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The door squeaked open, and Wu walked in with a stiff smile on his face, and whispered, "My lord, old lady." Then she consciously sat down on the chair opposite Zhaoran.

Zhao Ran raised his head and said, "Wu, do you know why I called you here?"

Wu's face showed a look of grievance: "Old lady, I know that you suspect that I have wronged Zhao Jing, but I really saw Zhao Jing come out of the door at that time." ”

Zhaoran smiled: "No, I asked you to come because Zhao Min'er washed away a wrongful case of your daughter Xiuying just now, and the person who asked Zhao Jingqian to go to the sedan courtyard was not Xiuying, but herself." Now that Xiuying's injustice has been cleared, it is necessary for you to explain a loophole in your testimony. ”

"What, what loopholes?"

Zhaoran leaned forward and looked at Wu: "You said that you went to chase Xiuying after sending the supper, it can be seen that the time is not far apart, and Xiuying said that she opened the side door for Zhao Jing, which means that her time is before Zhao Jing." So the order before and after you arrived in the front yard should be Xiuying, you Wu, and Zhao Jing, and now Zhao Jing did not enter from the side gate at all, but entered from the main gate of Ah Daliu, and at that time your position was in the Hanging Flower Gate, facing the gate, then you have to explain, how did he jump from your eyes to the sedan courtyard, rape/rape your daughter Xiuying, and then scuffle with you?"

He leaned closer to Wu and asked, "This is the loophole you want to explain." ”

Wu's teeth fought up and down, gurgling: "I am, I really saw Zhao Jing ...... from the door"

Zhao Ran said coldly: "You did see Zhao Jing coming in through the door, but this door is not the gate of the Full Moon Cave in the mansion, but the gate of the Zhao mansion." You heard the shouting that day, why didn't you rush in immediately and take a look? Because at that time there was another person who caught your attention, and that was Zhao Jing, who pushed through the door and entered. If you run to the sedan courtyard at that time, you will inevitably let him see it, so you hesitated, but to your surprise, Zhao Jing also went to the sedan courtyard, and you deliberately rushed over to scuffle with Zhao Jing for fear that your daughter's □□ would be recognized. ”

Yang Xueshi raised his head, there was dense fine sweat on Wu's forehead, and he said word for word: "So you are the first person to frame Zhao Jing!"

Wu's body softened and slipped out of the chair, she stepped forward and hugged Zhaoran's legs, sweating profusely: "Old lady, for the sake of my grandson's young age, please give me a way out." ”

"Give you a way to live, why didn't you give Zhao Jing a way to live back then?" Zhao Ran looked at her.

Wu's whole person seemed to collapse, she covered her face and said: "Xiuying is also for our family, Xiuying's brother was working at the dock back then, and he asked the accounting room to take advantage of the shortcomings, so Xiuying had to be wronged and follow the accounting room." At that time, the Zhao Jing brothers and sisters were interested in marrying our family, and I thought at that time...... I thought that it was better to plant this matter to him than to plant it to others, and the two families got married in the future, and they would slowly make up for Zhao Jing in the future. ”

"Fallacy!" Yang Xueshi was furious.

Wu pulled Zhaoran and cried: "Our family's livelihood is in Zhao Mansion, if the patriarch knows about this matter, he will definitely drive us out of Dangyu Village, you have pity on us, we will be a cow and a horse for Zhao Jing in the next life." ”

"A lifetime of revenge will be avenged for a lifetime, and the next life will ...... In the next life, Zhao Jing will forget who he is!" Yang Xueshi sneered.

Zhao Ran turned his head sideways, and suddenly felt that this sour show had said a word.

"Let's go, call Agui. ”

But the Wu family just didn't follow, and they were entangled there.

Zhaoran had no choice but to open the door by himself and shouted a few times: "Agui, Agui come here!"

After a while, it was Ah Da who came over, and he bowed down and said, "Ah Gui has gone to the toilet." ”

Zhaoran looked at him and said, "When did you go to the toilet?"

"That's it. Ah Da squeaked, and he glanced at Wu who was crying on the ground.

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As they were talking, they saw Zhao Zhongbo rushing into the courtyard with a confused face and said, "My lord, just now Ah Kuan came to report, Xiu, Xiuying ordered someone to kill." ”

Yang Xueshi got up "Teng", and Zhao Ran also quickly stood up and asked, "Where was you killed?"

"In the back of the house in her own room. ”

"Take us there. Yang Xueshi pulled his legs and ran out of the door, as soon as they ran out of the full moon cave door, Zhao Ran rushed past them and ran into the weeping flower gate, only to see the summer flower on his forehead trembling, all the way ahead.

Yang Xueshi looked at Zhaoran's back and couldn't help but be speechless for a while.

Zhao Ran met Zhao Yingwen on the verandah halfway through the run, and he sat on the railing with a blank face, as if he was a little out of his mind.

"Why are you here?"

"Yes, the young master asked me to stay here and not move. Zhao Yingwen said with a pale face.

"Why did he want you to stay here. ”

"I, I found out that Xiuying was killed, and I met the young master and Ah Kuan here on the way, the young master was afraid that he was suspicious of me, so he asked me to stay here and not move anywhere, he went to see the situation himself. Zhao Yingwen said bitterly.

"Lead the way!" said Zhaoran.

Zhao Yingwen hesitated for a moment, then immediately responded "yes", led the way, and said as he walked: "Old lady, you are wise, but no matter what, you have to help me find out that I am wronged, when I went to the room, Xiuying was already dead." ”

The two of them said and soon arrived at the back cover room at the back, only to see a door in the courtyard wide open, and Zhao Tianci was frowning and looking at the female corpse on the ground.

Zhaoran stepped into the room, and Xiuying was lying on her back on the ground with a knife stuck in her belly.

Yang Xueshi and Zhao Zhongbo also ran in, followed by Ah Kuan and Wu.

Wu screamed as soon as he saw Xiuying's corpse and fainted on the spot.

Zhao Zhongbo saw the corpse and couldn't help but lose his voice: "Who stabbed Xiuying to death?"

"She wasn't stabbed, she was strangled to death. Yang Xueshi said.

"Strangled?" asked Zhaoran, "Are you sure?"

Yang Xueshi glanced at him: "According to Song Ci's "Record of Clearing Grievances", the wounds caused by the knife after death are neat and the flesh is dry and white. He pointed to the finger marks on Xiuying's neck and said, "This is the real cause of her death." ”

"Someone strangled her and put a knife in her body. Zhaoran muttered.

Zhao Zhongbo suddenly remembered something and said, "What about Zhao Min'er?"

As soon as he asked, he heard Zhao Min'er answer: "What do you want me to do?"

She stepped into the courtyard, glanced at the people at the door, and then asked, "Why did you come to the courtyard of the embroidery lady?"

Zhao Zhongbo said: "Xiuying is dead, where did you go?"

Zhao Min'er seemed to be a little dazed and said, "I was in a bad mood, so I went out to walk in the garden, who died?"

"It's so-young. Zhao Zhongbo repeated.

Zhao Min'er walked a few steps, stepped into the courtyard, and saw Xiuying's body, her eyes widened, she cried for a while, and said with a smile: "Die well, die well." ”

"Xiuying!" Ah Kuan said, "Min'er, did you kill Xiuying?"

Zhao Min'er turned around and sneered: "I think I killed this slut with my own hands, if I can beat her, I will kill this slut in the side hall in the morning!"

Zhao Zhongbo's face softened slightly, and he said: "Xiuying's strength is not small, and it should be a man who can strangle him." ”

Zhao Yingwen was like grasping a life-saving straw, and shouted repeatedly: "I, I'm just a weak scholar, my strength is not much greater than that of a woman, it is impossible to strangle Xiuying?"

But no one answered him.

The Wu family never woke up, so Zhao Zhongbo had to send someone to send her to the room to rest first.

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Several people returned to the side hall in the front yard, only Ah Da and Zhao Xiangli were inside, and Zhao Zhongbo asked, "Where is Ah Gui?"

Ah Da stammered: "Also, I haven't seen his figure yet." ”

Zhaoran's expression changed and said, "Send someone to find Agui!"

Zhao Zhongbo went in a hurry, the people in the side hall were all sitting, Zhao Yingwen was like a mourner, Ah Da and Zhao Xiangli were sitting quietly in the corner, only Zhao Tianci said dissatisfiedly: "People are starving to death, where have all the people gone, no one even pours tea." ”

Zhao Xiangli then spoke: "Young master, the patriarch said, this matter involves the reputation of our house, and the people are too talkative, so don't ask them to come to serve before you figure it out." ”

Zhao Tianci grinned disapprovingly, crossed his legs on the table, and Zhao Xiangli said with great embarrassment: "Young master, the patriarch said that this seat must have a sitting appearance, and there must be a standing appearance." ”

"You're still finished, you're just the porter of my family, you think you're my father?" Zhao Tianci said angrily.

They were arguing, and Zhao Zhongbo turned back again: "My lord, this, this Agui is gone!"

Yang Xueshi frowned: "Could it be his ......?"

Zhao Yingwen immediately raised his head: "Could it be that Ah Gui killed Xiuying, and he absconded in fear of crime?"

There was an "uproar" in the side hall, and there was a lot of discussion, and Zhaoran raised his feet and walked out of the side hall, looking at Twilight and wondering what was wrong with him?

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"Why, you don't have a clue. Yang Xueshi walked out and stood beside him and said coolly.

Zhaoran sighed: "Adult, the little clueless is not good for your big things." ”

"Then think about it quickly. Yang Xueshi glanced at him, "Where is the stubble, you can think of it." ”

Zhao Ran was a little surprised, turned his head and smiled: "I said, Lord Yang, when did you have so much confidence in me?"

Yang Xueshi raised her delicate chin and said: "This official has always had a clear distinction between public and private, I don't like you, but I still have the ability." ”

Zhao Ran almost laughed out loud, stretched his waist and said, "It's not stubble, it's just that I thought that the one who died first should be Ah Da." ”

"Why Ah Da?" Yang Xueshi was a little puzzled, but Zhao Ran had already stepped into the threshold and walked into the side hall.

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Silence had already returned to the side hall, and Zhao Ran asked again: "Can any of you tell me the ins and outs? I didn't tell you to wait in the side hall, so why did you come to the inner house?"

Zhao Tianci raised his chin nonchalantly, and Ah Kuan glanced at him before he said: "Lord Hui, old lady, it's like this, the young master felt a little hungry and wanted to eat something, so he sent Ah Gui to the kitchen." After Ah Gui left, the bookkeeper said to go to the toilet again, and then went out as well. After he left, the young master felt that Mr. Bookkeeper was very suspicious, so he took me and secretly followed, and halfway through the road, I saw Mr. Bookkeeper running back in a panic, just caught us. Then the bookkeeper said that Xiuying asked someone to kill him, and the young master asked me to go back and inform the second master as soon as possible. ”

He said it vividly, and the cause and effect were clear.

Zhao Yingwen said with a flustered expression: "My lord Mingjian, Xiuying really didn't kill me, and I didn't even set foot in this house." ”

"Even if you haven't even stepped into this house, how do you know that Xiuying didn't commit suicide but killed her?" asked Yang Xueshi.

Zhao Yingwen swallowed his saliva and said with a wry smile: "I, I don't hide it from the two of you, in fact, I had a personal relationship with Xiuying back then, and I originally wanted to wait for the patriarch to be in a good mood, so I asked him to accept her as a concubine, who knew that this happened later." Xiuying has a stubborn personality and is by no means a person who will commit suicide. The more I think about it today, the more I feel that I may have really wronged Zhao Jing back then, so I wanted to ask Xiuying what the truth was. ”

Yang Xueshi's face was like frost and said: "I'm afraid that you're not here to ask Xiuying the truth, but to ask Xiuying if she has confessed to the □□ with you, now that the person has been killed, you are afraid that you will be charged with murder, so you honestly confess your □□, but you know the trade-off." ”

Zhao Yingwen said: "But I really didn't kill her, I saw her fall to the ground through the window, with a knife stuck in her stomach, I, I was afraid that others would suspect me at that time, so I had to turn around and go back." ”

Zhao Zhongbo's face was full of anger: "Zhao Yingwen, hello, the vain patriarch has been trusting and cultivating you for so many years!"

Zhao Yingwen's body weakened, and he knelt on the ground on his knees and said, "Second master, I really didn't kill Xiuying." You, you must tell the patriarch. ”

Zhao Min'er "puffed" him with disgusted eyes.

Zhao Zhongbo said with a heavy face: "Come on, escort Zhao Yingwen to the ancestral hall for me." ”

The two guards who were waiting outside the door walked in, took Zhao Qingwen's two arms and dragged them out, Zhao Yingwen's face showed horror, and shouted loudly: "No, no, I don't want to go to the ancestral hall, second master, for the sake of the place where I have no credit and hard work for many years, you can spare me." ”

"Why are you afraid to go to the ancestral hall?" Zhao Ran suddenly asked.

Zhao Yingwen said hesitantly: "I, I...... I'm afraid of Zhao Jing. ”

Zhao Zhongbo said angrily: "Don't drag it away yet." ”

Zhao Yingwen screamed all the way and was dragged away, and Zhao Zhongbo said with shame on his face: "It's really unfortunate for the family, the tree attracts insects and ants." ”

Zhao Ran was relieved: "Such a big family has a lot of hands, and there are always some small people. ”

"Thank you, old lady, please rest assured, even if the Zhao Mansion turns over the fishing village today, we will find Agui!" Zhao Zhongbo said hatefully.

Zhaoran raised his hand and said, "Of course Agui wants to find it, but it's not in a hurry." But it doesn't matter, without Ah Gui, we can also close the rape/rape case three years ago first. ”

"Isn't it Agui?" Zhao Zhongbo was a little puzzled.

Zhao Ran smiled and said: "Ah Gui and Ah Da were drinking together back then, if he didn't have the skills to □□, how could he forge/rape Xiuying? ”

Zhao Xiangli waved his hand and said, "No." ”

Ah Da also hurriedly shook his head: "No, Ah Gui did drink with me at that time." ”

"That's not Agui......" Zhao Zhongbo couldn't help but ask.

"This man is not at all difficult to find among the six witnesses. Because apart from him, only Zhao Yingwen had no circumstantial evidence under the circumstances, but Zhao Yingwen was Xiuying's adulterer himself, so he was not a forcible person, and one thing he said was right, he may not be Xiuying's opponent. ”

The hall looked down for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and looked at a person in disbelief.

Zhao Ran smiled and said: "That's right, only he has no witnesses." Under the circumstances at that time, Wu and Zhao Jing, Ah Da and Ah Gui, and Zhao Xiangli were an old man in this side hall, and he had to pass through the Wu family to pass through the sedan courtyard, so it was impossible. ”

Zhao Xiangli hurriedly recited "sin".

Zhaoran turned his head to look at Ah Kuan and said, "Am I right, Ah Kuan?"

Ah Kuanqiang smiled and said, "Old lady, didn't Zhao Jing run out of the door of the Full Moon Cave?

Zhao Ran "ah" said: "I forgot to tell you about the current situation, Zhao Min'er and Wu respectively revised their confessions, Zhao Jing was not called to the sedan courtyard by Xiuying, but Zhao Min, since he is not Xiuying, then it is impossible for him to go to the wrong door, the fact is that he walked through the main gate specially left for him by Ah Da. The Wu family also confessed, Zhao Jing didn't go to the sedan courtyard at all, she wronged him. ”

He smiled, "Where did the prisoner go, outside the gate of the courtyard are Wu and Zhao Jing, next door to the wall is Zhao Yingwen, the only place he can escape is the side gate of the sedan courtyard, and the person outside the door is you Ah Kuan, why didn't you see him?"

Ah Kuan involuntarily glanced at Ah Da, and said clearly: "Because it's very simple, the person who escaped from the side gate is you, you go out from the side gate, and then pretend to be passing by at the main gate, and help the Wu family twist Zhao Jing, right?"

"Ah Kuan!" Zhao Zhongbo roared.

Ah Kuan has always had sharp teeth, but at the moment, he can't say half a sentence.

Zhao Ran said lightly: "Your wallet was not lost at the gate, but in the room of the sedan courtyard, and asked Agui to pick it up, so in the past three years, Agui should have blackmailed you." He likes to drink, and if he cuts off Xiuying's financial path, he will naturally make another one. ”

Ah Kuan said: "Old lady, you have no evidence. ”

"Ahh You want proof. Zhaoran pointed to his back and smiled, "The sweat behind this is evidence, how many walks do you need to walk from the back house to the front yard?"

Zhao Zhongbo said: "Each courtyard is added to the hall about three zhang, and the second courtyard is about ten zhang long. (Note: about 40 meters)

"Ten feet of road, even if you walk, how can you sweat through your clothes when you run back?"

"Villain, villain......"

Zhaoran said, "Because you have more than one round trip on the road, you also went to another place, you were very nervous at the time, you know that Xiuying is dead, under the deputy question of the Zhao Mansion, Agui will definitely confess you, so you have to get rid of Agui before this." ”

Everyone in the side hall looked at Ah Kuan, and said clearly: "Your time is very rushed, and it is impossible to solve the place where Ah Gui is too far, so Ah Gui doesn't need to go to other places to find it, the second master only needs to search in the Zhao Mansion." In particular, Ah Kuan is in charge of the warehouse, the storeroom, and the well near the kitchen. ”

Zhao Zhongbo looked at Ah Kuan for a long time, flicked his sleeves out of the door of the side hall and hurriedly searched the yard.

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Ah Kuan stared at Zhao Ran with a haze: "Old lady, who are you?"

Zhao Ran grinned: "I'm a spirit woman who specializes in ghost hunting." ”

Ah Kuan suddenly moved and rushed towards Zhaoran, Yang Xueshi hurriedly shouted, "Be careful!" and stretched out his hand to pull Zhaoran to his side.

But Ah Kuan turned around and ran to Zhao Xiangli, and grabbed the knife in the fruit bowl and held him hostage: "Don't come over any of you! I will kill him if anyone comes!"

"Help, help!" Zhao Xiangli exclaimed.

Ah Kuan dragged Zhao Xiangli to the door, and Zhao Tianci "hummed" and said: "Where are you and our Zhao Mansion?

He didn't care about Zhao Xiangli and rushed forward, Ah Kuan didn't expect Zhao Tianci to care about Zhao Xiangli at all, he was stunned for a moment, Zhao Tianci grabbed his hand and scuffled, the knives of the two came and went, the scene was very thrilling.

Ah Da wanted to go up to help, but he was afraid that the knife in Ah Kuan's hand would really hurt Zhao Tianci for a while, and he was so anxious there.

Suddenly, only hearing the sound of "swaying", Zhao Min'er lifted the vase on the case and knocked it on Ah Kuan's head, only to hear the sound of "poof", Zhao Tianci's knife was inserted into Ah Kuan's chest, blood splashed out, and even Zhao Tianci himself was startled.

These scenes were just a blink of an eye, and when Zhao Ran reacted, he found that Yang Xueshi was also holding him in a daze, as if he hadn't come back to his senses yet.

"Haha, this kind of young man also wants to escape the hands of Young Master Ben. Zhao Tianci kicked Ah Kuan on the ground, Zhao Min'er glanced at him with disdain, turned his head and walked to the side.

Yang Xueshi realized that he was still holding Zhaoran in his arms, and quickly let go of his hand and stood up straight.

Zhao Tianci stretched out his hand and said: "Everyone has seen it, it was he who killed first, and I had no choice but to do it." ”

Yang Xueshi said lightly: "This official will consider it." ”

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As they spoke, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps from outside the door, and Zhao Zhongbo walked in with a lantern and two guards carrying the wet body of Agui.

Zhao Zhongbo was startled when he saw Ah Kuan's corpse, and Zhao Tianci said: "He kidnapped someone and wanted to run, but I killed him to save people!"

Ah Da hurriedly responded: "That's right, that's right." ”

At this moment, everyone remembered Zhao Xiangli and helped him up from the ground, only to see that his neck was cut by a knife, although it was not fatal, but the wound was not shallow, Zhao Zhongbo hurriedly called someone to bring medicine to bandage Zhao Xiangli.

Only then did Zhao Ran point to Agui's corpse and ask, "Found in the well?"

"Exactly. Although the Zhao Mansion is close to the lake, because it is built on the rocks in the middle of the mountain, the well on the mansion is very deep. Zhao Zhongbo said with a dark face, "If you don't search carefully, I'm afraid that you will have to wait for the smell of this well water to find out." ”

Zhao Tianci said with a disgusted face: "I don't drink this well water that has been soaked in corpses." ”

Zhao Min'er glanced at him with disdain again, and said, "Three of these six witnesses are dead now, what about the remaining three people who wronged my brother?"

Zhao Zhongbo said: "Don't worry, the patriarch will definitely uphold justice for you!"

Yang Xueshi saw Zhaoran looking down at the knife, so he asked, "You...... Is there anything Granny Feng has to say?"

Zhao Ran said: "Who put the knife in this fruit bowl here?"

The people in the side hall looked at each other and shook their heads, Ah Dadao: "Everyone didn't have the mind just now, where would they think of eating fruit, who put a knife here, I really didn't think about it." ”

Zhao Min'er sneered: "You are the only one in the hall, you said that you don't know the ghost to believe." ”

Ah Da was anxious: "Min'er, I didn't mean to wronged your brother, I was also kind at the beginning, I was afraid that your brother and sister without parents would be deceived, I never expected the next thing, and there was no way!"

Zhao Min'er didn't overturn her head and ignored it, looking at the night outside, not knowing what she was thinking.

Zhao Zhongbo said with a tired expression: "Everyone is tired today, tomorrow the patriarch will try this matter in the ancestral hall, Lord Yang and the old lady will dine first, let's stop here tonight." ”

Zhaoran said, "That's fine." ”

Zhao Tianci said impatiently: "I'm dying of hunger." ”

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Two corpses were brought out of the Zhao Mansion, even if the mansion originally got the patriarch's ban order, now that everyone knows about it, it should have been panicked for a while, and this dinner was much more hasty than the lunch.

Yang Xueshi and the others who served the dishes left, and then sat down and asked: "If Ah Gui was killed by Ah Kuan, and Ah Kuan was killed by Zhao Tianci, who is the man who killed Xiuying?"