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"Get up." Cui Yian raised his hand to signal

The county magistrate stood up tremblingly, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and smiled: "I didn't know General Cui was coming. I failed to welcome him. I hope you will forgive me."

"Is this how you investigate cases? Force a confession through torture?" Cui Yian asked coldly.

"This... this is all a misunderstanding, sir! How dare I do such a thing? It's just that this lowly person doesn't know what's good for him. He refused to plead guilty despite the evidence. That's why I..." The county magistrate quickly shook his head and denied it. He raised his hand and wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead.

"Whether it's a misunderstanding or not, we'll know once we check." Cui Yian ignored the county magistrate beside him, walked straight to the desk and sat down, picked up the case on the desk, took a look, and sneered.

"What's your name?" Qi Xiuyuan looked at Sui He and asked gently.

"I'm...I'm Chen Suihe." Suihe replied weakly.

"Don't worry, General Cui is here, he will investigate thoroughly and give you justice." Qi Xiuyuan comforted him. He felt that this guy looked familiar just now, and now he looked even more familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.

After a few months of care, Sui He is no longer as pale and thin as when they first met. Now Sui He has gained some weight and looks much better than at the beginning. It is normal that Qi Xiuyuan did not recognize him for a while.

Cui Yian slammed the gavel and gave Qi Xiuyuan a look, signaling him to stand aside.

"Tell me what happened again," Cui Yian ordered sternly.

"Yes, General." Zhao Dazhuang kowtowed to Cui Yian and slowly recounted what happened: "Sir, Brother Chen really did not steal anyone's secret recipe. As for the loss of Mr. Qian's family secret recipe, it has nothing to do with Brother Chen. Brother Chen has not been to town recently. Everyone in our village can testify to this."

"Wang Quan, did you really see Chen Suihe appear at Mr. Qian's house?" Cui Yian looked at Wang Quan sharply.

Being stared at by Cui Yian, Wang Quan began to tremble all over and began to stutter: "General, I really saw Chen Suihe wandering around Mr. Qian's house."

"Oh, really? Mr. Qian, tell me, when did your recipe get lost?" Mr. Qian knelt on the ground, stammering, "It was just seven days ago, I lost the secret recipe, and the next day they started selling maltose. They must have stolen my secret recipe to make it. Please look into it carefully."

"General, the production process of maltose is complicated. It is impossible to make it in one day. In addition, the secret recipe of Mr. Qian's family was lost seven days ago, and my maltose has been sold for half a month. The students of Qinghan Academy can testify to this," Sui He said.

After thinking for a moment, Cui Yian took out two command arrows and handed them to the two yamen runners: "Go and ask."

"Yes." The two yamen runners took the order and left the yamen. There were horses in the yamen, and they could ride back quickly.

The scene suddenly became quiet. While waiting, Cui Yian looked at Sui He who was kneeling below. He looked so embarrassed.

Cui Yian looked at Sui He, who had a stubborn face, and a trace of emotion flashed across his face. He rarely saw such a stubborn person, and few of his soldiers were so stubborn.

Time passed by, no one dared to speak, the kneeling Qian Yuanwai secretly looked at the county magistrate, both of them looked nervous.

Wang Quan, who was kneeling on the ground, had sweat dripping from his forehead. He dared not breathe, and his clothes were soaked with his cold sweat.

Soon, the yamen runner who had gone to the academy to inquire came up quickly, and the wind he brought passed through Wang Quan's body, giving him a start.

The yamen runner bowed to Cui Yian and said, "Reporting to the general, the students of Qinghan College confirmed that there was indeed a boy around ten years old selling maltose there half a month ago."

"Hmm" Cui Yian said lightly.

After a while, another yamen runner appeared at the gate on horseback, got off the horse, and walked quickly to the lobby: "General, the villagers of Qingshan Village confirmed that Chen Suihe has been staying in the village for a long time recently."

"Snapped"

"Mr. Qian, you lost the recipe seven days ago, why did the Chen family start selling candy half a month ago? Could it be that they have the ability to predict the future and know your secret recipe in advance?" Cui Yian's voice was cold, as if there was no warmth. Because he had been fighting on the battlefield for many years, he naturally exuded a murderous aura.

At this moment, although his aura was not fully open, the murderous aura was like a substance, which made the faces of several people present pale, as if they were in a sea of ​​corpses and blood, which was chilling.

"This... this..." Faced with such a sharp question, Qian Yuanwai was suddenly speechless and didn't know how to answer. Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his body was trembling slightly, obviously intimidated by Cui Yian's momentum.

"Humph!" Cui Yian slammed the table, glared at Wang Quan who was kneeling on the ground, and snorted coldly: "Wang Quan, why don't you tell the truth?"

Wang Quan was so frightened that he was shaking all over, with cold sweat on his forehead. His body was shaking like a sieve of bran, and he kowtowed tremblingly, saying in a trembling voice: "General, please spare me... General, please spare me... I framed Chen Suihe... I didn't see Chen Suihe that day, I made all this up..."

Cui Yian's face was gloomy, his eyes were frighteningly cold, he asked coldly: "Why do you want to slander Chen Suihe? Tell me! Who instructed you to do this?"

Wang Quan didn't dare to look up at Cui Yian, and answered tremblingly: "I was bewitched. I have no grudge against Chen Suihe. Someone gave me money to do this..."

Wang Quan trembled and said, "Yes... my shopkeeper wanted to drive Chen Suihe away, and Mr. Qian coveted his family's maltose secret recipe. The two of them hit it off and came up with this idea to let me give false testimony. Sir, this is none of my business. It was the shopkeeper who forced me to do it!"

Cui Yian was immediately furious. He slammed the table and stood up, shouting angrily, "How dare you! How dare you cry thief! Come, bring the shopkeeper of HSBC Building here!" He turned to look at the county magistrate beside him, his eyes full of majesty and anger, and shouted, "Is this how you handle cases? Listen to one side's words and force a confession?"

The county magistrate's heart skipped a beat, and his face turned pale as paper. He trembled with his legs, knelt down with a thud, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy: "General, General, please listen to my explanation. I didn't know they were so bold as to deceive the imperial officials!"

Cui Yian sneered and interrupted the county magistrate mercilessly: "Humph! Are you scared now? It's too late! Come, take Wang Quan and others to the sky prison and await trial. Chen Suihe is not guilty and will be released in court!" After saying that, he threw the command arrow in his hand to the ground.

As the command arrow fell, Qian Yuanwai, Wang Quan and others were horrified, their faces turned pale and they collapsed to the ground.