Song Qing thought to himself, this is the best county he has ever visited, and if he looked closely at the shoes on Qin Shui's feet, they were all broken and had not been changed, and at the same time, his fingers were red and swollen because of the cold.

"Song Tixing, in fact, it is not a secret, the humble duty also went to the pond where the deceased was killed today, and met a few fish thieves, and learned from them that the humble duty knew that he had created an unjust case."

"I am very ashamed of my humble position now, and I can't wait to kill myself, but unfortunately, the deceased Hu San will not be able to come back alive."

Song Qing couldn't comfort him, he could see that this magistrate was actually very good, and soon, the deputy general of the court had already brought Zhu Laosan and the horseman to the yamen.

"My lord, I have already brought this person, please let me know."

They both fell to their knees, not knowing what was wrong and why they had been brought here.

Song Qing got up and asked them, "Zhu Laosan, Mafu, Song asked you, can you know each other?"

They shook their heads, although they were all from the same county, but the distance was too far, even if they had met, they didn't know each other.

Song Qing nodded and said: "Very good, since this is the case, now Song has something to say, I can't hide it, in this case on August 11 last year, the murderer in this case, that is, Hu Sannai, was wronged, and he was not the murderer at all."

The expressions of the two on the ground changed greatly, and they didn't seem to expect this to be the case at this moment, Song Qing took in their expressions.

Qin Shuidao, the magistrate: "Song Tixing, since you are like this, can you tell me what is going on in this case?" The lowly can't wait to know the truth of the matter.

It happened that at this moment, Hu San's wife also walked in under the leadership of Tang Yueyue, and she knelt on the ground, very respectful.

Song Qing looked at her, "Hu San's wife, Song is asking you now, what time did your husband leave home and go to the pond on the day of the incident?" You have to be accurate and don't talk nonsense. ”

She thought for a while, "My lord, the folk girl remembers it clearly, it is definitely around a quarter past six in the morning, and it can't be any more." ”

"At a quarter past six, it should have been just getting dark, wasn't it?"

"Yes, my lord, it's summer, not as late as winter."

Song Qing continued: "The distance from your house to the pond is more than ten minutes, even if you get to the pond, it is estimated that the sky will not be bright, as for the silver on your husband's body, this is a later story, let's not mention it for the time being."

"And Zhu Laosan, at this moment, Song asked you, when did your wife leave the house, what did she carry, you repeat it now to Song and the county magistrate.

Zhu Laosan said: "My lord, my wife left home a little after six o'clock, and she had already prepared a change of clothes and ten taels of silver, but who would have thought that she would die in the pond soon, my wife, my wife is not worth it."

Qin Shui was a little panicked at the moment, "My lord, you are talking about the case, why are you talking about these big useless things at this moment?"

Song Qing waved his hand, "Don't worry, Lord Zhixian, let Song tell you all now, analyze and analyze, anyway, today's matter will definitely be explained to you clearly."

At this moment, the three people who had stolen fish by the pond ran in, came to the ground and knelt down, Song Qing said: "You came just in time, now that all the key people in this case have arrived, the official can explain all of them to you."

"Let's take a look at it again, on the morning of August 11 last year, a female corpse appeared in a pond a few miles outside Mafeng County, this person is Zhu Laosan's wife Fang, everyone already knows about this case, right?"

They snorted.

Song Qing continued: "Zhixian, you also know what the situation was just now, and now Song asks you, the deceased and the murderer in this case both set off from the house at six o'clock, you have no objection to this!"

They snorted and agreed.

"And Qin Zhixian, Song wants to ask you, when did you receive Hu San's report in the morning? What time is it?"

Qin Shui said: "Go back to my lord, it is estimated that it is about a quarter past seven in the morning, what's the matter, is there anything strange about this matter?"

Song Qingdao: "Strange, naturally strange, at this moment, in Song's opinion, there is something wrong, Lord Zhixian, from the deceased's house to the scene of the crime more than 20 miles, I think it is early in the morning and the light is not good, and at the same time it is a woman's world, how did she come to the scene of the crime within an hour?"

At the same time, within this hour, she not only had to travel 20 miles, but also had to add the time for being killed and salvaging the body, and even more so the time for Hu San to delay on the road when he reported the case.

"I said Lord Zhixian, if you calculate it like this, all the evidence will be overturned, even if it is a problem for these soldiers of Song to run twenty miles in an hour,." Qin Shui was silent, although he already knew that the case was unjust, but at this moment, he knew that he had ignored the minimum time issue.

"Song Tixing, then what do you mean, can this person still fly? Otherwise she wouldn't have come so fast, don't you?"

Song Qing pointed to the horseman with his hand, "Lord Zhixian, this person is the only person who can help the deceased walk twenty miles in an hour, because he is a horse-drawn carriage, and from the beginning to the end of the county, he needs one or two silver." ”

Qin Shui shouted, "Okay, you are this murderer, how can this official tolerate you today?" Someone, get it for me..."

Song Qing stopped: "Don't worry, Lord Zhixian, this case has not been completely uncovered, you can continue to listen to Song's analysis and analysis, this matter is not over yet."

Qin Shui didn't say anything at this time, but his face was unbearable with anger, it was because this person had misjudged the case, and this person's crime was unforgivable.

The groom kept shouting at himself, he was very, very innocent.

Zhu Laosan also kept scolding when he looked at him, and he couldn't wait for this person to pay for his life immediately.

Song Qing continued: "After talking about this matter, let's talk about the scene of the crime, and these three fish thieves, they completely saw what happened that day, the three of them, can you repeat what you said this morning in front of the county magistrate?" They didn't make sense, and immediately said: "My lord, it is estimated that it will be almost seven o'clock at six o'clock that day, and I will come to the pond to steal fish as usual, and my lordship should not doubt us, because many people are still asleep at that time, and we are waiting so as not to be discovered." Song Qingdao: "Song understands this, you can continue."

"We had not cast our nets a few times, and suddenly we heard a thud from the corner of the pond, and I thought it was the owner of the pond who was fishing, so I hid aside."

Song Qingdao: "If Song didn't guess wrong, maybe this is the body of the deceased being thrown into the pond."

Zhu Laosan grabbed the groom's neck violently, he wanted to let the other party pay for his life, and one life for another.

Towards the adjutant general immediately. stepped forward to separate them, and he was not lightly angry.

"The three of you continue, I believe that the magistrate of the county at this moment has also understood a lot, and this case is being uncovered little by little."

The three of them took the order and continued: "But my lord, this voice disappeared all of a sudden, we hid for a while, and when we saw that it was almost dawn, we saw that there was no one around, and we didn't think much about it at the moment, so we continued to steal fish."

Song Qing remembered something and interrupted, "Then did you hear the sound of a carriage passing nearby?"

"Oh, my lord, we didn't hear it at all."

The groom breathed a sigh of relief, as if there was nothing to do with it at the moment.

"My lord, not long after, we saw Hu San coming with a wooden barrel and some fishing tools, and we hid aside again for fear of being discovered.

"But soon after, this Hu San found out what was in the water, so he jumped into the water and scooped it up, and we saw that it was a corpse, adult, as for the rest of the matter, the little one doesn't know."

Song Qingdao: "Lord Zhixian, now that the case has come to this point, Song will analyze it for you."

"First of all, after this Hu San salvaged the body, he found that there was still some silver on his body, so he swallowed the silver privately and stopped fishing, so he took tools and put the silver at home and came to the yamen to handle the case."

"Qin Zhixian, as for what happened later, Song didn't say that you also knew, you identified this Hu San as the murderer through various investigations, right?"

Qin Shui sighed, he felt that all of this, as if he had experienced it himself, was very, very clear.

"Miss Yueyue, please go and invite the owner of this gambling hall over, Song will need his testimony in a while.

"Yes, my lord." Tang Yueyue ran out.

"Lord Zhixian, it was already more than seven o'clock when you received the report, if other officials were still asleep, but you are different, you have already gotten up from the bed, right?"

“... Song Tixing is really like a god, and he is really admired. ”

"Lord Zhixian is relatively hardworking and not lazy, Song Mou affirmed this to you, but after you received the report, you rushed to the scene of the crime at that time, right?"

"But, Lord Magistrate, I want to know, how do you know the identity of the deceased in this case? It can't be guessed. ’

Qin Shui pointed at the groom, "Song mentions, the lowly duty remembered, it was this groom who told the lowly duty at that time, otherwise the lowly duty would not know the truth."

The groom was wronged, he didn't kill anyone at all, how could he get involved with himself at this moment?

"Two adults are down..... There is really no murder in the next, at most it is just a corpse....

Song Qing looked at him, "Mafu, Song will explain this matter for you, in fact, the reason why you know the identity of the deceased is that she told you, right?"

He sighed, fortunately Song Qing was here, otherwise he wouldn't be able to wash it even if he jumped into the Yellow River today.

"As for this incident, it is said that the cause is exactly this, the deceased could not walk twenty miles in an hour, so she could only walk out of her village to a place where she could take a carriage."