After the system ran, I took off with my family

Chapter 344 Interrogation

As soon as Lin Shuyue heard what the waiter said, she knew it was a letter left for her by Su Jinxiao.

She took the letter, thanked the waiter, and asked Qinghe to give him a few copper coins.

The boy laughed even more happily and shouted to bring hot water to their room.

After a quick meal, the three of them went back to their rooms to rest.

When I returned to the room, the clever boy had already brought me hot water.

After taking a comfortable hot bath and changing into comfortable pajamas, Lin Shuyue picked up the letter on the table and opened it.

There was not much content in the letter. The general meaning was that if Lin Shuyue went to the capital in the future, she could go to Jingyuan Marquis Mansion to find him. Finally, he reminded her not to forget him.

The handwriting in the letter is elegant and free-spirited, just like Su Jinxiao himself, who is not bound by formalities and pursues freedom and unrestrainedness.

Lin Shuyue laughed and shook her head, folded the letter, put it away, and entered the space to practice.

It was past midnight and the sound of night watchmen could be faintly heard from across the street. The entire county town fell into silence, except for a dungeon in the county government office, which was brightly lit and had a stagnant atmosphere.

Luo Bingwen raised his hand to signal the bailiff to stop the execution. The bailiff put away the bloody whip and stepped back.

After the one-eyed man chained to the wall recovered, Luo Bingwen said coldly, "Wang Gao, I'll give you one more chance. If you still don't tell the truth, what awaits you next will be more than just a beating."

At this time, Wang Gao's hair was disheveled, his face was pale, and his body, covered in blood, was trembling slightly.

Hearing Luo Bingwen's words, his lips trembled as he said, "Sir, I did find those three boxes of official silver in the secret room of the dilapidated temple near Xiaoxi Village. I didn't lie."

Luo Bingwen stared at the one-eyed man in prison clothes chained to the wall with a sharp gaze and questioned, "Then let me ask you, Xiaoxiangling is to the east of Yaojiang County, and Xiaoxi Village is to the west of Yaojiang County.

Why did you go to such great lengths to come to the dilapidated temple in Xiaoxi Village? How did you know there was a secret room in the temple? And how did you happen to discover the official silver in the secret room?

After being bombarded with three questions in a row, Wang Gao licked his dry and pale lips and told the whole story.

“Last winter, my hands were itching to have some fun, so I went to the Shunfa Casino in the north of the city.

That day, when I came out of the toilet in the gambling house, I heard someone talking at the corner.

One of them said that he saw a group of men in black carrying several boxes carefully into a dilapidated temple near Xiaoxi Village in the middle of the night the day before yesterday, and then left empty-handed after a while.

The man guessed that the box must contain treasures.

However, the dilapidated temple in Xiaoxi Village was haunted, so he didn't dare to go in and check it out alone, so he thought of inviting another person to explore the temple together tomorrow night.

When I heard this, I immediately came up with an idea. I rushed back to the mountain stronghold that day, called a group of brothers, and rushed to the dilapidated temple in Xiaoxi Village overnight.

In the middle of the night, after arriving at the ruined temple, the younger one took his brothers to search throughout the ruined temple, but found nothing.

Just when I thought I had been fooled, one of my brothers accidentally knocked over the incense table and discovered the entrance to the secret room. Then, they found the three boxes of official silver in the secret room.

Speaking of this, Wang Gao's face was full of regret.

"Although we are not good people, we in Tianlang Village never touch government property, because we are worried about getting into trouble."

"But you still touched it in the end." Luo Bingwen glanced at him.

Wang Gao said embarrassedly, "After all, this is three thousand taels of silver. I thought about turning around and leaving, but with so much silver right in front of me, I really can't bear to not eat it.

So I gritted my teeth and, as the saying goes, "The timid will die of starvation, and the bold will die of gluttony," I took my brothers and carried the official silver back to the stronghold.

I originally planned to wait a few years until the storm had died down, and then melt the official silver, so that no one would know about it."

However, who could have imagined that their village would eventually be wiped out and the government silver would be exposed.

“Because there was trouble with the silver, I immediately ordered the brothers who were working with me not to disclose the matter.

Even when the brothers in the mountain stronghold asked about it, he would just say that he had robbed a fat sheep at the foot of the mountain.

Therefore, apart from the brothers who acted together that night, only my eldest brother, my third brother, and I knew about these three boxes of government silver."

"Sir, what I said is true. If you don't believe me, you can ask the brothers who acted with me that night.

Er Shunzi, Da Hou, and Gu Zi all know about this. You will know once you ask them, sir."

Wang Gao became more and more excited as he spoke, and accidentally pulled the wound on his body, causing him to gasp in pain.

Luo Bingwen touched his chin and thought, if what Wang Gao said was true, then the two people talking in the gambling house were most likely deliberately leading Wang Gao to the ruined temple.

But why would they do this?

"Then did you see who the two people were talking in the gambling house?"

Wang Gao thought for a moment and shook his head, "Sir, those two were at the corner at the time. I only heard the sound but didn't see them."

Luo Bingwen: "Who was the person who happened to knock over the incense burner in the dilapidated temple? Is he still alive?"

"It was Tietou who knocked over the incense burner. Less than a month after we found the official silver, he got drunk and went to the toilet in the middle of the night. He fell into the pit and drowned."

Having said that, Wang Gao suddenly looked up at Luo Bingwen, his face full of shock.

The reason why Wang Gaoneng became the second-in-command of the mountain bandit camp was not just because of his brute force.

Hearing Lord Luo ask this, and thinking about how Tietou discovered the entrance to the secret room by chance and then died in less than a month, he immediately realized that he might have been tricked.

Luo Bingwen's expression became more and more solemn. He didn't believe that the person behind the scenes made so many arrangements just to plot against a bandit. There must be other reasons.

After thinking for a moment, he asked again, "Does anyone in Shunfa Casino know your identity as a bandit?"

Wang Gao hesitated for a moment, then shook his head. "Probably not. The county town has a lot of people, and there are many caravans heading north. I'm afraid of being recognized, so I disguise myself every time I go to the county town."

Luo Bingwen nodded thoughtfully, then suddenly remembered Lin Shuyue's instructions and asked, "Let me ask you again, what's going on with that kid Gousheng?"

When Wang Gao heard Gousheng's name, he spat with a gloomy look on his face.

When he met Luo Bingwen's sharp gaze, he shrank his neck and then confessed the truth.

"Three months ago, I went to a brothel in the county town to drink. The next day, when I returned to the village, I encountered a fight between two groups of men in black as soon as I reached the mountain.

One of them was holding a child in his arms. They were fighting fiercely. It was obvious from their posture that they were not ordinary people.

When the younger one saw that the situation was not good, he quickly hid in a ravine nearby.

The group holding the children were more powerful in martial arts. Although only two people were left in the end, they still killed all the men in black in the other group.

I thought I could just hide and wait for them to leave, but I accidentally made some noise and was discovered by them."