of Longcheng, Jiangzhou and even Jiangnan Road, and enter the two capitals in the pass. Become another Luoyang upstart!"

The atmosphere was silent for a while.

The voice belonging to Liu Zian hesitated for a moment:
"Then...they don't know what we are doing for Wei, do they?"

"If you knew, it wouldn't be as calm as it is now, and the first ones who came to the door were probably the female monarchs from Yunmeng Jianze.

"In the eyes of the princes of the imperial court, the most important thing in this small Longcheng County in the south is the family living in Luming Street; everyone thinks that the main battlefields of the Liwei battle are in Luoyang and Chang'an, but they don't know, This is a possible winner..."

The voice belonging to a certain young Patriarch paused and sighed:
"Second brother, Conglong's merits are not insignificant. After so many years of preparation, it depends on whether we can grasp this overwhelming wealth."

"I...understood. Then let the third brother go tomorrow. We really can't wait any longer. If our Liu family doesn't fight back and endure it, there will be no silver 300 taels here."

"That's right, there's Ouyang Lianghan, let's see if it's a sheep-guarding dog or a meat-robbing wolf!"

……

Luming Street.

The streets and the ends of the streets were besieged and packed with people.

In the mansions of a few wealthy people along the street, on the red walls and blue tiles, from time to time some noble girls and maids poked their heads out to look curiously.

On the bustling and crowded street, there was a large open space at the gate of the county government office, and the focus of the audience was on this place at the moment.

Except for the young county magistrate, the county magistrate, chief secretary, and county lieutenant of Longcheng all came to the scene one after another and sat in and listened.

The arresting scribes who were sent out before also brought people back one by one.

"Ming Mansion, Hu Jiyingniang has been brought back. I found her in a guest house in Su Manor."

"Mingfu, the intermediary Luo Er, the owner of Yuanming Building, Boss Zhu, have brought them here."

Ouyang Rong glanced at the familiar Hu Ji, and looked at the latter two.

Luo Er is a puffy young man, wearing a fur head and a round gown, with a timid face;
Boss Zhu is a middle-aged man with a Confucian temperament. Ouyang Rong met once when he held a fundraising banquet before. Yuanming Building is mainly run by this Boss Zhu, but there are also several other wealthy merchants including the Liu family. .

The three of them entered the arena and knelt and saluted in the open space between Xie Lingjiang and Liu Zilin.

Ouyang Rong slapped the gavel on the table, and after the audience was silent, he said:
"You are Luo Er?"

"My lord, I am the second child in the villain's family. Everyone is called Luo Er."

"You bought Hu Jiyingniang in Yuanming Building from Boss Zhu?"

"My lord, the younger one was entrusted by a nobleman a few days ago to buy Yingniang with a luminous pearl. Boss Zhu and the adults of the city commander can testify." The puffy young man said respectfully.

"Magistrate, it is true that Luo Er bought Yingniang a few days ago. The bond contract and the orbs for the transaction are all here." Boss Zhu nodded and took out something from his pocket.

"Bring it up."

"Yes."

Yan Liulang took it and presented it to the public case table. The young county magistrate looked down, handed it to the old magistrate to confirm the authenticity, and then said loudly:
"Luo Er, give you the pearl, who is the noble person who entrusted you to go to Yuanming Tower to redeem someone? Is he here? You must tell the truth, and you must not hide anything. In the court, every word is a testimony in court."

The young county magistrate had a cold and serious face.

"Yes, here." Luo Er chick nodded like pecking rice.

Then the puffy young man timidly looked at Xie and Liu who were standing on the left and right.

Liu Zilin looked up at the sky with his hands behind his back.

Xie Lingjiang looked back at the familiar puffy young man with frowning eyes.That day the puffy young man took Yingniang and Boss Zhu to the city commander to redeem them, and she watched from not far away.Later, it was also the market bond contract that was checked for the first time.

The atmosphere fell into silence, as if the audience were waiting with bated breath.

Luo Er looked at Xie Lingjiang, and stretched out his finger to her whose expression suddenly softened.

The puffy young man nodded firmly and said:
"Lord County Magistrate, I remember her. She snatched Master Liu's orchid yesterday. The villain went to Yuanming Tower to redeem someone for Master Liu. After completing the transfer procedures yesterday evening, he just walked out of the city magistrate not long ago. It was stolen by the thief."

The whole place was noisy.

The grain merchants and gentry who were watching looked at each other with different expressions.

The sound waves on the field came from one end of the street to the other, one wave after another, as if they had substance, causing Xie Lingjiang's delicate body standing there to sway slightly, as if unstable.

Liu Zilin smiled and glanced at a certain young county magistrate in front of him, only to see that the latter stared down at the official document and said nothing.

Bang!
Another gavel.

"quiet!"

Ouyang Rong raised his eyes and continued to ask seriously:
"Yingniang, you are the person involved. There is indeed a rule in the Great Zhou Law that slaves should be hidden from the master, but Luo Er is no longer your master. I only want to ask you whether what Luo Er said is true? You Was it taken away by force?"

Yingniang knelt on the ground, raised her head timidly, her face showing some fear, looked at Liu Zilin, who was facing her back, and Xie Lingjiang, who was staring back at her.

The latter's eyes contained some hope and encouragement.

Yingniang sighed, her face hesitated for a while, she lowered her head, knocked her forehead heavily on the ground, and murmured: "No... I don't know, I don't know..."

Bang!
Ouyang Rong raised his eyebrows and slapped the table heavily, "Know or don't know! How can there be so much nonsense in the courtroom?"

Yingniang trembled in fright, and at this moment, she caught a glimpse of Liu Zilin in front of her who seemed to be about to turn around, she hurriedly howled, wiped her tears and said:
"That's right, what Luo Er said is right, I... the slave's house was taken away by someone, it was... by her, it was her who snatched it away, the slave's house didn't want to go, she just robbed the slave's house to leave! Your magistrate You want to be the master of the slave!"

The noise on the street suddenly became unstoppable again.

The onlookers whispered to each other.

But a certain girl from the Xie family could no longer hear these things. At this moment, there was only white noise in her ears, and suddenly she felt that the whole world was much quieter.

This game... so it is...

She no longer has the face to see her senior brother.

Xie Lingjiang turned his back to Ouyang Rong, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, it was not enough, take another deep breath... another deep breath...

She opened her slightly red eyes, raised her chin, and stared at the orchid who was kneeling and crying bitterly. She stated sentence by sentence:

"Weaving profit.

"It was you who cried to me that you were bullied all day long and worried about revenge from the Liu family.

"It was your idea to have someone buy it first and then redeem it, so as to avoid the attention of the Liu family.

"It was you who recommended the agent Luo Er to me, and asked me to give him the only valuables I had left.

"You were the one who asked me to pick you up at the city magistrate in the evening, saying that you have been revoked by Luo Er from the contract of prostitution, and you can come with me as a free body..."

Miss Xie, who was deceived from beginning to end, nodded calmly:

"I was wrong, indeed I was wrong, and I was wrong... I firmly believed that everyone has a conscience."

The next second she suddenly turned around and shouted to the audience:
"But I didn't steal anything! Because people without conscience and shame are worth nothing, not even things!"

She was just stupid and picked it up.

The audience was stunned.

A certain orchid lying on the ground trembled.

Behind the desk, a young county magistrate silently stared at the slender figure below.

In fact, he is not very angry anymore, this is the little junior sister.

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(End of this chapter)