Demon detective

Chapter 79 Missing
Whoosh, whoosh...

County magistrate Song Zhili dragged his exhausted body, panting heavily, and ran to the South Prison together with Shen Mingchen, his father and daughter, and Cheng Xiao.

According to the jailer's opinion, Xu Zhen had been interrogating the monk in the prison for more than half an hour.

Song Zhili hurriedly asked Xu Zhen what he was interrogating, but the jailer kept shaking his head, saying that Xu Zhen was interrogating alone, and no one knew the specific situation.

In Song Zhili's annoyance, curiosity, excitement, and hope arose again. How much he hoped that Xu Zhen could find out the whereabouts of his son and daughter...

Several people rushed to the gate of the yamen, just in time to run into the county magistrate Chen Houlu who also hurried over.

In the past few days, Chen Houlu's main task was to keep the two high officials stable, and to accompany them every day, so as to serve them well.

Now, he has also received a notice from Xu Zhen, asking him to come to the Nanjian Prison as soon as possible.

Therefore, Chen Houlu was more confused than Song Zhili and others, wondering what happened?

So, several people quickened their pace and finally came to the cell where the monk Qi Yunzheng was being held.

Since he was a repeat offender, he was naturally locked in a repeat offender cell with iron doors.

I went in and took a look, but saw that Qi Yunzheng's face was flushed from holding back, his eyeballs turned red, and he looked extremely excited.

Xu Zhen, holding three blood confessions, sat extremely calmly on the opposite interrogation chair, completely opposite to the monk.

Seeing that the inviter had arrived, Xu Zhen slowly got up and greeted everyone.

"Xu Zhen!"

"Xu Zhen?"

"Brother Xu..."

Everyone didn't know what to say, so they could only shout Xu Zhen's name in unison.

"This..." Song Zhili took a quick look at the monk, and then asked Xu Zhen anxiously, "What's going on here?"

"Xiaoyu," Xu Zhen snapped his fingers at Shen Yu, and simply said two words, "Close the door!"

"Okay!" Shen Yu answered like a silver bell, and slammed the iron door of the cell.

Because of too much force, dust fell from the roof, and the injured people waved their hands repeatedly, shrinking their necks.

"Master Song," Xu Zhen said steadily, "The question came out! This monk indeed has something to hide from us, and he is finally willing to say it. Listen!"

"Ah?" Song Zhili was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Hurry up, you have Wen and Rong..."

"No..." Xu Zhen hurriedly stopped, "Master Song, it's not this matter, it's... something else! It's also a very important matter."

"Oh?" Song Zhili was immediately disappointed, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I felt strange early in the morning," Xu Zhen said, "Since he has mastered the confession letter of County Magistrate Tong and others, and kidnapped your children, it seems that he wants to seek justice for his elder brother, so it seems that he can't take the initiative to surrender himself to the Yamen. ?”

"This..." Song Zhili's mind was already numb, and he couldn't understand Xu Zhen's meaning for a moment.

"But..." Chen Houlu could understand, and said, "Didn't he want to die together?"

"No," Xu Zhen picked up the confession and said, "Comparing the three confessions, is the county magistrate Tong's confession more neat?"

Everyone saw that it was indeed the case. Although the other two copies were well written, they lacked strength, as if they were affected by the environment when they were written.

However, County Magistrate Tong's confession was written vigorously and neatly.

"This shows that County Magistrate Tong's confession was transcribed later," Xu Zhen said, "Although it was transcribed, there were still alterations on it, so I suspect that Qi Yunzheng did not write down all the confessions of County Magistrate Tong. It must have left some important information."

"Important information?" Chen Houlu asked, "Do you mean that County Magistrate Tong broke the body of the second sister of the Qi family and threatened Qi Dalang with their lives?"

"No," Xu Zhen said, pointing to the blood book, "There should be a word 'one' in the crossed-out word, and what is not written on it should be a piece of information about the beginning of the word one."

"..."

Everyone frowned.

Song Zhili couldn't bear it any longer, and shouted impatiently: "Xu Zhen, don't be fooled, tell me quickly, what exactly did you find?"

"Qi Yunzheng," Xu Zhen pointed at the monk, "in that case, let him speak for himself!"

As soon as this remark came out, the scene was suddenly quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on the monk.

"Hmph, hum..." The monk snorted ferociously, his face was redder than before, he glanced around the crowd, and then stared at Xu Zhen fiercely and said, "I didn't expect that your Yanping county government really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, if there were such a person back then, my elder brother would not have been wronged and killed!"

"Thank you." Xu Zhen replied lightly.

"Okay, okay," Qi Yunzheng said, "Originally, my plan was to wait until the last moment to remind you, since this little policeman has seen through it quickly, I should say it in advance!

"I came to the yamen for a purpose. I must tell you the missing link in Tong County Magistrate's confession!"

what?
Everyone's eyes were wide open, and their curiosity had reached its peak.

"The word '一' was written incorrectly, followed by 'one month later'," Qi Yunzheng finally said the answer, "Magistrate Tong told me that one month after my elder brother was unjustly imprisoned, Yanping County... In the garbage dump in the alley behind Jiaofangsi, there appeared another disfigured—female corpse!!!”

The monk gritted his teeth for the last two words, which made everyone's heart beat faster.

And just after the words came out, Cheng Xiao gave a shiver in response, and cold sweat broke out on his face...

Although he was behind the crowd and no one noticed his abnormal reaction, the monk's next words shattered his luck.

"Cheng Butou, how long do you want to pretend to be deaf and dumb?" Qi Yunzheng shouted heavily, "As the person involved, don't you want to tell everyone?"

"I..." Cheng Xiao turned pale with shock, his legs felt weak, and he backed away again and again.

"what!?"

This time, everyone's eyes turned to Cheng Xiao again.

Song Zhili's eyes widened in disbelief. Although his brain was not enough, he still realized that there was something wrong with Cheng Xiao.

"Cheng Xiao..." he asked quickly, "What's going on? You...you know?"

"Don't...don't listen to him," Cheng Xiao had no choice but to bite the bullet and deny, "He's talking nonsense, don't listen to him!"

"Okay?" However, Xu Zhen extinguished Cheng Xiao's stubborn resistance with just one sentence, "Since the monk is talking nonsense, then let's ask County Magistrate Tong if he is okay? Don't forget that he still has one eye that can be used." , we can write it out and see if he nods or shakes his head, okay?"

"This... I... oh..." Cheng Xiao was speechless, and beads of sweat rolled down his cheeks, like washing with water.

"What?" Qi Yunzheng was taken aback, "That old thief... isn't dead?"

"Cheng Xiao!!!" Song Zhili finally saw the problem, and immediately flew into a rage, shouting at Cheng Xiao, "Tell me, what's going on? If you don't say anything, don't blame me for being rude!"

Seeing that Song Zhili wanted to wave to the jailer outside, Cheng Xiao's psychological defense completely collapsed, and immediately knelt down with a plop, and argued loudly:
"Lord Song, I can't be completely blamed! At that time, Chen Tiefeng and I were just mere policemen. We dare not not listen to Tong County Magistrate, dare not not listen..."

"What?" Song Zhili's eyes widened, "And Chen Tiefeng?"

……

(End of this chapter)