At this moment, the coroner's apprentice brought out a wad of blood-stained cloth. Before Lord Li could ask, the coroner said, "Sir, this was found on the woman's body. It was probably used to stop the bleeding... It's been there for a while, and it's practically fused to her skin. Although the blood isn't flowing out, the woman still died from excessive blood loss."
Before Lord Li could even process what was happening, he heard the man shout, "It was this woman who killed my wife!"
At this point, Lord Li disregarded all other clues and said directly, "This person died five days ago. One item was missing from his body, and a rag was attached to his body, which shows that it didn't grow there in the last five days, but five days ago. How can you still say that someone else killed him?"
Even though he wasn't a coroner, he knew that once a person is dead, their wounds will not heal.
Things that can grow together must have gone through a long period of time to achieve this!
"Now, even if Bai Nuo hasn't produced any evidence to prove she didn't kill anyone, it has already shown that your wife's death has nothing to do with her. Now, I will open a separate case to find out who killed your wife. Bai, you can go back now!"
Bai Nuo remained kneeling, unmoving. Seeing that she wouldn't leave, Lord Li couldn't help but say, "What? Do you want to go to jail?"
"Sir, have you forgotten?" Bai Nuo laughed. "I still have a case to solve."
The police chief went to arrest the people involved in this fraud case, and he hasn't returned yet.
Lord Li then remembered that Bai Nuo had another case on his mind.
But seeing that the head constable might return at any time, he immediately said, "Let's leave it at that for now, court adjourns! We'll hear your case again when Head Constable Li returns!" said Lord Li.
"Thank you, sir!"
"Wait!" Lord Li stopped the man as he tried to leave. "You can't leave yet. The circumstances surrounding your wife's death are suspicious. Although the murderer hasn't been found, you, as a relative, are highly suspicious. Therefore, you will be temporarily imprisoned!"
The man immediately cried out that he was innocent, but Lord Li refused to listen to him.
Seeing that the court session was over, Li Jinyu walked to Bai Nuo's side. Bai Nuo said to Li Jinyu, "Ms. Li, thank you so much. If it weren't for your testimony, things wouldn't have gone so smoothly!"
“I came because I actually saw it!” Li Jinyu said.
However, Bai Nuo was still very grateful to Li Jinyu.
Neither of them mentioned what Bai Nuo said on the field. Whether they were friends or not, they knew it in their hearts.
Seeing the worry still on Bai Nuo's face, Li Jinyu said, "Don't worry, my father is a good official, and Cheng Putou is a reliable person. He won't let a single prisoner escape!"
Bai Nuo nodded, accepting Li Jinyu's words of comfort.
Because everyone was in town, although there were more people, they couldn't leave because the distance wasn't far. They could only wait in the back hall of the government office.
They waited until it got dark.
That day, Bai Nuo only ate one meal, which was delivered by Qinghe and Jiang San Niang.
As darkness fell, Constable Cheng finally returned, followed by a long line of men, a dark mass of them.
A row of people were kneeling in the lobby, making it as lively as a vegetable market.
Lord Li looked at this group of people and immediately felt a headache coming on.
This must be the biggest fraud case in town.
Since Hu Mingmei and the others didn't have much to do with the case, they didn't come out. Only Bai Nuo and a group of women were kneeling below.
"Bai!" Lord Li exclaimed, "Isn't this the person who defrauded you?!"
Bai Nuo nodded and said loudly, "Yes, they cheated me out of my money!"
"You're talking nonsense! When did we lie to you?" Someone retorted loudly as soon as Bai Nuo finished speaking.
"That's right, I don't even know you!"
"Yes, sir, what have we done wrong? Why have we been arrested? We're innocent!"
"Because you were accused, I arrested you. Whether you are innocent or not, we'll find out in the first trial. Now, quiet down! Anyone who speaks again will be punished with a beating!" Lord Li said in a deep voice, slamming his gavel. "Bai, you said they cheated you. How did they cheat you out of your money?"
"They brought defective goods to me to return, trying to cheat me out of money by passing off inferior goods as superior ones!" Bai Nuo said in a deep voice. "These people all said they bought things from my Treasure Pavilion, and that the things they bought were all broken. They also wrote receipts saying they received refunds from me!" Bai Nuo paused, then said loudly under the women's frightened gazes, "The receipts are the ones I just showed the master!"
As soon as Bai Nuo finished speaking, someone immediately spoke up, "Your stuff is indeed broken. We bought broken stuff, can't we return it? Are we supposed to keep using broken stuff? How is returning goods considered cheating? If you had said earlier that we couldn't return things, we definitely wouldn't have gone to return them!"
Lord Li also felt that what the woman said made sense. "That's right, Madam Bai, you should definitely return defective items!"
Bai Nuo said in a deep voice, "It's okay to return things that aren't good, but the problem lies in the timing of the purchase. Sir, please look at the receipt above and see when it says you came here to buy things?"
So Lord Li lowered his head and looked at each one one by one. After he finished, he said, "They're all from May. Is there a problem?"
"I haven't even opened Duobaoge in May yet!" Bai Nuo said.
The multi-treasure pavilion hadn't even opened in May, so there was no opportunity to buy anything.
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