It didn't take long for Xiao Yi to come in with An Ying. Guo Langzhong explained in detail the situation of today's court trial, and Su Huangzhe asked: "Miss An, I heard that you have been running for the past few days, I want to hear about the progress of your side." ”

An Ying nodded and said, "I also happen to have something I want to talk to the adults. I have been reading the confession given to me by Master Su for the past few days, and I went to Shen's house to read the account books in Huzhou. An Ying thought for a while before saying: "Luo's confession seems very reasonable, but have you noticed that the whole thing needs too many coincidences according to her confession, but it is a summary after the matter is completed." ”

"Little girl, there are many coincidences in this world. To tell the truth, I have handled more than 1,000 large and small cases, many of which are coincidental. A few months ago, a big case was settled, and the blacksmith in the east of the city killed a family of three surnamed Wu at a tea stall in the south of the city. The case was confused, and the blacksmith had nothing to do with the Wu family. When we first investigated the case, there wasn't even a single suspect. Fortunately, Master Su has the ability to never forget, and he memorizes the confession of patrolling and arresting fast in those days, and found that a strange man appeared in the alley of the Wu family that night. We still have a lot of manpower, and we cast our nets to find this man in the east of the city, and we can't find anything. He just heard that the mutton restaurant in the south of the city was good, so he just went a few more times. We also had no choice, but fortunately we found the bloody clothes from his house and the Wu family's belongings, so he confessed. Guess what? Guo Langzhong threw a walnut meat into his mouth and said, "The blacksmith met the daughter-in-law of the Wu family when he went to work outside the city to bring back tofu." The board car used by the daughter-in-law of the Wu family to transport tofu was a little broken, and the blacksmith helped repair it. These little things, who can know if the parties don't say it? Later, the blacksmith really heard that the mutton restaurant in the south of the city was good, and it was already dark when he came home after eating. He was also not familiar with the road in the south of the city, so he walked around the alley, and who knew that he met the daughter-in-law of the Wu family. The daughter-in-law of the Wu family showed him the way, and who knew that when the eldest man of the Wu family saw it, he thought that his daughter-in-law was stealing, and he wanted to retaliate and was afraid of being embarrassed, so he and the old lady of the family covered the blacksmith with a sack and dragged him home, so he was beaten. The blacksmith drank wine and was beaten inexplicably, and then the daughter-in-law of the Wu family was released from the sack, so she picked up the burning stick in the stove and stabbed the mother and son of the Wu family to death. When the daughter-in-law of the Wu family stopped her, she was accidentally stabbed to death. The blacksmith woke up, and when he saw this, he secretly took some of the Wu family's belongings and ran over the wall. Guo Langzhong took another sip of tea, shook his head at An Ying and said, "Look at it, looking back at this closed case, it's not all a coincidence. Don't get out of the horns. ”

Dai Chang also smiled and said, "Miss Anjia, this case is sometimes like this. If you think too much, you will become more and more unclear. For example, I also wonder why this Luo clan wants such a way to take revenge on Zheng Ping, in my opinion, it is simply inexplicable. However, the evidence is conclusive, the confession is correct, and there is no suspicion of being beaten into a trick, and no matter how unreasonable the facts are, it is also a fact. ”

An Ying looked at Su Huangzhe, thinking that their thoughts were the same. Su Huangzhe winked at her and motioned for her to continue.

"I haven't tried a case either, but there are some things I don't understand. Ladies and gentlemen, just listen to me and talk about it. An Ying smiled and took the plate held by Ya Yu and said, "This is a pine nut roll made at home, mung bean cake, and red bean cake." I thought about the adults who had been trying the case for a day, thinking that I would come tomorrow. When Brother Xiao Yi came to me just now, he thought that the adults must not have eaten a serious meal, so he brought snacks. Listen to me, and let it be a pastime. ”

Guo Langzhong saw that the mung bean cake was very small, pinched a piece with his hand and threw it into his mouth, and immediately felt that the fragrance was overflowing, the pastry was delicate and moist, the taste was faint sweetness, and more of the fragrance of mung beans, and he couldn't help but praise: "Little girl, your dim sum is really good." It's okay, you just talk about it, and we'll listen. ”

An Ying raised her eyebrows at Su Huangzhe, Su Huangzhe thought to himself that this girl used to look cautious and thoughtful, but now this jump is even a little arrogant, it is estimated that this is her true appearance, just like that day at the door of the prison of the Criminal Department, she was very bold and found it interesting, so she smiled and lowered her head to pick up the snack to eat, but listened to An Ying say: "I have read the archives of Shuanglin County for thirty years, but there is not much content. Luo's was originally a native of Shuanglin Town, about 23 years ago, Luo's grandfather Luo Mao found 12 wild tea plants in Shuanglin Mountain, and began to make tea with this. Roche said that the Luo family could sell it at a high price in addition to paying tribute every year, and the six members of the Luo family all made a living from this tea. According to the Luo family's confession, Zheng Ping's father Zheng Yishun came to Shuanglin Town from Huzhou, and He Qing, who was still a county in Shuanglin County at the time, designed to give those wild tea plants to the Zheng family, so that the Luo family lost their livelihood. I checked the judgment and vouchers of the year, and the matter is probably the same as what Master Zheng said, and the Zheng family's method is also common in the competition between tea households, but the voucher of the fifty taels of silver is also there, and there is also a record that Master Zheng took the silver from the Shen family's silver village. But I checked the situation of the Luo family, in addition to these twelve wild teas, there are no other tea trees in her family, these twelve wild teas, I calculated that even if each tea tree can collect three catties of fresh leaves, then all the wild tea is only thirty-six catties of fresh leaves, to be honest, some of our tea trees can't collect three catties. The thirty-six catties of fresh leaves are also made into seven or eight pieces of tea cakes. I can't figure it out, these seven or eight pieces of tea cakes are barely enough to pay tribute, how can there be other fresh leaves to make tea cakes for sale? Originally, it shouldn't be the source of livelihood for the family, but if I want to say that these dozen or so wild tea plants were spread out into tribute tea to make their family's livelihood, you see that it has to consume manpower and firewood, how can this not be cost-effective. There is no such way to snatch tea trees between tea households. ”

Speaking of this, the other people in the room fell silent, Guo Langzhong put down the pastry in his hand, Su Huangzhe smiled and said, "It seems that we don't know much about this situation. "It's normal for adults not to understand the details. My family also has a share of tribute, that is because there are more than ten acres of tea gardens in my family, so under the scale, my family pays a part of the tribute, and the government sends tea sales documents to my house and then sells the remaining tea cakes. If there are such sporadic tea trees, there are also some in the north of Guzhu Mountain, and nearby farmers will also pick them, if they want to turn them into tribute tea, then simply hand over the tea trees to the official camp, or let the big tea households on the side take care of them, and they can't do it at their own expense. An Ying continued: "If it weren't before Chenggong tea, it would make sense for the Luo family to make a living from it. But looking at Luo's confession, after becoming a tribute tea, the Luo family still relies on tea trees for a living, which is not right.

Also, I saw in my household registration that the Luo family successively purchased 20 acres of good paddy fields in the next few years. Where did the money come from to buy paddy fields? I checked the delivery documents, and the 20 acres of paddy fields cost 30 taels of silver, which is consistent with Zheng Ping's statement that his father had paid 50 taels of silver to the Luo family. Because I read the confession of the neighbor of the Luo family in Shuanglin Town, thirty years ago, his family had three talented thatched houses, but then he built a blue brick house, saying that it was earned by selling tea, I think it is like the Zheng family's fifty taels of silver and the remaining twenty taels. ”