And the county magistrate standing next to Li Hengyao heard the conversation between the woman and the catcher, and knelt on the ground with a frightened "plop", and hurriedly begged for mercy and said: "My lord, the lower official is wronged!"

Xia Guan has never said this, and this woman is not Xia Guan's wife and sister, her sister is just Xia Guan's concubine. Xia Guan didn't know that Ma Xiucai had been at his master's house. ”

Nalan Rongruo did not speak, but looked at the person who came. This woman is a little beautiful, wearing a pink gown, a Han dress.

Seeing Nalan Rongruo standing in the courtyard, tall and handsome. made her eyes light up, and just as she wanted to speak, she was reprimanded by the county order: "Be bold Chen Jiao, don't kneel down yet." ”

Chen Jiao found that her brother-in-law and father were all kneeling on the ground, and she was so frightened that she hurriedly knelt on the ground when she was shouted by the county order.

Nalan Rongruo was very disgusted with her, ignored her, and didn't let her get up, so he let her kneel all the time, turned to Master Chen and said, "Where is that Fang Xiucai? ”

After listening to Nalan Rongruo's words, Chen Jiaye didn't answer, but quietly raised his head and glanced in the direction of his daughter Chen Jiao, and quickly lowered his head.

Nalan Rong saw Master Chen's small movements and continued: "If you don't say anything more, this official will put all the relevant people in prison. ”

Master Chen listened to Nalan Rongruo's body tremble, and then said, "My lord, Fang Xiu was killed by me, and it has nothing to do with others. Please be aware of it!"

And Chen Jiao, who was kneeling on the other side, trembled with fright when she heard her father's words, and lowered her head. But he did not speak.

The county magistrate who was kneeling next to them listened to Master Chen's words, and stared at him violently, looking incredulous.

And Nalan Rongruo, who was standing in front of them, saw the reactions of several people, and asked, "Where is Fang Xiucai's body buried?"

After this questioning, Master Chen has calmed down. The originally hunched body also stood up, and calmly replied, "It's buried in this courtyard." ”

Nalan Rongruo said to the county order: "You get up first, let his father and daughter be put in prison first, and the rest of the Chen family is not allowed to go out for the time being, and they are on call." ”

The county magistrate hurriedly got up after hearing the order, and asked the officials to take good care of the Chen family's father and daughter, and then put them in prison when they returned to the county government.

Seeing that Nalan Rongruo ordered Chen Jiao to be imprisoned, Master Chen hurriedly opened his mouth and shouted: "My lord, this matter has nothing to do with the little girl, I did it alone." Please don't put her in jail. ”

Chen Jiao also knelt on the ground and shouted grievances while kowtowing. Nalan Rongruo didn't listen to his explanation, and waved his hand to let the two of them aside.

He also ordered people to search the courtyard for the place where the body was buried, and when he found it, he took a shovel and dug it up in the courtyard. It didn't take long for the bodies to be exhumed.

As the body was lifted out and buried for more than a month, the body had begun to decompose in many places.

Although it was covered with a cloth, the cloth could not stop the smell, and a disgusting smell rushed into everyone's noses, and everyone covered their mouths and noses.

Chen Jiao was a woman, and she reacted the most violently, and the moment she saw the corpse, she pushed away the official who was pressing her and ran to the wall to vomit.

Although the person was killed by her, the person who just died is still different from the person who has been dead for more than a month.

Nalan Rongruo didn't care about her, just let people watch and don't let her run away. He asked people to lift the shroud, stepped forward to look at the corpse, and looked at Fang Xiucai's death characteristics.

After reading it, he said to Master Chen: "You said that you killed the person, then tell me about the murder process, and what kind of murder weapon was used to kill Fang Xiucai?"

Master Chen thought for a while before saying, "I killed him with a knife, and I bled a lot when I cut him down, and he asked me to let him go, but I ignored it."

He stabbed him several times before he died, and he stabbed him in the heart again for fear that he would not die. ”

"Where was the first knife you struck him, and where did you kill him? ”

"It was here that he was hacked to death, and a lot of blood was shed, and I buried the bloody place in the earth.

So you can't see it. And no one is here in this place, so you don't have to worry about being discovered. ”

In the process of asking Master Chen, Nalan Rongruo asked the man to carefully examine the body, and then asked the person to read the record of the work.

After reading it, he found that the above record was different from what Master Chen said, so he asked again, "Are you sure so?"

Master Chen looked at the book in Nalan Rongruo's hand, considered it, and said, "That's true!"

As soon as Master Chen finished speaking, he heard Nalan Rong shouting loudly: "Bold, dare to lie, the murderer is obviously someone else, you want to shield her, think this person must be very important to you, right?"

"My lord, no. Fang Xiucai was killed by me, please kill me and give him his life!" Master Chen knelt down and kowtowed again and again.

Chen Jiao, who was originally vomiting on the wall, had calmed down at this time, ran to Nalan Rongruo and knelt down and said, "My lord, you don't have to ask my father.

I'll tell you the truth: I killed the person, and I found someone to bury it, and it has nothing to do with my father, he only found out about it afterwards.

That Fang Xiucai should be damned, he shared so much silver with him, but it was still too little, and if he wanted to blackmail Miss Ben, it also depended on whether he had the life to spend it.

I pretended to give him the money first, and then killed him with a dagger while he was unprepared.

Miss Ben hated him for not knowing how to lift, so she stabbed him several times after he died, and then asked the maid next to her to bury him.

I wanted to throw him out of the city, but I was afraid that I would be found when I left the city, so I buried him directly here.

Later, my father accidentally found out, and he helped me bury the body deeper and eliminate all the evidence.

He also ordered his subordinates to avoid this courtyard and not to approach. I didn't expect it to be sent by an adult. ”

After listening to Chen Jiao's words, Master Chen sat down and said, "It's over, it's all over." ”

Nalan Rongruo flipped Chen Jiao's words with those in the book, and found that there was no discrepancy, so he asked the official to tie up both of them with ropes, and ordered someone to arrest Chen Jiao's personal maid Chunhua together.

The county magistrate listened to the confessions of the two, reached out and wiped the sweat on his head with his sleeve, and thought in his heart: I must sell Aunt Chen when I go back, the family surnamed Chen is not a good person, maybe Aunt Chen will kill him one day.

found Fang Xiucai's body, and caught the murderer, Nalan Rongruo returned to the county office with the county order and others, and handed over the rest to the county order.

Nalan Rongruo handed over the case to the Yizhou County Order, and he and Li Hengyao went back to the inn to report to Kangxi.

Kangxi gave the Chen family's father and daughter a decision, and all the Chen family's property was confiscated.

The Yizhou county magistrate was removed from his official position because of unfavorable supervision and did not ask about political affairs. When the new county commander took office, he immediately left Yizhou and returned to his hometown.

Listening to Nalan Rongruo's words, the county order hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him!

The case of Xiucai's disappearance was finally solved after half a month, and on the day the Chen family's father and daughter were escorted to the execution ground, the people of the whole city came to watch.

There were even people who had been oppressed by the two of them before who came over and threw rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves at them.

Yu Niang also went over to join in the fun, but Yu Niang just looked at the door of the inn and did not go to the execution ground. Kangxi and his party watched upstairs and did not go down.

Ma Xiucai left Yizhou the day after the Chen family's father and daughter were sentenced, and thanked Yu Niang and the others before leaving!

Kangxi and the others also left Yizhou the next day to rush to the capital, and Yu Niang followed them on the road in a carriage.

Before leaving, Yu Niang asked someone to send a letter to Ruyue, telling her Fang Xiucai's whereabouts and asking her to take care.