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Chapter 233 Scare
In the hall, Yan Yunyun was still weeping and recounting what had happened.

The matter is also simple, tonight Zhang Shizhuo originally wanted to go to the banquet with his father and brother, he excused himself from being unwell, and he was really looking for Yan Yunyun, but he died in her room.

The testimonies of many servants of the Yuan family also proved this point.

For example, the servant girls who lived with Yan Yunyun insisted that Zhang Shizhuo let them go, and their faces were narrowed.

Wu Zuo held a candle, carefully identified the wound on Zhang Shizhuo's neck, and looked at his lower body.

There is nothing more to say about the ugliness and the public talk.

"County magistrate, Zhang Erlang was indeed stabbed to death by a hairpin, and there were no other wounds on his body... He really wanted to do that to Yan Xingshou..."

Following Wu Zuo's words, Yan Yunyun cried again, raised his hand, revealing a bright wrist, and there were two deep strangle marks on his fair skin.

"Wuuuuu...he strangled my servant, so hard...so hard..."

Jiang Chun's mind fluttered, and he finally came back to his senses. He glanced at Fang Yankai and Li Xia, and thought to himself that these two low-ranking officials are so determined, how can they not squint?
"No, they must be faking it, they must be," he thought to himself.

~~
Fang Yankai sat there with an ugly expression on his face.

Of course he knew that Li Xia dared to claim to find out that Zhang Shizhuo must have done those things, but he still wanted to give it a go.

Jiang Yan walked through the hall, walked behind him, and whispered in his ear: "Dong Weng, I have found out that the eldest wife of the Zhang family, Yang Shi, and her grandson Zhang Daikun have been taken away by Li Feiyu in the name of 'protection'."

Fang Yankai glanced at Liu Jinsuo, then his eyes fell on Li Xia again, thinking that he was one step slower.

He wanted Wu Ang to do this, but Wu Ang never came over tonight.

Some things can be seen at a glance, and he can naturally see the support of the people in the county.

It's not that he can't spend more than a dozen pennies to bribe someone.But Li Xia moved too fast, and had already given out thousands of pensions and rewards, so it was not a matter of more than a dozen.

But if Li Xia stole the Zhang family's wealth this time, who would listen to Fang Yankai in the future?

In addition, most of the fertile land in the county is owned by the Zhang family, if it is controlled by Li Xia; and the county magistrate also reached a tacit agreement with Li Xia, what do you want him to be the master?
It seems like a small case, but it is related to who will be in charge of Qingfu County after Jiang Chun leaves office...

~~
Jiang Chun asked Yan Yunyun, "So, you admit that you killed Zhang Shizhuo?"

"County magistrate... woo woo... It is true that the servant accidentally stabbed him to death..."

Jiang Chun said: "Are you really guilty? Are you afraid that the county will judge you for murder?"

Li Xia opened his mouth and said, "Magistrate Jiang, is it wrong to sentence murder? If Yan Yunyun doesn't kill Zhang Shizhuo, can't he let him be raped?"

"What the county lieutenant said is reasonable." Jiang Chun said with a smile, "However, this is the county's method of investigating cases and interrogating. Don't worry about bluffing her, don't worry about it."

Li Xia said: "I think Yan Yunyun is innocent."

Fang Yankai couldn't stand it anymore, he just felt that Jiang Chun didn't even want the prestige of the county magistrate in order to please Li Xia.

This is a deterrent way to ask questions, so what's the use of just saying it?

It was a blatant collusion.

He coughed and stood up.

"It is true that he should be convicted of homicide. According to the law, it should be regarded as the crime of 'joking murder', and the crime of beating and killing his lover as a prostitute will be added to the crime. Yan Yunyun, do you really plead guilty?!"

This last stern shout made Yan Yunyun startled.

But she just raised her head, only to see Li Xia's tall and tall figure standing between her and Fang Yankai.

"What does the owner's book mean?"

"Zhang Shizhuo raped a prostitute? This matter is too strange, it may not be these two people... Yan Yunyun accidentally killed him while they were playing."

Liu Jinsuo said in a loud voice: "Master, what does 'playing' mean? The villain doesn't understand."

Fang Yankai was slightly annoyed, and turned his head to look at Jiang Chun, meaning that this rough man is so loud in court, you don't care?
Jiang Chun really didn't care, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Jiang Quan walked into the hall and said: "This matter is obvious. This prostitute did not refuse to rape and kill, but killed her in a joke. She should be sentenced."

Li Xia said: "She is not a prostitute, she redeemed herself."

Yan Yunyun narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Li Xia's back, and said, "The slave family was not an official prostitute in the past, but a private prostitute, and they are of good standing."

Jiang Quan said: "That is also a prostitute, a frivolous prostitute, Li Xianwei said that she assassinated Zhang Shizhuo to keep her 'innocence', wouldn't it be ridiculous?"

"I said that she is no longer a prostitute." Li Xia said, "What's more, even if she is a prostitute, she should be raped and not resist?"

Jiang Quan said: "Everyone with a discerning eye knows that this woman is frivolous, Zhang Shizhuo can't afford to pay for whoring?"

Han Qi'an took a few steps forward and said, "Mr. Jiang must have looked at him because of his appearance, but because of Yan Yunyun, he has fallen into the world? She can save money to redeem herself, which shows her nobility."

"Gao Jie? It's ridiculous." Jiang Yan said: "It's more likely that she died while playing with Zhang Shizhuo."

Han Qi'an said: "The strangulation on the wrist can already explain that it was Zhang Shizhuo who used his strength."

"That's also murder!" Jiang Yan knew that he wanted to scare Yan Yunyun first, and shouted: "How can murder be innocent?!"

"If you refuse to rape and murder, you should be exonerated. There is a precedent. In the winter of the third year of Shaoxi, there was Tao Deji in Jianzhou. He coveted his brother-in-law Ding's beauty. One day, he took advantage of his brother Delin's failure to return. Unexpectedly, he was murdered by Mrs. Ding in the room. The state government carefully studied and judged, and found that Mrs. Ding was not guilty. The verdict was that "it was because of refusing to rape and murder, and I was desperate to save myself, so I came here...""

The law is simple these days...compared to later generations.In short, the judgment follows precedent.

At this time, Han Qi'an opened his mouth to talk about the various cases, Jiang Wei was speechless for a while, and after thinking about it, he said: "It's different! In the case of Jianzhou, Ding is a daughter of a good family, and Yan Yunyun is a prostitute in this case..."

Fang Yankai suddenly said, "Ming Guang, that's enough."

He had already sat back, feeling a little bitter in his heart.

With a precedent, with Jiang Chun's virtue, it is impossible to judge again, and it is useless to fight again.

Of course, it doesn't matter whether the sentence is sentenced or not, after all, even the sufferer wants to calm things down.

The purpose was not to convict Yan Yunyun, but to scare her into changing her mind.

This woman has the courage of Li Xia and Han Qi'an to admit to killing Zhang Shizhuo.

Fang Yankai knew that he had lost again.

The last time he was defeated by the pattern, this time he lost because of his courage.

~~
Han Qi'an narrowed his eyes and stared at Jiang Yan.

He thought back to what happened tonight...

Long before the start of the war, when Li Xia moved Zhang Yuanming into the city, Han Qi'an had already arranged for people to watch the Zhang family.

But two days ago, when someone followed Zhang Shifei, Yan Yunyun recognized him.

Unexpectedly, Yan Yunyun not only did not expose, but instead took refuge here.

Zhang Shizhuo didn't go to the banquet tonight, but had a tryst with Yan Yunyun, but she found an excuse to leave Yuan's house and told Han Qi'an about it.

At that time, the banquet in the Qingyan Building had already started, but Han Qi'an did not receive Li Xia's order to stop.

He immediately realized that Li Xia was letting him take charge.

So Han Qi'an didn't let Jiang Fan stop, but sent someone to follow Yan Yunyun into Yuan's house, hid in the house, and killed Zhang Shizhuo...

At this time, Han Qi'an stared at Jiang Wei, and the thoughts in his heart drifted away.

He seems to be the same as Jiang Wei, a staff member of the county magistrate, but Jiang Wei looks down on him from the bottom of his heart, because he is a captured "golden man", worse than the Beigui people.

And Han Qi'an faced Jiang Wei's contempt, and he was extremely unwilling and humiliated in his heart.

Why?
He, the Han family, used to be a high-ranking family. It was the Zhao and Song courts who professed their ministers to Jin after they crossed to the south. Allegiance to the Kingdom of Jin.

Now that the Kingdom of Jin is dead, it is these southerners who turn their heads to despise the returnees from the north. Why?
When he was young, he was captured by the Song Army along with his father. He changed his name to "Qi'an" and bestowed the word "Yining", but has there ever been peace?
When he was in Lin'an, Han Qi'an listened to his father's story about the north, and always thought that Li Xia should be persuaded to go north and join Zhang Rou, because Guide Mansion was his home.

Also because Song people looked down on him, he also looked down on Song people.

Since Li Xia went to serve as Qingfu, every time he saw Jiang Xuan's high-spirited look in the county government, he hated that he didn't persuade Li Xia to go north.

But tonight, Han Qi'an finally no longer felt the humiliation when facing Jiang Wei.

Because I won.

His sickly body was slightly bent, his mouth was closed and he did not speak, but there was a confident smile in his eyes.

"You and I are both aides, but how much can Fang Yankai trust you? If it were you, would he dare to let you act like this? How much can you do for him? How dare you kill like me? Do you not hesitate to exterminate the clan? If you can’t, why should you win against me?”

……

In the silence, Jiang Yan turned his head and sighed somewhat dejectedly.

They all know that the surname of Qingfu County will be Li from now on...

(End of this chapter)