Chapter 2099 Ask Again
Song Yi sat on the ground helplessly, and was eventually found out by the people in the yamen.
He felt relieved at this moment. He had not rested well these days, and had been thinking about whether to go to the yamen to tell what he saw. At first, he really didn't think Ye Cuiru would kill Xie Yun, but just thought that Ye Cuiru might want to scare Xie Yun, or she didn't do anything to Xie Yun at all.
He just watched Xie Yun get into the car with Ye Cuiru, and it seemed that the two of them were talking and laughing.
Until he heard that the Xie family went to the yamen to report the case, until he saw the flower, he just thought that Ye Cuiru had hidden Xie Yun, thought that the woman was jealous, thought that he liked Xie Yun and wanted to punish her, until the day before yesterday, a body was found at the bottom of their well, and the people in the yamen brought the body up and he went to take a look.
Xie Yun was dead.
He couldn't describe his mood at the time. In the past two days, he felt like there was a heavy stone hanging in his heart, and now, this big stone in his heart fell.
When he came to his senses, Gu Xin was no longer in prison, and he was also sweating all over.
The jailer took him to a separate cell and told him to stay there honestly. He was calm at this moment.
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Soon, the Ye family was arrested and taken to Jingzhao Prefecture. The prefect knew about it even though he had not been notified, but he did not bring them to court for interrogation.
The prefect still handed the matter over to Gu Xin. He had not handled the case from the beginning. It was all done by Gu Xin. Anyone who could be the prefect in the capital must be able to read the eyes and especially be able to guess the thoughts of the people above. Therefore, when Gu Xin did not ask him to be called, he pretended not to know and continued to work in his room. The capital was so big, there was more than just this case, and there were many miscellaneous things he had to do.
Gu Xin asked the Ye family to an interrogation room, and the five members of the family were called in one by one.
Gu Xin asked them again what she had said the night before, asking them to tell everything the family had done from the seventh day of the first lunar month until the day the body of the deceased was found. She said that this was the last chance. If anyone concealed anything, no matter what the final result was, they would be punished with twenty strokes of the cane or even half a month of imprisonment for obstructing the work of the government.
The couple of the Ye family really seemed to be unaware of the situation, and they said the same thing as the night before.
Ye Cuiru's brother and sister-in-law said hesitantly that Ye Cuiru went out in the afternoon of the seventh day of the first lunar month and came back after nightfall, but they didn't know where she went, and she wouldn't tell them when they asked.
The last person to be asked was Ye Cuiru.
Ye Cuiru was still shy and timid, and she answered every question Gu Xin asked. She admitted that she had seen Xie Yun on the seventh day of the first lunar month, but she just sent Xie Yun home because Manzhu was not there. After sending Xie Yun home, she wanted to go out of the city to buy some things, so she drove the family's carriage out of the city.
Gu Xin asked her why she said she was going to deliver something when she went out of the city.
Ye Cuiru said calmly that she usually went out of the city to deliver things for her brother and sister-in-law, and she knew all the soldiers who came and went to guard the city, and they also knew her, so she kept records as before.
Without waiting for Gu Xin to ask, she took the initiative to say that she entered the city from the west gate, because they now lived here which was closer to the west gate. She sent Xie Yun home, and Xie's house was closer to the east gate, so she went out from the east. The place where she sold things was in a village south of the capital, so she chose to enter from the east.