I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 640
Both Shuntian Mansion and the Ministry of Criminal Justice avoided suspicion, and the case was eventually transferred to Dali Temple, and this time the case was transferred from Shuntian Mansion to Dali Temple, and the trial was no longer open.

"Reporting to my lord, these purses were found from Miss Zhan's luggage. The fabric and style did not match the ones found in Yao Damin's house." The policeman handed over a dozen purses on the tray.

The policeman pointed to the purse that was placed beside him, "My lord, this blue purse was brought back from Zhe's house by the humble officer. According to the confession of the maid, Lu Liu, this purse was given to her by He Nuan as a reward."

Chang Siqing looked at the three purses lined up on the koan. At first glance, they were all the same color, but upon closer inspection, they were different. The pouches are exactly the same, both the fabric and the pattern of the needlework are the same.

The only difference is the purse taken out from the thick cloth curtain in Yao Damin's house, which is also the "ironclad evidence" for Liu Shilang to accuse Zhan Feiyu.

"Take the pouch to the Governor of the White House and Liu Shilang to have a look." Chang Siqing asked to take the purse to the Governor of the White House and other officials who were watching after the inspection.

After a quarter of an hour.

Liu Shilang sneered and threw the purse back on the tray, and sneered angrily: "One day and one night is enough to drop these purses, these are nothing to prove."

There are usually several kinds of purses from aristocratic families to reward servants. If the servants who rely heavily on the master's side, the rewards will be heavier, and the purses should contain at least two taels of silver.

If it is an ordinary servant, the purse is decorated with a dime of silver, which is usually only two or three hundred cash. In order to distinguish, the purses are different, and Liu Shilang's words are reasonable.

Bai Mansion Yin said in a deep voice: "After the incident, Yufeng Building was sealed off, and the police from Shuntian Mansion have been guarding it strictly. Later, after Yao Damin's house found the purse, Liu Shilang also sent the police from the Criminal Department to guard it. "

So if Yao Damin's purse came from Zhan Feiyu, then she must have the same purse here, and the police will definitely find it when they search, but the fact is that the found ten purses and Yao Damin's purse Not different.

"Lord Bai probably forgot that Miss Zhan's two nurses are masters with one enemy against one hundred. It is easy for them to avoid the sight of the police and destroy the evidence." Just keep an eye on ordinary people, experts like He Sheng and He Nuan can't guard against them at all.

As an official of Shuntian Mansion, Sun Fucheng also expressed his opinion, "Master Liu thinks Miss Zhan ordered the nursing home to take out the purse and destroy it, but this is only one-sided statement of your lord, and there is no evidence to find the purse. These purses that were destroyed, do you want to use this to convict your lord?"

"Hmph, why take it out and destroy it? Just throw these purses into the stove and burn them to ashes." Liu Shilang said with a gloomy old face. If he were the presiding judge, he would have closed the case already.

But the case was handed over to Dali Temple. Chang Siqing, an old fox, has both sides. Without conclusive evidence, he will not close the case easily.

Sun Fucheng smiled and did not speak again. Without evidence, all the accusations are empty talk.

"Lord Chang, although these purses cannot be used as physical evidence, Yao Damin confessed before he died, and his words are good when he is about to die." Liu Shilang ignored the officials of the Bai Mansion, and they were all officials of the Shuntian Mansion. , Collusion!
"The folks at Yufeng Building have also seen He Nuan take out a purse of the same style, and now there are two statements that no one can argue with!" Liu Shilang glanced sharply at Zhan Feiyu, "What do you mean?" You are innocent, I wonder if there is any evidence to prove your innocence?”

Whether it is Chang Siqing or other officials of Dali Temple, they don't want to get involved in the conflict between Shuntian Mansion and the Ministry of Punishment, so Chang Siqing said that he is the chief interrogator, but until now it is unclear who he will favor.

"Master Chang." Zhan Feiyu, who was named, walked to the middle of the courtroom and looked at the blue purse that was accused of being physical evidence, "This purse was found from Yao Damin's house by the police of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and there were five pieces of 100 taels in the purse." bank notes."

"That's right." Chang Siqing looked at Zhan Feiyu meaningfully. No matter how difficult Liu Shilang made, she was not in a hurry. It seemed that she already had a countermeasure.

Zhan Feiyu turned to look at Liu Shilang, seeing that he had no objection, he continued: "So there is no dispute at present that this purse was indeed given to Yao Damin by the murderer behind the scenes. As long as the real source of the purse is found out, the identity of the murderer behind the scenes can be determined. identity."

"Miss Zhan has a clue?" Chang Siqing was really interested at this moment. In fact, this case was obviously framed by Liu Shilang. No matter who bribed Yao Damin, he would directly give 500 taels of silver, so why bother to pack it in a purse.

Furthermore, Yao Damin will definitely tell his parents or his wife and children secretly when he received the 500 taels of silver, otherwise the purse will be sewn in the middle of the thick cloth curtain, and will be soaked and washed in the water as soon as winter passes, and then put away, and will be taken out next winter Hanging up, it is estimated that if it is hung up for ten or eight years, you will not be able to find the banknotes hidden in it.

Chang Siqing promoted seven members of the Yao family yesterday. After handling the case for many years, Chang Siqing can be sure that no one in the Yao family knows that the silver bills are hidden in the cloth curtain, so the biggest possibility is that someone sewed the purse into the cloth curtain in advance. The Ministry of Punishment quickly searched out the purse.

"I'm not good at needlework, my lord. Why don't you find an embroiderer who is proficient in needlework, maybe you can find some clues." Zhan Feiyu smiled leisurely. Up to now, he has never seen the blue purse up close. He said too much. That would be too fake.

Hearing this, Chang Siqing picked up the blue purse and looked at it carefully again. Well, as a court official, he didn't understand the fabric and needlework of this purse.

After a while, the most proficient needlewomen of the three embroidery houses in the capital were all summoned to the lobby. In order to prevent collusion, the three embroiderers went to the hall one by one, but the answers of the three were the same.

"My lord, this fabric is the most common blue indigo cotton cloth." The embroiderer Li replied sternly, "There are five kinds of indigo: woad indigo, Polygonum indigo, horse indigo, wood indigo, and amaranth. In the cold weather of the capital, woad indigo and indigo are generally grown. Polygonum indigo, horse indigo and wood indigo grown in the south of the Yangtze River, have slightly different dyed colors because of different raw materials.”

There are three kinds of purses in the lobby: the ones found in Yao Damin's house, the ones found in Zhan Feiyu's suitcase, and the ones taken from the maid Lu Liu.

Li Xiuniang pointed to the latter two purses and said again: "These two purses are made by the same person, both in terms of fabric and needlework, and the color is also the same. They both come from the south. This blue purse comes from the capital city or a neighboring state capital."

Chang Siqing and all the adults present are now in high spirits. According to the confession in the file, He Nuan confessed that these purses were bought from the cloth shop in Xingwenfu, Shannan Road, and they bought [-] purses at a time. There are more than ten purses left in the capital.

"In May this year, the continuous heavy rain in the capital city reduced the production of woad, so the price of the cloth doubled." Li Xiuniang pointed to the blue purse found in Yao Damin's house.

"That's why ordinary people don't buy indigo fabrics any more. Only rich families don't care about the rise in cloth prices and still use indigo fabrics like this."

The price of a batch of ordinary cloth is between [-] and [-] Wen, but the heavy rains have reduced the production of woad, causing the quantity of indigo dye to drop sharply, and the price of blue cloth has soared to [-] taels of silver a piece.

For ordinary people, they can buy other colors without blue fabrics. Why waste the money? The cloth shop also received some purses sold by embroiderers before, but after the price of blue fabrics rose, it was sent to the cloth shop. Zhuang's purses have all turned into purple, turmeric, and dark red.

However, these big families in the capital are not short of money, because none of the expensive blue cloth is sold in pieces, and they are all sent to these families in whole.

Li Xiuniang's words also confirmed one point from the side. It is impossible for He Nuan to buy the purse in Yao Damin's house from the cloth shop. Then the real culprit behind the scenes came from a certain family in the capital. The family bought blue fabric and made it into a purse. .

"Li Xiuniang, have you ever seen such a style of purse or stitches?" Chang Siqing's eyes rested on the blue purse again. If Liu Shilang framed it, then the purse in front of him should be found in the suitcase The same, not from the capital.

At this moment, Liu Shilang's complexion changed drastically, he just quickly lowered his head to hide the shock in his eyes, the blue purse was actually exchanged!
How is this possible, the purse was obviously found from the thick cloth curtain in Yao Damin's house, unless someone changed the purse first.

Or on the way back to the Shuntian government office, the purse was changed by someone, but no matter what the reason was, Liu Shilang knew that it was absolutely impossible to convict Zhan Feiyu with this.

"My lord, the style and stitching method of this blue purse are the most common, unless you find the exact same purse to compare the stitching method." Even if Li Xiuniang is proficient in needlework, Li Xiuniang can only recognize the embroidery method if it comes from everyone's hands. came out, but the usual pattern and stitching were unrecognizable.

There are many families, large and small, in the capital, and even Dali Temple couldn't go and compare them with their pocketbooks, so the case would be at a dead end.

"My lord." At this moment, Zhan Feiyu spoke again. As for the gloomy gaze cast by Liu Shilang, Zhan Feiyu directly ignored, "My lord, I have only been in the capital for a few days, and I have not made enemies with anyone. The eldest lady is just a small conflict between the girl's family, and it won't go to the extent of buying a murderer or "framing". "

"Indeed." Chang Siqing nodded in agreement.

No matter how domineering and arrogant Zhejing acted, but not only did Yao Damin die in this case, but also Bai Zhaohui was almost assassinated. In addition, the blue purse found from Yao Damin's house came from the police of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Such a big deal.

"But after Liu Shilang became the chief interrogator, he wanted to convict me based on only one side of the story, so I boldly speculate that someone really planted the frame and framed him. The purse may have come from Liu Shilang's house." Zhan Feiyu's words were astonishing. It is said that Liu Shilang is the real murderer behind the scenes.

"Presumptuous!" Standing up after a while, Liu Shilang sternly reprimanded, "Slandering the imperial court official, what should you do!"

Even though Liu Shilang was an official, Zhan Feiyu dared to stand in the courtroom of Dali Temple, so naturally he was not afraid at all, and directly confronted the furious Liu Shilang head-on.

"I heard that Mr. Liu and the Governor of the White House had an old enmity, and there was a life of Mr. Liu's family nephew at stake. It is reasonable for Mr. Liu to instruct Yao Damin to assassinate Bai Zhaohui!"

Talking about the motive of this case, Liu Shilang infers that Zhan Feiyu intends to use the grace of saving his life to marry into the Bai family.

"Lord Liu probably didn't expect that Bai Zhaohui would be rescued by my nursing home. My lord was worried that he would be found out in this case, so he became the presiding judge of the case to avoid suspicion, and then used the criminal department to arrest him. Hurry up and frame me with a blue purse, after all, if I hadn't meddled in my own business, Bai Zhaohui would have died, and my lord's old revenge would have been avenged."

"You spout blood!" Liu Shilang was furious, and pointed at Zhan Feiyu with one hand, his face twisted ferociously, but when he thought that the blue purse came from the capital, Liu Shilang only felt his eyes go dark, and he was enveloped in great anxiety. .

"Master Chang." Bai Fu Yin also stood up at this time, and suggested to Chang Siqing who was in the main seat; "Miss Zhan's deduction is reasonable, please send someone to Liu Shilang's residence to investigate."

The policeman from Dali Temple led the way and came back in less than a quarter of an hour, along with the maids and embroiderers from the sewing room of Liu's residence, and Nanny Ping, who was in charge of the inner house.

"This is clearly framing!" Seeing the more than 20 blue purses in the catcher's hands, new or old, Liu Shilang's face turned ashen, and he felt a tight pain in his chest. He stared at Zhan Feiyu with murderous eyes. , I wish I could cut her into pieces.

No matter how furious Liu Shilang was, the police quickly explained the situation to Chang Siqing.

"Returning to your lord, this purse was indeed made by the maid Hongyu and Xiu Niang Tian..." Although Nanny Ping was the nanny in charge of the inner house, she went to the court and looked at Liu Shilang's pale face. Mammy was also afraid, and she didn't dare to hide anything, "This purse is used to reward servants, and there are madam, young master and young lady's yards."

After Nanny Ping finished speaking, Chang Siqing asked Li Xiuniang to compare the fabric, style and stitching of the purse, and then asked the maid Hongyu and Xiuniang Tian to embroider it on the spot, "Master, this purse is from Two hands."

Who would have thought that Liu Shilang would become the murderer in the end of the trial of this case, it really is unpredictable.

(End of this chapter)