Chapter 708 Recruitment
"You are talking nonsense. Mr. Liu doesn't like persimmon cakes at all. Previously, a tenant farmer gave Mr. Liu some persimmon cakes made from sun-dried persimmons from his tree. Although he accepted them, as soon as the tenant farmer left, Mr. Liu gave the persimmon cakes to a street vendor."
Wang San, who was watching on the side, came out and pointed at Huang Shiwu and said.
"Yes, we both saw it. If Mr. Liu really liked persimmon cakes, why would he give them to others?"
The three of them were inseparable, so the witnesses were counted as three.
"How would I know whether he likes it or not? I just picked some food to garnish the dishes." Huang Shiwu was still arguing.
"Really? It just happens to be used as a garnish in this dish?" Meng Bujiu sneered and glanced at him sharply.
He remembers better than anyone whether persimmon shreds are put in the dish.
"You still won't tell the truth? These are fifty-two lives! Do you think I will let you go so easily? Come on, send him to the government office. The punishment will make him talk!"
With his biological father away, Meng Bujiu, as the son, is the most qualified person to give orders to the officials.
These officials also listened to him.
Who made him the prefect's biological son?
"Humph, fifty-two lives, are they human beings?" Unexpectedly, Huang Shiwu died before the people were dragged away.
Meng Bujiu and Jiang Fubao looked at each other.
Both of their eyes were bigger than before.
Seems shocked.
"Tell the truth and I'll bury your body intact." This case could not be delayed any longer, so Meng Bujiu spoke again.
Huang Shiwu felt completely relaxed, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders.
"Well, I said, I can't run away anyway. I thought the most dangerous place is the least likely to be caught. It seems that the storyteller is a liar. I really believed his lies. If I had run away earlier, I would have been thousands of miles away. With my ability, I can live in the mountains as a bandit. Oh, my life."
Huang Shiwu laughed at himself.
He twisted his neck, making a crackling sound.
After laughing enough, he continued, "I was the one who killed all the people in the Liu family, including these livestock. They deserve to die! Do you think this Mr. Liu is a good person?
Oh, he has done so many evil things. Do you know why the Liu family's pigs are so fat? He chopped up all those troublesome tenants and fed them to the pigs. And the dogs are all greasy and shiny after eating them. Tsk, tsk, what are these man-eating beasts doing in the world? "
Huang Shiwu raised the corners of his mouth and smiled ghostly.
Jiang Fubao instantly felt a chill on the back of his neck.
"Who wouldn't praise the dishes I cook within a hundred miles? I used to run a stall in the city. Liu Gou ate my dishes, pretended to be poisoned, and captured me. He forced me to work as a chef in his restaurant, otherwise he would send me to the government. I was scared.
I have no parents since I was a child. I learned cooking from my master. I haven't made much money yet, so how could I go to jail? I haven't married Qian'er yet. I promised to marry her. Haha, Qian'er, my Qian'er, it's all this Liu Gou! It was him. He took a fancy to my Qian'er. Seeing her beauty, he took her as a concubine with a gift of 40 taels.
Qian'er was forced by him to hang herself under the big tree of the Liu family. I was just three taels short of fifty taels. It would cost forty taels to marry Qian'er, and the remaining ten taels would be enough for me to take her far away, even if I had to set up a stall and rent a house to make a living. It was my greed that killed Qian'er just to save ten more taels——"
When Huang Shiwu talked about the sad things, he knelt on the ground and cried loudly.
It is said that men have tears, but they don't shed them easily.
Huang Shiwu cried like a baby.
Tears and snot mixed together to form a "crystal pendant".
The "hanging" was sometimes long and sometimes short as he breathed.
"Forty taels of betrothal gift? When did the betrothal gift in our Ruling Prefecture become so high?" An official who had just been married a few months ago asked him curiously.
When he got married before, he only gave a dowry of three or two taels, and even this was already considered a lot.
His father-in-law and mother-in-law were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling.
"Qian'er was born beautiful, but her parents were evil-hearted and wanted to sell her to a brothel. The brothel offered her twenty taels of silver. With Qian'er's looks, she could be an imperial courtesan. Qian'er and I had known each other for a long time. I knelt at her house for three days and three nights before I begged her parents to wait for me to save enough money. Haha, I would have been willing to pay even if it doubled. It was my greed that killed Qian'er just to save ten more taels of silver.
Liu Gou, this bastard, he deserves to die, he forced my Qian'er to death, he deserves to die, I cut off his head and hang it on that tree to commemorate my Qian'er, Qian'er, did you see that Brother Wu has helped you get revenge, you guys go to Kaoshan Village outside the city, the corpse of the Xu family must have been rotten a long time ago. "
Huang Shiwu's expression was a little crazy.
At the end, he cried and laughed.
Meng Bujiu thought to himself that this was not good.
"Go to Kaoshan Village quickly and invite Dad back." He ordered the officers.
I'm afraid that the Xu family mentioned by this chef was also wiped out.
But why didn’t anyone come to report to the police?
Huang Shiwu was soon taken to the dungeon.
Jiang Fubao also returned to the government office and rested in the right wing room which had been vacant for many years.
By the time it got dark, everyone had finished their meal.
Meng Zhili and Meng Bujiu did not come back either.
Jiang Fubao went to bed early. Perhaps she was too tired from the long journey, so she slept until noon.
I read a book in the house for the whole morning. When I was having lunch, Dong Qingyi came back.
The mother and daughter simply went shopping on the street for an entire afternoon and bought a lot of new clothes and jewelry.
When he returned to the government office, he saw Meng Zhili and his son sitting in the main hall.
"Godfather, Brother Bujiu, you are finally back. By the way, what happened? Is he the murderer? Does he have accomplices?" Jiang Fubao asked hurriedly without even having time to drink the water.
"Yes, we have already found out that he is the only murderer. Not only the Liu family, but also the ten members of the Xu family he mentioned were killed. However, the bodies were neatly placed in the house. In addition, the Xu family had bad relationships and lived in a remote place. Only his family built a house at the foot of the mountain with the door closed, so the villagers thought they were not there."
Meng Bujiu answered her question.
"That's not right. How could he kill so many people in such a short time by himself? Also, was there no one in the Liu family who resisted?"
Jiang Fubao's face was full of confusion.
"The dishes he cooked were really delicious, especially the chicken with lotus leaves. Everyone in the Liu family ate them and their bodies became weak. How could they have the strength to resist? A child could have kicked them down with one foot. In addition, most of them were drunk and even more confused, so no one escaped."
Meng Bujiu spoke slowly.
"Such precious things, the servants also ate them? Mr. Liu was willing to do so?" Jiang Fubao began to ask again.
"Well, because it was expensive, Huang Shiwu gave them a bowl, saying it was for a taste, and everyone was eager to eat it all. After the New Year's Eve dinner, it was almost an hour before they started to have an attack."