Xu Ziyang, Xu Mo, Xu Kun, Xu Chen, Xu Mao... The bodies of the five people were taken out of the prison and placed flat in the courtyard of the second hall, which caused many officials around to look panic, but because County Magistrate Li was right in front of them, they did not dare to make any comments.

Li Ling's face looked very bad. There were so many important criminals in the yamen prison. He would definitely take responsibility for it on one hand, and more importantly, these important figures of the Xu family died at the wrong time. He also wanted to ask more things from them, especially about food.

But now, they are no longer able to give an answer, all the corpses have distorted faces and their faces are pale. It is obvious that they have died for a while. When Li Ling turned his eyes to Wan Shenji, the latter immediately said in a deep voice: "Sir, I have checked carefully. Four of them were tied up by someone and hung their necks on their necks and pretended to commit suicide. Only Xu Chen really committed suicide. In addition, they died one after another in a short period of time. Judging from the degree of stiffness of the corpses, they were supposed to die in the middle of yesterday's night."

Li Ling's expression became even more tight: "So, the other four people were probably killed by Xu Chen?"

"It should be that. Among these people, he learned a lot of martial arts. It would not be too difficult to kill them all suddenly. Also, the five of them were locked in a cell, so it was easy to do it."

After hearing what he said, Xu Sen, who had already turned pale and had a sad face, trembled even more, and immediately knelt down: "Sir, it's a humble fault... I was imprisoned at that time because I had too many prisoners and there were not enough cells, so I locked everyone together. I also thought that if my uncle and the others were together, they might be able to change their ideas in communication with each other, so I locked them up in one place, but I didn't want to harm them instead..."

Li Ling's eyes were fixed on the only subordinate of the Xu family who had not made any mistakes and was pulled by himself to entrust with important tasks. After a while, he stepped forward to help him up: "You don't have to be so panic. I have no intention of blaming you. The most urgent task now is to find out why this change happened, especially Xu Chen, who suddenly started to explode and killed his father and brother and committed suicide."

Speaking of this, he looked at the prison guards who had been scared and trembling with fear: "Does they have any abnormal behaviors in prison in the past few days, such as whether there is any dispute?"

Because Li Ling had resigned all the people involved in the county government office, even though he recruited a group of people later, the county government office was still struggling to employ people. In fact, the three yamen runners who were responsible for public security and arresting people were fine. Chang Fan and the others could all be used as three or five people, but there were too few people who could use some dirty work at the bottom.

For example, there were more than ten people responsible for guarding the prison, but now there are only three or five people. Moreover, these prison guards are novice, and they can't stand the smelly and suffocating atmosphere in the prison, so they are mostly just guarding the door and are really not very clear about everything inside.

When the county magistrate asked, the guards immediately panicked and kowtowed continuously: "Sir, please forgive me. The young guys have been staying outside and haven't heard any disputes inside. Last night, last night was also quiet... The people in the Xu family looked at me with great worries, but they didn't show any other signs."

Li Ling didn't really have much hope for them. They had only been in the yamen for a few days, so how could they really grasp some changes in the prisoners? However, they could still detect some strange things from their explanations. When everything was normal, how could Xu Chen suddenly kill his father and brother? It was not too early or too late, and it happened that he was about to find out that there was something wrong with their food storage.

Whether these two are related is not the case, but Xu Chen's sudden outbreak must have an incentive, but where does this incentive come from?

"In the past few days, someone has gone to the prison to inspect the Xu family, especially Xu Chen?" Li Ling asked again as he looked at them.

"No...no..." After looking at each other a few times, the few people shook their heads.

I think so, now that the Xu family has already fallen and scattered, many people are implicated and imprisoned. Others are afraid that they will not be able to avoid it. Who would dare to visit the Xu family at this time? Even if there is, they may not be able to enter the prison smoothly.

"No one else has seen Xu Chen alone?" Li Ling was still worried, so he asked again.

The answers obtained were still the same. Although the guards looked trembling, the answers to this question were surprisingly consistent and there was no hesitation at all.

After slowly exhaling, Li Ling waved his hand: "You go down, I will watch others in the future. No more omissions are allowed, otherwise I will not let you wait."

This is to expose the matter and not to hold them accountable anymore. This makes the guards feel relieved and then retreat after a lot of gratitude.

Then, Li Ling asked someone to take a few bodies to the morgue in the corner to store them, and then returned to his public housing. Wan Shenji felt a little unacceptable to his response, so he followed in and asked, "Sir, let's go with this matter?"

"Apart from that, do you have any other way to investigate it? You have also found out that the person was killed by Xu Chen, and he committed suicide by himself. We can't let the deceased resurrection and explain the inside story, right?" Li Ling said with a deep face.

"I thought Xu Chen's sudden outbreak must have been born under the influence of others, and those people in the prison were obviously suspicious..."

"So you want to interrogate a few of them? But what if they were innocent?"

"There will always be a problem for one person, otherwise there would be no such mutation. No one else has ever been to the cell, and only one of them can contact him by virtue of his identity and then spread the message to him."

"What you said is reasonable, but it is not enough. Don't ignore one thing. In fact, there are not only the five people in the Xu family in the prison. There are also too many prisoners who have been imprisoned in the prison. They can also pass on messages to Xu Chen and force him to do such things. In my opinion, compared to whom it was forced by Xu Chen, the more important thing is that he was affected by what he would do so crazy. Kill his father and brother, and then commit suicide. This is completely the last madness in despair. You will definitely not be able to do it without the desperate situation."

Wan Shenji fell silent, and he felt extremely strange about this, but how could he figure it out for a moment?

"You said, as a Son of Man, under what circumstances should one do the crazy act of killing his father?" Li Ling asked suddenly.

Wan Shenji frowned and thoughtful, and could not give a reliable answer. Fortunately, Li Ling did not expect him completely, and continued, "I want to say that at two points, one is despair, and the other is hope... Despair is that he already knows that he will die, and his father and brother must be dead, so it is no longer important to them to die sooner or later, which will make him no longer hesitate about killing his father and brother; as for hope, it is that he knows that as long as he waits for someone to die, someone will definitely benefit from it, and this person must have a very close relationship with him, no less than his father and brother... Do you think there will be such a person who makes him value more than his father and brother?"

"Sons!" Wanshenji, who was also very quick-witted, immediately expressed his guess, "Someone used his descendants as the qualifier and threatened him!"

"It's probably true!" Li Ling nodded deeply, but then he saw Wan Shenji frowning again, "It's not right. The male members of the Xu family, no matter their size, have been arrested and imprisoned by us. Can anyone threaten him?"

As he said that, without waiting for Li Ling to speak, he quickly turned around and walked out: "Sir, I'll find out now. Look at how many of his sons are in prison, but there are any omissions."

Li Ling did not make a sound and continued to ponder: Although this inference makes sense, there is still one of the biggest questions. Who is the culprit behind the scenes that will force Xu Ziyang to death and other important figures of the Xu family to death? Why did he take the risk of doing this?

Is it because they are afraid that Xu Ziyang and the others will explain more inside stories to save their lives? No, they have not done anything worse than oppressing the people and levying heavy taxes. That is definitely a big connection with the disappearance of food!

The Xu family's grain will not disappear for no reason. It must be that they handed it to some force, either to keep it for them, or to sell it for them in exchange for more benefits... But generally speaking, even if tens of thousands of kilograms of grain is of considerable value, it should not be possible for people to do such a bold and crazy behavior.

Moreover, with the wealth of the Xu family, will they care about the sale of these grains? Wouldn't it be better to keep them for themselves?

What if the grain was secretly handed over by the children guarding the granary without Xu Ziyang and the others? Just as the government could not always count the grain stored in the warehouse, the Xu family's huge family business would not always be concerned about the situation in the granary, so it is very likely that some children in the family sold the grain privately for profit.

But in this way, a new problem arises again. Who has the idea of ​​being so bold to attack the Xu family’s granary? Will the Xu family really trust each other? Unless the person’s identity is no lower than theirs, and the power behind it is more than the Xu family!

Thinking of this, Li Ling's heart suddenly shook, and a situation that he had overlooked recently emerged again - the Fang family, who was too silent and low-key.

It has been more than half a month since the head of the Fang family returned to the county town by joining the investment. However, in the past half month, they still sat down and watched the Xu family be completely solved by themselves, and they had no intention of helping each other. They didn't even mean to come to the county government to ask for love. This is really unreasonable.
Chapter completed!