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That night, the urgent secret letter from Liubaili was sent to Qingzhou Prefecture by the postman.Chu Xiaoyun was not idle in the county government office, he went to see the old farmer in the prison overnight and told him about Li Dakui's death.

The old farmer was wary when he heard the words, and kept silent in the face of Chu Xiaoyun's enlightenment.It was the first time for Chu Xiaoyun to encounter such a stubborn person who refused to speak up, and he didn't have the habit or hobby of extorting confessions by torture, so there was nothing he could do for a while.It seems that things have to wait for tomorrow's court trial and the arrival of the family's female relatives.

On the second day, the mother and son of the Wei family came.As soon as they were promoted to hall, they expressed their demands, hoping to punish the murderer severely, and give life to life.

The Zhang family also sent Pei Jin. Pei Jin expressed his apology to the Wei family mother and son as an employer, and also conveyed the Zhang family's apology to the Wei family mother and son, and expressed his willingness to assist the Wei family father and son to deal with the aftermath and give the Wei family reasonable compensation.But this mention was vetoed by Wei Yuan: "I only hope to get a fair ruling from my lord, I don't care about money!"

In addition to the opposing sides of the plaintiff and the defendant, to Chu Xiaoyun's surprise, the Gu family also sent someone here.He also said that the boss had hired him, and hoped that the Yamen could find out the real culprit as soon as possible, so that the treasurer Wei's spirit in heaven could rest in peace.

In the courtroom, facing Wei Jinghan's pressing step by step, the old farmer's inner defense collapsed, and he admitted that Wei Tang did not slip and fell to his death, but the fact that his family had murdered for money.

Seeing the old farmer confess to murder, the Wei family mother and son cried in the courtroom, demanding that the government immediately sentence the old man Li and his son to death.Wei Jinghan patted the gavel several times to comfort the Wei family mother and son.

The Gu family document who was listening aside also said: "Since the murderer has confessed, I hope that Mr. Wei can convict the father and son as soon as possible and give justice to the shopkeeper Wei."

Wei Jinghan did not answer directly, but ordered someone to show a note to old man Li: "Old man Li, you can see clearly, the handwriting on this note belongs to your son Li Dakui."

Old man Li took the note from the yamen servant, and said after a while: "It is indeed in the child's handwriting."

"Okay." Wei Jinghan ordered someone to take back the note, and then he calmly responded to the previous appeal of the Wei and Gu families: "Wei Yuan, the county understands your loss of father; the county also deeply admires Mr. Gu's righteousness. But Li Dakui, the son of the main murderer in this case, committed suicide in the pond in the backyard of the Zhang Mansion last night, fearing that there would be no way to punish him. Now that his family members have not been brought to justice, the old man Li cannot make a final judgment for the time being. Come here, return the old man Li to the prison, and choose retrial."

Two guards at the side came over and carried away the stunned Old Man Li.When Old Man Li was about to be dragged out of the courtroom, he struggled and shouted like a ghost: "My lord, Mr. Wei. I, my son Li Dakui, am I really dead?"

Wei Jinghan said: "Didn't you have identified your son's last handwriting just now? Could it be that the county is still lying to you while sitting in this court? It's ridiculous!"

Old man Li looked at Pei Jin in the courtroom, but Pei Jin turned his face away and didn't look at him.Old man Li was dragged away by the guards in despair.

Chu Xiaoyun looked at the old man Li who was dragged out with a decadent aura, but his face was in disbelief.It's not that this man doesn't care about his son's death. Why was he indifferent when he told him last night?But what makes him even more incredible is, why did the adults say that Li Dakui committed suicide in fear of crime?He had seen the scene with his own eyes last night, and the conclusion at that time was that he had slipped and fell into the water.

After old man Li was taken down, Wei Jinghan slapped the gavel: "There are still important witnesses in this case who have not yet arrived, so we will try again at another day! Withdraw!"

In the courtroom, there was the sound of the yamen servants retreating "Wei——wu—" and the Wei family, the Zhang family, and Pei Jin who came on behalf of the Zhang family all bowed to the top of the court hall.

After retreating, Chu Xiaoyun went to Wei Jinghan to inquire about his doubts.Wei Jinghan showed Chu Xiaoyun the evidence handed over by Pei Jin, the housekeeper of the Zhang family before his promotion today: "The Zhang family found this at Li Dakui's residence."

Chu Xiaoyun took the note with a few crooked lines, and Li Dakui said that he became greedy because of his greed for money for a while, and he was willing to sacrifice his life to Wei Tang, hoping not to implicate the young and old in the family.

"Since that's the case, why did old man Li recognize the handwriting just now, but still suspect the cause of his son's death?" Chu Xiaoyun was puzzled.

Wei Jinghan said: "This county doesn't understand either. You have to solve this question."

Chu Xiaoyun squeezed the note in his hand: "I hope there will be an answer from the Qingzhou government."

Afterwards, Chu Xiaoyun went to visit Old Man Li in the prison again. Old Man Li's state at this time was very different from before, even when he admitted that he was greedy for money and murdered, he was not so depressed.But facing Chu Xiaoyun's question, he still didn't say a word.Chu Xiaoyun also felt that this person was really stubborn, and he didn't know what was the point of carrying it like this.When his family members come back, the case will still be revealed.

In the evening of the next day, Gyeongju government sent back news.The relatives written in the old man Li's address were also the last time Hejing county police officers visited the family, which has long since disappeared.When asked about the neighbors, they all said that the family had little contact with outsiders and didn't know them well.When the Gyeongju police quickly described the face of the owner of the house to them, the neighbors shook their heads unanimously: "I haven't seen this person before."

This is really strange, but it is also its flaw.Chu Xiaoyun took the reply letter from the Gyeongju Government Office on this matter, and went to the prison to interrogate Old Man Li again.Along the way, Chu Xiaoyun considered his words, thinking about how to pry Old Man Li's mouth open, so what if he was a dead man.

Chu Xiaoyun was thinking about something, and lowered his head all the way outside the prison until the guarding jailer greeted him.

Chu Xiaoyun raised his head to return the salute to the jailer, and saw a woman in a calico shirt twisting a food box in front of her, frowned and said, "Why did you let someone in to deliver food at such a late hour?"

The jailer looked at him inexplicably: "The woman said that she had your consent."

"My consent?" Chu Xiaoyun was puzzled, "Why didn't I know?"

The jailer was very surprised: "But she came with your token."

"What, my token?" Chu Xiaoyun said as he reached out to touch his waist, his head-catching token was really gone.

"How did this person get my token!" Chu Xiaoyun said angrily, without caring too much, and shouted at the guarding jailer, "Stop that woman, she stole my token and came to visit the prison, I don't know What do you want!"

The jailors who heard Chu Xiaoyun's shout moved into action one after another, drew their sabers and ran towards the woman twisting the food box.The woman also heard the movement, but instead of running for her life, she threw away the food box and ran all the way to the place where old man Li was being held. She reached out to take the hairpin from her head, opened the door of the prison, and stabbed at the old man with the hairpin. The old man Li who was frightened and dumbfounded.

At the critical moment, Chu Xiaoyun arrived.He didn't have time to enter the cell to stop the assassin, so he raised his hand and threw in the saber that had been drawn out of its sheath, just in time to block the female assassin's stab at Old Man Li.

The hairpin in the woman's hand fell to the ground, but she rushed towards old man Li without giving up, as if she had a tendency to die endlessly.The moment Chu Xiaoyun flew out of the saber, he also rushed into the prison, and fought back and forth with the woman.

The woman saw that the assassination was hopeless, and she was not Chu Xiaoyun's opponent, so the moment she was caught, she bit the poison hidden in her mouth.

Chu Xiaoyun pinched the woman's neck, and was about to ask her who sent it, but found the woman vomited blood.This was the first time he encountered such a situation, and he was a little panicked.He hurried to break the woman's mouth, trying to take out what was in his mouth.

The woman smiled miserably at him: "It's too late."

Chu Xiaoyun grabbed his shoulder and asked eagerly, "Who are you? How did you get my token? Who sent you here? Why did you kill him?"

The woman gave Chu Xiaoyun a mocking look, and her voice was intermittent: "Is the famous... famous... Chu catcher so naive? I... am going to die, do you think... will tell you?"

After the woman finished speaking, she grinned again with a mouth full of blood, tilted her head, and died in Chu Xiaoyun's hands.

The jailer chasing after him looked at this scene, and asked a little helplessly, "Chu catcher, what... what should we do now?"

Chu Xiaoyun checked the woman's breath and pulse, she was really out of breath.He said to the guarding jailer with a heavy heart: "Go and ask Mr. Zuo and your lord. Then let Mr. Zuo inspect the food box."

Then he found his own token from the woman and took it in his hand, reaching out to grab the shivering old man Li who was squatting in the corner: "Talk to me in another place."

Changing a cell, Chu Xiaoyun said to the shocked Old Man Li: "See, you can't live if you hide the truth. Your only way out now is to cooperate with the government, maybe you can save your life."

Old man Li trembled for a while before he stammered: "I said, I said. Save me, save my family."

There was a sound of footsteps outside the cell where Chu Xiaoyun and old man Li were, and a group of yamen servants surrounded Wei Jinghan and walked over.Fang Lingfeng followed behind.Most of the yamen servants stayed outside the cell, only the two yamen servants and Fang Lingfeng who carried the official hat and chair followed in.The yamen servant put down his chair, and Wei Jinghan waved his hand to signal them to go out.

Only Wei Jinghan, Fang Lingfeng, Chu Xiaoyun and Old Man Li were left in the cell.

"Finish." Wei Jinghan said after taking a seat on the chair.

"Yes, my little old man is telling the truth." Old man Li kowtowed to Wei Jinghan, knelt on the pile of straw on the ground, and told him everything he knew.