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Chapter 107 Finding Clues

When the crowd outside the county government office dispersed, Jiang Youzhi looked at Cui Er, who was taken away by the government officials, with a pensive look, presumably the murder case in Tipan Village had just been reported, and there was no time for trial in the future.

Song Zheng said quickly, "Look at the time, if we go to Dipang Village now, we should be able to catch up with the yamen servants to investigate and arrest people."

When we arrived at Dipang Village, as expected, seeing the servants searching a courtyard, Song Zheng stepped forward and said, "Guys, we are visiting doctors and want to stay overnight. I wonder what happened here?"

The yamen servant said impatiently: "Let's go! Let's go! Don't hinder the master's handling of the case!" After finishing speaking, Song Zheng was pushed back.

Song Zheng said very patiently: "Master, then let's go to another house to see if we can stay overnight."

Hearing this, the yamen servant couldn't help but said: "How dare you spend the night here! Do you know what kind of place this is? There are troublesome people living in the poor mountains and rivers, and the people living here are all traitors. We don't want to come if they are not dead. , if you don’t want to get into trouble, leave quickly!”

Jiang Youzhi looked around, it seemed that the villagers must have hid again, and there was no one around.

Suddenly, the yamen servant in the room shouted: "I got it! I got it!"

Jiang Youzhi couldn't help but look forward, and saw two yamen guards escorting an elderly man who kept struggling, and the old man kept shouting: "Officer! I'm wronged, I didn't kill him!"

The head of the yamen servant gave him a contemptuous look, and said sharply, "This man is buried in your yard. If you didn't kill him, who else could it be! Take him away!"

Afterwards, the yamen guard cleaned up the corpses, and escorted the so-called prisoner who had just been caught, back to the county yamen.

Jiang Youzhi and the others who pretended to leave saw that the officials had left before returning. She looked carefully at the courtyard. It was very simple, half of the house had collapsed, and it was extremely depressed.

Suddenly, Qiu Changming who was hiding on the opposite side saw Jiang Youzhi and Pei Xun, so he stopped hiding, came out and ran all the way to them, excitedly said: "You two genius doctors! Why are you here?"

Jiang Youzhi smiled and said: "Let's take a look at the folks, by the way, those yamen servants have left, where are the folks?"

Qiu Changming nodded vigorously, and replied: "Okay! Okay!" Then he took a few steps forward and shouted loudly: "Folks, come out, the genius doctor is here to see you!"

One after another, villagers hiding in various places came out to meet Jiang Youzhi and Pei Xun, but they looked at Song Zheng cautiously.

Jiang Youzhi then explained: "Today is our good friend, don't worry everyone, he is also a good person."

Said that the folks were going to invite them into the house, but Jiang Youzhi said: "I see those yamen servants came to arrest people just now, what's going on?"

"Ah!" The elderly Uncle Pang, who received the two last time, sighed, and said, "Last night, a man passed by here, saying he was staying overnight. My younger brother couldn't figure out where he came from, and he was originally going to drive him away." But he said that he had run out of money and that the wild road on the mountain was hard to walk. My younger brother couldn’t make up his mind, so he came to ask me. After we thought about it carefully, it was not easy for him to be alone in a foreign land, so he softened his heart and agreed. He borrowed one night, but he didn't expect it, something like this happened early in the morning, and it was my younger brother who was just taken away."

Jiang Youzhi then asked: "Have you been here last night? Did the person who borrowed him tell you what his name is, where he is from, and where he is going?"

Fifth Uncle Pang thought for a while, then shook his head: "I have to ask my brother about these things. I just heard what he said last night. He didn't tell me about the others."

At this time Qiu Changming stepped forward a little angrily, and said, "No, we have to go to the county government to find the magistrate, and explain it clearly for Uncle Jiu!"

The villagers responded one after another: "Yes! Go now!"

However, Jiang Youzhi advised them to stay calm first and not to be impatient: "Folks, don't worry, no matter what you say about this matter, it will involve a lawsuit involving human life. Human life is at stake. Not only will it not help the matter if you go, you may still hurt yourself , don't be reckless!"

Fifth Uncle Pang, with moist eyes, said eagerly to Jiang Youzhi: "Genius doctor, what do you think we should do? My brother can't kill anyone! Please save him!"

As he said that, he was about to kneel down, and the other villagers kept begging.

Jiang Youzhi said quickly, "It's not for me to decide whether he killed or not, but we will investigate this matter. If Uncle Pang Jiu was really wronged, then we will do our best."

After the villagers returned home one after another, Jiang Youzhi began to check the earth pit just dug by the yamen servants. This is where the corpses were buried.

Jiang Youngzhi looked at the soil here, grabbed a handful, and looked carefully.

Then he went into the house, which was also relatively simple, with only a bare table, and entered the inner room on the left, where there was a bed. This room should be the main room where Uncle Pang Jiu lived.

She went out to the right side again, and she found bloodstains on the couch. It seems that this should be the room where the borrower stayed last night.

She first looked towards the roof, but found nothing unusual, and then knocked carefully in every corner of the room, but found nothing.

Searching from outside the courtyard, Song Zheng, who had just entered the room, shook his head and said, "The murderer didn't leave any footprints."

Jiang Youzhi frowned, and was about to leave the room, but when she glanced away from the corner of her eye, she saw a corner of the fabric exposed under the bed.

Her eyes tightened sharply, and she said, "What is that?"

As she said that, she stepped forward quickly, squatted down, and tugged at the cloth, but found that it was pressed by something inside, so she stretched her arms under the bed and dragged it out with great effort.

She exerted a little force on her wrist, and suddenly, a bundle was pulled out. She subconsciously turned to Pei Xun, only to see Pei Xun nod to her, and she hurriedly opened the bundle.

I saw some silver and a dagger suddenly appeared inside. Jiang Youzhi pulled out the dagger and saw the blood stains on the hilt.

She hurried outside, followed the bright light, and carefully observed the blood on the hilt of the sword. Suddenly, her eyes narrowed sharply, and she said to everyone: "Come and see, this is a bloody handprint!"

After everyone saw it, they all understood, it seems that this short sword is very likely to be the murder weapon used by the murderer, but what happened to the silver in it?

Pei Xun said at this time: "We have to go to the county government again to hear what Uncle Pang Jiu said."

On the second day, when the trial began, the three of them disguised themselves again and mingled among the people outside the yamen, watching the county magistrate's trial of Uncle Pang's case together.

In the courtroom, Uncle Pang Jiu was escorted to the courtroom by several jailers, but when he was taken away yesterday, he was still in good condition, and when he entered the courtroom, he was wounded and dying!
(End of this chapter)