I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

"The old godly woman really has a lot of things to do!" A yamen servant immediately cursed in a low voice.

"Who said that? Stand up!"

Yun Dan immediately glanced sharply at Li Cai and the others. Although her voice was hoarse and had no deterrent effect, it was very scary when combined with the fierce light in her eyes.

Naturally, the yamen servants would not respond to Yun Dan, and the yamen servant who had just spoken did not immediately stand up and admit it.

"Have the guts to call me an old godmother, but don't have the guts to stand up and admit it? I was the one who was arrested. What are you officials afraid of? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"

The yamen servants were about to react, when Yun Dan turned to Cui Tao and told Cui Tao that if the person who scolded her just now did not stand up and apologize to her, she would not leave today, and she would be stuck here.

Apologize?Want the yamen servant in Kaifeng Mansion to apologize to an extremely cruel murderer?It's easy to call her an old godmother. If she is allowed to kill people, why don't they call her?This kind of apology is absolutely impossible. No matter where you go, there is no reason for an official to apologize to a murderer. If you say it, you will not only lose your face, but also Kaifeng Mansion will be ridiculed. What is the majesty of Kaifeng Mansion!

After being provoked by Yun Dan, the yamen servant who originally planned to stand up and admit it, now hesitates whether to stand up or not.If you don't stand up, you are afraid that you will be looked down upon by Yun Dan and say cowardly; if you stand up, you definitely don't want to and will not apologize, but if you get into a stalemate with Yun Dan, it will delay the progress of Judge Han and Mrs. Cui's investigation, and on the contrary delay It's over.

"Do you really think I'm stupid? I don't know why you negotiated terms with me? The government has no evidence to prove that I committed the crime. If that person doesn't stand up and apologize to me today, I will fight to the end if I say it.

Just now I agreed to the deal because you threatened me with my cousin's life. I was really scared, so I had to agree! "

Yun Dan made it clear immediately that if she didn't get an apology, she would change her 'confession'.

Anyway, the government has three chances to retract the confession in handling the case, and she has not used one now.

Yun Dan has a firm attitude and insists on the conditions he just raised.

"You're going too far!" Li Cai scolded.

Yun Dan's gaze immediately turned coldly towards Li Cai and the other yamen servants, causing Li Cai and the others to hold their breath for an instant.He really deserves to be the suspect in the case of gouging out his eyes and cutting his tongue. The hostility in his eyes is very scary.The hateful thing is that he knows she is the murderer, but because he has no evidence, he wants to be threatened by her like now, and let her be arrogant.

Yun Dan saw that these yamen servants were very sensible and did not dare to say anything, so she couldn't help snorting, and looked at Cui Tao with a bit of complacency.

She just wanted to embarrass the yamen servant who laughed at her just now, but she wanted to see how this seemingly clever lady Cui would deal with her.

I don't know if this Mrs. Cui will choose to let the yamen servant apologize to her, or choose to fight her to the death, and then negotiate terms again?

"Have Zhang Le ever seen you like this?" Cui Tao did not directly respond to Yun Dan's words.

When Yun Dan heard this, she thought that Cui Tao was going to threaten her with Zhang Le, "It's not my fault, it's because some of you want to provoke me. I hate people who say bad things. If Mrs. Cui still wants to talk to me about him Conditions, nothing new."

Yun Dan told Cui Tao that as long as the yamen servant who talked cheap just now was found out and apologized to her in public, the matter would be over, and the deal she had just agreed to could continue.

"What do you think you are, and dare to ask someone from the government to apologize to you?" Li Cai scolded angrily.

"One more person who apologizes." Yun Dan immediately looked at Li Cai unhappily, and asked again.

Li Cai was so angry that he wanted to scold Yun Dan again, but was stopped by the servants around him, and Han Zong also advised Li Cai to calm down.

Cui Tao hasn't made a statement yet, and Han Zong doesn't know what she's thinking.However, it would be embarrassing if the people in the government were controlled by a murderer.But no matter what Cui Tao decides, Han Zong will obey her.

"No apology! At worst, I won't be a yamen servant, so I'll just—" Li Cai got angry and shouted to resign, but before he could finish his sentence, Cui Tao glanced at him. Immediately fell silent obediently.

Seeing this posture, the smile on the corner of Yun Dan's mouth became even more proud, and he was so rampant that he wished he could go to heaven.I didn't know, I thought she was not a prisoner, but some kind of extraordinary person.

"It seems that Mrs. Cui has already made a choice."

Yun Dan looked at Cui Tao with some confidence.

"I thought you were a bit smart, but now I know I misunderstood." After Cui Tao finished speaking, she whispered something to Li Cai.

Li Cai, who was originally full of anger because of anger, turned clear after hearing Cui Tao's words, and his eyes even glowed with joy.

Li Cai immediately made a big ball of rags and stuffed them into Yun Dan's mouth.

This behavior was caught off guard, and Yun Dan was about to question Cui Tao's intentions, didn't she want her to confess and plead guilty?She clearly thought so before!

But before she had a chance to ask, her mouth was gagged tightly, because the rags in her mouth were stuffed too much, and she was forced to open it wide, and her cheeks immediately began to feel sore.Yun Dan stared at Cui Tao uncomfortablely, obviously there was a lot to say in his eyes.But immediately Li Cai wrapped cloth strips around her eyes three times, covering her eyes tightly, and her eyes were pitch black without any light.

Yun Dan made two whining sounds, because she couldn't see, she wanted to listen carefully to the situation around her.She wanted to know what Cui Tao was going to do to her next, and she was still thinking about Zhang Le's situation.

But then, she didn't hear Cui Tao's voice, but only heard footsteps.Then I heard Li Cai and a few yamen servants yelling to leave, pushing her forward with their hands.

Because she couldn't see, she didn't know what the road ahead was like. She was a little apprehensive when she stepped down, but she still didn't guard against it. She would stagger and almost fall due to the gravel on the ground and the occasional potholes.

She remembered going out from the Taoist temple and going down the stone steps, but she didn't know when she would arrive, and whether the yamen servants would inform her in advance.Thinking about it, it probably wouldn't be the case. She made things difficult for them before, and these people could only wish they could lynch her to death on the spot right now.

Yun Dan tried her best to judge the situation by listening to the sound of their walking. After walking for a long time, she became more careful when she stepped down, and moved forward bit by bit, but in the end, when she was going down the stone steps, she still stepped on the ground, and she walked towards her. fell down.Although it was only a few stone steps, falling down could not kill anyone, but it was extremely painful. Yun Dan's hands were bound, without support and the ability to dodge in time, so he could only let himself fall face down.

The pain in the face and body made Yun Dan who was gagged could only let out a muffled whine.

"Hey, I fell on my own. It has nothing to do with us. It's not an abuse of punishment." Li Cai sighed with emotion, and the servants around him immediately booed and echoed.

After Yun Dan was pulled up, she shook her head angrily and whimpered twice, obviously wanting to refute Li Cai.

"Let me guess, are you blaming us for covering your eyes and gagging your mouth?" Li Cai imitated when Yun Dan made things difficult for them before, and let out a grunt that didn't deserve to be beaten. Then he said to Yun Dan, "What is this? Your eyes and tongue are still there, but Yin's and Shao's are gone. Why can you have eyes and mouth, but others can't?"

Yun Dan whined one after another, more and shorter, sounding anxious and angry.

"Hey, it's hard to hold back when you can't speak? When you killed someone, gouged out their eyes and cut out their tongue, did you ever think about how you would feel if you were subjected to the same torture one day?"

Li Cai then sternly urged Yun Dan to leave quickly, they don't have time to waste time with her, take her back to Kaifeng mansion quickly, they can also feel better.Finally, I don't have to look at her, a creature inferior to a beast, dangling in front of their eyes.

Yun Dan was so angry that she clenched her hands into fists, but because she couldn't see or speak, she could only hold back in pain, trembling all over, but it was difficult to make any substantive reaction and vent.

Han Zong stayed behind with Cui Tao, and there were [-] government officials in charge of searching the Taoist temple, and they continued to search inside the temple.There are too many places to check, and I don't know what to search, so the search is a bit aimless, and the efficiency is even lower.

"Unexpectedly, Yun Dan is so arrogant that he dares to challenge the yamen servants and even us." Han Zong sighed.

"A person who is not afraid of ghosts is not afraid of us. It is normal for people to live with awe in order to be able to do anything. She is not, so she is naturally crazy and crazy. I don't know what caused her to become like this. "

While Cui Tao was talking, she turned back to Yun Dan's room and picked up the pair of wooden figurines on the wooden stand.

"Aren't you going to make a deal with her?" Seeing that Cui Tao didn't ask any questions, Han Zong asked someone to escort Yun Dan back to Kaifeng Mansion.

Look at Yun Dan's rampant attitude just now, if the yamen servant does not apologize, she will definitely not let go.In fact, they did not have any evidence of Yun Dan's murder.Originally, the three chances to retract the confession were to prevent the occurrence of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. It could not have been a better rule, but it turned out to be the rampant reliance of this guy. It really makes people more and more angry.

Cui Tao: "Look at her attitude. If we can't produce something, we won't be able to stand in front of her. There's no reason for a government official to be led by the nose by a murderer."

"Then this is?" Han Zong looked at the pair of wooden figurines that Cui Tao was holding.

"Then let's find out the evidence. Naturally, we can't just let her say that the confession is retracted."

Cui Tao then went to ask Taoist Master Yunfeng and others if they knew the origin of the pair of woodcarving figurines.

"I don't know about this thing, but her apprentices have been cleaning her room in turn. I think they know better." Daoist Yunfeng called several of Yun Dan's apprentices.

One of the 14-year-old apprentices said: "I asked the master, and the master said that she carved the pair of little people with her own hands. I also told the senior sister that the master is really skillful. This thing can be so delicate.”

After confirming that the pair of wooden figurines belonged to Yundan, Cui Tao felt relieved a lot. She brought the wood carvings to her nose and smelled them, and then carefully stroked the wooden figurines to study their woodiness.It seems to be ordinary wood, the color is light yellow and almost white, not any precious wood.

"A carving knife is used for carving. Have you ever seen your master hold a carving knife? Where is the knife now?" Cui Tao continued to ask.

Several young apprentices shook their heads, expressing that they had never seen Daoist Yun Dan holding a carving knife.

Although Yunfeng, Yunyue and others are Yundan's teachers and sisters, they don't know as much as Yundan's young disciples, and they never knew that Yundan can carve wood.

No wonder Yun Dan was so crazy when she erupted before, she tried her best to hide even such trivial matters.

Cui Tao thought of a place, so she came to the firewood house of Meihuaguan, where a lot of chopped firewood was piled up.In the end, it was found that the materials of these woods were similar to those of wood carvings.

Then another observer told Cui Tao that the unsplit firewood was piled up against the wall behind the kitchen.

Cui Tao looked there again, and sure enough, he found that there were quite a few logs that were thick enough to cut off a piece and use it for wood carving.

Cui Tao went back to the firewood room, and after careful investigation, he found some sawdust under the pile of firewood by the north window, but these were obviously not the kind of sawdust caused by chopping firewood.Most of the sawdust is upturned at both ends, and most of the sawdust dug out from the wood by a carving knife will have a shape similar to this.

So the yamen servants began to dump the firewood in the firewood room one by one, searching for things like carving knives. In the end, everyone emptied the place, leaving only the empty floor and four walls, but still did not find anything.

The yamen servant took a glance at the beam as usual, and found that there was something on the beam, it was a cloth bag!After searching for a long time, they finally found an unusual thing, which made them very happy.

The yamen servant hurriedly went out to find a wooden stick, and then brought a bamboo pole with a hook at one end, and easily hooked off the small gray-blue cloth bag on the beam.

Cui Tao saw that the bamboo pole seemed to be custom-made for taking things on the beam, so he asked the yamen servant where he found it.

"This is a bamboo pole used in the kitchen. We often hang garlic, dried mushrooms, etc. on the beams, so it's more convenient to take it." The cook in charge of cooking in the Taoist temple explained that, and suddenly remembered something, and immediately said to Cui Tao, "However, Daoist Yundan made this bamboo pole for us. He said that with it, we don't have to carry the ladder up and down every time."

Cui Tao immediately took the cloth bag from the yamen servant, and opened it to see that there were six carving knives of different sizes, lengths and flats, one of which had a hook, which was most suitable for cutting tongues.All the knives had wooden handles, only this machete knife and another two-inch-long carving knife with a sharp blade had dark red stains in the gap between the blade and the wooden handle.There is no such dirt in the gaps of the other four knives, but there are small light yellow sawdust powder sandwiched, no dark red.

Along with the six carving knives was a pair of men's shoes, measuring exactly ten inch two.

It was obvious what the two knives and the shoes were for.

The black and red stuff in the gap of the knife handle should be dried blood without accident.

Han Zong and others were very happy to find the direct evidence of the eye-gouging and tongue-cutting case.

Cui Tao's expression was not as relaxed as theirs, "But I still have to make sure that the things in this bag belong to Yundan."

The two victims lived in Plum Blossom Temple. These things can only prove that the murderer put the murder weapon in Plum Blossom Temple, but this firewood house is a place where anyone can come.Aside from the fact that ordinary prisoners encounter these evidences, they will plead guilty after being intimidated a little bit, and then further corroborate the evidence of their crimes from their confessions, then the case is basically a certainty and cannot be overturned.

But if these tricks are used to deal with the current cloud, it is simply not feasible.

It was feasible, Yundan has already agreed to the transaction and is ready to explain.There was an episode in the middle, which stimulated the sensitive and irritable Yun Dan, and the hatchback became angry.

After hearing Cui Tao's explanation, all the yamen servants' smiles froze on their faces, their faces collapsed and they couldn't laugh anymore.

"I've never caught the murderer so hard, it's obvious that she's the most suspect!"

Cui Tao looked and found that there was an embroidery of a Tai Chi diagram on the gray and blue cloth wrapping these things, the size of a fist.The Taoist robes worn by most of the female crowns in Plum Blossom Temple are of this color. Cui Tao looked at the Taoist robes worn by several female crowns now, and there is no embroidery of this Tai Chi diagram, which shows that this embroidery is a special case.Since it is embroidery, it must be done by human hands, or it was embroidered by Yun Dan herself, or embroidered by other women in Guanyin.

Cui Tao then asked Yunfeng, Yunyue and the others if they agreed with the embroidery.

"I embroidered this. When the Chinese New Year was approaching, I made a total of four Taoist robes. As a New Year gift, I gave one to each of the teachers and sisters. I also have one." Yunyue told him.She specially embroidered a picture of Tai Chi on the back, wishing the teachers and sisters a smooth practice and an early attainment of Taoism.

Yunfeng, Yunyue, and Yunyu immediately said that the Taoist robes that belonged to them were still with them.Cui Tao asked them all to bring them, and sure enough, all three of them took out one piece each.It seems that the Taoist robe belonging to Yun Dan has been torn into pieces.From this, it was finally clearly determined that the cloth bag containing the carving knife and ten-inch-two men's shoes had something to do with Yun Dan.

Han Zong and the yamen servants were very happy, and the anger that had been suffocating all this time finally came out with raised eyebrows, happy!

Everyone thought that Cui Tao would rush back to Kaifeng mansion immediately and interrogate Yun Dan immediately.But Cui Tao was not in a hurry, but fell into deep thought.

"Is there anything else missing?"

When he first took office, he encountered such a big case, and Han Zong took it very seriously.I thought that with his ingenuity, even if he didn't understand the process of handling the case, he could still contribute more or less to this case and play a key role.

As a result, he has only now fully realized how "new" he is. Investigating cases is really a science, and it can't be done overnight in a day or two.

"After Yundan agreed to the deal before, she said 'wait', but I don't think she changed her mind and wanted to retract the confession." Cui Tao speculated.

"Why is that?" Han Zong asked puzzled again.

Cui Tao stared at the direction of the kitchen, and there were several women who were being helped by the Plum Blossom Temple, who were busy cooking in the kitchen at the moment.

The abandoned corpse in the ghost house had to go through the downtown area before it could be delivered. Eyes and tongues were gouged out, and men's shoes were deliberately used to disguise the scene to mislead the direction of the investigation.

No matter how good a person is, they all have to go through a novice period, and the first time they will inevitably be flustered and not perfect.However, it is obviously not the first time for the two victims of the ghost house gouging case.

So Cui Tao was a little suspicious. The 'wait' that Yun Dan said, maybe she wanted to confess that she had killed someone before.The reason for "waiting" is probably because the body was buried in or near Plum Blossom Temple.

If Yundan kills someone in the temple, the victim is likely to be a poor woman rescued by Plum Blossom Temple, just like the victim in this case.

A woman suddenly disappeared and disappeared, and it was impossible for others not to notice.Cui Tao is going in this direction, please ask Yunfeng, Yunyue, Yunyu and others to recall.

"It seems like seven or eight years ago. At that time, a lady named Liu left suddenly, and we didn't see anyone. It was Yun Dan who told us that the lady Liu just said goodbye to her because she met an old friend and was eager to go with her. It's been too long, and I don't remember the specific situation. Anyway, we never saw Mrs. Liu again after that. At that time, no one suspected that someone like Yun Dan, who seemed honest and kind, turned out to be Killing devils." Yun Feng recalled, only felt scared, and the hairs all over his body stood on end.

Next, Yunyue and Yunyu also recalled a similar situation. The Qi family five years ago, the Nangong family three years...all left suddenly, and Yun Dan informed them and explained the reason.

After this case happened, Han Qi ordered someone to thoroughly investigate whether there were any similar eye-gouging and tongue-cutting cases in the past ten years, but there was none.

Cui Tao felt that since Yundan dared to stand up and make up a lie to say that she was 'leaving', it was probably because she disposed of the corpse and made sure that the victims would not reappear.

But now that the ghost house gouging out the eyes, Yun Dan’s method of disposing of the corpses has changed. Yin and Shao’s corpses were deliberately dumped in the ghost house in the densely populated Bianjing city, and they must goug out their eyes and cut out their tongues. The tragic death was exposed to the public.

Cui Tao told Taoist Master Yunfeng that there may be corpses hidden in the Plum Blossom Temple, and asked them to think about Yun Dan's usual habits, and where the corpses might be hidden without being noticed.

"She sometimes meditates in the forest behind the temple, and no one is allowed to disturb her." Yunyue explained that Yundan spread a bamboo mat in the forest and sat on it to meditate and chant sutras all day long.

The forest behind the Plum Blossom View is possible, but the forest is not too small. It would take about half an hour to cross it on foot, but if you dig it inch by inch, it may be difficult, and it will take ten days to dig it out.

Cui Tao left two people on standby at Plum Blossom View, so that they could investigate by the way to see if there were any new clues that could further confirm where the corpse was hidden.

Again, the focus should be on interrogating Yun Dan.Let Yun Dan make more confessions, so that the yamen servants won't lose their legs.

Cui Tao and Han Zong finally returned to Kaifeng Mansion. Hearing that Han Qi had also returned, they went to report the investigation to Han Qi first.

Han Qi praised the two for their merits in investigating the case.

Since Han Zong was determined to come to Kaifeng Mansion as an official, facing Cui Tao again, he made up his mind to change.For Cui Tao, he can change everything, except his feelings for her.

Hearing Han Qi's compliment, Han Zong felt that he was being polite on purpose, and immediately said, "I don't have any credit for it, so both the praise and the reward should be given to her."

Han Qi disagreed, "It's very rare to be able to guard against arrogance and impetuosity when you take office, and be humble and tolerant. There are often new officials who think highly of themselves, not only using their authority to get in the way, but even disrupting investigations for their own use."

Han Qi felt that Han Zong could be a qualified new official if he could cooperate with Cui Tao's requirements, let Cui Tao conduct the investigation smoothly, and get results.

Han Zong really thought that he was useless in this case investigation, but Han Qi's praise made him feel quite reasonable.As an official, you don't have to be versatile in everything, the important thing is to be able to control.As long as the subordinates are allowed to show their strengths and use them for him, they will naturally be a very great official.

Han Zong immediately thanked Han Qi politely, and later heard that Han Qi had entrusted him with the important task of interrogating Yun Dan, and his feelings towards Han Qi were a bit complicated.He hastily expressed that he must live up to his expectations.

"You have to do the trial yourself, it's your duty." Han Qi glanced at Cui Tao calmly while speaking.

Cui Tao immediately winked her right eye mischievously at Han Qi.

Han Qi originally had a serious and expressionless face, but because of Cui Tao's move, the corners of his mouth curled up, turning from stern to a faint smile.

After Han Zong agreed, he thought about how he could try the case better.He wanted other people in Kaifeng Mansion, especially Cui Tao, to look up to him.So at this moment, because he was too focused, he naturally didn't see the tiny interaction between Cui Tao and Han Qi.

Han Zong immediately prepared to go.

Cui Tao did not forget to call the yamen servant who called Yun Dan an 'old godmother'.

The yamen servant was very surprised that Mrs. Cui knew that he said this, but she didn't mention his name at that time.

"That fight killed so many people, even inferior to animals, and I don't think it's wrong to call him an old godmother." The yamen servant said stubbornly, holding his neck.

"Privately, when you're not on duty, you can scold her however you want. But when you're on duty, you can't handle things calmly and abide by your duties. It's because your attitude is not correct enough to punish you. Do you have any opinions?" Cui Tao asked. road.

The yamen servant used to feel that he was unlucky and felt aggrieved, but now he realized what his problem was, and obediently expressed that he was educated and willing to accept the punishment.

"Excellent!" Cui Tao immediately suggested to Han Qi that he be punished for recording and observing the growth of the three pots of maggots and one pot of maggots in the haunted house.

The yamen servant thought that he would be fined a monthly fee or receive a board, or do some rough work of cleaning, but he never expected that he would watch maggots every day.This was crueler than any punishment he had thought of before!

Since then, the yamen servant has kept his lesson in mind and has become one of the most calm and dedicated yamen servants during the investigation period.Business quality depends entirely on the spur of maggots!

Finally, everyone who should be dismissed has been dismissed.Han Qi looked at Cui Tao tenderly, concerned that she was too tired from running all day, and told her to go back and rest quickly.The case will wait for Han Zong to interrogate all the complicated points, and then she will interrogate the case, and only need to check the key points to make up for the omissions.

"Ah, it turns out that the reason why Judge Han encouraged and praised Judge Han just now is to make him work harder?"

"He needs to learn more."

Han Qi's explanation was nice, but Cui Tao felt that Han Qi was 'bad',

Just now Han Zong reviewed his poor performance in investigation, but Han Qi praised him for humbly choosing to listen to her.Could it be that he intends to cultivate Han Zong into a "puppet" in the praise, and when he goes out to solve the case in the future, let him take the name and she hold the real power?

The important thing is that Han Zong really didn't think there was a problem after hearing it, and went to work very seriously.

Bad, too bad, but she likes it.