King Jing finally ordered someone to come to Mao Leyan two days later, Mao Leyan was already angry with him at that time, but he couldn't be angry and not see him. She cleaned up and took Xiao Shu and Fan Er to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion.

King Jing was dealing with complicated affairs in the yamen, and after Mao Leyan came, he didn't raise his head, but said lightly: "Come?" ”

Mao Leyan said angrily: "It's not easy to see you, I have been turned away again and again, and those who don't know still think I'm pestering you." ”

King Jing looked up at her with a frown, "What are you talking about?" It's gone when it's not available, what's the matter? You're not such a stingy person, come here, this king has something to ask you. ”

Mao Leyan was annoyed, but he still walked to his side, pushed him over with a push of his hand, and then sat beside him by himself. Although the chair is not very large, the two of them can sit next to each other, but this makes people feel very ambiguous, and the officials in the hall all look at the two in surprise and discuss privately.

"What's the matter?" Mao Leyan asked.

King Jing said: "This king heard that you are also very nervous about Liu Fang's case, his wife Cao Wanzhen has been arrested and brought to justice, but she blindly shouted that she was wronged, saying that Liu Fang was bitten to death by a poisonous snake, and her expression does not look like lying." ”

"It's normal to shout wrongs, and I won't admit my guilt." Mao Leyan took the copywriting and looked at it, frowned and said: "She said that Liu Fang was bitten to death by a poisonous snake, and she was afraid for a while so she donated money and absconded, but at this time, although the weather is slightly warmer, it is still cold weather, snakes are hibernating, how can there be snakes breaking into people's houses?" Did she find the snake herself and put it on the spot? Moreover, according to the snake you saw killed on the spot, it is not a poisonous snake, even a hundred bites will not be fatal. ”

King Jing said with some annoyance: "I didn't expect the investigation to be so troublesome, I knew that this king would not be this Shuntian Mansion Yin." ”

Mao Leyan said angrily: "You are so depressed in the first case? By the way, why did you come here to work? You are a military general, and this position of Shuntianfu Yin is not suitable for you. ”

"It's not that you told this king what Shi Gongqi case and Song Ci said that day, this king was itchy for a while, and it happened that Shuntianfu Yin was transferred, and this king took office. It also saves Liu gradually from sending people. King Jing said with an annoyed face.

Mao Leyan was dumbfounded, staring at him for a long time before saying, "I'll tell my story, what are you itching?" Fortunately, I didn't tell you Ximenqing, otherwise you would have itched to spoil the women of the good family for a while. ”

"What Ximenqing?" King Jing covered the text and asked.

Mao Leyan took the copy, lay on the table and studied it carefully, and the girl from the government brought her a cup of tea, she didn't raise her eyebrows, thanked her and continued to read.

King Jing saw that she was fascinated and asked, "What clues do you see?" The Cao family said that she did not kill anyone, and this king had studied with the master and Fu Cheng, she had no motive to kill, Liu Fang died, it was harmful to her, all the business in Tanglin Village was run by Liu Fang, and the Cao family was just managing the accounts. ”

"Will she have a man outside?" Mao Leyan speculated, "She did the thing of betraying her husband and stealing from the man." ”

"You seem to know her very well, did you know her before?" He remembered that Mao Leyan was very concerned about this case, could it be that she knew Cao Wanzhen or Liu Fang?

"There was a one-sided relationship, and this person was very annoying." Mao Leyan told the matter of Tongxin Restaurant and concluded: "Moreover, I know Liu Fang's former wife, and everyone outside says that she died violently, but I know that she was poisoned, and the people who poisoned her were Cao Wanzhen and Liu Fang, so now I believe that Cao Wanzhen poisoned Liu Fang." ”

Although this inference is more arbitrary, Cao's statement is even more nonsense, being bitten to death by a poisonous snake without poison, isn't this a big fallacy in the world?

King Jing frowned and thought for a moment, and shouted, "Nuo'er, come here." ”

His little servant hurriedly walked out of the inner office and asked, "Lord Wang, the slave is here." ”

"Pack up, let's not do it." King Jing said irresponsibly.

Mao Leyan looked at him speechlessly, generals are indeed only suitable for killing enemies on the battlefield, where can there be such patience and carefulness in investigating cases? She pulled him, "Sit down, let's study the case carefully, if a case can be solved by you at a glance, where is there still an unjust prison in this world?" What we want to investigate, do you understand? ”

King Jing lazily squeezed her to the side, picked up the teacup and took a sip, the hot tea soup lingered, clouding his face, he said lightly: "You love to check yourself, this king is not interested." ”

Mao Leyan didn't bother to pay attention to him, so he only called Yan Zhutou and asked, "Then where is the Cao family imprisoned now?" ”

"Back to my aunt, she is now in prison. Auntie and grandmother want to ask? Command her to be brought to her. Yan Zhutou only knew that she was the aunt of King Qing's mansion, and now seeing that she had an ambiguous relationship with King Jing, he was also puzzled. It's just that she doesn't look like a fox, and she shouldn't be looking at Qin Duchu.

"No need, I'll go with you." Mao Leyan got up and pulled King Jing and said, "Come with me." ”

King Jing said lazily: "If you don't go, this king might as well drink tea here." ”

Mao Leyan couldn't help him, so he had to go with Yan Zhutou.

The cell was dark and damp, and as soon as Mao Leyan stepped in, a musty smell came to her nose, and she frowned: "The hygiene here is too bad, right?" ”

Yan Zhutou said with a smile: "This place is already neat, and it was only cleaned a few years ago." ”

"Years ago? It should be cleaned in three days, and the prisoners are also human beings, so they should not be treated like pigs and dogs. Mao Le said.

Yan Zhutou was a little embarrassed, "The yamen is understaffed, where can I have time to clean?" ”

"You can arrange for the prisoners to clean up by themselves, and they don't want to come to the place where they live so dirty." Mao Leyan suggested.

Yan Zhu's eyes flashed, and he said happily: "This is a good way." ”

Along the way, the prisoners on both sides of the prison were locked up with dull-looking inmates, and they looked around for a moment, and then each bowed his head in a daze.

Walking to the middle of the prison, Yan Zhutou stopped and shouted to the iron prison on the left: "Cao's! ”

Mao Leyan looked intently, only to see a woman with a disheveled hair locked in an iron prison of about three square meters, she curled up and sat in the corner, heard someone calling, suddenly raised her head and rushed over and grabbed the iron pillar and shouted: "My lord, wronged, I didn't kill anyone, I was wronged." ”

Yan Zhutou knocked on the iron pillar with his sword, and said majestically, "Quiet, quiet, take a step back, I have something to ask you." ”

Mao Leyan looked at the Cao family, he had long lost the arrogant and domineering spirit of the past, his tired face and skin were drooping, his eyes were dark, his expression was a little crazy, he knelt on his knees, clenched the iron pillar with both hands, and shook his body desperately. Her eyes moved to Mao Leyan's face, and her expression was slightly dull, "I remember you, I've seen you." She began to get a little excited, "Did you hurt me?" I didn't kill anyone, did you wronged me? ”

Mao Leyan looked at her and asked, "How did your husband die?" You say it once from start to finish. ”

Cao Shi said excitedly, "I have already said, I didn't kill him, he was bitten to death by a snake, and that snake has been beaten to death by my father-in-law, and you have also seen that snake." ”

"Grandma asked you to say it from the beginning, you can say it once, don't talk nonsense." Yan Zhutou said angrily.

Cao Shi was startled by the sharp eyes of Yan Zhutou, moved his body back, knelt on the ground and cried, crying for a while, and then sobbing and saying: "That day, the maid was stewing soup in the kitchen, I was afraid that she would eat it secretly, so I went in to see, and it happened that the husband came back to me to ask about something, and also came to the kitchen." Who knows that I don't know where a snake came out, Xiang Gong saw the snake, picked up a wooden stick and was about to hit it, who knew that the snake was so flexible, in turn bit Xiang Gong, Xiang Gong was in pain, pinched the snake's seven inches with one hand and then beat the snake to death with fire tongs. Unexpectedly, after beating the snake, Xianggong suddenly fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, and the leg that was bitten by the snake was swollen, and it didn't take long for him to die. ”

When Mao Leyan heard this, he thought for a while, "You said that the maid was stewing soup in the kitchen, and the maid could see that your husband was bitten by a snake?" ”

Cao Shi cried: "The maid just went out to get firewood, but I didn't see it, and when she came back, Xianggong had already lost her breath." ”

"That is, there are no eyewitnesses to prove that your father-in-law was bitten to death by a snake," Mao Leyan pondered for a while, and asked suspiciously: "You said that he was bitten by a snake and his leg was swollen, but I just read the report, and it only said that he died of poison, and there were marks of snake teeth on his leg, which can be examined, and there is no snake venom." And the snake they picked up at the scene also confirmed that it was just an ordinary grass flower snake, and it was not poisonous, in other words, if it was bitten by this kind of snake, it would not kill anyone. ”

Cao Shi immediately cried out to the heavens and the earth, "How do I know if it is poisonous or not?" Anyway, my father-in-law was bitten to death by a snake. ”

"In that case, why did you run away? Your father-in-law died, and you didn't think about reporting or rescuing, but you absconded with the money? Mao Leyan said coldly.

Cao Shi cried and said: "I don't want to run away, but when the maid came back and saw this situation, she actually said that I killed someone, I saw that the snake was just an ordinary grass flower snake, I also knew that it was not poisonous, and I would be wronged by the officials to kill me, wouldn't I die?" I was also confused for a while, so I fled with the child, adult, believe me, I really didn't kill anyone, I was wronged. She roared as she grabbed Yan Zhutou's coat through the iron pillar, crying hoarsely.

Mao Leyan looked at her expression carefully, looking at her like this, it really didn't look like a lie. After pondering for a while, she asked, "Where did the snakes come from in your house on this cold day?" ”

Cao Shi was stunned for a moment and shook his head, "I don't know, I don't know!" She looked at Mao Leyan's expression, suddenly startled, and stared at Mao Leyan with wide eyes, "What kind of prince are you, I once offended you, and you are here to kill me now, right?" I warn you, if you dare to do this, I will sue the emperor, don't think that I don't know anything, you are a woman's family, you can't handle cases, and you can't intervene in political affairs. ”

Mao Leyan smiled, "With you, it has nothing to do with political affairs." I want to kill you, I don't have to wait until now, I am in charge of this case, I am not afraid to tell you, Liu Hong is my friend, I know that she died in vain, so I will investigate together with Liu Hong's case. ”

Cao's face turned pale suddenly, and she looked at Mao Leyan in a daze, fear gradually permeated her eyes, she took a step back, and muttered: "It's none of my business, it's not my business!" ”