conspiracy crime 2

Chapter 24
She brought the puppy to the woods again. It was already the eighth day of March, and tomorrow would be Grandpa's memorial day, but she hadn't figured out her "murder plan" yet.

She was a little anxious, wishing she could bury the mountain with explosives, and detonate the explosives to kill the man as soon as he went up the mountain.

But she didn't have explosives in her hand, only a dagger that she had kept for a long time.

When she was at her wit's end, she suddenly found that the little white dog she had brought had got into a clump of wormwood and hadn't come out for a long time. She felt a little strange, and while calling for the little dog, she broke through the grass to look for it, only to find that the weeds covered her. Underneath, there was a pit about two feet wide, and the puppy was hiding in the pit, gnawing on a bone.

She jumped into the pit and wanted to pick up the puppy, but suddenly a gust of wind blew from behind, making her shiver.Strange, how could there be a cloudy wind blowing in this pit for no reason?

She turned around and looked through the weeds behind her, only to see that there was a hole there, the inside was pitch black, and she couldn't see the end. It made her terrified.

Just as he was about to leave, the little white dog snorted, slipped past his feet, and ran straight into the tunnel.

"Puppy, come out quickly."

She called out, hesitated for a moment, and followed into the tunnel.

After chasing for a while, seeing that the puppy had been caught, the dog suddenly picked up a bone and ran faster in front.

At this time, it was very far away from the entrance, and the gloomy light from the entrance of the cave could no longer come in, so she had to turn on the torch and look for the puppy.

The tunnel was very narrow and low, and could only allow one person to bend down to walk through it. At first she was a little scared, but after walking for a while, seeing that nothing was wrong, she became a little bolder and chased the puppy all the way towards the tunnel. Go deep.

I don't know how far I chased it, maybe a few miles away, she finally caught the puppy, looked up, but the tunnel had come to an end, there was a gap above the head, and some light came in slightly.

Curious, she walked to the gap, pushed slightly hard, but opened a bluestone slab above her head a little bit, pushed harder, and finally moved the slate away, and a bright light shone down from the top of her head.

She poked her head out to have a look, but she groaned and was startled, because she saw a coffin at a glance.But she soon discovered that it was her grandfather's coffin.

Isn't grandpa's coffin parked in Minghuang Temple?How come here?

She walked out of the tunnel, and after watching it for a long time, she realized that this place was already inside the Minghuang Temple on Jiangjun Mountain, and that tunnel actually led from the woods one mile away at the foot of the mountain to the right wing of the Minghuang Temple. Northwest corner.

She had just recovered from the shock, but her heart suddenly jumped wildly. God helped me. If I sneaked into the temple through this tunnel on the ninth day of March, on the day of Grandpa's great sacrifice, and after killing someone, I escaped through the tunnel again. Going back, isn't it invisible?
After making up her mind, she covered the stone slabs at the exit of the tunnel, and then walked back to the woods along the tunnel.

That night, she suffered from insomnia, and quietly took out the dagger that had been stored for a long time, and wiped it again and again.

It should be said that her murder plan was implemented relatively smoothly.

At midnight on the ninth day of the ninth day, she sneaked into the Minghuang Temple through the tunnel, quietly pushed aside the stone slab and poked her head out, and found that under the candlelight, the man was sitting on the stool with his back to her, motionless, as if he was fast asleep.

She was secretly happy, pulled out the dagger, approached tiptoely, and then stabbed him in the back, because she was too nervous, her hand trembled involuntarily, the knife did not hit his fatal position, so she immediately pulled out the dagger , Stabbed again.This knife pierced right into his heart from behind, and after two stabs, he had no chance of surviving.I was secretly happy in my heart, and was about to walk up to him to see if he was really dead, but suddenly the temple door creaked and was pushed open.

She was taken aback, her feet went limp, and she almost collapsed in fright.

However, what she didn't expect was that the man who broke into the temple with a murderous look and a sword was actually her husband Sima Hen.

Only then did she realize that her humiliating husband had already secretly noticed it, and he came here tonight to kill someone.

Sima Hen saw her, saw the dagger stuck in Mei Ruofeng's back, looked at the removed stones on the floor and the exposed tunnel entrance, and understood everything.

He told her to leave the tunnel quickly, and she asked worriedly, "Then what should you do?"

Sima Hen gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, I've already chosen a scapegoat."

She heard what her husband said so affirmatively, so she retreated from the tunnel with confidence.However, what she never dreamed of was that the matter was still revealed, and Sima Hen actually confessed to death in order not to expose his beloved wife.

However, how could she just watch her husband die for herself?
So, she went straight to the court and explained everything.

9
After hearing Mei Nuxue's narration, everyone sighed. No one expected that behind this seemingly weak woman, there was such a humiliating story hidden, let alone that the real culprit who killed Mei Ruofeng was neither Wu Guo, the enemy's son, was not his subordinate Sima Hen, but his biological daughter Mei Nuxue.The impermanence of the world is really touching.

Sima Hen looked at his pale and haggard wife, feeling pity and love in his heart, with tears in his tiger eyes, tightly holding her delicate hands, his lips trembling, but he didn't know what to say.

In order to prove the truth of Mei Nuxue's words, the magistrate Mr. Han immediately led all the people in the hall to the forest in the north of the city to check whether there is really a secret passage leading to the temple on the mountain from the general mountain one mile away.

Mei Nuxue led the way, pushed aside a clump of wormwood, and indeed saw a dark tunnel entrance.

Mr. Han was not afraid, lit a torch, bent down to get in, the tunnel was very narrow and low, it was exactly what Mei Nuxue said.After walking not far, Huoguang saw a stone tablet standing on the cave wall on the right hand side. Mei Nuxue came to the cave twice in a hurry, but she didn't see it.

The prefect of Han lowered the torch and took a closer look, only to see two lines of seal characters engraved on the stele: On the seventh day of the fifth month of the Renyin year, Wu Guogong dug a tunnel to avoid the besieged soldiers of Chen Youliang.

Before the founding emperor of this dynasty, Taizu Ye, was called Wu Guogong before he conquered the world.

It turns out that the great grandfather was besieged by the Han king Chen Youliang in the Jiangjun Mountain Temple more than a hundred years ago. He escaped not because of the blessing of the gods, but because he dug his own tunnel and escaped secretly.

When everyone saw the inscription, they suddenly realized, and only then did they understand the origin of this tunnel.

All the way forward, the exit is in the wing room where Mr. Mei Shouke's coffin is placed in the Minghuang Temple.

It can be seen that what Mei Nuxue said is probably true.

When the group returned to the county government office, the magistrate was sitting on top of the courtroom, his eyes swept down the hall, among the crowd standing in the hall, apart from a group of yamen servants, Wu Guo, Sima Henmei Nuxue and his wife, Hua Shi There are five masters and servants.

He looked at the expressions on everyone's faces, he had an idea in his mind, he slapped the gavel with a "ba" sound, and said, "Mei Nuxue, you said that you killed your father Mei Ruofeng with your own hands, but is it true?"

Mei Nuxue knelt down and said: "What Minnv said just now is true, the murderer who killed my father was not Wu Butou, nor my family's husband, it was actually Minnv who did it alone, please be careful."

Prefect Han nodded and said, "Very good."

He asked again: "According to what you said just now, the reason why you were able to find the underground tunnel that played a key role in this case and help you complete the murder plan was all because of a puppy leading the way, right?"

Mei Nuxue nodded and said: "That's right. That tunnel was indeed found by Minnv accidentally by the little dog that Minnv rescued."

Master Han asked: "Where is that puppy now?"

Mei Nuxue said: "At the folk girl's house."

Master Han said: "Left and right, let's take Mei home and bring the puppy."

Hearing the sound from the left and right, two yamen servants came out, holding water and fire sticks, escorted Mei Nuxue and ran straight to the north gate.

After about half an hour, the three of them came back again.Sure enough, Mei Nuxue was holding a little dog in her arms, the dog's eyes were agile, its body was snow white, it didn't have a single hair, it was very cute.

Mei Nuxue put the dog on the ground, then knelt down in front of the hall again.

The dog had obviously never seen this kind of occasion before, it seemed a little frightened, it just rubbed around Mei Nuxue's feet, and after a while, it dared to raise its head, a pair of dark eyeballs looked timidly at everyone around it looked over.

When it saw Hua Xiangrong, all the hairs on its body stood on end, bared its teeth, and rushed forward, barking at her.

Hua Xiangrong was startled, and shouted in disgust: "Get out of here." He raised his foot and kicked it a somersault.

The dog didn't dare to rush to her to bark anymore, but retreated far away, staring at her with hatred in its eyes, and growled in its mouth.

Prefect Han nodded secretly, his heart became clearer, and said: "Mei Nuxue, you are really cute and funny. What else do you want to say?"

Mei Nuxue said: "Minnv has nothing to say, Minnv pleaded guilty, please forgive me."

Everyone knew that she had a miserable life experience, was ravaged, and she had no choice but to kill her father. Besides, Mei Ruofeng was disrespectful to the elderly, inferior to animals, and both humans and gods were angry, so she deserved to die.

Everyone secretly sympathized, and only hoped that the magistrate would be merciful outside the law and give a lighter sentence, so that Sima's hatred of Mei Nuxue would give some comfort to the hard-working mandarin ducks.

For a while, there was no sound in the courtroom, and everyone was silent, just waiting for the magistrate to pronounce the sentence in court.

Unexpectedly, at such a critical moment, the magistrate suddenly smiled slightly, turned his head to look at Doctor Yi who was standing beside him, and said, "You are an assistant brought by me from the magistrate's yamen. In your opinion, how should this murder case be dealt with?" Judgment?"

Doctor Yi hurriedly took a step back when he heard this, bowed and said, "My lord, what is the verdict for this case? Please forgive me for not daring to comment, but yesterday when I performed an autopsy on Mei Ruofeng, I found three doubtful points from him. My lord It must be observed."

Han Qingshan raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, let me tell you about the three major doubts."

In fact, he was also present at the autopsy yesterday, and Doctor Yi had already reported the suspicious things on the corpse to him.Asking a question at this time is just to let Dr. Yi speak out in front of the room.

Doctor Yi has known Mr. Han for many years, so he naturally understood his intentions. He walked down the hall, glanced over everyone's faces, and said, "Everyone, the first of the three doubts I mentioned below is that the county The work of Wu Geng in Yali has already been mentioned, so I won't repeat it. As for the second doubt, it came from Mei Ruofeng's wound. He was stabbed twice in the back. Although the first stab missed, the second The second knife went several inches deep, right in the heart, but what is surprising is that under such a serious injury, only a small amount of blood seeped out of the wound. You can imagine that if an ordinary person was stabbed in the body, the blood would be gushing wildly, and the clothes would be completely ruined. However, Mei Ruofeng was stabbed twice in a row, and the wounds were so severe, but the surrounding area of ​​the wound was clean, and there was no trace of blood stained red, why is that?"

Hearing what he said, everyone who had seen Mei Ruofeng's body couldn't help but secretly nodded, and asked in their hearts: Why is this?

Doctor Yi said: "There is only one reason for this result, and that is that Mei Ruofeng was already dead when she was hit by the knife. Only after death, the blood in the whole body coagulates, and after being stabbed, there will be no heavy bleeding."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar in the hall.

How could Mei Ruofeng die before being stabbed?

Isn't Mei Nuxue the murderer?

The case got complicated again.

Dr. Yi ignored everyone's surprise and comments, and continued, "I checked Mei Ruofeng's stomach with a silver needle, and found a small amount of shad soup and shad meat that had not yet been digested in his stomach." When I got here, I suddenly turned my head to look at Mrs. Hua, and asked, "Mrs. Mei, for dinner on the ninth day of March, your family had a shad soup. At that time, only you and your wife were eating at the table. Isn't that right?" After Hua Xiangrong nodded in affirmation, he continued: "But the strange thing is, I found a kind of drug mixed in the fish soup in Mei Ruofeng's stomach, and this drug doesn't seem to be pure, it also contains Other poisons. The smell of the drug is extremely fragrant and strong, which is why Mei Ruofeng said that the fish soup that night was more fragrant and delicious than usual. It was the poison mixed in the drug that killed Mei Ruofeng Both the drug and the poison are chronic drugs, so Mei Ruofeng slowly fell into a coma after drinking the fish soup for several hours, and died of poisoning in the coma."

It turned out that Mei Ruofeng died of poisoning, everyone couldn't help but looked at each other in blank dismay, greatly surprised.

So who would be the poisoner?

Everyone turned their puzzled and questioning eyes to Dr. Yi.

Doctor Yi was not in a hurry, and was not in a hurry to reveal the answer, and he continued to say: "At first, the magistrate and I both suspected that the problem lies with the cook who cooks the dishes or the maid who serves the dishes. But after investigation, we found out You know, there are four chefs and five helpers in the kitchen of Meifu, and they all work together in the kitchen. It is very difficult for anyone to tamper with the fish soup without being discovered by others. Moreover, after the fish soup is cooked , the two chefs tested the taste with spoons respectively, and did not feel any strange smell in the soup. It can be seen that the fish soup was not poisoned before it was brought out of the kitchen, and it was not in the kitchen. The maids are three people together, each serve the same dish, walk into the dining room side by side, and serve three dishes at the same time, if one of them stops poisoning, the rest will be aware of it. Therefore, it is also certain that the fish soup is served before entering the dining room. They are all clean and safe. But what happens after the fish soup is on the table? Mrs. Mei, please come and tell everyone.”

The expression on Hua Xiangrong's face suddenly changed subtly, his eyes lowered, he looked at the ground, and said: "When the food was served, my master was still reading in the study inside, and after the maids who served the dishes closed the door and went out, , there was only the woman in the dining room, and the woman did not dare to go to the table, and stood and waited for about half a cup of tea before the master came out of the study and sat down to eat, and the woman dared to sit down..."

Doctor Yi asked: "Before Mei Ruofeng entered the hall, what were you doing?"

Hua said: "The woman didn't do anything, she just stood aside and waited for him to come out."

Dr. Yi blinked, stared at her and said loudly: "You are lying, just in a short while when no one is around here, you took out the poison you had prepared and mixed it into that big pot of fish soup."

Hua's complexion changed, she quickly shook her head and said, "No, no, I didn't do anything."

(End of this chapter)