Concubine

Chapter 277
Yang Qiuchi said: "What you said just now revealed the truth, but this is not real evidence. I can't use this evidence to prove that you have committed a crime, especially homicide."

Yuantong was overjoyed: "That's right! Even if I made a mistake, you have no evidence to convict me."

"Hey, hehehe." Yang Qiuchi stared at her, with a bit of sneer, and said: "There is no need to find other evidence, because I am sure that you will confess your guilt, do you believe it or not?"

Yuantong was taken aback for a moment, he made himself confess without evidence, he is not a fool.

Yang Qiuchi ordered Yuan Miao to be brought to the lobby, Yuan Hui was dumbfounded when she heard this.

Yuan Miao entered the Daxiong Hall with shackles and wooden shackles. Yuan Tong, who was kneeling on the ground, saw Yuan Miao like this, let out a low cry, and struggled to stand up.Jin Yiwei on both sides kicked her in the waist, Yuantong let out a scream, and fell limp to the ground again.

Yuan Miao saw Yuan Tong who was tied up and kneeling on the ground by five flowers, stepped forward a few steps, looked at Yuan Tong with a pair of wonderful eyes, turned around suddenly, staggered two steps, and knelt down in front of Yang Qiuchi's case with a thud: "My lord! Hui was killed by me alone, you can’t arrest Yuantong, she has nothing to do with this matter, she had already gone down the mountain to beg for alms at that time! She didn’t know about it.”

"Really?" Yang Qiuchi sat behind the case, looked at Yuan Miao and said, "You really killed Yuan Hui alone?"

Yuan Miao kept nodding her head, her beautiful eyes were filled with tears.

"Then tell me, when you strangled her, which one of her hands was dislocated?"

Yuan Miao hesitated for a moment, looked at Yang Qiuchi with tears in her eyes, and tentatively said: "The left hand..." Seeing Yang Qiuchi's face showing a sneer, she hurriedly said again: "No, no, I remembered wrongly, it's the right hand..."

Yang Qiuchi didn't point it out, and continued to ask: "When you carried the body to the top of the mountain to forge the scene, was Yuan Hui's body lying on its stomach or on its back?"

Yuan Miao looked up at Yang Qiuchi, hesitated for a moment, and said, "It's... it's on its back..."

"Huh?" Yang Qiuchi sneered.

"No, no, lying on my stomach..."

Yang Qiuchi laughed, and asked again: "Then why did you put Yuan Hui's body on the ground?"

"I... I guess the murderer might like to come from behind... so I put it on my stomach..."

"Hahaha," Yang Qiuchi couldn't help laughing, looking at Yuantong, she saw her face was pale, looking at Yuanmiao distressedly.

Yang Qiuchi continued to ask: "At that time, was the corpse wearing clothes or not?"

Yuan Miao already felt that what she said was wrong, her lips trembled, and she said, "Yes...it's because she didn't wear a dress..."

"Then where did you throw her dress?" Yang Qiuchi asked with a straight face.

"I... I threw it in the grass, where exactly... I can't remember..."

Yang Qiuchi slapped the table, "Nonsense! The deceased Yuan Hui's hands were not twisted and dislocated at all. She was lying on her back instead of lying on her stomach in the forged scene on the mountain top. Also, although her dress was unbuttoned, But it didn't take it off, so it wasn't naked!"

After a pause, Yang Qiuchi continued: "You are such a frail little nun, there is no way you can kill Yuan Hui, and you have never been to the scene at the top of the mountain. The reason why you do everything is to cover up the criminal!"

Yuan Miao cried and said, "My lord, I have confessed my crimes, so you can arrest me and leave. Wouldn't it be fine if someone confessed?"

"Hmph!" Yang Qiuchi said coldly, "Do you think I'm the same as those stupid officials? Tell you, I will never wrong a good person, and I will never indulge a bad person!"

Yang Qiuchi turned his head and looked at Yuantong who was kneeling not far behind her with a desolate expression. He didn't know what he was thinking, so he laughed twice, looked away, and sighed: "However, one thing more is worse than one thing less. Since If you are willing to plead guilty voluntarily, it is not impossible for this officer to close the case. But, do you know that killing people means taking your life?"

Yuan Miao smiled sadly: "The poor nun knows that the poor nun is willing to die for Yuan Hui."

"Resist life? Okay, since Yuantong does not admit murder, and you admit it, I can only accuse you of the crime. Murder is to be executed." Yang Qiuchi said slowly, "Do you know that you should be executed a while ago? I just captured a gangster, paraded him through the streets, and the passers-by spit, smashed eggs, threw stones, commented, sneered and abused everything."

Yuan Miao's face was already pale. Even if a beautiful little nun like her was not afraid of death, she was still afraid of making a fool of herself in public. Hearing the suffering of parading in the streets, her whole body could not help but tremble.Yuantong behind her was even more heartbroken.

Yang Qiuchi then went on to beat their nerves: "It's time to play in the street, and I will be sent to the execution ground, kneeling on the ground, and beheaded at noon. The executioner's apprentice will pull your hair and stretch your neck. Why do you pull it? Do you know?"

Yuan Miao already felt a chill in her neck, unable to restrain the fear in her heart, her knees gave way and she fell to the ground.The corners of Yuantong's mouth trembled, his whole body began to tremble, and he bit his lower lip tightly.

Yang Qiuchi continued slowly: "Then, the executioner's ghost-headed knife was raised high, and it came down with a slash, and the head rolled down ten feet away, blood spilled all over the ground, tsk tsk, that was a tragedy. Of course, I heard , Some executioners are not very skilled. If they cut continuously with one knife, they will have to chop the second and third knife. So before the chopping, the muscles on the neck are still connected to the head, drooping on the chest, and the eyes are still blinking , the mouth will open and close as if shouting ~ suffering~!..."

"Stop talking!" Yuantong finally couldn't help it, and shouted with a pale face, "Please stop talking, my lord, Yuan Hui was killed by me, this matter has nothing to do with Yuan Miao!"

Yuan Miao was so frightened by Yang Qiuchi's description that she almost passed out. Now that Yuan Tong admitted she was guilty, she panicked and got up and shouted, "No! No, it wasn't her, I killed it!"

Yang Qiuchi slapped the table: "Shut up! It's not shopping, why are you arguing?" Turning his head to look at Yuantong, he said coldly, "Are you willing to plead guilty?"

"The poor nun pleaded guilty. Yuan Hui was killed by me. I really don't care about Yuan Miao's affairs."

"Well, tell me, how did you kill Yuan Hui?"

Yuan Tong looked at Yuan Miao lovingly, and said slowly: "Before Yuan Hui went up the mountain, Yuan Miao and I were brothers and we were inseparable. After Yuan Hui came up the mountain, I didn't know she came for Yuan Hui, because I and Yuan Miao were inseparable. Yuan Hui is a fellow townsman, so we get along very well, and I often do things for her. Unexpectedly, she set up a trap to lure me to make out with her, and let Yuan Miao see it on purpose. Break off with me."

"Yuanhui also seemed to have been wronged by the sky and stopped talking to me. It's a pity that I didn't know at the time that this was all Yuanhui's scheme. I was determined to please her and win her heart back. Until one day, Yuanmiao cried Then she told me that Yuanhui came to her room and said a lot of bad things about me, and asked Yuanmiao not to be with me anymore, but to be with her. Yuanmiao didn't like her, so she scolded her out of the meditation room, but she was worried that Yuanhui would retaliate , After thinking about it, I told me."

"I was very surprised. I asked Yuan Miao what was going on, and Yuan Miao told the story of how Yuan Hui came to the mountain to become a monk because of her. Only then did I understand that I was tricked by Yuan Hui. She was pretending to be with me. Well, the purpose is to separate Yuan Miao and me. I was very angry and wanted to question her, but Yuan Miao stopped me."

Yang Qiuchi quietly listened to Yuantong talking about the emotional entanglement between the three women, no matter how it sounded like the love between a man and a woman, he said it so naturally, and sighed in his heart, maybe, the moon in the sky is old. Drunk, and pulled the red thread by mistake, it led to this strange emotion between these three women.

Yuan Tong went on to say: "On the night when the accident happened, Yuan Miao came to me crying, saying that Yuan Hui came to her room in the evening and threatened to make friends with her, otherwise she would report me and Mrs. Jingci to the abbot. Yuan Miao's relationship ruined our reputation and kicked us out of the mountain gate. Yuan Miao had no choice but to agree."

Yang Qiuchi interrupted and asked Yuan Miao, "Is Yuan Tong telling the truth?"

Yuantong had already pleaded guilty, and if Yuanmiao continued to carry the crime indiscriminately, both of them would be guillotined, she could only nod her head, and said with a dismal expression, "Yes."

Now it is clear that the hair found in the crack of the quilt on the bed in Yuanmiao's room was left when the deceased Yuanhui forced Yuanmiao to perform such a thing that night.

(PS: By the way, let me explain the reason why Yang Qiuchi judged that the hair of a certain private part is not the armpit hair: the difference between private hair and armpit hair is obvious, private hair is obviously thicker than armpit hair, the curvature is much larger, armpit hair It is relatively straight; the tip of the armpit hair is relatively blunt, and the two are easier to distinguish with the naked eye. Besides, ladies and gentlemen, have you seen how many women have a lot of armpit hair? Even if it is long, it can be shaved dry It's clean, especially in summer.)
Yang Qiuchi asked Yuantong again: "Is that why you killed her?"

"Yes! I can't stand threats from others, especially Yuan Miao. I can't let Yuan Miao be wronged, and I can't let Yuan Hui report on us and make Yuan Hui lose face in front of everyone. So I went to Yuan Hui alone late at night. room, and she was lying on the bed, sound asleep, and I strangled her."

"When did you go to her room and kill someone?"

Yuantong thought for a while: "When the fifth watch is about to dawn."

Yang Qiuchi felt a little strange: "It's been such a long night, why did you think of killing her until it was almost dawn?"

"I... I've been in Yuanmiao's room... talking..."

"No way," Yang Qiuchi sneered, remembering the mixed saliva spot on Yuanmiao's hemispherical pimple head, that afternoon and night, Yuanmiao should have had some kind of relationship with Yuanhui and Yuantong successively, so he said: "You must Seeing Yuan Miao was sad, her heart ached, and she comforted her with tenderness, so the two of you did that careless thing in bed that night, right?"

Yuan Tong's face was flushed red, but her eyes were wide open. She didn't know how the young county magistrate knew about it. She turned her head to look at Yuan Miao, and saw that she was also blushing and confused, knowing that she didn't say it.

(End of this chapter)