Daming Yinghua

Chapter 53 Hearing

The magistrate's face was ashen, and his words were frosty: "There are not a thousand lines in a playbook, but there are eight hundred lines. There are so many lyrics, and you just pick this line. It's full of love and spring, and it's nothing if it's not provocative. It can be seen that you and the deceased did have an adulterous affair, and now that someone is killed by you, you can naturally make up a cover to get rid of the crime."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Zhang Yanke scolded Shaoxing dialect under his breath in the crowd, then turned his head to Zhang Dai and Zheng Haizhu and muttered, "This dog official is clearly trying to inflict crimes, so there is nothing wrong with it , Could it be that this dog official killed Master Yang? Miss Zheng, don’t you think so?”

Zheng Haizhu was still frowning, but he heard the Shanghai county people echoing the magistrate's words.

The middle-aged scribe in a long gown said: "The county lord is right. A nun and a male pilgrim are pondering about "The Peony Pavilion". , It’s not uncommon for a knife to be thrown out in a fit of anger.”

The trafficker in short clothes said: "Oh, my lord, this sister-in-law of Jiulian Nunnery is really out of place. Regardless of how well she reads the scriptures, she often teaches the little girls in the town to read. Women don't take scientific exams. What's the use of being literate? Once a woman is literate, her heart will be high, so she won't even think of us."

Everyone nodded: "That's right, the little girls are literate, don't they all go to be concubines for rich families, poor people like us, don't be single."

Another county resident continued: "I heard that the nunneries in some places in the north are actually engaged in the skin and meat business. They have taught a few young girls who can recite poems and fight against each other to be raised in the nunnery, and they are specially watching the money bags of rich businessmen. I see this The same is true for the little teacher at Jiulian nunnery."

Everyone talked more and more vigorously, and the more they talked, the more unbearable they became.

When a person is born with a demon, his hostility is clear.

A group of demons were born, and the stench was even more foul.

Zheng Haizhu only felt that the county residents in front of him seemed to be covered with maggot-covered bones and the evil heart of an evil spirit.

Zhang Yanke's fist was already clenched, but was pressed down again by his elder brother.

"Don't be impulsive, keep listening." Zhang Dai said coldly.

Then the magistrate of Shanghai continued to examine Carpenter Ye.

Carpenter Ye explained that he was going to take a boat to Qingpu yesterday to pick up some work, and when he was sorting out the toolbox, he found that he had forgotten a handy chisel in the nunnery of Jiulian Nunnery.

"It's not a matter of stealing chickens and dogs, why don't you go through the main entrance of the nunnery?" the magistrate asked.

Carpenter Ye said: "My lord, the lady in my room doesn't like this nun, so she doesn't want me to work for her. Today, my lady sells orange cakes at a stall on the street. I'm afraid that she will see her when I enter the nunnery. Come to think of it, the meditation room leads to the back door of the nunnery, and the back door is just a little bit away from the ditch by the river, and you can just jump over it. How would you know that the scene in the meditation room is terrifying. Ah, in the future, I still have to listen to the people in the room. This nun really It's a goblin who harms men."

Carpenter Ye said, as if in order to match his last confession, he moved away from Sister Lian.

The crowd roared with laughter.

"Old Ye, you don't know how to go to the riverside to take pictures, how can the goblins fall in love with you?"

The county magistrate patted the gavel several times to stop the excited county residents.

Afterwards, Liu Butou and the others received the report to retrieve the corpses and arrest people, as well as their assistants.

Wu Zuo said that the dead man’s heart and lungs were pierced, and he mentioned the man’s shoe prints by blowing toner in the meditation room, and found the same shoe prints from the courtyard wall to the riverside, all of which were consistent with the soles of the shoes worn by Master Yang’s body .In the same place, there are shoe prints in women's sizes.

"Xianzun, there are jugs and dishes in the meditation room, the blood on the ground, the small one has been tested with strong salt and vinegar, it is human blood."

"According to your experience, when did the deceased die?"

"It was picked up at Shenshi yesterday. The young one had an autopsy in the mortuary at the beginning of the year. Judging from the condition of the corpse, it is estimated that he was dead for seven or eight hours."

After hearing Wu Zuo's detailed description, the county magistrate slapped the gavel and said to Sister He: "Wife, the deceased had a tryst with you in the middle of the night. Because he didn't want to accept you as a concubine and welcome you into the house, you got him drunk and then killed him." Stabbed to death, dumped by the river, right?"

Sister He raised her head and said sharply: "If Master Yang passed away the night before, I would never have killed him! At that time, I was on a passenger ship at the mouth of the Wusong River, chanting sutras for people!"

The county magistrate was taken aback, and asked, "What ship? Who is the name of your person?"

Sister He said: "One, a sand boat, not small, with seven or eight people on board, it seems to be a family. I don't know the surname of the other people, but the surname of the deceased is Shao, a white-haired old man. Find me in the nunnery. It's a woman in her twenties, whose surname is Shi. If it wasn't because she was a woman and begged hard, how could I go to the riverside at night to perform rituals for others."

Zheng Haizhu's heart was shocked when he heard this.

It turned out that the person from the Buddhist sect that Shi Yuelan finally invited was Sister He.

Looking at the magistrate again, since the trial began, the harsh tone has eased a little.

He pondered for a moment and asked, "Wife, why didn't you say that earlier?"

Sister He seemed much calmer than before, and replied loudly: "Master Yang is a great benevolent person, but he was killed suddenly. The poor nun did not kill anyone, but was suddenly blamed. Behind such evil deeds, there may be more than one evil person. Tang Zun, I also I don't know who is a good person and who is a bad person. If I tell the whereabouts early, if the real murderer finds out, I will make another plan, and even go to silence the witness, what should I do? So I have to speak in court today, and I have to listen to the yamen autopsy I will talk about it later, I am afraid that the time when Master Yang was murdered was fraudulent."

As soon as this remark came out, the man jumped up violently: "What do you mean, nun, doubting me?"

Sister He said neither humble nor overbearing: "Grandpa, I would like to thank you now. You performed the autopsy impartially and avenged my wrongdoing."

Wu Zuo was stunned for a moment, his anger was slightly reduced, and he turned to the county magistrate with a frank look: "Tang Zun, I have been eating this bowl of rice rewarded by the public for 20 years, and I can't go wrong."

But Yang Amo shouted: "Tang Zun, Tang Zun, since this nun likes to read story books, she is naturally the best at making up stories."

The county magistrate nodded: "Women who are criminals have nothing to prove. They must be witnessed. Otherwise, whether it is the family of the bitter master, the official or the people in the county, how can they trust you?"

Zheng Haizhu in the hall thought to himself: I believe it.

If her judgment on whether Sister He killed or not was [-]-[-] yesterday, then right now, she thinks it is almost impossible for Sister He to be the murderer.

Even if a person has an accomplice, he doesn't have to go into battle himself, but the mastermind wants to control the killing situation, so how could he accept the request of a strange benefactor and leave the scene at a critical moment?

Among the hundreds of people in the hall today, only Zheng Haizhu knows that the ship, the woman surnamed Shi and the dead white-haired old man are real.

It's just that she can't jump out to testify.

It's better to make it public like this when interacting with Yan Siqi Group.

If Hu Bian said that he saw Sister He's whereabouts, it would be even more unacceptable, because he never went out of the Han Mansion that night.

But innocent people must try to rescue them.

Fortunately, the magistrate of Shanghai County, who looked like a stupid official just now, became cautious now.

"Leave the hall first and detain the prisoner. After I have someone to investigate and visit, I will try again at another day."

(End of this chapter)