Cai Song couldn't help but look at the Fourth Prince again. The Sixth Prince said, "Why does this murderer keep looking at Fourth Brother? Is he trying to get some clues from you?"
The Fourth Prince said, "Sixth brother, you're joking. The reason he looked at me was probably because he was frightened by my capture."
The Seventh Prince said: "Fourth and Sixth Brothers, please don't delay Lord Sun's trial."
The Fourth Prince and the Sixth Prince then stopped talking.
Cai Song stammered as he recounted his story: "The first person I killed was Zhou Hong. That day, I was selling oranges on the street with a shoulder pole, and the oranges accidentally spilled. When I went to pick them up, Zhou Hong deliberately stepped on the oranges and crushed them, and the juice splashed everywhere..."
He stuttered a bit at the beginning, but became more fluent as he spoke, and an expression of indignation appeared on his face.
It looks very real.
Xue Huan could tell that what Cai Song said about the oranges being crushed by Zhou Hong was true.
In fact, Cai Song did not lie about this matter. He was talking about his own personal experience.
The Fourth Prince investigated for half a month and found that it was very difficult to find the real murderer, so he came up with an idea to find a scapegoat to take the blame. This scapegoat had to have some grudge against the deceased and had to be willing to take the blame for money.
The Fourth Prince was not able to find the real murderer, but he was very efficient in finding a scapegoat and he found it very quickly. It was Cai Song who was kneeling in the court and confessing his guilt.
Under coercion and inducement, Cai Song agreed to take the blame, and thus the Fourth Prince captured the real murderer.
Isn't the Fourth Prince afraid of doing this? Will the real murderer come out and commit crimes to expose him?
He did have such concerns, but he had already thought of a way out. If Cai Song confessed and was arrested, and the real murderer came out to commit crimes again, he would let Cai Song put all the blame on the real murderer, saying that he came out to take the blame under the threat of the real murderer.
The reason is ready-made. The real murderer is afraid of being caught, so he temporarily finds a scapegoat to distract everyone's attention, so that the officials can relax their vigilance and it will be easier for him to commit crimes again.
Although it is a bit far-fetched, if Cai Song insisted on saying this, others would have to believe it because no one could confront the real murderer.
If we are lucky, the real murderer will really stop killing people, then Cai Song is the real murderer!
The fourth prince will be able to become the crown prince by catching the real murderer!
Judging from the results, the benefits far outweighed the risks, so he did it without hesitation. He was even afraid that others would come up with this method and get ahead of him, so he dealt with Cai Song as quickly as possible.
At the beginning, after Cai Song explained his motive for killing Zhou Hong, Jingzhao Yin asked the most crucial question: "How did you kill Zhou Hong?"
Cai Song: "I climbed over the Zhou family's courtyard wall at night, went to Zhou Hong's study, knocked the servant unconscious, and smothered him while he was sleeping. Thinking of his arrogant face that day, I was filled with hatred. I peeled off his face and quietly escaped back home along the way I came."
Jingzhao Yin: "Come, call Zhou Hong's servant."
Soon, the servant was brought to the court. "Did you notice anything on the night your young master was murdered?"
The servant shook his head.
"Then did you know that you were drugged?"
"Drugs? How is that possible? I was half asleep and half awake during the night watch, ready to get up and serve the young master at any time. I definitely wasn't drugged."
Cai Song: "You didn't even notice your young master was killed, how can you be sure you weren't drugged?"
"This..." The servant was at a loss for words.
After hearing this, Xue Huan felt that there was no need to listen any further and winked at Xiao Jue.
Xiao Jue understood and stood up: "No need to interrogate him, Cai Song is not the murderer at all."
The Fourth Prince said, "Fifth Brother, why do you say that? The murderer himself has confessed to it, and his modus operandi is consistent with the records in the files. It is clearly him."
Xiao Jue: "Because, the murderer has been caught by me."
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole hall fell silent, and then the people outside the court who were watching the trial were in an uproar.
"The Fourth Prince said he caught the murderer, and the Fifth Prince also said he caught the murderer. Could it be that there are two more murderers?"
"How is that possible? There is only one murderer, the Fourth Prince and the Fifth Prince. One of them must be a fake!"
"Where is the murderer that the Fifth Prince caught?"
The Jingzhao Yin slammed the gavel and said, "Silence! No noise is allowed in the courtroom!"
Everyone fell silent, but their eyes were filled with doubts and they urgently needed answers.
Jingzhao Yin: "Fifth Prince, since you said you caught the murderer, where is he?"
Xiao Jue took the scroll from Xue Huan, who was temporarily acting as his attendant, and unfolded it. The scroll suddenly poured down like a waterfall, and the beauty in the painting appeared in front of everyone.
"The murderer is the demon in this painting."
The hall fell silent again. Suddenly, the Fourth Prince sneered, "Fifth brother, even if you're eager to catch the murderer, you can't fool us with a painting. What about the demon in the painting? Where in the world are there demons?"
In order to maintain his dignity and majesty, Emperor Jinghuan kept the fact that the fox demon possessed the concubine and sucked away his dragon energy strictly secret. Even Prince Ning was silenced, so the matter of the fox demon did not spread outside the palace, and several princes were unaware of it.
As for demons and monsters, they all think they are fictitious.
Xiao Jue was not in a hurry to prove it to everyone, but looked at Xue Huan. Xue Huan took out several other paintings that she had drawn before and asked the yamen runners holding water and fire sticks on both sides of the court to help hold them.
A total of ten people died. The yamen runner on the left was holding the portraits of these ten people, and the yamen runner on the right was holding the ten pictures of beauties that had appeared at the crime scene.
Zhou Hong's servant pointed at the first painting of a beauty and exclaimed, "Isn't this the one that was in our young master's study?"
Jingzhao Yin's expression changed. "Really?"
The servant took a closer look and said with a firm expression, "Yes, this is the one."
Afterwards, witnesses related to the other nine cases were summoned to the court and identified the paintings of beauties one by one as the ones that had been hanging in the deceased's house.
Looking at the portraits of the dead opposite, everyone present felt a little frightened after the comparison.
If only one or two paintings of beauties appeared at the crime scene, it could be considered a coincidence. However, if every crime scene had a painting of a beauty with a similar aura, then it could not be considered a coincidence.
What’s even more bizarre is that the beauties in these pictures all look somewhat similar to the deceased.
This, too, cannot be explained by coincidence.
At this time, everyone looked at the picture of the beauty in Xiao Jue's hand again, and they were terrified when they thought about it carefully.
Xiao Jue knocked on the scroll and said, "Come out."
What comes out?
The next moment, something happened that shocked everyone.
Suddenly, a beautiful woman whose gender was hard to tell walked out of the painting and smiled gently at everyone.
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