Chapter 21: A Mystery within a Case
When Li Xing heard this, he hurriedly shook his head and said: "The villain doesn't know, it's just a nameless floating corpse, how can the villain know who his surname is." Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½β
Gu Yunheng frowned and said, "Then since you have seen this corpse with your own eyes, what characteristics can you see about the corpse?" β
Li Xing scratched his head and thought about it, before he said in a low voice: "That looks like a drowning person, his stomach is full, he is a young offspring, he looks like he is only in his twenties, wearing a light cyan robe, with long thin skin and tender flesh, not like a rough person, but like a scholar." The little greedy for money, rummaged through him, and did not see anything valuable, and after pulling for a long time, he found that there was a letter hidden in his middle coat, and the little one did not know a few words, and did not look at it carefully, and felt that the letter was useless, so he threw it away. β
Gu Yunheng pondered, but Su Jinchun said: "Even if you don't look closely, since you have seen the letter, you should also take a look, is there a word on the letter that you can understand?" β
Li Xing thought about it again and again, and then said hesitantly: "I understood a few words, it seems that there are words like Yuncheng, but the other small ones don't know." β
Gu Yunheng suddenly stirred, Cloud City? The emperor's brother today, the second son of the queen mother, is called Gu Yuncheng, and now he is named the king of Qi, and the letter on a dead corpse actually has the name of the king of Qi?
Gu Yunheng couldn't help but sink his face, and said sharply: "Can you see clearly, are the two words Yuncheng connected together, or separated?" β
Li Xing saw Gu Yunheng's serious face, and said busily: "Adult, the small ones seem to be connected, and the others really don't know anything." β
Gu Yunheng frowned, and then asked, "Then there are other words on these two words?" β
Li Xing hurriedly kowtowed, regretting himself in his heart, so dignified, what to do with pulling out the letter, looking at this posture, maybe he would add one more crime to himself, and hurriedly bowed his head and said: "The little one doesn't know a few words, not to mention that he just glanced at it casually at the time and threw it away, and now it's been a year, where can I remember." β
Gu Yunheng thought about it, and thought that even if there was really the word Yuncheng in the letter, he couldn't conclude that the dead body must be related to King Qi. It seems that who this dead body is, and it can only be visited slowly.
Su Jinchun slapped his head and said loudly: "By the way, I remembered, since this dead body was drowned and you buried him secretly, then his family must always look for it." As he spoke, he looked at the main book that was recording and asked, "A year ago, did anyone report a case of disappearance?" β
The master bookkeeper shook his head and said softly: "The missing cases are all reported to Shuntian Mansion, and they do not belong to the supervision of Dali Temple. β
Gu Yunheng thought for a while, looked around, and happened to see a temple named Jiang Xing standing aside, so he ordered: "Jiang Xing, you go to Shuntian Mansion and let Zhou Shao find out if anyone has reported the disappearance of a young man who looks like a scholar in the past year?" Let him find out quickly, and then come back to report to me. β
Jiang Xing hurriedly agreed, and after about half an hour, he rushed back, and replied respectfully: "Lord Qiqi, Zhou Shao said that although there have been cases of disappearance in this year, the missing people are either old people or children, and they have all been found in the end, and there has been no case of a young man's disappearance. β
Su Jinchun sighed and speculated: "Perhaps, this man is not from the capital, maybe he is from other places." Since no one reported the crime, could this man be fatherless, motherless, and undependent, just alone? β
Gu Yunheng couldn't think of a clue for a while, so he had to say: "The matter of the ownership of the dead body, this king will slowly investigate it in the future, and according to the crimes of the three of you, this king will make the following punishments." β
When the three people in the hall heard this, they all knelt down respectfully, waiting for the verdict to be announced.
Gu Yunheng cleared his throat before he said: "Wang Shun, when the incident happened, he didn't report it, although he was framed, but he buried the body with Li Xing, but the evidence was conclusive. β
Wang Shun hurriedly kowtowed, and said in a voice: "Lord Xie, Lord Xie is lightly dismissed." β
Gu Yunheng looked at Yang Chengzhang again, and said with a straight face: "Yang Chengzhang, after the incident, he didn't want to take the initiative to report to the official, but in order to cover up his crime out of nothing, he spent a lot of money to buy Li Xing, and also instructed Wang Shun and Li Xing to bury the body. If you were also framed by others, and after you surrendered, you confessed to the truth, so you were given a light sentence and sentenced to 30 canes. β
Yang Chengzhang also hurriedly bowed his head to the ground and thanked him repeatedly. sighed in my heart, fortunately I met a good official who was discerning, otherwise I was framed by Li Xing's gang, and I really thought that I had hurt someone's life by mistake, but I was afraid that I would have been in prison by now.
Gu Yunheng looked at Li Xing coldly, Li Xing didn't wait for Gu Yunheng to speak, so he hurriedly begged: "My lord spares my life, the little one is also blinded by the money, and he will do such a wrong thing as framing the innocence of others, and beg the adult to be lenient." β
Gu Yunheng was about to open his mouth, but he heard Su Jinchun snort coldly beside him, and said disdainfully: "It's a shame that you still have the face to beg the prince to be light, the two of them were just framed by you, and if they surrendered and confessed, they could naturally be dealt with lightly." As for you, you must not be dealt with lightly, and you should be dealt with strictly according to the law. β
"Jinchun, this king is pronouncing the verdict, above the court, not saying much." Gu Yunheng said with a calm face.
Su Jinchun snorted lightly and twisted his head with a disapproving expression.
Gu Yunheng also ignored her, and continued to say with a straight face: "Li Xing, he designed to frame others, blackmailed money, and found that the dead body was concealed and not reported, until the king had already investigated the case, and he still denied it in court. According to the law, the crime of contempt of the public court should be punished with 20 boards, and after the beating, he should be sent to a prison and sentenced to one year. β
Li Xing sighed, lowered his head, and reluctantly said, "Thank you, sir." β
Back at the palace, Gu Yunheng just sat down, but he didn't expect Su Jinchun to pour him a cup of tea in person, and brought it to him with both hands, and said softly: "Lord Wang, please use tea." β
Gu Yunheng rubbed his eyes, confirming that he was not mistaken, the person in front of him was Su Jinchun, and asked: "What are you doing, you have such a rude temperament, you actually know how to serve people, it's really strange." If you really have the heart to serve, help me beat my back and pinch my legs. As he spoke, he stretched his leg forward.
Su Jinchun put the teacup on the table, pursed his lips, and said loudly: "You will drink the tea when you are handed it, what nonsense." Is this girl your slave, and she will beat your back and pinch your legs, and dream about it. poured tea for you, just to see that you were not bad in the trial, and you said so many things in the court, you must be thirsty, so I kindly poured you a cup of tea, and you still kicked your nose in the face, do you like to drink or not. β
Gu Yunheng sighed, okay, he was too naΓ―ve, and he thought that Su Jinchun's brain had finally opened his mind and knew that he respected him as a prince, but he didn't expect that he would only say two words and reveal his true form.
Also, this girl is so rude, how can she suddenly become a lady-like character, she really thinks too much.