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Chapter 24 The Young Master of the Jade Merchant
After the three of Xia Chu and his party arrived at the door of Qiao's house, Liu Qiliang identified their identities, and the doorman asked after hearing the word "Punishment Department", "Is the official here to find my young master?"

Character is evident.

Xia Chu and Liu Qi waited in the hall of Qiao's house for a while, when they saw Qiao Xingli, Xia Chu was startled.

Before she heard that Qiao's family was a jade merchant, so she automatically made up an image of a person with a thin face and a long face, a jade seller, even if his eyes were evil, his appearance should be more refined.

As a result, when I saw the owner, I was completely overturned.

Qiao Xingli is about 1.8 meters tall, and he is fat. His face is almost swollen, and there are a few acnes on his cheeks. His forehead is shiny, which is very close to the image of a criminal in Xia Chu's mind.

Followed by Qiao Xingli was a woman, about 40 years old, petite and slightly fat, dressed luxuriously, with a panicked look on her face, she should be Qiao Xingli's mother.

Xia Chu looked at Qiao Xingli and then at his mother, feeling like a kitten gave birth to a tiger.

When Qiao Xingli heard Liu Qi say that he was from the Ministry of Punishment, he immediately took a step back, his whole body seemed to be on guard, his face turned pale, and he shouted with a weak voice: "What are you doing! What are you doing! You..., your government! Is it true that merchants and ordinary people are easy to bully!"

Qiao Xingli's mother panicked, went over and pulled his arm down, "Son! What are you yelling about? This is! Kneel down to the officer, kneel down! What trouble have you caused..."

Qiao Xingli refused to kneel, his mother kept pulling and pressing, almost crying.

Jiang Xiyuan couldn't stand it any longer, "Madam, this is not a court, so you don't need to make Mr. Ling kneel down. You sit aside. We came today to ask Mr. Ling something."

Madam Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, staggered back a few steps, touched the chair next to her, and sat down on it.Qiao Xingli hesitated for a moment in the hall, and finally chose to sit next to Mrs. Qiao.

Jiang Xiyuan was about to ask questions, Xia Chu and Liu Qi looked at each other, Liu Qi took out a pen and paper and spread it on the table as if resigned to his fate. "Qiao Xingli, where were you on the night of the sixth day of February?"

Qiao Xingli's face turned paler when he heard this, leaving only a few pimples on his face that became redder and more obvious, he hesitated for a long time, but he didn't understand why.

Mrs. Qiao patted Qiao Xingli, and said with a smile on her face, "Master, my son went out to play for a few hours on the sixth day of the lunar new year, and he went by himself. I gave him 30 taels of silver, and he will come back after spending it." I can't borrow money from others, and I won't ask others to borrow money. My son learned his lesson years ago, and he definitely doesn't dare to do that kind of blackmail again."

Jiang Xiyuan ignored Mrs. Qiao's words, only looked at Qiao Xingli, "Say it yourself."

"My mother..., you are telling the truth."

"Qiao Xingli, can you clearly hear what this lord is asking you?" Xia Chu couldn't help but chase after him.

"This lord asked... where did I go on the sixth night of February?" Qiao Xingli wiped his sweat while answering.

"Your answer."

"My mother said..."

"Your answer!" Xia Chu was on fire.Why are these five big and three thick men like this?Are you weaned?
"Shi..., Shihua Pavilion."

"When did you leave?" Jiang Xiyuan cleared his throat and asked again.

"Xu..." Qiao Xingli hadn't said anything for a while, but Xia Chu spoke again, "Qiao Xingli, you have to think about it. We will check everything you said, if you lied..."

"No, no." Mrs. Qiao hurriedly said: "Although my little boy is a little irritable, he is a real child. I am his mother, and I know him..." Mrs. Qiao choked up, wiped the corners of her eyes and said, " The 500 taels of silver... the kid suffered from being dumb."

Xia Chu was made very helpless by this aunt, and Jiang Xiyuan obviously couldn't bear it when he continued to ask this question. Before Xia Chu could figure out how to bombard people, Jiang Xiyuan said directly: "Joe Ma'am, you go down first, we are here to ask Qiao Xingli, not you."

Mrs. Qiao knelt down to Liu Qi with a plop, and cried: "My lord, my son can't stand the beating any longer! Then what's going on with the Gong family? I gave him all my wealth, and begged him to show respect."

"Mrs. Qiao is too worried. We are not here for the money this time."

Mrs. Qiao's crying stopped abruptly, she let out a long breath, and stood up, "That's good, that's good. The official is here this time..."

"I suspect that your son is involved in a murder case." Jiang Xiyuan said sternly.

(End of this chapter)