Queen of flowers - chapter 187

The bandits of Wuhu Peak were tied up and escorted into Wulin County; those stranded migrants were also strung together and brought back.

Feng Liao borrowed the official from Wulin County and began to interrogate those rogues separately.

The focus of his interrogation wasn’t the assassinations and the messenger behind the scene, but the details of Wuhu Peak.

Although the bandits were tight lipped, some of them were still afraid of death.

Coupled with Feng Liao’s detention, segregated trial, and provocation, without much effort, they got many details of Wuhu peak.

Later, he threw most of the bandits into the jail in Wulin County, and with three confessions, he rushed with Yong Ruo and his guards.

Xue Zhouwei’s command had already received Feng Liao’s message. He had been tackling soldiers and arranging scouts to inspect the situation of Wuhu Peak.

When he arrived at Xuezhou, Feng Liao directly transferred Xuezhou’s soldiers and horses to the Wuhu Peak with a Tianzi sword.

The bandits at Wuhu Peak weren’t many in the first place, so when they had lost more than 20 relatively powerful fighting forces, their leaders were gone.

Under the leadership of the Leading Party, Feng Liao and others easily found the Wuhu Peak, and won the entire village without much effort.

They succeeded. Feng Liao and Xue Zhouwei commanded the joint report to the emperor and sent all the offenders to Xuezhou court for trial.

Feng Liao didn’t judge the bandits in person, but let Xuezhou prefecture take the case. He just listened to the trial.

The part about the robbery the bandits committed was okay.

When the Xuezhou prefecture heard Yuan Cheng and others set up a trap to try to assassinate Feng Liao, he was shocked.

However, looking at Feng Liao, who had a cold face next to him, he had to bite the bullet and try his best to dig into the source.

Yuan Cheng insisted that he didn’t know who instigated him. He was contacted by a very old man who gave him a lot of money, but he couldn’t explain who. He also knew taboos and was afraid that the plan would be ruined, so he didn’t track down who the old man was.

Even if the Xuezhou prefecture gave a large sentence, he didn’t change his words.

Xuezhou Zhifu asked, “If you didn’t know who the other party was, how could you believe that the other party really had the ability to promote you and make you better off?”

Yuan Cheng’s lips ticked, and his tone was cold, “Who just believes these ghost words? Anyway, I also want to kill Wang Ye and get a large amount of money. What’s so hard about it? If we succeed, we don’t need him to recruit us; if we fail, we dare not expect such insidious rats to save our lives … It is good enough that they don’t come to kill us.”

Xuezhou prefecture also wanted to torture him, but Feng Liao stopped him and asked him to ask another bandit.

When the other bandit was judged, Wu Er unexpectedly confessed, “Yuan Cheng carried a knife with a hidden letter in his hand, and the letter was covered with a big red seal. It must be related to the one who told us to do the asssination.”

Wu Er was the robber who climbed out of the cellar in the Majia Village to stab him, but was arrested by Su Mingjian.

“How do you know that letter is related to the one who ordered the assasination? Have you seen it?”

“Yes, I have seen it!” Wu Er seemed to have figured it out, and didn’t want to get tortured. He told many secrets such as land deeds and so on, looking for opportunities to peek.

“I can read a few words. I guessed that the letter has something to do with Beijing’s powerful man, which was related to the assassination, but I don’t know what the letter was saying.”

Yuan Cheng’s knife had fallen into the hands of the government as evidence.

Xuezhou Zhifu found the knife and took out the letter. Then he presented the letter directly to Feng Liao very cleverly without opening it.

Feng Liao opened the letter and took a look. His lips narrowed slightly, and his brows frowned .

The handwriting of the letter was very similar to that of his second brother Feng Shi; the large seal stamped at the end of the letter was also very similar to the seal of the Junwang.

The letter didn’t mention the assassination, but said that he knew that the Yuan family had been wronged with the case, and if he had a chance in the future, he would definitely do justice to the Yuan family.

He advised Yuan Cheng to turn back soon, abandon evil and do good, and stop being a bandit. If Yuan Cheng was willing to bring the Wuhu Peak bandits to the court, he was willing to mediate from it and let the court recruit …

The letter, stamped with the seal of Prince Junwang, was a guarantee to Yuan Cheng.

The letter didn’t prove that Yuan Cheng’s assassination was ordered by Feng Shi, but it could prove that Feng Shi and Yuan Cheng were very close friends.

But the ambiguous evidence made it easier to believe that behind all the scenes was Feng Shi!