"Niu Bianmao is indeed not a murderer," Qin Lin nodded at Zhang Gongyu, and opened the folding fan a few times with a snap: "Ma Tang's height is four feet seven inches, which is about the same as Jiao Chengzuo, and Niu Bianmao is five feet three inches tall, if you want to form this kind of flat stab wound under the ribs, unless he is squatting and wielding a knife-this is too strange." ”

Zhang Gongyu nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, he had already messed up, and he didn't have his own opinions.

Shi Wei of Jinyi Wei half-squinted his eyes thoughtfully, and after a moment, he swept around with the corner of his eye, and he had already covered the tangerine tanner.

Qin Lin asked Lu Yuanzhi with a smile again: "Fatty, you once deduced that this seven-star sword was taken by Niu Bianmao, and I said at that time that there was also one of them that could not be justified, did you think of the reason at this time?" ”

Lu Yuanzhi's fat face showed a confused look, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly realized: "I said before that the master and apprentice of the Clematis are poor and destitute, and there should be no valuable and expensive seven-star sword, so Niu Bianmao is a fisherman, and there will be no such sword at home." But...... Who got it? ”

Qin Lin squatted down and picked up the scabbard and the sword body, and said in a kind way: "You observe carefully and see what is wrong." ”

The sword body is faint and faint with a cold air, sharp and straight can blow hair and break hair, the shape is a little simple and elegant, there is some slight rust in the gap between the sword body and the hilt, the sword spine close to the hilt is inlaid with seven gems with the Big Dipper pattern, the sword grid is gilded, and the scabbard is a brand new fish skin sheath......

No, there is a problem! The small eyes on Lu Yuanzhi's round face suddenly lit up, "Brother Qin, the shape of this sword is very simple, without a trace of fireworks, although the sword body is brightly sharpened, there is rust in the gaps, and the color of the sword blade has been around for a few years, so there should not be such a beautiful and smooth sword grid, let alone a brand-new fish skin scabbard!" ”

Qin Lin clapped his hands lightly: "So, this fishskin scabbard is the one that was added later?" ”

As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar, and all eyes were turned to the tangerine leatherman, who had never attracted attention: everyone in Chawan Village knew that the tangerine leatherman had the skill of making belts, leather bags, and skin sheaths from the skin of the king tuna (Chinese sturgeon), and what was even more remarkable was that he was about four feet seven inches in size......

"I didn't expect this person to blame the poor road," Wei Lingxian sighed and said: "My Taoist seven-star sword body is engraved with the Big Dipper seven stars to respond to astronomy, and the scabbard must be made of ebony or sandalwood, symbolizing the virtue of carrying things to cope with geography, and there is no fish skin to make a sheath, this sword is poor at first sight, it turns out to be your sword ...... scabbard."

The tannery cowered and retreated into the corner, for he found that the eyes of the crowd had become a terrible net, and that he himself was like a moth in the net.

"It's not me, I didn't do it, I didn't take that seven-star sword!" He argued hoarsely.

Qin Lin looked surprised: "I haven't said that you brought it yet?" ”

The tangerine leatherman grunted in his throat and had nothing to say.

"Be a thief!" Shi Wei snorted coldly in his nose.

Qin Lin ignored the tanner, but asked Niu Bian Mao with a smile: "You found the body, and I heard a discussion in the village that a Taoist priest was having breakfast at Ma's house in the morning, who proposed to search Ma's house before the government came?" ”

Niu Bianmao also understood seven or eight points at this point, and glared at the tangerine leatherman, then looked at Qin Lin and bowed deeply, "It was proposed by the tangerine leatherman, and dozens of people heard it!" ”

Qin Lin asked again: "When you came back from the thatched house, you heard someone say loudly, 'I didn't find anything in the east side room, not even under the bed', so I went to look under the bed in the west side room, and when I looked for it, I found the seven-star sword with blood, who said that?" ”

"Still a tangerine tanner!"

"How far is the tangerine leatherman's house from the Ma family?"

Niu Bianmao looked at the tangerine tanner, and his eyes were about to burst into flames: "Just go down the bamboo forest on the left, it's very close!" And the window of the east side house of the Ma family is very large, he jumped out of the window, and a few steps away is the back door of his house! ”

Shi Wei, Cui Zhutou, Jiao Zhuzuo and others all sneered, Cui Zhutou raised his thumb at the tangerine leather craftsman, and said in a weird manner:

"I can't see it, my brother is good at blaming others, or a double insurance ploy - first put the blame on the Taoist priest passing by, even if it is recognized, it will turn our suspicion to Niu Bianmao, the stunned young man. Tsk, Cui someone finally said that he was a goose, he never thought that he was almost pecked by a goose today, my brother has good skills and good intentions! ”

The tanners were forced into a corner, suddenly straightened up, simply let go, and argued: "Wait, you can't wronged good people like this!" said that I put a sword to frame me, how do I know that the nephew of the Niu family will go to the thatched house? Also, if the nephew of the Niu family has already looked at the foot of the bed for the first time and has not found the seven-star sword, I will take advantage of him to go to the thatched house and put it under the bed, and others will not be suspicious? ”

Qin Lin shook his head, stretched out his finger in the air and pointed at the tangerine leatherman:

"These two questions are easy to answer, Niu Bianmao is a well-known stunned and reckless ghost in the whole village, and he does things roughly, even if he doesn't go to the thatched house, you carry him on his back and stab a sword at the corpse, and then put the sword under the bed; Secondly, even if he looks at the foot of the bed for the first time, and he doesn't check it after you say that, you can also remind others to look at it, and after discovering the sword, others will only say that Niu Bianmao's surname is coarse, and the murder weapon has not been found. ”

Chen Leather Maker's cunning and cunning face was full of panic, and his eyes were dripping and thinking of excuses, "You are talking nonsense, these are all your blind guesses, I have never seen this sword, and I have not killed Ma Tang!" ”

Cui Zhutou sneered, looking at the eyes of the tangerine leatherman like a beast staring at the little lamb: "I advise you to confess your guilt and subdue the law, in the yamen, clamping sticks, fingers, crossing the river dragon, rolling all over the ground and other means, even if the thieves who have accumulated years have to open their mouths obediently, forgive you for being a piece of iron and how many nails can you hit?" can survive Cui's eighteen sets of methods, I write Cui upside down. ”

Shi Wei shook his head with a smile, and said to Zhang Gongyu: "These thieves are not dead in the heart of the Yellow River, but as soon as they are punished, they will obediently tell the truth, hmph, this official can be seen a lot." ”

Zhang Gongyu was determined, so he was ready to call someone to escort the tangerine tanners back to be tortured.

Qin Lin was stunned, he still had a few words to say, and then he remembered that in ancient times, there was no need for strict and sufficient evidence to try cases, as long as the suspicion of the prisoner was big enough, the government could torture and ask for a confession.

However, Qin Lin didn't like this way, he coughed dryly twice, stopped Cui Zhutou, who was shaking the iron rope and was about to come forward to arrest the criminal, and asked the tanners with the seven-star sword:

"With your income, you shouldn't have this valuable sword, I see a little rust in the gaps, I think you accidentally fished it out of the river, right? You see that this sword can be sold for a lot of money, but unfortunately the scabbard is rotten and the sword grid is rusty, so after polishing, it is equipped with a new sword grid and scabbard, which was originally intended to be sold at a high price, but it was thrown here because he wanted to blame the Taoist priest after killing people.

You yourself are a leathersmith, and the scabbard must be made by yourself, but you can't make the gilt on the sword grid, you must go to the gold and silver shop to find someone to process it. I think that as long as you take this sword and go to the gold and silver shops in Qizhou City and ask them one by one, there will definitely be a family that will recognize this sword, recognize this gilded sword, and also recognize the person who holds the sword! ”

The tangerine leatherman looked at Qin Lin in horror, as if he had seen a living ghost, his throat gurgled in his throat, but he couldn't say a word—his mental defense had been completely defeated.

The old tannery slowly sat down, sighed loudly and confessed his crime.

As a widower, he has always coveted the neighbor's Ma Tang's family, knowing that her husband is running the tung oil business all the year round, and most of this young woman is lonely, so in the morning at the entrance of the village, he saw the old couple of the Ma family leaving relatives, so he ran to the Ma family to entangle the Ma Tang family.

Unexpectedly, Ma Tang's was very chaste, and he scolded loudly when he didn't agree, Chen Pi was panicked, and for a while, he felt out the dagger he carried and stabbed at Ma Tang's family, and then fled from Ma's house in a hurry.

It just so happened that Niu Bian Mao also passed outside, and the tangerine leather worker knew that if he was suspected of this case, he preemptively spoke up and pretended to be discovered at the same time as Niu Bian Mao.

Later, he heard the people in the village talking about the Taoist priest having dinner at Ma's house in the morning, and he thought that a few days ago, he fished out a seven-star sword from the river, equipped with a new sword grid, made a new fish skin scabbard and prepared to sell it at a high price, wouldn't it be a wonderful prop to blame the Taoist priest?

Although the sword was worth a lot of money, in order to get away with it, he couldn't care about anything else, so the tangerine leatherman quietly went home and took the sword, stabbed the body of Ma Tang while no one was paying attention, and then threw it under the bed in the west room, deliberately asking Niu Bianmao to find it.

"It's a pity, I can't hide anything from you, it's as if you're just standing next to you, watching Lao Tzu kill people and throw swords!" The tangerine tanners looked at Qin Lin with great chagrin, this life-seeking Yama who exposed his crimes and sent him to hell.

There was a loud bang, and Cui Zhutou led a few fierce and vicious catchers, put the iron rope around the neck of the tangerine tanner, and urged: "Don't talk nonsense, what is left in the court to say." Hehe, if you want to be interested, you can honestly confess your guilt, the autumn queen is just a knife in the head, if you don't know each other, we also have a way to entertain you! ”

The arrester quickly escorted the tangerine tanners away, and the villagers who were waiting for the news outside were noisy, asking about the case.

Master Zhang took a few steps forward and arched his hand towards Qin Lin, as if he wanted to say something but was a little embarrassed.

Qin Lin's black man's heart is like a mirror, beckoning Niu Dali to come over and whisper a few words, Niu Dali hurriedly went out, and after a while, the people outside shouted "Master Qingtian", "Knowing the Details", "Mirroring High" - Niu Dali attributed all the credit for solving the case to Master Zhang Gongyu, and the people didn't care about so much internal information, as long as the case was solved, they would be happy.

Zhang Gongyu smiled with joy, rubbed his hands and praised Qin Lin as a friend.

At this time, the local peace has been peaceful for a long time, and there are often cases of homicide that have to be made up into a paragraph by the local storyteller, and the murder case will be solved in less than two hours, and it is very beneficial to spread it to the official reputation of his master Zhang, and in the future, the local gentry who will leave office will also have a reason to send Wanmin umbrella, and the face is extremely glorious, not to mention that the Huangzhou Mansion and Hu Guangcheng announced that the political secretary gave him a three-year inspection must have the article "Judge the case and understand", isn't it happy?

Zhang Gongyu is really generous, and he confiscated the property of the tangerine leather craftsman and compensated the Ma family according to the routine, and also sponsored twenty taels of buried silver out of his own pocket, which made the old couple of the Ma family exchange tears, and the nagging straight thought of "Qingtian Lord Marquis Wandai".

When he was happy, Zhang Gongyu was full of praise for Qin Lin, and said to Shi Wei: "The army of the Son of Heaven is really different from other places, your yamen has such a young master, and this official began to believe in the story of Gan Luo's twelve-year-old worship. ”

Shi Wei raised his eyebrows and said strangely: "Oh, he is not from our Jinyi Guard, is he ...... You don't know this Qin Gongzi either? ”

The two stared at each other, thinking that they knew each other, but they found out that it was a misunderstanding after a long time.

Qin Lin then Shi Shiran shook to the ground, and said without being arrogant or humble: "Qin Lin, who was born late, is a common man under the rule of the eldest lord, and is now a disciple of the Li Family Medical Hall in Qizhou City. ”