After listening to Wang Changsheng's words, Wei Ziyu was silent, holding the pen and not knowing what to write on the record book, he asked Wang Changsheng to go out, and then the official brought the Xiang family in.

As the saying goes, there are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door, and an old bachelor has to avoid suspicion even in the township, so if there is anything going on on weekdays, the women in the village will not directly contact Lao Litou, and it is all the men in the family who come forward, even if there is something to be notified in the village, Tang Daming can't go, Wei Qifeng also gives the word to Lao Li Tou and will leave immediately.

Xiang's is hardworking and abides by women's morals, except for the usual love to get together in the women's pile and talk nonsense, he is an honest person, of course, it is impossible to have any contact with Lao Li Tou in private, Wei Ziyu only asked her that day After Wang Changsheng and Lao Li Tou quarreled, did Wang Changsheng go home or was he very angry?

Xiang looked at Wei Ziyu sitting in the middle of the courtyard, and the officials standing on both sides were very nervous, but thinking of what Wang Changsheng told her before coming, he said: "Let's sit upright, Master Wei is a fair person, and he will never wronged us because I quarreled with Lao Li Tou." So, you just tell the truth. ”

Her clenched hands slowly let go, and she looked up in an effort to appear calm.

"When he came back, he was really angry, and he was not in good health, so when he got home, he lay on the bed for a while. I was afraid that he would be angry, and I didn't go to work in the fields. The next day, however, he didn't take it to heart. Two days later, however, he fell ill. I invited Dr. Wei to come and see it several times, and I was in a hurry to plant chrysanthemum at that time, so no one mentioned this matter again. The big guys know it. Our family doesn't have a lot of money, Changsheng has hardly been paid for following his eldest brother out to work all these years, and he only gives some pocket money on weekdays, and our family has been secretly ridiculed, although Lao Li scolded him very angrily, but he didn't care about it at all after the incident. After a pause, Xiang looked at Wei Ziyu and defended Wang Changsheng very seriously: "As for some people in the village who said cruel things about Changsheng in a quarrel, they are all angry words, and angry words can't be taken seriously." Although our parents have a bad temper. But I would never do such a thing. ”

Wei Ziyu nodded.

To Wang Changsheng and Xiang. He interrogated them again based on the common sense of the confessions of others, and did not really classify them as suspects in his mind. The answer of the two was as expected.

The third person to come in was Zhou Chengqi.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he bent down and politely saluted Wei Ziyu first, Wei Ziyu frowned and was writing something on the notebook, and the two officials stood behind him with a straight face. Look at his eyes as sharp as a blade. He couldn't help but shrink his neck.

Eyes turned to the other side. Fox Xiaomei took a small stool and shrank by the kitchen. Fox Dayou and Wei Sanniang, as well as Fox Fence Xiang, sat in the hall.

The momentum is like enough to go to court to try the criminal, but. The environment was relaxed and casual, which diluted the tension a bit.

Seeing Wei Ziyu raise his head, Zhou Chengqi immediately nodded and said, "Lord Wei!" His hands were nervously intertwined.

"Zhou Chengqi?" Wei Ziyu was expressionless, and his eyes were sharp.

Zhou Chengqi was so frightened that he was sweating all over his body, and he lowered his head to cover his head and nodded "yes".

"Where did you go on the night of the crime?" Wei Ziyu was straightforward and poked straight to the point.

Zhou Chengqi's clasped hands shook violently, he squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying, and said, "My lord, I didn't go anywhere that night, and I rested after dinner." ”

"Really?" Wei Ziyu raised his eyebrows: "But someone said that you have to go out for a spin at night?" ”

Zhou Chengqi felt that his mouth was dry, his throat was like smoke, he was dumb and couldn't speak, his lips trembled for a long time, and then he shouted loudly: "My lord Mingjian, because the artemisia has already emerged, I am worried that it will not grow well, so I have to go to the field for a while at night, but our vegetable field is on the other side, and it does not pass through Lao Li Tou's house at all." Besides, I really didn't go out on the night of the crime, my lord, if you don't believe me, you can go to my house and ask. ”

Wei Ziyu snorted coldly: "This is naturally to be verified." I ask you now, for the sake of your neighbors, and I don't want to kill a good person by mistake. So, I'll give you another chance, you go down first, and think about what else is missing. ”

Zhou Chengqi's face was as white as paper in an instant, his brain was buzzing, and he didn't know what to do next, and his feet were like sticking and couldn't move for half a minute, Wei Ziyu gave Liu Ya a look, and one of the Ya Gong went over to help Zhou Chengqi and dragged him out of the yard.

When Zhou Chengqi was dragged out in a trance, the people outside were frightened, and he didn't know what he had experienced inside, Wang Changsheng and Xiang, who had just calmed down, became panicked again, and the faces of Hu Yingsheng and Chongshi, who had not yet entered, turned white with fright. Hu Yingshan was quite calm, and followed the official into the courtyard with a calm face.

Wei Ziyu's questions were similar, first asked where Hu Yingsheng went on the night of the crime, and then mentioned that someone reported that one day Hu Yingshan had a big fight with Lao Li Tou because of the problem of the fields on the side of the vegetable field.

The reason is that the vegetable field of Huyingshan and the vegetable field of Lao Li Tou are next to each other, although there are ten acres of paddy fields in Huyingshan's house, but who will be too much field, this time I caught up with planting artemisia vegetables, and the ground is a little wider to harvest more artemisia?

So, Hu Yingshan pulled out the grass on the field one by one, and dug up some of the fields with a hoe, he thought, anyway, Lao Li Tou has always been not interested in the work in the field, one person is full, and the whole family is not hungry. Besides, Lao Li Tou is also lazy in his work, and in the same field, Lao Li Tou grows much less wheat than other people's families.

So he dug the field so thin that he left only one wall, so that he could distinguish between the two vegetable fields.

Who knows, I don't know much this time, Lao Li Tou was stubborn, saying that the field was too narrow, and there was no way to walk by people, so he had to ask Hu Yingshan to fill in the field back, fill it alone, dig it alone, and the two quarreled in the field for an afternoon, and finally Tang Daming came over as a peacemaker, and let Hu Yingshan fill in the field a little back, and this matter was over.

The person who reported said that the fox family has always been big in Hujia Village, perhaps, Lao Li Tou provoked Hu Yingshan and lost his face, and it is possible that Hu Yingshan has a grudge.

Of course, there is a possibility.

But in Hu Yingshan's opinion, what a big deal, in his opinion, it is just a normal stumbling between neighbors, a little contradiction, not a grudge, so, he said: "Although the small family is not a mountain of gold and silver, a big family, but in this countryside is very prosperous, I don't need to do such a stupid thing for this trivial thing." ”

Well explained!

Wei Ziyu didn't speak.

It is impossible to do such a stupid thing with a little contradiction, but it is not impossible.

After Hu Yingshan went out, it was Hu Yingsheng and Chongshi who came in.

The two of them put their hands in their sleeves, timidly Nuo Nuo, and saluted Wei Ziyu very nervously.

Wei Ziyu glanced at the two of them and did not speak. Liu Yayi, who had been standing on the side without speaking, suddenly said loudly: "Hu Yingsheng, are you guilty?" ”

The fox responded with fright, bent down and almost knelt down, his mouth snorted and touched, and he stammered for a long time: "Big, big, I don't know what the small one means?" ”

"Humph!" Liu Yashi snorted coldly, held the long knife at his waist, pointed at the fox and shouted: "Where did you go on the night of the crime, quickly recruit from the truth, if you are obsessed again...... voice paused, and then said sharply: "I will arrest all of you back to the county office!" ”

Fox Yingsheng and Chongshi's faces turned pale suddenly, and they knelt on the ground with a plop, seeing the gravel and soil on the ground under their knees, Fox Xiaomei felt pain when she watched from the side!

The fox responded with a white face, trembling lips, a look of panic, and shouted injustice: "Big, adult, wronged, wronged, ...... adult"

Chongshi was even more trembling like chaff, kneeling on the ground and shaking, his face was full of ashes! A word trembled in his mouth: "Big, big, big......"

Fox Dayou, Wei Sanniang, and Fox Lixiang all stood at the door of the hall, looking at the panicked fox Yingsheng couple kneeling in the courtyard, their faces were pale, their expressions were frightened, and their hearts were cold. Any kind of rich person has to be shorter in front of the government, and ordinary people like them have to be treated like walking on thin ice.

But for the other meaning of the officer's words, I feel a little incredible. Fox Yingsheng is an honest farmer like Fox Dayou, who kills chickens and ducks on weekdays, but he doesn't dare to harm people.

On the other side, Hu Xiaomei frowned, but she didn't expect that there were so many unknown things under the calm surface. It's a bit stupid for Hu Yingsheng and his wife to hide the truth, if such a big event happens in the village, the officials will definitely ask one by one, unless they do things quietly that night, no one knows. Otherwise, there will always be people who want to shake it out.

"Whether it is wronged or not has to wait for the adults to judge." Liu Yayi raised his eyebrows and looked vicious, pointed to the notebook in front of Wei Ziyu's desk, and said, "Some people here say that your husband and wife were not at home that night, but is there such a thing?" ”

"Great, my lord, Mingjian!" The fox was very frightened, he thought that as long as his two husbands and wives hid it, no one would know, who knew that someone knew that they had gone out that night, how could he hide it at this time, if he didn't tell the truth, he was afraid that he would really enter the county jail.

"That night, I did go out with my insider."

Hearing this, Wei Ziyu finally raised his head and looked at the two kneeling foxes on the ground, and Liu Yashi continued to ask, "Then where have you been?" Why did you hide it before, if you tell the truth this time, you may be able to avoid the pain of flesh and skin. ”

The fox couldn't help but shudder, they ordinary people had never seen it, but they still heard it, saying that as long as some prisoners entered the cell, they were first starved for three days, and then tortured with various torture instruments, and beat their skin and flesh, and life was worse than death. The adult in charge will not take the initiative to ask, but will take the initiative to confess when the prisoner can't stand it, and then draw a sign of the charge.

It's scary to think about.

The fox didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and hurriedly told the story. (To be continued......)