A Zhou family in Dahai Lane, Xuanranfang, Huaiyang City.
At around three o'clock in the morning, farmer Zhou Shikui returned home and found that his wife had committed adultery with his neighbor Wang Datou.
Zhou Shikui was furious and fought with Wang Datou.
When his wife Zhou Yang tried to dissuade him, he was punched several times. When he fell down, he hit his head on the foot of the bed and died from a cracked skull.
Looking at the oral confession, Zhou Shikui and Wang Datou each insisted on their own story and denied that they killed Zhou by mistake.
Zhou Shikui said: "The villain's wife committed adultery with Wang Datou, but the relationship between the villain's wife and the villain's couple is still there. At that time, the villain was fighting with Wang Datou, and the villain's wife always protected the villain."
"It was Wang Datou. When he saw my husband and I working together to beat him, he was so angry that he dragged my wife and punched her several times. When I held Wang Datou to prevent him from attacking my wife again, Wang Datou pushed the villain's wife down.
He and I struggled together, and after a while, the villain discovered that his wife had just hit her head on the bed and died tragically on the spot. Please seek justice for me!"
Wang Datou said: "When Zhou Shikui came up, he beat the villain and Zhou Yangshi, and even punched and kicked Zhou Yangshi. The villain was worried that something might happen to Zhou Yangshi, so he kept protecting him, but Zhou Shikui was so angry that he
He pulled the villain aside, then punched Mr. Zhou Yang several times, causing him to stagger and hit his head on the bed when he fell, causing him to die unexpectedly."
"The villain knows that having an affair with a married man is a serious crime. It is absolutely impossible for him to kill anyone again, and he still kills his mistress. Isn't this villain seeking his own death? Please be aware of this!"
Ye Qing read through the confession record, which had no clues, and turned to another page, which depicted the scene inside Zhou Yang's house when he died.
The house is two feet in diameter, with the door opening to the south. The bed is placed in the northeast corner of the house, with the head of the bed in the north and the end of the bed in the south.
Zhou Yang's body was next to the southwest corner of the bed, with its head northeast and feet southwest, sitting against the end of the bed.
Ye Qing's eyes fell on the side of the album again, which recorded the words of Wu Zuo:
The real person is Yang Rongrong, the wife of Zhou Yang, the wife of Zhou Shikui, a household in Dahai Lane, Xuanranfang, Huaiyang City.
At the age of twenty-eight, Yu Shen Zheng died at the foot of the bed facing north.
The clothes are not covering the body, and the hair is messy.
The corpse was sitting on the southwest corner of the bed, with its face looking straight to the southwest, the top of its head pointing upward, and the soles of its feet facing the southwest.
Spread your hands, spread your legs, and sit back naturally.
The face is ferocious, the eyes are open and the mouth is open, and the seven orifices are clean.
The center of the back of the skull was an inch diagonally to the right. The skull was broken. The wound was one and a half inches long, half an inch deep, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. It was a normal impact injury.
The wound coincided with the tip of the southwest corner of the bed.
There were fist marks and bruises on the left side of the chest, which seemed to be caused by the superposition of two punches.
There were scratching bruises on both arms and bruises on the middle part of the outer left thigh.
An autopsy showed that the five internal organs were not poisoned.
After examination, the deceased Zhou Yang died after his head hit the foot of the bed, his skull was broken, and his brain was injured. His death condition was the same.
He wrote a congratulatory message and wrote it on the second day of the second lunar month on February 9, the second year of Tiansheng.
After reading it again.
Ye Qing's eyes fell on the name 'He Wen'.
In the previous murder case of Li's concubine, it was this widow who wrote a congratulatory post-mortem and recorded the autopsy.
He opened his mouth and asked Wang Liudao:
"Brother Wang, how many people are there in our office?"
As he spoke, he raised the file in his hand and continued:
"In the previous Li Mansion case, as well as this case, I think the autopsy was done by He Wenhe."
Mention the congratulatory message.
Wang Liu's legs stopped shaking and he no longer crossed his legs. He sat up straight and said with admiration on his face:
"We have three government officials, but the He government office you mentioned is really a strange man. He is sixteen years old. He has been a government official for two years and has become famous in our Huaiyang government office."
"When he was six years old, he followed the old man who took office and watched the corpses to learn the methods of autopsy. When he entered the government office at the age of fourteen, he showed his superb autopsy skills, and later showed his superb methods of investigating and solving cases."
"Whenever there are unexplained corpses and unsolved murder cases in Yangzhou, they will come to our Huaiyang government office and ask He Fuzuo to investigate the case. He can solve nine out of ten unsolved cases, which is really impressive.
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"Our magistrate saw that he was a talented person and wanted to promote him to an official position, but he said that he was still young and could not take on important responsibilities for the time being. He wanted to learn more and see more. He is very calm."
"Moreover, the governor of Yangzhou asked him to take up a post in Yangzhou, but he flatly refused. He made it clear that he wanted to follow our magistrate, but he was so happy that he took He Wen and got drunk."
"After I woke up, I even made harsh words in our government office. If anyone makes trouble for He Wu, the prefect will deal with him directly!"
Seeing Wang Liu's admiring look, Ye Qing couldn't help but praise:
"According to what you said, he is indeed a strange man."
Yangzhou is Shangzhou, and the governor is from the third rank. It has a vast territory and huge powers, which are far beyond the prefecture of Huaiyang.
At such a young age, He Wen actually refused the other party's solicitation. This was a slap in the face.
No wonder Chen Yuming was so happy and protective.
Think of this.
Ye Qing clicked on the trial decision written by the prison officer on the file and said:
"The murderer our magistrates convicted is Wang Datou."
"If there is something fishy about this case and it is an unjust case, then wouldn't it be conversely enough to convict Zhou Shikui of being the murderer?"
While talking, Wang Liu took the file and looked at the records on it.
At the same time, Ye Qing continued:
"He Wuzuo has commented on this case. The circumstances of death are the same. According to what you said, he is a good judge of the case. He should be able to tell who the murderer is, right?"
"Why don't you name the murderer directly? Brother Wang, can you tell me why?"
Wang Liu, who was reading the file, knew that Ye Qing did not understand the rules. Seeing him asking directly, he patiently explained:
"A case involving human life, regardless of whether the victim or the suspect is high or low, will inevitably alarm the prefect. If the impact is not big and few people know about it, the case will be heard by our execution room first, and then handed over to the prefect for review."
"On the other hand, if the impact is greater, the magistrate will first hold a court hearing to appease the people, and then hand it over to the execution chamber for review."
"When the truth comes to light, the magistrate will finally open his court and summon the people of Huaiyang to listen to the trial and make the final decision."
"In this way, the chances of unjust, false and wrongful convictions can be greatly reduced, and it can also appease people's hearts and scare Xiaoxiao."
Ye Qing nodded, Wang Liu flipped another page of the file and continued:
"The suspect in this case, Wang Datou, passed the preliminary trial in the execution room and was temporarily sent to the prison. Wang Datou kept complaining about injustice in prison. Because of your suggestion, I reported it to the prefect."
"So, for the time being, I will let you investigate this case as an unjust case. I think I will let you try it again and then hand it over to the prefect for a final trial."
Ye Qing, who knew the whole story, nodded again and said, "So that's it. I thought the murder case would be reviewed once by the criminal chamber or the prefect and then it would be over."
Wang Liuhe took up the file and said with a smile: "Human life is of paramount importance. Not to mention that our magistrates can't bear to see it in their eyes. Even if God has inspired all the prefectures, they are very cautious about human life cases."
"As for whether He Wuzuo you mentioned knows who the real culprit in this case is."
"He won't pay attention to such a small case. According to the government's regulations, he will ignore it after the autopsy."
"By the way, this He Fuzuo is a scholar. He is currently busy reviewing his homework and preparing for the autumn examination, and it is impossible for him to take care of these small cases."
Hear the end.
A look of envy appeared in Ye Qing's eyes.
Most of them are from lowly status, and few are civilians. This line of work is consistent, because they deal with the dead, which can be said to be disgusting to people.
Even if he becomes a government official and is a subordinate, he will still be looked down upon by others more than his ordinary lowly status.
This congratulatory article is written by a man, and he can actually take part in the scientific examination. I wonder if this is the same path as him.
He sighed and said:
"He was born as a widower and became a scholar at the age of sixteen. He is really a strange person."
Wang Liu nodded in approval and said:
"That's not the most surprising thing. I forgot to mention it just now. The most surprising thing is that He Wuzuo was an orphan. He was adopted and raised by Mr. Xiao Wangxiao, the government official's boss since he was a child."
"Mr. Xiao's work was a famous work of divine enlightenment back then. He was summoned by the saint and almost entered the Dali Temple to serve."
"Mr. Xiao relied on his lifetime achievements to give He Wuzuo the opportunity to change his household registration and become a civilian."
"This gave him the opportunity to take part in the imperial examination."
The twists and turns of the bizarre story left Ye Qing speechless.
He thought to himself: "I, Cio, this is the real template of a time traveler."
"An orphan, an old man with a lot of history, a chance to change his life against the odds, damn it, why don't I have it!!!"
Tread!
Dense and hurried footsteps came from a distance.
Wang Liu raised his eyes and looked outside the house, smiling and saying:
"Qingxiao Lang, there are quite a few people here. It depends on how you handle the case."
