C171 (1/2)
The passerby's mouth was broken. Su Zhi also heard some sounds.
The wind had not been good recently, but now it was getting worse.
She could not help but sigh and gloomily walked towards the yamen.
When he arrived at the county magistrate court, he discovered that there were already many people surrounding the door. They were whispering and looking at Su Zhi with a different expression, as if she really was the unforgivable murderer.
”My lord, the suspect Su Zhi is here!”
The fat and chubby Zhixian wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, then retracted his hand out of politeness.
This was really hard to do. Everyone knew that this woman was General Xiao's woman. She had already returned to the capital. How could he dare to be moving if he didn't even look at her?
However, if he did not act in a proper manner, the onlookers would start gossiping. The crux of the issue was that he still had a ancestor that was hard to serve.
Yu Zhi County looked at the girl at the side and his neck shrunk. He could only muster up his courage and clear his throat, ”Su Zhi! ”Do you know this woman on the ground?”
Before she could enter the door, Su Zhi saw An Yang sitting upright on a wooden chair. At this moment, she was helplessly staring at the well-maintained, soft pancreas. Out of the corner of her eyes, she was glancing at the entrance, her eyes filled with uncontrollable joy and schadenfreude.
The constable lifted the white cloth from the corpse.
Su Zhi glanced at the ground, and quickly recognized that the person was indeed the Zhou family.
She appeared to have been dead for a while, her face pale, her lips dark purple, her body stiff.
”Yes, I know him.” She quickly averted her eyes and could not bear to look again.
An Yang covered his nose in disgust and sneered, ”Su Zhi, did you kill this woman? Just to take away their children, to look down on the laws and to kill them! ”
Su Zhi looked at her, neither servile nor overbearing, ”Princess, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. When did you see me harm anyone? ”Is there any evidence?”
An Yang gave an exaggerated laugh. ”Isn't that simple?” Many people know about the lawsuit that happened a few days ago. You stole their child, yet not only did your family not return the favor, they even had thoughts of killing them! ”
”Princess, how is this logic formed? Another day, you should go and sit at the Flower ManLou to see how he speaks, so that no one will be able to laugh or cry at what he says. ”
An Yang's face darkened. He slapped his chair and stood up. ”Don't deny it. It was you who killed him because you didn't want to return his child!”
Su Zhi shook her head helplessly and said, ”Let me think with you for a moment before you think about whether you're right or not. First, just like you said yourself, many people know about this lawsuit. If I kill someone at this time, wouldn't I be throwing dirty water on myself? Secondly, even if I want to kill someone, I will think of a way to throw away the corpse in the wilderness and not let you find a reason to commit the crime. No matter how weak he was, he would at least bury him, right? ”Third, it's not that I haven't returned the child to her, it's just that she can't raise the child well.”
”Then, perhaps you killed someone and didn't have the time to destroy their corpse?”
Su Zhi looked at her as if she were looking at an idiot. ”If that's the case, I wouldn't have killed her so recklessly and brought a lawsuit on myself!”
The two of them argued with each other.
Kaixian, who sat on the seat of honor, did not know how to decide.
He only felt sorry for himself.
He hadn't held this position for long, so why was there so much trouble? Just the person he shouldn't offend had come several times.
Xiao Gan, who didn't know Su Zhi before, thought she was a good businessman.
He didn't expect that the other party would have his back against the Xiao family, Prince Yongning's Mansion, and Old mister Liu's savior. Each of them was more difficult to deal with than the other!
”What doesn't Yu Zhi County want to say?”
An Yang was infuriated, and pointed the spearhead at him.
”Eh, this, this …”
Just the death of an unrelated country woman. Yu Zhi County wasn't concerned about this matter to begin with. It was An Yang who had come early in the morning to report this matter. How could he afford to provoke this aunt? He could only bite the bullet and accept the case.
The moment he found out that it was Su Zhi again, Yu Zhi County had the urge to return to his hometown to farm.
”I wonder what evidence Lady Su has?”
Su Zhi stood on the spot and replied shamelessly, ”Then, Sir, do you have any proof that I was the one who killed them?”
Zhixian scratched his head, feeling troubled.
Princess Anyang had only asked him to open the hall, but he had no other evidence to provide. It wouldn't be good for him to solve this case.
An Yang sneered, ”Do you even need evidence? Isn't it obvious? ”
”Little princess, you have to be responsible for your words. You accuse me of being the murderer, but you don't have any evidence, so how can I convince you? Just based on your words alone, what is there for you to do? ”
Su Zhi turned her face away and begged Yu Zhi County calmly, ”Sir, please pass a coroner!”
Yu Zhi County waved his hand and allowed the coroner to come to the hall.
Even though Xuan City was not the capital, it was still within the scope of the Imperial City. Beneath the feet of the Emperor, there were rarely any strange people who died like this.
Zhi County was puzzled as well. How did this person disappear so easily? Seeing Su Zhi's benevolent look, there was no way she was a murderer, she could only blame her for being unlucky, as anything could be related to her.
The coroner examined his body and then stood up to reply, ”Sir, the lungs and lungs of the deceased had a foul smell and their throat was swollen and rotten. They must have been poisoned to death.”
Yu Zhi County was very surprised, ”Huh?” ”What kind of poison is this? It's actually so powerful.”
The coroner thought for a moment. ”This poison …” It's called Man Tuo, from the Western Regions. ”
Su Zhi sighed, she had already understood that the Zhou family had been deliberately killed by someone to blame her.
That poison was from the Western Regions. A few days ago, it was those few Hu merchants that had arrested her.