Poison Demon Immortal

Chapter 11 The Doorway
late at night.

Liuyang Town.

Government office lobby.

Two white cloths cover the two bodies.

Meng Yuniang, the second wife of the Pan family, lifted the white cloth tremblingly.

With the light of the torch, the three women could clearly see Pan Changyun's pale face.

Tears welled up in Meng Yuniang's eyes.

"The head of the family... How do you say that you will die when you die?" Li Huixiu threw herself on Pan Changyun's side and cried loudly.

"Who is it!? Who killed my husband!?" Pan Yueqin stomped her feet with a look of madness on her face.

"Mrs. Pan... um... Zhang Jiuji, the young master of the Zhang family, was the only one at the scene of the murder." Xu Tingchang explained with a smile on his face.

"Then you haven't arrested him yet, what are you doing, the pavilion chief?" Pan Yueqin scolded.

In the face of insults, Xu Tingchang turned out to be like a mud-faced man who has no temper.

As the saying goes, he doesn't want to offend the Zhang family, but he can't afford to offend the Pan family.

I saw Xu Tingchang explaining very patiently: "Mrs. Pan doesn't know something. Now that Jiuji is just a suspect, he may not be the real murderer. According to Dagan's law, any murder case can only be investigated by the county government. After the case has been reported, it needs to be reported to the provincial government for approval. After the approval, the real culprit can be determined. If the murderer involves martial arts practitioners, the city lord usually has to make the final judgment. If the murderer involves a family of martial arts practitioners, the process will be even more cumbersome... "

"I don't care! You have to arrest me!" Pan Yueqin pointed at Xu Tingchang's forehead with her finger and growled loudly.

All the saliva got on Xu Tingzhang's face.

According to Dagan law, suspects involved in murder should be jailed.

Xu Tingchang and Nie Butou did not do this because Na Jiuji was a blind man who couldn't even walk straight. In addition, Zhang's house already had police guards, which were equivalent to house arrest, so there was no need to go to prison.

The most important thing is that both Xu Tingchang and Nie Butou subconsciously believed that Jiuji could not be the murderer at all.

But since Pan Yueqin said so...

"Captain Nie!"

"Subordinates are here."

"Go and arrest Zhang Jiuji, the suspect in the murder case, and take him to the pavilion." Tingchang Xu ordered with a dignified expression.

"Your subordinate obeys." Nie Jianfeng followed the order and left.

Just when Pan Yueqin was showing off her masculinity, Xu Tingchang did what he did on his own.

Meng Yuniang, the second wife of the Pan family, suddenly smelled a smell of medicine.

Machuan, Clove, Musk Yellow, Qiqin...

Meng Yuniang is in charge of purchasing medicinal materials from the herbal collectors in the Pan family, and she is extremely sensitive to medicinal materials.

"Fourth sister, stop making trouble!" Meng Yuniang yelled loudly.

Pan Yueqin could only retreat resentfully.

"Mr. Xu Ting...why does my husband smell so strongly of medicine?" Meng Yuniang asked.

"Mrs. Pan... Your family's officials and Zhang Jiuji's wife died in Zhang's bathtub. There were many medicinal herbs soaked in that bathtub, so there was some medicinal smell on your body."

Meng Yuniang frowned, as if thinking of something important.

"Mr. Xu Ting... I wonder if I can ask the girl to go and have a look at the scene?"

"No! According to Dagan's law, no one who is not handling the murder scene is allowed to set foot on the scene." Xu Ting said righteously with a straight face.

There may be opportunities for others to accommodate, but the women of the Pan family don't understand the rules at all, and Xu Tingzhang has to deal with business.

"I want to take my husband back for burial." Li Huixiu said in a daze, wiping her tears.

"Three ladies, today's procedure is to ask the three to confirm the identity of the deceased, as long as the family members confirm and sign." Xu Tingchang took out a document and handed it to the second wife Meng Yuniang.

"When will we be able to bring my husband home for burial?"

"According to the procedures, the deceased's body is physical evidence, and it can only be returned to the family members after the case is closed." Xu Tingchang replied neither humble nor overbearing.

"Isn't the real culprit that Jiuji?" Pan Yueqin gritted her teeth and said.

"According to the Daqian law, lower officials have no right to try murder cases, and the prefect Cao will determine the real culprit based on witness and material evidence." Xu Tingchang pushed back again.

"Fourth sister...don't talk about it." Li Huixiu also saw that Xu Tingzhang hated Pan Yueqin very much. If Pan Yueqin was allowed to continue to mess around, it might make the Pan family encounter more difficulties.

Pan Yueqin is Pan Changyun's niece. She is the youngest and the most unruly and willful. So outrageous.

With tears in her eyes, Meng Yuniang gave a deep bow to Xu Tingzhang and said, "Then Xu Tingzhang will have to worry about it."

After Meng Yuniang finished speaking, she picked up a pen and signed for confirmation, and then left the government office with her two sisters.

After the three wives of the Pan family left...

The two police officers helped Jiuji from Zhang's mansion to the government office.

Ting Zhang Xu did not put Jiuji in prison, but arranged a temporary bed for him so that he could rest well.

Na Jiuji was lying on the bed, and soon snored loudly.

Hear snoring.

Xu Tingchang and Nie Butou were even more sure that Zhang Jiuji could never be the murderer.

It is impossible to sleep peacefully when the murderer is caught as a suspect and taken to the government office.

Only a lawless lunatic can have such a calm mind, and Zhang Jiuji is from a scholarly family, so naturally he cannot be such a lunatic.

The next day...

Xu Tingchang led five policemen and two carriages towards Linjiang City. Even with the strength of the carriage, it would take half a day to reach the county seat.

Around noon.

Liuyang Town.

nearby villages.

Three policemen found Zhang Xiaojing and Lu Tao who were collecting rent.

"Mr. Zhang... something happened in your family, a big event happened." A police officer said solemnly.

A policeman described to Zhang Xiaojing what happened in Zhang's house.

The other two policemen went to the villagers for verification.

After more than half an hour, the three police officers made a record, completely ruling out Zhang Xiaojing and Lu Tao's murder suspicion.

Zhang Xiaojing quietly listened to the changes at home, his old face looked extremely shocked.

"Master, be careful..." Wufu Lu Tao helped Zhang Xiaojing to sit on a stone slab.

After Zhang Xiaojing sat down, he remained silent, as if he had lost his soul.

no doubt.

The murderer must be Jiuji...

The adulterous relationship between Han Yuer and Pan Changyun was broken by Zhang Jiuji who had regained his eyesight. Zhang Jiuji killed the two of them calmly.

No one would think that a blind man would kill someone, and if Jiuji didn't leave, he would be cleared of suspicion.

But it is foolish to do so!
Liuyang Town does not know how many people disappear in a year, but there are only a few murder cases.

As long as you don't kill people in public, kill people quietly, and report them missing, the government will not investigate at all.

Sigh... Although my son is ruthless, he is still too young to know the ways of the officialdom.

Zhang Xiaojing has been in the provincial government for many years, of course he knows that the so-called fairness and truth in the murder case are all fools, the key is the game between all parties.

To acquit Jiuji, the key lies not in the prefect of Cao but in Pan's family. As long as the Pan family believes that Jiuji is not the murderer, everything will be easy.

"Three little brothers, my son Jiuji is a blind man who can't even walk straight. Everyone in Liuyang Town knows about this. He is absolutely impossible to be the murderer. What's more, Han Yuer is also the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family. We Zhang My family is also a victim, after the murderer killed someone, he saw that my son was blind, so he didn't take action to kill them all..." Zhang Xiaojing said slowly, his words were convincing.

(End of this chapter)