Huang Lun saw this and asked, "What did you say?"
Su Yaoguang shook her head in tears: "No, no, the little lady didn't hear Mr. Xie and the three of them talking at all. In the end, after they finished talking, she went to the table and drank two glasses of wine with her and chatted for a while. !”
Huang Lun frowned and continued: "Did you hear anything before you were taken away that night?"
Su Yaoguang shook his head: "No, no..."
She thought for a while and suddenly said: "By the way, I heard the thieves say something with a Songjiang accent!"
Huang Lun immediately said excitedly: "What did you say?"
Su Yaoguang said: "He said [Kill all the others and make up for it with two stabs to avoid leaving anyone alive]!"
At this time, the Jin Yiwei Qianhu on Huang Lun's left asked, "How do you know it's a Songjiang accent?"
Su Yaoguang lowered his head: "Before coming to Hailing, the little girl received training from a mother in Songjiang! Later she was selected by the academy and bought Hailing!"
Huang Lun and the Jinyi guard Qianhu looked at each other, and both felt that so far in the interrogation, there was still no evidence directly pointing to Zhou Yi.
The biggest evidence in the case was the gunpowder obtained by Cao Bangzhou. Zhou Yi refused to admit that he had correspondence with Cao Bangzhou, saying that the letter was forged.
In the academy massacre case, it can only be said that it was his son Zhou Tianxiong who did it, but Zhou Yi still cannot be convicted.
Thinking of this, Huang Lun said: "Detain the prisoner Zhou Yi!"
Hearing this, the two servants stepped forward to help Zhou Yi and were about to drag him away. Mr. Zhou, who was in a state of panic just now, became even more panicked: "Dad..."
Before leaving, Zhou Yi looked at his son and said loudly: "Xiong'er..."
At this moment, there seemed to be a thousand words in his eyes, but they eventually turned into a sigh.
Seeing this, Huang Lun quickly urged: "Why don't you take the prisoner away?"
After Zhou Yi left, Huang Lun calmed down his emotions and said to Zhou Tianxiong with a smile: "Zhou Tianxiong, I know that your father ordered you to do these things. You will honestly report the crimes your father committed." Come one by one, and I can report to Your Majesty and spare you a way to live."
At this time, Mr. Zhou was no longer as arrogant as he had been in the face of Xu He a few days ago, and was kneeling on the ground trembling.
Huang Lun wanted this effect. He said softly: "Zhou Tianxiong, tell me, did your father collude with the bandits and burn the culprits? Who are the other accomplices? Ge Youli was also involved? Right?"
Zhou Tianxiong remained silent, lying on the ground with tears streaming down his face.
Huang Lun waited for a while, but when he saw that he still didn't speak, he finally lost his patience. He slapped his hands and cursed: "If you don't eat the toast, you will be fined. Come on, keep beating me!"
When he heard that he was going to be beaten, Zhou Tianxiong panicked: "Sir, sir, I really don't know these things. My father never tells me these things!"
Huang Lun sneered: "You treat me as a three-year-old child? Since you don't know about this? Then why did you instruct the thief to go to the academy to silence him, and also ask what exactly Kong Yiyuan, the salt patrol censor, said?"
Zhou Tianxiong said in panic: "That day, Xu Luan and I were going to the academy. We happened to meet Xu He and others coming out of the academy. I saw one of them was Kong Yiyuan, the censor of the Salt Patrol, and I saw him talking to Xie Daozhi, the Minister of Dali Temple. Son is together, I suspect they are plotting against my father!"
"Why do you doubt this?"
"Because I heard some news that Kong Yiyuan is collecting evidence against my father recently!"
"What evidence?"
"Nothing, I just heard from the jailer that he always mentioned my father's name, so I suspected..."
Huang Lun immediately called for the jailer that day. After checking, sure enough, Zhou Tianxiong did not tell lies.
"Because of this? You killed twelve people?" Huang Lun looked incredulous!
Zhou Tianxiong quietly raised his eyes, glanced at him cautiously, and then replied: "I didn't want to kill anyone at first, but Zhou Tai persuaded me that Kong Yiyuan was the second assistant to Xia Yangqiu, and he never dealt with me and my father. The other party had some plot against my father, so he said he wanted to investigate!"
A new character appeared in this case, and Xu He felt that things were getting more and more complicated.
Sure enough, Huang Lun asked: "Who is Zhou Tai?"
"My father trusts him very much as a protégé of my family. Sometimes my father will obey his advice. He was a protégé of my father when he was the magistrate of Songjiang County!"
Upon hearing this, Huang Lun turned to look at Lu Tao, a member of Qianhu of Jinyiwei, and saw Lu Tao shaking his head.
His face darkened: "Is Zhou Tai the one who speaks Songjiang dialect this time?"
Zhou Tianxiong nodded.
When the case reached this point, Huang Lun knew that it could no longer go on, so he asked someone to take Zhou Tianxiong away.
Zhou Tianxiong was dragged by someone. When he passed by Xu He, he raised his head and glanced at Xu He. In his eyes, there seemed to be the shame and anger when Xu He saw this ugly appearance, and the madness after the end of the road.
After leaving the government office, Xu He was waiting outside. Sure enough, Li Zhijie came out of the government office not long after.
He was not surprised at all when he saw Xu He, and the master and apprentice smiled knowingly.
When Xu He got on his sedan, Li Zhijie pinched his brows tiredly: "What do you think of today's matter?"
Xu He said: "I think maybe things are not as simple as we thought before!"
Li Zhijie said nothing and looked at him with questioning eyes.
Xu He sorted out his thoughts, and then said: "Actually, the biggest doubt is that Zhou Tai. Why did he, a disciple of the Zhou Mansion, dare to order the killing of the twelve people in the academy on behalf of his master?"
Li Zhijie motioned for him to continue.
In fact, Xu He's analysis is very simple. Zhou Tai, a servant, was either instigated by Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi was afraid that his plan to burn the roots would be discovered, so he asked Zhou Tai to kidnap people and destroy the entire academy. Prevent leakage and wind noise.
Li Zhiye nodded. This was also the biggest possibility. Huang Lun and others probably thought so too.
But Xu He added: "There is another possibility. Zhou Tai is not as simple as he seems. He may not be a disciple of the Zhou family at all!"
"Oh?" Li Zhijie became interested.
"Teacher, think about it, what Lu Tao means, Zhou Tai was not caught when something happened to the Zhou family. Where did Zhou Tai go this time? Why did everyone else catch him, but Zhou Tai ran away this time? Did he run away? What news have you received?”
Li Zhijie shook his head: "Maybe he happened to be out of the house and ran away when he saw the Zhou family was ransacked; it's also possible that he killed people and silenced them before and hid elsewhere in order to avoid the limelight!"
Xu He nodded, both possibilities were possible.
"Teacher, you are right, but is it reasonable for Zhou Yi, a prefect, to obey the advice of a disciple?" Xu He asked back.
Li Zhijie sighed: "Forget it, let's not get too involved in this matter. After all, my master is the chief assistant. If I show too much concern about this case, I am afraid that Mr. Huang will misunderstand!"
Xu He nodded, thinking that it was no wonder that the teacher had just sat down and said nothing during the trial.
Li Zhijie smiled and said: "Okay, don't go back to Hailing for the next two days. Just wait in Yangzhou for the results to be released!"
When Xu He heard this, his heart moved, and he asked with a shy face: "Teacher, my government has tried it? How many people have you tried?"
Li Zhijie smiled and spread his hands: "Guess!"
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