Leng Yi asked, "Why are you barefoot?" ”

"Because ......" Hong Jie gritted his teeth and said: "Because I ......, I have a good ...... with Sister Huang, when the shopkeeper Xie knocked on the door, we were ......, in Hehuan ......" Remembering that he was still loving and loving just now, now that the Huang family has become a corpse, Hong Jie's heart is like a knife, and he can't help but have red circles in his eyes.

Shopkeeper Xie yelled: "Fart! How can my lady be annihilated by you? She is virtuous and virtuous, the most guarded woman, you obviously sneaked into my house, hid in the closet, and while my lady was asleep, came out and raped and killed her, you even slandered her reputation, I, I fought with you! ”

Saying that, Shopkeeper Xie was about to pounce on Hong Jie to beat him, but he was kicked away by Hong Jie, and said sadly: "You are fighting with me? I'm still trying to find you! You thief! Why did you kill Sister Huang? ”

"You killed it!"

"It's not me! You are killed! ”

"That's it!" Leng Yi interrupted them, "This official is investigating the case, no noise!" ”

Both shut up.

Leng Yi thought for a while and asked Hong Jie, "How did you get in?" ”

"I told Sister Huang that she would leave the door for me."

At this time, Deputy Song rushed back, called Leng Yi aside, and reported in a low voice, saying that they had inquired about the family that Shopkeeper Xie said, and the family all proved that on the second watch day of the crime, Shopkeeper Xie was indeed eating and drinking at their house.

Leng Yi frowned, feeling very strange in his heart. After thinking about it first, he ordered Hong Jie and Shopkeeper Xie to be taken out, and the little maid who first found Hong Jie coming out of the room called to continue to investigate.

The little maid was very frightened, and came in and knelt down and kowtowed. The petite body trembled incessantly.

Leng Yi said: "You don't have to be afraid, you just need to tell what happened." ”

"Yes!" The little maid's voice trembled a little, "When it was dark, my grandmother told me that I didn't need to wait, she wanted to rest quietly, so I went back to my room, and I didn't dare to sleep, for fear that my grandmother would call me again, so I sat down and worked as a female worker." When I was correcting, I heard a loud bang at my grandmother's door, as if something had fallen on the ground, which startled me, and I hurriedly got up and opened the door and came out, but there was no one in the hallway. I walked to the front of my grandmother's bedroom and listened, but there was no movement. But I was not at ease, and I stood there hesitating to knock on the door and ask my grandmother if there was anything wrong. At this time, the door of grandma's room suddenly opened, and a man came out in a panic, that is, we caught that person, and I heard that it was still the Yamen's fast catch. I don't know how he got to his grandmother's house. I was frightened, thinking it was a thief, so I cried out. When the servants below heard this, they all rushed up, tied him up, and escorted him to the yamen. ”

Leng Yi asked, "Did he say anything when he came out of your grandmother's house?" ”

"Say, he heard me screaming to catch the thief! Someone! He said that he was not a thief, but a fast catcher from the yamen, and I said who believes that you are a fast catcher, how could a fast catcher come to someone's house in the middle of the night? He said to leave it alone, saying that our grandmother was killed in the house, and that we should report it to the police immediately. When I heard this, I was even more frightened, and shouted hard, but they came up and grabbed him, and when we went in, my grandmother was dead. We hurriedly asked someone to call the master. ”

"Didn't he do anything to you when you shouted?"

"No, he just stood in the doorway and talked. I'm scared now, too, what if he came up and strangled me? I really shouldn't have shouted it so loudly, but I was terrified. I simply couldn't think of so much. ”

"Did he want to run away?"

"No, he's been standing there."

Leng Yi asked again: "You said that you heard a loud bang in the hallway, so you came out of the room, right?" ”

"Yes!"

Leng Yi carried a lantern, walked out of the bedroom, came to the hallway, and looked down. Suddenly, he saw a fist-sized stone by the wall of the walkway. He walked over, squatted down to look at it, turned to the little maid, and said, "Where did this stone come from?" ”

The little maid came over to take a look, shook her head and said, "I don't know." ”

"Didn't you have it before?"

"Definitely not! Because I was cleaning upstairs, and when I cleaned the walkway during the day, I didn't have this stone. ”

Leng Yi turned his head to look at the stairs, at the end of the walkway, he walked to the railing of the walkway again, and looked down, there was a small garden below, not far away, which was the back door that Hong Jie said he came in.

Leng Yi asked the little maid to step back and brought Hong Jie up.

Leng Yi asked, "When you came out of the room, did you hear any unusual noise?" ”

Hong Jie immediately said: "There was a sound, like the sound of everything falling on the floor, when there was a loud bang." It's right outside in the walkway. At that time, I was coming out of the closet, about to check on Sister Huang's condition, and this sound startled me. I thought it was Shopkeeper Xie who broke the door and rushed in, and almost wanted to jump out of the window to run. Fortunately, there was no movement on the other side of the door, so I was relieved. ”

Leng Yi looked at him and said in a low voice: "Now, there are only two of us in the house, you tell me the truth, did you kill the Huang family?" ”

Hong Jie wore shackles, knelt on the ground with a grunt, and choked up: "Master, I swear, it really wasn't me who killed it, it was Hong Jie who killed it, I like Sister Huang so much, how could I kill her?" I am telling the truth now, and if I lie, the sky will thunder! ”

Leng Yi nodded and said, "With my understanding of you, you don't seem to be a person who makes a ghost's heart, and if you really want to kill your lover Huang, you shouldn't choose to come to her house and kill people in her bedroom." And after the killing, he didn't go through the window and absconded, but opened the door and came out to talk to the maid outside. This is not normal. ”

Hong Jie was ecstatic, kowtowed with shackles and said, "Thank you, Lord Mingcha!" You are really the savior of my villain, and the little one will never forget ......! ”

Leng Yi smiled bitterly: "It's too early to say this, although there are these unreasonable places, but you were caught red-handed at the scene of the murder, and you have already admitted that you have a relationship with the Huang family." Therefore, it is still difficult for you to escape the suspicion of killing the Huang family! ”

Hong Jie's heart suddenly cooled half, and he stayed on the spot, and after a while, he said sadly: "Master, I was wronged!" I'm really wronged......! ”

"Then you have to find a way to clear your name! You yourself are also a fast catcher, and you are responsible for solving the case. Now that you're caught in the middle of it, you must find evidence to prove your innocence! ”

Hong Jie nodded, sat on the ground, and tried desperately to calm himself down. Thinking about it. Said slowly: "I'm sure Shopkeeper Xie came back at that time, just when the second watch was over, because before he came in, Sister Huang and I heard the sound of the watch in the distance, and it happened to be the second correction!" At that time, Sister Huang also said that it was too good, and he would only come back at dawn every time, and we would have at least three hours to be together. So I remember it very well. He said he was having dinner with friends at the time, and he must have lied! ”

"However, Deputy Song has already investigated, and he was indeed in that family's house at that time, and that family can prove it."

"That family is lying!" Hong Jie was a little hysterical, "I saw him in the house with my own eyes, I saw it really, it was impossible to be wrong, even if I was wrong, Sister Huang couldn't be wrong!" She also called him husband and had sex with him, if it wasn't for him, how could Sister Huang be like this! ”

Leng Yi nodded: "That's right." Well, in this case, I'll check the family up again and see if they're lying! ”

"Thank you, sir!" Hong Jie was busy kowtowing again, choking up and thanking him repeatedly.

Leng Yi called Song Zhukuai and a few soap li, and came to the family house that the shopkeeper Xie said in a sedan chair.

This family is not far from Shopkeeper Xie's house, it is also by the city wall, and it is more remote. When the family heard that the eldest judge was coming, the whole family hurriedly came out and knelt at the door.

Leng Yi hurriedly called them up, entered the living room, and sat down as guests.

Leng Yi asked the rest of the family to avoid it first, leaving only the parents, who were old men. Leng Yi said: "This official came this time, and it was the previous incident of Deputy Song's arrest, because the stakes are very important, so the county has to verify it again." You must answer truthfully, this is a matter of human murder, and it is not a child's play. ”

The old man hurriedly stood up respectfully, bowed his hand, and promised, "The villain will never dare to deceive the big man." What I said to the head catcher before is true. ”

Leng Yi said: "Okay, this official will ask you again, what is the relationship between the shopkeeper Xie of this silk shop and you?" ”

"It's a fellow countryman. The two families often go back and forth. ”

"When did he come to your house for a feast?"

"I came before the change. He continued to eat and drink until after the second correction, when he said that he was drunk and wanted to go back. And he left. ”

"Two corrections? How do you know it's a second correction at that time? ”

"I know better."

"Oh......" Leng Yi thought for a moment and asked again, "How many of you drink?" How much did you drink? ”

"Three people drink, old decay and dogs, and shopkeeper Xie. I drank a total of two jars of rice wine. Originally, I invited the shopkeeper brothers, one person and a half altar are just right, but his younger brother happens to have something to do, he likes to drink very much, and people talk funny, if they come, it will be very lively. Unfortunately he couldn't come, so the three of us drank most of the jar by ourselves, and we were almost all drunk. ”

Leng Yi said: "Shopkeeper Xie has a younger brother? What for? ”

"He is the steward of his house."

"Oh," Leng Yi nodded, "Where was the shopkeeper Xie sitting at that time?" Where do you sit? ”

Deputy Song next to him couldn't help but be embarrassed when he heard Leng Yi ask so carefully, and at the same time secretly admired Leng Yi's carefulness in his heart, only by being so careful in investigating the case could it be possible to find more clues and find flaws in the case.

Leng Yi asked a lot of similar questions in order to determine if Shopkeeper Xie had actually come here for dinner. After he finished questioning the old man, he carefully questioned the other people in the house one by one.

(To be continued)