Huang family, backyard.
Gu Zhengchen looked at a row of houses and asked Hu Hengcai, "Where did Mr. Huang place you?"
Hu Hengcai looked at it and was completely unimpressed.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Huang Jia'ao again. Huang Jia'ao pointed to the house to the east and said, "There."
"Where is your maiden's boudoir?"
"That one on the west side."
Gu Zhengchen looked at it and shook his head: "These two rooms are separated by three rooms and a corridor. How could a drunk person walk so far without touching the three rooms in the middle? Instead, he entered your daughter's boudoir." , it’s really amazing.”
Huang Jia'ao lowered his head and said uneasily: "Maybe he is pretending to be drunk."
Leaving the others outside, Gu Zhengchen led Lin Tangchen and Lin Baifan into the east room. The room was very simply decorated, with tables, stools, beds, screens, and desks.
The bed is neatly made.
Gu Zhengchen looked at the bed and asked Lin Tangchen, "What do you think?"
Lin Tangchen scratched the bed, smelled it, then sniffed the pillows and bed. He shook his head at Gu Zhengchen and said, "It's not like a drunk person slept there. At least no one stayed there last night."
Gu Zhengchen smiled calmly: "There's no need to smell it. It's so neat. It's a problem. A guest has defiled the daughter of the host family, and he still has the intention to make a quilt for him? Obviously, Hu Hengcai has never lived here."
Lin Tangchen frowned and said, "Then why did Huang Jia'ao lie?"
Gu Zhengchen asked, "What can I say if I don't lie? Haha, my sudden interrogation caught them off guard."
Lin Tangchen was stunned and understood immediately.
It must be said that Hu Hengcai lived in a certain room, otherwise how to explain Hu Hengcai's appearance in Huang Shixue's room? You can't say that Hu Hengcai was in that room from the beginning, right?
really.
The interrogation of what happened last night started this afternoon. They were not even given any preparation for the interrogation. They were taken directly to the government office. No one arranged everything, so it was inevitable that there would be many flaws.
After walking out of the room, a rather handsome scholar came over, nodded and bowed and said: "Prefect Gu, this room is unlucky. It has been cleaned and the bedding inside has been changed."
Gu Zhengchen looked around and looked at Huang Jiayao: "Who is this person?"
"The housekeeper we just hired not long ago is Chen Yigan."
Huang Jiayao said quickly.
Gu Zhengchen glanced at Chen Yigan and asked, "Have you cleaned it? Who did it? Bring it. Also, bring the changed bedding and pillows."
Chen Yigan's expression changed slightly. He turned around and took two steps when he saw a government servant following him.
Gu Zhengchen walked to Huang Shixue's boudoir and asked first, "This room has never been cleaned, right?"
Huang Jia'ao wiped his sweat: "It's not too late yet."
Gu Zhengchen put his hands behind his back: "It's so sad that I didn't have time to clean the boudoir before it was too late, but I had time to clean the room that was only half asleep and full of bad luck. The servants of the Huang family are really amazing."
Huang Jia'ao stopped at the door.
Gu Zhengchen asked Lin Baifan to guard the door and only took Lin Tangchen in.
The door latch was broken.
Walk through the landscape screen.
There is a round table. The teapot is not on the tea tray but placed on the opposite side. There is also a teacup with tea soup in it.
There are calligraphy tables, guqin, and pipa.
The bed was very messy and a bit messy.
There are black spots on the mattress, which are traces of dried blood.
Gu Zhengchen looked at the marks on the mattress, frowned, then turned around and shouted: "Let Hu Hengcai and Huang Shixue come in."
The two walked in.
Gu Zhengchen said in a deep voice: "Hu Hengcai, tell me what you remember from beginning to end again. Don't miss a word."
Hu Hengcai explained clearly everything he heard and saw after waking up, until he signed the paperwork and left in embarrassment.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Huang Shixue: "Miss Huang, please tell me clearly what happened last night and this morning."
Huang Shixue cried sadly and choked with sobs: "At midnight last night, when I got up, I noticed something moving at the door..."
Gu Zhengchen sat at the round table and looked at the teacup in front of him. After Huang Shixue finished speaking, he said to Huang Shixue: "You said a man rushed over, tore and bite you, and grabbed your neck and choked you unconscious. , but I see that your snowy neck is flawless, so why should I start talking about it if I faint?"
Huang Shixue touched his neck and said quickly: "I think it took one night and one day to pass by, and the traces will naturally disappear."
Lin Tangchen said solemnly: "Lie!"
Huang Shixue's expression changed.
When Lin Tangchen saw that Gu Zhengchen was silent, he continued: "With enough force to choke a person unconscious, the scars cannot be eliminated in one or two days, but it can take as little as three days and as long as seven days. It was just last night, How can it subside!"
Huang Shixue blinked her eyes and asked, "Is it possible that this girl also has ice-cold muscles and jade bones?"
Gu Zhengchen reached out and took out a clean tea cup, picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea, and said with a smile: "It takes as little as three days to get rough skin and thick flesh, and it takes as long as seven days to get your ice-cold muscles and jade bones."
Huang Shixue stared at Gu Zhengchen.
Gu Zhengchen looked at the tea soup in the tea cup and turned to Huang Shixue and said, "You said you were tearing and biting. This wound is difficult to fake. Find a woman to help you examine it. I wonder if you can see the scar."
Huang Shixue took a step back uneasily, holding her chest with both hands.
Gu Zhengchen ordered someone to call Huang Jia'ao into the room, and then asked: "Did you lead someone to break the bolt open, or did you?"
"I ordered the housekeeper to force him away."
Huang Jiahao said bluntly.
Gu Zhengchen nodded slightly: "So, last night, my daughter-in-law opened the door, and then she was choked out and knocked out. The door was bolted again, and the one who can bolt the door can only be Hu Hengcai, right?"
"certainly!"
Huang Jiao is sure.
Gu Zhengchen raised his hand, and Lin Baifan handed over the broken door latch wrapped in a handkerchief.
After taking it, Gu Zhengchen put the door bolt on the table and said solemnly: "When I was the magistrate of Jurong, I took fingerprints for judging cases. If this door bolt was inserted by Hu Hengcai's hand, then there must be something on it There are his fingerprints. Extract them and compare them. If there are his fingerprints, you can prove his guilt. Otherwise, the matter will be strange and interesting. "
Huang Jiayao and Huang Shixue looked surprised.
Lin Tangchen also looked at Gu Zhengchen in surprise and asked, "Is it really possible to extract it?"
Gu Zhengchen chuckled: "This is natural. Anyone who underestimates my ability will always suffer a big loss."
Huang Jia'ao's Adam's apple moved and his hands couldn't stop shaking.
Huang Shixue lowered his head, thinking about something.
Gu Zhengchen stood up and walked towards Huang Jia'ao: "The door bolt is a thing of the boudoir. The only people who can touch the door bolt are your daughter-in-law, your daughter-in-law's maid, and Hu Hengcai. There can't be anyone else, right?"
Huang Jia'ao looked at the imposing Gu Zhengchen and couldn't help but take a step back.
Gu Zhengchen stopped, looked at Huang Shixue, and said softly: "Speaking of which, Gu is also a family man. I especially remember that on the second day after the wedding, my wife had difficulty walking. Think about it, the body of a broken melon, the pain of tearing , it’s not good to be so fast, but this Miss Huang has a very steady pace..."
Huang Shixue looked at Gu Zhengchen in surprise, and then shouted: "Is Magistrate Gu saying that I have been unruly as a woman for a long time? I - daddy, my little girl has been defiled by an animal, and now she is insulted for no reason by Magistrate Gu, I will not live Yes, if I die today, daddy must avenge his little daughter!"
After saying that, he hit the pillar.
"don't want!"
Huang Jiayao quickly grabbed Huang Shixue and shouted: "How can we live if you die!"
This is true, from the heart.
Gu Zhengchen watched the two people pulling and tugging, and shouted sternly: "That's enough! This trick should come to an end! I really think that I am blind. Whose girl is covered in blood, as if her fingers have popped out?" , and there are very small spots! Let’s not say whether there is human blood on the mattress, but it is definitely not your Huang Shixue’s!”
Lin Tangchen hurriedly walked over to take a look, and it was indeed as Gu Zhengchen said.
The woman was forced to lose her virginity, and the blood would not splatter out in any way, let alone traces as small as pinpoints.
Lin Tangchen turned around, looked at the panicked and pale Huang Shixue, and said sternly: "Okay, you actually forged evidence and threatened Shopkeeper Hu to commit the crime! Huang Jiaao, threatening to take money is like stealing!"
Gu Zhengchen followed: "This threat to obtain money is a serious matter. How to judge it, whether it is life or death, Mr. Huang, you have to think carefully."
Huang Jia'ao suddenly collapsed on the ground and shouted quickly: "It's none of my business, Magistrate Gu, don't kill me!"
Gu Zhengchen sneered and said: "It's none of your business, but whose business is that? She's your daughter. You can imagine using your daughter's innocence in exchange for wealth!"
Huang Jia'ao pointed at Huang Shixue and shouted: "Prefect Gu, she and Chen Yigan ordered me to do this. I dare not disobey them. They hold documents from Zhao Xiang, the co-prefect of Xinghua Prefecture. I am a businessman. Where can I go?" Dare to offend them."
Gu Zhengchen stared: "Zhao Tongzhi?"
Huang Shixue glanced at Huang Jia'ao and smiled calmly: "Prefect Gu is so powerful. I didn't think so when I heard it before. But now, when I see it, my eyes are as bright as fire. Nothing can escape your eyes. Okay, I admit, this matter is——Chen Yi What Gan asked me to do, I was just a coercion, not the one who made the plans."
After Chen Yigan heard this outside the door, he almost fainted. Why, if anything goes wrong, you blame me alone?
Gu Zhengchen asked someone to invite Chen Yigan in, and then asked, "Who are you?"
Chen Yigan glared at Huang Shixue and said to Gu Zhengchen: "Oh, I am Zhao Tongzhi's son-in-law, Gu Zhengchen, don't think that you are a prefect just because you are a prefect. If you hadn't controlled the maritime trade, how could I have used this method? Since I'm trapped If you don't, then admit it. Those who threaten to take money and get nothing will be treated as theft and not punished. Fifty floggings are no big deal."
Gu Zhengchen looked at Lin Baifan and said, "Give him two slaps to wake him up."
Lin Baifan stepped forward and dropped his big palm.
Chen Yigan was beaten until stars appeared in his eyes and blood oozed from the corners of his mouth.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Chen Yigan coldly and said sternly: "Even if Zhao Xiang comes in person, he doesn't dare to call me by my name. Who are you? You yell in front of me without any sense of propriety!"
