Zhichun's face flushed slightly, lowered his head, and said a little shyly: "When dinner was about to be eaten that day, I was playing with my nurse in the room to tease the little master, and I heard the third aunt running down the attic with a smile, and the laughter was very strange and a little silly. ”

I hurriedly shouted to the third aunt to chase downstairs, and I saw the third aunt smirking and running while stripping her skirt, and ran all the way into the yard of the eldest young master. The eldest young master may have heard my shout and came out of the room, and at this time the third aunt was almost stripped naked, so she suddenly jumped up and hugged the eldest young master tightly, and promised the eldest young master everything, saying that she would ...... soon I want the eldest young master to ...... with her."

Zhichun lowered his head and stopped talking shyly. But everyone knows what she means.

Yang Qiuchi was also a little embarrassed, and involuntarily turned his head to look at Song Yun'er, although Song Yun'er didn't know the exact meaning of what Zhichun said, but when she heard Guo Shi undress and hug the man, she also blushed.

Yang Qiuchi hurriedly turned around and said, "What happened later?" Let's be more detailed. ”

"The eldest young master was so frightened that he yelled, and he didn't dare to push the third aunt away, so he let the third aunt hold him, I hurriedly went up to pull the third aunt away, but the third aunt somehow had a lot of strength, and I couldn't pull her at all."

At this time, the old lady, the eldest grandmother, the second aunt and Steward Pang all came, and they worked together to pull the third aunt away, but the third aunt wanted to hug Steward Pang again, which scared Steward Pang to a fall. The eldest grandmother slapped the third aunt a few times, but the third aunt still smirked as if she didn't know the pain. ”

The second aunt was about to go up and slap the third aunt, but the third aunt pushed her down and fell to the ground. The second lady stepped forward and kicked the third aunt with a heartfelt foot, kicked the third aunt to sit on the ground, everyone wanted to go up and catch her to get dressed, but the third aunt got up and ran out of the yard, and then ran to the gate, until the gate was caught by the family. ”

The old lady was so angry that she scolded the third aunt for being shameless and unethical, and wanted to lock her up and punish her. A few of us came forward to help the third aunt get dressed, and then we were sent back to the small attic and locked in the yard. ”

Yang Qiuchi said curiously: "Was the courtyard gate of the small attic also locked that night?" ”

"It's locked. In the past, it was just bolted from the inside, but that day I was afraid that the third aunt would run out to become a nymphomaniac while we were not paying attention, so Mrs. Yang asked someone to lock the courtyard door from the outside. ”

Yang Qiuchi felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, these three aunts were too pitiful. Judging from the symptoms described by Zhichun, the third aunt obviously did not take aphrodisiacs and estrus - of course, if she took aphrodisiacs, she would have the surname excited, but this excitement was reasonable, that is, although she had the impulse of the surname, she would not strip off and run all over the world.

The third aunt suffered from a kind of adolescent schizophrenia, because people with this disease, the female surname is far more than the male surname, and it is easy to occur in the flower-like years, so it is also called nymphomania.

To put it simply, is a kind of mental illness, which is a mental activity with thinking disorders, the main manifestations of which are delusions of being loved, delusions of jealousy, etc., and sensory hallucinations such as sight, hearing, and smell in the case of clear consciousness.

The third aunt stripped naked and ran to find the eldest young master, in front of so many people holding the eldest young master to be with him, this is a very typical schizophrenic surname fantasy, a kind of fantasy that is loved, fantasizing that a certain man she likes is devoted to herself, and under the control of the surname hyperactivity, she makes this kind of behavior that ordinary people can't do.

The pathogenesis of is not well understood, and there are no obvious pathological morphological changes in the brain of such people. It is generally believed that this is due to the instability of the neuroendocrine system of adolescents and girls, the strong tendency to delusion, and the weak ability to withstand blows. Once exposed to strong stimulation, neuroendocrine stress fails, resulting in adaptation syndrome and nymphomania.

These stimuli that may trigger in young men and women can come from social life, emotional life, and can also come from the side effects of certain drugs.

It is still unknown what stimulated the third aunt to become a nymphomaniac.

Yang Qiuchi asked again: "After finding out that the third aunt was hanged, who took her down?" ”

"It's me," Zhichun said, "The eldest grandmother asked me to hold the body of the third aunt and asked Steward Pang to untie the rope, I was very scared at that time, I didn't dare to go up, and I was slapped by the eldest grandmother, so I had no choice but to go up and hug the eldest grandmother's thigh." Steward Pang straightened the low stool that had fallen to the side, and was about to go up to untie the rope, when the eldest young master hurriedly stepped on the stool and untied the rope. The third aunt was very heavy, I couldn't hold it and almost fell, but fortunately, the nurse stepped forward to help me, and the third aunt was put on the ground. ”

Hearing this, Yang Qiuchi's heart moved, the third aunt was too nymphomaniac, the first one was to run to hug the eldest young master Yang Qingshui, indicating that in her fantasy of being loved by the surname, the person she liked in her heart was the eldest young master Yang Qingshui. Now that the eldest young master is the first to untie the rope of the third aunt's hanging, it seems that the relationship between the two may not be simple.

If there is a combination of inside and outside in this case, then Yang Qingshui's suspicion is very big.

An important issue in the investigation of homicide cases is the time when the victim was killed, which is of great help in determining the scope of criminal suspects.

Yang Qiuchi asked the maid Zhichun: "When you hugged her, was her body still hot?" ”

"It's already cold."

The human hand feels cold, and the temperature should be below 30 degrees Celsius. At the time of Guo's death, it was when the spring flowers were blooming, and the temperature was moderately hot and cold, so according to the normal rate of human corpse colding, the time of Guo's death was about six hours.

It is not enough to judge by the corpse coldness alone, Yang Qiuchi asked: "When you hugged the third aunt down, did you feel that the third aunt's hands and feet were hard?" Recall it well and be as detailed as possible. ”

"It's all [***], but when I put her on the ground, her feet are still soft and can be bent, and when I gave her a pulse, I found that her hands couldn't bend anymore, and when I took the rope around her neck, I held her head and lifted it, her neck would not bend, and her whole body was raised."

Yang Qiuchi listened to Zhichun's description, and immediately knew that Guo's corpse zombie was a descending surname, and his neck and hands could not be bent, but his legs could still be bent and developed from top to bottom, which was a manifestation of the descending surname corpse zombie.

Since the whole body has not yet formed a high-intensity mortis, that is, the neck muscles and upper upper upper limbs have already appeared stiff, but they have not yet extended to the lower limbs. According to this calculation, the time of death should have been about four hours, that is, two o'clock in the evening.

Zhichun continued: "Later, when we were buried, Mrs. Yang asked us to wipe the third aunt and change into clean clothes, and when she was undressing and dressing, it took a lot of effort to bend her hand, and after getting dressed, when she was carried into the coffin, her hand couldn't bend [***]. ”

Hearing this, Yang Qiuchi's heart moved: Stiff again? The so-called rigidity is the stiffness of the corpse after death, and at this time, the stiffness of the joints can be forcibly lifted by external force, and the rigidity can be re-rigid. Re-rigidity usually occurs within 5 to 6 hours after death. This is useful for judging the time of death.

Yang Qiuchi asked, "When you moved the third aunt into the coffin, how long did it take for you to find out?" ”

"There is probably only one time to come, because after finding that the third aunt was hanged, the eldest grandmother was discouraged, and instructed Steward Pang to go to the carpenter's house in the village to buy a coffin immediately.

"When you untied the third aunt and put it on the ground, did you find anything unusual about her hands and feet?" The reason why Yang Qiuchi asked this question was because the corpse spots of the standing hanged corpse would appear on the distal ends of the limbs and the lower abdomen.

Zhichun lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said: "The third aunt's hands and feet were very white and tender, but when we put her on the ground and felt her pulse, we found that her hands were purple and purple, which was very scary. Later, when she undressed and wiped her body, she found that her small belly and soles of her feet were also purple. ”

This means that when Zhichun and the others found the body, there were already corpse spots. So, the time of death has been at least two hours or more.

Zhichun said earlier that the third aunt fell asleep after the third watch, that is, at about twelve o'clock in the evening, the body was found at Mao Shi, that is, at six o'clock in the morning, and it was found that the stiffness was after an hour, that is, around eight o'clock, and the stiffness generally occurs within six hours, and combined with the comprehensive judgment of the cold situation of the corpse, the time of death should be around two o'clock in the evening.

After asking these questions, Yang Qiuchi suddenly turned grim and said coldly: "Okay, let's go around for a long time, it's time to get down to business, Zhichun, you tell me honestly, how did you strangle your third aunt to death, and then disguise her as hanging?" Bring it from the truth, so that the flesh and skin will not suffer! ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhichun was only frightened, and kowtowed vigorously and said, "My lord, the people are wronged!" I didn't kill the third aunt, I didn't. ”

Song Tongzhi and Song Yun'er had heard Yang Qiuchi say it well, why did they suddenly ask this question, and they were so sure.

In fact, this is Yang Qiuchi's no way, this old case two years ago, the victim died in the secret room, the doors and windows were locked, there was no trace of outsiders sneaking in, except for the three-year-old child Shan'er in the house, there were only the maid Zhichun and the nurse Lu Shi, of course these two people have major suspicions.

In this case, the exclusion method can be used to convict, but the exclusion method only applies to the presumption of guilt, that is, the defendant is first estimated to be guilty, and then the evidence of his guilt is found, and sometimes, the defendant can even be asked to prove that he is not guilty, if he cannot prove it, he is found guilty, and if he refuses to admit it, he is tortured to extract a confession.

As a method of determining crimes, there is only one crime applicable in China's current criminal law, that is, "the crime of unclear sources of huge amounts of property", where the defendant is a state functionary and his property far exceeds his income, so it is presumed that the source of his property is illegal, and if the state civil servant cannot explain that the part of his income in excess of his income is lawful income, it will be found to be illegal, and criminal responsibility will be pursued accordingly.

In addition to this crime, all other evidence for the determination of a crime must be proved by the public prosecution, which is the so-called "self-proof of the crime", that is, the criminal suspect has no obligation to prove that he did not commit a crime, let alone prove that he committed a crime. Proving that the crime is a matter for the public prosecution organs, and if it cannot be proven, they are acquitted on the grounds that the evidence is insufficient.

Although the law stipulates this, in real life, some public prosecution organs will still use this method of exclusion to determine the crime when initiating a public prosecution, because the conclusion of this method lacks a unique surname, once there are omissions in the exclusion, it is likely that there will be unjust, false and wrongful cases, so the public prosecution that is simply used to determine the crime will not be supported by the court, at least not by the judge who has received a strict legal education.

Of course Yang Qiuchi knew this, but now it was the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, and at this time, the presumption of guilt was implemented to determine the crime, since this was legal, and the suspects only had these two, and he had no other reliable clues, so Yang Qiuchi decided to use this method to detect. Try the ancients how they identified crime.

The presumption of guilt and the extortion of confessions by torture, as a means of solving cases, although they do not conform to the concept of human rights, are not a very effective method of solving cases, which is why so many criminal investigators are keen on extorting confessions by torture, just because this method is simple and effective.

However, once the judgment is wrong, the infringement of the suspect's legitimate rights is immeasurable, and it is not in line with the spirit of human rights, so it will be abandoned by the modern rule of law.

Hearing that Chun was wronged, Yang Qiuchi changed his words and asked, "How do you three aunts treat you?" ”

Zhichun didn't expect him to ask this question, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, so he thought about it before saying, "The third aunt is ...... me ...... to me That's good. ”

"Good?" Yang Qiuchi sneered, "Then who hit the scar on the back of your neck?" ”

As soon as she heard Yang Qiuchi's words, Song Yun'er immediately understood, and exclaimed in surprise, "Brother, you stared at someone's neck just now, it turned out that you were looking at her scars!" I thought it was ...... Hee-hee-hee"

Yang Qiuchi glared at her: "Don't speak!" ”

Song Yun'er shrunk her neck, stuck out her tongue, and quickly shut up.

As soon as Zhichun heard Yang Qiuchi's words, he said, "No, no, it may be that I scratched it myself." ”

Yang Qiuchi turned his head and said to Song Yun'er: "Yun'er, please take her to the next room, take off her dress and check it to see if there are any scars, what kind of scars." ”

"Good!" Song Yun'er walked up to Zhichun in a few steps, grabbed her hand, and pulled her into the next room.

After a while, Song Yun'er pulled Zhichun out and said, "Brother, she is full of whipping scars all over her body, but the scars are very light, as if they were left before." With that, he went back to his seat and sat down.

Yang Qiuchi sneered and asked Zhichun, "Where did the scars on your body come from?" If you don't confess honestly, you will be punished! ”

"I said, I said," Zhichun said in a trembling voice, "The third aunt is often angry with the eldest grandmother and the second aunt, and when she comes back to see that I am not pleasing to the eye, she finds the wrong way to beat me. ”

Yang Qiuchi stared at Zhichun and said, "So you can't be angry, so you took advantage of her nymphomaniac confusion to strangle her to death!" ”

"I didn't! I didn't, my lord, the people were wronged. ”

"Wronged? Your third aunt beat you for no reason, don't you hate her? ”

Zhichun cowered and didn't speak.

Song Tongzhi also heard the taste, it turned out that this little maid was angry but the third aunt Tai Guo beat her for no reason, and took revenge and killed her. I am very happy in my heart, it seems that this case has been solved again, this virtuous nephew is really a master of solving cases, and when he is caught, his own credit has been established again.

Song Tongzhi shouted: "Such as, so unruly, if you don't fight, you can't move!" Come on, drag me down and hit me with thirty boards! The habitual surname reached out to touch the sign holder on the desk, and felt empty, and then remembered that this was not his own yamen, but a haunted small attic.

Nangong Xiong and the other three guards were not Song Tongzhi's subordinates, and they were not under his orders, but just looked at Yang Qiuchi. Seeing that Yang Qiuchi nodded slightly, he agreed, and stepped forward to drag Zhichun to the corridor outside to play the board.

Zhichun was so frightened that he said in a loud voice: "Don't hit me, I say, I say." ”

Yang Qiuchi waved his hand, and Nangong Xiong and the others pulled Zhichun back. Then return to your place on your own.

Zhichun took a breath and said, "At that time, I really hated the third aunt, and I did think about it...... I thought about fighting with her, but I didn't dare to think deeply, I only blamed myself for my miserable life. I really didn't kill the third aunt, I beg the adults to see it. Then he prostrated again and again.

Song Tongzhi finally caught a suspect, how could he let it go easily, and shouted: "There are only two people in the room, you and the nurse, you have a motive to kill, who else could you kill if you didn't kill it?" What a bad woman, she dares to deceive her own official, it seems that she still can't fight if she doesn't fight! Someone ...... coming."

Yang Qiuchi waved his hand and said, "Lord Song, don't rush to torture, detain her first, and wait until we finish interrogating the nurse Lu." As he spoke, he gave Song Tongzhi a look.

Song Tongzhi looked at Yang Qiuchi with some puzzlement, and then nodded: "Just follow the virtuous nephew." He instructed: "Will, take the prisoner Zhichun down to be guarded, and bring the nurse Lu Shi to the court." ”

Zhichun was still in a state of grievance, and was pulled out of the attic and imprisoned.

Taking advantage of the free time that Zhichun took out, Song Tongzhi asked Yang Qiuchi: "What is the purpose of the virtuous nephew?" Since this real murderer has been caught, why should he be tried? ”

Yang Qiuchi shook his head and said in a low voice: "This little girl Zhichun is unlikely to be the murderer, and the real murderer must be someone else." ”

(To be continued)