Chapter 13: Interrogation
Xu Qi'an looked at his back and wasn't very optimistic.
It was too difficult to get evidence after so many days.
"It's almost impossible to get forensics when you can't check the fingerprints. The shoe prints definitely can't be Zhang Xian's own .... Well, taking these out of the equation, what other means are applicable to this era that can help solve the case ...." He searched his belly to think of a way.
......
"This group of incompetent xuyuan, when fishing for oil and water, every one of them is as shrewd as a monkey, and a stone can squeeze out oil and water. When it comes to doing the right thing, they are all incompetent dogs."
The county magistrate is angry in the inner hall, the murder is a big case, but the deceased is also related to the minister in the Lord Xu.
What kind of person is the official in the minister?
He is a self-proclaimed puritanical official, a mad dog who bites everyone and writes impeachment against anyone who looks at him in an unfavorable light.
With a goatee beard, thin face of the Xu master accompanied by a side, smilingly said: "adults continue to be so forced, they have to touch the fish."
They are all veterans, and what the officials under their hands are paying attention to, the chiefs know exactly.
When it comes to the officialdom's tawdry maneuvers, the Xu Clerk is at most at the level of an elementary school student, the highest level is in the Temple Hall, followed by the feudal officials.
"Touching fish?" Zhu magistrate grunted, "In the past days, it's just a matter of time, the Beijing inspection is approaching, turn around and be impeached on the grounds that I've been beaten into submission, how can this official deal with himself?"
As he was saying, the sound of hurried footsteps came, Wang sheriff entered the inner hall, stopped after crossing the threshold, his attitude was respectful, his tone was filled with excitement: "Your honor, Zhang's case, I've already got an idea, please send a card ticket, I'll take someone."
County Magistrate Zhu and Master Xu looked at each other, the former sneered and the latter revealed a smile that was surely so.
Seeing that the two men did not look right, Sheriff Wang urged, "My lord? Time cannot wait."
Magistrate Zhu slapped the table and scolded, "Idiot, it's already time and you're still thinking about touching fish. Are you pig brain."
Submitting to a beating could be used on weekdays, but there was a problem here.
After the prisoner confessed, the confession and the dossier had to be submitted to the Ministry of Justice, which verified it and gave the verdict.
At the end of the year on the Beijing inspection, the atmosphere of the officialdom in the capital is tense, everyone while cleaning up their own tails, and at the same time, they are watching each other, eager to catch the political opponent's feet.
This is the period when it is said that the case will be overturned.
Sheriff Wang hurriedly defended, "Your Excellency is mistaken, I am really sure that I can catch the real culprit, never touching the fish. Please Lord believe me."
What is your level, this official does not know it ..... Zhu magistrate is not assured of this, looked at the old Wang: "You carefully say."
Wang sheriff said, it is also time for me to show my saint in front of people.
"Your honor, and listen to me in detail, there are many doubts in Zhang's case ......"
Old Wang reproduced Xu Qi'an's deduction, in its original form, and said it to the two lords.
Zhu magistrate at first with a cold smile on his face, listening to listen, his waist unconsciously straightened. In the end, not a word was spoken, but his face was full of seriousness.
He was thinking.
"Wonderful!" Master Xu hit his palm, 'snapping' loudly, looking very exuberant: "Drawing out the silk, tuning in clearly, actually able to surmise the beginning and end of the case from these insignificant details. The old hand of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs is no more than that."
Although it is still to be checked!
But this set of reasoning undoubtedly showed the direction to the bewildered county court crowd.
Sheriff Wang laughed, "Everyone is flattered."
County Magistrate Zhu snorted, "Tell me, who taught you that."
Sheriff Wang pondered briefly, pressed down on the idea of taking credit, and truthfully said, "Racer Xu Qi'an."
Racer is not a live streaming platform, Xu Qi'an is not an anchor, Racer is the name of the fast class of Xuxu, also called the constable.
Xu Qi'an .... County Magistrate Zhu was the first to react: "It's him."
County Magistrate Zhu and Xu Pingzhi had drunk a few times and had a few friendships, some years ago Xu Pingzhi spent twenty taels of silver and asked for the fat job of a fastman for his nephew.
In the Da Feng dynasty, the position of a mandarin can be passed on to a son.
It was as stable as an old dog's golden rice bowl.
"It's right if it's him." County Magistrate Zhu smiled.
Master Xu's eyes flickered, thinking of the tax and silver case that implicated the Xu family, and immediately asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Sheriff Wang also listened sideways.
County Magistrate Zhu smiled, "The tax silver robbery case has caused a storm in the city, the Xu family bore the brunt of it and should have been held accountable, do you know why the Xu family was able to get off the hook?"
Sheriff Wang immediately said, "I heard that it was the Imperial Sword Guard's Lord Xu who was credited with assisting in the case, and His Majesty was forgiving and exonerated him."
This was what he had just heard from Xu Qi'an.
Master Xu glanced at County Magistrate Zhu's expression and tried, "What insider knowledge does this case have."
The details of the missing tax silver case were not accessible to Master Xu's segment, but County Magistrate Zhu was the parental official of Changle County, although he was only a younger brother in a place like the capital where the powerful and wealthy gathered.
But there is no backing behind is not able to sit in this position.
Zhu magistrate snorted: "Xu Pingzhi is just a coarse martial artist, this case he is just a scapegoat ...." Suddenly paused, seems to not want to reveal too much, turned to say: "Really let the Xu family turn over is not him."
"Who is it!" Sheriff Wang subconsciously asked.
The answer flashed in Master Xu's heart, waiting for County Magistrate Zhu's follow-up.
"It was Xu Qi'an, he was the one who unraveled the truth of the tax and silver case, this matter is noted in the dossier, one of this official's fellow years worked at the Beijing Zhaopu." County Magistrate Zhu said, "A son acts on behalf of his father, a father's debt is paid by his son, although he is a nephew, the reasoning is the same."
Master Xu draws a breath of cold air, "After the crime, Xu Qi'an should be locked up in the government office jail, how did he do it."
Magistrate Zhu mused, "I originally found it unbelievable as well, but now I've figured it out."
Master Xu likewise thought of it, incredulous: "Based on the dossier alone?!"
Based on the dossier alone .... Sheriff Wang's brain was dumbfounded, this type of official secrets could occasionally be heard from the three officials at the top of his head.
What he couldn't believe was that the tax silver robbery was a case from which Xu Qi'an had exerted great energy and rescued the Xu family.
Sheriff Wang said, "This is not right, it doesn't make sense.
When this kid first came to the country, the character of simple and stubborn, will only be bored to do things, is a real rash.
So a rash young, how to turn around on the case as God.
......
Wang arrested the ticket returned to the lounge, Xu Qi'an fell asleep on the table. He thought about too many things last night, and only went to sleep after three nights.
When a bystander reached out to push Xu Qi'an, Sheriff Wang immediately stopped him and lowered his voice: "Let him sleep."
He casually picked two people, "You guys come with me to the Zhang residence."
The three quick hands, along with their respective white servants, totaling nine people, left the Changle County Office at a brisk pace.
White servants were temporary laborers, a type of corvée, made up of commoners, with no wages, no food or shelter.
However, there was also a very conscientious part: they did not have to take the blame.
Xu Qi'an was awakened by the sound of "mighty", wiped the saliva on the corner of his mouth, and walked towards the county office lobby.
The magistrate was interrogating him in front of the hall.
In the public hall, the magistrate Zhu was standing behind the public case, and on his left and right were the ministers and the followers.
Below the case, on the left and right sides stood three shifts of magistrates, and in the center knelt two people, a young man wearing a green coat embroidered with cloud patterns, and the other was a beautiful woman wearing a purple dress.
The woman looked terrified and uneasy, while the young man was relatively calm.
"Pah!"
Magistrate Zhu angrily slapped the wood of the hall and said aloud, "Who is under the hall!"
The woman subconsciously glanced at the young man, who gave her a calming look and straightened his back, "Herborist Zhang Xian."
The woman said in a thin voice, "My wife Yang Zhenzhen."
Magistrate Zhu droned, "How did you two kill Zhang You Rui, tell us the truth!"
The woman trembled in fear, her long eyelashes fluttering, her face terrified.
The young man, Zhang Xian, was shocked, "Why did you say that, Your Honor, how could a grasshopper kill his biological father."
Magistrate Zhu asked, "Where were you when it happened?"
"I was in the study."
"Why didn't you collapse with your wife?"
"The straw man was reading the accounts."
"There are witnesses."
"In the middle of the night, where are the witnesses."
Zhang Xian's reply was clear and unruffled. Either he had a clear conscience, or he had already prepared his mind.
Based on his own logical reasoning, Xu Qi'an favored the latter possibility.
Although he didn't have an alibi, there was likewise no evidence to prove that he had killed someone; reasoning was reasoning, and if there was no tangible evidence, the benefit of the doubt .....
The magistrate turned to the woman and said: ''Zhang Yang, this official asks you, you have been married to Zhang You Rui for ten years without any births. Why are you pregnant now? Honestly explain, is it that you are having an affair with your stepson and murdering your own husband."
Zhang Yang's startled, cried: "Lord, the people's wife is wrongly accused, the people's wife body is not good, in recent years, day to day conditioning, it is not easy to conceive her husband's flesh and blood, how can the Lord based on this wrongly accused the people's wife of murdering her husband."
Calling and crying.
How is it possible to try the truth in this way, Xu Qi'an looked at the watery woman from afar for a moment, his heart moved, and he had a good idea.
