Chapter 370: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell

Lord Yin looked at Gu Zhouzhu, isn't it obvious? Pure delusion has a strong motive to kill.

Jiang Wanning looked at this situation, and Lord Yin couldn't ask any tricks.

"Gu Xiangye, can I ask a few questions?"

Gu Zhou stopped slightly: "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered the county lord to assist in the investigation, the county lord can naturally ask, Lord Yin, what do you say?" ”

How dare Lord Yin say no: "The county lord just asks." ”

Jiang Wanning said: "The fire started burning from the main wing, it is said that the master should call for help, and the rest of the people live in the east and west wings, why no one hears it?" Pure delusion, you said that you are hungry and can't sleep well, have you ever heard Mrs. Shi call for help? ”

Qin Siyue thought for a while: "I haven't heard it. ”

"What about you?"

"No, I've always slept deeply."

"So when the smoke rises, why can't anyone else smell it, isn't there a dozen people who can't smell it? Except for pure delirium. ”

Jingxin was silent for a moment and said, "Last night was a little strange, when I was doing evening class, several of them began to get sleepy, and everyone went back to the room and fell asleep. ”

"What did you eat last night?"

"It's the usual vegetarian dish with rice porridge."

"Pure heart, are you sleepy too?"

"I'm sleepy, my eyelids are heavy, my head is heavy, I've never been so sleepy, I don't know anything when I lie down."

"Who's cooking?"

"Pure clarity and pure enlightenment."

"When you cook, where is the pure delusion?"

"Jingwei washed her clothes by the well, and Jingchen didn't let her eat, saying that she couldn't sleep at night without washing her clothes."

Jiang Wanning said: "According to Jingxin's description, the food they ate last night was drugged with sweat medicine, so the teacher fell asleep, she slept very deeply, and she didn't know about the fire, and when she was surrounded by the fire, it was too late to call for help." And the others simply can't wake up. Only the pure delusion who did not eat woke up in time and escaped. ”

"The county lord's analysis is reasonable, the person who drugged must be the arsonist, but the problem is that except for the pure delirium, and the pure heart rescued by the pure delirium in the coma, everyone else is dead, and the murderer can't set fire to burn himself to death, right?" Yin is humane, so it is still the most suspicious pure delusion.

The corners of Jiang Wanning's mouth hooked up with a sneer that was almost undetectable, does Lord Yin judge the case by inferring guilt?

"Pure heart, let me ask you, have you ever left the nunnery?"

Pure heart shook his head.

"Does she have any pilgrims she knows?"

Jingxin shook his head again: "Jingyu works every day, from morning to night, or she will be locked up in the firewood room, and it will not be her turn to receive pilgrims." ”

Yu Qing secretly clenched his fists, it turned out that Si Yue was living such a life.

"Then who has been out of the nunnery recently, or someone has come to visit?"

Jing Xin thought for a while: "A few days ago, Jing Ting went down the mountain, and the others didn't go out, oh yes, I remembered, yesterday there was a pilgrim who came to the incense, Jing Ting reception, said that the pilgrim was unwell, Jing Ting accompanied him to the incense room to rest, as for whether he left or not, I don't know." ”

As he was talking, the yacha came to report: "My lord, there is an old woman outside who came to report to the official, saying that her daughter-in-law went to Fahua Nunnery yesterday to make incense and did not return overnight, and today I heard that Fahua Nunnery caught fire last night, and she suspected that her daughter-in-law was in Fahua Nunnery." ”

Isn't that right?

The appearance of her daughter-in-law described by the old woman is the same person as what Jingxin saw.

"Ye Chong, during the investigation, did Xiang Fang find a corpse?"

"Back to the county lord, no corpses have been found in the incense room, seven charred corpses in the east chamber, six charred corpses in the west chamber, and no corpses have been found elsewhere."

Jiang Wanning asked again: "Pure heart, pure delusion, you carefully talk about the situation of pure listening." ”

"Jing Ting is in charge of the accounts in the nunnery, is the most trusted person of the teacher, there are rumors, the master intends to let the Jing Ting next presiding, the Jing Ting's home is in Liujia Village near the Fahua Nunnery, her brother comes to see her almost every month, once I heard her quarrel with her brother, mentioning money." Pure Heart.

Jiang Wanning immediately said: "Lord Yin, please arrest the family members of Jingting immediately, if there is no accident, Jingting is the real culprit of this fire." ”

Lord Yin looked at the meaning of Gu Zhou's stop again.

Gu Zhouzhu nodded.

Lord Yin immediately ordered his subordinates to go and get people.

Jiang Wanning advised: "By the way, I will ask the nearby villagers about the situation of the Jingting family." ”

Lord Yin temporarily withdrew from the hall, and the three of them went to the conference hall to speak.

"County Lord, why do you say that Jingting is the real murderer, but isn't she already burned to death?"

Jiang Wanning smiled deeply: "It was the old woman's daughter-in-law who was burned to death instead of Jingting." ”

"What a trick, the golden cicada sheds its shell." Gu Zhou stopped.

But what reason did she have to do that? Mrs. Shi is ready to let her be the next host. Lord Yin questioned.

"My lord, Jingting is in charge of the accounts of the Fahua Temple, although the Fahua Nunnery is not a nunnery with flourishing incense, but it is not bad, if Jingting is in urgent need of money, and she is in charge of the incense money of the nunnery, do you think she will embezzle it? But these are just speculations, and when the family of Jingting comes, they will know. ”

Gu Zhou stopped: "If both Jingyu and Jingxin died in the fire last night, then Jingting's plan will be flawless, no one knows that Jingting is still alive, and the old woman's daughter-in-law Zhao Xiu'e can only be treated as missing, who knows that she was left in Fahua Nunnery." ”

Therefore, heaven is not as good as people, and it is precisely because they treat the pure delirium harshly and do not give the pure delirium food to eat, which causes the pure delirium to fall asleep and escape.

Lord Yin finally came back to his senses, thinking that he was so sure that the murderer was pure and embarrassed.

In fact, he also had the idea of finding a substitute for the dead ghost, who else is more suitable to be this substitute for the dead ghost than pure delusion?

After waiting for about an hour, the yacha brought the man back.

The government reported that Liu Liangzhu, the brother of the pure delusion, had learned to do business with others, and had lost a lot of money, and the principal was borrowed, and he was called for debts every day, and he heard that he had repaid them all last month, and no one was coming to ask for debts.

The three of them knew that the money was probably coming from Jingting.

Raise the case again.

"Liu Liangzhu, how much debt do you owe in total? But it's all back? ”

Liu Liangzhu trembled: "Back to my lord, the grass people don't owe much debt. ”

Lord Yin was shocked: "How much debt do you owe, do you think the government can't find out?" You'd better bring it truthfully, lest you suffer. ”

Liu Liangzhu shuddered with fright: "Also...... It's just over three hundred taels. ”

"It's all back?"

"Also...... It's also on. ”

"Where does the money come from?"

"Borrow, borrow."

"Who borrowed it, and where is the IOU? Say! ”

"My lord, the grass people asked my sister to borrow it."

"Your sister is the pure hearing of Hokkean?"

Liu Liangzhu's face turned pale: "Yes!"

"More than three hundred taels are all net listening?"

"Yes."

"Where are the people now?"

"My lord, isn't Jingting burned to death?"

Lord Yin sneered: "Who told you that she died?" Besides, since you know that your sister was burned to death, why didn't you come to the yamen to claim the body and take it back for burial? ”

Liu Liangzhu's eyes rolled, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

"My lord, although Jingting is the sister of the grass people, she has already become a monk and is an outsider."