Chapter 158: Arraignment
"Chen Aniu, do you want to resist to the end?" Seeing Chen Aniu looking at him in horror, Li Hongyu's face turned cold, and he shouted, "One thousand two hundred knives, do you want to taste it?" ”
"Big ...... Adults are Mingjian, and small ...... The villain was deceived, otherwise it would not have been ...... Don't dare to hurt the old man. Chen Aniu trembled with fright when he heard this, and the cold sweat on his forehead burst out in an instant, and he hurriedly replied with his head touching the ground with a frightened expression.
Because Li Hongyu caught Chen Aniu off guard, coupled with the coercion brought by Lu Chongde, what is particularly important is that Li Hongyu said verbatim about his private collusion with Red Sleeves, which made Chen Aniu's psychological defense line as a thief was shattered in an instant, and in the face of Li Hongyu's drunkenness where there was still a little luck, he honestly admitted the crime.
Looking at Chen Aniu, who opened his mouth to confess, a stunned look suddenly flashed on Lu Chongde's face, although he is a veteran of trying cases, he has experienced nearly a thousand cases, large and small, but he has never encountered a murderer who committed such a serious crime to confess without moving a big punishment.
Therefore, Lu Chongde couldn't help but look at Li Hongyu with admiration in his heart, he never expected that the young Li Hongyu would have such a city government, and he would lead Chen Aniu to explain the case with just a few words, which was far more clever than the method of torture.
"Say, where is the murder weapon now?" A subtle smile flashed at the corner of Li Hongyu's mouth, and he asked expressionlessly, it seems that his previous guess was correct, Chen Aniu really kept the murder weapon and other evidence to blackmail Red Sleeves.
"Little ...... The villain buries it ...... It was buried under a large tree in the Chenghuang Temple in the east of the city. Hearing this, Chen Aniu raised his head, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and looked at Li Hongyu with a frightened expression, "Big ...... Adult, small ...... The villain is deceived and looks ...... I hope you will see it. ”
"What else is there besides the murder weapon?" Li Hongyu asked with a gloomy face, looking at him quietly.
"Also...... And the letter that tricked Xu Tao into going to the appointment, Xiao ...... The villain searched from Xu Tao's corpse, and the red-sleeved girl originally wanted to, but the villain prevaricated on the grounds that it was burned. Where did Chen Aniu dare to hide it at this time, and answered honestly, he also thought that Li Hongyu knew about it.
"Where did you put the money you extorted from Redsleeves?" Li Hongyu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he glared at Chen Aniu expressionlessly.
All along, Li Hongyu felt that it was a little unreasonable for Xu Tao to run out in the middle of the night, and something must have happened during the period, but now it seems that his guess is correct, Xu Tao was deceived after receiving a letter.
Of course, Li Hongyu wanted to know the content of the letter, but he knew that there was no way to rush this matter, so he continued to ask Chen Aniu about other things.
"Back to the lord, the villain hid those belongings in the chicken coop of the concubine's house in the town outside the city." How did Chen Aniu know that he had fallen into Li Hongyu's trap, and confessed one by one.
"Now you tell the case as it is, if you have a correct attitude, Lord Zhentai will be counted as having the intention of repenting at that time, and the crime will be reduced." Li Hongyu had already gotten what he wanted at this time, so he looked at Chen Aniu and threw out an olive branch, as long as he knew the murder weapon, the letter and the property of the red sleeves, Chen Aniu was already indefensible, and the charge was confirmed.
"The villain must be honest, he must be honest!" Chen Aniu's clothes were already wet with sweat at this time, and he wiped the sweat on his forehead again and again while nodding and replying, and honestly told what happened.
It turned out that a few days before the Mingyue Pavilion case, Chen Aniu owed the casino a sum of money, he was a gambler, naturally no one was willing to lend him it, just when he was so anxious to jump up and down, Red Sleeves found him and was willing to pay a lot of money for him to kill someone, and the process was absolutely safe.
Chen Aniu was not a good person in the first place, and was immediately attracted by the reward, agreed to do the deal, and went outside to buy two identical short knives as murder weapons, one of which was handed over to Red Sleeves.
Before the murder, Red Sleeves asked someone to hand over a sachet to Chen Aniu, telling him to go to the garden of Mingyue Pavilion in the early hours of the morning to kill a man surnamed Xu who had gone to find someone, stuff the sachet into the other party's hand, and then search for a letter from his body.
Chen Aniu followed the instructions of the red sleeves, and went to the agreed place to hide in the dead of night before the appointed time in the morning, and soon waited for a sneaky person to come over, he picked out from the dark and asked the identity of the other party, knowing that the other party was the man surnamed Xu he was waiting for, so he took out the murder weapon and killed him, leaving the sachet and searching for a letter from the deceased.
It's a pity that Chen Aniu can't read, so he doesn't know the content of the letter, but he guessed that it was definitely an important item, otherwise Red Sleeves wouldn't have specifically asked him to take the letter back.
Therefore, Chen Aniu kept an eye on it, put the letter away, and prepared to use it to threaten Red Sleeves when he was short of money in the future, so that Red Sleeves would become his cash cow.
He only learned after the incident that he killed an applicant from Changsha Mansion, so he did not dare to act rashly before the rumors of the case passed according to Red Sleeves' instructions.
It wasn't until Li Renhe left Wuchang City that Chen Aniu thought that the case of Mingyue Pavilion had been settled, so he couldn't help but run away to gamble with the gambling desire in his heart, and then revealed his identity.
Because of the trap set by the casino, Chen Aniu lost a fine amount of the reward given to him by Red Sleeves, and then went to blackmail Red Sleeves, who was forced to take out the private money he had saved and gave it to him.
Who would have thought that not long after Chen Aniu blackmailed from the red sleeves, he was kidnapped by a group of unknown men one night, and almost drowned in the river in the city.
"Lord Zhentai, that slut with red sleeves is really a poisonous woman, she gave those belongings to the villain on the surface, but secretly hired someone to kill the villain, if it wasn't for the villain's good water nature, she would drown in the river, and then she would definitely end up with a reputation of falling into the water after drinking."
After explaining the ins and outs of the matter, Chen Aniu gritted his teeth and looked at Lu Chongde and said, "Like such a poisonous woman, the adults must sentence her to a thousand cuts!" ”
"Let him sign it." Lu Chongde didn't bother to pay attention to Chen Aniu, waved his hand at the document that was making a record on the side, and said quietly, as long as Chen Aniu was taken down as the murderer, then the case of Mingyue Pavilion would actually be solved.
The clerk immediately brought the confession written according to Chen Aniu's previous narration to Chen Aniu, and Chen Aniu pressed his handprint on each page of the confession and the name at the end of the check-off under the guidance of the clerk, and then was taken down by the jailer.
"Li Xie Yuan and Fang Jingkui, are you arraigning Red Sleeves?"
After Chen Aniu was taken away, Lu Chongde looked at Li Hongyu and Fang Yun with some unsatisfactory feelings, wanting to see if the two of them could also take off the red sleeves, so that tomorrow's court trial would be much smoother.
"Obey the orders of Lord Zhentai." Li Hongyu and Fang Yun glanced at each other, and then said in unison.
"Red Sleeves is the key figure in the Mingyue Pavilion murder case, if he can be made to confess truthfully, then the case has been solved." Lu Chongde groaned for a moment when he heard this, looked at Li Hongyu and Fang Yun solemnly and said, "The matter of tomorrow's retrial has been announced in the four cities, and all walks of life are concerned about it, for the sake of safety, it is better to take down the red sleeves first, and then you can go all out to deal with Hankoi!" ”
"Your Excellency has a point." Li Hongyu and Fang Yun said in unison when they heard this.
The two were originally going to "uniform" Red Sleeves and Han Tai in public in the lobby tomorrow, but Lu Chongde was a little worried about tomorrow's court trial, so he came to settle Red Sleeves tonight in advance.
In the eyes of Li Hongyu and Fang Yun, fighting with Han Tai is the highlight of the Ming Heaven Trial, Han Tai is the Yakui of the Jinke Township Test, and his identity and influence are not comparable to the red sleeves.
Because Li Yu decided to retry the case, all the people involved in the Mingyue Pavilion case were arrested and brought to the prison of the Yamen of the Prosecutor's Office, and they did not know about the retrial of the Mingyue Pavilion case tomorrow, and key people involved in the case like Red Sleeves were held in solitary confinement.
Red Sleeves didn't know why the official officials wanted to put her in prison, and she was also a member of the Yamen of the Inspectorate, so she was worried about this.
She thought of the case of Mingyue Pavilion, but the case of Mingyue Pavilion had not been concluded, and she did not hear the rumor that someone wanted to overturn the case, besides, this case was concluded by Li Yuxi, how could it be so easy to overturn?
Therefore, although Red Sleeves was worried, she didn't think that she came in because of the case in Mingyue Pavilion, so she racked her brains to figure out who she had offended.
"The folk girl has seen Lord Zhentai!"
When she was taken into the torture room by the jailer, Red Sleeves was taken aback when she saw Lu Chongde, unlike Chen Aniu, she had not only seen Lu Chongde but also served him, so she hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to salute, secretly guessing in her heart Lu Chongde's intention to arrest herself in prison.
"Redsleeves, are you guilty?" Lu Chongde glanced at the red sleeves, and said with a sinking face.
"Lord Zhentai, the people are frightened, and they don't know where the sin comes from." Red Sleeves trembled suddenly in his heart when he heard this, and an ominous premonition arose, and he pretended to look at Lu Chongde calmly and asked.
Lu Chongde keenly noticed the subtle changes in the red sleeves' eyes, and knew that she must be very nervous at this time, so he sneered and looked at Li Hongyu, although he didn't want to admit it, but the young Li Hongyu was really good at interrogating the case, and he had just the right amount of proportion, so that he had to feel admiration after a long time in prison.
"Red Sleeves, what did you do in the Mingyue Pavilion case?" Seeing this, Li Hongyu bowed to Lu Chongde, looked at the red sleeves with a cold expression, and asked coldly.
"The case of Mingyue Pavilion!" Red Sleeves' face became a little pale in an instant when she heard this, her eyes flashed a trace of panic, and then she looked at Li Hongyu in amazement, what she was most worried about was inevitable to happen, it seems that the government is ready to retry the case.