Chapter 50 Passionate Killing
Because Shen Shixu did not attend the morning court today, the others thought they would not hear any gossip and just wanted to get off work quickly. However, the morning court was over in more than half an hour.
As soon as the morning court was announced to be over, everyone felt a gust of wind blowing across their faces. The old prime minister tidied up his beard that was messed up by the wind, and wondered why Xiao Jinyi was running so fast.
"Why is Prince Jing running so fast? It feels like there are thousands of troops chasing him from behind!"
Xiao Yuanqi, who happened to be walking with him, heard this and said nothing, but thought in his heart: "He doesn't have thousands of troops chasing him behind him, but there is a most important treasure hanging in front of him."
Xiao Jinyi went to Chen's house first. After learning from Xiao Shitou that someone from the Dali Temple had called Shen Shixu away in the middle of the night, he realized that there was a case at the Dali Temple and he should be investigating it now.
After knowing that Shen Shixu was not sick, Xiao Jinyi let go of the worry that had been hanging in his heart, and rode his horse to the Dali Temple again.
Shen Shixu was listening to what the people who went to Chunshui Hutong to inquire had found out. Guo Yongshun did live in Chunshui Hutong, and his identity was indeed the same as he guessed, a scoundrel.
The people who lived near his house, no, it should be said that the people in the entire alley were particularly annoyed with him. When the petty official went to ask those people about Guo Yongshun's life, he could feel the hatred of those people towards him.
One of the men even said, "If I hadn't cared about my family, I would have fought that bastard long ago."
Shen Shixu listened to the clerk retelling what the people in the alley said, and he had a deeper understanding of Guo Yongshun. This man is really a rogue scum. He said something he shouldn't have said. He deserved to die.
Guo Yongshun has been a dishonest person since he was young. He likes to steal things. Today he takes eggs from this family, tomorrow he picks other people's vegetables, and the day after tomorrow he messes with other people's chickens.
Even after being discovered, he still refused to admit it, insisting that others were falsely accusing him, and threw a tantrum and demanded compensation from others.
If you don't compensate him, he will bang his head against the door, or he will pee and poop on the door. It's no use calling the police. This is not a life-threatening matter. At most, they will just give him a warning.
Not only that, after reporting the matter to the police, he did not receive any substantial punishment, which made him even more rampant.
From then on, the others compromised and let him take whatever he wanted, just like feeding the dog.
The clerk also found out that the relationship between the people of Chunshui Hutong and Guo Yongshun was not so bad at the beginning. Guo Yongshun had no parents and grew up with his grandfather. His grandfather died early due to old age, leaving Guo Yongshun, who was only eight or nine years old, to grow up alone.
In the beginning, the neighbors were quite sympathetic and would occasionally send him some food and daily necessities, but this man was bad to the core and he took other people's kindness for granted.
One day a family didn't send him food, leaving him hungry, so he ran to the family's door and cursed them.
It was also because of this that everyone withdrew their help to him. It was also from this time that Guo Yongrui began his life of stealing and cheating.
Although petty theft is annoying, the people of Chunshui Hutong can still accept it. Besides, the late Grandpa Guo had taken good care of them, so for the sake of the deceased old man, they turned a blind eye.
The key point is that after Guo Yongshun grew up, he arbitrarily ruined other people's reputations and almost destroyed a woman's innocence.
There lived a family selling tofu in the alley. They had a daughter who was very pretty and had a good temper. She followed her father in making and selling tofu, and was nicknamed "Tofu Xishi" by the neighbors and people who came to buy tofu.
Guo Yongshun fell in love with the girl and went to propose marriage himself, but the girl and her parents were unwilling.
Guo Yongshun's reputation had been ruined in Chunshui Hutong a long time ago. Which family would be willing to marry their good daughter to such a man, especially since this tofu beauty had already been engaged to someone who was also from Chunshui Hutong and was the son of a butcher.
Naturally, they would not agree to Guo Yongshun's proposal. Guo Yongshun therefore bore a grudge against this family and went out of his way to discredit them, saying that they were cheating in selling tofu by less weight.
They also sold overnight tofu. Fortunately, the neighbors around them trusted them, and their business was not affected much because of the good reputation they had accumulated from selling tofu.
Seeing that his first plan failed, Guo Yongshun came up with another idea. He made up some fictitious stories to ruin Tofu Xishi's reputation.
He said that she and he had been having an affair for a long time, and his words sounded so convincing that Tofu Xishi was so ashamed and angry that she didn't dare to go out.
Later, she couldn't get over it anymore and just found a rope and hung herself at the door of Guo Yongshun's house. If her fiancé hadn't been worried about her and secretly guarded her door, she would have died.
This incident almost resulted in a loss of life, so Tofu Xishi and her family reported the matter to the authorities. People from Jingzhao Prefecture came to investigate and confirmed that it was Guo Yongshun who spread the rumor and almost caused a loss of life, so they arrested him and locked him up for half a year.
Tofu Xishi also married the butcher during that half year. Guo Yongshun was released half a year later. He didn't dare to make trouble again and lived a peaceful life for a while.
Later, he worked as a thug for a gambling house and caused trouble for others, allowing the people in Chunshui Hutong to live a peaceful life for a while.
However, Guo Yongshun soon started to cause trouble again. Although he had no shortage of money, he still couldn't stop stealing. He would go to one house today and another house tomorrow.
The person who was harassed couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to report to the police. However, as soon as he said this, he was beaten up by Guo Yongshun and his thugs, and his house was smashed.
He also threatened them, saying that the gambling house owner valued him very much and that there was a big shot standing behind the owner, so it would be useless for them to report to the police.
Those people were frightened by what Guo Yongshun said. They all knew that the people should not fight against the officials. Although this man was not an official at all, he had someone behind him, so they endured it.
Guo Yongshun gradually became more and more excessive. Today he took a chicken, tomorrow he stole a fish, and the day after tomorrow he stole silver.
What's even more outrageous is that he took away a family's life-saving money, causing the family's old mother to pass away without even a coffin for burial. The neighbors couldn't bear to see this, so they each contributed some money and prepared a thin coffin.
And the son who lost his old mother was the one who said that if he hadn't cared about the old and young in his family, he would have fought with Guo Yongshun.
After listening to what the clerk had inquired about, Shen Shixu realized that this was a murder in passion and the real murderer was in Chunshui Hutong.
He looked at Jiang Bin, who had been there for a while and was listening in, and Zhang Ming, who had been involved in the case, and asked them, "Who do you think is the murderer?"
Zhang Ming said as a matter of course: "It must be the man who murdered his mother. The hatred for killing his mother is irreconcilable, and he himself said that he wanted to fight Guo Yongshun."
After listening to what he said, Shen Shixu looked at Jiang Bin again, "What do you think?"
Jiang Bin and Zhang Ming have the opposite idea. "I don't think it's that person. He has concerns and is worried that his family will not do such an irrational thing."
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