Mrs. Liu was so shocked by Xuan Yu's martial arts that she opened her mouth and couldn't react for a long time. At the same time, she took a few steps back, fearing that Xuan Yu would throw her out if she had an impulse.

Liu Beichuan stepped forward and said to Sheng Qingyuan: "Sheng Qingyuan, don't fight fearlessly anymore. It's better for you to surrender and be lenient if you confess. If you really have something to hide, you may be forgiven and your punishment will be reduced so that you won't die."

After Sheng Qingyuan inserted the last needle into the old lady's hand, she stood up and looked at the group of people coldly, and asked coldly: "You keep saying that I killed someone, where is the evidence?"

Mrs. Liu said coldly: "This is the best evidence! The old lady was fine before, but the maid was already dead when she found you. At that time, there were only you and the old lady. It was not you who killed the old lady.

Who else could have killed him?"

Sheng Qingyuan sneered and said: "Fortunately you are not an official. If all the officials are like you in deciding cases, how many people will be unjustly killed in the end of the year?!"

The prefect was just about to interrupt when Mrs. Liu finished speaking, but after Sheng Qingyuan finished speaking, he swallowed the words that had reached his lips.

"Don't try to quibble. The facts are right in front of you. So many people have seen it. You can't deny it!" Mrs. Liu pointed at Sheng Qingyuan and said angrily.

Sheng Qingyuan snorted coldly and glanced around, "Since you said it was the maid who saw it, then I would like to see which maid saw it, and not someone who made it up out of thin air."

Mrs. Liu snorted heavily and said, "I won't do such a thing! Come on, stand up and let Mrs. Shen take a good look!"

At Mrs. Liu's insistence, a maid came out tremblingly, her head lowered, not daring to speak.

Sheng Qingyuan looked at her and asked in a cold voice: "Is this what you said when you saw me kill the old lady?"

The maid did not dare to look directly into Sheng Qingyuan's eyes. After a while, she nodded slightly and tremblingly.

"Then tell me, how did you see the person I killed and what did I do then?" Sheng Qingyuan asked her unhurriedly.

"At that time, at that time..." The maid hesitated. Not long after she started speaking, Sheng Qingyuan interrupted her and said, "Also, you saw me killing someone, so why didn't you stop it?

I?"

The maid felt a little relieved.

She answered this question!

"I, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that you will kill me together."

As Mrs. Liu listened to Sheng Qingyuan's questions one after another, she had a bad feeling in her heart. Could it be that she was about to escape?

no!

Mrs. Liu interrupted again: "That's enough! You are the prisoner. Even if you need to be interrogated, you should be interrogated instead of interrogating others!"

Sheng Qingyuan glanced at her lightly.

With such a seemingly indifferent look, Mrs. Liu couldn't help but subconsciously take a step back, and immediately looked away, not daring to meet Sheng Qingyuan's eyes.

"I just have a few questions that I don't understand, so I just want to ask for clarification. After all, even if you die, you have to die knowingly, right?" Sheng Qingyuan said meaningfully.

Seeing Sheng Qingyuan like this, everyone couldn't help but have questions in their hearts.

Although she said clearly that she wanted to die, for some reason, Sheng Qingyuan clearly had no intention of pleading guilty and dying.

"First, you said this maid saw the person I killed, why couldn't she recount the original situation?" Sheng Qingyuan asked.

"Maybe she is too scared. After all, not everyone is so cold and cold!" Mrs. Liu retorted.

Sheng Qingyuan raised her eyebrows and continued to ask: "Second, she said that I was the only one when she saw the old lady die. This statement is actually wrong. There was another person at the scene."

"who?"

Everyone pricked up their ears. Could this matter be reversed? Is there another murderer?

"She." Sheng Qingyuan pointed to the maid.

When Mrs. Liu heard this, she was greatly relieved.

Okay, okay, I thought someone else really saw it.

"You are just acting recklessly! She just witnessed you killing people, so of course she was there." Mrs. Liu sneered disdainfully.

Sheng Qingyuan said quietly: "She and I were the only two people at the scene, so what she said must be credible? She said that I killed someone, so I want to say that it was her who killed the person, and then fled in fear of crime. The thief shouted, catch the thief.

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"You are quibbling!"

Sheng Qingyuan's voice became colder, "How are you so sure that what I said is sophistry? There is also no third-party witness to prove it, so why are you so sure that what this maid told is the truth and what I told is a lie?"

Mrs. Liu was speechless for a moment.

After listening to Sheng Qingyuan's words, the others couldn't help but fall into thinking.

Yes, Sheng Qingyuan and the maid are the only two people who know about this matter. If they insist on their own story, then who knows who is lying?

"Later, all of us saw you next to the old lady! It was you who made the move." Madam Liu retorted forcefully.

Sheng Qingyuan chuckled and said sarcastically: "Let me ask you, if you killed someone, would you choose to leave quickly, or wait for people to come around, and then tell everyone, 'Come and see, come and see, I killed someone!'

"?"

Everyone nodded again after hearing this.

Yes, how can a murderer be so stupid as to kill someone and then just stay there, waiting for others to catch him?

"Maybe, maybe you just didn't have time to escape!" Mrs. Liu's mind was spinning rapidly, trying to think of a way to make up for it.

"It takes me more than a quarter of an hour to run back from this maid to find you, and then take you all the way back. And this location is only a cup of tea away from the back door. It's enough time for me to leave." Sheng Qingyuan didn't.

He quickly counted the numbers for Mrs. Liu.

While Mrs. Liu was still thinking about how to refute what Sheng Qingyuan said, Sheng Qingyuan said again:

"Take a step back, even if I can't leave, but look at the surrounding environment, there are many places where you can hide your body. I will find a place to hide, wait for you all to come, and then I will take advantage of the chaos to sneak in with you.

, isn’t this safer?”

Everyone was carried away by Sheng Qingyuan's words, and their heads were spinning little by little. The more they listened, the more they felt that what she said made sense.

"You, you, look at you, you have already thought of so many escape routes, you, you must have thought of doing this a long time ago!" Mrs. Liu thought for a long time, and finally said stutteringly.

Sheng Qingyuan smiled and shook her head, "Mrs. Liu, I'm really glad once again that it's not you who is the official."

Sheng Qingyuan looked at the prefect, "Master Su, what do you think?"

The prefect who was suddenly mentioned was stunned for a moment, and it took him a while to react, "What did you say?"

Everyone: "…………"

Sheng Qingyuan looked at the prefect with a half-smile but not a smile. Only then did the prefect react belatedly. Under everyone's gaze, he swallowed and raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

After a long time, the prefect finally found his voice: "I, I, I think there are a lot of doubts about this matter, but since you are the person involved, and there are people who have testified against you, you are still the most suspicious, and I need to take you into custody. Go back and investigate carefully!"

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Liu looked at Sheng Qingyuan proudly.

No matter how eloquent you are, so what? As long as you are in jail, don’t even think about the possibility of getting out!

Shen Zhao gave the prefect a cold look, and the prefect immediately lowered his head with a guilty conscience.

The moment he lowered his head, the prefect reacted belatedly.

No, he is a powerful magistrate. Why should he be afraid of a poor scholar?!

Besides, Master Zuo Mang was behind what happened this time. What does he have to be afraid of?!

Thinking of this, the prefect raised his head again and said angrily: "Come here, take the criminal Sheng Qingyuan back and interrogate him properly!"

As soon as the prefect finished speaking, a strong wind blew from his palm, and he was immediately knocked to the ground, knocking down several people in succession. The last person who was knocked down did not fall back, and his body was unstable.

He fell forward under control and hit the prefect hard on the waist who was just trying to get up.

The prefect suddenly felt as if his waist had been crushed, and he cried out in pain, "Ah————"

Liu Beichuan looked at this picture and frowned dissatisfied.

What a waste.

Then he looked at Shen Zhao, confused.

Where did the inexplicable palm wind just come from? It happened so suddenly that he couldn't even tell who made it.

But the only thing he could be sure of was that the person who took action was not inferior to him in martial arts, and was probably on par with him.

Is this person Shen Zhao or the secret guard hired by Sheng Qingyuan?

Liu Beichuan looked deeply at Shen Zhao, who had just walked to Sheng Qingyuan, and shook his head slightly.

It can't be him.

Before he left Zhushan Village, Shen Zhao was a weak scholar with no strength.

Even if Shen Zhao found someone to learn martial arts during his trip to the capital, it was impossible for him to have such strong internal strength in this short period of time.

Martial arts requires long-term accumulation, and there is no such thing as quick success.

Liu Beichuan's eyes finally fell on Xuan Yu. So, it could only be this secret guard.

Anyway, it’s right that they are from Sheng Qingyuan!

Liu Beichuan ordered in a cold voice: "Killing someone, and then attacking an official of the court, Sheng Qingyuan, your crime is heinous. If you are not taken into custody, it will be unforgivable. Someone, please take her down quickly!"

Shen Zhao looked at Liu Beichuan coldly, "Until now, you don't have any evidence to prove that it was the person Qingyuan killed. I think this maid was lying. Secondly, who attacked the imperial official? Did you see anyone? Did he take action? If you see it, please tell me who did it and how did it happen?"

Liu Beichuan opened his mouth and suddenly felt that Mrs. Liu was speechless when she faced Sheng Qingyuan just now.

Both of these couples have great mouths.

"That's why we have to take her back for questioning and investigation!" Liu Beichuan said.

Shen Zhao snorted coldly: "Are you doing an interrogation and investigation? Just now, you and the magistrate have committed crimes one by one, and each one has committed a heinous crime. I don't know, you thought you had found evidence, and found a third party's personal and material evidence!"

After saying that, before Liu Beichuan could speak, Shen Zhao looked at the maid aside and asked coldly: "Since you just said you saw the person Qingyuan killed, tell me clearly how you killed the person?" What kind of killing? Why didn’t the old lady scream for help from the beginning to the end?”

Shen Zhao looked at Mrs. Liu out of the corner of his eye and said meaningfully: "Don't tell me that you can't remember it because you are afraid. This kind of thing will only make you understand the scene more clearly now instead of forgetting it!"

Shen Zhao's voice was cold, and the aura released around him made everyone present couldn't help but tremble.
Chapter completed!