Ni Dahong temporarily put Bai Jiunian in prison and gave him a chance.

He didn't know what happened until the patrol camp captured him in bed. On the way back to Longzhou, he guessed a possibility that Lu Yongzhi's family bribed the prefect Ni Dahong.

Apart from that, he couldn't find a reason.

The prisoner Lao Zhou had had a meal with him in a pot in the green camp. When he was imprisoned, he happened to meet Lao Zhou. After secretly inquiring, he found out that the carriage escorted Lu Yongzhi had been overturned into the mountain stream. Only Lu Yongzhi escaped, and he even went to the government office to beat the Dengwen drum.

He just tried to defend himself for his injustice. Is it just because of a mouth? Bai Jiunian couldn't think about the answer.

The only thing that is not good for him now is that he was caught committing adultery with Zhou Lin. He could not deny this, so he decided to use the method of avoiding the important matters to deal with the interrogation of the prefect.

In the Qing Dynasty, the traitor was just a slap.

So when he was taken to court, he first confessed his adultery.

"Sir, my subordinate was confused for a while. He went to pay his respects to Brother Zhou, but he didn't want to be tempted by his wife. He made a mistake of morality. Please punish him."

Bai Jiunian knelt down and bowed his hand to the court, looking confident.

"In the ninth year of Bai, Zhou Lin still confessed everything. You and her traitor, and you are aware of his husband Zhou. Do you kill someone for money, sex, and dare to argue?"

Ni Dahong has some impression of Bai Jiunian.

He originally joined the township lords at the recruitment of veteran Feng Zicai, participated in the battle with the French army in Zhennan Pass, and made military achievements and was promoted to the sentry commander. When Feng Zicai disbanded the township lords, he went to the Green Camp. He was valued by the battalion officials at that time. Later, when the Green Camp was disbanded and established the patrol camp, he was transferred to the sentry commander of the patrol camp.

This person has been in the army for many years, has been on the battlefield and has been knowledgeable. He has no effect on him by intimidation.

"Sir, I know that the woman was originally from a brothel. Manager Zhou saw how beautiful she was, so he married her. The brothel was clever and eloquent, so the adults should not believe it."

Bai Jiunian's voice is calm and confident, and his attitude is neither humble nor arrogant.

"Bai Jiunian, you killed someone yourself, why did you falsely accuse Lu Yongzhi?"

"Sir, I'm sure. Lu Yongzhi was an extremely stupid person, and his mind only had five orifices. He relied on his father to have money and spent a hundred oceans to donate a small platoon leader. This has always been a joke in the patrol camp. After losing money in bet, he actually used a bayonet to rob Manager Zhou. If the robbery fails, he will kill him. Can such a person still count on his words?"

After hearing this in the back hall, Lu Yongzhi knew the fact that Bai Jiunian said.

His father was a rich man in the countryside of Longzhou. His family had hundreds of acres of fertile land and opened several stores in the town. There were two brothers in the family who worked as shopkeepers. However, he was a little stupid since he was a child, and his mother was a young man and was never welcomed.

When his father saw that in the chaotic times, he always thought that someone at home wanted to take a gun, so he asked him to go to a private school for a few years and sent him to the patrol camp.

Lu Yongzhi is cowardly by nature and is often bullied in the patrol camp. Once, others teased him that if he wants to become an official, he had to give gifts. A whistle leader now needs at least one hundred oceans. After he got home, he told his father that his native rich man's father actually took 100 oceans to give gifts, wanting to buy him a whistle leader.

You should know that one hundred oceans can buy more than ten acres of good paddy fields in the village, and a single whistle captain can usually handle the space of thirty oceans.

The problem is that the money was spent, but Lu Yongzhi was really useless and barely gave him a platoon leader. This incident has been a joke in the patrol battalion. After his father learned about it, he realized that he had lost face and ignored him for more than a year.

"Bai Jiunian, as far as I know, you play cards at the card table with a record of Haoyang. Do you think he, a person from a wealthy family, would rob for a few Haoyang?"

"Sir, he was originally a concubine's son..."

Bai Jiunian found that he could not make up for it anymore. He just said that he had donated an official for a hundred yuan, but now he said that he was born in a concubine. He made up his mind and refused to admit that he was killed by himself. Anyway, there was no evidence, so Ni Dahong could not convict him based on his confession.

"Is this military bayonet yours?" Ni Dahong waved.

A soldier brought the bayonet that he took off from Bai Jiunian. Bai Jiunian nodded after identifying it.

"Bai Jiunian, you returned to Zhanggui Zhou's house that night and conspired. The two had a dispute, so you stabbed Zhanggui Zhou with the bayonet you carried with you. Then you abandoned the bayonet at the scene. In the morning, you falsely accused Lu Yongzhi of killing people, and then put his bayonet on yourself. In this way, you found the murder weapon and fabricated the motive for murder, right?"

"My master is wronged, because Lu Yongzhi is falsely accusing his superiors. If you don't believe it, you ask him to come out and confront him."

Bai Jiunian thought to himself that Lu Yongzhi was a cowardly and a person who would be scared to pee his pants when he glared at him. How could he have seen this situation in the court? As long as the two confronted each other, the situation would be beneficial to him.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yongzhi walked out calmly from the back hall.

He bowed his hand to the prefect first, then straightened his back and looked straight at Bai Jiunian, and said with a smile:

"Chief Baishou, your calculations are definitely worse than the calculations of the sky. You stabbed Manager Zhou to death with your own bayonet that night, and then in the morning, you replaced the pillars and took my Lu Yongzhi's bayonet to frame me for killing people. But you didn't expect that you ignored a detail."

Lu Yongzhi took out two rifles from the side and signaled to everyone:

"Please see, how are the differences between these two rifles?"

"There is no difference, it's all Mauser 1871 rifle." A soldier shook his head after identifying it.

"No, one of these two guns is an original German gun, and the other is a copy of the Guangxi Machinery Bureau." The leader of the horse team retorted.

The German Mauser 1871 type was a rifle imported in large quantities in the late Qing Dynasty, especially the new army in various places mainly equipped this type of gun. Sichuan and Guangxi Machinery Bureaus had a large number of imitations, and these imitations were mainly sent to the patrol battalions for use.

"Yes, our original imported German guns from Longzhou Patrol Battalion are eight. The water whistle is one, right? The white whistle chief."

Lu Yongzhi walked to Bai Jiunian and asked.

"So what?" Bai Jiunian was a little confused. He didn't know what the reason was about his question?

"Captain White Whistle, the appearance of these two guns looks no different, but there are some differences in bayonets. Domestic bayonets cannot be installed on original German guns."

Lu Yongzhi picked up the bayonet he had collected from Bai Jiunian and put it on the Guangxi imitation gun with a click. He took it down again, but he couldn't fit the German gun.

Bai Jiunian's face suddenly changed color.

"Don't ask me how I know, this is thanks to you. I knew this when you asked me to rub the gun with Deputy Chief Xu. There is a difference between the locker of a domestic bayonet and the imported gun. So, this bayonet is mine."

Lu Yongzhi picked up the bayonet and shook it in front of Bai Jiunian.

"The murder weapon is yours, the White Whistleman."

He said with a slight sarcastic smile on his lips.

This detail was inferred by Lu Yongzhi himself. Bai Jiunian went to Zhou Jiangui's house and had already secretly ambushed the murderous intention. He would not go to Lu Yongzhi's room to steal the knife. He could only install Lu Yongzhi's bayonet on himself after the incident in the name of searching.

Let myself bet right again!
Chapter completed!