Daming King of Punishment

After finishing speaking, Jiang Sixing secretly glanced at Song Wuya who was sitting next to the county magistrate, and happened to intersect with Song Wuya's strange gaze.Jiang Sixing secretly felt surprised, Song Wuya and himself are friends who have been in contact with each other a lot, why is the look in his eyes showing such indifference now?It's almost as if you don't know yourself.How could he have imagined that this Song Wuya was no longer that Song Wuya.

Immediately afterwards, a loud and solid voice sounded: "Mo Yisan, the late student, pays homage to the county lord."

Another young Confucian student, Mo Yisan, stepped forward to salute.Mo Yisheng, Song Wuya, and Jiang Sixing were about the same age, and had been in contact with each other for a long time, so they could be regarded as friends in the same circle.At this moment, I saw Song Wuya, who had already been convicted, taking off his shackles and sitting next to Situ County Magistrate, with an expression of innocence, without the appearance of a repeat offender at all.

Mo Yisan couldn't help being secretly startled by this, feeling that today's test was not easy, and he was afraid that he would have to face the board.When the yamen officials sent him to his home to arrest him, Mo Yisan thought that he just needed to supplement evidence and confession in order to make the case real. Why did he suddenly turn into a posture of retrial and overturn the case?

Afterwards, the other three older suspects, Li Ming, Dai Meng and Jin Shou, also knelt down one by one, reported their names, and went to meet the county magistrate Situ.Both Jiang and Mo have the reputation of being scholars, so they can avoid kneeling when they meet officials.Li Ming, Dai Meng, and Jin Shou were all well-dressed and decent people, and they were all friends of Situ Jian during his lifetime.

The circumstances of the case are not yet clear, and in order not to insult the gentleman and take care of the face of the dead brother and friend, the county magistrate Situ said: "This place is not a court, you can all be exempted from kneeling."

The kindness of Magistrate Situ did not achieve any effect, and the faces of these four people showed a bit of panic.Song Wuya saw all these scenes, but he also knew that it didn't explain anything.But there is no good citizen in Ming Dynasty who is not afraid to walk in the court.As for the innocent scholars like Jiang Sixing and Mo Yisan, they are even more ashamed to get involved in lawsuits.He remembered that there was a sentence in "The Scholars" that he had read: "When you are in the palace, a piece of paper cannot enter the public school." The so-called Honggong refers to county schools and government schools.

Magistrate Situ made a gesture to Song Wuya, Song Wuya understood, and asked the four suspects standing in the hall: "Which one of you ever left your room on the night that Mr. Situ was killed?"

"They've all come out, they've all been out." Jin Shou rushed to stand up and said with a smile, "After Miss Situ found out that Master Situ had been killed that night, everyone went out of their rooms to have a look."

Song Wuya frowned: "Aren't you talking nonsense? I'm asking if any of you have ever left your room before this."

Jiang Sixing, who was standing at the side, was not happy when he heard this, and said coldly: "Brother Song has always been friends with Mr. Mo and me in the same generation, and we haven't seen each other for a few days. Is this a sudden increase in seniority? He also speaks condescendingly."

Mo Yisan also echoed in a strange way: "Brother Jiang, Brother Song came down from the execution ground just now. His mind is confused and his mind is not clear. We don't need to be as knowledgeable as him."

Song Wuya gave County Magistrate Situ a look, Magistrate Situ understood, and said with a stern face: "Song Wuya has now been cleared of the murder suspicion, and he is helping the official investigate the case right now, so please stop messing around. Just answer nicely."

The lord official is the lord official. Seeing the words of the county lord, Jiang and Mo immediately shut up obediently, not daring to sneer or sneer.

"Which of the five of you left your room during this time period after Miss Situ settled you in your respective customer service until you found out that Master Situ was killed?" Song Wuya asked again.

Song Wuya's eyes swept over everyone's faces, carefully observing everyone's reactions.Jiang Sixing shook his head firmly, and Mo Yisan glanced at Jiang Sixing, then shook his head too.Dai Meng also shook his head.

Jin Shou couldn't wait to rush to say again: "Mr. Song, Miss Situ knocked on my door before she found out that Master Situ was killed and asked me to look for Master Situ with her. Then I found out that Master Situ was killed. I don't know this Do you think you came out during that time period?" This man was short and fat, and he gasped for breath as soon as he spoke, and sweat came out on his forehead, "Master Mingjian, son Mingjian, I didn't kill Master Situ! I found out that Master Situ By then, he had fallen to the ground."

This person talked too much nonsense, Song Wuya frowned and could only say: "I know about this, it has nothing to do with what I want to ask."

Jin Shou wiped the white sweat off his forehead, and said honestly, "That's good, that's good!"

Song Wuya ignored him, turned around and asked Li Ming who had been silent all this time: "Mr. Li, have you been out of the room during this period?"

Li Ming looked hesitant, as if he was about to say something.

"He came out!" Situ Wen interrupted suddenly: "About after the second watch, I saw him come out of the west wing, pass the middle hall where I was, and turn to the backyard."

Everyone cast doubtful glances at Li Ming.

Li Ming was flustered by the sight, and hurriedly explained: "Drinking a lot that day, I felt unwell in my stomach, so I had to get up in the middle of the night and go to the place of reincarnation of the five grains."

"Why do you speak so politely?" Song Wuya struggled to hear, frowned and asked, "What is 'the place of reincarnation of the five grains?'"

The county magistrate Situ smiled and said, "'The Place of Reincarnation of the Five Grains' is the elegant name for thatched cottage."

Song Wuya was angry and funny: "If you go to the latrine, just go to the latrine? Just say no, why are you hesitating?"

Li Ming blushed, and defended plausibly: "How can you publicly declare dirty things in public?"

It turned out that he was just a rotten Confucian, Song Wuya was both disappointed and amused, and didn't bother to pay attention to him, so he turned to Situ Wen and asked, "Is the hut in the middle of the two rows of houses?"

Situ Wen nodded and said, "Yes, there is only such a hut in the yard."

Song Wuya asked again: "This Mr. Li went from the east wing to the backyard. How long did it take to return to his room? Have you seen it?"

Situ Wen thought for a while, and said, "I've seen it before. He passed by the middle hall where I was, and came back in a while."

Song Wuya nodded, thinking quickly in his mind.In this way, although this pedantic Mr. Li has been out of his room, he has never been to the east wing where the crime occurred from the beginning to the end, and it is temporarily impossible to see that he has the conditions to commit the crime.As for Jin Shou, the only one among the five suspects who lived in the East Wing, the conditions for committing the crime should be the most convenient. Only when he entered the room of Xiaozhen, the maidservant where the corpse was buried, did he not need to pass by Situ Wen who was sitting in the middle of the East and West Wings.

However, precisely because of this, the suspicion of Jin Shou should be ruled out instead.The reason is very simple, if the murderer is him, he doesn't need to hide at the murder scene after killing Xiaozhen and Master Situ and dare not return to his room. up.

At this point, the case has become clear, and the murderer was among the four people who stayed in the east wing that night.

Song Wuya thought for a while, and asked Situ Wen: "After you settled the guests' rooms, until your father went to the east wing to inspect the room, during this period of time, did any of you come out of the east wing to the west wing? Go? Except Li Ming."

Situ Wen shook her head and said, "No."

"Are you sure you didn't make a mistake? You were in the middle hall to settle accounts. Could it be possible that someone passed by the door and you didn't notice?" Song Wuya asked.

Situ Wen sneered, and said with a sneering smile on her face, "Why? The four doors in the middle hall are fully open. I sat facing the outside. The oil lamp was very brightly lit. There were also lanterns hanging in the corridor, and it was quiet at night. Even if a toad jumps past me, I can still feel it. Didn’t I also see you sneakily and stealthily go to have a tryst with that lowly servant girl and try your best to avoid me?”

Song Wuya saw that she exposed his scandal in public again, so he could only cough dryly in embarrassment, and changed the subject: "Miss Situ, from the second watch to the third watch, have you ever left the middle hall where you settled accounts?"

Situ Wen shook her head first, thought for a while, and said hesitantly: "There is a small matter, I don't know if it counts..."

Song Wuya's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Murder is no small matter, tell me quickly!"

Situ Wen glanced at Mo Yisan who was standing aside, and said, "Mr. Mo called me in the room, and I went over to talk to him. I left the middle hall just for a short while. "

"When? Before your father went to the East Wing?"

"Yes, my father went there during the second watch. Mr. Mo called me a little before the second watch."

Song Wuya looked up at the sky, put on a provocative posture, rolled his eyes and said, "You girl, do you know Mr. Mo very well? In the middle of the night, he told you to go to his room and you went?"

Situ Wen raised her eyebrows and wanted to explode immediately, but she forced herself to hold back, and said coldly: "I didn't enter the room, I just stood at the door and said a few words to Mr. Mo. You don't want to slander me." people."

"Really? I don't think so."

Song Wuya has been slapped by her all the time, and finally seized an opportunity to find fault, how could he let it go easily?With a smile on his face, he said: "However, I don't care about it with you. I behaved badly in the past, and now you behave badly, and we are even. I am a gentleman who does not remember old mistakes, and you are also a good person. Let's not be jealous of each other anymore, how about we be a good couple from now on?"

Chapter 12 It's You and Me

?Chapter 12 is you or me

You know, women in the Ming Dynasty had the most important festivals.Song Wuya insisted on comparing his nasty act of having an affair with a maidservant with what Situ Wen did, how could Situ Wen not feel ashamed and annoyed?She immediately trembled with anger, trembling like pear blossoms in the wind, pointed at Song Wuya's nose and said, "You...you are shameless!"

Song Wuya grinned and bared all his white teeth at Situ Wen, and said with a smile, "I have very teeth." He actually doesn't have any ill feelings towards his fiancée, the reason why he wanted to be angry with her was partly to get back the scene , Half of it is just a habitual cheap mouth.

Song Wuya's low-mouth tactics that he had practiced for 30 years really paid off. Situ Wen turned pale with anger, lowered her head without saying a word and bit her lips tightly. There were crystal tears on her slender eyelashes, trembling uncontrollably. nice.

Seeing this, Song Wuya couldn't help sighing secretly, a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, she looks so good when she cries, if she looks like she's about to cry, then she's extremely beautiful.Together with this crooked idea of ​​admiring beautiful women, the guilt in Song Wuya's heart disappeared immediately.

After asking Situ Wen, Song Wuya asked Jiang Sixing, Mo Yisan, Li Ming, and Dai Fameng who lived in the West Wing Room one by one, and asked them to explain the locations of their rooms.

Song Wuya asked Butler Liang to bring a pair of pens, ink and paper, and drew a floor plan on the white paper where the guests stayed that night.The entire Situ Mansion is in the shape of an "工", with a closed corridor on the top horizontal line, sealed at both ends, and a vertical road in the middle that leads directly to the backyard.The location where the homicide occurred was the far left of the top row of rooms, that is, the east wing of the front yard.Jin Shou also lived there that night.As for Jiang Sixing, Mo Yisan, Li Ming, Dai Fameng, and Song Wuya himself, they all lived in the right half of the top row of rooms, that is, the west wing of the front yard.

After pondering over the floor plan for a while, Song Wuya had an idea in his mind. He looked away from the blueprint and looked at Mo Yisan: "Brother Mo, why did you call Miss Situ in the room that night?"

Mo Yisan stammered: "Actually...Actually, I didn't call out to Miss Situ, I just yelled in fright in my room, and Miss Situ heard me yelling, so she moved over to have a look."

Song Wuya frowned and said, "You are a big man, what frightened you? Could it be that you saw a ghost in your own room?"