Conan's physique? The Crown Princess is involved in a murder case again

"Since you have the evidence, why not show it to me? Although I am a commoner, I cannot let anyone take advantage of me."

"Since you won't cry until you see the coffin, then I won't be polite."

Magistrate Song snorted unceremoniously, then looked at Xu Xingyin, "Miss Xu, please go in first."

Although they are now certain that Village Chief Zhang played an indispensable role in this case, they have no hard evidence in their hands, so they can only push Xu Xingyin to come out and make those speculations. Otherwise, Village Chief Zhang will definitely realize that they have no evidence!

Xu Xingyin naturally knew this truth, so he did not shirk his responsibility and nodded and walked forward.

"In fact, I suspected you from the beginning. You thought you were hiding it very well, but you didn't know that you were full of flaws. Not to mention what Lord Song found out, you already had four flaws in front of me."

"First, before coming here yesterday, I had already inquired in the village. My sister is using the alias Xu Xia here. No one else knows my sister's real full name except you, so no one else can write my sister's real name on the marriage certificate!"

"Second, I sent a box of medicinal herbs yesterday. Although they are not the most precious things, they are not something that ordinary farmers can afford. But when you received those herbs yesterday, you were obviously well aware of them and did not show too much doubt or surprise. It can be seen that you have received similar things before. Therefore, the person who kidnapped the girl is not you, but you must be the one who provided information to the real culprit behind the scenes! And those people gave you a lot of benefits to thank you, including those things."

"Third, yesterday I specifically asked you about the dream in which the River Run God appeared to you. It should have happened many years ago, but you still remember it so clearly, not even missing the smallest details. But I heard that our village chief Zhang has always had a bad memory and often forgets things, but how come you remember this so clearly? It seems to me that you memorized it on purpose. Do you think so?"

Village Chief Zhang finally found a chance to interrupt and quickly protested: "Miss Xu, what kind of perverse reasoning is this! This matter is so important, I naturally remember it clearly, and telling such a lie will not benefit me at all!"

"Who said there is no benefit?" Xu Xingyin asked back, "If there was no such story to confuse everyone, how could so many girls disappear without anyone noticing? So, from the very beginning, you colluded with outsiders and made plans to kidnap the girls!"

After rebutting, Xu Xingyin saw that Village Chief Zhang was still stubborn, so he did not give him a chance to speak and continued with his own words.

"Fourthly, do you remember the words you said to comfort me yesterday? You said that my sister might not have been in trouble. She might be alive and well somewhere else. Although it was a comforting word, Village Chief Zhang never likes to speak empty words. You said this, which means you know very well that my sister is alive and is not really the sacrificial concubine of the God of Run River. Instead, she was abducted!"

Village Chief Zhang was so angry at Xu Xingyin's words that he broke out in a cold sweat. He made a few insincere rebuttals, but when he saw that the group was still determined, he had no choice but to lose face and loudly protest his innocence.

"Coincidentally, I found out something else that can also help Ms. Xu's inference. I led a thorough investigation of the interruption of the Run River and found a mechanical expansion in the upper reaches of the Run River. I have ordered people to investigate. This mechanical expansion is used to branch the water flow and thus block the main stream of the Run River. Tell me, if this river was blocked by humans, how did the dream of the Run River God come about?"

Village Chief Zhang choked, but his mind worked quickly and he immediately came up with a different explanation.

"If this machine can really block the flow of water, then it means that these thieves must have extraordinary means. They can even block the river. It shouldn't be difficult for them to create an illusion of a dream for an old farmer like me!"

"Do you think this will clear you of your involvement?"

Song, the magistrate, was very angry at the village chief Zhang's refusal to listen. "If you hadn't provided the list, how could these thieves know so much about the missing woman? If you hadn't spread the rumor that the river god had appeared in a dream, how could the villagers have honestly admitted their guilt and not reported it to the police?"

Village Chief Zhang was speechless after being questioned one after another by Magistrate Song, and he could only bite the bullet and ask them to produce evidence.

Without hard evidence, the two men were like a fist hitting cotton, unable to move.

After a few rounds, Village Chief Zhang probably guessed that they did not have enough evidence, and he immediately became more arrogant.

They even turned around and kept saying that the government was bullying people by abusing its power, and when they couldn't find the criminals, they wanted to arrest ordinary people like them to pay the price.

Tui Guan Song was very angry at the scoundrel behavior of Village Chief Zhang, and Xu Xingyin was also so angry that he couldn't breathe.

Only Jing Zhichen sat on the chair contentedly, his appearance of being indifferent to everything, just like a spectator.

Only when the two had nothing to say did Jing Zhichen stand up, dust off the non-existent dust, and speak slowly.

"You have a son named Zhang Bing, who is a gambler. Every year he has to pay off thousands of taels of silver just for his gambling debts. Is this true?"

Village Chief Zhang's face turned pale when he heard this. He stammered a few words to explain and then turned the focus back to the evidence.

Even if the explanation was so pale that even Village Chief Zhang himself found it absurd, as long as Xu Xingyin and the others could not produce any evidence, Village Chief Zhang would deny it to the death.

Before the legal process, they had no way to deal with each other.

"I don't need your explanation. I just want to ask you one thing: do you want to save your son's life?"

Jing Zhichen didn't seem surprised by Village Chief Zhang's answer. No matter what the other party said, he just treated it as nonsense and maintained his usual domineering tone.

"Zhang Bing was not originally a gambler, he just went astray. Instead of cooperating with your former employer and continuously pouring money into him to subsidize his gambling, it is better to cooperate with us. We can help Zhang Bing quit gambling, and in the future he can farm the land or do business, so that he can live a normal life and get married and have children."

"Of course, you are willing to do evil for Zhang Bing for the rest of your life, but you will eventually die earlier than your son. If he cannot change his evil ways in this lifetime, have you ever thought about what he will do after you die? He has no skills to earn money, and he has a bad habit. According to the current prices, two dan of rice costs one tael of silver. If he is not beaten to death by debt collectors, he will probably starve to death on the streets."

Jing Zhichen's words were not as sharp as the questioning of Song Tuiguan, but they were a wake-up call to Village Chief Zhang, who immediately sobered up a lot. The old man's originally straight back slowly bent down.

"I'll tell you everything, but please save my son's life."