Chapter Eighty-Three: Self-Confession of Guilt

Here, Li Zhuoran and Shao Shoutie returned to Zhao Qingzhou's mansion, and the two of them only felt exhausted after a busy day, and they wanted to lie down and fall asleep quickly. Li Zhuoran shouted "Changfan" and walked back, wanting Changfan to bring some hot water to rinse it, but he called a few times, but no one answered, and couldn't help but wonder: "It's strange, Changfan hasn't come back yet?" Shao Shou Railway: "It's too late for us to come back, I'm afraid Changfan has already slept." ”

While speaking, the two of them had already arrived in front of the hall in Cheongju, the bed that Changfan had set up outside was empty, and the quilt was neatly folded at the end of the bed, obviously he had not returned. Li Zhuoran and Shao Shoutie glanced at each other, and both of them felt bad in their hearts. Shao Shoutie said: "It's too late now, early tomorrow morning, let's go to Brother Wang to ask what happened." So saying, he stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of the hall. As soon as he entered, Li Zhuoran immediately saw the faint light of the candle flame in the bedroom connected to the hall.

"Long sail, so you're here." Li Zhuoran said with relief: "Why did you sleep in it today?" Before the words fell, the person had already walked to the door of the bedroom, but saw that the person sitting at the front of the case inside was Cheng Wanghui of Jiangning County. Where are you two gone? Wang Hui glanced at the two people with tired faces at the door: "I ran away secretly, and the official couldn't find the two of you everywhere in the afternoon, so I had to find here and wait, which is really infuriating." ”

Wang Hui was slightly older than Li Zhuoran and Shao Shoutie, and he asked in a deep voice, and the two of them were like children who were greedy for fun and returned late and were caught by their brothers, so they couldn't help but smile and lowered their heads. "Still laughing-" Wang Hui casually rolled up a stack of rice paper on the Qingzhou case, got up and stepped forward, and made a gesture to beat them. Li Zhuoran hurriedly stepped forward to meet him, took the scroll of paper in Wang Hui's hand, and said with a smile: "Lord Wang, Brother Wang, don't be angry, we were too-" He looked back at Shao Shoutie as he spoke.

Shao Shoutie hurriedly reminded in a low voice: "It's hard to save people." Li Zhuoran drew a gourd in the same way and said: "We are also eager to save people, so we didn't say goodbye, but we did find many clues this night." Wang Hui saw Li Zhuoran's smile on his face, and he couldn't bear to be harsh, so he only said to them: "This official also has some things that I want to talk to you about." Hear first what you have discovered," and the three men drew out their chairs and sat down, and told each of them what he had seen and heard.

Wang Hui listened to the news that Shao Shoutie and Li Zhuoran heard, pondered for a long time, and said: "This official should have known that the Long family was inseparable from this matter, and he didn't have his hands free to investigate. Shao Shou Tie said: "Brother Wang, Rong Zhizhai over there, do you have any clues?" Hearing this, Wang Hui glanced at Li Zhuoran deeply, nodded and said, "I was about to talk to the two of you in detail, Zhuoran, Changfan is a confession." ”

"Huh?!" When Li Zhuoran heard this, he stood up from his chair as if he had been struck by thunder: "What confession?" What does it mean to be a 'counted' confession? His reaction was too great, and he turned the chair behind him over, and saw that he was about to fall to the ground and make a noise, but Shao Shoutie quickly lifted the chair up and said softly: "Brother Wang, you have always been cautious, did you find any clues?" Wang Hui sighed and went to pull Li Zhuoran to sit down, but Li Zhuoran was like a stone statue at this time, and said without moving: "What's going on?" ”

Wang Hui saw that he couldn't pull Li Zhuoran, sighed again, took out a piece of paper from his cuff, and handed it to the person who insisted on standing. Li Zhuoran suddenly felt that he didn't have the strength to connect the piece of paper, so he only turned his head and glanced at Shao Shoutie. Shao Shoutie took the paper knowingly, unfolded it and glanced at it and said, "This is?" Transcript in court? Wang Hui nodded, and without waiting for Shao Shoutie to take a closer look, he said: "The official originally asked Changfan to tell him about today's experience, but even if it was a formality, he didn't expect to find a flaw in this child. ”

Shao Shoutie lowered his head and took a closer look, and recounted to Li Zhuoran: "Brother Wang asked Changfan, when did he find out that the shopkeeper Rong died, Changfan said, it was you who asked people to lead the horse to find him, so he quickly rushed to Rongzhizhai, Brother Wang asked him if he could stay on the road, Changfan said, he did not stay, he went directly to Rongzhizhai, and when he went in, he found that the shopkeeper Rong fell in a pool of blood. Brother Wang asked him if he had been to Rong Zhizhai before, why he found Rong Zhizhai as soon as he went, and knew which one was Rong Zhizhai. Changfan couldn't answer. ”

Li Zhuoran nodded, some of the light of hope in his eyes was a little shaky, and he said: "Maybe it's the bright sign of Rong Zhizhai, the long sail is riding on a horse, and you can see it at a glance, and you can't say, not everything in this world must be explained." Shao Shoutie got up and patted Li Zhuoran on the shoulder and said, "Zhuoran, sit down and say." Li Zhuoran raised his head and looked at Shao Shoutie and said, "Brother Shao, do you also believe that it is Changfan?" I don't think it would be him. He said this as if to comfort himself.

Wang Hui saw Li Zhuoran's obsessed appearance, and said lightly: "Zhuoran, you would rather believe that there are coincidences in this world than believe what he said." Li Zhuoran was thinking about something else in his heart at this time, and he tried his best to hide the fear in his heart: If Changfan was really involved in this matter, who was behind him? When did he begin to separate from Cheongju? Besides, Chang Fan knows so many of their secrets, including Qiu Qiu's life experience, everyone's relationship with Zhao Hong, he knows everything, if Chang Fan is really used by someone and has a heart to harm Qingzhou, then has he told others all the secrets he knows.

Li Zhuoran felt as if the strength in his heart had been hollowed out, he sat down dejectedly, and suddenly took the court transcript from Shao Shoutie's hand and read it himself. The transcript records Changfan's reaction in detail: after he was questioned by Wang Hui, the whole person was 'cold sweat and did not say anything'. Seeing this, Wang Hui excitedly said to Changfan, if he deliberately deceived and did not report, he would be punished layer by layer according to Song Law, Changfan was speechless for a long time when he heard this, and suddenly cried: "I know that I am guilty, and I just want to die quickly." After that, the whole person curled up in a ball, and the pain was terrible.

Wang Hui saw that Li Zhuoran had finished reading the confession, and said to him: "I saw that I couldn't ask anything in the court, so I detained him first, and wanted Zhuoran to ask the reason in private, but the two of you said goodbye without saying goodbye, so the official had to come here and wait." Li Zhuoran said loudly when he heard this: "Then Lord Wang, I want to ask Changfan tonight, is it okay?" After all, Cheongju's case cannot be delayed. ”

Wang Hui nodded as if he had expected it: "I know that you have such a temperament, so I came here to wait for you, you will ask tonight, ask clearly, I can go to Lin'an with you immediately." Li Zhuoran stretched out his hands, clasped his fists and said earnestly: "Lord Wang, thank you so much." Wang Hui shook his head and said: "It's not all for Qingzhou, this case is also very important to the above, and it is necessary for the official to come up with a factual conclusion as soon as possible." ”