Great Lawyer

Chapter 396 24

"Where is Liu Xiucai's family, what's the situation?" Du Jiuyan asked.

Zhang Santong continued: "Two days before the murder, the master came out of the house and saw Kang on the street."

"The Kang family is very beautiful. So the master asked me to find out about his family. I asked my brother to beat Liu Xiucai, and I appeared to save him at the right time. Liu Xiucai was grateful to me and invited me to his house for dinner. I just Let him rent Kang's Dian for three years, no matter how much it is."

"Liu Xiucai was furious and drove me away. After I went back, I told the master, and the master brought me here personally, and wanted to give Liu Xiucai 1000 taels of silver for one year's rent."

"Liu Xiucai disagreed, so the master killed Liu Xiucai with the knife he was carrying. When his son came out of the room and saw it, the master killed his son again."

"I carried Mrs. Kang back to my house. Because Mrs. Kang was too noisy, taking it back to the other courtyard would affect the mood of other women, so I prepared to train it before taking it away. I didn't expect Mrs. Kang to be too hot-tempered. Hitting the wall to seek death. The master strangled him to death with a belt, and let me lose it."

"I threw the Kang family in the well."

After Zhang Santong finished speaking, he looked at Du Jiuyan.

"Do any of you know about these two murders?" Du Jiuyan asked the other 12 people.

Eight out of ten people made it clear.

"I shuddered when I heard it." Du Jiuyan turned to look at Ji Lin, "I fell in love with a woman and asked her husband to rent it to him. If I get tired of playing with her, return her or kill her directly."

"If others don't want to, they will destroy their whole family. Prince Ji, you are so crazy!"

Ji Lin pursed his lips and didn't speak.

"My lord!" Du Jiuyan clasped his hands and said loudly: "From the contract of buying and selling women to the testimony of Ji Lin's personal bodyguard, everything is clear, and there is no need for more evidence. Such crimes should be sentenced to death according to the law!"

Qi Daiqing nodded, "The case is indeed very clear from the beginning to the present, defendant, what else can you say?"

"My lord, I have it!" Liu Gongzai stepped forward and saluted all parties.

Outside the yamen, the people who were hearing the lawsuit started to discuss one after another, pointing fingers at Liu Gongzai, thinking that this litigator really doesn't distinguish between right and wrong, how could he defend Ji Lin's lawsuit.

In the back yamen, Mrs. Qin's angry tea cup was shaking. If Zhao Yu hadn't been sitting here, she would have almost thrown the tea cup out of her hand.

"Here we come," Chengde Hou supported her, and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, I have checked Liu Gongzai's ability, and he is very famous in the litigant circle."

Mrs. Qin Tai took a look at Shen Daoru, and said in a low voice: "So what if you are famous!"

Shen Daoru is famous enough, this time he didn't follow Du Jiuyan to frame her grandson.

"Speak." Chengdehou said in a low voice.

"Just now, after listening to Mr. Du's defense, I am also very angry. If there are such people in this world, they are really devoid of conscience, and the world cannot tolerate it!" Liu Gongzai cupped his hands at Du Jiuyan, "If Mr. Du If you meet this person, please scold me together!"

Du Jiuyan ignored him.

"Dian Ren, murder! These are the two most critical words in this case," Liu Gongzai said: "Just now, Mr. Du also made these two words into two parts, and stated them separately, and said it very clearly."

"Dian Ren." Liu Gongzai also picked up 53 contracts, "I don't deny that the man who signed these 53 contracts is very clear. But the renter is just a private seal."

"Lin! I have checked all Ji Lin's signed calligraphy and paintings, as well as his letters with friends, but I have never seen this private seal with Lin characters."

Liu Gongzai said: "Except for this private seal, the handwriting on the contract is not the same as Ji Lin's usual handwriting. So, how can we prove that these 53 lease contracts were signed by Ji Lin?"

Du Jiuyan raised his eyebrows, listening to Liu Gongzai with great interest.

"The contract can only prove that the woman in these 53 contracts was rented out by her husband Dian and entered that other courtyard. But it does not prove that my petitioner is the renter."

"Besides, the owner of this house is not my petitioner, but a businessman. His surname is Zhang Minghuan. I have invited this person today, and I am waiting outside the court. Please send him to court. "

Qi Daiqing nodded, "Biography!"

Zhang Huan was brought up. He was about forty years old, a slightly chubby man knelt in the courtroom, and kowtowed: "Xiaomin Zhang Huan kowtows to the Lord."

"Zhang Huan, the other courtyard at the foot of the West Mountain is yours. Did you bring the deed?" Liu Gongzai asked.

Zhang Huan took out the house deed and said, "That other courtyard is indeed mine, and the house deed has always been in my hands."

Liu Gongzai took it over and showed it to everyone, "Then, do you know that there are so many women raised in that yard?"

"I know." Zhang Huan said: "These women are raised by the villain, and the villain has been sending women to them in recent years."

"Then have you ever gone in to play?" Liu Gongzai said.

"No, this house and this woman are for me to repay Ji Shizi for saving his life. He didn't agree at first, but after I pestered him several times, he reluctantly agreed." Zhang Huan kowtowed, "My lord, Xiaomin is a reckless person." Husband, I don’t know a few words, I really don’t know, voluntarily renting a wife is also against the law, the villain knows his mistake, please forgive me.”

Qi Daiqing was also taken aback, how could Ji Lin be basically innocent after Liu Gongzai said a few words to a witness?

He frowned slightly and looked down.

"Ji Lin," Liu Gongzai looked at Ji Lin, "do you know him, is what he said true?"

Ji Lin replied: "It's true, this house really belongs to him, I said at the time that no one believed me, I... I can't argue with it!"

In the back yamen, Madam Qin and Zhao Yu said, "My lord, my Ji Lin is innocent."

"Mrs. Tai, if he is innocent, I will be happier than you." Zhao Yu said, "Sit down, the lawsuit is not over yet."

Madam Qin wiped her tears excitedly and sat down.

"The house and the lease contract have nothing to do with my petitioner." Liu Gongzai said, "However, in this matter, he is not without fault. His fault lies in his poor concentration, unable to resist temptation, and Go to that yard several times.”

"Therefore, my plaintiff is innocent about the mortgage and rent. Please be clear, my lord!"

"Now let's talk about the second thing, murder!" Liu Gongzai said: "There are three skeletons outside the door, and the only ones that can be connected with the present after a long time are only three jade pestles. It is even difficult to confirm the cause of their death."

"Let's ignore these three for the time being, because Mr. Du has no evidence just now, and what he has is just the testimony of witnesses."

"Of course, in the remaining two homicide cases last year, the murders of Gao Pan, Yao Shi, and Liu Xiucai's family also relied on the testimony of witnesses."

"Then, this also means that the testimony of witnesses is very important."

Liu Gongzai was very confident, walked up to Zhang Santong, and asked: "The murder case of Liu Xiucai's family was initially handled by Yanjing, and you were designated as the murderer, right?"

Zhang Santong nodded, "But I didn't kill them with my own hands."

"Okay!" Liu Gongzai said: "Today, Yanjing re-investigated the case, and after investigating Ji Lin's whereabouts that night and the origin of the knife, changed it to Ji Lin as the murderer again, and eliminated your murder. Yeah?"

Zhang Santong should say, "That knife is indeed the master's knife."

"Master's sword is not wrong!" Liu Gongzai said: "Because people who know Ji Lin know it. This sword was a gift from An Guogong at his coming-of-age ceremony."

"The special thing about this knife is that its blade is wavy. Duke An also said that the swords in the peaceful and prosperous times were mostly used for viewing. It is not a good thing to make them too sharp."

"So, the knife is indeed Ji Lin's."

"Then," Liu Gongzai changed the subject, "As his bodyguard, can you get this knife?"

Zhang Santong's heart skipped a beat, and he looked at Du Jiuyan.

Du Jiuyan nodded with him.

"I can get it." Zhang San said: "My master often gives me the knife for safekeeping, or leaves it in my house, in his room."

Liu Gongzai nodded, "Then, how can you prove that it was not you but your master who killed Liu Xiucai's family with this knife?"

"I," Zhang Santong choked, Du Jiuyan coughed, and said, "Mr. Liu, it's up to you to provide evidence. We are all waiting."

Liu Gongzai looked at Du Jiuyan and smiled.

He came back with his hands behind his back, stood in the middle of the courtroom, and said: "That night, Zhang Santong went to have dinner with Liu Xiucai and saw him with his own eyes. According to Mr. Shen's deduction, the first scene of the murder was also at Zhang Santong's home. The murder weapon Also found under the bed in his room."

"There are so many evidences, the clues are here, Zhang Santong is clearly the murderer!"

"It has nothing to do with my petitioner." Liu Gongzai said.

After he finished speaking, Qi Daiqing glanced at Du Jiuyan and found that she was not in a hurry, but listened with interest.

This surprised him.

Is this how all litigators in the Southwest defend their lawsuits?
This Liu Gongzai is not simple, obviously well prepared and came prepared.He studied Du Jiuyan's defense method point by point, so when Du Jiuyan finished speaking, he took his time and began to refute point by point.

Now that the case is here, it is really worth seeing. Qi Daiqing is suddenly looking forward to how Du Jiuyan will argue in a while.

After each of these two people finished speaking, they gave people the feeling that the other party had no way to argue.

It is to push the opponent to a dead end.

Qi Daiqing coughed and continued to listen.

"Regarding the case of Yao Shi and Gao Pan, the murderer Lu Chao last year was brought to justice, but there is no evidence for Yao Shi's death. The most important thing that makes the case stand is the testimony of the sixteen women in the courtyard!"

Liu Gongzai said: "However, just now Zhang Santong said very clearly that there were many people in the room that night, and they took turns playing for a day, and finally Yao died."

"In that room, who were there, how did they play, and who killed Yao Shi in the end?"

Liu Gongzai turned around and questioned Du Jiuyan, "I don't think it was explained in the file, please ask Mr. Du to talk about it."

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