"Yuqing, have you noticed it too?" Duan Ziqian looked at Piaoxu's expression and asked with a smile next to her.
"So you also discovered it?" Piaoxu turned her head and asked Duan Ziqian.
"Yes." Duan Ziqian nodded, then walked up to the crowd and asked, "Who discovered the deceased?"
At this time, the man who was kneeling on the ground and crying stood up, "My lord, it's my little Zhang Yan. I just came back from the fields and saw my mother hanging on the beam. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have gone out in the morning."
"Yes." As he said that, he started crying again.
Piaoxu glanced at Zhang Yan, walked to him, and sneered: "Do you know that your mother did not commit suicide?"
"What?!" Everyone was shocked, and Zhang Yan's legs were shaking with fear.
"Who...who is so cruel as to kill my mother?"
"What do you think?" Piaoxu looked directly into Zhang Yan's eyes with a serious expression.
"How...how could Xiao...know?"
"You really don't know?" Duan Ziqian asked with a slightly angry tone.
"I... I don't know." Cold sweat broke out on Zhang Yan's face.
"Zhang Yan, if I were you, after killing your mother, I wouldn't hang her up so high." Piaoxu pointed to the stool and continued: "Look, it's a full two centimeters difference. Think about it.
, the person who hanged herself, her feet just happened to step on the stool, how could it be so different?"
"That girl is right." The onlookers nodded unanimously.
Duan Ziqian approached Piaoxu and said with a smile, "That's awesome."
"Didn't you see it too?" Piaoxu said with a smile.
"I just didn't expect a girl to have such an investigative mind."
Piaoxu glared at Duan Ziqian angrily and said, "Don't look down on girls."
"Yes, yes, yes, I was wrong." Duan Ziqian smiled and apologized to Piaoxu, then turned to Zhang Yan and said: "Zhang Yan, do you want to plead guilty yourself, or do I plead guilty for you?"
At this time, Zhang Yan knelt down and said, "My lord, you must not accuse me unjustly. Even if my mother did not commit suicide, it does not mean that she was killed by me. She is my mother, how can I kill her?"
"Hmph! You still knew she was your mother, but you did such a cruel thing!" Duan Ziqian looked angry.
"Your Majesty, I've been wronged." Zhang Yan was so frightened that he kept kowtowing.
"Unjustly accused? I would like to see how long you will continue to complain." Duan Ziqian stood up, walked to the corner, pointed at the hoe, and said: "You said you just came back from the fields and saw your mother hanging.
On the beam, how can a normal person still have the mood to put the hoe intact in the corner?"
"This... this is a small habit." Zhang Yan was still trying his best to quibble.
"Habit?" Piaoxu laughed, "It seems that you still don't intend to plead guilty. Then let me tell you again, not to mention whether you have been to the fields. Judging from yesterday's heavy rain, the roads outside are muddy. If you
When you came back from outside, your shoes were so clean, and there was no mud on the soles of your feet. You didn't go out at all today! Or, you want to say, you saw your mother hanging, and you still have the habit of coming back to change your shoes.
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At this time, Zhang Yan finally couldn't defend himself, so he nodded and confessed, "I've confessed my crime. Your Majesty, please spare my life."
"Ah? It's really him, this unfilial son!" The onlookers were all indignant.
Duan Ziqian said in a calm tone: "Tell me, why did you do such a rebellious thing?"
"The day before yesterday, I went to the gambling house to gamble and lost a lot, so I had to use my mother's ancestral jade bracelet to pawn it. But I didn't expect my mother to find out. She would rather not give it to her. If she made a mistake, she would pinch her.
He's dead. Your Majesty, I was really careless, please spare my life." Zhang Yan kept kowtowing.
"Spare your life?" Duan Ziqian was furious, "You can tell the magistrate these words."
"My lord, please spare my life." Zhang Yan still begged without giving up.
"Yu Qing, let's go." Duan Ziqian ignored Zhang Yan who was pleading on the ground, picked up Piaoxu and walked out of Zhangjiazhuang.