"Okay, you don't have to demonstrate, the official already understands." Xu Yuanlu stopped her further movements: "This official will guess what you are going to say." ”

He looked straight ahead and said expressionlessly: "Ziqi and Zhou Jiuniang are of similar height, if Ziqi is holding a knife and stabbing him in the abdomen, his wound will be castrated or straight, or obliquely upward, but it is impossible to obliquely descend." If you hold the knife with your backhand, the position that is conducive to your power is not in the abdomen, but in the chest, but Zhou Jiuniang's chest is not injured. Therefore, Miss Chen thinks that the murderer is not Ziqi, is this so? ”

"Lord Xu." Chen Ying praised again, this time, adding a bit of sincerity to her words.

Although Xu Yuanlu had a blunt attitude, he had a lot of experience, and he completely matched Chen Ying's speculation.

"Miss Chen, although the official didn't guess wrong, you seem to have made a mistake." Xu Yuanlu got up from his seat for the second time, walked in front of "Zhou Jiuniang No. 1", and squatted down.

The move was sudden, and several soft shouts rang out from below the courtroom.

This is a three-grade master, and it is rare to squat in public regardless of the image.

Xu Yuanlu looked at Chen Ying intently, all the colors of the outside world seemed to be in his eyes at all.

"Miss Chen, what if Ziqi is stabbing in this posture?" He said lightly, holding out a hand to her.

Chen Ying immediately understood and handed over the wooden stick.

Sure enough, Xu Yuanlu picked up the wooden stick, held it with his backhand, and stabbed it along the "↘" diagonal line drawn by Chen Ying.

"Everyone, please see, as long as Ziqi squats down or kneels in front of Zhou Jiuniang, it is not difficult to stab such a knife wound." After Xu Yuanlu finished the demonstration, he stood up straight, handed the wooden stick back to Chen Ying, strode back to its original place, and returned to his seat.

Chen Ying stared at him, and a faint smile appeared on his face: "Lord Xu's demonstration is very correct. Indeed, if Ziqi squatted or knelt down, it would be easy to stab such a knife wound. However, "

She paused, and the smile on her face gradually dissipated: "When you watch the demonstration of the people's daughter, you should understand where the people's so-called suspicions are." ”

She turned to Cai Jiu, handed him the wooden stick, and then walked to the place where the paper figure was placed, and carried "Zhou Jiuniang No. 2" over.

"The inside of this paper figure is also filled with something, which is similar to the human body." She explained, and then said to Cai Jiu: "Driver, please follow the example of Xu Da, squat down and stab twice." ”

She deliberately pointed to the red mark on the paper man's abdomen and said, "Please don't deviate from these two positions." ”

With the previous experience, Cai Jiu was much more skilled this time, and responded in a low voice, then squatted in front of the paper man, picked up the wooden stick with his backhand, and stabbed it hard.

"Poof", a stream of "blood" spurted out suddenly, splashing Cai Jiu's face in an instant.

Everyone was startled, Cai Jiu was even more surprised, instinctively raised his hand to wipe it, and suddenly remembered the scene when the little supervisor was demonstrating, knowing that it was just red paint, he hurriedly endured it and stabbed it at the second mark.

"Poof", another stream of red paint flew out, and Cai Jiu's entire face was suddenly confused, and his eyes could barely be opened.

"Don't worry, this pigment is harmless to people, and it will be clean when you rinse it with water." Chen Ying explained, and slowed down her voice again: "Please stand for a while, I'll finish speaking soon." ”

Cai Jiu had to stand with his head and face full of red paint, looking very uncomfortable.

Chen Ying turned to the three people in the hall and said, "Everyone, please see, if you stab Zhou Jiuniang in this way, the murderer's face and hair will definitely be splashed with blood. ”

She took out a stack of paper from her sleeve and presented it with both hands: "This is the confession obtained by the people's daughter, including several officers and soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, Zheng's sister-in-law who guarded the West Guest Courtyard, as well as the two female officials who guarded Ziqi at that time, and the female doctor who treated her injuries, all confessed that on the night of the crime, although Ziqi was covered in blood, only the head and face were clean, and there was no trace of blood. ”

At Xu Yuanlu's suggestion, a clerk took the confession and handed it over, and Chen Ying said again: "Naturally, some people may want to say that maybe Ziqi found a place to wash the blood on her face after stabbing Zhou Jiuniang, or she covered her face with objects first, and then killed and injured her." ”

When she said this, a strange smile appeared on her face again: "For this reason, the folk girl deliberately carefully read the survey file, according to the dossier, no matter the east chamber, the west chamber or the kitchen, there were no water stains, and the basin was also dry, obviously no one used it. As for covering her face with objects, the folk girl tried it a few times, and found that even if she blocked her face, her hair couldn't stop it, and there would always be some blood stains splashed on it, without exception. ”

She pointed to the confession in Xu Yuanlu's hand: "In the confession, the two female officials and the female doctor both said that no blood was found on Ziqi's hair, only a small amount of blood stasis on the back of the head. ”

No one spoke.

Xu Yuanlu flipped through these pages of confession, and passed it to Cao and Zhao to take a look, and all three of them had calm faces.

Although Chen Ying did not demonstrate them all, judging from her previous demonstrations, her statement is tenable.

In fact, no one would think that when a person kills someone, he will first cover his face.

It's not a matter of guts, temperament, good or evil, it's human instinct not to do it.

Since you kill someone, you must have the determination to put people to death, how can you cover your face with one hand and control the enemy with one hand? Wouldn't that blow up its shortcomings and give the opponent a chance to take advantage of it?

Take a step back, if you were really scared and blocked your face, then it would be impossible for Zhou Jiuniang to stab her two knives so deeply.

Fear or hesitation will not cause such a stab wound.

"The knife wound on Zhou Jiuniang's body is another paradox." Chen Ying said calmly, with a calm expression: "Do you adults still think that Zhou Jiuniang and Junior Brother Qiao were both killed by Ziqi?" ”

No one answered.

The only breeze blew, and the white stone floor outside the hall reflected a faint sunlight.

Today is really a good day, the clouds are light and the wind is light.

However, the atmosphere of the main hall of Dali Temple is very dignified.

After a long time, Xu Yuan got up suddenly, strode to the screen, and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that Ziqi's murder suspicion is not established. The real culprit should be someone else. ”

As soon as this voice came out, the whole house was in an uproar.

Everyone didn't expect that Xu Yuanlu was the first to be moved, and even Chen Ying was a little surprised.

She originally bet on Zhao Wuyi's body, but she didn't think that Xu Yuanlu, who seemed to be the most difficult to speak, first agreed with her point of view.

After looking at this Lord Xu suspiciously for a while, Chen Ying suddenly came to his senses.

How could she forget, Xu Yuanlu is an old criminal.

He has been immersed in this way for many years, and he doesn't know the cases he has handled, how can he not know these doubts listed by Chen Ying?

It's just that for some reason (most likely a matter of political stance), Xu Yuanlu can't point it out clearly, and can only support it after Chen Ying's proposal.