Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 18 The Journey Again

At that moment, the extreme fear caused Zeng Su to completely lose his self-control, and his pants were instantly wet.

But see, he knelt on the ground, kowtow like pounding garlic, his forehead was stained with blood, while kowtow, he repeated nonsense such as "I'm sorry for you", "please let me go".

Such a reaction was enough for Zhou Butou.

From Zhou Wu's point of view, the case has already been solved and the murderer has been found. As for the matter of "making him confess", it is the simplest.

Not to mention you, Zeng Su, so what if it was Song Gongming?When the board comes down in the courtroom, how many people can really carry it?

To make a long story short, when Zeng Su understood what was going on, Master Zeng, Zhou Butou, Sun Yixie, and Huang Donglai were all sitting in front of him.

The second lady's body was temporarily placed on the couch in Zeng Su's room, and the glazed fish was also placed on the table.

As for the other house servants, they were all ordered to wait outside the house, after all, this matter is considered a family scandal...not to be publicized.

"Okay." Zhou Wu also put on his head-hunting style at this time, and said in a tone of kindness and majesty, "You and I have a little friendship, so I will persuade you... a man, dare to Dare to do it, as long as you take the initiative to explain the matter clearly and let me have an account with the Yamen, I will guarantee that you will not suffer from unnecessary flesh and blood, otherwise..."

His words are all clichés, but they do make sense.

There are many murderers who know that if they are recruited, they will die, so they take chances and refuse to recruit. At this time, the officials rarely condescend to persuade them in person, so people like the head catcher usually have to go up and follow them. The prisoner uttered a few words of "truth".

And the general meaning of this set of rhetoric is: The result of your death is nothing more than being dragged out of the court every day, hitting the board every day, the wound is healed and rotten, and the wound is rotten... Every day, the pain is so painful that you don't want to live, and finally die in prison due to infection. Painful and ugly.

But if you recruit, at least get a reputation for being brave.After the painting is finished and taken to prison, you don’t have to suffer much in the cell; wait until autumn and eat the meal of beheading, go to the market and shout "I will be a good man again in 18 years", and let the executioner give you a good time, you are also counted Walking decently; and our yamen, the official documents of the case can also be done more beautifully, and the master and the police have also gained credit.

The above-mentioned set of things can be regarded as a set of unspoken rules accompanying "torture to extract confessions" in the judicial process of Daxie; the whole process behind it is indeed efficient, but it often leads to unjust, false and wrongful convictions.

Unfortunately, this was considered the most advanced system at the time.

In that era, the so-called "clearly discerning the details" was nothing more than referring to the county magistrate's experience in deciding cases, such as the ability to observe words and demeanor, etc. Sometimes the judgment of some cases even depended on the county magistrate's mood when trying the case...

Therefore, it cannot be said that there are very many villains who are at large, and unlucky people who have died unjustly, but there are indeed.

Fortunately, there were no mistakes or omissions in Zeng Su's matter.

Zeng Su, whose psychological defense line has collapsed, is not the kind of person who will fight to the death...

He pondered for a while, ordered a jug of wine, sat on the ground and drank three glasses, and then told everything in detail.

Master Zeng's face turned ashen when he heard it there, and his body trembled from time to time, but at least he restrained his emotions and did not lose his composure.

After Zeng Su finished explaining, Zhou Butou waited for a few seconds, then leaned into Master Zeng's ear and asked, "Master...you see, what should we do about this matter?"

Zhou Wu is a sensible person, this question should indeed be asked to Zeng Yun.

Everyone in Luzhou City knows that in this Luzhou, it is "the county magistrate with flowing water, and the iron master Zeng"-the final decision on this matter is not counted by the county magistrate, it has to be Zeng Yun's.

Master Zeng calmed down a bit before he said, "Killing people pays for their lives, you just do business..."

Zhou Wu knew that there should be a "but" after this sentence, so he didn't respond, but waited.

Sure enough, after a short pause, Master Zeng continued: "It's just... I don't want this incident of my Zeng family to cause a disturbance all over the city, and everyone on the road knows..."

"Then..." Zhou Wu said while thinking, "How about... the previous murder cases will be handled according to the original 'haunted' theory, and only the last big death will be placed on Zeng Su. Said that the two of them were at odds with each other, and He Da was still pestering Zeng Su after leaving the mansion, trying to extort more money from the Zeng family, but in the end Zeng Su became murderous and poisoned him... Your lord how about?"

Master Zeng listened, pondered for a while, and felt that this set of rhetoric was complete for outsiders who didn't know the inside story, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll have to catch the boss." He paused, " I will draft a letter in a while to inform the magistrate of this matter, and I would like to ask Zhou Tutou to pass it on."

"It should." Zhou Wu agreed.

After saying this, Master Zeng cast another cold look at Zeng Su: "Humph... In the end, I have left you with a good reputation, so I am worthy of you, right?"

Zeng Su quickly changed from sitting to kneeling, and kowtowed to Master Zeng again, but he couldn't say a word.

"By the way..." At this time, Zhou Wu thought of something again, and reminded Zeng Yun, "The second lady's personal servant girl still knows a lot of inside information. If Master Zeng, you don't want the news to leak out..."

From this one sentence, one can see Zhou Wu's vicious side.

In fact, even if he didn't mention it, Zeng Yun knew it in his heart, and he would take care of that maidservant afterward, but by saying it now, he was clearly reminding Zeng Yun to eradicate the weeds as soon as possible.

Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were listening, also secretly startled, and said... Fortunately, we are both veterans, and we don't have a deep friendship with this guy, otherwise we may not be sold by him someday.

After listening to Zhou Wu's words, Zeng Yun snorted coldly, as if he had made up his mind.

Immediately he got up, went to the door and called several servants who were waiting outside the house, and asked them to bring the maid.

Unexpectedly, after a few minutes, a servant ran back and reported that the maid had hanged herself in the room.

Now... another life.

But Zeng Yun didn't care much about this, because even if she didn't hang herself, she would still end up being beaten to death.

That night, Zhou Wu went to the yamen to call in a few men who were on duty at night, and moved the body of the second wife back to the temple, and collected the body for the maid of the second wife by the way... For him, the case is considered to be over here He has already got a "murderer", enough for him to ask for credit to his superiors, and at the same time he has sold Master Zeng a favor.

But for Zeng Yun, there is still a major mystery in this case - who is that "faceless woman"?Why did she instigate Zeng Su behind the scenes?

Before solving this mystery, Zeng Yun still couldn't let go of this matter completely, so that night...he had already made up his mind to find someone to start with that pawnshop shopkeeper as soon as possible, and try to track down that woman...

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The next morning.

Master Zeng came to see Sun and Huang off in person.

At this time, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai no longer pretended to be Taoist priests; after the case was solved last night, they explained their true identities and the reasons why they pretended to be Taoist priests in front of Master Zeng.

Master Zeng was very grateful to these two young heroes who helped each other when they saw injustice. After learning that they were going to Luoyang, Zeng Yun asked the servants of the mansion to pick two high-quality horses from the stable without saying a word. gift.

Sun and Huang didn't refuse much, because the high-speed rail travel ticket that Huang Donglai bought before was invalid, and they had to buy another horse, so they might as well just accept it, so as not to lose face to Master Zeng.

At the first moment of time, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai rode out of Luzhou city and continued to head northwest.

Zhou Wu... didn't come to see them off.

Although Zhou Butou did hear them say when they would leave today last night, it is clear that his friendship with these two "good brothers" is not that good.

And Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai didn't care about it, after all, they both looked older than their actual age, and they had seen clearly who Zhou Wu was last night, if they really climbed up with this kind of person, On the friendship, but trouble.

In this way, the two left Luzhou, whipped their horses, and went straight to the next stop - Yingzhou.

(End of this chapter)