Chapter 112: Face to face
Lu Yuanzhi and Han Feilian both felt that Wang and Du Zhong were very suspicious, and implored Qin Lin to use heavy punishment to force the dog man and woman to open their mouths, but Qin Lin just smiled, and seemed to have made up other ideas a long time ago.
The inspector was just acting for the tiger, and Qin Lin called him to reprimand him, telling him not to bully the villagers wantonly.
The inspector nodded in agreement, Qin Lin stood at the door of the inspection department and said to the villagers: "In the future, this lord will bully the people again, everyone will report my name to someone Qin, Zhang Gongyu, the prefect of Wuchang, and Shi Wei, the deputy of Jinyiwei, will make decisions for you, or go to the Jingwang Mansion in Qizhou, forty miles upstream, and find the prince or the prince to bring a message to the official, it is the same." ”
The inspection master was so frightened that cold sweat flowed down his forehead, Jinyi Wei Deputy Qianhu, Wuchang Prefect, and King Jing Chitose, any plucked hair was thicker than his waist from the Jiupin inspection!
Qin Lin saw that the villagers were a little suspicious, so he knocked on the nail and asked the inspection: "Will you still fish the people in the future?" Do you still want to be powerful? Believe it or not, this official went to Beizhen Fusi to join you, and then charged your army for 3,000 miles? ”
The inspector's head nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and he said "don't dare, don't dare", but Qin Lin asked him in front of him if he still dared to be powerful, so it was not bad to answer, and when he asked that sentence at the end, it seemed that Qin Lin didn't dare to join him.
Well? Qin Lin snorted coldly in his nose.
finally reacted, the inspection master's face turned red, and he hurriedly explained: "It's not that the lower official doesn't dare to expose the chief, but that the lower official doesn't dare to be domineering anymore...... Alas, this stinky mouth has offended the tiger power of the commander again, it should be beaten, it should be beaten! As he spoke, the inspector slapped his face, which had already swelled into a pig's head, a few times, although he didn't use any force, and it hurt him to grin when he touched the swollen place.
When the people saw it, they all burst into laughter, only thinking that Qin Lin was really the number one good official in the world, and this inspector would not dare to do evil in the future.
Qin Lin escorted Wang's, Du Zhong and the two household clerks back to the dock, and the small river boat with four more people seemed a little crowded, but fortunately, the draft was not deep, and the boat boss rowed upstream.
Sleepless all night, the three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family were not tired, gathered in the back and muttered and discussed, Jiang Mao said that the prisoners must be Wang and Du Zhong, the dog man and woman, Jiang Jing felt that the suspicion of the two officials could not be ruled out, and the master of the state government was also very suspicious.
Jiang Zi flipped through the self-confession of the book, and did not participate in the discussion between the two brothers for a long time.
"Hey, little sister, tell me, who is the murderer?" Jiang Mao looked at his sister with some childishness, he was the smartest of the Jiang brothers, but he always lost to his younger sister in poetry competitions since he was a child, so at this time, he was competitive again, and wanted to compare in solving cases.
Jiang Zi raised her head, and the bright moonlight outlined her face into a perfect outline: "Although human life is at stake, but there is a division of self-judgment, it is not a matter that Zai Fuzhi should be concerned about, since the third brother is conceited of the top talent, why should he care about this matter?" ”
Jiang Mao smiled embarrassedly, and said very indifferently: "Could it be that the little sister suspects Daddy's new policy?" The matter of Xingguozhou should be accidental! As long as you take the test method......"
He originally wanted to say that as long as the rule of officials is strengthened by the examination method, the officials will naturally not dare to deceive the superiors and subordinates, but suddenly his heart moved at this time, and he thought of the confession of the secretary - it is precisely because of the examination method to evaluate officials with a number of indicators, including local fiscal and tax revenues, that Master Fang came up with the bad idea of passing on the reduced tax share of a small number of acres of large households to the township farmers!
Could it really be as someone Qin said, a whip method has fallen into the trap of the wrong direction since its birth, and no matter how well it is executed, it can only go astray?
"Impossible, impossible!" Jiang Mao wanted to look up to the sky and scream, because something that was once considered unshakable in his heart had cracked.
Jiang Zi let out a long sigh, his hands on his cheeks, his wrists were as smooth as jade, and his shining eyes seemed to be deeper than the night sky.
Even the two elder brothers don't know what this wise little sister is thinking.
The boat was sailing upstream, much slower than going downstream, until the east showed the white of the fish's belly, and the exhausted boat boss and his brothers finally sailed the boat to the outside of Xingguozhou City, and docked on the big official boat that had been waiting in the middle of the river.
A few little maids pretending to be sons and gentlemen were already drunk, and the maid had already gone back to sleep, and he was still pushing the cup and changing the lamp!
Jiang Jing smiled and ordered someone to help these Xibei goods into the cabin to rest, although it was not very difficult to drink, eat and watch singing and dancing, it was not easy to support all night.
Qin Lin took Wang to identify the corpse.
As soon as he saw the corpse, Wang Shi turned pale with fright, staggered back, and fell into Du Zhong's arms, not daring to look at her husband's body with a sideways face.
"And said that it is not a silver woman!" Lu Yuanzhi's face was swollen crimson, and his sense of justice exploded instantly, and he almost drank the sentence "push out the dog's head" on the stage.
"I'm afraid there is something else hidden in this matter," Qin Lin shook his head.
Searching for the murderer based solely on subjective judgment is tantamount to begging for fish, and in the end, I don't know how many unjust, false and wrongful cases will be caused.
Take this time as an example, when Wang saw her husband's body, she neither caressed the corpse and cried bitterly, nor shouted grievances, but just hid uncharacteristically by her cousin Jia Jianfu's side, does this mean that she is the murderer of her husband?
Not necessarily.
If it is a newly deceased person, it is okay, Qi Cao has been dead for more than half a month, and after death, the bacteria and other microorganisms carried by the human body multiply, and the corpse quickly decomposed, soaked in water and expanded into a behemoth. The cavities and tissues of the body are filled with foul gases, the face is swollen like a basketball, the lips are turned out to be compared to that of an African gorilla, the eyes bulge like a ping-pong ball, and the viscous and filthy liquid flows out of the seven orifices...... Such a terrible appearance is completely similar to the two of them before their deaths, even if they are loving couples, they can't do such a thing as "soothing the corpse and crying".
On the contrary, in the face of such a terrifying giant corpse that exudes a disgusting stench, if any actor dares to perform the trick of soothing the corpse and crying in public, Qin Lin will be 100% sure that there is something wrong with this guy and arrest him without hesitation.
After thinking about it, Qin Lin pondered and said: "If it is really Qi Cao who was killed by the Wang family and Du Zhong, how dare she go to the state government several times to ask for people and make trouble, and it is a little unreasonable to see this as a thief shouting to catch a thief." ”
Lu Yuanzhi rubbed his hands and pondered, and only after a while did he hesitate: "Master Fang knows that we have picked up this floating corpse's age, figure, and surname, but now we have an explanation, because the Wang family has to go to the yamen to pass someone!" But Master Fang can't hand over the person, let's pick up the corpse and hand it over to him, but we don't want it, this is even more strange, didn't he just take the corpse and hand it over to the Wang family and gag her? ”
It seems that there is only one way to go, confronting each other.
Wang once said that her husband was called away by Zhang Lei and Wang Sheng, and then he didn't know what to do, so Qin Lin led everyone to the state government again.
Walking to the gate of the yamen, the sun had just risen, shining brightly on the four big characters of fairness and honesty on the wall, and Qin Lin just laughed when he saw this situation.
It was not called to be passed on by the officials on both sides, and Qin Lin led the crowd to drive straight in.
Xingguo Prefecture Zhizhou's surname is Hu, and the old man Hu is wearing a black gauze hat on the public seat, wearing a green robe, a silver slabium belt around his waist, and a white pheasant on his chest.
Before he finished yawning, he saw a group of brocade guards and a few noble sons breaking into the court without being informed, this Zhizhou swallowed the yawn back in shock, and asked with wide open eyes: "You, who are you?" ”
"Jinyi Wei Baihu, in order to kill people and attempt to destroy the new policy of the imperial court, I specially went to the Yamen to mention Zhang Lei and Wang Sheng, and testified with the widow of the deceased in court!"
After Qin Lin finished speaking, Lu Yuanzhi slapped his thigh and secretly praised: Wonderful, originally Jinyiwei couldn't interfere in local ordinary life lawsuits, Brother Qin said that the matter was linked to the Wanli New Deal, and Jinyiwei had the right to investigate and deal with it.
Hu Zhizhou opened his eyes wide, and he didn't know how to answer.
Fang Tang entered Master Fang turned out of the back hall, attached to Hu Zhizhou's ear and muttered a few words, his eyes towards Qin Lin's sinister glance.
"What a swaggering guy!" Hu Zhizhou shouted: "Since you have been transferred from Huguang Qianhu to Nanjing to take up a post, Xingguozhou will not be your turn to take charge, when will the passing officials also be able to meddle in local affairs?" Is there such a thing in the Da Ming Law? If you don't leave quickly, this official will participate in your arrogant and arrogant, ignorant of local officials, and unauthorized interference in the affairs of the state and county! ”
Fang Tangjin smiled sinitiously, and the beards of the two rats trembled, although the Jinyi Wei stationed abroad was extremely powerful, it was only a matter of competing with the local civil officials, and the real power was slightly inferior, in fact, it was a situation of mutual checks and balances.
Jiang Jing and Jiang Mao glanced at each other, and they wanted to stand up for Qin Lin.
Seeing the three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family sneering in this direction, Fang Tangjin was suddenly shocked in his heart, knowing that he had fallen for them, he simply lowered his heart and said before they could speak: "Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi from Benzhou will bring people here soon, and when the time comes, he will be charged with swaggering and cheating, hum, it's hard to say if the rumors go out...... Three thousand taels, three thousand taels, hehe! ”
The three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family were angry when they heard this, Jiang Mao wanted to scold this cunning master, but he was stopped by his eldest brother Jiang Jing, and shook his head at him with a solemn expression.
Jiang Zi lowered his voice: "Governor Hu Zongxian's son was humiliated by the Qing official Hai Rui, has the third brother forgotten?" Daddy's 'Ding worries and love' has aroused criticism from all over the world, if we ...... at this juncture"
Jiang Mao suddenly realized that there was a lesson from Hu Zongxian's son who was rectified by Hai Rui, and they did take three thousand taels of silver to say something, originally in order to temporarily deceive the state government to go to Fuchi Town to visit, if this Fang Tangjin really took out this matter to frame them, but it was difficult to refute, and he fell into a stigma out of thin air, and the other party sold his name and sold his name, and others still said that he was Hai Rui's second!
Could it be that this sinister and cunning Master Qian Gu is helpless?
(To be continued)