The case of the head of the Lin family caused a stir in the whole country, and everyone in Jiangnan and Saibei was talking about it. If the treasonous son and Fantou were together on the night of the crime, why did the stepmother commit suicide, why did she leave such a suicide note, and why did the treasonous son plead guilty?
An issue of "Yanjing Weekly" listed several speculations. The first ones are reasonable, but the latter ones are more outrageous. The newspaper also said that if readers have any conjectures, they are welcome to write in and submit. The newspaper will select reasonable ones for publication.
Come out to communicate with readers all over the world. This time it was more lively than the previous two times. People all over the country racked their brains to analyze it, and the stories they came up with were even more outrageous than the newspaper editors.
The person involved, Patriarch Lin, was currently living in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. The cells of others were dark, but his cell had a window, and glass was installed on the window. He had no worries about food and clothing, and was often visited by his younger friends, and the prime minister's biological father came to encourage him.
But I was still feeling very depressed. That morning, I heard footsteps outside, the cell door opened, and a young man in a white python robe walked in. He greeted him and raised his hands: "Hello, Mr. Lin, I am Jia Cong."
Elder Lin was secretly happy: Lin Hai had said it countless times, "Don't worry, brother, I will let you out when my Cong'er comes back!" He hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being old and unable to salute."
Jia Cong waved his hand: "How can you salute me at your age?" Looking up, there were three or four chairs in the cell, and a table of scraps was placed on the desk.
Patriarch Lin smiled and said: "Lin Shangshu came here the day before yesterday and played half a game of chess with me. He suddenly remembered that he was going to pick up his grandson, so he left the chess game. The old man did not touch the chessboard, and waited for him to come back and continue playing.
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"That old man is really free." Jia Cong murmured, pulling up a chair and sitting opposite Patriarch Lin. "I have good news and bad news."
"Your Majesty, please speak."
"The good news is that after those memories of Fentou and your grandson, it turns out that the guest is not your grandson, and there is a higher chance that you have not wronged him."
Patriarch Lin breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good!" A smile appeared on his face, "I've been feeling very uneasy these past few days, lest I make a mistake."
Jia Cong said: "The bad news is that I don't plan to announce the good news above." Elder Lin was stunned. Jia Cong explained, "That is to say, the Yan State Court and Yanjing Weekly will not issue an official edict
Tell the world that the fan-tou guest is not a descendant of your family. Therefore, in the eyes of the world, the case is still unclear."
Patriarch Lin was stunned for a while, then he suddenly understood and asked: "Why is this happening, Your Majesty?"
Jia Cong said: "Mr. Lin, you are a good person. I know, and you know it yourself. However, you always tell me out of conscience. Do you think there are many upright people like you in the world?"
Patriarch Lin stroked his beard: "Not much."
Jia Cong nodded: "I don't think it's much. Not only that, it's very little. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been falsely accused and lost your official position. If I remember correctly, you were the magistrate of Ruzhou back then, and you were in the fifth rank. And that
The next person to succeed him as magistrate was Tianpu Village, the later Great Sima, one of the most famous ruthless villains in the Yan court."
Elder Lin was a little happy: "This person later died at the hands of a ranger."
"However, before he died at the hands of a ranger, he still served as an official for many years and did many bad things with his official position. Among them, the most critical step in his rise was that he had very good political achievements during his tenure as the magistrate of Ruzhou. And those
Political achievements are the foundation of Mr. Lin. You plant the trees and he picks the peaches." Jia Cong said seriously, "Have you ever thought about whether you could be a little more diplomatic or less temperamental in the officialdom?
, try to clarify to the court when he is falsely accused, then Tianpu Village may not be promoted, or it may not be promoted so high. Then he will harm fewer people later, and the people of Ruzhou can live a few more years.
Good days.”
"This..." Elder Lin twirled his beard and pondered. He really had never had such a thought.
Jia Cong said: "It is easy to be good for oneself, but it is difficult to help the world at the same time. If you don't have the ability to fight for public office, that's it. As an upright court official, protecting yourself is to benefit the people. In this section, the junior said immodestly, you are better than my Mr. Lin
Not even close."
Patriarch Lin nodded repeatedly: "I am not as good as Lin Shangshu."
"Therefore, although you are a good person..." Jia Cong said slowly, "you have not contributed much to Yan State."
Patriarch Lin said: "This old man has really done nothing to help the government."
Jia Cong said: "That's why I can't grant you a pardon." Elder Lin was stunned. Jia Cong said again, "You have not made any great contributions to the court, so the little king cannot grant you a pardon."
Patriarch Lin had a bad temper. He slapped the case and shouted: "I am not wrong! No need for amnesty!"
Jia Cong's brows moved: "Really? An evil and naughty man who raped his stepmother just after his father's death. When he was caught by his tribe and taken to the ancestral hall for trial, should he deny it first?
After you found the witnesses and physical evidence, he then made some quibbles, and he had to admit it when he couldn't deny it. This is a normal script, right?"
Elder Lin shouted loudly: "With his mother's suicide note here, he can't deny it!"
"Oh, do you think he knew that his stepmother wrote a suicide note and couldn't deny it, so he just didn't deny it?"
"good."
"Then why doesn't he run away?" Jia Cong said. "While no one finds out that stepmother is dead, pack up your belongings and jump on your horse and run all the way to Tianjin Port. Buy a ticket for the earliest departure from the port and go wherever you want."
Patriarch Lin was stunned. After a long while, he said: "That Fentou guest is not him..."
Jia Cong said: "He is not Fentou's guest, so that doesn't mean he raped his stepmother. You have read these issues of the newspaper. There are all kinds of possibilities. Although the grandson of your clan is a dandy, he is a very talkative person.
A man of loyalty. Maybe he is willing to take the blame for someone? That person may be similar to him in body shape and has great kindness? Maybe he is actually a broken sleeve, and that person is his lover? But even if he is willing, isn't it?
Should the person who really raped his stepmother deserve to die? Old sir, these are things that your clan cannot find out because you don’t have the ability. And we have professional police and forensic doctors who are good at detecting clues and interrogating various prisoners. Compared with
You, our professionals are not easily deceived. But the scene is no longer there, and your descendants who know the truth best are dead. It is really difficult for us to find out the truth and find the real culprit. Now the real culprit is at large.
Maybe in two years he will deceive other young people and harm other women."
Patriarch Lin sat stunned like a Buddha. For a long time, the old man slumped on the chair as if he had been cramped, and murmured: "You have to admit what he did..."
Jia Cong said: "The grandson of your family died in such an ignominious death, and his friends were just idle men. Yet they were willing to file a lawsuit just because he offended a wealthy family like yours. This shows that he was not a blameless person.
Although there is no ironclad evidence, the possibility of him being wronged is not small." Elder Lin closed his eyes.
Jia Cong took out a newspaper from his arms, put it on the case and pushed it to the elder Lin. When the old man saw it, it was a piece of "Chengdu Weekly", which published a case about Shu. Twenty-three years ago, there was a case in Shu.
A rich man died, his widow committed adultery and fell into the pond, and his youngest son disappeared. Only recently did the child come out to complain, saying that his mother was wrongly accused. In order to seize the family's property, the family framed his mother for having an affair with a stranger.
Poison himself. This man overheard and ran away. Now that he is an adult, he wants to seek justice for his mother and himself. Elder Lin looked at it in silence.
Jia Cong said: "My third brother-in-law, Chen Sen, left his hometown as a young man because his younger brother was falsely accused of arson. The Cui family of Qinghe in Qi State, such a big family for thousands of years, actually asked Master Cui Mian to take the blame for his direct nephew.
"We have just reached a consensus: there are very few good people like you in the world." He pointed at the newspaper and said, "There are many more patriarchs like you, the patriarchs of the Chen family in Fujian and the Cui family in Qi.
.The law is not against a certain person, but against everyone. I know that you did not deliberately handle the unjust case, not to mention that the matter may not be an unjust case. However, if I pardon you, these patriarchs will not think that you are a good person, so they are pardoned.
, they will only think that you are the patriarch, so you are pardoned. At such an old age, you should know that people will always look for information that is beneficial to themselves to believe. Then, my third brother-in-law’s younger brother, Master Cui Mian of Qi State, and this person of Shu State
Sir, there will be more and more victims like this. Mr. Lin, I cannot pardon you."
After a long time, Elder Lin said in a hoarse voice: "The clan may decide unjust cases because we are incompetent. If the government decides unjust cases, it is not because of incompetence, but on purpose. A future beckons from above, but money drags its feet from below.
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Jia Cong said: "As a native of Yan State, you must know what kind of popularity Prime Minister Lin Daiyu is in the Yan State. Lin Hai is Lin Daiyu's father, and Lin Daiyu is the enlightenment teacher of Tian Gengzi, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishments. He even dared to carry Lin Hai to death.
, who else are you afraid of?" The old man was silent. Jia Cong said again, "But I am not him. I can't handle Uncle Lin. I can hide the news and let you fake your death."
Patriarch Lin stood up and said, "I have been honest all my life, so why should I fake my death?"
"Because your grandson may not have been wronged," Jia Cong said. "From a righteous standpoint, if he really raped your stepmother, you would be right. And your old age means that you are already accustomed to the power of the clan.
. Then asking you to get used to the new law in a short period of time is not in line with the laws of nature. The problem now is that we can’t find it out, and maybe we will never find it out. But I need such a case that attracts national attention to remind the people of the world: In Yan State, only the government
The clan does not have the power to enforce the law. Therefore, on the surface, you must die."
The old man was stunned again. Jia Cong bowed to him, turned and left.
After leaving the cell door and taking a look at the next door, Lin Hai and Yan Shenggong were both eavesdropping. The three of them left the prison of the Criminal Department together and went straight back to the office of Jia Cong, the regent of the Political Affairs Hall. After sitting down, Lin Hai pinched his beard for a long time and said: "Cong'er
Tell me, have you found out what happened?"
Jia Cong nodded: "I've found out. I just lied to Patriarch Lin. The traitor was at Fantou on the night of the incident and was not at home. So it is impossible to rape my stepmother."
Lin Hai was stunned: "Why are you coaxing him?"
Jia Cong sighed softly, took out a document bag from the drawer, took out a portrait and put it on the desk. "This is the jigsaw puzzle portrait of the stepmother." He spread out several more photos, "These are some of the good friends of the traitor.
"When Rin and Kong took a look at it, they saw that the photo was somewhat similar to the portrait, and they took a breath at the same time.
"Obviously, Nizi has loved his stepmother for many years." Jia Cong took out another document bag, "This is a book that stepmother often reads. This belongs to Nizi. You two can look through it." Lin and Kong flipped through two books.
, are collections of ancient poems, each with a dried azalea specimen inside. Jia Cong took out another document bag and said, "This is the report of Zhan Kun and the others who secretly opened the stepmother's coffin for an autopsy. The stepmother was pregnant for three months. Judging from the time, it is absolutely
He is not the posthumous son of his late father." He shrugged, "My stepmother was sixteen when she came in, her husband was thirty-six, and my son was ten. My son was twenty-seven this year, and my stepmother was thirty-three. The man was fifty-two when he died, and he was ill before his death.
Nearly two years. This case may not be rape, but adultery."
"This..." Lin Hai and Yan Shenggong looked at the autopsy report and were stunned.
Jia Cong said: "The truth is too cruel to Patriarch Lin, so it's better to hide it. Let him hate the outsiders who seduced the descendants of the clan and deceived him into taking the blame." He took out another document bag without saying a word.
Send it to those two people.
Lin Hai opened it and found a confession inside. The maid of that family said that on the night of the incident, the young master, who was only twelve years old, had a big argument with his mistress, and the young master kicked the door out of his mistress' room.
Jia Cong sighed: "This is the reason why my stepmother hanged herself." Rin and Kong looked at the documents on the table and couldn't say a word for a long time.
Who knew it wasn't over yet! Jia Cong still had a document bag in his hand. "This is the last one." The last document bag contained an IOU. The young master owed the casino twenty thousand taels of silver.
"The young master looks well-behaved but is actually rebellious. He knew that his mother and his eldest brother had an improper relationship, and it was this incident that spurred his rebellion. He owed gambling debts, and he wanted to use his family's money to repay them. But he was not the eldest son, so he had no money.
It was under his control. So he went to his mother and asked her to get money from his brother. For some reason... In such a family, mother and son could quarrel for any reason. The young master exposed the adultery of his mother and brother, and even
Maybe he knew that his mother was pregnant. She hanged herself from a rafter in shame and anger. The relationship between the two of them must have started with rape. For some unknown reason, the stepmother concealed the matter at the time. That's why the suicide note was written.
He loved her so deeply that he risked his life for her and shouldered the crime alone." Jia Cong shook his head, "There are so many people in the world trying to make up reasons for this matter, but no one can guess it."
Lin Kong and Kong were stunned again. Jia Cong took out another document bag. Lin Hai shouted: "Isn't it gone?"
"This is not a case file." Jia Cong said, "It is a plan that Zhan Kun urgently drew up two days ago."
Lin Hai opened it and saw that it was a proposal to amend the law. Minors under the age of eighteen are prohibited from entering the casino. If they are allowed to enter, the casino will be closed down immediately and will never be allowed to open again. Lin Hai gritted his teeth: "Too light! Who is it?
If you let your child into a casino, the owner will go to jail for three years! No, five years!"
"Well... maybe the guy put it in."
"Then teach the good guys." Lin Hai pointed out the IOU and said, "This house will be closed down immediately!"
The corner of Jia Cong's mouth twitched: "No. We have not enacted this law beforehand, and it is not illegal when people let their children in."
Lin Hai snapped: "Should you seal it or not?"
"No!" Jia Cong said, "But you can always rely on the fact that you are the prime minister's biological father and send the henchman Liu Xiaoqi to bully them."