Chapter 1189 Punishment

Bai Shan went back and wrote a letter, and handed it to Daji to send someone to Yizhou and Luojiang County, but the letter never left the house, and returned to Mrs. Liu after going around the house.

Bai Shan and Man Bao were called over for questioning.

Then Mrs. Liu pondered for a while and said, "Trust me and send it out for you. It's just that Mr. Wei has to tell me that they can do this kind of thing faster than us."

Mrs. Liu said, "Shan Bao, you are going to school tomorrow, so don't go to Tian Prison. Man Bao, you too."

Man Bao opened his mouth and whispered, "We still want to ask them more carefully."

Mrs. Liu pressed the letter on the table and said softly, "Mr. Wei and the others will do this kind of thing. It's bad luck, don't always run there."

Man Bao asked, "Do they count as committing crimes and meritorious deeds? Can they be spared the execution?"

Mrs. Liu frowned and couldn't help but look at Mr. Zhuang beside him.

Mr. Zhuang asked, "Who do you want to avoid execution?"

Man Bao whispered: "Babo deserves what he deserves."

Mr. Zhuang understood, nodded slightly and said, "We will mention it to Mr. Wei when we see it, but whether it succeeds or not depends on the Ministry of Punishment's consideration."

Man Bao became happy and nodded cheerfully: "Okay, then we won't go tomorrow."

Ba Pu, who was still in the prison waiting for them to deliver food, could not wait for the two Bai Shan, but a few high-ranking officials who had not met before. He and the female prisoner diagonally opposite, called Qiuniang, were brought up to interrogate.

Qiu Niang knew everything and said everything. Anyway, she had nothing to hide. Wei Zhi was very satisfied with her frankness, and asked in detail what she knew about Maozhou, including where her parents lived and where she lived. Where does the aunt's family live, how many people live in the family, what do they do for a living, and they usually communicate with each other...

The question was very detailed, and Qiu Niang was apprehensive, but she answered carefully.

On the contrary, Ba Bo rolled his eyes, and although he also answered the question, he answered it in a very general way, and turned to inquire about their purpose.

But there is Old Master Tang in the hall, can he let Ba Bo succeed?

Seeing him being so dishonest, Old Master Tang simply waved his hand and said, "This person is a thief, and he came to Maozhou occasionally. I'm afraid I don't know much. Just leave this Qiuniang, and he can send it back to wait for Qiu Zhan."

There are still three days until the day of Autumn.

Ba Pu's eyes widened, and he immediately lay on the ground and said loudly: "I know, I also know a lot of things in Maozhou, please forgive me, please forgive me."

Old Master Tang didn't like him very much. He had four lives in his hands. In his opinion, even if he made a great contribution, he should not be spared the death penalty, so he asked blankly, "What do you know?"

"I, I..." Ba Pu looked at the faces of the three adults in the hall, and said cautiously: "What the adults want to know, the little ones can say something, just ask the adults to be kind and spare the little one's life."

Lord Tang snorted coldly and waved at the officers. They immediately stepped forward to pull Bapu down. Ji Xiang and Lord Tang sang together and sighed: "You are so uninteresting, a prisoner. Maybe these three or two days will make your life a little more comfortable. Maybe it will be postponed until next year. It’s not necessarily true. Want to avoid death? You know, don’t other people or prisoners from Maozhou know about it? We don’t Asking other people, just asking you, is just disgusting trouble."

The officer was about to pull Bapu out of the house. Hearing this, Bapu really cried and said with tears streaming down his face: "I said, I said, just ask the little ones."

Only then did Lord Tang raise his hand, and the officer dragged him back again.

Ji Xiang and Wei Zhi didn't speak any more. In terms of punishment, the two of them together were not as powerful as Lord Tang.

Lord Tang drank a cup of tea, pondered for a while, and said, "I heard people say that your ears are very good. What did you do in the army before?"

Ba Pu was stunned, not understanding why he brought up the matter in the army, Ji Xiang and Wei Zhi did not express any objection, and sat on it and drank tea.

Seeing Lord Tang frown, Ba Pu immediately said, "The youngest is a scout, and he is a messenger in the scout camp."

Ji Xiang couldn't help frowning, "How can there be people like you in the scout camp? You deserted!"

Ji Xiang has worked in the army and as a scout, the first thing is to be loyal, because they have always been at the forefront and know a lot of news. Once captured, the consequences will be disastrous.

Ba Pu said anxiously: "The little boy was transferred to the scout camp not long after he entered the camp, and he didn't want to escape. He was fighting against the Tibetans once, and the little boy was injured and fell into the forest. I woke up alone. In, just a thought, and I ran away..."

He was a scout, and there were four comrades with him at that time. They detected the movements of the Tibetan army, but they were accidentally discovered. When the five were fleeing, his horse was shot and an arrow was shot in his body. fall into the woods...

It was really hard to be a soldier, and he was always on the front line of life and death. He thought that when they returned, they would definitely report that he was killed in the battle, so that the family would not be affected. As long as he leaves, the sky will be high and the birds will fly...

As soon as such a thought flashed through, he ran away.

Old Master Tang nodded slightly and continued his question, "So, your investigation skills are very good. You have been successful in stealing in Yizhou City, and the Huayang County magistrate can't catch you several times. , how could it be discovered at once?"

Old Master Tang leaned slightly and asked, "Whose house did you steal?"

Ba Pu was stunned and then said: "The one who stole is from the Chu family. His family is a famous rich family in Maozhou. His son is married to the daughter of the governor of Maozhou. Such a family has a lot of money."

Old Master Tang asked calmly, "Then why don't you steal Wang Shishi?"

Ba Bo: "...There are soldiers patrolling in the governor's mansion. I'm not stupid, I just go and steal the Chu family."

Lord Tang nodded slightly and asked, "Is it going well?"

Ba Pu hesitated and said, "It's all right. As soon as I entered, I found a yard. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any gold or silver. I only found a makeup box with a lot of jewelry in it, so I took them all."

Old Master Tang: "Stolen at Qianye?"

Ba Pu nodded, "It's easy to be seen during the day, but in the middle of the night, there are more servants patrolling the house, so they went in and stole it in the light of night."

But how did the old man know?

Ba Pu raised his head to look at Old Master Tang, there was no such official to ask him before.

Old Master Tang asked, "What did you see and hear when you entered?"

"I didn't see anything. At that time, most of their families shared their family in the main courtyard. There were not many servants in the courtyard I went to, so I quietly avoided it and went in to steal it."

Lord Tang stared at him and asked, "Since no one found out, how could you be caught?"

"I was found out when I went to the pawn shop."

Old Master Tang picked his lips and said, "What are you doing?"

"A silver hairpin."

"Silver hairpins can be exchanged for silver directly in the silver building. Why do you go to the pawnshop?"

"The silver building in Maozhou is the property of their Chu family. Although there is no sign on the silver hairpin, I still dare not go there, so I went directly to the pawnshop. Who knows that the pawnshop is also theirs."

"Did you check before you went?"

"I checked, but at that time I really didn't know that the pawnshop belonged to them."

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