"Come in!"
The town magistrate ordered his men to let An Shi in.
Now that Anshi is a scholar, he naturally doesn't need to kneel before the town magistrate.
He cupped his hands in a gesture of respect and began to speak.
"As soon as I learned about the incident at our shop, I asked someone to help investigate. According to the manager of the shop next to Li Daniu's, he saw Li Daniu and his team picking up rotten vegetable leaves and fruit at the market today..."
Li Daniu retorted, "What's wrong with us picking up rotten vegetable leaves and rotten fruit? Can't we take them home to feed the chickens?"
Upon hearing this...
Anshi calmly replied, "I didn't say it was impossible. Why are you so agitated? I haven't finished speaking! After you gave the rotten vegetable leaves to your family, you went to the shop, and not long after, your shop ran into trouble. And your mother went to the Huifeng Money Exchange in our town to deposit money. Your family is so poor that you can't even afford rice, yet your mother deposited a hundred taels of silver in silver notes..."
The onlookers gathered at the entrance of the government office began to discuss the matter.
"Mother, you..."
Li Sanniu was so angry with his mother that he was about to die.
The middle-aged woman, Lian, who was also Li San Niu's mother, raised her head and said, "I did save a hundred taels, so what if I found it?"
"You mean you found it, so you really found it?"
An Miaomiao rolled her eyes at her.
Before Lian could speak, Anshi asked, "You said you found it. Where did you find it?"
"Beside the official road at the entrance of our village..."
Without thinking, Lian blurted out a sentence.
Anshi smiled and said, "Okay, very good, no problem. Then let me ask you another question: didn't your son and the others say that they were taking the rotten fruit they picked up home to feed the chickens? Did you take it home to feed them?"
"Of course I fed them."
Lian didn't think that far ahead and answered Anshi directly.
Anshi shouted, "You're lying! You didn't go back to the village at all! Your neighbors said you didn't go back. And in your village, someone saw you eating noodles at another shop in town at noon today!"
Lian's heart skipped a beat.
Li Sanniu coughed and said, "My mother has a bad memory..."
"Yes, yes, I have a bad memory..."
Li Daniu and the others also joined in the defense.
Bang.
The town magistrate slammed his gavel, his face dark, and said, "Li Daniu, you lot, why don't you confess honestly? Do you want me to torture you?"
Anshi's quick investigation shows that he had someone help him.
Who can he turn to?
It must be Manager Tong.
Although he usually gave them some face, the most important thing was that he increasingly felt that Li Daniu and his group had something wrong with them.
Anshi opened his mouth and said, "You're saying your mother has a bad memory and you want us to go ask the people in your village?"
Li Daniu and the others were speechless.
After waiting a while and seeing that they didn't speak, the town magistrate said in a deep voice, "Men, drag them all away and beat them..."
"My lord, please don't..."
Li Daniu and the others started shouting.
Lady Lian panicked and hurriedly said, "My lord, my lord, spare my life, I'll talk, I'll talk..."
"explain!"
The town magistrate glared at him.
Lian clasped her hands and said, "This is what happened. Yesterday evening, someone approached us and asked us to help frame Anji Snack Shop. We agreed and they gave us two hundred taels of silver. Our family has been short of money lately, so how could we miss such a good deal? We agreed. But afterwards, they only gave us one hundred taels of silver, saying they would give us another one hundred taels after the job was done..."
The town magistrate immediately asked, "Who are they?"
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