"Bring up Wu Tian, the main criminal who buried the corpse." When he reached the middle of the river, Duan Tianming turned around and shouted at the dozens of criminals.
Wu Tian lowered his head and turned pale. He never dreamed that this self-proclaimed Jianghu person was actually a case handler of Dongchang.
That day, I was slapped by someone from Dongchang with a knife blade, and I was still thinking about finding a way to get this shame back in the future. Now it seems that I can never get this shame back in my life, and I still have
How many days he can live is unknown.
"Let's go, why are you standing there in a daze?" A captain pushed Wu Tian's shoulder.
With his arms tied behind his back, Wu Tianshen stepped on the rocks on the river beach one foot at a time and walked up to Duan Tianming.
"Who is coming? Please tell me your name." Following the procedure, Duan Tianming asked loudly.
"Wu Tian."
"Did you bury a body here?"
"Yes."
"Show me where your body is buried."
After taking a few steps forward and looking around again, Wu Tian stamped his feet: "The body is buried here."
"Someone, dig up the riverbank and find the body."
Several Dongchang captains, holding shovels, hurried over and started digging quickly at the place pointed out by Wu Tian.
In the prisoner team, both Yang Kang and Duan Tianming lowered their heads and did not dare to raise their heads.
Since no body was found, the two could still argue. Now that even Wu Tian had confessed, the two knew that there was no chance of overturning the case.
Seeing that it would take some time to dig out the body, Duan Tianming glanced at the people around him and then stared at Wu Tian: "Wu Tian, who is the person you buried?"
"The villain doesn't know his name." Wu Tianzhan said tremblingly.
"I don't know his name? Where did that body come from?" Duan Tianming yelled.
"The master ordered this villain to be pulled from the county government office." Wu Tian was trembling all over, and his consciousness was almost blurred with fear.
"Who is your master? Which county government did he come from?"
"My master is Malianshan from the jade workshop. The body was taken out of the Lantian County Yamen."
As soon as Wu Tian finished speaking, the people around him booed.
They were whispering to each other in twos and threes, pointing at Yang Kang and Duan Tianming.
Today, not only the nearby people came to see the excitement, but also several wealthy households in the county. When they heard that the magistrate was involved in the case, they all rushed over from the county.
Especially shopkeeper Wang, who made money by opening a tavern, looked at Ma Lianshan and then at the shackled Zhang Jin, raised his right hand and patted his chest gently.
"Thankfully, someone stopped me at the door of the private room that day. Otherwise, I would have tried every means to get close to this person. If I had been used by him, there might have been one more person among these people." Shopkeeper Wang was afraid for a while.
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Over there, Duan Tianming looked at Malianshan who was tied up with a smile on his face.
"Shopkeeper Ma, what your butler Wu Tian said is true? Can you explain where the corpse in the county government office came from, and whose name it is?"
"His name is Wan Quan and he is from Magou Town. He wanted to sue my wife for manslaughter. In order to cover up the fact, I killed him." Ma Lianshan suddenly took over the whole matter.
At this point, there is no hope of a comeback. But if we can save our father-in-law, it can be considered a glimmer of victory.
Ma Lianshan has always been very strong, and he doesn't want to lose so completely.
"Did you kill him alone, or together with your father-in-law, Yang Kang, the magistrate of Lantian County?" Duan Tianming said with a smile as he stared at Malianshan.
"Myself."
"You are alone? Wan Quan is also a six-foot-tall man. You can kill him by yourself? Moreover, the killing place is inside the county government office. Did Yang Kang specifically avoid it and leave you a place to kill?
Wan Quan came to the county town to file a complaint. How can you, a commoner, bring him to the county government office to kill him?" Duan Tianming touched his nose and looked around casually, "I want to protect your father-in-law, how can I do that?
Many people are watching with sharp eyes, do you think you can protect me?"
"Father-in-law really doesn't know anything. I did it all by myself." Ma Lianshan said loudly.
Duan Tianming shook his head and looked at the other party with a very pitiful look: "Ma Lianshan, Mal Lianshan, why can't you change your habit of not crying when you see the coffin? At the Magou Town construction site, you insist that you and Zhang
Jin is an old acquaintance from before, and now you want to take over the murder by yourself and exonerate Yang Kang. Do you think your reasons are tenable? "
"I plead guilty and I will abide by the law." Ma Lianshan walked around Duan Tianming and knelt down facing Mao Renlong, the prefect of Xi'an Prefecture beside him.
"My lord, my lord, you must uphold justice. My father-in-law is your subordinate official, and you should also know his behavior. All of this was done by a common man, and my lord knows it clearly." With his hands tied behind his back, he bent down.
It's all very difficult.
Even so, Ma Lianshan still kowtowed to Mao Renlong hard.
"Unbridled, full of nonsense." Mao Renlong shouted, "You kill people in the county government office. You say the county magistrate doesn't know where the county government office is and that it is your private courtyard? If this is true, how can Yang Kang be qualified to serve?
Magistrate of Lantian County?”
Then he turned his head to the side and looked at Duan Tianming with a smile on his face: "If a murder occurred in the county government office, there must be a government official who knows about it. Your Excellency, you might as well ask all the Lantian government officials and the truth about this case will be revealed."
Duan Tianming opened his mouth and let out a long yawn: "I haven't rested for several days. I suddenly felt very sleepy and my thoughts were a little unclear. Now that Magistrate Mao is here, I will try my best to sort out such small things.
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Duan Tianming had no interest in this case at all.
What he cares about is that these things are connected in series to pull Ma Yunshan down from the position of commander of Jinyiwei.
Mao Renlong is dedicated to showing favor to Dongchang and has extraordinary scheming. So what if he is given a chance to show off?
And Mao Renlong was shocked when he heard Duan Tianming's words.
This is Dongchang's home court. Everything here is decided by Dongchang. But the other party actually asked him to sort out these cases.
Is this a recognition? Or a test?
But no matter which case it is, asking yourself to clarify the case in this situation will only make you look good.
If you don’t show it now, when will you wait?
"My lord, you pretend to be the common people in your heart, and you have worked hard for several days in a row. It is really hard. Then you can rest for a while under the shade of the trees nearby, and I will clarify the case for you." Mao Renlong said respectfully to Duan Tianming, and went up.
Taking a step forward, he looked in the direction where the Lantian County government officials were standing: "Within three days, those who are on duty at the county government offices at night, please come forward."
Under the shade, Duan Tianming was blowing the cool breeze from the river, picked up a small stone under his feet, and threw it into the river not far away.
The trip to Xi'an Mansion has come to an end.
Whether it is human or physical evidence, it is enough for the Ministry of Punishments to turn this case into a solid case.
The involvement of Jin Yiwei will definitely make Ma Yunshan irreversible, and it can even be said that Xu Kaiying cannot escape the blame.
However, if the emperor is bent on covering up, these obvious reasons are not enough.
Only when the emperor is completely heartbroken will he really give up the Jinyiwei commander Tongzhi Ma Yunshan who was finally promoted to check and balance the Dongchang.
Before he knew it, the big pit in the river had been dug, and Wan Quan's body was lifted out from it.
He was covered in black and blue, and it looked like he had been poisoned to death.
Mao Renlong also made progress. Under coercion and inducement, he found the government servant who participated in the murder of Wan Quan and made the entire case clear.
"Yang Kang, as the magistrate of Lantian County, you have disappointed me so much. Even if it is for the safety of your daughter, you use money to compensate and seek to settle the matter, from a parent's point of view, I can understand. But for you, for
A piece of rough jade stone actually silenced people? Did you know that the rough stone basically belonged to the imperial court, and even the Lantian County government was not qualified to get involved in it. You blinded your eyes without any benefit and wanted to dig it privately. You actually worked on the water project.
You use the name to hide your despicable behavior. You really let me down."
Looking at Yang Kang, Mao Renlong scolded loudly.
"Does the raw jade stone belong to the imperial court?" Duan Tianming on the side was startled, and then he was overjoyed, "Ma Yunshan wanted to make the place where the raw jadeite stone was found private, and even arranged for Qianhu Jinyiwei to handle the matter in person. Anyone who infringes on the interests of the imperial court should be punished.
