Chapter 22: Old Accounts (2)

In this way, it seems that what Zheng Ping said is indeed true, but Luo is lying. But why? She went around in such a big circle just to take revenge on the Zheng family, but this evidence said that the Zheng family did not harm the Luo family at all, and I was confused. Dai Chang patted his forehead, "Is there still a secret in this case?" ”

Guo Langzhong put down the red bean cake that he had just studied carefully, looked at An Ying and said, "Little girl, you shouldn't have finished talking yet, go on." I was so narrow-minded just now. However, it seems that your way of investigating the case is quite similar to that of Master Su. An Ying smiled and said, "Where do I dare to compare with Master Su." It's just that making tea and selling tea at home is more familiar. I don't understand anything else, but I just look at things more carefully. Su Huangzhe took a sip of the kumquat drink that had just been brought by Ya Yu, and said, "It is also a skill to read the confession, you can sit down and continue." In the past few days, I heard that you first ran to Shuanglin Town, and spent some time in the Shen family, and spent the rest of your time looking at the old archives. ”

An Ying was indeed tired of standing, and he did not dare to sit down according to the etiquette, and when he heard Su Huangzhe say this, he sat down on the low stool next to him with relief. Seeing the opportunity, Ya Yu took a kumquat drink and let An Ying moisten his throat.

An Ying continued: "Yes, the confession has to be combined with the scene, otherwise it will be just on paper. When I went to Shuanglin Town, I chatted with the neighbors of the Luo family at that time, Li Facai's family. ”

"I remember the confession of the neighbors of the Luo family, and I didn't see anyone named Li Facai." Guo Langzhong frowned and said.

An Ying replied: "There is indeed no such neighbor now. When I went to Shuanglin Town, I chatted with the old people in the town, and I learned that the original Luo family's house was bought and rebuilt by the original neighbor's house 20 years ago, and I found the original neighbor, which was Li Facai. Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, especially in such scattered villages, where neighbors know more things than they think. ”

Su Huangzhe nodded and said, "This is indeed our negligence. I knew that the neighbors of the Luo family had been around for more than ten years, and I felt that it had been long enough. Lao Guo, we're doing a little worse here. ”

Guo Langzhong nodded and said, "Indeed." Miss Ann, please continue. ”

Li Facai said that back then, every household in their village was about the same, with a few acres of paddy fields per family. When the farm is not working, the diligent people go to the neighborhood to do short-term work or go to the city to sell some wild goods from the mountains. The Luo family was originally the same, but the Luo family has the craft of making tea, and it is said that Luo Mao's tea-making skills are a must. Suddenly, for a while, the Luo family rebuilt a green tile house and purchased paddy fields. I specially asked the time, and Li Facai said that it should be the fifth year of Yongkang, when his eldest daughter got married, so he had some impressions.

I asked Li Facai about Luo Mao's serious illness and the Luo family's sale of their daughter. Li Facai said that the village knew about Luo Mao's serious illness, and they even visited him. He remembered that Luo Mao's face was sallow, and he couldn't breathe after saying a few words, and the Luo family invited a doctor in the town, and he took a lot of medicine, but he still didn't get cured. Later, he also heard from the Luo family that the family was too poor, so he sold his youngest daughter to a dental store and went to a big family to be a girl. There are very few things in their village to sell their sons and daughters, and everyone is also talking about it when they hear this, after all, the Luo family bought tiled houses and paddy fields before, but they sold their daughters to pay off their debts, saying that this Luo Youde has no conscience. Moreover, Li Facai also said that the two sons of the Luo family, Luo Youde and Luo Youcai, were not diligent and hard-working croppers, and the paddy fields they purchased were not planted, but rented to other farmers in the village with few fields. This is not common in Shuanglin County, where most people farm their own fields, unless they do not have strong strength at home. Many people in the town remember this, and they also said that the two brothers of the Luo family are lazy bones. I also inquired about the farmers who rented the Luo family's paddy fields back then, which was almost two taels of silver plus three buckets of millet, which was only the basic chewing of the family for a year. You see, the price of renting out these 20 acres of paddy fields is really not cost-effective for ordinary farmers compared to planting them themselves.

Later, Shuanglin Village became Shuanglin Town, Li Facai said that because his son bought a house in the town and started trading, it happened that the youngest son of the Luo family, that is, Luo Youcai, was about to get married, and he was just about to expand the house, so he sold his old house to the Luo family, and the family moved to the town. At that time, he was still strange that the Luo family was so poor that they sold their daughter a few years ago, and they bought land and built a house again after only a few years. Li Facai's lady said that when she sold the land, she also said that if she had the money, she should quickly redeem her daughter and make a slave for others, and her life would be too hard. But Luo Youde said that his daughter was sold to a good family......"

Dai Chang interrupted An Ying's words, shook his head and said: "If you talk about this big circle, it means that the Luo family is relatively lazy, and the matter of selling their daughter is actually ruthless by their parents, and the daughter of the Luo family sold a rich family, but what does this have to do with the case?" I heard it in a fog, my head was dizzy, don't talk away, it's better to be direct. ”

"I kind of understand what Miss Ann means." Luo Langzhong turned around and said to Dai Chang.

"Well, tell me about it. I really don't understand. Dai Chang said hurriedly

Guo Langzhong looked at An Ying and said: "According to the confession of the Luo family, in the early years, they relied on those tea trees to earn some money to support their families, and they had a little savings. Later, the Zheng family snatched those tea trees, causing the Luo family to be unable to make a living, and Luo Mao was seriously ill, so that Luo Youde had to sell his youngest daughter to pay off the debt. This little daughter was brought up by Zheng Luo, and the two sisters had a deep relationship, because her sister was sold, so Zheng Luo's hated the Zheng family, and she had been dormant in the Zheng family for so many years, and she was planning to take revenge on Zheng Ping. Originally, the whole case was straightened out after the trial here, but now it seems that there is a problem with the confession, the Luo family and the Zheng family have no deep hatred, there is still a problem with the Zheng Luo's confession, they concealed a very important question, where did the Luo family's money come from? That's what you're talking about, isn't that? ”

"Wait, let me figure it out. In this case, it is useless for us to interrogate before. Alas, can't the case be closed now? Hey, I think this Zheng Luo was only eight or nine years old back then, and she didn't know about the family, her sister-in-law was sold, and her father told her that it was because the Zheng family robbed the tea tree, and she hated the Zheng family, which is not wrong. Where does the Luo family's money come from, and what does it have to do with this case? It doesn't matter what he does, seeing that the Luo family's household registration is innocent, he didn't do anything about adultery, but he was lazy. Dai Chang said with a frown.

Zheng Luo didn't know the details back then, but he only knew that his sister was sold, so he hated the Zheng family, and it was barely reasonable. She has been married to Zheng Ping for eight years, and she has taken over the entire teahouse of the Zheng family. It's strange to not understand it now. ”

"Roche will definitely be retried, but he still needs to grasp some more information, and now that it is so unclear, it is easy to be led away by her after the trial. By the way, Miss An, I just talked about half of it, and the other half is where the Luo family's money comes from, this is what you have always wanted to say, right? ”

An Ying nodded and said: "Indeed, I have checked the official archives for so many years, and I have actually been looking for the Luo family's financial resources......"