At this moment, the prefect walked into the forensic room with a cold face and said lightly:

"Chen Xiao, this is the government office. I have greater authority to investigate cases than you. I have to personally examine them. Do you dare to stop them?"

Chen Xiao sneered: "Mr., don't you not know the word "avoid suspicion"? "

"I don't know, and I don't plan to avoid suspicion!" said the prefect.

Chen Xiao nodded and said, "Don't plan to avoid suspicion? Well, originally, I planned to separate you and your son from trial, but since you don't plan to avoid suspicion, then...you will be trial together now."

The prefect frowned: "What do you mean?"

"It's very simple. Now I want to exercise the privileges given by the emperor. While hearing your son, I will interrogate you!" Chen Xiao said, slapped the gavel in his hand.

With a bang, the left and right yamen runners shouted: "Wei~wu..."

The prefect's face changed. Unexpectedly, Chen Xiao had to try him again at the same time. In this way, how could he personally try his son's case?

His face changed for a while, and then he sneered:

"Okay, you can try it. I will see how you try it. Chen Xiao, Chen Xiao, you still don't understand the power of a third-rank official. Do you want to deal with me? Humph, it's not that easy!"

Chen Xiao curled his lips and refused to comment.

"Take prisoner Zhao Peng and the family of the deceased!"

Zhao Peng is the son of the prefect Zhao Changtian. At this moment, he was brought up by two soap officials.

At the same time, a woman in her forties came in crying and was the mother of the deceased.

After being locked up all night, Zhao Peng became a little more honest, but as soon as he saw his father was there, he immediately spoke:

"Dad, dad, save me, save me..."

The prefect had a calm face and didn't say anything. He was very angry and had already told his son that he had been targeted by Chen Xiao during this period and asked him to be careful and not to cause trouble.

Who knew that he had repeatedly told him that he even beat the maid to death in front of all the officials.

If the maid sells her body to the government office, it would be fine. After all, as long as she sells her body, the master can still argue if she beats the slave to death.

But the government office is an official institution. The maids and servants in the government office are basically not sold in, they only pay wages, similar to contract workers.

If you beat someone to death, you will kill ordinary people.

Seeing that his father ignored him, Zhao Peng became anxious: "Father, dad, you can't ignore me..."

Chen Xiao sneered: "Yesterday, the son of the prefect, beat and kill a maid in front of everyone. His methods were fierce, his behavior was cruel, his purpose was bad, and his crimes were extremely evil.

Because the whole government office witnessed it with his own eyes, the official did not need to interrogate too much. Hereby, Zhao Peng was sentenced to death. After the Ministry of Justice approved it, he would be sentenced to death immediately!"

Zhao Peng's face changed and he said, "No, no, you can't kill me... Dad, save me, he wants to kill me..."

The prefect snorted: "Wait a minute!"

Chen Xiao looked at the prefect, and the prefect took out a piece of paper and said, "Chen Xiao, look at what this is?"

A yamen runner gave Chen Xiao the paper. Chen Xiao looked at it for a while and frowned.

"Selling the body contract..."

His face was slightly unfair, but the prefect sneered:

"Yes, that maid's contract for selling her body. So, she is the slave of our Zhao family. My son beat her to death, so what?"

The woman who had never spoken said: "No, my daughter has never sold herself as a slave, she hasn't..."

The prefect ignored him, but looked at Chen Xiao and said, "This is the contract signed by the maid and my Zhao family. She is from my Zhao family!"

After carefully looking at the contract for selling the body, Chen Xiao said lightly: "Why are you proof that this is true?"

"You can tell me if you have a handprint!" The prefect sneered.

Chen Xiao looked at his handprints and his face became even more ugly.

It wasn't that he recognized the maid's handprint as he took a look, but he thought that the body was placed in the morgue. The prefect wanted to make a fake, so he wrote down the contract for selling his body, and went to the morgue to press the maid's handprint with the maid's body.

Anyway, pressing the handprint will take effect!

Chen Xiao sighed in his heart, he was careless. He deserved to be at the level of a prefect, and he had too many methods, which was unexpected.

This contract of sale does contain hand seals. Even if Chen Xiao guessed how the prefect did it, he still had no evidence.

If he stuck at this point, he really couldn't forcibly punish the prefect's son.

At this moment, many onlookers outside sighed in their hearts, thinking that Chen Xiao might have lost this time...

However, Chen Xiao was not panicked at all.

Although he didn't expect the prefect to use such a trick, he also thought that the prefect would try his best to help his son escape from his crime.

So, Chen Xiao also made preparations in advance.

I saw him wink at the soap official beside him. The soap official understood and hurried out.

Soon, an old man came in and shouted: "Master Qingtian, Caomin wants to sue Zhao Peng..."

An old man suddenly ran in, which made Zhao Fuyin stunned. Chen Xiao hurriedly said:

"Old man, don't be anxious, just say it slowly..."

The old man said: "Master, I want to sue Zhao Peng. He forcibly occupied my daughter a month ago. Afterwards, my daughter made a fuss and was beaten to death by Zhao Peng, the beast…"

Chen Xiao said: "Who is your daughter?"

"Sir, I am also a maid in the government office..."

"Is there any evidence?" Chen Xiao asked.

There must be evidence. Yesterday he ordered the yamen runners to collect it. At this moment, the old man took out a few things from his body.

There is also a piece of paper, which was an employment agreement his daughter signed when she was a maid in the government office.

This proves that his daughter is a maid in the government office and is not a slave.

The prefect snorted and said, "Then why do you say that my son was beaten to death? What about the evidence?"

Chen Xiao said: "Can anyone prove the physical evidence?"

"Master, the physical evidence is when my daughter died, wearing the clothes of the maid of the government office, which means that she is working in the government office at this time...the witness..."

The old man said, looking up and seeing that there were no officials and yamen runners outside.

He wanted to say that some of these people saw them, but... he felt that these people would not help him.

So, a trace of despair appeared in the turbid eyes...

But at this moment, among the three yamen runners, a soap clerk stood up and said:

"Sir, you can testify that you are a good person. At that time, you will see it with your own eyes!"

Immediately afterwards, a document came forward: "My subordinates can also testify and see with their own eyes..."

"The officials can testify..."

"Subordinates can also testify..."

For a moment, seven or eight people stood up.

The prefect looked at these people with a gloomy face, and several of them couldn't help but be afraid.

Seeing this, Chen Xiao increased their confidence in time, and slapped the gavel and said:

"Prince, the evidence of the second person your son killed is conclusive. What else do you have to say? Could this father-in-law's dead daughter also signed a contract for sale with you?"

The prefect frowned and couldn't speak.
Chapter completed!