Chapter 15: The Unchanging Roots of Humanity Throughout the Ages
"Third, why did the county office flatly insist that you killed Zhang Yourui and not the thieves?"
"Dragging Zhang Yourui's body to the courtyard and disguising it as the work of thieves was very thoughtful. But you guys made a mistake."
"When Zhang Yourui died, his body was lying in the courtyard with his feet facing towards the house, his head facing outwards, and the fatal wound was in the back of his head. This means that the murderer struck from behind him and attacked him with a blunt object."
"How is this possible. If the murderer was a beamer, when he saw his master return, he either pressed on or retreated, purposely striking out to attack and kill, yet he returned empty-handed?"
Li Zhen Zhen froze, she did not expect there to be so many breaks.
Xu Qi'an's words had a powerful impact on her, giving her the feeling that what she had done had long been exposed in broad daylight, with nothing to hide.
A sense of panic nearly dominated her.
"There's nothing more to say, is there? Zhang Xian also had nothing more to say, so he gave you up. He also said that you were the one who seduced him in a shameless manner, and that he didn't want to continue to entangle with you, but you threatened him with the child in his belly and forced him. That night, it was also you who took advantage of the chaos to beat Zhang Yourui to death."
"Zhang Xian was an innocent victim, and knowing that there were so many cracks and that it was hard to escape, he confessed his guilt to the county magistrate and was willing to offer five hundred taels of silver to ease the connections and put the blame on your head, so that you alone would bear the guilt of murdering your own husband."
The more Yang Zhenzhen listened, the more frightened she became, and her face grew more and more desperate. After learning that Zhang Xian had already betrayed her, her rather pretty face went white, with no blood at all.
"You know best what kind of person Zhang Xian is, right?" Xu Qi'an said this on purpose.
What kind of person Zhang Xian was Xu Qi'an didn't know, he just didn't believe that this kind of relationship, which had nothing to do with love but only desire, would be as solid as it could be.
Moreover, Zhang Xian was a rich second generation, being rich meant that he could eat lots and lots of abalone, so why hang on to a piece of abalone.
Yang Zhenzhen despaired.
"But," Xu Qi'an followed his advice, "County Magistrate Master Weiguang Zheng .... It means honesty and justice, and he is not biased in favor of Zhang Xian's one-sided words. He ordered me to come here for questioning, and if you come clean and show leniency, the county magistrate promised to spare you the death penalty."
Yang Zhen Zhen raised her head fiercely, her eyes filled with tears, as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw, and wailed, "Really?"
Xu Qi An nodded, "Really."
See finally shook Yang Zhen Zhen's mind, Xu Qi An immediately opened the door, greeted the door waiting for the parishioners to come in to make a statement.
Yang Zhen Zhen's psychological defenses were shattered, and she told the truth.
She did have an affair with her stepson and was pregnant with his child. However, there are some discrepancies with what Xu Qi'an has just said. She did not take the initiative, and the process of her hooking up with Zhang Xian is summed up in eight words: stepson, please be self-respectful, stepson, please be automatic!
Zhang Xian had been coveting the beauty of this stepmother for a long time, and took advantage of the situation when she was alone in her bedroom to take advantage of the situation.
Yang Zhenzhen was half-hearted.
As the saying goes, cheating is fun for a while, but the whole family is cremated. That night, after the incident, father and son clashed, and Zhang Xian killed his old man with a vase.
In order to get off the hook, he and Yang Zhenzhen tampered with the confession and disguised themselves as thieves to commit the murder.
Unfortunately, the two are ordinary people, not professionals, too many loopholes, but also encountered Xu Qi'an, the hangman.
Last night's transcript, Xu Qi'an and the Tang Priest left the forbidden room.
The old parish priest who had worked in the county office for more than twenty years was convinced by Xu Qi'an's tawdry maneuvers, "When a man looks at a case from a different perspective, I've worked in the county office for half my life and have never encountered a case trial like yours."
Prisoner's dilemma is an old fashioned routine now ..... It's only you ancient people who make a fuss about it. Xu Qi'an waved his hand, "A trivial skill."
He chose to use Yang Zhenzhen as a breakthrough because he was bullying her for not knowing the law, and having long hair and short knowledge best describes the women of this era.
When the county magistrate was trying the case just now, Xu Qi'an observed for a long time and realized that Yang Zhen Zhen's character was weak and had no initiative.
So he had this idea.
He had just lied to Yang Zhen Zhen, according to the law of Dabong, adultery and murder of one's own husband, the woman would be executed by lynching, and the adulterer would be beheaded and displayed in public. It is impossible to be exempted from the death penalty.
In this case, the one who committed murder was Zhang Xian, patricide, and also lynching. Xu Qi'an had no opinion on how a patricidal brute should die, he just felt that Yang Zhenzhen was an accessory to the crime and his crime was not punishable by death.
This point clashed with the view of law he had cultivated in his previous life.
"Every era has its rules, conforming to the general trend is the way to survive." Xu Qi'an told himself in his heart.
Zhang Xian, who had been caught off guard by seeing Yang Zhenzhen's confession, was no longer able to sophistically defend himself and confessed in despair.
Xu Qi'an took the two confessions and went to the inner hall.
Magistrate Zhu, with tea in his left hand and a volume in his right, looked down, seeing Xu Qi'an come in, he put down the book and tea, "How is it?"
Xu Qi'an placed the two confessions on the table, "Fortunately."
Zhu magistrate immediately grabbed the confessions, shook the paper, and after scrutinizing them, he slapped the table and raged, "Asshole thing, asshole thing!"
Old Zhu felt that his scholarly outlook had been challenged.
After his anger, he looked at Xu Qi'an again, and his impression of the brat was as good as it could be.
"Ning Banquet, this official will credit you, good skill."
"It's all because of your lordship's good teaching, I've learned some minor tricks by ear." Xu Qi'an threw a rainbow fart over.
Zhu magistrate looked greatly pleased.
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At the beginning of the day, Wang sheriff said that he would treat the guests to a drink, and took eight fast workers from the fast class to the tavern.
The silver standard prices were stable, and a penny of silver would be enough to book a sumptuous dinner table at a big tavern. Not to mention a tavern.
Because of the god-awful reasoning and the even more screaming interrogation, Xu Qi'an became the main character, and even Sheriff Wang looked to him for advice on the interrogation process.
"That woman's character is soft and can't withstand being scared, it's really no big deal." Xu Qi'an was old and oily, never exaggerating himself, not detached from the masses. But Sheriff Wang and his fellow officers were very happy to hear this, feeling that they had opened the door to a new world.
Attentively, they toasted Xu Qi'an.
After three rounds of drinking, the conversation between the great lords inevitably turned to places like greenhouses and hookahs.
In this regard, Sheriff Wang became the protagonist. He patted Xu Qi'an's shoulder, "Ning Banquet, today I'll take you to the hookahs to have some fun and get a taste of meat."
The group laughed ambiguously, all knowing that Xu Qi'an was a fledgling.
"Chief are you buying?"
"It's a few coins of silver." Sheriff Wang refused.
No treat .... Xu Qi'an said in a deep voice, "I'm not like that."
After breaking my body, I won't be able to reach the Qi Practicing Realm in this lifetime.
When it came to the traditional culture of green houses, it contained quite a deep knowledge. Xu Qi'an listened intently and summarized in his mind:
A hooker is a brothel, oriented towards the common people .... The green house is more upscale, the customer group is rich merchants and dignitaries .... This is not a hair salon and club.
In the Dafeng Dynasty, when it comes to the culture of greenhouses, it is absolutely impossible to bypass the Education Department.
"The women in the Oratory Department are really pretty," Sheriff Wang lamented, "All of them are the family members of the criminal officials, and each of them is so fine and tender that they can pinch out the water."
"At the beginning of the year, I went with the county minister to play inside. By chance, I have seen the Floating Fragrance girl, with a flowery face ...." A stunning look appeared on Sheriff Wang's face.
"Who is Miss Floating Fragrance." Xiao Li asked, "Chief, did you sleep with her."
"Floating Fragrance is the Flower Leader of the Department of Education, if I didn't already have a benefactor that night, I would have already slept with her." Sheriff Wang blew moneyless cowhide.
"How much silver for a night's sleep?" Xu Qi'an's heart fluttered.
"Thirty taels."
Xu Qi An grabbed him a handful of peanuts, "Chief, eat some peanuts, see how drunk you are."
This Nima is a gold inlay ah .... Thirty taels of silver can buy several little ladies to play by themselves at home okay .... Bah, the only unchanging bad root of human beings from time immemorial is to inflate X price!
The only way to sleep with a flower girl is to go to the Education Department.
