Yan Bingying scolded: "I didn't take your money at all."
She said to Shen Chi: "This person clearly wants to use a fake contract to get either the land deed or three thousand taels of silver."
Chen Chi said: "Miss Yan, don't be anxious, I will find out clearly on my own."
He looked at shopkeeper Liu and asked, "Did anyone see you giving three thousand taels of silver to Miss Yan?"
Shopkeeper Liu said: "No."
Chen Chi added: "Three thousand taels is not a small amount. Was this money taken out at the bank?"
Shopkeeper Liu responded casually: "Yes, yes."
Chen Chi said: "What about the bank note? On what day did you pick it up? Who did you meet on the way?"
Shopkeeper Liu changed his expression and stammered: "I lost the receipt, and I forgot the day I picked it up."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Chi slapped the gavel in his hand fiercely and yelled: "There is no receipt, and I forgot the day I took it. Can you always remember which bank it is from?"
Shopkeeper Liu trembled with fright: "It's Huitong Bank."
Shen Chi said to the official beside him: "Go to Huitong Bank to check."
The official took the order and left with the people.
Shen Chi glanced at Yan Bingying who was still kneeling on the ground and said, "Miss Yan, get up and answer."
Yan Bingying thanked her and stood up.
Chen Chi said: "I remember Miss Yan once reported a case that the house was stolen, right?"
"yes."
Yan Bingying responded, and Shen Chi asked again: "Did anything happen before the theft?"
"have."
Yan Bingying replied: "Before the theft, shopkeeper Liu tried to trick me into transferring the line of cloth to him, but I didn't agree."
Shen Chi nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
Shopkeeper Liu knelt on the ground, his knees hurt, and he felt uncomfortable all over. After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the Yamen came back with the shopkeeper and accounts of Huitong Bank.
Shen Chi flipped through the accounts, looked up at Shopkeeper Liu and said, "I looked through the account records for this month. There is no record of you withdrawing money, only records of your deposits. This amount is not small. Do you want it?" how to explain?"
Shopkeeper Liu broke out in cold sweat on his forehead, and he couldn't think of any excuse for a while.
However, Shen Chi couldn't bear it anymore: "Why don't we actually recruit him?"
Shopkeeper Liu trembled with fright, gritted his teeth and said: "The common man did not lie, the common man remembered it wrong. The three thousand taels of silver were borrowed by the common man from elsewhere."
"very good."
Chen Chi sneered. He took the contract and said, "Let me ask you one last time. This contract was signed and pledged by Miss Yan herself."
"yes."
Shopkeeper Liu refused to let go.
Shen Chi snorted: "I have given you a chance, but you didn't shed tears without seeing the coffin.
You think this contract is forged and has no trace of it, but you don’t know that the handwriting can be imitated, but the handprint is unique."
He asked someone to bring out the ink pad and white paper, and asked Yan Bingying to rub her fingerprints on the white paper.
The fingerprints on the white paper are completely different from the fingerprints on the contract.
The people watching also saw it and said, "This is really different."
Shen Chi motioned to the yamen servant to use shopkeeper Liu's own for comparison.
As a result, shopkeeper Liu's fingerprints were exactly the same as those in the contract.
Everyone was shocked: "This is his own fingerprint. This contract is fake. He is really vicious!"
The people who originally believed in Shopkeeper Liu were furious and began to accuse him one after another.