When Yang Huairen saw Tao Yong say this, he also thought that he could not immediately admit that he had killed someone as soon as he asked. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's just that Tao Yong has not been distracted since he was arrested and now he has been interrogated, and he just used the word "misunderstanding", which seems to be expressing that this matter has nothing to do with him at all, which makes Yang Huairen also a little suspicious, at least he doesn't look like the person who killed people directly.

After all, the motive of the crime and the actual crime are two different things, and at present, Tao Yong is the person who meets the criminal motive and criminal conditions and is the most suspected, but Yang Huairen will not be so confused that he directly identifies him as the murderer.

In order to prove a person's guilt, there must be sufficient and conclusive human and physical evidence to prove his criminal acts, otherwise even if someone voluntarily admits it, his guilt cannot be convicted on this basis.

"Tao Yong, this official asked you, where were you when you arrived at midnight last night?"

Tao Yong replied without thinking about it: "It's so late, the Sprinkle family naturally sleeps at home." ”

"Is there a witness?"

"Uh...... Sprinkle a single person, where did the witness come from? ”

"Is that proof that you weren't at the scene of the murder at that hour?"

"Hmph, no. But adults can't prove that the Sprinkle family was at the scene of the killing, right? ”

The two of them went toe-to-toe, no matter how Yang Huairen asked, Tao Yong answered fluently and did not show any flaws.

There was no way to catch his handle in terms of the time of the crime, Yang Huairen remembered that he couldn't deny the murder weapon, and then asked: "You take off the butcher's knife you used to kill sheep and present it to the official for inspection." ”

Tao Yong paused, but still untied the long blade from his waist and handed it to a catcher.

Yang Huairen took the long blade out of the skin escape, and examined it himself under the lamp, and sure enough, one side of the blade was smooth and the other side was a blood groove, which basically matched the wound on Zhang Laohu's corpse.

"Tao Yong, the sheep butcher knife you carried with you is the same as the knife wound on the deceased Zhang Laohu, what else do you have to say?"

When Zhang Lushi heard this, he immediately stepped forward angrily to fight with Tao Yong, but was stopped by the catcher next to her, she howled again, knelt on the ground and shouted, "The old body knows that it was this red-faced evil ghost who killed An'er, and begged the adult to be the master of the people's women......"

Tao Yong's eyebrows were frowned, his expression was serious, and he said righteously: "My lord is clear, even if my lord determines that the murder weapon used by the person who killed Zhang Laohu was the same sheep butcher knife as the Sprinkle family, it can't be said that the Sprinkle family killed someone!"

In this Qizhou city, it is not a family that slaughters sheep and sells mutton, counting the counties and towns around Qizhou, there are not a thousand people with such knives, but also eight hundred! ”

"There are indeed a lot of people with such knives, but there are people who have a common enmity with Zhang Laohu, and have enough ability to kill him and then leave safely, I'm afraid there is no second one in Qizhou City, right?"

"This ......"

Tao Yong continued to argue with an unchanged face, "My lord, this doesn't mean anything, maybe someone knows the grudge between the Sprinkle family and Zhang Laohu, and deliberately used a sheep butcher knife to kill people, the purpose is to frame the Sprinkle family?" ”

Yang Huairen sighed that Tao Yong is indeed worthy of being a person in the rivers and lakes who has seen the world, in such a scene, ordinary people have long been frightened and their legs are weak, and he did not have any panic, he still thinks clearly, and expresses his meaning clearly, so that Yang Huairen cannot find the doubts in his words.

He is known as the red-faced Yama in the rivers and lakes, because he is bold and careful, maybe even if he sees the real Yama, he will not panic.

Just when Yang Huairen was helpless against Tao Yong, a catcher ran in and shouted, "Found it!" Got it! ”

"But the murder weapon was found?"

This catcher seemed to have a layer of ice on his body, and replied breathlessly: "Lord Huiyu, yes, yes, exactly!" ”

With that, he took a burden from his back, and after untying it, a butcher's knife covered by a bloody cloth was revealed.

Yang Huairen was overjoyed, "Where did you find it?" ”

"Returning to my lordship, according to my lord's orders, our two shifts searched the streets around Zhang's Mansion and Zhang's Mansion for an afternoon, and we didn't find any similar sharp weapons at that time.

After nightfall, when the brothers were about to disperse and return to their lives, Xiaodi's mouth was dry, and he wanted to go to a well in front of Zhang's house to quench his thirst.

Adults also know that this heavy snow has been falling for several days, and the rivers and lakes in Qizhou City have frozen, but the water in the well is four or five zhang deep underground, except for a thin layer of ice on the upper surface, the water below is not frozen, and the well water in our city is all live spring water, which is not very cold.

In the past few days, because of the cold weather and the slippery road, everyone is too lazy to go out to fetch water, and they all scrape a layer of snow from the yard or eaves to boil water and drink it back to the house, so the thin ice of the well water is covered with a layer of snow and has not been damaged much.

During the day, when we looked into the well, we saw that a layer of snow was intact and thought that the murder weapon would not have been dropped in the well, but when a bucket was thrown down at the bottom of the small bottom and the thin ice was broken, we suddenly vaguely saw a reflected cold light at the bottom of the well.

Xiao Di hurriedly found his brother and tied Xiao Di to a rope and put it down the well. Xiao Di went to the well and found that the cold light was indeed a sharp weapon, who would throw a sharp blade into the well for no reason?

At that time, I thought that the murderer must have thrown the murder weapon at the bottom of the well after killing someone, so Xiao Di braved the cold and jumped into the well water to take the sharp blade, and he didn't care about the cold, and ran all the way to tell the adults! ”

"Uh-huh, yes, you're really tired, look at the reward!"

Yang Huairen looked at Xie Changli and said, "How about rewarding this fast brother with two dollars?" ”

Xie Changli knew that this was asking him to pay, and he didn't dare to object in front of the Qin Cha, so he had to echo: "Yes, what the envoy said is too right, you should be rewarded, you will go to the account office of the mansion tomorrow to pay two yuan to reward the money." ”

Catching Kuai's heart is happy, two yuan is equivalent to his three months' income, and it is not in vain that he has been affected by the cold all day.

He brought the butcher's knife from the well to the table in front of Yang Huairen, and then happily hid next to a brazier to keep warm.

Yang Huairen picked up the sheep butcher knife with some ice and compared it with Tao Yong's knife, and sure enough, it was a sheep butcher knife of the same shape.

But on closer inspection, he noticed something strange. Tao Yong's hand, which should be a lamb that is often slaughtered, looks a little older, and there are obvious marks of frequent polishing on the blade, so it also maintains a good sharpness and sharpness.

The sheep butcher's knife found in the newly delivered well was obviously a new knife that had not been used, and there were no slight scratches left by grinding with a whetstone, but the tip of the blade was curled.