Song Ruilong immediately instructed: "Tie Zhutou, Shen Zhutou, each of you two will take four officials to investigate every suspicious place in Ping'an County, and be sure to find out Zhao Dazhi."

Tie Chong and Shen Jing took the order.

At sunset, Tie Chong caught Zhao Dazhi in the City God Temple in the south of the city. According to the clues provided by Zhao Dazhi, Tie Chong and Shen Jing jointly arrested Zhao Dazhi's two accomplices, Guo Kai and Yang Xinhu, to the county government.

After Tie Chong and Shen Jing reported the arrest process to Song Ruilong in the county office, Song Ruilong looked at Tie Chong and Shen Jing happily and said, "You two have worked hard. I thought it would take a lot of effort to arrest these three people, but I didn't expect the two of you to catch the suspect in less than two hours. ”

Tie Chong smiled and said, "My lord has won the prize, this is our business."

Song Ruilong and Su Xianrong immediately asked Zhao Dazhi to be brought to the interrogation room, and asked Tie Chong and Shen Jing to interrogate Guo Kai in another room.

In the interrogation room, Zhao Dazhi looked at Song Ruilong and Su Xianrong and said, "My lord, I don't know what crime Xiaomin has committed?" The adults want to arrest the little people here. ”

Song Ruilong said solemnly: "Zhao Dazhi, this county asks you, where were you the night before yesterday, that is, on the night of July 20th?"

Zhao Dazhi tilted his head back and said, "Of course Xiaomin is sleeping at home."

Song Ruilong was not angry, and said, "This county will ask you again, do you know Yang Lianshan?"

Zhao Dazhi nodded and said, "Yes, Xiaomin also helped Yang Lianshan back then." If it weren't for Xiaomin, Yang Lianshan would not have been able to open a grocery store in Ping'an County for so long. ”

Song Ruilong was a little strange and said, "Your words, this county doesn't understand." You don't have a proper job, your life is very poor, what do you do to help Yang Lianshan? Reputedly. You yourself still owe a lot of money on credit in Yang Lianshan's grocery store every month, I don't know if there is such a thing? ”

Zhao Dazhi said: "Back then, that is, three years ago, Yang Lianshan opened a Yang Ji grocery store, but later, there was a gangster named Zhou Xiaoliu. Zhou Xiaoliu told Yang Lianshan that if he still wanted to spread the groceries in Ping'an County, he had to pay Zhou Xiaoliu ten taels of silver every month. Isn't this clearly a collection of protection money? Xiaomin was strong at that time, and after hearing such a thing, he was very angry, and he taught Zhou Xiaoliu a lesson that day. Zhou Xiaoliu promised Xiaomin. He said that he would never dare to go to Yang Lianshan's house to collect protection money in the future, and I told him that he had to leave Ping'an County within a month, and he would not be allowed to be seen by the people. Zhou Xiaoliu really disappeared after a month. In order to thank Xiaomin, Yang Lianshan gave Xiaomin a hundred taels of silver at that time. And said that if Xiaomin has any trouble in the future, Yang Lianshan is willing to help. So Xiaomin owed Yang Lianshan money, and he never said anything. And Xiaomin is also very trustworthy and owes money. On the seventh day it will be repaid, and no matter how much is owed, it will be repaid. ”

Song Ruilong said: "This county asks you." What do you do? Where does you get so much money in a month? Why did you promise Yang Lianshan the night before yesterday that he would return five hundred taels of silver the next day? ”

Zhao Dazhi said with some embarrassment: "This ...... This small people have their own way. ”

Song Ruilong said very seriously: "Your solution is to kill Yang Lianshan, as long as there is no creditor, your money naturally does not have to be repaid."

Zhao Dazhi smiled bitterly: "My lord, do you suspect that Xiaomin killed Yang Lianshan?"

Song Ruilong said: "Isn't it impossible?"

Zhao Dazhi helplessly explained: "Why did Xiaomin kill Yang Lianshan? Is it for five hundred taels of silver? Adults may not know that the money that Xiaomin owed Yang Lianshan was five thousand taels at most, at that time. Xiaomin didn't have any intention to kill, this time it was only five hundred taels, and Xiaomin was even more unlikely to kill. ”

Song Ruilong was not sure whether Zhao Dazhi's words were true or not, but he felt that Zhao Dazhi's motive for killing Yang Lianshan was not strong.

Song Ruilong continued to ask: "Then what do you think of Yang Lianshan's death?" Who is likely to have done it? ”

Zhao Dazhi pondered, then shook his head and said, "It's really hard to say. To say that this Yang Lianshan is really good. Usually, if there are beggars on the street who come to his shop to beg for money, he will give it, and there are some people who are living in poverty, if there is no cash to settle the bill, Yang Lianshan will always let them owe it first. Yang Lianshan told me about a person, this person seems to be called Wang Datong, he often owes things on credit at Yang Lianshan's house, I heard that there are more than 100 taels of silver, but Wang Datong has no intention of repaying the money. For this matter, Yang Lianshan also quarreled with Wang Datong, the quarrel was very fierce, and Yang Lianshan died that night. Adults should go to this Wang Datong to ask, shouldn't they look for Xiaomin! ”

When Song Ruilong was about to interrogate, someone knocked on the door outside the interrogation room.

Song Ruilong stopped interrogating. After walking out of the interrogation room, he saw Tie Chong holding two confessions in his hands, and said, "My lord, Guo Kai and Yang Xinhu have already confessed. There is not much difference between the two of them's confessions, and it is certain that they did not have time to commit the crime last night. ”

Song Ruilong listened to Tie Chong's report, looked at the confession, and said, "You and Shen Jing have done a good job."

Tie Chong sighed: "Hey! In this way, we did not catch the murderer. ”

Song Ruilong said: "We have investigated people who have no motive to commit the crime, which is also a kind of progress, so that we will get closer and closer to the truth." Rest assured, the murderer can't escape from my Five Finger Mountain. ”

Song Ruilong took the confessions of Guo Kai and Yang Xinhu, walked into the interrogation room, and after closing the door of the interrogation room, he took the confession in his hand, shook it twice, and said, "Zhao Dazhi, do you know what these two things are in the hands of this county?"

Zhao Dazhi glanced at it, bowed his head and said, "That's the confidential document of the county government, right?" How would Xiaomin know what it was? ”

Song Ruilong said: "You're right. This is the confidential document of the county government, but this confidential document has something to do with you. ”

Zhao Dazhi shook his head and said, "Xiaomin doesn't understand."

Song Ruilong said: "These two confidential documents are the confessions of Guo Kai and Yang Xinhu. What will the two of them say in their confessions, needless to say, I believe you know very well, right? ”

Song Ruilong said with a straight face: "Tell me honestly, what did the three of you do last night?"

Zhao Dazhi was helpless and said timidly: "Xiaomin said." Xiao Min and Guo Kai and Yang Xinhu went to Xiao Yuexiang and Xiao Yuan's house last night to steal. Originally, we already had an internal response, but we didn't expect the identity of internal response to be exposed, and the three of us were almost caught by Xiao Yuanwai's family. The three of us didn't steal the silver, but were chased by Xiao Yuexiang's family, so Xiaomin hid in the Chenghuang Temple in the south of the city. If you don't believe it, you can ask Xiao Yuexiang and Xiao Yuanwai. ”

(To be continued.) )