The reborn prince can't be pushed down

Chapter 188 Ascension to Trial Case ([-])

Today, Qingchi reversed his previous attitude of unreservedly defending Ah Qi, and even began to question Ah Qi.

Aqilian turned towards Qingchi, blinked, Ruyu's long eyelashes fluttered lightly like a small fan, and he whispered: "Sister, did you forget? You helped me untie it."

The low-lying gesture earned him a few sighs of sympathy.

Seeing this, Lu Ji raised his brows lightly, "What happened in the room that day? If you really want to help Sister Qing, you can tell them all. It won't do her any good to hide like this!"

Qingchi also smiled lightly, "Yes! If I really did it, I don't want to evade responsibility."

Aqi was silent for a while, and then slowly started to untie his clothes, revealing his upper body covered with fresh injuries, he smiled lightly, with sadness in his eyes, "My lord, you have also seen the scars on Cao Min's body, can you go to the elementary school?" The people in the waiting hall... are not ordinary people... Sister Qing entered the room at the time, and Cao Min was being tied to the bed by Master Du to bear the scars he made on my body."

When he said this, he turned around and faced the outside of the yamen, so that the people listening outside could see clearly.

Those scars include pinch marks, those burned with incense, tooth marks, and small wounds cut with knives. Although they are not fatal, they will make people suffer.

The people who saw it all gasped. It is not unheard of that some people like to play with undergrown teenagers, but they have never seen such a tricky one, with almost no good meat on their bodies.

"Poor thing, if I saw it, I wouldn't be able to resist chopping that bastard!"

"It's too cruel, such a small child can do it!"

"If you want to blame it, blame those who run this kind of unconscionable business!"

"In this way, it seems that Du Xi, who was rich and unkind, did the cruel thing first, but Miss Yan can't be blamed entirely."

Originally, the one-sided demand for Qingchi to be dealt with strictly gradually faded away. After all, this case is special, and she originally wanted to save people, so maybe she can be lenient.

"Maybe she was eager to save people, and Du Xi is indeed not a human being, but what about the rest who were burned to death? Didn't all those people do such cruel things!"

"Yes, if she is innocent, then what is the life of our dead relatives!"

The family members of the deceased who were watching were still aggrieved, even though Ah Qi revealed his wounds.

Aqi slowly fastened his clothes, knelt upright, and kept his head half down without saying a word, allowing everyone to discuss.

"Silence!" Lu Ji patted the gavel with a sullen face, and looked at Aqi, "Go on."

Aqi raised his head slowly, his eyes misty, "I was very scared and panicked at the time, Mr. Du didn't stop when he saw Sister Qing coming in, I closed my eyes in despair, and then I heard a muffled sound, broken The cracked tiles fell on me, Master Du screamed, and the pressure on me suddenly disappeared.

When I opened my eyes, I saw Sister Qing holding half a vase in her hand, while Master Du was already lying on the ground beside the bed, with a big hole in his head, bleeding all over the floor, and he was motionless .

Sister Qing untied my rope, she also seemed to be panicked, and she was in a trance.I hugged her arm, trying to pull her away, but she suddenly threw me away vigorously, rushed to the table, picked up the candle on the table, lit the curtains in the room, and said, "Just burn it all." up'.

I think that sister Qing also set fire to the curtains in the room in a panic because she accidentally killed someone, which accidentally started the fire.Blame it on me! "

Speaking of this, the mist in Aqi's eyes gradually thickened, and condensed into a tear that fell from the corner of his eyes. Matching his delicate appearance, I really feel pity for him.

It's a pity that the presiding judge he met was Lu Ji, and he was also a person who had ransacked his family and exterminated his family. It was really embarrassing for Aqi's experience, but Lu Ji had already seen everything. After all, it's just acting.

Lu Ji said coldly: "You do have a troublesome face, and I will not comment on what you have done. Come here, tell me your work!"

Just as everyone was amazed at why the elder Qingtian who was sitting upright in the main hall had a sudden change in attitude, the assistant of Shuntian Mansion had already walked into the hall.

"Wu Zuo, come and tell everyone the results of your autopsy."

Wu Zuo calmly took out the dead body, grabbed a thick stack in his hand, and said: "My lord, there were 78 dead in this fire case. Most of these corpses were burned to death, but some were not. .”

As soon as the result was announced, another stone stirred up waves.Usually, if a body is found in a fire that is not burned to death, there must be some unusual inside story.

Lu Ji hooked his lips, "Which ones are not? How did they die?"

"My lord, the most corpses this time are on the stairs leading to the exit on the first floor. According to the inspection results of the government officials, the corpses at the exit are piled up. Most of the corpses at the bottom were trampled to death. It should be that everyone rushed to Escaping, scrambling for one's life, those who fell were trampled to death by the people behind. There were only a small amount of soot in the mouth, nose and lungs of these corpses, and the bones on the body were broken in many places, and the broken bones pierced the internal organs. is their real cause of death."

As early as when Lu Ji first arrived at the scene of the fire, he had already glimpsed the reason for the high number of deaths from the layout of the Green Bamboo Pavilion.

"Although these people were not killed by the fire, it was also because someone set the fire, which made the guests in my Green Bamboo Pavilion panic! In the final analysis, it was because someone set the fire!" Hua Niang said anxiously.

Lu Ji glanced at her, then looked at Wu Zuo, "Continue talking."

Seeing that Lu Ji ignored her at all, Hua Niang was so angry that her teeth itch.

Wu Zuo continued: "There are still some corpses, not at the exit, but they did not die from burning. After careful inspection by the villain, and after the family members identified their characteristics, they found that these people were all servants of the Yan family. They were all beaten during their lifetime, and finally died of being pierced through the heart with a sharp weapon."

Lu Ji sneered, and looked at Hua Niang, "Aren't you afraid of the power of the Yan Mansion? Why were the servants of the Yan Mansion killed in your Green Bamboo Pavilion? Since you have the ability to beat and kill people, why did you let Yan Mansion Qingchi broke into Du Xi's room alone?"

Hua Niang's recovery was exhausted at this moment, and she said with a pale face, "I don't know... It wasn't the women who did it, maybe someone took advantage of the fire to kill someone. possible!"

Wu Zuo added: "Those servants were seriously injured during their lifetime. Even if they were not killed, they would die of internal injuries within an hour."

Hua Niang turned her head and glared at Wu Zuo, "Nonsense, how can a charred corpse see so many things?"

That Wu Zuo straightened his chest, with a bit of anger, "My family has been in the business of dead people for several generations. I have been familiar with "Winning Injustice Collection" since I was a child. How can I not see it! General knowledge!"

"Winning Injustice Collection" was written by a criminal officer in the previous dynasty. Combined with his life experience, he summed up various corpse inspection methods and appealed for grievances on behalf of the deceased.

Of course, the assistant from Shuntian Mansion didn't have such skills, and Fu Liao saw all of this, but it was inconvenient for him to show up, so he left the opportunity to show off to this assistant.

The common people present had more or less heard of the name of "Winning Injustice Collection", and they were immediately convinced by the inspection results of Wu's work.

Hua Niang fell silent.

However, Qingchi's eyes were red, and he looked at Huaniang bitterly, "It's just that the guards of the Green Bamboo Pavilion are so neat when they rob people, and they seem powerless when they face the servants of my house. Premeditated! You pretended to be fighting with my servants and had no time to take care of me, but I fell into your scheme and foolishly followed the room pointed forward by Huaniang, you guys!"

She has been in a daze since she was imprisoned, and she has forgotten the situation of the servants in her house, and she never thought that someone would kill them!
Hua Niang avoided her eyes guiltily, "I don't understand what you're talking about?"

Lu Ji knew that Qingchi was also a person who valued affection, so he wanted to go to comfort her right now, but the trial must continue now, if the case cannot be heard clearly today, Qingchi will be doomed forever.

"I have always been curious why Yan Qingchi only lit the curtain with a candle, and it caused such a big fire in such an instant. Until that night, I carefully inspected the scene after the disaster and found that the person had more than one fire point." , Traces of kerosene were found in the four corners of the first floor. It must be that someone had already calculated the time for Yan Qingchi to ignite, and lit igniters in other places, so the fire spread across the entire building in an instant."

As soon as Lu Ji's words came out, the observers were surprised again, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that it was indeed the case.From the discovery of the fire to the complete engulfment of the whole building, it happened within a very short period of time.In the absence of other combustion aids, how could there be such a fierce fire in a short period of time simply by burning the cloth curtain?
Hua Niang looked at Lu Ji, forced herself to be calm and said: "Is there any evidence for what your lord said?"

Lu Ji looked at her, smiled without saying a word.

Qingchi looked at Hua Niang with a sneer, "Hua Niang is really good, what she said is that half of her life's hard work was burned to nothing, but this whole body dress is extremely rich, could it be that you have long ago put the people in the building to death? Has everything of value been transferred?"

Hua Niang was startled, she had actually deliberately reduced the number of clothes she wore today, but the extravagant habits she had developed over the years could not be changed for a while.Qingchi, who served in front of the imperial court all the year round, was used to seeing good things, so he could tell at a glance that Hua Niang's clothes were extraordinary.

Lu Ji also said: "When the government servants of Shuntian Prefecture cleaned up the ruins after the disaster, they found almost no gold and jade among them. You must know that gold and stone will not be destroyed even if they are kissed by fire. It seems that you, Hua Niang, do have a prophet This time, not only your belongings are unharmed, but also the stewards in your building and a few red-carded servants are unscathed, it's really amazing."

Hua Niang knelt down in the lobby, unable to utter any more eloquent words.

She is really secretive. She originally wanted to transfer money and personnel in advance. After the dust of this case is settled, she will leave the imperial capital and make a comeback in another place. Who would have thought that the back road she left behind turned out to be her own dead end? .

"So far, the women have nothing to say." Hua Niang said weakly, "The fire was planned by the women alone, because they were dissatisfied with Yan Qingchi taking away the cash cow that the women worked so hard to cultivate, so they came up with this poisonous plan , wanting to kill her, the woman knows that a single crime of murder can't do anything to her, so she wants to make things big and add dozens of lives, so no matter how much His Majesty protects her, there is nothing he can do about it."

Although Hua Niang's words were far-fetched, it was equivalent to admitting all the crimes.

Looking at the thin figure kneeling below, Lu Ji suddenly said softly, "Ah Qi, actually you and Hua Niang are not at odds like what you confessed, right? Otherwise, why would she still cover up for you at this juncture?"

(End of this chapter)