Great Lawyer

Chapter 395 23

"So big that it had at least 53 victims, so big that it killed at least [-] people, and among those known dead was a three-year-old child and a five-month-old fetus. Other than that, it was big enough to do anything but kill Besides the murderer, there are at least sixty accomplices!"

The people hearing the lawsuit gasped for a while. They knew it was a big case, but they didn't expect that this case would be so big.

"Exaggerated!" Ji Lin said.

Du Jiuyan cast him a glance, and continued.

"In this case, there are still two distinct lines." Du Jiuyan said: "It's like the yin and yang gossip in the Taiji diagram, and the victims are almost all women."

"This shocked me!" Du Jiuyan said: "Shocked these men, why do they think that women are born weak and should be played with?"

Du Jiuyan knelt down and looked at Ji Lin, "Is it because you are of noble birth or because your words are bigger?"

Ji Lin was stunned, so angry that he pointed at her, Du Jiuyan pressed his hand, "Your bird is not big, we can't see it. But this case is big, we can see it!"

"So, now I'm going to divide this case into two parts for debate." After she finished speaking, everyone was puzzled, even Qi Daiqing didn't understand her intention.

In the back office, Zhao Yu was also taken aback, and asked Shen Daoru beside him, "How can she be divided into two parts?"

Shen Daoru didn't understand either, he hesitated for a while, and King Gui said, "Brother, no one else can guess what she thinks, so listen carefully."

Zhao Yu nodded and continued to listen.

Shen Daoru covered his face with tea.

"The first part, let's take a look at these things." Du Jiuyan took out 53 deeds of sale from Huang Shuli's hand, "Do you know what these are?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Liu Gongzai stood aside, listening to her argument carefully.

"This is a deed of sale, 53 copies of the contract of sale and rent!" Du Jiuyan shook the thin paper, and the paper made a crisp sound, "53 women, they were paid by their husbands at different prices. , leased to Ji Lin. Ji Lin took them to the house and let them live together, wearing a thin layer of gauze, living without dignity."

"In that house, the only purpose of their life is to serve the man who comes here!"

"Therefore, in accordance with the "Zhou Law, Household Law, Marriage, and Allusion to Wife and Daughter" regulations, the law sentenced the buyer and seller of these 53 owners to eighty punishments, and confiscated the proceeds from the transaction and the money they gave out at that time!"

Qi Daiqing was stunned, she thought Du Jiuyan was just arguing about Ji Lin's murder, but she didn't expect that she would bring up the allusion to his wife and daughter in advance.

"Sorry," Liu Gongzai signaled, looked at Du Jiuyan and said, "Everyone will be punished?"

Du Jiuyan nodded, "Everyone must be dealt with."

Du Jiuyan said loudly: "Through this incident, I hope men all over the world know that women are not goods, they do housework for you and are filial to your parents. When they marry, they have hands and feet with dowry. What reason do you have?" , buy and sell her."

"When you signed this contract, was your conscience eaten by dogs?"

"Among these 53 women, if anyone doesn't want to continue to live with them, if anyone wants to reconcile, come to me, Du Jiuyan, and I won't defend you for a penny."

"We must sue the bastards of these allusive wives, ruin his family, and live shamelessly in the world!"

After Du Jiuyan finished speaking, he slapped the 53 deeds of selling himself on the scribe's table, and said to Qi Daiqing, "My lord, please judge the crime according to the law. You must not condone and forgive these businessmen."

Qi Dai's blue eyelids jumped. This Du Jiuyan was always laughing and joking, but he didn't expect to be so domineering in the courtroom. He wiped his sweat and said: "Okay, your lawsuit is justified for the second crime, and I will make a judgment together when the case is closed."

Du Jiuyan cupped his hands in thanks.

Outside the door, a woman shouted: "Mr. Du, Mr. Du, you are so kind!"

"Mr. Du, you speak for us women. No one has ever spoken for us women. You are a good man!"

"Mr. Du, we support you."

The voices like mountain hooting came from all kinds of women, old and young, beautiful and ugly, someone shouted: "When I married him, he had nothing, and I brought him from my mother's house." I paid a hundred taels of dowry, I even prepared the shroud after my death, and prepared all the things I will use for the rest of my life, so why should I have to be an ox or a horse when I come to their house, and I won’t be able to accept him.”

"He still wants to take a concubine! Why should he take my money to take a concubine? Why!"

The woman who spoke was a thin woman, about 25 years old, with a large birthmark on her left cheek, and she was really ugly.She cried and shouted: "If he dares to take a concubine, I will hang him at the door of his house immediately. I will paint a ghost and curse him from generation to generation!"

"If you hang yourself, it will be cheaper for him, and he will take your dowry to find another woman." An aunt beside her advised her.

The woman cried loudly, "But I can't stop him, he was hooked away by the vixen."

"Wait for Mr. Du and find Mr. Du," said the person next to him, "Mr. Du just said that she will help you."

The woman with the birthmark looked at Du Jiuyan in the yamen and wiped away her tears.

Liu Gongzai looked at Du Jiuyan and smiled, "Everywhere you go, is it like this? Repeat the old trick?"

When she was just starting out in Shaoyang, it was the same way, telling all the women where to find Sanchitang if they were in trouble, so she won the support of a large number of women.

Now Shaoyang women are famous for their toughness, and everyone said that if you provoke Shaoyang men, you can't provoke the women there.

Because they not only cry, make noise and quarrel, but also fight together in groups.

"That's why it reflects that this is a common phenomenon. I have a long way to go to protect women." Du Jiuyan raised his eyebrows.

Liu Gongzai sneered.

"The second part." Du Jiuyan continued, "53 deeds of prostitution, personally verified by the head catcher, 33 women who left are still alive, and [-] women are locked in cells. The other four Among the two women, the Yao family from Baoding Mansion died last year, and her body was found by the Qingyi River, I think everyone still remembers it."

"Where did the other three go?" Du Jiuyan said, "Single arrester, please excuse me!"

Shan Dequan nodded, and let the policeman carry the three skeletons out on a stretcher, and lined up outside the Yamen.

The bones are neat and arranged in a human shape.

Lao Diao, the official of the government office, stepped forward, holding a copy of his autopsy documents, pointing to the first one and said: "This one died three years ago, with two fractures on his body, namely the brain bone and the hip bone. The bones are all broken." He picked up two pieces from this bone and showed them to everyone. He pinched the broken bones in his palm and fingers. They were shapeless and about the size of a fingernail.

It's hard to imagine how she was treated during her lifetime.

Lao Diao introduced the second corpse, "Died three years ago with a broken leg bone, two scars of different colors on the ribs, and one finger missing!"

"The third one died two years ago. It also had two broken ribs. According to this angle, the internal organs must have been punctured." Old Diao paused, then took out another tray and put it on Three very strange jade pestles.

"This jade pestle was found in Yao's body by the Qingyi River last year. We discovered it during the autopsy a few days ago."

"The other three were found in these three corpses. The jade pestles are exactly the same in size and shape!"

After Lao Diao finished speaking, he folded his hands and withdrew.

"Let me tell you that these three corpses were not found by the arrester alone out of good luck. They were led by someone to find them." Du Jiuyan and Qi Daiqing said: "My lord, I ask for a witness!"

Qi Daiqing nodded, "Biography!"

Zhang Santong was brought up, followed by twelve gatekeepers from the other courtyard.

Zhang Santong and Lu Chao were also gatekeepers in the other courtyard.

Thirteen people knelt down, and Du Jiuyan asked, "Where do you work?"

Zhang Santong's tongue was injured and he couldn't speak clearly, so the bearded man beside him said: "We are working in the Southwest courtyard, and our master is Ji Lin, the eldest son of Chengde Houfu."

"What are you doing in the other courtyard?"

"Stay at the gate in the other courtyard, watch those women, and prevent them from escaping, and don't let outsiders in."

"How often does your master Ji Lin come?" Du Jiuyan asked.

"Not necessarily, sometimes every day, sometimes every three to five days."

"How long have you been in the other courtyard? Which of you has the longest time?" Du Jiuyan asked.

"I have been in the other courtyard for two and a half years," he said, pointing at Zhang Santong, "he and Lu Chao have been in the other courtyard for the longest time."

Zhang Santong kowtowed and replied inarticulately: "When the first woman was bought in the other courtyard, I was there."

"How many people did you kill?" Du Jiuyan asked.

"I didn't kill anyone," Zhang Santong shook his head. "I didn't kill anyone, but Lu Chao and I followed the master. If the master killed someone, we will deal with the aftermath."

Du Jiuyan nodded, "You know the case of Lu Chao killing Gao Pan, tell me how Gao Pan died."

"When Yao Shi stayed in the other courtyard for the third month, the master found out that she was pregnant. The master liked her very much, and said that it tastes very good with a pregnant woman."

"When Yao Shi didn't know that she had a child, she was quite docile. Later, when she found out that she was pregnant, she refused to serve the bed. Every time she was beaten by the master. On the night of her death, she was blocked by the master and the master at the back door. The young masters took turns playing for one night and killed her. Lu Chao and I rowed a boat and threw her into the river, but I didn't expect that the fisherman would catch her the next day."

"Later, Gao Pan found out that Mrs. Yao was dead. He saw the notice posted outside the yamen, so he found Lu Chao and asked Lu Chao to pay 10 taels. If he didn't pay, he would sue the officials."

"The next night, the master took Lu Chao to meet Gao Pan in the alley next to the Yubao Building, and the master stabbed Gao Pan to death!"

"But in the end, the yamen only found Lu Chao. After Lu Chao was arrested, the master put the murder weapon in the murder alley, and the yamen convicted Lu Chao of murder."

As Zhang Santong said, there might be a gaping wound, and blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth. His face was pale and he knelt upright, showing a desperate expression.

Ji Lin turned his head and stared at him with a sneer in his eyes. Liu Gongzai patted Ji Lin's shoulder, signaling him to be calm.

(End of this chapter)