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"what?"

Before Lu Baichuan could speak, the Yamen servant next to him was shocked.

It shouldn't be, the group of people who came were all arrested, and no suspicious people were found entering elsewhere.

Could it be that Ouyang Hao really committed suicide out of fear of crime?

It's impossible!

How could such a cowardly, cowardly, and fearful person do something to harm himself?

Lu Baichuan thought so too, so he planned to go and see it in person.

Ouyang Hao was indeed dead, his eyes were wide open, his lips were black, and there was blood flowing from the corners of his mouth.

It looked like he was poisoned, and judging from his widened eyes, it was definitely impossible to commit suicide.

"What do you think, Lord Pan?"

Mr. Pan is the prefect, and the prefect also rushed to the scene as soon as possible, and also took his wife with him.

"It can't be as simple as bib committing suicide. Xiaguan has dealt with Ouyang Hao before. He is timid by nature and will never commit suicide."

"There are too many doubts about this matter. We still need to catch the person behind the scenes."

The prefect sighed, feeling that it was really annoying every day. Before the previous things were found out, new troubles appeared.

Lu Baichuan nodded. The prefect had the same idea as him, so it would be easy to handle.

He turned his head and glanced at the family members crying beside him. Without saying anything, he asked people to carry Ouyang Hao's body away first.

The prefect followed him out, and when he reached a place where there was no one else, he asked: "General, who do you think did this?"

Lu Baichuan glanced at him and said calmly: "Master Pan has already made a suspicion in his mind, so why bother asking me?"

The prefect shook his head hastily: "I have some guesses, but I'm not sure who it is."

He looked at Lu Baichuan and saw that Lu Baichuan had no intention of speaking, so he continued: "The official just thinks that this is not something a professional killer would do. He knew it was a homicide at a glance, but he insisted that it was a suicide out of fear of crime. It’s too far-fetched.”

"The official thinks it might be someone from the government who did it. I'm not sure who it is, so I can only investigate slowly."

There are so many people in this mansion, it will take a long time to check them one by one.

At this time, someone came to report: "Sir, the third son of the Ouyang family is seriously ill and is gone."

Lu Baichuan grasped the key point: "When did it happen?"

"An hour ago."

Lu Baichuan knew what was going on and looked at the magistrate. The magistrate immediately understood: "I understand, let's go check it out now!"

After saying that, he turned around and left with the people.

As a mother, her child died an hour ago. She did not arrange funeral arrangements or stay with her child. Instead, she immediately found out that her husband had committed suicide out of fear of crime.

Yes, the news that Ouyang Hao committed suicide out of fear of crime was released by his wife Lin.

I just cried heartbrokenly next to the corpse, but didn't mention the death of my youngest son from illness at all.This is weird no matter how you look at it.

So, why did Mrs. Lin kill Ouyang Hao? Moreover, she said that Ouyang Hao committed suicide out of fear of crime. Could it be that she was the one who had been cooperating with Xu Zhao?
The prefect took people to interrogate Mrs. Lin in person. Mrs. Lin was tough at first and insisted that Ouyang Hao committed suicide out of fear of crime.

"What is suicide out of fear of crime? What do you know?"

The prefect was not a fool, so he followed Lin's words and continued to ask.

In order to celebrate his suspicion, Mrs. Lin naturally knew everything: "He has no ability. He was worried that the old man would not give him the family property. This time someone wanted to harm the old man and let the outsider take the blame, and promised him benefits. He hesitated. He agreed immediately. Although he did not kill the old man, he was watching not far away, so he was able to find out that the old man had been killed at the first time. "

"He originally thought he could leave the matter to the person outside who took the blame. Who would have thought that that person would not be easy to deal with. He found the two brothers just one night, and he became anxious, thinking that instead of being convicted and beheaded, It was better to solve it myself, so I committed suicide out of fear of crime."

What the woman said was so reasonable that no one could find anything wrong.

But the more this happens, the more people think there are many problems.

The prefect asked several tricky questions, but Mrs. Lin finally couldn't stand it anymore and cried: "That's all his business, how can I, a woman, know about it?"

"Now that he is dead and the suspicion on the outsider has been cleared, why do you still need to embarrass me, a housewife, my lord?"

She wiped her face, as if she had been greatly wronged.

The prefect saw that she was still rude now, so he immediately said: "Let's torture her."

Mrs. Lin originally thought that everything she knew would be fine, but she didn't expect that the prefect would torture her when she opened her mouth. She was instantly shocked.

Seeing those terrible prisoners being carried up, Mrs. Lin was a little frightened and couldn't help but step back, but was held down by two yamen guards and knelt on the ground.

The prefect persuaded me nicely: "Mrs. Ouyang, if you still don't tell the truth, these instruments of torture will really fall on you."

"I, what I said is the truth..."

Mrs. Lin felt guilty for a moment and did not dare to look at the prefect's face.

The prefect continued: "If you tell the truth now, I can still give you a lighter sentence. If I find evidence later and you talk back, then you are acting in accordance with the law."

"By the way, I forgot to tell you. When you came here, I had already sent people to investigate the cause of Ouyang Hao's death. I will also interrogate the servants around you. I believe someone will soon be unable to bear telling the truth. By that time It’s useless for you to go back on your word, madam.”

Lin was very frightened. She knew that her methods were not very clever. If someone really told her later, she would not be treated like she is now.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she opened her eyes, tears fell from her eyes.

"I did kill the person, but what I said before is true. The old man died because he nodded."

The prefect looked at the person taking note and saw him nodding, then asked: "Why did you kill your husband?"

"Why? Of course it's because he hates him! My son is about to die, and he still only cares about the family property every day, and even wants to use my son's life to exchange for these things! As I said before, the female doctor will help my son During this period of treatment, my son recovered very well and was able to walk on the ground. However, he took advantage of the old man’s death to harm the couple and ruined his son’s life!”

"As soon as the old man died, the family property naturally passed into his hands. He didn't care about my son's life or death. He also said that as long as he wanted, he would have many more sons. This black-hearted bitch, I killed him to eliminate harm for the people. !”

When her son became ill, she went to Ouyang Hao to explain the misunderstandings and asked Jiang Jiuniang to see her son. However, the man was so hard-hearted that he said that her son should have died long ago and that he would suffer while alive, and even asked her to bury her son anywhere she wanted. Well, they are children anyway, so they don’t need to enter their ancestors’ graves.

No mother could listen to such words, so she immediately found rat poison and put it in the tea, and watched Ouyang Hao drink it with her own eyes. (End of chapter)