On the twelfth year of Beichen, December and the fifth day, Feng Yishan, who got up early, went to the lobby of the county guard mansion after finishing his meal under the service of Shi Xuanxuan. The fingers that kept waving in his seat showed that his mood was not very calm, and the sudden appearance of the human skin mask completely disrupted his heart, and the suspicion of the unknown future completely occupied his heart, and he waited in the lobby for a while before everyone arrived.

After seeing that everyone had arrived, Li Zhi said to the county keeper Li Yinghong, "Lord the county guard, since everyone has arrived, it's time to start asking about the case, right?"

The county shou Li Ying said loudly, "Colleagues of the same dynasty, all the heroes of the rivers and lakes, everyone knows the misfortune that happened in this house yesterday, I will not describe it more, and I will ask you to find out today to prove the innocence of this house." ”

After the county guard Li Yinghong finished speaking, Jin Yiti rode the sentence and said, "Lord the county guard, please also ask the ladies and housekeepers and others to come out! ”

Li Yinghong said, "That's natural, just ask you to give a little thin noodles, after all, the insider is timid and afraid, so I'm here to ask how the conversation is!" The words were full of sincerity, but he didn't tolerate being refuted at all.

Xun Fang, the commander and prosecutor of the Jinyi Mansion Division, said, "Since the county guard insists, it is naturally okay, this matter is arranged by you, and it will be interrogated in this hall!" After speaking, he looked at Li Zhi and asked his opinion.

Dali Temple is Li Zhi said, "Yes, I have no doubts." ”

Although Feng Yishan had questions to ask, he saw that the thousands of households on the Jinyi Ride did not speak, so he quieted down, did not say much, and only stayed in his position with Chen Yuanshan and waited for the results of everyone's discussion.

Li Yinghong, Xun Fang, and Li Zhi discussed for a long time, and brought seventeen or eighteen people, including the county guard's wife and the county guard's housekeeper, to the court for questioning.

Mrs. County Shou was also straightforward, and directly confessed her conspiracy, "Li Yinghong wants to take Xiao Cui as a concubine, this is something she absolutely cannot tolerate, but she is from a big family, and she is also well-read, but she just ordered someone to suppress her, and expelled her from the county guard mansion on a certain day, and did not want to murder her life, and now that she is suddenly dead, she is a little more sad, after all, she has also secretly observed that Xiao Cui, and she is also conscientious, how did she suddenly become an accomplice in stealing." ”

Everyone listened to her crying, and an ordinary woman should not have any anxiety to frame her husband, so they believed it, and then interrogated the next one, the chief steward of the county guard's mansion.

The property of the county guard mansion was distributed with his permission, and it was Hai Dafu who was responsible for distributing Xiaocui and others, and he was the silver received from Qiao Huachun, the housekeeper in charge of the county guard's treasury.

Guqiao Huachun said that his silver came from the silver treasury of the county guard's mansion, and the pen and pen were recorded, and the chief steward of the county guard's mansion did not have the storage record of this batch of new silver in August of the twelfth year of Beichen, which was very surprising.

After questioning a few people, Xun Fang unexpectedly did not arrest people directly, but asked the captains of Jinyi to send a few people back, Dali Temple Temple is Li Zhi said, "Xun Fang, you don't meet the regulations, several of them have suspicious questions, why did you let them go back?"

Xun Fang said, "Then do you have any evidence to arrest them back?"

Li Zhi was a little speechless for a while, after all, now it's just that their accounts are wrong, and they can't explain the origin of this batch of silver, let alone say that these must have flowed out of their hands, but he still insisted on saying to Xun Fang, "Then you can't just let them go back." ”

Xun Fang said, "This matter can't be rushed, this is also what they believed, and now the evidence in our hands is not enough to arrest a county guard's wife, it is better to continue to cast a long line to catch a big fish and find the person behind the scenes." ”

Li Zhidao: "I don't think they will care about the life or death of these people, and when they feel stable, they will definitely come out again to make trouble." ”

"Isn't that exactly what we were expecting? If they don't continue to move, how can we arrest the others?" ”

Li Zhidao: "That can't sacrifice the security of Zhongnan City, after all, the changes in the county guard mansion can only last for a while, and after a long time, all parties in Zhongnan City will definitely have turmoil when they find out about the situation here." ”

Xun Fang didn't wait for the county guard to respond, and said, "This won't last long, and when we finish investigating, we can lift the turmoil in the county guard's mansion." ”

Li Zhidao: "Who will control them after we have withdrawn, or are you going to directly... Take them back?"

Li Yinghong said, "Everyone, their account books also prove that my county guard does not have this batch of new silver, at most, it is only Qiao Huachun or Hai Dafu who secretly exchanged silver taels, but this is also a matter without evidence, you can't take them directly." ”

"Lord County Shou, Qiao Huachun's account book is a piece of evidence, but after all, the account book is registered by himself, it is difficult to say whether it is true or false, there is still a reason to take the two of them away, but the two of them have been in the house for many years, why they are used by others is the problem!"

Li Yingshou was silent, recalling some abnormal actions of these two people, wanting to find any clues, and reminded him, "As far as the current situation is concerned, there is no silver tael lost anywhere in the house, and this new silver is either brought in by someone, or there are still people hiding it for them, so now we can't startle the snake." ”

Xun Fang said, "We can't check here, we control it strictly, and they are not easy to move, so let's check Xiaocui and Wei Leopard first, and see who has more contact with them on weekdays, maybe there will be something to find." ”

Li Zhidao said, "Okay, my Dali Temple sent someone to take you to investigate, there are only people left here from the Jinyi Mansion, this time they should have the courage!"

Xun Fang and Li Zhi all decided so, and the Jianghu people, who had nothing to do about the investigation, agreed, and under Li Zhi's arrangement, they divided into teams and left the county guard mansion and went to their destinations.

Chen Yuanshan and Zhang Wenyuan did not leave, but stayed in the county guard mansion with Xun Fang and Li Zhi, first, there was no progress in the case, everyone withdrew unreasonable, and there was a flaw in luring the snake out of the hole, and second, everyone knew in their hearts that the biggest suspect here was still the county guard himself, who could prove that he was not a prison guard stealing himself, but a thief shouting to catch a thief! So the biggest role they left behind was to monitor the county guard himself.

There are not many people in the rivers and lakes, and there are many places to go, so each sect is a team on its own, plus the Jinyi captain who leads the way and the Dali Temple catcher is all the way.

Feng Yishan followed him here was a Jinyi lieutenant named Liu Yanzhi and Hu Dan of Dali Temple, both of whom were big-mouthed, and as soon as they left the county guard's mansion, they were like birds leaving the cage, chatting non-stop.

Feng Yishan listened to them happily, although they didn't talk much, and most of what they said was trivial things, but he also knew a lot about the situation in Zhongnan City, which had a lot of benefits for him.

Feng Yishan was arranged to be Xiaocui's family all the way, and she naturally had to inform her father when everyone died, and she should be able to find out a lot of news from him for this reason.

All the way through the small roads of Zhongnan City, I came to Xiaocui's house, a dilapidated house in a slum registered by the county guard.

But when they came here, they didn't need to ask people, Feng Yishan and the others were already dumbfounded, because half of the house had collapsed, and the situation in the courtyard had long been uninhabited.

The few people who looked at each other didn't know what to say, could it be that the county guard who was timid and afraid on the surface was actually a ruthless woman behind her, and she never made a move on Xiaocui because she had been dealing with her family, and even Liu Yanzhi and Hu Dan were angry, and they cursed so ruthlessly.

Pushing open the broken wooden door, the creaking wooden door slammed to the ground, splashing circles of dust.

The crowd of onlookers around looked at this group of people curiously, and when they saw that they were about to enter, an old lady said, "Don't look at it, there's nothing." ”

Liu Yanzhi wanted to come forward to ask, but everyone was gone. Hu Dan pointed to his flying fish suit angrily, squinted at him, and also let Feng Yishan know how prestigious the Jinyi Mansion is among the people.

Hu Dan was angry and lost a number, and he went to find a few people to understand the situation, and when he saw the arrest of Dali Temple, these people did not hide anymore, and everyone's brows furrowed deeper under some inquiry.

As they said, this is indeed the place of Xiaocui's family, but they are not people in Zhongnan City at all, they moved later, Xiaocui's father took Xiaocui and a son to live here, and he didn't socialize with the neighbors, and he didn't see any work, and he didn't know what he was doing every day, until one day he heard that Xiaocui was bought, and they also counted down the father and son, and after that, they went out early and returned late more diligently, so that until three years later, they suddenly disappeared and left... I didn't know what to do in a hurry, and I never saw it again, this house was visited many times by thieves, but there was not even a hair in a hurry, and finally it collapsed because of disrepair.

After listening to the stories of these people, Feng Yishan and the others left there silently, because they felt that a huge conspiracy was hanging over Zhongnan City, and the arrival of Xiaocui's father and daughter seemed to be to sell Xiaocui to the county guard's mansion, why is this, and who is manipulating everything behind the scenes, why does the county guard Li Yingshou ignore this, with his identity as a county guard, he should be able to easily find out this, but he hasn't said half a word!