Liu Lin’s expression changed: “My lord, arresting people for no reason, isn’t that bad?”

Jiang Zhou raised his eyelids and reached out to catch the rain falling from the edge of the umbrella: “How could it be for no reason? Businessman Liu bought the iron weapon belonging to Ji Dou’s family, which has now become a murder weapon, and you are the prime suspect.”

Liu Lin’s face darkened, and his knife-like eyes passed over Ji Dou. Sure enough, he saw Ji Dou shivering in the rain and turned away to avoid meeting his gaze.

The empty-handed yamen officer tentatively approached him and pressed him down violently.

The suppressing movement caused Liu Lin’s head to tilt to one side, revealing the word “prison” behind his ear.

Jiang Zhou’s eyes fell on that word.

Liu Lin felt as if he had been burned, so he took out a hand and covered his ears.

Zhuo Bang turned back to Jiang Zhou and said, “Since this is the case, why not just invite Liu Chengfeng to come over. I will settle the case today.”

Zhuo Bang made the decision in the case, and Jiang Zhou naturally concurred.

Liu Chengfeng was supposed to be sleeping, but for some reason his eyelids kept twitching, and he tossed and turned on the bed unable to fall asleep. He saw the government officials coming to invite him at night and he suddenly had a bad feeling.

Zhuo Bang had opened up the court.

Kneeling below were Ji Dou, Liu Lin, and the shopkeeper of the inn owned by Liu Lin.

Jiang Zhou sat down and drank tea.

Zhuo Bang was asking questions, but he only heard the kneeling shopkeeper below answer: “Recently, the inn has been unable to make ends meet. Our area only has such a large number of customers. Most of them are at the Jiang Zhou’s Inn. A small number of talented people would come to ours.”

“Zhou Ming did come to our inn some time ago. I was the one to receive him. The boss was also there at the time. He claimed that he was with his wife, but she didn’t look like a wife, more like a concubine.”

When Zhou Ming arrived at their inn, he didn’t say anything. Instead, the woman pinched her nose and complained about the inn’s conditions. She either said the wood smelled like mold, or that their table was dusty and couldn’t be wiped clean. She said that Liu Lin was gloomy and scary, and she acted coquettishly, asking Zhou Ming to switch to another inn.

The shopkeeper remembered that the woman said at that time, “What’s so good about this shabby place? It’s not even one thousandth as good as the inn next to it. The one next to it is beautiful and transparent, so why waste money.”

Zhou Ming originally planned to stay there. After hearing this, he could only stop picking up the money and said comfortingly: “Didn’t I tell you before? That place is full, so why not stay there first?”

The woman refused and just said: “When the room is full, just pay someone to give it to us. It’s not like we can’t afford it!”

She was making unreasonable trouble, and Zhou Ming could only coax her patiently. In the end, he actually spent twice as much money to find someone to let move out. She lived in happily.

Liu Lin’s expression was not right at that time, but he just kept holding it down without having an outburst.

Afterwards, he asked someone to inquire about Jiang Zhou’s movements.

Zhuo Bang brought up the witness notes again and showed it to Liu Lin: “Someone in town saw that you had contact with Zhou Ming two days ago. The two of you looked at some goods at the dock together, right?”

Liu Lin remained silent.

Zhuo Bang then recounted the events for him.

“After the victim left your inn, he went to the Jiang Zhou’s Inn. You held a grudge against the woman because of her words. Later, you pretended to discuss a business deal with Zhou Ming and deceived him. You devised a plan to defraud him of money, bought Ji Dou’s iron weapon, killed him with it, and then asked Ji Dou to trick the woman into coming, rape her first, and then kill her. Is this true?”

Liu Lin looked gloomy and remained silent.

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Ji Dou started to tremble.

He didn’t expect Liu Lin to commit murder. When the news of the death first came out, he felt uneasy. He was really worried and went to find Liu Lin. Unexpectedly, Liu Lin gave him fifty taels of silver.

He was a scoundrel; how could he ever seen so much money? For a while, he helped hide it.

The murder weapon was found during the day, and he was involved. He felt bad, so he went to Liu Lin again, but he was caught by the government servants.

The townspeople were simple person, the biggest bad thing they had ever done in their lives was to bully others, how could they expect that a human life would be at stake? When Zhuo Bang said he partly blamed for this, he was immediately frightened. Moved, cried, and explained everything.

Naturally, Liu Lin was sold.

The angry Liu Lin gave him a kick.

Liu Lin already had a criminal record, but he was only able to survive during the amnesty period. Now he had committed another murder. It could be said that he had refused to change despite repeated admonitions and was extremely vicious.

Moreover, he committed the crime in the middle of the night, and after committing the crime, he dumped the bodies of the two people at Jiang Zhou’s Inn in an attempt to frame Jiang Zhou.