After the prisoner Sun Wuji was brought into the lobby, the county magistrate Kang Mingyuan asked Lin Jinxiao and Hu Maoxi for instructions and began to hear the case.
He pressed his hands firmly on the gavel, tried his best to restrain his habitual roaring movements, and asked gently but without losing his dignity: "Sinner Sun Wuji, I am accusing you of murdering Zhu Yue, the county magistrate of this county.
, you brutally killed him in your own house and dumped his body in the ditch of Sunjia Village. Do you know your guilt?"
Sun Wuji glanced at his wife, daughter and Chu Nanzhi with uncertain eyes, and then replied firmly and calmly: "The common people have not killed the county magistrate, and I ask the county magistrate to investigate."
"Hey."
Kang Mingyuan was about to raise his hand, but hurriedly put it down again, and said in a gentle voice: "Master Tan, please read out the closing document for me."
"I will take my orders."
Tan Miao picked up the document calmly and read loudly: "The sinner Sun Wuji, on the evening of June 24, the 22nd year of Mingzhen, together with Zhu Yue, the county magistrate of Haikang County, were involved in the official affair of going to sea.
There was a dispute at home, and he was killed and his body was thrown into the canal of Sunjia Village. He was fished ashore five days later.
An autopsy conducted by the county revealed that the deceased had a stab wound on his neck and four fatal bruises all over his body. After interrogation, the convict Sun Wuji confessed to the murder and handed over the murder weapon, which was found to be consistent with the wound on the deceased.
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After reading it, Tan Miao rolled up the document and walked slowly towards Chu Nanzhi. He smiled meaningfully and said, "I'd like Madam Chu to take a look at it."
As soon as Chu Nanzhi took over the document, he heard Sun Wuji cry out: "The common people were wronged. During the interrogation that day, the county magistrate threatened that the three members of my family were accomplices in the crime and forced the common people to plead guilty. As for the so-called murder weapon, it was indeed from the common people."
It was found at home, but the people don’t know why it is consistent with the wound on the neck of the county magistrate.”
"The evidence is overwhelming, but you still dare to quibble."
Kang Mingyuan seized the opportunity and tapped the gavel tree lightly, and said sternly: "Sun Wuji, Zhu Yue's body was fished out from the ditch behind your house. The last place he went to before disappearing was your house. There is a motive for the crime and a murder weapon."
, who else could it be if it wasn’t you?”
The conclusive questioning made Sun Wuji look miserable and unable to argue.
Chu Nanzhi held the document and did not check it. In fact, there was no need to check such a seemingly perfect closing document. Moreover, if she only relied on hearsay in Duanlong Mountain, she could almost believe that this document was true and reasonable.
sex.
But based on what she had learned during these two days of visits and inquiries, as well as Lin Jinxiao's inspiration, she already had some new ideas.
If he had gone step by step to confront Tan Miao, I'm afraid he would have already thought through all the possible holes in the document, and he would not be able to take advantage.
Therefore, she decided to take a dangerous approach and start interrogating each other from unexpected places. This would not only disrupt their respective positions, but also perhaps make up for the incomplete clues in her own mind.
Throwing away all previous inferences, she looked directly at Sun Wuji and asked pointedly: "Sun Wuji, you kept saying that you did not kill Zhu Xian Cheng, so before Zhu Xian Cheng's body was recovered, you did not
Don’t you know the body is hidden in the canal?”
Sun Wuji shook his head blankly: "The common people really don't know."
"So did you reveal anything before the authorities arrested you?"
Chu Nanzhi asked doubtfully.
Sun Wuji suddenly looked ashamed: "I feel ashamed to say that. The day after Zhu County Cheng disappeared, someone from the county government came to inquire. My wife repeatedly told me not to say too much outside. If it hadn't been an emergency in the court that day,
I almost concealed my quarrel with Zhu Xiancheng in my heart because of my conscience."
"You are quite practical."
Chu Nanzhi couldn't help but laugh, and then looked around the crowd, his eyes full of ridicule: "I heard that Zhu County Cheng has no wife or children, and no relatives in this county. His colleagues in the county government are very concerned about him.
Ah, but after I didn’t return home all night, someone came to ask, is it possible that the county magistrate has never stayed overnight without returning home?”
"Not really."
Kang Mingyuan replied very relaxedly: "Master Tan heard that Prime Minister Zhu Xian was ill recently. After all, they are all colleagues. I also heard from Yi Cheng that he had not returned home all night, so he sent someone to inquire. There are still official documents from the county.
Waiting for him to deal with it."
Tan Miao immediately echoed: "Since Prime Minister Zhu came to this county, he has worked hard in his post, running around day and night, very hard, so his body bones are a little weak at a young age, and he has lost a lot of hair.
We colleagues cannot persuade him, so we can only pay more attention to him."
"You two adults are very thoughtful."
This is indeed consistent with what Ma Laifu said. Chu Nanzhi frowned and nodded: "In that case, let's get back to the topic."
Looking at Kang Mingyuan with burning eyes, Chu Nanzhi continued to ask in a slow tone:
"Just now, Sun Wuji said that he himself did not know that Zhu County Cheng was murdered. So how did the county magistrate know that Zhu County Cheng's body was hidden in the canal of Sunjia Village? Could it be that he knew in advance that Sun Wuji had committed the murder?
And throw the body into the canal?"
After a pause, she slightly raised an evil smile at the corner of her mouth: "A civilian woman has visited the water canal in Sunjia Village. Although the water is not turbid, if the body sinks in it, it will not be noticed immediately."
Hearing this, Kang Mingyuan's calm and relaxed expression suddenly turned to panic: "Mrs. Chu, please don't make any false accusations. How could I know in advance that Sun Wuji's body was dumped in the canal?"
Tan Miao also quickly explained: "Zhu Xiancheng has been missing for many days, and the last place he went to was Sun Wuji's home. We naturally think of him as being killed by him."
"Even if the body is killed, there are many ways to hide the body, such as digging and burying it. Moreover, there are so many fish ponds in the Sun family. The government officials who searched for them that day just looked at the various fish ponds and then went straight to the ditch. So the two of them
Why are you so sure that Prime Minister Zhu’s body was buried in the canal?”
Chu Nanzhi stared at the two of them and suddenly smiled sinisterly: "Besides, I heard from the patriarch of Sunjia Village that even the people in the village didn't know that Zhu Xiancheng had been to Sun Wuji's home, and there was no servant around him.
Follow me, even if you all know his whereabouts from Yi Cheng, how can you be sure that the last place he went to was the Sun family and not somewhere else?"
After all, there were no cameras in these days.
In this way, the spearhead has gradually been directed away from the focus without realizing it.
"this"
The question is a bit tricky.
Kang Mingyuan hesitated and didn't know how to answer.
Over the years, the whole county had many doubts about him. They felt that the deaths of several county magistrates were related to him, so they finally changed the focus of the blame. Unexpectedly, this woman led him back.
Tan Miao also looked annoyed.
This woman didn't act according to common sense at all. I thought she would follow the closing documents and argue with herself about the murder weapon, Zhu and Sun's verbal disputes, the inference of the scene when the crime was committed, and even the lack of witnesses. She never thought that
This woman actually pointed the finger at the issue of salvaging the body and Zhu Yue's whereabouts.
Zhu and Sun had a dispute, which was confessed by the criminal himself. The murder weapon indeed matched the wound of the deceased. The four bruises on Zhu Yue's body can also be explained as Sun Wuji injured Zhu Yue first and then brutally killed him.
It all makes sense.
Who would have thought that this woman would start questioning me about trivial matters? It was really unexpected.