When Master Li Fang saw Liu Gouwa asking how he escaped from Xiao Song City, he angrily talked about Xiao Song City's current situation. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info it turned out that after the military rations of Xiao Song City were robbed by bandits, Du Wei Wang Fu led the army to crusade several times, but returned in vain. Since then, the bandits have also come and gone, and played a harassment game with the officials and soldiers, you chase me and run, you enter and I retreat, the officials and soldiers have no choice but to close the city and defend themselves, and the merchants have also cut off the trade routes to the outside, and the business has become more and more difficult. The house leak happened to rain overnight, after the city of Xiao Song closed the city to defend itself, the materials in the city were increasingly scarce, so the military management was implemented, and all kinds of goods were taxed highly, and the merchants in the city were full of complaints.

Food was the top priority of the military management in the city, so the production of Liu Ji Distillery was suspended for several days, and the owner of Li Fang had to move the distillery to the state capital. But the various crossings leading to the state city have been occupied by bandits, robbing the past business travel, originally Li Fang owner could not escape being robbed, fortunately, there are fools in it, and they were spared, many of the thieves know this fool who has not become a four-master family, and everyone has drunk many times together, of course, the fools have N times to secretly go up the mountain to drink without their father, and they are very familiar with each other. The thieves at various intersections also sell fools' face, so the owner of Li Fang can escape from Xiao Song City smoothly.

"The east is not bright and the west is bright, the business situation of our city winery is very good, especially during the New Year's period, the winery business is particularly tight, and Uncle Li arrived to manage the financial accounts and solve my urgent need." Liu Gouwa looked at the depressed and depressed owner Li, and smiled and said with relief.

Liu Gouwa knew that the owner of Li Fang was a businessman, good at calculation, when he was in Xiao Song City, the wine shop belonged to a small workshop, and the financial aspect was simple and understood, and the daily sales diary let him manage the winemaking and do the business of chopping wood with knives and knives. Nowadays, the wine shop in the state city belongs to a large workshop, the sales volume has increased greatly, the finances are complicated, and the bills are numerous, these days, Liu Gouwa is busy Gong Zhou Fu'an stepped down, so as to occupy his county position, and there is not much time to deal with the chaotic accounts of the wine shop, the arrival of the owner of Li Fang just solved his urgent need, no wonder he is happy.

After arranging the accommodation of the father and son of the owner of Li Fang and the guys from the Xiaosongcheng Wine Workshop, Liu Gouwa set up a banquet in the wine shop compound to pick up the wind and wash the dust for them. Before he was halfway drunk, Wu Qi, the head of the team who returned to the county government with Qian Feng, quickly came to the wine shop and told Liu Gouwa that Sun Xiucai was drunk and burned the students to death, and was sued by the bitter master to the county office. Liu Gouwa asked a few words, Wu Qi did not understand the truth of the matter, only said that the deceased was the only son of a wealthy man in the city, and the county commander Zhou Fuan had ordered the chief arrester Xie Da to arrest Sun Xiucai and return to the case pending trial.

Liu Gouwa had no choice but to stop the banquet and hurriedly return to the county government with Wu Qi. Outside the county ya, it has long been surrounded by curious people, Yali county order Zhou Fuan has also sat in the court to try the case, the dead case is a serious case in every dynasty and every generation, but because the identity of the deceased is different, and the way to deal with it is slightly different, although it is now five generations, the warlord is in trouble, there are countless dead people, commonplace, but in peacetime, the dead case is still quite valued by the government, and now the death is the only son of the rich family in the city, so the county order Zhou Fuan directly sits in the court to try the case, and the case does not have to be submitted through the yatui.

At this time, Sun Xiucai's eyes were scarlet, his expression was depressed, his head drooped, and he was deprived of Xiucai's fame by Zhou Fuan on the spot, kneeling in front of the yatang, sullen and silent, and there was also a white middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears and a silk coat kneeling beside him, who was glaring at Sun Xiucai angrily and hatefully. This middle-aged man is the rich man in the city who falsely accused Liu Gouwa with Li Zong, and he is also the first person who promised to withdraw the lawsuit, surnamed Chen Minghai, is a famous landowner in the state city, after Li Zong, it is said that there are hundreds of families cultivating his family's land, so there is a name in the city called Chen Baihu. Next to Chen Baihu was a charred corpse of a child wrapped in a straw mat, burned beyond recognition, and it was unbearable to see.

"Sun Liren, is it true that Chen Hai sued you for drunken fire and murder? Is there a wrong? Zhou Fuan stood high in the hall, looked down at Sun Xiucai, who was kneeling in the hall, and asked loudly.

"Adult, it's not a villain's quibble, there was no class in the study school at that time, it was free time, the students all went outside to play, the villain drank some wine and fell asleep in the study, but I don't know when the villain overturned the ever-bright lamp and lit the study, why didn't Chen An go out to play and was burned to death in the study?" Although Sun Xiucai believed that he burned his student Chen An to death in the school, he still had many questions in his heart, and he couldn't help but ask.

Sun Xiucai said that the ever-bright lamp is not the legendary Zhuge Liang's practice of using the ever-bright lamp, but in ancient times it was more difficult to make a fire, every household left an oil lamp to burn for a long time, so as to ignite the fire at any time, and the later generations of burning briquettes do not extinguish the fire, after all, the ancient turpentine is easier to obtain than the flint used to ignite, and the ancient pine trees are much more than the later generations, and they can be used at any time.

"Then you mean that we wronged you, and I An'er set herself on fire and burned herself?" Chen Baihu asked in a choked voice, and then begged Zhou Fu'an: "Please make the decision for the villain and severely punish the murderer." ”

"Sun Liren, according to the testimony of the villagers who participated in the firefighting, you were the only one present at the school at that time, what do you say?" Zhou Fuan ignored Chen Baihu's pleading, and then asked.

"My lord, the villain drank at the time, and he was unconscious, so he couldn't parse it." Sun Xiucai couldn't argue, so he had to speak bluntly.

"Then you pleaded guilty?" Zhou Fuan asked loudly again, motioning to the scribe with his eyes to submit the confession, and let Sun Xiucai draw the charge in court.

"Wait." Just as Sun Xiucai picked up the pen, trembling to draw on the confession, a shout sounded in the yatang, everyone was surprised, followed the sound, but saw Liu Gouwa slowly stood up, looking directly at the charred body of the child.

"Lord Liu, what's the noise?" Zhou Fuan sat on the official seat and asked with a displeased face.

"Lord Zhou, Sun Xiucai is drunk and confused, unknown personnel, the victim has not been verified by the autopsy, and there are many suspicions, so he made a rash conclusion, which is a little hasty." Liu Gouwa was confident, and said eloquently in the face of Zhou Fuan, who was looking at her.

"What's the doubt? How is a charred corpse autopsied? Moreover, the facts are clear, the villagers have learned from each other, and Sun Liren has also pleaded guilty. Zhou Fuan saw Liu Gouwa questioning his verdict, and couldn't help but say angrily.

"Sun Xiucai was drunk at the scene at the time, of course he couldn't prove his innocence, and he had to admit his guilt, but Lord Zhou, please see how this corpse is different from the corpse that is usually burned?" Liu Gouwa asked Zhou Fuan.

At the beginning, Liu Gouwa also thought that Sun Xiucai was drunk and accidentally knocked down the ever-bright lantern, which caused an ordinary fire case, but during Zhou Fuan's trial, he couldn't help but think of when he lived in the later life, he had read some criminal investigation novels and TV series about the fire case, and he knew some similar methods of handling cases.

In addition to being charred, the child's body was still lying calmly in the straw mat, Zhou Fuan couldn't see anything wrong, and couldn't help sneering: "It's not unusual, so it's mysterious." ”

"Imagine what will happen to a big living person after being surrounded by fire?" Liu Gouwa led everyone to imagine, "Will you shout in fear and ......struggle desperately?"

Everyone was stunned......

"Before dying, there must have been a cry of pain, breathing...... Then the mouth and nostrils will inhale the soot of that time, do you think this child has soot in his mouth and nose? Liu Gouwa continued.

After everyone saw that there was no soot on the burnt child's mouth and nose, Liu Gouwa said: "This child has straight limbs and no signs of struggle, which shows that this child died before falling into the fire, and this is a murder case that blames others." However, who the murderer is and how he committed the crime can only be inferred after the examination of the murderer. ”

Although Liu Gouwa deduced that the child did not die in the fire, the child was seriously charred, and the scene was burned again, even if Bao Gong was alive, it was difficult to judge, and the murderer could only be found out according to the will of God. The county government's servant carefully checked it three times, but he didn't find out the cause of death of the burnt child, and asked Sun Xiucai if he had offended anyone, but he couldn't ask why.

Although Sun Xiucai escaped death with the help of Liu Gouwa, such a thing happened to the school, as Mr. Shushu, he has an unshirkable responsibility, and it is impossible to restore the reputation of Xiucai who was deprived by Zhou Fuan, and now he is inexplicably blamed, and he can't help but be depressed and unhappy, staring at his tragic death of the student.

Chen Hai Chen Baihu heard that his only son died in vain, and there was no evidence, so he couldn't help but feel sad, picked up his charred son, and cried loudly, causing bursts of pity from everyone.

Liu Gouwa also took pity on Chen Baihu's old man who lost his son, and stepped forward to comfort him, but saw that the body of the son he was holding in his arms was stiff and straight, but his head hung down, like a tree trunk that had been blown by the wind, and it was about to break. Liu Gouwa seemed to have found something, and hurriedly asked Chen Baihu to put down his son's body, called Shang Zuo to conduct another autopsy, and specifically examined the upper part of the neck, and Zuo searched for the child's neck for a while, and then said in surprise: "The neck bone is broken, but there is no scar on the outside, what kind of technique does this murderer use?" ”

"Hey, isn't this Huang San's usual clavicle hand?" Wu Qi, the leader of the squad who was close to the child's corpse, couldn't help but ask rhetorically when he heard this.

Huang San, Liu Gouwa knows, he was one of the original team leaders before he took office, he was removed from the position of team leader, hated himself, and still followed the chief arrester Xie Da, who was Xie Da's diehard, interrogating prisoners in the ya, habitually using a trick of clavicle hand, the bones of the tortured prisoners were broken, but there were no scars on the outside, and the prisoners in the yali were not afraid of him, and gradually had the title of Clavicle Yama San. Later, the yamen expanded the recruitment of government officials and became the head of the team again.

Now he is standing in the class behind him, thinking of his clavicle hand that shatters human bones, now that the crime has been revealed, the dog jumped under the wall in a hurry, and his thin little body was pinched, Liu Gouwa couldn't help but feel creepy, scared to the extreme, and hurriedly tried his best to eat milk, ran to the nearest Wu Qi, and shouted loudly: "Catch the murderer, catch the murderer." ”