Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 72 alibi

"My lord, you couldn't find the murderer, so you deliberately put the blame on your sister-in-law, right?" Zhuo Bufan obviously didn't want to entangle this topic, but said with a straight face.

"Liu Cuier murdered, the evidence is conclusive." Li Canghai said lightly.

"The evidence is convincing?" Zhuo Bufan sneered, "Just relying on a string of tassels to conclude that the sister-in-law murdered? My lord decides the case like this, and Wansheng refuses to accept it. Maybe Wansheng will sue your lord in Luoyang Mansion."

The corners of Li Canghai's mouth rose slightly, he pretended to be surprised and said, "Young Master Zhuo actually recognizes the Governor of Luoyang? I hope you will forgive me if I offend you."

Li Canghai's words stunned everyone, he was so polite to a scholar.Di Qing's pretty face was even colder, feeling that he had lost all authority, she wished she could grab Li Canghai's ear and whip him.

Zhuo Bufan heard that he called himself a 'lower official', immediately raised his head proudly, threw a pair of nostrils to Li Canghai, and said triumphantly: "You are wise!"

Li Canghai smiled obsequiously at him, his face suddenly turned down, he pointed at Zhuo Bufan, and shouted: "Come on, take this guy down for me! It's a crime of contempt of the court, and it's a serious [-] board!"

Several yamen servants were originally unhappy seeing Zhuo Bufan, but when they heard Li Canghai's yell, they rushed forward without saying a word, and pushed him to the ground.

"What are you going to do? Let me go, I'm a scholar, I have a reputation!" Zhuo Bufan struggled and shouted.

Two yamen servants firmly pressed him to the ground, and the other two each held a wooden stick, and beat Zhuo Bufan's buttocks fiercely.

Li Canghai walked over, looked at his palms over and over again, and said indifferently: "I know you have fame, I can't torture you, but who made you despise me? Although I am a small official, But it always represents the Tang court."

The twenty big boards were quickly finished, Li Canghai squatted in front of him, and said with a half smile: "Contempt the court, these twenty big boards are already light. In fact, this officer is quite merciful."

Di Qing stared dumbfounded at all this, she suddenly started giggling, thinking to herself, she almost blamed him by mistake!

Although the twentieth board would not be bruised, it was by no means innocuous. Zhuo Bufan gritted his teeth and got up. He stared fiercely at Li Canghai, his eyes staring straight at his throat.

After this episode, everyone no longer despised the young county magistrate.

Li Canghai walked to Liu Cuier's side, his eyes turned cold, and he stretched out his hand to pull off her high rolled collar.

"This is the evidence of your murder!" Li Canghai said coldly.

Liu Cui'er's face paled in fright, Zhuo Bufan even took the opportunity to shout: "As an imperial court official, you actually look down on women in public?"

"Shut up!" Li Canghai glared at him fiercely. He stared at Liu Cuier and said coldly, "Before the deceased died, he had a physical conflict with you. You both wanted to strangle each other's neck. Am I right?"

Liu Cui'er was already trembling with fright at this time, but she still shook her head desperately to deny it.

"You still don't admit it? The pinch mark on your neck is the evidence, do you still want to deny it?" Li Canghai said word by word.

Pushing her away casually, Li Canghai stared at him like a torch and said, "Of course, you can also be said to have been strangled by someone else, but the wrench on the deceased's hand and the strangle marks on your neck make it impossible for you to deny it. Wife, I will give you another chance, so hurry up and do it!"

As if Liu Cui'er had been told what was going on in her heart, she suddenly collapsed to the ground, crying out of her wits.

"My lord, she...she is just a little girl, the deceased is tall, how could she kill him?" Changtou's heart was beating wildly, and now he still couldn't believe that the murderer was actually this weak woman in front of him.

"Because she still has accomplices." Li Canghai suddenly shifted his eyes to Zhuo Bufan, and said calmly: "Mr. Zhuo, what I said is correct, right?"

Zhuo Bufan's face turned livid, and he said viciously: "Your Excellency, you mean that I am that accomplice? It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous! He is my elder brother, how could I harm him?"

Everyone thought it was inconceivable that one of these two was the concubine of the deceased, and the other was the brother of the deceased. How could it be that they conspired to kill the deceased? This is too inconceivable.

"My lord, isn't that right? He has proof of his alibi!" Chang Tou said with a puzzled expression.

"Alibi? Are you talking about this?" Li Canghai pointed to the room behind him, which was Zhuo Bufan's room. At this time, through the window, he faintly found a figure standing in the room.

Everyone was surprised, how could someone enter this room, and why didn't everyone notice it?
Di Qing walked over and kicked the door open. There was no one inside, only a wooden frame and a piece of clothing.

Several yamen servants got the things out, and everyone saw that it was a dummy made of two wooden sticks tied together to form a cross, with a piece of clothing draped over it.

Below is a wooden stool. In the middle of the wooden stool is a hole the size of a fist. Insert a wooden stick into it, just enough to keep the wooden frame balanced.

"What's going on here?" Chang Tou was stunned.

"Idiot, it's not obvious. The shadow that Xiao Er mentioned is actually this wooden frame. It's just that through the window, Xiao Er couldn't see it clearly, so he mistook it for a person." Di Qing glanced at him contemptuously, feeling Thinking that he couldn't even figure out such a simple question, how did this person get involved in a head arrest?
"That's right, what Xiao Er has always seen is this wooden frame, that is to say, your alibi does not exist." Li Canghai stared at Zhuo Bufan and said calmly.

"Even if I wasn't there, why do you say I'm the murderer? When I went to the murder scene, my sister-in-law and the shopkeeper were already there, so the shopkeeper can testify for me." Zhuo Bufan obviously didn't want to admit it, so Humph.

Li Canghai shook his head and smiled, he really didn't know where his confidence came from.

"The shopkeeper just entered the scene, and you appeared before you took a few breaths. When the incident happened, you said you were in your room, but in fact you were not in your room. The reason why you appeared so quickly is because You were at the scene of the murder early in the morning."

The pupils of Zhuo Bufan's eyes suddenly shrank, and the shopkeeper was a little stunned: "My lord, but I didn't find him when I went in!"

"That's because he hid in a blind spot—behind the door!" Li Canghai said lightly: "He hid behind the door early in the morning, just waiting for someone to come in. When the person who came in was surprised by what he saw, he Just take the opportunity to walk out from behind the door, as if you just arrived at the scene."

(End of this chapter)