"This man." Ma Youde, who drank some water to calm down and sat on the chair, pointed at one of the corpses with a dark face and a beard, and said to Chen Kui: "This man is wrong.
, the old man asked the last names of these two people yesterday. One of them was Qian and the other was Zhang. The man named Zhang was right, but the man named Qian... didn’t look like this. The man named Qian
His complexion is rosy and fair, and although he has stubble, he does not have a beard. How can he be a guest staying in the hotel?"
As soon as Ma Youde finished speaking, before Chen Kui could speak, Liu En, who was next to him, yelled at Ma Youde: "You bitch, you are clearly prevaricating here, the body is at the door of your shop, you go to the Yamen
It was clear to me before, but now here I am, trying to disrupt the master's judgment with clever words, and even saying that I am not a guest in the store."
"Sir, it must be Old Man Kong who kills people and removes their bodies so that he can deny them at any time. I only need to serve him with a severe punishment, and I am not afraid that this old guy will not be punished if he doesn't tell the truth." Liu En said.
"Hmph." Chen Kui snorted coldly, looked at Liu En, and scolded: "As a ground leader, you are no stranger to the methods of extorting confessions through words and deeds. Let me ask you, sir, who is handling the case today?
"
When Chen Kui became angry, Liu En immediately lost his temper and hurriedly knelt on the ground, pleading guilty again and again.
"Hmph, let me ask you again, is this the scene of the crime?" Chen Kui looked at Liu En coldly and asked.
"No, no, it's at the entrance of the town. The villain was worried that Old Man Kong would deny it, so he moved the two corpses here." Liu En said in fear, his body shaking slightly uncontrollably, and cold sweat dripping from his head.
He didn't know why Chen Kui had a more terrifying power than the county magistrate. He didn't even know why he was so panicked.
"Liu En, as a land armor and a public servant, don't you know what crime you should be punished for removing a body without authorization?"
"This..." Liu En was so frightened that he even forgot to defend himself and had to bury his head deeply in the ground, as if he could drill directly into the ground, as if Chen Kui could not see him.
"Hmph, Liu En is so bold, and you haven't recruited him from the truth. Ma Youde said that you used these two corpses as an excuse to blackmail him for three hundred taels of silver. Is it true?"
"Yes...yes..." Liu En admitted tremblingly.
"Hmph, you bitch, you are so brave, knowing the law and breaking the law. Regardless of whether it was Ma Youde who killed someone or not, since the body has been dumped at the entrance of the town, you should first go to the Yamen to report the case and explain the whole story. After the Yamen inspects it,
We are going to deal with it again, but you are defying the king's law, knowing the law and breaking the law, moving the body here privately, blackmailing Ma Youde, and the crime will be increased. If someone comes, drag this guy down first and beat him with fifty big boards."
"yes!"
The officials on the left and right immediately stepped forward and dragged Liu En down. Outside the inn, they beat fifty boards with a heavy wooden board. Liu En was beaten to pieces and his flesh was torn, and he was moaning and groaning. When the people around him saw this, they couldn't help but applaud and applaud.
It can be seen how unpopular Liu En is at ordinary times. If he were in the Water Margin world, Liu En would definitely be the target of Liangshan's land reform. However, he still needed his cooperation in the Black Stone matter, so Chen Kui only sentenced him to fifty bucks.
While Liu En was still being tortured, Chen Kui looked at Ma Youde and said, "Ma Youde, did you kill someone and move their bodies at the entrance of the town? In the Yamen today, you clearly said that they were the two people who stayed last night.
The merchant was killed, and now he is saying that it was not the case, why not hurry up and kill him truthfully, so as not to suffer the physical pain."
Serving with severe punishment may seem to modern people as a means of extorting confessions, and it is also a sign of the incompetence of the county magistrate. However, in fact, in ancient times, this was a very common method. How could there be so much success in deciding cases and sentencing?
, Detective, where did so much evidence come from? Most of it relies on sticks and a kind of psychological deterrence. For example, like now, Ma Youde has been frightened to the point of losing his courage and does not dare to hide anything.
"Sir, this villain is really unjust. Today, Liu En came to the store to threaten the villain. When he saw these two corpses, the villain was frightened. How could he dare to step forward and carefully identify the appearance of the deceased?
Just seeing that Zhang's clothes were good, this person was nearby, and Liu En's words, the villain hurried to the county government office to beat the drum and complain. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen? The villain is really innocent. I hope
Your Excellency is aware of this." Ma Youde kowtowed and cried loudly as he explained.
"Have these two corpses been like this since Liu En sent them? Has anyone touched them?" Chen Kui asked.
"To tell you the truth, no one has ever touched it again, that's all."
"Yeah." Chen Kui nodded after hearing this. The man surnamed Zhang had his head facing out and his feet facing in, while the other victim was just the opposite, with his head facing in and his feet facing out. He was also covered with a straw mat. In this case, Ma Youde
The explanation is indeed justified and reasonable.
"Ma Youde, take me to the room where the two guests rested last night and take a look." Chen Kui said.
"Yes, yes." With the help of the waiter in the store, Ma Youde reluctantly stood up and said: "The villain knows that the two of them are merchants, so they inevitably carry some money with them and live in Qianjin to avoid any inconvenience.
, so we arranged for them to stay in the Zhongjin room.”
With that said, he led Chen Kui to the room where the two of them rested last night. The room had not been cleaned yet, there were some leftovers on the table, and there were two chamber pots on the bed.
"Has anyone tidied the room?" Chen Kui asked.
"No, these two guests left early, and I didn't have time to come in and clean up early in the morning. Then this happened. Without the master, I wouldn't dare to clean up. Everything remains as it is." Fu Fu.
Li Si, Ma Youde's clerk, said this. Li Si is also from the town and has been working in Ma Youde's inn for five or six years. He happened to be busy yesterday afternoon and was not in the store, so he never saw that person.
Two merchants.
"Besides these two people, were there anyone else who stayed at your hotel yesterday?" Chen Kui asked while checking the condition of the guest room.
"There is no one else around. Business will be slower in the first month or two every year. These two guests have not left since they checked into the guest room yesterday. As for whether there was any other movement after nightfall, I didn't notice it.
The little old man never expected that, actually..." Ma Youde covered his heart and said with a look of shock.
"..."
Chen Kui, who was checking the room, heard a glint in his eyes when he heard Ma Youde's words.
clatter.
Chen Kui turned over the quilt and a black stone rolled out from the quilt and fell to the ground.
Another black stone.
"What is this? Do you two know?" Chen Kui picked up the black stone, held it in his hand and looked at it for a while, then looked at Ma Youde and Li Si and asked.
The two looked at each other and shook their heads at Chen Kui.
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