It would have been fine if he had killed the person, and fifteen years in prison was enough. But if it hadn't been for him, he might have ended up in prison again today.
Chu Yunli explained exactly what Hou San's wife had said at the time: "Probably Mr. Li didn't know that she knew about it, so he let her go."
"Where is she now?" the superior official asked solemnly.
Chu Yunli took out the house deed: "This is the house they lived in before. The condition for telling me these things is that I send them away. I have kept my promise and sent them away. Sir, these words of hers can only be regarded as one-sided words.
It's better to collect evidence from other places." She looked at Mr. Li who looked ugly and said: "For example, the followers around him, even if they don't know what happened back then, should know that Lu Panyu asked him for money several times. Since he gave him money,
There’s always a reason.”
Li Bei was so angry that he never thought that he would fall into the hands of a woman: "He has been with me for many years, and he accidentally killed someone at the beginning. After he came out, life was difficult, so I gave him money to settle down. It was my kindness. How could he still become a woman?"
I was wrong?"
"Yes!" Lu Panyu gritted his teeth with hatred: "If you hadn't stolen my money, would I have troubled Young Master Li again and again?" He kowtowed again: "Sir, you sneaked into my house to rob me and stole my money.
She is the person!”
Chu Yunli pointed at the tip of her nose: "I am so thin that I can beat you?"
The crowd all agreed that with such a thin body, let alone climbing over the wall and breaking into the house, it was impossible to just grab things from his hands. Besides, how could a woman who had been let down by a man and was still thinking about redressing his grievances break into a house and rob him?
steal?
Deeper again.
The Lord was startled: "Li Bei, Lu Panyu's wife Guan accused you of murder, and Lu Panyu was unjustly imprisoned for fifteen years. There are witnesses to the two of them, do you admit it or not?"
"I don't admit it!" Li Bei replied without thinking. If he really confessed, no one could save him.
The adult waved his hand: "Twenty big boards first!"
Li Bei's eyes widened and he didn't allow him to defend himself. The yamen waiting with a stick came forward and dragged him to lie down on the stool. The stick was raised high, and then there was a sound of a board hitting the flesh.
Dull sound.
The total time before and after was less than two breaths, and Li Bei didn't react at all.
He shouted, but no one paid attention to him. There was only a dull voice in the courtroom. It made people feel depressed, and they couldn't help but breathe lightly.
Fortunately, the beating was quick, and after the officer finished beating him, he was dragged back again.
The adult asked again: "Do you recognize it or not?"
"I don't admit it!" Li Bei's face was pale, and he had long lost his arrogance. He gritted his teeth and said: "Sir, do you still want to beat me? Do you want to beat me to death? I don't know where two unidentified witnesses came out from somewhere. They were the ones who killed me.
Is it irrefutable proof?”
Questioning loudly.
Mr. Li can hang around in the city all year round without causing any major trouble, so he is definitely not a fool.
Chu Yunli was about to speak when someone else came outside.
The officer came in holding a piece of paper: "Sir, Chen Jian has sent a paper, accusing Li Bei of robbing civilian girls and killing people to silence them."
The real sufferer is here!
The Lord took the complaint and looked at it, and asked in a deep voice: "Is there any physical evidence?"
"Yes." The officer glanced at Li Bei on the ground and said, "It's Aunt Xiang from Mr. Li's house."
Li Bei's eyes widened: "This bitch."
This Aunt Xiang is the girl with the red mole on her face. At first, Li Bei took the master and servant back to take advantage. Later, the Chen family came to ask for an explanation. Mr. Chen died tragically that day, and the Chen family and his wife took back the half-mad man.
After his daughter, he was greatly shocked and died one after another. At that time, Li Bei certainly could not keep someone like Miss Chen, so he wanted to kill the two masters and servants.
It was this Xiang'er who took the initiative to find him, saying that she loved him and wanted to return to him.
Li Bei was not stupid. Of course he couldn't keep such a bright witness, but he also enjoyed the admiring look of this woman, so he thought of a way. Let Xiang'er kill his master, and then he would take her back.
.
The crime of killing the master with poison is to decapitate him like this, so he is not afraid of her betrayal!
However, she just betrayed him.
Either he was threatened by someone, or he had already concealed the rape when he came back to find him!
Either way, Aunt Xiang's defection caught Li Bei off guard.
Even though it had been many years since Chen Liang went to Li's house to make a big fuss, there are still people in the city who remember it. With Aunt Xiang, who knew the inside story best, the events of that year were revealed one by one.
This is probably what Chu Yunli said just now.
The little girl who was raised innocent and innocent suddenly wanted to go out on the street one day, but because the elders in the family did not allow it, so on a whim, she took the girl next to her and changed her clothes and ran out. Originally everything went well, the master and the servant went shopping
He was satisfied, but was caught in the eye by Li Bei on the way back.
Li Bei saw two beautiful girls and thought that after taking them back, if someone came looking for them, he would pay some money to buy them. For him, anything that can be solved with money is no big deal.
But he didn't expect that there was a decent young lady here. He had some hobbies in bed. He tied people up and gagged them. He especially liked to watch women's tears of humiliation.
Therefore, Miss Chen could not tell her identity. Because she was frightened when she saw such a scene for the first time, and later she learned that her brother died because of her, and she immediately went crazy.
Because this case has been in the past for so long, it is very slow to search for witnesses and evidence. However, there are many doubts about what happened back then. The magistrate knows that it is only a matter of time before wealthy businessmen like the Li family want to cover up the evidence. He must put this case to death.
After getting to the bottom of the investigation, he had no intention of postponing the trial that day. Until the evening, dozens of witnesses were called one after another, and he finally recounted what happened that year.
Li Bei didn't know whether it was because he was tired or because the situation was over, and he was in a state of decadence. He killed people first, then found someone to make a false confession, and then found someone to blame him in order to get away. It was clear that he had just made a mistake at the beginning, but if he had confessed at that time, it would have been Lu Bei's death.
Panyu's fifteen years. But now he has done so many things. He has violated the laws of the court and fooled officials, so he must be severely punished. He still did it deliberately, and the crime was increased. In addition, he found Aunt Xiang to kill Chen, the mistress.
Girl, this crime cannot be forgiven!
The two shopkeepers who retracted their confessions were given lighter sentences because they voluntarily surrendered. They were each sentenced to three years. When they arrived at Lu Panyu's place, there was some trouble.
He really deserves to be punished for the crime, but he has already been in prison for fifteen years. Judging from the things he committed, it will not last that long. In other words, if he reverses the case while in prison, he may still be in prison.
Can come out early.
The magistrate put him aside first and looked at Aunt Xiangxiang: "You betrayed your master and killed your master. You should be severely punished. Can you plead guilty?"
Li Bei, who was originally depressed, suddenly raised his head and glared at her fiercely: "My lord, this woman wanted to enter my backyard for the sake of glory and wealth. She took the initiative to find me and said she was willing to kill someone. Chen would die. I did move."
She was thinking about it, but I didn’t do anything. She said it was her sincerity to surrender to me..."
Xiang'er lay on the ground and cried: "I didn't kill anyone. When I went to find this bastard, the girl was already... I'm guilty. I didn't look at her. The girl committed suicide by herself."
Today, the head of the Chen family is a forty-year-old steady man. He took out a piece of yellowed paper and could vaguely see Juanxiu's handwriting on it: "When the clan sister left, she did write a suicide note and asked me to take over the Chen family's business.
, in the future, the eldest son will be adopted under the name of his younger brother Chen Liang, and he will also ask me to treat the Chen family’s servants well..."
The magistrate took the piece of paper and read it carefully.
The head of the Chen family added: "If it hadn't been for this piece of paper, it wouldn't have been so easy for me to take over the Chen family, which is so big."
Most of the paper was a confession, saying that I was sorry for my father, brother, and mother, and that I had no shame in living in this world. She voluntarily went to die without caring for others. At the end, she handed over all the family property to her elder brother Chen Yong, and indeed asked his eldest son to adopt him.
, words of kindness to the Chen family.
Chen Yong had an angry look on his face: "It was also because of the clan sister's instructions that I tried my best to support the two people around my clan brother, thinking that the people he brought with him should be extremely trustworthy people. But I never expected that they would
You actually betrayed your master back then!"
Aunt Xiang cried: "If I hadn't taken the initiative to surrender, how would I still be alive now? Over the years, I have been thinking about poisoning him all the time. If it weren't for the master's last wish, if it weren't for the family head's persuasion, I would have perished with him long ago.
The head of the family always said, I have to live. I am a witness. As long as I am here, the truth will come to light one day. Let me wait..." She raised her head, her face full of tears: "Now, finally let me wait.
arrive."
The atmosphere was sad, and Aunt Xiang fell deeply in front of the magistrate above her: "Please investigate clearly and redress the grievances for my master and the Chen family!"
Chu Yunli continued: "At the time, Hou San who was next to Li Bei died of drunkenness, but his wife told me that Hou San's whole body would become red and swollen when he drank alcohol, and he never drank alcohol at all... Folk women believed that Hou San
San San was one of the insiders back then and must have been silenced by him."
The magistrate said solemnly: "In this case, the victim needs to submit a petition before I can convict him."
With these charges already laid, Li Bei would not be able to escape no matter what. Chu Yunli felt that she could still send a letter to her grandfather and grandson, and if she was willing, she could come back to redress her husband's grievances.
When he left the courtroom, it was dim outside. Chu Yunli was in a good mood. The first thing he saw when he walked out of the courtroom was the Lu family, who looked as if they had been struck dumb by lightning.
Seeing Chu Yunli coming out, Mother Lu rushed over to beat her like crazy: "You vicious woman! You are shameless..."
Chu Yunli took a step back and said loudly: "Someone is beating someone in front of the government office. I beg you to make the decision for civilian women."
Mother Lu: “…”
Facing Mother Lu who stopped immediately after hearing her words, Chu Yunli raised her eyebrows and said provocatively: "Come here and try to touch me with your finger?"