As soon as he walked into Maocheng County, Zhao Zimai and the others heard a faint moan coming from the hall, mixed with curses deliberately lowered.xs8la

When he walked into the hall, Zhao Zimai saw Wu Yuanli take off his boots and socks, step on the chair with one foot, rubbing his ankles with safflower oil. His ankles were bulging, and they all turned purple, which hurts when they looked.

"Mr. Wu." Zhao Zimai called out softly.

Wu Yuanli suddenly saw Zhao Zimai and his group coming in, and was startled. He quickly moved down from the chair, limped towards them, gritted his teeth and bowed to salute.

"You just sit there." Zhao Zimai glanced at Baotian, and Baotian quickly helped Wu Yuanli to sit down.

"Mr. Zhao," Wu Yuanli wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and the smile on his face was even worse than crying. "Xiaguan was talking about going to find you, but you came here in person. Xiaguan had led his subordinates to turn over the road where Lord Xu returned home and searched several times. Look, his feet were sprained, but he just couldn't find him. According to what you said, he also went door to door, but no one had seen Lord Xu, so what should I do?"

Seeing that he was not dressed and covered in a mess, Zhao Zimai knew that he had just returned from outside and must have been unable to eat or sleep in the past few days, so he stopped criticizing him and said, "Mr. Wu, is there only one way from Nanshan Guild Hall to Xu's family?"

Wu Yuanli shook his head, "I have checked all the small roads and big roads. Lord Xu will never go up to Ailao Mountain. Let's wander around the mountain and then go down the mountain road."

"Ailao Mountain?" Zhao Zimai frowned, "I passed there. The mountain is not high, there are no trees, they are all stones."

Wu Yuanli quickly continued the conversation, "So, there are few people who usually come to that bald mountain. Lord Xu is drunk, how could he get there?"

"But"

Zhao Zimai wanted to say something else. Sang next to him suddenly looked at the gate of the county government office and chuckled, "This government office is lively enough, and another group of people are coming."

Sure enough, before she finished speaking, there was a crying sound. Wu Yuanli obviously heard it, frowned and slapped his thighs, "I've made trouble every day, and I've made it clear to them, but I'm still coming. You said that this person was sick before he was imprisoned and died in prison. It was not the fault of the government? They were making trouble all day long, afraid they were trying to cheat the government's money?"

"Who is the one who died?" Zhao Zimai asked.

"Hu Bing," Wu Yuanli sighed deeply, "It is the criminal who was the last case that Lord Xu died before he disappeared. Lord Zhao, did you think I have hit the plague god recently? Things happened one after another."

Before he finished speaking, Hu Bing's family came in with his servants. When he saw Wu Yuanli, he knelt down in front of him one by one, with tears in his eyes. The word "injust" turned around. Hu Bing caught the wrong and died even more unjustly, so they would never give up on this matter. They must let the government give an explanation.

Wu Yuanli was already a little afraid of Zhao Zimai, but now a group of people came to the county government to complain about the injustice, which was even more scared. He could only calm everyone's emotions while glancing at Zhao Zimai from time to time and observing his face, for fear that he would report what happened today.

"Hu Bing's case was cut by Lord Xu Chong and Xu himself. How could it be wrong? Lord Xu found Li Yong's hair on the knife Hu Bing hid under the bed. Hu Bing himself admitted that he assassinated Li Yong that night. Many people also saw Li Yong going to Hu Bing's home. People and physical evidence were there. You can't overturn the entire case just because Hu Bing died in prison."

When Wu Yuanli made this statement, the Hu family sighed. Some said that Hu Bing was already drunk at that time, how could he commit the evil deeds of killing and peeling people? Some people said that Li Yong had many enemies, and it was hard to say who killed him. What's more, it was said that the so-called "crime" that Hu Bing personally admitted might just be a dream he had after drinking, and he couldn't take it seriously.

Among the faces filled with indignation in defending Hu Bing's words, there was a man who seemed particularly eye-catching.

Zhao Zimai looked at him for a long time and found that when everyone was crying at the beginning, he tried hard to squeeze a few tears but couldn't figure it out. Now, everyone was screaming for justice for Hu Bing, but his face was white, his eyes flashed, and he didn't dare to stay on Wu Yuanli's face, nor did he dare to touch his own eyes.

Occasionally, when I encountered it a few times, I quickly dodged away, as if his eyes could shoot out a knife.

"Who is he?" Zhao Zimai whispered to a small yamen runner behind Wu Yuanli.

"Hu Bing's personal servant seems to be named Zhu Quan."

Zhao Zimai stared at Zhu Quan's face and said nothing. After a while, when the Hu family was tired of questioning and Wu Yuanli was also tired of explaining, he asked Zhu Quan, "Where were you on the night of the incident?"

"I went to bed early that night, so I didn't hear any sound. When I woke up in the morning, I found that the young master was lying in the courtyard, his clothes were covered with blood, and there was a knife next to him. I quickly woke the young master. After he woke up, he seemed very scared and told me not to say anything, and then he took the knife into the house by himself."

As if he had been preparing for this problem for a long time, Zhu Quan spoke very quickly and didn't even hit a joke. However, his body movements were obviously abnormal, his body was shaking, his head lowered, and he did not dare to throw his eyes over.

"Your young master was so drunk that night. You didn't serve him closely, but you slept until dawn?" Zhao Zimai looked at him and asked.

"I felt uncomfortable that day I was young and had already had a leave of absence from the general manager." I answered quickly, as if he had imagined such a scene in his mind countless times.

"That knife"

"It's the young master's sword that he takes with him. He often comes back from other provinces to transport medicinal materials, so the sword will not leave him." Zhu Quan's answer was not a flaw.

"So, do you think it was your young master who killed Li Yong?" Zhao Zimai changed his tone and a humble smile appeared on his face.

"I" Zhu Quan was speechless. After a while, he stammered and answered, "I don't know. I just told the adults the truth about what I saw."

Zhao Zimai nodded at Zhu Quan and naturally slapped Wu Yuanli's shoulder, "Mr. Wu, it is important to appease the people's hearts, but it is more important to uphold the truth first. Now that Lord Xu is missing, you should be more decisive in your affairs. Don't let these unnecessary things delay our business."

After hearing what he said, Wu Yuanli's heart fell back into his stomach. He was sitting in the hall, slapped the agglomeration wood so loudly. "Everyone in the hall obeyed the order, the government has made a decision in this case. If he comes to the yamen to entangle it, don't blame me for ordering arrest."
Chapter completed!