But as soon as she finished speaking, Dong Liao pushed her away and shouted: "Sir, this woman is holding a silver needle in her hand and wants to murder me, please help me!"

After he finished speaking, he broke away from the crowd and ran towards the county magistrate.

Ye Qingran had already had a plan in mind, but she didn't expect that he would suddenly take action. She was pushed to the ground without noticing, and her whole back hit the ground. The wound had not fully healed. At this time, she was hit by such a severe pain. He took a few breaths of air.

Chu Qingyun immediately helped her up and asked: "Ran'er! How are you? Are you okay?"

Ye Qingran took a long time to recover from the pain. Before she could say anything, she heard the county magistrate shouting: "Come here, catch this witch! I knew she said she wanted to investigate the murderer. It’s an illusion. What can a woman find out? She’s clearly causing trouble!”

His tone was very angry, "This woman is very eloquent, don't let her talk nonsense, give her twenty pieces first!"

After listening to the county magistrate's order, the government officials came over without hesitation and were about to catch Ye Qingran.

Seeing this, Chu Qingyun stood directly in front of her and said angrily: "Who dares?!"

He directly drew his sword and assumed an attacking stance. Seeing his momentum, the government officials did not dare to step forward for a moment. They just surrounded them and waited for the county magistrate's next instructions.

The prefect sat unmoved on the main seat, as if he didn't care whether she was his benefactor's daughter or not. Instead, he seemed to be looking forward to what would happen next.

To be precise, he was less like a person in charge and more like a bystander.

Ye Qingran stood up from the ground: "The county magistrate believed him without even asking. Do you want to protect the murderer?"

"What murderer? Can you identify him as the murderer just by your words?"

The county magistrate snorted coldly, and even wanted to protect Dong Liao behind him, "You are a slanderer! When the assassin came that day, it was the prefect whom he protected. How could he be the murderer?"

"Why did he have to do the assassination himself? He could have found someone to do it for him, but he had an alibi and even won the trust of the adults. This can't remove the fact that he is the murderer!"

Ye Qingran's every word was sonorous and powerful, but the county magistrate subconsciously believed that it was impossible for her to find the murderer, and naturally denied the results she came up with, and still retorted: "You have to look at their arms at the beginning, saying that you can identify the murderer." , and now you are trying to find the murderer by looking at your feet, but in the end, you casually identify the prefect’s benefactor as the murderer, isn’t it ridiculous?”

"I looked at the arms before because I sprinkled flesh-burning powder on the murderer's arm when he first escaped. The murderer's arm would be burned if it came into contact with the powder. Most people can be eliminated based on such wounds. ."

Ye Qingran took a step forward, "At this time, I checked the soles of their feet because the murderer came to the inn again last night. Although I didn't catch him, he had stepped on the powder I had sprinkled on the inn floor in advance. As long as these two things If there are both, then isn’t the murderer determined?”

"You...are talking nonsense!" Dong Liao saw that the situation was not right and stood up and said, "Since you can find others to assassinate the prefect, how can you be sure that the murderer last night was himself?"

The county magistrate also nodded in agreement: "Yes, how can you prove it?"

Ye Qingran snorted coldly, took out the wooden sign hidden in the repair bag and threw it directly at their feet: "Then look, what is this?"

Before anyone could see the wooden sign clearly, Dong Liao touched his waist in panic.

"Stop touching it. This is the wooden plaque I scratched into the corner of your waist and left behind when you tried to assassinate me last night. The word 'Dong' is clearly engraved on it. How can you argue with it?" "

Dong Liao's eyes were sinister, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You forged this! What is your purpose?!"

Seeing that he was still struggling, Ye Qingran directly took out the corner of his clothes and showed it to everyone: "You said that I forged the wooden sign, so can this corner of the clothes be forged just right? "

Everyone looked up and saw that the missing parts of Dong Liao's clothes were very obvious, and they happened to match the fabric in Ye Qingran's hands.

At this time, he could no longer quibble, so he wanted to escape directly.

However, Chu Qingyun and Ye Qingran had fought with him many times and had figured out his path long ago. They were prepared in advance and blocked his way when he was about to escape.

The Lord Magistrate no longer sat idly by and said directly: "Stop him!"

Those government officials who dared not disobey formed a circle around the city, surrounding Dong Liao in the middle.

At this time, Dong Liao had no choice but to stay on guard, sweating profusely from nervousness.

"This...Dong Liao, is it really you?!" The county magistrate still didn't believe it.

Dong Liao refused to speak, but stared at the people around him fiercely.

At this time, not answering is already the best answer.

"You, you, you... I trust you so much, but you are the murderer who poisoned the inn! Okay, you wasted all my trust!"

"So what?"

Dong Zhuo suddenly straightened up and snorted, "I'm just hungry and looking for something to eat."

"You work in my county government office, taking care of food and housing. How often have you ever been hungry?"

"You have no idea how unpalatable those ordinary meals are, and the supreme delicacy in the world must of course be human flesh!"

He suddenly changed his cautious face and laughed, "Hahaha, you people have never tasted human flesh, have you? I can guarantee that if you have tasted it, you will be like me and find the best quality tender meat at all costs. Come and eat the slippery human flesh!”

As he spoke, he turned his attention to Ye Qingran.

The look like a wolf staring at its prey made her hair stand on end, and she couldn't help but frown and glare back.

When everyone heard his words about eating human flesh, they couldn't help but feel disgusted. Some people with poor psychological quality had already ran to the side and vomited.

"You have gone crazy!" The county magistrate's face turned green. "No matter what, you are the murderer. According to the laws of this dynasty, you will be beheaded! Come on, catch him!"

The prefect also said: "Before beheading, you must ask his accomplices. After all, there was indeed someone else who assassinated that day, and he must be related to Dong Liao."

The magistrate nodded and replied: "Yes, sir."

But just as the government officials were about to go over to fetch someone, they heard a sharp sound breaking through the air, directly passing through the gap in their crowd, and shooting straight into Dong Liao's neck.

With sharp eyes, Ye Qingran saw clearly that it was a short arrow, but the tip of the arrow had already penetrated into his neck, and it was too late to stop it.

"Protect the adults quickly!"

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