After the arrested officers were ordered to collect evidence, the court trial continued.

Qin Shiyao was shocked and shouted, "Take Wei Dezhao!"

After Wei Dezhao was taken to the hall by the wolf-like Yacha, he collapsed at the bottom of the stairs, trembling, Cai Liancheng looked at him with disdain, and sighed in his heart: "Wei Wenting is martial and heroic, but his younger brother is obscene and despicable, greedy and vulgar, all of them are brothers of the same mother, why is the difference so far." ”

Qin Shiyao slapped the shocked wood again, and shouted at Wei Dezhao: "Wei Dezhao, the envoy asked you, are you guilty?"

Wei Dezhao trembled and defended: "What is my crime, Wei Dezhao does not know the crime!"

"Wang Bingwang has already confessed, you and Wu Qixiong promised a lot of money and official positions to lure each other, bribed him and another killer to murder Shen Weijing, and after the killing, he also cut off his head to demonstrate, and now Wang Bingwang has been captured in your mansion, do you still want to deny it?"

Wei Dezhao fought with his lips and teeth, and defended: "That Wang Bingwang, I only have a few faces with him, how can I instigate him to kill people! Shen Weijing and I are even more innocent, but why do I want to harm his life? Even if I have the courage to do such a rebellious thing, my lord, please investigate clearly, don't wronged the villain." ”

"What is the explanation of the special brocade box brought out from the Shen Mansion and the Spring Breeze Crossing Goose Returning Picture Scroll collected in your mansion?"

"That's the ...... Wu Qixiong gave me" As soon as these words came out, Wei Dezhao felt that it was inappropriate, and thought to himself, didn't he admit that he had colluded with Wu Qixiong? So he quickly denied it: "No, no, I don't have any friendship with Wu Qixiong, just ......."

Wei Dezhao's heart was shocked and confused, and he didn't know where to start for a while, he just raised his head and looked at Qin Shiyao and said: "Lord Qin, please believe me, you look at me like this, as if you can kill Shen Weijing? Lord Qin, for the sake of my brother Wei Zongcao, you ......"

Cai Liancheng suddenly shouted angrily: "Wei Dezhao, answer Lord Qin's question first, don't want to climb others and divert your attention?"

Wei Dezhao pounded his head like garlic and said: "I said, I said, the painting was given to me by Wu Qixiong, and he put the painting in the Yuntao private room of the Yunju Teahouse, and I picked it up from there a few days ago." But this painting is not Shen Weijing's, it is Wu Qixiong's, I bought it from him for money. ”

So I talked about the process of taking paintings in the Yunju teahouse that day in detail.

Qin Shiyao sneered: "Wu Qixiong sold the painting to you?

Wei Dezhao was aggrieved in his heart, and muttered in a low voice: "It turns out that Wu Qixiong, the evil thief, has already been counted today, and I said that I just took a painting, why did I make it so complicated? ”

Qin Shiyao saw him muttering to himself there, slapped the shocked wood again, and said angrily: "Wei Dezhao, come as soon as possible to avoid the pain of skin and flesh." ”

Wei Dezhao was horrified, and immediately told the fact that he coveted the painting of the spring breeze crossing the wild goose in Wu Qixiong's old house, and then used Wu Qixiong's evidence of embezzlement of ink as a threat to take the painting over.

Cai Liancheng frowned when he heard this, and asked, "You said that the painting is Wu Qixiong's?"

"Yes, I saw it in his old Lin'an house. ”

If Wu Qixiong had this painting, how could he have hung it up, let alone let you see it, and if you were planning to seize this painting, you must also know the secrets and legends behind this painting? If it is true that the painting is Wu Qixiong's as you said, could it be that Wu Qixiong III would not know the legend of this painting? If he knew, how could he casually hang such a treasure painting in his old mansion. Cai Liancheng said.

Wei Dezhao was speechless for a moment, and thought to himself: "Yes, if the painting was handed down by his ancestors, how could he not know the secret in the painting, and how could he hang such a treasure painting? ”

At this time, Qin Shiyao smiled and said: "Wei Dezhao, even if you are cunning, but the evidence is ironclad, this official advises you to recruit as soon as possible, and don't go to the Huaiyin Mansion Torture Room to be punished again!"

Wei Dezhao saw a pool of blood on the ground, and knew that it was left by Fang Cai when he was tortured, and saw Qin Shiyao pressing each other with a fierce voice, and he was inexplicably wronged for a while, and he was angry and angry, his eyes were black, and he fainted.

Qin Shiyao sneered: "Wake up with ice water and try again." ”

Cai Liancheng stood up, bowed to Qin Shiyao and said: "Lord Qin, I feel that what Wei Dezhao said is not all lies, Wu Qixiong, a key figure in this case, is still missing, and I think that when the evidence in all aspects is more sufficient, we may have a better effect if we interrogate him again, Lord Qin, what do you think?"

Qin Shiyao also felt that no matter how much he interrogated, he couldn't interrogate anything more in-depth, so he nodded in agreement. After all, with the evidence at hand now, it is not a problem to treat Wei Dezhao's capital crime, and then involve Wei Wenting, the Wei brothers' power in Jianghuai is completely finished, and it can be explained on the prince's side.

Then it was much easier to interrogate Cheng Qinghe, and the things he confessed were the same as Wang Bingwang's, and the Mao Tou was directly aimed at Wei Dezhao and Wu Qixiong.

Subsequently, a group of guards and officials also obtained the physical evidence that Wang Bingwang had confessed before from Mo Yaoxuanju in the north of the city: gold, silver tickets and letters of recommendation, the silver tickets were issued by the Yuanfeng Silver Account of Huaiyin Mansion, 50,000 taels, which had not yet been cashed, and it was Wei Dezhao's account!

The ironclad evidence is clear, and the crime of Wei Dezhao's plot to assassinate Shen Weijing can almost be conclusive, and he and some officials of Caoyun have privately conferred and accepted each other, embezzled court materials, and formed a party and private affairs have also been exposed.

The three presiding judges made the results of the preliminary trial into a recital and reported it to the court through the pigeon room.

Although Wei Wenting, the governor of Caoyun, had no direct evidence to prove that he participated in the murder of Shen Weijing, he was guilty of negligence in the case of corruption between Wei Dezhao and a group of Caoyun officials, and because of Wei Dezhao's relationship with his brother, he was also suspected of conniving at his relatives to pervert the law for bribes. Seeing that the situation had taken a turn for the worse and there was no room for recovery, Wei Wenting wrote to the court and asked for punishment.

While everyone was waiting for the imperial court's reply, something happened on the canal that surprised everyone.

This section of the canal within the boundary of Huaiyin Province has a spacious river surface, a stable water potential, and a clear waterway marking, so it is very rare for a ship to capsize accident. But since October last year, the situation has changed, because the canal in the Huaiyin section of the canal is often noisy "water demons".

The boat people on the river have seen the "water demon" transform into a human form, rob passing merchants, kill people and goods, and devour people's blood and brains. Later, the rumors became more and more evil, and many boat people were so frightened that they even listened to the witches' gossip and spontaneously organized themselves to drown young children on the river to sacrifice to the river demons.

For this matter, the Cao Governor's Mansion and the Huaiyin Assassin Mansion joined forces to arrest the people who created rumors, and Wei Wenting burned the sorcerers who deceived the public with fire in public, and sent a large number of warships in the waterway to escort the passing ships, so that the matter was temporarily resolved. However, on both sides of the canal, there are still "water demons" committing crimes from time to time, and the people who were killed were all sucked dry of their blood, and their brains and marrow were also gnawed away, and the death was extremely horrifying. However, the "water demon" who committed the crime has not been caught, and it has become a major problem for the security of Huaiyin Mansion.

This time, the "water demon" committed another crime, and was attacked by the ship, and was almost sunk.

The biggest headache for the Huaiyin Cao Governor's Mansion and the Assassin's Mansion was that the ships attacked this time were extraordinary.

Because the people on the boat are two very special people in the Great Jing Dynasty.

Two women!