Meng Shijie saw Ning Jiang running to the cell door with a head full of cow dung, and stretched out his hand to reach him.
He was so frightened that he stepped back two feet.
He picked his ears, flicked the earwax from his fingernails, and smelled the stench of cow dung in his face.
“Ugh~”
"You don't have to kill me, I'm almost dying of your stink."
Meng Shijie didn't want to smell the shit anymore. He felt refreshed after achieving his goal, so he turned around and went back to sleep.
When Ning Jiang saw Meng Shijie leave like this, he was so angry that his eyes turned red, and the food on his head fell into his mouth.
Then there was a deafening sound of vomiting.
One day and one night was enough for the county magistrate to investigate Ning Jiang thoroughly.
Also in Ning Jiang's home, a will recommending the Kaifeng County magistrate was found, and the person recommended was Ning Jiang.
The recommender position was also stamped with his personal seal.
The county magistrate had never written such a will of recommendation, nor had he ever stamped such a letter.
Seeing this, there was no need for further questioning. Once he connected it with what happened in the past two days, he understood.
Ning Jiang wanted him to die accidentally, and then use the letter of recommendation with his personal seal to obtain the position of county magistrate.
However, Ning Jiang's plan was discovered by Meng Shijie, so Ning Jiang wanted to kill the Meng family.
In the stove of Ning Jiang's house, they also found clothes and shoes that had not been burned completely, with blood stains on the soles of the shoes.
At this time, the coroner came to reopen the old woman's coffin for an autopsy.
“Sir, the old woman’s cause of death was definitely not being beaten to death.
There were no signs of serious injuries inside or outside the entire head, and there was no bleeding or damage.
It's more like dying of exhaustion."
(The ancient coroners were also very capable. I won’t go into details about how they performed the examinations, as I don’t know the main reason.
The plot requires it, so I won’t delve into it)
"I understand. You can come when the court opens tomorrow morning.
Now go down and rest."
"yes!"
Early in the morning, before the Meng family had even had breakfast, they and Ning Jiang were taken to the yamen court.
Because Ning Jiang was the murderer, his hands were tied behind his back when he was brought up.
"Look what these are."
As soon as the county magistrate finished speaking, an officer placed all the evidence seized yesterday on a tray.
When Ning Jiang saw the shoe sole that had not been completely burned and the letter of recommendation that he had forged, his pupils suddenly shrank.
Knowing that the situation was hopeless, he didn't argue but he also didn't say anything.
The coroner read out his autopsy results again in public.
"...So the old woman wasn't beaten to death, and Chen Xiangyun is innocent."
Meng Shuyan was very happy after hearing this.
[My grandmother’s name is Chen Xiangyun, which sounds like a book.
Grandma is innocent, so do we have to return the gold hairpin and silver that we paid as compensation?]
Meng Shijie kept it in mind, thinking that if the county magistrate forgot, should he ask for it directly or be more tactful?
Even though Ning Jiang didn't say anything, the county magistrate still had a way to make him confess.
Just put on the finger clamp!
Even if Ning Jiang was tough, he couldn't stand the torture and confessed.
As soon as he opens his mouth he starts to output.
"Don't be so complacent, you bastard official. You will regret it one day!"
The county magistrate directly ordered fifty lashes of the cane first.
Ning Jiang cannot escape the death penalty.
The county magistrate also wanted to chop Ning Jiang down right away.
But since it involved the deaths of two migrants, he had to report it.
But the migration team can set off and continue on its journey.
The county magistrate did not give Meng Shijie a chance to ask for money.
Just ask the officer to bring the cleaned gold hairpin and silver.
"Thank you for saving me and helping me catch the real murderer."
As the county magistrate spoke, he took out another ten taels of silver.
"This is a little gift from me, please accept it."
These ten taels of silver were a huge sum of money for the county magistrate.
It was his wife who knew about this and gave it to him.
After Meng Shuyan saw the county magistrate thanking her father, a few golden lights flew from the sky, landed on her father's head and disappeared.
[Wow! So much golden light!]
It’s not easy for Dad, but finally he has received some merit.
All the bad luck has been driven away! 】
It’s these golden dots that are different from the time when my mother was possessed by the golden light of merit.
Mom's is gold threads, and dad's is dotted with golden light. Are boys and girls different?
No matter what, it's a good thing.
When the other members of the Meng family heard Fubao say that Meng Shijie had been blessed with golden light and his bad luck was gone, they were also happy.
This means that their family has survived this crisis.
It seems that we still need to do good things, and good people will be rewarded.
If Meng Shijie hadn't saved the county magistrate, the current county magistrate would probably be Ning Jiang.
Ning Jiang is definitely not a good person as he kills people at will to achieve his goals.
When Meng Shijie heard his daughter's thoughts, his mouth stretched from ear to ear.
He also accepted the ten taels of silver from the county magistrate.
"Thank you, sir. You are truly a righteous ruler. You will surely rise to higher positions!"
The county magistrate was also sincerely grateful to Meng Shijie.
He personally escorted several hundred people out of the Kaifeng city gate before returning to the yamen with peace of mind.
What the county magistrate never expected was that on the night he received the death sentence for Ning Jiang from his superiors, Ning Jiang escaped from prison and disappeared!
*
The migration team lost three more people, leaving only 683 people.
They rested in Kaifeng for three full days.
They walked very quickly under the urging of the thirty escorting officers.
Normally, I would only walk seven or eight miles in an hour.
In the past two days, they have walked twice as fast as before in one hour.
Nowadays, almost every family has a cattle cart, with the old and the young all on board.
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