In the middle of the night, almost everyone except for some special places had fallen asleep. At this time, the Wu family was still brightly lit, the mourning hall was full of green smoke, and the incinerated paper money had burned out at some point, leaving only a little ember......

On a cold autumn night, the extinguishing of the brazier shook the spirit of the half-asleep old servant, but just as he picked up some paper money and was about to put it back into the brazier, he was interrupted by a sudden call outside the gate.

"Who? Who else could be here in the middle of the night? ”

People are sleepy, and the old servant can't help complaining, but if you listen carefully, it seems to be the voice of the master's brother Wu Shuang! hurriedly ran out and opened the door, but when he saw the two brothers of the Wu family standing behind the door outside the door, he was stunned, "Two masters, didn't you go to live at your uncle's house?" How to bring ......"

Before the old servant finished asking, the catchers had already rushed into the courtyard, and the loud noise in the middle of the night woke up the sleeping housekeepers, they thought that someone had come to make trouble, but when they went out, they found that it was the people who broke into it in the middle of the night!

Without any stop, the catchers ran directly to the backyard, by the moonlight and lights, the catchers just arrived in the backyard and found that a figure was running towards the back door quickly, but he ran too quickly and stepped on the clothes and pants that had not yet been worn, and fell a dog to chew......

Stepped forward and locked his arm, pinned him to the ground, and the head catcher smiled contemptuously, "You still want to run?" Your uncle and I have been doing it for decades, and we have never let the traffickers escape! Tied up! ”

Looking at the scene in front of them, everyone in the Wu family was dumbfounded, completely unaware of what was happening......

The beginning of the time...... Equally sleepless are the villagers of the small fishing village. Just now, Song Shi came back from the county seat and brought them exciting news......

Or last night's movement was too big, the sun had just risen, and the yamen was already full of people, and I don't know which mouth quickly spread the news of Liu Zhixian's retrial of Li Laoliu's murder case. The news spread throughout the city almost instantly, attracting a lively crowd to gather at the county government one by one.

At this time, an ox cart slowly stopped outside the crowd, and Song Shi took Aunt Li's hand and slowly helped her down. Aunt Li's hand holding Song Shi was still trembling, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes, since she heard the truth in the middle of the night, she almost wanted to fly to her son's side immediately, and bear the pain on his body instead......

"Come, let's go! Let's Jean! The catchers pushed aside the crowd, opened a passage for Aunt Li, and replaced Song Shi and slowly walked into the county government with her......

Liu Zhixian sat in the lobby in a cyan official robe, with a straight body and neat official uniform, looking quite official, but this majesty was almost destroyed the moment Li Cheng sat in the audience, leaving only a flattering smile, which made people roll their eyes......

Tang Wei was high-pitched, and the soap officials with water and fire sticks stood on both sides, and everyone inside and outside the door was watching the old man who was hobbling towards the lobby......

"Wronged!!"

Hearing these three words in Aunt Li's mouth, although Liu Zhixian had been prepared, he also felt quite harsh, "What grievances does the old woman have in the hall?" ”

"The child Li Lao Liu, was convicted of murder the day before yesterday, but he was indeed wronged! Please also ask my grandfather to avenge my son's grievances! Before the trial, Aunt Li's voice was already crying......

"If you are crying out for injustice, can you have a paper?"

"The paper is here!" Liu Zhixian said this, Shen Huan had already prepared, stood up and held up the paper and said.

The scribe was ordered to take the paper, but Liu Zhixian did not read it, but directly threw an arrow into the hall. Looking at the arrow that landed on the ground, Shen Huan took a deep breath, and lay on the ground very simply, letting the soap officials on both sides hold the torture staff and greet his buttocks. The masters of the Song Dynasty were far less status than the lawyers of later generations, and if they wanted to fight lawsuits for others, then these fifteen great bans would not be able to escape no matter what.

Although he was prepared in his heart, Shen Huan had no bottom in his heart, he was just a weak scholar now, he didn't know if he would be crippled if he continued to fight on the fifteen boards, but now there is no way back, if he wants Li Lao Liu to get out of prison smoothly, he must take this dangerous move......

After the fifteen boards, Shen Huan's whole body was so painful that his muscles were bruised, and he moved his two legs slightly, and couldn't help but secretly say that he was very lucky, the fifteen boards finally let him get through......

Standing up with the help of the soap officer, Shen Huan arched his hand and said: "Master, although the murder case of Li Lao Liu was tried by you personally, the students firmly believe that Li Lao Liu is a human being, and it is absolutely impossible to do such a thing!" After the students re-investigated, they now have conclusive evidence! Please also ask the grandfather to avenge his grievances! ”

"If so, where is the evidence?" Liu Zhixian asked.

"The student asks to pass Lu E and Zhuwu to the hall!"

"Biography!"

It didn't take long for Lu E and Zhuwu to walk up to the lobby under the escort of the catchers, but at this moment, a mouthful of tea in Liu Zhixian's mouth spurted out violently! Like him, Shen Huan was speechless in surprise at this time, and could only slowly look at Liu Zhixian with puzzled eyes...... The two stared widely, and they were surprised to find that Lu E and Zhuwu had been changed into prison uniforms! Shackled! It's like two prisoners who have already been sentenced!

According to the law, prisoners are not allowed to change into prison uniforms until they are convicted, but he never thought that the cell boss in the prison was too active, and after hearing the truth of the matter at the head catcher last night, he thought that Zhuwu and they had been convicted by the county order, so he took it upon himself to help them change them! As a result, there was such a big oolong......

"Uh-huh...... Zhuwu, Lu E, there are people who accuse you of adultery, murder of your husband, and framing others, do you have anything to say? Liu Zhixian quickly diverted everyone's focus and asked the two.

Unlike Zhuwu, who was frightened at this time, Lu E was still calm although she was changed into a prison uniform, and cried pitifully: "The women don't know! Yesterday, the eldest brother broke into my house and forcibly detained me and my brother-in-law, and now you say that we committed adultery and murder? This is really out of nowhere, and the women are really wronged! ”

Hearing this, Shen Huan couldn't help but sneer: "Hmph! Treat unjustly? Li Laoliu, who was wronged by you as a murderer, is called wronged! And that brother-in-law of yours? I think it's more appropriate to call it a concubine, right? ”

Lu E's face turned cold, "Childe's words are too much!" The concubine is a woman from a good family, and she has always lived in a simple house, and all neighbors can testify, so how can she be a concubine? As for murder and adultery, where does this begin! ”

"Let's start when you were called the Flower Butterfly! On May 26, Li Ji Silk Village in the city was overhauled, and a decoration team from Chuzhou was invited to repair the shop for it, and one of the suspects in this case, Zhu Wu, was one of the decoration teams! The weather in May is hot, and it is overhauled, the silk village is out of business, your husband Wu shopkeeper is busy with his business on a business trip, the silk village is left with you and the decoration team, by chance, you and Zhuwu met unexpectedly, and the two of you hooked up between the eyebrows! Because it was adultery, it couldn't be known to outsiders, but you didn't expect that the abnormality between you and Zhuwu still attracted the attention of others, so the nickname Flower Butterfly was born......"

"At first, you were very panicked after the adultery of the two of you was known, so you deliberately avoided it for a while, but then you were surprised to find that they didn't tell the shopkeeper of the two of you about the adultery of the two of you! This discovery is a surprise for both of you! Because you know the character of the guys in the store, you assume they didn't say anything at the time and won't say anything more, so the two of you get together again. However, the good times didn't last long, and this matter was finally known by Shopkeeper Wu! I think you still remember the events of that night, right? ”

"On the night of the seventh day of the eighth month, you and Zhuwu were secretly committing adultery in the room, you thought that the shopkeeper Wu would not return until tomorrow, but you never expected him to suddenly appear at the door when you were doing his good deeds! Shopkeeper Wu was very angry when he found out that you had committed adultery, and the two of you were even more afraid that this matter would spread out and end up in a different place, so they killed him......"

"Childe's words are all slander! It's all your own speculation! Please also ask the master to be the master of the people's wife! Woo ......" As soon as Shen Huan's words fell, Lu E cried to Liu Zhixian, especially the pear blossoms with rain, which made people see Youpiao......

Seeing her like this, Shen Huan endured the pain and got rid of the soap officer's support, came to Lu E and said, "Yes, if I don't have evidence, these words are just speculation!" But if a man has done something evil, how can he leave no trace? After my re-examination, I found many wounds on the body of the shopkeeper Wu, some of which were caused before his death, and some of which were caused after death. The wounds formed in life are completely different from the wounds formed after death! But the wounds caused by mortal life must be convex at the wound! This is because people feel pain in life, which is why this phenomenon occurs! And after death, the soul is gone, and the person does not feel the pain, so there will be no such phenomenon! On the body of the shopkeeper Wu, I found three different wounds! These wounds were three inches deep and one inch wide, and the skin and flesh of the deceased's wounds were convex, and the wounds were wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, which were stabbed by sharp weapons before death! After a search of your residence in the Silk Village, I found the murder weapon, the same scissors you used to cut your clothes! ”

Shen Huan took the scissors he found from the silk village last night from the head catcher, and showed it to everyone: "This is the scissors that you once used as a murder weapon from your room, you shouldn't know it, right?" Although you have carefully wiped this scissor, its length and shape are the same as the wounds on the deceased's body! Do you have any explanation for this? ”

Lu E frowned when she heard this, gritted her teeth and explained: "Almost every family has such scissors, even if my husband has such a wound on his body, how can it be asserted that I killed my husband?"

"That's right! Of course, it is impossible for you alone, although you are vicious, but you are a woman after all, although you are holding a sharp weapon, you are not the opponent of the deceased, what really killed the shopkeeper Wu was the hammer that Zhu Wu smashed down on the back of his head! ”

There was no need for Shen Huan to do anything, so the head catcher threw the hammer with a lot of red paint he found at Zhuwu's feet, which startled him a lot!

Shen Huan pointed to the hammer and said, "After re-examining the body, I not only found the three knife wounds on the deceased's body, but also found a special wound on the back of the deceased's head!" The wound on the back of the deceased's head was very regular, an inch by an inch regular square! Although the deceased was thrown into the river, the stones in the river could not have formed such a regular wound due to the impact of the current all the year round, either sharp or smooth! After examination, the scar on the back of the deceased's head is exactly the same as the shape and size of this hammer! Besides! I also found a piece of patent leather in the back of the deceased's head! The lustrous color of this piece of patent leather is exactly the same as the lacquer spots stained on the hammer! Not only that, but I also found ironclad evidence of your murder on this hammer! I also found the blood of the deceased on this hammer! After you killed, the first thing you did was to clean up the scene and the murder weapon, although you washed the blood from the hammer, but you never noticed that there was still blood on the wooden handle of the hammer! It's also thanks to those red paint spots on the wooden handle that you ignore this! Didn't you notice that the blood had turned black at that time? ”

Hearing Shen Huan's words, Lu E and the others subconsciously lowered their heads and glanced at the hammer, which was really the same as what Shen Huan said! In the middle of the mottled paint on the hammer, there was a black blood stain! The two of them couldn't help but turn pale......

Holding back the panic in her heart, Lu E defended again: "It's just nonsense! These two things are common to everyone, how can they be considered evidence! It's also possible that the strongman who killed my husband happened to use these two things! Please check it out! ”

"Speaking of which, we have to talk about the first scene of your adultery and murder, since the two of you hooked up and became adulterous, every private meeting you have has been in the small courtyard where Lu E is. You are afraid of being discovered by others, so Zhuwu does not dare to walk in from the main entrance openly, so you can only sneak in from the alley behind the silk village, but the problem is that the door in the backyard leading to the alley will be locked by the guys in the store after the end of each day, and if you want to enter the courtyard, you can only enter through the wall! But the courtyard wall is tall and cannot be climbed easily, so the swill buckets placed on the side of the wall have become the ideal thing for Zhuwu to step on! Zhuwu, Zhuwu, you can be very careful about adultery with others, but in the end you are lustful and difficult to control? Or is it carelessness? You forgot to wipe the footprints off the lid of your swill bucket! Thus leaving such an ironclad proof! ”

"In addition to the footprints, I can prove that the small courtyard of the Silk Village is not only the scene of your adultery! And it's the scene of the killing! Last night, I surveyed the ground with vinegar and wine to re-emerge the blood stains hidden in the ground, which can be confirmed by the big brothers who went with me yesterday to catch the big brothers! ”

"Not bad! When I surveyed the scene with Shen Gongzi yesterday, I actually saw a lot of blood stains in the house! This is a testament to this! The headcatcher stepped forward in time to confirm.

The facts of the case are basically very clear at this point, but Lu E still doesn't seem to give up, "Master, just like this son said, even if the crime scene is in my small courtyard, has anyone ever seen us carrying the corpse to throw the corpse?" Please don't be gullible about such slanderous words! ”

Seeing Lu E say this, Shen Huan couldn't help but smile faintly, "You still don't give up?" Of course, there are witnesses! After you kill someone, you must be trying to deal with the corpse, but how to deal with it is a difficult problem for you, although Jiangyin is not a big county, but there are a lot of people, there will inevitably be pedestrians on the street who go out at night, so it is impossible for you to carry the corpse out of the gate openly! Your only option is to carry the body out the back door and transport it to the place where it was dumped! At the base of the back wall, I found traces of swill spilling, and I think you must have emptied the barrel full of swill, put the dead in it, and carried it away under the guise of a swill collector! There is a carriage for transporting goods in the silk village, so this is not a problem, but you never thought that because the swill bucket is extremely heavy, you accidentally get on your body, people after dirty their hands, instinctively want to clean up, so Zhuwu wiped his swill stained hands on the wall of the backyard! A piece of crucial evidence remained! As for the witnesses, do you think that no one really saw you when you walked in the middle of the night? Unfortunately, someone actually watched a carriage loaded with swill pass by in front of their house that night! To ......"

Still waiting for Shen Huan to finish speaking, he only heard a loud noise behind him, Liu Zhixian took a picture of the startled wood and said first: "Come on!" Bring me the witnesses! ”

The eyewitnesses who were found by Shen Huan and them last night were quickly brought to the court, "The villain Qi San, I have seen the master." ”

Liu Zhixian opened his mouth and asked, "Qi San, did you see someone passing in front of your house with a carriage on the night of the crime?"

Qi San replied truthfully: "Yes! At that time, the villain was returning home from out of town, and when he was about to arrive at the door, he happened to encounter a carriage passing by our door. I looked at the swill bucket in the car and thought it was a swill collector! But later it turned out that his figure was not the old man who collected the swill, but more like the person in the court! ”

"Impossible! I didn't see you at all that night! Zhuwu blurted out in a hurry, and in an instant he realized that he had said the last thing he should have said!

Zhu Wu's reaction was expected by Shen Huan, since the moment they arrested him at the Wu family yesterday, his mental defense line had been crumbling little by little, and now he had long lost his clear mind when he saw so much physical evidence in the public court today......

Seeing Lu E's look of looking left and right and still trying to distinguish, Shen Huan didn't have much patience, "Okay, don't chop your head and kick your legs, do you want the swill driver to come up and confirm whether the swill bucket was empty that day?" In addition, the nail taken from the threshold of your room is wrapped with silk scraped from the collar of Wu's shopkeeper's clothes! Do you want someone to identify whether these silks are on the same garment? ”

Seeing this situation, Liu Zhixian no longer hesitated, and immediately said: "The truth of this case is clear!" The judgment is ......"

"Wait a minute, Liu Zhixian!"

Shen Huan interrupted him and said: "Lu E and Zhu Wu deserve their crimes, but there is still a culprit who has contributed to the trouble in this case and has not yet been brought to justice!" Lu E, you still wonder who told Shopkeeper Wu about your adultery? And you must not be able to figure out why the backyard door was not locked on the day of the crime, right? Zhuwu, you must not be able to figure out why this hammer that you threw away is here today, right? Let me tell you, it is because one of the initiators has led you step by step into this trap from which you will never recover......"