Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

When Chen Shao was questioning the case, Fu Jiu, Li Tianliu, Chan Yi and Quan Shuyu were all listening attentively.

Upon hearing the order, Fu Jiu immediately rushed out like a monkey.

Li Tianliu couldn't handle it alone, so he simply went to Chanyi for help.

When Chan Yi saw him coming, she dropped the work in her hands and quickly walked to Chen Shao.

It would take some time for Fu Jiu to drive the carriage over. Chen Shao took this opportunity to order, "Chan Yi, you will be in a group with Li Tianliu. Quan Shuyu, you will take care of Miss Zhang. It's getting late. Hurry up and finish registering the cases of the old man and the old lady so that they can go home earlier."

Chan Yi stepped forward and helped the woman up, "I will go with you, young master!"

Li Tianliu also walked over silently.

Chen Shao glanced at the two of them, then at the people waiting in the hall, and said calmly and sternly: "It's enough for Fu Jiu to follow me, you stay!"

Chan Yi reluctantly let go of the woman's hand.

Li Tianliu looked at her, then at the woman, and said without hesitation: "You come with me, I'll stay."

Without waiting for Chen Shao to refute, he ordered the Yulin Guards beside him: "Go to those gardens and call Xu Guang back to me."

Under Chan Yi's praiseful gaze, he raised his hand and called over two Yulin Guards and ordered: "Call more brothers to protect Master Chen Liu!"

The Yulin Guards responded in unison after receiving the order.

Seeing that he had made all the arrangements, Chen Shao did not refuse. After letting Chan Yi help the woman up again, he said gently, "Aunt, let's go."

When Chen Shao said that they wanted to arrest Li Daniu, the woman's head suddenly buzzed, and she could not hear anything after that. With Chan Yi holding her arm, she almost instinctively raised her legs and followed her out.

"Sir, I also have a grievance to seek redress!" When they were just a few steps away from the gate, a commoner suddenly spoke in a hurry.

"I have it too!"

"I have it too!"

Another group of voices came out, and there was a trend of surrounding them. After signaling Chan Yi to take the woman away first, Chen Shao turned around, looked at the anxious and anxious people, and said calmly: "I know everyone is very anxious, so let's do this, uncles and aunts who sued the Wen family, Zhu family, Gu family, Fan family and Qi family should still register first as before. Just like aunt, they are here for other cases. If you are not in a hurry to go home, can you please wait for an hour or two? After I finish dealing with aunt's business, I will come back to deal with your business immediately."

The people were not unreasonable. Knowing that the woman's case was more urgent, and hearing her assurance, they all calmed down. One or two even shouted, "With your assurance, we are willing to wait as long as possible. Please go quickly, don't worry, we will wait for you to come back!"

After Chen Shao thanked him, he said to Li Tianliu, "Send someone to get some mats, and then send someone to the kitchen to let them know and ask them to prepare some food and send it over."

After Li Tianliu agreed, Chen Shao bowed to the people again before turning around and leaving the hall.

On the way to Li Daniu's house.

After avoiding the noisy noise, Chen Shao asked the woman again: "Aunt, please tell me more about Li Daniu's visit to our house last night to ask your wife to go up the mountain to cut cattails."

The woman held the teacup Chan Yi gave her and looked at her blankly: "Go up the mountain to cut cattails?"

"Yes," Chen Shao nodded, his tone becoming gentler, "Let's start with the first sentence Li Daniu said after arriving at your house. It would be even better if you could explain how he came to your house and how he entered your house."

The woman remained wooden and said, "He, he just walked here."

Chen Shao saw that she was stiff, and obviously expected the worst result. He sighed silently and guided her, "What were you doing when he came to your house?"

"I was collecting the firewood that I had chopped a few days ago in the field. It was he who had chopped that firewood. If I had known earlier..." The woman started crying again as she spoke.

Chan Yi handed her her handkerchief and comforted her for a long time before she stopped crying.

Chen Shao continued to guide, "So when he came over and saw you collecting firewood, what did he say and do?"

"Yes, yes..." The woman pounded her head for a while before answering, "Nothing. She just asked if my husband was there."

Even though he had the answer in his mind, Chen Shao's heart still skipped a beat when he heard this. Together with Chan Yi, he tried to comfort her for a while before Chen Shao continued to ask, "He just asked if your wife was there, didn't he ask anything else?"

The woman's eyes were filled with tears. She thought for a while before answering, "He asked if my wife was there. When I said no, he said he wanted to ask her to go up the mountain to cut cattails tomorrow. Since she wasn't there, he went back first. I waited for him to leave for a while before I remembered that my wife went with him to sell straw sandals. Since he was back, she should have been home earlier. So I chased him out to ask him, and he said that they had sold all the shoes before the sun went down, and then went home together. When I heard this, I became weak, and then I followed him to my mother's house, crawling all the way..."

The woman repeated what she had said in the lobby.

Chen Shao listened patiently without interrupting.

If listening to her talk in the lobby before was listening to the background of the case, at this moment, Chen Shao was almost listening to the course of the case.

Originally, the cattails should have been cut at least once every ten days, but the fact that they were cut five days earlier was already very suspicious. When Li Daniu came to the woman's house to cut cattails, the first thing he asked when he saw her was not "Where is Sun Qiang?" but "Is Sun Qiang at home?", which was even more suspicious.

The premise of whether Sun Qiang is at home or not is that he must know that the other party is not at home, but he is not sure, so it is a tentative tactic.

Then how did he know that Sun Qiang was not at home?

Oh, Sun Qiang is the woman’s husband.

Between thoughts.

We have also arrived at Li Daniu’s village.

Most people in the village have gone to bed.

Li Daniu has also fallen asleep.

Just not asleep.

It’s not that he didn’t want to fall asleep, but as soon as he closed his eyes, Sun Qiang’s face, which he smashed with a stone, would appear in his mind.

He didn't mean to kill him, he just wanted to borrow some money from him to make up for his losses, not that he wouldn't pay him back. But he was so good, no matter how hard he tried, even kneeling down and kowtowing to him, he still didn't lend him the money. His luck was not good recently, he lost a lot of money and owed a lot of money, but he had a hunch that he could make up for his losses last night!

Although he did not make a comeback in the end, it was not his fault; it was because his mood was affected by Sun Qiang.

He had never killed even chickens or ducks before, but he killed a person all of a sudden. He must have been very panicked.

It was this panic that affected him.

Once he gets the money tomorrow, he will definitely be able to make a profit.

Li Daniu turned over and closed his eyes again with endless imagination.

Sun Qiang's smashed face reappeared.

Li Daniu quickly opened his eyes.

There seemed to be some movement in the yard, and it sounded like the sound of horse hooves, which got closer and closer, and gradually stopped in front of his door. Did Sun Qiang turn into a ghost and come to seek revenge on him? Li Daniu was so scared that he quickly jumped out of bed and rushed to the back door.

Swish.

The moment he rushed out of the back door, a long sword with a cold glow stabbed towards him without any warning.

Li Daniu was so frightened that he fell to his knees with a thud, and a pool of yellow water instantly spread out from under him.

The Imperial Guard said coldly: "Get up and get to the front!"

Li Daniu howled like a ghost while crawling from the back door to the front yard under the sword pointing of the Yulin Guards.

"Where's my husband? Where did you hide him?" The woman who was waiting in the front yard saw him and rushed towards him like crazy. She slapped him hard and then grabbed his hair and asked, "Tell me, where is he? Where did you hide him? Give him back to me now!"

Li Daniu cried out in pain: "I don't know, I didn't kill him, I didn't kill him..."

When she heard the word "kill", the woman's eyes immediately turned bloodshot. She scratched, clawed, kicked and beat him, and asked, "You bastard, he has been very kind to you, why do you want to kill him, why do you want to kill him, what has he done to you that you want to kill him..."

"I don't want to kill him, he just won't lend me money..."

"If he doesn't lend you money, you'll kill him. Do you have any conscience?"

After letting the woman vent for a while, Chen Shao asked Chan Yi to stop her and asked, "Where is he?"