After sending Ping and her daughter away, Lang cursed and said:
"'Da' is really nothing."
"I am enjoying myself outside all day long, and my wife and daughter are starving at home. I am simply a beast."
"but......"
"There is indeed something wrong with Da."
"Based on the information he got from his wife and daughter, it's clear that Da Qian is lying, and I'm afraid it's the Jing Guan that he holds on to all day long."
"Brother Qin, we have solved this case!"
Qin Luoheng was not excited at all.
"Where's the evidence?"
"Without evidence, you can't be convicted."
"He won't recognize it either."
Lang was stunned.
"Didn't Da's wife and daughter say that? Da has the thorn coupon on his body, which is the evidence? And the knife is also Da's, so he can't deny it, right?"
Qin Luoheng smiled bitterly and said:
"What if he really denies it?"
"Ping did say that Da likes to hold something in his hand these days, but she didn't say clearly that it was Jing Guan. Da can quibble over it."
"As for the hairpin knife..."
"He already said it was lost!"
"He can deny it at all."
"There is no key evidence for conviction. If he refuses to plead guilty, there is really nothing we can do against him. We can't use torture to extract a confession, right?"
Lang's eyes darkened.
He gritted his teeth and said:
"In the worst case, it will be torture to extract a confession!"
"Although the laws and regulations say, 'In prison management, it is best to follow the words in writing and not to flog and plunder to gain favor; flogging and plundering is the lowest; fear is to defeat.'"
“But the laws and regulations also include ‘if the cross-examination is extremely extreme, you will be tortured’!”
"If this 'Da' answers questions untruthfully or quibbles in the jail, or deceives many times, or changes his confession, or refuses to admit guilt, we can use this law to torture him to extract a confession."
Lang was also furious!
In Daqin, after a prisoner is tortured to extract a confession, it will be compiled into a love letter and archived. Every year during the accounting examination class, the love letter will be taken out by the superiors for review. It can easily affect the assessment results of that year, thus affecting the
Promotion of jailer.
Therefore, prison officials do not want to torture suspects to extract confessions unless absolutely necessary.
It was not unreasonable for the Qin Dynasty to issue such regulations.
First, it is to restrain law enforcers.
The second is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects as much as possible.
Avoid the situation of defeating someone.
If you want to use torture to extract a confession from a criminal suspect, usually the defendant is at a loss for words when asked, but wants to repeatedly retract his confession and try every means to deny it. In this case, the only option is to use torture.
That’s whipping!!!
Therefore, in the Qin Dynasty, when trying cases, it was best to solve the case without torture. It was not advisable to torture, let alone intimidate the prisoner. This was the principle provision of the "Sealed Clinic".
Qin Luoheng frowned slightly.
He said in a deep voice:
"I know how to interrogate."
"But if it doesn't get to that point, we'll try not to use torture to extract confessions."
"After all, the imperial court has never recommended the use of torture during trial, and we are not jailers. If it is written in the later files that we have tortured to extract confessions, we may be regarded as torturers in the future."
"This will have a big impact on us going forward."
Lang nodded.
"Don't worry, I know."
"If this 'da' person is wise, I wouldn't think of extorting a confession through torture, but if he is really dishonest, we can only do this. After all, we want to solve the case. If he doesn't plead guilty, we can't convict him."
, this case will not be solved!”
"It's still early now, I'll go to the market to have a look."
Finished.
Lang hurried to the market.
Qin Luoheng stayed at the Xiangting Pavilion by himself, sitting in front of the case and continuing to think about the case.
He was thinking about how to get Da to confess!
Da is now obviously ready to fight to the death.
But now they can neither obtain the thorn coupons nor money that can convict him, nor can they prove that the hairpin is Da. With the current clues alone, they cannot directly convict him.
"How to convict someone?"
"Rangda admitted that the knife was his, but he could have continued to quibble, saying that the knife had been stolen and that he didn't know about it. If we look closely, we can overturn his view, but we don't have that much time left.
many."
"We can't dwell on this."
"so......"
"If we want to solve the case, we must find the lost money, but Ping said that she hasn't seen Da take anything back these days, which means that Da has hidden the money secretly for a long time. Now there are no clues. It's completely impossible to find the money.
It’s just a fool’s dream.”
"If we were given a few more days, we could have directly asked the people who knew Da and found out the problems in Da's words one by one, leaving him with no explanation and no explanation."
“But there’s not enough time!!!”
Qin Luoheng was also a little impatient.
He got up.
Walk around indoors.
At this time.
There was another sound outside the door.
Lang Hefen is back.
Fen excitedly said:
"Brother Qin, you are really good at predicting things. Da Zhen sent this scabbard away. Not long after my notice was posted, someone came to contact me."
"Now look at how Nada is still making excuses!"
Qin Luoheng didn't delay and asked directly about the situation.
The person who comes to report is called a "servant".
He is a 'walking horse' prince.
The servant said nervously:
"Sir, you must be aware of this."
"What 'Da' committed has nothing to do with me. I saw Da two days ago that he seemed to be disposing of this scabbard. I thought the scabbard was quite beautiful, so I tried to joke that he might as well sell the scabbard to
I forgot about it, and he just gave it to me for free."
"If I knew there was something wrong with Da at that time, I wouldn't ask for anything."
"Sir, you have to make the decision for me!"
"I really don't know anything."
"I was wronged."
Qin Luoheng frowned and asked about the scabbard.
But this 'servant' really doesn't know anything about it.
In the end, Qin Luoheng had no choice but to let him go back, but temporarily detained the scabbard as stolen goods.
Qin Luoheng walked around the room holding the scabbard.
Lang and Fen didn't dare to disturb either.
They know their current capabilities. They are just running errands in this case. Qin Luoheng is handling everything related to solving the case, and they have no way to get involved.
Qin Luoheng recalled every detail of the case's progress in his mind.
Useful information is extracted bit by bit.
finally.
When he went back to some of the words spoken by the drifting mother by the river, a glimmer of light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he knew how to make 'Da' confess.
Cleverness will eventually be misled by cleverness!
Qin Luoheng called Fen over and told him something. Fen was confused at first, but when he heard more, a sly smile appeared on his face.
After listening.
Fen Fen patted his chest and promised:
"Brother Qin, don't worry when I do things."
"This time we will let this 'Da' confess on the spot, and he still dares to play tricks with us. Let's see if I can kill him this time."
Lang looked confused.
He was about to ask, but Qin Luoheng ignored him. He directly put the wooden board on the document back into the book case, and walked outside with the book case on his back.
Lang was stunned and hurriedly asked: "Brother Qin, where are we going now?"