After Yu Fangjing finished one sentence, he was like a stone thrown into the sea. It did not stir up any splash, but fell heavily downwards.
He slapped the alarm again and shouted: "Zhou Hou, I advise you to think twice and stop being stubborn."
Zhou Hou raised his head, with three wrinkles on his forehead tightly squeezed together. There was a hint of mockery in his cold eyes, "The common people have become prisoners. The adults decide everything. The common people have nothing to say."
Yu Fangjing was angry, leaned forward, and sneered: "Do you mean that I am still wronging you?"
"The common people don't dare."
It would be impossible for more than a hundred people to disappear without a trace at the same time, but it would take a certain amount of time to check. However, Zhou Hou and his son couldn't answer any questions, and Yu Fang Jing's breath choked in his throat.
"Master Yu." A female voice spoke, as clear as a spring of water. In an instant, everyone's eyes were on her. Lu Anran stood up, with an indifferent expression on her clear brows and dark and calm eyes, "I'll During Zhou Ting's autopsy, a handful of red mud was found on the sole of his shoe."
Yun Dian nodded, "Yes, I asked someone to check it. It seems that the red mud from Monkey Mountain was contaminated."
Lu Anran followed: "I asked the locals and found that the only place in Diqiu that produces red mud is Monkey Mountain, so it can be proved that 'Zhou Ting' went to Monkey Mountain before his death."
"What is there in Monkey Mountain?" Yun Qi closed the jade bone fan and tapped his nose, "Isn't it just a few run-down and poor mountain villages?"
Yu Fangjing said in confusion: "But that 'Zhou Ting' is not this Zhou Ting."
Nangong Zhi thought for a moment and immediately thought: "So the fake Zhou Ting is probably from Monkey Mountain?"
Qi Shang stood up with a slap on the table, feeling a little excited. He met Zi Sangjin's gaze, cupped his fists and said, "I remember that there is a Guisi Village in Monkey Mountain, formerly known as Shangsi Village. More than half a year ago, the people in the village began to behave strangely. Disappeared, and in the end there was no one left in the whole village, and Shangsi Village was abandoned and became Guisi Village."
"This Guisi Village..." Zi Sangjin put his hand on the table into a fist and touched it to his chin, his eyes showing some thought, "I seem to have heard of it somewhere."
Nangong stopped and said, "The first person who disappeared in Guisi Village was named Zhu Afu."
Speaking of Zhu Afu, he was immediately associated with the gold mine. After all, he was the first to trade red gold stones on the black market.
"There are also two brothers, Hu Tian and Hu Lai, who are also from Guisi Village."
Yu Fangjing touched his chin and his mind was racing, "In other words, these 149 people are probably the missing villagers of Guisi Village." He grabbed the gavel and slapped it hard, and said in a deep voice. : "Zhou Hou, what else do you have to say?"
Zhou Hou folded his hands in front of him and lowered his head without saying a word, seeming to be stubbornly resisting.
Everyone died and turned into ashes, and the government had no evidence. As for the corpse of the waiter in the incense shop, it was just the real housekeeper Zhou, and he still had room for maneuver.
However, the next moment, the arrival of the escort completely plunged Zhou Hou into darkness.
"Reporting to the Crown Prince and your lords, my subordinates found several wild wolves and some things near the cave where the Zhou family lives."
Even though the guards were tied up with ropes, they are untamable wolves with bared teeth and fierce eyes. It seems that the next moment they will pounce on you when no one is paying attention, bite your neck, and eat them in your belly.
There are also piles of fine pieces of cloth, occasionally a larger piece, which can be vaguely identified as clothing on a person's body.
"Raise people to feed wild wolves." Yu Fangjing snorted coldly, anger appearing on his face, "On this basis alone, you can't argue."
In addition, the Zhou family abducted and sold women and children, and kept accounts for profit. Yu Fangjing did not sit idle during this period. He actually found the women who were sold back then, as well as many businessmen who were framed by the Zhou family.
The evidence was placed in front of him one by one, but Zhou Hou remained silent, as if the matter had nothing to do with him, but the look on his face gradually became gloomy.
Yun Qi's eyes looked thoughtfully as he looked between Yu Fang Jing and the prince. Before that, Yu Fang Jing didn't know that the Zhou family was still alive, so he might have some ulterior motives in gathering this evidence.
Meng Xueli obviously also thought of this, his eyes moved and his expression was unclear.
But the heaviest blow came from within the Zhou family.
"The common people have been recruited, all the common people have been recruited." A maid from the Zhou family knelt on the ground, with tears and snot flowing out, "Your Highness, dear Master Qingtian, this was all your idea, and it harmed the people of Shangsi Village. , let them be eaten alive by wild wolves, and pretended that more than a hundred people from the Zhou family were killed."
"The master said that with the gold mine, the Zhou family's property is nothing, it will still be prosperous in another place."
"He was afraid. The government had been keeping an eye on him for selling women and children for a long time, and he suspected that the government had something to do with it. So after learning about the gold mine from the Hu brothers, he came up with this trick and prepared to do it. A golden cicada escapes from its shell."
"There is also profiteering. The Zhou family forced a merchant to death, Diqiu Chencun, sir. You can check it out."
She spoke incoherently, but kept her words to the point.
The flesh on Zhou Hou's face trembled violently a few times, and he glared angrily, "Stupid woman!"
If he didn't need someone to help take care of the scene, he should have dealt with all this group of minions, and he wouldn't have been bitten back now.
The lingering power was still there, the maid took a few steps back on her knees, and said in a trembling voice: "It was you who harmed my daughter." As she said that, remembering the painful things, her voice slowly became firmer, and hatred spewed out, "You said let me My daughter pretended to be a young lady, but what did you do? You really drove her crazy."
The maid has been with the Zhou family for many years, but her husband is from Shangsi Village and her daughter is the same age as Zhou Pei.
Zhou Pei, who was spoiled and spoiled, couldn't stand pretending to be a lunatic and being dirty and stupid, so Zhou Ting thought of the maid's daughter and agreed to pretend for a while and then put her back. The Zhou family didn't know how to really drive the little girl crazy.
Finally, the girl who was driven crazy was pushed into a pack of wild wolves together with other people from Shangsi Village.
The maid didn't know it at first, but when she found out, everything was a foregone conclusion. Her hatred had always been there, but at this moment, she finally took revenge.
"You, the Zhou family, have done all the evil things, and this end is all your retribution!"
Zhou Hou closed his eyes and let out a long sigh. Qiangti's energy slumped, and his whole figure seemed to have aged more than ten years, and was already dying.
Once the maid vented all her grievances, she became a little crazy. Yu Fangjing asked the Yamen servant to go down and copy a new transcript of the case, and the county hall returned to purity again.
"Whatever you want to ask, the common people can tell you." Zhou Hou's heavy voice sounded hoarse as if it had been rubbed against a stone, "Children are innocent, and all the sins were committed by the common people and their two sons. I hope that the adults will understand clearly and not implicate the family. .”
This is a desperate compromise.
Yu Fangjing, with a black face and a steel mouth, cupped his hands towards the prince and said: "Your Majesty, I will handle the case impartially. I will neither wrongly accuse you nor let go of any doubts."
"I did it." Zhou Yao suddenly interrupted, the left corner of his mouth slowly pulled down, forming an evil smile, "I made a deal with the Golden Snake Sect and the head of the Panlong Village kidnapper, and murdered everyone in Shangsi Village. "
If Zhou Ting's appearance is honest and steady, Zhou Yao is of a completely different type. He has narrow eyes, a sharp chin, and an evil shrewdness.
"This small foundation of the Zhou family is nothing. In the Great Ning Dynasty, they were just ordinary rich families." Zhou Yao said in an unserious tone, with a hint of arrogance, "The ruthless mountain bandit has some real stuff. At least I stole it. Isn’t the disguise you learned good?”
Yu Fangjing narrowed his eyes, "The disguises on Zhou Hou and Butler Zhou's faces were all made by you."
Zhou Yao nodded readily: "Yes, that's not all. It was my idea to build a wall to seal off the corpse. Unfortunately, a wild dog was not included in the calculation."
(On the long street, in the back alley of the incense shop, Lu Taotao threw away the last piece of meat bone, looked at the wild dog that was chewing seriously, stood up and clapped his hands, "Okay, your trophies are all here, enjoy them slowly. Bar.")
In the county office, Zhou Yao still didn't know that the so-called wild dogs that happened to appear were just a conspiracy, but he failed in this aspect of planning.
Zhou Yao said: "There is a gold mine, there is countless gold..." He laughed exaggeratedly and said: "If you discovered it accidentally, would you be willing to hand it over to the government? Why should I pay for what I discovered?" pay?"
Zi Sangjin stood up, swung his wide sleeves behind his back, looked at him condescendingly, and said: "The reason why you enjoy this prosperous age and peace, and are free from war and displacement, is because of the protection of the dynasty. Now you stand here, your feet If you step on the land of the Ning Dynasty and enjoy the protection of the dynasty, how can you complain about the dynasty's laws?"
Perhaps the identity of the prince was too intimidating, so Zhou Yao was stunned and did not dare to reply.
The interrogation resumed, and Zhou Yao became much more honest.
"The first person to discover the gold mine was not the Zhou family." Zhou Yao said, "It was the Zhu Afu you mentioned."
Coincidentally, the Zhou family discovered a copper mine, and Zhu Afu and the Hu brothers went to work as day laborers. After working for a few months, they were stopped.
Zhu Afu is considered an honest person, but one disadvantage is that he is not very clean and always likes to take advantage of others and get things done according to his needs.
When the mine stopped, Zhu Afu was wondering if he could fish out a few pieces of copper and resell them, at least in exchange for a few bottles of wine.
That night Zhu Afu went up the mountain in the dark, but he accidentally fell into a pit while walking in the dark. It was really unlucky.
Fortunately, it was not a cave made by wild beasts. Mountain people are not particular about it, so Zhu Afu curled up in it and suffered all night. However, it was too cold, so he managed to stay up until dawn and almost froze to death.
If Zhu Afu felt that last night was the most unlucky time in his life one moment, then the next moment he felt that God was simply playing a joke on him.
Because he found a shiny stone in the pit, dug it open and took a look -
It's actually gold!
After that, the poor Zhu Afu suddenly changed into a different person. Not only did he spend lavishly, but he also spent a lot of money on the entertainment, which can be called a big spend.
This change quickly attracted the attention of two people, the Hu brothers from the same village.
