Chapter 152: Case within case
Xue Ping scratched his head and said with his fingers:
"Mingfu taught us that when a case is not solved, the first thing to eliminate is the suspicion of the beneficiary. I know this procedure.
However, their Zhang family is a bit special. Zhang Peiyu is stupid. He has a high fever since childhood and cannot tell anything about it. When he is excited, he will run naked and be extremely picky in food.
Logically speaking, he is the second son of the Zhang family and the legitimate son, so he should be the biggest beneficiary at this moment, but this situation also eliminates the suspicion, after all, he is just a fool.
As for the youngest son Zhang Pei'ang, their situation was a bit complicated. He had a baby marriage with Miss Seven of the magistrate of Mianshui County, Yu Xiaoteng's family. All the property of the Zhang family was now controlled by the concubine Liu Yue'e.
Liu Yue'e was born as an actor, but she managed the Zhang family's accounts well. With the help of Zou Hua, the eldest son Zhang Peiyun's daughter-in-law, it has stabilized the current situation.
Oh, Zou Hua's father was originally a timber merchant in Mianshui County. Later, he died of an accident and his mother also passed away early. The baby relationship she had with Zhang Peiyun was not disliked by the decline of the Zou family."
Zhou Ze looked at Xue Ping. No matter whether the county magistrate Yu was greedy for Zhang's family property or had any other plans, on the surface, Mianshui County had already handled the case well.
But if this file fell into Xue Ping's hands, is there something wrong with it?
"And what? If this case is handled like this, it will not be sent here, right?"
Xue Ping scratched his head, as if he felt that he had been talking for a long time but still not the point, and he was a little anxious.
"Don't blame Mingfu. This case is really complicated. If my subordinates don't tell it in order in this way, it will be even more confusing. This is the situation at the beginning of the incident.
However, just twenty days later, something happened suddenly on the 24th day of the first lunar month. Miss Seven from Yu Xiaoteng's family fell into a well and died.
There were four maids and women in total, and they were all arrested and tortured. In the end, they did not understand how this Seventh lady fell into the well. They basically had their own opinions, but they all mentioned one detail.
That was at noon at 24:30, they accompanied Miss Seven to play hide-and-seek in the yard. Next to the rockery, by the pond, and by the woods, they all heard Miss Seven's laughter.
Afterwards, they shouted about Miss Seven, and they gave in and took a nap, but after searching for half an hour, they didn't find anyone.
Only then did the maids and mothers feel something was wrong. After reporting to the wife of County Magistrate Yu, everyone started searching. The next morning, they found the body floating in the well.
County Magistrate Yu felt that Miss Seven's death was related to the Zhang family's case, so he detained the Zhang family's son, daughter, daughter-in-law, and aunt in one breath and torture them. The case is here."
Zhou Ze breathed out, it was indeed complicated enough.
However, the fool could understand the initial idea of County Magistrate Yu. He wanted to obtain part of the Zhang family's industry in the name of his children and in-laws, and his appearance was a bit ugly.
"Is this case taken the initiative by Mianshui County?"
Xue Ping nodded, reached out and took out a silver note from his arms. Zhou Ze glanced at it and the amount was not small to fifty taels.
"Six days ago, the county magistrate Yu personally came to Hejiang at night, found out that Mingfu was not there, so he found me, gave me the file, explained in detail, and gave me a silver note.
I confiscated it at that time, and he was anxious to me, saying that the case was strange and that he had found someone to see the forest of the Zhang family. Someone had already cut down secretly in the middle, and it started working on the 17th day of the first lunar month.
There were a few raw faces who took the tokens from the Zhang family and cut them up when they came up. They followed the timber dealer and destroyed half of the forest in seven or eight days.
An old servant in the farmhouse was quite careful and secretly asked the purchaser. The man came from Jingyang and the price of the wood was sold at half the price on weekdays. However, there were two requirements: first, transport it yourself, and second, transactions were made in cash.
County Magistrate Yu said that everything in Yu Gong's case was too coincidental, and that his Xiaoqi died was too unfair and had no idea. His ability was really unable to solve the case and let his subordinates get him in a team.
After reading the case, my subordinates did not need to go to the lineup. This case is a strange case. So many people died. Governor Liu of Jingzhou also attaches great importance to it. Let us treat it as a practical case."
Zhou Ze waved his hand at Xue Ping and signaled him to put the bills away.
"Hold it, in your words, it's not considered a troop jump. After all, there are so many people who have died, so Jingzhou naturally needs to pay attention to it."
Xue Ping was a little nervous, but when he saw Zhou Ze keep flipping the file, he breathed a little relieved.
"Mingfu, what should we do now? County Magistrate Yu sent someone to ask yesterday if he would send all the people in the Zhang family?"
Zhou Ze paused and didn't react for a while.
"Sent? Why are you delivering it?"
Xue Ping blinked, his face a little embarrassed.
"Aren't you going to try the case? You are analyzing according to the beneficiary's method. You are not going to carefully investigate the Zhang family. The interrogation starts with these people?"
Zhou Ze raised his hand and knocked Xue Ping with the file. This guy was probably tortured and was about to collapse. Now he probably looks like a murderer.
"Go to inform these students that since they have almost finished their studies, let's go out for an internship together and inform the clerks of Mianshui to go back and prepare first. We will set off later to Mianshui. It's not too far anyway. I'll go on a business trip and save a few days of money for meals."
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Xue Ping looked speechless, but County Magistrate Yu should be the happiest to be the first to deal with this case. He would naturally not say anything if he spent some money.
"By the way, the Zhang family's yard was sealed on the spot? Or was it the Zhang family's everything as usual before Miss Yu's death?"
"When the treatment was done, everyone went to the clinic. Although the remaining Zhang family escaped, they did not dare to live in the Zhang family mansion. They all went to the village outside the city. So the Zhang family looked like this at this time when they were discovered early on the fourth day of the lunar month."
Zhou Ze nodded with satisfaction. Isn't it stupid?
"Okay, go and arrange it, we'll set off in the afternoon."
evening.
Zhou Ze brought more than 200 people to Mianshui County.
After entering the city, County Magistrate Yu was already waiting on the way, but he gave Zhou Ze enough face.
I went straight into the city. Although the inn is not small, it cannot be compared with Hejiang. It has just been repaired and all kinds of things have been newly purchased.
It seems a little crowded here, but no one feels dissatisfied with it. After all, Zhou Ze has heard of his reputation, and everyone is excited as he is about to participate in the case solving.
In the evening, a banquet was held by the county magistrate. Zhou Ze brought Lao Xu, Xue Ping, Chen Wenchi and Jia Ding to the banquet. Xiaobai was left in Hejiang, and Wang Han now acted as the bad people in Hejiang.
At the banquet, County Magistrate Yu was good at dancing and cried to Zhou Ze, saying that he was reluctant to part with Xiaoqi and his deep affection for his family. Zhou Ze just said a few perfunctory words.
If County Magistrate Yu was not ugly, the murderer would not have targeted his daughter. Of course, Zhou Ze also gave County Magistrate Yu a look. There was no jealousy on his head and back.
That night, Zhou Ze and his friends were placed in the guest room in the backyard of the county government. County Magistrate Yu was very enthusiastic and set up a separate courtyard.
Xiaobai is not here, so naturally Lao Xu and Zhou Ze are inseparable. The assassination of the Shadow Guard is not a joke. Zhou Ze wants to come to Mianshui to avoid the limelight.
The maid and the servant were removed by Zhou Ze. Old Xu and Zhou Ze were about to enter the room. Old Xu reached out to stop Zhou Ze, looked up and down at Zhou Ze, and then hesitated:
"I don't know if I should tell you that there are two women in the room prepared for you. If you want to, I will go to the inn to rest."
Zhou Ze grabbed Lao Xu, exhaled a sip of alcohol, and signaled Lao Xu not to move, and patted the door hard.
"I will count three numbers, put on my clothes and come out by myself. If I don't come out after the three numbers, I will take everyone back to the river and never step into Mianshui. If you can bear the consequences, then stay honestly.
one
two
three"
Before the third count was finished, the two women rushed out as if they were flying, and they were not wearing any clothes well. They looked panicked, their hands and feet were no longer in control, and they both knelt on the ground in their outer robes.
"Take your life in Mingfu, the little woman has no choice but to love."
Zhou Ze raised his hand and stopped them from saying anything, and he was very tired all the way.
Even though it was very comfortable to see the two Yingying Yanyan, Zhou Ze was not in this mood now. Besides, the aesthetic standards raised by Xiaobai and A Zheng, looking at the two women in front of him, at most it was not ugly.
"No blame. I am tired and don't want to talk much. If anyone comes to you, remember to check out the bill, just say what I said. I have accepted my wishes, which means I have enjoyed it."
The two women got up, with a look of gratitude on their faces, as if they were going to say something else.
Lao Xu had a gloomy face at this time and started to air conditioner.
"go out!"
The two women ran away, and Zhou Ze clicked and stepped into the room, covering his nose with his sleeves. The smell of powder in the room was uncomfortable.
"Go to the next door. It's late at night later. Lao Xu, you go to various courtyards and take a walk, especially the well, and you need to carefully confirm it."
Lao Xu nodded.
"I'll go with you."
Chapter completed!