Chapter 125 The Truth

Jingzhao Prefecture, in the court.

The shopkeeper and the staff of Baiweixuan were at a loss for words and could only protest their injustice.

"We really didn't poison it!"

"I don't even know him and we have no grudges against each other, so why would I harm him?"

"It's unfair, sir!"

Yang Fangwen slapped the wooden stick and said, "Be quiet!"

Everyone fell silent immediately.

He turned around and asked He Er's wife, who was crying, "Did your husband make enemies with the people from Baiweixuan?"

He Er's wife sobbed and replied, "My husband has a bad temper. When he went to buy a cake, they said he didn't get a quota and refused to sell it to him. He then quarreled with them and said some nasty things. Maybe that's why he got killed."

The shopkeeper was immediately furious. "You're talking nonsense! I've been seeing people off all day, and I've heard all kinds of nasty things. How could you want to kill someone just because of a few words?"

He Er had never eaten at Baiweixuan before, so he didn't have a quota.

But he was in a very noisy state at that time and was about to have a conflict with his employees. He was afraid of affecting other customers, so he made an exception and sold it to He Er.

Who would have thought that this exception would cause Baiweixuan to suffer an unexpected disaster!

He Er's wife cried until her voice was hoarse, "My husband died because he ate food from your house, and you still don't admit it? This is bullying me, an orphan and a widow, and I have no one to support me!"

"My Lord, you must make the decision for us!"

I don’t know who is inciting the crowd——

"Poor mother and daughter. They don't have anyone to rely on anymore."

"The evidence is all there, why are you still trying this and that? Hurry up and judge! Is there no law under the emperor's feet?"

"If you kill someone, you must pay for it!"

"Pay my life! Pay my life! Pay my life!"

Finally, a group of ordinary people actually started shouting in unison.

Some people even said that Yang Fangwen was reluctant to pronounce the verdict and punish the people from Baiweixuan, and wondered if he was bribed and was in cahoots with them.

He was a man who valued his reputation, and he knew that if he didn't handle this matter properly, it would bring him disgrace.

After thinking for a moment, he threw out a "command" sign, "Torture!"

Although King Xuan had just given him an implicit warning, telling him not to abuse lynching.

But as long as the people of Baiweixuan can't bear it and confess their guilt, it won't be considered as lynching.

The officers brought up the torture instruments. The dried black blood on them gave off a foul odor that made people shudder.

When the shopkeeper saw the torture instruments, his face turned pale.

He is old, and I am afraid that if he is punished again, he will lose his life.

But now that things have come to this, he can only close his eyes in despair...

"Wait!" A figure walked through the crowd and came in, "I am the real murderer who killed He Er!"

As soon as these words were spoken, there was a burst of outcry.

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a short man with a mustache walking in.

It was Xie Zhuoning in disguise.

When He Er's wife saw a completely unfamiliar face, she blurted out in bewilderment, "Impossible, how could you be the murderer..."

"Oh? Why can't I be the murderer?" Xie Zhuoning narrowed his eyes and looked at her meaningfully, "Do you know who the real murderer is?"

He Er's wife immediately said, "Of course it was the people from Baiweixuan who killed my husband."

"Be quiet!" Yang Fangwen patted the alarm clock and looked at Xie Zhuoning, "You said you were the real murderer who killed He Er, do you have any evidence?"

Xie Zhuoning pulled out a small porcelain bottle from his pocket and said, "This is the poison I put on the cake."

Yang Fangwen immediately winked at the coroner next to him, who hurried forward to check, and then took out the cake that He Er had not finished eating and compared it carefully, and concluded that "it is exactly the same poison as the one on the cake."

Yang Fangwen was shocked and slammed his head heavily, "How dare you! Why did you want to kill He Er?"

Xie Zhuoning said, "He Er is a scoundrel who blackmailed me before. I have been unhappy with him for a long time, so I found an opportunity to poison him to death. But this is my personal grudge, and I don't want to implicate innocent people, so I came forward and confessed my guilt."

It sounds like the idea.

But Yang Fangwen always felt that something was wrong.

Xie Zhuoning turned to look at He Er's wife and said calmly, "Since I killed your husband, I will return his life to him."

As he said this, he snatched the medicine bottle and swallowed it all in one gulp.

The next second, she fell to the ground with her lips turning dark blue.

"!!!"

This sudden change left everyone present dumbfounded.

Could it be that the murderer knew that his sins were so grave that he could not survive, so he committed suicide out of fear of punishment in court?

This was the first time Yang Fangwen had encountered such a situation. He was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses. "Since the murderer has committed suicide out of fear of crime, it also proves that the people of Baiweixuan are innocent. Let's end this case here."

Everyone at Baiweixuan breathed a sigh of relief.

"No...it's not like that..." He Er's wife said in panic, "It's not like that..."

"Nothing?" Xie Zhuoning, who was lying on the ground, suddenly closed his eyes and sat up again.

Everyone was so frightened that their scalps exploded, "It's a corpse!"

Although Yang Fangwen was frightened in his heart, he remained calm on the surface, "How dare you! How dare you tease me!"

Xie Zhuoning said calmly, "I don't mean to tease you, sir. I just want to tell you that although the cake was poisoned, it is not fatal. It will only cause a person to die. If you take the antidote in advance, you will wake up soon. There is another hidden reason for He Er's death!"

Xiao Jinxuan sent people to investigate He Er's life, and they found out everything in just one stick of incense.

Only then did she realize that he had always been holding a hidden intelligence network in his hands, which was why he was always able to catch her every time she did something sneaky.

"He Er is a gangster. He got some Turtle Breath Pills from a wandering Taoist priest, which are the fake death pills I just took. Then he often goes to rich people to pretend to be dead in order to defraud them of a large sum of money."

Xie Zhuoning took out a list from his sleeve and handed it to Yang Fangwen, "This is the list of people he has defrauded before. Your Excellency, please send someone to check it out."

The common people were shocked when they heard this.

I originally thought that He Er was the victim, but now it seems that Baiweixuan is the one who was taken advantage of?

Yang Fangwen glanced at it and frowned in confusion, "According to what you said, He Er just faked his death to cheat Baiweixuan out of money, so why did he really die?"

Xie Zhuoning slowly walked up to He Er's wife and looked down at her. "Does it feel good to kill your own husband?"

"You...what are you talking about? How could I kill my husband?" He Er's wife denied it in a panic.

"Besides, the coroner has done the autopsy and found that he died of poisoning and did not eat anything else. You say I killed him, so how did I kill him?"

"You can't take advantage of the fact that we have no one to rely on and bully us orphans and widows like this!"

It has to be said that He Er’s wife knows how to use her own weakness to gain sympathy.

The common people were all filled with righteous indignation and began to blame Xie Zhuoning!