Dongli drinks wine after dusk

Chapter 27
Before there is no conclusive evidence, Jiang Wenyuan does not want to be sentenced to death.

The six lives require witnesses, material evidence, and oral confessions to make a solid case.Otherwise, in case Erniu can't survive the punishment, now in order to save the pain of flesh and blood, he confessed.It would be too passive for him to retract his confession after the case was submitted for criminal review.

So Jiang Wenyuan held back his anger and ordered Li Erniu to be taken down first, while he went home upset.

Take a comfortable bath, sit around and feed the whole family, and the depression in my heart will be relieved.

Jiang Chengfu endured it very hard. Just now he caught a glimpse of his father's complexion, and felt sorry for him for working hard all day long, so that he could have a good meal, and he never said anything about Qiu Tong.

Now, everyone stopped drinking tea.Only then did Jiang Chengfu tell the story of how they went to Guanyuelou for an appointment last night and saw Qiutong and Guo Xiaoni look very similar.

"Oh?" Jiang Wenyuan raised his eyebrows.

This is strange, he didn't know that people who were supposed to be in prison were able to perform on stage.

The low-level official has a meager salary, and his life is difficult to sustain. He is not a clean-spirited person. Within a certain range, these people eat and drink. As long as it is not too much, he always closes his eyes. no fish.

But what should be done and what should not be done, he has been transferred to Anqing Mansion for several years, and these petty officials still can't see through, so don't blame him for not giving face.

"Daddy, do you still remember the scene in Qiu Tong's room when Xiao Ji died?" Jiang Jiuying changed her father to a bayberry drink. She never advocated drinking tea immediately after a meal.

He did it himself, so he naturally remembered, and nodded upon hearing that.

"Except for a window that is too high from the ground, the entire crime scene is a secret room. How did the murderer get in and out, can my father understand it through research?"

"I didn't know it. I was thinking of waiting for the murderer to be caught, and the truth will come out." It's a pity that Er Niu dies like a duck and refuses to speak.

"Father ever suspected Qiu Tong?"

"I did have doubts." Otherwise, Jiang Wenyuan would not have taken Qiu Tong into custody first.In fact, if there was not another case later, and Qiu Tong had never left Guanyue Tower, obviously there was no time to commit the crime, they would really think that she was the murderer of Xiao Ji.

"Father always believed that these five cases and six lives were all committed by one person?"

"Isn't it?" Wu Zuo's conclusions were the same, the injuries on the six deceased were all caused by the same dagger, such a strange dagger, Fan also said that there is no second one in the world.

"I think if I want to kill someone, I will definitely choose a murder weapon that is not easy to find. The kitchen knife and chopping knife at home are common and easy to find, isn't it good? Why do I have to use such a weapon? If I find it, it will cause trouble the murder weapon?"

"unless."

Unless the murderer is not one person, but uses the same murder weapon, relying on the connection of the murder weapon to mislead everyone, making people think that the murderer is only one person.

The purpose is nothing more than to create an alibi so that he can be perfectly exonerated!
Qiutong's actions are not free, so she must not have been responsible for the cases in Suzhou and Hexi.It is impossible for Li Erniu to avoid everyone's eyes and ears, enter Qiu Tong's room and kill Xiao Ji.

But in common people's cognition, as long as there is no time to commit a crime, then the murderer of the serial murder case cannot be him!
"So, does Ying'er suspect that Qiutong and Li Erniu cooperated in killing people?" Jiang Wenyuan asked.

Jiang Jiuying nodded.

But what about motivation?
If Li Erniu killed those three people to vent his anger on Guo Xiaoni, but he had no conflict with Xiao Ren, why did Qiu Tong kill Xiao Ji?Xiao Ji has flaws, but he has no bad deeds. He is a wealthy and idle person who does not show himself, and is not enough to cause a murderous disaster.

"Qiutong's origin is easy to find out. I will send someone to Guanyue Tower tomorrow to look at her deed list. I can always find out a thing or two. The most urgent task now is to find out the relationship between her and Guo Xiaoni. Guo Erxi's family must Knowingly."

"Put Qiutong and Guo Xiaoni under custody first, lest word of Li Erniu's arrest spread, and they run away again!"

Seeing that it was getting late at night, Jiang Wenyuan sent the children to sleep, and rested with Ning Shi, only then did he realize that there was nothing wrong with discussing the case with his daughter?
The next morning.

The door of Guo Erxi's house was smashed open again, and the servant who came back this time was not so polite.Deng Ling'an's kind smile disappeared, his face was darkened, and he let the yamen servant turn Guo Erxi's house upside down, the old couple were so frightened that they sat on the ground, begging for mercy.

Apart from spending the remaining twenty taels of silver, the Guo family had nothing worthy of attention, especially the old things of the Cao family, which made Deng Ling'an heave a sigh of relief.

Compared with Jiang Tongpan, who has only been here for a few years, Deng Canjun has been an official in Anqing Mansion all his life. If Cao's family really slipped through the net, they might be more implicated, so they copied Guo Erxi's house. , he is serious.

"Tell me." Deng Ling'an picked up a chair and sat down in front of Guo Erxi.

"Guy, what are you talking about? My Xiaoni is really voluntary." Guo Erxi is a coward. At this time, she has peed her pants, trembling, and can't say a word. It's still Wang's audacity, staring at Deng Ling'an's hand The money bag, which was constantly thrown up and down, answered his words.

"Are you pretending to be confused with me here? It seems that you can't learn to speak honestly if you don't suffer from flesh and blood! Come on! Hit me!"

The yamen servants didn't bring boards when they came, and the few who were close to him surrounded him tacitly, and punched Guo Erxi hard, causing his face to be dyed immediately.

The county magistrate Miemenfu Yin was not joking, it was because Deng Ling'an didn't want to hurt anyone, and just wanted to ask for a confession.

"My lord, please spare me! What do you want us to say, we say, we all say!"

"Guo Xiaoni, do you still have a sister? Where did you sell her?"

"You are wronged! My lord! We really don't know about this!" When Wang Shi heard that Deng Ling'an mentioned Guo Xiaoni again, her face changed slightly. Wolves, they worked so hard to raise them up, but they brought disasters to the family instead!

Seeing that the yamen servants were threatening to beat their bosses, Wang hurriedly recruited: "My lord, that little girl is not my own, but our bosses picked it up from the back mountain!"

Guo Xiaoni's childhood wish was half fulfilled. The family that has been abusing her for so many years really has no blood relationship with her.

Wang muttered over and over again: "It's wrong, it's all my fault. Back then, I shouldn't have been greedy for petty gains and brought her home. I didn't expect that I would raise her for a while. When I arrived, I would cause trouble. Great disaster."

She is now feeling regretful, very regretful.

"Hurry up and tell the truth!" Deng Ling'an was upset when he heard that, he kicked over and kicked Wang somersault. The latter held his chest, and confessed the unknown past more than ten years ago with snot and tears.

(End of this chapter)