Around midnight, Zhao Erlang was in a daze when he heard a burst of gongs outside. As time passed, the noise outside became louder and louder, mixed with mournful shouts, and even Li Cuiwei, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened.

Sensing that the situation was wrong, he suddenly fell asleep and hurriedly walked to the yard to take a look. Only then did he find that the direction of his house was blazing, and he immediately wanted to rush out, but Li Cuiwei blocked the main gate and refused to let him go. When he thought about it, he was right, now the street outside Li Ji's main gate is mostly full of people, if he walks out so swaggeringly, it is very likely that it will affect Li Cuiwei's reputation, and he really can't just rush out.

So, he turned to the back door, intending to slip through the back door. Who knows, there seems to be someone outside the back door. In desperation, he had to jump over the wall. It is worth mentioning that Li Ji was a person before and after at that time, in order not to let people find out, he first turned from Li Ji to Zhao Yongxiao's house, and then turned out through the wall of Zhao Yongxiao's house, and after a big circle, he went straight to the fire.

Zhao Erlang's next confession is basically the same as what Wang Rong said, and the only deviations are only caused by the different angles of the speaker, and there is no essential difference.

Jiang Helianzi felt that Zhao Erlang's rhetoric was quite credible. Others may think that Zhao Erlang kept the truth shut in order to protect Li Cuiwei, which is really unbelievably stupid, but combined with his usual behavior, this kind of unrealistic thing can really happen. What's more, Jiang Helianzi really can't think of any need for Zhao Erlang to lie until now.

"Erlang, what's the matter with those blood stains on the hem of your clothes? Where the hell did you get it? Can't really remember? Jiang Helianzi felt that after Zhao Erlang's explanation, the others made sense, but the bloodstains were unusual.

Zhao Erlang frowned and thought for a long time. Eventually, he shook his head.

"So, Brother Erlang, do you remember how those bloodstains were found by Dr. Shen?" Zhao Siniang asked.

"Doctor Shen......" Zhao Erlang's face was dyed with a layer of anger, and he burst out: "It's not so much that Dr. Shen found out, it's better to say that my eldest aunt found it!" ”

After speaking, Zhao Erlang felt that he called the woman "big aunt", as if he was a little sorry for the Song family who had been caring for him. secretly glanced at Jiang Helianzi.

Jiang Helianzi would not mind because of this, smiled faintly, and then asked, "Why do you say that?" It could be your aunt when you went to the doctor. Did you make any strange moves? ”

Zhao Erlang was secretly relieved to see that Jiang Helianzi was not angry with herself, and then said: "The fire went too fast that day, and our family's left and right leaders almost didn't have time to escape. Several elderly people escaped and fell to their feet. Even a small child was burned by the fire. Coupled with me, who injured my hands, the Jishengtang was overcrowded for a while. My injuries looked quite serious, but they were fine, and there was not enough space, so Dr. Shen bandaged me and let me go.

"At this time, Xiao suddenly pointed at me and shouted at the top of his voice that there was blood on my body. When I looked down, it was just a few drops, nothing at all. But Xiao had to ask Dr. Shen to find a wound for me. Explain that you should bandage it well. It is estimated that Dr. Shen also thinks that Xiao is making a big fuss, but he can't bear her crookedness. I had to examine it carefully, but I couldn't find a wound. So Xiao shouted again, saying that Dr. Shen was not careful in his consultation. Dr. Shen was roasted by her on the fire, so I had no choice but to check it again, but I still didn't see it. Xiao didn't need to say anything more this time, anyway, the people in the hospital knew about the blood stains on the hem of my clothes.

"I've been thinking about it for the past few days, when the government asks me for a confession, there are some things that I can't explain to me, so I can only lie and deal with them. The reason for this situation is that in the final analysis, I am not stable in my handling of things, and I am suspected that I deserve it, and I don't blame anyone. But the fact that there are blood stains on the hem of the clothes is completely a moth made by the Xiao family. If she hadn't yelled at those few voices, how could she have made a fuss? How is it that after seven days, many people are still impressed? This black cauldron can be said to be the one that Xiao caused me to buckle, and I am so angry! ”

Jiang Helianzi and Zhao Siniang glanced at each other, and the two of them tacitly said that there was indeed the Xiao family's handwriting here.

"You kid, who can't get along, how can you get along with the three girls of the Li family? That's your fourth aunt's own sister, that is, your fourth uncle's sister-in-law, you two are different generations, how can you do a ridiculous thing of drinking together at night! Different from Zhao Siniang's focus, Zhao Yongzhong couldn't help but open his mouth after learning why Zhao Erlang was hiding it.

Seeing that Zhao Yongzhong couldn't get to the point, Zhao Siniang said angrily: "Is now the time to care about these?" It's only right to get people out! ”

Zhao Siniang, who is not so deeply aware of the defense of men and women, believes that Zhao Erlang did not sleep at night and went to drink with girls, which was indeed wrong, but he has already learned a profound lesson that is enough to remember for a lifetime in the past few days, and there is really no need to blame him again.

"Brother Erlang, I won't say anything else, I believe you also understand that this matter must not be concealed anymore. When you go back to the next church, please be sure to tell the truth. Zhao Siniang said.

Zhao Erlang hesitated: "I understand this truth." It's just, it's just, if I tell the truth, what will Miss Li San do in the future? ”

On the one hand, he really wants to tell the truth and break free from the cage, but on the other hand, he also has to take care of Li Cuiwei's reputation. He was in a dilemma.

"You don't have to worry about this, anyway, you are responsible for telling the truth, I have my own arrangements for Miss Li San's side." Zhao Siniang thoughtfully comforted: "Actually, if you think about it, no matter how bad things are, how bad can they be?" At most, Changle can't tolerate her. If we really get to that point, let her go to Youdu with us. Going to Fucheng is much more promising than staying in a small town, which will be more beneficial for her to marry in the future. If you wish, you can go along. After arriving in the Hidden Capital. Outsiders who still know what generations are not between you, you just have to make friends boldly and boldly, and there are no worries. ”

Zhao Siniang is a little suspicious of talking to herself. She didn't ask Li Cuiwei's opinion, how do you know if people are willing to leave their hometown? You must know that although Fucheng is prosperous, it is a foreign land in the end, and the Li family has always been in love with home, and they are unwilling to leave their homeland if they can't say it well.

However, these are completely out of Zhao Siniang's consideration. She is now only responsible for fishing out Zhao Erlang. As for what Li Cuiwei thinks, she neither cares nor wants to care.

In her opinion. Reputation is important, but it's also more important than life. It's just that others don't know, Li Cuiwei, as a party concerned, must know that Zhao Erlang is wronged, and I believe she also knows very well why Zhao Erlang is speechless. In this case. Shouldn't Li Cuiwei stand up? Do you clear up Zhao Erlang's grievances? But so far, Li Cuiwei has not taken any action. Such a cool girl, she doesn't care about her reputation.

Zhao Erlang is such an honest child, naturally can't guess Zhao Siniang's true thoughts regardless of it, hearing her say this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he had no worries all of a sudden, and he hurriedly agreed.

"Erlang, let me ask you one more thing, what is the so-called murder weapon?" Jiang Helianzi asked with a frown.

It's rare for Zhao Erlang to be so cooperative. Jiang Helianzi threw out another question that lingered in his heart.

I have to say that Pi Maosheng, who has always been sloppy in handling cases, is quite serious this time. I did some serious research. But there are a lot of confused cases, and it is not easy to change the style of painting and become a capable official overnight. No, Pi Maosheng was addicted to returning to Qingtian, and asked Zhao Erlang dumbfounded by putting facts and reasoning in the hall, thinking that he could close the case, but when he left the court, he found that he had forgotten to verify the evidence.

In principle, the "Dayan Law" is to "emphasize evidence and ignore confessions", but there are very few officials who will follow this principle in its specific implementation. But this time is different, once Zhao Erlang's crime is confirmed, it will be a heinous crime, and it stands to reason that he will be sentenced to capital punishment. Capital punishment is not something that he, a petty official, has the right to sentence, and the case file must be uploaded to the Criminal Department, and then handed over to Dali Temple for review. Of course, now that the case files of the world have been handed in, the officials will not look at them carefully, it is just a process, but in any case, the most basic human and physical evidence must be available, otherwise it will be too much to say.

Now the physical evidence in Pi Maosheng's hands is only Zhao Erlang's so-called bloody clothes stained with a few drops of blood. Why is it "so-called"? The key is not that the amount of blood is too low, but that there is no blood on the clothes now! It turned out that after Zhao Yongnian's accident, Zhao Qiao's blindly cried but didn't take a handle, Qiao's was so sick that he couldn't afford the kang, Hang's was a delicate lady and didn't do practical things, and the burden of funeral was on the younger brother and daughter-in-law in the next room. The villagers couldn't see it, so they came to help. Not only did they make filial piety clothes for Zhao Erlang overnight, but also those enthusiastic people washed the dirty clothes that Zhao Erlang took off. By the time Pi Maosheng sent someone to collect evidence, the clothes had not only been washed and dried, but they had already been put away. Shameless as a fur mao, he was a little embarrassed to call that garment bloody. It is too far-fetched to present such physical evidence.

In order to prove Zhao Erlang's guilt, it is indeed necessary to submit bloody clothes to corroborate, but this is not the most critical. The most important thing is that Pi Maosheng concluded that Zhao Erlang stabbed his father twice first, and set fire to destroy the body after his death, so he had to find out the murder weapon used by Zhao Erlang. But he was "a hundred secrets", and asked in the hall for a long time, but he forgot about this stubble, so he had to bring Zhao Erlang back for retrial. But no matter how the punishment is served, Zhao Erlang, who is stunned, can't figure out the whereabouts of the murder weapon. How can this be good, if you can't get a murder weapon, you can't say that Zhao Erlang is excellent in martial arts, he chopped his father to death with a hand knife, right? Just when he was in trouble, someone reported the accomplice Zhao Yongxiao, and then he was inspired and directly pushed the murder weapon on Zhao Yongxiao.

Zhao Yongxiao was dragged to prison on the evening of the second day of Zhao Erlang's arrest, but fortunately, he was not tortured during this time, and he was not interrogated until yesterday. In the lobby, Pi Maosheng threw out a knife that was said to have been copied from the kitchen of Zhao Yongxiao's house, so that he could summon it according to the truth. It is worth mentioning that Pi Maosheng specially recruited a servant to go to court, and he personally proved that the shape of the knife was completely consistent with the wound on Zhao Yongnian's body, and it was definitely a murder weapon. However, what annoyed Pi Maosheng was that in front of the "mountain of ironclad evidence", Zhao Yongxiao, like his nephew, was also an iron-toothed and copper-toothed person, but he refused to admit his guilt. Annoyed and angry, Zhao Yongxiao and Zhao Erlang were punished to go to the cage outside the hall together.

These news were inquired by Liang Yan, and Jiang Helianzi felt that the origin of the knife was strange when he heard it, and eighty percent of it was Pi Maosheng who asked Hu to do an errand. But at that time, her thoughts were so mixed that she didn't think deeply.

Now she believes that Zhao Erlang is not the murderer, so there is someone else who is the real murderer, and her intuition tells her that the real murderer is hidden by Zhao Erlang's side. As for who the real murderer is, she still has no way of knowing, but she thinks it might as well start with the source of the murder weapon. Although she had some doubts in her heart about whether the knife was the murder weapon, in her mind, the government held back for three days to hold the knife out, which can be described as painstaking, and there was a testimony to testify, plus the knife will be submitted to the Criminal Department and Dali Temple for inspection in the future, even if the knife is not a real murder weapon, it should have a high degree of similarity with the murder weapon, and maybe some clues can be found from the knife.

To Jiang Helianzi's disappointment, Zhao Erlang was at a loss about the origin of the knife, shook his head and said, "That knife is definitely not mine, and the fourth uncle also said that he has never seen it." As for how it was found out of the stove room of the fourth uncle's house, the fourth uncle also wondered. ”

Although Jiang Helianzi didn't have much hope for the confused Zhao Erlang, it was still difficult to hide her disappointment when she heard him say this.

"You haven't seen that knife, what about something like that? Haven't you seen it yet? I've heard that the shape of the knife is quite unique, and it doesn't look like a kitchen knife that ordinary people usually use. Liang Yan, who had been silent, suddenly asked.

Zhao Erlang saw that Liang Yan, who was not a general friend, was anxious for him, and he felt strange in his heart, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he blurted out: "The handle of the knife is wrong, but I have seen such a blade!" ”

"What? Jiro, have you ever seen a blade like a murder weapon? Tell me, where did you see that? Jiang Helianzi asked anxiously.

The shape of the knife wound does not have much to do with the handle and mainly depends on the blade. (To be continued.) )