Qin Lin looked at him coldly from the side, he had learned from Lu Yuanzhi that Master Zhang Gongyu of Zhizhou was very incompetent, and he was used to being a good man on both sides of the mud, and sometimes he would rather dig his own pocket to make up for it than to settle things, he was an out-and-out dumb official, but he was kind and kind, and he was still a good person.

For example, when he encountered two people fighting over a silver ingot, he would always sentence him to divide the silver ingot into two, and each of them would take half of it, in order to smear the case; If the two were still not satisfied, he would even take a silver ingot from his official income as a gift, so that the two would end the lawsuit.

Fortunately, Zhizhou's fire consumption regulations have a lot of income, and Mr. Zhang's family is a salt merchant in Lianghuai, and it is said that half of the city in Yangzhou is his family's industry, so he can withstand such a fee. And the boss saw that he had settled the lawsuit here, and no ordinary people had appealed to the provincial capital for several years, and he was praised for "the government is clean and the punishment is simple, and the judgment is clear", so that he has been promoted one after another.

However, he is so nonsense, so that Zhizhou already has a sense of making ends meet, if unfortunately the official fortune is prosperous to achieve the high position of political envoy and inspection envoy, and the official affairs of a province are so messy, then no matter how much property I have, I am afraid that it will have to be empty.

At this time, Zhang Gongyu and Clematis were entangled, one said that the evidence was ironclad, and the other shouted that he was wronged, Zhang Gongyu was so angry that his hands trembled, and he shook his head and pointed at Clematis and reprimanded:

"Life in the world, the three outlines and five constants, the five constants are benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith. Besides, it was said in ancient books that 'thieves also have a way', my brother is a big thief, and he is a Taoist priest, it seems that he is talking about you. Oh, the ancients were honest and I didn't deceive me! ”

The thief also has the Tao is the beginning of the words in "Zhuangzi", and Zhang Gongyu did not have this in the Four Books and Five Classics that he read in the Jinshi examination, so he misunderstood it.

"Zhuangzi" is also known as "Nanhua Sutra", is a Taoist classic, Wei Lingxian is familiar with it, hearing the words of the anxious face red: "Master, it's not you who understand, this sentence is to say that robbers also have wisdom, holiness, bravery, righteousness, benevolence and other virtues, 'Tao' should be moral, not that robbers also have Taoist priests......"

Zhang Gongyu opened his mouth and stammered, and he didn't know what to say for a while, but the criminal master who was usually an arm assistant was not around, so he had to mutter:

"That's how it was solved? The official wants to go back and flip through the annotations of the "Zhuangzi", but the "Zhuangzi" is not my Confucian famous teachings, and the township examination does not need to be examined, if your brother wants to seek fame, he has to spend his mind on the righteous knowledge of the Four Books and Five Classics, and slowly do the eight strands, the so-called 'this dynasty is the son of heaven and heavy articles, why do you need to talk about the Han and Tang dynasties'......"

The group of officials and land guards brought by Master Zhang, almost didn't smile crookedly after listening to these stupid words, knowing that he was a treasure jinshi who had been offered by several generations of people in the big salt merchant to pray to God and worship Buddha, and he had read since he was a child, and he didn't have a lot of brains, you want to laugh, he is the top boss, so he can only hold back, and he is very uncomfortable.

Shi Wei didn't have the patience to listen to these two people's nonsense, and was dizzy by their quarrels, and said in his heart, "You don't want official authority, my Jinyiwei still needs face, so he shouted loudly:

"Come on, take the prisoner back to the state office, and torture him carefully. Thinking about it, these Jiangyang thieves are all naughty and stubborn, and they don't serve with big punishment, and they won't honestly admit it with red mouth and white teeth! ”

Just looking at his appearance, he also knew that Shi Wei, who had a black face and beard, was definitely not as good at talking as the dull-headed Zhang Gongyu, and when he heard the words of the Great Punishment, Wei Lingxian's eyes suddenly turned white and he wanted to faint, and his two stupid apprentices hugged and cried together, and his mouth was full of Amitayus Longevity, Taishang Laojun, Primordial Tianzun, and even the Buddha of Buddhism and Guanyin Bodhisattva who saved suffering and saved suffering were also mentioned, and for a time they had asked for gods and Buddhas from all over the world.

Qin Lin smiled evilly, the Immortal Master and Apprentice should have been punished for their abduction, and it seemed that he was scared enough, so he said to Shi Wei Shili: "Lord Shi, please forgive me for speaking out, I'm afraid this case really has another inside story!" ”

Shi Wei raised his eyebrows, looking at Qin Lin with blazing eyes, until now he still didn't know what the relationship between this "noble son" and the three old Taoist priests was.

Qin Lin tapped the seven-star sword on the ground with his toes: "This sword is worth at least a hundred taels of silver, who would use it to kill people and rob money?" Even if this peasant family is well-off, the family has at most ten or twenty taels of silver, and in order to grab this money, he throws away the sword with high value, which is not normal.

Moreover, this Clematis master and apprentice was very depressed, his robes were shabby, and he was penniless, so how could he have such an expensive sword? ”

Shi Wei nodded, pondering.

Zhang Gongyu was eager to close the case, and when he saw Qin Lin coming out to "make trouble", he reluctantly argued: "This Taoist priest panicked after killing people, and it is reasonable to throw the murder weapon here in a panic." As for why the poor Taoist priest has a high price sword, maybe it is his ancestor, even if he wears ragged clothes and eats bad food, he is reluctant to sell it, and he has kept it until now. ”

Speaking of which, Zhang Gongyu himself can't go on, these two are fundamentally inconsistent, since they are regarded as treasures, they don't want to sell them after hardships and ups and downs, how can they be used to kill people, and they are thrown away casually after killing?

immediately made a fuss, if it was another case, he would dig into his own pocket to make up for it, and he would be happy to settle in front of him, but this life lawsuit, is it possible to take his own life to compensate? Although Master Zhang is incompetent and loves to mix with good people, it seems that he is still a little short of the realm of who will go to hell if I don't go to hell.

Since the murderer could not be caught on the spot, the state government's puppet began to conduct an autopsy to find clues, this old puppet was in his fifties, with a burnt yellow goatee, but his movements were very skillful.

He first measured the length of the corpse with a soft ruler, and said to the scribe of the torture room who was in charge of the record: "The deceased is four feet seven inches long (each ruler of the Ming tailoring is 34 centimeters), his skin is white, and his appearance is ...... in the middle and upper range."

Then he stretched out his hand and pinched the face of the corpse with two fingers, at this time the corpse stiffness had not yet appeared, the deceased's mouth opened, and he picked up the silver needle with his other hand and quickly probed into the throat, and after a while, he pulled out the color and was as bright as ever, and said: "The throat is not poisonous." ”

Finally, he unfastened his clothes to check the injury, and he used a thin copper rod with a scale to insert it into the wound to measure the depth, and casually reported: "One wound on the left shoulder, two inches long and five minutes deep, one wound under the ribs, two inches deep and two inches and five minutes long, one wound under the abdomen two inches deep and three inches deep, and one wound on the left arm...... All of them were injured by sharp weapons, among which the subcostal wounds pierced the heart and lungs, which was fatal. ”

Speaking of this, the old man kept silent and looked at Zhizhou Zhang Gongyu.

Zhang Gongyu waved his hand impatiently: "What the hell?" Say whatever you want! ”

Only then did the old man say truthfully: "All wounds are flesh and skin and blood flow out, but there is only one wound under the abdomen, and the flesh is not covered with blood, which is actually a posthumous injury." ”

Hiss~ Zhang Gongyu gasped, knowing that this was a big trouble.

After the old man finished speaking, he looked at Qin Lin with deep admiration, a very strange wound in the abdomen, it was clearly that the murderer stabbed the corpse with the seven-star sword after killing someone, so as to blame a few Taoist priests, this little brother is not very old, and his eyesight is even more poisonous than that of rolling in the public gate for decades, could it be that he is a young master in the factory guard?

Niu Dali whispered to Qin Lin: "This old man surnamed Jiao has been working in the state government for more than 30 years, and his methods are extremely spicy. ”

Qin Lin nodded and smiled at Jiao Chengzuo, it is not uncommon for him to have such skills, since the Great Song Dynasty criminal officer Song Ci wrote "Records of Clearing Grievances", the forensic work has gradually become clearer, and every homicide must be examined quite rigorously, and the standardized corpse (autopsy report) must be filled in.

The scribe of the torture room filled in the corpse grid according to the report made by Jiao Yan, and he drew it according to his handprint, and then presented it to Zhang Gongyu of Zhizhou.

Poor Master Zhang has read the sage books all his life, and when he picked up a fluttering corpse, it was as heavy as a thousand pounds, and he was silent for a while.

Qin Lin struck while the iron was hot: "The master and apprentice of the Martial Immortal only carried a small baggage, which could not fit this seven-star sword, if there were still doubts, the eldest master could send someone to inquire along the official road they came to see if it was the sword they brought." ”

Zhang Gongyu was very frustrated, and his self-confidence completely disappeared: "If you say no, then it's not, alas, the official is unlucky......"

The master and apprentice of the Clematis thanked Qin Lin for their kindness, since the murder weapon was not theirs, most of the suspicion of murder was cleared.

"The next time Poor Dao opens the furnace and refines the Nine Turns Golden Pill, you must send a few to Mr. Qin, although you can't fly in vain, at least you can live a long life." Clematis swore by it.

"Come on," Qin Lin hurriedly waved his hand and excused himself: "I don't dare to taste your golden pill, if I eat it, I may not live a hundred years old, but I will die a life." ”

Wei Lingxian laughed dryly, although he was teased by Qin Lin, he was in a very good mood after being released from suspicion.

A few families were happy and a few were sad, the clematis master and apprentice laughed happily, and Master Zhang Gongyu was extremely depressed: since this case was not stolen on the spot, if he wanted to solve the case with his ability, he was afraid that it would be as difficult as the sky.

Fortunately, Master Zhang was not stupid, how could he also be a third-class jinshi and had been a magistrate for six years, and he quickly shook up his official authority and asked the head of the fast catching team who followed:

"The matter of solving the case falls on you, this life lawsuit has something to do with the future of this master's examination, and it also has something to do with your respectful buttocks, I can't say that three is a small comparison, five is a big comparison, and when the time comes, I can't catch the real murderer, and I have no choice but to be selfless."

The state government has three classes of soap, catch, and strong. Among them, the standing class soap is subordinate to the Zhizhou when he ascends to the hall with a water and fire stick to stand in the hall, beat the prisoner's board, Zhizhou takes a sedan chair to go out, he runs in front of the official title card, sounds the gong to open the way; Niu Dali's strong squad is responsible for guarding yamen, warehouses, city gates, prisons, patrolling urban and rural roads, and suppressing bandits and robbers; Kuaishou is in charge of summoning the original defendant and witnesses, solving various cases, large and small, and arresting criminals.

There are bad rules and practices in the name of "errand money", "shoe money", "wine and rice money", "grace money" and so on, and the oil and water are very rich.

However, when a serious case of human life occurs, it is the turn of the arrest to have a headache, and it is stipulated that there is a "comparison limit" of three or five days, and if the real culprit cannot be caught after three days of murder, the arrest will be beaten by 10 boards, and if it is not caught in the fifth day, it will be promoted to 20 boards, and if the case is not solved for a month or two without luck, it will have to eat hundreds of boards, and the blood on both legs will be dripping, and you will have to limp to investigate the case.

The head of the fast catching team in Benzhou is surnamed Cui, a middle-aged man with a short figure and an unattractive appearance, and when he heard that Master Zhang of Zhizhou set a limit, he immediately sweated in a hurry:

In this Qizhou city, there are the honor guards of Jingwangfu and the hundred households of Jinyi Wei, and there are garrisons of five thousand households of Qizhou Wei everywhere outside the city, and there is Jiangfang Dao jurisdiction on the Yangtze River. has always been peaceful, and the state government is okay with catching the little thief quickly, but when he encounters a murder case, he is scared for three points.

His eyes swept around everyone's faces, and he saw that Qin Lin's expression was calm, as if Zhizhu was in his hands, it seemed that Master Zhang and Master Shi of the Zhuangban had a good attitude towards him, and Niu Dali was quite familiar with him.

Cui Zhutou was anxious and wise, and said to Ai Ai in the past period: "Niu Bantou, are you familiar with this Young Master Qin?" Young Master Qin probably knows who the real murderer of this case is, right? The poor villain was set by his boss, and when he saw that his ass was about to suffer, he asked Young Master Qin to save the villain's life. ”

Shi Wei and Zhang Gongyu's attention was also attracted to Qin Lin.

Zhang Gongyu couldn't pull his face down to beg for someone, otherwise he would have wanted to ask Qin Lin; Shi Wei, who is a hundred households in Jinyi, wants to see what kind of ability this young "noble son" has to dare to point fingers at the scene of the murder? Looking at his confident appearance, could it be that he has already locked up the murderer?