Chapter 703 The Truth Comes Out
Zhou Biao originally thought that the other party was just pretending to scare him and didn't take it seriously at all.
But when the witness was brought into court, Zhou Biao couldn't remain calm.
Even his butler was brought along.
However, when Zhou Biao saw the butler, the nervousness in his heart was relieved a lot. He had already made up his mind that if he was really identified, he would put all the blame on the butler. After all, he was the one who asked the butler to do everything, and these people had never seen him, Zhou Biao.
Jia Yanbing had been secretly observing Zhou Biao's reactions from the side, and noticed all of Zhou Biao's changes.
Jia Yanbing sneered in his heart, then knelt quietly aside, knowing that the best was yet to come.
Shen Qingwen looked at the witnesses kneeling in the hall, asked their names and household registrations one by one, and then asked Zhou Biao.
"Zhou Biao, do you know these people?"
"Your Excellency, I don't know them. I have never seen them before."
Zhou Biao denied it straightforwardly, saying that he had indeed never seen these people.
"Have you seen this man?" Shen Qingwen asked several beggars and a local thug. This local thug was the man who was caught by Banxia and wanted to burn down the charity cemetery.
The beggars all shook their heads, but a small beggar suddenly jumped out, threw the butler to the ground and tried to strangle him to death.
The yamen runners immediately stepped forward to separate the two men and beat up the little beggar.
"Don't act rashly in court."
Shen Qingwen scolded with a cold face.
The little beggar was held down by the yamen runner, and his body was still twisting.
"Why did you hit someone? If you have any grudge, you can tell me and I will take care of it for you."
Shen Qingwen looked at the little beggar and slowed down his voice.
The little beggar then knelt down obediently and kowtowed to Shen Qingwen.
"Sir, please help me. My father was taken away by this man a month ago and never came back. Later I heard from other beggars that this man killed my father. Now I can't even see my father's body. I wanted to find this man to ask him, but I couldn't find him. Now I finally see him."
Shen Qingwen waved his hand, "Take him down to identify the body and see if his father is there."
The yamen runner stood up, carrying the little beggar, and went to the morgue.
Shen Qingwen then interrogated the housekeeper, "These beggars have pointed out that you took several beggars away, and those beggars have not returned. I will ask them to identify the bodies. If those bodies are the lost beggars, you are the main culprit who killed more than a dozen people and should be sentenced to death." After Shen Qingwen finished speaking, he slammed the gavel hard, and the housekeeper was so scared that he kowtowed quickly.
"My Lord, I am innocent. I was just following my master's orders. I didn't know that my master wanted to kill these people. Please spare their lives."
The housekeeper wept as he explained the whole story.
Zhou Biao got furious when he heard this. Before he could put the blame on the butler, the butler took the initiative.
"You are talking nonsense. I don't even know what you did. How dare you slander your master? You are such a good servant. Sir, I have no idea what this dog servant did. Please be careful."
Zhou Biao also bit back at this time.
Wan Lao Er was stunned. How did the master and servant start to fight each other? But it was really cool.
Jia Yanbing, however, looked indifferent. Before the court session, Jia Yanbing privately met with Zhou Biao's steward and told him the seriousness of the matter. If he put the blame on his master for everything he had done, he would be an accomplice at most and sentenced to a few years in prison. If he took the blame on his master, he would be sentenced to death.
It was obvious that the butler wanted to survive and betrayed his master.
The human heart really cannot stand the test.
"Quiet, Zhou Biao, I have already obtained the physical evidence you requested. Could it be that this poisonous insect was also bought by your housekeeper?"
The yamen runners then brought up a black porcelain jar, which contained a poisonous insect that was kept in blood.
"Sir, this was found in the Zhou family. We have already asked a Miao doctor to look at it. The dead were indeed infected with this poison, and the symptoms match."
When Zhou Biao saw the poisonous insect being found out, he knelt on the ground like a puddle of mud.
"Master, so you actually added poison to the food you asked me to feed them every day? No wonder... No wonder they always say that the food smells of blood, it turns out to be..."
The butler only then realized that Zhou Biao had even kept the secret from him.
He always thought that Zhou Biao fed him arsenic, but he didn't expect it was actually poison.
The yamen runners also brought up another person, a Miao man who sold poisonous insects to Zhou Biao.
"Zhou Biao, look carefully, do you know this person?"
Zhou Biao looked up and was instantly depressed. Wasn't this person gone? Why was he still at the border?
At this time the little beggar had returned.
"Sir, my father is indeed dead. They killed my father. Please help me."
Shen Qingwen asked sternly: "Zhou Biao, do you plead guilty?"
Zhou Biao was already sitting on the ground, like a puddle of mud. I don't know if he was listening to what Shen Qingwen was saying.
The lawyer wrote the confession, brought it forward and asked Zhou Biao to sign it.
Zhou Biao suddenly jumped up and kicked the butler hard in the heart.
"You little dog slave, I've raised you for so many years, and this is how you repay me?"
“Bold.”
The yamen runner immediately stepped forward to stop Zhou Biao.
Zhou Biao was taken away and imprisoned to be executed in the autumn.
Shen Qingwen announced in court the numerous crimes committed by Zhou Biao.
Only then did the people realize that the Wan family had been framed.
Shen Qingwen had a clerk write a notice about the crimes Zhou Biao had committed and posted it at the gates of every county town.
"In order to frame the Wan family, Zhou Biao took human life as a joke. I hereby sentence Zhou Biao to be executed in the autumn in addition to compensating the Wan family for all losses."
The people outside the gate felt relieved when they heard this and shouted: "Your Excellency is wise, you are truly an upright person."
The butler was eventually sentenced to exile because he was an accomplice.
Zhou Biao had just been imprisoned when his wife came to urinate.
"Master, the caravan that bought our furs has disappeared, and the bank has come to ask for money from us. We can't pay, and all the furs in our house have been taken away by the bankers. We have nothing left. What should I and my children do?"
After hearing this, Zhou Biao was so angry that he vomited blood and fainted.
The Zhou family went bankrupt overnight, and the Zhou family's shop was bought by the same family at a very low price.
Tongjia became the biggest winner.
Wanjia shop's business soon returned to normal and was even busier than usual.
What Wan Laoer didn't expect was that not all of the Wan family's shops had problems, with the exception of one shop, which was the shop run by the owner whom he had spent the most money to buy.
But Wan Lao Er was waiting to go to Texas, and they were delayed for half a month. If they didn't leave now, it would be too late. They could only wait until they came back from Texas to ask in detail. However, he instructed Wan Lao Si to make good use of this person.
Of course Wan Lao Si knew it. He knew what to do without Wan Lao Er telling him.
Wan Laoer and his group continued to go to Texas. It was already June when they arrived in Texas.
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