Sima Guang began to investigate according to the points that Hua Lang said, and among the four points, two points were the most difficult.

The first is whether Ma Juan has other good looks, and the second is to find those beggars.

However, in this Huainan City, it is not difficult to investigate these things, it is nothing more than a matter of time.

In the afternoon of the next day, a government official came to Hualang and said that they had investigated Longtian clearly, this Longtian's family was good, and it was a business partnership with Ma Liangcai's family, but the Long family had always been dominant, and the marriage between the two families seemed to be nothing.

As for Long Tian's conduct, it is not very good, because some people say that this Long Tian has always just treated women as playthings, and he throws them away when he gets tired of playing, but he plays with women who are willing to be played by him, and he has never done anything about openly committing violence against women from good families.

After the official said this, Hua Lang frowned slightly and asked, "Can Ma Liang know about these things?" ”

The official nodded: "The two families have a lot of contact, and Ma Liang should know about Longtian's behavior." ”

After hearing this, Hua Lang smiled lightly and said, "Since Ma Liangcai knows that Long Tian has this kind of character, but insists on marrying his daughter to him, do you think it's strange?" ”

The official was stunned for a moment, and then nodded again and again: "It's really strange, dude, do you want to conduct a thorough investigation of that Ma Liangcai." ”

Hua Lang nodded: "Let's investigate him, he must have something to hide from us." ”

After the official left, the corner of Hua Lang's mouth showed a slight smile, and at this time, a servant hurriedly came and said that he had inquired about some clues, so the official inquired about the things that the old king had seen, and they said that according to the report of the brothers guarding the city gate, they knew that more than ten days ago, there was a woman who was very similar to the deceased Ma Juan entered Huainan City, the woman was in rags, no different from a beggar, and usually lived by begging, but at that time the woman's face had a lot of dirt, but her face was very similar to the deceased.

Hua Lang nodded, if there is really a woman in Huainan City who is very similar to Ma Juan, then the murder of Ma Fu can be speculated like this, Ma Juan didn't want to marry Long Tian, so he found a woman who looked similar to him to replace him, killed her before she escaped, and then she could go away and fly away, and now the person who was killed was not Ma Juan, but the ragged beggar woman, that is, the woman who was captured by the old king at noon that day.

Thinking of this, Su Wuming frowned slightly, if this is the case, then the appearance of those beggars at noon that day was too strange, could it be that those beggars knew that their companions were captured and entered into the Ma Mansion, so they wanted to save people, but in the end they were driven away by the people of the Ma Mansion?

If this is the case, they can arrest Ma Juan next, and it is not certain that they can solve the case as quickly as possible.

After this order, the official and some friends began to look for Ma Juan, and just a day later, they found Ma Juan's friend.

The man's name is Yang Tong, handsome, slender, and Na Ma Juan have already made a private agreement for life, and the two were ready to elope, but in the past few days, he suddenly returned to Huainan City, and as soon as he came back, he was arrested by the officials.

After Hua Lang got the news, he hurriedly went to the mansion and entered the mansion, and after seeing that Yang Tong, Hua Lang and Sima Guang immediately began to interrogate.

"Since you have eloped with Ma Juan, why do you want to come back?"

Yang Tong was very scared at this time, he glanced at Hua Lang, knelt down and kowtowed again and again, and said: "No, no, I was going to elope with Ma Juan, but I waited for him for a day at the place we agreed, but she didn't show up, I thought she repented, so I came back to check on it, but I didn't expect that she ...... She's dead! ”

"What?" Everyone was taken aback, they thought that Ma Juan had eloped with this Yang Tong, but what they didn't expect was that no, that Ma Juan did not go to the appointment, but how could this be, if Ma Juan had already found a scapegoat, she should go to the appointment.

Hua Lang frowned slightly, and then asked, "Do you know about Ma Juan's search for a scapegoat?" ”

Yang Tong nodded again and again: "I know, this is still the idea I gave, when I was walking on the street, I met a female beggar, I gave him a few cents, she thanked me again and again, and at this time, I found that he was exactly the same as Ma Juan, when I told Ma Juan about this, we decided to steal the dragon and turn the phoenix, the beggar pretended to be Ma Juan, the beggar was penniless, and suddenly let him be a big lady, she will definitely agree, so we are very confident in this." ”

"You didn't think about killing her?"

"No, absolutely not, we've never thought of killing someone, please Dude and Master Sima to find out."

Hua Lang frowned slightly, and then ordered someone to bring the body of the deceased up, and said, "Let's take a look, is this corpse Ma Juan's, or the female beggar's?" ”

Yang Tong looked at the corpse, and then suddenly cried: "Dude, this ...... This is really Ma Juan's, I know the two of them very well, Ma Juan has a red mole in her ear, but the beggar doesn't, there is a red hemorrhoid on this corpse, this red mole can't be seen if you don't pull out your hair. ”

After Yang Tong finished speaking, Hua Lang, Sima Guang and the others were shocked again, they thought that Ma Juan had found a scapegoat and killed him, but what they didn't expect was that this Ma Juan was killed, and the female beggar fled.

At this time, Hua Lang finally understood what was going on with those beggars, those beggars must be in the same group as the female beggar, after they learned that their companion was arrested, they ran to save the female beggar, and at that time, Ma Juan may have been about to swap with the female beggar, and after they rescued the female beggar, they killed Ma Juan?

Whether Ma Juan was killed by the beggars is unknown for the time being, and it will not be known until the beggars are found, but it is now certain that the female beggar was rescued by her companions.

After asking, Hua Lang glanced at Sima Guang, Sima Guang nodded, and then ordered someone to beat Yang Tong's twenty boards as a punishment, and then blasted it out of the hall, and through this interrogation, they knew more about the murder, and what they had to do next was to find those beggars, of course, before finding those beggars, Hua Lang had to determine one thing, that is, whether what Yang Tong said was true, and whether the deceased was really Ma Juan?

The red mole behind the ear, this can be asked by Ma Liangcai.