Chapter 227： deceive

Chapter 227 Deception

Chu Nanzhi watched Hai Kangyan shivering and remained silent, and asked someone to fetch a bowl of hot water. While smelling the salt in his hand carefully, he sprinkled salt into the hot water.

The salt in his hand was fine, and it smelled like nothing else, but when the salt in the bowl slowly melted, a faint rusty smell gradually wafted out.

Chu Nanzhi finally nodded in relief: "Tell me, who told you to destroy these salt?"

Hai Kangyan looked at her secretly, hesitated for a long time, and finally replied vaguely: "Yes, you are the county magistrate."

"fart."

Chu Nanzhi was so angry that she swears, and directly put the knife on his neck angrily, and threatened: "If you talk nonsense, I will touch your neck with a knife."

Kang Mingyuan has already been sent to prison, he confessed everything he knew yesterday, why bother to do these futile things.

Hai Kangyan was so frightened that his eyebrows stood on end, he broke away from the yamen servant and knelt down to beg for mercy: "The young one really doesn't know, the young one just took Chen Wu's money, if anyone asks, he will ask the young one to say that it is the county magistrate." Just what you mean."

Chu Nanzhi glanced at the gloomy Chen Si, and continued to ask Hai Kangyan: "How much money did he give you?"

"Twenty taels per year."

Hai Kangyan replied without thinking.

"Where does a cook get so much money?"

"The little one really doesn't know. The little one is only responsible for stealing brine from the well with Chen Si to cook salt, and then handing the salt to Chen Wu. He doesn't know anything else."

Chu Nanzhi thought about it, squinting a pair of long and narrow peach eyes, presumably it must be the one behind Chen Wu's scenes.

Hu Maoxi is still a relatively clean official, and he can make a lot of money in a year. I am afraid that this group of dog officials in Haikang County must have made a lot of money from top to bottom.

Now the source of the poisonous salt has been found out, as long as we find out who is behind Chen Wu, everything will be revealed.

In her heart, she had already suspected the person behind Chen Wu, but unfortunately, he hadn't shown any flaws, and she had no way of identifying him.

At this time, what Chen Wu should have done has already been done, presumably Lin Jinxiao will not continue to let him get away with it, and should have been arrested and brought to justice.

But what Chu Nanzhi was more worried about was that if this guy would rather die than confess the person behind the scenes, now he has to find a way to lure the snake out of the hole.

She looked at Chen Si with a tentative attitude, and asked, "Who is Chen Wu who sent you the letter?"

Or someone else?

Chen Si gritted his teeth, glanced at the cold knife in her hand, and fell into hesitation.

"At this point, it will be useless for you to protect him. I can find him here, which means that he has already been arrested and brought to justice."

Chu Nanzhi lied calmly: "Don't even think about it. If he hadn't confessed to you, how would I have known in advance that Kang Mingtang would assassinate us, let alone know that the poisonous salt came from your salt well."

"This bastard, who even betrayed his flesh and blood brothers, is simply inhuman."

Chen Si was filled with righteous indignation when he heard it, and he wanted to cover him with death, so he quickly replied without thinking:

"That's right, it was indeed a letter from him. The dirty salt produced here was also sent to the post by the young man himself. This **** has been making a lot of money on weekdays. In order to covet a few taels of money, he actually collected it." I took an ignorant **** from our village as an apprentice, and introduced him to the post house. A few days ago, that **** took the wrong salt, and put the salt he took here into the meals of the guests, and he threw it away. It’s nothing more than a job, and it made me wait and suffer.”

Chu Nanzhi suddenly realized that it was Chen Wu's careless apprentice who put poisonous salt into the food.

This is also the case, otherwise Chen Wu would not have dared to poison so many people with his courage.

Chu Nanzhi said again: "What else do you know, where did Chen Wu get so much money for you?"

Chen Si shook his head resolutely: "This little guy really doesn't know, he only came to see me last night, he was beaten up the day before yesterday, lost his job, and has been hiding in the yamen to recuperate, who knows that the newcomer The Disabled County Magistrate"

"Shut up, don't be rude to Shangguan."

Chu Nanzhi has always heard someone calling Lin Jinxiao the Disabled County Magistrate in the past two days. No matter what she heard, she felt a little harsh. At this moment, she finally couldn't help but reprimanded. Suspend the officials of the county government from their posts and investigate, that **** Chen Wu had no choice but to sneak out while taking advantage of the chaos."

"Well, he didn't tell you whose courtyard he was hiding in?"

Chu Nanzhi stared at him steadily.

Chen Si shook his head in a daze, his eyes were full of loneliness: "How can I know that?"

"Take it away and go back to the Yamen."

It seems that Chen Wu intends to protect this person deliberately, even his own brother refuses to reveal it.

Chu Nanzhi gave up on further questioning and prepared to go back to the county after giving Li Sanmu instructions.

Seeing this, Peng Pai quickly begged several government officials around him: "The officials in this county are still interrogating, and I have to trouble everyone to take care of this place. No one is allowed to take the brine from this well to boil salt."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hai Kangyan immediately confessed: "All the salt boiled in brine from this salt well has been destroyed, and there is absolutely nothing hidden."

Paused, he looked at the bag of salt in Chu Nanzhi's hand again, and added in horror: "Except for the ones in the lady's hands."

Chu Nanzhi looked at his frightened look, and couldn't help snickering secretly, but he was quite honest at this time.

Chen Si also had a bitter face and hurriedly begged: "Everyone on the job, the younger one has explained all the facts, can he survive?"

"You want to live?"

"certainly."

"When you hurt someone, why didn't you expect today?"

"I don't know that this salt can really eat dead people. Chen Wu only said that eating this salt can make people have diarrhea, and it is specially used to punish prisoners."

Chen Si looked sincere: "The young one still has an old mother who is over 60 years old to take care of, and has a wife and children. If Chen Wu didn't use money to lure the young one from time to time, the young one would not do such things for him. "

"Since you have a wife and children to support, then you are not honest in your work all day long, only thinking about opportunism and killing people."

Chu Nanzhi stared at him coldly, and a cunning flashed across his eyes: "There are ways for you to survive, as long as you can persuade Chen Wu to confess in court, I will naturally appeal for you, and the request is easy Sentence."

"The little one must try his best to persuade him to confess."

Chen Si replied confidently.

Chu Nanzhi nodded in satisfaction.

Although this guy may not be a good person, he is not a heinous person after all. If he can pry Chen Wu's mouth open, it will be considered a meritorious service. It is not a big deal to ask for a light sentence for him to be exiled for two or three thousand miles. .

As for whether he can come back alive, it is not something he can manage.

Ma Laifu, who had been silently watching beside Chu Nanzhi for a long time, had roughly figured out what was going on at this time. No wonder sister Zhi risked her life to investigate the salt well in the south of the city. It seems that Brother Zhu must have found out These clues were murdered by these people.

Thinking of Zhu Yue's approachable and kind attitude towards him, Ma Lai was so lucky that he picked up the brine bucket beside him and threw it at Hai Kangyan and Chen Si.

Chu Nanzhi was thinking about how to reveal the true identity of the person behind the scenes, when she looked up, she saw that the bucket in Ma Laifu's hand had already hit Chen Si on the head.

"Blessing."

Chu Nanzhi went to stop him in shock, and heard a muffled sound of "pound". Chen Si was knocked unconscious, and the bottom of the brine bucket fell to the ground.

"Damn you, I told you to kill my brother Zhu."

Ma Laifu cursed and went to pick up another brine bucket and was about to throw it at the panic-stricken Hai Kangyan. Chu Nanzhi quickly stopped him and shouted sharply: "Laifu, you brat, they wait for you!" If you plead guilty in court, you will be ruled by the law, don't be so reckless."

Ma Laifu puffed his cheeks and cursed sullenly: "These **** have done outrageous things and harmed Brother Zhu. I really wish I could kill them."

Chu Nanzhi glanced at the calm Peng Pai, and motioned softly: "Peng Dianshi, take the prisoner away."

Waiting for Peng Pai to **** the two of them out, Chu Nanzhi patiently comforted Ma Laifu: "They are just running errands, it's useless for you to vent your anger on them, the most important thing now is to point out the people behind it."

Ma Laifu pursed his mouth, wondering: "Sister Zhi, everyone who should be arrested has been arrested, and the damned are dead. Who else is behind?"

"We will see the outcome soon."

Chu Nanzhi lifted the salt bag thoughtfully, blinking her brows and eyes lightly, and gradually had an idea in her heart.

(end of this chapter)