Lady Wan Guan

Chapter 370 The golden cicada escapes from its shell
Master Yin looked at Gu Zhouding. Isn't this obvious? Jingwang has a strong motive to kill.

Jiang Wanning looked at this situation and Master Yin couldn't think of anything else to do.

"Mr. Gu, can I ask a few questions?"

Gu Zhou paused and muttered: "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has ordered the county master to assist in the investigation, the county master can naturally ask, Mr. Yin, what do you think?"

How dare Mr. Yin say no: "County Lord, just ask."

Jiang Wanning said: "The fire started in the main wing. Normally, the master should call for help. The rest of the people were staying in the east and west wings. Why didn't anyone hear it? Jingwang, you said you were so hungry that you couldn't sleep well. Did you ever hear the master? Call for help?"

Qin Siyue thought for a while: "I never heard it."

"Where are you, Jing Xin?"

"Never, I always sleep deeply."

"Then when the smoke rises, why can't anyone else smell it? Is it possible that not one of the dozen or so people can smell it? Except for Jingwang."

Jing Xin was silent for a moment and said: "It was a little strange last night. During the evening class, several people started to feel sleepy. Everyone returned to the room and fell asleep."

"What did you eat last night?"

"It's just the usual vegetarian dishes with rice porridge."

"Jing Xin, are you sleepy too?"

"I feel sleepy. My eyelids are heavy and my head is heavy. I have never been so sleepy. I don't know anything as soon as I lie down."

"Who's cooking?"

"Pure clarity and pure enlightenment."

"Where is Jingwan while cooking?"

"Jingwang was washing clothes by the well, but Jingchen wouldn't let her eat, saying she couldn't sleep until her clothes were washed."

Jiang Wanning said: "According to Jingxin's description, the food they ate last night was drugged with sweat medicine, so the master's wife fell asleep very deeply and didn't know there was a fire. When she was surrounded by the fire, she was afraid to call for help. It was too late. But the others couldn't wake up at all. Only Jing Wang, who hadn't eaten, escaped in time. "

"The county magistrate's analysis is reasonable. The person who drugged must be the one who set the fire. But the problem is that except for Jingwang and Jingxin who was rescued by Jingwang from a coma, everyone else is dead. It is impossible for the murderer to set fire to himself. Right?" Lord Yin said, so Jingwang is the most suspicious.

An almost undetectable sneer appeared at the corner of Jiang Wan Ning's lips. Does Mr. Yin rely on inference of guilt to resolve the case?
"Jing Xin, let me ask you, has Jing Wang ever left the nunnery?"

Jingxin shook his head.

"Does she have any familiar pilgrims?"

Jingxin shook her head again: "Jingwang works every day, from morning to night, or she is locked up in the woodshed. It is not her turn to receive pilgrims."

Yu Qing secretly clenched his fists, it turned out that Si Yue lived like this.

"Then who has been out of the nunnery recently, or someone came to visit."

Jingxin thought for a while: "Jingting went down the mountain a few days ago, and no one else went out. Oh, by the way, I remembered that a pilgrim came to offer incense yesterday. Jingting's receptionist said that the pilgrim was unwell, Jingting I’ll go to the incense room with you to rest, but I don’t know whether to leave or not.”

Just as he was talking, the official came to report: "Sir, there is an old woman outside who came to report to the official, saying that her daughter-in-law went to Fahua Nunnery yesterday to offer incense and did not return all night. Today she heard that there was a fire at Fahua Nunnery last night. She suspected that her daughter-in-law was there. Lotus Temple.”

Isn’t this right?
The appearance of her daughter-in-law described by the old woman was the same as the one Jingxin saw.

"Ye Chong, during the investigation, did any corpses be found in Xiangfang?"

"Back to the county master, no corpses were found in the incense room. There were seven charred corpses in the east chamber, six charred corpses in the west chamber, and no corpses were found anywhere else."

Jiang Wanning asked again: "Jingxin, Jingwang, please tell me carefully about Jingting's situation."

"Jingting is the person in charge of accounting in the nunnery and is the most trusted person by Master Tai. There are rumors that Master Tai intends to make Jingting the next host. Jingting's family is in Liujiacun near Fahua Nunnery. Her brother almost always I’ve been visiting her every month, and once I heard her arguing with her brother about money,” Jingxin said.

Jiang Wanning immediately said: "Master Yin, please arrest Jingting's family immediately. If nothing unexpected happens, Jingting is the real culprit of this fire."

Master Yin looked at Gu Zhouting's intentions again.

Gu Zhou stopped and nodded. Master Yin immediately ordered his men to go get the person.

Jiang Wanning warned: "By the way, ask the nearby villagers about the situation of Jingting's family."

Lord Yin temporarily withdrew, and the three of them went to the meeting hall to talk.

"County Lord, why do you say Jingting is the real culprit, but hasn't she already been burned to death?"

Jiang Wan Ning smiled secretly: "The one who was burned to death instead of Jing Ting was the old woman's daughter-in-law."

"What a move for the golden cicada to escape from its shell." Gu Zhou stopped and said.

"But, what reason does she have for doing this? The master is planning to let her be the next host." Master Yin questioned.

"Sir, Jingting is in charge of the accounts of Fahua Nunnery. Although Fahua Nunnery is not a popular nunnery, it is not bad. If Jingting is in urgent need of money, and she is in charge of the nunnery's incense money, what do you think? Will she misappropriate it? But these are just speculations. We will know when Jingting’s family comes.”

Gu Zhou stopped and said: "If Jingwang and Jingxin both died in the fire last night, then Jingting's plan would be perfect. No one knows that Jingting is still alive, and the old woman's wife Zhao Xiu'e can only be treated as missing. , who knew she was left in Fahua Nunnery."

Therefore, it is said that God's calculations are not as good as those of humans. It is precisely because they treated Jingliang harshly and did not give him food to eat that he could not sleep and escaped the disaster.

Master Yin finally came back to his senses and felt ashamed when he thought about how sure he was that the murderer was Jingwang.

In fact, he also had the intention of finding a scapegoat. Who else is more suitable to be this scapegoat than Jingwang?

After waiting for about an hour, the Yamen brought the person back.

The official reported that Liu Liangzhu, Jingwang's brother, learned to do business and lost a lot of money. The principal was all borrowed. He was being called for debts every day. Last month, I heard that he had paid them back and no one came back to ask for them. debt.

The three of them knew very well that the money was probably coming from Jingting.

He went to court again for questioning.

"Liu Liangzhu, how much debt do you owe in total? Have you paid off all of it?"

Liu Liangzhu shook his head and said, "Sir, the common people don't owe much debt."

Master Yin was shocked and said: "How much debt do you owe, do you think the government can't find out? You'd better pay it truthfully to avoid suffering."

Liu Liangzhu trembled in fright: "It's just...just over three hundred taels."

"You're all still there?"

"It's... it's still on."

“Where will the money come from to pay off the debt?”

"Borrow, borrow."

"Who borrowed it? Where is the IOU? Tell me!"

"Sir, I borrowed it from my sister."

"Is your sister the Jingting of Fahua Temple?"

Liu Liangzhu's face turned pale: "Yes!"

"More than three hundred taels were given to you by Jing Ting?"

"Yes."

"Where is Jingting now?"

"Sir, didn't Jingting burn to death?"

Master Yin sneered: "Who told you that she was dead? Besides, since you know that your sister was burned to death, why didn't you come to the Yamen to claim the body and take it back for a good burial?"

Liu Liangzhu's eyes rolled and sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Sir, although Jingting is Cao Min's sister, she has become a monk, so she is an outsider."