eurekapd Chapter 121 New Carriage Arrived
Chapter 121 New Carriage Arrived
"Humph," Ma Feihu raised his head with disdain, "I won't do anything like working for others for money. Everything I have done in my life was done willingly and out of chivalry. I rely on heaven and earth, but never on people."
If you think about it carefully, how many people in this world can work without doing anything for money?
Zhou Chang felt ashamed. In her two lifetimes, she might not have lived as happily as Ma Feihu in front of her.
Seeing that Zhou Chang did not continue to ask, Ma Feihu became anxious and said, "Don't you want to know what I did to help that bastard?"
Zhou Chang pretended to be uninterested and asked Pei Li, "Master Pei, is there anything you haven't figured out about this man's case?"
Pei Li was very sure: "Your Highness, rest assured. I have verified that Ma Feihu stole a total of 70,000 silver and money from the Minister of War's family. After being discovered, he killed the Minister's wife's half-sister, who is also the brother-in-law of the Peng faction. In addition, he has committed many crimes before, killing 64 people. His behavior is extremely heinous and he should be sentenced to beheading and all his property should be confiscated. There is absolutely no mistake or omission."
"Hehe, absolutely no mistakes?" Ma Feihu was very proud of his "achievements" and wanted to boast, "God of a bastard, do you know that old guy from the Peng faction of the Minister of Military Strategies, his aunt..."
"Hey, stop it, don't say anymore." Zhou Chang stretched out his right hand and made a gesture to Ma Feihu to stop him. "That's enough."
Zhou Chang stopped Ma Feihu and looked at Pei Li: "Master Pei, you heard it all. The valuable things on him are in what he just said."
Pei Li was stunned.
Zhou Chang tilted his head and lowered his voice: "The person killed by Ma Feihu helped the Minister of War, so it must be related to some private matters of the Minister of War."
"This..." Pei Li's mind was racing.
Some time ago, Ma Feihu's case had a great impact in Jindu City and also involved the Peng faction, the Minister of War, so he was the one who personally tried the case.
At that time, the residence of the Minister of War was robbed three times and people died. In addition, the case was also involved in which the brother-in-law forced a maid to death.
The Peng faction came several times to urge the case to be closed with many reasons, but he did not pay much attention to it.
Anyway, the evidence was conclusive and Ma Feihu confessed, so the verdict was quickly made.
Thinking about it now, there are indeed some unfinished details, but Pei Li is unwilling to admit it: "Your Highness, you said this involves private matters... Do you have any evidence? Moreover, if it is private, how does it have anything to do with our bet?"
"Since it is a private matter, it must be shameful. As the Minister of War and a senior official in the court, what shameful things did Peng Pai do? I don't want to know. But if someone knows, as long as he reveals a little bit of it in front of Peng Pai, I'm afraid he will happily take out silver to shut that person up." Zhou Chang persuaded.
Pei Li's frown gradually turned into surprise: "Does Your Highness know something about this?"
"I don't know, and I don't want to know." Zhou Chang denied it straightforwardly.
Pei Li always considered himself wise and brave, and he could not miss any key details. He fixed his sharp eyes on Ma Feihu again: "You killed the cousin of the Minister of War. What else is involved in this?"
Ma Feihu was stopped by Zhou Chang halfway through boasting. He was feeling very uncomfortable. As a dying man, he didn't care about anything. He didn't say anything in the past because no one asked and he didn't bother to mention it. Now he wanted to say it out of pure boredom.
Just as he opened his mouth, Zhou Chang interrupted again: "Hey, wait. If Lord Pei really wants to know, then wait until I leave before asking."
"Why?" Pei Li felt that his brain was suddenly not enough.
"Haha, Lord Pei, have you forgotten what the bet we made just now was? I said that there is a valuable thing in this prison, and it is this one. However, this valuable thing now belongs to Lord Pei. How could I win the carriage and then covet such a good thing?" Zhou Chang blinked at Pei Li with understanding.
"Good thing? What good thing is this?" Pei Li thought to himself. However, if someone said that this was something valuable, he had no way to refute it, and he was unwilling to admit defeat easily. "In my opinion, it may not be a good thing. Since it is Mr. Peng's privacy, if anyone mentions it in front of him, I am afraid that the money may not be received, and it may even cause a disaster."
Zhou Chang put on an attitude of "retire after success": "Haha, Lord Pei, you worry too much. If the problem can be solved by killing people to silence them, then the Peng faction would have done it long ago. I don't know why they didn't do it."
Pei Li's whole body was shocked, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed when he thought about it carefully. Although he was a cautious person, he had solid evidence in the case of Ma Feihu and believed that he had not made a wrong judgment.
But now that I think about it carefully, taking into account the various circumstances of the Peng faction at the time, it is really possible that, as Zhou Chang said, the Peng faction had taken advantage of some loophole.
Zhou Chang didn't have the patience to wait for him to think it over: "Master Pei, what do you think? Are you willing to accept the loss?"
Her words were all based on speculation, because she had already thought about it before the bet, the prisoners in the prison were not ordinary prisoners, so there would always be one or two people who were related to the court officials. As long as there was a connection, pulling up the radish brought up the mud, as long as you grasped a point, you could get a glimpse of the trick behind it.
There is no need to even ask in detail. Just pick one of the many prisoners in the prison and let him say a few words, which will be enough to threaten the officials.
But she didn't need to get to the bottom of it, because there was no need, as long as she could win the bet.
Pei Li wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeve: "Your Highness, I lost."
Zhou Chang's mouth curled up, and he smiled like a fox: "Then I won't be polite. Lord Pei's carriage will be taken away in a moment."
Pei Li didn't know how to "propose" it. He felt so sad that he couldn't even speak. He could only bow and nod.
"Lord Pei is a gentleman." Zhou Chang got a positive answer and patted Pei Li's shoulder with satisfaction.
Pei Li was unwilling to accept this, and he was even more unwilling to accept that there were hidden secrets in the case he handled that he didn't know about, so he unconsciously cast his cold gaze on Ma Feihu again.
Ma Feihu was no longer afraid. Instead, he slowly sat back on the pile of straw on the ground and said, "Hey, if you old turtle asks, I don't want to tell you now."
“Hehe, if I want to know, I have plenty of ways to pry open your mouth and force you to talk.” Pei Li’s eyes were sharp, and a murderous aura suddenly enveloped his body.
"In my life, I'm not afraid of anything except being betrayed by my brothers. Just use whatever means you have." Ma Feihu's voice was like thunder, and even in such a small space as a cell, the walls of the cell shook.
"Ahem, Lord Pei, do you really want to know?" Zhou Chang won the bet but wanted to pull things back.
Pei Li was about to get angry, but when Zhou Chang asked this, he was suddenly stunned.
Yeah, why should he know?
Knowing too much can sometimes be a problem.
Is the Minister of War someone who can be easily provoked?
In a flash, Pei Li looked towards Zhou Chang.
Zhou Chang stood aside with a smug smile on his face, like a bored person standing in the shade of a tree. "Just now, I said that Lord Pei is a beggar sitting on a golden mountain. Who are the people imprisoned in this prison? Why are you fighting to the death over this one person?"
Pei Li seemed to be enlightened, but he remained silent for a long time.
"Haha, I think you, the so-called prince, are actually a smart man." Ma Feihu said to Zhou Chang, and then raised his face to Pei Li, "As for you, you are just an idiot."
Pei Li had calmed down and would not be easily angered. Thinking about what Zhou Chang had said just now, he felt that the clouds had cleared and the sun had appeared. He smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "I have really learned a lesson today. Thank you for your advice, Your Highness. Your Highness, the prison is cold and damp. If you don't see Yuan Yu, please go to the front hall and sit for a while."
"Well..." Zhou Chang originally just wanted to bring Yuan Qi to see his father, but since he was here, he should do it to the end even if it was just for show, so he changed the subject and said, "Meet, why not?"
As he spoke, he walked straight inside.
Pei Li looked at Zhou Chang's back and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head.
Prince Duan was right when he said, "The wind leaves traces when it passes, and the wild geese pluck feathers when they pass by."
Pei Li, who prided himself on being smarter and more careful, never expected that he would still fall into the trap set by Prince Yi. "The secret to staying happy is: don't worry, don't care, don't do it."