At that moment, extreme fear caused Zeng Su to completely lose his self-control, and his pants instantly became wet.
But I saw him kneeling on the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic, until his forehead was stained with blood. While kowtowing, he repeatedly muttered nonsense such as "I'm sorry for you" and "Please let me go."
This kind of reaction was enough for Zhou Captou.
In Zhou Wu's opinion, the case has been solved now and the murderer has been found. As for "making him confess", it is the easiest thing.
Not to mention you Zeng Su, what if it were Song Gongming? When the board is thrown in the court, how many people can really handle it?
To make a long story short, when Zeng Su realized what was going on, Master Zeng, Zhou Baotou, Sun Yixie, and Huang Donglai were all sitting in front of him.
They temporarily placed the second lady's body on the couch in Zeng Su's room, and the glass fish was also placed on the table.
As for the other servants, they were all ordered to wait outside the house. After all, this matter was considered a family scandal... and should not be made public.
"Okay." Zhou Wu also showed off his boss-catching style at this time, and said in a tone of kindness and power, "You and I have some friendship, so I just want to give you some advice... A man, if you dare
As long as you take the initiative to explain the matter clearly and let me have an explanation with the Yamenmen, I will guarantee that you will not suffer the unnecessary pain, otherwise..."
What he said is all cliché, but it does make sense.
There are many murderers who know that if they are recruited, they will die, so they take the chance and refuse to recruit them. At this time, the official rarely condescends to persuade him personally, so people like the head catcher usually have to go up and follow them.
The prisoner said a few words of "the truth".
And the general meaning of this rhetoric is: the result of you carrying it to death is nothing more than being pulled out to the court every day, beaten every day, the wounds are healed and rotten, and the rotten wounds are healed... you are in pain every day, and finally die in prison due to infection, and you die.
It's painful and ugly.
But if you do it, at least you will have a reputation as someone who dares to take it. After you finish painting and are sent to prison, you won’t have to endure much hardship in the cell; wait until autumn, eat beheading rice, go to the market and shout "Eighteen"
"You will be a good man again in the next year." If you let the executioner give you a good time, you can be considered decent. And here at our yamen, the official document of closing the case can also be made more beautiful, and both the master and the police will get credit.
The above-mentioned set of things can be regarded as a set of unspoken rules that accompany "torture to extract confessions" in the judicial process; the entire process behind it is indeed efficient, but it often leads to unjust, false and wrongful convictions.
Unfortunately, this was already the most advanced system at the time.
In that era, the so-called "clear observation" simply refers to the county magistrate's experience in judging cases, such as the ability to observe words and emotions, etc. Sometimes the judgment of some cases will even depend on the county magistrate's mood during the trial...
Therefore, it cannot be said that there are very many villains who are on the loose and unlucky people who are unjustly killed, but they do exist.
Fortunately, there were no mistakes or omissions in Zeng Su's case.
Zeng Su, whose psychological defense had collapsed, was not the kind of person who would die...
He pondered for a long time, ordered a bottle of wine, sat on the floor and drank three glasses of wine, and then explained everything in detail.
Master Zeng's face turned livid when he listened there, and his body was trembling from time to time, but at least he controlled his emotions and did not lose his composure.
After Zeng Su finished explaining, Zhou Captou waited for a few seconds, then leaned into Master Zeng's ear and asked: "Master... what do you think we should do about this matter?"
Zhou Wu is a sensible person, so this question should indeed be asked to Zeng Yun.
Everyone in the city of Luzhou knows that in Luzhou, there is "the flowing water of the county magistrate and the iron-clad master Zeng" - how to decide this matter in the end, the county magistrate's say does not count, Zeng Yun has to listen.
Master Zeng calmed down a little and then said: "Kill someone to pay for your life, you just have to do business..."
Zhou Wu knew that there should be a "but" behind this sentence, so he did not respond, but waited.
Sure enough, after a brief pause, Mr. Zeng continued: "It's just... I don't want this matter about my Zeng family to cause trouble in the city and everyone on the street will know..."
"Then..." Zhou Wu said as he thought, "otherwise... the previous murder cases can be dealt with according to the original 'haunted' explanation, and the last big death will only be blamed on Zeng Su.
They said they were at odds with each other, and He Da was still pestering Zeng Su after he left the house, trying to extort more money from the Zeng family. As a result, Zeng Su became murderous and poisoned him... Sir, you
how about?"
After listening to this, Mr. Zeng thought about it for a while and felt that for outsiders who didn't know the inside story, this rhetoric was quite satisfactory, so he nodded and said: "Okay, then Lao Zhou will arrest the head." He paused, "
I will draft a letter shortly to inform the magistrate of the matter, and I would also like to ask Mr. Zhou to forward it to you."
"It should be." Zhou Wu agreed.
After finishing these words, Mr. Zeng cast another cold look at Zeng Su: "Hmph... In the end, I left you with a good reputation. Isn't it worthy of you?"
Zeng Su quickly changed his position from sitting to kneeling, and kowtowed to Master Zeng again, but he couldn't say a word.
"By the way..." At this time, Zhou Wu remembered something again and reminded Zeng Yun, "The second lady's personal maid also knows a lot of inside information. Master Zeng, if you don't want the news to leak..."
With just this sentence, we can see the vicious side of Zhou Wu.
In fact, even if he didn't mention this matter, Zeng Yun knew it in his heart and would take care of the maid afterward. But by saying it now, he was clearly reminding Zeng Yun to get rid of the root cause as soon as possible.
Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were listening, and they were secretly frightened. They said to themselves... Fortunately, we are both experienced and didn't have a close relationship with this guy. Otherwise, we might not be sold by him one day.
After listening to Zhou Wu's words, Zeng Yun also snorted coldly, as if he had made some determination.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He then stood up, went to the door and called several servants waiting outside the house, and asked them to bring the maid.
Unexpectedly, a few minutes later, a servant ran back and reported that the maid had hanged herself in the room.
This time... it's another life.
But Zeng Yun didn't care much about this, because even if she didn't hang herself, she would still be beaten to death.
That night, Zhou Wu went to the Yamen and called in a few men who were on night duty. They moved the second lady's body back to the temple and collected the body for the second lady's maid... For him, the case was over here.
He has obtained a "murderer", which is enough for him to ask for credit from his superiors. At the same time, he also sold Master Zeng a favor.
But for Zeng Yun, there is still a major mystery in this case - who is that "faceless woman"? And why did she instigate Zeng Su behind the scenes?
Before solving the mystery, Zeng Yun still couldn't completely let go of the matter, so that night... he had already thought about finding someone as soon as possible to start with the pawnshop owner and try to track down the woman...
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The next morning.
Mr. Zeng came in person to see off Sun and Huang.
At this time, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai no longer pretended to be Taoist priests; after the case was solved last night, they explained their true identities and the reasons why they pretended to be Taoist priests in front of Mr. Zeng.
Master Zeng was extremely grateful to the two young heroes who drew their swords to help them when they encountered injustice. After learning that they were going to Luoyang, Zeng Yun said nothing and asked his servants to pick two fine horses from the stables.
Gift each other.
Sun and Huang didn't refuse much, because the high-speed rail bus ticket Huang Donglai bought before was invalid. They had to buy another horse, so they might as well just accept it, so as not to lose Mr. Zeng's face.
At the beginning of the hour, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai rode out of Luzhou City and continued to the northwest.
Zhou Wu... didn't come to see them off.
Although Zhou Captou did hear them say when they were leaving today last night, it was obvious that his relationship with these two "good brothers" was not that good.
And Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai didn't care about this. After all, they both looked older than their actual age. They had already seen clearly who Zhou Wu was last night. If they really fell in love with such a person,
Being in friendship will only cause trouble.
In this way, the two people left Luzhou, whipped their horses and whipped their horses, and went straight to the next stop - Yingzhou.