"My lord, have mercy! My lord, have mercy! I am willing to recruit you! Please sir... have mercy on me!! Woo woo hoo..." Seeing the torture instrument in the hands of the policeman, Cuizhu's already panicky mood completely collapsed!
Yang Qingyuan waved his hand and said, "Please step aside for now!"
"yes!"
"Before you say it, I would like to say it again. According to my laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, any slave who beats his or her parents will be beheaded. Anyone who commits a crime will be punished with a light punishment to show the seriousness, and a heavy lifting to show the lightness. Beating is a capital crime. If a slave kills his master,
It is an unpardonable crime, and the crime should be punished by Ling Chi! Think clearly, you cannot bear this crime alone!"
"I've got all my slaves, please have mercy on me, sir, please have mercy on me!"
Cuizhu lay on the ground tremblingly, not daring to raise her head.
"Then you summoned me truthfully. If you deceive me again, I will immediately be thrown out and tortured!"
That night, the interrogation room in Dali Temple was brightly lit, and the case made significant progress overnight.
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The next morning, Li Xunhuan happened to be taking a nap, and was planning to go to Qingwu Courtyard to check whether any officials had left their posts without permission during the period.
When I turned the corner, I saw the servants of Jingzhao Yin Mansion walking in a hurry, and they also brought many doctors with them.
Li Xunhuan heard people nearby talking quietly.
"what happened?!"
"I do not know?!"
"I heard that there was an accident at the shipping terminal and many people died!" an old man with a white beard said, twirling his long beard.
"Mr. Guo, you are well-informed and can tell us something!" Everyone gathered around Mr. Guo when he heard this.
Mr. Guo put down the teapot in his hand, "I also heard from the sworn brother of my third niece's cousin. He is working as an errand at the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen! I heard that this is already the third day, and every day the shipping terminal is busy.
Someone died, almost eighty people died!"
"How did you die!?"
"I heard that the disease is transmitted from person to person, so be careful!"
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The Censor of the Gyeonggi Province has the power to supervise the government affairs of the Gyeonggi Province. After hearing the news, Li Xunhuan listened to the discussions of these people and decided to go to the shipping terminal to see the situation.
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On the other side, Di Zhiyuan and Yang Qingyuan interrogated Cuizhu all night, and after confirming that what they said was correct, they escorted Cuizhu back to the cell.
"Zhiyuan is worthy of being a master of criminal investigation. He is so good at catching people off guard!" Yang Qingyuan couldn't help but admire him. After blowing off Di Zhiyuan, Yang Qingyuan turned to ask, "Is it really impossible to confirm the time of Mrs. Li's death?
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Di Zhiyuan shook his head, "I can only know that Madam died between Sishi and Noon. The specific time is difficult to determine."
"What about the rouge in the food?"
"The rouge in the food does exist. Half truth and half lies are more convincing!"
Everything that happened last night was just a trap set up by Di Zhiyuan and Yang Qingyuan. Yang Qingyuan came up with the concept, and Di Zhiyuan worked on the details, and finally defrauded Cuizhu's confession.
According to Cuizhu, the instigator of this matter was Butler Li.
A month ago, Butler Li found her. Cuizhu didn't agree at first, but Butler Li forced her to take a chronic poison. Without an antidote, she would definitely die.
Cuizhu was just a maid and didn't know much, so she had no choice but to agree to Butler Li.
Butler Li was also very resourceful and agreed to take Cuizhu as his concubine and give her five thousand taels of silver as a gift.
After going back and forth, Cuizhu became determined to help Butler Li with his work.
Yesterday, Cuizhu was responsible for using medicine to stun the lady in the second floor room in advance, and then took the maid in the courtyard to start working.
At this time, Butler Li came to see his wife, and Cuizhu pretended to lead the way up to the second floor where her wife was.
Butler Li and Cuizhu worked together to hang the stunned Madam on the beam. During this process, Cuizhu imitated Madam's tone of voice from time to time, creating a sense in the courtyard that Madam was discussing matters with Butler Li.
Illusion.
It was just tea time, then Butler Li left and Cuizhu returned to the courtyard.
This has been calculated by Butler Li a long time ago. If he calculates from the murder to the disguised suicide by hanging, and then cleans up the traces in the house, it will take at least half an hour. Now Butler Li only spends a cup of tea in his wife's room, which greatly relieves his own pain.
suspicion.
At noon, Cuizhu entered the room with a food box, imitated the lady's speech in the room, and deliberately shouted her orders so that the maids in the courtyard could hear her, thinking that the lady was not dead, and then cleaned up any suspicious traces in the room.
In this way, Mrs. Li's death was successfully postponed.
Cuizhu deliberately opened the window before leaving.
Then Cuizhu took the food box and went to deliver the meal, just in time to create a proof of alibi. Cuizhu deliberately slowed down his walking pace and spent half an hour going back and forth. When Cuizhu returned, he and Cuizhu
A group of maids stayed together and never left. This success was a witness to one of them.
The method of committing the crime was not complicated. He just used the maid in the courtyard to confuse the time of death.
Although the logic is reasonable, Dali Temple has no evidence. If Cuizhu does not confess today, Dali Temple will still have to spend great efforts to investigate.
Most of the true identity of the case has been revealed, but Yang Qingyuan always has an unreal feeling.
This case is already complicated, but Yang Qingyuan feels that there is another layer of truth beneath the surface. For example, on the day the case was reported, who was the person spying in secret? Which force did he belong to? Is it related to this case?
Who was it that lured Ye Jianhan away that day? Was it simply to sow discord between Dali Temple and Shenhou Mansion?
For another example, why did Butler Li kill Li Bailiang? Which force did he belong to?
In the whirlpool of the capital, dark waves are rolling, and every move may have its own deep meaning!
"Zhiyuan, do you think this case has been solved?" Yang Qingyuan couldn't find the answer, so he could only ask for help from the Bingzhou detective beside him.
"Half of it has been solved. As long as we figure out the method and motive of butler Li Zhong's murder, we will have solved the problem!"
In Di Zhiyuan's opinion, this case is almost over.
"Then let me ask a question, who was the person who lured Jian Han away that day? Why did something happen in Li's house as soon as they lured Jian Han away? Is it a simple coincidence or is there a connection between the two!?"
As soon as Yang Qingyuan mentioned this matter, Di Zhiyuan's heart, which had been slowly letting go, started to rise again. He was the last person to believe in coincidences, but now such a coincidence happened right in front of him.
"What do you think, sir?"
Yang Qingyuan shook his head, "I have an intuition that this case is not that simple, but intuition cannot be used as evidence! Without the support of evidence, speculation can only be speculation!!"
Di Zhiyuan agreed with Yang Qingyuan's point of view. No matter how wonderful the reasoning is and how logical the guess is, without the support of evidence, it is just a piece of paper!
"Then let's investigate along the current clues first! If there is really another hidden secret, it will slowly emerge as we investigate."
While talking, Yang Qingyuan walked back to the desk and signed an arrest document for Li Zhong, the housekeeper of the Li Mansion.