I bring bad luck to my husband, you bring bad luck to your wife.

His mother actually believed this scoundrel's words, took all her savings for her funeral, and even bought a carriage suitable for long journeys, fearing that her son would suffer on the way.

Qi Laizi also loaded all his belongings, all the petty thieves he had stolen over the years, onto the car, intending to take his spoils with him.

Unexpectedly, not long after leaving the city, he couldn't continue his act and tried to steal the money box while his mother was sleeping.

His mother woke up with a start and immediately realized she had been tricked.

The two then started fighting.

In her desperation, the mother even suggested that Tie Tong deal with Qi Laizi.

"You damned bastard, I'll have my eldest son break your legs!" The mother cursed incessantly, provoking Qi Laizi.

"I just wanted to shut her up and get her to give me the money. Then she died." Qi Laizi remained unrepentant and continued to downplay his actions.

According to Qi Laizi, he killed his mother by accident. After discovering she was dead, he threw her into a small river by the roadside and then drove away.

The body must have been washed ashore by the current into Peach Blossom Pool.

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(During the interrogation)

"Accidental killing? Then why stab her so many times? Why ruin her face?"

"I only stabbed him a few times. He was disfigured because I couldn't cut off his head." Qi Laizi had no humanity at all. He didn't even realize how outrageous his actions were.

He originally intended to dismember the body and hide the head so that those incompetent officials in the government wouldn't be able to find out who the deceased was.

Unfortunately, I didn't have the right tools at the time, so I couldn't separate them and had to settle for disfigurement.

At this point in the record, the yamen runner in charge of recording couldn't hold back any longer and went up to kick Qi Laizi several times.

Yang Tongchuan didn't stop him, because he also wanted to go up and kick him a few times.

This beast is still trying to justify himself. Has he forgotten how he cut off his own mother's tongue and sewed up her lips?

They clearly believed the ghost stories in the folk tales and were afraid that the deceased would go to the underworld to seek justice, so they did it on purpose.

"Based on his confession, go to the crime scene and see if you can find anything else. Also, have the jailer take him to identify the body so he can see what he has done."

Yang Tongchuan looked at the confession in his hand, polished it a bit, and realized it was enough to get his head chopped off.

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"This is all of Qi Laizi's confession, but there's one sentence I didn't let them write down." Yang Tongchuan paused for a moment, needing to calm himself down.

"Your adoptive mother's last words before she died were, 'Son, save me.'" Yang Tongchuan felt that these words must have been spoken to Tie Tong.

Yang Tongchuan had no idea how much Tie Tong had kept from him regarding the previous argument with his adoptive mother.

However, Yang Tongchuan felt that Tie Tong was right about one thing: his adoptive mother must have been a very stubborn and contradictory person.

She has feelings for her adopted son, and her feelings for her biological son are also genuine.

It's a pity they can't think clearly and can't distinguish between good and bad.

Yang Tongchuan finished speaking.

Iron Tong was surprisingly calm. He didn't cry or make a scene, nor did he shout that he wanted to kill that beast.

He just sat there with his hands shaking uncontrollably.

"I shouldn't have scared her. If I hadn't scared her, she wouldn't have gone with that beast and wouldn't have died."

Yang Tongchuan's guess was correct; TieTong did indeed hide some of the content of the argument, but that content consisted of things that TieTong thought were unimportant.

Because his adoptive mother was asking him for money very frequently during that period, he thought the old lady had become addicted to gambling or had encountered a swindler, so he went to check on her himself.

He happened to see his adoptive mother kneeling before the Bodhisattva in repentance. Tie Tong was indeed very angry about his birth mother's death, but what angered him even more was what his adoptive mother said afterward.

She prayed to the Bodhisattva that her own son could live a clean and upright life, and not do shady business like Tie Tong.

Only then did Tie Tong realize that all the money he had given her over the years had been used to subsidize his biological son.

In her adoptive mother's eyes, she was nothing more than a useful money bag.

He rushed into the house to argue with his adoptive mother, telling her not to have an ulterior motive.

"This house is all mine. If you don't want to live here, then get out and let your own son take care of you in your old age."

"If my money is dirty, then don't spend it. Let's see how you'll support your own son if I don't give you money."

I don't remember what else they said about China Telecom.

His mind is a mess right now, and he's filled with regret.

"Officer Yang, when can I take the old man back for burial?" Tie Tong seemed to have all his strength drained away. For a moment, he didn't know whether to hate himself first or Qi Laizi first.

I had clearly noticed something was wrong, but I pretended not to see it, which gave bad people an opportunity to take advantage of me.

"It will be soon. I'll go see the county constable in a bit. If there are no problems, the case can be closed after the constable finishes his investigation."

"Thank you for your help, Officer Yang."

Tie Tong left the yamen in a daze, saying he was going to find a burial site for his adoptive mother.

Yang Tongchuan has been staying at the yamen for the past few days, working overtime to organize the case files, ensuring that all the evidence is complete, and thoroughly investigating whether there are any omissions.

This was the biggest case he had encountered since becoming the head constable, and he had to handle it flawlessly, leaving no room for criticism.

He was so busy he didn't even have time to shave his beard until the death sentence for the seven scoundrels was handed down, and the beast, barely clinging to life, was locked in the death row.

The yamen (government office) of Changxing County could only hear cases and draft death sentences, but had no power to directly carry out executions.

The judgment must be reported to the Court of Judicial Review and the Ministry of Justice for review, and the execution order can only be issued after the final approval from the higher authorities.

The execution site is not within the county; the person must be sent to a designated execution ground and supervised by a special judicial officer.

This is a long process.

Fortunately, Qi Laizi managed to hold on until then, barely clinging to life with his last breath.

Of course that's all for later.

No one knew that after Qi Laizi was beheaded, he was originally supposed to be treated as an unclaimed corpse.

The relatives of the villagers of Hougezhuang Village refused to come and identify the body. Their reason was that since Qi Laizi's mother was a prostitute, how could they be sure that Qi Laizi was Wu Xiucai's son? What if Wu Xiucai was deceived by this prostitute?

Yang Tongchuan was not surprised by their behavior at all. After all, in this era where spit can kill, no one wants to be splashed with excrement.

If the son of a scholar and a prostitute, who is a murderer, is recognized by the village clan, then everyone from that village will be gossiped about from now on.

So Yang Tongchuan used some of his power to get Tie Tong to go through the family's claim and burial procedures and take away Qi Laizi's body.

As for whether to desecrate the corpse or grind the bones to ashes after taking it away, Yang Tongchuan didn't care.

The people below told Yang Tongchuan that Tietong had found an auspicious burial site for his adoptive mother in a grand manner, not only giving her a magnificent funeral but also setting up a memorial tablet for her in the temple's ancestral hall.

Now everyone in their circle is praising China Telecom for being loyal and righteous.

Yang Tongchuan did not express his opinion after listening.

That concludes the matter.

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After several busy days, Yang Tongchuan was finally able to go home.

Xuebao actually remembered his biological father whom he hadn't seen in a long time.

The first thing she did upon seeing him was to ask him to hold her, and she was so excited that she kept muttering "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy."

This was the first time Xuebao had made such a precise sound, and Yang Tongchuan was so excited that he hugged Xuebao and kissed her several times.

I can't wait to go out and show everyone that my little boy can call me "Dad" now.