Chapter 382: The Real Murderer
"Since you admit it, then you don't need to say more, take these people down first, and then bring them up to see me after one person finishes the twenty boards."
These bullies are really driving this episode. It doesn't even take a few thoughts, and you can easily get their confessions.
"My lord, a few of us have found out that this mine is meritorious, why do you still beat us board?"
A few bullies hadn't understood yet, and what they said just now was just a pit dug by Duan Lang in order to lure them into jumping.
"This official advises a few people to study more after they go back, when does the law of my Great Liang Dynasty stipulate that stealing mining holes is not faulty but meritorious?"
These people are really blinded by money. Stealing the mining hole is that they don't know how to offend in the first place, and they even want to make a lot of money with this matter.
"Your Excellency, you're cheating!"
Only then did they realize that they had fallen for Duan Lang's scheme.
But at this moment in the public court, they have already confessed. It's too late to regret it.
"You don't need to say much, right now the official wants to ask you, who went to Zhang Zisheng's house early yesterday morning?"
Hearing Zhang Zisheng's name, several people looked at each other a little, not knowing what Duan Lang meant by this.
Among them, a few people didn't even know who Zhang Zisheng was.
Lu Li had been standing beside her, without opening her mouth, she was supposed to record the process of Duan Lang's interrogation, but she didn't like to write records very much, so she handed over this job to another colleague in the palace.
Her eyes were sharp, and she looked straight at the few people kneeling in the hall, most of these people's eyes were quite sincere, only one of them dodged, and did not dare to look directly at the others.
She turned her head and motioned to Li Dong.
"Li Dong, which person here is the one you saw at the door of Zhang Zisheng's house yesterday morning?"
Hearing Lu Li shout his name, Li Dong cautiously stood up and stood in front of several bullies to identify him.
"I said Li Dong, don't just identify us because there are four places between us, we don't even know who Zhang Zisheng is."
Although Li Dong was afraid of these bullies, he also knew that if the murderer was among them, if he didn't identify him in court this time, when he got rid of his guilt in the future, after this incident passed, he would actually come back to him for revenge, and he wouldn't even be able to save his own life at that time.
He can still tell which is more important.
"Lord Hui, the person I watched at the door of Zhang Zisheng's house yesterday was him."
Li Dong pointed to one of them.
Lu Li nodded, this person was the person she felt a little strange.
"Your Excellency has wronged! The grass people didn't even know who Zhang Zisheng was, so why did they run to their house to kill his daughter-in-law? ”
The man immediately pleaded.
"Don't be in a hurry to deny it yet, this official has his own way to identify it."
Saying that, Duan Lang gave Lu Li, who was standing next to him, a look, Lu Li nodded slightly, and beckoned Zhang Zisheng to walk in.
"You shouldn't have known it when you killed someone yesterday, Zhang Zisheng had actually woken up. It's just that he is timid by nature, hiding in the corner, watching you flee the scene after killing someone, and he doesn't have the courage to run out and fight you to the death. Lu Li said, looking down at the person who was still arguing strongly, "Zhang Zisheng, come over and see if this person is the person you saw yesterday." ”
Zhang Zisheng took two steps forward tremblingly, walked in front of the man, and bent down to take a closer look.
"That's him."
"Zhang Zisheng, don't spew blood." The man was a little annoyed. got up and was about to make a hand on Zhang Zisheng, but fortunately, the two officials next to him reached out and held him down.
"Wang Zhankui, are you angry and angry now, killing people and killing people?" Lu Li signaled that Zhang Zisheng could leave, Zhang Zisheng immediately returned the goods to a safe place, she bent her body slightly, lowered her head and looked directly at Wang Zhankui, "Wang Zhankui, your relationship with Zhang Zisheng's daughter-in-law should be unusual, right?" ”
"What nonsense are you talking about? I don't know who Zhang Zisheng is at all. I haven't even seen his daughter-in-law. Wang Zhankui quibbled.
"It's a pity, it's a pity that you usually act too much, there is no one in the street in Yingzhou City who doesn't know you Wang Zhankui, where do you usually come from, the people you see nearby, must also have an impression, and it happens that Zhang Zisheng's daughter-in-law was killed, and the people in the government are bound to visit around, ask the villagers in the street if they have seen strange people near Zhang Zisheng's house, and it just so happens that someone has seen you go to Zhang Zisheng's house when Zhang Zisheng is not at home, and stay in Zhang Zisheng's house for a long time, I saw Zhang Zisheng's daughter-in-law look hurried and sent you out of the door. It also happened that someone met you and Zhang Zisheng's daughter-in-law sneaking around in private and doing some kind of business in an uninhabited alley. I don't know if you've ever heard a saying? If you don't want people to know, unless you don't do anything, not to mention that it is a blue sky and a white day, people in the city come and go, and you won't be seen if you do anything. ”
"So, so what? The two of us are you and me. That girl has long been unaccustomed to it, Zhang Zisheng is poor and unproductive, one begs me to include her in the house, even if she is a concubine, she is not willing to follow Zhang Zisheng to continue to live a hard life, but how can I accept her as a concubine? He's just a casual pastime for me, a woman who has been married, how could I possibly want to take her into the house? It's no wonder that she knows something she shouldn't know, and she wants to threaten me with this matter, so that I can take her into the house, my Wang Zhankui has never been coerced in my life, just a woman, I will kill it, such a woman is not worth my trouble for her. ”
Wang Zhankui saw that the matter was revealed, and he didn't bother to continue to disguise, so he told the truth.
Zhang Zisheng stood aside, his face pale, he never thought that there was such a truth behind the murder of his daughter-in-law.
Li Dong on the other side also covered his mouth in surprise, he always thought that Wang Zhankui would kill Zhang Zisheng's daughter-in-law, because he asked Zhang Zisheng and his wife to order straw sandals, but he didn't expect that Wang Zhankui and Zhang Zisheng's daughter-in-law still had this kind of relationship behind them. He regretted it in his heart at the moment. If he wasn't so greedy for life and afraid of death, maybe he would still be able to hold on to the mineral in the mountains.
It's really a shot in the foot.
"You, you!" Zhang Zi trembled with anger. However, Wang Zhankui didn't care.
"Zhang Zisheng, you should thank me, if it weren't for me, how many years would you have been fooled by your bad daughter-in-law?"
"Wang Zhankui, sure enough, you killed someone." Duan Lang smiled, this time to invite you into the urn, although there are many loopholes, it still makes Wang Zhankui fall for it.