Chapter 20: Interrogation
Zhang Yao, who was traveling among the officers and soldiers, looked up and saw Bao Zheng and the other two. Zhang Yao looked a little ugly, walked over and said angrily: "Bao Zheng, didn't you take my daughter to meet your parents? Why did you take her to such a bad place in the afternoon? You have just gotten married, Bao Zheng, hurry up and take Xi'er away."
When Zhang Yuxi heard his father scolding Bao Zheng, he couldn't help but step forward and shake Zhang Yao's arm, and said angrily: "Dad, I forced my husband to bring me here. My husband came to the charity village to investigate Mr. He's case. Don't blame him."
Zhang Yao was so coquettish that Zhang Yuxi was acting like this, and he said, "Bao Zheng, can you investigate the case too? Now Mr. He's case has been turbulent and storm. The superiors have already issued a death order to solve the case within ten days. I just received the notice and just brought the coroner from the city here to take the autopsy again, but I didn't expect it to happen."
When Bao Zheng saw that Zhang Yao's forehead was covered with sweat, he knew that something was wrong with the charity village.
Zhang Yao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "When I just brought the officers and soldiers here, the yamen runners guarding this place were knocked unconscious. The bodies in the house were gone!"
"What! The body is gone?" Bao Zheng and Zhang Yuxi couldn't help but shout in surprise.
The charity village is a bad place, and people pass by it all want to take a detour. Usually, there are only a few yamen runners taking turns to guard the corpses of several civilian scholars. Unexpectedly, someone would steal the bodies of several civilian scholars.
Bao Zheng frowned and said, "My father-in-law, it seems that this case is really not simple. Let me talk!" After Bao Zheng said that, he walked towards the remote place on the side.
Seeing that Bao Zheng was mysterious, Zhang Yao followed him with Zhang Yuxi. Bao Zheng found a secluded place and dragged out his discovery and deployment in the academy.
Zhang Yao frowned and said, "Your discovery is very important to the case, but now the person who is hosting this case is Liu Tong. I have not received any report on other information about the case. It seems that you have to wait until Liu Tong summarizes the information before you can sort out the case. Maybe more clues can be found. The body that is crucial to this case has been stolen. It seems that this is really a premeditated case."
Bao Zheng asked seriously: "My father-in-law, don't know where Liu Tong is now?"
"He was interrogating the guards of the yamen in the charity village at this time, but the result was almost there. We can go and ask for the result together. The cases of all sizes in Luzhou are basically handled by Judge Liu Tong. He is fair and strict and has few omissions." Zhang Yao obviously trusts Judge Liu Tong very much.
Bao Zheng, Zhang Yao and Zhang Yuxi returned to the gate of the charity village. Soon a middle-aged Wensheng, wearing an official robe, walked out of the charity village. Bao Zheng guessed that he was the charity party Liu Tong.
Zhang Yao stepped forward and recommended Bao Zheng to Liu Tongzong. After Bao Zheng greeted him for a while, Liu Tongzong said, "The guard's yamen runner only said that he had not seen the person who attacked him. The person who stole the body knocked him out from behind him with the hilt of the sword. Many footprints were left on the scene. It seems that several masters came here together."
Bao Zheng said, "Prime Minister Liu Tong, I don't know if I can go to the charity village to see it. Maybe I can find some clues."
Liu Tong nodded and said, "Mr. Bao is the son-in-law of the magistrate. If he can help the magistrate solve this case, it will be considered a great help from the Luzhou Prefecture."
Bao Zheng smiled and said, "How dare I say the big talk about solving the case? Judge Liu Tong is the senior who has made countless cases. The younger generation is just helping him from the side. I just hope that why Master can clear the charge as soon as possible."
After Bao Zheng finished speaking, he asked Zhang Yao and Zhang Yuxi to wait outside, and he and Liu Tongzong walked into the Yizhuang. The Yizhuang was cool and dry, but there was a pungent and strange smell. When storing corpses all year round, it was inevitable that they would be rotten. Bao Zheng walked into the Lianfang and saw more than a dozen stone platforms with corpses in the Lianfang. Under the stone platforms, the grounding under the stone platforms could relieve the decay of the corpses. However, there were no corpses on the stone platforms. Bao Zheng carefully turned around in the Lianfang. In addition to opening some ventilation holes at a high place, there was only one exit of the main door, and not far from the outside of the main door was the duty room of the yamen runners. If you want to enter the Lianfang, you must solve the problem of the yamen runners.
Bao Zheng walked out of the room and said to Liu Tongzong: "Where is the yamen runner?"
Liu Tongzong knew that Bao Zheng had something to ask, but although he was a little impatient, he still asked the officers and soldiers to bring the yamen runners over. After he interrogated him, Bao Zheng still had to ask the yamen runners. This was obviously a distrust of Parliament Liu Tong. Of course, Liu Tong's face was not good-looking, after all, Bao Zheng was just a young head in his eyes.
Although Bao Zheng knew that Liu Tong was unhappy, in order to confirm his guess, he still had to pay attention to every detail seriously.
The yamen runner was brought over in a blink of an eye. He was an old yamen runner with a beard on his face.
Bao Zheng asked, "Brother Lao, tell me all the details of how the murderer attacked you."
The yamen runners have said it many times today, and they couldn't help but feel impatient, but they repeated: "After I handed over the hand to the worker last night, I was chatting with them in the duty room, but later I was anxious to pee. I stood in the corner of the east wall and peed. At that time, someone suddenly knocked me out with the hilt of the sword behind me. When I woke up, it was already early in the morning. When I returned to the duty room, I saw that the brothers in the duty room were all stunned by the drugs, and the bodies in the restraining room disappeared. When we had no choice, the magistrate and Liu Tong arrived."
Bao Zheng said, "Did you see the murderer at that time?"
The old yamen runner said in a hurried tone: "Where can I see that I was peeing in the corner of the wall at that time?"
Bao Zheng continued: "Take me to the place where you were knocked out, and demonstrate the process of you being knocked out at that time."
After hearing Bao Zheng's question, the old yamen runner flashed with a hint of panic in his originally arrogant look, but after a moment he calmed down and walked towards the corner with Bao Zheng.
Bao Zheng saw that there was indeed urine in the corner, so he asked the yamen runner to the place where he stood last night. However, Bao Zheng pulled out a Park knife from the scabbard of an officer and soldier and said, "Brother Lao Chou, I will play the role of that gangster. You stand there and don't move, I want to know how he hit you at that time."
The yamen runner could only stand there and remained motionless, saying, "He must have been hiding by the wall at that time, and then flashed out and hit my head with the hilt of his hand."
Bao Zheng stood on the other side of the corner of the wall, with his back against the wall, and walked towards the old yamen runner with his right hand, but the old yamen runner stood on Bao Zheng's right hand. Bao Zheng raised the hilt with a Park knife in his hand and pretended to hit the back of the old yamen runner's head. The hilt of the knife was on the right head of the yamen runner. This attack method should be the most appropriate, reasonable and secret.
Bao Zheng asked at this time: "Brother, he beat you like this at that time."
The old yamen runner said, "That guy beat him like that. That's right!"
Bao Zheng returned Pu Dao to the officer and soldier, called the old yamen runner over, but touched the back of the yamen runner's head with his hand. The yamen runner suddenly noticed something was wrong, and when he thought about it, he was so shocked that he was sweating profusely.
Bao Zheng's face was now a smile, and he opened his mouth to the old yamen runner and shouted: "Bold corpse thief, dare to quibble! Let's see how long do you want to lie?";
Chapter completed!