What about the stepmother dressed as three villains?

Soon to the six doors.

Came to the place where the most serious criminals were held.

From the inside to the outside, it is strictly guarded, with one post at three steps and one sentry at five steps.

Jiang Lianzhu was at the door, so she penetrated into the innermost scene with her consciousness.

Liao Jiu and Xiang Zuo are all there.

It seems to be interrogating someone.

A prisoner was tied to a post with shackles all over his hands and feet, with a terrified expression on his face.

Jiang Lianzhu asked Xiang You, "What's going on? Who is that person?"

Back to the right, "Princess, have you seen it all? You are really amazing, go in, and explain it clearly to you to the left, it is the clue he found."

"Ah."

The two walked in quickly.

The guards on the road saw them coming, opened the door for them in advance, and went directly to the innermost torture chamber.

Liao Jiu got up to greet her, "Daughter-in-law, you are here."

Jiang Lianzhu nodded to him, and looked at the prisoner next to him.

When the prisoner saw Jiang Lianzhu, he also yelled wronged, "How can you arrest people casually? I am not from Baihualou. Why did you arrest me? You made a mistake! I am just an ordinary scholar. My lord, I was wronged..."

Jiang Lianzhu said, "Tell me, what's going on?"

"Let's talk outside."

Liao Jiu took the lead, and the group of them came to the outside of the execution room.

Xiang Zuohui reported, "My lord, it's like this. I went to the women's prison today to check for clues, and found that there was indeed a major problem in the case of Yao's being burned to death. I found traces of bats in the cracks in the dungeon. Bat feces, and oil residue..."

"Oil residue?" Jiang Lianzhu asked.

Continued to the left, "Yes, the fire in the cell cannot be ignited by straw and rotting wood. It is fueled by oil residue. Because the amount is small, it was not discovered afterwards. The oil residue was brought in by bats. The dregs were tied to the bats, and they were brought in bit by bit. Afterwards, the bats flew out from the cracks in the ground, so the subordinates tracked the oil dregs all the way to a yard in the capital. The people inside were the people in the yard. Owner."

Jiang Lianzhu frowned, "That's not necessarily the person who set fire to the murderer, could it be that the villain walked out of his yard, and he didn't even know it?"

Liao Jiu interjected, "No, a tunnel was specially dug behind the cracks in the cell, newly dug, and the exit of the tunnel is under the kang of the master's house. Also, we have already checked him, he is from Shamen County, and he used to People from Wangjia Village, you may still remember that the scholar of our Wangjia Village lived in his ancestral house with the children, and even dug up centipedes to sell..."

Jiang Lianzhu was surprised, "It's actually an old scholar from Wang Family Village?"

When she first came here, the village head of Wangjia Village took pity on their mother and son to live in a thatched shack, and allocated the old idle house of a scholar in the village to their mother and son to live in for a while.

Later, when she had money, she built a new house and moved out.

She also thought that if she met this talented scholar by fate, she would have to thank him.

Never thought that when we meet again, this is the case?

Liao Jiudao, "Yes, a person from Wangjia Village in Shamen County, who is still a scholar, came to the capital from Chubei Mansion in the past two years, and worked as a teacher for a powerful family. His parents passed away in Chubei Mansion because of this. , he is not married either, and now he is an old bachelor in his 40s, combined with what the snake girl said, he is especially in line with the image of the deputy landlord of Baihualou."

Jiang Lianzhu pondered.

If not, so many coincidences are too coincidental.

People from Shamen County, who came to the capital in the past two years, hid among the low class people and were suspected of killing Yao.

"Then why did she burn Yao Shi to death?"

Liao Jiu said, "Could it be that he wanted to kill people to silence her? Yao knew something about Baihualou? Or Yao had a relationship with Baihualou, so he silenced her! These are being interrogated, daughter-in-law, let you come, just together Interrogate him, I remember you used to have something that could make people tell the truth..."

Jiang Lianzhu hummed.

"My veritaserum is only useful for ordinary people, not for the strong."

And in the arsenal, sometimes there is no veritaserum, and things that do not belong to weapons are sometimes out of stock.

"Try it, the remnants of Baihualou, we would rather kill a hundred by mistake than let one go."

After the group discussed, they re-entered the execution room.

The prisoner sitting in the chair was still struggling, "You let me go! I am not from Baihualou! I don't know what Yao family you are talking about. I don't know anything. You are the regent, so you can arrest me at will. Are you a person? Don’t you six doors work for the people? You abuse your power, I’m going to sue you!”

Only then did Jiang Lianzhu look at him carefully.

About 30 years old, with a long face, looks gentle, and has the temperament of a scholar.

He was also biting at the words, his face was red from holding back, and he hadn't been tortured yet, but when he was struggling, his hair was disheveled and his clothes were disheveled.

Jiang Lianzhu walked not far in front of him, with a gentle expression, "Are you Wang Xiucai from Wangjia Village, Shamen County? You were admitted as a scholar when you were young, and you are a proud student from Zhishu Academy?"

The noisy prisoner was stunned, "Yes, I am from Shamen County. My ancestral home is Wangjia Village, Shili Town, and I studied under Old Master He in Zhishu Academy! I am a top ten scholar in the year 270 of Daanli in Shamen County, Northern Chu Prefecture. !"

The more he talked, the more proud he became, as if he carried the glory of the year.

"The princess of this county lived in your village for a while before. People in the village mentioned you, and everyone envied them very much. They said that you were admitted as a scholar, honored the lintel, and brought your parents to enjoy the blessings. This is the case in Wangjia Village. The first scholar master in many years, and also, Mrs. He mentioned you before and boasted of you, and this princess also admires you, Wang Xiucai, and I have heard of you for a long time." Jiang Lianzhu said with a calm expression.

Wang Xiucai was stunned.

Surprised, "You, you, it turned out to be Wangjia Village? Did the new emperor live in our Wangjia Village?"

Everyone knows the backgrounds of Jiang Lianzhu's mother and son, who came from the countryside, but there is no specific information about the countryside they come from.

One is for privacy, and the other is to protect the tranquility of Wangjia Village.

Therefore, most outsiders do not know where the village Jiang Lianzhu lived in before.

"Yes, we also used Wang Xiucai's ancestral house of your family to live in for a few months. Thank you very much. This is also a little fate between us."

"Hasn't our ancestral house collapsed yet? It's been in disrepair for a long time, and I thought it was all collapsed." When talking about the past in the village, Wang Xiucai's mood gradually stabilized from the previous restlessness.

He went out early and hadn't returned to his hometown for many years, so he didn't know what happened in the village.

If he went back often, he would definitely get to know Dabao and Erbao.