In fact, the reason why Li Yuntian wanted to come to Lin'an County this time was also related to Han Liang, Han Liang was his friend, so he naturally would not block Han Liang.

Han Liang was very lucky, when Butcher Wang died, he had already been transferred from the post of prefect of Hangzhou Prefecture and went to Huguang to serve as the political envoy of Huguang, so he avoided the violent death of Butcher Wang.

Li Yuntian was ordered to inspect Jiangnan this time, and first repaired the local guard station, originally he thought that Xie Muen would be able to find out some major cases in the local yamen, and he could take the opportunity to rectify the rule of officials in Jiangnan.

However, Xie Muen is not Li Yuntian, even under the banner of Li Yuntian, he can't be like Li Yuntian in Jiangnan, so Li Yuntian saw that it was difficult to achieve the effect he wanted by relying on Xie Muen, so he could only use the case of the violent death of Wang Butcher to rectify the Jiangnan officialdom.

Obviously, the case of Butcher Wang's violent death has developed to the point where it is no longer just a poisoning case, and it must involve entanglements of interests in all aspects, which just gives Li Yuntian a reason to start rectifying the rule of officials, otherwise his inspection of Jiangnan this time will not be in vain.

Therefore, Li Yuntian decided to personally go out to investigate the cause of the violent death of the butcher Wang, so that the case had virtually been upgraded to the highest level case in Jiangnan, and it also meant that many officials involved in it would be unlucky.

Otherwise, where would Li Yuntian, who was busy with official business, have time to pay attention to this kind of murder case in the local area, even if Zhejiang's political envoys, envoys, inspectors, and governors could not try the case, there were still the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and Metropolitan Procuratorate, how could they not alarm Li Yuntian.

And once Li Yuntian intervenes in this case, then this case is equivalent to the sky, and it is obvious that Li Yuntian will report to the auxiliary ministers in the capital, and the auxiliary ministers will report to the orthodox emperor and the empress dowager.

"Lord, look." Just one day later, Li Zixi gave Li Yuntian another good news, and came to Li Yuntian with a pair of jade bracelets.

"Where did it come from?" Li Yuntian looked through the pair of jade bracelets and found that the texture was high-quality, the workmanship was delicate, and it should be worth more than a hundred taels of silver, so he asked quietly, did he think that Li Zixi would let him see the jade bracelet for no reason, it must have involved the case.

"The lowly man disguised himself as a merchant from a foreign country, and received it from his wife." Li Zixi smiled slightly when she heard this, "This wife is good at everything, but she is addicted to gambling, so she let the ruffians in the county set a trap for her and made her lose a lot." ”

After Li Zixi mixed with the gangsters in the county seat of Lin'an County, he quickly controlled the gangsters with his mind, making those gangsters use him, and deliberately set up a bureau for his wife to cheat her, and made his wife owe about ten taels of silver in the gambling game.

Although she was burdened with a large amount of debt, her wife did not panic, let alone fear, and confidently told the ruffians who collected the debts that she would soon be able to raise money to pay off the gambling debts.

When Li Zixi learned about it, he felt that his wife's reaction was unreasonable, so he asked those ruffians to hurry up and persecute his wife, wanting to see what kind of solution she could come up with.

At the same time, Li Zixi sent people to pretend to be merchants from other places to wander around the county, and deliberately passed by the door of the family from time to time.

Finally, the wife of the ruffian, who was so annoyed by the ruffians, was worried that the ruffians would go to the ruffian to ask for money, and in that case, the ruffian would definitely beat her up, and if she didn't do well, she would have to give her a break.

Therefore, when the merchant sent by Li Zixi passed by the door of the servant again, the wife of the servant opened the door and quietly called him in, and took out such a pair of jade bracelets, saying that they were heirloom, and they were going to sell them because they were in a hurry to wait for money.

The merchant pretended to look at it and wanted to give her two taels of silver, but the wife of the servant was naturally unwilling, and she had to pay off her gambling debts no matter what.

After some bargaining, the two sides finally made a deal at the price of ten taels of silver, and the merchant then went to see Li Zixi and handed him the pair of jade bracelets, and Li Zixi hurriedly came to tell Li Yuntian.

In fact, even if the wife is not addicted to gambling, Li Zixi will find out her other weaknesses and deal with them, after all, people are not perfect, and there are always various weaknesses that can be exploited by others.

"Although I don't know if the Liu family was wronged now, Liu Qing was framed nine times out of ten this time." After learning the ins and outs of the jade bracelet, Li Yuntian couldn't help but shake his head.

It is very difficult for a family to have such a valuable jade bracelet, even if it is a family heirloom item, it is impossible for his wife to sell it secretly, if he needs money urgently, he will definitely ask someone to sell it in the market, in any case it is worth more than selling it to a merchant.

Therefore, from the various behaviors of pretending to be his wife, Li Yuntian naturally knew that the origin of the pair of jade bracelets was not correct, so that he did not dare to sell them openly.

If we take into account the profession of the puppet and what happened in Lin'an County recently, then the answer is about to come out, and the person who can make such a valuable object must be involved in the case of the violent death of the butcher, because only the greater the risk, the higher the profit will be obtained.

I have to say that he acted cautiously and never exposed this ill-gotten gain, but unfortunately his wife was a housewife with little knowledge and didn't know the powerful relationship, so he took out the pair of jade bracelets.

Li Yuntian believed that the bribes he received must be more than this pair of jade bracelets, and as the case of the violent death of the butcher Wang became bigger and bigger, the hush money given to him by the other party naturally increased, so there must be other bribes hidden in his home.

Judging from the case of the violent death of Wang Butcher alone, it is only Liu Qing who is involved, and it is obviously impossible for the Liu family to bribe him, because the autopsy conclusion of the gang has always been unfavorable to Liu Qing, so there is a mysterious third-party person.

And this mysterious third-party person is likely to be the key person who influenced the violent death of the butcher Wang, otherwise he would never have received such a valuable hush money.

Didn't the king butcher die of poisoning? Faced with the bribery, Li Yuntian couldn't help but have a mystery in his mind, otherwise someone would spare no effort to pay so much hush money?

Unfortunately, more than two years have passed since this case, and Butcher Wang has already been buried and turned into a pile of white bones, and it is not easy to figure out the cause of his death.

Perhaps, there is one person who is the best breakthrough to make the case of Wang Butcher's violent death turn around.

That night, in the dead of night, several masked men in black quietly climbed over the wall into a house, drew their short knives and gently pulled the deadbolt through the crack in the door, and then tiptoed into the house.

In the bedroom, a man and woman in their thirties slept soundly, unaware of the uninvited guests who broke into the room.

"Wake up!" Several masked men walked up to the bedside and pushed the pair awake with knives around their necks.

"You...... What do you want, I ...... We are poor and have no money at home. The two men and women woke up from their sleep, and when they saw the masked man standing in front of the window by the moonlight outside the window, they were startled, and the man stammered, looking terrified.

"Hmph, if we don't have money, our brother won't come." The masked man in the lead sneered and gestured with a knife in front of the man's neck, "Our brother knows that you have made a windfall, so he came to borrow some money to spend, do you want money or death!" ”

Faced with the word "borrow" in the mouth of the leader masked man, the male owner was very depressed, which was clearly a burglary, and he was embarrassed to use "borrow"!

"This uncle, you are mistaken, we are just ordinary ordinary people, just able to maintain three meals a day, where is the money." The man didn't dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction, and hurriedly said to the masked man in the lead, "If you want to get rich, go to those rich families in the city, and we have nothing at home." ”

"You think we're three-year-olds and we're foolish, if we hadn't stepped on it beforehand and had enough to eat, we came to your place!" The masked man in the lead patted the man's face with a cold knife, and said with a sneer, "It seems that you don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin, so Lao Tzu will bleed you and help you remember where the money was!" ”

"Drag him out and let him have a long memory!" As he spoke, the leading masked man waved his hand at the masked man beside him, and the two masked men rushed forward and dragged the man off the bed, dragged him to the table in the room, put one of his arms on the table, and then a masked man raised his knife and threatened to slash.

"Big ...... Uncle, you ...... You're mistaken, I'm ...... My family is really ...... There really is no money! The man was so frightened that his face was bloodless at this time, and he pleaded with the masked man in the lead while struggling.

"Since you don't want to die, then Lao Tzu will fulfill you, and when I kill you all, I don't believe that I can't find money." The masked man in the lead said viciously to the man, and then said murderously to the masked man who was holding the knife, "Do it!" ”

When the masked man heard this, he slashed the knife in his hand at the man's arm, and the man was so frightened that he felt a hot pee coming out of his crotch, thinking that his arm could not be saved.

"Wait!" Seeing that the knife was about to fall on the man's arm, the hostess, who was curled up on the bed, suddenly said to the masked man in the lead, "We have money, take everything you want, as long as you don't harm our lives!" ”

The knife edge brushed and stopped more than ten centimeters away from the man's arm, which made the man breathe a sigh of relief, and the whole person sat on the ground, gasping for breath in shock.

"If you dare to lie to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu definitely wants you to look good." The masked man's eyes lit up for a moment, and then he said to the hostess gloomily, "Say, where is the money?" ”

"In ...... In the rice bowl in the kitchen, there is a jewelry box, you take everything away and spare our lives. The hostess trembled and pleaded with the masked man in charge.

The masked man in the lead shook his head when he heard this, and the two men left, and after a while they rushed back, holding a black jewelry box in their hands, which looked very well-made.

At this time, the male owner who had been sitting on the ground panting for breath looked stunned, and looked at the jewelry box in surprise, he originally thought it was the hostess's delaying plan to save him, but he didn't expect those masked people to really find a jewelry box from the rice bowl in the kitchen, obviously he didn't know about it.

"That's all?" The masked man in the lead put the jewelry box on the table and opened it, and inside were gold and silver items such as rings, necklaces, and earrings, which looked expensive, and he looked at the contents and said to the hostess gloomily, "If you dare to hide it if we search it out later, then don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite." ”

"It's gone, it's gone, everything that Secretary Zhang gave is here, it's all here." The hostess was so frightened that she trembled at this time, and her face turned pale and she hurriedly shook her head, obviously life is more important than money, as long as she keeps her life, she can make money in the future, what will she do with money if her life is gone.

"Why did Secretary Zhang give you money, and what is the relationship between the two of you." At this moment, the male host, who had been sitting on the ground, suddenly jumped up, and pointed at the hostess excitedly and said, he didn't think that Zhang Siyi would give his wife money for no reason, and he couldn't guarantee that there was a personal relationship between the two.