Dali Temple Conspiracy Records

Chapter 14

Dali Temple is not detailed.

This season, this year's new tea has not yet sprouted, but Li Yan has already drunk the newly made tea.It's just that this tea is not tea, but flowers.

White plum blossom is a kind of green calyx plum. Bai Sanxiu said that this flower enters the liver and lung meridians, soothes the liver and stomach, clears eyes and sharpens the lungs.She picked this flower around the beginning of spring, and then dried it on low heat. Originally, she planned to keep it for herself to drink slowly, and only took it out to share because of his help in covering her board and lodging.When she left Huayue Tower, she took a lot of food and drink with her. Although Shi Niang didn't dare to make things difficult for Li Quan's face, she was still very angry in private.

Li Quan sipped scented tea, and opened the file newly sent by Wannian County for review.

The case of a fire in Le House in Anyifang.

Of course, ordinary accidental fires would not be reported to Dali Temple for review, but the fire case in Anyifang was a criminal case of artificial arson.The time when the fire started was just after Xu time. Although the residents in the square and nearby watchmen rushed to the scene to put out the fire, the fire spread very quickly and almost burned the Le house to ruins.The head of the victimized household was Wailang Leyan, a member of the Ministry of Rites under the Ministry of Rites. Several family members were slightly injured. Unfortunately, he himself was severely burned in the fire and his life was in jeopardy.

The murderer was also caught very quickly.Coincidentally, Fangzheng of Anyifang had diarrhea that day, and when he woke up suddenly at night, he happened to see a black figure jumping out of the wall of Lejia, and almost at the same time, the yard burst into flames.Fangzheng immediately picked up a brick and threw it at the suspect's leg, and he was arrested on the spot.

Unexpectedly, the murderer was a celebrity.It is the fake old man who tells fortunes at the gate of Xuanduguan, known as Qian Yigua.

After Qian Yigua was brought to the case, he took a few boards and quickly confessed to the crime.After he made a fortune telling that within five days Wannian County would be flooded with water and fire, he waited for three days without any accidents. In order to keep the signboard, he personally made the divination come true.In order to avoid casualties, he also deliberately picked a remote corner of the mansion to ignite, but he did not expect the fire to start so quickly.

Wannian county magistrate is not stupid, and after a few more slaps, Qian Yigua wailed and continued to admit that he "justified his own interpretation" in the previous hexagrams, like the hexagram about ruining money and avoiding disaster. Other thieves continued to commit crimes, fishing in troubled waters to steal fortune-tellers' homes; there were also wrestling on the road, ghosts in the house, etc., all arranged by him.

It turns out that this is how the fortune teller came about.

According to the law, if arson causes casualties, it will be punished as intentional killing. According to Qian Yigua's situation, Wannian County Magistrate sentenced him to exile for three thousand miles.There is nothing controversial about this judgment itself, because the statute is very clear.Therefore, although Qian Yigua himself insisted that he did not intend to kill, but caused death through negligence, the sending of the dossier to Dali Temple for review was just a process, and there was absolutely no possibility of a light sentence.

But after reading the court trial records, Li Quan had an intuition that something was wrong.Qian Yigua confessed that he lit the fire near the stables in the northwest corner of the Le house. This corner was originally very far away from the main house, and he did not expect that the wind would help the fire to burn so quickly and cause a catastrophe.In other words, the north wind was blowing that night, to be precise, the northwest wind could be so helpful.

But Li Guan remembered that the weather had warmed up a few days ago, and the wind in the city was not strong and soft, not like a northwest wind.Thinking of this, he summoned a subordinate official and ordered him to go to Si Tiantai to ask for the weather records for the three days before and after February [-]th.

(End of this chapter)