Chapter 61 Interrogation (I)

"Miss Shen, please tell me what happened before again."

"Okay." Shen Yuan nodded to Xie Hui and first told him about how they went to the back mountain today and found the corpse.

The two of them were sitting face to face across a table in a room in the Dali Temple that was used for daily witness interrogations, with a clerk next to them who was responsible for taking notes.

The discovery of the corpse is a relatively simple matter, and there is not much to say. It can be explained in a few sentences. The key point is that she met the suspect on the road later.

The person is still unconscious and cannot be interrogated for the time being, so his identity as a suspect has not actually been confirmed yet.

At least that's how it looks to others.

"My father was going to Du'e Temple for questioning, so I went down the mountain with Qingdai and Baizhi. The man came from behind us. I saw that he was wearing a hood even in the hot weather, so I took a closer look and found that he seemed to be a monk. I thought that my father was still questioning in the temple, so why would a monk quietly go down the mountain? I wanted to stop him and ask him. But before I could open my mouth, he started to fight with Baizhi."

Most of the words in this sentence are true, so Shen Yuan said it without blushing or feeling nervous.

Shen Yuan's words sounded fine, but Xie recalled the incident when she had exposed an unscrupulous matchmaker on the street and what the people from the Road Department had said, and she began to explore the matter unconsciously.

"Since he was wearing a hood, how did you know he was a monk in the temple?"

"Maybe he walked too fast when he went down the mountain, his hood was a little loose, and I saw that he had no hair, and there seemed to be a scar on his head from monk's ordination." Shen Yuan answered calmly. Anyway, whether he saw it or not was known only to God and the earth, and Xie Hui had no way to verify it.

Xie Hui nodded slightly and didn't dwell on this question any more. "Did you hit him on the back of the head?"

"I smashed it..." Shen Yuan was just thinking, if that person couldn't wake up, wouldn't she and Bai Zhi become criminals? That would be too not worth it.

"I just wanted to ask him why he came out of the temple, but he attacked us before we could say anything. I saw that Bai Zhi was a little overwhelmed, so I picked up a stone and hit him in a hurry. Sir Xie, can he wake up?"

Shen Yuan was brought here just now, and she didn't even have time to talk to her father alone, so naturally she didn't know that the man's injuries were not serious.

"The doctor in the Dali Temple examined him and said that his injuries were not serious and he should wake up soon, but..."

Shen Yuan was about to breathe a sigh of relief when she heard Xie Hui's tone change. Her heart, which had been half relieved, rose back into her throat again.

"If he is really the murderer, he may refuse to confess after waking up and accuse you of assault instead."

What Xie Hui said is entirely possible. If that person is indeed a murder suspect, the murder happened two or three years ago, and many clues may have disappeared long ago.

It is not easy to investigate a case like this.

Shen Yuan unconsciously slumped her shoulders. She couldn't produce any evidence to prove that the man was the murderer. But her father was the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple after all, and she couldn't just watch his daughter go to jail.

Shen Yuan was thinking about whether she should find an opportunity to meet that person again and try to hear something, such as the crime process, the murderer, etc. As long as there were any clues, she could tell her father and let her father find it out.

"Master Xie, based on my relationship with Master Shen, can I be assigned the best cell?"

“Pfft… cough cough cough…!”

The clerk who was in charge of taking notes couldn't help laughing when he heard Shen Yuan's words.

"Do you want to remember these words too?" Shen Yuan looked at Xie Hui.

Xie Hui coughed lightly and said, "I won't remember that." He asked the clerk to bring the written document over and then let him go.

The man closed the door when he went out. When Xie Hui saw this, he got up and opened the door again.

"Miss Shen, don't worry. The man's injuries were not serious, and he was the first to attack because of passers-by. You can completely regard the injury you inflicted on him as self-defense."

Xie replied in a gentle tone, and the words that came out of his mouth were unreasonably convincing.

Shen Yuan narrowed his eyes and smiled to express his gratitude to Xie Hui. "Thank you very much, sir. I will study the Dazhao Code carefully after returning home today."

"Xie Shaoqing, the suspect has woken up! Shen Shaoqing asked his subordinate to tell you."

Now that the person is awake, he can be interrogated. Xie Hui immediately stood up and looked at Shen Yuan who was still sitting.

"Do you want to go and see it?"

"Can I watch?" Of course Shen Yuan wanted to watch the trial of the prisoner. She knew that the trials in the Dali Temple were open to the public. But she didn't know that she was the one who beat that man. Could she watch it?

"Of course."

"Okay, I'll go." Shen Yuan immediately stood up from the chair and excitedly followed Xie Hui.

"Dad!" Shen Yuan saw Shen Yun standing outside the court from a distance and waved to him excitedly.

When the two people came closer, Shen Yun bowed in thanks and then pulled his daughter aside to question her.

"Why are you here?"

"Master Xie asked me if I wanted to see the trial of the prisoners, so I came." Then Shen Yuan whispered her thoughts to her father, wanting to hear if there were any other clues.

"Be more reserved. Look, your mouth is stretched all the way to your ears." Shen Yun nodded helplessly at his daughter's head.

"Oh, Dad, you are being mean again. I just want to see the prisoner being tried. Please go over quickly. They are waiting."

"Thank you, sir. Why don't you preside over today's case? Manman is my daughter, and she is the one who caught the man. I should avoid suspicion."

Xie Hui had no objection to being the chief judge. He had not been in the Dali Temple for long and had not tried many cases. Being the chief judge was also a training for him.

In the court, Xie Hui sat in the center of the platform as the presiding judge, and Shen Yun sat at the bottom. Also present were the chief judge of the Dali Temple, the chief clerk, and others.

Shen Yuan felt that she stood out among them, so she simply borrowed some clothes, dressed up as a maid serving tea in the Dali Temple, and stood aside openly. This way, if she discovered anything, she could tell her father while pouring tea.

As Xie Hui had guessed, the man came up to the hall, knelt down and said, "I am a monk from Du'e Temple. I was attacked by two female thieves on the mountain road today. I hope you can see clearly."

[It's so unlucky that I can be found after being dead for three years.]

Now there is no evidence, as long as I don't admit it, what can the government do to me? 】

The female thief, Shen Yuan, was standing in the hall at this moment, staring at the man's profile, becoming even more certain that he was the murderer.

"Mingwu, a corpse was found on Yunxia Mountain. Everyone in the temple should cooperate with the Dali Temple in questioning. Why did you rush down the mountain?"

"Amitābha, I don't know about this. Before I left the mountain, I didn't see any officials from the Dali Temple coming."

[I don’t know where those two nosy women came from! ]

"Why did you come down the mountain?"

Mingwu still looked like a hermit monk. "Monks in my temple go down the mountain to beg for alms every month. This is why I, a poor monk, go down the mountain."