From Dou Yue's eyes, Ye Chengguan and Hua Rujin understood everything:
It seems that this evil litigator is making suggestions for Dou Yue.
Ye Chengguan was not in a hurry to interrogate Gu Langxi. He first ordered Lu Xiuyuan, who was running over with a smile: "You lead people into the tunnel and lift everything out of the tunnel. Remember, lift it out intact."
typical?
All the things?
Do you still have to lift it out intact?
Lu Xiuyuan secretly glanced at Ye Chengguan in confusion.
Thinking that Shangguan came out with Dou Yue, I was afraid that there must be many shady things about the Dou family hidden underneath.
The magistrate is so cautious, maybe...
Still some rare treasures.
Thinking of this, he happily waved to the guards and led dozens of people in a hurry from the cemetery entrance to the tunnel.
It's just that the manpower of the county government is not enough. The old beggar hurriedly looked at the servants of the Dou family and the Taoist priests who were watching indifferently, and urged impatiently: "Go, go, you guys should go and help, just in time to see this guy in your family."
Good deeds done by good people."
Seeing everyone entering the tunnel, thinking about Dou Yuanqian who was still lying on the ground, Hua Rujin immediately approached Shu Jinxuan and whispered: "Cousin, the body of the third son of the Dou family is also in there, please help your servant.
I'll go over and take the person out for burial."
Shu Jinxuan didn't know what they were going through down there, but thinking that Dou Yuanqian was merciful to his cousin that night, there must be something hidden in it, so he nodded quickly and said: "I had a chance encounter with him before he was alive, and I knew him, so I personally took care of him."
You take this trip."
After saying that, he led the two boys and followed him in.
Waiting for the post to clear up, Ye Chengkui slowly picked up a shovel on the ground, walked towards the bewildered County Prime Minister Tang Haoran with a cold face, pointed meaningfully at the tomb next to him, and said: "Then please invite the county to
Your Majesty, please help us dig up this tomb that hides mysteries."
"Xia...Xiaguan..."
Tang Haoran was in a state of confusion. He didn't know how he came out of the graveyard with Dou Yuanwai and the Hua family girl, nor did he know what happened.
But looking at the gloomy expression on the magistrate's face, and thinking about the protection he had shown to the Dou family in the past few days, I felt guilty for a while, so I had to take the shovel and start digging in fear.
Seeing this, Dou Yiheng, the chief bookkeeper, also took a shovel to help dig the grave.
Seeing this situation, the old housekeeper walked tremblingly to Dou Yue and called out in fear: "Master..."
Dou Yue couldn't bear to close his eyes: "Go and help."
With the joint efforts of the three people, the tomb was quickly dug up, and the first thing that came into view was a well-preserved black coffin.
Just when Ye Chengguan was about to let a few people open the coffin, Gu Langxi knelt down in fear and said in an almost pleading tone: "Your Excellency, the magistrate, the common people did not kill anyone, they just helped Mr. Dou to come up with ideas."
"kill?"
Hua Rujin was the first to show surprise: "Mr. Gu, no one has accused you of murdering someone. You did it on your own before you were convicted. Could it be that apart from the Third Young Master's suicide note, you did something else?"
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"Yes, yes, the Third Young Master's suicide note is indeed a forgery."
Looking at Ye Chengguan's sharp and intimidating black eyes, Gu Langxi trembled with fear:
"When Mr. Dou fell in love with Miss Hua, I thought he really wanted this marriage. I also learned that your old lady liked money, so I mentioned this marriage to your second aunt, Meng.
Unexpectedly, when she heard that there were two hundred taels of silver, she immediately agreed to persuade your grandmother to cancel the marriage with the Ye family and transfer you to the Dou family.
Later, the Third Young Master suddenly fell ill and died. Officer Dou said that he wanted you to bury the Third Young Master and gave me three thousand taels of silver as writing fee. I had to forge a suicide note based on the Third Young Master's handwriting."
Ye Chengguan listened silently, and then realized that Miss Hua's breakup with him was due to the calculations of her grandmother and second wife.
Thinking of this, he glanced at Hua Rujin and calmly ordered Tang Haoran: "Open the coffin."
"slow."
Gu Langxi hurriedly stopped him and said, "I'm afraid the bones buried in this coffin are not the remains of the third son of the Dou family."
Ye Chengguan and Hua Rujin both glared at him impatiently:
Of course I knew it was not Dou Yuanqian inside.
Hua Rujin had lost her patience. She grabbed the shovel from the old housekeeper Zhang Shun's hand and went straight forward to pry open the coffin. The scene that came into view immediately shocked everyone.
"How could there be a headless body here?"
The county magistrate Tang Haoran stared at the rotting remains in the coffin. He hurriedly looked at Dou Yue and asked blankly: "Mr. Dou, what's going on? Where is the head of the third young master?"
Dou Yue half-squinted his eyes and sighed softly: "This remains is not Quanzi, but Zhang Yuan, a villager in Maoyuan Village. I asked Mr. Gu to find it for me to bury Quanzi with."
"I didn't kill the person."
Gu Langxi quickly denied: "It was Han Chun from Maoyuan Village. He killed Zhang Yuan."
The more Hua Rujin listened, the more confused she became. There were so many things involved in such a simple marriage. First, she asked an immortal to use women's bones and blood to make elixirs, and now a new murder case has been added.
broken.
She pinched her chin with her jade fingers and acted like a leisurely melon-eater. She asked curiously: "Then please tell Mr. Gu, why did Han Chun kill Zhang Yuan, and why did you take Zhang Yuan's body?"
The person who stole the money and hid it in the grave of the third son of the Dou family?"
Gu Langxi knew that there was no possibility of quibbles, so he quickly answered truthfully:
"When the Third Young Master Dou was buried, Mr. Dou suddenly changed his mind and said that Miss Hua's life experience was also miserable and he couldn't bear to see you die. So he gave me some money to find a corpse for him to replace Miss Hua as his third son.
The young master was buried with me, and someone happened to die in Maoyuan Village. Han Chun found me, invited me to drink and gave me some money so that I could think of something for him, and I moved Zhang Yuan's body to Dou's house."
"In this way, Mr. Gu easily made money from two families and sold two families a favor. He is worthy of being the best money-making lawyer in Jiangling City."
For a moment, Hua Rujin admired his brilliant mind, but she didn't use it on the right path.
Perhaps this is the norm for litigants in this era, otherwise they would not be despised as litigators.
Thinking of this, Hua Rujin sighed slowly: "It's just that Mr. Gu is so smart that he can't see through the evil intentions hidden under Mr. Dou's hypocritical face. If he is really compassionate, how can he treat him like this?"
A beautiful little girl who has just turned thirteen is held captive in the house and subjected to hardship."
All he was waiting for was for the original owner to reach his prime and complete his plot.
When he heard the words "like flowers and jade", Ye Chenggui couldn't help covering his mouth and coughing slightly, and looked at her silently: There is someone who is so self-proclaimed.
Looking at Ye Chengguan's strange expression, Hua Rujin realized something was wrong: I am not that poor little flower-like jade person now.
How embarrassing.
She quickly changed the topic calmly: "Since Han Chun killed Zhang Yuan, why did he hide Zhang Yuan's head? What's the mystery in this?"
"I don't know yet."
Gu Langxi immediately replied: "I also asked him about it, and he only said that Zhang Yuan was not killed by him. At that time, I was in a hurry to find the body for Mr. Dou, so I didn't ask any more questions."
"Which murderer would take the initiative to admit that he killed someone?"
Tang Haoran muttered something to the side, looking at the headless body of the man lying in the coffin, and asked eagerly: "Where did the body of the third son of the Dou family go?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a noise coming from the tomb not far away.
Not long after, the black coffin, which had been hidden underground for many years, was slowly moved to the surface and finally saw the light of day again.
This scene was shocking to everyone.
The old beggar sighed, and Hua Rujin also looked sad.
When Ye Chengguan was furious, he glared fiercely at Gu Langxi and Dou Yue, and sternly directed at the servants who had just landed on the ground and had not had time to breathe. The detectives ordered: "Get the master and servant Dou Yue, Gu Langxi and these evil people."
Taoist priest, capture Han Chun from Maoyuan Village."
"My Lord Magistrate, the common people are not guilty; the common people are not guilty."
Gu Langxi suddenly felt that something was not right, and quickly looked at Tang Haoran: "Master County Prime Minister, I want to see Master Liu."
Tang Haoran just turned a deaf ear and buried his head.
...
The sun gradually rose. On the Chu River, Liu Cheng frowned and looked at the boundless river: "It's dawn."
"yes."
"Is there any news from Jiangling City?"
"have."
Then a pair of rough hands pushed hard behind him.
There was a "plop" sound of falling into the water, and Liu Cheng's figure struggled desperately in the water, and soon disappeared on the rough river surface.