Yun Xi heard half of it and couldn't help but stand up straight and asked curiously: "Master Niu wants to plead guilty? What does he think?"

"You don't know what's good or bad! Or he was kicked in the head by a donkey. Hey, Miss Yun, do you think he was frightened when he saw a dead person? How can a great scholar speak without distinguishing between right and wrong..."

Ah Shan was illiterate, and he also knew that it was Lu Qingfan who was responsible for this case, so he did not directly convict Master Niu of murder, and even brought his subordinates to investigate the truth and find the real culprit behind the scenes.

If you were an ordinary person, wouldn't you hide as far as you can and close the case as soon as possible?

"According to the neighbors, as soon as the old official of Shuntian Prefecture heard that something happened to Academician Niu, he passed the job to the Criminal Department! Their Shuntian Prefecture doesn't care about every case now. It should be called a 'blame-shifting house' instead.

?”

Qingguo burst out laughing, "It's over, Miss, once this cold and aloof swordsman came to our Criminal Department, he became a talkative and funny person, and he lost all of his airs as a killer!"

"What kind of killer am I..." A-Shan blushed at the little maid's teasing, "I just like to tell the truth."

"Don't tell the truth." Yun Xi pretended to be serious: "If Magistrate Xun hears about it, it will be over for the Criminal Department."

Lu Qingfan's act of recruiting "violent criminals" like Ah Shan to wait for fishing is hard to say or not. If the outside yamen knows about it, I'm afraid it will be necessary to read Lu Qingfan's book.

A-Shan also knew that he was a flaw, so he said: "Don't you dare, don't you dare, I will tell you in front of you."

"A-Shan is still a good 'killer' who knows what he's doing," Qingguo teased him with a smile, then lowered his head and started looking for clues.

Yun Xi had already walked out of the pool of blood and walked to the door.

The beautiful peach blossom eyes slowly searched around from the door frame; since the murderer left after fastening the thin steel wire, the inside and outside of the door must be the easiest place to generate clues.

He moved his eyes inch by inch and suddenly found a blood spot somewhere.

"Qingguo, give me an oil lamp," Yun Xi called without even turning her head.

"Here we come!" Qingguo immediately lit the oil lamp on the table and took it over.

The master and servant squatted on the ground with their little heads together to watch the drop of blood.

Ah Shan was so curious about what they found that he jumped out of the window and landed next to Yun Xi and Yun Xi. He raised his head and stared at the greasy black blood on the ground and asked curiously: "What's so good about blood?"

"It's different," Yun Xi pursed her lips and said, "It's impossible for the blood of the deceased to drip here."

Niu Jingyuan did not enter the house after the accidental murder. Zu Ling, who was tied to a chair and left to die by the murderer, did not have any external injuries on his body.

Both of them were too far away from the hiding place behind the door.

"It could also be that it was splashed out when the head was cut off!" A-Shan gave a reasonable explanation.

"It's unlikely. Look at the marks on the ground."

Yun Xi took out a small tool from his sleeve and dipped it into the blood. Qingguo couldn't help but explain to the still confused A-Shan: "It only took a moment for the deceased's head to be severed, so the splattered blood was all near the body, and some of it was close to the body.

It’s also stained by the blood flowing back from the head.”

However, most of the blood stains on the deceased's body flowed from the wound on his neck to his clothes due to the deceased's sitting position.

A large part of the blood stains on the ground came from the heads of the deceased.

"That is to say..."

"That is to say, Master Niu didn't come in. If the deceased's head was severed, the only one who would leave blood behind the door would be the murderer." A-Shan spread his hands: "It seems like the murderer won't live long either?"

Yun Xi glanced at Ah Shan in surprise and asked, "How did you know?"

She is a doctor, so she can see that this amount of blood must have been shed suddenly; is A-Shan also proficient in medical skills?

"For those of us who practice martial arts, if we get injured a little more, we will become half a doctor. The blood stains on the ground are so big, they must not have been beaten by someone. They accidentally flowed out and dripped on the ground, and the murderer didn't even react. Otherwise,

It won’t leave any traces.”

The more A-Shan said it, the more it sounded like that. He felt like he was already a detective, and he smiled proudly with his hands on his hips several times.

Yun Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said helplessly: "It's really amazing. It would be better if he didn't laugh so loudly."

Unexpectedly, the murderer suffered from a hidden disease, which explains why he was eager to get away with it...

Then I thought about it, did the murderer have other things to do, so he chose Niu Jingyuan as a scapegoat?

Yun Xi stood up, looked at the library that was stained with a fishy smell by blood, and murmured: "Hasn't the murderer's goal been achieved yet?"

Then there will be another victim.

Ministry of Punishment.

Let's say that Lu Qingfan and Fan Zhi went to the dungeon to interrogate Niu Jingyuan.

Sitting slumped on the ground, Niu Jingyuan seemed to have lost all five senses. He did not even put some weeds under his buttocks. He allowed the cold and cold air of the dungeon to invade, and his lips began to turn purple from the cold.

When Lu Qingfan saw this, he glanced at Fan Zhi, who looked confused.

Ru Ye's cold eyes glanced at the door lock, and then Fan Zhi reacted and immediately opened the door lock.

Lu Qingfan helped Niu Jingyuan sit on the haystack beside the bed, and said calmly: "Life or death is uncertain, but Master Niu lost his life first."

Niu Jingyuan raised his eyes drowsily, looked at Lu Qingfan's cold and determined look and smiled bitterly: "Too many things have happened, I can't handle them all..."

People live with a lot of energy. If that energy dissipates, even if the case is solved, it will be difficult to continue.

"If you were tricked by someone and your family was ruined, and you died in peace without knowing the truth, then you might as well say 'family reunion' when you see your son."

Lu Qingfan was really an old hermaphrodite. When he said this, he was so stunned that Niu Jingyuan couldn't react for a long time.

"Mr. Lu, are you saying that our father and son were plotted by someone?" Niu Jingyuan connected many key points, and realized that his sentence "too many things happened" was really interconnected and was bound to force the Niu family to death.

Plan.

Lu Qingfan saw that Niu Jingyuan's face was flushed with anger, and finally no longer looked pale and dejected, and then he reminded: "It seems that the master has thought of the key."

"I am an upright person and act with dignity. I have never... no, it doesn't count as 'never'." Niu Jingyuan opened his mouth and murmured: "There is one thing that has made it difficult for me to sleep or eat just thinking about it for many years.

install."

"What's the matter?" Lu Qingfan asked in a deep voice.

"A few years ago, I felt sympathy for a book and revealed the policy and essay questions for the scientific examination."

Lu Qingfan's eyes darkened: "But ten years ago?"

"Absolutely...it's been too long, I really can't remember it."

When Niu Jingyuan said this, he was rather embarrassed, "I was young and energetic at the time, and when I saw how unfair the imperial examination was, I became angry and complained. Unexpectedly, I was scolded by the emperor and impeached by my colleagues who did not deal with it."

In anger, Niu Jingyuan drank too much.

At that time, a few poor candidates were complaining about the current ills in an inn. Niu Jingyuan got excited and briefly said a few words...

After that day, Niu Jingyuan, who was impeached by the imperial censor one after another, was demoted to the seventh rank. Over the years, he became a close minister of the emperor and returned to the rank of fifth rank Hanlin scholar.

Lu Qingfan's pupils were so shocked by Niu Jingyuan's words: "Sir, do you still remember what the leaked test questions are related to?"

Niu Jingyuan said solemnly: "I don't remember the specific words. I just pointed out the supervision of the construction of dams and the restructuring of salt and iron."

really.

"The scientific research policy at that time stated that it would supervise people's livelihood and reform the salt and iron system to do things that benefit the people."

Not long after, the "Jiangnan Imperial Examination Fraud Case" broke out, which caused a sensation for several years. The entire Bai Kun family was executed, and several people were implicated. Students from Jiangnan were not allowed to enter the officialdom for ten years.

Bai Zheng, the only daughter of the Bai family, became an orphan and went to Beijing under the pseudonym Yun Xi to wait for an opportunity to redress her injustice; and his parents also...

Lu Qingfan's expressionless expression was in a state of mind like a turbulent sea, and the joints in his grip on the sword had turned white.

The root cause of the old case loomed in the capital more than ten years later. Niu Jingyuan's drunken words became the wings of butterflies and swept the storm to the south of the Yangtze River.

"Although I was drunk, I still spoke in an organized manner and didn't really reveal the topic!" Niu Jingyuan saw Lu Qingfan's face looking so ugly and hurriedly tried to make amends for himself.

Lu Qingfan sneered coldly: "Sir, why should you deceive yourself? What can make you sleep soundly all night are not just a few words, but the ghosts of the Bai family who have died for unknown reasons for ten years, and the students from Jiangnan who have ruined their futures for ten years! And because of this

The Qianwan family was implicated..."

Niu Jingyuan's misfortunes came from his mouth and caused disasters to several people. Isn't it difficult every night?

"Don't blame Mr. Niu for his willingness to plead guilty rather than delaying the year of the big exam to discuss the test questions. It turns out that the root lies here."

Lu Qingfan was like the living king of hell who judged sins, tortured on Niu Jingyuan's soul every word.

He is indeed guilty!

The sin is unforgivable!

Lu Qingfan could no longer control the anger in his heart, so he turned around and left the cell.

Niu Jingyuan was so worried that he threw himself on the door railing and cried bitterly: "Shilang Lu, please listen to what I have to say! I can't stop the official from blaming him for his crime, and I won't give up even if I die, but I don't want to bring up the old things again!"

Otherwise, otherwise there will be another river of blood..."

"Do you also know how much you were responsible for the bloodshed?"

Lu Qingfan suddenly turned his head, and a cold light as sharp as a knife shot out, piercing Niu Jingyuan's face: "If you still want to make up for your mistakes, you should tell everything about the past one by one, and tell those who accounted for it.

To comfort the poor people who have deliberately revealed their problems for the sake of gain, in order to comfort the unjust souls who have died in vain over the past ten years!"

Niu Jingyuan's face turned pale, and he even forgot to shed tears. He looked at Lu Qingfan blankly, as if he was still weighing whether he could say it or not.
Chapter completed!