commoner pretty detective

Chapter 17
As soon as he turned the corner, he saw a majestic Yamen standing in front of him.It's a pity that the gate of the yamen is deserted, there are only two yamen servants and an old lady.It's all the fault of Gong Ziling, who didn't regard it as the real version of the ancient trial process.

The old woman should be Ah Niu's mother.When I got closer and took a closer look, I saw that she was dressed in ragged clothes, with gray hair, a dull expression, and tears in the corners of her eyes.But she didn't cry, she just stared blankly at the gate of the yamen, with deep despair in her eyes.But the two guards on duty turned a blind eye to her, as if she didn't exist.It's no wonder that for the past three months, they have come here every day to stage a show of complaining for their son, and they are probably numb.

Woo Yeon felt deeply saddened.She stepped forward to support the old woman, and asked softly: "Mother, are you A Niu Niang?"

The old lady probably didn't expect Wu Yan to talk to her, she was fed up with the warmth and coldness of people in the past three months.At first, there were people who sympathized with her and comforted her, but later, they gradually became indifferent to her, and later, they simply hid away when they saw her.At this time, when Wu Yan asked her, she hurriedly grabbed Wu Yan's arm, which hurt Wu Yan a lot.Tears rolled down one after another, and the old woman cried loudly: "Master, my son is wronged, Niu is wronged."

Wu Yan panicked: "Mother, don't cry, just speak slowly, what's going on?"

"A Niu is an honest child who never takes advantage of others. There is no one who knows his mother. A Niu's father died early. Our mother and son are dependent on each other. I know this child best. He will not do things that hurt nature and reason. .”

"Ma'am, just tell me, what did Ah Niu do the night before the accident?"

"That day, A Niu was the same as usual. He went up the mountain to cut firewood and went home. After dinner, we went to bed as soon as it got dark. I slept until midnight, and I was awakened by the sound of the door opening. When I walked out of the room, I saw A Niu quietly pushing the door open and coming in. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he went to the toilet. His voice was not panicked at all, and he didn't look like he was caught after doing something bad and fled back. So I didn't suspect anything, and we just I fell asleep again. The next morning, when I cooked dinner, Ah Niu hadn’t woken up yet. He usually gets up very early. Then the government servants came to arrest him. My son, if Ah Niu killed someone, why didn’t he run away? , and still sleep peacefully?"

Wu Yan sighed secretly, aunt, what you said just confirmed that your son had the time and suspicion to commit the crime, no wonder no one can help you.

The old woman dragged Wu Yan to talk about how kind and loyal Ah Niu was.The yamen servant next to him probably saw that Wu Yan was well dressed, so he stepped forward to persuade him, "Master, this old lady is out of her mind and talking nonsense, if you can't understand her, forget it."

Wu Yan saw that she couldn't ask anything of value, so she persuaded the old woman, "Ma'am, I know everything, you can go back first, I will help you with A Niu's matter."

"Really," the old woman was overjoyed, "Master, you are such a good person, I thank you in advance." After speaking, she wanted to kneel down.

Wu Yan hurriedly interfered with her not to let her kneel, and after talking for a long time, she went home gratefully.

If Ah Niu was really beheaded tomorrow, it would be no wonder if she wasn't crazy. Looking at the old woman's leaving back, Wu Yan felt sad for a while.She took out a relatively large piece of silver from her purse, stuffed it into the hands of a yamen servant, and said with a smile: "Brothers, I invite you to drink tea."

When the two yamen servants saw Yinzi, they immediately smiled and said repeatedly: "It's easy to say, easy to say."

Wu Yan then asked: "Both elder brothers, can you tell me the whole story of arresting Ah Niu?"

The taller yamen servant rushed to say: "To tell you the truth, my lord, the two of us were also present when we arrested Niu. When we went in, the boy was still lying on the bed and fast asleep. The boss caught him immediately, I found the package of stolen goods from under his pillow. Seeing that I took out the package, the kid wanted to rush over to snatch it, saying that I robbed him for no reason, and knocked him over with a punch from the boss.

"Then the boss told him that Mr. Luo reported that he had stolen Ms. Luo's property. Now that the stolen goods were obtained, he asked him what else to say. The boy just sneered, and he knew the truth when he talked about it in the lobby. He looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water." He looked like he was drenched. But when he got to the lobby and saw Lin San's body, the kid was immediately dumbfounded, and he confessed everything when he asked and nodded."

"Does Master Liu usually move the corpse to the lobby in homicide trials?" Wu Yan felt a little strange.

(End of this chapter)