Chapter 2920 Interrogation 2
Bai Shan asked, "Who proposed to rob Xiaoliu Village?"
"Jia Dalang, he said Xiaoliu Village is remote. If we go in and guard the intersection, the people inside won't be able to get out."
Bai Shan saw that he had stopped and asked, "What else?"
The other party shifted uneasily and said, "He said they robbed Xiaoliu Village once before, and nothing happened."
Seeing that he was silent again, Bai Shan asked, "He robbed once. When did he do it?"
"I don't know. He didn't say anything specific. He just said that he and Dazhu were able to pay off their gambling debts by stealing some things from Xiaoliu Village."
Bai Shan frowned. Why is there a gambling debt involved here?
He asked, "Who were the people who robbed Xiaoliu Village the first time?"
"I know there's Feng Dazhu, his two brothers, and Feng Dashan as well. They're basically from Dajing Village and Xiaojing Village, but I don't know their specific names."
"Who do you know about the robbery of Xiaoliu Village that year ago?"
The other party paused and then listed more than ten names, saying, "These are the only ones I know."
"How did you know about them?"
"I saw it," he said matter-of-factly. "Jia Dalang gathered a dozen of us together and told us about it. We all get along well and are familiar with each other. It was because they all agreed that I agreed to go."
Bai Shan nodded and signaled the clerk to write down the names. It would depend on whether the next confession would be repeated. If not, these people would most likely be the ones.
Bai Shan asked, "Besides looting Xiaoliu Village, which other villages have you robbed?"
"No," the other party said immediately, "We dared to go to Xiaoliu Village because it is in the mountains and there are few people in the village. If it were any other village, we would never dare to do that."
Bai Shan asked, "Where is that person?"
The other party was silent for a moment and then said, "There are a few."
"When, where, and who was robbed?"
The other party mentioned two people. When he mentioned the second person, there was some commotion in the crowd. One person couldn't help but shout, "Sir, I know the person he is talking about. He is my cousin. He is a peddler. He went out to sell things in February this year and never came back."
Bai Shan's face darkened, and he slammed the gavel and asked the people in the hall, "You robbed the peddler, but where is the peddler?"
"He's dead, but we didn't kill him. He fell to his death," the other man said. "We only tried to steal his money, but he didn't give us all and actually kept it for himself. When he saw we were trying to find him, he turned and ran. We chased him to the edge of the slope, but he lost his balance and fell off the slope, hitting a rock and dying. It's none of our fault."
Bai Shan was so angry that his hands were shaking. He slammed the gavel and said, "How dare you! If you hadn't robbed and chased him, would he have fallen to his death? This has nothing to do with you."
After getting angry, he realized that this was not a good idea, so he had to suppress his anger and asked calmly, "Who were the people who followed you to rob?"
The other party reported three names, all from their village, and they usually hung out together.
Bai Shan asked: "Anything else? Besides robbing these two people, what other bad things have you done?"
"No more," seeing Bai Shan's unbelieving look, the other party quickly said, "Really no more, but I don't know whether they have any."
Bai Shan slammed the gavel and said, "Take that person away and replace him with someone else."
The next person happened to be the one confessed by the person who had just appeared in court. When the two passed each other, one of them lowered his head, and the other glared at the other fiercely.
It was obvious that he had just heard the other party's confession.
Therefore, he was straightforward from the start, kneeling on the ground and saying, "Yes, it was Jia Dalang who asked us to go. He said that after the incident was completed, he would have people guard the people in Xiaoliu Village to prevent them from coming out to report the crime, and told us not to be afraid."
"Sir, what he said just now is wrong. He not only robbed two people, but also robbed an entire caravan..."
The onlookers were in an uproar. The more they listened, the more they felt that they were a group of scum. Not only did they steal and bully their neighbors on a daily basis, but they also sometimes went to the market to collect so-called protection fees and robbed passing caravans and peddlers.
He is simply doing all kinds of evil.
Bai Shan waited until he finished confessing before asking, "Someone just confessed that Jia Dalang robbed to pay off his gambling debts. Does he gamble?"
"I gambled a lot. When I had money, I gambled. When I didn't have money, I borrowed money at interest to gamble."
Bai Shan asked in a deep voice, "Did you gamble at the gambling house in the county town?"
"No, the county town is too far away, and the capital is too high. How can we come here to gamble? We all gamble at the market."
Bai Shan asked about the matter in detail, and after he had asked what he knew, he brought the subject back to the topic, "Do you know who was involved in the looting?"
He also called out the names of more than a dozen people, two more than the previous person. He said, "Even though everyone's faces were covered at the time, I still recognized them. I often see them at the big market. We bumped into each other in Xiaoliu Village, and we knew who we were the moment we saw each other."
Bai Shan nodded and asked the clerk to write it down. Then he asked, "Besides robbing Xiaoliu Village, what other evil things have you done?"
There are too many people involved this time. Even if Bai Shan can interrogate eight people a day, it will take about ten days.
Moreover, sometimes we encounter some special suspects who ask a lot of questions or talk a lot, and it will take at least one or two hours to finish the interrogation.
Therefore, sometimes only four people could be interrogated in a day.
Therefore, the news spread very widely. Not only did the people in the county town rush to watch, but old people and young people from various villages in the countryside also came to listen to the trial. Finally, people even came from Qingzhou City to watch.
Anyway, it’s not very far. Some people rushed to Beihai County early in the morning and could return to Qingzhou City after watching the trial in the afternoon.
Some people found it too troublesome and simply found an inn to stay in Beihai County. They would get up every morning, walk around the stalls in front of the county government office, have breakfast, and then go to wait for the trial. Sometimes they couldn't squeeze in and had to pay to buy a seat.
At first, he could still buy a seat, but later he found that even a bunch of money couldn't buy a front-row seat. He could only get up early in the morning to queue up, and then rush in with the crowd as soon as the county government gate opened...
With so many people watching for such a long time, it greatly stimulated the development of catering on the street in front of the county government office.
Even Zhou Man was jealous and said to Bai Shan, "I wonder when this scene appeared in front of my hospital."
Bai Shan: "...That's a good thing?"
"Why not? That means more people are seeking medical help when they're sick, rather than just having to endure it."
Bai Shan thought about it and realized it was true.
Zhou Man and Bai Shan squatted on the threshold of the corner gate to eat lunch, watching the bustle of the street outside. They asked, "How many people do you still have to interrogate?"
"There are still eighteen," Bai Shan said. "We've found out that four of them were mistakenly arrested. But they're not very honest either. They've been involved in a lot of sneaky things. Otherwise, Captain Jia wouldn't have put them on the list."
But Bai Shan was still very law-abiding. Although he had committed some thefts, the government would not investigate unless the people reported him. So Bai Shan criticized and educated the four people he had found and then let them go.
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(End of this chapter)
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