On the 16th day of July, the arresters escorted Gatou and Sutou back to Yizhou and subjected them to an overnight surprise interrogation. When it was the eighteenth day of July, Fan Chuyao undoubtedly took him back to Qionglian Palace, saying that Gatou had confessed his guilt and confessed, and he undoubtedly kept his promise to come to apprentice.

Hu Xianxian did not rush to hold the apprenticeship ceremony, but asked him to go back to Pingle Nunnery to see Cikong first, and she would go to Pingle Nunnery when Shen Shi.

Undoubtedly, after leaving, she asked Fan Chuyao to rest, and she went to Yizhou City to meet Qiao Chushi, who assisted Sun Zhanou in handling the case. After seeing Qiao Chushi, he asked about the handling of the case.

Qiao Chushi said that Gatou refused to admit his guilt at the beginning, and Sun Zhanou tried the sour head first.

This Gatou is the son of a wealthy merchant in the Western Regions and a woman in Yizhou, and his family was wealthy when he was young. Later, the wealthy merchant died, and it was impossible for Gatou's mother to go to the Western Regions to fight for family property with her family, and the mother and son lived in embarrassment.

People born and raised in Yizhou regard the children born in the Western Regions and the Central Plains as "Zahu", and Gatou is often ridiculed for his identity as "Zahu", and his family is in the middle of the road, so he wants to get ahead.

Gatou wandered the rivers and lakes, learned some three-legged cat kung fu, and returned to Yizhou to become a gambling house thug. He is vicious, and he is a ruthless guy who can't be provoked.

He also provoked the government many times, but although the things he did were very hateful, they were all serious crimes that were not enough to be imprisoned and killed, and Sun Zhanou had no way to deal with him.

Sour head is different from Ga Tou, he is an orphan who fled from the disaster in his hometown. He was originally very timid and scared, but later he mixed with Gatou and learned some hooligan habits.

Sun Zhanou decided to interrogate the sour head first, and put the hat of the most suspected murderer on the sour head, and the sour head immediately denied it.

Sun Zhanou asked a number of gamblers to confirm that after the sour head and Hang Lao Lie met in the casino, the two often mixed together, and the sour head knew Hang Lao Lie's money situation best. Based on the analysis of the crime scene that day, the murderer robbed the money and caused a dispute, and it was difficult to get rid of the suspicion.

Then, let Li Sigong confirm that the sour head and Hang Lao Bao partnered with Lao Qian, and there was a dispute.

Then, killing Hang Lao is the most suspicious of sour heads.

After a few hours of sour hair, on the 17th of July, he asked to eat braised pork, sweet and sour fish, white rice, and sleep again.

After Sun Zhanou met his request, he told the truth with a sour head. He said that he hadn't slept comfortably for more than two months, and he hadn't eaten or drunk sweetly, and after he decided to confess, he finally slept soundly and ate a meal fragrantly.

The sour head said that he hooked up with honest people like Li Sigong who had never been in the casino all the year round to "give money", and found some old gamblers like Hang Laojiao to "hold money". It's okay if he is caught in these small movements, and he has a gatou to support him.

That day, I thought that Li Sigong had been a neighbor for many years, and I wanted to take Li Sigong to "hug" a stroke. Who knew that Gatou taught him a lesson, saying that these secrets could not be known to outsiders, and Gatou also asked not to give any more money to Hang Laojiao.

They met a few wealthy gamblers that day, and Hang Lao won a lot of gold and silver treasures. Hang Laojiao learned that so much money was in hand, but Gatou had to let him hand it over, and he didn't even leave him a penny, so he quarreled with Sour Tou.

When the sour head and Hang Lao were arguing, Ga Tou came, and a hand knife slashed at the back of Hang Lao's head.

Ga Tou has done this more than once before, and it was only to knock people out. The sour head thought that Hang Lao was just dizzy, so he went to tear the money bag in Hang Lao's hand that fell to the ground.

When pulling the money bag, Hang Lao opened his eyes slightly, and his sour head was so frightened that he retracted his hand. Hang Lao stared at him resentfully, and climbed a few steps towards him with his hands on the ground.

After Hang Lao crawled a few steps, he tilted his head and stopped moving. The sour head was so frightened that he didn't dare to pull the money bag again, and Ga Tou personally pulled out the money bag with his strength and walked away.

Ga Tou walked for a while, and when he saw that Hang Lao Bao had not moved, he probed Hang Lao Jiao and snorted. He didn't feel his breath, and there was a cold and hard touch on his hand, and he knew that this time the gag head was too heavy and killed the person.

In a panic, the sour head dragged Hang Lao to the garbage heap next to him, and ran home to sleep with his head covered. In the evening of the next day, he went to the casino as usual and learned that Hang Lao's death had caused a lot of uproar.

The sour head found Ga Tou and said that he had killed Hang Lao Lie by mistake last night, and Ga Tou told him not to panic. The sour head said that Hang Lao was holding a strip of rags in his hand, and the wound on the back of his head was obviously Gatou's usual technique, what should I do with these traces?

Ga Tou told the sour head to leave anything alone, he would take care of everything. The sour head waited for two days in his heart, just waiting for the strange burning of the corpse of Hang Laojiao, and the rumor of "ghost killing gambling ghosts".

With these testimonies confessed by the sour head, Sun Zhanou retried Ga Tou. This Ga Tou still didn't let go, he only admitted that he knew about the sour head and Hang Lao's outing, had some disputes with them, and denied hurting people.

Sun Zhanou was not in a hurry to get Gatou to confess, he listed some circumstantial evidence and asked Gatou to explain the source of the money.

One of the pieces of information collected by the people in Qionglian Palace is: On the night of the accident in Hang Lao, Ga Tou stayed in the Qinglou overnight, and he gave a small piece of silver to the prostitute he liked. There is a "tiger" word on this small piece of silver, which is the silver that Sun San'er lost to Hang Laojiao.

Another piece of information is: At noon the day after the accident, Gatou invited more than a dozen people who were also thugs in the casino to drink in the restaurant, and the silver ingots paid were the silver ingots exchanged by the largest money bank in the city. That silver ingot is likely to be the silver ingot that Qian Er Ye lost to Hang Laojiao, after all, there are not many people in Yizhou City who can take out this kind of silver ingot that is full of ten taels.

There is also a third piece of information: After undoubtedly asking for a retrial of the Hang Lao Bao case, Ga Tou quit his job as a thug in the casino and moved to several places one after another. Although he had moved, his neighbors had seen Gatou come home in the dark more than once. Every time I went home, I would close the door for a while, and then leave in a hurry.

Sun Zhanou deduced from these messages that the money won by Hang Laojiao was in the hands of Gatou. When Ga Tou didn't know that Hang Lao was dead, he squandered the money with it. When he knew what had happened, he hid his money. Every time he quietly returned after he left home, he secretly transferred the money.

Ga Tou still did not admit his guilt, saying that the money was "honored" by the sour head. The sour head is afraid that the casino owner will find out about the old man, so he will use the money to buy the thugs. The real culprit should be sour, and he just took the stolen goods.

Sun Zhanou took out three melons and three beans to testify, saying that when they were waiting at the city gate to leave the city, they saw Gatou hitting the back of Hang's head.

Ga Tou said that he wanted to persuade Sour Tou and Hang Lao to lie at that time, but when he was angry, he just patted Hang Lao Lie and Hang Lao Lie was not dead when he left. He said that the sour head must have taken Hang Lao's life and wanted to blame him.

The sour head has no martial arts, and he can't even find the jade pillow acupoint, so the injury that caused Hang Lao to lie down on the ground to death can't be caused by the sour head at all. However, there is no credible evidence to condemn Gaga. Sun Zhanou's trial of the prisoner failed to show the majesty of the old man, but instead made himself anxious.

Qiao Chushi was distressed and anxious for him, and checked the collected information carefully. Since Gatou moved out of Yizhou City after the retrial, there are not many daily suspicious points that can be found.

On the eighteenth day of July, Qiao Chushi finally found a suspicious point. A tea shop owner said that Gatou had made an appointment with a veteran of the army who made weapons. Ga Tou asked the veteran where to buy white phosphorus and asbestos cloth, the tea shop owner had never heard of these two things, and he was very impressed.

When Sang Wenxiu and the others went to inquire about the news, they casually complimented the tea shop owner for being well-informed, and the tea shop owner casually said that he was well-informed, and there were two things he had never heard of.

After Sang Wenxiu and the others listened to these two things relayed by the owner of the tea shop, they didn't know what these two things were for, so they sounded strange, so they wrote them down.

Qiao Chushi's brother Qiao Qishi is a household servant, and her father was also an official in the court when he was alive, and her father and brother have far more knowledge than the peddlers' pawns. When she was a girl, she heard her father and brother talk about white phosphorus that can spontaneously combust without fire, what is Gatou going to do when buying white phosphorus?

She immediately asked Sun Zhanou to find the owner of the tea shop and find out the whereabouts of the veteran that Ga Tou had asked about. This veteran often builds weapons for the sons and brothers in the city who love to practice martial arts, and it is not difficult to find him.

After finding the veteran, he said that Gatou had indeed asked him to buy white phosphorus and asbestos cloth, and told them that the best fireproof asbestos cloth Gatou had bought.

Sun Zhanou and Qiao Chushi deduced that these two things were the tools for Gatou's cremation and extinction. They didn't go on to interrogate Gatou, but tied him to a chair and let him watch a good scene.

In front of Gatou, they spread asbestos cloth on wooden boards, carried a freshly killed pig, covered the pig, and smeared white phosphorus on the clothes. Then, moving over the two candlesticks near the plank, the garment over the dead pig soon burned.

After a while, the flame faded out. Sun Zhanou asked the asbestos cloth to be removed, and only a few scorched bones were left on the wooden board. There were no signs of fire on the boards, and the dead pigs were burned by a "ghost fire".

Ga Tou could barely calm down when he first watched them do this, and when Sun Zhanou pointed at him and threatened that if he didn't admit his guilt, he would burn him alive with "ghost fire"! Ga Tou's face turned pale, and he finally pleaded guilty.

Qiao Chushi immediately asked Fan Chuyao to take him back to Qionglian Palace to tell everyone the good news.

After hearing this, Hu Xianxian didn't seem very happy, and after thinking carefully for a long time, she asked Qiao Chushi: "How did Ga Tou sneak into the autopsy room?" Have you found all the stolen goods? ”

Qiao Chushi replied: "When Gatou sneaked into the autopsy room, the servant and the old janitor happened to be absent.

Some of the stolen goods were found in Gatou's house, as well as some in the compound where he rented.

According to the acid head, most of them were won by Hang Lao Dang that night. Among all the items, the most valuable one was the golden hairpin that Boss Zhao had lost, and he had not found it. ”

"Jin Hai? Has Ga Tou explained the whereabouts of Jin Hai? ”

"Gatou said that he couldn't remember, and we didn't track it down. The case itself was just caused by a dispute over the gamblers' money, and it was already very complicated to make such a big fuss, so there was no need to do more for a stolen goods that were not very critical. ”

Hu Xianxian nodded, the case was already very clear and clear, and there was no need to investigate it again. However, she always felt that something was wrong.

She left the Yizhou Prefecture Government sullenly and slowly walked towards the city gate of Tonglingzhou Avenue in Yizhou.

Hu Xianxian paused in front of the city gate and looked at the alley of the vegetable market at the corner of the city gate, where the garbage heap in the secluded corner was still there. Probably because there were dead people in that place, pedestrians avoided it, making it even more deserted and dirty.

She stood in the middle of the road and watched for a long time, and some pedestrians thought she was standing in the middle of the road and got in the way, and scolded her.

Hu Xianxian sighed that the gate of this city was full of people during the day, and it was deserted at night. There was no one on the road, and it was no wonder that Hang Lao would be bitten by wild dogs when he died in that corner. Thinking, thinking, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in her mind.

At night, there are indeed few pedestrians here, but the guards of the city have to be on duty at night. Why didn't any of the soldiers of the box army find that Hang Lao was arguing with the three of them? Did they not find out that they were arguing, or were they unwilling to testify?

When Hang Laojiao, Gatou, and Sour Head quarrel over money, they must quarrel fiercely, otherwise they will not attract the attention of Li Sigong, Sangua, and Sanhua. It is impossible for these soldiers of the Xiang army not to be aware of the dispute, that is, they are unwilling to testify!

The testimony of the soldiers of the Xiang Army is more weighty than the testimony of Li Sigong, Sangua, and Sandou, so they should be able to directly interrogate Ga Tou quickly at the first trial. At that time, it was easy to find evidence for a verdict, so why was it so troublesome to retry the case?

Hu Xianxian sighed and walked out of the city. She has to go to Pingle Nunnery to pick up first, it is not easy to protect the justice and justice of the world, she can only try to protect the people she cares about.