65. Solve the case by God
"Guiguzi Reaction Chapter" said: "Fishing language is in harmony, and it is true to win people." Fishing language is a good thing, and it is true to win people, and it is like opening a net and taking the beast, and many of it will do it. The way is in line with the matter, he comes out of it, and this fishing net is also.
One day, a shop was stolen, lost a large amount of gold and silver treasures, the merchant reported this matter to the county magistrate of Taiping County, the county official knew that the prefect Zhao Xuan was attacking such a thing, so the county official did not dare to slack off, sent the arrest to find it quickly, and according to the clues left at the scene, the arrest was carried out according to the clues, and finally found the stolen goods in a mud house in the countryside, and at the same time arrested several very suspected criminals, and arrested them to the yamen for training. "Hurry up, and tell the truth about your crimes!" In desperation, the county officials had to escort them to the prison, hoping to use torture to make them confess their crimes, these people are really hard-mouthed, no matter what method the county magistrate uses, tiger chairs, chili water, * and other props are used, but they just don't recruit, the county officials really don't recruit, so they have to report this matter to the prefect Zhao Xuan
At this moment, Zhao Xuan is sitting in the bedroom reading, in the past few days, Zhao Xuan has not handled a case for a long time, it is really a little boring, and those fast officials are not idle, there is no case they have no time to rest, they can only enhance their ability through non-stop contact, sometimes everyone is tired, Ma Feng and others will also teach some of their own methods of handling cases to everyone, every time Ma Feng and others talk, Cheng Liang will also sit aside and listen to their teachings, it can be said that the case handling methods in the West Factory, It really made Cheng Liang feel like his eyes were shining.
At this time, a servant hurriedly ran to Zhao Xuan's room, bowed to Zhao Xuan, and said, "My lord, Taiping County sent someone to say that there is a case that they are a little tricky, and I hope you can help them deal with it!" β
Zhao Xuan nodded, thinking that there was finally something to do, and hurriedly asked the official to call the people from Taiping County in, after the messenger came, after saluting Zhao Xuan, waiting for Zhao Xuan's inquiry about him, I saw Zhao Xuan speak: "Tell me the reason for the matter!" β
After the man responded, he told Zhao Xuan what happened one by one, Zhao Xuan listened, "snapped", his hand slammed on the table, and snorted coldly: "In the place under my jurisdiction, there are still people who dare to do this kind of stealing, and the prefect will definitely find out this person and investigate it well!" After speaking, Zhao Xuan asked the man to go back, and told the county magistrate of Taiping County to treat those suspects to him, and he would naturally have a way to find out the real culprit.
After the man thanked him, he turned around and left, after all, he had to go back to the county master as soon as possible, this kind of hot potato was really not something that people like them could handle.
A few days later, the county magistrate of Taiping County escorted the suspects to the prefect's yamen, Zhao Xuan knew about it, and hurriedly came out to check, and when these people saw Zhao Xuan wearing official uniforms, they immediately knew that the person standing in front of them must be the prefect of Juye City, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and cried wrong.
Looking at the people in front of them who were blue and purple, and the blood stains on their bodies had not yet dried, Zhao Xuan said softly: "Don't worry, as long as you listen to my instructions, you will soon be able to find out the real murderer."
Judging from what these people said, Zhao Xuan knew that these people must not be from Juye City, but migrated here from outside, although the master knew that the prefect Zhao Xuan was very smart, and he had a lot of ghost ideas on weekdays, but this time he couldn't punish these people with capital punishment, so the master was very worried, thinking that Zhao Xuan's calmness at the moment was just pretending, he was really afraid that Zhao Xuan's reputation would be damaged because of such a thing, and looking at the appearance of the master, Zhao Xuan just smiled and didn't say anything, He has his own way of dealing with it, and he will definitely not wronged the good guys, and at the same time, he won't let the bad guys go.
When those people were escorted to the prison for first custody, the master followed behind Zhao Xuan, anxious left and right, not knowing whether to ask Zhao Xuan or not.
Zhao Xuan knew that the master was following behind him, and he was even more anxious than himself at the moment, Zhao Xuan "snorted", "If you have anything to say, just say it, you are not tired of beating around the bush like this!" β
The master who followed behind Zhao Xuan smiled awkwardly, "My lord, looking at your confident appearance, I really can't see if you have a way or a way?" β
Listening to the master's incoherent words, Zhao Xuan no longer concealed it, and said to the master: "Think about it, since they don't know my deeds and commit theft because of this, it means that these people must have just come to our giant field, and most of them are kind and simple people, so what is the best way to use for the common people, that is, to use the gods to see if they have made mistakes, and pass on my words to those outsiders who are imprisoned in the prison: The big bell in the Chenghuang Temple outside the city is the most effective, If someone has committed a crime that cannot be convicted, then it can help people to judge the case. If it were sinless, touch him, and he won't make a sound, but if a sinful person touches it, he will make a sound. β
Although the master didn't know what Zhao Xuan thought, he still agreed and hurriedly ran in the direction of the prison to convey his will.
At noon, Zhao Xuan appeared in Juye's prison, looking at these people covered in bruises, Zhao Xuan was also very distressed, he also climbed up step by step from the bottom with his own efforts, if it weren't for his luck, maybe he was still living such a life now, maybe he would be like these people, when bad luck came, he couldn't stop it.
Zhao Xuan looked at these people and said slowly: "I believe you have heard what I conveyed, now I will take you to the City God Temple, if that thief stands up now, I can let you go, but if you rely on the method of the gods to catch you, I will definitely not spare you, I count to three, if you know each other, stand up now." β
Seeing that there was no one standing up among the crowd, Zhao Xuan began to count, "One, two, three"
The three numbers have been counted, and no one among these people has stood up, Zhao Xuan didn't get angry but laughed, "Haha, okay, you also have some backbone, but it's a pity that the backbone can't be eaten, since that's the case, don't blame the prefect for not giving you a chance to reform yourself!" After speaking, Zhao Xuan turned around and left
The City God Temple outside the city is not too far away from the city gate, everyone arrived soon, Zhao Xuan got out of the carriage, looked around these suspects a little helplessly, and said angrily, "Okay, you wait here first, I will go and pray for the arrival of the gods first, and when I come out later, I will arrange for each of you to touch it." β
From the outside, the city god temple in front of it, the stone brick red wall, eight stone pillars on the periphery of the city god temple between the corridors, the two red lacquer pillars at the door, with a pair of elegant couplets written in cursive, because the font is too scribbled, Zhao Xuan can't see what is written, look at the specifications of the city god temple is indeed not small, red walls and white tiles, it seems that the former prefect of Juye must be a person to Buddha, but Zhao Xuan is an atheist, he doesn't believe that there are any gods, ghosts, basilisks in this world, so he doesn't care about these things, Looking at this clean Chenghuang Temple, I think that someone will come to clean it every day, and it can be seen that the incense in this temple is not bad, although Zhao Xuan is an atheist, and he doesn't care about these things, but other people believe in this thing, so casually, it is estimated that the people in the city will not be willing, so at the same time, Zhao Xuan also decided to try to have a pious heart, put three sticks of incense in this temple, to tell the gods that he has no malicious intentions, just to find out the thief as soon as possible.
It was very strange that Zhao Xuan found that the cigarettes of the three incense sticks he was on were all close to the Buddha statue, and there was no wind in it, which also made Zhao Xuan a little surprised, but for the safety of the property of the people in this city, Zhao Xuan still decided to do it.
After the incense, Zhao Xuan walked out of the City God Temple, took a few catchers, and let them walk into the City God Temple with the things that Zhao Xuan had prepared for them early, these things were placed in some big baggage, it seemed that there were a lot of things put in, and a few catchers were left, let them look at these people, although these people were wearing shackles, it was impossible to run away, but leaving a few people was also just in case.
Entering the City God Temple, Zhao Xuan did not rush to set up an incense case to pray, but asked them to take out the ink that had been prepared for the realization, and let them paint it on the big bell in advance, and the whole bell was blackened, looking at the black big clock, Zhao Xuan nodded with satisfaction, and then began to let everyone set up an incense case to pray, at this time, the sky had gradually darkened, but he could see the vague figure of Zhao Xuan in the temple, holding a peach wood sword in one hand and a charm in the other, standing outside the door, and he could vaguely hear Zhao Xuan's mouth chanting words, after the spell was burned, Zhao Xuan counted the hours and found that the sky had not completely darkened, so Zhao Xuan improvised a dance god, and finally, just when Zhao Xuan really couldn't jump, the sky outside finally completely darkened.
At this moment, Zhao Xuan finally knew how tired those Taoist priests and witches were when they treated people and exorcised evil spirits, no wonder they would often sweat profusely, Zhao Xuan at this moment was already sweating profusely, his chest and back were already soaked, wiped the sweat on his forehead, Zhao Xuan waited for the incense set up to burn out, at this time, the temple was already dark, Zhao Xuan came out, sat down on the carriage, signaled to the catchers, and let them go in one by one to touch the big bell.
After listening to the order, he put these in one by one, and soon, everyone was done, after all, it was just a few people, and it was over soon, and at this moment, Zhao Xuan was already resting, took the lantern from a fast catcher, and personally checked the hands of each suspect one by one, and finally, Zhao Xuan found the person who had no ink on his hand.
Zhao Xuan smiled and said to the rest of the people: "I'm really sorry for you, I wronged you, in this way, I will arrange for you to live in the yamen tonight, what do you want to eat, just tell the catcher in the yamen, wait until tonight, early tomorrow morning, I will give each of you two taels of silver as compensation, and at the same time will give you some good gold sore medicine, so that you can recover as soon as possible, as for your county master of Taiping County, I will also make severe criticism, I will never let this happen again in the future, and I hope you can live a good life here in Juye in the future! β
Zhao Xuan's heart is still kind, to be honest, these people are really very innocent, but they are farmers who often move over, but because of a theft case file recently, in the middle of the night, they are still hungry, so Zhao Xuan is really a little guilty about these people.
Among these people, there are also people with sharp ears, who heard the guilt in Zhao Xuan's words, and hurriedly said: "It is very good that the prefect can prove our innocence, and we also know that leaving our hometown will not let the people around us be kind to us, after all, we are here to grab food and land with them, and the prefect has given us so many benefits, we are too late to be grateful, how can we blame!" β
Although this person said this, Zhao Xuan still felt very guilty, and arranged for a few arresters to take these people back to the yamen first, while Zhao Xuan returned to the prison with this person with very 'clean' hands
After returning to the prison, the man was still a little unconvinced, "I also touched the bell, he didn't ring, you must have caught the wrong person, let me go quickly!" After saying that, I didn't forget to struggle a few times to escape the bondage of this rope.
Zhao Xuan snorted coldly, "You person, are you really stupid, I sent someone to paint the entire bell with ink, if you touch the bell, how can you not get ink on it?" So are you a thief, do you want me to tell you? β
"You can do it!" The person who was tied up was directly blocked speechless by Zhao Xuan's words, and he didn't know what to say.
Zhao Xuan didn't have time to talk nonsense to him, he hadn't eaten yet, plus he had been busy all afternoon, he was about to exhaust him, and directly ordered the catchers to kill him as long as they couldn't kill him, and he would be fine no matter how he was done, and finally, in this gang of catchers, one by one, tried to learn from Ma Feng and others. Torture means', and this person, in the end, his psychological defense line was broken, and all the crimes were recruited, including the things he stole in other prefects and prefectures, and all the places where the things were hidden were confessed, after learning about it, Zhao Xuan sent people to send people overnight to find out the stolen money, and then everything was confiscated, ready to relieve those poor people, as for this person, the number of thefts is too much, and he was found to have killed two people because of stealing, so after Zhao Xuan's discretion, it was decided to behead him after the autumn and temporarily put him on death rowγ
And those fast catches, it's not enough to enjoy it, I don't know when such human experiments can be carried out, it seems that there really is really what kind of master has what kind of apprentice, these fast catches, unconsciously began to have some cruel style of Ma Feng and others.
As for the merchant's money, it had already been returned to the merchant by the county magistrate of Taiping County, and seeing that his money came back, the merchant was moved to tears, if it weren't for his age to withstand the bumps, otherwise he would definitely rush to the prefect's yamen and thank Zhao Xuan well
(To be continued)