Leng Yi asked: "Why are you barefoot?"

"Because..." Hong Jie gritted his teeth and said, "Because I..., Sister Huang and I are good friends..., when shopkeeper Xie knocked on the door, we were..., in Hehuan..." Thinking of the love and affection just now, now

Mrs. Huang has become a corpse. Hong Jie's heart is as sharp as a knife and his eyes can't help but turn red.

Shopkeeper Xie yelled: "Fart! How could my wife have an affair with you? She is a virtuous and virtuous woman who is the most obedient woman. You clearly sneaked into my house, hid in the closet, raped and killed my wife while she was sleeping.

, you actually slandered her reputation, I, I will fight you!"

As he said this, Shopkeeper Xie was about to pounce on Hong Jie, but Hong Jie kicked him away and said sadly: "You fight me to the death? I still want to fight you! You evil thief! Why do you want to kill me?"

Sister Huang?"

"You killed him!"

"It wasn't me! You were the one who killed me!"

"Okay!" Leng Yi interrupted them, "I am investigating the case, no noise is allowed!"

Both of them shut up.

Leng Yi thought for a while and asked Hong Jie, "How did you get in?"

"I made an agreement with Sister Huang and she will leave the door open for me."

At this time, Deputy Chief Song rushed back, called Leng Yi aside, and reported in a low voice that they had already questioned the family that shopkeeper Xie mentioned, and that family all testified that at the second watch of the incident, Xie

The shopkeeper did eat and drink at their house.

Leng Yi frowned, feeling very strange in his heart. After thinking about it for a while, he ordered Hong Jie and shopkeeper Xie to be taken out. He called the little maid who first noticed Hong Jie coming out of the room and continued to investigate.

The little maid was very frightened. She came in and knelt down and kowtowed. Her petite body was trembling non-stop.

Leng Yi said: "You don't have to be afraid, just tell me what happened."

"Yes!" The little maid's voice was trembling, "When it got dark, nǎinǎi told me that she didn't need to wait on me anymore. She wanted to rest alone, so I went back to the room. I didn't dare to sleep, for fear that nǎinǎi would scream again.

So I sat and worked as a female worker. During the second correction, I heard a clang from the door of my nǎinǎi, as if something fell to the ground. It startled me. I got up quickly and opened the door and came out, but there was a person in the corridor.

There was no one there. I walked to nǎinǎi's bedroom and listened carefully, but there was no movement. But I was worried. I stood there and hesitated whether to knock on the door and ask if nǎinǎi was okay. At this time, nǎinǎi's door opened.

Suddenly it opened, and a man came out in a panic. It was the man we caught. I heard he was a policeman from the Yamen. I don’t know how he got into nǎinǎi’s house. I was frightened and thought he was a thief.

He shouted loudly. As a result, the servants below heard him and rushed up, tied him up and escorted him to the Yamen."

Leng Yi asked: "Did he say anything when he came out of your nǎinǎi room?"

"Say, he heard me calling "Catch the thief! Someone come here!" He said he was not a thief, but an agent from the Yamen. I said, who would believe that you are an agent? Why would an agent come to someone's house in the middle of the night?

?He said don’t worry about it for now, saying that our nǎinǎi was killed by someone in the house, and he asked us to report it to the official immediately. When I heard this, I was even more frightened and shouted to people, but they came up and caught him.

We went in and took a look. Sure enough, nǎinǎi was dead. We quickly sent someone to call the master."

"Didn't he attack you when you shouted?"

"Isn't that true? He just stood at the door and talked. I'm scared now. What if he came up and strangled me to death? I really shouldn't have shouted so loudly, but I was scared at that time.

I never imagined there were so many.”

"Then does he have any intention of running away?"

"No. He was standing there the whole time."

Leng Yi asked again: "You said you came out of the room because you heard a roar in the corridor, right?"

"yes!"

Leng Yi carried a lantern, walked out of the bedroom, and walked to the corridor. He lowered his head and looked around. Suddenly, he saw a fist-sized stone on the wall of the corridor. He walked over, squatted down, looked, and turned to the little maid and said:

"Where did this stone come from?"

The little maid came over to take a look, shook her head and said, "I don't know."

"Not before?"

"Definitely not! Because I am cleaning upstairs, and when I clean the walkways during the day, there is no such stone."

Leng Yi turned his head and looked at the stairs. At the end of the corridor, he walked to the railing of the corridor and looked down. There was a small garden below. Not far away was the back door that Hong Jie said he came in from.

Leng Yi asked the little maid to step back and bring Hong Jie up.

Leng Yi asked: "When you came out of the room, did you hear any unusual noises?"

Hong Jie immediately said: "There was a sound, like everything falling on the floor, a clang. It was on the walkway outside. I was coming out of the closet at that time, ready to check on Sister Huang.

This sound startled me. I thought it was shopkeeper Xie who had broken down the door and rushed in, and I almost wanted to jump out of the window and run away. Fortunately, I saw that there was no movement on the other side of the door, so I felt relieved."

Leng Yi looked at him and whispered: "Now, there are only two of us in the room. Tell me the truth. Did you kill Huang?"

Hong Jie was wearing shackles, and he knelt on the ground with a groan, choking: "Master, I swear, it was really not me who killed her, but Hong Jie. I like Sister Huang so much, how could I kill her? I say now

It’s the truth. If I lie, the sky will strike like lightning!”

Leng Yi nodded and said: "Based on my understanding of you, you don't seem to be a trickster. If you really want to kill your lover Huang, you shouldn't choose to come to her home and stay in her house."

Murder in the bedroom. And after the murder, he didn't escape through the window, but opened the door and came out to talk to the maid outside. This is very abnormal."

Hong Jie was overjoyed and kowtowed with shackles on his face: "Thank you so much, sir! You are truly my savior. I will never forget you...!"

Leng Yi smiled bitterly: "It's too early to say this. Although there are these unreasonable things, you were caught red-handed at the scene of the murder, and you have admitted that you had an affair with Mr. Huang. Therefore, it is still difficult for you to escape.

Suspected of killing Huang!"

Hong Jie's heart suddenly went cold. He stayed on the spot for a while and then said sadly: "Master, I was wronged! I am really wronged...!"

"Then you have to find a way to clear yourself of your grievances! You are also a police officer yourself, the one responsible for solving the case. Now that you are involved in it, you must find evidence to prove your innocence!"

Hong Jie nodded, sat on the ground, and tried his best to calm down. Thinking about this matter, he slowly said: "I am sure that shopkeeper Xie came back at that time, during the second watch, because before he came in, I and I

Sister Huang once heard the sound of the second watch in the distance, which happened to be the second correction! At that time, Sister Huang said that it was great, and it was only the second correction. He would not come back until dawn every time, and we still had at least three hours to be together.

.So I remember it very well. He said he was having dinner with friends at that time, which must be a lie!"

"However, Deputy Chief Song has already investigated. He was indeed at that person's house at that time, and that family can prove it."

"That family is lying!" Hong Jie was a little hysterical. "I saw him in the house with my own eyes. I saw it really and truly. I couldn't be wrong. Even if I was wrong, Sister Huang couldn't be wrong either! She

She also called him husband and had sex with him. If it weren't for him, how could Sister Huang have done this?"

Leng Yi nodded: "That's right. Well, let's do this. I'll go check with that family in person to see if they are lying!"

"Thank you so much, sir!" Hong Jie kowtowed again, choking with sobs and saying thank you repeatedly.

Leng Yi called the Song Dynasty agent and a few Zaoli, and took a sedan to the home of the family that shopkeeper Xie had mentioned.

This family was not far from Shopkeeper Xie's house, it was also near the city wall, and it was a little more remote. When the family heard that Master Tongpan was coming, the whole family hurriedly came out to greet him and knelt beside the door.

Leng Yi hurriedly called them up, entered the living room, and seated the guests and hosts respectively.

Leng Yi asked the rest of the family to stay away, leaving only the head of the family, who was an old man. Leng Yi said: "I am here this time because of the incident where Deputy Song arrested the head. Because it is of great concern, this county

It needs to be verified again. You must answer truthfully. This is related to a human life case and is not a trivial matter."

The old man stood up in a hurry and respectfully, bowed his hands in a bow, and promised: "Young people will never dare to deceive the great master. What I said to the catcher before is true."

Leng Yi said: "Well, I will ask you again, what is the relationship between this shopkeeper Xie of the silk shop and you?"

"We are from the same hometown. The two families often communicate with each other."

"When did he come to your house for the banquet?"

"He came before the second watch. He kept eating and drinking until after the second watch. Then he said he was drunk and wanted to go back. Then he left."

"Second correction? How did you know it was the second correction at that time?"

"You'll know better by listening."

"Oh..." Leng Yi thought for a while and asked again, "How many of you drank? How much did you drink?"

"The three of us drank, the old man, Quanzi, and shopkeeper Xie. We drank two jars of rice wine in total. I originally wanted to treat the two brothers, shopkeeper Xie, and half a jar for each person was just right, but his brother happened to have something to do and couldn't come. He likes drinking very much.

He was also very funny, and it would be very lively if he came. Unfortunately, he couldn't come, so the three of us drank most of the jar each, and we were almost drunk."

Leng Yi said: "Shopkeeper Xie also has a younger brother? What does he do?"

"It's the steward of his house."

"Oh," Leng Yi nodded, "Where was Shopkeeper Xie sitting at that time? Where were you sitting?"

Deputy Chief Song next to him couldn't help but feel ashamed when he heard Leng Yi ask so carefully. At the same time, he secretly admired Leng Yi's carefulness. Only with such carefulness in investigating the case can he find more clues and find flaws in the case.

Leng Yi asked many similar questions in order to confirm whether shopkeeper Xie really came here to eat. After he asked the old man, he carefully questioned other people in the family one by one.
Chapter completed!