Yang Qiuchi was overjoyed, and hurriedly looked down, but those Miao people did not mean to retreat, and when they were in a hurry, they suddenly heard Yun Tianqing shouting a few words in his voice, grabbing the pillar of the drum tower and turning over the railing, Yang Qiuchi grabbed him and exclaimed: "Hey! What are you doing? ”

"Let go of me, they won't go, I'll jump off the building and die to show them!" Yun Tianqing roared.

Yang Qiuchi immediately understood that Yun Tianqing was making a bitter trick, so he let go of his hand and quietly ordered Nangong Xiong behind him to pay attention to Yun Tianqing, so as not to let him really jump off the drum tower.

Downstairs, when the Miao people saw that the owner of the village, Yun Tianqing, was about to jump under the drum tower, they were all frightened, and they knelt down and kowtowed, shouting loudly in Miao language.

Chang Fu said happily: "It's done, master, the Miao people promised to leave immediately, and asked the owner of the village to take care." ”

Yang Qiuchi looked downstairs, and sure enough, he saw thousands of Miao people slowly disperse towards the city gates.

Yun Tianqing rode on the railing of the drum tower, his face was desolate, and he kept shouting loudly in Miao language, waving his hand to drive them away.

Half an hour later, the crowd outside the yamen was scattered. Yun Tianqing was still riding on the railing, thinking that his son was about to be beheaded, and he couldn't help but burst into tears. Turning his head to Yang Qiuchi, he said, "Lord Yang, I want to see off my son at the Dharma Field, okay?" ”

Yang Qiuchi is also hoping for this, he is still worried that those Miao people will go and return, hijacking the law field, then the previous efforts will be wasted, if this Yun Tianqing is there, it can be seen that this Yun Tianqing is still very prestigious among the Miao people in the four miles and eight towns, with him, this heart will have a bottom.

Of course, Yang Qiuchi also agreed, and when he got off the drum tower, Zhao praised Yang Qiuchi again and again for handling it well and getting through this crisis safely. Yang Qiuchi thought to himself that it hadn't happened yet, and it would be okay to cut off his head after the law field. Ordered to send four officials to investigate to see if Miao Zhong had really left. After a while, the spies came to report that the Miao people had returned to the cottage, and there was no large-scale gathering of Miao people inside and outside the city.

Yang Qiuchi was overjoyed, and ordered Yun Tianqing to be escorted back to the Yamen prison first, and asked Zhao to block the law field outside the city by the officers and soldiers of the general organization, and be on guard along the way, preparing for the noon execution, and Yang Qiuchi himself had to go back to the inner yamen to have a look.

Back at the inner office, Song Yun'er, Qin Zhihui, and Hong Aya were gathering in the living room to discuss nervously, and Liu Ruobing had already left the back garden and was sitting with Mrs. Bai watching them. Seeing Yang Qiuchi come back, the women cheered and surrounded him, looked up and down to see if there were any missing parts, and saw that Yang Qiuchi was safe and sound, so he was relieved.

Song Yun'er said: "Brother, can you say that the owner of Miao Village went to the drum tower to persuade Miao Zhong to go back, and resolved this crisis in one fell swoop, it's really amazing!" The other girls also boasted.

Yang Qiuchi smiled slightly: "It's nothing, they don't really want to rebel, just talk about it." Suddenly remembering something, she asked Song Yun'er: "By the way, how do you know so clearly in the internal office?" ”

Song Yun'er grinned, glanced at Master Liu Ruobing, and said, "As my master said, she was worried that you were in danger, so she kept quietly hiding on the side and paying attention, and your every move couldn't escape my master's sight." ”

Yang Qiuchi gratefully bowed to Liu Ruobing: "Thank you Senior Liu for your favor." ”

Liu Ruobing just smiled faintly and didn't speak.

Song Yun'er said again: "Brother, don't worry, I have already discussed with my master, you go to supervise and behead, we will disguise ourselves as your guards and protect you closely, with my master here, no matter how many thieves there are, they can't hurt you!" ”

Yang Qiuchi was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed again: "Thank you Senior Liu, thank you Yun'er!" ”

At that moment, Song Yuner and Liu Ruobing went back to the room and changed into men's guard clothes, and became two handsome and dashing tomboy guards.

At this time, Zhang Ma, the inner yamen, came in and said that Mr. Zhao had sent someone to report that the law field had been prepared.

Yang Qiuchi straightened his official robes, took Liu Ruobing and Song Yun'er, two fake guards, and walked out of the inner office with square steps. Under the escort of Nangong Xiong and others, he ascended to the church.

The two death row prisoners Yun Xuan and the Jiang Yang thief were taken to the lobby platform and knelt down, the scribe of the torture room took the roll call, and Yang Qiuchi personally verified the body and ordered the reward for wine and meat.

Yun Xuan had not yet recovered from torture, his health was very poor, and he had no appetite, so he only ate a little bit and didn't eat, but he drank a little bit of wine. The Jiangyang thief was a man, and when he died, he ate meat and drank wine in a big bowl, and he ate a plate of cooked beef cleanly.

Yang Qiuchi ordered Yun Tianqing to be brought up and their father and son reunited. But the two sat on the floor in the lobby, but neither of them spoke, silently drinking wine and shedding tears.

When the time came to escort him to the court, the scribe of the torture room handed over the two prisoners on death row to Yang Qiuchi after the public case.

The whole rule of this execution, Master Jin has already told Yang Qiuchi. Yang Qiuchi lifted a red pen on the public case, stretched out the public case, and the scribe of the torture room stepped forward with the two signs, dragged them up, and ticked a red mark on the brand, even if the death penalty execution order was issued, Yang Qiuchi immediately threw the red pen and shouted: "Escort to the execution ground!" ”

The soaps on both sides agreed in unison, and inserted the signs that Zhu Pen had hooked into the back of the necks of the two death row prisoners and took them out of the lobby.

According to the rules, before being escorted to the court, they had to parade through the streets, but because they were worried that the nights would be long and dreamy, and that there would be extraneous branches, Yang Qiuchi ordered the parade to be exempted from the streets, and he was directly escorted to the prisoner car and taken to the court outside the city.

Yang Qiuchi wore a red cloak over his full official uniform, which was to ward off evil spirits.

After leaving the lobby, he got into the official sedan chair, and under the heavy protection of the government servants and the Jinyi guards, he escorted the prisoner car straight to the execution ground.

This execution ground is on a flat land on Wuli Road outside the city, and it is already full of ordinary people watching the excitement, and there are only a dozen Miao people in Miao costumes, who should have come to collect the corpses. Because Yun Tianqing gave a death order, he did not allow other Miao people to come to the Dharma field.

A legal platform was set up next to the execution ground, and a pergola was erected, and Mr. Zhao was already waiting in the pergola. Seeing that Yang Qiuchi's official sedan chair had arrived, he got up and greeted him.

Yang Qiuchi went to the pergola and sat in the center. Liu Ruobing and Song Yun'er, two handsome guards, protected left and right. Nangong Xiong and other guards deployed guards around the pergola.

The court was surrounded by officers and soldiers, government officials, and people, and they were blocked layer by layer, and the onlookers were far away. More than a dozen steps away in front of the pergola, kneeling Yun stunned and the Jiangyang thief.

Yang Qiuchi raised his eyes and looked at his head and asked, "What time is it?" ”

The squad leader replied with Chang Fu behind him: "It's two o'clock." ”

Although it took almost an hour to persuade the Miao people to retire, because the street parade was omitted, this time was more.

The ancient theory of yin and yang believes that if it is beheaded at noon, the deceased can also become a ghost and reincarnate, and three o'clock in the afternoon is the most prosperous moment of the day, and the yin energy dissipates immediately, and at this time it is executed, then even the ghost can not do it, in order to show severe punishment. This Jiangyang thief is an ordinary crime, so he chose to be executed at noon, and Yun Xuan was a murderer, which is a felony, so he was executed at three o'clock in the afternoon, so that he couldn't do it.

When Yang Qiuchi heard this, he was a little depressed, and saw Yun Tianqing standing not far from the pergola, looking at his son desolately. Some could not bear it, and ordered the officials to take him to his son, and let them talk.

Yun Tianqing gratefully arched his hand to Yang Qiuchi, and then slowly walked to his son and sat down on the grass, crying while talking in Miao dialect, Yun was stunned and didn't cry, but sat on the ground tied up, whispering something to his father.

Yang Qiuchi was a little sad, sighed and said, "How could this Yun stunned think of killing officials, he is really impatient." ”

Zhao Jiang always sighed with a rosacea: "Yes, this cloud is really a little stupid, it is too bold to sneak into the yamen to kill people alone." ”

Yang Qiuchi said, "Does Lord Zhao know about this?" ”

"How could I not know, there was a lot of uproar at that time, and the entire Qingxi County was about to be turned over. Yun Tianqing led dozens of Miao people to storm the yamen and demand the release of his son, or did I lead the troops to arrest him? ”

There was nothing to do, Yang Qiuchi asked casually: "Why does this cloud stunned want to kill Wang Dianshi?" Do they have a grudge? ”

"Of course there is a feud, and it's not ordinary." Rosacea looked left and right, leaned his head over and said in a low voice: "Lord Yang doesn't know, this Wang Dianshi was a pervert before his death, and when he went down to Miao Village to collect taxes and grain, he took a fancy to this Yun Dian wife, Wang, and tried to rape her with the strength of wine, and was beaten violently by Yun Dian with a wooden stick, if it wasn't for others to pull it fast, he would almost kill him, but he still discounted one leg of this Wang Dianshi and became a cripple. The two families became enemies. ”

Yang Qiuchi nodded, and asked again: "This Wang Dianshi tried to rape someone's daughter-in-law and violated the royal law, no one cares?" ”

"It's in charge, I heard that this Wang Dianshi secretly made a lot of silver, and it was not easy for him to do things in this kind of poor and remote place, and he didn't force it to be annihilated, and his leg was broken, and he was fined for a year and paid it to Miao Zhai, so he didn't pursue it again, so he pressed down on this matter."

Yang Qiuchi nodded: "I see, so to speak, it is this cloud stunned to remember the old hatred and take revenge." ”

"Exactly. I heard that according to Yun Xuan's confession, when he rushed into the study, there were only Wang Dianshi and her concubine Aunt Zhao in the study, and there was also a follower named Qian Gui who was present at the time. However, he is still a little merciful to women, and Wang Dianshi's concubine has not been stabbed so much. ”

The two chatted with each other, but Yang Qiuchi's head kept flashing the shadow of the ruins of the Yamen, and the doubt in his heart resurfaced in front of him. He looked at Yun Xuan, who was kneeling in the field, and Yun Tianqing next to him, and a voice in his head kept saying: "If this is a wrong case, the head will fall off and you will never be able to pick it up again." ”

At this moment, I suddenly heard someone under the pergola say, "Report to your lordship, it's noon!" ”

――――――――――――――――――PS: Today, one of my forensic examiners helped the court finally render a verdict of guilt for the defendant, which made me realize the importance of forensic physical evidence again.

The case is very simple: two drunkards caused trouble, and the other three slashed each other with knives. Drunkard A stabbed victim B with a knife, and B later died on the way to the hospital. Drunkard A then slashed another victim, C, causing minor injuries (injuries of this magnitude do not constitute an offence on their own).

Since it was late at night, there were no other witnesses, and none of the other participants could see who killed the deceased, and the fact that three knives were used in the fight, and the other two were discarded and could not be retrieved, this provides a reasonable suspicion that someone else may have stabbed the deceased with the discarded knife. Drunkard A only confessed to stabbing the deceased once in the preliminary trial, and the rest of his confessions were not admitted, and he even denied it in court.

However, based on other evidence at the scene, through the method of elimination, it was concluded that only A had the possibility of killing B, and none of the others had this possible surname. However, the exclusion of statutory offences will not be accepted by the courts, as it is based on the presumption of guilt.

In this case, there was a serious disagreement on the question of whether the deceased B was killed by A, and all the evidence to find the guilt of drunkard A was concentrated on a bloody murder weapon knife extracted from A, and if the DNA test results proved that the knife had the blood of the deceased B, it could be proved that B was killed by A.

Unexpectedly, the test results made people laugh and cry: after the forensic identification center of the Municipal Bureau extracted the blood marks on the murder weapon and the blood samples of the deceased B and slightly injured C for identification, there was only one conclusion: the blood marks on the knife of the murder weapon were the same as the nine STR loci typing results of the blood sample of the slightly injured C, that is, only the blood of C was detected on the knife, and the blood of the deceased B was not detected!

This puts the court in a dilemma in the trial of this case, one opinion is that since there is no blood of the deceased on the knife, and the other evidence is too weak to reach the level of sufficient evidence, it advocates that the evidence is insufficient to acquit the case; Another view is that this is an indulgence of criminals, but it does not dare to make a guilty verdict lightly.

In the end, the court was ready to adopt the first opinion and acquit us on the grounds of insufficient evidence, and before the verdict was announced, it communicated with the public prosecution, and the public prosecution was in a hurry, found us, and asked us to conduct a new evaluation.

This re-appraisal is my responsibility. I carefully analyzed the case, checked the DNA test report of the municipal bureau, and found that they used the point extraction method to extract the blood samples on the knife, this method is to extract a sample from the place where there is a blood sample on both sides of the blade, and if there are continuous blood stains on the knife, then take a spot sampling, such as three points of blood samples on each side, a total of six, for testing.

One of the advantages of this sampling method is that if the knife stabs two people one after another, it is easy to extract the DNA of the two people by spot sampling, so that accurate typing results can be compared.

However, this time the test only found the DNA of injured person C. I estimate that since in this case, A first hacked the dead person B and then the injured person C, it is likely that the blood stains behind C covered the blood marks left in front of B, so that the blood of the deceased C in front of them could not be extracted (whether there is a forensic surname in this possibility has been debated in the medical profession, and there are different views on the reasons for this situation).

Due to insufficient evidence, the case was returned for supplementary investigation, and later remanded by a higher court for retrial, almost three years have passed, and the blood marks on the knife were seriously damaged due to poor storage.

In this case, I decided to take a blood sample by washing the knife, which is to soak the knife in normal saline, wash the blood marks on the blade, and then extract the blood for DNA testing.

The drawbacks of this test are obvious, if the knife stabs more than two people, and the blood on the knife is washed together, the result must be a mixed blood. In this way, it is impossible to compare the results of the classification with the blood of the deceased, and it is impossible to determine whether the knife is present with the blood of the deceased. Therefore, this method is not used in general forensic DNA testing.

However, in this case, this approach shows its advantages. Because, the original test can only prove that the knife stabbed one person, and the prosecution needs to prove that the knife stabbed two people, so that, combined with the testimony of other witnesses and other indirect evidence, it can be determined that the deceased was killed by a drunkard!

I'm glad that this time I used the correct extraction method and found evidence that the knife stabbed two people: after testing, there were seven loci that reflected more than three DNA single strands, which means that the blood sample was a composite sample, that is, the blood was mixed blood, which proved that the knife had indeed stabbed two people! In addition, the same DNA typing as the deceased B was found at the five loci and surname loci, that is, the DNA typing of the blood sample of the deceased B cannot be ruled out in this mixed blood!

After the test results were handed over to the public prosecution, the public prosecution again communicated with the court.

This afternoon, the undertaker of the public prosecution called to thank me, saying that the court, based on my test and other circumstantial evidence, had finally made a verdict that drunkard A killed B to constitute intentional homide!

Hehe, at that moment, I was proud that I was a forensic doctor.

(To be continued)