sjar Chapter 384 The Village Chief Was Executed
Chapter 384 The Village Chief Was Executed
The village chief shook his head helplessly, "No, it's not me."
"Seven years ago you bought all the cloth, but the villagers didn't see it, which means you are the only one who owns it."
Lu Qingchen spoke word by word, with a sarcastic smile on his face, "Now the evidence is irrefutable. You are the one who killed Tiezhu. What else can you say?"
The village chief was so shocked that he was speechless, but he couldn't utter a word to refute.
The villagers around him didn't know what to say when they saw this. Could he really be the murderer of Tiezhu?
Tiezhu's mother, who had always admired the village chief, kept her mouth shut at this moment, without even questioning him, as if the village chief killing her son was an insignificant matter.
Seeing that the village chief was silent, Qin Miaoxi led the officials to a nearby forest, and soon they moved the bronze bull out of it.
The village chief widened his eyes in disbelief and couldn't look away.
"The bronze bull is still there, but what are those fragments on the ground?"
"Whatever it is! Thank goodness the Bull God is safe."
"May the Bull God bless you, Amitabha."
Qin Miaoxi glanced at the village chief and said solemnly, "The bronze bull is the murder weapon that killed Tiezhu. We found corpse oil and some human flesh inside the bronze bull. The time of the aggregation is the same as the time when the deceased was killed."
"The village chief's cloth was also found inside the bronze ox. Furthermore, someone confirmed that the village chief went to the back mountain at midnight on the night Tiezhu was murdered."
"Impossible." The village chief frowned and refuted without hesitation.
The officer winked at the people behind him, and immediately two of them climbed up.
With a cold sneer, he bowed respectfully to Qin Miaoxi and Lu Qingchen and said, "Thank you, Princess and Lord Marquis, for providing the clue. We will take him back and interrogate him strictly."
He turned to the village chief and said sternly, "What are you looking at? Go!"
The village chief struggled hard, "I didn't kill him, it's unfair!"
"The evidence is irrefutable, yet you still want to quibble."
A rag was stuffed into his mouth and he was marched away in a mighty procession.
The field was completely silent. Lu Qingchen raised an eyebrow and looked at the villagers. "Your Bull God has returned. Why don't you quickly invite him back?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the villagers took a step back and no one dared to step forward.
"Why, you don't even want a Patronus anymore?"
"No, it's not. This is the murder weapon the murderer used to burn the iron pillar."
Lu Qingchen nodded in agreement and replied, "Yes, that's right. Not only did they burn Tiezhu to death, but they also burned Xu Xiaoru to death a year ago."
Villagers: “…”
"That's why you should take good care of him! There are parts of Tiezhu's body in here. You don't want him to die with his body torn apart and suffer in humiliation!"
The villagers' faces changed drastically, and they started vomiting loudly with "oh oh" sounds.
Lu Qingchen leaned over to Qin Miaoxi and said, "These people can't handle it well! Why are they vomiting when they haven't even seen anything?"
Qin Miaoxi rolled her eyes speechlessly, "Just shut up!"
Her eyes swept over the villagers, and a flash of regret passed through her eyes.
After they had vomited everything they needed to, they fled from the bronze bull without looking back, completely losing their original awe for the bronze bull.
"Let's go too!"
The real murderer has been found, but as to why the village chief killed people, it depends on whether the government can find out.
Following behind the villagers, I could faintly hear a few people sighing.
"Why did the village chief want to kill Tiezhu? They had no grudge against each other."
"Yes! Normally, they have a good relationship. You can only judge a person by his appearance."
"That's right. A few years ago, there was a severe drought in the village. It was the village chief who prayed to the Bull God for protection, which helped the village survive the crisis."
The two people who were speaking were old men. A strange light flashed in Qin Miaoxi's eyes, and she immediately asked them to stay.
"Please stay, two elders!"
When the two people in front saw that it was the princess who was speaking, they were frightened and turned around and ran away.
"stop!"
Lu Qingchen quickly grabbed the two of them and threw them back to Qin Miaoxi's feet, cursing, "Are you two the village chief's accomplices?"
"Okay! I will send you to the government office right away."
"No, no, we are not in cahoots with each other. We know nothing."
Lu Qingchen sneered: "I don't know, I think you know a lot!"
"Princess, you agree!"
Qin Miaoxi ignored his winks and her scrutinizing gaze made the two of them dare not look directly at her.
"You just mentioned the drought. When did it happen?"
The old man looked confused and stammered, "It's just..."
"That was seven years ago."
"Yes, seven years ago, there was a drought in the village. The crops in the village had no harvest and the villagers had no food to eat. It was the village chief who brought in food to help everyone out of their urgent need."
"Where did he get the food?"
"I don't know about that. During those days, the village chief and several elderly people in the village went out early and came back late. They brought back food every few days."
"Yes, many people died of starvation in other villages due to lack of food, but no one died in our village."
Lu Qingchen didn't hear anything wrong, but saw Qin Miaoxi shaking her head at him and waving her hand to let them leave.
Qin Miaoxi pondered for a long time and said, "No, it's absolutely wrong."
"What's wrong?"
"The account book."
Lu Qingchen was stunned for a moment before suddenly realizing, "Yes, since it's a drought, where is the village chief going to get the money to buy cloth?"
"No, I mean if that's the case, you should use the money to buy food! You won't starve to death without clothes, and these cloths are not cheap."
"That's right. Something must have happened inside that we don't know about."
Lu Qingchen thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out. He patted Hun Dun's head and muttered, "Anyway, the murderer has been found. It's time for us to return to Beijing."
Qin Miaoxi wanted to say something but stopped herself, and finally followed him down the mountain without saying anything.
That afternoon, news of the results of the yamen trial spread throughout the village.
"Have you heard? The village chief was beheaded on the spot for brutally killing many people."
"The village chief died a tragic death. His head was chopped off and his body thrown into a mass grave. No one collected his body."
"How could the village chief be so desperate as to kill someone? He has helped me before, I..."
"Don't say that again, or the Xu family might hear you and cause you trouble."
The man quickly covered his mouth. The more he spoke, the more mistakes he made. It would be better if he didn't say anything. In a sense, eliminating a murderer in the village was a good thing.
The villagers sighed in despair. Who could have imagined that the murderer was the selfless village chief?
Everyone went home with different thoughts in their mind, but it was unknown how many people had sleepless nights.
The bright moon is in the sky, its light is everywhere, and the clear moonlight pours down, dyeing the sky and the earth bright.
Looking up, the night sky was cloudless, making the night particularly quiet.
The rustling sound was heard again from the middle of the mountain. The sleepy Lu Qingchen suddenly opened his eyes and could vaguely see two figures through the gaps between the branches.
Did his wife bring him here to eavesdrop again? No wonder she wouldn't leave even after the murderer was caught. Is this a new habit?
Just as he was about to speak, he thought of a soft little hand covering his mouth. He turned his head and saw Qin Miaoxi staring straight ahead with burning eyes.
"It's not good here!"
"Why not? Don't you find it exciting to be on Tiezhu's corpse?"
"But……"
"No buts, if you don't want to, forget it."
After a while, there was a sound of hurried footsteps. "No, no, I was wrong, can't I? I will give you all the money I earned this time to make amends."
"That's pretty much it."
Then, Lu Qingchen's eyes widened in shock. On the bronze bull...