In the prison, Li Mu met the murderer, Sun Jiachen, for the first time.
"Greetings to the great master!"
Sun Jiachen said, his body was shaking a little and he seemed a little weak.
Li Mu said: "But he was sentenced?"
"Yes!" Zhao Mi said: "How can you confess without being tortured?"
Li Mu wanted to enforce the law in a civilized manner, but after thinking about it, he might as well forget it.
From the shackles of slave society, to the ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, to the torture of prisoners of war by the Yankees in later generations, human beings have been thinking about how to kill or domesticate the same kind for a long time.
"Sir, let's change the interrogation place!" Zhao Mi said.
"No need, this is great!" Li Mu said, "Bring me a chair!"
In a prison, the air is polluted and the environment is dark. In such an environment, it puts severe psychological pressure on people. If they stay for a long time, they will have a psychological breakdown.
Li Mu was sitting on the chair and Sun Jiachen was kneeling on the ground.
"Tell me, why do you want to kill Qian Juren?" Li Mu asked.
"Back then, my three hundred acres of land was in the upper reaches of Qingshui River, while Qian Juren's five hundred acres of land were in the lower reaches. Last time, we had a fight over water; a famous prostitute appeared in Xueyue Tower, and I and
Qian Juren fought with each other, and finally Qian Juren snatched it and became his concubine!"
Sun Jiachen talked about past grievances and various entanglements.
It's all trivial things.
Li Mu asked: "Where did you buy arsenic?"
Sun Jiachen said: "We have a pharmacy at home, and there is arsenic in the pharmacy!"
"How many kilograms did you buy?" Li Mu asked.
"It's about three pounds, no, it's one pound!" Sun Jiachen said.
Li Mu took out the poisonous needle and stepped forward: "Is it contaminated with arsenic?"
"Yes!" Sun Jiachen said.
"But this is not arsenic, but ricin!" Li Mu said, "Be honest when you speak!"
"Yes, this is ricin!" Sun Jiachen immediately changed his words.
Li Mu said again: "But you came to the door in person and killed Qian Juren!"
"Yes, that night, I climbed over the wall, blew smoke inside, and then pierced Qian Juren's throat with a poisonous needle!" Sun Jiachen said.
"But the wall of Qian's house is at least three meters high. Can you, an old man in your fifties, climb over the wall?" Li Mu asked again.
"I remembered wrongly. I hired a killer to kill Qian Juren!" Sun Jiachen immediately changed his story.
Li Mu asked several questions in a row, but the result was that either the preface and the follow-up were inconsistent, or there were lots of loopholes. Li Mu shook his head repeatedly and said, "Step forward and take off his clothes!"
Several government officials came forward and took off his coat. As expected, there were scars on it. He had been executed to extract a confession, so Sun Jiachen accepted his fate.
He nodded whenever he said anything.
Li Mu looked at Zhao Mi with a cold expression.
With a wave of his hand, Sun Jiachen was escorted off.
Zhao Midao: "The certification evidence is complete, the evidence is complete!"
Li Muchao: "There was once a case where a rich man with a lot of money committed a house invasion and robbed a commoner of three taels of silver. It was originally full of loopholes and insufficient evidence, but under the manipulation of some people, it suddenly turned into a solid case.
!The rich man was exiled to the border, and his wealth of tens of thousands was confiscated!"
"There was also a young girl who was raped and died. As a result, a scholar was accused of being the murderer. There was originally insufficient evidence, but under the operation of the county magistrate, there was no need for no evidence! So the original lack of evidence became irrefutable evidence!
"
Zhao Mi fell silent and said: "Your Excellency, the pigs have been fattened and should be killed. Otherwise, where would the money be for building bridges and roads, and where would the money be for building schools?"
Li Mu said: "But it can't be like this!"
Zhao Midao: "This case is too difficult to investigate. I have been investigating for a long time, but I still haven't found the real murderer. Maybe I won't be able to find the murderer even if I continue to investigate for a while. If the murderer cannot be found, he will definitely be on your resume."
The stain. Sun Jiachen had a grudge against Qian Juren, and it was said that he relied on his appointment as prefect, but when the previous prefect left, it was the moment when the backer was vacant, and it was time to take action!"
"It's just right to use him to stand up to the thunder! Firstly, you can use it to solve crimes; secondly, you can use it to kill pigs and get money to do things; thirdly, you can deter local forces."
"As for whether this is an injustice, the superior officials don't care, they just want the place to be stable; the people below don't care, they just want to know that the murderer will be brought to justice. Even if there are honest officials to bring justice to him decades later, that will be in the future
Something happened!”
Li Mu said: "Human life is more important than heaven. For the sake of the future, a good man dies unjustly, which makes him feel uneasy!"
Zhao Mi stepped forward and said: "Your Excellency, human life is really worthless. Every year, thousands of people starve to death because they are hungry and don't have enough to eat; every winter, because of the lack of things to keep out the cold, people freeze to death outside.
Countless. There are many families who cannot afford to raise their daughters and drown their babies. There are also many children who lost their parents and fell into the hands of old beggars. Their legs were broken or their eyes were blinded and left on the street.
If you don't have enough money to beg, you will be severely beaten or even killed! Human life is greater than heaven, it is just your Majesty's words. But in fact, the lives of ordinary people are like grass!"
Li Mu fell silent, his three views washing over him.
After a long time, he said: "Maybe you are right... but this is not a reason to ignore life. After the seawater receded, there were hundreds of small fish trapped in the puddles on the beach. A little boy picked up the small fish and put them in the water.
They were thrown back into the sea. Someone said: "My child, there are hundreds of small fish in this puddle, you can't save them."
"The little boy said: "I know."
"Then why do you still want to save me? Who cares?"
"The child answered while picking up fish: "This little fish cares! This one cares too! And this one, this one..."
A bright light flashed in Li Mu's eyes: "Maybe I can't save sentient beings or change the world, but I can change myself, do what I can, and change everything around me. Respect every life, even if it's just a humble thing.
The right to live!”
Zhao Mi also fell silent, and stepped forward and said: "Your Excellency is highly righteous. Your Excellency, although you are a county magistrate, you have the heart of a saint!"
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After walking out of the cell, Li Mu returned to the county government office and looked through the files.
Qian Juren's murder case has fallen into a critical stage. No wonder the county magistrate Zhao Mi acted like this.
Many cases have been solved, but there are also many cases that have not been solved. If there is a deadline to solve the case, it is impossible for some people to directly create unjust, false and wrong cases in order to solve the case.
Human nature is unreliable. If you don’t see it, future generations would rather trust the camera than certain people.
Li Mu was looking through the files when he suddenly heard footsteps and a woman in white walked in. She was very unfamiliar.
"Who are you?"
Li Mu asked.
The woman in white didn't answer and continued to move forward.
Li Mu was nervous, it couldn't be the Fengyulou killer who came to kill him!
"Who are you?"
Li Mu asked, about to pull out the sword on the side, but suddenly thought that he didn't know how to use a sword at all, and his palms became sweaty.
The woman in white still didn't answer, but stepped forward. When she was half a meter away from Li Mu, she suddenly knelt down on the ground: "Sun Mengxi, a daughter of the people, pays homage to your parents, sir!"