After Shuai Hui went down, Wu Wei asked softly: "Sir, do you think there is something fishy?"
"Of course there is something fishy." Wang Xian sneered coldly: "The darkest place in the world is Fusi, Beizhen. If you come here to cry out for injustice, aren't you grabbing the fruit of the sacrifice on the King of Hell's table and seeking death?"
"Yes." Wu Weishen said in agreement: "But if she does this, you have to accept it." I believe that if someone really makes trouble, the matter will definitely spread. Your Excellency is going to rectify unjust and false cases in the Yamen. If
If you turn a blind eye to the cries of injustice in front of your door, you will no longer be able to use the banner as a tiger's skin..."
"Let's take a look," Wang Xian rubbed his eyes, soothing Yu Se's eyes after a sleepless night, and said, "The most ridiculous thing about this is that I just shouted in the yamen that I wanted to end the injustice, and there was someone outside.
It’s such a coincidence that someone is complaining. There must be someone behind the scenes who wants to show me some trouble.”
Wu Wei nodded and said: "Take it first and then talk about it. If it's not easy to break, just delay it for a while."
"Yes." Wang Xian nodded, closed his eyes and calmed down and stopped talking. After a while of tea, Shuai Hui left and returned, holding a piece of paper in his hand and presenting it to Wang Xian. It seemed that he was indeed well prepared.
Come.
Wang Xian took it and read it for a while, his face became more and more ugly, and the next moment he handed it to Wu Wei. Wu Wei took it and looked at it for a few times, and said in a voiceless voice: "I have heard about this case. There was a big fuss the year before last. At that time, the Ministry of Punishment and Jin Yiwei
It was a good lawsuit, and in the end Jin Yiwei won..."
Wang Xian nodded. He had been in Beijing two years ago. Although he was devoted to the formation and training of the young army, he still heard about these cases that caused a sensation in the capital. At that time, even the emperor seemed to be alarmed. In the end
People all said that a good official had been wronged, but there were so many people who had been wronged that he was not in the mood to care. At that time, he never imagined that just two years later, this case would fall on him.
The case was initially small and uncomplicated, and had nothing to do with the Beizhen Fusi and the Ministry of Justice. According to Liu's petition, one dawn in June two years ago, the land security guard from Qinghefang, a corner of the southeast corner of the capital, hurried away.
Go to the Jiangning County Government Office and report to the county boss that a murder occurred in Waterwheel Alley.
Jiangning County is a county in the capital, with jurisdiction over the southeastern part of the capital city. At the foot of the emperor, there are peaks like forests. A murder occurred within the jurisdiction. Naturally, the Jiangning County Magistrate did not dare to neglect, and immediately led the fast team to rush to the scene of the murder. Sure enough, he saw
There was a female corpse lying in the alley. The Jiangning County magistrate immediately ordered the widow to do an autopsy and found that the female corpse was about forty-five years old, with gray and disheveled hair. She had been stabbed three times in the chest and ribs, and blood was everywhere.
It has turned bright red.
After checking the surroundings again, I found another basket three steps away, and a line of bloody footprints on the ground. After asking the landowner, the landowner said that he just glanced at it from a distance and did not dare to get close, so the footprints were not his.
The detective opened the wicker basket and found a sharp sickle and a rope... Finally, they concluded that the deceased should have been killed in the middle of the night. People generally do not go out at this time, even if they have something to do.
It was too far away from home, so the deceased probably lived nearby. The Jiangning County Magistrate ordered people to search for the owner of the body nearby, and also ordered the police to follow the footsteps.
The detectives followed the footprints around the corner and found a shoe stained with blood. However, the footprints behind it became lighter and fainter until nothing could be seen, so the detectives could only return without success.
However, another discovery was made at the crime scene. First, the body was turned over, and the local security guard recognized her at a glance. She was Zhang Ma who lived at the end of the alley. The Jiangning County Magistrate also saw the sickle in the basket.
There was "Qi Dazhu", three crooked characters, and I asked the police officers. Does anyone know this person... The one who sells cold drinks on Yaqian Street and is very popular has this name.
The magistrate of Jiangning immediately ordered him to take people to Qi Dazhu's house to check. The people did not dare to neglect, and immediately walked through several alleys and arrived at Qi Dazhu's house nearly two miles away. Seeing that the door was bolted from the inside, the police quickly knocked on the door loudly.
, but no one answered inside. The police kicked in the door and saw an old woman holding a blood-stained men's shoe in her hand and walking towards the chicken coop in a hurry.
Several policemen rushed forward ferociously, snatched the bloody shoes from the old woman's hands, and took a look at them. They happened to be the same pair as the ones picked up near the crime scene. The policeman sneered and said: "You old thing
, how dare you destroy evidence.”
"No... no..." The old woman was busy trying to explain, but she became more and more anxious and could not speak. At this time, the policeman who rushed into the house did not find Qi Dazhu, but saw a body soaked in the wooden basin.
The clothes were dyed red by the water, and the clothes inside were obviously bloody. The policeman quickly took the clothes out of the basin, grabbed the old woman and said, "Tell me, where is your son?"
"He, he went out early in the morning..." the old woman said nervously.
"Escaped?" The police officers immediately said angrily, "Then you come with me." Without further explanation, they shook off the chains with a bang, put them around the old woman's neck, and dragged her out of the hospital.
Go. Poor old woman, a skinny old woman, how could she withstand such torture and fainted immediately. When the policemen saw her fainting, they threw the old woman on the horse and drove away...
At that time, the county magistrate of Jiangning was named Yang Xinan. He was only in his thirties and was a second-ranked Jinshi. He had just been released from the Hanlin Academy as a sixth-rank magistrate in the capital... The officials in the capital were higher than local officials. The local magistrates were all seventh-rank.
The county magistrate is the sixth grade. The local magistrates are all the fourth grade, but Yingtianfu Yin is the third grade. Not only is he high in rank, but he also has the highest rank. As long as he performs well, he has a great chance of becoming an important minister of the emperor. Therefore, Yang Zhixian is satisfied.
Desperate to solve the case, he examined the physical evidence of the murder - bamboo baskets, sickles, ropes, and the bloody clothes and shoes found from Qi Dazhu's home. He has basically determined that Qi Dazhu is the murderer. The only problem is that the perpetrator is the murderer.
He is on the run, and without the murderer, there is no way to hold court.
But soon the worries disappeared. At noon, a man came to the county government office to surrender, claiming to be Qi Dazhu, and demanding to exchange himself for his mother. Yang Zhixian was a famous official in the Qing Dynasty, so he naturally had to consider the reputation of the fierce and stubborn man.
On the grounds of filial piety, Qi Dazhu's mother was released. At the same time, a court session was opened to investigate the case. Yang Zhixian thought that the murderer had surrendered, and the rest would fall into place. Who would have thought that Qi Dazhu would deny that he committed the murder.
Yang Zhixian stared at Qi Dazhu with stern eyes and sneered: "Then why did you appear in Shuichu Lane, two miles away from home? Could it be that you have nocturnal syndrome?"
"I don't have nocturnal syndrome. I go to the lake to collect fresh water." Qi Dazhu said with an aggrieved look, "The villain makes a living by selling cold drinks. When making cold drinks, fresh lotus pods, fresh ciru and other fresh water are used.
, you must get up early in the morning, take advantage of the time when the dew is moistening the lotus leaves, pick up the fresh water, transport it home, peel it clean, and marinate it with sugar before dawn. In this way, the cold drink can be made with the fragrance of fresh water.
The sales are good. So every day at midnight, the villain carries a basket and rushes to the river here in Waterwheel Lane to get fresh water."
Hearing these words, the old detectives nodded secretly, and they all felt that the possibility of Qi Dazhu killing someone was very small. But Yang Zhixian didn't think so, and he continued to ask: "Then why are you covered in blood?"
"That's because" Qi Dazhu said timidly when he mentioned it: "The villain tripped over something when he was passing by Waterwheel Lane in the early morning. When he touched it with his hand, he discovered that it was a corpse. The villain was so frightened that he ran home.
When I got home, I found that my shoes had fallen off, I didn’t take the basket, and there was blood all over my shoes..."
"Since you didn't kill the person, why did you run away after returning home?" Yang Zhixian sneered in his heart, make it up, just keep making it up.
"I didn't run away. I stayed home for a while. I wanted to go to Shuichu Alley at dawn to get back the basket. That's where the villain eats." Qi Dazhu hurriedly defended: "Who knew that when I got nearby, I saw the officials surrounding me?
I only looked at the shoes and said they were left by the murderer, which frightened me. The villain didn't dare to show up and explain, so he just wanted to run away. Who would have thought that someone would say that my mother was arrested by the government." As he said this,
With a guilty look on his face, he said: "My mother is old and in poor health. How can she bear this torture? I quickly surrendered. Please let my mother out quickly."
"Your mother has been released. I have done my utmost to be benevolent, but you still refuse to tell the truth." Yang Zhixian said coldly: "Put away your luck. Now the evidence is irrefutable. Even if you don't admit it, I can do the same."
Convict you”
Qi Dazhu refused to admit it, so Yang Zhixian ordered him to be executed. Although the county government did not have as many wealthy people as Beizhen Fusi, there was no one who could stand it. Qi Dazhu could not survive the punishment, so he reluctantly confessed in a semi-conscious state.
.Immediately his hands were pressed with fingerprints, and he was shackled and shackled on the spot, and thrown into prison.
It is a matter of course that a person must be killed to pay for his life. Magistrate Yang sentenced Qi Dazhu to death, but the death penalty must be reviewed by the Ministry of Punishment before it can be counted. However, it is usually a formality. Officials from the Ministry of Punishment read the document, and if it is correct, they will stamp it and then put the criminal on death row.
, waiting for the autumn decision. However, at this time, an unexpected thing happened, which changed the case... The daughter of the deceased Zhang Ma went to the county government to sue her brother for patricide.
In other words, the daughter of the deceased said that her mother was not killed by Qi Dazhu, but by her brother named Zhang Gouzi...
"Zhang Gouzi?" Seeing this, Wang Xian was suddenly stunned, "This name sounds familiar."
"One of the three people who ate the cane yesterday had this name." Wu Weidao.
"It's interesting..." Wang Xian touched his chin and murmured, continuing to read:
The deceased's daughter, Zhang Xiugu, sued her brother Zhang Gouzi, who was always with his mother. On the night of the incident, while his mother was sleeping, he secretly rummaged through the boxes and found the Zhang family's heirloom, the Jasper Watermelon.
The jasper watermelon was passed down from Zhang Xiugu's grandma. Her grandma was a maid in the Mengyuan Palace. She stole the jasper watermelon from the palace during the war. She originally lived in poverty after getting married, so she wanted to sell it for some money. But her husband
He is a man who knows things and knows that this thing is extremely valuable and will lead to death if anyone sees it. Therefore, the couple has always hidden this treasure and never shown it to anyone. Later, the couple died of illness one after another, so they passed the treasure to their only one.
The child of Zhang Xiugu, Zhang Ma’s mother, repeatedly told her not to let outsiders know about such a treasure...