The guard at Zhijian Hall was accused of intentional homicide.
Then you have to interrogate yourself in public.
When such things spread, the whole Tianxuan City was boiling. Many people came outside the sword-holding hall to watch the excitement, blocking the entire gate of the sword-holding hall.
"You said you saw Zhu Renzhao walking into the sword-wielding hall the night before yesterday? And when you saw him the next day, he was already a corpse, right?" Ma Yingjie took a deep breath. He knew that things had reached this point. Unable to calm down the matter, he calmed down and looked at Chu Qingxiao and asked.
"Yes." Chu Qingxiao said.
"But I was in the sword-wielding hall the day before yesterday and the night before, so why have I never seen him?" Ma Yingjie asked rhetorically.
"Because you lied." Chu Qingxiao said calmly.
Hearing this, Ma Yingjie secretly felt funny: "Young man, you don't think that just because you said I lied, I can be convicted, right? If you want to prove this, you must either have witnesses or physical evidence."
"There is indeed no physical evidence, but the human evidence is in the sword-holding hall!" Chu Qingxiao said.
"If Mr. Lu has a clear conscience, then let all the disciples in the sword-wielding hall come out and let me ask them one by one. Someone must have seen Zhu Renzhao."
Ma Yingjie sneered in his heart. The duty of the sword-wielding hall rotates every month, and at the same time, the disciples who work under him will also rotate. This month, he will be on duty, so the disciples who come to assist him in his work are all disciples of Ganquan Peak. He has already established relationships with them, and these disciples are no longer on duty. It is impossible to betray yourself for an outsider.
Initially, when he saw Chu Qingxiao coming in a menacing manner, he thought the young man had some evidence in his hands, so he was cautious. However, after several interrogations, except that he kept saying that he had seen Zhu Renzhao come to the sword-wielding hall, he could no longer get any evidence. The lack of other evidence made Ma Yingjie calm down and regarded Chu Qingxiao as the kind of stupid young man who didn't understand the world.
"Zhijian Tang is responsible for the entire affairs of Tianxuan City. Calling them all here will affect the operation of Tianxuan City. Young man, you are now backed by Lu Zhenshou. I have to let you go, but you have to think clearly. , if nothing is found by then, Tianxuan Mountain will blame you, and Guard Lu will be protected by his junior uncle, but you will have no one to protect you!"
"Out of good intentions, I advise you to stop now, otherwise it will ruin your future, and there may be other people who will bear a grudge against you and cause you trouble."
Ma Yingjie whispered in a low voice, his words full of threats.
Chu Qingxiao just smiled faintly when he heard this: "Master Lu, life is at stake, so just do it."
"Unrepentant!!" Ma Yingjie snorted coldly, and immediately looked behind him. The disciples behind him hurried to the sword-holding hall. In less than a moment, more than a hundred disciples from the mansion arrived in front of the mansion.
"All the disciples in my sword hall are here. Little brother, do you want to ask one by one, or do you want everyone to ask together?" Ma Yingying looked at Chu Qingxiao and said, with arrogance and ridicule in his tone.
Chu Qingxiao ignored the sarcasm in Ma Yingjie's words, but turned to look at the disciples, scanning their bodies one by one.
"I thought about it and realized that Mr. Lu is right. There is no need to work so hard on this matter. Let's just select a few senior brothers for questioning. The others should go back to the mansion first and do their business first." Chu Qingxiao smiled. said.
Ma Yingjie was stunned when he said these words.
Although Chu Qingxiao seemed stupid to him, the energy he showed before to break up with him was still a bit scary.
Ma Yingjie had seen a lot of such people, and although most of them ended up miserable in the end, it had to be said that being targeted by such a person was not a good experience for the person involved.
At this moment, Chu Qingxiao suddenly changed his tone, which made Ma Yingjie a little unexpected.
But after thinking about it for a moment, he felt that it was natural. Chu Qingxiao probably also realized that he had no evidence that he could threaten Ma Yingjie.
Thinking of this, Ma Yingjie couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart: "I warned you before, but you insist on letting the disciples of the Sword Hall come out, and now you feel it's inappropriate. Little brother, there are not so many regret medicines in this world."
"Then since you have found your way back, just find a few people you want to question."
He said sarcastically, and he could probably foresee in his heart that in the near future, Chu Qingxiao would kneel in front of him and cry bitterly, begging for his forgiveness.
But Chu Qingxiao still ignored his sarcasm. After hearing the words, he nodded and looked at the sword-wielding hall disciples in front of him.
He casually stretched out his hand and nodded toward the crowd: "You, you, and you two, just the four of you. You come out, and everyone else goes back and does whatever they have to do." Chu Qingxiao said.
This seemingly random move caused Ma Yingjie, who had been complacent just now, to suddenly change his expression. The four disciples who were pointed out by Chu Qingxiao also had strange expressions on their faces. They looked at each other with some expressions on their faces. Undecided.
There is no other reason.
Chu Qingxiao seemed to just point at random, and the four people he named were the four disciples who tortured Zhu Renzhao under the instruction of Ma Yingying the night before.
They participated in the entire process of killing Zhu Renzhao and dumping his body.
Ma Yingjie thought about it carefully. No one saw the whole process of their crime...
But if all this is just a coincidence, out of more than a hundred disciples, Chu Qingxiao happens to choose four people involved in this matter, what is the probability?
"Why don't you come out? Could it be that the four of you happened to be the accomplices who killed Zhu Renzhao?" Seeing everyone's hesitation, Chu Qingxiao asked with a smile.
Everyone's hearts skipped a beat when they heard this, and their expressions became even uglier.
"Didn't you hear what this little brother said?? You are not afraid of shadows. Come out and the others go back. Go and do what you have to do!!" Ma Yingjie said at this time.
His words gave a few people some confidence. The four people stepped out and walked to Chu Qingxiao, while the rest of the people retreated according to Ma Yingjie's instructions.
"Little brother, just go ahead and interrogate him. I want to see how you confuse right and wrong." Ma Yingjie said at this time.
Although he was a little uneasy in his heart, he couldn't find his flaw after much thought, so he decided to suppress the uneasiness in his heart and said this at that time.
But after hearing this, Chu Qingxiao turned to look at the four people and asked: "Did the four of you see Zhu Renzhao in the Sword Hall the night before yesterday?"
It can be seen that these four people are a little nervous. After hearing this, one of them said: "No!! We... we don't know who Zhu Renzhao is!"
Seeing this, the other three people also agreed.
Probably because Chu Qingxiao named the four of them, these people were a little nervous and did not dare to say anything.
Getting such an answer was what Chu Qingxiao expected, and he was not impatient. He then asked: "Then where have you been since Xu Shi, and what have you been doing?"
One of them hurriedly said: "We are all in our own rooms, practicing and resting. We have not left the door. I don't know who has come to the Sword Hall."
The other people continued to echo: "Yes, yes, Senior Brother Li is right, we are all in our own rooms."
It can be seen that among the people, only the man surnamed Li has the most determined heart, and he is the only one who can still answer Chu Qingxiao's questions in an orderly manner at this stall without revealing any flaws, while the other three are extremely nervous. , his words flickered, and he could only keep echoing.
This was a harmless answer, but after hearing this, Chu Qingxiao frowned and simply looked at the man named Li and asked: "Senior brother, you can just stay in your room and practice. How do you know the three of them are also in the house?"
After saying this, he looked at the other three people and asked the same question: "How did you know the movements of the other three people that night?"
When the man surnamed Li heard this, his face changed slightly. He looked at his companions around him. They also had ugly faces and looked increasingly flustered.
The man surnamed Li, who also knew that he had said something wrong, quickly made amends: "It was because...because we lived in the same house."
When these words came out, the three people around them seemed to be grasping at straws and hurriedly said: "Yes, we live together!"
"The wing room in the Sword Holding Hall is tight, so three or four people live in the same room..."
"The four of us happened to have nothing else to do the day before yesterday, so we just stayed in the house and didn't go anywhere."
Everyone sang together and finally found a reasonable explanation.
I thought I could get away with it, but after hearing this, Chu Qingxiao was still not angry at all.
"Oh? How big is the house you live in?" Chu Qingxiao asked again.
This is a question that seems unrelated to the previous topic.
But based on the pressure that Chu Qingxiao pointed out to the four of them before, the four of them were a little nervous.
"It's just an ordinary house, not too big." One of them replied carefully.
"Then don't you sleep on the same bunk?" Chu Qingxiao asked again.
"Absolutely... almost." The man responded.
When Chu Qingxiao received such an answer, a smile suddenly appeared on his face.
He looked back behind him, and at this moment, Chu Zhaozhao, Song Qingqing, and the Meng family siblings suddenly walked out of the crowd. They all held the pen and ink they had prepared in their hands and walked up to the four people.
"Please, four of you, please stand separately!" Chu Qingxiao said.
Ma Yingjie, who had been watching from the side, felt faintly uneasy when he saw this.
The four disciples also felt a little frightened, and they all looked at him as if asking for help.
Ma Yingjie frowned: "What are you going to do? This is the Sword Hall!"
He said this and was about to step forward.
But just as he stepped forward, Lu Sandao, who was also looking at the scene in front of him, said this: "I think you'd better do it, otherwise, if you interfere with the evidence collection, this guard will treat you as fear of crime and stop you! "
As the woman spoke, her hands were still on the two blades at her waist.
That posture made Ma Yingjie's heart tremble, but he didn't dare to stop him after all.
Seeing Ma Yingjie like this, the four people did not dare to disobey. At Chu Qingxiao's request, they stood up one after another, and then one of the two on the left and right faced west, one faced east, and the two in the middle, one faced north and the other faced south.
None of the four could see each other at the moment.
Song Qingqing and others also handed over the brushes already stained with ink in their hands, and at the same time handed the wooden tray with rice paper to the other party.
"Since the four of you said that you lived together the day before yesterday and stayed in the house until dawn, I would like you to write down the order in which you lay in bed and rested that night."
Chu Qingxiao's voice sounded at this time.
"Of course, the person who goes to sleep first will probably not know the order after that, but it doesn't matter. Just write down the order in which your companions fall asleep before you go to bed."
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the four people suddenly turned ugly.
That night, they tortured Zhu Renzhao to the best of their ability under Ma Yingying's instructions. The reason why he stayed in his room all the time was just what they made up. Chu Qingxiao asked them to write down the order in which they knew how to fall asleep. , even if the four people have a tacit understanding, it is impossible for the answers given by each to match without discussion.
Chu Qingxiao saw their expressions in his eyes, and the smile on his face became even bigger, and he continued: "Everyone, please start writing quickly and think carefully about what happened. By the way, I forgot to remind you. If you really can't Know how to lie and make up a sequence so you can write that you fell asleep together at the same time."
These words made the four people with chills in their hearts light up, as if they were grasping at a life-saving straw.
But Chu Qingxiao lowered his voice at this moment, stared at the four people with cold eyes, and said quietly: "But if it is such a coincidence, then I would trouble you to write down the time when you fell asleep, and it must be accurate. , if there is any deviation, then someone is lying."
"In a case like this involving the death of a Taoist disciple, if you deliberately conceal the information or even lie to excuse the culprit, you should know what the price will be, right?"
