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Chapter 232 Find out

Wu Ang returned home.

His wife, Ge Cui, opened the door and was about to speak when Wu Ang had already handed over a few strings of money.

"Take the money, don't quarrel all day long in the future. There are still a few bags of rice tomorrow, and I will send them to your parents."

Ge Cuiben's sad face instantly relaxed, and he happily accepted the money, and welcomed Wu Ang into the door.

"Great! I can finally have a good year. Where did the money come from?"

"Go and boil some water first, my feet are freezing."

"Okay." Ge Cui patted Wu Ang's clothes, and said with a smile, "If I didn't have this money, I wouldn't even have firewood at home, so I wouldn't boil water for you stinky bastard."

For a moment she forgot what she wanted to say just now, hurriedly went to boil the water, and went to Wu Ang again, saying: "Don't tease my son, you almost starved him to death. Tell me, where did you get the money? "

"Brother Bao gave it."

"Did you borrow it?" Ge Cui was a little disappointed, and asked, "Twenty Guan, did he borrow it as he said?"

Wu Ang gave a muffled "hmm" and didn't seem happy.

"No interest, right? You can't pay the interest with that little salary."

"You're talking nonsense, Brother Bao, can you ask me for interest?"

"Speaking of which, Hong Aliu next door brought home a few catties of meat yesterday. I heard that his monthly salary is much higher than yours. What is he doing? He used to be an archer under Luhu's men, and you are still the team leader. Woolen cloth……"

"I told you not to make noise, are you annoying?"

Ge Cui didn't dare to answer, and didn't know what to think of, suddenly remembered what he was going to say just now, hesitated for a moment as if he didn't want to say it, but finally said it.

"By the way, Mr. Jiang came here and said that the landlord is looking for you..."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Wu Ang had already taken off his shoes, but quickly put them on again, put on his clothes and went out, and said: "You woman, when you see the money, you don't talk about business."

"Here we go? Where is the boiling water?"

"You wash it yourself."

Seeing Wu Ang go out again, Ge Cui spat on the ground.

"The money and food for the surname Fang are not distributed, and the envoys are paid in the middle of the night, bah..."

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Wu Ang rushed all the way to the county government office, and suddenly saw a group of people coming from the opposite side.

He squinted his eyes for a while, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "The villain has seen Captain Li."

"Team Wu? Come to the county office so late?"

"Yes, the landlord called me over."

Li Xia said: "I have something to discuss with the owner of the house, you can come to see him tomorrow."

"This...doesn't seem right?"

Li Xia didn't seem to hear, patted Wu Ang on the shoulder, and said: "They packed some supper, and took one home."

With that said, he has transferred to the county office.

Wu Ang was in a daze, when Jiang Fan stepped forward and raised his hand, a few oilcloth bags were hooked on the hook.

"Pancakes, you take a copy home and give it to the children, it's still warm."

Wu Ang looked over and saw that Jiang Fan's sleeve was still stained with blood, so he couldn't help asking in a low voice, "What happened?"

"Let's go." Jiang Fan smiled, "What's the look? Why are you afraid that my brother and I will harm the landlord?"

Wu Ang took a pancake, hesitated for a moment, and finally turned back home with his head down...

~~
County government tea room.

"County magistrate, chief bookkeeper, County Lieutenant Li is here."

"Come in, Feiyu, and drink some hot tea."

Jiang Chun welcomed Li Xia into the room, and someone closed the door.

"What's the matter? Can you get those escaped prisoners?"

Li Xia shook his head and said, "No, I'm afraid he jumped out of the city wall and escaped. I'm to blame for this, and I will bear it all."

"Are you running away?" Jiang Chun pretended to be surprised, stroked his beard and said, "Unfortunately, I couldn't catch it. It seems that next time I catch a Mongolian prisoner, I'd better kill him."

"Yes."

Fang Yankai listened to the hypocritical conversation between the two, and said calmly: "These captives only killed Zhang Yuanming, Zhang Shifei and his son?"

"Yes." Li Xia said, "Fortunately, it didn't cause any major turmoil. It's a blessing among misfortunes."

"They didn't set fire to the county town either?"

"They were meeting Zhang Yuanwai, and Zhang Yuanwai's guards called Minzhuang in time, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."

Fang Yankai said indifferently: "But I don't know how to explain to the Zhang family, the corpse... can Erlang Zhang get it?"

Li Xia said: "Speaking of Zhang Shizhuo, a small case happened tonight, which is embarrassing."

Fang Yankai was a little helpless, here he called "Zhang Yuanming" directly, and Li Xia called him "Zhang Yuanwai"; he called him "Zhang Erlang", but Li Xia called him "Zhang Shizhuo" directly, which seemed rather incongruous.

"is it?"

"Zhang Shizhuo didn't go to the banquet tonight, his physical discomfort is just an excuse, he actually went to..."

Li Xia shook his head when he said this.

Jiang Chun could only ask, "What did he do?"

"This matter has become known all over the city, the county magistrate should invite people to ask questions." Li Xia said, "I have already brought him to the county government office, why don't we go to the court for interrogation?"

Jiang Chun was stunned for a moment, thinking that if this matter was to be tried, then Li Feiyu's actions would be too dirty.

He and Fang Yankai looked at each other with a tacit understanding.

If the matter can't be justified on the bright side, then they, the county magistrate and master book, will not cover it up for Li Xia.

The three magistrates then stood up and turned to the lobby.

……

The hall has been lit.

Jiang Chun's eyes fell on a woman, and he couldn't help but his eyes lit up, thinking: "What a charming woman! I haven't seen such a charming beauty in this small county for a long time!"

I saw the woman kneeling there in the hall, her face was full of tears, and her clothes were torn. She was wearing a skirt and clutching her neckline, which made people's heart flutter.

When Jiang Chun came back to his senses, he looked around and found that it was not a formal hearing, but just borrowing the county government hall, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

He coughed twice, sat down on the main seat, and subconsciously wanted to pat the gavel, but immediately withdrew his hand.

"Oh? Brother Yuan is here?"

"Magistrate Jiang is polite." Yuan Yutang saluted, his face a little embarrassed. He is a big family in Qingfu County, and Zhang Yuanming lives in his house.

"What happened?"

Yuan Yutang hesitated for a moment, but asked instead: "Magistrate Jiang, isn't there a hearing tonight?"

"Brother Yuan, tell me first, what happened?"

"This matter...how should I put it..." Yuan Yutang rubbed his hands, and said: "In short... this girl Yan said that nephew Zhang wanted to rape her, and she accidentally stabbed nephew Zhang to death... "

"It's still a 'nephew'." Liu Jinsuo said loudly: "This Shi Zhuo is too absurd. When his father and brother were captured and killed, he was still raped at home and raped other girls. He is not a filial son!"

Jiang Chun said, "It's you again... how do you know?"

"I was chasing the captives, and when I heard someone shouting 'Killer', I brought people into Yuan's house, and I saw...it blinded me! That Zhang Shizhuo lay there naked, tsk tsk...they all saw it !"

Shouting, Liu Jinsuo pointed his hand, and all the river patrolmen, yamen servants, and Yuan's servants nodded one after another.

"Yes, county magistrate, the villains have seen it..."

"Hey, if it wasn't for this, I wouldn't have run to Yuan's house, and those captives wouldn't have escaped from the city. Damn it, retribution."

Jiang Chun said: "Keep your voice down..."

"What's the use of keeping a low voice?" Liu Jinsuo shouted, "It's been spread just now, the whole city is saying that Zhang Shizhuo was raping civilian girls when his father and brother were killed..."

Fang Yankai raised his head, scanned the hall full of people, and finally his eyes fell on Li Xia's face.

Li Xia sat there expressionlessly, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.

However, Fang Yankai knew that if anyone in Qingfu County brought up the murder of Zhang's father and son in the future, they would not talk about the escaped captives or the grievances between Zhang's family and Li Xianwei, but those people would only focus on Zhang Shizhuo's crotch It's a bit of a pickle here.

But he was still unwilling to admit defeat, and asked, "Where's the corpse?"

"I'll bring it over right away." Liu Jinsuo said loudly, "Want to see the owner's book? Be careful to vomit it out."

"Look." Fang Yankai said: "Come here, please invite Wu Zuo to do an autopsy."

Jiang Chun glanced at Fang Yankai, his face was a little displeased, and he raised his hand to stop him.

It was Yuan Yutang who spoke first.

"Landlord, this matter... don't need to be checked again?"

Liu Jinsuo laughed loudly, and said, "Mr. Yuan, if you don't investigate, you won't be able to hide it!"

After hearing this, Li Xia thought that this was what Han Qi'an called "usurping official titles". Became a wealthy family name.

Over there, Yuan Yutang glanced at Liu Jinsuo with great disdain, showing a bloody expression, and saluted Jiang Chun: "County magistrate, can you allow me to come forward and say a few words?"

"Come closer."

Yuan Yutang took a few steps forward, got closer to Jiang Chun, Fang Yankai, and Li Xia, and said in a low voice: "The Zhang family is now in charge of the eldest lady, and she doesn't want to report this case, so as not to make the family scandal public. case, please ask the county magistrate not to try it again? After all, it is... If the people do not prosecute, the officials will not prosecute."

"Then you're still here?"

"It was Li Xianwei who said it. The county magistrate and the master should know..."

Fang Yankai said with a straight face, "Since there is a murder case, it must be investigated."

Jiang Chun thought to himself: "What's the use of finding out? Li Feiyu has shown this trick, anyway, this county will never follow you to deal with him."

Thinking like this, he pondered: "Now is the time of war, and there are still many people who died due to the war. How can the county government have time to investigate this small case."

Suddenly Li Xia said: "The owner's book is right, it's better to find out."

The same sentence, when Li Xia said it, Jiang Chun understood that this was to find out the case, so that no members of the Zhang family would come to talk about it in the future.

"It's Feiyu's thoughtfulness." Jiang Chun nodded without looking at Fang Yankai, and smiled warmly at Li Xia, "Feiyu is right, so let's investigate the case clearly?"

Only Yuan Yutang's face was more bitter, and he thought to himself that the landlord and Li Xianwei said exactly the same words...

(End of this chapter)