"What was the name of the one who died? Was he beaten very hard?" He Qizhou continued to ask.
"I only know that my surname is Wang. I was beaten quite hard."
"How come you don't know the name?" He Qizhou asked curiously.
"Oh, Sir, he is new here. It is said that he was captured by the Bingzhou Army during the attack on Qingcheng. We all have numbers. I am Jia Er and he is Bing Si, so I don't know his name." Jia Er answered respectfully.
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He Qizhou turned back to check the injuries of the dead body on the ground. He was wearing very little, so he could see the wounds clearly without taking off his clothes. He turned over several times and determined that the fatal injury was in the center of the head, and the skull was damaged.
It had been smashed to pieces. The skin on his back was torn and there were more than a dozen whip marks. In addition, the back of his right hand was bloody and fleshy, and the bones on the joints were looming.
While He Qizhou was inspecting the body, Lian Wen from Mutang suddenly came over, squatted next to He Qizhou and whispered: "I've seen the body too, and it was indeed killed by a collision. Why don't we knock Ou Peng a little more, and we'll get the right result.
How about half a point?”
"This is what you learned in Mutang?" He Qizhou said mercilessly.
"Humph!" Lian Wen left in shame.
"How long have you been dead? Why are there injuries on the back of your hands?" He Qizhou asked Jia Er.
"About an hour. We don't know the injury on the back of the hand. It may have been rubbed on the ground when he was dragged out." Jia Er said.
"Is this how you stand when you die?"
"Okay, it seems so."
"Why are there bloodstains on your bodies? Were you whipped too?"
"No, no, we wanted to hold him, but we were too late. Later, when we moved him out, several people had his blood on them," Jia Er said.
He Qizhou looked back at Ou Peng and said, "Who discovered the dead person here first?"
"It's Ah Da, sir. Although the wound is ugly, the blow was actually not heavy..." Ou Peng said.
"Shut up! Who is Ada?" He Qizhou said.
"It's me!" A burly man stood out from behind Ou Peng.
"When did you find the body? What did the body look like at that time?"
"When they were screaming in the woodshed, I rushed over and took a look. It looked like this when they died. But they were lying down." Ah Dadao.
"Take me to the woodshed to have a look." The corpse was lying on its back, its face had been distorted by the violent impact, and it looked extremely frightened. He Qizhou finally touched the knees of the corpse and stood up behind his elbows.
Come.
Ou's family was very big, and the woodshed was not too small. There was a row of hay along the east wall, which could be regarded as a floor for six people. The west side of the woodshed was piled with dry firewood. Ou Peng couldn't help but said: "The ears of wheat are hidden in the woodshed."
At the bottom of the pile, there are at least more than a hundred kilograms!"
"How can we take away so much?" He Qizhou asked.
"Old Man Kong's family will send a cart to take them back the day after tomorrow, and they will definitely find a way to hide them in the cloth bags containing their luggage." Ou Peng said, pointing to the six dirty cloth bags beside the wall.
He Qizhou carefully observed the firewood shed. There was a pool of light blood on the middle column of the firewood shed five feet above the ground. The blood droplets were scattered, and the base of the column and the surrounding ground were soaked in a large amount of blood. He Qizhou made firewood by himself.
As we walked from the house to the front yard, there were indeed drops of blood, but there were no traces of dragging until the front yard.
"Please stand up and line up in a line." He Qizhou asked the five slaves at the foot of the wall to stand up. After observing carefully, he asked the five people to change their positions. Then he took another look, nodded silently, and said, "I have something to say.
I want to ask you..." "They are all my people, why ask? If I had known it would be so troublesome, why not report it to the official tomorrow!" When Kong Decai saw He Qizhou walking in and out, he didn't know what he was doing, and he was worried that the other party was preparing
He could not help but said angrily when he explained to Ou Peng.
"Old Man Kong, he is from the government." Ou Peng said hurriedly since he didn't want to see the official.
"Is he a county policeman or a county government official? Come on, do you want to give me money or not? I'll see you at the county government office tomorrow!" Kong Decai said.
"Brother Kong, can you order less? This year's tax is so heavy." Ou Peng lost his confidence for a moment.
Kong Decai looked at the Lian brothers beside him, shook his head and said, "No, I already want less."
"Boss District, please wait a moment." Seeing that District Peng seemed to be determined to pay for the trouble, He Qizhou hurriedly advised him. Then he pulled Captain He aside and asked a few words in a low voice.
Helian Changji humbly replied with a long string of words, and the people in the courtyard just looked at the two of them and muttered, not knowing what they were doing.
"Is there anything you can't say clearly? Master Kong, if you can't get any benefits tonight, if you continue to struggle, you will have to report to the official tomorrow." Lian Wu couldn't bear his temper and shouted.
He Qizhou shouted loudly: "Shut up! Something happened suddenly. Tutang has the right to handle the case. Kong Decai, I will talk to you later. District boss, can you lend me a step to speak?"
"Okay, Mr. Zhou, please come inside." Ou Peng took He Qizhou to the back room. Kong Decai thought that the two were going to discuss how to bargain, so he stopped calling and started discussing with the Lian brothers.
"Are you ready to pay this thousand taels?" He Qizhou asked Ou Peng in the room.
"Then what else can we do? Otherwise Ada and I will have to go to court, and the money we have to spend will be far more than this amount." Ou Peng said.
"If you give me one thousand taels, what will happen to the Kong family in the future?" He Qizhou asked.
"Then they will make a written statement that they will pay compensation just because Bingsi committed suicide for no reason." Ou Peng said.
"Bingsi committed suicide and needs to pay one thousand taels? Will anyone believe it? If you report it to the official again, won't you get it all back! Is Kong Decai willing to sign?" He Qizhou asked in return.
"Then what should we do?" Ou Peng asked anxiously.
He Qizhou said: "According to what you said, you go and make a written statement: Bingsi committed suicide for no reason, and Qu Peng compensated the silver hole and got fifty taels of wealth. From now on, the two will not owe each other anything."
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"Kong Decai loves money as much as his life, how can he be willing to sign a bond?" Ou Peng looked at He Qizhou in disbelief.
"You pay me eight hundred taels, and I will help you solve this matter. I will let Kong Decai sign and stamp the document." He Qizhou said.
Ou Peng thought for a while and said: "If he can really make a bet, eight hundred taels will be eight hundred taels!"
"Then go and prepare the documents and silver. Also, call in the shortest of the five slaves." He Qizhou said.
"Okay." Ou Peng called people in as he congratulated Qizhou.
"Have you tried to kill Bingsi?" He Qizhou's first question frightened the slave half to death, shaking his whole body and shaking his head.
"say!"
"No, no."
"Is it just the four of them?"
"Yes, no, no, no."
"What is your name?"
"Jia Liu."
"What's your original name? Where are you from? When did you become a slave?" He Qizhou slowed down his tone. The man in front of him was already full of slaves, and there was no trace of a soldier's atmosphere.
"The villain's original name is Cao Yun, a native of Ganzhou in the Southern Qi Dynasty. He has been a slave here since he was captured in Xiazhou last year." "I know that it was you who killed someone. The reason why I just call you one is to give you a sense of self.
A chance to prove innocence." He Qizhou said.
"Sir, Xiao, Xiao, no, I don't understand what you are talking about." Cao Yundao said.
"I am very sure that you killed the person. What is missing now is the witness. If you ask one by one, there will always be someone who wants to commit crimes. I will give you one last chance. It's up to you whether you want to or not." He Qizhou said lightly.
Cao Yun suddenly knelt down and said: "Sir, I didn't do anything, but, I really don't dare to be a witness, they will definitely kill me too!"
"If you didn't do anything and are willing to testify, I can consider taking you away." He Qizhou also thought of this possibility and prepared to rescue him.
"Thank you, sir, for your kindness. It was Jia Er's idea and the four of them took action! As long as, as long as you can take me away, I am willing to serve you like a cow for the rest of my life!" Cao Yundao said.
"I don't want your service. If you are willing to testify, I can keep you safe." After He Qizhou finished speaking to Cao Yun, he called out to the courtyard outside the house: "Kong Decai——"
Kong Decai did not come in alone, but brought the Lian brothers with him.
"I just want to have a private chat with Boss Kong. Can you two go out for a while?" He Qizhou said.
"To obtain people's money and eliminate disasters, we can be considered as members of the government and are familiar with the laws. If you have anything to say, it's okay for Mr. Zhou to say it." Lian Wen said.
"Yes, yes. What do you mean, Mr. Zhou, when people in the open do not do secret things?" Kong Decai concluded that He Qizhou had been bribed by Ou Peng.
"What I want to say is really a secret matter." He Qizhou stopped chasing people away and said with a smile. Xu Mu in the courtyard was worried that something happened to He Qizhou, so he also brought Helian Changji into the room.
"Don't let anyone come in again." He Qizhou motioned to Xu Mu to close the door, and then said to Kong Decai: "Master Kong, if I say that someone else killed Bingsi, will you still get the thousand taels?"
"It's a joke, then of course I can ask other murderers for it," Kong Decai said.
"Then what if it was one of your minions who committed the murder?" He Qizhou asked again.
"How is that possible? You, you, you dare to bend the law for personal gain?" Kong Decai said angrily.
"Of course I don't dare. Of course I have evidence." He Qizhou said.
"Nonsense!" Kong Decai was even more angry. His son was a tornado with thousands of households, so how could he be afraid of a mere hundred households in a local church?
"Master Kong, you might as well listen to what he has to say." Lian Wen said.
"Okay, but before I talk, I want to ask Brother Lian a question."
"Mr. Zhou, you're welcome. Please ask."
"What crime should a slave commit for killing someone?"
"Of course you have to kill someone to pay for it with your life."
"What if the people killed were also slaves?"
"In addition to paying for his life, the murderer's owner also has to pay the other party's owner money." Lian Wen said.
"Then can I say this, no matter who the master is or who is killed, as long as the slave kills someone, he must pay with his life?" He Qizhou asked. These are the same questions He Qizhou asked Helian Changji just now
, at this time, ask the other party to confirm again.
"That's true." Lian Wen said.
"Okay, Bingsi was killed by four other slaves of the Kong family. The witness is this Jialiu. Oh, his real name is Cao Yun." He Qizhou said.
"Humph, I expected you to have bad intentions. Do you think you can bribe him? Jialiu, if you dare to testify indiscriminately, I'll beat you to death!" Kong Decai shouted at Jialiu.