When Zhao Ning came to the vicinity of the Cangshui River, the villagers and farmers who had gathered at the dam had already begun to disperse, one side was led back to the manor by the Zhao clan, and the other side was taken back to his village by the squire.

Zhao Ning immediately put on a dirt bag with a good view, put his hand on the pergola and looked at it for a while, and finally his eyes fell on a group of people who were taken by the officials of Jingzhao Mansion and Shimen County and walked to Yanping City on the official road.

There were a lot of them, more than 100 people, in addition to the tenants involved in the case, the body of the deceased who was carried, the people from the Zhao manor, the village chief of the other village, etc., there was no shortage of people who went to Jingzhao Mansion to watch the excitement and discuss the law.

Zhao Ning didn't look at it for a while, and the clansmen of the Zhao manor rode horses and galloped over, and the middle-aged man led by him came to Zhao Ning, and reported the specific situation in a concise manner:

"Thirteen people were killed and more than 20 were injured, all of them villagers from Hekou Village. Before Brother Ning came, the officials of Jingzhao Mansion had already completed the preliminary investigation.

"On our side, there are five tenants, three villagers, and four villagers. Because many villagers witnessed the killing, the evidence is conclusive.

"Because of the seriousness of the case, the Shimen County officials present discussed with the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture and decided to take the people directly to Jingzhao Mansion instead of the Shimen County Government for trial. ”

Having said that, Zhao Zhengxiang, the middle-aged steward of the manor, who is also Zhao Ning's uncle in terms of seniority, summed up with an unusually face:

"The situation is naturally very bad for us at the moment. I have already sent someone to find the family of the murderer, Ning Ge'er should go back to Zhuangzi with us first, there is no need to go to Hekou Village. ”

Zhao Ning bowed slightly, without making any judgment.

He was very clear about the cause and effect of the whole thing.

Zhao's farmland is east of the Cangshui River, and the farmland of Hekou Village is west of the Cangshui River, and both sides use water from the Cangshui River for irrigation.

This time of year is a critical time for the growth of seedlings, and once the rainfall is not enough, whether the seedlings can survive depends on whether the water from the dam can be diverted in time to enter the irrigation ditch of the farmland.

The critical agricultural season is just such a period, beyond this time there is no irrigation in place, and the fragile seedlings die in large areas, affecting the harvest of the year, and no one can afford to delay.

However, the flow of the Cangshui River is limited, and although the dam reservoir has stored water for a winter, it cannot meet the needs of the farmland on both sides of the river to divert water at the same time in spring, otherwise there will be no water available for the farmland in the villages downstream, so there must be a sequence of water diversion.

As a royal noble, in the past, the Zhao family first diverted water for irrigation, and then left the second half of the time to Hekou Village, and there have been no major problems for many years, and Hekou Village has not suffered huge losses because of untimely irrigation of farmland.

But this year, the village of Hekou refused to wait.

According to the head of Hekou Village, the flow of water in the Cangshui River is extremely small due to the spring drought this year, and if the Zhao family first diverts water for a few days, the water in the reservoir will be gone, and the water must be diverted at the same time, or let them use water first.

They were convincing in their words, saying that the Zhao family had used water for so many years, and it was their turn to use it for a few years.

That sounds fine, but it's not.

If Hekou Village had said earlier that it would have used water first, the Zhao family might not have agreed, but they did not negotiate in advance, and the Zhao manor had sown the seeds early according to the usual practice, and now the seedlings have grown, and at the critical moment, plus there is indeed no rain this spring, this

If you don't irrigate quickly, the seedlings will definitely die.

If Hekou Village opens its mouth early, and Zhao's Manor sows a few days later, it will naturally be possible to use water later.

In view of this, the Zhao manor of course disagreed, and the Hekou village was resolute, and eventually the people gathered at the dam to compete for water.

Since ancient times, there have been countless fights between villagers over irrigation water sources during spring droughts, but they basically occur between upstream and downstream, and there are relatively few fights like this on both sides of the river.

The reason for this is that the upstream has the natural advantage of using water first, and the upstream has intercepted the water, and the downstream naturally has no use.

The Zhao family has always had a pure family style, coupled with the cherishing of feathers, naturally it will not let the east and west sides of the strait use water at the same time, so that this situation will appear.

All in all, this weapon fight case is different from the dock murder case, the latter killed Wang Shu, and the method used was to frame him, which is relatively easy to crack.

The murder of not only the tenants of the Zhao family, but also the manor nursing home, the Zhao family could not get out of it, which was quite an iron case.

Not long after, Zhao Ning and others came to Zhao's manor.

Shimen County is also the land of Gyeonggi, intersecting with other states and counties to be a lot richer, there is a market street outside Zhao's big Zhuangzi, and there are many houses nearby, and the houses are built quite tall and decently decorated, which shows that the people who live here are well-off.

"Where does Brother Ning plan to go first?" Zhao Zhengxiang asked.

"Uncle Seventh went to find the family members of the nursing home, and I went to the tenants. Zhao Ning had his own plan in his heart, and "seven" was Zhao Zhengxiang's ranking among the Zhao brothers of his generation.

As Zhao Ning expected, the houses he was going to were relatively remote, and it was said that the houses were also short and poor. On the way, Hu Honglian, who was dressed as a woman from a farmer's house, came out of a corner and said to Zhao Ning:

"We've found the place, and the people have taken control of it, but it's not too good, they don't seem to know anything. ”

From Hu Honglian's words, it can be seen that they have just found the residence of those murderous tenants, and they are not like Su Yeqing, Fang Moyuan and others in the dock market, who have long known all the situation.

And rightfully so.

The countryside is not as good as the dock market, where the flow of people is very small, and the farmers who live are familiar with each other, and when strangers come in, everyone can notice it at the first time, and the strange faces are active here, which also seems very abrupt.

Yipinlou haunts and does things in such a place, and it is not as convenient as the people of Zhao's Manor to come forward by themselves.

And whoever walks around and asks about what is going on and who is spying on who will immediately attract the attention of those who are interested in it, and it is easy to startle the conspiracy makers and participants to retreat, or cause other accidents.

Therefore, Zhao Ning's arrangement here is to let Zhao Zhengxiang secretly communicate with some trustworthy and competent villagers, and mobilize the other party to pay attention to the abnormalities in various places near and far, and Hu Honglian is just to outline the leader as a command.

At this time, Hu Honglian was accompanied by the steward of a manor and three old men with gray hair.

"What the killers did, their families couldn't have known. It's just that there aren't many people who know, and they're just tight-lipped. ”

Zhao Ning said as he walked, "Unlike Wang Shu, these people really want to be imprisoned for manslaughter, and even if the case is closed, they will not easily come out of prison." They do this

The benefits of things must be given to the family members. ”

Hu Honglian frowned on the side and said: "If this is the case, the family members who know will inevitably grit their teeth and not let go, once they confess the truth, the previous efforts and sacrifices, as well as the remuneration they have received, will be in vain." ”

Zhao Ning just glanced at Hu Honglian and didn't say anything.

Coming into contact with Zhao Ning's strange and cold eyes, Hu Honglian's heart moved, and he instantly understood what Zhao Ning meant: Why can't you ask for it under Miki.

As long as they are tortured and tortured, how can these ordinary villagers not speak?

These people, as tenants and protectors of the Zhao family, were secretly bought by the people of the family, and killed people in the weapon fighting case, and after arriving at Jingzhao Mansion, they must be sure that this is instigated by the people of the Zhao manor.

At this time, Zhao Ning would definitely not be kind to their families.

Leaving the avenue, entering the field road, walking for a while, turning a big bend, Zhao Ning and the others saw a cottage by the stream in front of a forest.

There were seven or eight families there, and the houses were all ruined, and there was no fence in the yard.

Seeing the destination, Hu Honglian and the others were not happy.

She had left people here to watch over the relatives of the killers in case they ran away, but now they didn't run away, but there were a lot more.

The extra ones were not the cultivators sent by the sect to protect them, but the officials of the Jingzhao Mansion.

"The people from Jingzhao Mansion are coming so fast!" Hu Honglian said in a deep voice.

Zhao Ning stopped, looked forward indifferently, and searched for any familiar figures among the officials of Jingzhao Mansion.

In the dock murder case, in order to prevent the Zhao family's people from finding out anything, the Zheng family hid Chen Yi, a key figure, and also made Wang Shu's wife disappear in front of people, so in this case, it is impossible for the family to act in the same way to protect and control the family members of the murderer.

Wang Shu did not commit a crime on the surface, so the Zheng family's treatment of Chen Yi and Wang Liu's family was carried out in concealment just in case. But in the case of the fight, the killer did kill someone, and the family couldn't hide the other party's family.

At this time, letting the officials of Jingzhao Mansion bring them to Jingzhao Mansion in the name of interrogating their families is the best way to prevent the Zhao family from asking what they have from the family of the murderer.

This move is a matter of course, and no one can say whether it is or not.

"Childe, what should we do now?" Hu Honglian turned his head and asked Zhao Ning eagerly, "Do you want to use the people of the Governor's Mansion to rob the road and forcibly snatch away the family members of the murderer by force?"

Zhao Ning shook his head and said unhurriedly: "Since the people of Jingzhao Mansion are here, there must be a master of the sect secretly taking care of them, even if we use the strong men of the Zhao family, the Wei family and other families to help the soldiers of the Duwei Mansion, it is unlikely that we will succeed."

"In addition, I am serving in the Governor's Mansion, and the matter is getting bigger, and I have to be named favoritism, which is not good for the overall situation. ”

When Hu Honglian heard this, he couldn't help but become even more anxious, "Are we going to give up asking the families of the murderers? If we can't get evidence from them that they were bought by the family, this case will really be ironclad!"

Speaking of this, she suddenly remembered something, and her eyes lit up, "When we brought down the Liu family before, there were Hanmen officials in Jingzhao Mansion who helped us, can we also get their help this time?"