Chapter 141: All traces exposed (Part 2)
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Seeing Zhuang Yuheng coming, Mo Tingfeng waved his head to signal him to take a seat.
“Here you come? Sit down for a moment, we still need someone to start the show.”
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After being beaten with twenty official sticks, the magpie looked like a puddle of mud. It rolled its eyes and was held up by two attendants from the Si Chen Mansion and thrown to the front of the palace.
"You're pretending to be dead after only twenty battles? Isn't it time for you to eat human bone marrow in the Thirteenth Cave?" Ding Heran sarcastically said.
Hearing this, Zhuang Yuheng’s heart trembled. Could it be that Wei Wei’s kidnapping was related to this maid? !
If this is true, will Mianmian...? He couldn't help but feel frightened, impossible! Mianmian has been sensible and sensible since she was a child, and even the willful daughters of some families would never do such inhuman things.
The magpie had no reaction to Ding Heran's words. She remained motionless, as if she was unconscious.
Ding Heran smiled slightly, "Great, I'll give you another twenty official sticks and beat him until he wakes up!"
When Magpie heard this, he almost jumped up from the ground and knelt down, "Wake up, wake up, my slave's body is weak. I really can’t fight anymore!”
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“Magpie? Why are you here?”
A delicate female voice came from outside the hall, Ruan Mianmian arrived.
When the magpie saw her coming, he thought he was coming to save her. He got up with excitement and wanted to pull up Ruan Mianmian's skirt, but the latter turned a blind eye and walked over quickly.
Mo Tingfeng looked at the person who came, "We are all here. Miss Ruan, please take a seat."
"Brother Tingfeng, please kindly invite me to come over, why are you like this?" Calling me a decent person... Hey, cousin, are you here? I haven’t seen you for a few days. Mianmian misses you so much!” After a moment, he looked somewhat unnatural.
"Master! Master, please save this slave! Please intercede with Master Si Chen. This slave is really just going to the ghost market to buy novelties and knows nothing else!"
The magpie knelt on the ground, moved its knees to Ruan Mianmian's side, and kowtowed.
Unexpectedly, Ruan Mianmian rolled his eyes at her, looking annoyed.
"You damn girl, you are getting more and more shameless. How many days have you been sneaking out? You asked nicely to buy me some new gadgets. Where are the things? Where did you buy them? You obviously took the opportunity to be lazy and sneak out. Find your own happiness."
"Brother Tingfeng, please help me take care of her." Ruan Mianmian pouted and looked coquettishly at Mo Tingfeng.
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Mo Tingfeng sat on the judge's chair temporarily set up in the side hall.
"Magpie, tell me in detail where you have been and what you did in the ghost market. No one can protect you if you lie a little."
"Master Qi, The Luoyang Ghost Market is a long way away, and the servant's magic power is low. Although she has been away from the Ruan Mansion for a few days, she only arrived at the Ghost Market on the day when your Resentment Breaker intercepted me. She didn't go anywhere and went to sell potions. "Oh? What did you buy at Qidong? It happened that someone here was poisoned by Qidong and was worried that there was no antidote." Ding Heran walked to Magpie with his hands behind his back. On his side, he looked interested.
"I didn't buy anything... The Master of Seven Holes was in poor health and didn't make new medicine, so I left. As soon as I arrived at the gate of the ghost market, I was stopped by you... Master! Master, save me!"
"It seems that you really don't shed tears until you see the coffin."
Ding Heran took out two ingots of official silver from his sleeve pocket and placed them on the presentation table, "Does it look familiar? Are you careful? Look, there is also the word "Ruan" on the silver stamp. Since you didn't buy anything this time, why did you give money to the guy in the seventh hole? It was the money I spent on the anti-bone water and the love sachet before, not the money given out this time.
"Okay, even if you are telling the truth. Magpie, let me ask you, apart from these two medicines, have you never bought anything else in the ghost market?"
"Commander Ding, slave. Everything is true, I will never buy anything else again!”
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Ding Heran smiled, clicked his tongue, took out another ingot of gold from his sleeve pocket and placed it on the offering table.
"Oh, I just missed it and forgot that there is another ingot of gold. Please explain it to me."
The magpie was speechless and denied that the gold had anything to do with him. Her heart skipped a beat. Anyway, there was no Ruan Mansion silver stamp on it. God knew who it was.
"He Ran, are you mistaken? How can Magpie, a maidservant, get so much money?" Ruan Mianmian said slowly. Ding Heran scratched his head and made a face, "Oh, since Miss Ruan said that, it's really possible that I made a mistake. I'm sorry, I'll ask someone to come up and ask."
As soon as he turned around, his expression was extremely serious and solemn, "Wujiu, bring this person up!"
The magpie was dumbfounded when he saw it, and the scar-faced man was led by Ye Wujiu with his hands tied. Come up.
“Xie Wujiu, do you know this person?” Ye Wujiu asked calmly.
"Yes...it's the guy from Qidong, I've met him."
"Just met? You asked the Seventh-dong trickster to pull the strings and let Thirteenth-dong kidnap people. The silver coins just now were the bounty for this transaction. The money was collected by the Seventh-dong guy. He has confessed. What else do you have? Can you tell me?" Ye Wujiu said.
A thin layer of sweat formed on Magpie's back. She looked at Ruan Mianmian for help, but the latter glanced away and didn't look at her at all. She looked at the scar-faced man again, who looked very calm, like this It had nothing to do with him.
Clenched his teeth, the magpie suddenly stood up.
"So this is how the Si Chen Mansion handles cases? Although I rarely go to the ghost market, I also know that all the guests who go in wear the same guest mask. They are both female guests, and their clothes can change their voices. They can be imitated, and since they have similar body shapes, how can you tell that it was me who paid for the kidnapping?"
"The two ingots of silver and one ingot of gold you wore were from me four days ago. You were the one who received the money, how can you prove it?" The scarred man said as he looked at the magpie.
"Okay! Even if the money is given to you by me, how can you prove that it is a reward for kidnapping and not a deposit for buying potions? It is empty talk, but it is not impossible for you to collude with others and deliberately harm me!"< br>
The scar-faced man raised his eyebrows, "Don't forget, you went to our boss to discuss the matter of hooking up people, or I picked you up at the entrance of the ghost market. I am the best witness."< br>
“It’s true that you took me over, but I’m going to buy medicine!”
The magpie became more and more aggressive.
"You are the unscrupulous people in the ghost market. What can't you do for money? Could it be that you couldn't find the client and saw that I went to Qidong to buy potions, so you insisted on using me to top up the money? Since you have to say yes The matter I discussed with the Seven Cave Guild Lords is fine. Every wrong has its own owner, so why doesn’t the Guilty Lord himself come to prove it himself?”
The scarred man's eyes flashed with hatred when he heard this.
"The master is missing, tell me! Did you find someone to do this?!"
Hearing this, the magpie laughed loudly, the sound was sharp and unpleasant.
"Commander Ye said just now that the case was led by the Master of the Seventh Hole. Since the witness you called was not the Master of the Seventh Hole himself, how can you prove that I was the one who committed the crime? Are you trying to get away with it? You just want to use me as an excuse to target Ruan Mansion and Sikong Mansion!”
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"Magpie, please be careful."
Ruan Mianmian said leisurely, "The Sichen Mansion must have its own rules for handling cases. It is inevitable that mistakes will occur in complex cases. You must not be unreasonable and unforgiving."
"This is what the master taught me." The magpie followed the words and stood upright, with a look of pride on his face.
The hall was silent for a while, Zhuang Yuheng felt bored, he was thinking about Song Weichen. He looked at Mo Tingfeng and Ruan Mianmian, stood up and sat down again, not knowing whether to leave or stay.
Mo Tingfeng tapped the back of the chair with his fingers, again and again.
The magpie lowered her eyebrows as if to obey her eyes, but could not hide the disdainful smile on her lips, "Master Si Chen, now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, I will not delay the Si Chen Mansion's handling of the case and go back with the master."
"Don't be anxious." Mo Tingfeng smiled slightly.
“The show hasn’t begun yet.”