Chapter 34 The Unfathomable Heart of the People
A case of abandonment of a parent and child, which eventually turned into murder.
In the public court, Jin Yan and Liu Niang knelt together, Xie Yikou brought the swaddling clothes that Liu Niang had been holding to Wen Zhesang, and opened it to see that it was indeed a child - but it was a corpse.
"Let's take a look." Wen Zhesang couldn't bear to look at it more, the last time I saw him, the little tiger head was still a lively and sticky baby, ancient and modern......
"You don't have to call it a fool." Liu Niang's body was rickety, and she unconsciously held her hands, as if she was still holding her child. "The women know it."
Liu Niang said: "Today, the women are going to sue Jin Yan!" After asking for the child back in the hospital that day, the woman specially asked Dr. Wang if the child's leg could be cured. Dr. Wang said that if he had been sent to the hospital at the beginning of the injury, he would still have a chance to recover, but the Jin Yan found a quack doctor casually, and he listened to the quack doctor and threw the child overnight. When the woman went back and argued with him, he was not only unrepentant, but also wanted to throw the child away again! What a ruthless heart he has! He's wolf-hearted! The child was conceived in October by me, and it was brought to the world after going to the ghost gate, why should he throw it away if he wants? But although ...... Although the child is back...... The woman also told him that if he threw away the child again, the woman would sue the official. After hearing this, he stopped talking about throwing the child, and the woman thought that life could finally go on, but who knew that he was so mad that he wanted to kill my child! ”
"Enough! That's enough! What nonsense are you talking about, you slut? I didn't want to kill him at all, I just, I just accidentally ......" Jin Yan panicked and didn't choose what to say. He gritted his teeth and glared at Liu Niang fiercely, if it weren't for the official guarding him, he would have pounced on him.
Jin Yan screamed hoarsely, and his panicked voice became more and more sharp under Liu Niang's sobbing, "My lord, don't listen to her nonsense!" She's already crazy, she's crazy after throwing away the baby! How can anyone believe the words of a madman? ”
The startling fall of the tree seems to be able to shake people's hearts.
Wen Zhesang's face was serious, not at all gentle as usual, she looked at Liu Niang, who couldn't stop her tears like raindrops, she had already cried with a pair of red eyes, and her eyes were like despair.
"After the test has been made, the matter will be decided." She was talking about giving the little tiger head an autopsy.
At this time, there were a lot of people in the yamen who watched the excitement, and when Wen Zhesang sent people to look for Xiaohutou's parents earlier, most of them had heard about someone abandoning their parents, but no one expected that Jin Yan was such a vicious person, and even his own son could do it.
A group of people pointed at Jin Yan, who was begging for mercy, but suddenly there was a commotion in the crowd, and the dog girl helped Aunt Chun to make amends while squeezing forward. The two were stunned when they saw the swaddling clothes, and Aunt Chun was even more sad and fainted.
There was a mess for a while, but fortunately, the work came in time, and immediately took the child down for an autopsy.
Jin Yan in the hall was still quibbling, he insisted that after losing the little tiger head, Liu Niang was delirious, and she had already had symptoms of madness. And after the little tiger head was brought home, she fell ill one day and strangled the little tiger head with the wrong hand.
"Don't be deceived by this slut!" Jin Yan shouted.
Liu Niang also raised her head at this time, once some words are spoken, it is like a river that bursts its embankment, and she will never stop if she does not dump the river water. I only heard her say: "What the woman said is true, he threw the child away, that is, when he saw that the child was going to be disabled, he didn't want to raise a cripple, the woman was guilty, and the woman couldn't live with the child!" But after the child was recovered, he became more and more dissatisfied, beating and scolding the women at every turn, and would beat the child with his hands, the child was still so young, he was so young...... I can't stand it at all! Yesterday he had eaten wine, and when he came back drunk, and heard the child crying, he gave the child ......."
As she spoke, she couldn't go on, "Adults, adults must be the masters of the people's children!" ”
Wen Zhesang remembered that Liu Niang came to the yamen today to thank her, so he asked her, "You didn't come to the yamen today to thank you, but to report to the official?" ”
Liu Niang nodded, covered her face and said, "But the folk woman found out that Jin Yan was following the folk woman, and the folk woman was so scared that she didn't dare to tell the adult." Later, the official came to the house to arrest people, and the women ......"
"Enough! Shut up! Shut up! I didn't kill him, I didn't! Jin Yan shouted, desperately struggling to escape from the servants, "Are you trying to kill me?" He's a cripple, and he's grown up crippled, and he's left in the world to suffer in vain - I just don't want him to suffer! ”
Jin Yan said that Liu Niang was crazy, but he didn't know that he looked more like a madman at this time.
Wen Zhesang lowered his face and reprimanded a few words like "no noise above the court", but Jin Yan didn't listen to it at all. It wasn't until Wen Zhesang used a water and fire stick to make him strong and beaten that he quieted down.
After a while, after the autopsy, he wrote the results on a piece of paper and handed them to Wen Zhesang.
Wen Zhesang frowned after reading it, and his eyes fell on Jin Yan, who cursed in a low voice, "The little tiger head was indeed suffocated to death, in addition to the pinch marks on his neck, there are also a few bruises on his body. There is also a puddle of wine stains on the swaddling clothes, and the ring imprint on your hand is also left on your neck. Abandonment of a child is a felony, and the murder of a child is an even more heinous crime. Do you have something to say? ”
In order to prove that Wen Zhesang was right, the official picked up Jin Yan's hand, and sure enough, he found a silver ring on his right index finger. He hugged the child very brightly, and the pattern on the ring was exactly the same as the mark on the child's neck. This is still the most valuable thing in Jin Yan's body, and he can't wait to wear it to show off all the time on weekdays, but he didn't expect it to become ironclad evidence at this time.
Of course, Jin Yan has something to say, but he repeats it over and over again, and Wen Zhisang will be able to memorize it when he listens to it. However, these are all quibbles.
Hearing that he kept pointing the fault to Liu Niang, Wen Zhesang was even more dissatisfied and reprimanded: "Death is not repentant!" Now that there is all the human and material evidence, you abandon your parents and children first, and hurt and kill your parents and children last. I judge you ......"
"My lord! Spare your life! An old woman suddenly fell out of the crowd of onlookers, and she was being held by the officials. shouted, "The old body is Jin Yan's mother, please let the old body say a few words!" ”
This person is full of gorgeous hair, and his body is rickety, and he is already about to die. However, seeing that her son was being tried in court, her heart as a mother was very painful. I didn't have time to think about anything, so I squeezed through first.
Jin Yan also called out the words "mother" and "help".
"Let her come forward." Wen Zhesang gave an order, and the official let him go.
The old woman first walked towards Jin Yan, sighed and cried for a while, and then knelt down and said, "The old man Qingtian is above, and the old man wants to testify for my son!" ”
As soon as these words came out, there was another burst of exclamation, this person's evidence and material evidence are all there, Jin Yan is a wolf, and it is an indisputable fact that he killed his own son. But why is his wife here now?
The crowd of onlookers stretched their necks one by one, and the discussion stopped unconsciously, waiting with bated breath for Wen Zhisang to speak. As soon as the old woman's voice fell, Wen Zhisang said, "How do you testify? ”
The old woman wiped her eyes, glared at Liu Niang viciously, and said: "This woman said that the cub was strangled to death by my son yesterday, but the adults don't know, my son has a very bad amount of alcohol, and when he is drunk, he only sleeps heavily, and no one can wake up." Heaven and earth conscience, how loud can that cub cry? Not only did he wake me up, but he also caused him to strangle him to death...... It's impossible! ”
Liu Niang's eyes were red, but she smiled when she heard the words, only to see her roll up her sleeves, revealing spots and bruises, "Jin Yan used to drink and love to sleep, but the women didn't know when he started, and when he was drunk, he would beat people." The woman was born roughly, and it was nothing to be beaten, but how could he do it to the child? ”
"You don't spew blood!" The old woman scolded, "Who knows if you have done something dirty for my son to arrest?" I don't know how to check, and I still want to slander my son? ”
Liu Niang opened her mouth, and suddenly saw Jin Yan's lowered head, and her heart suddenly relaxed. "The women are clumsy, and they can't say what flowers they are. The women of the people believe that adults have their own judgments. ”
Seeing this, the old woman hurriedly said: "Look, everyone take a look, she has acquiesced!" ”
No one responded to her words. Only Wen Zhesang reminded her word by word, "Did you see Jin Yan yesterday?" If not, that's wishful thinking. I would like to remind you that perjury is also punishable by the same crime. ”
The old woman, who was still as proud as a winning rooster, was stunned suddenly, she quietly raised her head and glanced at Wen Zhesang, only to feel that she was really young and kind, and she was easy to bully when she looked at her.
"Mother......" Jin Yan begged in a low voice.
The old woman stabilized her mind, pinched her thigh, forced out a string of tears, and cried: "My lord has to be the master for my son!" It must be this mother-in-law who has a grudge against my son, so she ...... Only she could do such a terrible thing! ”
Although she did a sincere job, she probably didn't know it yet-even if Jin Yan didn't kill Xiaohutou, just because he abandoned his parent, it was impossible for him to leave the yamen with all his tails. What's more, Wen Zhesang already had a plan in his heart, and most of this old woman was messing around to make perjury.
So she frowned and said, "You are wronged and in charge of everything, but you don't get to the point." The court is not for you to make unnecessary noise, this official asks again, do you have tangible evidence? ”
When the old woman looked at her again, she couldn't help but shudder. She thought left and right, and suddenly saw Jin Yan's right hand, she let out an "ah" and said happily: "Yes, of course there is!" Adults look at the ring on my son's hand, Mrs. Liu also has one, this is what her father and mother had to ask for when she entered our Jin family. Hmph, what a white-eyed wolf! ”
"Liu Niang, is what she said true?"
"Yes." Liu Niang could barely cry, only wrinkled her face, and in her mouth, she wanted to eat Huang Lian, "The ring of the folk woman was taken by Jin Yan half a year ago. He also said that it was the meaning of the mother. ”