After Lu Jin's reassurance and assurance, Ye Dayou finally put his mind at ease, and then told about what happened to him-

It turned out that Ye Dayou was from Huguang, and because of the famine in his hometown, he came to Suzhou to seek refuge with his uncle. Unexpectedly, his maternal uncle had already moved elsewhere a few years ago, and the entanglement on his body was exhausted, and he could only live in Beigang Village in the end.

Fortunately, Zhuang Qiang, a villager in Beigang Village, was a kind-hearted person, and after knowing what happened to Ye Dayou, he temporarily took him into his home. And Ye Dayou is also a grateful person, and in the past half a month, he has been helping the dealer farm and has become an outsider in his family.

After telling why he stayed in Beigang Village, Ye Dayou said with grievances: "My lord, although the grass people have not read any books, they will never do such a thing of revenge, otherwise they will be willing to be thundered by the sky, and I hope that the adults will know it!" As he spoke, he knelt on the ground again and slammed his head.

Lu Zhen looked at this sincere face and believed it six or seven points. However, he said: "You are just a one-sided statement, even if my government wants to clear your grievances, there must be more clues and evidence." Let me ask you, on the day Zhuang Qiang was killed, did anything happen in his family? ”

"This ......" Ye Dayou looked hesitant, and after thinking hard, he shook his head a little blankly: "That day was no different from usual." I went to the fields early in the morning and didn't return until late afternoon......"

"Nothing weird? Then Zhuang Qiang also works in the field with you? Lu Zhen asked again with a wry smile. He knew very well that with this person's mind, he would definitely not pay attention to certain details. And in many cases, in fact, the most important thing is a certain detail.

Ye Dayou shook his head and said: "Brother Zhuang is not in the field, because I helped him farm the land, so he went to do other things in those days." I heard that he was going to come to Suzhou City early in the morning to talk about a deal, and he ...... "Speaking of this, he was suddenly stunned, as if he had thought of something.

"And what?" Lu Zhen hurriedly asked.

"And Brother Zhuang also told me before he left to take care of the family more, because he planned to stay at a friend's house in Suzhou City that night." Ye Dayou's face was also full of surprise at this time.

As for Lu Jin, he frowned even more: "Zhuang Qiang didn't plan to go home, but he was found dead in his yard early the next morning, which is indeed a bit strange." Thinking of this, he raised his eyes again and looked at Ye Dayou: "Then did you see or hear anything strange that night?" ”

"...... that night," Ye Dayou tried to recall again. After a while, he screamed, as if he remembered something, which made his face change suddenly, full of regret.

"Why, but what weird things came to mind?" Lu Zhen hurriedly asked.

"Around two o'clock that night, I had fallen asleep, but I had not yet fallen asleep, when I heard the door of the courtyard being opened. At that time, I thought that Brother Zhuang was back, so I didn't take it too seriously. Could it be that Brother Zhuang returned home at this time, and then ...... And then the thief? Ye Dayou said, his face was already full of self-blame: "If I had gone out to take a look, maybe Brother Zhuang wouldn't have had an accident." ”

Lu Zhen didn't think so, if someone really followed Zhuang Qiang all the way to attack him, how could he not kill until he entered the house? Wouldn't it be easier to kill people out there?

So from this point of view, it seems that there is someone else who appeared in the banker's yard in the middle of the night. And in this way, things are even more strange, because what Ye Dayou heard was someone opening the door to enter the courtyard, and now the courtyard door of ordinary people can only be opened from the inside once it is bolted, which means that it was the people in the courtyard who let the people outside in at that time.

A thought suddenly came out of Lu Jin's heart, but he was not in a hurry to make an inference, but continued to ask, "What about after that?" Did you hear anything else that night? ”

"I haven't heard of it again." Ye Dayou shook his head, and then explained: "As long as I fall asleep, I won't wake up with thunder." ”

Lu Zhen nodded, and asked Ye Dayou to step forward again, showing his hands in front of his eyes, and after carefully examining them, he waved his hand and ordered someone to take him down to watch it.

Then, he smiled and said to Li Xianfeng on the side: "Master Li, can you hear any problems?" ”

As the official in charge of the affairs of the prison in the first government, Li Xianfeng naturally has some skills in judging the case, and Ye Dayou's remarks just now also made him hear some clues from it: "If what Ye Dayou said is indeed true, then this case is indeed very strange." It's just that this is just the words of his family, and in the absence of empirical evidence, I am afraid it will be difficult to overturn the case. ”

What Li Xianfeng said is also the truth, and there is a difference between overturning a case and adjudicating a case. When the case is decided, the county government can naturally convict a suspect as the murderer without conclusive evidence. But if the government wants to overturn the case for Ye Dayou, it must come up with convincing evidence.

Lu Zhen naturally understood this, but he didn't feel embarrassed, he just smiled and said: "I may not dare to say anything else, but this Ye Dayou must have been wronged." ”

"Oh? How so? Li Xianfeng asked a little puzzled.

Lu Zhen took the murder knife that was still on the case in front of him and still had some black bloodstains, and walked to Li Xianfeng: "My lord, please look, this is the murder knife that was found outside Ye Dayou's room that day, do you think there is anything special about this knife?" ”

Li Xianfeng took a closer look, this knife looked like an ordinary sharp knife, if there was anything different, it seemed that there was only a gauntlet such as a swallowing knife on the handle. After only a little silence, he already understood the reason: "You just carefully examined Ye Dayou's hands, just to see if there are any signs of being cut by a knife at his tiger's mouth?" ”

"Your Excellency really knows what is going on, that's exactly what happened! If this knife wants to be used to stab someone, it will inevitably hurt the murderer himself because of the shock. And although Ye Dayou's hand was also a little injured, it was left when he was tortured in the county government before, but there was no knife wound in the tiger's mouth. Lu Zhen said his judgment with a solemn face: "So it follows from this that Ye Dayou did not kill Zhuang Qiang with this knife." ”

Li Xianfeng pondered for a moment, and finally nodded: "You are right, this murder weapon left in front of Ye Dayou's door can prove that it is innocent." If this knife was not a murder weapon, Ye Dayou would naturally be blamed and become an innocent person. And if this knife is indeed a murder weapon, and there is no corresponding wound on his hand, it is enough to prove that it was not Zhuang Qiang who he killed. ”

After a pause, he looked at Lu Zhen again: "However, these are not enough. Our government wants to overturn the case, but we still need to find out the real murderer. ”

"I understand below, so I plan to go to Beigang Village tomorrow to see what is going on." Lu Zhen immediately expressed his thoughts.

"Well, it's good to go there and have a look. But you have to be careful when you go, because the villagers don't want to make any more trouble. Li Xianfeng admonished.

Lu Jin hurriedly thanked him, and understood the meaning of his words. Previously convicting Ye Dayou as the murderer was the most suitable result for the people of Beigang Village. Because this is an outsider, there is no connection or loss to everyone. But once Lu Zhen told them that Ye Dayou was wronged and that the murderer was someone else, then no matter whether there was a real murderer in the village or not, the villagers would oppose and resist the government to investigate all this again.

But Lu Jin didn't back down because of this, he just smiled and said: "It's a matter of two lives, no matter how difficult it is, I must find out the truth of this case." ”

Li Xianfeng smiled silently, but said in his heart, are you doing all this just to repay Ye Dayou justice and avenge the deceased?

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Early the next morning, after asking Kang Sichuan, Lu Zhen took three messengers out of the city and went straight to Beigang Village in the north of Suzhou. And all this was quickly seen by people with a heart, and then the news was hurriedly sent to the county government of Wuxian County and reported to the front of Dian Shi Liao's judgment.

After listening to the report, the anger on Liao Xianyan's face became a little stronger: "This Lu Zhen is really unrelenting." Looks like he's going to have to fight me to the end. In that case, let's let you suffer again! ”

And his words came to pass.

When Lu Zhen led people to Beigang Village, after explaining his intentions, the villagers all looked at them with anger, and none of them led them to the banker's house, and even some people snorted and said: "Obviously the murderer has been caught, but it still takes this effort, can the yamen mess around?" ”

"That is, everyone in our village can testify that day, and the murderer is the person surnamed Ye from outside, can so many of us still wronged him?"

The villagers, you and I surrounded Lu Zhen and the four of them kept accusing, as if they wanted to use this tough attitude to drive the other party out of the village. There were even a few village men who were bold enough and had a bad temper next to them, raising their hoes and other farm tools in their hands, as if as long as Lu Zhen and them said the wrong word, they would pounce fiercely.

This made the three errand officers who came with Lu Zhen full of fear, and they unconsciously retreated. Although they usually use their official status to show off their might, they are just some people who bully the weak and fear the hard, and once they encounter these villagers who are more fierce than them, they suddenly dare not be arrogant.

But Lu Zhen was unmoved, and in the face of everyone's accusations and intimidation, not only did he not retreat, but stepped forward to meet him, and shouted loudly: "A group of foolish men and stupid women, this is a big case of human life, how can the government arbitrarily determine a murderer according to your will." If you dare to stop it, you have a ghost in your heart, and I'm afraid that Zhuang Qiang's death has nothing to do with you people. Whoever dares to stop me today will be the murderer of Zhuang Qiang! ”

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