Lu Jinping looked at the wall and said to Widow Chang: "Is there a ladder?"

Chang Widow shook her head and said, "My family doesn't have a ladder, what does the Lord want to do for?"

"I'm going to go to the wall to check if there are any signs of people coming through the wall."

The widow Chang hurriedly said, "Then I'll borrow a ladder next door, they have one."

After saying that, Widow Chang hurried out and quickly carried a ladder back and put it on the back wall. Lu Jinping climbed up and took a closer look. The wall should have been built for many years. There was a lot of soil on it, and some grass grew well. The soil on it was not overturned or scratched.

Lu Jinping lowered the ladder and said to Widow Chang: "Pang Yan was in your winery that night. Did he fight with someone?"

Widow Chang shook her head and said, "No, how is that possible? I drink here. Although I sometimes do crazy drinking, it is absolutely impossible to move my fists. I am not a person for nothing. Whoever dares to make trouble with me will not be able to take care of me! Besides, Pang Yan is Mr. Zhou's son-in-law. If you don't look at monks and Buddha's faces, even if someone is in trouble with Pang Yan, he will not dare to fight him. He has Mr. Zhou behind him. How can Mr. Zhou let others beat his son-in-law at will?"

After a gentle handful of these words, Zhou Yuanwai was very helpful. He shook his head proudly and looked at Widow Chang. Widow Chang quickly smiled and threw his eyes over.

Lu Jinping turned around and asked Yuanwai Zhou, "I remember you said before that your son-in-law went out after having supper the evening before, right?"

Mr. Zhou nodded and said, "That's right, he went out after having supper at home and said he was drinking."

Lu Jinping turned around and looked at Widow Chang and said, "You said just now that he went to your winery in the evening to start drinking. This means that he should have just left home and went directly to your winery and didn't go to other places in the middle, right?"

"It should be like this."

"But we tested his body and found a fractured rib on his right side. What's going on? You said that he had been drinking in your winery and didn't go out in the middle. If his injury was not caused by beating in your winery, how did it come?"

Widow Chang blushed, looked at Zhou Yuanwai, lowered her head and said, "I deserve to die, I didn't tell the truth. He was fighting with someone. But I thought that since everyone was dead, there was no need to involve others, so I didn't say it."

"I warn you that you must tell the truth, otherwise you will not be able to afford to interfere with the yamen's case!"

"Yes! I understand, I will never dare to hide it anymore."

"Who did he fight?"

"A man nicknamed Niu Calf."

"What the hell is going on?"

"That night, we were drinking. The calf came in and sat down to drink. Somehow, after drinking for a while, they disliked each other and started arguing, and they had to fight. I got angry. My winery would never let someone fight here, so I took a stick out and asked them to go out and beat them outside. So they both left. After a while, Pang Yan came back and sat down with his hands covering his waist.

.I asked him what happened? He said Niuduzi kicked him. But he didn't let Niuduzi get the benefits. He pressed Niuduzi to the ground and beat him hard. Then Niuduzi ran home and came back. Pang Yan was fat and fat, and he would not suffer any loss in fighting. He was the son-in-law of Mr. Zhou. No one dared to provoke him in normal times. The calf didn't know what was wrong with the stubbornness, but he wanted to provoke him. As a result, he was beaten with a bruised nose and a swollen face. He deserved it."

Lu Jinping asked: "Didn't you ask him how he was injured?"

"I asked, and he said it was a little painful, but it didn't matter. I'll just find a doctor to get some trauma medicine tomorrow, so I'll continue drinking."

"Who is that calf?"

"He is a bachelor in the town, his surname is Niu. Because he is stupid, he calls him Niu Duzi."

Lu Jinping ordered Captain Xiong and Zhou Yuanwai to say: "Send two constables and ask Zhou Yuanwai to send someone to lead the way and bring this calf."

Captain Xiong asked the two detectives to follow Zhou Yuanwai's servant to take people there.

Lu Jinping looked at Widow Chang and said, "I'll ask you, Mr. Zhou's son-in-law Pang Yan, did you take off your pants on the night you drank here? You'll talk about it clearly."

Zhang Yuechang's widow's pretty face turned red, and gave Lu Jinping a pretty roll of eyes, and said coquettishly: "Who did the Lord think of me as? I said that I am a wine seller, not a kiln sister in the funeral market. How can I let the guests take off their pants from me? Then who am I?"

"You answer my question directly, has he taken it off?"

Widow Chang shook her head and said, "No, absolutely not! Liu Laoer and I both carried him to bed, and he was sleeping there. We went back to the room to sleep, and we never took off his pants, but we didn't know whether he took off his own clothes after we left!"

"He is so drunk that he can still take off his pants by himself?"

The Widow Chang smiled slightly: "Men are so timid, what can't they do?"

Speaking of this, Widow Chang felt a little embarrassed and turned the topic away and said to Mr. Zhou: "Master Zhou, your son-in-law Pang Yan owed a lot of money from me drinking. People can't die. You have pity me, have you settled the account? There are thousands of accounts, and I have recorded them in my notebook. He said he would have paid me a few days ago, but he didn't expect to die. I won't rely on you. Because you were holding funerals a few days ago, I didn't know how to mention it. Now I meet, by the way, I'm opening a business. This money is a drop in the bucket for you, and it's a big deal to me. If I owe too much debt, I can't do this business."

Mr. Zhou snorted heavily from his nostrils and said, "You settle the score with me? I haven't settled the score with you yet. Where did the jade pendant my son-in-law bring on? That thing is worth thousands of quotations. Don't say you didn't see it, he kept bringing it to him. On the day he died, I went to your house and saw that there was no jade pendant on him. I also asked you, "You said you would look for it. Have you found it?"

Chang's widow's pretty face turned cold: "Master, are you deliberately insulting me? I said that day that he brought the jade pendant or not, and I really can't remember it, and I didn't pay attention. Besides, the jade pendant has been stuck in his belt, and it doesn't usually come out, so I can't notice it. I said I looked for it, just to see if it was left here. I found it, but it wasn't. I swear that I opened the door and did business in the winery for so many years, and many customers have dropped things in my place. I never said that I had sold those who had swallowed their things. I kept it in good condition and waited for people to come back to get it. If Pang Yan's thing fell on me, it would be a small jade pendant, even if it was a mountain of gold and silver, I wouldn't be moved. I was right in business and wanted money, but I would never want it, even if it was not mine, I wouldn't take it even if it was placed in front of me!"

Yuanwai Zhou snorted and said nothing.

Lu Jinping asked Zhou Yuanwai: "Is the jade pendant on your son-in-law missing?"

"Yes, the jade pendant was given to him when he married into his family. It was a gift from him to our Zhou family. I spent 1,200 yuan to buy it from the Jinjia Jade Store in Tongzhou. Pang Yan has been wearing the jade pendant on his body. Of course, he did hide the jade pendant on his waist and sometimes it was also lit, but I am sure that he has never left him because it was given to him by this master, and he dared not to bring it. Besides, if he doesn't carry such valuable things with him, how can it show that my Zhou family's great business? He came to my Zhou family to enjoy happiness? This is proof. He knows my temper and dares not bring it. So he must have lost it."

It turned out that this jade pendant was given to his son-in-law by Zhou Yuanwai to show off. Lu Jinping was a little funny. However, for a businessman like Zhou Yuanwai, his social status was so low that there was nothing that could satisfy him except showing off his wealth.

Lu Jinping said to Zhou Yuanwai: "One code is the same as one code. Your son-in-law's jade pendant is gone. If there is no evidence to prove that it was often taken by a widow, it will not affect you to repay the account for your son-in-law. He is your son-in-law at home, so you should naturally pay the account back by your Zhou family. Right?"

Yuanwai Zhou quickly laughed and said, "Yes, I'll pay it back soon."
Chapter completed!