The county government office was still brightly lit, just as the county magistrate had done his work by candlelight when he was alive.
After the storm during the day, the guard at the door already knew Shen Qingxu and the others, so he let them in.
As soon as he entered the yard, Mu Yunzhou held back for a long time, but still couldn't help asking the question in his heart: "If so, who is the murderer?"
God knows he was almost dying of curiosity along the way!
"Isn't it obvious? The woman who has been pretending to defend the county magistrate." Gongsun Jiayan said.
Mu Yunzhou rolled his eyes and looked at Shen Qingxu and Xu Xingyi!
Xu Xingyi also sorted out his thoughts, but Mu Yunzhou still found it difficult to understand, so he asked again: "That woman? Logically speaking, there is nothing unusual about her except that she is a member of the Zhang family, right?"
Lin Shuyao had not listened carefully to what they were saying just now, but now she heard it clearly and understood the general process of the whole case, so she blurted out: "How do you know that the woman is from the Zhang family? Just because of a jade pendant?"
Xu Xingyi obviously agreed with Lin Shuyao's statement and said, "Well, that woman is indeed not a member of the Zhang family, but a servant of the county magistrate's mansion."
Now the others were even more confused. A servant? That woman? What was the use of such a servant in the county government?
Xu Xingyi did not completely agree with Lin Shuyao's statement. He shook his head and said, "Although she is a servant in the county government, she wears the Zhang family jade pendant. It can be seen that the Zhang family should value her very much. In addition, some people want the county magistrate to die, but they hide it too well. If the same jade pendant had not appeared, I am afraid that we would not have thought that the murderer was right next to us and was hidden so well!"
"What's that got to do with the whip?"
"I heard that there is a young lady in the Zhang family who has a guard with high martial arts skills. He is very good at whipping people with a whip. Every whip draws blood and is extremely painful!"
"So the magistrate was beaten to death?"
"Wait, whip assassination? Just a whip."
"That's right, just a whip. All you need is a whip with tough barbs, and everything can be explained." Xu Xingyi replied.
"When we examined the county magistrate's body, Xu Xingyi told me that the cut of his neck was a little jagged. When we used to cut meat without knives, we would use thorny vines to cut the meat. The county magistrate's neck was the same as that..."
"On our way to Zhang's house, the constable who was following us asked about some things about Zhang's family and the county government. When we saw the man chasing a woman with a bloody barbed whip at Zhang's house, we knew what was going on!"
"Since the murderer has been identified, why don't you arrest her?"
Lin Shuyao added: "She killed someone and spent so much effort on it, and then sent the whip to us to see. She will definitely come to the county government office herself."
"So, alas..." The constable also knew who the murderer was and sighed deeply!
It was a quiet night. Shen Qingxu and the others were awakened by the noise outside. They quickly got up and went out. As soon as they went out, they saw a man in black fighting with several secret guards.
Gongsun Jiayan also came out. Seeing this, he asked Xu Xingyi, "Is this what you meant by her coming on her own?"
Xu Xingyi chuckled: "What else? Wouldn't it be better to let her fall into the trap herself instead of me personally arresting her? Then I won't be accused of wrongly accusing her."
After the fight was over, Shen Qingxu walked up to the man in black, took off his mask, and looked at the face that appeared twice in front of her without any surprise: "Is it fun to disguise yourself? Miss murderer?"
Fragments of words were heard from the side the moment the mask was removed: "Isn't this the daughter of the Zhang family, Zhang Jiuer?"
"Yes, I heard that she was not liked by the Zhang family since she was a child, and she rarely went out. I thought she was a soft persimmon, but I didn't expect her to be a ruthless character? She even dared to kill the county magistrate?"
Zhang Jiuer bit her lips tightly, as if she knew how shameful such a thing was.
But if you really knew that what you were doing was shameful, you would have thought about this day and this moment a long time ago, so why bother doing it?
The gossip around continued.
"Yes, I heard that Miss Zhang's ninth daughter has a hard life!"
"The Zhang family is quite wealthy, why don't they give this girl a good life?"
"You may not know, but I heard that Zhang Jiuer was an abandoned baby and was picked up by the Zhang family!"
"She's an abandoned baby, what's the point of being nice to her?"
Shen Qingxu was different from the others. The first thing she said was: "For my own identity, for the anger in my heart, to be charged with a huge crime, is it worth it?"
With just one sentence, Zhang Jiuer yelled like crazy: "As a young lady, you don't have to worry about your identity. What about me? I'm just an abandoned baby. No one recognizes my identity. I have a father but he doesn't recognize me. He is sorry for me."
"If you want to recognize me as your father, then recognize me as your father. Why did you kill the county magistrate? He is innocent, right?"
Mu Yunzhou asked tentatively.
"He's not guilty? Hahahahahahaha, I think I heard some big joke. He was not chaste enough to mess with a woman, and then he left her alone after having a daughter. He's not guilty? I won't believe it even if I die."
Faced with this, Shen Qingxu just had a calm face, without any emotional fluctuations, and asked: "You hate him, you take revenge on him, but why did you kill fourteen people in the Zhang family?"
Zhang Jiuer answered without hesitation: "Of course I hate him. He broke my mother's heart and forced her to jump into the lake, leaving me an orphan. My life shouldn't have been like this. The Zhang family bullied my mother, they deserve to die! Yes, they said I was an abandoned baby and took me in just because they coveted my mother's beauty. They held me captive to threaten my mother..."
"But the county magistrate shouldn't be killed. He's such a good official, this shouldn't happen." Some people around were dissatisfied.
"He brought it upon himself..." the woman said with her neck stiff!
"You, do you know that the county magistrate of Baishui County, your father, was once a famous runner-up in Kyoto?"
"It's useless for such a heartless person to read more books..." The woman's eyes were red!
The old butler seemed to have made up his mind.
"Miss, there are some things that the master has never told you. Let me tell you!"
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