novel bin Chapter 25
Chapter 25
Following Zhou Wan's narration, Wen Yu gradually understood the whole story.
More than ten years ago, due to the collusion between officials and bandits, the entire Mengyang City was in chaos. Everyone who could walk left, and the rest were ordinary people. At that time, women did not even dare to walk on the streets in broad daylight.
Jiang Lei was young at that time, and he was the little leader of the biggest gang in the area, a group of people who could give orders to him.
That gang mainly made a living by buying and selling people and extorting. The sister of the gang leader was the concubine of the county magistrate at that time, so it was almost lawless in Mengyang.
But at that time, the world was chaotic and everyone was in danger, and their population business was already difficult to continue.
Seeing that he didn't get any money for a long time, the boss transferred the pressure to the lower level, asking his group of younger brothers to get him a woman or a child every two months.
Jiang Lei was also assigned a task. He was smart enough to think that abducting normal women and children must not be easy. After all, there are very few people on the road now.
But those brothel secret doors and so on, there are many women coming in and out every day, and there are still a lot of bones who want to escape. Anyway, they usually send people out of the city to sell in other places. No one can find out?
So he took his brother Su Huai at that time to stay in the brothel day and night, and soon the two locked on the target.
That woman should be a maid in a brothel, and she rarely shows up on weekdays, but when the guests are gone in the early morning, she sometimes goes to deal with the leftovers.
The two found out her work and rest time, and finally beat her unconscious and tied her up.
The two transported the people out of the city overnight, but by coincidence, it rained heavily that night.They could only hide in a dilapidated temple overnight, and sell the woman away after the rain stopped.
At night, Su Huai looked at the woman's curves exposed by the wet clothes through the dim light of the fire, and lusted and lusted her, and forcibly defiled her.Although Jiang Lei didn't participate, he didn't stop it either.
Just as the rain was fading away, the two were about to get up.The woman's father came after him with a group of people.
It turned out that the woman was not from a brothel at all.She was originally a local, but later married to another county, but her husband died early. Her father couldn't bear her daughter's harsh treatment at her husband's house, so he took her back to Mengyang.
But who knows that the law and order in Mengyang is getting worse day by day, so her father quit his job as a hotel chef and chose to work for a few months in the brothel Chuguan with a higher monthly salary. Yang County.
Originally, his daughter came to help him and he refused, but the daughter couldn't bear the hard work of the old man alone, so she persuaded him by saying that she was a mediocre woman who stayed in the kitchen and didn't go out.
The two of them had already discussed that they would save enough money after finishing the work this month, and they could set off to settle down in other counties. Who would have thought that something like this would happen.
Her father still had some contacts in Mengyang. After learning that his daughter was missing, he led a group of people to search around, and finally blocked them here.
At this time, the woman's clothes were disheveled, and being seen by everyone, she committed suicide in shame and indignation. After all, his father was one step too late.
They arrested Jiang Lei and Su Huai to report to the officials, and the government first put them in jail pending trial.
Everything was fine at first, and the two were about to plead guilty, but suddenly one day, a little beggar stood up to testify.Said that he saw with his own eyes that the woman couldn't bear the loneliness and eloped with the two of them. After I found out, I had no face to live, so I chose to commit suicide.
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this person is lying.But helplessly, someone took care of it, and the county magistrate sentenced Jiang Lei and Su Huai to be innocent.
Zhou Wan sighed: "Speaking of it, that woman is also pitiful. She was defiled during her lifetime and splashed with dirty water after her death. According to the clerk, her father's eyeballs were about to ooze blood at that time, and she almost got into a fight with someone in the courtroom." , and was later dragged down by the county magistrate at that time and beaten with a board, almost dying."
Zhou Wan went on to say: "The little beggar was probably Lu Baozhu, and the adults knew what happened later. Not long after, Jiang Lei and Su Huai left. After eradicating them one by one, the law and order in Mengyang gradually recovered. Unfortunately, the old scribe couldn’t remember the name of the woman’s father at that time. Otherwise, I will find a way to find someone to inquire about it.”
"No need, I already know who it is." Wen Yu shook his head. Although he didn't say a word during Zhou Wan's narration, the whole thing had gradually become clear in his mind.
At this time, the yamen servant came to report that Mr. Xu, the inspection department, asked to see him, and Wen Yu invited him in.
Seeing Wen Yu, Xu Jing said directly: "Before you told me, let me check all the people who have been in and out of the inspection department recently and have contact with Jiang Lei. I investigated all suspicious people, and finally found that only one person was satisfied. All conditions."
Wen Yu nodded: "I also have clues here, and I know who is the person who has made enemies with Jiang Lei and Su Huai."
The two said in unison: "Chen Siwu..."
Only Zhou Wan was still at a loss: "Why him? Just because he is a cook?"
Wen Yu shook his head: "It's not just that, a native of Mengyang, a chef, good at dividing, good at making vegetarian food and worshiping Buddha all the year round, I was ordered to go to the inspection department to cook for two days a month a while ago, and being able to contact Jiang Lei is actually evidence It's obvious, we just haven't thought about it."
Wen Yu thought again of what Mrs. Yan said when she went to Su Huai. Someone wants to negotiate a big business with Yanji Vinegar Workshop. Is there any bigger client in Mengyang than the Mengyang County Government?
Zhou Wan suddenly realized after listening to it, and asked for orders to arrest Chen Siwu himself.
Wen Yu didn't express his opinion, but said with a complicated expression: "I'll go with you. At this time, Chen Siwu should still be preparing meals in the county government kitchen."
The three of them went to the backyard with a group of yamen servants, and Chen Siwu was indeed there.
Seeing Wen Yu, he even narrowed his eyes and smiled: "What's the matter with the little old man, my lord?"
Before Wen Yu could speak, Deng Wu shouted from the side: "Chen Siwu! Did you murder Jiang Lei, Su Huai and Lu Baozhu!"
Chen Siwu shook his head, and said mysteriously: "It's not me, it's the Buddha who appeared, and the Buddha killed them. The Buddha saw those wicked people who became officials, and those who made a fortune got rich, so the Buddha was angry. They entered the [-]th hell, it was the Buddha who appeared, hahahahahaha!"
Wen Yu and the others were stunned by his crazy appearance. Maybe when his daughter died and he was beaten up when he tried to avenge his grievances, he was already a little delirious.
Now that he was sure that he was the perpetrator, Wen Yu ordered him to be captured and put in prison to wait for his punishment.
At this time, the Mengyang serial murder case was finally solved, and Wen Yu had an explanation to the people in the county.
Although he was caught, how to judge is still a problem. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Siwu would definitely be punished in this situation.
Wen Yunian was at his age, so he didn't interrogate him, and directly reported the case to the higher authorities for instructions.
But before the instructions came down, the jailer said that Chen Siwu had fallen ill in prison and was about to die. Wen Yu hurriedly sent someone to ask a doctor to see him, but Chen Siwu couldn't make it through and passed away.
The report was about to be rewritten again, Wen Yu sighed helplessly.It is not easy to be an official in a feudal society.
The author has something to say: The second case is finally finished... To be honest, I originally wanted to write a public case novel like "Surprise" that emphasizes the results rather than the investigation process, but the writing is not enough, and this case seems to have gone astray again ORZ
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