County magistrate Song Zhili dragged his exhausted body and panted heavily, and ran to the South Prison with Shen Mingchen, his daughter, and Cheng Xiao.
Hearing what the jailer wanted, Xu Zhen interrogated the monk in the prison for more than half an hour.
Song Zhili hurriedly asked what Xu Zhen was interrogating, but the jailer shook his head and said that Xu Zhen was interrogated alone and no one knew the specific situation.
Song Zhili was annoyed, but he also became curious, excited and hopeful. He really hoped that Xu Zhen could find out the whereabouts of his son and daughter...
Several people hurried to the yamen gate and happened to meet the county magistrate Chen Houlu who was also rushing there.
In recent days, Chen Houlu's main task is to stabilize the two high-ranking officials. He stays with them every day and serves them well.
Now, he also received a notice from Xu Zhen, asking him to come to the South Prison as soon as possible.
Therefore, Chen Houlu was more confused than Song Zhili and others. He didn't know what happened?
As a result, several people quickened their pace and finally arrived at the cell where monk Qi Yunzheng was being held.
Since he was a felon, he was naturally placed in a felon cell with iron doors.
When he went in, he saw that Qi Yun was holding back his face, his face was flushed, his eyes had turned red, and he looked extremely excited.
Xu Zhen, however, held three blood confessions and sat calmly on the interrogation chair opposite. He was completely opposite to the monk.
Seeing that the invitees had already arrived, Xu Zhen slowly stood up and greeted everyone.
"Xu Zhen!"
"Xu Zhen?"
"Senior Brother Xu..."
Everyone didn't know what to say, so they could only shout Xu Zhen's name in unison.
"This..." Song Zhili quickly looked at the monk, and then asked Xu Zhen anxiously, "What is going on here?"
"Xiaoyu," Xu Zhen snapped his fingers at Shen Yu and said two words simply, "Close the door!"
"Okay!" Shen Yu responded like a bell and slammed the iron door of the cell.
Due to the excessive force, dust fell from the roof, causing everyone to wave their hands and shrink their necks.
"Master Song," Xu Zhen said steadily, "I have asked! This monk is indeed hiding something from us, and he is finally willing to tell it. Please listen to it!"
"Ah?" Song Zhili was overjoyed and asked hurriedly, "Say quickly, Youwen and Yourong..."
"No..." Xu Zhen quickly stopped, "Sir Song, it's not this matter, it's... something else! It's also a very important matter."
"Oh?" Song Zhili was immediately disappointed and asked, "What's the matter?"
"I felt strange early in the morning," Xu Zhen said. "Since he has the confession of Magistrate Tong and others, and has held your children hostage, he wants to seek justice for his elder brother, so he doesn't seem to be guilty of taking the initiative to surrender at the Yamen. ?”
"This..." Song Zhili's mind was numb, and he couldn't figure out Xu Zhen's meaning for a while.
"But..." Chen Houlu could understand and said, "Isn't he going to die together?"
"No," Xu Zhen picked up the confession and said, "please compare the three confessions. Is Magistrate Tong's confession more polished?"
Everyone took a look and found that it was indeed the case. Although the other two copies were well written, they lacked strength and seemed to have been affected by the environment when they were written.
However, Magistrate Tong's confession was written vigorously, powerfully and neatly.
"This shows that Magistrate Tong's confession was transcribed later," Xu Zhen said. "Although it was transcribed, there were still alterations on it, so I suspect that Qi Yunzheng did not write down all of Magistrate Tong's confession. He There must be some important information left behind."
"Important information?" Chen Houlu asked, "Are you referring to the fact that Magistrate Tong broke the body of the second sister of the Qi family and threatened Dalang Qi with the lives of the two sisters?"
"No," Xu Zhen said, pointing to the blood book, "among the crossed out words, there should be a word '一'. What is not written above should be a piece of information about the beginning of the word '一'."
"..."
Everyone frowned.
Song Zhili couldn't bear it anymore and shouted impatiently: "Xu Zhen, please stop being so pretentious and tell me quickly, what exactly did you find?"
"Qi Yunzheng," Xu Zhen pointed at the monk, "In this case, let him speak for himself!"
As soon as these words came out, the scene suddenly became quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on the monk.
"Huh, huh..." The monk snorted ferociously, his face even redder than before. He glanced around at everyone present, then stared at Xu Zhen and said, "I didn't expect that your Yanping County Government really
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, if there had been such a person back then, my eldest brother would not have been unjustly killed!"
"Thank you." Xu Zhen responded lightly.
"Okay, okay," Qi Yunzheng said, "Originally, my plan was to wait until the last moment to remind you. Since this little catcher saw through it, I might as well tell you in advance!
"I did come to the Yamen for a purpose. The missing link in Magistrate Tong's confession must be told to you personally by me!"
ah?
Everyone opened their eyes wide, their curiosity reaching its peak.
"The wrong word '一' is followed by 'one month later'," Qi Yunzheng finally said the answer, "Magistrate Tong told me that one month after my eldest brother was wrongly imprisoned, Yanping County...
In the garbage dump in the alley behind Jiaofangsi, another disfigured female corpse appeared!!!"
The monk gritted his teeth when he said the last two words, and everyone's heart beat faster when he heard them.
And just after these words were spoken, Cheng Xiao shuddered in response, and cold sweat broke out on his face...
Although he was behind the crowd and no one noticed his abnormal reaction, the monk's next words shattered his luck.
"Captain Cheng, how long do you want to pretend to be deaf and dumb?" Qi Yunzheng shouted loudly, "As the person involved, don't you want to talk to everyone?"
"I..." Cheng Xiao was shocked, his legs felt weak, and he stepped back repeatedly.
"ah!?"
This time, everyone's eyes turned to Cheng Xiao uniformly.
Song Zhili's eyes widened in disbelief. Although his brain was no longer full, he still realized that there was something wrong with Cheng Xiao.
"Cheng Xiao..." he asked quickly, "What's going on? You...you know?"
"Don't... don't listen to him," Cheng Xiao had no choice but to deny it, "He's talking nonsense, don't listen to him!"
"Okay?" However, Xu Zhen extinguished Cheng Xiao's stubborn resistance with just one sentence, "Since the monk is talking nonsense, let's ask County Magistrate Tong, okay? Don't forget that he still has one eye that can be used.
, we can write it out and see if he nods or shakes his head, okay?"
"This...I...oh..." Cheng Xiao was speechless, big beads of sweat rolled down his cheeks, as if washed with water.
"What?" Qi Yunzheng was stunned, "The old thief...isn't dead?"
"Cheng Xiao!!!" Song Zhili finally saw the problem and immediately became furious. Cheng Xiao shouted, "Speak quickly, what is going on? If you don't tell me, don't blame me for being rude!"
Seeing Song Zhili trying to wave to the jailer outside, Cheng Xiao's psychological defense completely collapsed. He immediately knelt down and defended loudly:
"Sir Song, you can't blame me entirely! At that time, Chen Tiefeng and I were just small detectives. We didn't dare not listen to what County Magistrate Tong said, we didn't dare not listen..."
"What?" Song Zhili's eyes widened, "And Chen Tiefeng?"