I can't put it off any longer. I've been chasing dramas these past two days and forgot to update...
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Jin Suting spoke in a sinister tone, and Zhang Qingming knelt down immediately.
He cried and begged: "This, this matter is indeed difficult. I, your humble servant, have no other choice! Sir, please let me go..."
He really treated Jin Suting as some kind of adult. After all, Helan Ruizhe had taken out all the royal jade pendants, and Jin Suting was dressed as a man today. No one would believe what he said.
Jin Suting said, "I'll let you go? You're a county magistrate, and you can't figure out such a big thing. You're so good at embezzling and deceiving the people!"
She felt very sorry for these poor people and was a person with some temperament.
Zhang Qingming bowed his head to the ground, trembling with fear. He was not very courageous to begin with, and the shock was too much for him to bear. He quickly said, "Sir, I know I was wrong. I know I was wrong."
Jin Suting sneered, "You admit your mistake now? I think it's because of your corruption and abuse of power that you've forced the people into a corner, leading to this civil unrest!"
Zhang Qingming kowtowed in fear, then waved his hands: "Sir, sir, it really wasn't me! Although there's been no progress in the case, the people causing the trouble don't look like civilians! They all died on the spot, and Sir Yuan didn't hurt them at all. It looked like suicide! It's hard to say for sure if they were civilians!"
Helan Ruizhe: "Why didn't you say this just now?"
What Zhang Qingming said was completely different from what was reported. What was written in the memorial submitted to him was that those who died in the civil unrest died of starvation and disease. There was no such thing as death on the spot.
Zhang Qingming raised his eyes and carefully looked at Helan Ruizhe's expression before he continued to speak softly, "I just thought that less trouble is worse than more. Besides, everyone was dead at the time, so there were no clues to investigate further."
"Are you confused or not?!" Jin Suting was finally impressed by his stupidity. "Dead, all dead, wouldn't you have someone draw portraits of the deceased and go door to door asking, or asking whose family has died? How can you be an official with your IQ?"
Zhang Qingming was scolded profusely, and he knew that he had done something wrong. "Then let's go find those bodies now. Maybe there's still time..."
Jin Suting was even more angry: "A month has passed, the body has rotted and stank, how can we find him?"
Helan Ruizhe asked, "Where did you put the body?"
Zhang Qingming didn't know where to place the body. He swallowed his saliva and said, "I threw it into the mass grave in the western suburbs..."
Helan Ruizhe held his forehead with his hand. Not to mention whether so many corpses in the mass grave could be found, even if they were all found, there were so many wild beasts in the western suburbs that who knows what the corpses would be like after being bitten into pieces by now.
Really, how could such a foolish official appear in Jiangnan City, a good county town!
Jin Suting was too lazy to get angry anymore. She said, "Can you find the witness?"
This time, Zhang Qingming didn't let her down. He raised his head and said happily, "I can find it, sir, I can find it. But that person is a crazy woman, and most of what she says is unbelievable."
Jin Suting: "..."
Yuan Jing also described the situation at that time. When the civil unrest broke out, everyone ran away, leaving only a crazy woman standing there watching with a smile on her face.
"You tell us where she is, and the rest is none of your business."
Helan Ruizhe didn't want to waste any more time talking to this fool.
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