Chapter 27: The Dogman
As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the hall was shocked!
Even Jing Zhaoyin looked at the scarred man in surprise and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"Sir, do you believe that there is really a dog in the world that can read?" The man with the scar said coldly, "What's more, that dog still has tears in his eyes and is writing while crying?"
Jing Zhaoyin's scalp felt numb after hearing this.
The dog trainer blushed and retorted vigorously: "It's not a difficult word, I just need to teach it two more times!"
The scarred man did not look at him, but said to Jing Zhaoyin: "Sir, what is the truth? Just bring the dog up and cut it open and you will know!"
Gu Qingzhang's brows jumped when he heard the word "dissection". He whispered to Lin Chonghan: "It seems that this person knows something."
"That's true," Lin Chonghan nodded, "but if it's really what we think, it's really too cruel."
When the dog trainer in the hall heard this, he fell to the ground with a pale face.
Jing Zhaoyin was not a stupid person, and he realized it at this moment. He suppressed his anger and asked the left and right officials to catch the dog. At the same time, he sent someone to invite the widower.
Not long after, the government officials came back with the cages, followed by a large number of people. They didn't know what was going on, but they all chose to follow and watch the fun.
They brought a total of four cages, and the dog in one of them was already dying, no different from death. After obtaining Jing Zhaoyin's consent, he began to cut open the dog's skin.
As Zuo Zuo started, the dog began to whine for the last time. Tears flowed from his eyes, and he looked at everyone sadly. After a moment, he died completely.
Such a person's behavior made everyone in the hall hide their faces.
Once he was dead, the gangster no longer had any scruples about what to do. After peeling off the dog's skin, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
"Sir!" His hands were covered with blood, but he still looked at the meat ball carefully regardless, "What's under the skin of this dog is not a dog, but a child!"
"Wow——"
The crowd in the hall started to make a noise as if boiling water had been splashed into a pan. The common people had strange expressions on their faces, and many people with poor tolerance even began to rush aside and vomit.
Jing Zhaoyin's face became quite ugly, and he said, "Tell me more about what happened?"
After Wu Zuo observed the meat ball for a while, he replied: "Sir, this child's legs and feet must have been forcibly broken, the skin and flesh were peeled off, and dog skin was sewn on, so that it could look fake and real."
"Treat humans like dogs and skin them alive," Jing Zhaoyin squeezed out a few words through his teeth, "You are so brave!"
The dog trainer had long been lying on the ground, shivering and afraid to speak.
Gua Er suddenly felt that his trafficker began to tremble. He looked at her in surprise and found that her face was as pale as white paper and her whole body was shaking like chaff.
"Master Hou," he called Gu Qingzhang, "what's going on with this human trafficker?"
When Gu Qingzhang saw it, an idea suddenly came to his mind.
So he asked Guaer to carry the trafficker and throw it into the hall. He walked up to the front of the hall and said, "If I guess correctly, I am afraid that this person kidnapped the child."
Jing Zhaoyin, who was sitting in the hall, recognized him. When he saw him coming, he quickly came down to salute and wanted to welcome him to sit on him, but Gu Qingzhang refused.
He pointed at the trafficker and said: "This person pretended to be a nanny and almost abducted the grandson of the eldest son of the Duke's mansion. I feel that these two people may be related."
At this moment, a woman with disheveled hair suddenly rushed to the front of the hall and punched and kicked the two people who were lying on the ground.
When being subdued by the guards, she cried and laughed, shouting like crazy: "My son! My son!"
Everyone knew that she must have had a son who was abducted by a kidnapper, and he might have suffered the same fate as the dog in the cage. They couldn't help but remain silent and didn't know how to comfort her.
The yamen officer wanted to take the mad woman down to court, but she was so strong that she broke free from the yamen officer's control and hit her head against the red pillar of the court hall to death.
"boom--"
This collision not only hit the pillar, but also directly hit everyone's hearts.
Jing Zhaoyin stared blankly at the blood all over the ground. After a long time, he exhaled heavily and gave the order: "According to the law of Daliang, the kidnapper should be killed. The two of them have committed serious crimes, so they should be punished."
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The "Dog Man" incident quickly spread throughout the capital. Who doesn't have children nowadays? After this incident spread, many people ordered their children not to go out to play casually and used this incident to intimidate them.
The two traffickers, who worked together in collusion, also had rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves thrown at them by many people when they were in Lingchi.
There were even those who were as hateful as enemies and directly stepped forward to spit on them and scolded them severely, causing many onlookers to applaud.
But these things had nothing to do with Lin Chonghan, because she fell ill after returning home.
Lin Guangqing was worried, so he went to the palace to ask the imperial doctor to see him. The imperial doctor said that his pulse was fine and that he could just drink two doses of medicine.
Although he knew that his father and brother were anxious, Lin Chonghan still firmly refused Lin Shijing to visit her, fearing that he would be sick.
In the evening, Lin Chonghan was lying half-lying reading a storybook, while Chunri stayed with her.
There was another sound of heavy objects falling to the ground in the courtyard outside the house. Gu Qingzhang hurriedly walked to the door, but did not open the door. Instead, he asked in a low voice: "Chonghan, are you asleep?"
Chunri caught Lin Chonghan's look, stepped forward to open the door for him, and replied: "Master Marquis, the girl is reading a book on the couch right now." After saying that, she bowed and went to sit on the porch to give Lin Chonghan some medicine.
Gu Qingzhang entered the door. Because the heavy curtains were lowered, he could only see the vague figures inside the curtains.
He didn't lift the curtain, but just sat down on the footrest.
Lin Chonghan was amused and said with a smile: "Why are you like that girl in Chunri?"
"How to say?"
Lin Chonghan replied with a smile: "That girl usually likes to sit on the footrest. During the Chinese New Year, she would sit on the footrest and count how much money she earned in a year to save for her dowry."
Gu Qingzhang stretched out his legs comfortably, not caring about the elegance of this posture. He put his hands behind his head and leaned against the bed contentedly.
"Then I have to add some dowry to that girl."
Faced with Lin Chonghan's doubts, he happily answered: "It is said that those who are close to the water first get the moon. I will bribe the people around you first. Are you worried that no one will speak for me in the future?"
——This man is simply upright and shameless.
Lin Chonghan was dumbfounded, but since she mentioned bribery, she remembered something: "Before, you said that you wanted to give Mei Niang an ink monkey, but I haven't seen the shadow of the monkey yet."
"I'll have Gua Er deliver it tomorrow," Gu Qingzhang also thought about this, "but this isn't for her, it's for you."
"As for who you want to give it to, that's not my concern."
For such a trivial matter, he still had to go through a lot of trouble. Lin Chonghan shook his head helplessly, too lazy to talk to him.
"I brought you a bag of preserved fruits," Gu Qingzhang took out the bag from his sleeve and placed it on her feet, "You will probably have to take a lot of medicine these two days, so I'll save this for you.
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After saying that, he stood up and left.
Lin Chonghan was a little surprised, but it was already getting late and he really couldn't stay any longer.
At this moment, the conversation between Chunri and others suddenly came from outside the door. After Lin Chonghan listened attentively for a moment, he secretly thought, this is the voice of his second brother!
Hearing that Lin Shijing seemed to be coming in, Lin Chonghan quickly opened the curtain and motioned for Gu Qingzhang to hide on the beam.
Chapter completed!