The night before the trial of Wang's butcher's violent death, Lin'an County Prison.

Since Ma Yan came, he has taken over the Lin'an County Prison, and the original prisoners in the prison have been transferred to other places to detain those involved in Zhang Gu's case.

Because Zhang Gu's strength in Lin'an County can be said to have been uprooted by Ma Yanshi, many of Zhang Gu's henchmen and clansmen are now imprisoned in the prison, all of them with panicked expressions and dull eyes.

These people rely on Zhang Gu to do evil on weekdays, but now that Zhang Gu is in prison, it is difficult to protect himself, so they naturally have no hope of turning over.

With the sound of messy footsteps, a man wearing a black hood walked into the cell, surrounded by several tall and strong men.

To the shock of the prisoners in the prison, the man who bowed down in front to guide the man in the black hood turned out to be the man who was presiding over their case, with a respectful look on his face.

"Lord Wang, he is Zhang Gu." After arriving at a single cell in the depths of the prison, Ma pointed to the man sleeping on the bed facing the wall through the wooden fence and whispered to the man wearing the black hood.

"Open!" The man wearing the black hood was none other than Li Yuntian, and he nodded to Ma Yanshi quietly.

Ma Yanshi hurriedly took out the key from his waist and opened the prison door, the sound of opening the door alarmed Zhang Gu, who was sleeping, and quickly got up from the bed, rubbed his eyes and looked at the scene in front of him a little blankly, and finally his eyes fell on Li Yuntian, because Li Yuntian was wearing a hood, he didn't know who the mysterious man who was accompanied by Ma Yanshi was.

"Master Zhang, let's meet again." Li Yuntian took off his hood and said to Zhang Gu quietly, then glanced around the cell, "It's a pity, it's in this situation." ”

"You...... You didn't come to Lin'an to do business, ...... Who exactly? By the light of the torches held by the guards behind Li Yuntian, Zhang Gu quickly recognized Li Yuntian, and couldn't help but show a shocked look on his face, realizing that Li Yuntian was not a businessman's son, otherwise he would not have been accompanied by Ma Yanshi here.

"You don't need to know who this son is, now this son will give you a chance, if you can honestly confess the hidden circumstances of the violent death of the butcher Wang in tomorrow's court trial, then a whole corpse will be left lightly, and your implicated family members will also be reduced by one degree."

Li Yuntian didn't answer Zhang Gu, but looked at him and said coldly, "This Gongzi already knows that you bought the fake work during the autopsy, and I also know that you took advantage of Bai Gongzi's rape of the Liu family, so that Bai Zhixian, who was anxious to protect the child, faked with you and wanted to put Liu Qing to death." ”

"Master Zhang, have you ever heard the phrase Skynet is magnificent and does not leak?" Saying that, Li Yuntian sneered, "To tell you the truth, Lord Xie has already sent someone to check the accounts of the two pharmacies involved in the case, and at that time, as long as you compare the account books of the two for buying and selling arsenic, you will know whether Liu Qing bought arsenic in that pharmacy store." ”

"I don't want to see your people displaced because of you, so you can decide what to do." Li Yuntian didn't stay in the cell for long, and turned around and left after admonishing Zhang Gu.

The reason why he came to see Zhang Gu in the prison this time was so that tomorrow's court trial could be carried out smoothly, and he didn't want to see the bloody scene of using the big punishment in the hall tomorrow, so he came to warn Zhang Gu.

If Zhang Gu is smart, he should know how to do it, but if he is obsessed and wants to resist stubbornly, then tomorrow's hall will inevitably stage a bloody drama of torture.

Zhang Gu was stunned when he heard this, looking at Li Yuntian's back with a look of disbelief, because he was too shocked, he was at a loss for a while, and he didn't know what to do, and watched Li Yuntian leave surrounded by Ma Yanshi and others.

"Who you are, who are you!" By the time Zhang Gu reacted, Li Yuntian had already left, he ran to the aisle, grabbed the wooden fence with both hands and shouted in the direction Li Yuntian left, "Who are you and why do you know these things!" ”

It's a pity that Li Yuntian has already gone far away and can't hear what he says at all, and even if he does, he won't answer him.

"What's the ghost called, if it's noisy, I'm going to fix you." After hearing Zhang Gu's shout, two jailers walked over, one of whom was a stout jailer and waved his fist at Zhang Gu.

When Zhang Gu heard this, he immediately glared at the jailer viciously, if he was left in the past, this stout jailer would not be worthy of lifting his shoes, but now he is the wall and everyone is pushing him, even a small jailer dares to yell at him.

After all, Zhang Gu had been in Lin'an County for a long time, so although the stout jailer saw Zhang Gu glaring at him, he still pretended to turn a blind eye and left with a scolding after hesitating.

Zhang Gu sneered when he saw this, and then walked to the side of the bed and sat down in despair, he was in a very complicated mood now, he didn't know the identity of the mysterious boy in front of him, and he didn't know how this mysterious boy got the secret that outsiders couldn't know.

Early the next morning, the county government of Lin'an County was crowded, full of people who came to hear the trial, and some even came from other counties.

There are two rows of round stools on both sides of the hall of the county government in Lin'an County for those local officials to sit, but there is one thing that seems very abrupt, that is, there is a Taishi chair at the bottom right of the lobby, which is incompatible with the two rows of round stools, which attracts the people gathered in the courtyard outside the hall to whisper and discuss, secretly guessing which court member will sit on the Taishi chair.

At the beginning of the hour, Xie Muen came to the lobby surrounded by local officials in Zhejiang, and the people gathered in the courtyard outside the hall suddenly quieted down, and stretched out their heads one by one to wait for the court trial to begin.

The officials of the Third Division of Zhejiang showed a look of surprise on their faces when they saw the Taishi chair placed in the lobby, it was obvious that this Taishi chair was not prepared for them, there were strict rules on the seats in the officialdom, and none of them was qualified to overwhelm the other party to sit on the Taishi chair.

Moreover, like this kind of court judge, they already knew in advance where their seats were, so after entering the hall, they all sat down on their respective round benches according to their ranks, and officials like Bai Dezhang who were not of enough level could only bow down and stand behind those officials present.

"The people involved in the violent death of the butcher Wang Qi." Sitting behind the desk in the lobby was naturally Xie Muen, and after everyone sat down, he patted the wood in surprise and shouted in a deep voice.

The real name of the king butcher is called Wang Qi, but because he is engaged in the business of slaughtering, people are used to calling him "Wang butcher" and rarely call him by his real name.

Soon, under the gaze of everyone, two men and women in prison uniforms were brought up and knelt side by side in front of the hall, the two were Liu Qing and Liu.

Since all the people in today's trial were from the Zhejiang territory, Liu Qing and Liu were given the opportunity to wash up and change into new prison uniforms.

Although the bodies of the two of them looked clean and tidy, they looked haggard, their eyes looked a little dull, and there were some old scars on their faces, especially Liu Qing's limp when he walked, which showed that he had been tortured a lot before.

"Liu Qing and Liu, do you two admit to poisoning Wang Qi?" Xie Muen glanced at Liu Qing and Liu, and asked in a deep voice.

"Min...... The woman pleaded guilty. Liu couldn't help but shudder when he heard this, kowtowed to Xie Muen and said.

Hearing this, Bai Dezhang, who was standing at the end of the queue of officials on the left, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, as long as the Liu family confessed, then the next thing would be much easier.

"My lord, the student is wronged, the student really has nothing to do with this matter, I hope the master will know it." Liu Qing couldn't help tears burst out of his eyes, and said to Xie Muen with his head touching the ground.

Since Xie Muen took over the violent death of Wang Butcher, Liu Qing and Liu, who were in custody, were allowed to meet with their families, so Liu Qing already knew Xie Muen's identity, knew that Xie Muen was the deputy envoy of the Jiangnan Patrol, and the envoy was the famous Zhongwu King of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that this case is in the hands of Xie Muen, King Zhongwu will definitely know that King Zhongwu is the important minister of the Ming Dynasty and a celebrity in front of the Empress Dowager, which is tantamount to the fact that this case has been cleared.

Therefore, Liu Qing knew that this was his last chance to overturn the case, so he loudly complained to Xie Muen, otherwise he would be sorry for his sister who had suffered a lot for his case.

"Bold Liu Qing, the evidence of this case is conclusive, you once personally confessed to conspiring with the Liu family to poison Wang Qi during the court trial, and now you dare to repent, it is really hateful."

At this time, a middle-aged man wearing a second-grade official robe who was sitting in the upper seat on the left side of the lobby stretched out his hand and pointed at Liu Qing, and scolded loudly, he was Zhao Fu, the political envoy of Zhejiang.

Zhao Fu once held a court to try the case of the violent death of Wang Butcher, when Liu Qing and Liu pleaded guilty and signed the confession, plus the confessions of other witnesses, it was enough to convict the two.

However, because Liu Qing's eldest sister and friends in the same department rushed to sue for him, the Criminal Department sent back the official document reported by the Zhejiang Procuratorate to convict Liu Qing and Liu for retrial, which made Zhao Fu quite annoyed.

Now Liu Qing retracted his confession in front of Xie Muen, which not only made Zhao Fu's face gloomy, but also made the case of Butcher Wang's violent death more complicated.

The case of Wang Butcher's violent death has implicated many people in the past two years from Lin'an County to Hangzhou Prefecture and even Zhejiang's Political Envoy and Prosecutor's Department, and Zhao Fu naturally does not want this case to cause any more waves, but ends it calmly.

But with Liu Qing's confession and Zhao Fu's wish to come to naught, he is actually not afraid of Xie Muen trying this case, even if Xie Muen can try something to settle it, how can a person who becomes a second-class member of the Ming Dynasty be an idle person? There is a lot of power behind each person.

What Zhao Fu is really afraid of is Li Yuntian behind Xie Muen, if Li Yuntian pays attention to this case, then the situation will become strict, not to mention him, even those powerful auxiliary ministers in the court have no good way, and it is inevitable that a group of officials will be implicated at that time.

Because of this, Zhao Fu seemed so out of shape just now, he had already asked people to "warn" Liu Qing not to talk nonsense in the court, but to "honestly explain the case" in the lobby, so that he could save his life for the sake of his previous fame, and settle his family well, who would have thought that Liu Qing would ignore his "kindness" and then intensify the case.