I became a crow's mouth after crossing

On the day when Su Qi and the others were interrogated, the usual deserted gate of the government office was crowded with people, three floors inside and three floors outside the main entrance of the court were tightly surrounded, and Xu Fei was dispatched to preside over the order to prevent them from causing riots due to crowding.

Su Lang and Luo Zhan were also among the spectators. The latter was dragged here by Su Lang. Along with them was their master and teacher, Dr. Su San.

Because too many people were arrested, Chu Heng only promoted some of them this time, including Su Qi, a total of nine people.In name, the nine of them are the heads of this group of bandits, and their identities are quite unusual.

After the dignified opening, Chu Heng sat in the hall at least, looked at the lying down and kneeling people expressionlessly, and asked the clichéd yet unconventional opening line: "Are you all guilty?"

A stubborn "bandit leader" in the hall sneered: "Dare to ask your lord, what are we guilty of?"

Su Qi who was robbed: "..."

This group of people are all actors selected by Chu Heng from among the [-] elite soldiers. When they heard that they were going to act as a group of bandits, they were very excited and devoted themselves to it.

Chu Heng glanced at them coldly: "I don't know how to repent! Yan Yi, come and tell them what crime you have committed!"

"Yes, my lord." Yan Yi stood up with his head held high, holding a thick volume of case files in his hand, which either detailed or scribbled the robbery and murder cases committed by Qingshan Village in the past ten years.

"In mid-February of the fourth year of Emperor Rui's reign, a caravan passing by was ambushed at the foot of Xianyun Peak. None of them survived, and all their money and money were lost. The dead body was found and reported on the road after a few days in the wilderness. official……"

"In June of the same year, a group of people who went out to work suddenly died at the foot of Xianyun Peak, and their valuables disappeared..."

"Early July in the sixth year of Emperor Rui's reign, a team of escorts and deliveries from Qinghe County passed by at the foot of Xianyun Peak, and all [-] people lost their lives..."

"In the eighth and eleventh year of Emperor Rui's reign..."

"The spring of the 12th year of Emperor Rui's reign..."

"June 16 of Emperor Rui..."

"August 16 of Emperor Rui..."

"Early May of Emperor Rui's 20th year..."

Yan Yi read out the records in the case book one by one. Right now, Emperor Rui has been on the throne for 20 years, and during these 20 years, Qingshanzhai has committed eight robberies, and every one of them involved a murder case, which had a huge impact. bad.

When Yan Yi finished speaking, Chu Heng slapped the gavel hard. After the extremely crisp "pop", the hall, which was still noisy, immediately quieted down, and then Chu Heng asked expressionlessly: "Can you plead guilty to the above?"

The eight people kneeling below shook their heads unanimously, only Su Qi, who was easily overwhelmed, looked thoughtful.

Chu Heng quickly noticed him: "You didn't shake your head, but are you ashamed?"

"That's not true. I just think that my lord's handling of the case is too childish." Su Qi said with a sad face.

Everyone was amazed by his tone of yelling and catching the thief. They have seen brazen ones, but they have never seen such brazen ones.They thought that the grown-up would be angry, but they didn't expect Chu Heng to lean forward slightly, and said "Oh?" with interest, "Then tell me, why are we playing around with the case?"

Su Qi's face turned serious: "If my lord has seriously investigated and verified their identities, they will find that those people and the names on the guides they carried did not match the parties concerned at all."

They didn't want to hide this at all back then, but Mr. Liu didn't care at all.

Chu Heng frowned: "How do you say that?"

"The caravan that Emperor Rui belonged to for four years was killed half a month ago." Su Qi revealed a shocking news, which shocked everyone in the hall.

Especially Master Liu and Master Guo, they both looked at each other, and then a layer of cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.

Chu Heng narrowed his eyes: "How did you know that?"

Su Qi looked calm, and met Chu Heng's gaze fearlessly: "Because we have sent people to watch the murderers all the time, and witnessed how they killed people and robbed them, and then took the blame themselves."

At that time, they had just settled in Qingshanzhai, and they had been staring at Hanxiaoling for several months before they happened to discover their action. In order not to startle the snake, they did not take the risk to save people.

"You mean, someone impersonated the identities of those in the caravan?"

"Whether it's true or not, my lord will check it out. The people who replaced them are generally taller and stronger than the people of this dynasty. Experienced workers can be found out through autopsies."

Chu Heng noticed that he mentioned the word "people from this dynasty", and he asked sharply: "You mean, the murderers are all foreigners?"

Su Qi said calmly: "Whether you believe it or not, we kill people who deserve to be killed, and we have absolutely never attacked innocent people in our dynasty."

Chu Heng didn't speak immediately, he glanced at Yan, and the other party nodded knowingly, proving that Su Qi's description of the "victims"'s stature and characteristics was correct, and the summary of the robbery case in the case file was indeed like this written.

"Master Liu, what do you say?" Chu Heng looked at Prefect Liu who was sitting in the listening position.

These are all old cases, and the people who handled them back then were Taishou Liu and Master Guo himself.

Taishou Liu was so miserable that he couldn't tell. He was indeed responsible for these cases back then, but everyone acquiesced that the bandits did it. In addition, the deceased also carried guides that could prove their identities, so they all believed it to be true. , and worried about the long distance and the fact that the corpse could not be preserved for such a long time, he only asked someone to bring news to the family members of the deceased, saying that their relatives were killed by bandits, and he never thought about carefully verifying their identities.

When the family members rushed over from a long distance, the corpse had already started to rot, and few people would look at it seriously.Some of them found it strange, saying that this person was not someone from their family, and the officers and soldiers would not take it seriously, but that the family members were overly grieved and unwilling to accept this fact.

By mistake, the case was closed like this.

Thinking of such a big mistake caused by his own negligence, Master Liu suddenly felt mournful: "My lord, my servant... my servant... is my negligence."

Seeing Chu Heng's half-smile, Mr. Liu knew that it was useless to talk too much, so he simply admitted his mistake, and hoped that the other party would see him admitting his mistake readily and say something nice for him in front of the emperor.

"What you said, I will let people verify it one by one."

This was said to Su Qi and the others in the hall, and the other people immediately patted Chu Heng's flattery with bright eyes: "My lord is wise, your lord is the blue sky master of our common people!"

Chu Heng: "..." You are the ones who play too much!

He couldn't bear to look straight away and looked away: "Leaving aside the old case for now, do you have anything to say about the fact that Mrs. Li was murdered at the foot of your Xianyun Peak?"

Su Qi nodded: "My lord, we were really wronged in this matter. We happened to have a wedding in the village that day, and our brothers all drank. We didn't know what happened, so we slept until noon the next day, and then some brothers went down the mountain to patrol, only to find out Then all members of the Li clan were killed, and the corpses were lying at the foot of the mountain, and they were collected by us."

Chu Heng asked him, "What evidence do you have?"

Su Qi asked back: "Dare to ask your lord, before you find the corpse,

How do you know we are murderers? "

Chu Hengyi spoke up and told him: "We have witnesses!"

Su Qi didn't back down: "The villain asks to confront this person face to face! Otherwise, the villain will not accept it!"

So ever.

The next development was just as Luo Zhan expected. Li's servant turned his back on the water, claiming that he had never seen the faces of the murderers, but only recognized their voices.

It's just that they pretended to arrest a hundred or so people, and couldn't finish recognizing their voices for a while, so Chu Heng announced his withdrawal from the court and adjourned for another trial.

The crowd dispersed, Su Lang, Luo Zhan, and Dr. Su left the yamen and went to the restaurant where Chu Heng was temporarily staying.

Luo Zhan was thoughtful along the way, and when he was approaching the entrance of the restaurant, he suddenly turned to look at Su San:

"Third Uncle, why did you attack the carriage I was riding at that time?"

According to what Su Qi said, they would not attack innocent people, so they shouldn't have robbed his nanny's carriage back then.

unless……

"Do you think that coachman is my Daqi?"

Su San's understated rhetorical question confirmed Luo Zhan's guess.Sure enough, his nanny really didn't intend to save him a way out.

"Didn't the coachman run away?" Su Lang asked curiously.

Su San shook her head: "No, your fourth uncle chased after him and ended up killing him."

Concerned that there was a teenager present at the time, they didn't want him to see the scene of their killing, for fear of scaring him.

Su Lang guessed the reason and nodded.

"Your nanny has escaped." Su San said to Luo Zhan, in fact, if Lang'er hadn't suddenly taken a fancy to him at that time, they would not have shot him, but these two people would not have met later.

So it can only be said that there is God's will in the dark, and they are destined to meet each other.

Luo Zhan understood what he meant, and he hummed: "I know, I've seen her in the city."

This was something Su San didn't know about, but he just didn't care.

Not far behind the three of Su Lang, a few tall men gathered in a remote corner, and whispered a few words in an incomprehensible foreign language.

I don't know what he said, but a murderous intent flashed across the eagle-like eyes of one of them!