Tian Feng stood aside, watching the person in front of him knock and beat, peel back layer by layer, and open the case, which was simply a thousand turns, but it was inevitable that he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

He took people out of the city for an autopsy this time, but he didn't expect to draw any conclusions immediately.

Xu Sanniang has been dead for a long time, even if some clues can really be found on the body, she has to follow up the record to join the army, push the officials and everyone to investigate carefully, inquire repeatedly, and scrutinize the evidence again and again, so that the case can be truly judged. Moreover, with his many years as an official, although he has never personally handled this case, he can look through the file and hear the facts of the case, and he already knows in his heart that this case is by no means as simple as it seems, and it will take a lot of effort to find out.

However, he didn't expect that before the Kyoto government found out a clue, the criminal department had already taken more than one step ahead.

Hearing what Gu Yanzhang asked, one ring after another, one question after another, first found the iron nail, and then found the silver needle, the two murder weapons were hidden deep in the corpse, the old man had not been inspected for the time being, he had already pointed out the people to find it. If it is said that the person has yin and yang eyes and can penetrate the corpse, it is impossible, looking at the back and asking, it is clear that he has found out the inside story and comes to find the answer with questions.

It's just that it's a case from the Kyoto Prefecture, and the Criminal Department just came to supervise it, so what's the matter with them?!

If it is said that at the beginning, Tian Feng still had a little appreciation for Gu Yanzhang, seeing that this case of the government was handled as a case of the Criminal Division, his face could not help but become a little difficult to look at.

Officialdom has the rules of officialdom, Tian Feng is already very eclectic, as long as he can get things done, he doesn't care too much about his own interests, but it is one thing not to care about his own interests.

If it is a case that the Kyoto government itself has not been able to find out for a long time, and it has been reported to the Criminal Prosecution Division, and the criminal prosecution is listed as a doubtful case, and relevant people from other states and counties are transferred to the same investigation as the Criminal Division, there is nothing to say, but at present, the Kyoto Prefecture has not said that it cannot be investigated, so why should the Criminal Investigation Division intervene?

Once this incident becomes a common practice, in the future, all the cases in the Kyoto Prefecture will have to be dealt with by the Criminal Division, where is the face of the Kyoto Prefecture? Where is the authority? In the future, everyone will think that what the Kyoto government has said is not a word, and they want to press the criminal department, won't all the ministries and departments of the DPRK and the central government come to get involved?

Tian Feng had an idea in his heart, and when he looked at Gu Yanzhang, he no longer had the pleasing eye of Fang Cai.

Gu Yanzhang didn't have the time to care about what this person was thinking, although the right to know that Kyoto Mansion was a crucial position, and when it came to grades, it was many levels higher than him as a seventh-grade official, but it was not a relationship between superiors and subordinates.

Seeing that everyone in the audience was asking for his life, he said to Tian Feng: "I don't know what Governor Tian thinks?" ”

At this time, it is natural to investigate the case first, even if it is a little uncomfortable, Tian Feng still said: "Such a big case, if you don't open the coffin for an autopsy, I'm afraid it will make people suffer injustice, even so, how can you not open the coffin." ”

As he spoke, he looked at Li Chengwei who was standing below and asked, "Li Chengwei, do you have any objections?" ”

Li Chengwei smiled reluctantly and said: "If the villain is selfish, just for his innocence, he is naturally willing to open the coffin for an autopsy, but the mother has been in the ground for a long time, and this time the coffin may not be able to find out anything, and it is easy to destroy the remains, the villain thought ......"

He was still considering the choice of words, thinking about how to stop him with all his might, Tian Feng was already facing the errand on the side: "Find the place where the Li family enters the earth, open the grave and open the coffin." ”

Xu Sanniang was buried not far from the Li family, and got Tian Feng's order, who would care about what Li Chengwei said, they were already in unison, stepped forward to find a place, opened the grave with a spade or two spades, and dug up the soil.

Seeing that the action had already begun over there, Tian Fengfu turned around, glanced at Li Chengwei lightly, and said: "Such a serious case means that you are willing to be wronged, and the Kyoto government can't let it go."

It is clearly written in the Jin Criminal Code, "Those who have been sent to reincarnate are not those who claim that the corpse is not verified after a long period of time, and they sit on the crime of being fulfilled and not verified." ”

Although Li has been buried for a long time, there are all the witnesses here, and they all identify him as having died strangely, although Tian Feng asked that sentence, no matter how Li Chengwei answered, this time the corpse has been verified.

In that place, the coffin was being opened, and in this place, Gu Yanzhang saw that Li Chengwei's mouth was idle, and he really refused to let him go, and asked again: "Before the Li family died, who was beside her?" ”

Before Li Chengwei could answer, the old woman had already stepped forward and said: "Before the Li family lady died, the old body heard that she had a stomach disease, and she had not been well for many days, so she specially invited others to see her. ”

She paused, turned her head and glared at Li Chengwei fiercely with her eyes, and said: "A few of us haven't walked into the wing room that day, we have heard someone screaming inside, and another girl rushed out, rushing to find a doctor, and when I waited for the door, I saw Li Chengwei's kid sitting on the edge of the bed, holding Mrs. Li in her hands, the lady Li's eyelids turned white, her hands and feet twitched, and she couldn't breathe in her throat. ”

Gu Yanzhang asked, "Apart from you, are there any witnesses?" ”

The old woman glanced back at the crowd, and the two women followed one after the other, and responded in a loud voice: "The slave family used to go to visit the Li family lady with Aunt Ren. ”

As he spoke, he stepped forward and acted as if he was going to be a witness.

The old woman who was called Ren Auntie said: "In addition to a few of us who went to visit the sick, there are also a few old girls in the house that day, I am afraid that they are no longer in the Li Mansion, but they are all people from the county and town near the left of the capital, look carefully, when you can find it, everyone can testify, and the appearance of the Li family lady before her death, Li Zheng has also seen it!" ”

After she said this, she shouted at the back again: "Second Uncle Wu, what are you still hiding!" Back then, you had a lot of care from the Li family, but now you are not as good as me! ”

There was a stirring in the crowd, and everyone looked left and right.

After a while, an old man walked out slowly, with a complicated expression on his face, he hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "It's too long, when the villain saw it with his own eyes, the lady of the Li family was already out of breath, and naturally she never saw the prospect of dying, but when she died, her hands clenched into fists, her eyelids rolled white, but she died with her eyes open and drummed, but it was good." ”

At one time, there were already six or seven people standing in the field, Aunt Ren and the two women were standing together, Li Chengwei was standing aside, Steward Chen was half sideways to Li Chengwei, and Chen Xunchen was standing very close, and Li Zheng was standing alone in one place, but he was leaning towards Li Chengwei's head.

The crowd stood in groups.

Gu Yanzhang looked at Li Chengwei and asked, "Can the Li family's dying situation match what the woman said?" ”

Li Chengwei was about to say no, but the witnesses in front of him were scorching, and dozens of pairs of eyes in the field looked at him, where was it better to argue nonsense, so he had to say: "Before my mother died, the villain was indeed by her side. ”

Gu Yanzhang asked, "When did she die?" ”

Li Chengwei paused, hesitated, and finally said: "It seems that it is close to noon, and the villain really can't remember it clearly......

Gu Yanzhang asked, "But two o'clock in the afternoon?" ”

Li Chengwei's hand shook, raised his head suddenly, and for a while he couldn't hide it, and looked straight at Gu Yanzhang.

Gu Yanzhang said: "Yes and no? ”

Li Chengwei's heart was beating wildly.

He has been in business for many years, and he has encountered countless winds and waves, and after this half-day trial, he still can't see that the deputy envoy in front of him is prepared. If he still had the illusion at the beginning, thinking that the other party would help him with the old relationship between himself and his wife's family, there was no luck at this time.

Li Chengwei is only afraid of one thing now, that is, how much does this Deputy Envoy Gu know, what evidence he holds in his hands, how much he should confess, and how he should explain.

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and when he spoke, he finally said, "It seems to be ......"

Gu Yanzhang asked again: "Do you remember when the Li family was dying that day, what actions she made and what actions did you make?" ”

Li Chengwei said: "My mother should be lying on the bed...... Villain...... The villain doesn't remember his own movements......"

Gu Yanzhang turned his head and asked Ren Sanniang and the two women: "Do you three still remember the actions of their mother and son when they entered the door?" ”

Hearing this question, the three of them were a little surprised.

Aunt Ren thought about it for a while, and said confidently: "The old body remembers!" ”

The other two women hesitated for a few moments, and then followed.

Gu Yanzhang separated the three of them far away, and asked the servants to move three small pieces each, and put an inkstone with pen and paper and ink in front of the three people, because he was afraid that some of the three would not be literate, so he said: "Since you remember, you will draw the relationship between the two on the paper that day." ”

The three of them answered, each grabbed a pen and began to draw.

After a while, when the three of them put down their pens, they drew on the paper again with red clay.

The three sheets of paper were all put away.

Gu Yanzhang corrected the three pieces of drawing paper, looked up and said to Li Chengwei: "You sat on the edge of the bed that day, holding your mother's shoulder with one hand and her head with the other, yes or no?" ”

Li Chengwei sneered: "The villain was anxious at the time, and his mind was full of his mother's illness, and he really didn't remember the rest of the details......"

Gu Yanzhang said: "Do you have any objections to the situation that others remember?" ”

Li Chengwei wanted to say yes, but he didn't remember what he had just said, but if he wanted to say no, he knew that it was worse, and for a while, he was full of entanglement.

Aunt Ren already said: "In addition to the three old people, there were two other girls who were waiting in the house at that time and entered the door together, and they should also remember clearly, seeing that Mrs. Li's situation was not good at that time, the two girls had already rushed forward, wanting to take the person from Li Chengwei's hands, but he stopped them." ”

The next officer has already written down all the confessions of Aunt Ren one by one, and then took the confession and drew a charge for her.

Li Chengwei's head was covered with sweat, and the clothes on his placket, back, and waist were already wet with sweat, and he couldn't help but take out a sweat towel from his sleeve, turned sideways, and hastily wiped it twice on his head.

I was wiping my sweat when I suddenly heard a "bang" on the side, it turned out that Li's grave had been dug up, and the officials carried the coffin out of the tomb.

Li Chengwei and his party were called over, and after confirming that the coffin had not been opened halfway and that the seal was still intact, it was pushed aside again, and after the seal was taken out one by one, only to hear a tooth-sore sound of "babbling", and Li's coffin lid was finally removed.

Su Si and a few others surrounded him again.

This time, after less than a cup of tea, a servant trotted all the way over, and said to Tian and Gu: "Two officials, it has been verified that there is a long needle in the back of the deceased Li's head that was inserted from the left side of the Fengfu acupoint, nearly two inches deep, and the needle went straight into the cerebral marrow. ”

Li Chengwei was holding a handkerchief in his hand, and when he heard the words, he didn't know whether his hands were shaking or his heart was trembling, and for a moment the handkerchief was not grasped steadily, and he fell to the ground.

He didn't have time to take care of the handkerchief, so he hurriedly raised his head and shouted, "Official! My dear! The villain, please check the maids in the house that day, and then check whether any of the many maidservants have fellowship with the maidservants in the villain's room that day! The villain's family has been in business for several generations, and it is rare to have conflicts of interest with many people, and I am afraid that someone will stare at the villain's family......"

He was about to argue again, but there was already a coaxing among those standing below, and someone shouted, "Little bastard! You can't be stupid when we are! ”

Someone else cried out, "Still fellowship!" Your mother is dead, and you don't have half of the people around her, either send them far away, or let them go, if you don't have a ghost in your heart, how can you be afraid of knocking on the door in the middle of the night! ”

Someone said: "The Li family has always shared profits with others in their loyal business, who will always keep an eye on his family if they have a grudge!" I'm afraid it's just that you two surnamed Chen have a grudge against his family! ”

"Killing your wife and mother, you can do such a thing! Without Mrs. Li, I'm afraid you don't know where to play in the mud in the countryside of Yingzhou! You little bastard, you are so kind that you will take revenge, and you are not afraid of being damned! ”

Li Chengwei's face was blue and white, and he was so choked that he couldn't even reply, and after a while, he choked his throat and said: "Official, the neighborhood elders accuse, the villain doesn't dare to argue, but although the villain is adopted, he is the only son in the family, why bother killing his mother?" Such a big mess, according to the law, should be hanged, can't the villain die? There is also a villain who has been in love with the lady in the family for many years, and has a daughter, the lady has always been a steward, and the family business can be so big thanks to her help, what good is it for me to kill her?! ”

He defended himself here one after another, but Gu Yanzhang suddenly interjected and asked: "The breath that Li swallowed at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have been in the room since the beginning of the day, and you have never left by Li's side, I only ask you, where did the long needle in her brain come from?" ”