Seeing so many delicious foods, the mangy man's stomach couldn't help but growl. He swallowed, looked at the two yamen servants cautiously, reached out and pulled out a chicken leg, and after taking a bite, he realized something was wrong.
As he chewed, he looked at the two government officials expectantly, "Officer, sir, can I go out?"
Yamen A nodded and said, "You can go out after you finish eating."
The maniac forced himself to put down the chicken legs in his hands and said, "I'm not hungry anymore, let's go out now."
Yamen Yi smiled and said: "Brother, you'd better eat well, but you can't go on the road hungry."
After that, he personally poured the man a glass of wine.
The secret he heard last night suddenly popped up in the man's mind. His hands started to tremble, and his whole body trembled. "Get on, get on the road? On what road?"
Yamen Officer A reached out and patted him on the shoulder and said: "Brother, what do you think? You live in a death row. Speaking of which, this is the first time I have seen a death row prisoner in so many years since I have been in the county government. So we have no experience. The food prepared may be
It’s a bit rough, but we tried our best. Don’t say bad things about us when you go underground..."
Before he could finish his words, Mangyu rolled his eyes and looked like he was about to faint. As soon as Yamen Yi stretched out his hand to help him, Mangyu actually recovered on his own. He fell to the ground and crawled on.
He stepped forward and hugged Yamen Jia's leg, shouting: "I said, I said, I said everything, it has nothing to do with me, it really has nothing to do with me, it was Zhou Yin, it was Zhou Yin who did it."
The two government officials looked at each other. They didn't expect that there was really something going on. They said, "Don't tell us this. We are just servants and we can't be the masters."
"You can't be the master, you can't be the master. I, I want to see the lord, I want to see the county magistrate. The one you want to arrest is Zhou Yin, but Zhou Yin is dead. By the way, he has a daughter. He also has a daughter.
Girl, don’t arrest me, don’t chop my head off, it has nothing to do with me, it really has nothing to do with me, I just saw it..."
In this way, the mangy man was brought to the magistrate of Tang County.
The two government officials whispered what he said in prison to Magistrate Tang. Magistrate Tang's eyes narrowed and he nodded slightly.
After glancing at the crowded lobby, Magistrate Tang thought for a moment, stood up and said, "Bring the man to the backyard, and I will interrogate him from behind."
After the private trial, Yamen A and Yamen B looked at each other, said yes, and escorted the man to the backyard of the county Yamen.
The backyard of the county government office is the residence of Magistrate Yang. Although there is a door connected to the county government office, the person guarding the door is Magistrate Yang's servant, so not everyone in front can come through.
Magistrate Tang went in and out of the backyard just like returning to his own home. He ordered a side room to be cleared out and interrogated the man there, leaving only a clerk and his entourage beside him.
Changsui was his confidant Ming Li, and the secretary was an official in Luojiang County, a person Yang Heshu had said he could trust.
Magistrate Tang sat down on the first seat. Clerk Jiang Qi looked around, then brought over a table and stool, placed the Four Treasures of the Study on them, and planned to record the case here.
As soon as the things were put on the table, two government officials escorted the man over.
The man saw that he was not going to the court, but the government officials pushed him down and then left. There was only Magistrate Tang sitting in the hall, and there were only two people on the left and right, and one of them looked like a servant, so he was even more sure that yesterday
The secret I heard at night, the bad official in the hall really wanted to take the blame on him.
Magistrate Tang took a sip of tea, looked at the trembling man beneath him, and said, "Didn't you say you have something to say to me? Just say it!"
Rattou swallowed, licked his lips and said cautiously: "Sir, I was wronged, really wronged. Those things have nothing to do with me. I only listen to the village chief and the people in the village.
I didn’t deliberately hide my official duties.”
Magistrate Tang asked: "What are you hiding about your official duties? Let's start from the beginning."
The mangy head was blocked. He didn't know where to start. He was the one who knew the least about Zhou Yin, because at that time he just followed everyone else's advice. He did what the village told him to do.
.
What did this make him say?
Seeing his stupid appearance, County Magistrate Tang simply asked: "Let's talk about Zhou Yin first. Where is Zhou Yin?"
"Dead," the maniac said very smoothly and quickly, and immediately said: "He died more than ten years ago. He died together with his wife."
"More than ten years ago?"
"Yes," the maniac counted on his fingers and said, "It was about eleven or twelve years ago. At that time, the little girl of Zhou Jin's family was only a few months old and still very young. By the way, she was Zhou Yin's
Daughter, only daughter.”
Magistrate Tang raised his eyelids, glanced at him, and asked, "Where is the person buried?"
"It's in the Zhou family's cemetery at the end of the village. They used to be buried without names and identities, and they didn't dare to let anyone know about it. Later, an official from the county government came and said there was a funeral report of Zhou Yin, so the Zhou family made a big fuss about it.
He was reburied."
"Then let's talk about Zhou Yin carefully. What did he commit? How did he die?"
"He is a bandit," the mangy man was a little confused, "Isn't this what the officials said?"
County Magistrate Tang raised his eyebrows and asked, "Which official said this when?"
"Just eleven or twelve years ago, he and his wife were hacked to death on the mountain. Just after we carried them back, a few officials riding tall horses came to the village." The man made gestures and said, "They took it.
The broadsword and the portrait said that the people in the portrait were bandits and were hacked to death on the mountain when they captured them. They asked us who buried them, what their names were and what family they were from."
The maniac said: "They were so fierce at that time, how could we dare to say that they were from Zhou Jin's family? They were all from the village, and their family had a relationship with many families in the village. Everyone said they had never seen them before, and they didn't know, so they fooled people.
He left. Later, another group of people came and searched every house carefully. We didn’t even dare to tell anyone."
This amount of information was quite large, and the clerk couldn't help but look up at Magistrate Tang.
Magistrate Tang sat up straight and asked: "Eleven or twelve years ago, was it the second year of Dazhen or the third year of Dazhen?"
The mangy man said without thinking: "The third year of Dazhen."
"How do you remember it so clearly?"
"Because there was also a flood in Yizhou City the previous year, which also affected our place, and my second daughter was born in the second year of Dazhen. I remembered it when the Lord told me."
Magistrate Tang asked: "Zhou Yin has sold himself before. When was the first time he returned to his hometown?"
"In the third year of Da Zhen's reign, he only returned once. He married a wife, gave birth to a daughter, and returned home in fine clothes."
Magistrate Tang raised his chin and said, "Then let's talk about it carefully."
The mangy man felt a little timid under his sharp gaze. He shrank his neck and asked, "Tell me, what did you say?"