Great Lawyer

Chapter 753 Zhou Family Courtyard ([-])

Du Jiuyan, King Gui, Zhou Xiao and Gu Qingshan went to the Zhou Mansion, and the others stayed at home to catch up on sleep.

"I'll go too." Pei Ying said, "Maybe I can help.

Du Jiuyan's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile, "It's just right, let's go, let's go!"

Pei Ying is the coordinator, but she forgot about her job.

A group of people went to Zhou Mansion.

Zhou Mansion is very large, surrounded by four alleys.

"Where does Zhou Zhong's family live?" Du Jiuyan asked standing at the entrance of the wide alley.

This alley should also be widened, unlike other alleys that can only be entered and exited by one carriage, this alley can be walked by two carriages in a staggered manner.

"This is the one." Yao Ye pointed to a small door on the left side of the alley, "He saw it from this door."

With that said, Zhou Zhong opened the door and came out from his house.

Du Jiuyan passed by, and he came forward to meet him.

"It's a bit far away." Du Jiuyan looked back, the side door of Zhou's courtyard was seven or eight steps away from the entrance of the alley, but the door of Zhou Zhong's house had to go in more than ten steps.

She said: "Close the door, let me try."

"My lord, you stand at the door."

King Gui nodded and stood at the side door of Zhou's house.

Du Jiuyan entered Zhou Zhong's house and closed the courtyard door, Zhou Zhong said: "I opened the door half a finger wide, Mr. Du, take a look."

Du Jiuyan lay in the crack of the door looking at King Gui.

She could indeed see the eyebrows, she asked, "Have you counted them one by one?"

"Yes." Zhou Zhong pointed to the marks drawn with his nails on the door, "Look, I was afraid that I had misremembered, so I drew a mark when I saw someone."

"Mr. Du, the villain really didn't lie, he told the truth."

Du Jiuyan glanced at the marks, nodded and said, "You are very careful."

"Should be, should be." Zhou Zhong rolled his eyes, and suddenly leaned forward, and said in a low voice, "Mr. Du, I still know something about the compound, so tell you?"

Du Jiuyan watched with an expression of all ears.

"The steward of the house," Zhou Zhong glanced at the side door of the compound, and said next to Du Jiuyan, "Don't look at that Fang An, who is so miserable because of the death of the master's family."

"Others don't know, but I'm very clear. He was doing business outside, and he didn't know how much money he put into his pocket."

Du Jiuyan asked curiously: "What is a set sale?"

"That's right. There is a mine in the compound, you know it right. The mine is for iron. The housekeeper, Fang An, asked his wife and brother to open a shop in the name of his wife and brother, and then sold it privately at the lowest price. Brother-in-law, then they changed hands and sold the iron.”

"Those buyers were originally guests of the compound, and they were all intercepted by Fang An in private." Zhou Zhong said with a look of envy, "I told the elder in the compound, he didn't believe me, and said that my mouth was broken. I didn't say it later, that kind of person looks like the biggest in the world when he has money, and his family should be killed."

Du Jiuyan raised his eyebrows.

"Bah, look at my mouth, I talk nonsense when I'm bald. Mr. Du, you fart like a villain!"

Du Jiuyan said: "It's okay. It's normal for people to talk about others and be talked about by others."

Seeing Du Jiuyan's understanding, Zhou Zhong immediately said, "There is one more thing."

She really knows a lot. Du Jiuyan likes such people. She smiled and said, "Tell me."

"Don't dare to bear 'you'." Zhou Zhong said, "The Eldest Master has two sons, and this time it is the Elder Master Zhou Kuan's family who are all dead, tsk tsk... I'm sorry to see such a beautiful lady..."

As he said that, he realized that he had said the wrong thing again, and hurriedly said: "Zhou Kuan has a brother from a concubine named Zhou Yuan. Didn't he have a grand aunt who was paralyzed on the bed and survived? This aunt Sun is Zhou Yuan's mother. Zhou Kuan Yuan's wife and daughter died, only he was hacked to death to save his life."

"Brothers Zhou Kuan and Zhou Yuan, on the surface, seem polite, but in fact, they can't wait for the other to die. In particular, the old man fell ill this year, and he mentioned the matter of dividing the family property, giving [-]% of the family property to Zhou Kuan, Zhou Yuan not only has to share it out, but he can only get [-]% of the money, not only that, but he will not have his share of the mine's dividends in the future."

Zhou Zhong said, looking at Du Jiuyan with deep meaning, as if to say: You can understand me implying this, although Zhou Yuan counted his wife and daughter dead, but in the future this huge family property will be her Alone, this bitter trick is definitely worth it.

As for the dead daughter-in-law, how many beautiful ones can't be found when I get rich?Not to mention a daughter, she's just a daughter, and she can't bear to let her child not be caught by a wolf.

Du Jiuyan showed his original expression, patted Zhou Zhong's arm, and said, "Master Zhou, the information you mentioned is very useful to me. The amount of information is too much, thank you."

"When the case is solved, I will ask Shao Wenliang to reward you."

Zhou Zhong chuckled and said, "Mr. Du, you are too polite, this is what a villain should do."

"If you think about it again, you still know something important. Talk to me anytime." Du Jiuyan said with a smile, "I'll go to the compound first."

Zhou Zhong agreed, and when Du Jiuyan was gone, he ran back and said to his wife: "Did you see that the one who was at the door just now was the famous Du Jiuyan."

"That's Du Jiuyan?" His daughter-in-law looked surprised, "That's the great litigator Du Jiuyan?"

Zhou Zhong nodded, and said, "Mr. Du is a fake one. Not only is she here, King Gui is also outside."

"Oh, my God," his daughter-in-law wanted to go out to see the real person, Zhou Zhong pulled her, and said, "What's the hurry, Mr. Du is working, if you want to see him, I'll invite her to my house for dinner some other day, take care of me have a look."

"A big girl, she looks very handsome." Zhou Zhong said.

His daughter-in-law said: "Whether handsome or not, Mr. Du is capable. For a capable person, what his face looks like is secondary."

"You can make an agreement. You must invite Mr. Du to your house for dinner."

Zhou Zhong patted his chest and vowed: "Sure, Mr. Du takes me seriously. She listened very seriously to what I said just now. She also said that if I think of something useful again, I will tell her right away. She is willing to do it anytime." listen."

"Really, then... Then we have to think about it."

The husband and wife sat in the yard, recalling what happened in Zhou's compound.

Du Jiuyan entered Zhou's compound. In the courtyard there were rockeries, small bridges and flowing water, and the colored glaze embedded in the windows was radiant and magnificent.As soon as you enter the door, you can feel the wealth and extravagance of the rich.

The outer courtyard is very large, Du Jiuyan turned around a little, and there were obvious bloodstains on the ground, Du Jiuyan said: "Tell me about the scene when you came in when you received the report from the officer."

"Start from the direction and position where the corpse is lying, and talk about everything in detail."

Yao Ye pointed to the door of the tea room by the side door, and said, "There is an old woman at the door, and she should be on duty that night. She faces the tea room, and the villain thinks that she should have heard the sound and came out to check. Then he ran into the tea room and was killed by those who chased him from behind."

"Didn't people come in through the side door?" Du Jiuyan asked.

Yao Ye said: "The villain is not sure either. There are no signs of kicking or vandalism at the side door, and no footprints were found on the fence."

"Understood, you continue." Du Jiuyan said.

"Passing around this tea room, there lives in an upside-down seat on this side a steward of the outer court. He was in his thirties. He was wearing a middle coat when he died, and he still held the doorbolt in his hand after he died."

"There will be no one inside, and the off-duty servants will live in the back seat of the courtyard." Yao Ye said, "Mr. Du, shall we enter the inner courtyard?"

Du Jiuyan stood at the Ruyi door, looking at the Ruyi door.

King Gui walked over from the inside and said, "I have seen the Ruyi Gate, and there are no signs of being kicked or destroyed from the outside."

"If someone didn't open the door for them, then they killed from the inside to the outside."

Du Jiuyan thought it made sense, and the three of them continued to walk inside.

"Master Zhou and his wife died on the bed. They were stabbed three times through the quilt, and they died at that time." Yao Ye said, "Master Zhou Kuan died by the door, wearing a middle coat, Mr. The wife fell on the bed, and their two children died on the bed."

"It was midnight and everyone was sleeping."

When people arrived at the main courtyard, Yao Ye pointed to the slightly smaller courtyard diagonally opposite the main courtyard, "That's Zhou Kuan's courtyard over there."

"Where does Zhou Yuan live? And where does that paralyzed Aunt Sun live?"

Yao Ye pointed to the courtyard on the side of the main courtyard, and said, "Aunt Sun lives in the courtyard of the main courtyard. In her courtyard, a woman and a girl died, one died at the door of the room, and the other died in the courtyard."

"Zhou Yuan lives over there." Yao Ye pointed to the deeper part of the inner courtyard, a large courtyard separated from Zhou Kuan's courtyard by a small courtyard. "Zhou Yuan's family lives in that courtyard."

"However, when we came in, Zhou Yuan was not in his own yard, but collapsed on the path in the backyard."

Du Jiuyan asked, "Is he also wearing a middle coat?"

"He's dressed very neatly, it looks like he hasn't slept yet," Yao Ye said.

"Is he at home now?"

"I sent it with his mother to the small house they bought. It's not far from here, just two alleys away."

Du Jiuyan nodded and went to an open space in front of the main courtyard.

At this moment, there were red lacquered coffins of different thicknesses on the twentieth floor. The coffins were all opened, and Pei Ying was standing in front of a coffin for autopsy.

"The one in the middle is Master Zhou." Yao Ye said.

Du Jiuyan looked at Elder Zhou in the coffin, with a fair and clean face, his face could not tell the age, he was wearing a gray satin jacket, with two staggered knives on his stomach, and a knife in his heart, which showed the attack The man didn't hesitate at all, when he rushed into the room, he planned to silence him.

"Mr. Du," Pei Ying and Du Jiuyan said, "All the knife wounds are very straightforward. I don't know if I guessed it right. When the murderer entered this yard, he planned to kill the family."

Du Jiuyan nodded, "You are right."

Pei Ying didn't say any more, and continued to examine the corpse.

"This attack is too ruthless, what's ugly and what's wrong with it." Zhou Xiao couldn't bear to look at it, and said to Du Jiuyan, "I'll go to each room to have a look."

Said and went to the main courtyard.

King Gui checked the wounds of all the corpses and asked, "How many murderers did the people who reported to the police say?"

"Twelve, nine men and three women." Yao Ye replied.

King Gui shook his head and said, "No."

Du Jiuyan asked, "What's wrong?"

"I have one more thing to confirm," King Gui asked Yao Ye, "The person who reported to the police found movement here, did they hear a call?"

　Happy Chinese New Year everyone!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)