After meeting Yang De, Jiang Cheng soon met Qian Laohan, Qian Laohan is actually not old, he looks about fifty years old, but his face does look very old, and now he is extremely miserable, and he has been treated inhumanely in prison.

The use of torture is not only the usual trick of Tsing Yi Wei Prison, but also the county officials at all levels, who seem to have little interest in trying and investigating cases, and they just beat them up first at every turn.

Qian Laohan knew that Jiang Cheng was here to help him, so he immediately knelt down in front of Jiang Cheng, shouting that he was wronged, and even caused a commotion among the other prisoners in the cell, and they also shouted injustice.

"Old man Qian, don't be in a hurry to shout injustice, if you are really wronged, I will give you a clean slate, you tell me the process of the case first, what is going on"

"My lord, I really don't know what the case is, the old man grinds tofu every day, makes tofu, sells bean curd, and doesn't even go out on weekdays, let alone go to Sanyang Town to kill people."

"Then why is the deceased wearing your clothes?"

"That's the old clothes I kindly gave to the man, and he gave me a silver hairpin."

"Where's the silver hairpin?"

"Taken away by the servants"

"Why do you give the dead old clothes?"

Jiang Cheng asked, there is no such sentence in the file, it is estimated that the silver hairpin was hacked by the officials, and it is normal behavior, if the officials are not greedy, then they are not officials.

"At that time, I was selling bean curd at the door of my house, and I saw a man wearing women's clothes, and his face was powdered, and he was dressed like a daughter's house, very weird, and he drank a bowl of bean curd at my door, and I saw that he was pitiful, and asked him what happened, but he didn't say, just asked me if I had any clothes to sell him, and I took the old clothes from before, and they were not worth much, but when he left, he left a silver hairpin on the table.

Who would have thought that within two days, the officials in the county government suddenly arrested me, and the county magistrate couldn't help but say that he didn't allow me to explain half a point, so he decided that I was a murderer, and I didn't admit it, so they beat me, and I had no choice but to sign and draw a detention.

Pity my old man for doing good for half his life, the village talks about my old man, who doesn't say the word good man, now, woo woo ·····"

The more Qian Laohan spoke, the more excited he became, and finally he howled and cried, extremely aggrieved, crying and humming, and pulling the wound.

"Little Mo"

"My lord, I'm here"

"Go and ask a doctor to come over and treat Old Man Qian's injuries"

Jiang Cheng took out a piece of silver and handed it to Xiao Mo, Qian Laohan was seriously injured, and the other cases were not investigated, but the key person died, and Yang De could not be saved at that time.

Xiao Mo left, Jiang Cheng sat down in the cell, and reviewed the process of the case in his mind, and now it is certain that Qian Laohan is indeed a good person, first met Yang De and Yuzhu who eloped, because of his kindness, even the extremely valuable donkey was lent to them, and then he met the deceased in women's clothes, and kindly gave him old clothes, so he was involved in the murder case, and was determined to be a murderer by the county order, which affected Yang De, who spoke for him.

And the county magistrate is definitely a confused official, there has to be a motive for killing, who is the deceased, what is his identity, and what is the relationship with Qian Laohan, he doesn't know anything, he thinks that Qian Laohan killed people, and this official doesn't know how he became it.

Xiao Mo quickly invited a doctor to come over, see a doctor for Qian Laohan, and grab medicine and take medicine, Jiang Cheng called the jailer, asked him to help, and gave him benefits.

"Adult"

"What's wrong, little Mo"

"It's only the first day, I haven't checked anything, and the adults have already spent five or six taels of silver."

Xiao Mo looked at Jiang Cheng with a strange face, in his impression, Jiang Cheng is by no means like this, he is also a good hand when it comes to greedy money, and his personality is like his father, he is Pixiu, he is in and out, what's wrong with him today, has he hit the evil spirit?

"Xiao Mo, let me tell you a word, you have to remember"

"Please Teach Your Lord"

"Those who put out fires with wages must not let them freeze to death"

"My lord, I didn't understand"

"The original saying is that a person who is willing to hold firewood to fight the fire can't let him be frozen to death, whether Qian Laohan killed people or not, we can't determine, but from the two things of him borrowing a donkey to Yang De and sending old clothes to the deceased, he is undoubtedly a good person, if a good person dies because of good deeds, people's morals will be corrupted, and people will not be willing to do good deeds.

We can't have a smooth ride all our lives, maybe one day we will be in trouble, if we are in trouble, don't we want good people to come to save us?"

Jiang Cheng said to Xiao Mo that he is not a bad person, he also took Tsing Yiwei's gray income, and he also did it to harm Wu Huailiang, but Jiang Cheng will still help Qian Laohan, because he can't bear to suffer such an injustice from a good person like Qian Laohan.

Xiao Mo fell silent all of a sudden, he thought of the fact that he was captured by the spider demon in Yongzhou City before, if it wasn't for Master Jiang Wu, he might have become the dung of the spider demon now.

"Let's go, go to Zhao Ziming's side and have a look"

Jiang Cheng didn't say anything more, he got out of the prison and went to find Zhao Ziming, who had already found a painter, painted a portrait of the deceased, and was copying and printing, ready to be distributed to various towns and villages in Pingyuan County to post it.

"Zhao Ziming, what's wrong?"

"Seven have already been drawn, and five more can be drawn in the twelve townships of Pingyuan County."

"What about the deceased, have you asked the servants to check it?"

"Checked, it was indeed a death from a knife wound, two stabs in the back, a knife in the chest, no traces of internal force, and I have seen it, looking at the knife wound, it is not like a sword, but a knife such as a kitchen knife"

"Take two portraits and follow me to Sanyang Town"

Jiang Cheng nodded, although this case is bizarre, it is not what people in the rivers and lakes call it, their purpose is to clear Yang De's grievances.

Jiang Cheng took the two of them and the officials and rushed to Sanyang Town, Sanyang Town is not too far from Pingyuan County, but Sanyang Town has an official road to Yongdu City, so it is still prosperous.

The official took Jiang Cheng and them to the place where the crime occurred, it was a well in the town, at this time many people were cleaning the well, there were more than 20 families living on the water of this well, and now they were lost dead, they had to clean the water, and they could only drink it when the living water came in, and they also knew this basic knowledge of epidemic prevention.

"My lord, there is nothing unusual about the process of the case, that is, someone came to fetch water and found the deceased, reported it to Sanyang Town, and Sanyang Town sent someone to the county government to report the case."

"How long has it been"

"It's been three days"

"Xiao Mo, Zhao Ziming, you take the portrait of the deceased and ask if anyone knows the deceased."

"Yes"

"My lord, we asked before, not a local, Sanyang Town is quite prosperous because there is an official road passing by, and there are many business travelers passing by, it may be a passing business traveler."

The official of Pingyuan County replied that they also knew the most basic investigation, and the deceased was not a local, and it would be better to investigate if it was a local.

Jiang Cheng nodded, but did not agree, there was a judgment in the dossier, the deceased's face was quite white and tender, his hands and feet were calloused, obviously he was not from the rivers and lakes, nor was he the kind of business traveler who often went to the village to visit households, if it was a big business, the family of the deceased would have come to report the case a long time ago.

After getting busy, the sky was getting dark, and Zhao Ziming and Xiao Mo had no gains, so Jiang Cheng found an inn to live in.

"Order, count me tonight, except for not drinking, the meat and vegetables are enough"

"Thank you, sir."

"Thank you, sir."

The inn is generally together with the hotel, which can provide food for the guests, Jiang Cheng waved his hand, he didn't care about a little money, Xiao Mo and Zhao Ziming and those officials were extremely happy.

"Adults, there may not be enough meat in the store"

There were six people, including the officials, and they ordered five or six meat dishes in a row, and at this time, the shopkeeper of the inn hurriedly reminded them that their meat might not be enough.

"Shopkeeper, you don't think we can't afford to eat a single meal, do you?"

Xiao Mo suddenly showed a fierce look, because he felt that the shopkeeper was deliberate, because he was afraid that they would not give money for dinner.

"The villain doesn't dare, my lords, the meat and vegetables in the villain's store are indeed not prepared much these days, and I don't suspect a few adults."

"Shopkeeper, why don't you even prepare the dishes when you open the door to do business?"

"Adult, forgive me, it's not that the villain doesn't want to prepare more meat, but the Zhang butcher of Sanyang Town accompanied his mother to his mother's house for three days and never came back, only the Zhang butcher's family sells meat in Sanyang Town, and the rest of the butchers can't come in, I had to go to Yangping Town to buy meat, but I didn't buy much, so I neglected a few adults."

The shopkeeper hurriedly explained that in the countryside, butchers are relatively rich, and generally there are only one or two butchers in a small town, and other butchers are not allowed to appear, which is a kind of monopoly.

"Three Days"

Jiang Cheng is very sensitive to the word three days, isn't this the day of the crime?

"Shopkeeper, I heard that butchers are fierce-looking people, is this butcher also fierce?"

"Fierce, fierce, don't hide it from adults, there were five companies selling meat in Sanyang Town before, and they were all beaten away by Butcher Zhang"

"He's so good."

"It's not powerful, but dare to fight hard, when he was fighting, he was cut on the head with a knife, and the blood flowed like an infusion, but his face remained the same, others were afraid and didn't dare to fight hard, so he had to admit defeat"

"Then isn't he broken, there will be a scar on his head?"

"Yes, with this scar, he looks even more fierce, and no one dares to mess with him."

"Shopkeeper, ask me, where is Butcher Zhang's mother's family?"

Jiang Cheng's heart moved, isn't this right, and what Yang De told him in prison, it really didn't take any effort to get it.

"I don't know much about the specifics, I only know that it is from a certain village in Yangping Town, and it is also a poor person, but it is strange to say, that butcher is not good for his wife on weekdays, and it is indispensable to punch and kick, usually his wife never follows when she goes back to her mother's house, this time it is good, and she has not come back for three days."

"Maybe it's a happy event for my mother's family, okay, shopkeeper, get everything that can be eaten in the store, and go by the way to see if there is meat elsewhere, we are people who practice martial arts, and we can't eat meat without meat."

"Yes, the villain will ask"

The shopkeeper hurriedly agreed, and when he turned around, Jiang Cheng said to Zhao Ziming, "Early tomorrow morning, go and inquire about where the butcher's mother's house is, and you will bring someone to arrest the person back."