Zhou Pei's eyes lit up, his face was expressionless, and he pulled the corners of his mouth coldly.

Yu Fangjing stopped between the two, and said solemnly with his eyes: "Miss Zhou, but Zhou Pei?" ”

Xiufang Nuonuo: "Back to my lord, yes." ”

Yu Fangjing raised his hand, shook off his sleeve robe and swept half a circle, "Take a closer look, who else do you know among these people below?" ”

Xiufang's eyes were smooth over Steward Zhou, and he shook his head, then paused for a long time on the two middle-aged men behind him, "The one on the left seems to be the eldest young master of the Zhou family." ”

"Zhou Ting, the eldest young master of the Zhou family?" Yu Fangjing confirmed.

Xiufang bit her lip and nodded, she stepped back and accidentally stepped on someone.

"You little maid dare to step on this little young master, do you want to die?" The voice is immature but domineering.

Everyone looked at the person who made the voice, it was a child of seven or eight years old, and most of his body was hugged by a woman in his arms, and he broke free at this moment, his face full of fierce and domineering anger.

Yu Fangjing's eyes half-rolled, "Oh? Who are you? ”

"Humph! Our Zhou family is in Diqiu, can you afford to offend? He asked his mother to kneel in his arms for a long time, and he was already impatient, and then he was unintentionally trampled on by Xiufang, and the lawless little overlord on weekdays had a complete attack.

Yu Fangjing smiled meaningfully, "The Zhou family." ”

The child was still trying to scream, but his mother quickly covered his mouth.

The others were silent, even the Steward Zhou at the front and Zhou Ting, who was considered by Xiufang to be the eldest and youngest of the Zhou family, all had no expression, and knelt on the ground numbly.

Meng Xueli's brows were squeezed together, and he said loudly: "Zhou Pei? Zhou Ting? The Zhou family? He sent out the confusion that many people have, "The Zhou family was destroyed, didn't the bodies of the Zhou family be burned in Yizhuang, how could there be any Zhou family?" ”

Yu Fangjing arched his hand at him, "Lord Meng, don't be impatient, the lower official is just going to tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and several adults about a mysterious matter." ”

Zi Sangjin's eyes moved slightly, looked at the people in the hall, and said, "Prefect Yu wants to say that someone in the Zhou family has survived." But the autopsy on the same day showed not exactly 149 corpses, and none of them were missing. ”

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the lower official was about to talk about this." Yu Fangjing politely bowed to Lu Anran, "On that day, Miss Lu conducted an autopsy, and the heads of one hundred and forty-nine people were all docked back to their original positions by Miss Lu one by one. ”

"No, it won't." Lu Anran had the confidence to say this, she glanced at Zhou Pei and Zhou Ting, suppressed the shock in her heart, and replied: "The corpse was damaged that day, and I judged from the connection between the bones and the fracture, just as a tree has growth rings, and bones also have age differences. ”

Yu Fangjing nodded, asked Xiufang to take him down, turned to everyone and said, "I asked these two witnesses to come here to inform the prince and your lords of two things. First, the 'shopkeeper' of the incense and candle shop who came into contact with Steward Zhou every day was not the original owner, the real shopkeeper was murdered and sealed in a low wall, and the wild dogs smelled the smell and gouged the ground before the official's people found out. ”

Yu Fangjing stretched out a second finger, "Second, the village girl Xiufang identifies that Zhou Pei and Zhou Ting are undoubtedly identified, and this little boy blurted out the word 'Zhou family', but as we all know, the Zhou family has long been wiped out, what is the reason for this?" ”

His expression became solemn, and he said sonorously word by word: "The fact is that there is no so-called Zhou family annihilation, there are exactly one hundred and fifty people in the hall, all of them are Zhou family members!" ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Zi Sangjin was surprised, but Yunqi and Lu Anran looked at each other silently, and their expressions changed at the same time, sinking into thought.

Nangong Zhi walked to Yu Fangjing's side, and after the initial shock, he had slowly digested the matter, and then said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister can prove that what Yu Prefect said is true. There are other witnesses in exception, but everyone who has had business contact with the Zhou family can go to court one by one to confront them if necessary. ”

At this point, there is no need to say much, and no one doubts the identity of these people kneeling in the hall.

It's just that the truth was unexpected, and it took some effort for everyone to accept it.

"It wasn't a brilliant plan." Yu Fangjing sighed: "It's just that from the beginning of the farm, we inadvertently fell into the trap of the Zhou family, and the Zhou housekeeper took advantage of the situation and let the Zhou family's extermination case enter everyone's sight in the most logical manner." ”

At that time, Steward Zhou pounced on him and cried so loudly that no one suspected that the deceased was not the Zhou family, and no one suspected a loyal servant who had worked hard in the Zhou family all his life, let alone such a deception.

Nangong Zhi put one hand behind him, the other in front of him, bent down slightly, and said to Steward Zhou: "Later, you had a lot of dreams at night, you deliberately burned Yizhuang and destroyed all the corpses." ”

Yunqi shook his head and sighed: "What a powerful housekeeper." ”

"Hongu has a question." Zi Sangjin narrowed her eyes slightly, and there was a hint of sharpness in her eyes, "Since the woman named Xiufang just now knows the young master of the Zhou family, why doesn't she know a housekeeper who ushered in the delivery?" ”

After Yunqi realized that Steward Zhou was acting abnormally, he also decided that he was not a simple person, but he never doubted his identity, but at this time, he had the same strange feeling as the prince.

Nangong stopped closely, he carefully looked at Steward Zhou's face, and beckoned to the outside world: "Chaojiu." ”

A short man dressed in black came in, kneeling on the ground and saluting, and waited quietly to the side.

"Chao Jiu is slightly dressed for a long time." Nangong Zhi explained briefly and instructed Chao Jiu: "Check his face." ”

Chao Jiu's emotionless eyes looked at it for a long time, and he tore off the beard pasted by Steward Zhou, and took out a bottle of potion to wipe on his face, which instantly faded off a layer of black, and another old face appeared, whiter than the original appearance, and more serious and majestic.

"Alas, alas...... Qian Liang jumped to his feet, "this, this...... Isn't this the head of the Zhou family?! ”

Steward Zhou turned into the head of the Zhou family.

It's unexpected and reasonable.

In any case, a housekeeper is not capable of planning such a delicate and thoughtful thing, and the Zhou family will not cooperate so unconditionally.

Yu Fangjing seemed to have just thought, "Lord Qian is here, do you know the head of the Zhou family?" ”

Qian Liang wiped the sweat from his head, "I've been in contact once or twice." ”

"Then don't you also know the son of the Zhou family?"

"I can't remember clearly, I'm afraid of admitting my mistake."

Meng Xueli snorted coldly: "In front of His Royal Highness the Prince, Qian Zhixian has something to say. ”

Qian Liang knelt on his knees with his hands, and his whole body couldn't help trembling, "Weichen doesn't dare, Weichen really can't believe such a ridiculous thing, so he doesn't dare to speak rashly." Weichen was also not very familiar with the rest of the Zhou family, and it was not until Nangong Shaofu restored the appearance of the head of the Zhou family that Xia Guan was sure that he was indeed Zhou Hou, the head of the Zhou family, and behind him were his two sons, Zhou Ting and Zhou Yao. ”

Yu Fangjing sighed suspiciously, "It turns out that Zhou Yao was not kicked out of the house. ”

Steward Zhou's whole person is fake, and what he says is naturally not a few words of truth.

At this time, Chao Jiu said to Nangong: "My lord, the one next to him has also changed his appearance." ”

Nangong Zhi then looked over, Chao Jiu was referring to the incense candle shop's 'shopkeeper', and he nodded and motioned for Chao Jiu to remove the other party's disguise.

According to the steps just now, he quickly changed his face, which was even more surprising than just now, because the originally young face was suddenly replaced by a wrinkled old face, and no one could adapt to it.

"Let me guess, I'm afraid this is the real Steward Zhou?" Yu Fangjing tentatively spoke.

The 'shopkeeper' of the incense candle shop knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhou Hou, "Master, the old slave should die, the old slave can't stand you." ”

Zhou Hou's eyes moved slowly, falling on the 'shopkeeper', his eyes were gloomy and indifferent, "You are damned, you can't even look at a corpse." ”

After that, he sneered at everyone, "I'm Zhou, I've done everything, but I didn't expect you to find out, I admit it." ”

At this time, the Zhou family flashed two words in their hearts at the same time, 'It's over', Zhou Ting and Zhou Yao can still hold on, Zhou Pei has lost his face and collapsed to the ground, if it weren't for Miss Boudoir's upbringing to penetrate into the bone marrow, I'm afraid that he would have abandoned any image and cried and made a fuss.

Behind Zhou Hou, the Zhou family whispered and cried, and their voices gradually converged into whimpering and wailing.

"What is there to cry about when it comes to the end, the Zhou family's life is over, and I have no strength to recover." The corners of Zhou Hou's mouth drooped, and the wrinkles elongated the entire eyebrows, making him look cold.

It's just that no matter the hesitant look hidden in his eyes, or the back of his hand, the muscles are bulging, it reflects the strong unwillingness in his heart.

Yu Fangjing was about to ask, when a woman kneeling below suddenly rushed out, "This matter is all done by my father-in-law, we don't know, it's none of our business." ”

"Shut up!" Zhou Ting yanked her, and the woman fell to the ground.

The woman in brocade clothes broke her chin, her face was stained with blood, and the beads were scattered all over the ground, she was embarrassed, and her voice was extremely sharp due to extreme panic, "This is a big crime of killing my head, why should I shut up!" I don't care, everything is done by you, it has nothing to do with me and Heng'er, if you want to die, you can die, you can't implicate our mother and son. ”

The woman cried and screamed, and the other female dependents and maidservants also kowtowed and pleaded guilty, and the whole county hall quarreled.

Zhou Ting couldn't bear it, and slapped the woman in the face with his backhand, and the woman was so angry that she fainted.

Zi Sangjin rubbed his forehead, "Lord Yu, there are too many people in the hall, and the palace feels that it is difficult to breathe, even if the case is tried, there is no need for so many people to be present." ”

"What Your Highness said is very true." Yu Fangjing hurriedly asked people to carry the woman down, and repatriated most of the crowd, leaving only the father and son of the Zhou family.

The dignity maintained by Zhou Pei finally showed his timidity when he stepped out of the county hall, his feet were weak, and he sat directly on the threshold.

All the Zhou family members realized that as early as the moment the guards appeared, their Zhou family was finished.

Although the crown prince sat at the top, the person who asked the case obviously could not be the prince, so Yu Fangjing asked, "Master Meng, are you coming?" ”

"Although this official is the assassin of Licheng, he does not have a holy edict, so it is not good to cross the prefect and the prefect to handle the case." Meng Xueli excused himself.

Yu Fangjing turned to Qian Liang again, "Since you are in the Diqiu realm, it is better to ...... Lord Qian."

"No, no, no, the subordinate can't afford it." Qian Liang didn't have time to shrink his existence, how dare he move forward, he is a small county magistrate in this group of people.

"Yun Shizi, you are the secretary of the criminal prosecution, you are here for trial."

Yun Qi knocked on the jade bone fan, smiling like a spring breeze and autumn water, "Okay, but this Shizi is investigating the Yaksha case, why don't you catch a Yaksha in the prefect first?" ”

Zi Sangjin couldn't see it, and said with a final word: "Lord Yu, you continue to judge." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Yu Fangjing didn't dare to shirk, so he had to take on this errand.

Walked to the mirror and sat down, stunned, facing the Zhou family who was kneeling down, his eyebrows turned sharp, his eyes sank, and he said: "This official asks, since you are all here, where did the 149 corpses in the ancestral hall of the Zhou family come from?" ”