Chapter 68: The Violent Zheng Tu Hu

  Seeing Zheng butcher's deftness in slaughtering pigs, the crowd was deeply shocked. If that fat pig were a human being, could Zheng butcher still be so deft?

  They seemed to associate, Zheng Tui's butcher knife deeply inserted into Yuan Fang's heart, then constantly slashing on the corpse, as if it were a fat pig waiting to be sold.

  Everyone stared at that pile of people, a mess of flesh, and for a moment, no one reacted. At this time, Zheng's loud shout awakened them.

  "Pork for sale!"

  Hualang and others woke up from their meditation, looking at the people who were eagerly buying meat, and suddenly felt a sense of emotion. At this time, Bao Xiaofei looked at Bao Zheng and asked: "Sir, should we call that butcher Zheng over? If we wait for him to finish selling pork, it will probably be dark?"

  Bao Zheng nodded, and then he was about to let Bao Xiaofei go forward to call someone. At this time, Yin Wuchang suddenly pulled Bao Xiaofei back and said: "I see that this person's face is rough and fierce, not a good master to mess with, I'll go instead."

  Although Bao Xiaofei didn't believe that Zheng Tuihu dared to disobey Master Bao's orders, seeing Zheng Tuihu's intimidating appearance made him retreat a bit, and in the end he let Yin Wucuo go forward.

  Yin Wu came to Zheng Tui's side and said coldly, "Someone wants to see you, please go!"

  Zheng Tu Hu was chopping meat and said impatiently: "Whoever wants to see me, wait until I finish my business."

  Yin didn't care about the prestige of Bao Zheng, so he put one hand on Zheng Butou's shoulder. Seeing this, Zheng Butou suddenly got angry and said: "Let go!"

  He could have let go without any blame, but instead he didn't let go and looked at Zheng Tui with a scornful smile, his eyes full of provocative meaning.

  Hualang suddenly understood why Yin Wucheng wanted to replace Bao Xiaofei to find Zheng Tuihu after seeing his unblinking eyes. He just wanted to find trouble with Zheng Tuihu, because Yin Wucheng thought that the murderer was Zheng Tuihu. His skilled knife work made it absolutely easy for him to kill people.

  Zheng Tu Hu saw the newcomer wanting to provoke him, and he became even angrier. As a butcher, who was he afraid of? So he didn't say much, suddenly raised his cleaver and chopped towards Yin Wu Cuo. The meat-selling civilians saw the fight break out and immediately scattered in all directions. However, although they were scattered, they refused to leave, only standing farther away to watch the commotion.

  Zheng Tuhou's knife chopped down, Yin Wuchang didn't dodge or evade, but suddenly increased the force of his hand on Zheng Tuhou's shoulder. Zheng Tuhou's knife was about to strike Yin Wuchang when he suddenly let out a pained cry, and the knife could no longer move forward even half an inch before falling with a "thud" into the table.

  Yin Wu smiled coldly: "Are you willing to come with me to see someone?"

  Zheng Tu Hu was now frightened. With just one hand, he pinched his own shoulder so hard it hurt to the bone. How could he dare resist?

  When he arrived in front of Bao Gong, Zheng Butou was somewhat surprised. He had not expected that the county magistrate would want to see him, and when he saw Bao Gong, he knelt down inside and said: "Your Honor, if you wanted to find me, just summon me, why send someone to look for me?"

  As soon as the words came out, the people around them immediately began to discuss and speculate. The flower boy saw this and hastily said: "Letting Yin brother trouble you was my idea, it has nothing to do with Lord Bao. It's just to see if you have the ability to kill someone."

  As soon as he heard about killing someone, Zheng Tu Hu immediately panicked and hastily said: "I didn't kill anyone, I really didn't kill anyone!"

  Bao Zheng smiled coldly: "Why are you so flustered? I didn't say you really killed someone. I called you here to ask about some things related to Yuan Fang."

  Zheng Tu Hu's forehead was covered in cold sweat, but at this moment he refused to say anything more, fearing that one wrong word would make him the prime suspect for murder.

  "You are Yuan Fang's lover, do you know who Yuan Fang's new sweetheart is?"

  Zheng Tihu heard what Bao Zheng asked and immediately felt both angry and fearful, answering: "I don't know. If I knew, I would have to teach him a lesson."

  Everyone thinks it's strange. Yuan Fang isn't even his Zheng Bing's, so who is Yuan Fang being intimate with? What kind of jealousy is he experiencing?!

  "Oh, why is that?"

  Zheng Tu Hu's face was filled with anger, and he said: "I don't know what kind of person Yuan Fang's new lover is or what they said to her. Ever since she got a new lover, she has been ignoring me. I went to look for her, but she refused to see me, it's really infuriating."

  It turned out that Zheng Tuhou had eaten a closed-door bun, which made him so angry. But listening to Zheng Tuhou's words, it seemed like Yuan Fang really liked her new husband very much. If that was the case, then Yuan Fang had fallen into a romantic entanglement. Otherwise, as a woman like her, how could she be willing to marry someone who had money but didn't make any?

  A woman, if she has met a man she truly likes, will there be any other men in her eyes, or anything else?

  Some people say that women in love think that love is everything and they can live on it every day, money is dispensable to them.

  Judging from Yuan Fang's behavior, it is indeed so.

  Bao Zheng had no more questions for a while, and Hua Lang took the opportunity to ask: "At noon today, did you go to find Yuan Fang?"

  Zheng Tu Hu's face was terrified, sweat dripping down, and he replied repeatedly: "No, I didn't go to find her today."

  Seeing Zheng Tui's expression, Hua Lang suddenly shouted: "Zheng Tui, don't dare to lie in front of me! Have you gone to find Yuan Fang? I'll investigate and know the truth. If I find out that you've killed Yuan Fang, your crime will be confirmed. So, I advise you to confess honestly, lest we suspect you."

  Hualang's words scared Zheng Tuhou, while the bustling crowd found it strange that a bookish-looking man like Hualang could scare off the pig butcher Zheng Tuhou.

  After a long time, Zheng Tuhou finally couldn't bear the pressure of being treated as a murderer and said: "This noon, I did go to find Yuan Fang, but when I knocked on her door, she didn't open it for me. In the end, I left in a huff. I really didn't kill her."

  "Then can you keep an eye on her around her house?"

  Zheng Tu Hu shook his head: "At that time it was extremely hot, I could endure it there, how could I have been spying on her?"

  Everyone looked at Bao Zheng, whether Zheng Tuhou's words were credible or not. If they weren't credible, he was very likely to be the murderer. Since Zheng Tuhou was suspicious, it depended on Bao Zheng whether to capture him or not.

  After careful consideration, Bao Zheng said to Zheng Tuihu: "Before the case of Yuan Fang is thoroughly investigated, you are not allowed to leave Tianchang County. If you leave, you will be considered the murderer."

  Zheng Tu Hu nodded repeatedly: "I will definitely not leave, I will definitely not leave."

  The sky was getting dark, and the official who went to investigate the gambling house hurried back to report to Bao Gong: "The people in the gambling house confirmed that from noon today until before dusk, Biaozi had been in the gambling house all along. He first won a lot of money, but later lost it all."