Chapter 372: Scapegoat

In Rhino Town, who doesn't know that the Green family has always been empty-eyed, and they don't take any Rhino Town School in their eyes at all. Even the lords of Grey Elephant City (whether black cherry or non-black cherry) have to be in awe of veteran nobles like them - emaciated camels are bigger than horses, what if someone gives birth to a dragon summoner?

Now that the Green family has been ruined, and the head of the academy is temporarily in power, it is supposed to be a great joy to celebrate with a drink, but the latter is not only half happy, but is particularly active in solving the case, which makes others have to praise him for his clear distinction between public and private. In fact, he knew in his heart that if he couldn't find out the result of the tragedy of the Green family's overnight annihilation, he would have to peel off his skin if he didn't die!

If an ordinary mayor dies mysteriously, even if the hall chief insists that all this is an accident, at most he will be scolded by the city lord for doing things unfavorably, and then there will be no more. But the Green family is different, no matter how far it falls, the death of a nobleman must be reported to the king.

If only the head of the Green family dies and can't hand over the prisoner, the hall chief will be fined by the generals and fines at most, and it will be over after a long time. But if he dared to tell the king that it was a fire that "accidentally" wiped out the Grimm family, whether it was true or not, he would inevitably face the crime of bullying the king!

In other words, the head of the hall is so active in solving the case, which is a clear distinction between public and private, but he is just busy looking for a scapegoat for himself.

At present, the head of the hall is temporarily acting as the mayor of the town, and as soon as he gives the order, those majestic officers and soldiers immediately take action. But just when Su Ze was considering whether to cooperate with their work or show his hands to give them a dismount, the pawnshop owner stood in front of the officers and soldiers, and shouted unceremoniously: "What are you doing? What are you doing? The hall elder is amazing, don't think that you can do whatever you want as the temporary mayor of the town! Do you know who this young master is, he is a friend of our big boss Kark Hujiu! If you want to stand up for the Green family, then you have to weigh the weight of the imperial capital Karke family first!"

What is the origin of the Khalke family, the ordinary people probably don't know, but just relying on the words "imperial capital" and "family" is enough to scare them nine times out of ten.

The head of the Rhino Town School is also a bit knowledgeable, and when he hears the name of the "Kark Family", he vaguely feels that something is wrong. HOWEVER, THE CRUEL WORDS OF ARRESTING SU ZE AND THE OTHERS HAVE ALREADY BEEN RELEASED, IF THEY ADMIT IT AT THIS TIME, WOULDN'T IT BE A LOSS OF HIS "DOUBLE-LONG BUFF" FACE? SO, AFTER WEIGHING IT FOR A WHILE, HE SAID SOLEMNLY: "THE PRINCE IS GUILTY OF THE SAME CRIME AS THE PEOPLE, NOT TO MENTION THAT THEY ARE JUST FRIENDS OF BOSS HU, EVEN IF THEY ARE THE NEPHEWS OF THE HU FAMILY, IT IS RELATED TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE GREEN FAMILY, AND THE HEAD OF THE HALL WILL NOT TOLERATE IT! GUARDS, WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING IN A DAZE, WHY DON'T YOU HURRY UP AND BRING PEOPLE BACK TO THE CONSULATE FOR TRIAL!"

"Do you dare?" The pawnshop owner has always been kind, but today it was as if he had eaten explosives, and he actually dared to shield Su Ze and the others in public - I don't know who gave him the courage, Liang Jingru?

Seeing that the other party was not afraid of power, and only wanted to arrest himself, he also said in his heart: When I meet such an upright person, should I cooperate, so as not to lose his face?

In contrast, Li Shasha is much more clever, and with a few words, she has already gained insight into what this hall master is thinking. So before the guards could push the pawnshop owner away, she said loudly in a voice that everyone in the pawnshop could hear: "The prince is guilty of the same crime as the people, and what the chief said is very good! In that case, when the Green family set fire to the hotel, why didn't I see you come forward to do justice?"

And without waiting for the hall chief to answer in a hurry, Li Shasha asked and replied to herself: "Oh~ I understand! Boss, get out of the way, we will be arrested voluntarily." It's just that after we are arrested, I will write another letter to Boss Hu and tell him that this hall master of the Rhino Town School is only afraid of the Green family, not the Kark family, this is really a red fruit to look down on!"

"You, you, you...... The fire in the hotel was purely accidental, and this is the consensus reached by the whole town, so how can you lie to good people!" This hall chief can't even afford to offend the extinct Green family, how dare he offend the Khalke family in the imperial capital? In a panic, he had no choice but to announce in public: "Aren't you praising your innocence? Well, this official will give you a chance to answer the official's questions truthfully here, in front of the officers and soldiers of the town, as well as the teachers and students of the hall!"

I don't know if I want to skip the Khalke family too much, but without waiting for Su Ze and the two to respond, the hall chief asked himself: "Answer me, you two outsiders, who have come thousands of miles to Rhino Town, what do you want?"

Hearing this question, Li Shasha immediately slapped the table and shouted: "The legs are long on us, we like to go wherever we like, do we need you to care?

Su Ze knew that Li Shasha's little temper was coming, so he couldn't help but smile and shook his head, and said to the hall chief with an embarrassed face: "Why did we come to Rhino Town, Mo Fei knows." ”

Being named by Su Ze, Mo Fei was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "Back to the hall, this Brother Su is a fellow villager of Senior Sister Xiaomeng, when we first met, he did ask me about the whereabouts of Senior Sister Xiaomeng." ”

"Xiaomeng's fellow countryman?" Because he was afraid of being retaliated against by Black Cherry, Green Yang didn't dare to talk about the tragedy in the fishing village everywhere, so the hall chief didn't know about it, and said suspiciously: "Xiaomeng has been away from Rhino Town for a long time, why don't you leave?"

Hearing this question, Li Shasha was angry again, "Do you know how long it took us to arrive in Rhino Town? Because we couldn't find Xiaomeng, we just came and left, are you sick or I sick?"

"You, you, you...... Presumptuous!" Li Shasha's words were ugly, but every sentence was reasonable, and the hall chief didn't know how to deal with it for a while, but he always felt that something was wrongβ€”how could a suspect be so arrogant?

"Okay, don't scare them. According to Li Shasha's method of answering questions, it may not be possible to explain it clearly when it gets dark, so Su Ze gently rubbed her little head, and then replied: "We came to Rhino Town for two things, one is to inquire about Xiaomeng's whereabouts, and the other is to ask Mr. Green Yang for a hairpin. It was already afternoon when we came the day before yesterday, and yesterday we went to Yang's Mansion to ask about the whereabouts of the hairpin, and today we were indeed ready to redeem the hairpin and left. ”

Hearing the name of "Green Yang", the hall master raised his eyebrows, squinted his eyes and asked, "The Yang Mansion, from the master to the servants, all died in the fire last night, who else can prove that you have been to the Yang Mansion?"

"I can prove it!" The pawnshop owner rolled up his sleeves and said boldly: "During the redemption period, only the pawnbroker himself can redeem the items with the bills, this is the rule of all pawnshops in the world! Besides, as soon as this young master entered the door, he said that the pawn where Green Yang was located had made it clear that he was not going to redeem the silver hairpin at that time, which is something that even I have to check the account book to know, if he didn't talk to Green Yang face to face, where would he know?"

In two questions in a row, Su Ze's human identity was perfect, but the hall chief smiled inexplicably, and then said confidently: "No matter how well you cooperate, you still show your feet after all! According to this official's speculation, you must have asked for the hairpin from Green Yang, and after questioning, you learned that he had become the hairpin and was not ready to redeem it at all, so he vented his anger and killed people in a fit of anger, and then used a fire to cover up your evil deeds, yes or no?"

"It's you!" This time Li Shasha's anger couldn't even be covered by Su Ze, "Can you make up a story more reasonably?" If you want to find a scapegoat, the residents of the town will grab a handful, can you not waste our precious time?"

Before, Su Ze still felt that this hall chief was upright, but when he heard that the other party actually began to imagine some imaginary plots in order to convict him, he felt that he had seen the wrong person. And after Li Shasha said the sentence "I want to find a scapegoat", he finally began to understand what this seemingly upright hall chief said and did, so he asked with a cold face: "Who in the room doesn't know that the Yang Mansion was on fire last night, when the doors and windows of every house were closed, and the Yang Mansion had refused to see guests, even if Green Yang stayed awake all night, how could he receive us?"

"This ......" The hall chief was stumped by Su Ze, and became angry on the spot, "Now that the official is interrogating you, how can you ask the official back? If the official has any questions, you are only allowed to answer, not to refute! Right and wrong, the official has his own judgment!"

"Hmph......" In just a few words, the hall chief has changed from an upright and good official to an arbitrary and domineering ruffian, Su Ze only blamed himself for his long eyes and ignorance, and couldn't help but let out a self-deprecating sneer.

Perhaps because of his weak heart, the hall chief turned a deaf ear to Su Ze's sneer, and continued to ask in an official tone: "You lived in the hotel that caught fire the day before yesterday, and even the owner who slept on the first floor of the hotel was burned to death due to the flames, why are you still sitting here unscathed? No, you just framed the people of the Green family for killing people and setting fires, and honestly, are you the culprits of the fire the night before yesterday?"

It's okay to ask rhetorically, but Li Shasha still can't help but ask: "Who swore just now that it was just an accidental fire, and now you are looking for an arsonist again?"

"Anyway, it's the hall leader of the Fang Academy, don't you feel ashamed to ask two summoners such a question?" After recognizing the hall master's face, Su Ze's tone became more and more impatient, "We have flying demons, even if we are caught in the fire, we can leave unscathed." However, we were not in the hotel that night, and at about three o'clock in the morning, we rode the demon to the south pier to wait for the sunrise. ”

"The hotel caught fire in the early morning, but you ran to see the sunrise before the fire broke out, how can there be such a coincidence in the world?" The more the hall chief asked, the more innocent Su Ze and the others became, and even the surrounding officers, soldiers, teachers and students gradually began to look at him with puzzled eyes. Even if it was just to protect his reputation, he was eager to convict Su Ze and the others, so he roared with a hideous face: "You said that you went to see the sunrise, who can prove it? If no one can testify to you, even if you are not the murderer of the burning of the Yang Mansion, you must be the real murderer of the burning of the hotel!"

Seeing that the hall chiefs around them were determined to get themselves, Su Ze and Li Shasha shook their heads helplessly at the same time, and then the former replied: "The sunrise is about six o'clock, and the fishermen have not yet started work at that time, who can testify to us?" But when we returned to the town, we drank two bowls of porridge in a small shop selling sea cucumber porridge. ”

Damn, how can these two people have witnesses everywhere? The hall leader who wanted Su Ze and the two to be convicted had already lost his mind, and he just wanted to say hello to the captain of the officers and soldiers beside him, and when he found the calf, he would give him some money and ask him to cooperate in making a perjury, but before he could open his mouth, he heard a voice suddenly float out of the crowd: "Little cow, the hall elder called you, come in quickly!"

As soon as the words fell, a voice came back from outside the pawnshop: "Okay, here!"

When Xiao Niu stood in front of the hall chief, the latter was really angry, and immediately threatened: "Xiao Niu, you are a native of our town, if you dare to perjury, don't blame the official for being unkind to you, do you hear that?"

"Don't worry, the villain definitely knows everything!" "The calf is a boy with a simple personality, how can he have those fancy intestines of the hall chief?" Speaking of Su Ze and the others, he almost said in his mind: "Back to the hall chief's words, the villain remembers very clearly, yesterday morning, at about nine o'clock in the morning, when I was about to close the stall, I happened to see these two guests coming back from outside the town, or I invited them into the store to drink porridge! Although the villain doesn't know how fast the flying demon can fly, it's been around six o'clock in the sunrise lately. They came back at about nine o'clock, and in this way, they really set off at about three o'clock! You see, three plus three get six, six plus three get nine, the villain's math is good, right?"

"Gotta get it...... Okay, shut up!" The hall chief thought that the calf would play a wave of beautiful cooperation with him under his obscenity, but he didn't expect that he would sell himself perfectly with a seamless addition, so he could only admit sadly: "Okay, this official believes that you are not the murderer who burned the hotel." ”

At this time, Su Ze slowly got up and said, "Xiaomeng is not here, the hairpin is not there, and the sunrise has also been watched, so it's time for us to leave and return to Yak Town." Since we are innocent, let's ask the head of the hall to send us away. ”

"This can't be done!" As soon as he heard that Su Ze and the others were leaving, the hall chief immediately spoke to stop him, "Although you are not the murderer who burned the hotel, you are the suspect in the burning of the Yang Mansion, if you leave in a hurry, it will prove that you are a thief! In my opinion, you should stay in this town for a while and cooperate with our investigation." ”

There are many people who can prove that there is a contradiction between Su Ze and the Green family, where can they find such a good scapegoat? Although the residents of the town can catch a lot of money, they can each catch the top bag, but everyone is a villager, and a little mishandling will arouse the anger of the people, so the hall chief will never let go of these two outsiders easily.

Su Ze really didn't know why the hall chief was chasing after him, but after a long time, he was really annoyed, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll take out the evidence that we can't be murderers." ”

Hearing this, the hall chief scoffed: Lao Tzu has interrogated you for a long time, if you really have any decisive evidence, why didn't you come up with it earlier?

At this moment, a thrilling dragon roar suddenly exploded in the air, causing everyone to squat on the ground with their heads in their hands! Then, Su Zecai looked up at the ceiling and said coldly: "Don't say anything about the Green family, I just want to destroy Rhino Town, and it's just a matter of waving my hand." So, are you sure you want to arrest a dragon summoner?"