After being reborn with Sister Zha, I was stunned!

"Yes, sir." Butler Hu agreed and began to recall what happened that year.

Seeing this, Shen Zhinian glared at him fiercely and couldn't help but remind him, "Don't talk nonsense anymore. Don't forget that you still have a son who is studying alone in the academy in Yuhu County!"

When Butler Hu heard that Shen Zhinian was threatening him with his own son, his face changed and he immediately turned hostile.

"Master, wake up, this is the lobby of Jingzhao Prefecture, it's not the same as before!"

"Scar Liu and his men have been captured, and the bandit nest has been wiped out. Do you still expect to be able to call the shots as you did before and control me at will?"

"Hmph!" Butler Hu snorted coldly.

As a servant, in order to allow his son to go to school and have a chance to succeed in the future, he has been serving Shen Zhinian wholeheartedly over the years.

Shen Zhinian took advantage of this point and ordered him around and drove him around at will.

In order to enable his son to study, he obeyed in everything and never dared to say no.

From the beginning, his son could only be a book boy for Shen Yuanda.

Later, because he was capable and made many contributions to Shen Zhinian, Shen Zhinian transformed his son from a book boy into a serious student studying in the academy.

He deserves this result!

In the past in Yuhu County, the county magistrate Wu Cheng was mediocre, and all the affairs of the county depended on Shen Zhinian.

In addition, Shen Zhinian colluded with bandits behind the scenes.

Therefore, in the entire Yuhu County, and even in several surrounding counties, Shen Zhinian is a person who has connections with both the underworld and the white world.

He knew very well how powerful Shen Zhinian was. Shen Zhinian always used his son to control him. He had no choice but to kill someone...

But now the situation is very different.

Shen Zhinian has become a prisoner and cannot escape the blame for his crimes. The bandits he could secretly rely on have all been eliminated.

How dare you threaten him in court?

Butler Hu originally had a hint of hesitation, but now he had no hesitation and told everything he knew.

"At the beginning, the merchant Su Wenjin took his wife and daughter to play in Yuhu Lake. The master accidentally saw them. He saw that they were well-dressed and generous. He also heard that they were foreign merchants who had no one to rely on in Yuhu Lake, so he took notice of them. He asked me to find out the inn where they stayed, and then sent a message to Feng Laoer."

"That night, Scar Liu and his men did what they promised, kidnapping Su Wenjin's daughter Su Zhen'er and demanding money. Everything was as usual, Su Wenjin paid the money, and Su Zhen'er should have been released... But for some reason, Feng Laoer later found Su Zhen'er's body in Yu Lake..."

"On the day when Su Zhen'er's body was taken away by Su Wenjin and his wife, the master happened to adopt the fifth young lady. The fifth young lady looked very similar to Su Zhen'er. I was full of doubts and didn't understand the reason. But the master said that the fifth young lady was Bai Xiaohua, a beggar adopted from Baijia Village in Taoyuan County. The two of them just looked a little similar. He also told me not to tell anyone about the fifth young lady's life experience..."

"Although I was suspicious, I had only seen Su Zhen'er once, so I didn't think much about it. Until a few days ago, when the master sent me to the Chenghuang Temple in Yuhu County to deal with an old man selling candy figurines, I learned that the fifth young lady was brought home from the Chenghuang Temple, not from Baijia Village..."

"Later, the master asked me to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to deal with Su Wenjin and his wife, but I was arrested on the spot by the officials..."

When Butler Hu said this, he looked up at Pei Xiren in the lobby.

"My Lord, I guess that the fifth young lady is most likely Su Zhen'er, and Su Zhen'er is not dead..."

Pei Xiren nodded slightly, thoughtfully.

Shen Zhinian, however, denied it like crazy: "You are talking nonsense! Miaomiao is the beggar I adopted. How can she be Su Zhener?"

Mu Xiaodao, who had been listening quietly in the lobby, frowned and bowed to Pei Xiren.

"Master Pei, Su Wenjin and his wife have been brought to the capital by the general, and he has already recognized that the fifth daughter of the Shen family is indeed his daughter Su Zhener!"

Hearing this, Shen Zhinian collapsed to the ground again.

I didn't expect Su Wen to come in so quickly and actually recognized Su Zhen'er...

Butler Hu was full of excitement: "My lord, I was right. The Fifth Miss is actually Su Zhener!"

However, he didn't expect that Scar Liu next to him was even more excited than him.

Scar Liu suddenly turned around and looked at Shen Zhinian, his eyes spitting fire: "Shen Zhinian, tell me, what is going on? Why is Su Zhen'er not dead, but you say that our brothers killed Su Zhen'er?"

He remembers it clearly.

Su Wenjin paid the ransom, and that night he sent someone to release Su Zhener according to the rules.

He clearly had someone drop Su Zhener off not far outside the inn.

But for some reason, Su Zhener's body was found by the lake early the next morning.

He was stunned, because that was the first death they had ever caused.

Shen Zhinian said that it was because of his brothers' poor performance that Su Zhener accidentally fell into the water and died.

Blaming him for causing a murder case is very different from the previous situation where he only wanted money.

If the matter gets out of hand, I'm afraid the higher-ups will send troops to search the mountains and suppress the bandits, which will be difficult to resolve.

For this reason, he ruthlessly executed two brothers who went to release Su Zhener in the mountain stronghold to serve as a warning to others.

Fearing that Su Wen would come back and investigate Su Zhener's murder case, which would make things out of control, he intercepted the returning boat of Su Wenjin and his wife at the suggestion of Shen Zhinian and broke both of Su Wenjin's legs.

Not only that, they also sent people to follow Su Wenjin and his wife and burned their shop, making it impossible for them to return to Yuhu to seek justice for their daughter...

If you think about it carefully, for Su Zhen'er's life, he sacrificed two of his brothers and was the one who set fire to the shop. For more than two years, he has been worried and anxious...

How could he not be shocked when he heard that Su Zhener was not dead at all and was actually the fifth young lady adopted by Shen Zhinian?

"It was you who replaced Su Zhen'er with a little girl's body? Why did you do this?" Scar Liu's eyes were bloodshot.

Feng Laoer, who had been listening blankly at the side, suddenly realized what was going on.

He looked at Shen Zhinian: "No wonder you sent Liuzi to deliver a message that day, asking me to go fishing early the next morning at the sparsely populated Yuhu Lake adjacent to Changshan Lake, saying that you had something important to tell me. As a result, when I got there, I found a dead body on the lake..."

"I saw that the body looked very much like Su Zhen'er, so I didn't dare to make it public. I just hurried to the county government office to inform you..."

Liu Zi, who was named, nodded blankly: "Yes, the evening before the little girl's body was found, I sent a letter to Feng Lao Er on behalf of the master... But I don't know what the letter said..."

Pei Xiren listened to what they said and probably understood the reason.

He slammed the gavel and said, "Shen Zhinian, whose body is that of the little girl?"