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"Is there something missing in this batch of leggings?" Depth of Field put the problematic leggings and the leggings from the Huahuo factory together, one on the left and one on the right. A screw on the leggings, "Is this missing from the armor next to it?"

The fire mechanism masters immediately came up to watch, the squires, the magistrate of Yangzhou, and the deputy general Zhang who came with the fire mechanism masters all walked over, and saw the two fire mechanism masters playing with the scattered leg guards.

"This batch of problematic leggings are all missing this screw!" The two fire mechanism masters jumped up as if they had discovered the new continent, "That's right, that's it! Look, the ones on the left are the problematic ones that the government has seized. Leggings, the ones on the right are the ones I took from the Huahuo factory today, and the ones on the left are missing a screw!"

That screw was about the size of a pea and easily missed if you weren't paying attention.However, it was such a screw that turned the protective gear into a murder weapon!

Since the engineers who participated in the design and production of the Hunger Mechanism were all imprisoned, no one at the scene could tell whether the missing screw was the key.

The two fire mechanism masters invited from the Jiangnan military camp did the same thing, unscrewed the screws at the same position on the leg guards of the fire mechanism brought by the Huahuo factory, and used a quilt to hold a thick branch as a human leg.

The leg guards walk normally, and when the switch of the fire switch is not turned on, it is just like an ordinary leg guard; however, when the switch of the fire switch is turned on, in the leg guard without screws, all the iron pieces connected with the screws rotate and become a meat grinder. machine.

Everyone was shocked when they saw the swirling cotton wadding and twig debris.

However, although Jing Shen found the reason why the leg guard of the fire mechanism hurt people, he couldn't explain that the matter had nothing to do with the Fireworks Factory or Situ Meng, and the matter returned to the original point.

Depth of Field was annoyed, "I will definitely find a way to save you! Amon, wait for me!"

He swore to the sky that he was going to rescue Situ Meng.

Through President Gao's relationship, he finally got a chance to visit Situ Meng.Situ Meng in the prison looked a bit haggard, but his spirit was not too bad. He knew that there must be someone outside who would work hard to clear his wrong.

Jing Shen explained the screw matter to Situ Meng in detail. Situ Meng listened silently, thought for a while, and said: "I believe that the fire mechanism engineers of Huahuo Factory will definitely not let such defective products leave the factory. So The key point is most likely in store sales or transportation... But on the way from Chengning Villa to Yangzhou Mansion, the whole journey is transported by locomotive, and the deliveries are all the nurses and managers of Chengning Villa, They are in the same compartment as the goods, and there is almost no place where they can be tampered with."

"The part that is most likely to go wrong is the store!" Situ Meng and Jing Shen said at the same time.

This point also overlaps with Ji Lao’s reminder, Jing Shen and Situ Meng confessed a few words, the only time to visit the prison has come, and he was kicked out by the yamen servants.

After leaving the government office, Jing Shen followed Situ Meng's suggestion to check.The prefect of Yangzhou was able to hold back the batch of problematic firearm leg guards, but he couldn't cover the mouths of the victims and their families.Relying on the information he got from the victims, he quickly found out that all of the victims had purchased their burner leggings from the same place.

The Huahuo Factory store has been operating in Yangzhou for a long time, and it is considered the first batch of directly-operated stores established in Yangzhou. Logically speaking, it should be the least problematic.

The shopkeeper of the directly-operated store was also selected from Chengning Mountain Villa. He was originally just a child of a tenant farmer, but Situ Meng saw that he was simple, but he was also tactful when he should be tactful, without losing his wit, so he took him Promoted to the shopkeeper of the first batch of directly-operated stores.

The shopkeeper has always been grateful to Situ Meng, he is very respectful and loyal, and even Luo Wu can guarantee that there is absolutely no problem with the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper is fine, but what about his subordinates?

Under the guidance of the depth of field, the shopkeeper remembered a past event two or three months ago.

"About two months... or three months ago, I don't remember the exact time. A clerk in our store took half a month's leave because an old man in his family passed away, so I found him from the market. A smart-looking young man came to fill the clerk's position. Then the clerk came back from vacation, and the helper boy paid his wages and left."

"This kind of thing is very common in our directly-operated stores. From time to time, the guys in the store will ask for leave due to some personal affairs, and then we will find some short-term helpers from the market and settle the wages on a daily basis."

Depth of Field: "Besides this incident, are there any other people or things that you think are suspicious?"

The shopkeeper thought about it for a while, then shook his head and said, "Not anymore."

Jing Shen nodded, asked him the name, appearance and address of the helper, and left the shop.He told Gong Juren and the guards to investigate.It was taken for granted that all the information that person provided to the shopkeeper was false, and such a person did not exist in reality.

Jing Shen did not give up, and sent people to search for clues about that person in the entire Yangzhou Prefecture, and even several prefectural capitals around Yangzhou Prefecture. The emperor paid off, and his guards finally found the person's home in a small town in Jiaozhou. room.

They didn't know that their family had done such a shocking thing, and they thought their husbands just went out to work.

The depth of field makes people lie in ambush outside this humble little house, waiting for a rabbit.Sure enough, after another half month, perhaps feeling that the limelight had passed, the helper returned to his home.

However, when he entered the door, the guards around moved. They approached the helper silently, attacked him from behind, covered his mouth and dragged him away.

The helper couldn't bear the mental abuse of the guards, so he confessed his whereabouts in Yangzhou, where the guards found many screws engraved with the mark of the Huahuo factory, and all of them were the same size as the missing leg guards.

With witnesses and evidence, Jing Shen, as Mr. Bao's nephew, rang the drum of the magistrate's office, and the case of wounding someone with leggings at the Huahuo Factory was put on the interrogation agenda again.

Under the watchful eyes of the folks in Yangzhou, the prefect of Yangzhou had no choice but to act impartially. Commander Jian of the Jiangnan General Army Camp and Master Liu, the magistrate of Ningshan County, also came for some reason. The prefect of Yangzhou had no choice but to give them seats in the courtroom. Allow them to listen in too.

When Elder Ji fabricated a fake identity for Jing Shen, he also gave him the identity of Juren. At that time, Jing Shen didn't know what the use of this identity was, but now when he stood in the courtroom and defended Situ Meng, he finally understood Ji Lao's deep meaning.

With so many pairs of eyes staring at him, the prefect of Yangzhou had to cheer up and take the trial seriously.Where has the helper seen such a big battle?Immediately, I was so frightened that my legs became weak and I couldn't stand up.In particular, Commander Jane's natural killing aura overwhelmed him so much that he couldn't even lift his head up. Some of the rhetoric that he had memorized before could no longer be organized under the huge coercion.

"Lin Bo, a native of Jiaozhou in the south of the Yangtze River, left Jiaozhou at the age of 26 to find a living in Yangzhou. He often worked as a helper in the market to provide short-term labor for shops and so on." Jing Shen asked the helper Lin Bo: "Is that right?"

"No... that's right." Lin Bo's voice was as thin as a mosquito's.

Jingshen’s pleadings were handed over to Yangzhou magistrate. Because of the arrival of Commander Jian and magistrate Mr. Liu, the pleadings were copied twice for them. The three looked at Lin Bo’s background information in their hands, which was consistent with what Jingshen said, so they clicked nod.

Depth of Field continued, "In March of this year, Huahuo Factory found you as a helper in the market due to a temporary shortage of manpower at the store in Yangzhou. Is this true?"

The shopkeeper of the directly-operated store in Yangzhou also knelt in the courtroom. Hearing this, he nodded and said: "Yes, in March this year, a clerk in our store asked for half a month's leave due to the death of a family member. The grass people found Lin You in the market. ——Lin Bo's pseudonym, he worked as a clerk in our store for half a month. Other clerks in our store and people in nearby stores can testify to this!"

The three officials looked at Lin Bo at the same time, and the latter was sweating profusely. He said tremblingly, "Yes... yes."

"Then you were the one who pried away all the screws of the armor of the fire mechanism in the store's inventory?" Depth of Field chased after the victory, but Lin Bo didn't cooperate this time.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it." Jing Shen turned to face the magistrate of Yangzhou, "In the house where Lin Bo lived in Yangzhou, we found a large number of screws from the Huahuo factory-there are all the imprints of Huahuo on them, and they cannot be faked. At the same time, we are still 200 taels of silver were found under the bed of Lin Bo's house, all of which can be used as evidence."

"I... I... I earned the money myself!" Lin Bo argued.

"Of course you earned it back. It's impossible for the sky to rain silver, right?" Jing Shen's words made the onlookers laugh, and the prefect of Yangzhou had to pat the gavel tree, "Silence!"

After a while, the scene returned to calm, and Jing Shen asked again: "You said you earned the money yourself, well, let's ignore the source of the silver, and just ask you, why are the screws from the fireworks factory in your home, and It’s still such a large quantity, could it be that you have a habit of collecting screws? But that can’t explain why the 380 six screws are in your house, did you steal or pick them up to get so many screws?”

"I...I..." Lin Bo looked around, trying to find someone who could speak for him, but unfortunately, no one would help him, either in the courtroom or the crowd watching outside.

"The six screws of 380 correspond to the leggings of fire mechanism sold by Huahuo Factory in Yangzhou. The stubs are the same, and..." Depth of Field asked someone to bring up a batch of leggings that customers bought but hadn't used yet, "We can disassemble these leggings on the spot to see if this screw is missing."

The prefect of Yangzhou was about to speak, but he was preempted by Commander Jian who had been silent all this time: "Also, I happened to bring two senior gunsmiths from the barracks, and I can ask them to remove the leggings for everyone to see. Who is lying."

"...Then let's demolish it!" The magistrate of Yangzhou couldn't refuse, after all, compared with Commander Jian, his position is really not that big.

The fire mechanism divisions of the Jiangnan General Army Camp disassembled the leg guards on the spot, and there was a stock of the dismantled Fireworks Factory next to them. The crowd stretched their necks to see clearly, and they were still discussing while staring, "No, With such a small screw, is it really possible to break a human leg?"

"That's right, just such a nail, how useful can it be?"

In the courtroom, the fire mechanism masters had already disassembled the leg guards. Seeing that the leg guards sold were missing a screw, the depth of field asked them to install the fire mechanism leg guards on both sides, as demonstrated to several adults and squires before. The same as before, with quilts wrapped in branches as human legs, and fitted with lighter leg guards.