Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 168
The prison in charge of the Yamen is divided into three floors.

The first floor of the large prison is built on the ground and is called the "detention courtyard". Ordinary prisoners are detained. Some people seek out opportunities to cause trouble at night, fight and fight, and are caught by the Lantern Lantern. They are beaten with boards, whipped, and punished. It will be released, so this place is also called "three-day residence".

The second floor of the prison is underground and is called the "Dungeon". Those who are detained in the dungeon are all serious offenders. Even if they are not capital crimes, they cannot be released in a short period of time. Therefore, the dungeon is also called the "Ten Thousand Years Cage".

The third layer of prison, below the dungeon, is called the "Deep Prison". "The prisoners here are all death row prisoners, and all of them are death row prisoners with high cultivation, so the Deep Prison is also called "Gate of Ghosts."

In the deep prison, there are Mohist organs and Yin-Yang magic circle, and there are special personnel to guard the prisoners one-on-one, and there are only three cells.

This is because of the limitation of the guarding ability of Lantern Yamen, if there are more than three high-grade criminals locked in the deep prison, the Lantern Yamen will not be able to guard them at all.

Even though it is so strict, the deep prison is by no means foolproof. Liang Yuming was detained in the deep prison at the beginning, but because of Xiao Songting, the inner ghost, he was allowed to escape that night.

When Xu Zhiqiong came to the door of the cell, a woman was imprisoned in the entire deep prison.

Qiao Shun had just come with Xu Zhiqiong, pointed at the woman and said, "This woman is vicious, there are fifteen people in her family, even her biological parents were killed by her."

Xu Zhiqiong focused his eyes and looked carefully for a moment. The woman had less than an inch of sin on her head, and she had no cultivation on her body. She didn't look like a villain who killed fifteen people.

Could it be that she was of such a high grade that she blinded the eyes of her sinful karma?

But if she really has such a high grade, even the yamen in charge of the lamp can't lock her up.

"Who captured her?"

Qiao Shungang said: "At first it was arrested by the Ministry of Criminal Justice. It had nothing to do with our yamen, but the trash of the Ministry of Criminal Justice couldn't stand her. It is said that many people died.

This woman ran out, just happened to be bumped into by Shi Chuan's dog, and took her back to the Yamen. I wanted to send this person back to the Ministry of Punishment, but Shi Chuan insisted on taking credit for this woman, and wanted to be promoted to Qingdenglang.

You also know the rules of our yamen, no matter how much credit you have, if you don’t have an eighth-rank cultivation base, you can’t be promoted to the green lantern. Shi Chuan ran to Shi Xun to make trouble.

In the end, she stayed for two days, which frightened the lantern guard who was guarding her. She is still unconscious, and it would be impossible to send her back. people! "

What kind of method is it to scare Lantern Lang into a coma and keep him unconscious?
Xu Zhiqiong looked at the woman and asked, "Did you really kill the person?"

The woman bowed her head in silence.

Xu Zhiqiong shouted: "Raise your head, and answer honestly!"

Qiao Shungang hurriedly stopped him: "You can't look up, you can't look at this woman, she is so handsome, if you look at her, you will lose your soul."

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "Brother is right, how handsome can she be? I haven't seen a woman before?"

Qiao Shungang said: "Brother, I'm not joking with you. Ever since she entered the yamen, I didn't dare to look at it. Didn't you hear that three jailers in the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment died at her hands? I don’t know how many prisoners in custody died.”

Xu Zhiqiong felt even more skeptical: "If she really has such a good ability, can she still be caught by that idiot Shi Chuan?"

Qiao Shungang said: "I'm also puzzled about this, but brother, you have to listen to me, but don't be unbelievers. After these five days, it's over if you send her away. Don't get too close to her, and don't talk to her. Don't go into the cell, you just stay in the small house, and you don't hear anything."

"How about it? If she runs away, don't you have to blame me?"

Qiao Shungang sighed: "Shi Xun, a bastard, just thinks that our brother is not pleasing to the eye. This is to make it difficult for you. We can't be fooled by him. Let her run away if she runs away. At most, she will scold us and fine her two silver coins. We don't have to take it seriously!"

Don't take it seriously?

Brother Qiao, you are not taking it seriously. If this female prisoner really escapes, Shi Xun will definitely make a big fuss about me.

There are only two red lantern men in a yamen holding lamps, you and my brothers are one on the left and the other on the right, can Shi Xun feel at ease?

Being caught by Shi Xun, I should be dismissed too.

After Qiao Shun left, Xu Zhiqiong went to the small dormitory first. This is not a dormitory in the yamen, but a special small dormitory in the deep prison.

Since it is necessary to guard the prisoners one by one, the lantern bearer must not live in the cell. There is a small house next to each cell for the lantern bearer to live in.

The hut was quite spacious, it was cleaned very clean, the bedding was replaced with new ones, and incense and a tea stove were prepared. The steward of the prison knew that Xu Zhiqiong was coming, so naturally he didn't dare to make the red lantern man suffer.

Xu Zhiqiong tapped the mechanism on the wall, and a palm-sized dark window opened on the wall. The dark window led directly to the next cell, which was used to monitor the prisoners.

The woman kept huddling in the corner of the cell, Xu Zhiqiong listened attentively, only to hear her stomach growling repeatedly.

Gollum!

hungry.

This woman is sixteen or seventeen years old, just at the age when she can eat. She is given one meal a day in the deep prison, and she must not be full.

Xu Zhiqiong walked outside the gate of the deep prison and called a jailer: "Bring some food."

"Xu Qianhu, what would you like to eat?"

"Fat chicken, fat meat, eat the fattest one, put more salt sauce, and bring some water wine."

The jailer didn't dare to be negligent, so he hurried to make preparations. After a while, he cut up a large plate of fatty meat, a large plate of fatty chicken, and made another jar of wine. Xu Zhiqiong felt that the wine was too thick, so he mixed some water into it.

He entered the cell with the food and wine, and said to the woman, "Eat."

The woman dared not move.

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "What? Are you afraid that I will poison you? Poisoning will make you cheaper, but poisoning to death is not better than Ling Chi?"

The woman sobbed twice, quietly picked up a piece of chicken, and ate it.

It's been a long time since I saw meat, the girl couldn't stop eating, and ate half a plate of chicken in a short time.

The chicken was too salty and there was too much sauce. The girl looked at the wine jar next to her and took a sip cautiously.

The wine was a little spicy, the girl coughed twice, ate two pieces of fat meat, and felt that it was too salty, so she picked up the wine jar and took a big gulp.

Xu Zhiqiong smiled sinisterly, and tricked the girl into drinking. He was very experienced.

With the strength of alcohol, this girl can be made to tell the truth.

While eating and drinking, Xu Zhiqiong saw the woman's face clearly.

Handsome, indeed handsome, comparable to Xia Hu's in appearance, but to say that just one glance will take away the soul, that's pure nonsense.

And this girl is a bit stupid, she doesn't know how to seduce people at all.

After eating a plate of chicken, half a plate of fatty meat, and a small jar of wine, the girl burped and looked at Xu Zhiqiong with a blushing face: "Is there really poison in this food?"

Xu Zhiqiong nodded and said, "Yes, you will die at dawn tomorrow."

The girl hugged her knees and sobbed, "I'm so wronged!"

"You killed a family of more than a dozen people, how can you still say you were wronged?"

The girl shook her head repeatedly and said, "I didn't kill those people."

"Who killed that?"

"I don't know, I got into a fight with my dad that night, and then I fell asleep, and when I woke up, they were all gone!"

"Why did you fight with your father?"

"Because he wants to kill my mother, my sister, and me."

Hitting family members?Isn't this the nufu teaching?

Xu Zhiqiong asked again: "After you woke up, you only found that everyone was gone, how did you know they were dead?"

"I searched everywhere at home. I found Dusk from noon. I saw my parents and my sister in the woodshed. The long-term workers and maids were also there."

Find it all morning?
Xu Zhiqiong asked, "Is there no blood in your house?"

The girl shook her head and said, "No, I didn't see a single drop of blood."

Xu Zhiqiong frowned. There were serious doubts about what the girl said.

The other party cleaned up the bloodstains, cleaned up the corpse, and did it so carefully, how could they let this girl go?
Xu Zhiqiong asked again: "How did the Ministry of Criminal Justice know that you killed someone?"

The girl said: "I went out to report to the officials, but I didn't know which yamen to report to. I went to the Ministry of Punishments in a daze, and they arrested me after I told the matter."

"I caught you, so you admit it?"

The girl cried: "They beat me, beat me to death! I can't stand it anymore, so I admit it!"

Really?
The Ministry of Criminal Justice has indeed sentenced many muddled cases, but they are not so absurd.

Seeing the plaintiff beat me up and convict me immediately?At least some clues must be found first.

Xu Zhiqiong stared: "Are you hiding something?"

The girl shook her head and said, "I'm about to die, how dare I hide anything?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "If you tell me the truth, I will give you a plate of chicken and a plate of meat every day. If you dare to lie to me, I will make your life worse than death for the remaining few days."

The girl was frightened, and shrank in a corner, tremblingly said: "I'm telling the truth, every sentence is the truth."

……

Xu Zhiqiong went outside the deep prison and called a jailer to fetch the female prisoner's file.

A copy of the case file of the Ministry of Criminal Justice was given to the Yamen in charge of the lamp, and it was in the hands of Shi Xun. The jailer asked for it several times, but Shi Xun refused to give it.

Don't let it fall, I will take it myself!

In the middle of the night, while Shi Xun was asleep, Xu Zhiqiong found a mouse to sneak into Mingdeng Pavilion and stole the case files.

This woman's name is Shi Shuangliu, born on the sixth day of June, her name is rustic, but her family is not bad, her father Shi Fu opened a dyeing workshop, she is not very rich, but the whole family has no worries about food and clothing,
On the day of the incident, she went to the Criminal Ministry to report to the officials, and the content of her confession was basically the same as what she just said.

The reason why the Ministry of Criminal Justice suspected Shi Shuangliu was because there was a major doubt in her confession.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice found the same doubts as Xu Zhiqiong. She had a quarrel with her father Shi Fu in the front yard, and suddenly fell asleep during the fight. After waking up, her family members were dead, but she survived.

If someone really broke into the house and committed a murder, why did she let her go alone?
On this point, Shi Shuangliu couldn't explain it, because she fell asleep and didn't know the process of the crime.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice did not convict him based on this, they just imprisoned Shi Shuangliu, and the real conviction of the Ministry of Criminal Justice came from the testimony of a witness.

The witness was a regular customer of the dyeing workshop. He came to fetch cloth from the dyeing workshop and refused to open the door, so he opened the door and entered the front yard. He saw Shi Shuangliu dragging a sack to the back yard.

At first he didn't take it seriously, until he heard that Shi Fu's family was dead, and then he went to the Yamen to testify.

During the autopsy, the Ministry of Criminal Justice found that Shi Fu's body was indeed in a sack.

From this point of view, the conclusion of this case is not muddled, and the witnesses and material evidences are consistent, and it was Shi Shuangliu who did it.

But how to explain the crime on her head?

Could it be that her cultivation is really that high?
To be able to deceive the Eye of Sin Karma, one must be at least rank five or higher, and Xu Zhiqiong's hairs slowly stood on end.

Tap, tap!
Shi Shuangliu was knocking on the wall, as if calling for Xu Zhiqiong.

Xu Zhiqiong twisted the mechanism and opened the dark window. Shi Shuangliu lay on the window and said to Xu Zhiqiong, "Master Denglang, help me."

Xu Zhiqiong didn't hear right, his voice was still Shi Shuangliu's, but his tone was not as clumsy as before.

"What do you want me to help you with?"

"I want to untie my hands, but I can't untie my clothes, Mr. Deng Lang, please help me."

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "How did you untie your hands before?"

Shi Shuangliu said: "Master Deng Lang is a good man, but he doesn't want to help the slave family, the slave family can't hold back anymore!"

While speaking, a bloody smell floated in through the dark window.

The lantern man who was guarding her before didn't seem to be fainted by fright.

(End of this chapter)