1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 30: Resourceful strategy (10)
"Ah——" the old man sighed, and narrated the following passage: "Your father and I were originally a wandering doctor. One day more than 30 years ago, your mother gave birth to you, but it happened that I was practicing medicine outside. You Unfortunately, your mother got seriously ill after giving birth to you. Our family usually had very little savings. In order to treat the disease and keep you alive, your mother had no choice but to sell you to Qu Yuan’s family. I took you away. At that time, I wanted to go to the Qu family to redeem you. But I thought that his family's wealth was so powerful that it would be a waste of money. Thinking about it again, the Qu family bought you because they had no sons, and they couldn't treat you badly. You, so let it go, later, your mother missed you, I don’t know how many times she secretly visited you, now, our flesh and blood can be reunited, but your mother passed away two years ago..."

Speaking of this, the old man had tears streaming down his face, and Qu Ning also burst into tears. After a while, he wiped away his tears, hurriedly helped the old man into the upper room, and asked his family to prepare wine and dishes.

When Qu Ning's wife heard about it, someone secretly called Qu Ning out.

She said to Qu Ning: "This incident is too sudden, please don't make a joke! Didn't you ask him what proof he has?

Hearing what his wife said was reasonable, Qu Ning went back to the upper room and asked the old man: "Old man, what evidence do you have to prove that you are my real father?"

When the old man heard this, he said angrily: "I never thought I'd waited for so many years, just waiting for your words! In this case, let's make a clean break! However, I should let you know whether I am your real father or not. Yes." As he spoke, the old man took out a medicine book from his pocket and handed it to Qu Ning: "The writing on it was written when I came back that year, you can read it yourself!" Qu Ning took the medicine Sure enough, there were two lines of small characters clearly written on the back of the book: "My wife sold her own child to Qu Cheng through the middleman Liu San. Year, month, and day."

After Qu Ning showed the words on the medicine book to his wife, she still didn't believe it, she said, "You might as well show the medicine book to Cheng Hao, the magistrate of the county, and if he says it's true, I will believe it as a wife. "

With no other choice, Qu Ning had to take the medicine book to the county government.

Cheng Tian looked at the medicine book, then at Qu Ning, and asked, "Are you in your thirties this year?"

"Yes, the villain is 37 years old this year."

"I remember that old man Qu Yuanwai was 73 years old when he passed away, right?"

"Exactly."

Cheng Hao smiled: "Such a simple matter, do you still ask me?"

Qu Ning didn't know why, and looked at Cheng Hao suspiciously.

"The man who went to your house is a liar, not your real father at all."

"Then why did he come to cheat?"

"It will be clear soon." After Cheng Hao finished speaking, he sent two police officers to Qu's house to escort the old man to the court.In the first instance, the old man was indeed a thief.He wanted to pretend to be Qu Ning's own father, the thieves Qu Jia!

How did Cheng Hao solve the case?
First of all, Cheng Hao found that although the medicine book was old, the handwriting on it was very clear.According to the old man, it has been more than 40 years since he sold his son to others. He is practicing medicine outside, and he often uses medicine books with him.Cheng Hao thought again, comparing Qu Cheng's age with Qu Ning's, Qu Cheng was less than [-] years old when he got Qu Ning, so how could he be called "Qu Lao Yuanwai"?From this, Cheng Hao concluded that the word had just been written, and the certificate of the medicine book was forged.

Distinguish square head shovel skillfully

One day in the Song Dynasty, Cai Xiaoer, a melon farmer, brought two baskets of watermelons to the market to sell. Several melon farmers from neighboring villages also came here to sell melons.

"Melon, melon, eat a mouthful of sweetness!" The people in the neighboring village stretched their necks and shouted. People just looked at their melons before turning around and coming to Cai Xiaoer's melon stand.

People saw that Cai Xiaoer didn't need to pick, just picked up melons and cut them open, all of them were red sand flesh.

"Try it, it's okay." Cai Xiaoer smiled and asked people to taste the watermelon he grew.

"Good melon. Really good melon!" An old man picked up a piece of watermelon, took a bite, and praised repeatedly.

After a while, Cai Xiaoer's two baskets of watermelons were sold out.He was about to leave when he was stopped by some melon sellers from the neighboring village.

"Hey, listen up, from now on you will never be allowed to sell melons here, otherwise..." said a fat, black melon farmer in a neighboring village.

"Why?" Cai Xiaoer turned around and asked angrily.

Fatty Hei glanced fiercely at Cai Xiaoer and said, "Nothing, just for me!"

Cai Xiaoer saw that the fat black man's basket was still full of melons, and none of them were sold.But he thought again, this is not my fault!Who told you that the melons you planted are not big and the taste is not sweet anymore.Besides, there is no such reason in the world, only you are allowed to sell melons in this place, and no one else is allowed to sell them.This kid is too domineering, he must be punished.Thinking of this, he said to the black fat man:

"No, I'll come here to sell melons tomorrow!"

Hearing this, the fat black man's beard stood up in anger: "Okay, let's wait and see!"

When Cai Xiaoer returned home, before it was dark, he quickly counted the melons on the two acres of land, and 256 melons were ripe.He thought to himself, this time it will be alright, I also know that the black fat man came to steal a watermelon, and then I will sue him.

That night, something really happened in Cai Xiaoer's melon field. It wasn't that the watermelon was lost, but someone cut off all the watermelon seedlings in the two acres of land by the roots.When Cai Xiaoer saw the miserable scene in the field, his eyes were straightened, and it took him a long time to understand, and he sat on the ground and cried bitterly.

The villagers came to comfort him after hearing the news.

"Which bad boy did this, it's really wicked!"

"Really, seeing that all the money in my hand is gone!"

"What's the use of crying, let's sue him!"

"Yes, I heard that County Magistrate Hu is very good at solving cases, so you might as well ask him to try!"

Cai Xiaoer listened to everyone's discussion, and was also thinking in his heart: No one saw the destruction of the melon field, even if it was reported to County Magistrate Hu, it would be difficult to tell.But he thought again, the matter has come to this point, why not try it, maybe magistrate Hu really has a way!So Cai Xiaoer rushed to the county government to report the case that day.

County magistrate Hu is really serious and a clean official.He asked Cai Xiaoer:

"Who has enmity with you on weekdays?"

"No!"

"Think again, especially melon growers?"

Cai Xiaoer patted his forehead, and suddenly remembered the situation of selling melons yesterday, so he told magistrate Hu in detail.

County magistrate Hu thought for a while, then asked Cai Xiaoer to lead him to Guadai.

Hearing that the county magistrate Hu came to Guadai to settle the case in person, the common people came to watch one after another.

I saw County Magistrate Hu digging around in the melon fields and looking west. After a while, he came out of the field and ordered the yamen servant: "Get the square-headed shovels used by all the melon farmers nearby."

The yamen servants took the order and quickly collected the square-headed shovels of dozens of nearby melon farmers.The county magistrate Hu ordered the square shovels to be lined up step by step, and then ordered:
"Every owner of a square-headed shovel stands behind his own shovel."

Soon there was a man standing behind each shovel.They are all melon farmers, and the fat black melon farmer is also standing in the queue.The county magistrate Hu was really clever, and he quickly pulled the fat man out of the queue.In the face of the facts, Fatty Hei had no choice but to confess truthfully. He was jealous of Cai Xiaoer, fearing that his melons would not be sold, so he destroyed Cai Xiaoer's melon fields at night.

How did County Magistrate Hu solve this case of destroying melons?
Seeing that the melon seedlings had been cut off, County Magistrate Hu thought that the crime should be solved from the tools used.He knew from experience that if the melon destroyer cut it with a sickle, there would be no marks on the ground;Therefore, based on the fact that the melon seedlings are straight stubble at the fracture, he concluded that the person who destroyed the melons must have used a shovel.But the shovel has a round head and a square head.So, he checked again and found that the depth of the buried imprints in the ground was the same, so he concluded that it was a square-headed shovel.But it was still necessary to find the shovel that cut off the melon seedlings among the dozens of shovels, so County Magistrate Hu licked the shovels one by one with his tongue.When he licked Hei Fatty's square-headed shovel, he felt the tip of his tongue was bitter and astringent, so he concluded that it was Hei Fatty who destroyed the melon fields.

forged contract
In the Song Dynasty, there was a young man named Wang Gang in Meizhou. His mother was the only one in his family, and he lived on an acre of fertile land passed down from his ancestors.Unexpectedly, this acre of fertile land was taken by Sun Yanshi, a wealthy family in Honshu.This man is ruthless and bully.He secretly planned for a long time, and finally came up with a poisonous plan.

During spring plowing, one morning, Wang Gang happily came to work in his field with dry food and a hoe on his shoulder.Before he got to the field, he saw two middle-aged men digging in his field from a distance.He hurried over, stepped forward and asked:

"This is my land, are you making a mistake?"

"My master sent us to work in this field, that's right. We just need to work, and you can ask my master about the rest." After the two middle-aged men finished speaking, they continued digging.

"Who is your master?" Wang Gang was anxious, and asked loudly angrily.

"Sun Yanshi, a wealthy family!" The two middle-aged men answered with a bit of complacency.

After hearing this, Wang Gang hurriedly turned around and ran towards Sun's house.

"Sun Yanshi, come out!" Wang Gang stood at the gate of Sun's house and shouted.

After a while, Sun Yanshi came out unsteadily from inside and said:
"Ah, it's Wang Gang! If you have something to say, why make such a big fuss..."

"Why did you ask people to work in my field?" Wang Gang said angrily to Sun Yanshi.

"That land is already mine. Don't mess around here, get out of here quickly!"

"What? You are talking nonsense, I will sue you!"

"If you want to sue, you can sue. I'll wait." Sun Yanshi said with a dismissive look.

When the two arrived at the county government office, Sun Yanshi was the first to say to the county magistrate: "Last winter, I made a contract with him to resell his one-acre land to me. This kid dared to renege on his debt at a young age. Please be the master and find out the truth." false."

The county magistrate immediately asked the guards to go home with Sun Yanshi to get the contract.And when he opened it up and looked closely, he saw black and white characters on the paper, and a large vermilion seal, which indeed stated that Wang Gang had resold the land to Sun Yanshi.

The magistrate couldn't tell the authenticity of the contract, so he reported it to the state government, and the state government immediately ordered Yushi Zhangpin to review the case.Zhang Pin has rich experience in handling cases.He carefully looked at the contract, and soon found that the words and seals on this contract were different from ordinary contracts.It is concluded that this is a forged contract.He immediately sent Sun Yanshi to stand trial, and Sun had no choice but to confess his crime.

How did Zhang Pin discover that the words and seals on the contract were different from ordinary contracts?
The general contract is to write the text first, and then seal it.But this contract was written on the seal, so Zhang Pin deduced that Sun Yanshi must have stolen Wang Gang's seal first, and then wrote on it.After trial, the fact really is so.

chest and back

In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a shortage of salt in Jiangxi.One day, a blind man bought half a catty of salt and was walking home when it was suddenly snatched from his hand.The blind man shouted: "Catch the thief!" Hearing someone running to catch the thief, the blind man chased after the sound.After not far away, I heard the shouts of four or five people, and the sound of two people fighting.When the blind man approached, he heard one person say, "Why did you rob others of their salt?" The other said, "You robbed others of their salt and beat them!" The two blamed and abused each other.Blind people can't tell who's a good guy and who's a robber.

When everyone was talking about it, it happened that Song Ci, who was punished by Huxiang, passed by here. Seeing many people watching and arguing, he asked people to come forward and ask about the situation. Song Ci had a capable official under his command, and immediately said: " This is not difficult, there are ready-made cases in ancient times, Fu Rong once arranged for two people to race, and whoever wins is a good person." Song Ci saw that the two had beaten each other until their noses were bruised and their faces were bruised, and they said that they would not be able to compete in the race. If there are real results, then say no.

The little official hurriedly replied: "If your lord is worried that the running speed will not be true after being injured, it is better to take the two of them back to the Yamen and wait for them to recover from their injuries. It is not too late to run." Song Ci smiled and said: "Why bother?" Is this troublesome? I have my own solution. Come, take off the shirts of the two, and check the injuries!" The subordinates rushed forward and took off the clothes of the two.One person's nose was bleeding, the front of his shirt was covered with blood, and his chest was bruised from the beating; the other person's back was bruised from the beating, and there were traces of nail scratches.Song Ci said to the man with the injured back, "This is the robber, tie him up and take him away!" Everyone went forward to tie up the man with the injured back.The onlookers looked at the prisoner with puzzled eyes.After interrogation, it turned out that the man was a robber.On what grounds did the judge decide that this person was a robber?
Based on the wounded parts of the two.When a good guy chases a bad guy, he must catch him from the back. When a bad guy turns around and resists, he will definitely hit the good guy in front of his chest. If the bad guy runs away again, the good guy will still hit the bad guy from behind; The bad guys are the ones who get hurt the most.

One word difference

During the Qing Dynasty, a businessman married a wife.Merchants are in the transportation business and often have to travel far and wide.One day, the businessman was going on a long journey again.Said to his wife: "I am not at home all year round. My parents are old and need you to take care of them. My sister is very self-willed and can't do things. This family depends entirely on you!" Can do housework, chop firewood, fetch water, cook, everything.She said to her husband: "Don't worry, I will definitely serve my parents-in-law and my sister-in-law well."

After the businessman left, the kind and gentle wife got up early and went to bed late every day, busily doing housework, doing heavy work and light work, but still being bullied by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law.It turns out that the mother-in-law thinks that the daughter-in-law's family is poor, and the younger sister is lazy and selfish. When she sees that her sister-in-law is going to be the head of the family, she fights against her sister-in-law everywhere.

One day, my sister-in-law saw her sister-in-law washing clothes by the river, so she intentionally troubled her.She picked up a stone and threw it into the river with a "plop". The water splashed on the sister-in-law's face.The sister-in-law viciously raised the laundry mallet and slammed it on the head of the sister-in-law. The sister-in-law fell down by the river and died without a word.My sister-in-law was immediately arrested and taken to the Yamen. After being interrogated by the county magistrate, she called a clerk who specialized in writing official documents and wrote the verdict: "My sister-in-law beat her sister-in-law to death with a mallet and sentenced her to hang." When the mother-in-law heard that her daughter was going to be executed, Hurry up and spend a lot of money to buy the scribes.The clerk took the money, and secretly added another stroke to a word in the judgment document.Soon the judgment document was submitted to the state government.After the state official saw it, he thought that the sister-in-law accidentally killed her sister-in-law, so the sentence was commuted to 3 years in prison.

A few days later, the verdict was sent back to the county government. The county magistrate read the papers and found it very strange. It was obvious that he had killed someone by killing him, and that murder was justified. Why did the magistrate change the sentence?He couldn't help checking the submitted documents again, and finally found out that the clerk had tampered with it, so he immediately investigated the clerk and sentenced the sister-in-law to death again.So which word did the scribe add to make my sister-in-law less guilty?

The clerk added a hook under the vertical line of the character "yong", and it became the character "swing", which became the sister-in-law's unintentional "throwing the stick" and smashing the sister-in-law to death.

copper coins in basin
Along the Qinhuai River in Nanjing City, there is a Confucius Temple.Every year during the Lantern Festival, a temple fair is held.There were huge crowds of people at the temple fair, some were singing operas, some were watching operas, some were selling things, some were shopping, and some were watching lanterns and guessing lantern riddles. It was really lively.

Next to the Confucius Temple, there is a long line of commodity stalls, and the vendors are shouting loudly to attract business.Tourists pick and choose here, look over there, and bargain loudly when they see something good.These noisy sounds, on the contrary, add to the festive atmosphere.Among these stalls, there are two stalls close together. One of them sells vegetable oil and the other sells green vegetables.The oil seller is fast-talking and enthusiastic in service, so the business is particularly good, while the vegetable seller always pretends to be bad vegetables as good ones, and they are short of money, so the business is deserted.The vegetable seller thinks that the oil seller has robbed him of his business, and he has always held a grudge.

One day, someone came to buy oil, and the oil seller was busy greeting customers. The cash box next to him was unlocked.When the oil seller turned around, he happened to see it, and asked the vegetable seller angrily, "Why did you take my money?" But the vegetable seller snapped back, "I didn't take it. You stole my money!"

They quarreled, and the magistrate had to be called.After the county magistrate asked about the situation, he said to the vegetable seller, "Bring the money in your cuff and let me see it." The vegetable seller handed the money to the county magistrate, who took a look and frowned Said: "Oh, this money is too dirty, it's better to wash it first, and I'll judge it later!"

He asked people to soak the copper coins in a basin for washing. After a while, the county magistrate looked at the basin and immediately judged who had stolen the money.Why does the county magistrate know who the thief is when he looks at the water basin?

The oil seller's hands were stained with oil, and the copper coins were also stained with oil when he took the money. When the county magistrate saw the oily flowers floating in the water in the basin, he knew that the money belonged to the oil seller.

Qiu and Qiu

In the 24th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Meng, the county magistrate of Cangwu County, Guangxi, had just taken office when he received a complaint.Wang Meng, who had always loved the people like his own son, read the complaint and sent the plaintiff Yu Alu and the defendant Qiu Yicheng to the county government lobby.

Wang Meng first asked the plaintiff, Yu Alu: "Yu Alu, in front of this county magistrate and Qiu Yicheng, please state what you have complained to me again!"

Yu Alu said: "My lord, Qiu Yicheng once borrowed 55 taels of silver from me in the 20th year of Kangxi. At that time, it was said that he would pay it back 35 years later, but now 35 years have passed, but Qiu Yicheng is divided. The text has not been returned, and he also denied that he had borrowed money from me, so I wrote the complaint, and I ask the elder to be the master!"

After hearing this, Wang Meng said, "Did you bring your IOU?"

"The villain has brought it!" Yu Alu took out the IOU from his pocket and presented it to Wang Meng.

Wang Meng unfolded it and saw that it was indeed as Yu Alu said, and the IOU had been signed and drawn.

Wang Meng put the IOUs on several cases, and asked Qiu Yicheng:
"Have you ever borrowed money from Yu Alu?"

"Please be clear, the villain has never lent him money. I remember I borrowed a copper pot from him three years ago. Because I am illiterate and only know my own name, he wrote a letter for me at that time. He wrote my name on the IOU, and I traced my name exactly as he wrote my name. My lord, the IOU in his hand must be evidence that I borrowed the copper pot. "

When Qiu Yicheng replied, Wang Meng watched him attentively, thinking that this Qiu Yicheng was an honest gentleman, and he would never borrow money without repaying it.

(End of this chapter)