At that moment, the extreme fear made Zeng Su completely lose his self-control, and his pants became wet in an instant.
But he saw him kneeling on the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic, making his forehead covered with blood. While he was kowtowing, he kept muttering nonsense such as "I'm sorry for you" and "please let me go".
Such a reaction is enough for Captain Zhou.
In Zhou Wu's opinion, the case has been solved at this moment and the murderer has been found. As for the matter of "let him confess", it is the simplest.
Don’t say it was you Zeng Su, so what if it were Song Gongming? When I got to the court, how many people could really withstand it?
To put it short, when Zeng Su understood what was going on, Mr. Zeng, Captain Zhou, Sun Yixie, and Huang Donglai were already sitting in front of him.
The second wife's body was temporarily placed on the couch in Zeng Su's room by them, and the glazed fish was also placed on the table.
As for other servants and servants, they were ordered to wait outside the house. After all, this matter is considered a family scandal... It should not be made public.
"Okay." Zhou Wu also showed his captain's style at this time and said in a tone of kindness and power, "You and I have some friendship, so I will advise you with kind words... A man is a real man, dare to act and take responsibility. As long as you take the initiative to explain the matter clearly, let me have an explanation with the yamen. I guarantee that you will not suffer any extra flesh and blood, otherwise..."
This is all cliché, but it is indeed the truth.
There are many murderers who know that if they are attacked, they will die, so they will be lucky. At this time, the official rarely comes to persuade him personally, so people like the captain come up and talk to the prisoner a few words "the truth".
The general meaning of this set of rhetoric is: the result of your hard work is nothing more than being pulled out to court every day, beating a board every day, the wound heals, and it will be rotten... It hurts every day, and finally dies in prison due to infection, and dies in pain and ugly.
But if you ask, at least you have the title of being brave enough to act and take responsibility. After the painting is taken, you don’t have to suffer any hardship in the prison. After the autumn, you will have to eat beheading food and go to the market to shout "I will be a hero again in 18 years" and let the executioner give you a happy time, and you will be considered decent. In our yamen, the official documents for closing the case can be made more beautiful, and the master and the police have also achieved achievements.
The above set of things is a set of unspoken rules in the judicial process that accompany "severe torture and force confession"; the entire process behind it is indeed efficient, but it often leads to unjust, false and wrong cases.
Unfortunately, this was already the most advanced system at that time.
In that era, the so-called "clear observation" refers nothing more than the county magistrate's experience in case-based judgment, such as the ability to observe words and expressions. Sometimes the judgment of some cases will even depend on the county magistrate's mood when the case is tried...
Therefore, there are many evildoers who are free from justice and unlucky people who are unfair to die, but there are indeed.
Fortunately, there are no mistakes in Zeng Su's matter.
Zeng Su, whose psychological defense line has collapsed, is not the kind of person who will fight to the death...
He pondered for a while, asked for a pot of wine, sat on the ground and stuffed three cups, and then told everything.
Mr. Zeng's face turned ashen, and his body trembled from time to time, but at least he restrained his emotions and did not lose his composure.
After Zeng Su finished giving the explanation, Captain Zhou waited for a few seconds, then came to Master Zeng's ear and asked, "Master... Look, what should I do about this?"
Zhou Wu is a sensible person, and this question is indeed the one that should be asked Zeng Yun.
Everyone in Luzhou City knows that in this Luzhou, it is the "real-minister of the county, and the iron-killed Mr. Zeng". How should the final decision be made? The magistrate said nothing, and he has to listen to Zeng Yun.
Mr. Zeng calmed down a little before he said, "Murder for life, you can do your business..."
Zhou Wu knew that there should be a "but" after this sentence, so he did not respond, but waited.
Sure enough, after a brief pause, Mr. Zeng continued: "But... I don't want this incident in my Zeng family to cause trouble in the city, and everyone knows it..."
"Then..." Zhou Wu thought, "How about this... the previous murders would be handled according to the original "haunted" statement, and only the final death of He Da was pressed on Zeng Su, which said that the two of them were not in harmony, and after He Da left the mansion, he was still pestering Zeng Su and wanted to extort more money from the Zeng family. As a result, Zeng Su had the intention to kill and poisoned him... What do you think, Master?"
After hearing this, Mr. Zeng thought about it for a while and felt that for outsiders who were unaware of the inside story, this set of rhetoric was already complete, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then it's time for Captain Zhou to do it." He paused, "I'll draft a letter later and inform the magistrate of the matter. I'm also asking Captain Zhou to pass it on."
"It should." Zhou Wu said in advance.
After saying this, Mr. Zeng threw a cold look at Zeng Su: "Hmph... At the end, I have left you a good reputation, right?"
Zeng Su quickly changed to kneeling and kowtowed another one for Mr. Zeng, but he couldn't say a word.
"By the way..." At this time, Zhou Wu remembered something again and reminded Zeng Yun, "That second wife's personal maid, you still know a lot of inside information. Mr. Zeng, if you don't want the news to leak..."
With this sentence, it was obvious that Zhou Wu's vicious side was coming.
In fact, even if he didn't mention this, Zeng Yun knew it in his mind. He would deal with the maid later, but he said it now, just reminding Zeng Yun to get rid of the roots as soon as possible.
Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were listening, and were also secretly frightened, thinking... Fortunately, we are both old guys and have not had too deep friendship with this guy, otherwise it would not be possible to be sold by him one day.
After hearing Zhou Wu's words, Zeng Yun snorted coldly, as if he had made some decision.
Then he got up and called a few servants who were on standby outside the house to bring the maid.
Unexpectedly, a few minutes later, a servant came back to report that the maid had hanged herself in the room.
Now... it's another life.
However, Zeng Yun didn't care much about this, because even if she didn't hang herself, she would be beaten to death.
That night, Zhou Wu went to the yamen to transfer a few subordinates on duty, moved the second wife's body back to the temple, and collected the body for the second wife's maid... For him, the case was over here; he had already obtained a "murderer", which was enough for him to hand in the job to his superiors for his merits, and at the same time he also sold Mr. Zeng a favor.
But for Zeng Yun, there is still a major mystery in this case who is the "faceless woman"? Why did she instigate Zeng Su behind the scenes for?
Before solving this mystery, Zeng Yun was still unable to fully let go of the matter, so that night... he had already thought about finding someone to start from the pawnshop shopkeeper as soon as possible and try to track down the woman...
…………
The next morning.
Mr. Zeng came to see Sun Huang and the others off in person.
At this time, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai no longer acted as Taoist priests; after the case was solved last night, they explained their true identities and the reasons why they pretended to be Taoist priests in front of Mr. Zeng.
Mr. Zeng thanked the two young heroes who were helping each other when they saw the injustice. After learning that they were going to Luoyang, Zeng Yun asked the servants in the mansion to pick two good horses from the stable to give them to him without saying a word.
Sun and Huang did not refuse much, because the high-speed rail bus tickets that Huang Donglai had bought before were invalid, so they had to buy horses again, so it would be better to accept them, so as not to lose Mr. Zeng's face.
At the beginning of Si hour, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai rode out of Luzhou City and continued to head northwest.
Zhou Wu... didn't come to see them off.
Although Captain Zhou did hear them telling them when they would leave today last night, it was obvious that his friendship with these two "virtuous brothers" was not as good as that.
Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai didn't care about this either. After all, they were both people who seemed much older than their actual age. Last night they had seen clearly who Zhou Wu was. If they really got into friendship with such a person, it would be troublesome.
Chapter completed!