Chapter 160: One Stone Stirs Up a Thousand Waves
On 17 September, early in the morning, the Yamen of the Inspectorate Department was surrounded by the people who had come to see the excitement on the third floor and the outer three floors, and they gathered in groups to discuss and discuss, with noisy voices and extraordinary excitement.
Yesterday, after Li Yu asked people to post a notice of the retrial of the Mingyue Pavilion case, the entire Wuchang City was a sensation, who would have thought that the newly promoted eighty-five people would speak to Li Yu at the Luming banquet because of the Mingyue Pavilion case, and Li Yu also asked Xinke Xie Yuan and Jing Kui to assist Lord Zhentai in the trial of the case, which was unheard of.
What is particularly surprising is that Xinke Xie Yuanlang actually said that he would end the murder case in Mingyue Pavilion within one day, which made everyone feel that Li Hongyu was too arrogant, but at the same time, it also successfully aroused everyone's interest to see what Li Hongyu was capable of.
"Do you think this Li Xie Yuan has some killer weapon in his hand, otherwise he would dare to boast of such a Haikou?"
"What a killer weapon, as soon as the punishment is served, you can have whatever confession you want."
"Yes, why can't Miki ask for it?"
"Don't fiddle with the few taels of ink in your stomach there, but after only a few days of private school, I think Li Jieyuan is confident, and this time he may give us a surprise."
"Have you heard, the casino has opened again, betting on whether Li Jieyuan will take the opportunity to torture and find a substitute for the dead ghost to conclude the case of Mingyue Pavilion this time."
"I heard that the casino made a lot of money last time, who would have thought that Li Xie Yuan would stand out!"
"What, the casino made a wedding dress for someone else last time, and I heard that the money was won by a mysterious gambler, and he took 500,000 taels in one go!"
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In the crowd, the people talked a lot about today's court trial and Li Hongyu, to be honest, there are very few people who believe that Li Hongyu can find out the truth, and more people think that Li Hongyu is just exculpating Li Hongyi by doing this, and the court will definitely beat the criminals.
However, Zhu Wanting absolutely believed that Li Hongyu could find out the truth about the murder case in Mingyue Pavilion, but it was inconvenient for her to go to the scene to see the excitement, so she made an appointment with Zhu Shengchang and Zhu Yuting to wait for the latest news of the court trial in a teahouse not far from Yamen Street.
At the window facing the street on the third floor of the teahouse, Zhu Wanting, Zhu Yuting and Zhu Shengchang sat around the tea table and talked and laughed while sipping fragrant tea.
"Sister, it seems that this Li Hongyu is not an idle person, he dares to boast of such a big Haikou, there must be something to rely on." While talking and laughing, Zhu Shengchang glanced at the crowded people gathered on the street downstairs, put down the teacup in his hand and said to Zhu Wanting with a smile.
"What is there to rely on? It's just a big punishment, and when those people are beaten to death, they can have whatever they want. "Listen
Hearing this, Zhu Yuting said with some disapproval, she didn't believe that Li Hongyu would be able to conclude the case of Mingyue Pavilion in one day, as far as she knew, this case was very complicated, and it would definitely take a lot of time and energy to figure it out.
"This is not necessarily, even if he wants to bend into a move, I'm afraid Fang Jingkui won't be willing to, otherwise, where is Fang Jingkui's face?" Zhu Wanting smiled and looked at the closed courtyard door of the Yamen of the Inspectorate with great interest, and she couldn't wait to know how Li Hongyu would end the case.
Today's court trial not only attracted a large number of people, Zheng Lin and Yan Yan also sent people to hear the trial, after all, the case of Mingyue Pavilion was related to the students, so the two naturally had to pay more attention.
As soon as the time came, the yamen of the Inspectorate slowly opened with a loud creak, and the people in front of the queue immediately swarmed in, filling the courtyard to the brim.
Zhao Xin, Shen Bocheng and other people who came to hear the trial naturally stood at the front of the crowd of people who heard the trial, talking to each other in a low voice, to be honest, the vast majority of people were not optimistic that Li Hongyu would be able to conclude the case today, and Li Hongyu would be shooting himself in the foot.
Since the time of today's court trial was set at the beginning of the hour, not long after the people entered the courtyard, Li Hongyu and others came to the lobby surrounded Lu Chongde, which made the noisy scene suddenly quiet.
As the chief judge of today's case, Lu Chongde naturally sat behind the desk in the lobby, and the officials sent by Li Hongyu, Fang Yun, Yan Yan, and Zheng Lin to hear the trial sat behind the tables in front of the sides on both sides.
With the arrival of Li Hongyu and others, the court trial officially began, to everyone's surprise, the first person to be brought to the court was a middle-aged man with five big and three thick, and he did not appear during the last court trial, and the sharp-eyed people immediately recognized the other party as the cook of Mingyue Pavilion.
It's a pity that because Han Tai was involved in the case of Mingyue Pavilion, he is now waiting in the wing of the Prosecutor's Office, otherwise his face will change greatly after seeing Chen Aniu, and he will never think that Chen Aniu will be found.
"The villain Chen Aniu knocked on Lord Zhentai." Chen Aniu knelt down before and after coming to the hall, kowtowing in a proper manner.
"Tell me who you are, and why you were arrested?" Lu Chongde glanced at Chen Aniu and asked quietly.
"Lord Huitai, the villain is the cook of Mingyue Pavilion, and he was arrested and imprisoned by the government for killing Xu Tao, a student of Changsha Mansion." Where does Chen Aniu still have a choice now, confessed honestly, and then pleaded with his head to the ground, "The villain is blinded, and Lord Wangtai will see it." β
"He killed Xu Shengyuan?" Hearing this, the people who were listening to the trial outside the hall exploded with a bang, and no one thought that Chen Aniu would say such earth-shattering words.
"Silence!" Seeing this, Lu Chongde slapped the shocking wood hard, and the scene quieted down, otherwise those who made noise would be arrested by the messenger to hit the board.
"Tell the officer, who have deceived you, do you have any evidence?" Under the surprised gaze of everyone, Lu Chongde opened his mouth and asked Chen Aniu in a deep voice.
"Back to Lord Zhentai, the villain was deceived by the red card and red sleeves of the Mingyue Pavilion, and he didn't know in advance that the person he asked the villain to kill was a living master, otherwise he wouldn't dare to do it even if he killed the villain."
Hearing this, Chen Aniu hurriedly replied, "The villain has evidence to prove that the red sleeves are the main messengers, and the villain has some jewelry in his hand that the red sleeves gave to the villain, and the villain also has the murder weapon in his hand at that time and a letter found from Xu Shengyuan's body, which can prove that Xu Shengyuan was deceived by that letter." β
With a bang, there was a commotion at the scene again, and it was obvious that everyone was surprised that Red Sleeves was involved in the case, but it seemed logical, after all, only Red Sleeves could interfere with the events of that night.
"Is that one of these things?" Lu Chongde waved his hand, and the two servants each came to Chen Aniu with a tray, and then asked in a deep voice.
In one tray was a bloody murder weapon, exactly the same as the one the government had previously found in the red-sleeved room, and in the other tray were several valuable gold and silver jewelry and the letter used to lure Xu Tao.
"Exactly." Chen Aniu looked at the two trays and nodded repeatedly.
"Say, what's going on?" Seeing this, Lu Chongde was shocked and asked loudly.
"Lord Zhentai, the small one is too greedy for money, so that it causes a big disaster." When Chen Aniu heard this, a trace of annoyance suddenly flashed on his face, and he told the story of the incident one by one, knowing that if he had been killed today, he would not have taken this purchase if he was killed.
With Chen Aniu's confession, Lu Chongde summoned the subordinate who gave Li Hongyi's sachet to Chen Aniu that night, and the people in the casino also proved that Chen Aniu suddenly became rich after the Mingyue Pavilion case, which further proved that what Chen Aniu said was true.
After Chen Aniu and others signed and drew on the confession, Lu Chongde passed the red sleeves up, because the psychological defense line of the red sleeves had been broken by Li Hongyu, so in the face of Lu Chongde's questioning, he very happily admitted that he hired Chen Aniu to kill Xu Tao.
Red Sleeves' answer caused another commotion among the people who were hearing the trial, and no one expected Red Sleeves to admit such a serious crime so easily.
"Red sleeves, you have no grievances with that Xu Shengren, why do you want to kill him?" Lu Chongde ignored the commotion of the crowd this time, and asked quietly after the red sleeves confessed, "Is there an accomplice?" β
"Back to Taiwan, the folk girl met a student who came to take the township exam three years ago, and with his help, the mother of the folk girl was able to get rid of the torture of illness."
Red Sleeves hesitated when he heard this, then sighed, and said faintly, "Before the township test this year, the folk girl met the student again, and he wanted the folk girl to help him avenge his fiancΓ©e's ****, and promised to accept the folk girl as a concubine in the future, so the folk girl agreed to him at a moment's notice and killed Xu Shengren according to the plan." β
The people who were talking in a low voice outside the hall couldn't help but quiet down when they heard this, and they all looked at Red Sleeves curiously, wanting to know who the student in Red Sleeves was.
"Who is the man of your mouth?" Lu Chongde was very satisfied with the reaction of the people at the scene, and preferred this kind of comfort in controlling the overall situation, so he glanced around at the people who were looking forward to it and deliberately asked Red Sleeves with a straight face.
"I'm trying to get a test in the township." Under the curious gaze of the people, after the red sleeves bit their lips, two words slowly burst out of their mouths, "Hankook!" β
"Han Yakui?"
"How is this possible, how could Han Yakui do such a murderous act?"
"She must be framing, Han Yakui and Xu Tao are close friends, how can they kill him?"
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At this moment, the people exploded with a bang, and no one thought that Red Sleeves would actually accuse Han Tai, the new Ke Yakui, of killing people, which is simply incredible.
The two officials sent by Yan Yan and Zheng Lin to hear the trial were also taken aback, and looked at Lu Chongde in amazement, obviously thinking that Red Sleeves was lying, so they hoped that he could stop the farce.
"Do you have proof?" Who would have thought that Lu Chongde didn't scold the red sleeves, and asked expressionlessly after slapping the scene a few times to make the scene quiet.
"The letter that lured Xu Shengyuan out that night is the best proof, that letter was written by Han Yakui, just check the handwriting." Red Sleeves couldn't help but smile bitterly, and after a deep groan, he said in a coquettish voice, this is the best evidence of Han Tai's involvement in the Mingyue Pavilion case.
In fact, Hankook could have asked someone else to write the letter, so that he could have chosen from the case.
But in this way, there is no guarantee that Xu Tao will go to the appointment on time after seeing the letter, after all, Liu has been dead for more than two years, and there is no need for him to take risks.
But if Xu Tao recognized the handwriting on the letter and guessed that the letter writer was Han Tai, then the situation would be different, and he would definitely go to see Han Tai in order to solve Liu's matter.
It's just that Han Tai didn't expect Chen Aniu to use the letter and the murder weapon to blackmail Red Sleeves so quickly, and then make the matter exposed.
In fact, Han Tai is ready to get rid of Chen Aniu after the rumors of the Mingyue Pavilion case, so that he and Red Sleeves will be really safe, and no one will pay attention to the death of a gambling chef anyway, but unfortunately he doesn't know the existence of Li Hongyu's uncertain factor, which eventually leads to a failure.