So what if I traveled through time? I'll continue to roll in another place

"Huang Fu, you should be familiar with Lord Shen Xin, the head of the Huainan Qingli Division of the Ministry of Revenue. Why are you crying out for injustice here now?" Shou Junwu teased, then turned to Liang Ji and said seriously, "I have checked and found that Shen Xin's family hired Huang Fu to do the renovation of their house. Although Huang Fu drove an ox cart at that time, he was also good at bricklaying."

"Master Shen's invitation was very meaningful, not only because Huang Fu has good skills, but also because of his relationship with Deng Wenkai."

He turned to Huang Fu and said, "Shen Xin asked you to repair his house, but in fact he asked you to help him bribe Deng Wenkai. He gave you silver beforehand, but when your request failed, he gave you two thousand taels to kill Deng Wenkai.

The You family reported Deng Wenkai missing and were afraid that Fengtian Prefecture would come to investigate. He threatened you with the fact that you killed Deng Wenkai and asked you to wipe out the entire You family.

You used the same method to pile the money and the letter he asked you to bring under the stove at home, right?"

When Huang Fu heard that Shou Junwu had found where he hid the money, his face instantly turned pale. "Lord Shen said that if the two thousand taels of silver are successful, it will be considered a bonus for Wen Kai, but if it fails, it will be used to buy his life. I was so blinded by the silver that I did such a wrong thing. I am innocent!"

"You still dare to cry out for injustice! Tell the truth immediately!" As the gavel rang, Liang Ji sent people to report the situation to Kuang Zhengqing, the right vice minister of the Ministry of Justice, because it involved court officials and Jiangzhou disaster relief.

Shou Junwu has presented the silver and letters he found in Huang Fu's house to Liang Ji. Unexpectedly, Huang Fu, who can hardly read, has still kept the letters that Shen Xin brought to Deng Wenkai.

"That day, the housekeeper of the Shen Mansion said that some houses had fallen into disrepair and the walls and roofs needed repairing, so he asked me to go to the Shen Mansion to do the work. When I arrived at the Shen Mansion, the housekeeper asked me if I knew Deng Wenkai. I said I knew him and he was my nephew.

When I fled all the way to the capital, I was sold to the Huang family. The Huang family used to be bricklayers, so I learned a little. Later, I felt that being a bricklayer was too tiring, so after my adoptive father died, I stopped doing it and became a cart driver to earn a living.

Wen Kai was sold to the You family. The You couple could not have children, so they adopted their daughter, who later married Wen Kai.

Our entire family has died, and I am the only cousin left. We sometimes come to visit each other.

The steward of the Shen Mansion gave me fifty taels of silver and asked me to take a letter to Wenkai, asking me to persuade Wenkai to work for the master of the Shen Mansion. If the matter is accomplished, this will be just a small amount of money.

As a craftsman, I had never seen so much silver. I quickly put it away and invited Wenkai to my house for dinner.

I showed Wenkai the letter from the steward, saying that Master Shen was generous and had made great progress in the officialdom and was well-supported. Our ancestors were all from poor farming families and didn't know anyone in the capital. Now that Master Shen thinks highly of us, we might as well do something for him.

Wen Kai said I didn't know anything and told me not to work in the Shen Mansion anymore. He also asked me that if the master of the Shen Mansion gave me any money or property, I must return it all.

I was reluctant to part with the money, so I told him that it was nothing, and that I had only earned some hard-earned money by repairing the walls and repairing the house for their family. He didn't ask any more questions and told me to return the letter to the Shen family and quit my job.

I thought that as long as I didn't refuse the Shen family, there would be a turning point. The Shen family was generous, so I must find a chance to persuade Wen Kai again.

After thinking it over, I thought that Wen Kai was usually kind and honest, and would not dare to interfere with Master Shen's business even if he did not accept the money. It would be better to say that Wen Kai agreed and asked me to take the two thousand taels of silver back and then I could take the silver.

I didn't expect that Wen Kai agreed to it as soon as I said it, and the housekeeper gave me two thousand taels without even asking Wen Kai to verify it. It must be that the money came easily to the high-ranking official, and he gave me two thousand taels without blinking an eye. If Wen Kai can follow Master Shen, then the spirits of our Deng family ancestors can rest in peace.

After a while, I saw that neither the Shen family nor Wen Kai came to contact me, so I thought I had fooled them.

It was not until the housekeeper got so angry that he brought people to Wen Kai's house and accused him of being greedy and why he had taken the money but still did not do the job that Wen Kai found out that I had taken the two thousand taels."

Although Huang Fu was embarrassed and hesitant, he finally told the truth.

"The people led by the Shen family's housekeeper beat up the You family's daughter-in-law. Wen Kai was even more angry and immediately said he would report it to the police. This scared me. If I report it to the police, wouldn't I be killed?

Wenkai asked me to hand over the silver, but I told him to go home with me to get it and return it to the Shen family together.

When I got to the Shen residence, I took the opportunity when he was talking to the housekeeper to put the poison that the Shen residence gave me into the tea. Wen Kai was poisoned after drinking the tea..."

Huang Fu spoke more and more quietly, and sweat dripped down his face.

"So it was you who poisoned Deng Wenkai?" Liang Ji said.

"No, no! Not a villain! Not a villain! He didn't drink much tea, he just got poisoned and had unbearable stomach pain, but he still shouted to report to the police... It was someone from the Shen Mansion who strangled him to death with a hemp rope!" Huang Fu screamed.

"The people in the Shen Mansion said that since I had accepted their money, I had to help them get rid of the disaster, and I was in charge of handling Wen Kai's body. I was a commoner, and I had never seen such a scene before. I thought about the tombs I had built for others before, so I sealed the body with cement and hid it at home.

Later, Wenkai's wife came to my house to look for him once when she saw that he had not returned for a long time. I said that he left not long after coming to my house and I didn't know where he went.

The You family searched for him for a long time but couldn't find him, so his wife went to the government office to report him missing and then went back to live with her parents. Huang Fu continued to go.

"Then why did you kill the three people from the Yu family?" Liang Ji asked.

"Oh! It's all that woman's fault. She goes to the county government office to inquire every day, which makes the Shen family and I feel uneasy. She keeps making trouble like this, and we don't know what kind of trouble she might cause. Fortunately, their family is small, so we can only kill them all." Huang Fu sighed, as if killing the three members of the You family still made things difficult for him.

"I told them that Wenkai had gone to another place on business, and was rewarded for his good work, so he bought a big house in Huaizhen Lane and asked me to take them there to enjoy a good life. From now on, they won't have to make and sell pancakes all day, and I can also show off my cousin's money. They happily went with me..." Huang Fu felt guilty when he said this.

"Yu Shi was beaten by the Shen family. Don't they know that you are also an accomplice?" Liang Ji asked.

"She probably didn't know. Wenkai and the daughter of the You family lived alone before. As a woman, she didn't know anything and thought that Wenkai had offended someone. The old man of the You family didn't know that I had received the money either."

"Then do you know that the Yu family sewed notes into their clothes?" he asked again.

"I, along with Old You's family, are all blind. We can't read a single word. It was probably Wenkai who asked them to do it," Huang Fu replied.

"Then how did you kill the Yu family?"

"I led the ox cart and took them to a secluded place. Old man You said he wanted to relieve himself, so I killed him first with the trowel I use for bricklaying, and then the two women..." He swallowed.

"After much thought, I still don't know what to do with the body, so I cut it into pieces, sealed it with cement, and built a wall with Wen Kai's wall in the You family yard. This way, their family can be reunited. Once it's done, we can sell the house as soon as possible."

"Oh, you are so kind that you even let the family be reunited." Shou Junwu snorted coldly.

"Hey! Sir, I really have no other choice! His wife keeps clamoring to find someone, and it makes me dizzy. I really don't know what to do." Huang Fu said anxiously, kneeling on the ground and grabbing Shou Junwu's official robe. Shou Junwu was disgusted when he saw him and kicked Huang Fu away.

"After what happened, I no longer dare to do plastering work. My hands start shaking when I see the trowel. I quickly throw the knife into the toilet, just to forget about it." He said with lingering fear.

"Is everything you said true?" Liang Ji asked. His lawyer had already drafted Huang Fu's confession and handed it to Huang Fu for signature.

"I dare not deceive you, sir," Huang Fu kowtowed three times in a row, "I did take the money, and I killed the three people from the You family, but I was forced to do it by the housekeeper of the Shen Mansion! I didn't kill Wen Kai by myself!"

A murderer shamelessly cried in the middle of the hall. His shamelessness was so thick-skinned that the officials and onlookers in the hall were amazed and disgusted.