Chapter 15: Antique Shops (15)

The atmosphere in the Yamen public hall was solemn, the spring breeze was stagnant, no one spoke, and no one was noisy. Yu Youshi waited with interest for Su Yun to open his mouth to see how he continued to question.

Seeing that there was silence, Lord Qin felt that he was going to fall short again, he had been promoted several times, but he hadn't caught the murderer yet, so he couldn't hold it back, and called Su Yunkai softly.

But Su Yunkai didn't turn around, nor did he answer, his eyes fell on the white jade bowl in front of Youshi.

The bowl is fine, hard, shiny, and slides over the bowl surface with your fingers, slightly moistened with dust. Rub your two fingers together, put them under your nose and sniff them, and then take a bowl to see.

Yu Youshi saw that he hadn't spoken for a long time, and had been looking at the white jade bowl carefully, and said, "It's my fault to steal, but ......"

Without waiting for him to finish, Su Yunkai, who hadn't heard him speak at all, raised his head and asked, "Where are the other stolen goods?" ”

Yu Youshi hesitated for a while before he said, "It's buried under the peach tree in my backyard." ”

Su Yun got up and whispered a few words to Bai Shui. Bai Shui said, "My lord, please let the lowly go to Yu Youshi's house to look for the stolen goods." ”

Lord Qin naturally agreed, he didn't catch the murderer, and he brought back the stolen things, which is also a good thing, "Go ahead." ”

Bai Shui took a step, thinking that Su Yunkai asked him to call Qin Fang, knowing that if he went, the person would definitely hold the pillar and refuse to come, so he motioned for Mingyue to go with him. Although Mingyue still wanted to hear the trial, he left suddenly, it must have been explained by Su Yunkai, so he went out with him. When they got outside, Bai Shui said, "Two legs can't compare to a horse, wait, I'll let them lead the horse." ”

Mingyue was afraid of horses when she was a child, and she always felt that her wildness was uncontrollable, and she was about to be thrown down at any time. With a bitter face, he asked, "What are you asking me to come out for?" ”

"Go and pull Qin and let it go."

"Then I'll just walk."

"Where there is a horse fast, anyway, by the way, I will carry you over, and you will come back with him later."

After a while, the official led two horses, and Bai Shui jumped up. Mingyue stepped on the horse and climbed up, sat behind him and immediately grabbed his waist, pinching Bai Shui and frowning, "My waist is going to break." ”

Mingyue's face turned pale and her eyes were closed.

When the horsewhip was raised, Bai Shui only felt that the person behind him was pinching harder, and his waist was really about to break.

Above the court, Su Yunkai did not continue, but just waited quietly for the stolen goods. He put the bowl down, turned around and said, "My lord, can you summon Cheng Da, the husband?" ”

Cheng Da is still the first time to come back to the court, although Bai Shui has secretly looked for him before, but no one knows, and now everyone is watching, and he doesn't dare to raise his head after kneeling. It wasn't until Su Yunkai asked him that he listened twice before he could hear clearly.

"Cheng Da, where do you patrol at night?"

Cheng Da replied, "There are three streets of Wen'an, Liuzhang and Xinglong. ”

There are six changfu in Nanle County, who are responsible for different places in order to make changes in time. And Baibaozhen is in the area that Cheng Da is responsible for.

"Where were you on the night of the sixteenth?"

"We have five watches a night, and every time we have a watch, we have to patrol the night to beat the bangzi. It happened to be the fifth watch, and the last watch, so naturally I came out to patrol the night. ”

Su Yunkai asked again, "Then did you see any strange people at that time?" ”

"Usually I patrol Liuzhang Street first, and when I arrived there, I just saw someone running from a distance with something, because it was raining heavily at that time, and I couldn't see it clearly from ten zhang away, and I don't know who it was, but the person was very tall."

Yu Youshi beckoned to himself, "It should be me who saw it, and when I ran away, I did hear the sound of banging." I was holding stolen goods, but I didn't kill anyone. ”

Su Yunkai leaned over and asked, "Then what do you use to wrap things?" ”

"Clothes."

Su Yunkai asked Cheng Da to step aside and asked the official to call someone again. When Yu Youshi heard the name, his heart was still stable.

The person who shouted Su Yunkai was Song You, the dealer who played a dice stall in the gambling house.

The people in the gambling house are reversed day and night, Song You's complexion is not very good, his body is thin, but his head is big, and he looks very funny. He saw a lot of people, and he was doing a mixed business of dragons and snakes, so Rao was not afraid to go to court. Others whispered that his head was big and his body was small, and he was not the slightest bit annoyed.

Su Yunkai asked, "Song You, on the sixteenth night of the first lunar month, Yu Youshi went to the gambling house?" ”

Song You looked at him, recognized it as the person who called himself Li Gongzi, and thought that he appeared in the court to interrogate the case, and instantly understood the intention of this "Li Gongzi" to come to the gambling house, and he was not annoyed or suspicious, as if nothing had happened, and replied, "Yu Youshi came on the night of the Lantern Festival, about the time of Hai, and did not leave until midnight on the 16th. ”

"What was unusual about him at the gambling house?"

"I lost the money, but I couldn't afford to lose, I had a dispute, and I broke a few jars of wine for us, and overturned a few bowls of food for other guests."

"What kind of wine did you spill? What kind of dish is it that is overturned? ”

Song You didn't think about it, and replied directly, "Our gambling house has been open for nearly ten years, and we only sell one kind of wine and five kinds of vegetables. The wine is mouth wine, and the dishes include sauce pig's trotters, sauce duck neck, marinated duck, roast chicken, and seasonal vegetarian dishes, and the overturned dishes are sauce pig's trotters and sauce duck neck. ”

Lord Qin didn't eat dinner, and his stomach twitched when he heard it, and he sighed, "It's all fragrant dishes." ”

Su Yunkai answered, "What are Yu Youshi's clothes?" ”

"Naturally, it did."

Yu Youshi's face suddenly became ugly, and in a blink of an eye, he faced himself again, and suddenly became alert.

Su Yunkai said, "The Liu family died of suffocation, if it is with hard objects, it will definitely not work, only soft things." But it is necessary to cover the palms tightly, otherwise the deceased's cheeks will also leave marks. And Miss Mingyue found wine in Liu's mouth and nose, and that wine was kouzi wine. ”

The people who heard the trial were in an uproar.

Yu Youshi's expression was uncertain and he did not open his mouth.

"And the most suitable dishes for sake are the ones that are served in the gambling house."

Lord Qin suddenly understood, "You mean, Yu Youshi fought with the people in the gambling house that day, and his clothes were stained with alcohol. After leaving, he entered Baibaozhen and covered the Liu family with his clothes before stealing something? ”

"Yes."

"My lord, this person is just an inference, and there is no real evidence." Yu Youshi was still not angry, but his tone was not as calm as just now, "He slandered the villain as a murderer, but he couldn't get any evidence at all." ”

Su Yunkai didn't answer, just looked outside with his hands down, waiting for evidence.

Bai Shui was good at horseback riding, and soon drove back and forth. Mingyue's return trip was to run, and Qin Fang, who had to clean himself up before he was willing to go out, met at the gate of the yamen this time. Qin Fang muttered in protest as he entered the door. It wasn't until he saw a full hall of people and saw Su Yunkai that he didn't speak. glanced at the ground, there were no dead bodies, and the hanging heart was put down for a moment.

Bai Shui presented the stolen goods to Lord Qin, and said loudly, "My lord, these are the things that Yu Youshi buried under his peach blossom tree, and they can all be matched with the treasures lost by Baibaozhen, and they are indeed the lost objects of Baibaozhen. ”

Lord Qin looked through it, and saw that Su Yunkai stepped forward and was about to ask him, but he saw that he took two porcelain boxes out, but they were the size of palms, one was filled with rouge, and the other was filled with lip grease, which was bright in color and lustre, which was used by women.

These two things are used by the Liu family to decorate their faces on weekdays, and they were given by her husband Wu Chou. On the day of the crime, it was proved by Mingyue's comparison that Liu also used these when he died. ”

Lord Qin immediately flipped through the autopsy report, and if there was indeed a mention, he asked Wu Chip to come and identify it. After Wu Chip looked at it, he said that it was indeed used by his wife, and the things he had given to Bai Zhutou. He wondered, "What are you doing with this?" ”

Su Yunkai glanced at Yu Youshi and said, "That night, the husband saw someone leaving with something in his arms, I think what you used to wrap things was the coat stained with wine." And when you buried things in the ground, you didn't take away your clothes. So this white jade bowl was dug out from under the peach tree and was still very clean, with only a little mud falling. ”

Lord Qin asked, "Then if it is dug up and washed, it is also possible." ”

"If it had been dug up and cleaned, the wine in the bowl would not have been so strong, and even the little wet mud on it would have been mixed with the smell of wine."

Although the explanation was simple, it was easy to understand, and Lord Qin also felt that it was reasonable, so he didn't ask again.

Su Yunkai said again, "Liu Shi was suffocated to death, judging from the makeup on her face, she had a violent struggle before her death. And the murderer certainly didn't notice that the clothes he used to wrap things not only contained wine, grease, but also rouge lip red. ”

Lord Qin no longer cared about those treasures, but just went to look through the clothes. Every time he rummaged a little, Yu Youshi's face turned pale. It wasn't until he saw that Lord Qin was no longer stirring that he was horrified in his heart.

The gray and white cloth clothes and the corners of the clothes and the back have a little red lipstick, and when you put it under your nose and smell it, it really smells of wine. Lord Qin was happy and angry, "Yu Youshi, what else do you have to say now!" ”

The knee that knelt on the ground hurt and was numb, Yu Youshi subconsciously wanted to stand up and run, but there was no strength in his legs, and he didn't stand up. He opened his mouth, no longer having the composure of Fang Cai, he anxiously rolled his eyes, trying to find an excuse to stop the other person's mouth, but found that there was nothing to say.

The Liu family had already rushed towards him, Bai Shui shouted, and the officials sounded the killing stick, and they retreated, but the scolding continued.

Yu Youshi heard it in his ears, and his originally dead heart ignited unwillingly angry, and said loudly, "It's true that the clothes are stained with saliva wine, but the Liu family is dead, and the autopsy Li Chengzuo As far as I know, he doesn't know how to drink at all, so how can I be sure that it is liangzi wine?" ”

Mingyue saw that Qin Fang's spirit was wandering, so she didn't listen at all, pulled his sleeve, and whispered, "Hey, that person is insulting your level of wine appreciation, saying that Liu's body is not a mouthful of wine." ”

Sure enough, Qin Fang immediately came back to his senses, almost jumped out, and the white fox fur around his neck also trembled, three points angrier than him, "You dare to doubt my judgment, even if I close my eyes and block half of my nose, I can ask that it is a mouth wine." ”

Yu Youshi sneered, "You say yes, what kind of person are you, Lord Qin, you are a county magistrate, and you would even believe this kind of person who came out of nowhere, in the end, are you a county magistrate, or are they a magistrate?" ”

Qin was so angry that he gritted his teeth, "That's right, it seems that he has studied for a few days, he has courage, and he knows how to oppress people." ”

"Don't talk when you wait for the idlers!"

"You're the idiot." Qin Fang said angrily, "I am the son of the Duke of Yan Guo today, and the little marquis who will inherit the title in the future!" ”

Bai Shui glanced at him, son of the Duke of the Kingdom? Such a little marquis?

Mingyue was taken aback, Qin Fang turned out to be such a big deal.

Lord Qin was also so shocked that he got up from his chair, Nanle County is a small place, but he didn't expect a Hou Ye to appear. Wait, last time Bai Shui seemed to catch him to see the corpse, and scared him out and vomited for a long time? After thinking about it, he sat back down, and it was over.

Qin Fang couldn't help but be proud when he saw that everyone was surprised, and when he saw his brother-in-law's helpless look, he was shocked to realize that he had revealed his identity. He waved his hand and said, "No, no, what I said is false. I still have something to do, so let's go first! ”

After that, he was about to run, but was grabbed by Bai Shui, and he screamed bitterly.

Yu Youshi was surprised just now, but now he saw that he was in chaos again, and shouted "wronged" again. But as soon as that voice started, I saw Mingyue staring, although he was petite, but his eyes were quite bright and firm.

"When Liu died, he resisted so hard that three fingernails were broken. And there is a little skin blood in the gap between the nails, that is, the murderer must have left corresponding scratches on his body. ”

Yu Youshi was stunned, and subconsciously touched his waist. Bai Shui saw it, immediately let go of Qin Fang, stepped forward, grabbed his clothes, and Yu Youshi immediately fled backwards. The former didn't let go, the latter tore and pulled, and the already thin clothes were torn in an instant. I saw that there were scars on the chest and waist of the stone, and they were all scars that had begun to scab, which were clearly visible!

He was stunned suddenly, and then looked at everyone's expressions, knowing that he had no chance to resist, he suddenly sat down on the ground, and all his thoughts were lost.