Chapter 67
Li Yuntian heard Zhou Yuting's voice, a subtle smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he turned his head to look at her quietly. Chasing the reckless wasteland, you have to be quick.
"Where is the case where you try cases like that? Want to bend into a move? Zhou Yuting glanced at the people in the hall who looked at her in surprise, and whispered to Li Yuntian.
Even she saw that Li Yuntian deliberately wanted the strong man to confess, not to mention others, Li Yuntian's move was completely self-destructive.
"Isn't this right, it not only saves your face, but also achieves your wishes, anyway, no one can tell whose money bag is, and if you give another one, you can save someone's life, wouldn't everyone be happy." When Li Yuntian heard this, he replied in a serious whisper.
"This girl doesn't need your charity, if you have the ability, you can try this case clearly, so that this girl can be convinced!" Zhou Yuting was stunned for a moment, her eyes showed a complicated look, and then she stared at Li Yuntian with a cold expression and said.
"You have to think about it, this is your only chance to get rid of me, and after this village, there will be no more shops." Li Yuntian couldn't help but laugh and kindly reminded Zhou Yuting that he had long expected that with Zhou Yuting's arrogance, he would never win this case in such a daze.
"This girl is good at talking, so I don't know if you have the ability!" Zhou Yuting was taken aback when she heard this, she didn't expect Li Yuntian to guess her intention to come to Hukou County, and she couldn't help but feel a little flustered for a while, bit her lip and nodded heavily at Li Yuntian.
Hearing this, Li Yuntian immediately smiled slightly, and his smile was full of a hint of meaning.
Zhou Yuting saw that Li Yuntian was actually smiling, and the smile looked a little weird, and she suddenly felt very curious in her heart.
Just when she was puzzled, Li Yuntian had already turned around and said in a deep voice to the strong man in the hall, "Do you know why this official beat you just now?" ”
"Please make it clear." The strong man shook his head and replied with a pale face.
"This official wants you to have a long memory, not everything is solved by fists, you took the lead in beating the other party, are you guilty?" Li Yuntian looked at him expressionlessly and asked in a loud voice.
"Little guilt." The strong man nodded hurriedly, and he didn't dare to gasp.
"Originally, the official was going to beat your board to make an example, but since you have already been hit by the board just now, then the two will cancel each other." Li Yuntian's face softened and said.
"Lord Xie, Lord Xie." The strong man couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and kowtowed to Li Yuntian, he was really afraid that Li Yuntian would let people beat his board again, that taste was really uncomfortable.
"Inspector Zhao, let the people outside come in, and the official will try the case here." Then, Li Yuntian looked at Zhao Hua and gave an order in a deep voice.
The people outside now only know that Zhou Yuting checked the ownership of the money bag in the inspection department, but they don't know that the strong man was beaten by Zhou Yuting, and he wants to make up for Zhou Yuting's mistake, so that the people outside think that he used torture on the strong man.
Zhao Hua didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly went down to make arrangements.
Seeing this, Chen Ningning also got up from the chair and pulled Zhou Yuting to hide behind the screen on the side, the two of them were not suitable in the lobby during the trial.
Although Chen Ningning was very curious and wanted to know what Li Yuntian and Zhou Yuting whispered just now, it actually made Li Yuntian unusual, and almost used an arbitrary way to break the case, but seeing Zhou Yuting's angry appearance, she had to bury this question in her heart.
Hearing that Li Yuntian was going to open a court to try the case of the ownership of the money bag, the people gathered outside the gate of the inspection department rushed in at once, crowded around the door of the lobby, and stretched out their heads with great interest to look inside.
The sergeants of the inspection department maintained order at the scene in an orderly manner, and since many of the sergeants were recruited, they were curious to pay attention to the movements in the lobby, and they all wanted to see how the famous magistrate would decide the case.
In everyone's opinion, there was no mark on the money bag, and both the strong man and the round-faced young man had good reasons, and there were witnesses to prove their respective opinions, so it was undoubtedly difficult to distinguish whose money bag was.
After the people outside the hall quieted down, Li Yuntian asked the strong man and the round-faced young man to tell each other what had happened, so that the people outside could know the ins and outs of the case.
According to the strong man, he lived in a nearby village and was about to get married, so he came to the town to find his cousin who sold meat, that is, the fat man with a beard and beard, and borrowed ten taels of silver and more than two copper coins to organize the wedding banquet.
During the search, he accidentally saw the round-faced young man buying wine in a tavern, taking out the money bag from his body and preparing to pay, and the money bag was his.
The bearded fat man was a butcher in the town who sold meat, and he could testify that the money was given to the strong man.
The round-faced young man insisted that he had saved the money, and he wanted to lend it to the young man with the national character face to see his mother who was sick in **, but he didn't want to meet a strong man when he bought wine and went to the young man's house with the national character face, and wanted to rob him of the money bag in his hand.
The young man with the Chinese character face confirmed the words of the round-faced young man, his mother was sick some time ago, due to the poverty of the family, the family has spent all the family's savings, and the follow-up treatment is unsustainable, if the round-faced young man lent him the money, then his mother can be saved.
After learning what had happened, the people outside the hall whispered, and their words were full of sympathy for the round-faced young man, and they privately thought that the money bag was his, and they didn't have a good impression of the strong man, and they all thought that he wanted to blackmail the round-faced young man's money.
The round-faced young man couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the nervous look on his face was relieved.
The so-called public opinion is difficult to disobey, even if Li Yuntian suspects him, if there is no conclusive evidence, he insists that the money bag is his own, and I am afraid that Li Yuntian will have no way to take him.
Moreover, since Li Yuntian took office as the magistrate of Hukou County, he has never used a heavy punishment to extract a confession during the trial, and all cases have been decided on the basis of evidence and facts, which has convinced the people involved in the case.
As those people outside the hall thought, whether there was a mark on the money bag, he didn't believe that Li Yuntian had a way to prove that the money bag was not his.
The strong man also heard the discussion of the people, and his face suddenly became very ugly, and he knew that he had embroidered his surname on the money bag, so that there would not be such an unfortunate thing today.
"Silence!" Li Yuntian saw that there was some noise outside the hall, so he patted the table and said in a deep voice.
The people who were talking about it immediately quieted down, and they all looked at Li Yuntian curiously, wondering how he would decide the case of this ownerless money bag.
"The most hated thing by this official is the kind of person who is greedy and cunning, and who will not repent to death!" Li Yuntian looked at the round-faced young man expressionlessly, and said coldly, "Do you really think that this official can't do anything about you, a tricky person?" ”
"Please...... Please ...... Adults are aware of it! ”
Seeing Li Yuntian's sharp eyes, the round-faced young man couldn't help but tremble, and cold sweat flowed down his cheeks again, but at this point, he had no choice but to hold on, so he stammered with a hint of luck.
"Don't worry, this official will definitely convince you at that time!" Seeing that the round-faced young man was still resisting, Li Yuntian sneered, raised his head and said loudly outside the hall, "Come on, please the townsman in the town." ”
Several sergeants from the Inspection Division immediately left in a hurry and went to pass on the village elders of Baishui Town to inspect the Inspection Division. Seeing this, the people whispered again, wondering why Li Yuntian thought that the round-faced young man was lying.
"What is he going to do here?" Behind the screen, Zhou Yuting asked Chen Ningning beside her in confusion, not knowing Li Yuntian's intentions, how to involve the townsfolk elders in the town.
"The old man has always been convincing with reason, and this time I am afraid that the villager will be a witness, and it seems that the ownership of the money bag is about to be revealed." Chen Ningning smiled slightly, with Li Yuntian's personality, if it weren't for the fact that he was nine out of ten, he would never reprimand the round-faced young man for no reason.
"Does he really have a way to find out whose purse it is?" Zhou Yuting's eyes showed a complicated look, she didn't want to admit defeat like this.
Chen Ningning smiled and nodded, she believed that this case would not be difficult for Li Yuntian, and Li Yuntian must have found some flaws.
Zhou Yuting's eyes suddenly darkened, and she looked at the lobby with a heavy heart, if Li Yuntian won this time, then she would have to go back to the capital, she was really unwilling to leave like this, otherwise she would definitely be ridiculed by Li Yuntian in the future.
Soon, several village elders in Baishui Town were brought into the lobby and bowed to Li Yuntian one after another, they had the privilege of not kneeling when they saw officials.
"Several of them are people of high moral character, and today the official asked a few of them to be witnesses to solve the case of breaking the money bag." Li Yuntian bowed slightly to the villagers, and then said to the sergeants in the hall in a deep voice, "Come on, bring two basins of warm water." ”
In the suspicious eyes of everyone, two basins of warm water were placed in front of the hall, and everyone looked at each other, not knowing what Li Yuntian was going to do.
"You, put your hands in the water." Li Yuntian stretched out his hand and pointed at the fat man with a beard, and said quietly.
The fat man with a beard didn't know why, so he followed Li Yuntian's instructions with a puzzled look on his face, and put his hand into the basin.
Dying with this, Li Yuntian handed the money bag to a sergeant and asked him to pour the money in the bag into another basin, and everyone was confused.
"I see." Seeing this, Chen Chen Ningning's eyes couldn't help but light up, and she nodded secretly, she finally understood Li Yuntian's intentions.
"Please see what has changed in these two plates of water?" Not long after, Li Yuntian asked the fat man with a beard to take his hand away from the basin and said in a deep voice to the villagers.
"My lord, there are a few oil flowers floating on top of one pot of water, and there are many more oil flowers on top of the other pot." After several villagers walked over and leaned over to take a closer look, one villager reported to Li Yuntian.
"This man sells meat in the market, and his hands must be covered with oil stains, and when he collects the money, the oil stains are stained on the copper plate and broken silver, and when he encounters warm water, oil splashes will appear on the water." A smile appeared on the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth, and he explained loudly to the people at the scene.
The people outside the hall finally understood at this time, and they were all surprised, no one thought that the money in this money bag turned out to be a fat man with a beard, otherwise those copper plates and broken silver would be stained with oil?
"The adults spare their lives, the little ones know that they are wrong, but the little ones are greedy for a while, and they want to turn over the money in the **, but they don't want to be bumped into by the owner."
The round-faced young man's face had turned pale, he never imagined that Li Yuntian would identify the ownership of the money bag in this way, and he was so frightened that he kowtowed to Li Yuntian again and again.
"The official asks you, why do you want the official's wife to administer justice to you?" Li Yuntian glanced at the round-faced young man and asked in a loud voice.