Chapter 11 Trying Cases on His Behalf
"Bold !!" Gonggong Cao shouted, and waved his hand to let the Royal Forest Army who came with him take Ye Shi down.
"Wait! Father-in-law Cao," Zhang He pulled Ye Shi aside, and with a smile on his face, he apologized:
"This is my friend, she has this temperament, please don't be like her, don't be angry, dissipate your anger, dissipate your anger......" Gonggong Cao is a big celebrity in front of the emperor, and he has relied on his sleek strength for so many years. His eyes rolled, but he coughed with a feigned anger on his face:
"If you read Lord Zhang's affection, our family will not pursue it. You must persuade this friend of yours more in the future, otherwise if it reaches the ears of the emperor, ten heads will not be enough to cut off. ”
"Definitely, definitely."
Ye Shi coldly watched Zhang He say all the good things to Gonggong Cao, and her heart became more and more disdainful: she had already seen that this kid was really talented and practical, relying on that mouth. Presumably in front of the emperor, he was also touted like this, and as soon as he praised his old man, he rewarded him with an official position...... The more she thought about it, the more angry she became: How could such an important position concerning the people be so rash? I couldn't help but think of the state of the man when he was working seriously, and his heart throbbed violently.
She exhaled a long breath, expelled the turbid air from her lungs, regained clarity in her eyes, sat down on her chair, knocked down the startling wood on the table, and shouted:
"Declare the plaintiff in!" She glanced at Zhang He, who was standing aside, stroked her forehead and said:
"What are you doing stupidly? Move a chair and sit on it. Zhang He was shocked by Ye Shi's temperament, and as soon as he came back to his senses, he stammered, hurriedly pulled a broken chair from the side, and sat down.
The wooden chair that had been in disrepair for a long time was impacted by external forces and fell apart all at once. Zhang Hejie sat firmly on the ground, looking at Ye Shi in a daze, his eyes flashing with confusion.
Ye Shi twitched the corners of his mouth, stood up suddenly, pointed to the chair behind him, and said helplessly:
"Forget it, you can sit here."
Zhang He just wanted to excuse himself, but Ye Shi suddenly shouted:
"What do you look like as a big man? Will you do this judge? If you don't do it, don't get in the way! Let so many people just wait for you! As he spoke, he pressed Zhang He the chair, and he jumped quickly, sat on the table, sighed, and lowered his voice:
"Auntie, what happened before and after the day your son disappeared?"
"As usual, my son went out to the city to buy groceries, but he didn't come back until noon. I felt that something was wrong, so I looked around, but I found no trace of him. ”
When Ye Shi heard this, he twisted his eyebrows:
"Nothing special happened that day?"
The old woman thought for a moment and shook her head:
"No ......"
"How was he feeling when he went out?"
"He ......," said the old woman, frowning,
"If I really want to say that there is, I will have a few arguments with him about buying a few catties of meat that day." Ye Shi raised his eyebrows, but the old woman hurriedly added:
"But we are often like this, he is a child who forgets when he is angry, and he has never left home in anger. After all, his father and I are too old to withstand such a toss. As she spoke, her emotions suddenly became excited:
"Girl, oh not big! My son has been missing for five days today, do you think he will ...... If there is only one son in our family, if he is ...... How can we live! Seeing this, Zhang He hurriedly comforted:
"Don't worry, I haven't heard this bad news now, so isn't there still hope? We have learned the general situation of your son, you can go back and rest in the next few days, don't think nonsense, we will definitely help you find your son. Finally sent the eldest lady away, Ye Shi knocked on the table and asked:
"Your Excellency Judge is so confident, he must have found clues?" Zhang He looked up at Ye Shi who was sitting at the table, and a trace of confidence flashed in his eyes:
"To tell you the truth, I have privately inquired about more than a dozen families of the victims, and have come to the conclusion that the victims are all unmarried in their twenties and thirty years old, and that they must go to the market every day. Therefore, these disappearances must have been committed by one person. As long as you send someone to the capital market to squat, are you worried that you can't find a suspicious person? Ye Shi narrowed his eyes and said lightly:
"Surely you've never been to the fair, have you?"
"Huh? What the? Zhang He was stunned by her headless words.
"In the first month, the largest bazaar in the capital of Yuguo, the most crowded time is from the beginning of the day to the end of the day. From the east of the city to the west of the city, it is a long one, in which all kinds of vegetables, fish and meat are dazzling, not to mention the storefronts next to the street, there are people inside and outside, and they are basically squeezed to walk. Excuse me, how many men do you want to send, and where are you looking for the murderer whose appearance, body shape, and age are unknown? ”
"......" Zhang He was asked by Ye Shi, and looked at her blankly. The latter snorted coldly:
"You didn't even understand this, and you only asked a dozen families to find out what they had in common, which is ridiculous! Let me tell you, don't think that you are a young talent, and you can be arrogant when you just get such a position. The master of this yamen is smarter than you, calmer than you, and more modest than you, and he is also eighteen years old. Fragments of memory flashed in front of Ye Shi's eyes, and she suddenly calmed down and said:
"Do you know how he tried the case? As long as he receives a case, he can work without sleep, and his spirit will always remain 100% full with the facts of the case; He can analyze a corpse that has been decomposing for many days without changing his face, and extract evidence from it that can help people clear their grievances; He could have sent back the money sent by the plaintiff's family without moving, even though his yamen had broken enough to be blown down by a small wind. Now that you are sitting in his place, you should do what he does, and don't insult him with those cleverness that can't be on the stage. Zhang He was blinded by the momentum of Ye Shi's series of words, and looked at the bright woman in a daze: It turns out that a person who is as proud as she is will defend a person like this......
"Next!" Ye Shi stopped looking at him and shouted loudly.
"My lord, our family lives in the alleys of this capital, Ah Fei gets up early every day and goes to the market to buy golden cauliflower for the pigs to eat. But the day before yesterday, he never came back...... Adult, our family Ah Fei is an honest child, there are not many personal friends, but they are all very good, if you go to their place, it is impossible not to report to the family in advance. Please ...... Please get justice for my son! ”
"Uncle, what way does your son usually go when he goes back and forth in the morning?" Ye Shi glanced at Zhang He unexpectedly, and secretly thought: This kid is still a good ...... The market is crowded, and if it is killed or kidnapped, it is unlikely that there will be no witnesses. So it is only possible to be taken away or killed by the murderer on the way from the house to the market.
"Which way to go......" he scratched his head, recalling with all his might, and suddenly cried out:
"Oh, I remember! What's the name of the spice shop that opened last year......"
"Manqin Pavilion." Ye Shi gritted his teeth and said hatefully:
"Sure enough, it's him again." When Zhang He heard this, he frowned and said:
"Do you know who the killer is?" Ye Shi didn't answer, turned his head and said to the old man:
"Uncle, there are two alleys closest to Manqin Pavilion. One leads to the largest pharmacy in the capital, and the other leads to the moat in the south of the city, I don't know which one your son usually takes? ”
"Pharmacy! Our family is in an old house near the pharmacy, and the surrounding houses have been demolished, leaving us alone. Ye Shi nodded, and helped the old man out of the yamen in a good voice, and when he saw Zhang He writing the side, he raised his eyebrows and said:
"Sure enough, a scholar still has to be a scholar, and the transcript of this case will be handed over to you." Seeing that Ye Shi recognized his ability, Zhang He crossed a glimmer of light in his eyes, and said firmly:
"I'll do my best, ...... Keep up with the adults on the left. ”
Ye Shi heard the words "Lord Zuo", and her eyes trembled: it was only seven days since Zuo Sheng disappeared, but it made her feel like a world away. She preferred to believe that he had spurned what he had done before he was eighteen and found a place to hide. But reason told her that Zuo Sheng, who was black and white, weak on the outside but strong on the inside, would never do such a thing.
Zuo Sheng, Zuo Sheng, I don't know if I can still hear someone call you "Lord Zuo" in this life? Pain and despair blended, and she clung to the shocking wood in her hand to ease the emotions that were about to erupt.
Zhang He, who was on the side, saw a crack in the shocking wood in Ye Shi's hand, looked at her in surprise, and asked carefully:
"Miss Ye, you ...... Are you okay? ”
Ye Shi suddenly came back to his senses, took a deep breath, and said in a dumb voice:
"I'm fine, call the next one."
The red glow dyed the pure black plaque of the yamen, lining the four red gold characters of "Mirror Hanging" more and more majestic. Inside the house, Ye Shi stretched and yawned and muttered:
"It's finally over." On this day, she started with the plaintiff's parents and worked hard to dig out the useful information in them, originally thinking that these more than 30 cases were the result of a long time of planning. But when she combined those valid information together, she doubted her own inference: Zuo Sheng once said that no matter what kind of murderer he is, he will definitely leave his own habits when committing a crime - no matter how strong his anti-reconnaissance consciousness is. After the first few cases, her initial understanding of Dye shows that he is a cold-blooded killer who pursues art and beauty. He likes to hide behind his back and manipulate people, playing cat and mouse games with them, and deriving a sense of pleasure from taunts. Whether it is Yun'er, the Lei family or Wang Tiezhu, his entry point is emotion. But now, according to all the records, the victim hardly had a heated quarrel with others that day.
And the common denominator of all of them - rushing to the morning market, just weakens the motive of Dye's crime.
"Alas, what can I do about this...... Ye Shi rubbed his swollen eyebrows and roared irritably.