With this white paper with fingerprints, Xu Zhijin and Feng Yuncheng came to the side hall.

"Lord Xu, will you try the case? They've been gone for so long, why haven't we started the trial yet? ”

"Yes, go home early for early trial! Is there no one in Dali Temple? Sending a newbie? My father is in the middle of the criminal department, believe it or not, I will join you tomorrow? ”

Xu Zhijin said with a smile: "Don't panic, everyone, we came in to start the interrogation." ”

As he spoke, he sat down on the main seat in the middle, nodded to Feng Yuncheng and said:

"Let's get started."

The boy in the matter just now asked strangely: "Why, don't you have to try it separately?" What should I do if I make a confession? I don't want to be bothered by them and stay here for another night! ”

Xu Zhijin's face sank and said:

"This is the case when the judge hears the case! If you dare to make noise again, you will hit the 20th board first! ”

Oh! It turned out to be a pretentious grass-headed official who didn't know how to try cases.

Since the presiding judge was so casual, everyone also went about their routine and told them what they had done last night. Xu Zhijin didn't say right or wrong, just asked everyone to stamp their handprints on the records made by the scribes.

And it is unconventional, only the middle finger is allowed.

Every time he got a confession with a handprint, he carefully checked something.

can get all these dozen people right, and none of them are the same as the fingerprints of the middle finger that has been extended. Feng Yuncheng didn't believe it, and personally did it again, it was really different.

Is the eldest girl's method unreliable, or is the murderer not among these people?

Those people saw that they had spoken well before, and they released them after recording their confessions, but now several of them are looking at them with their confessions, but they don't mention the matter of releasing them.

They began to sit still again, and gathered around and asked:

"Lord Xu, is there a problem? If it's no problem, just release them! We don't have the time to play with you. ”

Feng Yuncheng leaned into Xu Zhijin's ear and said, "My lord, cover another ring finger, neither of them is right, so I have to release the person first......

Of these dozen or so people, Feng Yuncheng has already been tried, saying that most of them went to change clothes, and from leaving to returning to the banquet, it took about a stick of incense, which was not long, but not short.

Only three people are a longer time. One said that he got lost on the way to change clothes and took a long detour to come back.

This is Cui Xiaogongzi's father is a newly promoted Beijing official, so the grandson also intends to woo and invite his son-in-law to the banquet.

Cui Xiaogongzi entered the palace for the first time, but he was a self-acquaintance, with ten people at a table, and his brother and brother called it all over again. When it was time to change clothes, the chamberlain wanted to send him, but he also refused, saying that he had the best memory, and as a result, he got lost.

One said that he couldn't eat raw and cold fruits, and he ate one at the table, so he squatted in the pit.

Feng Yuncheng gave him ten white eyes: You can't eat raw and cold fruits, why are you coming to the melon and fruit banquet? Do you want someone to cook it for you?

There is another one, and this one is an acquaintance.

Liu Qihui, the deputy supervisor of Shanglin Yuan, is in charge of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and sideline fishery. But his father is the Zuo Changshi of the Changshi Division, which is a person that the princes dare not offend.

Including the crown prince and grandson, the princes' mansions have a long history sent by the long history division, and the emperor gave them a lot of right to speak, and he also has to often report the situation of these princes and princes to the emperor, and no one can bear it.

"Lord Feng, I just misunderstood. Actually, I had already returned to the banquet, but the place where I was doing it happened to be blocked by flowers and trees, so I stood in the back and looked at the unsheltered place. ”

"When you came back, who was the girl on stage?"

"I remember this, it was the granddaughter of Master Jian, and she painted a bamboo on the spot. In the back is your boss's daughter, Miss Yu, playing the sheng, and the mediocre one in the back is not impressed. ”

Feng Yuncheng nodded, what Liu Qihui said was consistent with his initial confession.

It doesn't seem to be too much of a problem.

Seeing that Feng Yuncheng said to release people, Xu Zhijin was still a little unwilling, so he had to say: "Okay, let them press another ring finger." ”

I heard that I had to press my fingerprints, but this time I pressed my ring finger, and the dozen or so people were impatient, and the son Hong Haitao almost lifted the table.

The official position in the matter is not big, but the prestige is high, and the civil and military officials are hundreds, which one is not afraid of the official who can directly admonish him?

"Let me tell you, you officials of the three legal divisions are at the end of the day, and if you can't try the case, you will toss people inexplicably! This is the last time, and after pressing the ring finger, I'm leaving! ”

"Good! If you press your ring finger, you are not a criminal, and you can all leave. Hu Yanjin strode in, he walked so fast that he brought a wind to the side hall.

The sound suddenly silenced everyone in the temple.

He walked up to Xu Zhijin and arched his hand: "Lord Xu, please let them use their left ring finger to draw a charge on the confession." ”

Left hand?

Xu Zhijin suddenly had a comprehension and nodded to Si Zhilang who was standing beside him.

Although those people were puzzled, they didn't dare to contradict it, and honestly changed their left hand to press. There were two people with stiff fingers, so he stretched out his left ring finger alone, and he couldn't reach it out for a long time.

"Look, my lord!"

Xu Zhijin took a confession, and compared it with the fingerprint that Hua Qiao had taken down, the truth was almost the same. He handed it to Hu Yanjin again, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Feng Yuncheng walked over directly and said to Liu Qihui: "Lord Liu, please press the middle finger of your left hand as well." ”

Liu Qihui felt a little bad and was still hesitating, Feng Yuncheng and the others were impatient, grabbed his left hand, and helped him stamp his handprint.

That's him! The fingerprint of the middle finger is also matched.

"Liu Qihui, the knife that killed the county lord has your fingerprints on it. Where did you go after you left the table last night, and you still can't remember it? Xu Zhijin said unhurriedly.

"Fingerprints? What fingerprints? What knife? Don't spew blood, my lord! If you can't solve the case, just pull a cushion on your back...... This is how His Royal Highness the Taisun promoted the people around him? Guo Changshi, does his old man know? ”

Liu Qihui is not panicked, there are fingerprints on the knife? It was as if he had heard a big joke.

"You are a left-hander, yesterday you stood behind the Lord of Yanping, pressed her shoulder with your right hand, and picked up the fruit knife on the table with your left hand and stabbed her in the back of the heart. She's just a teenage girl, what kind of enmity do you have, you can do such a murder! ”

Hu Yanjin picked up the fingerprint that had been expanded, shook it and said:

"This is the fingerprint that the murderer left on the handle of the knife, coincidentally, exactly like yours. Everyone's fingerprints are different, and so are the fingerprints on your left and right hands. If it weren't for the fingerprints that had a direction, I'm afraid you would have been fooled.

There is another thing you may not know, although the palace maid of Qi Shuren has taken poison, but the imperial doctor just has the antidote to this poison, and she has already opened her mouth to admit that Qi Shuren ......"

"No, it has nothing to do with her, I did it alone!"

Liu Qihui had been looking at his left hand, and when he heard Hu Yanjin mentioning Mrs. Qi, he hurriedly said: "The poison of the palace maid was also placed by me, and she helped me hide it, I don't want her to burden her master." ”

The door of the side hall was pushed open again, and the light outside the door made the gray side hall suddenly bright.

Mrs. Qi stood at the door with a sad face:

"Cousin! If you die, what is the point of my life? ”