The confession was obtained, but no one breathed a sigh of relief from it.

The first question is whether this confession is true, indeed, the torture instrument is something that ordinary people will tremble when they see it, and they often throw it in front of the prisoners, and many people confess without waiting for the punishment, but under such torture, there are ordinary poor old women who have stayed up until they breathe, and the strong murderer in front of him may not be telling the truth. In these years, there is no lie detector, and no one can be sure of the truth of what the murderer said except himself and the mastermind behind the scenes.

"Is what he said true? I think I still have to torture again, and dare to attack a child in a sacred cathedral! I don't believe that this kind of person is willing to tell the truth. ”

This simple and crude solution was highly endorsed by several people, however, there were also objections.

"What if you die?"

To Luo Yi's surprise, it was Jason who raised this objection, she always thought that Jason, who proposed the inn to set fire when dealing with the papal envoy, and later led the crowd to kill people, was a ruthless character who could fight with the benevolent, part-time butcher Bishop Turnest, he didn't care about the enemy's life, and this time he actually interceded for this murderer!

"If he's dead, we'll have no witnesses," Jason said he objected, "to instruct a man to assassinate a child in a holy cathedral...... The mastermind behind him is certainly not an ordinary person! This kind of thing can't be done for ten or twenty gold coins, and I think we have to keep this witness alive! And, I think. What he said is probably true! ”

"Oh?" Luo Yi didn't support the torture in the first place, but she wanted to take a confession in another way instead of judging that a confession had been obtained, and now, she wanted to know why Jason made this judgment: "What is the reason for your opinion?" ”

"I asked all the people who had come into contact with that man that day," Jason said, holding up a stack of notes and raising them in mid-air, the dense words on which they persuaded the audience well, "and they all said that the man claimed to be a Caesarea and had a distant cousin named Mara. Many years ago, she married Mademoiselle de Fisher—that was you. Now the Baroness is in Brad's Land, where he has come to seek refuge with his cousin. ”

At this point, Jason looked at the Baroness, whose face did not change in the slightest. He was a little surprised by this. In fact. Luo Yi had never heard the name Mara at all.

The others didn't know what Mara was, and they all listened to him with blank expressions.

"This Mara is not a prisoner's words," Jason frowned. "She was indeed Madame's maid-in-waiting, but she fell ill and died in her first year in Brad—so none of us met her, except that Madame's lady-in-waiting was Madeleine, who was given to the Baroness by the former baron after Mara's death."

Everyone in the room nodded, and indeed none of them knew that the Baroness had a maid named Mara before.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we did not know that Madame had a maid named Mara, and he did. A mere maid for a dowry is not something worth recording, except for the lady's maiden family, who can inquire about such a trivial matter? ”

"Or is it possible that this prisoner is indeed a relative of Mara, but was hired by someone else, and then slandered Madame's stepmother by the way?" The bishop asked, "It is true that the name of a maid in dowry is not known, but it is not a secret either, and it does not take much effort for someone who is interested to ask it." ”

"Yes - but the maid was a Caesarea from the maiden family of Madame's mother, and the murderer - who claimed to be from Caesarea - was actually from Ryud." "His confession, and the identification of the two Ryuds I have found, confirm that his accent is indeed Rhoeud—Madame's stepmother is a Rhoeud." ”

"It could also be just a coincidence, or a deliberate disguise......"

"That's right," Jason shook his head, "this bit of evidence is not ironclad, it is only a side reflection of the murderer's identity, he knows something that we don't know, but, let's think about it from another aspect, it is obvious that the target of the murderer's assassination is the young baron, he doesn't even know that it was the baroness who was holding the little baron, thinking that she was a nanny (she was too plainly dressed and wore no jewelry), and at the age of the little baron, it is impossible to offend anyone to such a degree, even if he broke the law, he had to hire someone to kill him." What is the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes? Grab the territory? No, we all know that even if they succeed this time, Miss Anna is the second heir, and the ownership of the territory is still in the hands of the children of the former baron, and will not be transferred to other relatives. ”

"Indeed, unlike in Colonham and many other countries, where only male heirs can inherit property, in our Neustria, women have the right to inherit property after their brothers." The bishop said, "Kill the little baron, and the territory will not be transferred to distant relatives, but what if the mastermind behind the scenes commits murder again?" ”

"Who has lost their first child with such obvious malice and is not well protected? Moreover, the children's biological mother is still there. ”

Everyone nodded.

"Therefore, I think you all agree with me, the murderer behind the scenes is not here for the inheritance of the territory, unless he prepares two murders, not one, which is too difficult, and the funds and risks required are not commensurate with Brad's territory, and the suspicion of the baron's relatives can be ruled out. There are not many people who know Mara but them, and Countess Fisher fits the bill, she doesn't like her stepdaughter, and she has enough power and wealth to buy murder. Moreover, the murderer said that the Count intended to send her son to the church of Tournest, which was easily confirmed, and that she feared that the little baron would be in competition with her son, and that she would strike first. Miss Anna can inherit her brother's domain, but she cannot compete with the countess's son for the position of church, and our church does not allow women to be bishops. ”

"Do you want to kill a baron because you don't like it?" Luo Yi felt that she could not be convinced, "Even her son - uh, my brother - really entered the church, and it will take many years to inherit it, in the meantime, can she kill all her competitors?" ”

"I know that some women are just getting married and are thinking about getting rid of all the children of their ex-wives so that they can inherit them to their children who are not yet seen." The bishop sighed, "I've met your stepmother, and though only once or twice, she's not the kind of person who treats others as human beings. Someone claimed to have sent her son here to become a monk, but he had stolen the sacristy, and I sent him back to refuse the countess's kindness. I heard that the Countess had killed him—not in a neat way, but in the way of a death with his hands and feet cut off. The servant who had been sent came back to me and said to me that the Countess had some ominous nonsense, which I had thought was just angry words, but ...... "He had thought that this had discouraged the Countess from sending her son to the house, and who knew that she might think that the little baron was an obstacle to her...... (To be continued......)