Early the next morning, Hai Daquan, who had not slept all night, picked up the basket and carefully went to the place where Xinghua was killed.
When he met villagers going to the fields on the road, Hai Daquan quietly evaded him. It was not dark yet, but no one noticed him.
Hai Daquan put down the basket, took out the huozhezi, grabbed a few pieces of paper money from the basket and lit them.
He muttered in his mouth: "Xinghua, you can't blame me, I didn't mean to harm you. Who told you not to choose me and to choose Tiejiang Hu? How am I inferior to him?"
As he said that, he was afraid that Xinghua would come to him again at night and said: "People cannot be resurrected after death. I will give you some paper money so that you can get on your way. After all, I am good to you. No one should burn paper money for you except me."
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Thinking of this, Hai Daquan felt at ease again.
Before he could completely let go, a group of government officials rushed around him, scaring him so much that he sat down on the ground.
But he reacted quickly.
He is afraid of ghosts, but not people.
"I wonder what's going on, gentlemen?"
Seeing that he had no intention of confessing, the yamen officer asked, "What are you doing?"
Hai Daquan said calmly: "Didn't the officials see it? I'll burn some paper money for my family."
"This is not a graveyard."
Hai Daquan said confidently: "The place where the paper money is burned is not important, what is important is the intention."
"Really?" The yamen officer sneered. They had been guarding the village all night, but they weren't going to believe him after hearing a few lies he made up. "Take him back."
Hai Daquan was suppressed by several government officials, and he still wanted to flutter, "Didn't I just burn the paper money, which law did I break? You are going to arrest me?"
"Go back to the Yamen and tell me something."
Anyway, they have heard clearly that this man is the murderer, whether he admits it or not, so they just want to kidnap Hai Daquan back, regardless of his attitude.
When some villagers saw him on the road, Hai Daquan shouted that he was wronged.
The yamen servant was unmoved and took the man back to the yamen.
When the magistrate of Song County opened a court to hear Hai Daquan, he also allowed the people to watch.
As expected, Hai Daquan always pretended to be stupid and refused to admit that he had harmed Xinghua.
It has to be said that although this man is afraid of ghosts, he is not afraid of people. At this time, his psychological quality is very good, and the people watching him feel that they have wronged him.
Leng Moran looked into Hai Daquan's eyes, and Hai Daquan quickly avoided it.
Leng Moran smiled slightly and analyzed: "You like Xinghua, but Xinghua doesn't like you, so you choose Hu Tiejiang. You were unwilling, so you blocked Xinghua on the road, but you saw Xinghua and Hu Tiejiang together.
You were angry in your heart, but thinking that you were no match for Mr. Hu, you waited until Mr. Hu left before you went to trouble Xinghua."
Hai Daquan's heart skipped a beat, he didn't expect to be guessed, but he still didn't want to admit it, "Sir, when handling a case, you need to pay attention to evidence, not just guessing."
Leng Moran ignored him and continued: "You questioned Xinghua, and she firmly told you that she didn't like you. You became angry, picked up the sickle in your hand, and cut Xinghua's neck. Soon Xinghua lay motionless on the ground.
"Oh, you were so scared. When you saw the rolling river not far away, you thought of pushing the person into the river and destroying the body. But you didn't expect that the body did not float away, but was discovered by someone and reported to the Yamen."
Hai Daquan began to pretend to be angry: "Sir, you can't say this nonsense. Common people didn't do these things! Go to the village and ask about my reputation, Hai Daquan?"
Leng Moran looked at him in surprise: "Does a good reputation mean that you are not a murderer?"
Hai Daquan choked.
Leng Moran said again: "So many government officials saw you burning paper money at the place where Xinghua's accident happened. Do you still want to quibble?"
Hai Daquan rolled his eyes and was really ready to continue his quibbles.
Magistrate Song was stunned: "Call the witnesses."
Hai Daquan panicked when he saw his companion who often drank with him walking over.
"Cao Tieniu, a common man, has met two adults."
Magistrate Song glanced at Leng Moran, raised his hand and said, "Get up and answer."
Cao Tieniu stood up.
Magistrate Song asked: "Five days ago, could you have seen the entire sea?"
Cao Tieniu answered honestly: "The common people meet him every day."
"Very good. Did he do anything unusual that day? Answer him honestly. If you conceal anything, you will be an accessory."
Cao Tieniu trembled all over and quickly thought about it carefully. After a moment, he said: "I seem to be more panicked than usual."
Hai Daquan was furious and said angrily: "Cao Tieniu, don't talk nonsense!"
The county magistrate of Song Dynasty slapped the alarm: "No noise is allowed in the courtroom."
Then he continued to ask Cao Tieniu: "When did you meet him?"
Cao Tieniu thought about it seriously, "We just arrived at Chenshi."
"Are there any other abnormalities?"
Cao Tieniu shook his head and said: "No more."
"What are you doing when you meet?"
"He went to my farm to help."
"Is he acting weird these days?"
"No."
Hai Daquan breathed a sigh of relief obviously.
Leng Moran immediately asked him: "You just used the hoe you used to work in Cao Tieniu's field to kill Xinghua."
Hai Daquan subconsciously asked, "Where did you get the hoe?"
After saying that, he realized that he had made a mistake and said hurriedly: "I don't know what you are talking about."
Leng Moran curled his lips slightly, "After you harmed Xinghua, you planned to harm Blacksmith Hu and poisoned his water tank."
Hai Daquan defended: "I did not poison."
"Do you admit that you harmed Xinghua?"
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Hai Daquan's back, "Sir, you must pay attention to evidence when handling a case."
Leng Moran nodded and signaled Magistrate Song to continue.
The magistrate of Song County invited Wu Zuo to come over and inquired carefully about Xinghua's situation.
Every time Wu Zuo said something, Hai Daquan became more nervous.
When he could no longer hold himself any longer, Magistrate Song summoned Tiejiang Hu again and asked him about his last meeting with Xinghua.
Leng Moran had told Tiejiang Hu in advance to deliberately make mistakes. Sure enough, after Tiejiang Hu said it, Hai Daquan subconsciously refuted it.
"It was clear that the place where you met Xinghua was not there that day!"
After Hai Daquan finished speaking, he saw everyone staring at him, dumbfounded.
Magistrate Song slapped the crowd angrily: "Hai Daquan, don't you still admit it?"
"The common people are wronged!"
The magistrate of Song County called up the yamen servant who had brought Hai Daquan back to the yamen this morning. The yamen servant recited Hai Daquan's soliloquy when he was burning paper money.
Xinghua's parents who were watching wanted to rush over and beat Hai Daquan angrily. Xinghua's mother cried: "How can we, Xinghua, be sorry for you, why did you treat her like this?"
Hai Daquan said nothing.
Magistrate Song asked: "Why do you want to burn paper money?"
Hai Daquan wanted to burn paper for his family, but there were villagers onlookers who knew the situation of his family well, so others would not believe what he said.
And at this time, his mentality had begun to collapse, and he had no intention of talking about this anymore.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, County Magistrate Song directly raised his hand to signal to the Yamen servant: "Pull it down and put a hundred boards on it."
Hai Daquan was dumbfounded, "Sir, are you going to give in?"
