As soon as they walked into the Maocheng County Ya, Zhao Zimai and the others heard a faint moan coming from the hall, mixed with a deliberately suppressed curse.

Walking into the hall, Zhao Zimai saw Wu Yuanli take off his boots and socks, step on the chair with one foot, and rub his ankle with safflower oil. His ankles bulged out in large patches, and all the bruises were flushed, and it hurt to look at them.

"Lord Wu." Zhao Zimai called softly.

Wu Yuanli was startled when he saw Zhao Zimai and his party walking in, hurriedly moved off the chair, limped towards them, gritted his teeth and bowed to salute.

"You sit down." Zhao Zimai glanced at Baotian, and Baotian hurriedly helped Wu Yuanli to sit down.

"Lord Zhao," Wu Yuanli wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and the smile on his face was more ugly than crying, "Xiaguan was talking about going to look for you, but I didn't think about it, you came here in person." Xia Guan has already led his subordinates to turn over the road where Lord Xu returned home and searched it several times, you see, his feet are sprained, but he can't be found. According to what you said, I also checked door to door, but no one has really seen Lord Xu, how is this good. ”

Zhao Zimai saw that he was disheveled and embarrassed, and knew that he had just come back from outside, and he must have been restless in the past few days, so he no longer scolded him, but said, "Lord Wu, is there only one way from Nanshan Hall to Xu's house?" ”

Wu Yuanli shook his head, "The small roads and big roads have been checked, Lord Xu, he will never go up to Ailao Mountain, hang around the mountain, and then go down the mountain road." ”

"Ailao Mountain?" Zhao Zimai frowned, "I passed by there, the mountain is not high, there are no trees, all stones......"

Wu Yuanli hurriedly picked up the conversation, "So, that bald mountain, there are few people on it, Lord Xu is drunk, how can he go there." ”

"But ......"

Zhao Zimai wanted to say something more, but Sang beside him suddenly looked at the gate of the county government and chuckled, "This government is lively enough, and there are a group of people here." ”

Sure enough, before she finished speaking, there was a crying sound, and Wu Yuanli obviously heard it, frowning and patting his thigh, "Come and make trouble every day, endlessly, I have made it clear to them, I still have to come." You said that this person fell ill before he was imprisoned, and later died in prison, it's not the government's fault, right? They are making trouble all day long, I'm afraid they don't want to blackmail the money of the government? ”

"Who died?" Zhao Zimai asked.

"Hu Bing," Wu Yuanli sighed deeply, "It's the criminal of the last case that Lord Xu broke before he disappeared, Lord Zhao, did you say that I hit the plague god recently, and things happened one after another." ”

Before he finished speaking, Hu Bing's family walked in with his family, and when they saw Wu Yuanli, they knelt down in front of him one by one, with teary eyes in their eyes, and the word "injustice" was reversed in their mouths.

Wu Yuanli was already a little afraid of Zhao Zimai, but now a group of people came to the county government to shout grievances, and they were even more frightened, so they could only appease everyone's emotions while glancing at Zhao Zimai with their eyes from time to time, observing his face, for fear that he would present today's events.

"Hu Bing's case was personally decided by Lord Xu Chongxu, how can there be anything wrong? Lord Xu found Li Yong's hair on the knife that Hu Bing hid under the bed, and Hu Bing himself admitted that he had assassinated Li Yong that night, and many people saw Li Yong go to Hu Bing's house, and the human and material evidence was there, so the whole case could not be overturned just because Hu Bing died in prison. ”

When Wu Yuanli made this statement, the Hu family let out a sigh, saying that Hu Bing was already drunk like that at that time, how could he do the evil act of killing people and skinning; Some people also say that Li Yong and other traitors have many enemies, and it is really hard to say who killed him; What's more, the so-called "crime" that Hu Bing personally admitted may just be a dream he had after drinking, and he can't take it seriously at all.

Among the indignant faces of Hu Bing's defense, there is one person who is particularly eye-catching.

Zhao Zimai looked at him for a long time, and found that when everyone else was crying at the beginning, he desperately wanted to squeeze down a few tears but didn't know the point, and now, everyone was screaming for Hu Bing, but he had a white face, his eyes flickered, and he didn't dare to stay on Wu Yuanli's face, nor did he dare to touch his own eyes.

Occasionally, he dodged a few times, as if his eyes could shoot a knife.

"Who is he?" Zhao Zimai asked a small official behind Wu Yuanli in a low voice.

"Hu Bing's personal servant, it seems to be called Zhu Quan."

Zhao Zimai stared at Zhu Quan's face and was silent, and after a while, when the Hu family was tired of questioning and Wu Yuanli was tired of explaining, he asked Zhu Quan, "Where were you on the night of the crime?" ”

"I went to bed early that night, so I didn't hear anything, and when I woke up in the morning, I found the young master lying in the courtyard, his clothes covered with blood, and a knife next to him. I quickly woke up the young master, who seemed to be very frightened when he woke up, and told me not to say anything, so he went into the house with his knife in his hand. ”

As if he had been preparing for this question for a long time, Zhu Quan spoke very quickly and said a big sentence, without even saying a word. However, his body movements were obviously abnormal, his body trembled, and his head was lowered, not daring to roll his eyes.

"Your young master was so drunk that night, you didn't serve you closely, but you slept soundly and slept until dawn?" Zhao Zimai looked at him and asked.

"I didn't feel well that day, and I have already taken leave with the manager." Still answered quickly, as if he had imagined such a scene in his mind countless times.

"That knife ......"

"It's the saber that the young master carries with him, the young master often goes to other provinces to transport medicinal materials back, and the saber will not leave his body." There was no flaw in Zhu Quan's answer.

"So, do you also think that your young master killed Li Yong?" Zhao Zimai changed his words, and a modest smile appeared on his face again.

"I ......," Zhu Quan was speechless, and after a long while, he replied, "I don't know, I just told the adults the truth what I saw." ”

Zhao Zimai nodded at Zhu Quan, and naturally patted his hand on Wu Yuanli's shoulder, "Lord Wu, it is important to appease the people, but it is even more important to insist on the supremacy of the truth. ”

Hearing his words, Wu Yuanli's heart fell back into his stomach, he was sitting in the hall, and the shocking wood was slapped, "Everyone in the hall listens to the order, the government has made a decision on this case, if you come to the yamen to entangle this matter again, you will not blame the official for ordering the arrest." ”