Although Uncle Zhou had been sentenced, Xue Mingkai was still concerned about this matter, and then went to the prison to chat with Uncle Zhou, seeing that he kept his mouth shut and didn't say anything, Xue Mingkai frowned, and could only start from elsewhere.

"This Xue Mingkai has been very strange recently, the case of the Zhou family has been closed, Uncle Zhou has been convicted, Zhou Dalang has been released, and he is still investigating this case everywhere, which is really confusing." Ma Yue said to Master Qian.

"He likes to check, you let him check, I want to see what he can find." Qian Zheng put his feet on the desk in front of him, leaned back against the back of the chair, feeling the strength of Ma Yue's massage for him, and enjoyed his face.

"Yes, yes, that...... The master said a few days ago that he was going to hand over the case of the child's disappearance to him, I don't know when he plans to propose it to the county master? ”

"This thing...... It's a little difficult to do......" Speaking of this matter, Qian Zheng's face was also a little unpleasant, "The missing children are not within the jurisdiction of our county government, and now it is the most critical time for adults, he can't wait to blame all these things on the people of other county offices, just don't touch his hands at all, I will take the initiative to take it with him at this time, there is no name and no point." ”

The law requires officials to do their part in matters that are not within their jurisdiction, and no one else is allowed to interfere.

He originally thought that he could use this matter to embarrass Xue Mingkai, but after he went back, he thought about it again and found that the teacher was unknown, and now the county lord is mainly interested in protecting himself, and it is impossible to take the initiative to get involved in this matter, which is really not easy to do.

"It's easy." As soon as Ma Yue heard this, he immediately actively planned, "As long as the boundaries under the jurisdiction of the county government are involved, it would be good, if there are no children missing from us, we can't hire a person and tie up any child at will, in this way, won't we be famous?" ”

"Tie one?" Qian Zheng frowned, "If this is found out, we don't have any good fruits to eat." ”

"Let's not kill anyone, let's hide the child first, send him water and food on time, and then wait for Xue Mingkai to take over this matter, let's find another opportunity to put the child back, won't this be solved?" Ma Yue offered advice on the side.

"This ...... I'll have to think about it. ”

When Ma Yue heard this, he was silent, and he still massaged his master's shoulders with his hands.

Everything can be done at the point, and more will be over.

Xue Mingkai didn't know that Master Qian was planning him behind his back, he sent a few arresters to investigate the pharmacy at the moment, and he followed the others to the place where Uncle Zhou used to go most often to inquire about the situation.

came and went, and he really found out some news.

"Boss, we learned about it, Uncle Zhou will go up the mountain to catch some small game after the autumn harvest every year, and the caught ones will be sold in the town, since last year, he has suddenly become generous, and he is no longer as reluctant to spend money as before." The person in charge of inquiring said.

Xue Mingkai nodded and looked at the other person.

"What I inquired about is that Uncle Zhou has also been drinking at a wine shop since last year, sometimes going early in the morning, and sitting in it until dinner."

The prey is all sold on the spot, so Uncle Zhou often went out in the morning and returned in the afternoon after the autumn harvest in the past, and his behavior was no different from usual.

"But I also got a piece of news." The report of the catch quickly continued, "This wine shop is newly opened, there is only one wine lady and two young guys in it, and the wine sold is not a good wine, but the price is not cheap, many people go once or twice and then stop going, only Uncle Zhou, who often goes to the time when autumn receives early winter, and even after the spring of this year, it is two or three times a month, never stopping." ”

"Liquor store?" Xue Mingkai frowned, a vague shadow flashed in his mind, and he always felt that there was something about to take shape, but because the information he got was not enough, he couldn't gather and form.

"Well, after inquiring into this wine shop, I quietly took a look and found that this wine shop was closed, I asked the owners of the surrounding shops, but I couldn't tell the reason, I only knew that a few days ago, the wine lady suddenly stopped opening for business, and no one was nowhere to be found." The catcher said seriously, "I've calculated, the day when the wine lady closes the shop is the day after we move Zhou Da Niang's body back to the county government from Zhou's house!" ”

"Anything else?" Xue Mingkai asked with a solemn face.

"I also asked where the wine lady lived, and on the way back, I had already asked the two brothers to go over and guard it first, chief, are we going to arrest someone now?"

"Let's go!" Xue Mingkai said decisively and led the rest of the people forward.

……

"Oh, what are you still doing, don't you leave quickly, waiting for the official to arrest you!" In the opaque room on three sides, the vision was dark, and the room was dark and narrow, a beautiful woman of twenty-seven or eighteen years old urged.

"What are you afraid of, that old guy has already been imprisoned, and it seems that he hasn't confessed to you, what are you worried about?" Another middle-aged man in his early thirties muttered, ripped his clothes casually, and walked out of the courtyard after her.

"As long as he doesn't die for a day, he may confess to us one day!" The woman gave him a blank look and said, "We can't stay here anyway, we have to go first!" ”

"Got it, got it."

They had stopped living in their own homes a few days earlier, and had stayed directly in the inn outside, when they were in a hurry and had no time to collect their things.

Because they didn't know if Lao Zhoutou had confessed to them, they didn't dare to go out of the city at this time, for fear that those officials would wait directly at the city gate and wait for them to throw themselves into the net.

It wasn't until this moment that I learned of Lao Zhoutou's death sentence, and there were no notices posted on the streets and alleys that wanted them, knowing that Lao Zhoutou probably didn't confess to them, my heart relaxed, this relaxation, remembering the family background that I didn't take away, I was reluctant, and the two decided to go back to pack up their things first, and then go directly out of the city, how far and how far away.

What they didn't expect was that when this person should have memorized the words, he had to memorize the words, and when the two of them turned back, the two officials in charge of keeping an eye happened to come to their door, waiting to catch turtles in an urn.

"How? Did they come out? When Xue Mingkai and his entourage arrived, they saw the two officials guarding in front of the wine lady's house, and Li Yuansan walked directly forward and asked in a low voice.

"No, there is no movement, I just chatted with the grandma next door who was choosing vegetables in front of the door, and she said that she hadn't seen the family come out for a few days, don't run away, right?"

Xue Mingkai frowned and looked at the family, just about to speak, when suddenly his ears moved, and he hurriedly said, "Hide!" ”

A group of people are as busy hiding as peek-a-boo.

"Boss ......"

As soon as someone was about to ask, Li Yuansan immediately tightened his mouth.

"Shh......h

Xue Mingkai didn't care about everything that happened behind him, his eyes were firmly fixed on the door of the wine lady's house, and the rest of the people also kept silent when they saw this, staring at the door intently.

After a while, there was movement from the wine lady's house, the door was gently opened, the wine lady quietly poked out her head and looked left and right a few times, cautiously and carefully, and then hurriedly walked out after making sure that there was nothing abnormal, followed by the man who had been urging her to hurry up, and then closed the door, and the two bypassed the alley next to them, preparing to walk towards the place where the carriage was prepared.

As soon as he walked out of the alley, he saw Xue Mingkai with a cold expression appearing at the alley with two officials.

The wine lady was startled by her concubine, and the two immediately turned around and tried to run back, but they saw that there were also three officials waiting at the other entrance and exit of the alley.

Li Yuansan, who took the lead, looked at them with a lewd smile on his face, leading the people to approach step by step, and Xue Mingkai also walked towards them, and finally the two of them were blocked in the middle of the alley, looking frightened.

"Official, official, no matter what I do, it's all instigated by this little slut, and it has nothing to do with me, Official!" Seeing that the situation was unfavorable to her, the concubine immediately knelt down on her knees and shouted for mercy at several officials.

"Wang Guangming! You stinking shameless! As soon as the matter comes out, you will rely on me, you want to be shameless! The wine lady didn't seem to expect the person next to her to betray her for self-preservation, so she looked at him in disbelief and screamed.

"Originally, if you hadn't taught him how to kill his mother-in-law quietly, how could this matter have been triggered!" The man hung his head, still not forgetting to defend himself.

"You still say, you still say, you still say!" When the wine lady heard this, she immediately went crazy, and shouted angrily while tearing his clothes, "It's not that you went to the gambling house and lost money, so I would have taken a fancy to his two hundred taels of silver!" ”

Two hundred taels of silver?

The officials who were originally watching the play silently were stunned for a moment, and they looked at each other with a slightly larger amount of information here, and then Li Yuansan cleared his throat and scolded them: "Don't quarrel, don't quarrel, let's go to the yamen if you have anything to say!" ”

Seeing that the two of them had no reaction and were still tearing each other apart, Li Yuansan's eyes widened, and he shook his head at the rest of the people, and everyone immediately stepped forward to separate them and escorted them back to the yamen.

As soon as the concubine reacted and asked for mercy, her hands were directly tied up by ropes, and she was directly led to the yamen by one of the officials.

The wine lady was treated the same, and the two were dragged back to the yamen one after the other.

When the county lord heard that Mrs. Zhou's case had another hidden secret, he was excited and hurriedly opened a court trial, and it was bound to find out the circumstances of Mrs. Zhou's case.

There is also a reason why he will be so active, originally this was just a strange case rumored by the folks, and the people did not talk about it to find out who the murderer was, but they just felt that it was very bizarre for a big living person to sleep and die like this, so he would publicize it in private.

And he agreed to send a catcher to the door, to put it bluntly, it was just for the sake of his political achievements, now is a critical period, any little factor will cause a big change to him, because he just wants to cover up the rumors, he never thought that this case has such a complicated inside story.

As a result, this time, under the investigation that Xue Mingkai did not give up, the real murderer was arrested and brought to justice, how could he not surprise the county master?

You must know that everything Xue Mingkai is doing now is to be attributed to him, this county government has solved such a confusing case, in the eyes of the people above, isn't it the credit of him, the county master?

The county lord was overjoyed, and the smile on his face couldn't be hidden.

In contrast, Master Qian's face was ugly, he stared gloomily at Xue Mingkai standing under the stage, and his teeth were about to be crushed by him.

Xue Mingkai must try his best to get rid of it!