Chapter Forty-Eight: Peeling Back the Cocoon
A smile appeared on the corner of Yang Yungui's mouth, and he deeply sympathized with the view that "there is no perfect crime in the world", and he did not believe that anyone could make a case without the slightest flaw. The update is the fastest and most stable, dìng chasing novels, where is fast, and the eyes are fast
To tell the truth, in his opinion, it is really an honor for Zhang Youde and Zhang Youcai to be defeated at the hands of Li Yuntian, and he has a hunch that Li Yuntian's future achievements will be limitless.
The people at the scene were also confused by what Li Yuntian said just now, and they didn't know what he wanted to do, so they talked about it one after another.
"Liu Bo, since you insist that Liu Hu was beaten to death, are you willing to open the coffin for inspection?" Li Yuntian glanced at Zhang Youde, whose face began to become a little ugly, and asked Liu Bo in a deep voice.
"Xiaomin...... The small people are willing! Liu Bo was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then reacted, nodding his head again and again, with a look of excitement on his face.
He didn't think of opening the coffin for autopsy in the first two lawsuits, first, he thought that Liu Hu's body was destroyed and could not be examined, and second, he was not given the opportunity to open the coffin for autopsy during the two lawsuits, and the presiding judge had already pronounced the verdict after the trial of human and physical evidence.
Now, Li Yuntian took the initiative to ask for an open coffin for an autopsy, which is the biggest difference from the previous two trials, and it can't help but make Liu Bo feel a glimmer of hope in his heart.
Zhang Youde's face turned blue in an instant when he heard this, and he looked at Li Yuntian with a shocked expression, he found that he didn't seem to know the decisive and calm county master now.
Zhang Youcai didn't understand why Li Yuntian wanted to do this, he actually wanted to open the coffin for an autopsy, and directly sentenced the case, so he looked at Zhang Youde suspiciously, wondering what happened.
The onlookers were in a commotion with a bang, and no one expected that things would take such a turn, and there was a lot of gossip.
"Silence! Quiet! Li Yuntian saw that there was a lot of noise around him, and patted the startled wood vigorously.
The noise subsided immediately, and people looked at Li Yuntian curiously, wondering how the situation would develop.
"For the sake of notarization, this official invited a servant from Jiujiang Mansion to conduct an autopsy, do you have any objections?" Li Yuntian glanced at Liu Bo and Zhang Youcai, and asked in a deep voice.
"The small people have no objections, and it is all up to the adults to decide." Liu Bo suddenly felt a burst of excitement when he heard this, since Li Yuntian had invited the government to work for him, he would definitely not protect Zhang Youcai, otherwise it would be redundant.
"The villain has no objections." Zhang Youcai was confused, looking at Zhang Youde from time to time, his heart became more and more confused, and he didn't know Li Yuntian's intention to do this.
Where does Zhang Youde have the heart to pay attention to Zhang Youcai now, he saw that Li Yuntian's face was sinking like water, his eyes were like torches, and he immediately knew that the situation was not good, it seems that he has been deceived by Li Yuntian before, and this retrial is obviously aimed at the Zhang family.
Thinking about this, Zhang Youde suddenly panicked in his heart, he had written a letter of guarantee to Zhang Youcai before, once Zhang Youcai had an accident, then he would also be implicated, and the entire Zhang family would be finished.
"Did he start scheming against me at that time?" Thinking of Baoshu, Zhang Youde couldn't help but feel cold in his heart, he didn't even notice it for such a long time, this is simply terrifying.
In any case, he didn't expect that Li Yuntian would attack him from Liu Bo, in his opinion, this was simply a trivial matter, so he also lost his vigilance.
After realizing the severity of the situation, Zhang Youde slowly took a step back, wanting to slip away quietly, because Li Yuntian suddenly attacked, so he didn't have the slightest preparation, and now he had to arrange something to deal with.
However, before he could stand firm in his backward steps, he only felt a tightness beside him, and two tall officials sandwiched him in the middle, making him unable to move and being firmly controlled.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Youde's face suddenly turned dead, it seems that Li Yuntian has already planned a moment, today is to clean him up and the Zhang family, and he does not have the slightest ability to fight back now.
Under the gaze of everyone at the scene, a servant led a middle-aged man over forty years old to Li Yuntian.
"Lord Qiyu, the government has already been brought." The official bowed to Li Yuntian and said loudly.
"Come on, go to the graveyard!" Li Yuntian bowed slightly when he heard this, then stood up and gave an order in a loud voice.
In fact, he is very reluctant to go to the cemetery, who likes to run to the place where the dead are buried?
He originally wanted people to transport Liu Hu's coffin to the square, but firstly, this was disrespectful to Liu Hu's bones, and secondly, it would also bring bad luck to Baishui Town, so after thinking about it, he still had to go, who made him the parent official of Hukou County.
Seeing this, the people immediately followed Li Yuntian and the others to the cemetery where Liu Hu's grave was located, wondering with great interest how he would judge this thorny case.
Unlike Qi Xiangchen, who was buried in the majestic ancestral grave, Liu Bo buried Liu Xiaolian, Liu Hu and his wife under a hillside, where many poor people from the same miserable backgrounds as him were buried.
Chen Bozhao had already asked people to build a pergola in a place far away from the cemetery, after all, the cemetery was too heavy, and it would not be good if it collided with Li Yuntian's official spirit.
In the pergola, Li Yuntian sat on a chair and drank the hot water in the cup slowly, since he wanted to use Liu Bo's case to kill the Zhang family, then it would definitely make Zhang Youde and Zhang Youcai have nothing to say, and it would also make the people at the scene happy and convinced.
Fine beads of sweat oozed from Zhang Youde's forehead, and he realized at this time what a terrible person he had provoked, I am afraid that Wei Kun, Lu Yunshan and Feng Hu were all planted in Li Yuntian's hands, Wang San must also be more auspicious, and he didn't even notice it in the slightest.
In the crowd, Chen Ningning, who was dressed as a man, looked at Li Yuntian from a distance under the escort of several domestic servants, her eyes were full of joy, it seemed that this time Liu Bo's case could be turned over.
Chen Bozhao stood beside Zhang Youde, seeing that he was firmly controlled by two big men, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, the sultry that the Chen family had suffered over the years can finally be swept away, and in the future, there will only be the Chen family in Baishui Town and no longer the Zhang family.
I don't know how long later, there was a commotion among the crowd of onlookers, and it turned out that a coffin had been pulled up from the grave with a rope and placed on a table under a pergola near the cemetery.
After inspection, the coffin was intact, and then it was opened, and the servants of the government opened the lid of the coffin with the help of the apprentices and began to examine the bones in the coffin.
"Lord Zhixian, the villain has been inspected." Not long after, the official of the government came to Li Yuntian and said loudly.
"Speak!" Li Yuntian put down the teacup in his hand and said quietly.
"The bones of this corpse were broken in two ribs and three cracks, and there were also fractures and cracks in the bones of the hand and legs, especially an obvious wound in the back of the skull, which should have caused its death." The pretendence of the government heard the words and reported in an orderly manner.
"In your experience, what happened to the deceased?" Li Yuntian glanced at Zhang Youcai, whose face turned pale, and asked.
"From this point of view, the deceased was severely beaten before his death, which is why there are so many scars on the bones of the deceased." The government has rich experience in working and replied loudly.
When the surrounding people heard this, they immediately buzzed into discussions, and many people had only heard that Liu Hu had been beaten to death, but now it seems that the evidence is conclusive.
"Zhang Youcai, what do you have to say?" After he came to a conclusion, Li Yuntian looked at Zhang Youcai and asked coldly.
"Big ...... Adult, villain doesn't know what's going on, maybe Liu Bo deliberately broke Liu Hu's ribs after he died in order to blackmail money, so as to frame him. ”
Zhang Youcai felt hot all over his body, sweat rolled down his cheeks, and in the face of Li Yuntian's questioning, he was completely confused, and argued forcibly.
As soon as these words came out, the scene was in an uproar, as the saying goes, tiger poison does not eat children, let alone people!
"Zhang Youcai, if it were you, would you be able to do such a heavy hand on your dead son?" Li Yuntian had long known that he would deny it, so he snorted coldly and said to the official of the mansion, "Sue him, whether Liu Hu's injury was suffered before or after death!" ”
"Lord Qiqi, Liu Hu's injury was suffered before he died." The pretendence of the government heard the words and replied in a deep voice.
"You...... Why do you say that he was injured before he died, and you were not there at the time? Zhang Youcai's mind was blank at this time, and he said unconvinced.
"When a person dies, the blood around the body will not flow, and the color of the broken bone surface of the wound will remain its original color; Before a person dies, the blood around the body is constantly flowing, and the broken bone surface of the wound will be stained with blood, and it will turn black for a long time. ”
The official of the government glanced at Zhang Youcai and said in an orderly manner, "I have already checked the broken bone surface of the corpse just now, it is black, so his injuries were suffered before he died!" ”
Zhang Youcai was dumbfounded when he heard this, and stood there with a sluggish expression, he never expected that there was such a big knowledge in this.
"Are you guilty?" Li Yuntian ignored Zhang Youcai, but looked at Hukou County, who was standing on the side, and asked in an indifferent voice.
"Little ...... The villain confessed that Liu Hu was beaten to death by the group, and the villain also made such a record at that time, but the Lu Si official in the torture room at that time took the record away and asked the little one to rewrite a fake one. ”
The man from Hukou County knelt down with a frightened expression, and said with a frightened expression, "The villain is forced to do so, if you don't do what Lu Si said, they will hurt the villain's family." ”
Lu Si is naturally Lu Yunshan, who specializes in criminal litigation, but unfortunately he is dead and has no way to testify.
"Do you have any benefit from this?" Li Yuntian had already guessed this, how dare he go against the Zhang family.
"Lu Si gave the villain twenty taels of silver, and the villain was uneasy in his heart, so he didn't dare to move, and hid under the bricks under the **." He wiped the sweat from his forehead, and begged for mercy repeatedly, "My lord, the villain was forced, please be merciful." ”