binnovel Chapter 872 The Girl's Revenge (2)
Chapter 872 The Girl's Revenge (2)
"Then I'll send someone to check it out right now!" Lin Feng nodded immediately.
"Send someone to ask Bai Yichen and see if he has any useful clues." Ji Xiaomu remembered that Bai Yichen had complained before that the information he collected was all kinds of things, and maybe he could find something useful.
"Okay." Lin Feng sent a yamen runner to find Bai Yichen, and he took Ji Xiaomu to the prison. The prison was filled with petty thieves who stole and cheated people in Heyang City. There were no major cases involving deaths.
The owner of the embroidery shop was held in solitary confinement in the innermost cell. He looked rather decadent and dishevelled, with his clothes covered in dirt.
When he saw Lin Feng, he immediately rushed over and shouted, "Sir, I am really wronged."
"The owner of the embroidery shop is named Zhao Yang." Lin Feng said to Ji Xiaomu, who slowly stepped forward. "Do you know who I am?"
Zhao Yang glanced at Ji Xiaowu and shook his head. "I don't know her. I've never seen her before."
"I am the victim in this case and the owner of Jinxiu Pavilion." Aunt Ji said to Zhao Yang.
"I have no grudge against you, and I really didn't hire anyone to harm you!" Zhao Yang said to Ji Xiaomu seriously, "I am willing to swear on my own life that I really never wanted to harm you. Although I do envy your Jinxiu Pavilion's business, I have never thought of harming you, and I don't even know where you live."
"I don't know why those three people wanted to identify me. I have never seen those three people. But facing their testimony, I have no way to defend myself." Zhao Yang said dejectedly. No matter what he said in front of everyone in the hall, he was retorted by those three people. The three people knew everything about him, even what was in his house.
Faced with such accusations, no one believed anything he said and he was eventually convicted.
"What evidence do you have to prove that what you said is true?" Lin Feng and Ji Xiaomu looked at each other and asked.
Zhao Yang lowered his head helplessly and shook his head. "The three of them know everything about my family. I can't argue, but I really don't know them."
"Have you ever thought about how those three people knew what they knew?" Ji Xiaomu looked at Zhao Yang, and Zhao Yang was stunned.
Zhao Yang nodded. "I have thought about it."
"The placement of items in my house has not changed, but there are indeed a few more people. I heard that several girls were trained by Jinxiu Pavilion, so I hired them with high salary. Apart from them, there are no newcomers in the house. The guys doing odd jobs in the store are all old guys with more than ten years of experience, and they are also my cousins." Zhao Yang glanced at Ji Xiaomu and answered with his head down.
"How do you know them?" Ji Xiaomu asked curiously.
Logically speaking, there should have been many people who saw them being kicked out of Jinxiu Pavilion. But how come outsiders said it seemed like the girls left because they didn't want to enter Jinxiu Pavilion?
"Someone said that in the teahouse..." Zhao Yang was startled and frowned. "Now that I think about it, that person seemed to be deliberately talking about the embroiderers trained by Jinxiu Pavilion. His words implied that Jinxiu Pavilion was not satisfactory and they wanted to find a better owner. My shop hasn't had much business recently, so I couldn't help but step forward and ask after hearing that."
"When I found them, they all seemed to be gathered together. A few employers kept raising the price, so I couldn't help but raise the price. In the end, I signed them with a monthly salary of six taels of silver, and even paid them the first month's salary in advance..." The more Zhao Yang spoke, the more he felt something was wrong.