I solved crimes in the Song Dynasty and strengthened the country [Seventh Five-Year]

39 No Useful Month

Early the next morning, Jiang Lin told Xie Ling about Qiyou, and asked the other party to send someone to investigate to see if Qiyou had committed any other crimes of dereliction of duty over the years, so we can investigate together.

Xie Ling didn't expect Qiyou Club to have such entanglements with the previous case, and was suddenly shocked and angry, quite at a loss.

"In addition to Qiyou's incident, we also need to investigate the backgrounds of other officials, yamen servants, and eunuchs who were not born in the imperial examination, and put them on file in Dali Temple so that I can check them at any time." Jiang Lin added, "And his That apprentice has been working in Dali Temple for a while, maybe he needs to pay more attention."

"Miss Yunshu, she shouldn't..." Xie Ling seemed to want to explain, but Jiang Lin interrupted: "Just look into it without discrimination."

The plot of the world in this book is really beyond Jiang Lin's expectation, he wants to kill all the seedlings that may go wrong in the cradle.

After dealing with the matter of Qiyou, Jiang Lin still needs to attend the follow-up trial of Zheng He and Hua Ninghuan's case.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the courtyard, Jiang Lin saw a few familiar figures leaping to the Dharma hall held by many yamen servants.

Jiang Lin: "..."

It's only because the original owner's dynamic vision is really good, he can clearly see the process of several mice going to the house - one, two, three, four, five, including the eyewitness he will pass on later, Chin Maoshu.

Jiang Lin paid attention to the eyes of the people around him, walked to the side wall, and shook the tree to attract Bai Yutang's attention.Jiang Lin didn't dare to say anything, and only asked with his mouth: "What are you doing?"

Bai Yutang made a face at him, obviously to tell him not to mind his own business.

Jiang Lin was speechless for a while, and wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Sima Guang.

Zheng He's case involved many people and the background was complicated.After the last adjournment, there were obviously some changes in the personnel on the judge's bench.Two older officials were replaced on Yushitai's side, and Sima Guang, who was still inexperienced, was also replaced on the Criminal Department's side.

Sima Guang no longer had to avoid suspicion with Jiang Lin as before, so he came here to remind him to pay more attention to the position of the newly replaced judges.

Jiang Lin was only worried that Bai Yutang would be found out, so he didn't hear what Sima Guang said.The latter also thought that his hint was not obvious enough, so he directly pointed out his boss who took over the case, Zhang Yaozuo, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment.

Jiang Lin only met Zhang Yaozuo once during the trial of the three divisions in the Chen Zhifu case.At that time, the other party's attitude towards him was considered kind. Jiang Lin didn't understand why Sima Guang had reminded him, so he asked, "Junshi, what details did you notice?"

"During the last interrogation, I saw a young man secretly hand Zhang Shangshu a suspected postbox, but he was followed all the way, and he never had time to look at it..." Sima Guang whispered, "Maybe he was suspicious, But Brother Baishi, it's good for you to pay more attention."

The subtext in these words was that someone hurriedly passed a note to Zhang Shangshu before the trial of the third division. If the other party had read the contents of the note, they might not treat Jiang Lin with the same attitude.

Thinking of the previous case, Bai Yutang almost told about the relationship between Taxuetang and Pei's residence, so it is not difficult to guess who was looking for Zhang Yaozuo at that time.Jiang Lin suddenly felt a sense of crisis in his heart, and nodded with Sima Guang gratefully.

"Thank you, Junshi, for reminding me."

Although Xiang Zhiyu had done a lot of coquettish operations before, such as revising the testimony and replacing the corpse, according to the series of reactions from Pei's mansion and Pei Shilang, Jiang Lin believed that it was a certainty that Pei Shilang killed someone.

But the tricky part of this case is that the real body of Hua Ninghuan has not been found so far, and it is very likely that the people in Treading Hall have disposed of it well and will never be found again; moreover, Xiangjiyu's fake death Escaping even made her testimony of her death ineffective, and it was difficult for the judges to believe what she said again.

This also means that the only sources of testimony that Jiang Lin can rely on now are Bai Yutang... and Peifu.

In the absence of corpses, murder weapons, witnesses, and motives for murder, anyone who listens to it will think that it is simply whimsical to use the testimony provided by the prisoner's family to establish the crime of murder.

What's more, the suspect in this case is still a servant.

The trial time was approaching, and Jiang Lin had no time to worry about what Bai Yutang was going to do.As soon as he entered the courtroom, he saw Zhang Yaozuo, who was waiting, sipping the tea offered by the servant, as if he was about to say something to himself, but in the next second he spit out the tea and threw the cup into the servant's arms.

"What the hell is this? Why does it smell like moss?!"

Jiang Lin glanced up quietly, and a tile just closed at this moment.He silently gave five rats a thumbs up in his heart.

Most of Zhang Yaozuo's original momentum was shattered, and he adjusted after a while and said, "Jiang Shaocheng, we meet again."

Jiang Lin respectfully saluted and said, "I'm lucky. During the last joint trial, Zhang Shangshu took care of me."

Zhang Yaozuo was choked, and his complexion immediately became extremely grim.

He accidentally missed the note last time, he failed to help the Pei family put a murderous hat on Bai Yutang's head, but instead helped this Jiang Lin to make a contribution, which made the Pei family quite dissatisfied.Today, he got another order from the Pei family, so Zhang Yaozuo wanted to give Jiang Lin a good look.

But before he had time to perform, Fu Yi, who had seen everyone present, quieted the court's discipline, and taught Jiang Lin, who was in charge of reasoning the case, to cue the next procedure.

Zhang Yaozuo, who was full of anger, clenched the case file in his hand, thinking that no matter where Jiang Lin started talking, he would talk about people to death.

However, what Zhang Yaozuo expected was that Jiang Lin didn't explain the case to the judges first, but directly sent Minister Pei to the court for questioning.

This taught Zhang Yaozuo to be caught off guard for a moment, and said directly: "Why don't you explain clearly what Xiang Jiyu did before?"

Jiang Lin said indifferently: "Her actions are recorded in the case file, all the judges can just read it directly, and the next judge will repeat it again, isn't it a waste of everyone's time?"

This is a bit reasonable, but in the actual operation process, very few pushers skip the important link of explaining the previous situation.

The reason why Jiang Lin chose to do this was to catch a bug.

Different from the trial mode of courts in modern society, criminal suspects in ancient times were subject to more restrictions and less human rights.There will be no lawyer who specifically explains to him the ins and outs of the case, and helps him analyze how to reduce his guilt.

As far as the cases Jiang Lin has seen, in ancient times, cases were often settled by the suspect's own confession. Even Bao Qingtian used punishment on the criminals in "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness", forcing the other party to confess. own crime.

However, the method of "extracting a confession by torture" is obviously not suitable for high-ranking officials like Pei Shilang, so Jiang Lin must reduce the channels for Pei Shilang to obtain information, and play some word games during the interrogation.

Before Zhang Yaozuo could think of a rebuttal, Pei Shilang had already been brought to the court.

Pei Shilang has been confined in a special room in Dali Temple these days, and has never seen anyone close to him.Even though the people in Dali Temple would not treat him harshly, Pei Shilang's face at this moment is much more haggard than usual.

Jiang Lin asked directly: "Pei Shilang, I would take the liberty to confirm with you for the last time, did you call Hua Ninghuan, a dancer from Changchun Building, into the Xuanzi No. [-] room you reserved on the night of February [-]th?"

Perhaps because the last information he knew was that he was identified as the murderer by his only sister, Pei Haozhu even showed some disappointment when he answered.

He shook his head and said, "I'm drunk, I can't think of anything, but I never killed anyone, so I don't know what Hua Ninghuan you are talking about, there should be no blood on my clothes..."

Jiang Lin interrupted him and said: "Pei Shilang, there is evidence that Hua Ninghuan could not have gone to other guests' rooms that day. I just want to confirm with you, please answer directly."

Pei Haozhu's mouth was very hard: "The sign on the door can be hung by anyone, it doesn't mean that I ordered someone. Moreover, even if Hua Ninghuan really died in Xuanzi No. [-] room, it may be What happened after I left the room..."

Jiang Lindao: "But we have already proved in the previous case that the blood stain on the carpet was left when you were still in the room."

Pei Haozhu said: "I was really drunk that day, or maybe someone with high martial arts sneaked into the room. Wasn't the scholar surnamed Zheng killed by the killer of Tuxuetang? Maybe Hua Ninghuan's case is also the case. What did he do?"

Before Jiang Lin could make any comments on his speculation, Zhang Yaozuo at the side answered unhurriedly: "It is indeed possible. Fu Siqing, I see that there is a maid in Pei's residence on the case file. I found blood on Pei Shilang's clothes, why don't you invite her up to ask what's going on?"

Jiang Lin frowned upon hearing this.

As a family member, Pei Beiqing needed to avoid suspicion, so the maids of Pei's residence became the priority witnesses.But even if the other party provided testimony that was unfavorable to Pei Shilang, Jiang Lin could not feel much trust in him.

In addition to the bruises he saw on the maid's hand last time, Jiang Lin always felt that according to the routine, the other party would always reverse the testimony, saying that he was ordered by others and beaten again before he came to identify his master as the murderer. In fact, Pei Shilang was wronged.

Jiang Lin didn't want the other party to testify in court at this time, but Fu Yi couldn't refute Zhang Yaozuo's face, so Jiang Lin could only add: "Bring the blood-stained clothes together."

As soon as the maid was brought up, Pei Shilang's expression changed: "Bai Lu, you, how could you..."

I saw that the servant girl's leg softened just right, and when she knelt down, she wanted to show her ankle that had been scarred by the whip, clearly trying to arouse suspicion by "selling miserable".

"Be careful." Jiang Lin quickly supported her, and by the way, used the hem of the other party's clothes to cover the wound on her body tightly, so that even the toes were not exposed.

The servant girl's face was full of the word "dumb", and Zhang Yaozuo, who was about to answer, also got stuck for a moment.

Wu Shu, who witnessed all this on the eaves, almost couldn't help applauding Jiang Lin.

Sell ​​badly?

You are so cautious, not even one-tenth of Jiang Lin's.