A knife in love

Chapter 1455

He Butou led two policemen, and led Li Qiufeng and Ma Zhuangzhu into the county government office, bypassing the main hall of the government office in the front yard, until they reached the middle courtyard.

At this time, it was almost dusk, and the lanterns everywhere in the yamen had been lit.I saw flowers and plants planted all over the courtyard, dotted with rockery and strange rocks.The main house is decorated with carved beams and painted buildings, and the wing rooms are also very gorgeously built.Li Qiufeng thought to himself, Dongliao County is a remote place with poor people.But the county government office was built so luxuriously.Not to mention Li Zhisheng is incompetent and a big corrupt official.How could it not be a bad thing for the imperial court to let such bastard officials serve as officials at the border?

After He Butou entered the middle courtyard, he went straight to the door of the first room on the left of the right wing.A policeman rushed forward, opened the door, and asked He Butou to enter the house.He Butou brought Li Qiufeng and Mr. Ma into the house, and saw that the furnishings in the room were quite luxurious, the beds and furniture were all made of mahogany, and bedding and other things were readily available.

He Butou smiled and said: "I will invite you two to rest here tonight, and you can go back tomorrow morning after Mr. Li is up for questioning."

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and shouted to a policeman, "Why don't you quickly take off the chains on the two of you?"

The policeman agreed and took off the iron chains hanging around the necks of Li Qiufeng and Ma Zhuangzhu.He Butou said: "You two wait a moment, Lao Jiang will send someone to deliver the meal, so I won't be here to accompany you two. If you have anything to do, just ask someone to find me."

Owner Ma walked around the room twice, and after listening to Butou He finished speaking, he said carelessly, "Tell Lao Jiang to bring us a jug of good wine."

He Butou smiled and said: "Okay, don't worry about Ma Zhuangzhu."

After he finished speaking, he left a policeman guarding the door, and then left.Seeing that the door of the house has been closed, Master Ma glanced at Li Qiufeng and said, "I seem to have seen you in the tea house that day?"

Li Qiufeng smiled slightly, and said: "The owner of the horse has a good memory. Yes, at that time, I accompanied Miss Wang to the teahouse to have tea, and I did have a relationship with the owner."

Ma Zhuangzhu looked Li Qiufeng up and down, and said with a smile: "Father and daughter of the Wang family absconded in fear of crime after killing people. If they are caught by the yamen, they will definitely be convicted of serious crimes. I heard that you are Lord Xiao's subordinates. You just passed by Dongliao County. It's better for you not to get involved in the matter. You should know what to say and what not to say in court tomorrow, right?"

Li Qiufeng sneered, "I'm very dull, I don't know what to say and what not to say."

Seeing Li Qiufeng's nonchalant appearance, Ma Zhuangzhu knew that he deliberately pretended to be confused with him, and was very angry.However, he also knew that Xiao Dong was an official in the capital, so he couldn't afford to offend him, and he couldn't afford to conflict with Xiao Dong's subordinates.So he suppressed his anger, snorted, and rummaged through the room on his own, never wanting to pay any attention to this uninterested young boy.

After a while, it was already dark outside.Li Qiufeng took out the torch, shook it, and lit the oil lamp on the table.Then two policemen brought dinner, which consisted of two bowls of broken rice porridge and two plates of pickles.Owner Ma saw that not only was there no wine for dinner, but even the dishes were extremely simple, he was very dissatisfied.If it wasn't for being in the yamen, I'm afraid he would have kicked the food plate away.He turned and walked to the bedside with an angry expression on his face, lay on his back on the bed, closed his eyes and regained his composure.Owner Ma thought to himself, how can I swallow this kind of pig and dog food?If you don't eat it, don't eat it.There was only one bed in this room, and Lao Tzu occupied the bed first, so the kid surnamed Zhu had to make the bed on the floor.

Although Li Qiufeng was very hungry, he was already extremely cautious after the fake Third Aunt Huang poisoned him.After the two detectives put down the food plate, he just bowed his hands in thanks.Seeing the two arresters go out quickly, Li Qiufeng didn't move his chopsticks, just sat on the chair, thinking about his thoughts silently, and the sound of Mr. Ma's heavy breathing came from his ears.Not long after, the sound of breathing turned into a snoring sound again, and the owner Ma fell into a deep sleep.

After touching for more than an hour, Li Qiufeng thought that Zhuang Ma took up the big bed, and he must not sleep in the same bed with this person, it seems that he can only take a nap on the chair.At this moment, suddenly heard the sound of footsteps in the courtyard, several people came straight to the wing.At first, Li Qiufeng thought it was the policemen who came to clean up the dishes, but after thinking about it, these people's footsteps were very light, obviously they were Lian Jiazi.And the catcher who delivered the food just now walked heavily, he is not a martial artist.Thinking of this, he immediately stood up and listened attentively to the movement outside the door.

After a while, those people had arrived at the door.The gatekeeper quickly shouted: "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

I only heard someone say: "We are ordered by the county magistrate to interrogate criminals."

Li Qiufeng's heart trembled, and he thought to himself, wouldn't Li Zhisheng be promoted tomorrow, why should he and Ma Zhuangzhu be interrogated again?At this time, Ma Zhuangzhu was also awakened, sat up from the bed with a blank face, and said in his mouth: "What happened outside?"

After the man finished speaking, there was no movement outside the house.After a while, there was only a "squeak", and the door had been pushed open.Under the light of the candlelight, four fast catchers filed in.The leading arrester glanced at Li Qiufeng, then at the Ma Zhuangzhu who had just stood up from the bed, and shouted sharply: "The magistrate of the county has been promoted to question the case, and we are ordered to escort you there."

After he finished speaking, he waved his right hand, and the two policemen behind him walked up quickly with wooden shackles, and they were about to put wooden shackles on Li Qiufeng and Ma Zhuangzhu.Before Li Qiufeng could speak, the owner of Ma Zhuang was already furious, and shouted in his mouth: "Damn, you bastards, dare to put torture tools on me! The arrester He said that I am a witness, and there is no need to use torture tools. You will He called me over and told me what was going on!"

The head of the fast catcher sneered, and said in his mouth: "This is the order of the county magistrate, whoever catches the head or not, is it worse than the county magistrate?!"

After he finished speaking, he pulled out half of the long sword with his right hand, and shouted: "The magistrate of the county has an order. If the prisoner does not obey the order, he will be killed without mercy!"

Ma Zhuangzhu saw the ferocious expressions of the arresters, who didn't seem to be joking with him, and his heart immediately became flustered.He was originally a bullying person, but he was so arrogant only because he had bribed Li Zhisheng, Pan Shiye, He Tutou and others many times.But seeing that the four police officers were not intimidated by his momentum, his arrogance immediately weakened a lot.He only heard him say in a trembling voice: "Brothers arresting fast, I have always been on good terms with the magistrate, Master Pan, and Catcher He..."

Ma Zhuangzhu hadn't finished speaking, the policeman had already put two pieces of wooden yoke on his neck, and then pushed hard with both hands, only heard a "click", and the wooden yoke had already put Ma Zhuangzhu's neck locked in it.The catcher inserted the hands of the owner of the horse into a round hole in front of the wooden shackle, and then locked the big lock of the wooden shackle, and then retreated to the side.Owner Ma had never been tortured like this before, he just felt that the wooden shackle was weighing heavily on his shoulders, and his body could hardly bear it.He tremblingly said: "Brothers, we are already in the yamen, why do we need to put on the shackles? Please do me a favor, remove the wooden shackles first, and I will definitely repay you."

(End of this chapter)