Xie Bian really couldn't stand Qi Baoer's eyes, but he really couldn't say much.
Sighing helplessly, he could only remind: "Your Highness, this is your human matter."
After saying that, Vukong picked up the woman Piao and ran away quickly.
Except for Qi Baoer, only one person present, Lu Tongpan, heard what Xie Bian said. It was obvious that he meant it.
Judge Lu Tong didn't know that others couldn't hear this yet. He only felt that the big stone pressing on his chest had been moved away. Although there was still one, at least he didn't feel it every time he breathed.
difficulty.
As the general magistrate of a city [equivalent to a state], when he learned that strange things were happening in Yong'an City, he said that he couldn't sleep at night.
There are tens of millions of people in Yong'an City. To put it bluntly, they are all his people. He is their parent official. As long as he is the people's judge for a day, he has the responsibility and obligation to do his best to protect the people.
of peace.
When faced with things that we know are okay, we will suppress the bandits and kill the villains. There is always a way to do it.
But if he faced the unknown, especially the invisible thing, wouldn't he just have to watch the people suffer?
Fortunately, as long as it's not related to the underworld, it's not a problem.
Qi Bao'er looked thoughtfully at the direction in which Xie Bianqi had slipped out. She was not as happy as Lu Tongpan. On the contrary, she had a very bad feeling.
Let's put it this way, for Qi Bao'er personally, it is easier to deal with evil things than facing people. Of course, if it is an official like Man-made Natural Ways to Pass, there is no need for Qi Bao'er and Xuanmen Zhongren
Come in and mix.
But the problem is that although small things are happening all over Yong'an City now, big things are going on, but don't underestimate small things. Once the people are uneasy, small things will immediately turn into big things.
If you look at it at a smaller scale, it's just one family feud, but at a larger scale, as long as your brain isn't flooded with too much water, you can see that someone has laid out the overall situation, and the first step is to cause chaos in Yong'an City.
From this perspective, the real target of the person behind this should be the capital city, or more precisely, the person sitting on the dragon throne in the palace.
She is in Yong'an City, and her grandparents and parents are both in Yong'an City. Secondly, she is the head of Anle County.
There was no way she could really sit idly by and ignore this matter.
It's not that evil spirits are doing evil, solving the case is a matter for the government.
Qi Baoer is the county head, but the county head is not an official. The government can ask her to assist. After all, she is a county head with a rank and a title, so it is not an act of transgression. But if the government does not take the initiative, she has no rights.
I went to ask someone to handle the case.
Besides, this girl is lazy.
So, after a group of people returned to Ping'an Town Inn overnight, Qi Bao'er dove into the house and fell asleep in the dark.
Poor Lu Tongpan and Jiang County Cheng and others had no time to spare.
There are too many doubts about this case, especially since Lu Tong has rich experience in judging cases, and he has an intuition that if the case is found out, it may involve a lot of things.
Therefore, as soon as the two returned to the town, Lu Tongjian went to interrogate the Cao family overnight, and Jiang County Magistrate also spent the night carefully investigating the possible source of arsenic one by one.
Now, arsenic is the breaking point in the case. Only by finding out where the arsenic came from can the case be opened.
Qi Bao'er was full of sleep and yawned as he came out of the house. He was met by Judge Lu Tong, who walked over with red eyes but couldn't hide his joy.
It seems to have paid off.
Sure enough, although he was tired, Judge Lu Tong had a smile on his face: "County Lord, the case has made progress."
Judge Lu Tong unknowingly no longer regarded Qi Bao'er simply as a baby, but as a person who could look straight, communicate normally, and be trustworthy. There was only Twelve standing next to him, and he was gone.
Other concerns.
After returning last night, he interrogated the Cao family overnight. The Cao family did not refer to only people with the surname Cao, but also included servants such as the maids and servants of the Cao family.
The masters of the Cao family really didn't find anything valuable in their investigation. The father-in-law had an affair with his daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law was pregnant with the father-in-law's child and was aborted by her mother-in-law. The eldest son was afraid that the second son would steal the family property and give it to the second son.
A trap was set to make him become a eunuch, and after the second son knew the truth, he gave the eldest son infertility drugs and other messy things.
As Lu Tong interrogated and interrogated, he almost didn't even carry two buckets of water to wash his ears. Finally, when he interrogated the mute slave who was doing chores in Cao's kitchen, he found something valuable.
Here is a brief introduction:
——The mute slave used to be Mr. Cao’s maid. Only one month after Mr. Cao married the current Mrs. Cao, he took the mute slave from his maid to his concubine.
Not only that, the mute slave was already one month pregnant at that time.
Madam Cao was naturally dissatisfied when she learned about this matter. Madam Cao was a very ruthless person. One night when Master Cao was not at home, she led her servants into the mute slave's room and beat out the child in the mute slave's belly.
In addition, he also used a bowl of scalding hot oil to pour the mute slave into silence.
Although the Qilin Kingdom does not explicitly stipulate that a concubine cannot be pregnant before his wife, this has long been an unwritten rule, and it is also an important point to show whether a husband respects his legitimate wife.
Mr. Cao was already ashamed of Mrs. Cao on this matter, so when he heard from Mrs. Cao that Mrs. Cao said that she aborted the mute slave's children and then sold them out, he didn't say much.
What.
Naturally, he didn't even look for the mute slave.
Little did he know that the mute slave was still in the Cao Mansion and was left by Mrs. Cao in the kitchen to do the heaviest and most tiring work.
The mute slave hated Mrs. Cao for being cruel, but she hated Master Cao for being ruthless even more.
So, when someone said they would help her get revenge, she agreed without even thinking about it.
The mutual strife between the two brothers, Mr. Cao and Cao Xuchun, was reflected in the mute slave.
The courtesan courtesan that Mr. Cao used to plot against Cao Xuchun was arranged by the person behind the mute slave.
The medicine that Cao Xuchun gave to Mr. Cao to eliminate his children and grandchildren was given by someone behind the mute slave.
The arsenic this time also came from the person behind the mute slave.
"It's a pity that the mute slave didn't know that person. When he met her, he covered his face with black cloth, and the place where he met her was the person's request. They were not in a fixed place, but in remote places in the town.
place.
I took the map of Ping'an Town and marked it one by one, but there was no connection whatsoever."
Qi Baoer was a little confused, "It will take more than ten or twenty years for the mute slave to take revenge, right?"
Does the person behind this have a grudge against the Cao family, or is there some big plan that was started twenty years ago?
Judge Lu Tong was also confused about this point, "According to what the mute slave said, the mysterious man came to find her after she was thrown into the kitchen by Mrs. Cao."
In fact, it has been going on for about twenty years.
At this time, Twelve on the side suddenly said, "If the mute slave is telling the truth, and the mysterious man has been lying in wait for more than twenty years, there should be more than just the Cao family and the Ma Liu family in Ping'an Town."
Both Qi Bao'er and Lu Tongjian carried out the Qing Liang initiation. Both of them made the mistake of blinding their eyes by only focusing on the case that had already occurred.
Judge Lu Tong even gasped and turned around to run away.
Qi Baoer also frowned slightly, turned around and entered the house, and soon came out dressed up.