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Zhu Peng shivered even more fiercely and knelt in the snow, kowtowing: "Master, it's really not me! Master Qing is aware of this!"

Leng Yi asked Cheng Luojie to look at Zhu Peng, then turned to the front hall and asked: "In the last hour, have any of you been out?"

The nurse and others looked at each other and shook their heads together. The Taoist said: "No one should go out. I am old, I don't sleep well, and I sleep very lightly. If someone goes out, I will know. Until everyone is caught by that long

I woke up with a loud scream, no one had been out before."

The salesman pointed at Zhuang Laoshi and said: "The last one to go out should be the master. However, he went out to the latrine before going to bed, and was the last one to go. That should have been at least two hours ago. The most recent one

At this hour, no one is out."

The nurse said: "We all slept in the lobby. I bolted the door because I was worried that the strongmen who attacked us would come again in the afternoon. I slept by the door. Later I heard screams, so I opened the door.

Let’s go out together. No one has ever gone out before. Although I am not very good at martial arts, if someone opens the door or window to go out, I will definitely know."

Leng Yi checked the doors and windows, nodded, and entered the master bedroom where Zhu Peng slept. Looking around, he saw that the quilts on the bed were piled up in a mess, but there was nothing else out of the ordinary.

He walked to the window and checked that it was bolted. Under the window was a coffee table with two chairs on both sides.

He carefully inspected the coffee table and the high chair. There was a tea tray on the coffee table. When he picked it up, he found that the bottom was covered with dust. Apparently, no one had cleaned up the house after the lady of the house died. The coffee table and the high chair were both a little dirty. In addition, he found nothing else.

Suspicious traces.

Leng Yi pushed open the window, looked under the window, touched his chin and thought for a while, then closed the window again, then went out and returned to the back of the house.

Zhu Peng was still kneeling on the ground. When he saw Leng Yi coming back, he immediately kowtowed and said, "Sir, I'm really unjust. I didn't rape and kill that maid. It's true!"

"No?" Leng Yi sneered: "After investigation in this county, we found that the deceased was killed within the last hour. Just now, our county went to check all the people in the lobby. They all said that in the last hour, there was no death at all."

They have never gone out. Because they sleep together, they can testify against each other. From this point of view, the only one who has time to commit the crime is you!"

"It's really not me!" Zhu Peng almost cried, kowtowing and shaking off the snowflakes on the ground.

"Not you?" Leng Yi sneered, pointing to the closed window and the shoe prints on the ground: "Your window is closed, but the window is not damaged. Outsiders want to come in, steal your clothes, and frame you with jade pendants. How to start? Your window

Below, there are only these two lines of footprints, and there are no other footprints. The footprints are exactly the same size as your shoes! The direction of the shoe prints leads to the deceased's woodshed. Three of your belongings were found on the deceased's body.

Item, who is the murderer if it’s not you?”

"Master, it's really not me. I was wronged!" Zhu Peng knelt in the snow and cried.

Cheng Luojie said: "If he doesn't admit it, use severe punishment! He will admit it of course!"

Zhu Peng cried even harder.

Leng Yi said: "This county asks you a few questions. If you don't answer truthfully, you will be severely punished!"

"Yes, yes, Xiao Xiao must answer truthfully."

"This county asks you, how did you get this maid?"

Zhu Peng kowtowed and said, "Her family owed me 12,000 yuan, which was the land rent they owed for several years. I couldn't collect it several times. When I saw that his daughter was still alive, I wanted to go back and become a maid.

To offset his family's debts. Her father originally refused to agree, so I said that he would go to the Yamen to file a lawsuit. It is only natural to pay back debts. After all, he agreed. But when he left, he suddenly

He got sick, vomited a few mouthfuls of blood, and then died."

Cheng Luojie said sharply: "You forced his father to death, right?"

"No! It's really not the case! Sir, madam, I'm still very kind to the folks in the village."

"Be kind? If you are kind, you won't eat up all other people's relief funds!"

Zhu Peng shivered and looked at Cheng Luojie in horror.

Leng Yi looked back at Cheng Luojie and said, "Go and call Yin Jiu, I have something to say."

Cheng Luojie agreed, glared at Zhu Peng bitterly, and walked away quickly.

Taking advantage of this moment, Leng Yi knelt down and said to Zhu Peng: "This case is very unfavorable to you now. However, it is not impossible to discuss."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Peng seemed to be grasping at straws like a drowning man, and said quickly: "Master, this is really not done by a villain, but I also know that it is very troublesome now, as long as the master can help.

If I get away with it, I will definitely thank you."

"Well, your maid died, do you want to give their family some pension?"

"Should, should"

"You just came from their home, do you know who else is in their home?"

"Well, his father died of vomiting blood, and he still has a mother, an old woman, and several younger brothers and sisters."

"That family is very difficult."

"Yes. However, we really didn't force his father to death. Although I fell in love with his daughter's beauty, I didn't force him to death."

"The county wants to know how much money you are willing to spend to support their family?"

"Well, five guans, how about five guans?"

Guan is equal to one thousand Wen, and Wuguan is equal to five thousand Wen, which is worth five taels of silver.

Leng Yi smiled: "You raped and killed my daughter, and only gave me five pieces of money. Do you think you are sending her away to be a beggar?"

"I, I didn't rape or kill her, sir, really, I was wronged!" Zhu Peng said with a sad face.

"The evidence is solid, but you still dare to deny it and make sophistry? Well, this county won't fight with you anymore. We will talk about it when we escort you back to the Yamen and torture you slowly." After that, Leng Yi stood up.

Zhu Peng hurriedly hugged Leng Yi's feet: "Sir, wait a minute! Sir, I'll give you money, I'll give you more money! Twenty guan for their family! No, thirty guan? Fifty guan? One hundred guan?

?”

Seeing that Leng Yi was still indifferent, Zhu Peng gritted his teeth and said with a cry: "Five hundred guan to accompany their family! Five hundred guan! Is this all right? Master..."

Five hundred guan is equivalent to RMB 500,000, which is almost it. Leng Yi then turned around and said, "Okay, that's settled."

"Thank you, sir. So, what about the villain...?"

"This county hasn't finished asking yet." Leng Yi looked at him and said, "Did you collude with the head of the village and distribute the relief funds in your village to your relatives every year? And the truly poor people like Luo Kuwa

, but can’t get a penny of relief?”

When Zhu Peng heard that Leng Yi had mentioned Luo Kuwa's name, he must have done an investigation. This kind of thing cannot be covered by paper. It can be found out with a single investigation and cannot be concealed. He nodded with a grimace.

Said: "They are all villains who are greedy for profit, and they deserve to die!"

"Now that you admit that you got money you didn't deserve in the past, what are you going to do about it?"

"The younger one is willing to withdraw all his previous relief funds."

"What about the other people in your village who don't deserve this money? What are you going to do?"

"Those are almost all relatives of the villain, and the villain asked them to return their money."

Leng Yi smiled and said: "Very good, but there are still many people in your village, as well as the nearby Bianshi Village, Paoma Village, and Helan Village. Their lives are very difficult. Many of them even sell their children and daughters.

, fellow villagers, what are you going to do?"

"this……"

As soon as they said this, Yin Jiu and Cheng Luojie came back quickly. Leng Yi glanced at them and said: "Zhu Yuanwai has promised to spit out all the relief funds he had embezzled before and return them to the Yamen. At the same time, Zhu Yuanwai

We are still considering how much money we will spend to help the poor folks in the village - right? Yuan Wai Zhu."

Zhu Peng quickly agreed: "Yes, yes, I'll take it, I'll take it, um, how about five hundred Wen per family?"

Leng Yi smiled: "What can you do with five hundred coins? At least five thousand coins. Those families who sell their sons and daughters are even more difficult. Double it, ah no, triple it, and you won't be poor, right?"
Chapter completed!