Demon detective

Chapter 43 Witness
"Who?" Sima Xin frowned and asked repeatedly, "Who are you?"

"The old man was the former housekeeper of the Qiu Mansion," said the old man, "I am very clear about the affairs of the Qiu Mansion at that time!"

When he was speaking, he purposely glanced at Qiu Batian, with sternness and resentment in his eyes.

"what……"

Qiu Batian was startled again, his body trembled involuntarily.

It seemed that he never dreamed that this person would appear here.

"You just said..." Sima Xin narrowed his eyes and asked cautiously, "Are you... a witness? What witness?"

"My lord," Steward Qiu said, cupping his fists, "Ten years ago, I witnessed the whole process of Qiu Batian's murder of five members of Pan Longshan's family. I am the witness!"

what! ?

Hearing this remark, there was another sound of astonishment at the scene.

"Impossible!" Qiu Batian quickly retorted, "Impossible, at that time, your legs have already been broken by me, you..."

"Shut up!" Sima Xin was so furious that he picked up the gavel and threw it directly on Qiu Batian's face.

Snapped!
As expected of Sima Xin's background in the army, his strength and accuracy were all in place, and he immediately beat Qiu Batian until his face was covered with flowers and his nose was bleeding.

"Slap me, slap me!" Sima Xin shouted loudly, "Slap him twenty times first! Quick!"

Give the order, and immediately an officer stepped forward and slapped Qiu Batian loudly.

clap clap clap...

The sound is crisp and clear, and you can hear the feeling of blood spitting out.

What a bad thing!
Sima Xin cursed in his heart, what you said just now clearly admitted that you are a murderer!

"Back then," Steward Qiu continued, "when Mrs. Qiu was alive, he could still control Qiu Zhennong, but once Mrs. Qiu left, no one could control this prodigal son anymore!
"Proud and extravagant, promiscuous, causing trouble, old Mrs. Qiu has almost lost all of his accumulated wealth!
"In order to make up for the shortfall, he actually hired a bunch of hooligans to rob houses, bully the neighbors, do evil things, and do bad things!

"Young Master Pan is right," he said emphatically, "Seeing the booming business in Zuixianju, Qiu Zhennong used the most despicable means to forcibly occupy it and drove the Pan family out of Yanping County.

"However, he didn't know where he heard that Pan Longshan had a lot of connections in the capital, and he was going there to file a complaint against him. So, he went on and on and sent people to kill Pan Longshan's family.

"I heard the news, on the one hand, I didn't want to see Pan Longshan's family ruined, and on the other hand, I didn't want Qiu Zhennong to commit too many crimes, so I notified Pan Longshan in advance and told him to take the path instead.

"How can I imagine that at that time, Qiu Zhennong was already suspicious of me, and had already sent someone to spy on me.

"When I found the watcher, I realized that something was wrong, so I rushed to the path again, but this time it was too late.

"When I arrived," Steward Qiu pointed at Qiu Batian excitedly with trembling lips, "I happened to see Qiu Batian and a few killers had killed Pan Longshan's family, the scene was too horrible to see!
"At that moment, I was also terrified!" Qiu Steward said, "When they didn't find me, I quickly fled back to the Qiu Mansion. I knew I couldn't stay there anymore, so I packed my luggage overnight and prepared to escape.

"But I didn't expect Qiu Batian to come back so fast. In the end... I still couldn't escape his clutches..." He pointed to his disabled legs, "Just like that, he broke my legs , Drive me out of Qiu's house.

"Fortunately, he didn't know at the time that I witnessed the whole process of their murder, otherwise, it would not have just broken my legs..."

As he said that, he gave Qiu Batian a hard look, and said angrily, "Is that right? Master Qiu?"

At this moment, Qiu Batian had already been beaten until his face was covered with flowers, swollen like a pig's head, how could he speak?He could only shake his head in denial.

But after listening to Steward Qiu's narration, the scene fell into a brief silence. Everyone was imagining the bloody killing in their minds, and the more they thought about it, the more shuddering they became.

"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

"Um……"

Sima Xin narrowed his eyes again, but this time there was a gloomy and cold light in his eyes.

"Old man," he thought for a while, and said, "It's really rare for you to stand up and identify Qiu Zhennong, but... isn't the timing of your stepping up a bit too coincidental?"

Ok?
Sima Xin's words immediately aroused people's vigilance, and they all looked over.

"Look," Sima Xin said again, "Ten years have passed, and you haven't thought about reporting to the police for ten years, why did you show up today when Pan Wending filed a complaint?

"If you say that the two of you didn't communicate beforehand, isn't it...not convincing?"

wow...

There was an uproar at the scene, and people talked a lot.

Sima Xin's words were indeed powerful enough, because from the beginning to the end, only Steward Qiu's testimony was not effective enough.

It would be even more unconvincing if he and Pan Wending conspired to confess.

People would only think that Butler Qiu's testimony was a lie.

"My lord," Steward Qiu said excitedly with his eyes wide open, "Qiu Zhennong is perverted, tyrannical, and powerful. How can I sue a disabled old beggar like me?

"I'm afraid he beat him to death and fed him to the dogs before he found the gate of the yamen.

"I heard that Qiu Zhennong was going to be tried today, so I rushed over to listen in. I didn't expect that I just came forward to testify when I heard you talking about the murder of Pan Longshan's family!
"I... I have been waiting for this opportunity for ten years!

"To be honest, I stand up, not only to complain for the tragic death of Pan Longshan's family, but also to seek justice for the two legs that were maimed!"

"That's right," Pan Wending quickly echoed, "The facts couldn't be clearer, please make up your mind for the common people!"

"Well," Sima Xin sighed, and said, "The official is not hiding the truth, I intend to avenge your grievances, but... there is only such a person's testimony, and it is a person who has a feud with Qiu Zhennong. How can this testimony be valid?"

"No, my lord," Steward Qiu said forcefully, puffing out his chest, "I can prove that my testimony is valid, because the ones who killed Pan Longshan's family back then were not only Qiu Zhennong but also several of his subordinates.

"These subordinates are Kuai Peng, Long Ersheng, Li Sanju, and Qiu Bin," he said, pointing to someone behind Qiu Batian, "here, this person is Kuai Peng, you can ask him ah!"

"Ah?" After hearing this, the person was frightened out of his wits and quickly shook his body to deny, "No, no, he's talking nonsense, without me, without me, oh no, oh...we didn't do it at all. pass..."

oops……

Sima Xin's face had turned eggplant-colored, and he cursed secretly, Qiu Batian, what kind of mentally retarded people are these?Not even admitting it to death.

However, even though he was angry in his heart, he had no choice but to come with a mission.

Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, Sima Xin raised his arm to slap the gavel, but found that the gavel was used to hit people before and was still thrown underneath.

He quickly winked at his subordinates, and said at the same time: "Okay, since that's the case, then this case can be tried! Come on..."

At this time, his subordinates had already picked up the gavel, Sima Xin quickly patted it hard, and said: "Put all the people involved in this case into the South Prison, and I will try them carefully to clarify the case!"

"Yes!"

The guards agreed, and immediately stepped forward to drag Pan Wending, Qiu Steward, Qiu Batian and others away.

"Hey? Isn't that right?" Pan Wending reacted quickly and shouted loudly, "My lord, the murderer is here. Don't you know everything at the first trial now? Why did you withdraw?"

"That's right!" Steward Qiu also realized that the situation was wrong, "As long as you interrogate Kuai Peng first, you will know whether I have lied or not. Why...why do you want to go to interrogation?"

"Bold!" Finally, Sima Xin bared his fox tail and scolded angrily, "I'm the presiding judge. Do you teach me how to judge a case?"

"Hey, what are you doing in a daze?" Seeing this, Cai Jin hurriedly waved at the guards, urging them to move faster.

"No, it can't be like this..." Pan Wending struggled and shouted loudly, "I protest, I demand to be interrogated in court, I can't retreat, woo woo woo..."

Unexpectedly, some people were afraid of Pan Wending's nonsense, so they blocked his mouth.

Butler Qiu was even worse. His skateboard was kicked away, and he was dragged out of the hall like a dead dog. The old man also wanted to protest, but someone punched him and knocked him unconscious...

"slow!"

Unexpectedly, when the two were about to be dragged out of the court, another person stood up from the crowd.

"The case is not finished, so I can't leave the court!" The man's chest heaved violently, and he shouted with great excitement, "Come on, leave the relevant criminals to me, and I want to go to the trial in court!!!"

what?
what?
Everyone hurriedly looked at it and couldn't help being shocked, but it was none other than the magistrate of Yanping County——Song Zhili who said this! ! !

……

　Happy New Year, good luck, Lao Kuang wishes all the money owners to make a lot of money and make a fortune every day! ! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)