Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 70 Confession
"What is going on?" Wei Lansheng asked.

Yan Ciwan sat in a chair, his face pale and looking frightened.

"Chen Wu wanted to attack me just now, but fortunately Xiao Liulang arrived in time to save me."

She pressed her chest and exhaled gently, as if she had finally finally let go of her worries.

Wei Lansheng looked at Xiao Wang who was standing beside him, a little surprised: "This man was injured by you."

I really can't believe that the gentle and polite Xiao Jia Liulang is actually a master, and he is so ruthless.

Is this what the saying goes, don't judge a book by its cover?

Yan Ciwan stood up in a hurry: "Xiao Liulang attacked Chen Wu in order to save me. If you want to hold someone responsible, then punish me!"

Wei Lansheng waved his hands, signaling her not to get excited.

"Sit down. It's a good thing to be brave and do what is right. I won't punish him for it. Don't worry."

Yan Ciwan slowly sat back down, holding onto the armrest, feeling relieved: "That's good."

Wei Lansheng turned to look at Xiao Wang and gave him an earnest admonition.

"If you encounter this kind of thing again, remember not to be too harsh. What if you accidentally kill someone? The follow-up treatment will be very troublesome."

Xiao Wan: "..."

What could he say? He could only smile and nod to show that he had remembered it.

Wei Lansheng sat down in the main seat and told them the current situation.

"Chen Wu is still unconscious and won't wake up for the time being. We've compared the dagger and found that the blade is exactly the same as the wound on Lan Ying's chest. We can be sure that this is the murder weapon used by the serial rapist. In addition, we found a sack and rope in his bag. We guess he wanted to knock Madam Ning unconscious and then take her away in the sack."

Xiao Wang suggested: "We can check his origins and background."

"I have asked Captain Gao to take people to search his home, but they haven't come back yet. It's getting late now. Madam Ning doesn't look well. She must have been scared. Why don't we send her back first? I will inform you of the results of the search tomorrow."

Yan Ciwan suddenly asked: "Remember to check if he has been drinking?"

Chaolu once said that she smelled a strong smell of alcohol on the murderer.

Wei Lansheng nodded and agreed: "I will."

Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang stood up, said goodbye, and left the government office together.

The two separated at the intersection, Xiao Wang returned to the imperial palace, and Yan Ciwan went to the official post station.

Cha Bingliang didn't sleep until he saw Yan Ciwan return safely, then he felt relieved.

After a whole day of hard work, Yan Ciwan was exhausted.

She really wanted to take a bath, but the wound couldn't get wet, so she could only wipe her body with a wet towel, then change the bandage on the wound and re-bandage it.

After a night, the sky became bright again.

Today is still a nice autumn day with clear skies and bright sunshine.

After Yan Ciwan had breakfast, he called Li Chengge to go to the government office together, but Li Chengge refused to move.

He spoke lazily as he lay in the rocking chair, enjoying the warm sunshine coming in from the window.

"In such nice weather, I should just sleep comfortably in my house. Rape, murder and disappearance have nothing to do with me."

Yan Ciwan couldn't do anything about him and could only leave the official inn alone.

She came to the government office again and saw Xiao Wang was also there.

Yan Ciwan told Xiao Wang about Li Chengge's laziness. Xiao Wang smiled faintly after listening and said, "He has always been like this. He likes to be lazy and doesn't like to move. Let him be."

Gao Dahai had been guarding the gate of the government office. When he saw them coming, he immediately greeted them with a smile. "You two came quite early. Have you had breakfast?"

Seeing that he was smiling and looking very happy, Yan Ciwan couldn't help but ask, "Is there any happy event today?"

Her question hit the nail on the head for Gao Dahai, and he smiled even more happily: "Thanks to you two, we have caught the serial rapist and murderer. Now this big case is finally over. The envoy is very happy and I heard that he will reward us!"

Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang looked at each other.

Could it be that the murderer Gao Dahai was talking about is Chen Wu?

It turned out that they guessed right, and it was indeed like that!

Last night, Gao Dahai brought four constables to Chen Wu's home. Chen Wu is an orphan who lives alone in a small courtyard in Fuman Lane in the west of the city.

The detectives found aphrodisiac incense and some small items used by women, such as sachets, purses, and embroidered handkerchiefs from Chen Wu's home.

After checking, it was confirmed that those small things all belonged to the women victims in the serial rape and murder case.

In addition, they found a donkey cart in the backyard with dried blood in the corners.

Thus, a whole chain of evidence was formed.

The murderer Chen Wu first drugged the women, took them home and abused them, then secretly transported them out of the city on a donkey cart and killed them. After dumping the bodies, he returned home and continued to work in the pharmacy as if nothing had happened.

Yan Ciwan asked, "Where are the five Chens?"

"That kid didn't wake up until the early morning. Not only did he refuse to cooperate with our questioning, he also insisted that you had beaten him severely. Isn't this obviously nonsense?! You are a weak woman, powerless, how could you possibly hurt him? He clearly hated you for handing him over to the authorities and causing his crimes to be exposed. He deliberately threw dirty water on you and wanted to frame you!"

Gao Dahai was filled with indignation and felt ashamed of Chen Wu's ugly behavior.

Xiao Wang couldn't help but look at Yan Ciwan with a very subtle expression.

Yan Ciwan soothed softly, "Don't get angry over such a small matter. It's not worth it. Let's go in first. Is Wei Fazuo free now? Can we meet him?"

"Wei Fazuo knew you would definitely come this morning, so he asked me to wait for you here. Please follow me."

Gao Dahai led the way in front, while Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang followed behind.

The two were taken to the Ming Court and met Wei Lansheng.

Wei Lansheng hadn't slept the whole night, but he was still in good spirits. He asked the two to sit down, then picked up a confession on the desk and said, "This is Chen Wu's confession. He has pleaded guilty."

Yan Ciwan took the confession and read it quickly. It described the whole process of Chen Wu's crime in detail.

Because Chen Wu was an orphan, he suffered a lot since childhood. He finally found a job as a clerk in Xuanji Pharmacy. From then on, he saved some money and married a wife.

But not long after, he discovered that his wife was cheating on him. He was so angry that he hit her, causing her to have a miscarriage.

My wife's family has seven or eight brothers, and they are all arrogant and unreasonable.

They came to Chen Wu's house together, beat him up, and forced him to pay a large sum of medical expenses. Then the two parties divorced.

This incident caused a big uproar, causing Chen Wu to lose face and no longer be able to hold his head up in front of his neighbors.

He was full of resentment, but he didn't dare to do anything to his ex-wife, so he extended his claws to those young, beautiful and innocent women.

His crime process was almost the same as what Gao Dahai described. He would first knock the person unconscious, then take him home and torture him, and finally carry him out of the city, kill him and dump his body.

Chen Wu succeeded successfully in the first nine attempts, except for the last one, when he unexpectedly failed when dealing with Yan Ciwan.

Now the evidence is complete and the criminal has confessed.

The truth of the serial rape and murder case that caused panic among the people was finally revealed, but Yan Ciwan still had many mysteries that he had not figured out.

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