Chapter 1032: Saw Something I Shouldn’t Have Seen
Liu Wei personally poured a cup of tea for the madam and pushed it over.
The madam caught it flattered and held it in the palm of her hand.
"Where is mom from?"
The madam trembled all over and looked at Liu Wei hurriedly: "Sir, why are you asking about this?"
"That's what you say."
The old bustard drooped his eyes, kept licking his lips, and said dryly: "Min's wife, Min's wife is from Qingzhou. When she was a child, she stayed in Zhaozhou."
"Zhaozhou?" Liu Wei asked, "That's the border. It's adjacent to Lingzhou."
"Yes." The old bustard took a sip of tea and tried his best to speak clearly: "My father felt that the place in his hometown was difficult and there were wars from time to time, so he took my mother, brothers and sisters and moved the family to the north."
"Mom, do you have other brothers and sisters?"
The madam nodded: "Two brothers, two sisters, and a younger brother."
"Is everything okay now?"
No matter how relieved the madam was, she heard something was wrong when she heard this and hurriedly asked: "Sir, what is going on? Does the woman's family have anything to do with this case?"
Liu Wei still said the same thing: "It's whatever you say."
The madam didn't want to talk anymore.
Liu Wei smiled and said: "Mom, do you want to visit our interrogation room in Qingzhou Mansion?"
The old bustard turned pale and hurriedly replied: "The relationship between the peasant woman and her relatives at home is not good. When I first came to Qingzhou, my parents used up all their savings and our family could not settle here. My father sold the peasant woman to live with a man." My sister only has enough money to rent a small house, so over the years, the civilian woman has not had much contact with her family."
Liu Wei asked: "Is this the Qianxifang that was sold?"
The old bustard shook his head: "At that time, there was no Liulianxiang in Qingzhou Prefecture. The women were sold to a brothel in another place. Later, when they got older and saved enough money to redeem themselves, they moved to Liulianxiang to be the manager of Qianxi. Fang Luogen.”
"You bought Qianxifang after that?"
The madam didn't dare to answer, and stared at Liu Wei tremblingly.
Liu Wei added: "You are a brothel girl with no background and no foundation. It is not easy for you to save enough money to redeem yourself at a young age. However, you got out of the fire pit and voluntarily ran to another brothel to work as a steward. In the end, You can even buy this brothel. How much does it cost to buy a brothel with so many girls in it?"
The old bustard knelt on the ground with a plop, shaking so hard that he could no longer speak: "Sir, your lord, how much money the common woman has has nothing to do with this case. Why do you always hold on to the common woman? Women, civilian women really don’t know anything..."
"You don't know?" Liu Wei leaned forward and grabbed the old bustard's hand: "What are the patterns on the sleeves of your clothes? They are a kind of tree pattern painted during sacrifices in the countryside of Zhaozhou. If it is true as you said, when you were young, He left his hometown and even had a bad relationship with his parents and brothers. How could he still remember the local customs in Zhaozhou when he reached middle age? Moreover, as far as I know, this kind of tree pattern is used to ward off evil spirits and ward off ghosts. If you You’ve done nothing wrong, why should you be so afraid that you have to embroider tree patterns on your clothes?”
Then he raised the Madam's chin and exposed the Madam's ears: "What are you wearing on your earlobes? It's not gold, silver, or precious stones. It's a kind of mountain stone commonly seen in the southern countryside, called vine stone crystal." , you are a prostitute who travels around in pleasure circles, don’t wear jewelry or vine stones? Why? Because you grew up in the mountains when you were a child. You are familiar with a kind of snake in the mountains, which is full of poison and should not be touched easily, but as the old saying goes , where there is poison, there must be something to interpret. This vine stone crystal is the thing that can relieve the fear of snake venom. If you are afraid of snake gallbladder, you are afraid that the toxin will remain, so you will decorate the earrings with vine stone crystals and wear them close to your body. What I said is Neither?"
The madam was so frightened that she panicked: "No, no, no, a common woman doesn't know about fear of snakes, or about vines and stone crystals, a common woman doesn't know anything..."
Liu Wei's tone was aggressive: "You killed the two corpses outside Qianxifang! Of course, this was not your intention. From your experience, it seems that there is a sponsor behind you, and your sponsor can make Since you are the boss of Qianxifang, I can naturally get you off. It was he who asked you to kill someone, right?"
The madam was trembling all over.
Liu Wei frowned, but his expression remained cold and serious: "Tell me, who is the person behind you! Why did he kill two innocent women? Not to mention Fu Ziyan, when you went from the original brothel to Qianxifang, Fu Ziyan is still a little kid with no hair, so how can he help you!"
It seemed that this was the first time the madam had committed a murder, and she was already nervous. But now, within half a day, her deeds were revealed in a few words. When she felt so desperate, she cried so hard that she couldn't breathe.
The madam was really scared. She was so afraid that when she closed her eyes, she could still see the appearance of the two people when they died. She opened her mouth and said desperately: "My lord, please spare my life! My lord, please spare your life! Lu Yan Hongzhuang" , they, they saw something they shouldn't have seen... The master said that if the civilian women didn't do as they were told, it would be the civilian women who died, so the civilian women... Sir, please spare your life..."
"Who is your master?" Liu Wei continued to ask.
The old bustard shook his head desperately: "Sir, please spare my life, a civilian woman, a civilian woman really can't say..."
Liu Wei laughed and said word by word: "You killed the person. Even if you don't say it, you will still have to bear the murder case! Do you know that killing people pays for life? If you don't confess, it will be a matter of Qiu Houwenzhan. You think about it yourself clear!"
This madam is different from some people I have met before.
Some people are willing to risk their lives to protect their masters, but this madam can't. She is afraid and she cherishes her life. Then she will definitely say that it is only a matter of time.
Liu Wei didn't want to wait too long, nor did she have the patience to wait too long.
The madam was really frightened. She stopped crying and began to scream. She kept begging for mercy and crawled towards Liu Wei, trying to hug Liu Wei's legs.
Liu Wei took two steps back, not letting her hug him, and pressed for a while, but found that the madam had a tough mouth and seemed to really not say anything.
"Detain him first!" In the end, Liu Wei could only think of locking him up.
After the bustard was taken away, Sima Xi asked: "Who does Mr. Liu think is behind this?"
Liu Wei pondered for a moment and thought about it: "It must be related to the Fu family. The most powerful person in Qingzhou and the one who is the most afraid to offend is the Fu family."
"I just don't know who it is from the Fu family." Sima Xi frowned: "There are three masters of the Fu family and an old man. There is a large population, and each one is not simple."
Liu Wei said: "What I want to know now is what exactly Hongzhuang Luyan saw. The time of their death was midnight last night, but judging from the marks on their necks, it was roughly around You hour when they were discovered and attacked. Xu Shi, what was Qianxifang doing at that time?"
Sima Xi's eyes moved.
"It's promising. Push her a little longer. I don't think she can survive more than ten hours. If you push her hard enough, you'll have the answer tomorrow at the latest."
Sima Xi agreed and planned to go over and give the instructions in person later.
When she came out of the Yamen, it was already past lunch time and Liu Wei hadn't eaten yet, so Rong Leng naturally refused and took her to a nearby restaurant.
Liu Wei was still analyzing the case while eating, but Rong Leng remained silent, picking up food for her from time to time.
After taking two more bites, Liu Wei suddenly asked him: "What do you think of this case?"
Rong Leng was serving soup when he heard this and replied casually: "The key is not the case itself, but the meaning behind it."
Liu Wei nodded: "Then what do you think the meaning behind it is?"
Rong Leng put the soup in front of her: "Jade pendant."
"You also think it's a jade pendant?" Liu Wei became more energetic, and she was thinking about this: "I don't know what jade pendant is so charming, and everyone wants to get it. Where does the so-called map point to? But I think, You need to contact your master, he may be able to decipher it for us."