Concubine

Chapter 463 Verification
Ji Gang was in a hurry: "Your Majesty, just relying on the timing of these dead bodies and corpse spots appearing, you can't overturn this case."

Yang Qiuchi said: "Not only these two evidences, but I also have other evidences." Pointing to the wounds on the corpse, he said: "Please look, your majesty, these wounds were formed after death, they are wounds after death. Only the wound on the back of the heart was created during life."

Ming Chengzu went up to look at it for a while: "What's the difference?"

Yang Qiuchi said: "If these wounds were cut before death, the blood immersed in the human tissue is tightly bound to the tissue by the cellulose network, so it is not easy to wash off with water. On the contrary, if the wound is cut after death, it is easy to wash off. "

Ming Chengzu didn't quite understand, but hearing what Yang Qiuchi said was so miraculous, he turned around and ordered the eunuch beside him to bring a basin of water.

Soon the water came, and Yang Qiuchi pulled out the Xiuchun knife stuck in the corpse, and then washed all the wounds with water. Sure enough, only the blood red in the tissue of the wound on the back of the heart could not be washed away, while the rest The wound was washed pale white.

Ming Chengzu found it very interesting, and observed the wounds one by one with great interest.

Yang Qiuchi went on to say: "Besides this judgment standard, there are other standards." Pointing to the wound on the back of the heart: "Your Majesty, please see that this wound is obviously opened, indicating that it was created before death, and the other wounds are No, or not so obvious."

Ming Chengzu compared them and nodded.

Yang Qiuchi pointed to the wound on the back of the heart again and said: "Your Majesty, please take a closer look around the wound. There are red and swollen areas. This is wound inflammation, and there are no wounds after death."

Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty fought countless battles throughout his life, so he was aware of the redness and swelling of the wound, but he didn't know whether the wound that was cut after death was red and swollen.Looking at this comparison, it was indeed the case, so he couldn't help but nodded again.

Seeing Ming Chengzu nodding repeatedly, Ji Gang became a little anxious, and said, "The wound on the back of the heart was also stabbed by Yun Leng."

Yang Qiuchi sneered: "The wound on the back of the heart pierced the heart, and the person must have died on the spot. Could it be that Yun Leng stabbed his back in the back four hours ago, and two hours later, the corpse ran to the sleeping place by itself. Did Chun Lou come to let Yun Leng continue to chop him? What's more, the wound on the back of the heart was pierced by a double-edged sword, not a single-edged knife."

Ji Gang sneered: "What nonsense are you talking about? It's also stabbed with the sharp edge of a weapon. What's the difference?"

"Hey, if you say you are fat, you will pant, and if you say you are ignorant, you will have a runny nose!" Yang Qiuchi sneered again, "You ignorant thing, come here and open your eyes wide. There are two sharp angles on both sides of the sword stabbing wound, but the wound on the front chest with the point of the Xiuchun knife is one blunt and the other sharp, that is, one corner is bald!"

Ming Chengzu made a detailed comparison and nodded again.Ji Gang also came over to take a look. The two of them fought on the battlefield and saw countless wounds, but they did not carefully study the differences in the wounds formed by weapons. The so-called interlacing is like a mountain. Hearing Yang Qiuchi's analysis, he noticed the two It is different.

Ji Gang stiffened his mouth: "This... These rigors, corpse spots, wounds created before death and wounds after death, wounds with different shapes, etc., you alone said it, I have never heard anyone say it. No, let's ask Wu Zuo to ask, see if they know!"

As for the difference in the shape of the wound, Zuo Zuo should know, because the "Killing" section in "Washing Injustice" describes the wounds formed by common murder weapons, although it is not so detailed.However, there is no research on the timing of mortis and plaque formation, so they don't know.It's not easy to argue with him. Seeing Ming Chengzu's appearance seems to be half-belief, you have to prove it to them.The so-called facts speak louder than words, it is best to find a dead body, and it will be clear after inspection.

Thinking of this, Yang Qiuchi said: "Your Majesty, what I said is true, if you don't believe it, you can find a death row prisoner to test it, and you can be sure."

Except for the shape of the wound that Yang Qiuchi said, Ming Chengzu was half-believed, and he was also skeptical about the rest. After all, it was the first time he had heard of it.And this matter is of great importance, and it really needs to be tested.Said: "Okay, just as Yang Aiqing said, find a death row prisoner for inspection, do you have any death row prisoners in Yingtian Mansion?"

Yang Qiuchi recalled the files of death row prisoners he had read in Yingtian Mansion during the day, and said, "Yes, but it has not been reported to the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple for review."

"Is the evidence solid?"

Yang Qiuchi thought for a while and replied: "Among the death row prisoners, one of them was executed for revenge. He murdered people in the street under the eyes of everyone, and was caught on the spot. There are many Pedestrians witnessed it directly, I confessed to it, and the evidence is undeniable, and the rest of the cases need to be checked before the decision can be made.”

"Okay, let's use this death row prisoner for the test. The execution will be carried out at noon tomorrow at the execution ground in front of the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. I want to come and watch it in person." Ming Chengzu paused, and then said, "There is no need to report this case to the Ministry of Criminal Justice or Dali Temple. , Take the dossier directly to the execution ground at noon tomorrow, and I will approve it immediately. In addition, give his family some money for burning and burying."

Yang Qiuchi bowed and said: "I obey the order!"

Ji Gang sneered and said: "Master Yang, if the inspection does not match what you said, you are guilty of deceiving the emperor! Hehe."

Yang Qiuchi also sneered and said, "Without diamonds, I wouldn't have taken on this porcelain work! But you, Mr. Ji, if the test matches, you are also guilty of deceiving the emperor!"

"Where did I get the crime of deceiving the king?"

"You faked the scene, blamed others, turned black and white in front of the emperor, and caused the emperor to almost kill Miao Wang's son by mistake, what is it not to deceive the emperor?" Yang Qiuchi said coldly, "Also, how did this corpse come from? Who stabbed the person to death? How did Yun Leng's Xiuchun Knife get on the corpse? Who are those unidentified thugs? I will find out one by one, and whoever did it knows best! The consequences It should be clear too!"

Ji Gang said bitterly: "Yang, are you checking me? I still want to check you! You..."

"Okay! What is Yang and Ji, what are they doing!" Ming Chengzu frowned and shouted, "You two are my important ministers, and you are also in charge of Jinyiwei for me, and you are fighting like elephants in your nest all day long! Do you want others to see it as a joke? What are you doing just now outside the Meridian Gate of the imperial palace with knives and guns! Do you want to rebel?"

When Ji Gang and Yang Qiuchi heard Ming Chengzu was angry, they both bowed and dared not speak.

Ming Chengzu said with a sullen face: "From now on, the two of you are not allowed to check each other. I believe that neither of you will rebel or do anything against the law of the king. Therefore, when I hear which of you comes to report Not only will I not listen to the other party’s mistakes, but I will also beat him with a hundred court sticks! Then I will send him to the Procuratorate for the crime of resisting the order! Do you understand?"

Ji Gang bowed and said, "Understood, I obey the order."

Yang Qiuchi thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, I'm investigating the murder of Dudu Xue's concubine, and I suspect Ji... Commander Ji is suspected of a major crime..."

"Okay! Didn't you catch Lin Yuan as the murderer? Just cut off his head. As for who instigated it, there is no need to investigate further! From now on, the inspection of Jin Yiwei's law and discipline will only stop when Ji Aiqing is below, understand? "

Yang Qiuchi had no choice but to bow and say: "Yes, I understand, I obey the order."

Ming Chengzu turned his head and said to Ji Gang: "Ji Aiqing, you also remember that from now on, the picket officials will stop at Yang Aiqing's place. No matter what, they are not allowed to investigate further! Nor are they allowed to use any excuses to investigate Yang Aiqing's family members. Or subordinates. Do you hear me?"

Ji Gang quickly bowed and said: "I heard clearly, I will remember the emperor's instruction."

Ming Chengzu glanced at the two of them, and said coldly: "If you dare to fight against my will, first touch your own heads!" Flicking his sleeves, he turned and left.

Both of them looked quite embarrassed, glanced at each other, cupped their hands, and took their people away.

It was already four watch days after returning from the palace.Yang Qiuchi asked Nan Gongxiong to take someone to the Yamen of Yingtianfu to inform the superintendent of the prison to prepare a meal for the death row prisoner, and then escorted him to the execution ground of the Ministry of Execution.And prepare a sword and a rust spring knife for inspection.At the same time, inform the head catcher Zhan Zheng to do a good job at the execution ground.

Yun Leng escaped from death, and was naturally grateful to Yang Qiuchi.Yunlu was even more elated, pulling Yang Qiuchi to talk and laugh.It wasn't until Yang Qiuchi said that he would get up early the next day to set up the execution ground, and wanted to take a nap for a while, that Yunlu went back to her princess mansion.

That day happened to be Song Yuner's bedtime, the two of them went to bed, but couldn't fall asleep for a while, Song Yuner snuggled into Yang Qiuchi's arms, and said, "Brother, the emperor won't let you check Ji Gang, what should we do?"

Yang Qiuchi said: "The investigation still needs to be conducted, but it is done quietly and cannot be directly reported to the emperor. The one hundred court staff is not a joke, and there is also the crime of resisting the order. We can't take this risk. After finding out the facts, Report it through other means."

Song Yun'er said happily: "That's right, anyway, what we are investigating is the facts, and unlike him, he can only make up lies to deceive people."

Yang Qiuchi stroked her smooth skin, and said in a low voice: "Yun'er, I can't sleep, it's almost dawn, and I'm going to set up the execution ground at dawn, what are you doing in this spare time?"

Song Yun'er giggled, and replied shyly, "You can do whatever you want!"

"Okay!" Yang Qiuchi turned over and pressed Song Yuner under him...

The next morning, Yang Qiuchi and Song Yuner got up in a hurry.Yunlu had already arrived long ago.Yang Qiuchi asked Yun Leng and Yun Lu to wait at home, and rushed to the Meridian Gate to participate in the inspection before [-] o'clock in the afternoon.

Afterwards, Yang Qiuchi first came to Nanzhen Fusi, called Ma Du and Niu Baihu, and ordered them to immediately send people to search around to find out who the hundred or so people who attacked Yun Leng and the others that night were. People, and who is that corpse.

Ma Du and Niu Baihu already knew that Yun Leng was beaten by hundreds of unidentified people and then wrongly murdered.Jin Yiwei was beaten, it was a big embarrassment, Ma Du and the others immediately mobilized all the spies to check everywhere.

Then, Yang Qiuchi brought Song Yun'er and others to the Yamen of Yingtian Mansion.Zhan Zheng reported that the field was ready, and the supervisor also reported that the prisoner's meal had been eaten.

There was still some time before Sishi, Yang Qiuchi arraigned the death row prisoner, checked the case again, and felt relieved if there was no doubt.

The prisoner's family members also notified him, and Yang Qiuchi ordered the yamen tent to give his family money for burning and burial.Let them see each other for the last time.

When the time came, Yang Qiuchi drew a red tick with the ink pen of Shengtang, and ordered him to be escorted to the execution ground of the Ministry of Punishment for execution.Afterwards, he got into the official sedan chair and brought Song Yun'er and Nan Gongxiong's guards to the execution ground of the Ministry of Execution.

Because the emperor is coming, the surrounding area is full of Ouchi guards.

Yang Qiuchi called the executioner over and explained the method of execution. The executioner heard that instead of beheading the head this time, he stabbed the back of the heart with a sword. Two hours later, he would chop the corpse a few more times. He didn't know what kind of punishment it was. Very surprised.But don't dare to ask random questions, the Grand Master Fu Yin ordered such an execution, there must be a deep meaning.

After a while, Ji Gang came with the guards, and of course his lame nephew followed, shaking his head to look behind Yang Qiuchi, only seeing Song Yuner who was full of sneering, but not Liu Ruobing, very disappointed.

Ji Gang went to the prison shed, saw Yang Qiuchi, smiled and cupped his hands and said, "Master Yang, you came early." The night before, Ming Chengzu had issued a strict order that the two of them should not fight in the nest, otherwise according to the decree of resistance, Ji Gang would change He got it quickly, and greeted each other with a smile and bowed his hands, as if nothing had happened between him and Yang Qiuchi.

Yang Qiuchi was not good at this kind of face-changing technique, so he just arched his hands without saying a word.

Immediately afterwards, the second prince Zhu Gaoxu also came to the execution ground, presumably Ji Gang notified him.After Zhu Gaoxu went to the prison shed, he glanced at Yang Qiuchi and snorted.Yang Qiuchi just cupped his hands and didn't bother to talk to him.

At three o'clock, the emperor arrived at the execution ground in a golden sedan chair with a canopy.Go to the prison arbor.Yang Qiuchi submitted all the dossiers of the death row prisoner to Ming Chengzu.

Ming Chengzu looked at it very carefully, nodded after reading it, and the eunuch Si Yin handed over the jade seal.Ming Chengzu affixed a seal on the nailed document (that is, the execution order of the death penalty) and handed it to Yang Qiuchi.Yang Qiuchi took it, walked to the entrance of the stage, and said loudly: "The emperor has signed and sealed the document, and the execution will be executed at noon!"

At noon, the supervisor of Yingtianfu came to report, Yang Qiuchi picked up the token and threw it off the stage, shouting: "The report is over!"

People's supervision of beheading is "report after beheading", but now it becomes stabbing, which sounds a little funny.

Yang Qiuchi had already told the executioner the location, angle and depth of the stabbing. After receiving the order, the executioner held the sword in one hand, walked behind the kneeling death row prisoner, yelled, raised his hand and stabbed the death row prisoner with a sword. Back heart.

After all, he was a full-time executioner, so he was very accurate. The strength of this sword was just right, the position was accurate, and the sword pierced through the heart.The condemned prisoner just snorted softly and fell to the ground to die.

Yang Qiuchi ordered the corpse to be laid flat, so that the position of the corpse spot was the same as that of the corpse that Ji Gang used to frame Yun Leng, for comparison.

When Ming Chengzu saw that the execution was over, he said to Yang Qiuchi, "I will go back to the palace first, and I will make up the knife in Shenshi, and I will send the two corpses outside the Meridian Gate in Xushi. I will examine them myself."

Yang Qiuchi bowed and said, "My minister obeys the order!"

Ming Chengzu got up and drove back to the palace.Ji Gang also left behind his nephew Ji Mi to supervise and went back.The second prince Zhu Gaoxu also left.

Still had to wait for four hours on the execution ground, with nothing to do, Ji Mi limped over with a folding fan in his hand, and saluted Yang Qiuchi with a smile: "Young Master Yang, may I ask you what kind of relationship with Master Hou last night?" Why didn't the girl who woke up come?"

Yang Qiuchi gave him a sideways glance, and said lightly, "Young Master, why do you ask this?"

Ji Piao said: "After inquiring last night, I learned that the girl's surname is Liu, she is the concubine of Lord Hou, and she just gave birth to a young master for Lord Hou. Right?"

Yang Qiuchi snorted in his nostrils: "Sir, if you have something to say, just say it."

Ji Piao folded her fan twice, looked at Yang Qiuchi a little embarrassedly, and said in a low voice, "I fell in love with this Miss Liu at first sight, so...so I want to ask Lord Hou...whether Lord Hou will give up his love , let Miss Liu be my concubine—don't worry, as long as you are willing to part with her, even if you ask a sky-high price, I will never counter the price!"

In ancient times, the status of a concubine was not much stronger than that of a maid. The so-called "concubine can buy and sell", so concubines can be bought, sold or even given as gifts.No wonder Ji Piao asked Yang Qiuchi to resell Liu Ruobing to him.

Yang Qiuchi smiled coldly, stared at Ji Yu and said: "To you, a concubine's room may be just a piece of clothing, a dog, or a horse, which can be bought and sold at will, but to me, it is like a sister. close relatives. Will you sell your sisters for money?"

Song Yun'er also said coldly from the side: "The Ji family is heartless, maybe they will sell it, I don't know!"

Yang Qiuchi nodded: "This kind of thing can only be done by those heartless beasts, and this official will not do it."

Ji Mi blushed, her expression was very embarrassing, and she begged in a low voice: "Master Hou, I really like Miss Liu very much, and I ask Master Hou to cut her love. If Master Hou is not short of money, you can ask for something else." After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "A few days ago, my uncle took in five new beauties from all over the country. Although they are not as beautiful as Miss Liu, they are all as beautiful as a flower, one in a thousand. I told my uncle Say, exchange these five with Master Hou for Miss Liu, okay...?"

With a slap, Yang Qiuchi slapped the table heavily, and said to Ji Mi with a serious face, "Shut up! In the eyes of your Ji family, women are not human beings but animals, can they be exchanged casually?"

Ji Mi was a little surprised: "This concubine's room and maid are almost as good as livestock..."

"Fart! Is your Ji family a fucking human or a beast?"

Ji Mio's complexion changed, but he wanted something from others, and he didn't dare to get angry. He still pleaded in a low voice: "Master Hou, I really like Miss Liu, and I beg Master Hou to cut her love. If Master Hou doesn't like to exchange women, You can use other things, as long as Master Hou sets the conditions—even if you want the stars in the sky, I will find a way to get them for you. My uncle already promised me last night, and I will ask for Miss Liu at all costs. So, as long as Lord Hou, if you can set the conditions, we can do it—there is nothing in this world that my uncle can't do."

Before Yang Qiuchi could speak, Song Yuner sneered and said, "Okay, as long as you can get one thing, you might be able to marry my sister!"

Yang Qiuchi was slightly taken aback: "Yun'er..."

Song Yun'er waved her hand to signal him to leave it alone, and said to Ji Yu, "How is it?"

Ji Mi was overjoyed, took two steps forward, bowed and said, "Thank you, miss, what do you want me to do? I can definitely do it!"

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