Demon detective

Chapter 31
The next day, Xu Zhen was even busier, running around the county all day, continuing to collect information about Qiu Batian through various means.

This Qiu Batian is indeed a perverted bully. In Yanping County, he robs men and women, bullies the villagers, and does all sorts of bad things.

Moreover, this person is violent and has a perverse personality. There is no need for a reason to bully others. As long as he is in a bad mood, he must vent his anger.

That day, the two Jiaofangsi girls who Xu Zhen saw in the carriage who were ravaged and tortured were just Qiu Batian's normal state.

Although what happened to Ailian was indeed not what he did, but the bad things he did were not much different.

In order to obtain more information, Xu Zhen went out of his way to find the old housekeeper whose leg was broken by Qiu Batian.

The old butler has long since become a beggar, living in a thatched hut at the foot of the south wall of the city, lonely and helpless, very pitiful.

Although the old butler is old and his mind is a little confused, he still remembers Qiu Batian's affairs freshly, and he will never forget it for the rest of his life.

He told Xu Zhen that the reason why his legs were discounted by Qiu Batian was because Qiu Batian insisted on killing the original owner's family after he forcibly occupied the Zuixianju restaurant.

I couldn't bear it, and quietly let the boss's family go, which aroused Qiu Batian's wrath, broke his legs, and expelled Qiu's family.

Hearing what the old housekeeper said, Xu Zhen instantly understood many things.

Firstly, Zuixianju was not created by Qiu Batian, but occupied by force, and the same is true of several other restaurants.

Secondly, what happened to this old housekeeper was very similar to that of the young policeman Xu Zhen. It was because of his soft heart that he saved people that he caused disasters.

Next, Xu Zhen asked the old housekeeper many things, and the old housekeeper knew all the answers, and told Xu Zhen without reservation.

Anyway, he is already an old beggar who is dying and no one cares about him, so he is not afraid of Qiu Batian's revenge.

Unexpectedly, Xu Zhen got a very crucial piece of information from the old housekeeper as he listened.

Because of this piece of information, he felt more and more that the case of old man Li and his daughter was wrong. It seemed that there was a huge conspiracy hidden behind the known facts of the case...

After that, Xu Zhen became even busier. First, he went to the Jinxiu Study to talk to his second cousin, and then went to the Xuanwu Academy to learn about the situation.

Xuanwu Academy is the best academy in Yanping County. It has produced many Jinshi candidates and is very famous in the entire Daguan County.

Therefore, many scholars from other counties came here especially and spent a lot of money to study here.

Xuanwu Academy and Jinxiu Study are separated by a wall, handsome men on the east side of the wall, beautiful women on the west side of the wall, as the so-called opposite sex attracts, naturally there are often interactions.

The absolution that Xu Zhen met yesterday was made by a certain scholar specially for the beautiful girls. His purpose was to take advantage of the opportunity to embarrass the beautiful girls and increase his attention.

Unexpectedly, this pair was matched by Xu Zhen by accident.

Today, it happened that Xu Zhen's second couplet had been circulated in Xuanwu College, and scholars were all discussing it.

It's just that they don't know yet that the person who can face such an absolute person is actually this little catcher in front of them.

It's a pity that Xu Zhen had a good chance to pretend to be aggressive, but he came to Xuanwu Academy this time to do business. With his identity as a police officer, he quickly found useful information.

Next, Xu Zhen rented a carriage again, and went to a posthouse in the suburbs with his second cousin...

It was getting late, Xu Zhen finally got everything done, and then returned to the county government to report.

As soon as he entered the county yamen, he felt that something was wrong. The whole yamen was filled with a rare murderous aura.

When they entered the arresting room, they saw a crowd of people, almost all the arresters were there, and their faces were extremely solemn.

"Senior Brother," came the voice of the tiger girl Shen Yu from the group of arresters, "You've come! Where have you been? Something happened, something happened!"

"What's the matter?" Xu Zhen looked around and found that two people were missing, and the captors Cheng Xiao and Chen Tiefeng were not present.

"You don't know yet, do you?" Shen Yu hurriedly pulled Xu Zhen aside, and said, "Brother Chen was beaten by Qiu Batian's group, and his legs were broken!"

"Ah?" Xu Zhen was surprised, "Which Brother Chen?"

"It's Chen Tiefeng!" Shen Yu replied, "I heard that Senior Brother Chen went to Jiaofang to investigate the case, but for some reason, he was beaten indiscriminately by a group of people, and I later found out that those were Qiu Batian's work." men.

"Oh, poor Senior Brother Chen, if only I had been taken with me at that time..."

Oh……

Xu Zhen frowned slightly, and he quickly realized that Chen Tiefeng's beating was probably related to him, because he had stolen Chen Tiefeng's name for several days.

I'm afraid, Qiu Batian also credited Chen Tiefeng for being splashed with cold water?
This Qiu Batian is really good enough, he actually dares to attack the arrester quickly.

"Oh, that's right!" Shen Yu thought of something and hurriedly reported to Xu Zhenhui, "Senior brother Xu, we have completed the task you gave me and Fu Bin, and we have persuaded more than a dozen people who are willing to testify in court Nah!"

"Oh? So many?" Xu Zhengang wanted to like it, but when he saw Fu Bin next to him with a face full of embarrassment, he immediately realized that Xiaoyu's words might be worthwhile.

"It's a pity..." Sure enough, Shen Yu added, "After I brought these people to the Yamen, Chief Cheng asked me to release them all."

"Why?" Xu Zhen was puzzled.

"Cheng Butou said, said... said..." Shen Yu was a little shy.

"Cheng Butou said," Fu Bin couldn't help it, and continued, "Only those who are persuaded..."

Fu Bin didn't dare to say the latter words.

But Xu Zhen already knew that it must be: "It doesn't count if you beat the convincing!"

Oh, what a cute tiger girl...

"Xu Zhen!"

At this moment, there was a loud shout from the door, which shocked the arresters in the house to stop their voices immediately.

Turning his head to look, he saw that it was the catcher Cheng Xiao who was yelling violently. He walked in angrily and came directly in front of Xu Zhen.

It looked like he was going to eat Xu Zhen.

And just behind Cheng Xiao, the county magistrate Song Zhili, and the county magistrate Chen Houlu also appeared one after another.

The two adults also had solemn expressions, with sullen expressions on their faces.

"Xu Zhen, what the hell are you doing?" Cheng Xiao asked, "I asked you to investigate the case, but you can't even find a person?"

Xu Zhen had expected this scene a long time ago, and immediately replied calmly: "Report to Chief Cheng, I'm just going to investigate the case?"

"Don't play tricks here," Cheng Xiao said angrily, "You encourage Shen Yu to arrest witnesses, what is An's heart, you know that those people can't testify in court, doesn't this just add to the chaos?"

"That's... that's it," Fu Bin moaned in a low voice, "We were trapped by him so badly that we were arrested for nothing for a day..."

"Xu Zhen," Cheng Xiao continued to question, "Didn't you say that it would take less than three days to solve the murder of old man Li? Now it's the second day, what exactly did you find?

Originally, Cheng Xiao felt that the beating of Chen Tiefeng might also be related to Xu Zhen, but there was no evidence, so he had to bring up the old matter again.

"Oh," Xu Zhen still replied with a serious face, "I'm here to return to my life, isn't it just to report this matter?"

"What?" Cheng Xiao narrowed his eyes, "Did you really find out the murderer? How did I hear that you didn't even go to the South Prison?""

"Hehe..." Xu Zhen smiled lightly, turned to Song Zhili, the county magistrate, and said, "Actually, when the elder gave me the order, I already knew who the murderer was! I also knew what method he used to kill Li. Killed by the old man."

"Oh?" Song Zhili wanted to keep his posture, but when he heard Xu Zhen's shocking words, he couldn't help asking, "Then why don't you tell me, who is the murderer?"

As a result, after asking, Song Zhili saw Xu Zhen's flickering eyes, and then realized that Xu Zhen wanted to take a step to speak.

It seems...

Song Zhili couldn't help frowning, because he already had a premonition that the truth about Old Man Li's murder might not be suitable for too many people to know...

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(End of this chapter)