"Smack!" The crisp sound of the striking wood echoed throughout the lobby, and the crowd of onlookers who were noisy outside the yamen suddenly fell silent. Outside the hall, two mahogany columns hang two vigorous couplets. The upper link says "Erfeng Erlu, the people anoint the people's fat", and the lower link is "the people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to deceive".

A middle-aged obese man in an official uniform looked at Xiao Lei standing in the hall with a solemn face, but Xiao Lei was admiring the couplet at the moment.

"Who is in the hall, why don't you kneel when you see this official?" The sonorous and powerful voice set off a hint of majesty in the solemn environment, if it weren't for the bloated body that almost filled the entire official robe, it could still scare and scare the uneducated people.

Xiao Lei calmly said to the magistrate of the court: "I am in the fame, but I don't kneel." Zhixian was stunned for a moment, the fat on his face trembled, and the corner of his eyes glanced at the master on the side. The master hurriedly got up, walked to the magistrate and whispered in his ear. "This kid is accused of killing the doctor at Baiyi Pharmacy." Zhixian immediately frowned when he heard this, "And he is still the eldest young master of the Xiao family." The master's speed of speech was relatively fast, and the magistrate thought for a while and asked in a low voice: "But that Xiao family ......", "Exactly" The master replied, and a light seemed to flash in his eyes.

Zhixian's expression immediately changed, and after he was overjoyed, he realized that he had lost his manners, cleared his throat and said, "Xiao Xiucai has a reputation for fame, but he doesn't kneel." ”

"Tell the story of the people waiting to go to the church." Shicheng has not had such a sensational case for a long time, even if the magistrate wants to scrape off a layer of oil and water from Xiao Lei, he must make a sufficient gesture, otherwise he will be criticized by the people for adding a black pen to his political achievements and affecting his career.

Several officials came in from outside the door carrying stretchers, and on the stretchers was a white cloth stained with mottled blood, and a figure could be faintly seen under the white cloth. Behind the servant was the crying medicine boy, and the old man who looked old and withered, the old man holding a wooden box and the others avoided the corpse, which should be a habit of seeing corpses.

The medicine boy was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and he had never seen a big scene, but today he saw the official master in the main hall who was full of "official authority", and he knelt down as soon as his feet were weak, crying and shouting to avenge his grievances.

"Silence!" Holding a half-red and half-black water and fire stick on the side, the servant scolded him, and the medicine boy was so excited by the roar that he immediately covered his mouth and burped.

"Let's talk about the corpse first." The magistrate pointed to the old man with his chin. He knelt on the ground as if he was used to seeing this scene, and he didn't lose his temper like the medicine boy and said without hurrying: "The cause of death of the deceased was that the dagger on his chest pierced his lungs and suffocated to death. ”

"Zheng Zhutou?" After listening to the conclusion of the autopsy, the magistrate did not ask Xiao Lei what he meant, but turned to Zheng Zhutou, who was standing at the front.

Zheng Zhutou, who was named, did not answer, turned to look at Xiao Lei and said: "After the lung is stabbed, it usually causes suffocation and death due to lung damage, and this process takes about an hour. Am I right? As he spoke, he looked at the work again. He subconsciously raised his head and glanced at Zheng Zhutou, as if he had realized that he had done something wrong, and hurriedly lowered his head and replied tremblingly: "Yes...... Be. ”

"Xiao Gongzi, where are you in this hour?" Zheng Zhutou's speech was fast and not urgent, and it didn't seem to be like an interrogation but a small talk between friends.

"The Xiao family." Xiao Lei knew that he couldn't say too much at the moment, he had already seen how powerful the other party was.

"Is there a witness?" Without the slightest pause, Zheng Zhutou continued to ask.

"A servant in the house." Xiao Lei also answered quickly.

"The Xiao family can't testify, so they are inevitably suspected of covering up, but there are others?" Zheng is aggressive.

Xiao Lei paused, and the scene of himself entering and leaving the pharmacy without anyone flashed in his mind. "Nope." Xiao Lei shook his head.

Zheng Zhutou got the answer, stopped asking, turned to the magistrate and said, "My lord, I'm done." ”

Zhixian's face was a little ugly, he just mentioned one sentence, Zheng Zhutou almost finished asking all the questions he wanted to ask, which made him suddenly speechless, and he was quite annoyed in his heart, but when he saw Zheng Zhutou's appearance, he immediately thought of the person behind him, and goosebumps trembled all over his body.

After the magistrate's eyes moved away from Zheng Zhutou, he saw the medicine boy who was still trembling and sobbing on the ground, and he straightened his sitting posture and said, "Child, have you ever seen Xiao Xiucai kill the deceased with your own eyes?" ”

When the medicine boy heard the official call him, he was in awe and fear for a while, but he lost the courage he had before and wailed and complained about his grievances, he didn't dare to speak, nodded and shook his head.

Seeing that the medicine boy didn't speak, the magistrate nodded and shook his head, unable to guess what he meant. Thinking of Zheng Zhutou's momentum of asking Xiao Lei just now, and the appearance of asking and answering with the two of them. Comparing it with his own situation, a nameless anger appeared in his heart, and he was shocked: "This official asks you!" Why not! This time the shocking wood shot was several times louder than the first time, but it also hurt the palm of the hand, and the painful and numb palm trembled slightly in the long sleeves of the official robe, but the face was so strong that people could not see the abnormality.

As soon as the medicine boy was drunk by the magistrate, he immediately shrunk into a ball and cried and said: "Today, the master was hurriedly invited to Xiao's house by the maid of the Xiao Mansion, and he will not come back until noon. At that time, there was also a maid from Xiao Mansion who came with the master, the maid who invited the master to Xiao Mansion to see a doctor. After the master grabbed a few doses of medicine and gave it to the maid, he grabbed a few more and asked me to send them to the hunter who was bitten by the snake two days ago. The master's heart has always been very good......" As he spoke, he talked about how the old doctor was helping others in front of him, and the Bodhisattva was heartbroken......

"When you came back, you saw Xiao Xiucai kill the dead?" The magistrate impatiently interrupted the medicine boy's words and brought the topic back on track.

"I ...... I saw him holding the dagger and stabbing it into the master's chest......" said the medicine boy and wept silently.

"Xiao Xiucai, do you still have something to say?" Zhixian once again moved his huge body, wanting to make himself sit more comfortably, this case in his eyes he thought that Xiao Lei had nothing to quibble.

"What motivates me? Why did I kill the old doctor? Xiao Lei didn't panic in the slightest, after all, he didn't kill people, and there was nothing worth feeling guilty.

The medicine boy looked at Xiao Lei, as if he was seriously thinking about what Xiao Lei's motive was, and even stopped sobbing.

"Motivation? Sometimes murder doesn't require a motive, such as a penchant for killing. Zheng Zhutou interjected a sentence without being salty and snorted coldly.

Baixin, who was watching around, was in an uproar when he heard Zheng Zhutou's words, muttering to each other, looking at Xiao Lei as if he was a bloodthirsty devil under Fang Sven's appearance.

"You Sven scum! Dressed beasts! Give me back my master! The medicine boy was stimulated by Zheng Zhutou's words, and pounced in front of Xiao Lei, grabbed his arm and was about to bite it down. Before he could bite Xiao Lei, a strong wind suddenly came out of the crowd, blowing down several people and coming towards Xiao Lei.

The medicine boy's mouth closed up and down, and the hard touch transmitted from his teeth to his brain, followed by severe pain. The pain caused him to let go and take a step back. Only then did he see that Xiao Lei, who he was biting, suddenly turned into a woman, staring at himself with cold eyes, and there seemed to be a beast crouching in those eyes that was ready to attack at any time.