At that moment, the extreme fear made Zeng Su completely lose his self-control, and his pants were wet in an instant.But when he saw him, he knelt on the ground, kowtowed like pounding garlic, knocked blood on his forehead, and repeatedly muttered nonsense such as "I'm sorry for you" and "Please let me go".Such a reaction is enough for Zhou Zhutou.In Zhou Wu's opinion, the case has been solved at this moment, and the murderer has been found, as for the matter of "making him confess", it is the simplest.Don't say it's you Zeng Su, what if you change it to Song Gongming?
When you get to the court and put the board on the board, how many people can really carry it?
To make a long story short, when Zeng Su understood what was going on, Master Zeng, Zhou Zhutou, Sun Yihuo, and Huang Donglai were already sitting in front of him.The body of the second lady was temporarily placed on the couch in Zeng Su's room, and the glazed fish was still on the table.As for the other family slaves, they were all ordered to wait outside the house, after all, this matter is also considered a family scandal......
Do not publicize it."
Alright."
Zhou Wu also put on his head-catching style at this time, and said in a tone of grace and authority, "You and I have a little friendship, so I will persuade you with good words......
Manly man, dare to act, as long as you take the initiative to explain things clearly, let me have an explanation with the yamen, I will guarantee that you will not suffer from excess flesh and skin, otherwise ......"
He is all a cliché, but it is indeed true.There are many murderers who know that if they recruit them, they will die, so they can't bear them with a fluke mentality; At this time, the official master rarely deigns to persuade him personally, so he usually has to go up and say a few "big truths" to the prisoner by a figure like the head catcher.And the general meaning of this set of rhetoric is: The result of your death is nothing more than being pulled out of the hall every day, hitting the board every day, and the wound is rotten and rotten......
I was in pain every day, and finally died in prison due to infection, and my death was painful and ugly.But if you recruit it, at least one will fall into the name of daring to act.After the painting is completed, there is no need to suffer in the cell; Wait until after the autumn to eat the beheading rice, go to the market and shout "Eighteen years later, a good man again", let the executioner give you a good time, and you can be considered decent; And on our side of the yamen, the official documents that closed the case can also be done more beautifully, and the lord and the messengers have also made merits.The above-mentioned set of things can be regarded as a set of unspoken rules that accompany "extorting confessions by torture" in Dashu's judicial process; The whole process behind it is indeed efficient, but many times it will also lead to unjust, false and wrongful cases.Unfortunately, this was the most advanced system at the time.In that era, the so-called "discerning" was nothing more than the county magistrate's experience in judging cases, such as the ability to observe words and feelings, etc., and sometimes the verdict of some cases would even depend on the county magistrate's mood during the trial......
Therefore, there are not many villains who are at large, and unlucky people who are unjustly killed, but there are indeed them.Fortunately, there is nothing wrong or missing in Zeng Su's matter.Zeng Su, whose psychological defense line has collapsed, is not the kind of person who will carry it to the death......
He groaned for a long time, asked for a pot of wine, sat on the ground and drank three glasses, and then told everything one by one.Master Zeng's face was pale, green in the blue, and his body trembled a few times from time to time, but he finally restrained his emotions and did not lose his temper.After Zeng Su finished explaining, Zhou Zhutou waited for a few seconds, and then leaned into Master Zeng's ear and asked, "Master......
Look, what should I do about this?
”Zhou Wu is an understanding person, this question should indeed be asked to Zeng Yun.Everyone in the city of Luzhou knows that in this Luzhou, it is "the county master of flowing water, and the great master of iron" - how to decide this matter in the end, whether the county knows what he said or not, you have to listen to Zeng Yun.Master Zeng calmed down a little before he spoke: "Killing people pays for their lives, you just do business......"
Zhou Wu knew that there should be a "but" behind this sentence, so he didn't respond, but waited.Sure enough, after a short pause, Master Zeng continued: "It's just......
I don't want my Zeng family to make a lot of trouble in the city and everyone knows about it......"
"That ......"
Zhou Wu said while thinking, "Otherwise......
The previous murders were handled according to the original 'haunted' statement, and only the last He Da's death was pressed on Zeng Su, saying that the two of them were not in harmony, and He Da was still pestering Zeng Su after leaving the house, wanting to extort more money from Zeng's family, but Zeng Su became murderous and poisoned him......
What do you think, sir?
”After hearing this, Master Zeng pondered for a while, and felt that for outsiders who didn't know the inside story, this set of rhetoric was complete, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then there will be Lao Zhou to catch the head." ”He paused, "I will draft a letter in a while, inform the magistrate of this matter, and ask Zhou Zhutou to pass it on." ”"It should be."
Zhou Wu should admit it.After saying this, Master Zeng cast a cold gaze at Zeng Su again: "Hmph......
At the end of the day, I've left you a good name, so I'm worthy of you, right?
”Zeng Su hurriedly changed his sitting to kneeling, and kowtowed to Master Zeng again, but he couldn't say half a sentence."
By the way......"
At this time, Zhou Wu remembered something again, and reminded Zeng Yun, "The second lady's personal maid also knows a lot of inside information, if you don't want the news to leak out......
Master Zeng" Just this sentence, you can see the vicious side of Zhou Wu.In fact, even if he didn't mention this matter, Zeng Yun knew it in his heart, and he would do that girl afterwards, but if he said it now, he was clearly reminding Zeng Yun to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots as soon as possible.Sun Yihe and Huang Donglai were listening, and they were also secretly frightened, and said in their hearts......
Fortunately, we are both old fritters, and we don't have too deep a friendship with this guy, otherwise it may not be sold by him one day.After listening to Zhou Wu's words, Zeng Yun also snorted coldly, as if he had made up his mind.Then he got up, went to the door, and called some of the servants who were waiting outside the house, and told them to bring the maid.Unexpectedly, after a few minutes, a family member ran back and reported that the maid had hanged herself in the room.This ......
Another human life.But Zeng Yun didn't care much about this, because even if she didn't hang herself, she would be beaten to death.That night, Zhou Wu went to the yamen to transfer a few subordinates on night duty, moved the body of the second lady back to the temple, and collected the body of the second lady's maid by the way......
For him, the case is over here; He has already obtained a "murderer", which is enough for him to ask his superiors for credit, and at the same time, he has also sold Master Zeng's favor.But for Zeng Yun, there is still a major mystery in this case - who is the "faceless woman"?
What did she instigate Zeng Su behind the scenes?
Before solving this mystery, Zeng Yun still couldn't completely let go of this matter, so he ...... that night He had already thought that he would find someone to start with the pawnshop shopkeeper as soon as possible, and try to track down the woman..................
The next morning.Master Zeng personally came to see off Sun and Huang.At this time, Sun Yihuan and Huang Donglai no longer pretended to be Taoist priests; After the case was solved last night, they explained their true identities and the reason why they pretended to be Taoist priests in front of Master Zeng.After learning that they were going to Luoyang, Zeng Yun didn't say a word, and asked the housekeeper to pick two high-quality horses from the stables as gifts.Sun and Huang didn't shirk much, because the high-speed rail ticket that Huang Donglai bought before had been invalidated, and they had to buy horses again, so it was better to accept it, so as not to lose the face of Master Zeng.At the beginning of the day, Sun Yihe and Huang Donglai rode out of Luzhou City and continued to march northwest.Zhou Wu......
Didn't come to see them off.Although Zhou Zhutou did hear them say last night when they would leave today, it was obvious that his friendship with these two "virtuous brothers" was not as good as that.And Sun Yihui and Huang Donglai don't care about this, after all, they are both people who look more than their actual age, and last night they had already seen clearly what kind of person Zhou Wu was, and if they really got in touch with this kind of person, it would be troublesome.In this way, the two left Luzhou, quickly whipped up, and went straight to the next stop - Yingzhou.