Chapter 12: Murder
"The people in the hall report their names first, what is the relationship between the two and where do they come from?" Before the officials brought people up, the civil officials began to question them. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Grass people Zhu Mingyang." Zhu Mingyang knew that he couldn't be hard-mouthed in the yamen, otherwise he would suffer hardship, so he immediately reported to his family.
"Cai Cuicui, a folk girl, has a brother and sister relationship with him, both of them are from Yuezhou, and they want to go to Chang'an through Jingzhou." Cuicui was very calm.
"Zhao Si, is that you?" As soon as Cuicui finished answering, she saw the official bring a person from the back hall and kneel next to Zhu Mingyang, Zhu Mingyang was not surprised.
"My lord! He had already experienced the corpse and cut off the head with a machete or axe. At this time, the master next to him leaned into the ear of the civil official.
"Bring the corpse up, and by the way, bring the package with you." The civil servant commanded.
After a while, two officials carried a corpse into the courtroom, which was covered with a white cloth, but the white cloth was already stained red with blood. There was a package next to the corpse, and Zhu Mingyang saw that it was not his own package.
"This package is yours?" The civil servant asked.
"Indeed, this package belongs to the grass people." Zhu Mingyang replied anxiously.
"Open it up and see for yourself!" The civil official pointed to the package.
Zhu Mingyang looked at the civil official and slowly opened the package, and when he opened the last layer, a round thing rolled to the ground, Zhu Mingyan saw that it was actually a human head, and an inexplicable nausea surged up his throat, and he almost vomited, and suddenly remembered Cuicui next to him, and hurriedly covered Cuicui's beautiful eyes with his fingers.
"Brother Mingyang, don't block it! I saw it, you can rest assured that I am not afraid of you. After speaking, he knelt and moved two steps towards Zhu Mingyang, and the distance between the two became closer.
"My lord, this package is indeed mine, but I really didn't kill the person!" Zhu Mingyang tried his best to argue.
"Bastard, are you good at being Lord Ben? Do you know this person? He pointed to the head of the man on the ground.
"This man is...... Jia Da. Zhu Mingyang was frightened just now and didn't take a closer look, but now that he got closer, it turned out to be Jia Da, and the fat head, big ears and round round eyes were undoubtedly Jia Da.
"Well, it's really an acquaintance, and it's trying to kill for money." The civil servant stroked his beard.
"My lord, if the person who knows Jia Da is a murderer, then many people know him, then they are all murderers." Zhu Mingyang seems to be dissatisfied with this reason.
"It's true that not the person you know is the murderer, but how to explain that this head is in your bag." The civil servant asked.
"I really don't know how the head is in my bag, we are wronged, I hope the adults will see it!" was detained as a murderer, and Zhu Mingyang's mind is now very confused.
"Do you know this person?" The civil official shifted his gaze to Zhao Si.
"My lord, this person is Jia Da, the richest man in our Wugu Village, and he took my boat to Jingzhou with that murderer this afternoon to do business." After speaking, he looked at Zhu Mingyang.
"Did they leave together?" The civil servant then asked.
"They didn't leave together, the two of them left first, and Jia Da seemed to be waiting for his wife, and I heard that his wife also arrived in Jingzhou early in the morning." Zhao Si replied.
"Can you wait for his wife in the end?" The civil servant then asked.
"Back to my lord, Jia Da and I chatted for a while, and Mrs. Jia really came, Jia Da waited until Mrs. Jia left together, and told me to find him to drink at night." Zhao Si replied.
"Well, that's right. Spread Jia's wife! The civil servant instructed the servant, and in a short time a woman came out of the inner hall.
"It's her!" Zhu Mingyang was secretly shocked, this person was not the woman next to his room.
"Jia Da's wife, Sun, pays a visit to your lord." The woman knelt down, and it turned out that the woman's surname was Sun.
"Sun, let me ask you, if you came to Jingzhou with Jia Da today." The civil servant asked.
"My lord, the folk girl came to Jingzhou early in the morning, and met at the ferry at four o'clock with her husband, and then set up a room at the Tianfu Inn. After booking the room, Xianggong said that he went out to find Zhao Si to drink, but after a while, he heard Mrs. Jia calling outside, and when I saw someone calling me, I opened the door and saw that it was Zhao Si. He said anxiously that he hadn't gone to drink yet. I asked Zhao Si to look for it first, and then I also locked the door and went out to look for it, who knew that I didn't find it for a long time, and when I returned to the inn, I saw Xianggong lying on the ground, woo woo, Xianggong, you died so miserably, leave me an orphan and widow. Saying that, Sun actually cried in the court.
"Can anyone testify?" The civil servant then asked.
"The owner of the Tianfu Inn watched me go out." Sun wiped away his tears.
"The owner of the Tianfu Inn!" The official document said to the officer. After a while, the owner of Tianfu Inn was brought up and knelt behind Zhu Mingyang.
"Lord Hui, the female guest officer is right, Jia Da just walked for a while, how long did Zhao Si come, and then I saw the two of them hurriedly walking out of the inn, as if they were looking for someone, I remember very clearly, because Zhao Si didn't know Jia Da's room, or I led it there." Before the civil official could ask questions, the innkeeper himself spoke first.
"Then in the process of looking for Jia Da, the two of you found Jia Da's package at the Fulai Inn where the prisoner lived, but like this?" The civil official said to Zhao Si and Sun, who hurriedly nodded.
"Okay, the case is already clear, when the prisoner came to Jingzhou, he was with Jia Da, and when he saw the money in Jia Da's package, he had evil thoughts but it was not easy to start, so he waited for Jia Da to stay at the inn and then found an opportunity to start, and it happened that Zhao Si asked Jia Da to drink, so the prisoner simply blamed Zhao Si, and then took the money and left, can the prisoner be guilty?" The civil official slapped the shocked wood hard.
"What kind of crime, we really didn't kill anyone, you can't wronged people, my lord!" Seeing that the civil official insisted that he and Cuicui were murderous, Zhu Mingyang stood up emotionally.
"Bastard! also dares to quibble, and the punishment is waiting. With that, the clerk threw a token from the desk. After a while, the official actually brought two splints from the back hall.
"My lord, I killed the man!" Just as the official was preparing for the execution, Cuicui, who had been silent, spoke, and although the voice was not loud, it resounded throughout the court.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Zhu Mingyang hurriedly covered Cuicui's mouth with his hand.
"Sure enough, you killed it, how did you do it quickly." The civil official pointed to Cuicui.
"I, I, I saw that when Jia Da paid for the ferry again, there was a lot of money in the package, so I took advantage of her unpreparedness to knock him out from behind, and then cut off his head." Cuicui seemed to have thought of a reason for a long time.
"You slut, pay me back." As soon as Cuicui finished speaking, Sun ignored the court, slapped Cuicui down, and put a foot on Cuicui's lower abdomen.
"Cuicui!" Zhu Mingyang didn't expect this scene at all, he shouted out heartbreakingly, and was about to help Cuicui's delicate body, when several officials hurriedly came up to suppress him, unable to move, but Cuicui had already passed out.
"Come on, let the prisoner draw the prisoner." The civil official pointed at Cuicui with his head, and after speaking, the master next to him walked down with a piece of paper and a pen, and picked up the pen with Cuicui's hand.