Hua Qiao said that the water stains on the ground were turned into water, and everyone present understood why Hua Qiao said that the time of death was not the day before yesterday, but five days ago.

Ice, which slows down the decay of corpses, but increases the rate of decay once corpses re-enter the heat.

Yi Chengjin hesitated for a moment and said: "If this speculation is true, then, when the academy was searched the day before yesterday, the person in the study house was not Luo Wenting, he was probably ......."

"Not bad!" Hu Yanjin nodded, looked at Yi Chengjin and said, "That person is probably Chen Xuan who we didn't catch!" ”

Yi Chengjin turned his head violently and said to Yu Tongju, who was still stunned: "Then what are you waiting for?" If we want to retry the people of Wutong Academy, let's start with the suspect Xu Zhijin! ”

Qing Yu helped Hua Qiao pack up her things, and the two walked out of Yizhuang to find a small carriage waiting for them outside.

"You two are tired of riding, take the carriage, this is prepared by the government, and the horses have been let them ride back." Hu Yanjin took the rattan box from Hua Qiao's hand and put it in the carriage for her. He also got on the horse and walked to the front of the carriage with Yi Chengjin.

"Brother Huyan is so good to you." Qing Yu said with a grin.

"Don't talk nonsense, he is my senior brother, and my father and mother asked him to take care of me before going out."

Hua Qiao suddenly remembered that in the water prison, Hu Yanjin hugged himself like a piece of wood, and couldn't help laughing, and then looked at Tao Qingyu, looking out of the window in a daze, and his soul didn't know where to fly.

Back in Yangzhou, it was already dark. Zhao Sijiao, who was in charge of the prison department, with a few Chen Dian's officials in the torture room, waited respectfully at the south gate of the palace, and when he saw Yu Tongju and the two adults coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to lead the horse. Li Du's first two also returned from the Qing Officials Division and waited aside.

"The adults have worked hard, and the prefect has asked us to prepare food and drinks, so that you can have a few drinks......"

"The wine will be waived, fill your stomach, and interrogate Xu Zhijin immediately." Yi Chengjin nodded at Li Dutou, who came up, and was about to walk towards the side door of the mansion.

Zhao Sijiao prepared a car for Hu Yanjin today, and thought it was for his own use, but he didn't expect that this time it was two skinny young men who got out of the car. Isn't this a little girl! came out on an errand and brought their families, these two are also unreliable.

Hu Yanjin saw Zhao Sijiao's thoughts, nodded lightly, and introduced: "This is the coroner Hua Buckwheat Flower girl who was personally ordered by the emperor's grandson, and the other is her entourage Miss Tao. ”

Buckwheat? The face is not familiar, but the name is familiar, her father has money, who doesn't know the Yangzhou Mansion? It turned out that his daughter was invited, no wonder the two adults were so confident and dared to say that the time of death was wrong......

Zhao Sijiao accepted the naughty smile on his face, and said in his heart: I just beat the suspect Xu Zhijin today, and for the sake of the silver stuffed by his second brother, he saved half his life. This is good, nine times out of ten, it is the wrong person!

Several people hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of food, and then went to the prison cell to interrogate Xu Zhijin.

As soon as they sat down, Xu Zhijin was limped over by the jailer. Fortunately, Second Brother Xu was generous and stuffed fifty taels of silver, otherwise he would have brought it over.

Hua Qiao, who was standing behind Hu Yanjin, was really anxious and distressed when she saw the appearance of Third Brother Xu. Xu Zhijin also saw her, and couldn't help but feel excited in his heart, he knew that Hua Qiao did not appear here because he visited him, Hua Qiao came to let Luo Wenting's corpse tell the truth.

In the two days he was imprisoned, Xu Zhijin saw the various methods used by the prison department to extort confessions from suspects, and behind the short lines of one or two lines in the interrogation record, there was the truth, and there was even a trick to torture.

Xu Zhijin is very smart, and he doesn't have a hard time studying, and he only studies for what his father said, from a businessman to a scholar, a change of identity. This prison disaster made him really understand what he was for. He wants to go to the Three Law Divisions, although he can't change the Ming Dynasty by himself, he can control himself. He vowed to be a clean official, a law enforcement officer who had no unjust cases in his case.

"Give a seat."

Xu Zhijin went to the prestige and saw Hu Yanjin. He's also there?

"Thank you, Lord for the seat, the little one should stand, the little one...... I can't sit down yet. "Xu Zhijin did have a terrible pain in his buttocks, and secondly, he wanted to remind Zhao Sijiao, who was standing next to him, that the beaten stick would be returned one day.

Sure enough, Zhao Sijiao broke out in a cold sweat, and couldn't help but secretly scold Second Brother Xu in his heart: NND, send an extra fifty taels, won't Lao Tzu stop fighting?

Yi Chengjin glanced at Zhao Sijiao, the methods of the Criminal Department have always been harsh, this is just the conventional prison law, this is a bit of a scholar.

So he said, "Then you stand and reply." The official asked you: On April 15, how did you find the body of your classmate Luo Wenting? The cause and effect, you will tell me in detail. ”

Xu Zhijin knows that this is his only chance to overturn the case, how can he not be serious? In addition, after thinking about it in prison for the past two days, he did have some doubts, but unfortunately the jailers didn't want to hear the doubts, they just wanted him to confess.

"Luo Wenting is my roommate, and on April 10, the college set a time for everyone to retreat and mock the exam, and asked the two people in the same dormitory to be responsible for each other's meals. Originally, the small ones were scheduled for April 13 to 15, but Luo Wenting liked this time, so he had to exchange with the small ones, and the small mock exam time was adjusted to the first day of the next month. ”

"I heard that in order to change the time, you had a dispute with Luo Wenting?" Yi Chengjin asked.

"Sort of...... Dispute, because my second brother was also taking the exam in May, he didn't want me to change, and the second brother argued with Luo Wenting for a few words, but then Mr. Chen came forward to help him with two sentences, and the little one also felt that the time didn't matter, so he still changed the time with him. ”

"Mr. Chen helped him, and you and your second brother didn't hold a grudge?"

Xu Zhijin smiled frankly: "It's just a trivial matter, why worry about it." ”

"On April 13th, you saw Luo Wenting enter the book house for the exam?"

"I didn't see it in person, and on the night of April 12, Luo Wenting didn't return all night. I should have all of these in my confession. ”

Zhao Sijiao hurriedly explained: "It is said that he did not return all night, but other students also proved that Luo Wenting slipped out of the academy every three or five days, and he once threatened to go out to relax before the exam, which Xu Zhijin can also testify...... So, I ignored it......"

"April 13, you are in charge of Luo Wenting's three meals a day, have you met Luo Wenting himself?"

"See, don't you see how to give him the food? But ......" Xu Zhijin smiled bitterly, and then said:

"This is just my original idea, now I think about it carefully, in fact, I didn't really see Luo Wenting, because I just saw his hand stretched out to receive the plate, and I recognized the sleeve of the dress as Luo Wenting's, so I thought it was him, and he may not be Luo Wenting, but the murderer was wearing his clothes!"

Hu Yanjin and Yi Chengjin exchanged glances: no one told Xu Zhijin that Luo Wenting might not have died on April 15.

It coincides!