Chapter 110: The Zhu Brothers (31)
After hearing this, the villagers present began to point fingers at Zhu Dafu. After listening to Zhu Dafu's statement, the mayor of the town, Wu Zimin, was so angry that he almost didn't pull off his beard, so he glared at Zhou Yuanwai fiercely, and asked, "The surname is Zhou!
Seeing this, Zhou Yuanwai immediately denied it: "Town Chief, don't listen to his nonsense, this is nothing at all!"
Zhu Dafu saw him quibbling, so he immediately said: "Obviously, you want to let the big guy get sick and take the opportunity to make a lot of money, so you instructed me to go to that spring to give medicine!"
Zhu Dafu said, looked at the villagers present and said: "Zhou Yuanwai ordered me to take medicine twice before and after, the first time was just a small bottle, and the big guy didn't drink any problems. He saw that he couldn't make a windfall, so he ordered me to make another one, and the second time it was a big jar! The big guy had a stomach trouble at this time, and Zhu knew that he was guilty, and he hoped that all the fathers and villagers would punish him!"
Zhu Dafu said that, he lowered his head silently, and when Zhou Yuanwai saw this, he naturally didn't dare to admit his guilt, so he immediately lied and said: "It's none of my business at all! It's clear that he stole the laxative from me, and he ran to the spring to sprinkle it, and it wasn't instructed by me!"
Liu Ruyun on the side saw that Zhou Yuanwai denied it in every way, and finally couldn't stand it anymore, so he pointed at Zhou Yuanwai and scolded: "The biggest beneficiary of this incident is obviously you, but you said that he stole your medicine?
Zhou Yuanwai was slapped by Liu Ruyun before, and of course he would be scared when he scolded him at this time, so he had to lower his head and mutter: "Maybe he really has a brain disease?"
At the beginning of Zhu Dafu's surrender, the villagers present were only scolding Zhu Dafu, but now they are only scolding Zhou Yuan. If Zhu Dafu just blindly denied it, the villagers might really want to beat him up, but now that he is actively admitting his mistakes, the villagers' hearts have softened. But Zhou Yuanwai didn't know this reason, and was still quibbling in every possible way, and the villagers naturally pointed the finger at him.
Zhou Yuanwai saw that Zhu Dafu had to pull him on his back, so he hurriedly said: "Mayor, this is just his one-sided statement, and there is no basis at all! He must be thinking that the salary he usually gives him is less, so he will do such a dirty thing and blame me, please be aware of it!"
Zhou Yuanwai lowered his head deeply, not wanting others to see his face. When he said this, he was relieved, because only Zhu Dafu had talked to him about this matter alone, even if Zhu Erfu and Zhu Xiaofu knew about it, but neither of them had seen it with their own eyes, even if they saw that they gave Zhu Dafu laxatives, they could also insist that the three brothers colluded to murder him, if there was no third party involved, the mayor would definitely not be able to convict himself of this crime, at most he would resell fake medicines. The family is also rich in money, so there will be no trouble when the time comes.
After a long time, no one came out to testify against him, so he raised his head and pretended to look at the mayor of the town with pity and said, "Mayor, no one has come out to testify, I will say that I was wronged......
Seeing that there was no way, the mayor just wanted to ask Zhu Dafu again. I saw that there was some commotion in the crowd, and a little girl was squeezed out of the crowd, and I don't know whose child it was, she walked to the crowd and pointed to Zhou Yuanwai and said: "He was not wronged at all, I have seen it!"
When Zhou Yuanwai heard this, he was shocked. He took a closer look at this girl, it seems that it should not be the maid who works in his own house, how did she know that she gave Zhu Dafu poison?
The people present saw that someone came out to testify against the hateful Zhou Yuanwai, so it didn't matter whose child she was, as long as she could tell the Zhou Yuanwai.
When the mayor saw this, he asked her, "Tell me what you saw?"
The girl then spoke: "A few days ago, when I passed by the backyard of Zhou Yuanwai's house, I saw Zhou Yuanwai secretly giving this person a big jar at the back door, and I didn't know what they were doing at that time, so I didn't care, and now I think about it carefully, and I know that Zhou Yuanwai was giving him poison!"
The girl said goodbye and pointed to Zhu Dafu. After hearing this, the mayor asked him, "Zhu Dafu, is there such a thing?"
Zhu Dafu didn't think about it, and said, "It's true!"
Zhou Yuanwai muttered in his heart after hearing this, he was obviously given medicine in the study at noon, how could this girl see herself at the back door of the courtyard in the middle of the night, so she must have come to make false testimony!
Thinking of this, Zhou Yuanwai planned to scare this girl, so he glared at her viciously and threatened her: "Where are you from?
It's okay if he doesn't speak, but when he speaks, he is in trouble, the mayor is afraid that this girl will be scared by Zhou Yuanwai and dare not tell the truth, just wanted to scold Zhou Yuanwai not to let him intimidate this girl, but he didn't expect the girl to stare at Zhou Yuanwai by herself, clenching her little fist and saying angrily: "Who do you say is a little brat?!"
As soon as her words fell, an inexplicable sense of oppression enveloped the hearts of everyone present, and Zhu Dafu naturally felt this pressure, as if he had felt similar feelings before. He thought about it carefully, it seemed that he had seen two masters fight when he sprinkled medicine on the first night, and he had similar feelings at that time, although the current sense of oppression was not as fierce as that night, but it also made people feel a chill down their spine.
Zhou Yuanwai was glared at by the girl, and suddenly felt that his whole body seemed to be frozen, not only did he have a chill down his spine, but cold sweat flowed down his neck. The girl looked like she was going to kill him in the next second, and death was close at hand.
He hurriedly turned his face away and didn't dare to look at the girl, his expression was flustered, and his brain was a little unclear, so he quickly knelt on the ground and looked up at the mayor in front of him and said: "Mayor Zhen, she is making false testimony, you must not believe her!"
"And how do you prove that she is doing false testimony?!" the mayor asked him angrily.
In a panic, Zhou Yuanwai hurriedly said: "I obviously gave Zhu Dafu medicine in the study, how could she see me at the back door, she must have made a false testimony!"
"What are you talking about?!—— Mayor Mare's eyes widened as he listened.
"I said......" Zhou Yuanwai also realized that he had said the wrong thing at this time, so he quickly changed his words, "I didn't say anything......"
Seeing that he denied it like this, the mayor of the town just wanted to open his mouth to testify, but the people around him couldn't listen to it anymore, because Zhou Yuanwai no longer recruited himself, so did he still need to talk nonsense?
"Brothers, beat him to death!"
Several young and strong young men took the lead in speaking, rolled up their sleeves and rushed directly to Zhou Yuanwai. The crowd at the scene was indignant, and the people rushed up, and in an instant, the villagers drowned Zhou Yuanwai and Zhu Dafu in the crowd.