The Black Banner Army surrounded the ancestral graves of the Wang family so that not even a fly could fly in. The members of the Wang clan wanted to wait for the results, but there was no news for several hours, and the summer was extremely hot, and many people couldn't bear it and left.
Wang Gui stretched his neck to watch, but he couldn't see anything, and he was very anxious. He wanted to step forward to inquire, but the ferocious and inhuman appearance of the Black Banner Army made him withdraw his feet.
Finally, there was movement inside. A group of people came down the mountain, Wang Gui wanted to step forward to inquire, but the clan elders were surrounded, and he couldn't even look in, let alone ask others.
"Are you Wang Gui?" A yamen servant walked up to Wang Gui and asked.
Wang Gui repeatedly replied: "Yes, I am Wang Gui, the younger brother of the deceased Wang Fu... What are you doing? Where are you taking me?"
Two yamen servants dragged Wang Gui away, and Wang Gui cried out.
"Go back to the yamen, my lord wants to interrogate you."
Wang Gui was very surprised when he heard this, "Your Excellency wants to interrogate me. Could it be that my elder brother Wang Fu did not die of illness but homicide?"
When Wang Fu died, he was under the same roof as Wang Fu. If he killed him, he would not be able to get rid of it!
The yamen servant was expressionless, his voice was cold and hard, and he refused to reveal a word in his words, "Everything is decided by the adults."
No matter how much Wang Gui inquired along the way, the yamen servants stopped talking, and their tone was very tight. This made Wang Gui's heart pounding, and secretly scolded Wu for looking for trouble.
Above the court, the governor sits in the hall for interrogation, while King Si Zhao sits sideways. After a "Sheng Tang" was drunk, three classes of officials lined up the hatchback. Many people came to watch after hearing the news, even the Lu family came over.
Wu, Wang Gui, and Li Si, the clerk who went with Wang Fu at the beginning, knelt under the hall.
After calling Tang Wei, Fu Yin asked: "Wang Gui, Li Si, you previously claimed that Wang Fu drank two pots of wine on the day of his death three years ago, and fell asleep on the bed when he was drunk. Is there a matter?"
Wang Gui and Li Si answered that it was indeed the case, and Wang Gui also said: "My elder brother doesn't drink much. That day my two brothers hadn't seen each other for a long time, so I drank a few more glasses because I was very excited. I helped my elder brother to bed to rest."
Wu Shi also said: "My husband is too strong to drink. If he is drunk, he will fall asleep all night. He drinks too much on weekdays. I change his clothes and scrub him. No matter how I fiddle with him, he can't wake up."
Fu Yin asked: "That night, Wang Gui and Li Si, can you scrub Wang Fu?"
Li Sidao: "That day my boss asked me to go to bed early, saying that I wanted to have a good talk with the second master at night, so I went to bed early and did not wait by my side."
Wang Gui said: "I also drank too much that day, so I forgot about it."
"That is to say, Wang Fu never touched the water that day, and the two of you slept until the next morning?"
Both Wang Gui and Li Si affirmed it.
"The two of you and Mrs. Wu explained the process of confiscating the corpse in detail. After you have thought it over, you must not retract the confession. Otherwise, it will be regarded as a false confession and you will be beaten thirty."
Wang Gui and Li Si couldn't help but look at each other, but they looked away for a moment, and each talked about how they acted at the beginning. Wu Shi always remembered clearly and said it carefully.
There was a sound of wood, and the governor shouted: "Bold thief! One is the deceased's brother, and the other is the servant of the deceased. They dare to join forces to poison the elder brother and the master's family. It is a heinous crime and heaven will not tolerate it!"
Wang Gui and Li Si kowtowed loudly, Wang Gui said: "Your Excellency is wronged, elder brother has treated me with great kindness, how could I kill him? Besides, didn't my elder brother die of illness? Why did he kill him?"
Li Si also desperately kowtowed and shouted for grievances, "Yes, my lord, the villain is wronged, how could the villain have the guts to murder the master."
"Hmph, still quibbling! Wu Zuo has just discovered the real cause of Wang Fu's death from the bones. You two are so malicious and malicious that you almost lied to me. You are still unwilling to plead guilty. Don't blame me. Severe punishment."
Both Wang Gui and Li Si trembled in their hearts, but then calmed down again. I'm afraid this official is just playing tricks and intimidating, otherwise why would he howl that it won't rain.
Wang Gui: "Where did my lord come from? I, Wang Gui, have absolutely no intention of killing my brother, and I dare not do such a thing. I am also heartbroken after my brother passed away. How could I do such a beastly thing?"
Li Si also wailed, "You little one doesn't even dare to kill a chicken, so how dare you kill him?"
"I really don't cry when I don't see the coffin. When Wu Zuo went to court, Daoming just got the results of the autopsy."
The person who came was Fu Zuo brought by Fu Yin, but Zhuang Zhong watched with Lu's family. This was Wu's previous request, and he didn't want to show up solemnly, for fear of damaging his reputation. King Sizhao agreed, and it was confirmed by Wu in the hall. If there is a mistake in the autopsy, it will affect the judgment of the case, and the retraction of the confession will also be implicated in the future. Therefore, the submitted case files must state the conclusions obtained by Zhuangzhuang, and Zhuangzhuang will be responsible for any mistakes in the future.
Wu Zuo went to the hall and knelt down to salute, "Just now, the villain poured hot water into the forehead of the deceased, and the ashes flowed out of the nostrils of the deceased, which must have been soaked in gray water before. If you entered the water during life, the water and the sand and dirt in the water would pass through breathing and swallowing. If it enters the orifice of the mouth and nostrils, if the head is soaked in water after death, the shallow part of the nasal cavity will also accumulate dregs, and if there are only bones left after death, this method can also be used to find out whether it has been in water."
Although Song Ci was a great forensic scientist, due to the limited level at that time, there were many unscientific points in his "Washing Injustice Records". Among them, it is inaccurate to use hot soup to pour the head to see if there is dregs flowing out of the nostrils, so as to determine whether he fell into the water and drowned before his death. Sediment and other residues can only enter the respiratory tract or digestive tract with breathing and swallowing, while the cranial cavity is a relatively closed system, and it is impossible to enter the cranial cavity through blood circulation. Sediment can also enter the nostrils of decaying corpses, but usually the location is relatively shallow, so it cannot be used to judge whether it is drowning or entering the water after death. To determine whether it was drowned before death or pushed into the water after death, if only the skeleton remains, it should be checked for diatoms. The reason is the same as that of Song Ci. He took air through his nose and inhaled diatoms, but there were no diatoms after death.
After hearing this, Li Si and Wang Gui began to tremble, their heads were lowered, and their foreheads were covered with cold sweat.
Seeing this, Fu Yin snorted coldly, "Although this method can't detect whether it was in the water before death or after death, who would press his head into the gray water and soak it after death? The three of you have just confessed that there is no such thing. Moreover, according to Wu Zuo and Wu Zuo who went to the autopsy, Wang Fu's complexion was yellow and white when he died, and he seemed to have died of illness. It can be seen that Wang Fu must have been immersed in water before he died!
This method is really vicious. Wrapped in a blanket, stand upside down in a bucket filled with gray water, and die within a few breaths. Even if there is bleeding on the head, it will stop immediately when it sees ashes, and the coagulated blood will be completely ashesed. There will be no bruises on the face and no injuries on the body. You think you can cross the sea without hiding the sky, but you don’t know that the sky’s net is extensive and sparse! Wang Gui, Li Si, what else do you have to say at this time! "
Both Wang Gui and Li Si collapsed on the ground.
Once the cause of death is revealed, the subsequent interrogation will be much easier. The two were also in the house at the time, and they couldn't escape the connection. Wang Gui and Li Si wanted to deny each other at first, but Fu Yin not only grasped the motive of their murder, but also the evidence of the money transaction between the two. After several interrogations, Wang Gui and Li Si finally had to confess the truth.
It turned out that Wang Gui had always coveted his brother's property, but Wang Fu just refused to give him a piece of the pie. Even the cloth village he manages, Wang Fu would come over to check the accounts from time to time, and he didn't regard himself as his own family at all. Wang Gui is lazy and arrogant, no matter how good the store is in his hands, he will lose money in the end, which provokes Wang Fu's scolding.
Wang Gui felt that he already had a wife and children, and he was reprimanded by this elder brother. Every time he wanted some money, he was made things difficult by Wang Fu, ridiculed by his wife, and he was ashamed at his father-in-law's family. . Three years ago, there was a big mistake in Nabuzhuang. Wang Gui was afraid that Wang Fu would no longer be in charge of the shop for him in the future, and the only way to make money would be gone, so he felt anxious and uneasy. Seeing that Wang Fu had no children under his knees, he became suspicious.
Li Silao had seen Wang Gui's intentions a long time ago, and later he owed a lot of gambling debts. When he was desperate, he heard such a method of killing in a gambling shop, and revealed it to Wang Gui intentionally or unintentionally when he had an idea. Wang Gui saw that this method is very good, and Wang Fu is a fat man, at least two people are needed to do it, and this matter must not be hidden from Li Si, so as not to use this threat in the future to cooperate with Li Si to kill Wang Fu.
Originally, Li Si couldn't accompany Wang Fu to go there, but it was he who gave laxatives to another guy before it was his turn. Wang Gui was also afraid that people's eyes would confuse things, so he sent his wife and children out of the house early. That day Wang Fu was furious and unforgivable after checking the account, it can be seen that Wang Gui was sincere, although he was annoyed, he didn't blame him much. He also deliberately sent Li Si out of the house, hoping to get close to him through the wine table, and hoped that Wang Gui would not do things so incongruously in the future.
Wang Fu was also worried about this ineffective younger brother, so he said a few more words, but unexpectedly, it made Wang Gui even more resentful and murderous. Wang Gui intentionally got Wang Fu drunk, and then called Li Si to wrap Wang Fu's body in a padded jacket, hang him upside down and soak him in gray water to kill him.
After hearing these words, Mrs. Wu burst into tears, "You white-eyed wolf, your brother was worried about you, and you ended up messing around like this! Let's not say that he earned this family business by himself, so he just won't give it to you. No one can say anything about your contamination. But I didn’t expect to give revenge to the shop. It was you who kept making the shop dirty. Your brother was afraid that you would lose the whole family, so he stared at you like this. I didn't expect that it would lead to a murder! No wonder you always want your family Erlang to adopt you, so you have planned it a long time ago!
And you, Li Si! My husband treats you well, if your father didn't have the credit, how could you, a bastard, be working in the cloth village? ! In the end, you are lucky, you are not greedy enough to swallow like a snake, but you actually thought of such a vicious idea to kill my husband! "
The onlookers scolded Wang Gui and Li Si one after another, and many of them were members of the Wang clan and Buzhuang people, and they knew very well how Wang Fu treated Wang Gui and Li Si. At that time, the old man of the branch family favored Wang Gui to take the majority, but Wang Fu had nothing in his hands. Today, the family business is all earned by himself little by little. Seeing Wang Gui's downfall later, he only pulled it out because of the brotherhood, but he didn't know that he raised a white-eyed wolf!
And the big guy also hated Li Si, although Dayou no longer had a low status, and the crime of killing the lord was not as severe as the previous dynasty, but it was still very severe and would be sentenced to death.
Zhuang Zhong left the crowd silently after hearing the result of the trial. He was also very worried before. After all, he could not directly prove that the two killed him. If the two did not admit it, the case might not be closed so easily. No wonder Fu Yin couldn't wait to start the trial as soon as he learned the truth about Wang Fu's death. The system here is still very different from before.
Dayou's trial was much simpler and rougher than in the previous life. If the suspect could not prove his innocence, he was guilty. If you can't pry your mouth open, there will still be severe torture, and you don't need so much evidence to convict someone. Although it is easy to constitute an unjust case, at least this time, Zhuang Zhong feels relieved. Zhuang Zhong had experienced such a case before. He clearly knew that the person was the murderer, but because of insufficient evidence, he could only let the murderer go unpunished. At that time, he really wanted to become Spider-Man to punish evil and promote good.
In this line of work, it is always easy for people to lament the viciousness of human nature. Zhuang Zhuang would go to have a drink to relieve stress every time he finished a case, and this time was no exception. After walking around twice, he found a wine shop and sat down.
Zhuang ordered a moderately priced small wine and some nuts and drank it. Zhuang touched the Buddhist beads on his wrist. It would be nice if Yuanjue was here. Drinking alone is really lonely.
The jug in front of Zhuang Zhong was suddenly taken away by a hand, and when he looked up, it was Feng Huan.
He raised his head and took a sip, Feng Huan immediately frowned, "This wine is really bad."
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PS: This case was adapted from a case in the Qing Dynasty, and was later detected according to the principle of drowning described in Song Ci's "Washing Injustice Records". However, as mentioned in the article, Song Ci's theory is actually inaccurate. This method of death is called "death by staining". In addition to this method, there is another method of mixing oil fume, chili powder, feces, kerosene, etc. into the water, because there are irritating substances in the water, which absorb less water and die quickly. (Why do you have the feeling of teaching people to kill people after typing this sentence =-=, cough, this method can be used in time travel, and now it takes minutes to solve the case)