It was still the same child who opened the door, winceing and looking at him. Leng Yi gently pinched his little face, then walked into the courtyard, came to the door, patted the door, and said, "Song Cai, I am Leng Yi, the magistrate of Yinling County, and I came here just now." ”

Song Cai's weak voice came from the room: "Please come in, lord!" ”

Leng Yi cautiously pushed open the door and walked in, and saw Song Cai's lady holding the scissors in her hand and hiding behind the curtain, still shivering.

Leng Yi immediately stood still, slowed down his voice as much as possible, and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person, I'm here to help you." ”

Song Cai also said: "Child, Master Leng is a good person, don't be afraid, come out." ”

The two of them comforted him for a long time, and then persuaded his wife to come out, trembling, holding the bed pole with a pale face, only lowering his head, and not daring to look at Leng Yi.

Leng Yi stretched out his hand, walked forward slowly, and said warmly: "Give me the scissors, okay?" I have a thread on my dress, and I want to borrow your scissors to use it. All right? ”

Song knew Leng Yi's intentions, and also helped: "Yes! If the lord wants to use scissors, you can lend the scissors to the lord first. ”

Song Cai's daughter-in-law cringed and handed the scissors to Leng Yi. Leng Yi took the scissors and said, "I have something to tell your husband, you go outside to accompany the children, okay?" ”

Song Cai hurriedly said to his daughter-in-law: "It's okay, you go out, I'll talk to the eldest master about things, it's okay, don't worry." You're outside, close the yard door, and the bad guys won't be able to get in! Song Cai's daughter-in-law nodded, hugged her shoulders, and went out the door.

Leng Yi closed the door and sat on a stool opposite Song Cai, looked at him, and said slowly: "I know, it was you who killed Hao Wei's wife Xia!" ”

Song Cai was shocked, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's not me!" Hao Wei and I are good brothers, and it is because of our good relationship that the Su family is united with him. She's like my own sister-in-law, how could I kill her? ”

Leng Yi picked up the Naha scissors and said, "This scissor is yours, right?" ”

"yes!"

"Haven't you lost it?"

"Nope!"

Leng Yi took out a small paper bag from his arms, opened the seal, poured out a pointed tip the size of a grain of rice from it, and said: "This is what we just took from the gap in the skull of Hao Wei's wife's corpse, and it is believed that it was broken in the skull when the murderer killed the victim." With that, he gently placed the severed head on the cut of the scissors, and it fitted perfectly!

Song Cai's face suddenly turned pale. Panicked: "It's not me! He's my good brother's wife, and I have no reason to kill her! ”

"You have no motive to kill her, but you hate the eldest young master of the Su family to the core, if you kill him directly, the government will immediately suspect you. So, you negotiate with someone who also has an enemy and make an exchange for killing! -- You help him to kill his enemy, and he helps you to kill your enemy, so that you have no vendetta against each of your enemies, and the government will not be able to suspect you, and when your enemy is killed, you have sufficient alibi, and you cannot be a suspect in the murder of your enemy, and as long as you cannot find evidence of your negotiation and exchange of murder, you are likely to get away with it. Indeed, this is a good means of revenge, but it is a pity that you have shown your feet here with me, and I have caught you killing evidence. In fact, it was a coincidence, I happened to see the scissors with a broken tip in your wife's hand, and the wound of the deceased was the same as the wound formed by the scissor stab, which proves that your scissors are the murder weapon! -- Anyway, who is the one who exchanged you for killing? ”

Song Cai bowed his head and was silent.

Leng Yi said: "You don't say it, in fact, I also know that it's Chang Lichang, right?" ”

Song Cai was shocked again and looked at Leng Yi. He was very strange, how could this magistrate find out the truth so quickly?

Leng Yi seemed to see through his thoughts, and said, "It's not difficult to find out the person who exchanged murder with you. Since it is an exchange killing, it is naturally the enemy of the person you killed, and the list of enemies provided by Hao Wei has Chang Lichang's name, but he was excluded because he had sufficient alibi evidence. The place where the eldest young master of the Su family was killed was not far from Changli's house. I haven't asked him yet, but, I'm sure, he couldn't find an alibi. So, he's most likely the one who swapped you for killing! As for why he killed Hao Wei's wife, I also guessed a thing or two. I asked him earlier what kind of grudge their family had with Chang Lichang, and Chang Lichang flickered. Changli's family is a big family in the village, and Hao Wei's family is very poor, but in a short period of time, he suddenly became rich and built a big tiled house. How did the money come about? I believe it may well have something to do with this case. ”

Song Cai's face was not bloody.

Leng Yi said: "Since I have found the exact evidence of your murder, I didn't bring the arrest to arrest you, do you know why?" ”

Song Cai shook his head gloomily.

"Because I know you must be doing it for a reason. And it's forgivable. ”

Song Cai looked at Leng Yi gratefully.

Leng Yi said: "Now, are you willing to tell me the truth of the matter?" ”

Song Cai had no choice, he could only nod and said: "Young Master Su, raped my wife, I went to the yamen to complain, but the yamen said that it was my wife who seduced him, I saw with my own eyes that they stuffed the cloth ball into my lady's mouth and didn't let her shout, and raped her according to my lady's hands and feet, my lady cried and struggled, how did it become a seduction?" Seeing that my lady was frightened and humiliated because of this, I swore that I would kill him for revenge! However, I knew that he was followed by a bunch of thugs and servants when he went out, and I followed him a few times with a knife, but I didn't have a chance to do it at all, but I was almost discovered by him. At this time, Chang Li came to my house and told me privately that it was impossible for me to kill him like this, and I was so frightened by his words that I broke out in a cold sweat, and he told me that he had a way to get me revenge, and asked me if I would like to. As long as I can take revenge, I am willing to do anything! He said, he helped me kill the eldest young master of the Su family, and I helped him kill Hao Wei and his wife. ”

Leng Yi was stunned for a moment, and said, "Kill him and his wife?" Why? ”

That's what I asked him. He said I didn't need to know this, but I said it, I had to know whether he should kill or not, I couldn't kill a good person. So he sneered and said that if Hao Wei and his wife are good people, there will be no good people in the world! He said that Hao Wei and his wife set a trap and deliberately invited him to his home to eat wine, but he drugged his wine, and then Hao Wei left under the pretext of leaving, Chang Lichang drank the drug and passed out, and when he woke up, he found that he was holding a woman all over his body, and he thought it was his mother, and he was drunk and didn't care to check it carefully, so he had sex with her. Then someone broke in with a lantern and a knife, and Chang Lichang saw that it was Hao Wei, but beside him was Hao Wei's wife! Hao Wei's lady immediately cried and said that Chang Li had forcibly annihilated her. Chang Li's head was dazed, he didn't know what to do, and he didn't know what was happening, Hao Wei was forced with a knife, so he asked him to write a confession, admitting that he had forcibly annihilated Hao Wei's wife, and was willing to compensate one hundred taels of silver. Chang Lichang was very scared, and he did have sex with Hao Wei's wife, so he wrote it in a daze. Afterwards, they also sent them a hundred taels of silver, but after Hao Wei and his wife got the one hundred taels, they were insatiable and did not return the confession to him, but continued to extort from him. If you don't give it, you will threaten to sue the official. Chang Lichang was blackmailed by him for three hundred taels of silver, and Hao Wei and his wife had no intention of stopping. Moreover, Hao Wei also made a request that he couldn't accept! ”

"What requirements?"

He asked Chang Li Chang to give Chang Lichang's wife to sleep with him once, and the matter was settled. And Chang Lichang's wife is the daughter of a big family, and it is impossible to agree to this ridiculous request, but expose the matter, so Chang Li Chang decided to kill him. But he was worried that he would kill people directly, which would arouse suspicion, because Hao Wei had already told his family and relatives about this matter, of course, he just said that Chang Li Chang had a handle in their hands and took money to seal their mouths, but he didn't say anything. ”

Leng Yi said: "The human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant, and the greed is insatiable, which leads to the disaster of killing." ”

Song Cai continued: "After listening to it, I thought that Hao Wei's family was suddenly very rich during this time, and it turned out to be like this, so I believed it." The two of us began to discuss the details of the killing. Okay, I'll kill Hao Wei's wife first, then he will kill the eldest young master of the Su family, and then, I'll kill Hao Wei. He said that if I kill one more person, he will compensate me, two hundred taels of silver, and let us leave here and go to distant relatives, and I agreed. Anyway, although Hao Wei and I have a good relationship, I don't like their husband and wife very much, and I can't care about it in order to take revenge. The two of us agreed on a specific time for the killing, so that the other party could leave the village that day and look for evidence of an alibi. After learning that Hao Wei had gone to his parents' house, we decided to do it. That day, I drank a lot of wine, and when I saw that there was no one around, I took a pair of scissors and came to Hao Wei's house, called the door, she happened to be cooking, I chatted with her in the kitchen, and while she was not paying attention, a pair of scissors pierced her head from behind, and she fell, and I stabbed her a few more times, making sure she was dead, and then ran back home. Chang Lichang still kept his word, and after three days, he killed Young Master Su. ”

"How did he kill him, you know?"

He didn't say it, but he usually was with Young Master Su and had a lot of opportunities. After he killed Young Master Su, he urged me to kill Hao Wei quickly. However, the Su family suspected that I did it, so they arrested me and beat me severely, Chang Lichang came forward to persuade me to send it to the Yamen, so he sent it to the Yamen, and later released it, and the Su family kept staring at us, I didn't have time to kill Hao Wei at all, and now that I am sick again, there is no way to do it. ”

(To be continued)