Demon detective

Chapter 6 Weird

Yanping County Government.

inner hall.

County magistrate Song Zhili paced back and forth, very anxious.

"My lord," Cheng Xiao, the head catcher, bowed and reported, "I have asked clearly. The old man's surname is Li. During his detention, only Mr. Gao, the secretary, went in to write the certificate. After he finished writing, no one went in again." Pass."

With that said, he presented the pleadings.

Song Zhili took the pleading paper and checked it quickly, but his brows became more and more wrinkled.

"Also," Cheng Xiao said again, "Wu Zuo has experienced corpses, and he died of poisoning. Because no trauma was found, it is suspected that he took poison!"

"Take poison? How could this happen?" County Magistrate Song wiped the sweat from his forehead, pondering, "Only Mr. Gao has been in there, could it be..."

Speaking of this, he shook his head again and again, because Mr. Gao was only the clerk in charge of writing the pleading, he had no grievances with the old man, how could he poison others?

Besides, Mr. Gao is old, how can he force the old man to take poison?

"It should have nothing to do with Mr. Gao," Cheng Xiao analyzed, "The jailer confirmed that after Mr. Gao left for an hour, Old Man Li asked the jailer about the time, indicating that he was still alive at that time."

"Oh..." County Magistrate Song frowned, "Then...could it be that old man Li committed suicide by taking poison? He brought the poison himself?"

After asking, the two were silent for a while, then shook their heads at the same time.

Because logically speaking, the old man is suing for his daughter, the lawsuit has not yet been filed, and there is no reason to commit suicide at all.

"This is troublesome..." County Magistrate Song actually came up with a suitable allegorical remark, "Yellow mud fell into the crotch—it was either shit or shit! Once the news spread, people would think that our yamen and Qiu Batian were in collusion. To kill someone for him, alas...how can this be done?"

"My lord," Cheng Xiao said with a solemn expression, "This matter is very strange. If old man Li didn't commit suicide, it means that our yamen is not clean!"

In a word, County Magistrate Song was even more frightened.

"This Qiu Batian is too scary!" He guessed in horror, "Everyone in our yamen has been bribed by him? What exactly does he want to do? Demonstrate against us?"

"This..." Cheng Xiao naturally couldn't give an answer.

"No..." County Magistrate Song thought for a few seconds, and hurriedly said to Cheng Xiao, "We have to block the news as soon as possible, so that the news that Old Man Li died in the Yamen cannot spread.

"By the way, isn't Old Man Li's daughter not in the yamen? Send someone to bring her here quickly..."

"no need!"

Unexpectedly, before Cheng Xiao had promised, Xu Zhen's voice suddenly came from the door.

"Master Song," Xu Zhen stepped into the inner hall, and saluted Song County Magistrate, "I just went to Old Man Li's house, his house caught fire, and Old Man Li's daughter was burned to death!"

"what!!?"

The two turned pale in shock, County Magistrate Song sat down on the grand teacher's chair.

"Xu Zhen." After being shocked, County Magistrate Song remembered something, straightened his back and asked, "Why did you go to Old Man Li's house?"

"I saw the old man died in the prison of the county government. I was worried that his daughter would be silenced, so I rushed there. It's a pity..." Xu Zhen shook his head helplessly, "It's still a step too late..."

Next, Xu Zhen recounted what happened at Old Man Li's house.

"It's so..." County Magistrate Song was startled, clutching the armrest tightly, and muttering in a low voice, "This method...is too cruel and vicious!"

Xu Zhen saw that County Magistrate Song still believed that all this was done by Qiu Batian.

Who knows, County Magistrate Song thought of something after he muttered, and suddenly looked at Xu Zhen and said, "You still have the intention to go to the old man's house...you are still thinking about his daughter..."

Snapped!
Suddenly, County Magistrate Song's expression changed, he patted the handrail and shouted angrily:
"Xu Zhen, look at what you've done! I told you to summon Qiu Batian, you...how did you knock him out? Who told you to do this?"

"Ah?" Xu Zhen was taken aback for a moment, and then looked at Cheng Xiao innocently, "Didn't Butou Cheng say that you would blame him if you couldn't bring Qiu Batian? He also told me that if Qiu Batian dared to disobey, Just let me arrest him!"

"Bastard!" Cheng Xiao was furious, and quickly clarified, "Then... that's what Chen Tiefeng said!"

After speaking, he realized that his clarification was tantamount to discrediting.

"No, no, no, my lord," he hurriedly argued to County Magistrate Song, "That's not the case, I just asked Xu Zhen to summon Qiu Batian, but I didn't expect him to be so reckless!
"Xu Zhen, you..." Cheng Xiao grinned his teeth angrily, "Look at how much trouble you have caused your lord?

"My lord," he turned to County Magistrate Song again, and began to complain, "Xu Zhen is good at making claims and caused a lot of trouble for the yamen. Please dismiss him immediately! Otherwise, Qiu Batian will definitely not let it go!"

Hearing this, Song Zhili narrowed his eyes, and had already understood what Cheng Xiao meant.

In their view, this case was all done by Qiu Batian.

However, Xu Zhen knocked out such an irresistible demon king and brought him back to the Yamen. The consequences were obviously very serious.

As long as Qiu Batian makes a small report with his uncle who is the servant of the official department, his future will be very worrying.

Now, only by dismissing Xu Zhen can it be possible to shirk responsibility, which will facilitate his follow-up operations.

Besides, if Xu Zhen is not fired, Xu Zhen will always represent the Yamen. Once Qiu Batian pursues it, the Yamen will be implicated.

Ok……

Having made up his mind, County Magistrate Song nodded heavily, with a gloomy light in his eyes, and said to Xu Zhen:

"Xu Zhen, it seems that you are indeed not suitable to be a police officer. From now on - you will be dismissed!"

Hearing this decision, Cheng Xiao sneered in satisfaction.

However, when he looked at Xu Zhen, he found that Xu Zhen also had a sneer on his face.

"Xu Zhen, did you hear your lord's words?" Cheng Xiao pointed at the door, "Go away!?"

"Master Song," however, Xu Zhen ignored Cheng Xiao, but cupped his fists at Song Zhili and said steadily, "If there is such a possibility, I brought Qiu Batian to the Yamen forcibly, but it was for your own good. Woolen cloth?"

"What?" Xu Zhen's words immediately caught Song Zhili's attention, "What do you mean?"

"Master Song," Xu Zhen asked again, "I don't know, have you ever thought about it, the matter of old man Li's father and daughter was not done by Qiu Batian?"

"What?" Song Zhili opened his mouth wide, "It wasn't Qiu Batian who did it? How could it be?"

"Xu Zhen," Cheng Xiao retorted, "What nonsense are you talking about, who else could it be if it wasn't Qiu Batian? Could it be... the old man Li still can't make a false accusation?"

"That's right, old man Li's daughter was indeed abandoned naked in the market this morning, and some people recognized that the carriage belonged to Qiu Batian.

"Also," Song Zhili pointed at the paper, "it's clearly written on it. According to his daughter's confession, his daughter recognized that the person who took her away, raped her, and abandoned her in the downtown area was Qiu Batian and his subordinates. Could it be that Can this be fake?"

"My lord," Xu Zhen objected, "These are just one-sided claims. From the beginning to the end, we have not been confirmed by Qiu Batian."

"Joke," Cheng Xiao sneered, "You don't think naively that Qiu Batian can admit it, do you?"

"No, that's not what I meant," Xu Zhen said, "According to my judgment, Qiu Batian probably didn't know anything about Ailian."

"Oh?" Song Zhili was surprised, and asked with frowned, "What is the basis?"

"Before I knocked Qiu Batian unconscious today, I saw two young women who were brutally raped in his carriage," Xu Zhen said, "So, after I left Old Man Li's house just now, I purposely found them."

Hearing this, Song Zhili and Cheng Xiao were both puzzled. They didn't understand what these two women had to do with the case.
"These two are new singing girls from the Jiaofang Division," Xu Zhen explained, "They were forcibly brought back to Zuixianju by Qiu Batian last night, and they accompanied Qiu Batian all night!"

"Ah?" Song Zhili couldn't help but said, "You mean... last night?"

"Yes," Xu Zhen said, "According to what the two of them said, Qiu Batian brutally humiliated and tortured them for a whole night!"

When speaking, Xu really gritted his teeth, because those two poor singing girls were only 16 years old.

"You mean..." County Magistrate Song didn't pay attention to this, but said comprehendingly, "Qiu Batian was with these two women last night, so the old man's daughter..."

"My lord," Cheng Xiao said hastily, "Qiu Ba is naturally surly and strong, and spending the night with a singing girl doesn't seem to affect his violence against old man Li's daughter, right?"

"When I summoned Qiu Batian, I deliberately told about Old Man Li's complaint, but the reactions of Qiu Batian and others were all very unexpected, and they didn't seem to know." Xu Zhen continued his analysis, "Furthermore, he Since he had already planned to kill him, why did he have to wait until Old Man Li came to the Yamen to file a complaint, and why did he have to be poisoned in the Yamen prison?

"Also, even if you kill someone, but first throw the old man's daughter naked into the market, and then kill her and set her on fire, isn't that superfluous? Is it too ostentatious?

"My lord, don't you think this case is strange?"

"This..." In fact, County Magistrate Song also felt that this case was a bit unreasonable before, but now that he heard Xu Zhen's analysis, he was more certain of his previous judgment.

"Wait..." However, Cheng Xiao glared at Xu Zhen and said, "Xu Zhen, according to what you said, then old man Li deliberately framed Qiu Batian? Don't you think that with his daughter's innocence and his own life? Is it ridiculous?"

"Really?" Xu Zhen said coldly, "Then what if... old man Li and his daughter were also used by others?"

what?
As soon as this remark came out, the scene fell silent again.

"Abandoning the market naked, killing people to silence..." Xu Zhen said heavily, "The case is so ostentatious, if it is not framed, it might be fine, but if it is really framed deliberately, my lord..." He looked at Song Zhili, "Then the truth behind this The background of the person - but not small!"

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(End of this chapter)