First Empress Merchant

Chapter 40 Mysterious Woman
Lu Lishi took a look at Luo Guiren, and then turned to Zhang Cang County, "Then Master Zhang will open his chest immediately!"

"The old man wants to disembowel, but..." Zhang Cangxian looked back and forth between Lu Lishi and Luo Guiren, and laughed for some reason, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a roar.

"Don't move my dead body!"

As soon as the sound came out, everyone looked at that person together, and then saw a middle-aged man wearing black clothes and a black round hat walking quickly, with a gloomy face.

"Shopkeeper Wang, my condolences are in order!" Lu Lishi knew his identity as soon as he said "my son", so she said a word of condolences as soon as he approached.

Shopkeeper Wang gave Lu Lishi a deadly look, and snorted coldly: "Don't be hypocritical here, I can't bear it! Lord Luo, the so-called murder pays for life, you have to make the decision for my son!"

"This official has always been fair and honest, and I will definitely deal with it impartially. If the son is really killed in vain, this official will never tolerate that wicked person!" Luo Guiren cupped his hands at the shopkeeper Wang, but when he said "wicked person", his eyes were intentional or unintentional. He glanced at Wu Changqing who was pushed aside.

Lu Lishi smiled again.

Master Luo?Those who dare to call officials by their surnames are either because they think their status is too high, or because they have a good relationship with each other. No wonder Luo Guiren is so eager to close the case. It seems that she expected well!Hmph, if she hadn't come in time, I'm afraid the head of that child, Changqing, would have been beheaded!

Not wanting to procrastinate any longer, he immediately said: "Everyone understands the loss of the shopkeeper Wang's son. We also want to solve the case as soon as possible and return the truth to the truth. But shopkeeper Wang is so uncooperative, how should this case go forward?"

"Nonsense! My son is already dead, and now his bones are still cold, do you still want him to die without a complete body?" Shopkeeper Wang was furious, and as he said that, he slapped Lu Lishi with a slap as if to vent his anger.

Seeing this, Lu Lishi immediately backed away, but there was a coffin behind her, and there was no way to retreat, so she could only raise her hands to receive the powerful slap.

Wu Changqing stood far away, and when he saw Lu Lishi was in danger, he wanted to rush up, but he was pinned down and couldn't move, so he could only worry.

Although Luo Guiren was right next to him, he acted as if he hadn't seen it, and smiled sinisterly.

Shopkeeper Wang didn't expect Lu Lishi to resist, but she grabbed his hand with both hands, smiled coldly, and then slapped him again, now Lu Lishi had no room to parry, she could only watch helplessly The slap fell on his face.

And just when Shopkeeper Wang's hand was only an inch or so away from Lu Lishi's face, it was firmly restrained by a hand that suddenly inserted.

Taking a closer look, Lu Lishi's pupils shrank suddenly.

"Ah Quan? Why are you doing this again?"

Looking at this man with a low sense of existence, Lu Lishi's mind was full of doubts.

Although inconspicuous, he is a real person, why did no one notice him when he entered the inner hall?Still stopped shopkeeper Wang in such a timely manner?Then look at the strength of his hands, and the stability of the foot, the foot?shoe?correct!She finally knew what was wrong with his shoes!

Squinting his eyes, this person... is not simple!

"Ah Quan? Why are you doing this again?"

"The little one is..." Hearing Lu Lishi's question, Ah Quan immediately let go of his hand, but before he finished speaking, he was pushed hard by shopkeeper Wang.

"Who dares to break into the inner hall of the yamen? Lord Luo, you won't let these unruly people be so lawless, will you?" Shopkeeper Wang spoke resoundingly, really like a gentleman.

However, without waiting for Luo Guiren to answer, Lu Lishi said in a cold voice first: "Speaking of laws and regulations, you have repeatedly attempted to commit murder and hurt people in the inner hall of the yamen, or in front of the adults, do you take the adults seriously? Put the law in your eyes?"

"Everyone, please calm down first! It is understandable for you to lose control of your actions because of anger, and as long as similar situations don't happen again, you won't be held accountable! Don't gossip, we should solve this case as soon as possible!" Luo Guiren saw the two people They all gave him the big hat, thinking that neither side should offend, so they can only smooth things over first.

Lu Lishi didn't want to make any more fearless entanglements, "My lord, Zhang San's words are no longer credible, and the real cause of death of the deceased must be known in order to solve the case, but shopkeeper Wang insisted on refusing to open the body for an autopsy, so what can be explained by the medicine alone? Furthermore, my lord, you are an official, so you should understand that there must be a motive for the murder, right? The defendant also said before that he had only met the deceased several times, which means that there is no conflict of interest with the deceased. Then his What was the motive for the murder?"

"This...does have some truth." After hearing this, Luo Guiren hesitated for a long time before saying these few words, and then fell silent.

Thinking about Zhang San testifying just now, since everyone is dead anyway, he is free to say whatever he wants, and that unlucky guy looks weak at first glance, so if he uses a little punishment, is he afraid that he will not recruit?Unexpectedly, an evil star will be killed halfway!Turning his head to look at Lao Wang, seeing that he was still staring at him at this moment, he was not happy.

Yes, both he and the old Wang knew the real cause of Wang Xin's death, but the old Wang was a black heart, and he just wanted to get someone to be buried with him as an explanation to his only son, and he deserved the bad luck of that poor guy who took his medicine before he died , although the medicine...

Hmph, if it wasn't for the fact that he received a lot of benefits from that old thing on weekdays, and even gave him nearly half of the family property for this matter, otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to help him!Don't you even look at what you were before?How dare you look at him like that?But after all, he is short of manpower, if the old man exposes the matter between them, then his official luck will be over.

Looking at this evil star again, he also heard about "him" from his precious daughter. Although he can't be sure that this person is really related to the royal family, he has a good relationship with the son of a high-ranking official in the capital, and just now he moved out of Shang Shuzhang. The name of the adult is taboo, and the words are sharp, as if he has seen the world, so who should he help now to bet on the treasure?

Just when Luo Guiren was having a hard time making a decision, shopkeeper Wang suddenly said coldly: "Why is there no motive for killing? Lord Luo, please continue to be promoted, Caomin still has an important witness!"

Hearing the words, Luo Guiren looked back and forth between the two, then raised his hand, "Then please follow me to the court!"

So following Luo Guiren's words, everyone with different thoughts returned to the court together.

"Who is in the hall? Where is the person? What is his identity? What is the relationship with the deceased? Do you know why I announced you to come here? Tell me everything you know! No lies! Otherwise, you will be punished for disturbing the court." Guilty!" When the so-called witness came to court, Luo Guiren conducted another round of procedural cross-examination.

"Return to my lord, my villain Shi Liang, a local, is a clerk in a pawnshop, and I don't know the deceased. I know, my lord, that you announced that my villain came here to let me tell you what I saw. This villain will tell you what I have seen." Say! About half a month ago, there was a conflict at the downtown entrance of West Street. Among them were the deceased and the defendant, and the two had a big dispute, and almost fought. In the end, it was because this young man came forward to resolve it. And in the middle of the night of the same day, the villain was sent by my shopkeeper to collect the bill. He passed by Dongjie and saw another incident happened there. When he went over to look, he found that it was the deceased, the defendant and the young man who had been arguing so much at that time. It's even worse, at that time, I thought my shopkeeper would let the villain finish his work and go back quickly, so I didn't look at it much, so I didn't know what happened later."

(End of this chapter)