Song Yi collapsed to the ground, powerless, and was eventually found out by the officials.
He felt a sense of relief at that moment. He hadn't rested well these past few days, and had been thinking about whether to go to the yamen to tell what he had seen. At first, he really didn't think that Ye Cuiru would kill Xie Yun. He just thought that Ye Cuiru might be trying to scare Xie Yun, or that she hadn't done anything to Xie Yun at all.
He only watched Xie Yun get into the car with Ye Cuiru, and the two seemed to be chatting and laughing.
Until he heard that the Xie family had reported the case to the yamen, until he saw the flower, he only thought that Ye Cuiru had hidden Xie Yun away, that the woman was jealous, that he liked Xie Yun and wanted to punish her, until the day before yesterday when a corpse was found at the bottom of their well, and the yamen officials brought the body up and he went to take a look.
Xie Yun is dead.
He couldn't describe how he felt at the time. For the past two days, it felt like a heavy stone was hanging over his heart, but now, that stone had finally been lifted.
When he came to his senses, Gu Xin was no longer in the cell, and he was covered in cold sweat.
The jailer took him to a solitary cell and told him to stay there quietly, and he was calm at that moment.
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Soon, the Ye family was arrested and taken to the Jingzhao Prefecture. The prefect, who had not been notified, found out by now, but did not hold a court hearing.
The prefect still entrusted the matter to Gu Xin. He had never handled this case from the beginning; it was all done by Gu Xin. A prefect who could serve in the capital must be able to read people's expressions and was particularly good at understanding the thoughts of those above him. Therefore, when Gu Xin did not ask anyone to call him, he pretended not to know and continued to work in his room. The capital was so big that there was more than just this one case; there were many other miscellaneous matters that he had to do.
Gu Xin had the Ye family members taken to an interrogation room, and the five members of the family were called in one by one.
Gu Xin asked them again about what they had said the night before, asking them to tell her what their whole family had been doing from the seventh day of the lunar new year until the day the body was found. She said this was the last chance. Anyone who concealed anything would be punished for obstructing the work of the government, regardless of the final outcome. The punishment would range from twenty strokes of the cane to being detained for half a month.
The Ye couple really did seem unaware of the situation, saying the same things as they had the night before.
Ye Cuiru's brother and sister-in-law hesitated before saying that Ye Cuiru had gone out on the afternoon of the seventh day and returned after nightfall, but they did not know where she had gone and she would not say when asked.
The last question was asked to Priscilla Ye.
Ye Cuiru was still shy and timid. She answered Gu Xin's questions one by one. She admitted that she had seen Xie Yun on the seventh day of the month, but she only escorted Xie Yun home. Since Manzhu was not there, she wanted to go out of the city to buy some things, so she drove the family's carriage out of the city.
Gu Xin asked her why she said she was going to deliver something when she left the city.
Ye Cuiru calmly explained that she usually went out of the city to deliver things for her brother and sister-in-law. She knew all the soldiers who came and went, and they knew her too, so she continued to record things as before.
Before Gu Xin could ask, she took the initiative to say that she entered the city from the West Gate because they lived here and it was closer to the West Gate. She was taking Xie Yun home, and the Xie family lived closer to the East Gate, so she went out from the east. The place where she sold things was in a village in the south of the capital, so she chose to enter from the east.
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