our family is gone

Chapter 239 There is only one truth!
In William's eyes, he only sees justice and law enforcement, and crying miserably is useless to him. Is it just you?Others are injured and unconscious, leaving their wives and children behind is not worse than you?

"Now tell the truth immediately, and I will report to the lord for you to reduce your sentence as appropriate, otherwise you are ready to leave here. Hamlet does not welcome people like you."

What else can I say now, that person hastily told the matter without daring to hide anything.

"So the injured have completed the registration?"

"He was the fastest walker at the time, and he was the one who signed up ahead of me."

"Isn't that egg a bribe?"

"He bragged to us that his wife prepared it for him on the road and kept it in his hand."

The man didn't dare to say any more affirmative words, he only said what he saw and heard at the time.

However, these words are enough to confirm William's suspicion and overturn the previous testimony.

The matter is very simple, so simple that the situation can be explained clearly in a few sentences, but it has been delayed until now due to the pressure of the foreman.

It's just that William is not in a hurry to clear the suspicion of the injured, he still needs to investigate further.

Soon the people from the shop and the foreman came.

"I definitely remember that not many people would buy so many eggs at once, and every transaction was accounted for."

"He did tell me yesterday that he signed up."

"Then there is only one truth!" William stood up and ordered, "Control the foreman immediately!"

After being verified by these two people, William understood that the chain of evidence was more complete, but one key piece of evidence was needed, which was the list.

It's just that at this moment, some noisy voices suddenly came from outside.

Immediately afterwards, a person broke into the security team's resident without his consent.

"What happened? Why was my man detained?"

As soon as the man came in, he asked questions in front of everyone, and he looked like he didn't take William, the sheriff, seriously.

William recognized him as the person in charge of the town's engineering.

It's just that this attitude seems inappropriate to appear here at this time...

"You have nothing to do with the case, and you don't need to know too much. Afterwards, a report will be posted on the bulletin board in the square."

"You have detained my people, and now the lord's arrangement has been seriously delayed. You must give me an explanation." The person in charge stood up and didn't flinch because of a word.

"I will report to the lord, you don't need to worry about these things."

Although the clues point to the foreman, the case has not yet been fully characterized, and it is difficult for William to confirm it directly, so too much information cannot be revealed yet, and more detailed investigation is needed.

But William's refusal provoked those in charge.

"You're destroying Hamlet by detaining my men for no reason.

If you catch one today and another tomorrow, do we still have to work?

If you don't give me an explanation today, then simply arrest me too. "

William looked at the person in charge and couldn't help frowning. Everyone knows that the lord attaches great importance to this. Even William can't stand the hat now.

But it's also just to explain, let him find another person to replace the suspected foreman's job.

"A vicious wounding case occurred in the square this morning..."

Listening to William's words, the person in charge's reaction was not as excited as it was at the beginning.

When a series of evidence was presented in front of him, he also seemed to realize that something was wrong, and fell silent.

But soon, what William didn't expect was that he was pleading for the foreman.

"It's probably because he made a mistake in the record. Although he said he was at fault first, he bumped into that person himself and he didn't hurt him. Let him pay some money to his family. Let's stop here. "

"No! This matter must be investigated to the end."

William directly vetoed it without any hesitation. He explained that he wanted the person in charge to take over the work of the foreman so that his investigation would not affect the construction, rather than letting it go.

His tough attitude made the person in charge a little dissatisfied, "Let me tell you, the project to develop the West Wilderness has been arranged long ago, and it is impossible to transfer people from other places to disrupt other projects. Is it necessary to delay the entire project because of one person?" Engineering?"

"This is not my responsibility. I am only responsible for finding out the truth and giving the criminal the punishment he deserves. If he has no problems and the investigation is completed, he will be released." William is immune to these threats.

He was even worried that the person in charge would affect the investigation of the case and personally go out to control the suspect. He didn't intend to waste any more time. He only knew that the longer the delay, the easier it would be for the criminal's smell to disappear.

Going outside, the sun has risen, and the sun shines on William, making the police badge in front of him shine.

"It's your turn, come in."

The foreman looked over and subconsciously raised his hand to cover his eyes, and lowered his head to avoid the dazzling light. It took him a while to react, but he didn't have the confidence he had before and seemed a little uneasy.

When he saw the stern face of the person in charge who came out after him, the foreman could feel something was wrong, and his uneasiness intensified a little.

It's just that William didn't give him time to resist, so he raised his hand and waved it.

"Bring it in!"

Two sheriffs went up and took the foreman under control, and then dragged him into the bureau.

"My lord, save me, these outsiders wronged me! I didn't!" the foreman shouted to the person in charge.

It's just that the person in charge had no choice but to leave angrily when he saw this. It seemed that the matter was not over yet.

In the interrogation room, William started the interrogation directly, but the foreman didn't say a word.

William knew that his reaction was unrealistic, thinking that the person in charge could save him.

But the testimony is only a small part, and the next clue has already begun to investigate when William got the registration form.

While controlling the foreman, William had checked the list and noticed something was wrong just by looking at it.

There are not so many literate people in the town, so Lance used a tricky method to complete the record.

That is to give everyone a registration number, similar to an ID number, only four digits are needed to cover nearly 5000 people in the town.

And everyone's name, serial number, fingerprints, and more detailed information are all filed in the book and can be retrieved.

That's why he wants to promote numbers, so that many registrations can be completed without knowing a lot of characters.

But this simple registration method simplifies the work, but it brings difficulties to the investigation.

It is true that there is no number of the injured person on it, and there are no clear traces of alteration, so how did the forgery be completed?

And why this one and not someone else?
In this regard, William directly found the number of the person behind the injured, and went up to determine the registered position of the injured at that time, but it was replaced by another number.

And if you get the number, you can naturally find that person.

"Check! Find this man."

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After the person in charge came out, he also knew that this matter could not be counted in this way. Isn't it obvious that outsiders bullied their locals?
What's more, he knows some things more or less, and if this matter cannot be investigated, what may be found out.

"An outsider who didn't grab the quota committed suicide as a threat. Now those guys from the security team have detained my people and seriously interfered with the western development of our engineering team. How can we complete the task assigned to us by the lord?"

"Why are you telling me this?"

Susan looked at the visitor with some strangeness. She had already resigned from those positions. Now she is just an ordinary townsman, responsible for the daily life of the lord, and has no other powers at all.

Although Susan is an ordinary person on the surface, she is the so-called "third-rank official in front of the prime minister". As a person who takes care of the lord's daily life, no one in the town dares to underestimate her.

The person in charge was aware of this, so he approached Susan. At this moment, he wanted to emphasize this point even more.

"They are deliberately provoking trouble. They want to use this method to replace our people. If this continues, these outsiders will ride on our heads and shit. We can't back down."

Originally, most of the positions in the town were controlled by Hamlet, but after these outsiders came, they dispersed a large amount of power, which made them feel dangerous.

In one way or another he turned to Susan because he had no one else to turn to, and the town's other department heads were hardly native to Hamlet.

"Why I was removed, you should know, I can't control you."

This sentence directly put the person in charge in a very awkward situation.

Susan was removed because of her personal ability, but the more problem was that there were many dirty hands and feet among the people she was in charge of, and she was implicated to some extent.

Susan is also heartbroken. Could it be that the life brought by the lord is not enough?
So she was instinctively wary of these guys.

Before meeting Lance, Susan may have been just an ordinary peasant woman, but people have the ability to learn, and after being exposed to those things, her thinking will no longer be so short-sighted.

She probably felt that this matter was not so simple, and now she finds herself and wants to drag me into the water?
"It is reasonable for the lord to entrust the security of the town to Sergeant William. If it is really not the person who did it, I believe the security team will give him a fair explanation.

And your task should be to reduce the impact of this matter as soon as possible, and devote energy to work instead of wasting time here. "

After finishing speaking, Susan didn't intend to continue the communication, and retreated directly to the room, obviously not wanting to have too much interaction.

Susan is just an ordinary person, but she can talk to him like this, and the person in charge has no temper.

It's not that Susan has this strength, but that her identity has the halo of a lord, and no one in Hamlet dares to have an opinion on the lord.

The person in charge actually understands that what Susan said is the most practical solution now, as long as the progress of the project is stabilized, it doesn't matter whether the foreman has problems or not.

But he can't, because some things are not as simple as they seem.

The plan to develop the western region was approved and then delegated to him, but he arranged the manpower to form the engineering team, so it was impossible to clear the blame.

Not to mention that this person can become a foreman, and he has something to do with winning this project.

Sometimes when a person does a stupid thing, it's not that he's stupid, it's that his ass sits on it and some things can't be decided by his brain.

Fortunately, there was no immediate thunderstorm when the lord went out. As long as the person is fished out before the lord returns, there is still room for rescue.

At the same time, when Susan retired, he might be able to use this incident to overwhelm those outsiders and become the core uniting the locals of Hamlet.

Those in charge have made plans and are taking immediate action.

He shoulders the heavy responsibility of saving Hamlet from those outsiders.

We can't let those outsiders mess around anymore, Hamlet has his own feelings here, how can we do a good job with such insects!
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"My lord found it!"

A sheriff brought a man in, and William looked at the timid, ordinary man in front of him.

"Your matter has been discovered, tell yourself, don't waste time."

Even the foreman was arrested, and he, a guy with no background, quickly explained the situation.

The matter was very simple. At that time, the applicants had already been recruited, and the salary of this job made him reluctant, so he approached the foreman and agreed to buy a spot for a price of one silver coin.

Then naturally one person was replaced, and it was obvious that the injured person was this unlucky ghost.

According to his testimony, William probably understood the ins and outs of the whole thing. It was a simple bribery transaction, which was only exposed because of the resistance of the injured.

But William couldn't understand how the foreman managed to modify the list without leaving traces of modification?

Taking out the list again, I flipped through the three sheets of paper many times, and once again focused on the number at the end of the second sheet.

The sun hadn't fully risen just now, but now it was bright and bright, and William soon realized that something was wrong.

"I see!" William said and got up immediately to bring a piece of paper and a jug of water.

The reason why he was so excited was because he found that the paper used for the list was not the right color, and it felt a little stiff.

You must know that these are all purchased by the lord from Totnes uniformly, the craftsmanship is mature, and they are produced in the same batch, so there will not be much difference.

The sheriff under him still didn't understand why the sheriff was so excited all of a sudden, but when he saw him soak the paper that had just been written on and was not completely dry, then the water sucked up and slowly spread the words.

Then he brought it up, and William directly used the clothes to dry it carefully, not caring that the ink stained the clothes, and dipped the paper into the water again with his backhand.

As long as you master it well, the words above will be washed off after several times, while the words above are not affected.

After deciphering this technology, I now understand why the injured person was selected, and also understand what method the foreman used to complete the modification without obvious traces.

Because the injured were just at the end of the second sheet when they were registered.

Whether it is writing or fingerprinting, it is just ordinary ink. As long as the paper is sandwiched and the bottom is immersed in water, the traces can be washed off quickly, and then dried and rewritten.

"Now as long as you go to the foreman's house, you should be able to find the corresponding equipment, and it will definitely leave traces." William is quite high-spirited about the key clues to solve this case.

And at this moment, there was a sudden fierce dog barking outside, and a sheriff rushed in to report in the next second.

"Sheriff! Suddenly, many people surrounded us!"

"What!" Realizing that something was wrong, William hurried to the window to look out, and more and more people really gathered.

Originally, the security team had detained so many people, and as time passed, this matter had already been passed on to the town. Why didn't it happen before, but now it suddenly came up as if it was an appointment?
William felt as if he was in some kind of trouble...

(End of this chapter)