Chapter 25: Doubts in the case
Scold!
Zhang Yuqing raised her eyebrows, smiled behind her back, and said, "Don't want me to see it?" Then I'm gone. ”
Fang Mo took out the copied dossier and handed it to Zhang Yuqing, secretly saying that this girl is really strange, obviously she is a country girl, she should not be as good as the famous Zhang Yuying in the capital everywhere, but she can see her standing there calmly, her eyes flashing with a glimmer of light, revealing a smart and cunning look.
I don't know how many times more dazzling than Zhang Yuying, who is afraid of being contaminated with a star and a little bit bad!
Zhang Yuqing took the file, immediately frowned, pinched the paper with two fingers, and commented disgustedly: "The handwriting is not ordinary ugly, how can this kind of person become a yamen clerk?" ”
"I copied it myself." Fang Mo blushed and said, "I don't have enough silver, the clerk said that the silver is not enough for him to write, let me copy it myself!" ”
Wang Chunniang held back her smile under the veil and worked very hard.
Zhang Yuqing read the file at a glance and said, "There are suspicious points in this case. ”
"Yes! There must be a problem! Fang Mo said excitedly.
Zhang Yuqing thought for a while, "You take me to meet that document." ”
"He's just a clerk in charge of transcribing in court, what's the use of looking for him?" Fang Mo asked.
Zhang Yuqing asked strangely: "Didn't you spend money to bribe him?" If you find someone else, you can't spend another extra money? ”
"If he ignores us......" Fang Mo hesitated.
"Then we will sit at the gate of the yamen and shout that he will collect money and not do anything!" Zhang Yuqing rolled up her sleeves and stretched out her hand to point at Fang Mo in the air, as if looking at a concubine who used too much force in the harem, she simply hated iron and steel, "Are you barefoot still afraid that he will wear shoes?" It's really well-developed and simple-minded, no wonder your son-in-law doesn't take you when he goes out, use his brain to think about it when something happens, so as not to compete for favor and can't compete for Fang Qin! ”
Fang Mo's face burned like charcoal, and he led Zhang Yuqing and Wang Chunniang to the yamen of the capital to find the clerk official.
"Why are you here again?" The clerk was a young man, less than twenty, weak and thin, and he didn't want to see Fang Mo again, "Didn't you let you copy a copy!" ”
Fang Mo hurriedly said: "I found someone to read the file, this case is suspicious!" ”
"The adults in the yamen have been tried in court, and there are all human and material evidence, so how can there be any doubts? Eventful! The clerk said impatiently with his sleeve copied.
Zhang Yuqing shook off the file transcribed by Fang Mo, pointed to one of the passages and said, "This witness's testimony is wrong. According to the results of the autopsy, the time of death of the deceased was around the ugly hour, the fourth day of the fourth month of April. And this witness said that he got up in the middle of the night to go to the yard to relieve himself, and heard the sound of the suspect He Qi climbing over the wall. As the prisoner crossed the wall, he saw the prisoner's face and soon heard the victim's screams. ”
"What's wrong?" The clerk squinted at the dossier.
Zhang Yuqing shook her head, "This is impossible." ”
"Hey! You little girl is talking nonsense......" The clerk jumped to his feet.
Zhang Yuqing said coldly: "The fourth day of the first quarter of the new year, the moon has already set in the child, the time of the victim's death is ugly, there should be no moonlight at that time, even if the witness gets up and runs into the suspect to commit the crime, he will definitely not see the suspect's face." ”
The clerk was speechless for a moment, and then said, "Maybe there is a lantern under the eaves, and the candlelight shines on the prisoner's face!" ”
Zhang Yuqing shook her head, "If I am a suspect and climb over the wall to break into the house and kill people, why don't I go to a dark place and find a place with candle light?" Are you afraid that others won't see it? ”
"You're not a suspect, and your actions can't be applied to a suspect! Witness testimony is here and cannot be taken as a point of doubt. The clerk shook his head.
Zhang Yuqing opened the file and continued to read: "The cause of death of the autopsy was that the victim was stabbed in the chest, the steel knife sank into the victim's chest, and the heart was directly pierced, and the deceased died in his sleep. The steel knife is the suspect's knife, and the neighbors all know this knife, which is a good knife passed down from the suspect's ancestors. And the suspect said that the knife was stolen.
The witness said that the suspect had an affair with the victim's wife, and that the suspect had prevented the deceased from reprimanding him because he had repeatedly beaten and abused his wife, and even used his hands on the deceased.
Three months ago, the wife of the deceased fled back to her parents' home because she could not bear the beating of the deceased, and was sent back by her family, where she was beaten again that night until her legs were broken. After the deceased fell asleep, the deceased's wife dragged the broken leg to the well, and the road was covered with blood...... In the end, he committed suicide by throwing himself into a well. ”
Zhang Yuqing read the words on the file in a slow and heavy tone, and her deep voice echoed in everyone's hearts.
A few lines outline the short and tragic life of a woman.
Wang Chunniang covered her mouth, turned around, walked a few steps, leaned against the wall and choked out, tears soaked the masked Bupa.
The clerk was a young man, who had not yet cultivated to the level of a colleague's old fritters, and was silent, his face was heavy, and he said for a long time: "With your suspicion alone, there is no way to overturn the case." ”
"What I just said is just one of the irrationalities." Zhang Yuqing said.
Fang Mo asked excitedly, "What about the unreasonable two?" ”
Zhang Yuqing pointed to a few lines of the dossier, "The suspect has some fist and foot kung fu, he studied under a dart master in his early years, the old lady is not in good health, only he is an only son, he followed the dart master to learn kung fu but did not go to the dart, when the farm is busy, he gives people short-term work and farming, and carries a sack to beg for a living when the farm is not working, in order to just take care of his mother." Such a person is not an outlaw who licks blood from the knife's edge. ”
"So what? Wouldn't an honest man kill someone? "Most of the murderers in the prison are honest people you think they are!" ”
Zhang Yuqing shook his head, "The human heart is wrapped under the ribs, if it is the first time to kill someone, it is really difficult to avoid the ribs quickly and accurately, and pierce the heart with a knife." ”
The clerk spread his hands, "That's not impossible!" Maybe he's a big thief, and this isn't the first time he's killed someone! ”
"Really, that's just two irrationalities." Zhang Yuqing nodded.
The hope that had risen earlier in Fang Mo's heart was suppressed little by little, and he asked, "Is there an unreasonable three?" ”
"Yes." Zhang Yuqing said affirmatively.
Zhang Yuqing said: "If the suspect and the deceased's wife really have an affair, then why not conspire earlier, take more covert means to kill this man, and then naturally get married?" In order to support his mother, the suspect didn't even do a dart master who could make money, and did some coolies to support his family, just to be able to take care of his old mother every day, how could he suddenly use his own knife to kill people in a big way, and leave the knife there, didn't he know that if he killed someone, his mother would have no one to support?
Taking a step back, if it was really to avenge his lover, why didn't he take revenge at that time, but chose three months later? This doesn't make sense. On the day of death, the first seven days are the peak of the grief and anger of relatives, and as time goes by, people's revenge psychology becomes weaker and weaker, not to mention that it is just a dew marriage. ”
"Of course, these are just common sense inferences, not the determining factor in proving his innocence." Zhang Yuqing said again.
A light of hope rose again in Fang Mo's eyes, "There are also decisive factors that can prove my senior brother's innocence?" ”
"Yes!" Zhang Yuqing said with a smile, her white fingers pointing at the last few lines of the dossier.
"The knife was very long, the blade of the knife sank into the victim's chest cavity more than half a foot and an inch, and the blood soaked the bed and flowed all over the ground. The record here is extremely detailed, and even the pattern on the handle of the knife and the inlaid gold thread are clearly written, but there is no mention of the blood that spurted out when the blade was exposed and the heart was pierced on the hilt, nor did it mention the blood splattered on the tent. Zhang Yuqing said.
The clerk was stunned for a moment, leaned over to take a look, scratched his head and said, "It's really not, it may be that the people below were negligent in handling the case and omitted this." ”
Zhang Yuqing stretched out a finger and shook it, her smile revealed a sense of victory, and she had a confident look, "No, on the contrary, I think the real situation at that time was that the exposed part of the blade and the handle were clean, and there was no blood at all!" ”
The more Fang Mo listened, the more excited he became, his eyes widened, and he said tremblingly: "The treasure knife of my senior brother's family heirloom is about one foot and two inches long, and it has not entered the chest cavity of the deceased for half a foot, and there is still more than half a foot left. If it pierces the heart of a living person, it will surely splatter blood three feet and spray everywhere, and the place where the blade and the handle of the knife are inevitably stained with blood! ”
"If we can prove that the exposed part of the knife at that time is clean, then it can only mean one point-" Zhang Yuqing shook the file, "The knife was stabbed after the death of the deceased!" ”
Fang Mo was so excited that he almost couldn't speak, and said intermittently: "Yes, there is someone who frames me, my senior brother!" ”
The clerk didn't expect things to progress to this point, and he was stunned for a long time, and said, "What you think is quite like it!" I didn't pour cold water on you, that knife was wiped off as evidence and presented to the government with bloodstains! It's clean and there's nothing on it now! How do you prove that there is no blood on the outside of the blade and on the hilt? ”
When Fang Mo heard this, there was almost five thunderbolts, and all the hopes that had just been ignited were extinguished, and his eyes widened, and he looked at Zhang Yuqing at a loss.
Zhang Yuqing also felt tricky.
If she was in her world, she would be able to clearly see the blood stains on the knife if she sprayed the luminol reagent.
But now there is nothing.
Fang Mo's expression was dejected, and he sat on the ground in despair.
Zhang Yuqing couldn't bear it, if she didn't know that Senior Brother Fang Mo was framed, it didn't matter, now that this case is clearly problematic, involving three lives, one of them is an innocent and tragic woman, how can she turn a blind eye.
She didn't know what Senior Brother Fang Mo was like, but judging from the number of times he helped the woman who was beaten by her husband, this person was not bad.
"You're from the Yamen, and you know the tricks of the mechanism here." Zhang Yuqing looked at the paperwork, "Do you know any way to postpone his senior brother's execution for two days?" There are suspicious points in his case, and you have seen it! ”
The clerk licked his lips in his sleeve, and said in a while, "Why do you bother with this! The adults have all been sentenced, and the files have been sent to the criminal department for review, so why bother? ”