Chapter 1155: Chapter 1155: Pleading Guilty Chapter 1155: Chapter 1155: Pleading Guilty Liu Kui was arrested.
The Magistrate had scheduled the trial for two days later.
Both Gu Ya and his wife Su Yunjin were notified to go to the Governor’s Office in two days, as were Mo Dacheng and his wife, who were also asked to attend the public hearing together.
Initially, the burning of Zuixiang Restaurant was thought to be accidental, a consequence of a fire from the Oil Shop, for which Mo Dacheng and his wife had compensated Su Yunjin with a plot of land.
Two days later, when the case of Zuixiang Restaurant was retried, the compensation for the Oil Shop at that ti was to be returned in court. Su Yunjin went there with the silver notes in hand.
Once the Magistrate had finished trying the case, she would return the money to Mo Dacheng. The news that the murderer had been caught soon reached Su Ningxiu’s ears as well.
Upon hearing that the murderer had been apprehended, Su Ningxiu was also very happy for Su Yunjin and the others. News spread quickly in town; the investigation into Xingyu Winery, Shopkeeper Sheng hiring an arsonist, and the capture of Fan Wu and Liu Kui caused quite a stir. Two days later, on the day the County Magistrate was to try the case, the couple Su Yunjin and Gu Ya went to the public hearing together.
As part of the crowd of onlookers, Ningxiu, along with Yunjin’s parents, also attended. Faced with the evidence, both Shopkeeper Sheng and Fan Wu had no defense and confessed unabashedly to the arson of Su Yunjin’s Zuixiang Restaurant. The outside crowd buzzed with discussions, as everyone was surprised that the burning of Zuixiang Restaurant turned out to be the doing of Shopkeeper Sheng of the Xingyu Winery.
Zuixiang Restaurant was burned down by Shopkeeper Sheng, and so was the Oil Shop. The County Magistrate asked Shopkeeper Sheng, “I ask you, why did you burn down Zuixiang Restaurant and also the adjacent Oil Shop?”
Upon hearing this, both Mo Dacheng and his wife beca agitated in the court; the burning of their Oil Shop had nearly cost them everything.
“Speak, what have my wife and I ever done to provoke you? Why did you decide to burn our Oil Shop?” Mo Dacheng and his wife grew more and more agitated as they spoke.
Shopkeeper Sheng regarded them with a cold eye.
Burning the Oil Shop first was rely a strategy devised by Shopkeeper Sheng to mask the truth; by setting the Oil Shop on fire, the blaze would spread from it.
Then, everyone could see that Zuixiang Restaurant was destroyed due to an accidental fire from the Oil Shop and no suspicion would fall on Xingyu Winery.
Shopkeeper Sheng had played his cards well, and indeed the incident had not been discovered at first, with Zuixiang Restaurant’s fire being concluded as an accident. The matter originally seed flawless, and Shopkeeper Sheng could never have imagined that in the end, the trouble would co from Fan Wu and Liu Kui.
In the end, his deeds ca back to haunt him.
“Your Honor, the burning of Zuixiang Restaurant was indeed my doing, and both Fan Wu and Liu Kui were hired by . I set fire to the Oil Shop simply because it was next to Zuixiang Restaurant and I wanted to conceal the truth,” said Shopkeeper Sheng, confessing to his cris.
With Shopkeeper Sheng confessing,
Fan Wu and Liu Kui naturally could not deny their involvent.
They confessed as well.
With the truth revealed, Su Yunjin returned the land that the Oil Shop had compensated to her in the presence of the County Magistrate.
The County Magistrate then sentenced Shopkeeper Sheng and his accomplices according to Donglin’s laws; the mastermind Shopkeeper Sheng would not only have to compensate for the losses of Zuixiang Restaurant and the Oil Shop but was also sentenced to three years in prison.
As for Fan Wu and Liu Kui, they were sent to serve at the border. Su Yunjin was very satisfied with such an outco, and the story of Zuixiang Restaurant finally ca to a satisfying conclusion.
After leaving the Governor’s Office,
Su Yunjin looked at the two thousand silver notes in her hand, which were the compensation from Xingyu Winery for their losses that day. She had not expected that after so long, not only was the truth behind the fire of Zuixiang Restaurant uncovered, but they had also unexpectedly received a substantial compensation.
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