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Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Surrender into a move

"If I don't cooperate, what will you do? I'll beat you up and sentence me to murdering my wife?" The big man laughed and didn't care about Ji Xuan's words.

"You'd better not slander the Yamen again and again. Let me ask you, how do you get up the mountain every time?" Ji Xuan pushed the big man and asked loudly.

Ji Xuan didn't push it and remained leaning on the door motionless.

"You're going up the mountain." The big man refused to cooperate and moved his hand again. This time, his hand was on the door latch.

But Ji Xuan's hand was also on the door latch.

The big man held Ji Xuan's hand, and Ji Xuan resisted and pressed against the door latch, motionless, while using her other hand to push the big man hard.

Ji Xuan used her strength and the big man was pushed back two steps, but he immediately regained his footing.

Busily walking up step by step, the flames shook violently, and suddenly I remembered the knocking on the door several times in a row.

The flames were extinguished by the sound.

Ji Xuan's hand on the door latch tightened again subconsciously.

It wasn't until he heard a crisp whistle mixed with the word "open the door" that he took a step back and opened the door to let the two of them in.

"What are you doing? Attacking the government? I can tell you, as a citizen, if you cause damage to an official or the government to a certain extent, you will be guilty of conspiracy under the Daman Law. I will sit back." Zhang Xuan said.

Li held a killing stick and approached step by step.

The big man saw several government servants looking at him eagerly outside, so he had no choice but to retreat and sit down again.

When Zhang Xuan saw the big man sitting back, he stepped forward and pulled down the mechanism on the stool, preventing the big man from moving easily.

Seeing that although the big man resisted a little, he didn't make too many moves, he asked the government officials outside to retreat.

At this time, Zhang Xuancai used the faint light to look at Ji Xuan, who was sitting on another stool, and Fang Wu, who was putting his elbow on the back of the stool and supporting his chin.

After a while, he finally felt something was wrong and said, "Why don't you light the wax?"

"Where?" Ji Xuan asked naturally.

Even in the dark room, Fang Wu seemed to see the annoyance in Zhang Xuan's eyes.

While blowing deeply, Fang Wu heard the footsteps mixed with her words: "We found scraps of paper in your house, and someone was imitating the deceased's notes. Has anyone been to your house on weekdays?

Or who did the deceased have a better relationship with?"

This news was told to her by the yamen servants when she first entered the yamen.

In the lime basin on the back wall of the yard, there are some scraps of paper that have not been completely burned, and there is some carbon ash in it, but it is impossible to determine what kind of carbon ash it is.

"I don't know, I went out early in the morning and didn't come back until late at night." The big man struggled to free himself for a while, but then said to no avail.

After the big man's voice fell, Zhang Xuan lit the candle with the fire stick in Ji Xuan's hand and sat on the table.

"How do you go up the mountain?" Ji Xuan said without any sign of weakness.

"The one upstream of the river." "Isn't that the only way up the mountain? What other way could there be?" The big man's two-sentence answer was a bit deliberate, although it didn't sound like there was anything wrong with it.

But obviously, there is a pause between the two sentences.

"Your son said that you and the deceased wanted money and had a conflict. Can you elaborate?" Ji Xuan followed closely, not giving the big man a chance to breathe.

"She didn't give it to me because she choked a few words. It was just a child making a fuss." The big man said matter-of-factly.

"We found black pockmarked seeds in the house, can you tell me where you bought them?" Fang Wu interrupted.

"Wumazi? What is it? Where did you find it?" The big man was stunned for a moment and asked bluntly.

After hearing this, Ji Xuan suddenly came out of the door and dragged her head towards the morgue.

Fang Wu saw it and followed him subconsciously.

Zhang Xuan climbed over the table in an awkward manner, sat on the chair, and said calmly: "Let's go for a walk in the mountains."

"In addition, there are some other things going on these days. What do you really don't know about Wu Mazi?" Zhang Xuan said playfully, but his eyes were watching the big man's every move very carefully.

"Yes, I don't know." The big man said calmly, without any change on his face.

"Does anyone usually come and go in your family?"

"have no idea."

"Are there any sheep on the mountain?"

"have no idea."

"Are there any rabbits on the mountain?"

"have no idea."

"You, a hunter who often goes up the mountain, don't know anything? Are you just pretending to be stupid here?" Zhang Xuan whistled twice in frustration.

"If you don't know, you just don't know." The big man still said.

"Where is the victim? How does he sleep?"

"It should be... pretty good."

"People from Xihe Village said they have met you. The two villages are quite far apart. Why?"

"I don't know. How can I care about what they say?"

The big man said uncooperatively.

"Oh, you have indeed been to Xihe Village and met the people in Xihe Village." Zhang Xuan smiled and whistled like a villain.

Hearing these words, the big man froze immediately, and it took him a while to react: "We have met before, we were hunting in the mountains, how could we not know each other? But I have never been to Xihe Village."

"Now are you going to explain this to me?" Zhang Xuandao said.

"Is the victim in good health? Does he have any illnesses?" Zhang Xuan stood up and sat on the armrest of the stool, shaking the stool.

"...No." The big man said in shock again.

"Then since he is in good health and sleeps well, why did the victim buy ebony grass?"

Zhang Xuan walked over step by step as he spoke, still whistling in his mouth.

"No, my wife didn't buy it."

"Then who could it be?" Zhang Xuan snorted coldly, feeling that there was no point in going out.

"What do you think? What did you learn from the drug store?" Ji Xuan asked, slumped on the chair and looking at Fang Wu.

"There are no traces of rummaging in the drug store. Master, I think the big man knows that there are two ways up the mountain," Fang Wu said.

"It doesn't prove that you can go up the mountain from the back of Xihe Village. But not many people know about this road. I asked several people but they didn't know..."

What interrupted Ji Xuan's words were the sound of two heavy door openings, followed by Zhang Xuan's words.

"That kid is talking nonsense, and none of it is true. He should have bought that black pockmark."

"I just discovered that the two leg bones of the deceased are of different lengths. If he walks for a long time, he will be slightly lame. Maybe we can ask the drugstore to see if we can find anything." Ji Xuan said.

"Okay, I'll ask when I go back to the drug store next time to check."

Fang Wu nodded and carefully remembered it in his mind. This matter was very trivial, and I was afraid he would have to ask many pharmacies to find out.

"Let's go up the mountain from Xihe Village tomorrow and see if we can find anything." Ji Xuan thought for a while and said...

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