Although the little donkey pulling coal had worked hard all day, he still showed amazing strength and speed. Under the instigation of Xu Zhen's leather whip, he pulled the coal cart to the gate of the county government office in a short time.
There were four on-duty government officials standing at the gate of the county government office. They suddenly saw Xu Zhen driving a donkey cart and stopped, and they all gathered around curiously.
"Quick!" Xu Zhen jumped off the donkey cart, pointed at Qiu Batian in the carriage, and assigned tasks to the government officials, "Come here and help me lift people out of the cart;
"You, hurry up and inform the elder that Qiu Batian has arrived at the case;
"You, notify everyone immediately and prepare to ascend to the church;
"And you, go get a basin of cold water quickly!"
"Ah? Qiu...Qiu Batian? No...didn't you say you want to be summoned? How..." The four government officials didn't know what happened and were shocked.
"Hurry! Don't be stunned!" Xu Zhen urged, "This is all the master's order, hurry up!"
After hearing what Xu Zhen said, the government officials did not dare to delay any longer and immediately acted according to Xu Zhen's instructions. Some ran to the inner hall, some ran to the public house, some went to get cold water, and one and Xu Zhen took the unconscious man to the hospital. Qiu Batian carried him into the county government office.
Soon, Qiu Batian, who was covered in coal dust, was dragged to the county government hall, where one of the government officials had already brought a basin of cold water.
Xu Zhen took the basin and said to the yamen officer: "Okay, you go and take the plaintiff now!"
The yamen servant responded and immediately ran towards the county yamen prison.
At this time, the government officials and police officers who received the news came to the lobby one after another. When Xu Zhen saw Chen Tiefeng appearing from a distance, he poured a basin of cold water on Qiu Batian's head!
"Oh oh oh..."
Qiu Batian shivered several times and was instantly awakened by the cold water.
At this moment, Chen Tiefeng had already run into the lobby. Xu Zhen, with quick eyesight and quick hands, handed the basin directly to Chen Tiefeng's hand.
The so-called inertia effect means that if you hand something to others naturally, others will naturally accept it.
Sure enough, Xu Zhen handed it over naturally, and Chen Tiefeng received it very steadily. Only after receiving it did he feel curious.
"You..." Chen Tiefeng just wanted to ask Xu Zhen why he gave himself a basin?
But at this moment, Qiu Batian, who had regained consciousness, sat up and roared at Chen Tiefeng like a furious lion:
"You? How dare you splash me!?"
Chen Tiefeng was the old man who captured the house, so he naturally recognized this man in red robe as Qiu Batian, whom everyone in Yanping County feared!
"Ah? This..." He then realized that Xu Zhen had tricked him, and hurriedly threw the basin away while looking for it angrily.
However, Xu Zhen has long disappeared.
"You..." Qiu Batian shouted angrily at Chen Tiefeng, "What's your name?"
"I..." Chen Tiefeng couldn't react in time and subconsciously replied, "I am Chen Tiefeng."
"..." Qiu Ba was furious, "It's unreasonable, it's simply unreasonable!"
"Qiu...Boss Qiu..." Chen Tiefeng was frightened and hurriedly knelt down to help Qiu Batian. At the same time, he hurriedly explained, "Listen to me, it wasn't me who splashed it just now. It really wasn't me..."
"Get out!" A furious Qiu Batian pushed Chen Tiefeng away and got up on his own.
But he was covered in a mixture of coal and water, his hair was disheveled, and he was extremely embarrassed.
"Ouch! What...what's going on?"
At this time, the county magistrate Song Zhili and the head catcher Cheng Xiao rushed over after hearing the news. Seeing Qiu Batian actually arriving at the court, they rushed over in panic.
"Yamen... Huh... Is this... Yamen?" Qiu Batian squeezed his groggy head and realized that he had arrived at the county government office.
"Sir, it's all that Xu Zhen!" Chen Tiefeng complained quickly when he saw this, "He was the one who brought Boss Qiu here!"
"Xu Zhen?" Song Zhili was so worried that he hurriedly asked Cheng Xiao, "Cheng Batou, what's going on?"
"I..." Cheng Xiao was also at a loss and defended casually, "I just asked him to summon Boss Qiu, but I didn't expect it to end up like this!"
"Oh, Boss Qiu, it's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding..." Song Zhili quickly clasped his fists and bowed to Qiu Batian.
"Huh!" Qiu Batian covered his head and shouted angrily, "Stop acting! I don't think there is any misunderstanding, you just want to mess with me? Okay, then come on, let me see what you can do to me how?"
"This..." Song Zhili frowned and advised again, "You are worrying too much, this... this is really a misunderstanding! I..."
"Okay," Qiu Batian suddenly remembered something, immediately interrupted Song Zhili, pointed at his nose and said, "Isn't it just because someone wants to sue me that you put so much effort into it? Okay, you call him out. I want to see who he is?"
As soon as Qiu Batian finished speaking, there was a commotion outside the Yamen. After a while, Qiu Batian's vicious servants rushed into the courtroom aggressively.
"Master Qiu, Master Qiu...are you okay?"
When the servants saw Qiu Batian covered in cinder stains, they immediately protected him and glared angrily at the government officials present.
Even though this was the county government hall, Magistrate Song and all the government officials were so frightened that their faces turned pale, completely losing their official majesty.
"It's far away, it's far away!" Magistrate Song calmed down and said hurriedly, "Boss Qiu, you're far away when you say that. Come, please come to the inner hall to talk. Let me explain the whole matter to you in detail. Let’s talk about it. This… this is really a misunderstanding!”
"Report..."
Unexpectedly, just as Magistrate Song finished speaking, the government servant who had gone to take the plaintiff ran in in panic and reported to Magistrate Song:
"Big...big sir, it's not good! That old man——is dead!!!"
What! ! ?
The entire county government hall suddenly became quiet.
While the yamen officer was reporting the incident, Xu Zhen was hiding behind a desk to watch the excitement.
After hearing such shocking news, I couldn't help but froze in place...
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A quarter of an hour later, the county yamen prison was in jail.
The county magistrate Song Zhili, the arresting officer Cheng Xiao, all the arresting officers, Qiu Batian and others all came here.
"What...what's going on?" Magistrate Song asked anxiously.
"No... I don't know!" a jailer said in a panic, "I was fine just now, but who knew he would die like this..."
Everyone quickly looked inside the cell, only to see a man lying on the ground. It was the old man who had sued Qiu Batian.
He lay on the ground, his body twisted, and he seemed to have experienced extreme pain before dying.
Cheng Xiao was experienced and rushed into the cell first and turned the old man's body over.
"Ah!?" After just one glance, Cheng Xiao frowned and turned to look at the county magistrate Song Zhili, his eyes becoming extremely complicated.
"What...what's wrong?" Song Zhili noticed something strange and asked hurriedly.
Cheng Xiao still didn't answer, but his expression became extremely ugly.
"Oh, what's going on!" Song Zhili was anxious, "Speak quickly!"
"It's...poisoning!" Cheng Xiao said very quietly, "It's poisoning."
"ah!?"
Song Zhili felt dizzy and immediately took a few steps back, almost falling down.
In the crowd, Xu Zhen looked through the gap and saw that the old man's face was distorted and his lips were purple, which was indeed an obvious sign of poisoning.
No one expected that in just a few hours, the old man would be poisoned to death in the county jail!
how so?
Only then did Xu Zhen understand why Cheng Xiao looked at Song Zhili with that look.
He obviously suspected that the old man was poisoned to death by someone sent by Song Zhili. In this way, the old man died without any evidence, and he could no longer sue Qiu Batian.
But... Judging from Song Zhili's current state of being helpless, it doesn't look like he knew anything about it.
Besides, even if Song Zhili really wanted to kill the old man, he shouldn't have let him die in the county jail. Wouldn't this be a recipe for disaster?
Besides, in such a short period of time, Song Zhili was still unable to determine the whole story of the case, so how could he kill Qiu Batian and silence him?
Who killed the old man?
"What bad luck!" At this time, Qiu Batian shook the mud off his body impatiently and said to Song Zhili, "I tell you, county magistrate, if you don't give me an explanation for this matter, don't blame me for telling you I can’t get through the Yamen!”
"This..." Song Zhili was completely confused and didn't know what to say.
"It's really baffling, hum..." Qiu Batian snorted angrily, turned around and waved to his men, "Let's go, those little golden cats in Wanhua Tower are still waiting for me!"
After saying that, he led his servants and walked out of the prison.
Logically speaking, Qiu Batian is closely related to the case at hand and should stay in the Yamen for review.
However, which one of County Magistrate Song and other officials dared to stop him? All he could do was watch Qiu Batian swaggeringly leaving the prison.
Tsk tsk...
Looking at Qiu Batian's leaving figure and then at the old man's body in the cell, Xu Zhen frowned, feeling more and more that this case was unusual.
The next second, Xu Zhen's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly thought of another important thing.
oops!
Since the old man was poisoned to death in prison, then... where is the old man's daughter?
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