Young Master Wu didn’t stop him. Xiao Hanzheng let go of Shi Qingluo and followed the Yamen officials around the yard.

Young Master Wu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he didn’t go near the rockery, and his eyes became even prouder.

Shi Qingluo started to talk: “Even if the murderer cannot be found, you won’t be able to escape poisoning my fourth uncle.”

“While Young Master Wu is here, you should hand over the antidote quickly. You might get a lighter sentence.”

Young Master Wu: “……”

This woman never knows when to stop. Why was she so annoying and kept talking nonsense?

He said impatiently: “I’ve said it so many times, we didn’t poison him, so of course there’s no antidote.”

“I’m upright, not afraid even if you investigate.”

Then he asked Mo Qingling: “Master, if it turns out that our Wu Family is innocent and the Shi Family is slandering us, can I sue them for slander?”

Mo Qingling nodded: “Of course.”

Shi Qingluo started to talk again, “My Fourth Uncle was poisoned in your house, how could you be innocent?”

Young Master Wu looked at her coldly: “It’s also possible he offended someone outside.”

“It’s even more possible that you made up the show.”

Shi Qingluo rolled her eyes at him: “Why should we do this? You…”

Then she kept pestering Young Master Wu about this matter.

Young Master Wu was annoyed by being pestered, and he couldn’t let Shi Qingluo throw dirty water in front of Mo Qingling, so he argued with her.

At the same time, he no longer paid attention to Xiao Hanzheng, who was originally looking around the yard. And now, he already walked to the rockery and kept touching it with his hands.

He was mumbling to himself as if he was calculating something.

After he dropped out of school and left Nanxi County in his previous life, he went to many places, met many people, and learned a lot.

Because he had served in the army, he not only read the art of war but also studied Qimen Dunjia.

So when he came to the rockery, he found clues.

Then he deduced according to one of the mechanical techniques in Qimen Dunjia.

Soon, he put his hand on a stone of the rockery and rotated it several times.

He walked forward again, calculating the number of steps, squatted on the ground, and moved an inconspicuous fist-sized stone.

In the end, he walked to the other side and pressed a protruding part of the rockery stone with his hand.

“Boom!” The sound of the stone moving suddenly sounded.

Young Master Wu was very familiar with the sound. He instinctively looked sideways and saw that the rockery in their home was moving, and then a door to the underground entrance was revealed.

His eyes shrank. How could this be possible?

Xiao Hanzheng actually knew mechanical skills?

To activate the underground entrance of the rockery, three places need to be moved. The first stone needs to be rotated five times. One more or one less circle will not work.

So a blind cat couldn’t meet a dead mouse.

He rushed over and blocked the entrance.

Looking at Xiao Hanzheng who was about to take the yamen runners away, he said: “What are you doing? This is the ancestral hall where my Wu Family puts the ancestral tablets. You can’t go in and disturb the ancestors’ spirits!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Shi Qingluo said: “Which ancestral hall would be built in such a place?”

“There are rockery and mechanisms. It can be says that these are all made by bad people who want to do bad things.”

“The person who harm my Fourth Uncle must have gone inside. Maybe the antidote is also in there.”

She looked at Mo Qingling again and said: “Master, you must make a decision for my Fourth Uncle!”

Young Master Wu: “……”

At this time, he wanted to eat Shi Qingluo.

Mo Qingling agreed immediately: “If that’s the case, then let’s go down and take a look. After all, it concerns the life of the person who reported the case.”

“Young Master Wu, please get out of the way.”

He added: “If it’s just your Wu Family’s ancestral hall below, I will burn incense to make amends!”

Seeing his determined eyes, he knew that these people came here today for the things under the rockery.

If Mo Qingling and others get the things inside and see the people locked up inside, their Wu Family will be finished.

“Magistrate Mo, we really didn’t poison or assassinate Student Shi.”

He made his last struggle: “For the sake of the prefect, can you please not disturb the ancestral hall of my ancestors.”

Shi Qingluo curled her lips: “The Emperor is Magistrate Mo’s uncle, your prefect is really famous.”

Young Master Wu: “……”

Why this woman everywhere?

He was so angry that his face turned black: “If you don’t speak, no one will think you are dumb.”

Shi Qingluo shrugged: “But this is related to the life and death of my Fourth Uncle, so of course I can’t be dumb.”

“Didn’t you just say that you are upright? Then why are you stopping us?”

“Looking at your guilty look, the antidote and the assassin must be downstairs.”

“No matter what, we have to go in and get the antidote today.”

Mo Qingling found that the Wu Family was unlucky to offend Shi Qingluo, who was too unreasonable.

The main point was you can’t explain, because she will immediately refute you with words.

He said: “Young Master Wu, you just said that your Wu Family is upright, so let us investigate, and clear your suspicion.”

Young Master Wu’s eyes were filled with sinister: “Magistrate Mo, you should spare others when you can. If we tear each other’s face, both sides will get hurt.”

These words were said, which also meant that there must be something very important below.

Mo Qingling sneered: “This official is not scared.”

Then he directly ordered the people in the county government: “Go down and investigate!”

“Yes, sir!” The Yamen officials immediately pulled Young Master Wu away and went down to see.

Young Master Wu took a deep breath: “You forced me to do this.”

Then he suddenly put his hand to his lips and whistled a few times.

Mo Qingling and the others did not move, but just looked at him quietly.

Soon, more than a dozen men in black with knives rushed out of the underground passage.

A dozen fierce masked men rushed in from outside the yard.

Faced with more than 30 people holding knives who looked like thugs, the Yamen Officials were all shocked.

One Yamen Official couldn’t help swallowing and asked: “Master, what should we do?”

They didn’t expect that the Wu Family would actually support such a group of thugs who looked so cruel.

They have elderly parents and young children to take care of, and they don’t want to die.

Mo Qingling had found out before that the Wu Family might have colluded with some desperate people.

Now it seems to be true.

Mo Qingling was very calm: “There’s no point in being afraid.”

He looked at Young Master Wu, who had a fierce face, and said, “Even if we want to retreat now, Young Master Wu won’t allow it, right?”

Young Master Wu sneered: “Of course, those who saw them before are dead.”

“Mo Magistrate, you forced me to do this.”

Once the things below were taken, their Wu Family will be finished.

So it’s better to call people out and kill Mo Qingling, Xiao Hanzheng, Shi Qinglou, and the Shi Family.

Then fake a fire in the Wu Family and burn all the people, including the people of their Wu Family.

At worst, they can run away and hide their identities, and come back again after the storm has passed.

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