"The villain never knew this thing was a pair!" Mei Xiancheng climbed two steps forward, "Although those guests can testify that I took a dagger that day, who can kill someone?" ”

"You want to say that someone framed it?" Press the inquiry.

"That's right."

The prefect stroked his beard: "That's true." After all, the murder weapon was resting next to the corpse, and it seemed that it was not a human act to give people a handle like this. ”

"Unless it proves that he had a temporary intention, so he panicked." The deputy envoy added.

Seeing that he had no clue at this time, the prefect slapped his voice and said: "There are still unclear points in this case, and the trial will be resumed when the evidence is complete." Retirement. Without saying a word, the officials went down with Meixian Cheng, and four drums were beaten outside the yamen.

Wen Zhong easily obtained the confession in court by virtue of his connections in the official palace, and when he was halfway through reading it, he probably understood the matter, so he sent a guy from a gambling house to invite the witness to the apartment.

The man was afraid that he would not believe it, and when he met, he lied that Chu Zi wanted to find him, and the officer and soldier believed it, and he was afraid that he would break his face outside the staff, so he hurriedly promised.

When he entered the house, the man locked the door with his backhand, so that he was at a loss, and stood at the door, shouting the man's name and surname.

"What are you shouting, I want to see you." Wen Zhong sneered and walked from the back room.

"Stepping is the outside?" The officers and men pressed the latch with their left hands.

"No," Wen Zhong put a pair of rough arms on his arms, "I am Wen Zhong, the shopkeeper of Jiangdu Gambling House, please discuss one thing, about confession." ”

Seeing that the situation was not good, the soldier turned around and wanted to leave, but was firmly grasped by Wen Zhong, and he couldn't resist at all.

He was amazed that this guy had such strength, and he was also a powerful local figure, so he didn't dare to act arbitrarily.

"Shopkeeper, I don't know what case you are talking about." He began to pretend to be confused.

Wen Zhong smiled and took out six taels of silver from his waist.

"Six taels of silver, your year's worth of money, right?"

"This ......" The eyes of the officers and soldiers were only staring at the few taels of snowflake silver, but they suddenly moved away: "You want me to testify falsely?" ”

"Not bad. We are not on your master's side. Wen Zhong said.

The officers and soldiers were afraid that they would be involved, so how could they accept the money, so they hurriedly said goodbye and went to push the door.

Wen Zhong's eyebrows suddenly rang: "All come out!" ”

Four or five big men came out of the back room, holding big knives, and scared the military master to death.

The men went up and held him, and the bright knife edge pressed against his neck, making him sweat beads, and he didn't dare to swallow his saliva.

"Shopkeeper Wen, it's nothing to give false testimony, but if you accuse Meixian Cheng of murder again, wouldn't it contradict yesterday's evidence?" The officer and soldier asked cautiously.

"You don't have to worry about this." Wen Zhong said, "Another day, a few more witnesses came to Jiangdu, and they will definitely say that Meixian Cheng sent you to Chen's Mansion to see the hospital, and the yamen suspected that Meixian Cheng had premeditated it, so as to investigate the case in detail, and it will be unfavorable to me for a long time." I'll sort out a confession for you, and say it according to the meaning of 'It's the county order for the safety of the happy day, and the county sent you over'. Also, if you want to fight back temporarily, I have a lot of ways to cure you, you know? ”

He nodded without hesitation, and several big men immediately put away their knives.

"Well, take it." Wen Zhong still stuffed the silver on him.

"Jiangdu's condolences?" Lu Zhengfu took a white-skinned letter and asked his comrade Chen.

Comrade Chen sat down and said, "Yes." ”

Lu Zhengfu was still immersed in grief, and he didn't have time to worry, so he raised his hand and opened the letter.

'Jiangdu dyeing workshop merchant Chu Zi mourned to his son: he deeply regretted the obituary of Duke Lu. Wangjun will nourish his body, no more sorrow, and mourning will change. A certain is willing to pour money and money to choose a place for the son to settle down, and to follow his aspirations. Don't push. ’

He closed the letter tremblingly, and then he had some doubts: There are often disputes between the Guo family and the Lu family, why do they have to send people to mourn? Moreover, the sentence in it does not look like schadenfreude; If you say that there is another plan for the money to choose the land, you can't see it.

He sent the letter to Chen Tongbei and said to him: "I am very grateful if I want to get this place from the outsider." Tell his people that they don't have to pay anymore, it's not worth the hard work. ”

Chen Tongpao asked the old housekeeper to go out and said, the latter went for a while, turned around and came back, and reported: "The man said that if Lu Lao did not agree, he was afraid that he would be scolded by his master when he went back, so he asked you to say yes verbally." ”

Lu Zhengfu coughed violently a few times, his face turned purple, and Comrade Chen hurriedly replied: "Promised, promised!" ”

Lu Zhengfu left in the afternoon of the same day. He found that Comrade Chen didn't care much about him anymore, and the taste in his heart became more and more bitter, so he simply left, not being angry with the yin and yang here. He and several of his own minions pulled the coffin and left Taizhou City, wanting to return to Yizheng County through Jiangdu.

When he walked to Jiangdu, he heard that the master of the mansion was going to retry his son's murder case, so he was eager to find out the murderer immediately, so he put the coffin and went to the yamen of the mansion to see the case.

Meixian Cheng knelt in the hall, bowed his head and said nothing according to the deputy envoy, and the prefect shouted first: "Bring witnesses." ”

Several idlers were pushed into the court.

"Name and surname."

They each reported their names and surnames, but their eyes did not look forward, they only stared at Meixian Cheng as if they wanted to eat people.

The prefect showed the pair of daggers: "According to the case file, you said that Meixian Cheng took this dagger, but there were two daggers that day, do you know?" ”

The idlers were dumbfounded, and said for a long time: "Lord Prefect, we don't know about this matter alone. But the suspect's behavior that day was very suspicious, we are righteous gentlemen, and we will not spew blood......"

The prefect was furious: "Don't talk nonsense! ”

"Where's the suspicion?" On the contrary, the deputy envoy was interested.

"Later, he led a team of people and horses and suddenly broke into the study, and then was called out, and Lu Gongzi died in a moment."

The prefect glanced at it, turned his head and said, "It turns out that Meixian Cheng has a premeditated plan?" ”

"It's a big difference."

"This is strange," Mei Xiancheng experienced the last court trial, and this time he seemed not afraid, "If I really premeditate, why bother to run to kill people in person, and throw down the knife and give people a handle?" ”

The idlers hated Meixian for defeating their Yaxing, and were thinking about putting him to death and killing him quickly, but they were met with such strong resistance that they had nothing to say, so they had to argue strongly: "Anyway, you don't have good intentions!" Maybe it wasn't premeditated murder! ”

"It's not premeditated murder...... Meixian Cheng was about to refute, but suddenly his mind turned, and his eyes flashed, "The team I sent entered the house, and Lu Gongzi also saw it with his own eyes, am I guilty of premeditating murder so swaggering?" ”

"How did the deceased react?"

"Laugh and talk freely." The idlers told the truth.

"Talk and laugh freely......," the deputy envoy frowned, "Could it be that you conspired with the deceased, and as a result, you failed and were harmed by others......"

'Yes! Right! Mei Xiancheng was ecstatic, impatiently waiting for the case to go deeper.