Chapter 187: The Land of the Tryst.

When the dusk was about to end, the officials ran back against the cold wind.

And behind the officer, several arresters were escorting the two, the two were dressed ordinarily, no different from ordinary people, but their expressions were a little gloomy, and there was a faint loss, and the faces of the two had been blown red by the cold wind, but at this time they were detained, and they couldn't rub them with their hands to keep warm.

The official came to the living room and bowed his hand to Lord Bao and said, "Lord Hui, then Xue Kai and Wang Yuanyuan were arrested by us." ”

When Bao Zheng, Hua Lang and the others heard this, they were immediately excited, and Bao Zheng said again and again: "Bring the two of them in." ”

When Xue Kai and Wang Yuanyuan came in, Bao Zheng asked the officer, "How did you catch the two of them?" ”

The official was a little proud, and said: "Lord Hui, if it is cold today, I expect them to go quickly, and they will not sleep in the open, so I asked my brothers to inquire in the inns and taverns around Tianchang County, and finally found them in an inn." ”

Bao Zheng nodded slightly to express his satisfaction, and at this time, Xue Kai and Wang Yuanyuan had already been escorted in, the two of them were dressed very thickly, and after kneeling in the living room, they were like two living Buddhas.

Bao Zheng looked at the two of them, and suddenly scolded sharply: "Xue Kai and Wang Yuanyuan, quickly and truthfully explain the matter of the two of you killing people and exchanging corpses, otherwise you will blame Lord Ben for turning his face and being ruthless." ”

Xue Kai and Wang Yuanyuan knelt on the ground, trembling all over, I don't know if it was because of fear or cold, they looked at each other, but they were silent.

Seeing this, Bao Zheng immediately said angrily: "Come on, pick up the thick clothes on the two of them, and first take the big thirty boards, and see if they say it." ”

Torture is not what Bao Zheng wants, but there are some things that can still be very effective in scaring the prisoner.

When the two officials came to take off the clothes on Xue Kai and Wang Yuanyuan, the two of them immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, and after a long time, Xue Kai said: "My lord, we didn't kill anyone, so ...... The corpse was found by accident. ”

Everyone listened to Xue Kai's words, and they were willing to believe it, and Bao Zheng continued to ask: "Tell me about this matter in detail, if there is a little bit of confusion, the two of you are murderers." ”

Xue Kai nodded again and again, and then began to say: "Here's the thing, Yuanyuan and I have been in love for a long time, but Yuanyuan's mother ...... Too snobbish, seeing that I am poor, I refuse to marry Yuanyuan to me, and a few days ago, she also accepted Zhang Yuanwai Zhang Qi's dowry, so the two of us knew that if we continued like this, we would inevitably be broken up, so we thought about eloping. ”

"What about corpses?" Bao Zheng continued to ask.

Xue Kai paused for a moment, rubbed his red face, and said: "The corpse was found by me and Yuanyuan three days ago, after we were about to elope, we thought that there was a way to make Wang Yuanyuan's mother Wang not look for us, so we transported the body to Yuanyuan's house, and changed into Yuanyuan's clothes, if Wang found that the body was not her daughter but was wearing her daughter's clothes, she would definitely be very scared and dare not make a noise, so that after she finished disposing of the corpse, she naturally did not dare to send someone to find us." ”

The matter is somewhat clear, but there is still a little bit of confusion, so Bao Zheng continued to ask: "Where did you find that corpse?" ”

Xue Kai hesitated for a moment and said: "It's the place where I had a tryst with Yuanyuan, it was a forest in the west of Tianchang County, we found a corpse in that place, we were also scared at that time, and we were thinking about whether to report to the official, but when we thought about changing the body, we temporarily hid the corpse, because it was cold, so the corpse was well preserved." ”

For the forest that Xue Kai said, Bao Zheng and Hualang also knew the truth, but they didn't understand, how could Zhu Ruzi die in that place, and that place is rarely visited by people in normal times?

After asking Xue Kai, Bao Zheng didn't care about the night, and ordered: "Take us to the place you said." ”

Xue Kai didn't dare to say much, so he had to lead Hualang and Bao Zheng to set up in the west.

At this time, the cold wind in the woods was steep, and the snowflakes on the trees were scattered by the wind, falling to the neck, and they came to the woods, Xue Kai pointed to a place not far ahead, Bao Zheng and Hualang and others hurriedly went over.

But when they walked over, they found that there were a lot of footprints in that place, and this place was visited by someone not long ago?

The snow had melted a lot, so the footprints were not very complete, but even if they were incomplete, they could be seen to be the footprints of a man, who was looking around the area, and the snow had been scraped off in several places, as if he was looking for something.

What was the man looking for, did he find it?

Bao Zheng and Hua Lang and the others looked at those footprints, looked at the snow on the ground, and frowned, at this time, Hua Lang suddenly greeted Xue Kai and Wang Yuanyuan: "The corpse you found here?" ”

Xue Kai nodded again and again: "That's right, this is this place." ”

"Then where did you hide the body after you found it, and what did you find on the body?"

Xue Kai was a little timid, but still said: "We didn't find anything on the corpse, we were very nervous at the time, we dared to pick up the corpse there, but we just dragged the corpse to a hidden place in front." ”

Hua Lang asked Xue Kai to lead him to the place where the body was hidden, it was a depression, if he hadn't approached it, he wouldn't have noticed it, there was still a lot of snow in the depression at this time, and the withered grass around him was exposed.

Hua Lang jumped into the depression, kept rummaging in the snow, and finally he suddenly stood up very excitedly, and then looked at Bao Zhengyin and said, "Look, a ring." ”

Everyone looked at it and saw that it was really a ring, at this time the ring was still stained with snow water, and a drop fell to the ground, and this ring was carved from white jade, which was very sleek and must be worth a lot of money, but in such a place, how could there be this ring?

Could it be the murderer's, he was not very killed by Zhu Ruzi when he killed Zhu Ruzi, and then when the murderer carried the body here, he was left here?

And those footprints were found here by the murderer after he found that the ring was missing, but he didn't know that the body had been moved, so he didn't find it.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, this ring is Zhu Ruzi's, she was killed and left here, and after the murderer killed, he felt that this ring was worth a lot of money, so he came back to look for it, but he was late, and the body was hidden by Xue Kai and Wang Yuanyuan one step earlier.

And to prove this, we must wait for Zhu Sheng to come.