Chapter 43: Two Cases and One Death

Zhao Yuanwai's performance is in the eyes of everyone, and the officials are not stupid to this extent, so they naturally see the clues, and immediately order someone to arrest the slaves and guards of Zhao Yuanwai's family, and when the time comes, you will know.

This kind of slave of the foreign master may be the son of the family and is more loyal, but the guards are different, most of them are hired from outside, and when it comes to this kind of murder, they will not die.

"Don't go, sir, don't go"

"Then do you recruit or not?"

"I recruited, I recruited, woo..."

"Don't cry, tell me, what's going on"

"Yes, I recruited, I only have two daughters in my life, the eldest daughter Jinzhu has married a few years ago, and the second daughter Yuzhu wants to recruit a son-in-law to come to the door, but who would have thought that Yuzhu would be rebellious and unreasonable, and the marriage event would not listen to my father, my lord, you say, if I don't have an heir, who will my huge family business pass on..."

"Don't talk nonsense, talk about the process of the case"

"Yes, yes, more than half a month ago, I found a family affair for Yuzhu, and I was going to recruit a son-in-law for her, but Yuzhu would rather die, so I sent someone to lock Yuzhu at home, and I wanted to settle the matter, but there were some problems in my cloth village, so I could only go to the field to deal with things, and the family was handed over to the slave to deal with.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I left with my front foot, Yuzhu fled with my back foot, and the slave at home did not dare to tell me because he was afraid of my punishment, and when I came back, Yuzhu had been on the run for many days, and I searched around but did not find it, so I thought that Yuzhu would go to find her sister Jinzhu, so I took the slave guards to my son-in-law's house.

When I arrived at my son-in-law's house, I saw that the doors and windows of the house were closed during the day, and I knocked on the door for a long time before opening the door, and I looked in a hurry, I thought that Jinzhu was hiding the jade beads, so I was furious, and reprimanded Jinzhu and let the slave guards look for it despite her obstruction, but I didn't expect to find a corpse in the cabinet, which was the concubine of my eldest daughter Jinzhu.

Before I came, they were stealing joy, it was I knocked on the door and alarmed them, the concubine was hidden in the closet, and it was suffocated to death, I thought in my heart, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, if my son-in-law knew that Jinzhu had a concubine, he would definitely divorce his wife, I had already run a daughter, and I didn't want to let the eldest daughter make a fool of myself, so I made up my mind and announced that the second daughter was infected and died violently, and hurriedly held a funeral, and buried the concubine"

"You buried your concubine, did you bury him as a daughter?"

"Yes, I put Yuzhu's clothes and jewelry on that person, and I think it is my daughter."

"That concubine is the county's ploppy Chen Er"

"Ah, how do you know, my lord?"

Zhao Yuanwai was shocked, he didn't say how the concubine knew Mingzi, but when he looked up, he saw that the faces of the officials in the prison were extremely strange.

Zhang Zhutou and the others are naturally very weird, Chen Er obviously died in Sanyang Town, why was it killed by Zhao Yuanwai, is this a living hell, can a person be killed twice?

"My lord, this case is too mysterious, is there a demon at work?"

Zhang Zhutou took a deep breath and said to Jiang Cheng, he couldn't explain this matter clearly, so he could only blame the demons.

In fact, in the past few decades of Dawei, there have been 80,000 cases of demons, not 100,000 cases, but after Tsing Yiwei went to investigate, he found that eighty percent of the cases had nothing to do with demons, but the official government of Dawei pushed them on demons whenever they encountered cases that were not clearly explained, anyway, it was right to do so, in this case, the responsibility would not be theirs, and if they couldn't find out, Tsing Yiwei was incompetent.

"Under Lang Lang Qiankun, where are there so many demons, that Chen Er is hiding in the closet, he must not be dead at the time, he just fainted, but they are ignorant and think they are dead, so they did this, Xiao Mo"

"Yes, sir"

"You immediately take the official to the place where Zhao Yuan buried the woman and check the tomb, no accident, the tomb should be empty, Chen Er crawled out of the coffin"

"Yes, my lord"

Xiao Mo took the order and took a few people to check it out immediately, and Zhao Yuanwai on the side was also stunned, as if he understood Jiang Cheng's words, but he didn't seem to understand.

An hour later, Xiao Mo came back in a hurry, and said, "My lord is clever, the tomb of the golden bead is really empty, the coffin has been opened, and someone should have crawled out of it."

"Xiao Mo, the coffin should be a thin-skinned coffin."

"Yes, less than an inch thick, it's not as good as the thin-skinned coffin that our edict prepared for death row prisoners"

"That's right, Zhao Yuanwai, you're usually too stingy, if you're willing to find a thick coffin, how can there be so many things"

Jiang Cheng shook his head, it was smooth, almost all of it was smooth, the splashy Chen Er should have been broken by Zhao Yuanwai when he was stealing fun with Jinzhu, so he hid in the closet, because he was not ventilated, he was suffocated and fainted, and then Zhao Yuanwai thought he was dead, in order not to affect the eldest daughter, so he buried him as a younger daughter, and he couldn't be publicized as a family ugliness.

But I didn't expect Zhao Yuanwai to be too stingy, he didn't prepare a good coffin, and let Chen Er climb out of the coffin, Chen Er was probably also afraid of the outbreak of stealing joy, after all, Zhao Yuanwai and his son-in-law were rich people, so Chen Er, who was afraid of retaliation, decided to return to his hometown in Yangping Town.

On the way, he met the kind-hearted Qian Laohan, and when Qian Laohan saw that he was wearing women's clothes, he gave Chen Er the old clothes, and Chen Er also left a silver hairpin as a reward.

As for why he had a conflict with Butcher Zhang, and was even killed by Butcher Zhang, and then thrown into a well, Jiang Cheng didn't know yet, and he didn't know until Butcher Zhang's wife was caught.

"Master Jiang is like a god in judging the case, and the official admires it..."

After getting out of prison, the county order that had been listening secretly also complimented Jiang Cheng, how could he have thought that this ordinary murder case was still a case within a case, and it was so bizarre that he almost offended the apprentice grandson of the literary bigwig.

The rest of the arrests are also constant compliments, especially Zhang Zhutou, he admires Jiang Cheng even more, they also arrest people to solve the case, but why don't they know how to solve the case, Jiang Cheng doesn't come, even if they know that Qian Laohan is wronged, they don't know how to solve the case.

"My lord, as long as you wait for the butcher and his wife to catch it, you can know the last puzzle."

"Yes, Zhang Zhutou, why don't you send someone to support the people of Tsing Yiwei?"

"No, they've been gone for a long time, if they can catch someone, they should be on the way back, adults better think about how to judge Zhao Yuanwai"

"Ah, this..."

The county order suddenly caught numbness, yes, how should this Zhao Yuanwai be judged, saying that he killed someone, but Chen Er didn't kill him, saying that he didn't kill anyone, but he buried the living again, which is really extremely troublesome.

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When night fell, Zhao Ziming came back, he came back on a fast horse first, and there was a fierce man on horseback, who had been knocked unconscious by him, it was Zhang Butcher of Sanyang Town, as for his wife and the rest of the fast catchers, they were in the back, and it was estimated that they would not come back until tomorrow.

"My lord, Butcher Zhang has been caught, he has already confessed, the dead in Sanyang Town were killed by him"

"Oh, got it"

"My lord, I..."

"Ahem, Brother Zhao, the adult has solved the case"

"What?"

"Brother Zhao, you've missed a good show, listen to me slowly"

Xiao Mo hugged Zhao Ziming and told him what happened today, Zhao Ziming listened with a confused face, and looked at Jiang Cheng's eyes also changed, could it be that Lord Jiang Cheng really became a detective?

The official woke up Butcher Zhang, and he didn't need to be interrogated, so Butcher Zhang gave a full explanation, it turned out that his wife and Chen Er were fellow villagers in the same village, and Chen Er also fell in love with Butcher Zhang's wife in the early years and wanted to marry her, but Chen Er's family couldn't get the bride price money, so their family married their daughter to the wealthy Butcher Zhang.

After Chen Er left Qian Laohan's house that day, he passed through Sanyang Town and met Zhang Butcher's wife, and he was so lustful that he went to tease Zhang Butcher's wife, and was met by Zhang Butcher, Zhang Butcher was furious and picked up the pig-killing knife and killed Chen Er.

Although Butcher Zhang was very fierce in Sanyang Town, he also knew that killing people was not a trivial matter, so he pushed Chen Er to a nearby well, and announced with his wife that he would go back to his parents' house to visit relatives, and he packed up and fled.

After escaping to his wife's mother's house, Butcher Zhang still felt that it was dangerous, and the murder case would break out sooner or later, so he asked to continue to flee south, but his wife was unwilling to leave, after all, the murderer was Butcher Zhang and not her.

And Butcher Zhang was afraid that the matter would be exposed after his wife stayed, so he kept persuading, and even moved to kill, wanting to kill his wife and his mother's family, he fled to the field by himself, and went away to the end of the world, but before he could do it, Zhao Ziming arrived.

As soon as the official arrived, Butcher Zhang panicked and immediately wanted to escape over the wall, but where was he Zhao Ziming's opponent, he was beaten down and caught in three or two strokes, Butcher Zhang didn't say anything, but her wife explained everything.

Zhao Ziming felt that he couldn't wait longer, so he rode a fast horse and rushed back with Butcher Zhang overnight, but the case had already been solved here in Jiangcheng.

"Okay, the case is clear, Zhao Ziming, be lucky, write the official document overnight, let the county order seal tomorrow, let's leave as soon as we go, go back to Yongdu City"

Jiang Cheng clapped his hands, this case is solved, the truth is revealed, and no one has been wronged, so it doesn't matter to them next, write the official documents, the county order is stamped, and when the time comes, it will be handed over to the superiors, and the county order will not be able to judge the case randomly, otherwise they will not be able to eat and walk around.