Daming King of Punishment

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Simply at this time, Qin Ke didn't make a fuss, and directly stated his intention.

"Mazi, this county really didn't come to see you. I came here to investigate the case, and I don't want you to live in this courtyard." Qin Ke looked around. There was no one else in the courtyard. Is anyone there?"

Apart from the morbid paleness on Mazi's face, which looked a bit tired, everything else was very normal.

"No more!" Mazi forced a smile on his face, and as he walked inside, he asked, "What does your lord mean by this? Do you suspect that your subordinate is the murderer?"

Qin Ke didn't expect Mazi to come to this point directly, and was at a loss for words for a while, and didn't know how to deal with it.

"Brother Mazi, it's because you are overthinking!" Song Wuya knew that he was telling Qin Ke to continue, and he was afraid that he would not be able to answer, so he stood in front of Qin Ke and started talking with Mazi. "This Zhang Shang must be clear to you. We learned from him that the third corpse is only two taels of gold. He used to come and go frequently during his lifetime. We just came here to check some things."

"Oh! So that's the case!" Mazi responded indifferently, leading everyone into the hall.

The house is okay, not very shabby.To be able to live in such a house, the ancestors of this pockmarked family can be considered a well-off family.

After Song Wuya followed in, the group sat down, beckoned Mazi to sit down, and stopped him from doing anything else.

"Mazi, it's important to decide the case. I will delay you for a while." Qin Ke sat down and immediately started asking again.What Song Wuya said just now also made him understand what Song Wuya meant, and when he opened his mouth at this moment, he followed what Song Wuya said just now. "The clue investigation has reached here, and we will continue to investigate in the near future. I don't know if you know all the people around here?"

"To be honest, my subordinates don't know much about the neighbors who have left." Mazi shook his head and answered Qin Ke's question directly.

But Song Wuya who was on the side heard this, but he was puzzled and said: "This distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. Brother Mazi doesn't even know who his neighbor is, does he? Or, brother Mazi didn't live here in the first place? "

"Young Master Song was right. I didn't live here originally, because after my father passed away, there was nothing to worry about in this world. I used to live in the original old courtyard, but every time I see things and think about others, let me I was so sad that I chose to move here." Mazi's explanation was very simple, he did move here later, which just explained why he was not familiar with Lingju around him.

The other yamen servants didn't say anything either, obviously what Mazi said was fine.

"In that case, then we won't disturb your rest." Qin Ke got up immediately after hearing this, obviously intending to leave.

Song Wuya didn't stop him either, after all, there was no point in continuing to stay here.Mazi got up to see them off, and the group left the yard.Song Wuya didn't leave in a hurry, but walked slowly, looking into the yard.

Suddenly, he focused his gaze and saw a few sticks standing in an inconspicuous corner of the courtyard.

"Hey! What's that?" Song Wuya stopped and asked, pointing to the sticks he saw in the corner.

When Mazi heard this, he immediately responded: "It's just a few bamboo poles, which are used to build a shed to enjoy the shade in summer."

Song Wuya nodded and didn't continue to ask any more questions, but still couldn't help but take another look.

"This is really strange! That stick looks like stilts!" He muttered, and the group left Mazi's house.

When the courtyard door was closed, they stopped here. Zhang Shang looked at the crowd, looked up at the door, and said in a low voice: "My lord, I really saw Erliang Jin enter here."

There are also quite a few residents in the alley, there are as many as five families, and it is reasonable for Zhang Shang to remember wrongly.But what he said so swearingly made Song Wuya and the others very puzzled.

"How long have you guys known Mazi?" Qin Ke didn't seem to believe that Mazi was the murderer, but he didn't completely trust him either.

"My lord, this pockmark has been working in the county government office for more than five years. Calculated, he came here a year earlier than you, my lord." Among these yamen servants, there is no lack of seniority, and they only knew Mazi five or six years ago. time of year.

After Qin Ke heard this, he immediately asked again: "Then over the years, haven't you seen that this pockmark has other family members?"

"That's not true." Several yamen servants looked at each other and thought for a while, then said with certainty.

At this time, Song Wuya was also very interested in this pockmark.

"Master Qin, now is not the time to talk about this, let's go to some other houses to see the situation and inquire about it." Song Wuya reminded Qin Ke, pointing to a house next to Mazi, and beckoned the yamen servant to come forward and knock on the door .

Hearing what Song Wuya said, Qin Ke frowned, and said angrily: "Mazi Kui invites you to drink at his house on weekdays, he is so sick, you don't even know it! , come over at night, give Mazi some medicine to cure the wind and cold, and buy some food for him."

It is said that Qin Ke took out a tael of silver from his waist and handed it to the leader of a yamen servant.

After the yamen servant took over, he answered again and again.

Boom boom boom!

After the courtyard door knocked, no one came to open the door for a long time.A group of people frowned, feeling that something was wrong, Qin Ke put his eyes on Song Wuya, obviously asking Song Wuya what to do now.

Song Wuya didn't think much, and raised his hand to point to a family diagonally opposite Mazi's house.

The yamen servant understood, and immediately stepped forward to knock on the door, and soon an old woman opened the courtyard door.

"My lord, what's the matter with you?"

Although the old woman was not young, she was considered tough. She looked at the servants outside and asked a question.

Qin Ke immediately stepped forward and smiled slightly: "Old man, this county is a local parent officer, and I want to ask you about some things today."

Hearing this, the old woman narrowed her eyes and inspected Qin Ke for a while, then stepped out of the courtyard door and signaled them to go in.

In this situation, it seemed that the old woman didn't know Qin Yi. The reason why they were let in was probably because they saw the clothes on the yamen servants.

Entering the courtyard, it was extremely clean and tidy, with no sundries at all.

"Old man, is there anyone else at home?" Qin Ke entered the yard and asked immediately.

Hearing this, the old woman didn't turn her head back and said: "If there are others, can I, the old lady, open the door for you?"

Qin Ke asked politely, but was choked back by the old woman, which made him very embarrassed.The others looked at this scene with a look of unbearable laughter.

But Song Wuya listened to the old woman's impatient answer, and thought of Er Kuan who had just died, he was also an old man with a weird temper.

After entering the house, the old woman didn't ask everyone to sit down. Although Qin Ke was a parent official, but now he was in someone else's house, he didn't pose as an official. The old woman didn't speak, and he just stood like this.

"Since you live here alone, do you know anything about the people around you?" Qin Ke ignored the others and immediately asked about things.

As soon as he said this, he heard a voice from the back room: "Mother! Who is it?"

The voice was a woman, and everyone was still wondering, just now the old woman clearly said that there was no one at home, why did someone come out again at this time?

In the blink of an eye, I saw a woman who looked like a woman coming out of the inner room, and she was still tying up her skirt as she walked.

"Hmph! You're still out! I thought you'd grown up with that bed!" The old woman said sarcastically without even looking at the woman who just came out.

After saying these words, Song Wuya understood what was going on.No wonder the old woman's tone was so indifferent just now, it seems that it was not because she was indifferent to Song Wuya and the others, but because Qin Ke mentioned his family and felt angry.

The person who came was obviously the old woman's daughter-in-law, if it was a daughter, she might not have such a complexion.

"You said that, who made you urge to report to your grandson all day long." The woman glanced at Song Wuya and the others, arranged her clothes, and was not in a hurry to start a conversation. One sentence. "Isn't this your useless son? I have been cultivating all day and all night, but I haven't seen any crops growing in my land. Otherwise, how can my daughter-in-law look at your sad face all day long?"

Because of the inheritance of the family, the conflict between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not small.

As soon as the daughter-in-law's words were out of her mouth, the old woman said angrily: "Huh! If the crops can't grow, isn't that because of the bad land?"

"What you said, otherwise I would follow the example of the little daughter-in-law across the way and raise it with another man. See if my land can grow crops!"

Chapter 4 and Eight

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