Li Rizhi escorted Zhen Mengde and Wu Penghui back to the county government in Bocheng County.

Li Rizhi interrogated these two people alone, Wu Penghui and Zhen Mengde had already woken up at this time, both of them were pressed out of some internal injuries, and they both sat on the ground dejectedly at this time.

Li Rizhi called Fu Guibao and Cheng Zizi in, closed the door of the house, and Li Rizhi asked, "Wu Penghui, what is your real name?" It turned out that Wu Penghui, the county magistrate of Bocheng County, who came here to take office, was killed by you? ”

Wu Penghui hesitated for a moment, and then raised his head and said: "If it is said that I killed it, it will be successful, but in fact, it is not that I killed him, I just gave him a pleasure and let him suffer less torture." ”

Li Rizhi snorted and said: "Don't say these ambiguous words, make it clear, you should also understand that things have developed to this point, what you have to do is how to let yourself suffer less sin, so as not to be too painful, if you dare to say this kind of ambiguous words again, then this official will let you know what it means to be alive and more painful than dead!" ”

Wu Penghui had no choice but to say: "In our original plan, we didn't actually want to kill Wu Penghui, we just wanted to imprison him, after all, killing the imperial court officials, we are afraid that the imperial court will be entangled in the future and affect our future life, after all, we are going for glory and wealth, not for trouble." ”

Li Rizhi laughed and said: "You are afraid that the court will be entangled, you are really good at imagining, what is your name, first make your name clear." ”

Wu Penghui said: "I am also surnamed Wu, and my name is simple, called Wu Bufu, the fortune teller who named me said, because my surname is Wu, I don't read the words, just listening to the sound is 'nothing', there is no meaning, so I must give a negative name in order to cancel each other out and become truly rich." ”

Then, Wu Bufu told the story of this case, he was very single, he knew that he could not resist at this time, and he himself was a ringing horse leader, and he had done a lot of torture things, he knew very well that if he had a hard mouth at this time, then the fragmentary living crimes must not be less, he didn't want to suffer these living crimes, even if he wanted to die, he wanted to die happily.

The whole case is almost the same as what Li Rizhi guessed, but in the matter of Wu Penghui, the former county commander, it is slightly different from what Li Rizhi guessed.

When Wu Bufu first started, he really didn't want to kill Wu Penghui, he just wanted to imprison Wu Penghui, in this way, when Wu Bufu escaped, Wu Penghui could be a scapegoat, as long as Wu Penghui was willing to cooperate, then he would not be killed, of course, this was just Wu Bufu's idea.

In fact, after Wu Penghui, the former county commander, was caught, he was very angry, resolutely refused to cooperate, and absolutely refused to be in the same league with Wu Bufu, and even thought that it was his shame to be caught by Xiangma, so he actually hit his head against the wall and wanted to commit suicide.

The result may be because Wu Penghui is a scholar, so his strength is not strong enough, he hit his head and bled out, but he did not die immediately, but the attitude of non-cooperation has been very obvious.

Wu Bufu had no choice but to make up for the seriously injured and dying Wu Penghui to make him die happily, and Wu Bufu had to pretend to be Wu Penghui to take office in Bocheng County, which was what happened later.

Wu Bufu is still quite acquainted, he can say whatever he wants, and he doesn't beg for mercy, he even takes all the blame on himself, but Zhen Mengde next to him is different.

Zhen Mengde is more afraid of death the older he gets, and he thinks that sin does not lead to death, he heard that Wu Bufu took all the blame, so he thought that he had the possibility of living.

Zhen Mengde opened his mouth and begged for mercy: "Lord Inspector, the villain is old, and he hasn't done anything bad, just confused, and the villain still has some credit." ”

Li Rizhi asked, "Do you still have some credit?" Okay, so let's talk about it, what credit do you have? ”

Zhen Mengde saw Li Rizhi talking to him, and hurriedly said: "The villain has done his best to all the matters of the Zen Sealing Ceremony, and they have done it properly, especially the projects everywhere have been completed very well, even if they let others do it, it is impossible to do it better."

Moreover, the villain caught a lot of moths for the imperial court, and the villain pretended to embezzle various expenses from the imperial court to test the merchants in the city, especially those who opened pawnshops, and found that they dared to sell these corrupt goods! Dare to be greedy for the cost of the Zen ceremony, this is a great disrespect to the imperial court, the villain pulled out these moths, so it is not only innocent, but meritorious! ”

Li Rizhi said: "Aren't all the money you embezzled, you asked them to sell the stolen goods for you!" ”

Zhen Mengde immediately shook his head like a rattle and said, "The villain is not corrupt, the villain is just using this method to investigate and deal with those illegal merchants!" This was done to welcome the Zen Sealing Ceremony, and it was to clean up all the traitors in Yanzhou City first. The villain did this completely out of public intentions, after all, the villain has been an official for many years and has been deeply favored by the court, and this is the time to repay! ”

Cheng Zizi and Fu Guibao next to him listened to it, and they both expressed their admiration for Zhen Mengde's cheekiness, and sure enough, it was a ringing horse leader and an old bureaucrat, and the two were combined together, and their cheekiness was really thicker than the city wall.

If at this time, Li Rizhi wants to ask questions further, then Zhen Mengde's strange theories will emerge one after another.

For example, Li Rizhi asked him: "Then why did you catch you in Foxtail Gou?" ”

Zhen Mengde will answer as a matter of course, he went to catch the thief, and then caught Wu Bufu, so Li Rizhi caught him, it was a complete misunderstanding, no matter what, he is also the current Yanzhou assassin, Li Rizhi is not right to arrest him, he should be released immediately.

But Li Rizhi didn't give him a chance to defend himself, and he didn't want to listen to Zhen Mengde's strange theories, so he asked Cheng Zizi and Fu Guibao to take the two of them down.

Li Rizhi began to write letters, he wrote a letter to Xu Jingzong, anyway, he is now under the name of Zhongshu Province, he is a subordinate of Xu Jingzong, and Xu Jingzong was the prime minister of the dynasty, how to deal with such a big case? It should be up to Xu Jingzong to decide.

Li Rizhi wrote the details of the case into the letter, and asked what to do with Zhen Mengde and Wu Bufu, and after writing them one by one, he called Cheng Zizi and asked Cheng Zizai to send the letter to Xu Jingzong quickly.

After dealing with these things, Li Rizhi sent people to Yanzhou again and summoned the officials there, and how to deal with the affairs of Bocheng County had to be discussed by everyone.

The next day, the officials of Yanzhou arrived together, and some of the officials learned the news, but they did not dare to say that this case was too extensive, and only one Zhen Mengde and Wu Bufu, two people would make a mess of one state and one county, it was simply appalling, who dared to talk nonsense about this matter.