Chapter 42 Open Your Mouth
Lu Jinping sighed and said, "You have your difficulties, but you are affecting the court's case handling and perjury. Do you understand? You are going to jail."
Chang Widow looked at Lu Jinping with tears in her eyes and said, "Sir, you pity me. If you want to lock me up, my winery will go bankrupt, and I will not be able to live. I have no choice."
"You can explain the matter honestly first. What's going on?"
"Okay, I said. That night, Pang Yan kept drinking with me, and everyone else had gone out, and he was still drinking. At midnight, he said he wanted to sleep with me and refused to leave. I thought that was not possible. After he said this, he really swayed into my house and lie on the bed and fell asleep. I couldn't do anything about him. I said you want to sleep, so I had to move to another place to sleep, so I carried the quilt to the wine cellar to sleep. But after I put the floor, I felt that this was inappropriate. If someone came in, I wouldn't ask me if I slept separately from him, but it would be said outside that he was sleeping in my room.
I jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it. So, I opened the door and went out to find Liu Lao Er and asked him to help him help him back. When I arrived outside the door of Liu Lao Er's house, I wanted to learn to call him a toad, but I remembered that his wife always criticized me for being scolded and scolded me, and seemed to dislike me for calling him a man. In fact, my man and I were innocent and just asked him to help. I also gave him a bowl of wine at a time, and didn't do anything to sorry for her. However, since she cared so much, I should not disturb her. Therefore, I hesitated for a while, and did not call him, and came back by myself."
"So, you went there twice in succession. The first time you went outside his house, didn't you call him, right?"
"Yes, what should I do after thinking for a long time? If I want to go back, if someone breaks into it, I can't explain it clearly. So, I squatted under the tree outside Liu Laoer's house, hoping that he would be convenient for him to come out at night, so I could tell him to help. I sat for an hour. I heard the sound of the fourth update and knew that it was already the fourth update. I thought I could not drag it like this anymore. I was sleepy. I wanted to rest early, so I would go back and call Pang Yan to let him go home quickly. I wanted to close the door and go to bed. So I went home again, and I found that he was dead."
Lu Jinping looked at him and said slowly: "As you said that, from the third to the fourth, you are not at home, but waiting for him outside Liu Laoer's house?"
“That’s right.”
"Then have you closed the door?"
"I closed the door, but it was not locked. Because I guess it would take not long to call Liu Lao Er, so I didn't say it. Besides, if Pang Yan figured out that he wanted to go home and locked the door, wouldn't he be able to come out? Besides, there is nothing valuable in the house except the wine in the wine cellar. The business is not good, and the wine is not much money. I carry it with me. There shouldn't be anyone going to play late at night, so I didn't say it."
"Then after you go back, have you noticed abnormalities in the door? Or are there any signs of people entering?"
Widow Chang thought for a while and said, "I really didn't pay attention to this, because I couldn't think of him as he would die. I pushed the door and went in, and found him lying there motionless. After I found out that he was dead, I hurried to find Liu Laoer and asked him to testify for me so that people would not gossip. - I thought too much and delayed the master's resolution of the case. I deserve to die. Please forgive me."
The captain Xiong on the side was confused again at this moment. The case seems to be in a deadlock. It turns out that someone suspected Liu Laoer, but someone proved that he was not present at the time. Although no one has proved this widow, it still makes sense. The main problem is that she has no motive for the crime and has no reason to kill Pang Yan. If neither of them, who would the murderer be?
Lu Jinping stood up as if nothing had happened, stretched his body and said, "Okay, I'll investigate this today. However, before the case is solved, you cannot leave the local area. If you have special circumstances to leave, you must obtain approval from the yamen before you can leave. Do you understand?"
Chang widow smiled bitterly and said, "My parents have passed away, and there are no relatives at home. My family is here and my husband is dead. Where else can I go? This is my home."
"You are also a pitiful person, okay, that's all the question. Now, I need to take your spit sample."
When he heard this, Widow Chang blushed and said shyly: "Sir..., how do you want to...?"
"Open your mouth!"
Widow Chang was even more shy and looked at the captain Xiong next to her with embarrassment. Seeing that Captain Xiong looked a little frightened, but he had no intention of quitting, because Lu Jinping did not signal him to avoid it, he knew that Lu Jinping should have a deep meaning, rather than doing something to avoid people.
Widow Chang had to blush her face, slowly opened her red lips slightly, and spit out a little bit of her sparrow tongue, which was very tempting.
"Big Zhang!" Lu Jinping said calmly.
"Ah? Zhang, open it a little bigger?" Widow Chang was a little at a loss and thought to herself that if her mouth was too wide, how could she kiss her? Since the Lord said that, he could only do what he said. So he opened his mouth wide.
Lu Jinping took out a small paper bag from his sleeve bag, pulled out a small cotton swab from it, and the silk cotton wrapped it. He made it himself.
Lu Jinping put his cotton swab directly into Widow Chang's mouth. Then he swept the inside of his mouth a few times, pulled it out, and put it back into the paper bag. He stood up and said, "You continue your business, we're leaving."
Widow Chang said ah, and still opened her mouth. I don’t know what Lu Jinping meant. She didn’t dare to close her mouth without giving instructions. Seeing Lu Jinping and the others turned around and left, she quickly closed her mouth and chased after her, and said to the door: “Sir, are you...you are leaving?”
"Yes, if there is any problem, we will come back to you."
It turned out that the Lord did not mean anything else. The Widow was often disappointed and embarrassed and said hurriedly: "Lord, you... If you have time, you must go to my winery to sit in. I will serve you with my best daughter Hong, and I will treat you. As long as the Lord is willing to give you a gift, it will be a great face for me."
Lu Jinping smiled. This widow often knows how to do business. Zhou Yuanwai asked himself to save face in front of relatives and friends, and this widow often asked him to go to her winery to provide free drinks, and he also asked him to promote her. He smiled and said, "If the mountains and rivers do not change, they may be transferred to you one day, it depends on fate."
Widow Chang kept throwing her charming eyes: "Then I am waiting for the Lord and I look forward to the Lord coming every day. Don't let me down!"
Lu Jinping waved his hand and walked outside, and ordered Captain Xiong to let Liu Lao Er go all out. Judging from the current situation, Liu Lao Er had no time to commit the crime, so he didn't kill him.
While walking to Zhou Yuanwai's house, Lu Jinping said to Captain Xiong: "You send someone back to Tongzhou Prefecture overnight to visit all the gold, silver and jade shops to check the jade plaque of Mr. Zhou's son-in-law. You can ask the painter to draw the jade pendant for them to see if anyone is here to sell it."
Captain Xiong said: "The Lord suspects that the thief who stole Zhou Yuanwai's son-in-law's waist card was the murderer?"
"This possibility. If Widow Chang didn't lie to us, there was about an hour in the middle. Widow Chang and Lao Er were not there, and the door was also hidden and not locked from it. Old Master Zhou found that his son-in-law's jade pendant worth thousands of people was gone. I don't feel that it was stolen by Widow Chang. Because she seems to have been running a wine shop to do wine business for a long time. If she has the problem of stealing customers' things, who would dare to drink from her? She is doing business with regular customers. What she is most worried about is that someone throws things from her, because even if it is not her, others will suspect that it is her and her reputation will be ruined. The thing she is most taboo about is that it is impossible to take the initiative to ruin her reputation."
Chapter completed!