I am born with insufficiency

Chapter 50 Damei Luoshiwan ([-])
"Those who provide effective clues will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Those who help the government catch the murderer will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver."

Hearing that there was a silver reward, Zhu Jian'er's mind immediately wandered, and the poor scholar who wanted to ruin his business yesterday and called him a charlatan came to mind.

"My lord, the little one has clues to report."

Zhu Jian'er made up his mind, no matter whether it was the scholar who killed him or not, lead the arrester to catch him, at least ten taels of silver will be in his hands.

Master Yi was overjoyed when he heard the words, and immediately arranged for his younger brother to lead the arrester to arrest him.

Gu Buquan the inn they stayed in was introduced by Zhu Jian'er yesterday, so it's easy to get someone.

Therefore, this should be regarded as the fastest case handled by the Qingzhou government. It took less than two hours from the discovery of the female body on the outskirts of the city to the arrest of the murderer.

In fact, this is the fourth case of the same kind that happened in Qingzhou prefecture in the past few months. The dead are all young women whose faces have been disfigured. The files of the previous three female corpse cases are still on Mr. Yi’s desk, and they have been suppressed all the time. on his mind.

Unexpectedly, the female corpse case that has troubled Mr. Yi for a long time was solved under the report of a salesman.

This Chen Chuzhi simply jumped into his bowl without stretching his fishing net.

Chen Chuzhi didn't realize the seriousness of the matter at first, and said he just recognized a corpse. It wasn't until he saw the bloody face of the purple-clothed woman's corpse that he became confused and fell down in the sand on the bank of the stream. The black mud stuck to his face.

The beggar who was in a panic looked at the bell and flicked his teeth, he couldn't bear to look directly at him, he was gentle and gentle before, and he had a little bit of a cleanliness.

But even in such a state of embarrassment, Chen Chuzhi still stood upright, and did not intend to kneel down to Mr. Fu Yin.

Master Yi frowned in displeasure, but according to the rules, all scholars can see that officials don't kneel, so Master Yi can't help him.

Zhang Butou was not so polite, he deliberately brought Chen Chuzhi closer to the female corpse and asked, "Do you recognize her? Tell me, how did you kill people and abandon the corpse in the suburbs?"

Chen Chuzhi shook his head desperately and struggled. He covered his eyes and refused to take a second look at the corpse, so he hit Zhang Butou on the head in anger.

"Now you know you're afraid? Are you bold when you kill people?"

Master Yi stopped drinking, and Chen Chuzhi shook his whole body three times, but he still shook his head desperately.

Zhang Butou kicked Chen Chuzhi to his knees: "Hurry up and do it!"

"How can I do such an injustice because I have read the books of sages and sages? I beg your lord to make a clear decision." Chen Chuzhi didn't kneel, but simply sat on the ground, crying and yelling for injustice.

"Which murderer didn't call for injustice from the very beginning? I have been an official for several years, and I have settled countless cases. I didn't use torture to extract confessions easily. In the end, I didn't all confess to each one honestly? That's because I have always paid attention to Infer, convince people with reason.”

Chen Chuzhi's sourness came up again, he dusted off the dirt on his body, and said slowly: "Since the adults say to convince people with reason, then tell me how to deduce that Xiaosheng killed the person? Otherwise Xiaosheng will not accept it."

"Okay, then I will let you submit in front of many people."

Mr. Yi stared at Chen Chuzhi with hawk-like eyes, "You hold a grudge because of the dispute with the girl yesterday, and you saw the beauty of the girl again, and you wanted to plot against her, but when she resisted, you became angry and became murderous. Killed the girl when the wind was high, and dumped her body in a mountain stream in the outskirts."

"You were trying to destroy the corpse, but you didn't want to be washed ashore by the current, so that you were discovered in such a short time. This is what people are watching. The official's eyes... no, the common people's eyes."

Mr. Yi spoke uprightly and sternly, and he was so moved by what he said, but Chen Chuzhi could only shout the word "wronged" with his clumsy tongue.

"About the dispute between you and the deceased, there are already witnesses. As for the physical evidence..." Mr. Yi sneered, Zhang Butou immediately waved the purple silk handkerchief in front of Chen Chuzhi.

"There are all the witnesses and evidence, what else do you have to say?"

"But, this..." Chen Chuzhi was tongue-tied, he really didn't understand, when did this silk handkerchief come into his book?

"Stop trying to quibble. You keep saying that you have read the books of sages, but you are a vicious murderer who will exact revenge."

Master Yi yelled again, "How did the other three women offend you and kill them to death? Hurry up and tell the truth."

"I, I..." Chen Chuzhi looked at Ling An in a state of embarrassment, and hurriedly shouted, "Last night, Xiaosheng lived in the same room with brother idiot, and he didn't leave the inn. Brother idiot, hurry up and replace me Testify, it is impossible for my younger brother to kill someone."

Everyone's eyes fell on Ling An, especially Gu Buquan, who eagerly hoped that he would come out to testify for Chen Chuzhi, even if he could say a few words.

But he avoided Gu Buquan's expectation, and only said to Chen Chuzhi, "Where did you go before the second watch?"

Chen Chuzhi replied in a low voice, "Go to the latrine to relieve yourself."

Ling An stared at Chen Chuzhi coldly, then he lowered his head and remained silent.

Gu Buquan was in a hurry: "Mr. Chen, don't you understand the meaning of the idiot? Quickly tell me where you went and who you met in the middle of the night, so we can find someone to testify for you. As long as you make it clear, I believe that the adults will return your innocence."

Chen Chuzhi shook his head: "This is Xiaosheng's secret, so I have nothing to say."

Gu Buquan can't laugh or cry, when is this, is it interesting to be so hypocritical?

"Damn it, you give back my daughter."

"You murderer, since you killed my daughter, why do you want to destroy her appearance?"

The sufferers of the three female corpse cases earlier came from the city after hearing the news, scolded and beat Chen Chuzhi, and the common people's rotten vegetables and leaves greeted him on the head.

A sufferer took a kitchen knife and wanted to cut Chen Chuzhi's face, saying that he wanted to let him experience the pain of being disfigured. Fortunately, he was stopped by the arrester.

"Wait a minute, there are still three female corpses? They were also disfigured? Are they all on Mr. Chen's head?"

Gu Buquan was dumbfounded, why did this matter get more and more complicated?
But Chen Chuzhi didn't say a word again, and let the police put the shackles on him.

Even though he hasn't signed his signature yet, it is equivalent to pleading guilty.

Gu Buquan really couldn't figure out what Chen Chuzhi was hiding?Is there anything more shameful than murder?

Looking back at Ling An, he seemed to be unaffected by the noise and turmoil of the scene, and began to examine the female corpse carefully, and because it was a female corpse, he squatted halfway, not daring to get too close.

After a while, he seemed to have eyes on the back of his head again, knowing that Gu Buquan was staring at his back, raised his head and asked her: "I can't recognize this."

"Can't recognize it?"

Gu Buquan calmed down and stepped forward to inspect, the face of the female corpse was indeed damaged beyond recognition.

"Unintelligible," he said.

"Officer, you can't tell who is here, so how do you know if she is the woman who argued with Mr. Chen? Then how can you confirm that Mr. Chen killed the person? Besides, the woman was wearing a veil yesterday, and no one Have you ever seen what she looks like? Also, could it be that Mr. Chen has a pair of distinctive eyes, and he can see the beauty of the woman through the veil, and then he has murderous thoughts in his mind?" she said.

"The cause of death is unknown," he said.

"Shouldn't the government government wait for Wu Zuo to conduct an autopsy and verify the identity of the deceased before they come to arrest someone? Now that they don't even know who the deceased is, and the cause of death has not yet been ascertained, how can they arrest someone casually? He is a weak scholar How can you kill a person if you are still panting after reciting a book?" she said.

"Little things don't kill you," he said.

"Even if this woman is yesterday's daughter, and Mr. Chen had a dispute with this woman, it cannot be concluded that Mr. Chen killed someone. A few disputes will kill people. The folk customs in Qingzhou Mansion can't be so bad, right?" she said.

"You can't go from one to the other," he said.

"It is said that there have been three similar cases in Qingzhou Prefecture before, and the four of us arrived in Qingzhou Prefecture yesterday, how can we infer the top three based on today's one?" she said.

Ling An and Gu Buquan said each other, and he judged that her explanations were true and hearty, and everyone in the audience was stunned. No matter whether it was Mr. Yi or Zhang Butou, they could not refute.

The surrounding audience looked at Chen Chuzhi's appearance as a weak and poor scholar, and felt that what they said was quite reasonable.

Only Hua Yaoling felt a sour feeling in her heart, she just couldn't see the tacit cooperation between the idiot and Gu Buquan.

"I haven't seen the first three female corpses, so I don't know their specific conditions, but it is said that they were also disfigured, so how did you recognize your daughters? Just by their clothes?" Gu Buquan and Said.

Several sufferers were questioned.

Their daughter disappeared, and many searches were unsuccessful. A few days later, the government asked them to identify the body, and they did identify their daughter from the clothes they wore.

Catcher Zhang was furious: "Who are you? How dare you talk nonsense at the scene of the murder? How dare you overthrow your lord's inference!"

"Her name is Gu Buquan, she sells coffins, and she is good friends with Mr. Chen."

Whenever someone asks who Gu Buquan is, Hua Yaoling will never forget to come out and throw trouble at the first time.

She had been watching in the crowd for a long time, and what she wanted to see most in her heart at this moment was that the officials would take Gu Buquan and Chen Chuzhi away together, so that the idiot Prince would completely belong to her.

Sure enough, Catcher Zhang was furious when he heard the words: "How dare a woman in a coffin tell you how to judge the case?"

"My lord, since they are friends with the murderer, it's hard to say whether they are accomplices. Why don't we take them back to the government office together?"

Mr. Yi was noncommittal, but it could be seen from his face that he was quite displeased, making him unable to go down the steps in front of many people was as embarrassing as hitting him in the face in public.

"It's useless to say so much, the silk handkerchief can explain everything." Master Yi held back for a while, then remembered the important piece of evidence.

"I have said before, to convince people with reason. Since the two of you have defended the suspect plausibly in front of me, then I also have something to ask you, not many, just one sentence."

Mr. Yi finally managed to win the round, and his confidence came up again.

"I just have one question. This young master said that the suspect went out in the middle of the night yesterday, but he refused to admit it, right?"

Ling An could only nod his head.

"Leaving aside the physical evidence for the time being, we just need to clarify where we went and who we met in the first half of the night."

Chen Chuzhi hesitated to speak.

"You see, my inferences have always been reasonable, and I have never had any unjust, false or wrongly decided cases. If there is no other reason, I will send the prisoner back to the government office."

Juan Pa Ming appeared in front of everyone, but Chen Chuzhi refused to clarify his whereabouts, Gu Buquan and Ling An couldn't have any objections for a while, so they had to watch him being escorted away.

"Finally, I can give an explanation to the relatives of the deceased." Master Yi breathed a sigh of relief, "It is because of my ignorance of governance that this tragic murder happened. I hereby promise to the people that the murderer will be brought to justice." Justice, to comfort the innocent dead."

"My lord is really the reincarnation of Duke Di."

Mr. Yi was complacent in the compliments from the common people, and rewarded Zhujian'er with 50 taels of silver on the spot, and received a lot of applause, saying that he is a good official who keeps his word.

This is why he likes to go to the scene to judge cases in public. For him, nothing is as beneficial as the praise of the people, and the official reputation depends on the public.

As long as the murderer Chen Chuzhi pleaded guilty and put him in shackles and took him back to the government prison, the case, together with the previous three cases of female corpses, would be concluded, and the rest would be to report to the superior for approval.

For Mr. Yi, his political achievements have added a new pen. Sooner or later his official voice will reach the heavens. After that, won't his official rank be promoted step by step?

For Chen Chuzhi, what awaited him was nothing more than the difference between the execution and the execution after the autumn.

When Chen Chuzhi was taken away, he turned his head and smiled at Ling An, and said, "Don't ask me what I do, you just need to understand what you want to do, otherwise you will never go back to the past."

He smiled strangely and said something inexplicable.

Ling'an is messy in the wind.

After waking up, he realized that Gu Buquan had already left, and there were only flowers and bells beside him.

(End of this chapter)