Early the next morning, Ye Meng and Qi Lu informed Magistrate Zhang that they had caught the murderer. Magistrate Zhang sat in the front hall with a solemn and serious expression. His thick black eyebrows were tightly locked together, and there were obvious dark circles under his eyes. Perhaps he had been staying up late for the bank's cases recently.
Seeing him like this, Ye Meng couldn't help but admire him a little more. Although Magistrate Zhang's ability to solve cases wasn't that good, he was indeed a conscientious and conscientious leader.
Feeling Ye Meng's gaze, Magistrate Zhang coughed unnaturally and straightened his brows." Ye Meng, where is the murderer you mentioned?"”
"Sir, the murderer will be brought up immediately.”Ye Meng raised her slender eyebrows as she spoke. Qi Lu, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately carried the murderer up.
It turned out that the anesthetic on the silver needle was too powerful. After being stabbed, it did not have any effect. Of course, in order to prevent any traps and to prevent the murderer from taking the opportunity to escape, he was still tied up with ropes and chains.
"Is this the murderer you mentioned?" Magistrate Zhang's furrowed brows became even more serious when he saw the person being carried up.
Because the person lying on the ground was as thin as a stick. His body was hunched, and his face was full of wrinkles. No matter how he looked at it, he was only an old man in his seventies or eighties.
"Yes." Ye Meng nodded at him, her almond-shaped eyes filled with determination and confidence.
"Nonsense!" Without waiting for Ye Meng to explain further, Magistrate Zhang stood up angrily and roared, the veins on his face popping out. "How dare you treat an innocent old man like this!”
It had to be said that Magistrate Zhang, as a local official, was a person who was close to the people. Now that he thought that Ye Meng had used a skinny old man as a scapegoat in order to solve the case, he couldn't stand it anymore. Without thinking much, he asked Ye Meng to let the old man go and ask for forgiveness.
At the same time, the admiration he had for Ye Meng's talent was gone.
"Magistrate Zhang didn't even listen to my explanation and decided to convict me?”Ye Meng felt that she could not understand Magistrate Zhang's imagination at all. She had only wanted to explain the case and had not taken off the murderer's human skin mask yet. He had actually imagined so many scenes of government officials bullying the elderly.
"Do you have any other explanation?”Magistrate Zhang was already so angry that he was blowing his beard and glaring at him. He did not want to talk any more nonsense with him.
"I finally know why there are so many unsolved cases in the government office archives.”Ye Meng was also a little angry at this moment. She looked at Magistrate Zhang with anger and doubt. She continued," Be it Li Shan or Wang Tu, which one of them wasn't wronged because of your arbitrary judgment and your self-righteous refusal to delve deeper into the truth?" How can a person like you be a good magistrate!”
" Ye Meng..." Qi Lu quickly covered Ye Meng's mouth and looked at Magistrate Zhang apologetically. He had always known that Ye Meng was bold, but he didn't expect her to be so bold as to say such disgraceful words.
He was also a little confused. It was just a normal case report. How did it become like this?
"Aiya, let go of me!"
"Qi Lu, let her speak!"
Their voices sounded almost at the same time. Qi Lu's hand was bitten by Ye Meng in anger, leaving a row of neat teeth marks.
"Sir, am I wrong?”Ye Meng looked at Magistrate Zhang fearlessly.
Magistrate Zhang didn't answer. It was as if time had stopped at this moment. The sun had already parted the clouds and revealed its face. Some of the light had already shone into the hall through the branches and leaves, hitting Ye Meng's back. This made it difficult for people to see her expression clearly and guess what she was thinking at the moment.
"You can continue." After a long time, Magistrate Zhang secretly exhaled and extended his hand.
Ye Meng knew that Magistrate Zhang might have figured it out by now, so she didn't say anything else. He pointed at the murderer and began to analyze the case.
From the illogical shape of the wounds on the corpses to the ability to analyze the murderer through the modus operandi and the crime scene that left no traces, to the three of them going to the bank and finding an old servant, who was the murderer. Ye Meng told him the whole process.
"Wait a minute." When she took a breath and was about to continue, Magistrate Zhang interrupted her. Ignoring the confusion on Ye Meng's face, he said seriously," You guys secretly went to the crime scene to check?"”
"Yes." Ye Meng had no intention of hiding anything and admitted her actions without hesitation. She did not feel guilty at all. After all, she was investigating the case, but Magistrate Zhang did not give her or Qi Lu the right to investigate the case, so she had no choice but to investigate it on her own.
Magistrate Zhang could not remain calm after hearing her indifferent " hmm ". He pointed at Ye Meng's nose but could not say anything for a long time. He remembered that the evidence was sealed after they had collected the clues. This girl dared to enter without permission and acted so nonchalantly. Did she not know that this was against the rules? Although he was just a person in charge of the archives, he was breaking the law.
Furthermore, Magistrate Zhang glanced at Qi Lu, who was pretending to know nothing despite being a constable. He knew that this kid must have provided him with a lot of convenience in secret.
He was so bold and arrogant. Did he even take a magistrate like him seriously?
"My lord." Ye Meng understood what he meant from his gaze and said. "I don't think this is the time to discuss this matter.”
Magistrate Zhang raised his head and showed his nostrils, showing his silent consent. Just as he was about to sit down and listen to her continue, he stood up again before his butt could touch the chair. He seemed to have thought of something and asked," What's so strange about that old servant?”
"Milord." Ye Meng saw that he had finally put the focus back on the case and did not continue talking about him. She replied," Do you still remember the wound that was narrow on the left and wide on the right?”
Magistrate Zhang nodded blankly.
"That's right. At that time, I judged that the murderer should be left-handed. I also ruled out Wang Tu's suspicion for this reason.”Ye Meng continued," As for this old servant, when I saw him, his right hand was in front of his left hand.”
"A normal person should have their left hand in front and their right hand behind.”Ye Meng did not continue after saying this. Her almond-shaped eyes were fixed on Magistrate Zhang.
"So, you mean that this old servant is left-handed?”Magistrate Zhang asked. Then, he slowly sat down. The corner of his official robe was pressed down and there were some wrinkles. "But, this doesn't mean that he's a murderer.”
Magistrate Zhang was feeling the same way as Ye Meng. She did not believe that this old servant was the murderer of the bank. After all, he was too thin and old. Therefore, she chose to believe that it was just a coincidence, but the truth was the complete opposite.
Ye Meng pursed her lips and a faint smile appeared on her face, which made Magistrate Zhang confused. "Of course not."
She placed one hand behind her back and pointed in a random direction with the other confidently." Actually, Arrester Qi said something that day. He said that he was very curious about how the murderer moved the property away.”
"At that time, I felt that the murderer alone couldn't have moved all the money in a short period of time, so the money must still be in or near the bank.”Ye Meng said," That's why I went there with Constable Qi that night to guard the place. We wanted to find out who the murderer was.”
"But how do you know that the murderer is the same person? Couldn't it be a team effort?”Magistrate Zhang asked in a deep voice. How could the people in the government office not think of the problem of property? After all, the government office was not completely useless. "Moreover, we have also sent people to guard it. Why is there no result from our people?”
"Perhaps the people that Milord sent only noticed the more conspicuous doors, such as the front and back doors.”Ye Meng replied," However, if you think about it, you will know that the murderer would not be so ostentatious. He would definitely choose a more remote and hidden back door."”
In fact, the back door was not the real back door of the bank. Ye Meng and the others had only seen the door hidden by the wall by chance. Only then did they realize that there was another door behind it. It was the door that she and Qi Lu were guarding together.
Therefore, it was normal for Magistrate Zhang's men to not be able to find it. Although they did not know why the people from the money house had built that door, it was the best choice for the murderer.
" I said there was only one murderer because…" Ye Meng continued," The wounds on every corpse in the bank are basically the same. In other words, their wounds were all caused by one person."”
"What if one person is responsible for killing and the others are responsible for moving the property?”Magistrate Zhang continued to ask unwillingly.
"One person in charge of killing?" Ye Meng smiled speechlessly and held her forehead helplessly. It seemed that she had overestimated the people in the government office."Sir, have you ever seen someone so foolish as to kill someone and let others take the money?"”
"Since he could deal with the entire bank by himself, he naturally didn't need anyone else to interfere.”Ye Meng felt that she didn't have the energy to explain anymore.
"You can continue." Magistrate Zhang saw the impatience in her eyes and did not interrupt her.
"That night, Qi Lu and I were guarding the back door. After about two hours, a figure appeared at the back door of the bank.”Ye Meng carefully recalled the situation at that time. "But that black shadow knew martial arts at that time. At least his lightness skill was not bad.”
"Qi Lu followed them while I set up the traps.”Ye Meng glanced at Qi Lu and said dejectedly," However, the opponent's lightness skill isn't bad. He even used some sneak attacks. We lost him."”
"So?" Magistrate Zhang asked. He believed that it would not disappear just like that. There should still be some discoveries or clues.
"There's no so." Ye Meng said seriously," But we did find something suspicious.”
"That is, whether it was Qi Lu or me, when we were chasing after him, we both felt that that figure looked especially like that old servant.”
"However, this is not the final basis for my suspicion. Because I always felt that the old servant's physique and age didn't seem to be the culprit.”Ye Meng turned around, and the hem of her long green dress drew a beautiful arc in the air with her movements. "What really made me suspect him was that we met a beggar when we came back from Doctor He's clinic that day.”
"Isn't that beggar a thief?”Magistrate Zhang still had some impression of this beggar. He remembered that Qi Lu had escorted the beggar over. However, because it was a petty theft, he was not given too much punishment. He was only educated in prison for a period of time.
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