Chapter 11 The adults are right
"Stop shouting." Xia Yue knocked on the table: "Please tell me carefully how your relationship with your wife He Ningqiu is."
Yuan Weimao was stunned for a moment and before he could react, he thought about it and said, "Okay, okay, my wife and I have always had a good relationship."
Xia Yue continued expressionlessly: "When did you leave the house? Did you have any quarrel with He Ningqiu before you left? When did you arrive at your friend's house? You met acquaintances on the road. What was your friend's name and where did you live?
When you were at your friend's house, was there someone who could testify that you didn't leave during the trip?"
The master on the table next to him spread out the paper, picked up the pen, and prepared to record.
Yuan Weimao suddenly reacted and stood up excitedly: "Sir, what do you mean by this? You don't think it was me who harmed my wife, do you?"
However, as soon as Yuan Weimao stood up a little, he was pushed down by Wang Tong.
"Don't move." Wang Tong said fiercely: "What do you say, sir? How to find out who the murderer is, sir, I will naturally find out. Don't worry, no one can escape. It has nothing to do with you, and naturally I won't wrongly accuse you."
Although Wang Tong said this, Yuan Weimao still looked particularly aggrieved. He was aggrieved but did not dare to say it, and his face was full of trembling flesh.
Ye Caitang suddenly remembered He Ningqiu's face. Although she was not a young girl, she had regular and beautiful features and a good figure. It was really a waste to match Yuan Weimao.
Under Wang Tong's coercion, although Yuan Weimao felt aggrieved, he still told the truth.
"My wife and I still have a good relationship. Her family was in trouble at that time, and I gave her money. So her parents were grateful and married their daughter to me."
"Throughout the years we have been married, even though we have no children, God can tell you that we quarreled occasionally, but we never took action. Most of the time we were like that...what...yes, we treated each other with respect and treated each other as equals..."
Yuan Weimao was almost forced to come out. He was so anxious that he swore and swore, for fear that Xia Yue wouldn't believe it.
Master wrote everything one by one.
Yuan Weimao recalled carefully: "I went out at dawn yesterday morning. My friend lives in Xijia Village on the outskirts of Beijing. Oh, yes, I took a cart there and gave me thirty coppers. I know the cart driver and can find him.
It can prove that I went to Xijia Village, I got off the bus at the entrance of the village, and then went to my friend’s house.”
"I was at his house, first reminiscing about old times, then having dinner, and then going for an outing in the mountains together in the afternoon. I stayed at his house yesterday. I slept all morning today, played cards for a while after lunch, and drank some wine, and then I felt dizzy.
I'll be back."
Xijia Village is on the outskirts of Beijing, and you have to leave the city.
If you walk from Xijiacun to Beijing, it will take you half a day. If you ride a horse for an hour, the carriage will not go that fast. If you pick up people and wait for others all the way, it will indeed take half a day.
Ye Caitang felt that Yuan Weimao was not lying on this point. This is something that is easy to verify. If he really went to Xijia Village yesterday and ate and slept at a friend's house, he would never have time to kill someone.
He Ningqiu's death was not more than half an hour away from their discovery, and at such a long distance, it would be difficult for Yuan Weimao to sneak out, kill someone and then sneak back.
Xia Yue thought so too, and immediately asked Yuan Weimao to carefully explain the name of the coachman, the name and address of his friends, and let others verify them one by one.
According to Yuan Weimao, his friend's family has a house with three entrances and three exits in the suburbs of Beijing. There are also twenty or thirty family members and servants in the house. There is no way they can all collude.
In addition, Ding Lang, who Yuan Weimao told him might have an unclear relationship with his wife, also brought people back for questioning.
Yuan Weimao has no suspicion for the time being, so he will be released home and can be summoned at any time.
After Yuan Weimao left, Xia Yue teased: "Didn't you swear that in a relationship between husband and wife, if the woman disappears or dies, there is nearly a half chance that the murderer will be the person closest to her? Do you still think Yuan Weimao is the murderer now?"
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Ye Caitang said solemnly: "Sir, I am not swearing, I am speaking from experience."
An eighteen-year-old girl who had never really been exposed to a case dared to say these four words from experience. Everyone in the room, including Wang Tong and the master, couldn't help but laugh.
What's so funny about this? Ye Caitang was under pressure from his creditors, but he wasn't angry at all. He just sighed inwardly.
A fallen phoenix is worse than a chicken. She was laughed at by the whole room when she said she was experienced.
Fortunately, Xia Yue still had some conscience. After laughing, he reassured her: "It's nothing. After all, you have never been involved in the case. What you see on paper will only make sense. You will know it when you see it more in the future."
It seemed to comfort me, but the comfort was not obvious.
Ye Caitang was even more depressed. This was not what she said. It was the result of years of big data statistical calculations and research.
However, she did overlook an issue before. Times are different and it really cannot be generalized.
For example, if a man now has an affair after marriage, he doesn't have to rack his brains to consider issues such as concealment, public opinion, divorce and remarriage, division of property after marriage, etc. He can just marry the new person.
Not only should the original wife not make trouble, but she should also be welcomed to show her generosity. And if the original wife is not good, there are too many reasons to divorce her. There is always one that suits you.
Therefore, if a wife wants to get rid of her husband, she needs greater courage. Under the oppressive atmosphere of feudal society, there are too few such women.
If a husband wants to get rid of his wife, he does not have to take desperate risks and pay such a high price.
In this case, the 50% probability of a close person committing a crime really does not exist.
Ye Caitang lowered his head and silently calculated in his heart.
Seeing her lowering her head and not speaking, Xia Yue thought that the little girl was thin-skinned after all, and she was new here. Even if she said something wrong, she was still focused on solving the case. It was really inappropriate for the grown men to laugh at the girl's family like this.
He even felt a little guilty.
Xia Yue coughed and glanced accusingly at Wang Tong and Master, who covered their mouths in despair.
Wang Tong was aggrieved, we just followed the trend and laughed casually, but in fact we didn’t mean to laugh at him.
"Xiaoye," Xia Yue said in an old-fashioned tone: "I know you are also focused on solving cases. Although you are inexperienced, it is good to be confident and aggressive. What I just said was really inappropriate, so don't take it to heart."
Ye Caitang raised his head and smiled reluctantly: "It's okay."
What she cared about was definitely not the ridicule of the crowd.
After entering the sixth door, she could actually feel the kindness and acceptance of Wang Tong and Liu Sha. Even if Xia Yue talked about repaying debts, she was not treated harshly in life.
The food and accommodation here are much better than those she would have had outside. It was not a lie to have hurriedly kicked in the door to save her just now.
What made her depressed was that she, a seasoned and experienced professional, was being given guidance by a young man named Xia Yue. The key was that the guidance was correct.
Chapter completed!