Chapter 13 Interrogation

Xu Qi’an looked at his back and wasn’t very optimistic.

It’s too hard to get evidence after so many days.

“It’s almost impossible to get evidence when you can’t check the fingerprints. The shoe prints definitely cannot be Zhang Xian’s own …. Well, excluding these, what other means are applicable in this era that can help solve the case ….” He searched his belly to think of ways.

……

“This group of incompetent Xuyun officials, when they are fishing for oil, they are all as smart as monkeys, and they can squeeze oil out of even a stone. When it comes to business, they are all incompetent dogs.”

County magistrate master is in the inner hall fuming, the murder is a big case, but the deceased is also related to the give the Lord Xu.

What kind of a man is a minister?

It’s the self-styled puritanical officials, the mad dogs who bite anyone they catch, who write letters of impeachment when they see someone they don’t like.

Master Xu, who had a goatee beard and a thin face, accompanied him and said with a smile, “If your honor keeps pushing like this, they’ll have to touch the fish.”

They are all veterans, and the officers know exactly what the officials under them are up to.

When it comes to tawdry maneuvers in the officialdom, the Xuyun officials are at most at the level of elementary school students, and the highest segment is in the temple hall, followed by the feudal officials.

“Groping for fish?” Magistrate Zhu grunted, “In the past days, it was just a matter of time, the Beijing inspection is approaching, turn around and be impeached on the grounds that you have bent over backwards, how can this official deal with himself?”

Just as he was saying, the sound of hurried footsteps came, Wang sheriff entered the inner hall and stopped after crossing the threshold, his attitude was respectful and his tone was filled with excitement, “Your honor, Zhang’s case, I already have an idea, please send a copy of the license ticket to your honor, I’ll take the person here.”

County Magistrate Zhu and Master Xu looked at each other, the former sneered, and the latter revealed a smile that was surely so.

Seeing that the two men did not look right, Sheriff Wang urged, “My lord? The time cannot wait.”

Magistrate Zhu slapped the table and scolded, “Idiot, what a time to be thinking about touching fish. Are you pig brain.”

Bending over backwards works on weekdays, but there’s a problem here.

After the prisoner confesses, the confession and the dossier are submitted to the Ministry of Justice, which verifies the confession and gives the sentence.

At the end of the year on the Beijing inspection, the capital officialdom atmosphere is tense, everyone while cleaning up their own tail, and at the same time monitoring each other, eager to catch the political opponent’s feet.

This is the period of time when it is said to be overturned.

Sheriff Wang hurriedly defended, “Your Excellency is mistaken, I am really sure that I can catch the real culprit, never touching the fish. Please believe me, Your Honor.”

What is your level, this official does not know it ….. County Magistrate Zhu was not assured of this and looked at Old Wang: “Tell me more carefully.”

Wang sheriff said, “It’s time for me to show my holiness in front of people.

“Your Honor, let me tell you in detail, there are many doubts in Zhang’s case …..”

Old Wang reproduced Xu Qi’an’s deduction, in its original form, and said it to the two lords.

Zhu magistrate at first with a cold smile on his face, listening to listen, his waist unconsciously straightened. At the end, a hair without words, but full of seriousness.

He’s thinking.

“Wonderful!” Master Xu hit a high five, ‘snapping’ loudly, appearing very exuberant: “Drawing out the threads of the cocoon, tuning in clearly, and actually able to surmise the beginning and end of the case from these inconsequential details. The veterans of the Ministry of Justice are no better.”

It remains to be checked though!

But this line of reasoning certainly pointed the way for the bewildered county court crowd.

Sheriff Wang laughed, “Everyone is flattered.”

Prefect Zhu snorted, “Tell me, who taught you that.”

Sheriff Wang pondered for a moment, pressed down his thoughts of taking credit, and truthfully said, “Quick Hands Xu Qi’an.”

Racer is not a live streaming platform, and Xu Qi’an is not an anchor, Racer is the name of the fast class of Xu, also known as the catcher.

Xu Qi An …. County Magistrate Zhu was the first to respond, “It’s him.”

Zhu magistrate and Xu Pingzhi drank a few times and had a few friendships, and some years ago Xu Pingzhi spent twenty taels of silver to ask for a nephew for the fat job of a fast worker.

In the Da Bong dynasty, the position of a mandarin could be passed on to a son.

Steady as an old dog’s golden bowl.

“It’s right if it’s him.” Magistrate Zhu smiled.

Master Xu’s eyes flickered, thinking of the tax and silver case that implicated the Xu family, and immediately asked, “What do you mean by that?”

Sheriff Wang also listened sideways.

Magistrate Zhu smiled, “The tax silver robbery case has caused a storm in the city, the Xu family bore the brunt of it and should have been held accountable, do you know why the Xu family was able to get off the hook?”

Sheriff Wang immediately said, “I heard that it was Lord Xu of the Imperial Sword Guards who was credited with assisting in the case, and His Holiness was lenient and exonerated him.”

This was what he had just heard from Xu Qi’an.

Master Xu glanced at County Magistrate Zhu’s expression and tried, “There’s something inside this case that can’t be.”

The details of the missing tax silver case are not yet accessible to Master Xu’s segment, but County Magistrate Zhu is the parental official of Changle County, albeit only a younger brother in a place of power and wealth like the capital.

But you can’t sit in this position without a backer behind you.

Zhu magistrate snorted: “Xu Pingzhi is just a coarse martial artist, this case he is just a scapegoat ….” Suddenly paused, as if he did not want to disclose too much, turned to say: “Really let the Xu family turn over is not him.”

“Who is it!” Sheriff Wang subconsciously asked.

The answer flashed in Master Xu’s mind and waited for County Magistrate Zhu’s follow-up.

“It’s Xu Qi’an, he was the one who solved the truth of the tax and silver case, this matter is recorded in the dossier, one of this official’s same year was working in the Beijing Zhaopu.” County magistrate Zhu said, “A son takes the place of his father, a father’s debt is paid by his son, although he is a nephew, the reasoning is the same.”

Master Xu drew in a breath of cool air, “After the crime, Xu Qi’an should have been locked up in the government office’s prison, how did he do it.”

Magistrate Zhu mused, “I originally found it unbelievable as well, but now I’ve figured it out.”

Master Xu likewise thought, incredulous: “Just the dossier?!”

Based on the dossier alone …. Wang sheriff’s brain is confused, this kind of official secret is occasionally can hear the head of the three officials talk about.

He was incredulous that the tax silver robbery was a case from which Xu Qi’an had exerted great energy to rescue the Xu family.

Sheriff Wang said, “This is not right, it doesn’t make sense.

When this kid first came to the country, the character of simple and stubborn, only bored to do things, is a real rash.

How did such a rash man turn around and solve a case like a god.

……

When arresting officer Wang received the license ticket and returned to the lounge, Xu Qi’an fell asleep on the table. He had thought too much about messy things last night, and only went to sleep after the third shift.

The bystander reached out to push Xu Qi’an, but Sheriff Wang immediately stopped him and lowered his voice, “Let him sleep.”

Picking two people at random, “You guys come with me to the Zhang Residence.”

The three fast men, with their respective white servants, nine in all, left the Changle County Office at a brisk pace.

White service is temporary labor, a kind of corvée, composed of common people, without wages, without food or shelter.

But there is something very conscientious about it: they don’t have to take the fall.

Xu Qi’an was awakened by the “mighty” voice, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and walked towards the county office lobby.

I guess the man has been arrested and the magistrate is interrogating him in front of the hall.

In the public hall, the magistrate Zhu stood high behind the public case, and to his left and right were the hall ministers and the followers.

Under the public case, three shifts of yamen stood on the left and right sides, and two people knelt in the center, a young man wearing a green coat embroidered with cloud patterns, and the other a beautiful woman in a purple dress.

The woman looked horrified and disturbed, while the young man was relatively calm.

“Pop!”

County Magistrate Zhu angrily slapped the shocking wood and said aloud, “Who is under the hall!”

The woman subconsciously glanced at the young man, who gave her a calming look and straightened his back, “Herb Zhang Xian.”

The woman said in a thin voice, “My wife Yang Zhenzhen.”

Zhu magistrate droned, “How did you two kill Zhang You Rui, tell us the truth!”

The woman shuddered in fear, her long eyelashes fluttering, her face terrified.

The young man, Zhang Xian, was shocked, “Why did you say that, Your Excellency? How could a grasshopper kill his biological father?”

Magistrate Zhu asked, “Where were you when it happened?”

“I’m in the study.”

“Why don’t you collapse with your wife?”

“The straw man is looking at the accounts.”

“There can be witnesses.”

“Where are the witnesses in the middle of the night.”

Zhang Xian’s reply was well-organized and unhurried, either he had a clear conscience or he had already prepared his mind.

Based on his own logical reasoning, Xu Qi’an favored the latter possibility.

While he has no alibi, there is equally no evidence of murder, reasoning is reasoning, and without tangible evidence, the benefit of the doubt …..

The magistrate turned to the woman and said, “Zhang Yang, this official asks you, you have been married to Zhang Yourui for ten years without any births. Why are you pregnant now? Honestly explain, is it that you are having an affair with your stepson and murdering your own husband.”

Zhang Yang’s startled, cried: “adults, the people’s wife is innocent, the people’s wife body is not good, in recent years, day to day conditioning, it is not easy to conceive her husband’s flesh and blood, how can adults based on this wrongly accused the people’s wife of murdering their own husbands.”

Calling and crying.

How is it possible to find out the truth from such a trial, Xu Qi’an looked at the Shui Ling woman from afar for a few moments, and with a movement in his heart, he had a good idea.