1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 10 Pure Thought (9)
Fact 3: b can't drive.Please confirm whether a has committed the crime of theft?
Sergeant Heidegger laughed out loud after seeing it, making Rudolph laugh inexplicably.Then, Heidegger solved the assistant's doubts in a few words.

Excuse me, how did the sheriff judge the case?

If b is innocent, then according to fact 1, a and b are guilty; if b is guilty, he must have an accomplice, because he can't drive; prove that a and c are guilty again.Therefore, the first possibility is that a and c are guilty; the second possibility is that c is innocent and a is guilty; the third possibility is that c is guilty, then according to fact 2, a is also guilty.Conclusion: a has committed the crime of theft.

A piece of silk torn in half
In the Western Han Dynasty, Xue Xuan, the magistrate of Linhuai County, was famous for his ability to solve suspicious cases.One day, Xue Xuan was reading in his study when he suddenly heard someone making noise outside.Just when he was wondering, a yamen servant ran in and reported:

"My lord, two people came outside, scrambling for a piece of silk, saying that they want to ask your lord for a clear decision."

When Xue Xuan heard that someone was coming to sue, he immediately put down the books in his hand and came to the lobby.He saw two people standing in the lobby, one was a middle-aged man about 40 years old, and the other was a young man in his 20s.

"My lord. He robbed my silk, please be clear!"

"My lord, my silk was robbed by him, I hope my lord will make the decision!"

The two said arguing.

"What are you arguing about, tell them one by one!" Xue Xuan pointed to the young man and said, "Say it first, and tell the truth."

The young man blinked his eyes a few times and said, "Today, I was carrying a bundle of silk to go to the county town to go to the market. Unexpectedly, it started to rain on the way. I saw that there was no shelter from the rain, so I had to put the silk on my body and continue walking. Just after walking a short distance, a man came up from behind me. I asked him to use this piece of silk to cover the rain with me. We rushed to the city in this way. At this time, the rain stopped. I folded the silk and was about to I went to the fair, but this heartless person grabbed me and insisted that the piece of silk belonged to him. My lord, do you see that there are such people in the world who repay kindness with resentment, I hope you can make the decision for the common people."

After listening to the young man's narration, Xue Xuan turned his head to ask the middle-aged man, but saw that he was trembling with anger and his face was flushed.Xue Xuan frowned, and asked: "This time, it's your turn to speak, let's speak!"

The middle-aged man snorted and said, "He's finished talking, what else should I say? But what he said has to be listened to, bah, heartless!"

"Don't get angry, the truth can't be fake, and the fake one can't be true. I have never wronged a good person or let a bad person go. It must be fair!" Xue Xuan held the piece of silk in front of his eyes and looked at it. He praised: "This is really a good piece of silk, but there is no way. For the sake of reason, one person has to take half." After finishing speaking, Xue Xuan tore the piece of silk in half, and then threw it at the feet of the two silk contenders: " Take your silk and go!"

The middle-aged man is not willing to give up, just about to complain, but Xue Xuan flung his sleeves and retreated.Several yamen servants drove the two silk contenders out of the county yamen.

After the two people fighting for silk left, Xue Xuan came to the backyard, called a yamen servant, and told him to follow the two of them quietly immediately and play by ear.

After a while, the yamen servants brought the young man back, and at the first trial, the young man truthfully confessed the truth of the matter.

It turned out that the middle-aged man was the owner of the silk, and the young man was the one who snatched the silk.

How did Xue Xuan catch the silk snatcher?

After Xue Yi broke the silk to each of the two people, he asked the yamen servant to follow and listen to what they had to say.He infers that according to normal logic, the owner of the silk will scold the judge if he suffers a loss; The young man was so angry that he scolded Xue Xuan.The yamen servant who followed them heard this, and immediately arrested the young man as Xue Xuan ordered.

rat poop mystery
One day, Sun Liang, the emperor of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, led a dozen courtiers to the West Garden of Wu Palace to escape the summer heat.Xiyuan is a very beautiful and quiet place. The stone-paved tree-lined path leads directly to the rockery. At the foot of the mountain, there is a winding and clear stream. The flowers are red, the trees are green, and the pavilions and pavilions are refreshing.

Sun Liang happily came to a fruit tree.All kinds of fruit trees are full of fruits, such as yellow apricots, fluffy peaches, and greengages that can quench thirst with just a "look".

"Pick some green plums for me." Sun Liang said to his courtiers.

An old lady heard that Sun Liang wanted to eat green plums, so she hurried over to pick some green plums, washed them and held them in front of Sun Liang.

Sun Liang took a bite of the greengage, frowning so sourly that he spit it out again in a hurry: "It's too sour! This thing is really unpalatable!"

"Long Live!" the old eunuch said courteously, "The greengage is indeed very sour, but if you dip it in some honey, it will be much better, and the taste must be delicious."

"Is that so?"

"You might as well try it. I'll fetch honey for you, little one!"

"go quickly!"

The old eunuch came to the imperial warehouse with a silver bowl in his hand, and told the official in charge of the warehouse, Long Live God wants to eat green plums dipped in honey.After hearing this, the treasurer hurriedly opened the warehouse door, took out a honey bucket, poured out a bowl full of honey, and asked the old eunuch to send it back.

The old eunuch held the honey bowl in front of Sun Liang.However, when Sun Liang opened the lid of the bowl and was about to dip the greengage in honey, he found a piece of rat droppings stuck to the honey.This is not bad!Sun Liang was furious immediately, and asked sharply:
"What's the matter with this rat shit?"

The old eunuch hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Long live Qizuo, the mouse feces in the honey must be caused by the negligence of the treasury staff and poor management. Please punish me severely."

"Go and send me the treasurer immediately!"

"According to the order!"

Soon, the old eunuch brought the treasurer to Sun Liang.

Sun Liang angrily said to the treasury official, "Are you guilty? Look at what's in this bowl of honey?"

The treasury official saw that the emperor was angry, and he had already scared away half of the soul, but when he saw that there was a grain of rat droppings in the honey, the remaining half of the soul was also scared away, and kept kowtow: "The villain is guilty, damn it, Damn it!"

Sun Liang looked at the treasury official coldly and said, "I ordered you to be in charge of the inner treasury of the palace. This is the greatest trust in you. But you can't do your duty, and mouse feces fell into the honey bucket. What should you do?"

"Your Majesty, you are wronged!" The treasury official hurriedly shouted, "That honey bucket has always been covered!"

"You still dare to make unreasonable words. Let me ask you, since the honey bucket has been covered all the time, how do you explain the fact that rat feces fell into it?"

"This..." The treasury official was stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it, he said, "I don't dare to lie, please ask your majesty to send someone to check."

Sun Liang was right when he thought about it, why didn't he send someone to fetch the honey bucket for inspection on the spot, and said, "Bring me the honey bucket immediately!"

The old lady listened in and said that she turned around and was about to leave, but Sun Liang called her back: "Let someone else go this time!"

The two little eunuchs immediately went to the warehouse and brought the honey bucket.

Sun Liang saw that the honey bucket was tightly covered, and rat feces would never fall into it.Sun Liang knew the truth, and asked the treasury official:

"Do you have any enemies in this palace?"

"No."

"Not one?"

"No." After the treasurer finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something and said, "There is a person who once asked me for something, but I didn't give it to him. Will he bear a grudge against me?"

"Who?"

"That's him!" The treasury official pointed to the old eunuch and said, "A few days ago, this father-in-law asked me for a seat, but I didn't give it."

"So that's what happened!" Sun Liang said angrily to the old eunuch, "Just because of such a trivial matter, he framed others, and he is still not guilty!"

"Long live!" The old eunuch shouted hastily, "The treasury official is lying, you can't believe his side of the story!"

"I will find out who is lying." Soon, Sun Liang figured out the truth based on the rat shit.

It turned out that the old eunuch had a grudge against the treasury official and wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge.Coincidentally, Sun Liang ordered him to fetch honey, so he took the opportunity to put a grain of rat droppings in the honey bowl in an attempt to frame the treasury official and punish him.

How did Sun Liang determine that it was the old eunuch who put the rat feces into the honey bowl?
Sun Liang thought, if the rat feces were originally in the honey bucket, it would be logical that the inside and outside should be wet; if it was just put in, the rat feces should be wet on the outside and dry on the inside.After he had someone crush the rat feces, it was indeed wet on the outside and dry on the inside.

who is the real thief
In the former Qin Dynasty, He Rong served as the governor of Jizhou.In the evening of this day, He Rong had just finished reviewing a bunch of documents when suddenly there was a commotion outside the door.

After a while, several yamen servants brought in a group of people.A leading yamen servant reported to He Rong: "My lord, just now an old woman was robbed by a thief on the road. As soon as the thief ran away, the old woman started shouting to catch the thief. A passerby heard the sound and chased her In the past, a person was caught. But this person refused to admit that he was a thief, but said that the passer-by who was chasing him was a thief. Since it was late and the old woman's eyesight was not good, she couldn't tell who was good and who was good. They are bad people. Now everyone has arrested these two people and sent them to the Yamen, please make a decision."

After listening to the yamen servant's introduction, He Rong looked at the group of people in the lobby and asked:
"Who is the passer-by?"

"I am" a man in a blue coat replied, taking a step forward.

"Then let me ask you, who is that person you are chasing?"

"It's him." The man pointed to a man wearing a double-breasted black coat and said, "It's him. He is the thief who robbed the old woman!"

He Rong looked at the man and asked, "Did you rob the old lady?"

"My lord, this is wronged, I am a good person!"

"So, they are wrong to accuse you!" He Rong asked suspiciously.

"It's just wrong!"

"You said you were a good man, and he said he was a good man. Now I want to test which of you two is telling the truth, so now I order you two to run from the gate of Fuya to Fengyang gate together to see which of you Can run first."

The two of them didn't know what He Rong meant, so they came to the door and ran towards Fengyang Gate.

After a while, the two returned to the lobby under the leadership of the yamen servant.A yamen servant stepped forward and said: "My lord, this man in a black jacket with double breasts ran to Fengyangmen late."

"He is the real thief, take him down immediately!" He Rong slapped the gavel and shouted loudly.

"Big... big... man! I run slowly, why am I a thief?"

He Rong said something on the spot.The man honestly confessed his guilt.

He Rong said: "If you run fast, how can you be caught by passers-by!

princess treasure

During the Tang Dynasty, Empress Wu Zetian rewarded Princess Taiping with many treasures, including two food boxes, worth several thousand taels of gold.The princess was very happy, so she ordered the treasure to be hidden in the warehouse of the princess mansion.But no one thought that at the end of the year, all the treasures were found to have been stolen by thieves.The princess immediately reported it to Wu Zetian. Empress Wu was furious, and immediately summoned the governor of Luozhou, "If you don't catch the thief within three days, I will ask you to die!" Said: "If you don't catch the thief within two days, you can't live!" After the officials in charge of catching the thieves in the two counties returned to the county, they immediately said to the officials in charge of catching the thieves: "The thieves must be caught within one day. , If you can’t catch them, I’ll kill you first!” The officials were terrified, but they couldn’t find a way to solve the case.

Coincidentally, they met Su Wuming, the master of the prefect of Huzhou on the road that day, and since they knew that he was very capable, they invited him to the county.When the county captain heard that Su Wuming was coming, he quickly asked him how to catch the thief.Su Wuming said: "I request to go to the palace with you to meet His Majesty, we can talk about it at that time." The county lieutenant agreed to his request, and they immediately entered the palace.Su Wuming said to Wu Zetian: "Please don't set a date, and I will dispatch all the officials in charge of arresting thieves in the two counties. Within two months, I promise to catch these thieves for Your Majesty." Wu Zetian had long known that Su Wuming was handling the case. There is a set, so I agreed.

Su Wuming knew that it would not be too late for the officials and soldiers to postpone the matter of catching the thief until next month.So let the officials and soldiers go home first to do their own things.Everyone went back puzzled.On the day of the Cold Food Festival in March, Su Wuming summoned all the officials and soldiers, and said: "You are waiting at the gates of each city. Anyone who sees a group of more than a dozen Hu people leaving the city in filial piety to go to Beiman Mountain , just keep up, see what they are doing, and then come and report to me."

The officials and soldiers waited separately at the gates of each city. Sure enough, when they found such a group of people leaving the city, they followed behind to observe.After seeing their activities clearly, they rushed back to the city and reported to Su Wuming, saying: "The barbarians went to a new grave to pay homage. Although they wept, they were not sad. After taking down the sacrifices, they walked around the grave and looked at it. They even smiled at each other from time to time." After hearing this, Su Wuming commanded the officers and soldiers to arrest the group of barbarians, dug up the grave, and split open the coffin, to see that it was filled with all kinds of treasures.

Wu Zetian couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard the news of solving the case, and immediately rewarded Su Wuming with a lot of gold, silver, and silk, and also increased his official rank by two levels.

How did Su Wuming solve this case?
It turned out that the day Su Wuming arrived in the capital, he ran into this group of barbarians "going for a funeral".They were not sad at the funeral, and some even secretly laughed, and there were no women or children in the funeral procession. Su Wuming felt that the funeral of this group of barbarians was extremely unreasonable, so he guessed that they were not good people, they might be thieves, but he didn't know them. A place to bury stolen goods.It is estimated that they will have to go out of the city when the cold food festival is tomb-sweeping.So, as long as you follow them and find the tomb, you can come and get all the stolen goods.

sweet water and bitter water

In the Song Dynasty, there were two water alleys in Bianliang City, the water in one alley was sweet, and the water in the other alley was bitter.People are willing to drink the water in Tianshui Lane, so Tianshui Lane is managed very cleanly.The water in Kushui Lane is only used for washing and watering vegetables.

One night, a residential house in Bianliang City suddenly caught fire.

Bao Gong, who had just taken office as the prefect of Kaifeng, immediately led the servants to the scene of the fire after hearing the news, and organized the people to fight the fire.

Many ordinary people in the city also came from all around to put out the fire with buckets and basins in their hands.Among the crowd, a thin monkey-like person asked: "Would you like sweet water or bitter water?
"That's needless to say, let's pick the bitter water!" The person who answered was a black-faced man.

After hearing the questions and answers of the thin monkey and the black-faced man, the firefighters rushed towards Kushui Lane with a "huh".It was terrible, Kushui Lane was suddenly blocked by people, and the water bearers couldn't get in or out.

Seeing this, Bao Gong was shocked, and hurriedly called the head of the police to him, and ordered him:
"Go and tell the common people, just say it's my order, and let them choose the bitter water and the sweet water together!"

"Bitter water and sweet water together?" The head of the police looked at Bao Gong suspiciously.

"Hurry up and deliver the order!" Bao Gong suddenly remembered something, and said softly, "Catch me those two people who asked questions and answered questions just now."

"What are you arresting them for?" The leader of the police was even more puzzled.

"Hurry up!" Bao Gong stared angrily.

The leader of the arresters had to lead a few arresters, and they conveyed Baogong's order to let the common people choose the bitterness and sweetness together.Soon, the flow of people in Kushui Lane was cleared, and the fire was extinguished.The leader of the police team dragged the thin monkey and the black-faced man out of the firefighting crowd, and brought them to Bao Gong.

Bao Gong asked sharply: "The thief who set fire boldly, is he still innocent?"

"Plop", the thin monkey and the black-faced man knelt on the ground, begging for mercy.

After another interrogation, the two admitted that they set the fire.It turned out that since Bao Gong became the governor of Kaifeng, the rascals in the city did not dare to do anything wrong, and the law and order in the city improved greatly.The thin monkey and the black-faced man colluded with some mischievous villains and wanted to punish Baogong.They thought about it, and finally came up with a poisonous plan to set fire to the houses.Make trouble under the eyes of the real dragon emperor in Bianliang City, so that the emperor will be angry and dismiss Bao Gong as an official.In this way, they can do whatever they want in Bianliang City.However, Bao Gong lived up to his reputation and judged cases like a god. He immediately saw through their tricks and arrested them for execution.

How did Bao Gong deduce that the thin monkey and the black-faced man were the arsonists?

Baogong thought to himself, fighting a fire is like saving a life, how can we divide the bitter water from the sweet water?Although the person who asked the question was very suspicious, it did not mean that he was a bad person, because some stupid people might ask such a question.But when the respondent affirmed that he wanted to pick the bitter water, the problem became obvious.The fact is just like this, people flock to Kushui Lane, unable to get in and out, where can they fight the fire?Therefore, Bao Gong guessed that this must be a premeditated trap by the speaker.After the interrogation, it was true.

Taste the Sweet Potatoes

In the Song Dynasty, there were only two peasant families in Guashan Village, one surnamed Li and the other surnamed Wang. They lived in harmony and shared a piece of land and lived a peaceful life.

Suddenly one day, the two families had a dispute over the land boundary.It turned out that this year they planted sweet potatoes in their fields, so that they couldn't distinguish the boundaries of the land.

"I remember that at noon in the sun, the shadow of the treetops was pointing at the boundary." The surname Li stood beside the tree shadow and said angrily.

"I didn't notice that. But last year I planted corn, and you planted tobacco. This corn stubble can only be found in a corn field. You can still recognize it as corn stubble, right?" Showing weakness, he threw the corn stubble to Li's feet, and asked sarcastically.

"That's not enough. You see, I can also find the stubble in the field over there." After finishing speaking, the surnamed Li stepped over a few steps, bent down and pawed in the field for a while, and found a cigarette stubble. stubble.

"Don't tear your face and forget the old love!"

"Don't be ungrateful and entrap your friends!"

In this way, the conflict between the Li family and the Wang family became more and more serious, and finally they came to the government together to find Bao Gong, who is as honest and honest as the god of judging cases, for comment.

In court, Bao Gong heard the case.After questioning, Bao Gong found that neither the Li family nor the Wang family could produce reliable evidence about the land boundary.How can this civil case be handled fairly?Baogong thought for a moment and asked, "Why were you able to distinguish boundaries in the past?"

The person surnamed Li and the person surnamed Wang replied almost simultaneously: "We have never grown the same thing before."

"Have you ever grown the same thing?" Hearing this, Bao Gong's eyes lit up, and he asked Li, "What did you grow in your field last year?"

"I grew tobacco last year."

Bao Gong turned to Wang and asked, "What did you plant in your field last year?"

"I planted corn."

"Oh, it's easy to handle." Bao Gong immediately asked them to lead the way, saying that he would go to the field to find out the boundaries.

The one surnamed Li and the one surnamed Wang came to the field with Bao Gong inexplicably.Baogong asked people to dig out a sweet potato from each of the five disputed ridges of Li Wang's family and put them on the head of the ridge, and then said: "You wash and taste the five sweet potatoes in order, and it will be clear. You have to understand each other in the future, and friendship is the most important thing!"

After Bao Gong finished speaking, he rode back home.The one surnamed Li and the one surnamed Wang acted according to Bao Gong's words, and the land boundary was indeed separated, and the two families have reconciled since then.

what on earth is this kind of happenings?
(End of this chapter)