New and dark light years

Chapter 122: Forgiveness

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The county magistrate stared at Li Lin without blinking.

There seemed to be an aura emanating from him.

Many yamen runners subconsciously took two steps back.

Li Lin looked at the other person quietly with a smile on his face.

After the two looked at each other for a while, the county magistrate withdrew his gaze and said, "Young man, forgive others when you can. It will be beneficial to you."

"Some people are unwilling to forgive others, so why should I forgive them?"

The county magistrate frowned.

Li Lin turned around, pointed at the women with mutilated bodies, and asked, "County Magistrate, do you think they have been spared after being in this state?"

The county magistrate looked at Li Lin intently, with an expression of humiliation in his eyes.

Then he turned and walked away.

Li Lin watched him leave and snorted.

The headcount was quickly counted: one hundred and thirty-three women.

Moreover, all of these women had mutilated bodies, without exception.

Li Lin looked at it for a while and said, "Captain Yan, please check if anyone has reported to the police in recent years that their daughter or sister is missing."

Captain Yan clasped his fists, turned around and left.

Then Li Lin looked at the group of yamen runners around him and said, "I know very well that you know some inside information and may even be involved. If you confess now, I can give you leniency depending on the situation. Otherwise..."

The yamen runners were silent for a moment, and then one of them clasped his fists and said, "County Lieutenant, we do know something about this matter, but we weren't involved. Otherwise, we wouldn't only receive a few copper coins every month."

"That's better." Li Lin nodded. "Otherwise, when I find out, it won't be so easy to talk to you."

The yamen runners clasped their fists.

"The woman was first sent to Anjifang for treatment and then to Futian Hospital for placement."

The yamen runners took action immediately.

It was still early at this time, so Li Lin returned to the barracks.

Yu Tong sat in the corner of the yard, looking haggard.

Li Lin walked over and asked, "Tell me, where did you kidnap so many women from and control them into the flesh trade?"

Yu Tong looked at Li Lin and sighed, "How come you don't doubt Captain Yan at all?"

In fact, if they were given one more day, they could move all the women away and throw them into the wild to be devoured by the wilderness. By then, nothing would have happened and there would be no evidence.

"Why should I doubt him? Just based on a piece of paper?"

"Why do you doubt me?" Yu Tong's eyes were full of confusion. "I thought I hid it well."

"I didn't doubt you either. I just directly suspected the county magistrate."

Yu Tong looked at Li Lin and sighed again: "People raised by aristocratic families are different. If I had a family background like yours, I would definitely not be worse than you."

"Indeed!" Bai Bufan, who was watching over him, said, "Brother Li, do you know how outrageous that whore of his is? He actually raised her himself. Unbelievable."

"Ghost raising technique?"

"Correct."

Yu Tong said, "After I became a yamen runner and earned some money, I asked someone to teach me how to read. I accidentally met a Taoist priest and learned the art of raising ghosts from him. He couldn't raise a female ghost, but I did. I think I'm no worse than you ghost hunters."

"If you're so powerful, why don't you become a spirit hunter?"

Yu Tong was speechless for a moment.

"You can raise a ghost, but you can't learn the Yin-Yang mental method?" Li Lin laughed. "You are so biased in your studies, and you still dare to say you are better than us?"

Soul Hunters are not better than warriors at killing people, but they are not bad at killing either people or ghosts, and their development is balanced.

Yu Tong snorted: "Okay, I admit that I can't beat you... I just want to ask, can I survive."

"It depends on what you confessed and what those young men confessed."

Yu Tong was silent for a moment, then said, "I've never killed a prostitute, and I didn't capture them. I was just responsible for keeping watch over them."

"Help whom?"

"Xian Cheng."

Li Lin nodded and said, "If you can confess what these young men did and identify him, I will persuade the county magistrate to reduce your sentence."

"Just a reduced sentence? Not acquittal?"

Li Lin shook his head: "Of course not!" "That's fine." Yu Tong rubbed his face and said: "If you want to arrest the county magistrate, you'd better do it now!"

"Why?"

"From what I understand about the County Magistrate, he always does things thoroughly." Yu Tong said with a bitter face, "He actually arranged for his family to leave Yulin County the night before last."

"Without escorts and spirit hunters, how can his family leave?"

"What if his family also serves ancestors?"

Li Lin nodded: "That's indeed possible."

For example, the Qin family's ancestor Gui is very powerful.

At night, he can take his whole family away.

"Then why doesn't the county magistrate leave?"

"He's already over fifty, and he won't live much longer if he leaves." Yu Tong said unconvincedly, "If he stays, nothing might happen, but if he leaves with us, his family won't survive either. If you were the county lieutenant, what would you choose?"

“I choose not to do evil.”

Yu Tong was taken aback by these words, but he could do nothing about it.

At this time, a yamen runner came in from outside, clasped his fists and said, "County Lieutenant, the county magistrate is about to go to court. Please bring these witnesses over."

Li Lin nodded.

Bai Bufan said, "Then I'll go watch over the county magistrate and prevent him from escaping."

"Thank you."

Bai Bufan waved his hand: "You're welcome."

Li Lin came to the court, and Yu Tong and Qingpi were naturally escorted there as well.

Huang Yan sat in the court, nodded gently to Li Lin, and then the public trial began.

Many people stood outside the hall watching and listening.

When people heard Yu Tong admit that there were a large number of disabled women in Xingzhuang who were abducted and trafficked from outside and then deliberately injured so that they could not escape, they were in an uproar.

At the same time, a dozen young thugs began to accuse and expose each other.

Yu Tongze identified the county magistrate as the mastermind behind this incident.

As soon as these words were spoken, Huang Yan slammed the gavel on the table. "This is truly lawless! As an official appointed by the imperial court, knowingly breaking the law is an even greater crime. County Lieutenant Li, lead the yamen runners to arrest the county magistrate and bring him here."

Li Lin clasped his fists and left quickly.

Before, he had no way to arrest the county magistrate because he had no evidence and no order from the county magistrate.

There is now.

The group rushed to the county magistrate's door. Bai Liwei jumped down from the roof and said, "Bai Bufan will stay behind. Don't worry, he can't escape."

Li Lin nodded, and more than a dozen yamen runners exerted force at the same time, broke open the door and rushed in.

The house was a bit deserted, with only a few servants working.

When they saw the yamen runners coming in aggressively, they were so scared that they hid aside.

The bailiffs broke into the house, looking for the county magistrate.

Then someone in the backyard shouted, "County Lieutenant, come here quickly, the County Magistrate is here."

Upon hearing this, Li Lin came to the main hall in the backyard.

There was a human figure hanging there, swaying slightly. Upon closer inspection, who else could it be but the county magistrate?

Li Lin walked over and subconsciously covered his nose.

A strong smell of feces and urine.

There was a pool of water under the county magistrate.

People who hang themselves will become incontinent after death.

Li Lin said, "Someone, go and tell the county magistrate that the county magistrate has hanged himself out of fear of punishment."

Li Lin thought for a moment and said, "Find the coroner and have them do their work before performing an autopsy. I want the true manner in which the county magistrate died."

"Didn't the county magistrate hang himself?"

"There's no stool under his feet for him to stand on and hang himself. Could he, an old man, have jumped up there?" Li Lin looked around and sneered, "It must be someone else who hung him up there."

(End of this chapter)