1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 31: Resourceful strategy (11)
Thinking of this, Wang Meng couldn't help picking up the IOUs on several cases and looked at them carefully.

Watching and watching, Wang Meng suddenly understood, he slapped the gavel, and shouted: "Bold Yu Alu, how dare you forge evidence to deceive this official, and even want to defraud people of money, and you don't actually recruit them, lest your flesh and blood be killed?" suffer."

Yu Alu still wanted to quibble, but after Wang Meng revealed the flaws in the IOU, he collapsed all of a sudden.

How did Wang Meng see that there was something wrong with the IOU?

Before the early years of Yongzheng, the word "Qiu" was only used as a place name, and "Qiu" was used in all surnames instead of "Qiu".In the early years of Yongzheng, in order to avoid the taboo of Confucius (Qiu), "Qiu" as a surname was changed to "Qiu".The time written on the IOU is the 55th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, "Qiu" could not be written as "Qiu".Therefore, Wang Meng, the magistrate of the county, affirmed that the IOU was written later, that is, after "Qiu" was changed to "Qiu".

A jar of red dates

There was a merchant who had accumulated a lot of money.One day, he was going out to do business, and there was no one else at home, so he assumed that a jar of silver was red dates, sealed it up and entrusted his neighbors to keep it, saying that he would be back soon.

But when the businessman left, he didn't come back for three years.One day the neighbor opened the jar and saw all the silver, so he took it all out and took it for himself.

Soon, the businessman came back, and the neighbor filled the jar with red dates, sealed it as it was, and returned it to the businessman.The merchant opened it and saw that the silver had turned into red dates, so he asked, "Where is the silver in the jar?"

The neighbor replied: "When you gave it to me, you said it was red dates. Where did you get the money?"

The two couldn't explain clearly, they didn't understand the reason, and they quarreled, so they came to the county government office together.

The county magistrate asked the neighbor, and the neighbor said, "When he handed the jar to me, he said it was red dates, not silver at all."

The county magistrate looked carefully at a jar of red dates, slapped the table, and asked the neighbors to hand over the money immediately, otherwise they would be severely punished.

At this time, the neighbor yelled that he was wronged and denied getting the money.So the county magistrate spoke the truth, leaving the neighbors speechless, so they had to bow their heads and plead guilty.

How did the magistrate decide?
The county magistrate said: "The businessman has been away for three years, and the red dates have long since dried up and become rotten. Now the red dates are fresh and intact, obviously they were put in."

scapegoat blind man

One day, a blind middle-aged man came to the county government office and surrendered, saying that he accidentally beat his elderly father to death because of anger, and asked the county magistrate Hu to punish him.After hearing this, the county magistrate Hu led the yamen servants to investigate the scene together.

When I arrived at the blind man's house, I saw an old white-haired man lying in a pool of blood facing the loess.During the autopsy by County Magistrate Hu, it was found that there were three wounds on the back of the deceased's head, and these wounds were regularly arranged separately. Naturally, the old man could not withstand the fatal attacks from three different parts.When County Magistrate Hu saw all this, he said to the blind man, "If you kill someone, you will pay for the crime. You will never come back after you go. Who is there at home? Ask him to come and bid you farewell!"

The blind man's face was gloomy, and after a while, he whispered: "There is still a son in the family." The magistrate Hu sent someone to summon his son.

The son came and stood timidly beside his blind father, looking at his father for a while, looking at the people for a while, and glancing at his grandfather lying in a pool of blood from time to time, wringing his hands together.At this moment, County Magistrate Hu said loudly: "You father and son, tell me what you have to say, today is the last chance."

After hearing this, the son grabbed his father's hand, bowed his head and began to sob, and the father also cried and said to his son, "Son, you must be a good person in the future. As long as you live a good life in the future, there is nothing to worry about when your father goes away. Don't Miss me, I'm blind, and I'm not worth missing." After saying that, the blind man turned his face away.The son looked sad and flustered.County magistrate Hu ordered his son to retreat.

After a while, County Magistrate Hu told the blind man to step back and passed the son up.The county magistrate Hu turned pale, and shouted loudly: "Your father confessed everything just now. You beat your grandfather to death, and you want him to make up for the crime. Do you know what the crime should be? Hurry up and confess!" The son Kneeling down on the ground with a "plop", he said tremblingly, "I did beat my grandfather to death, but it was his own idea that my father surrendered to the police. It has nothing to do with me. Please forgive me, my lord!"

It turned out that there were four people in his family, and he also had an uncle. Because the elder son was blind, the old man often favored the younger son.This grandson has a grudge in his heart.One day, when the grandfather was alone at home, the grandson picked up a stone and smashed the grandfather to death.When my father came back and saw this situation, he couldn't help being frightened. In order to keep this root, he came up with this idea of ​​scapegoating.

How did magistrate Hu know that his son was the murderer?
The father is blind, and if he beats someone in anger, he usually hits him indiscriminately; while the three wounds of the grandfather are arranged neatly, which is obviously done by a discerning person;

father and son

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Zhong Ruoxu served as the county magistrate of Yuyao.He sat in the government hall all day long, opened the door to hear lawsuits, and did not rest until midnight.Regardless of the size of the matter, if there is a grievance, you can sue.Once indicted, right and wrong will be judged immediately, and there will never be a backlog of cases.

One evening, a middle-aged man came to accuse his son of being unfilial.Zhong Ruoxu immediately ascended to the court, interrogated, and learned that both generations of father and son were cobblers.According to the father's complaint, the son did not keep his duty, the family was often short of rice and firewood, and he wandered too much. If he was taught a lesson, he would become even more lawless.Zhong Ruoxu heard the reason, and said slowly: "Have you father and son had dinner?" Both father and son replied: "No." So Zhong Ruoxu ordered each of them to give 200 Wen, and said with concern : "Take it, and the trial will be heard after dinner." So both father and son went out.

At the second watch of the night, Zhongzhi County suddenly announced that the trial would continue.Zhongzhi County first called his father to the hall and asked: "Father, how much do you spend 200 Wen?" , you only eat one bowl of rice, why only 30 cash left?” The middle-aged man kowtowed and said, “I have an old problem that cannot be cured for a long time. I have to take a puff of opium after a meal. " Then Zhongzhi County sent his son to the court again, and asked: "How much did you use for 30 Wen?" The son replied: "I only used 1 Wen, and I still have 200 Wen." Why do you have to be so frugal?" The son replied very calmly; "The meal is enough to fill the stomach, and since you are full, you don't need to spend money."

After questioning his son, Zhong Ruoxu understood everything, so he said to his father: "I have already investigated the reason why you father and son came to the lawsuit. Your son is just a cobbler who is busy all day long, which is not enough Supply your needs, so you sue him for not keeping his duty. Now you should be punished for the crime of lying, but you are punishing your father in front of your son. Your son will not bear it, and I will not bear it. You Go back immediately, properly handle the relationship between father and son, and try to be a good common people." Hearing this passage, the father was so moved that he hugged his son and wept, kowtowed and thanked him and left.

Then why did Zhongzhi County conclude that his father falsely accused his son?

Zhong Ruoxu took out 200 Wen and asked the father and son to go out to eat, which was to test the normal life style of the father and son.If they spend a lot of silver for meals, it means that they live a wasteful life; if they spend less money for meals, it means that they live frugally.How much money the father and son spent, one can know whether the accusation is correct or not.

evidence on the scythe
One day, a young farmer from Xiping Village walked into the mountains carrying two buckets.Because there was no rain for many days and the fields lacked water, he thought of connecting two buckets of mountain spring water to the newly discovered spring.

As he was walking, he suddenly found a person lying on the edge of the mountain road not far ahead.Looking closer, he couldn't help screaming, turned around and ran back.It turned out that he saw that the head of the man on the ground had been chopped off.

The case was quickly reported to the government, and County Magistrate Hu personally brought several yamen servants to the scene of the crime.County magistrate Hu found that this place was very secluded and a place where robbers often haunted, so he guessed that the robbers were probably murdering for money.However, when he finished checking the clothes of the deceased, he found something was wrong.Because all the clothes of the deceased were there, and he was carrying 30 taels of silver.

"If it was done by robbers, how can we keep the money?" Magistrate Hu thought as he continued to examine the wounds on the deceased.When he found more than a dozen scythe wounds on the deceased, he understood in his heart: "This is a vendetta."

County magistrate Hu called the deceased's wife to him and asked, "Who did your husband have the deepest grudge with during his lifetime?"

The wife of the deceased cried like a tearful person, and for a moment she didn't know how to answer the question of County Magistrate Hu.

"Don't worry, think about it carefully, didn't your husband have any grudges with anyone before his death?" County Magistrate Hu asked calmly again.

The deceased's wife wiped away her tears and replied: "My husband has never quarreled with anyone, and he has no enemies."

"Think about it again, could it be because of other reasons?" County magistrate Hu still hoped that the victim's wife could provide some valuable information to solve the case.

The wife of the deceased thought for a moment, then shook her head.

"Okay, it's okay if you can't figure it out, I have my own way to find out the facts of the case!" County Magistrate Hu said and was about to leave.At this moment, the wife of the deceased suddenly remembered something and said:

"My lord, I remembered. A few days ago, my husband asked Wu Mingzi from the village to settle the bill. He didn't bring any money. My husband asked him to pay back the money he owed within a certain period of time."

"Oh, Wu Mingzi." The county magistrate Hu secretly memorized the man's name, and then ordered the yamen servant: "Go to the village and pass on my message, and let every household send their sickles here immediately. If someone is found hiding, once found out, he will be punished as a murderer!"

The yamen servant went to the village to gather the people together, and read out the order of the county magistrate Hu.No one in the village dared to disobey, and they all came to the scene of the crime with their own sickles.

Seventy or eighty sickles lined up on the ground for a long time.County magistrate Hu was not in a hurry to examine, and after waiting for a while, he approached the sickles and looked at them one by one.Suddenly, he pointed to a sickle and asked:

"Whose scythe is this?"

"My lord, it's mine."

"What's your name?"

"The villain's name is Wu Mingzi."

"Take down this murderer with me!"

"It's wrong, my lord!"

No matter how much Wu Mingzi cried out for injustice, several yamen servants rushed forward and tied him tightly.

At this time, County Magistrate Hu said coldly: "Tell him to look at the sickle and see if he still complains?"

The two yamen servants pushed Wu Mingzi in front of the scythe. After he saw it, he really stopped complaining and told the truth about the murder.

On what basis did magistrate Hu determine that Wu Mingzi was the murderer?
Because the bloody smell on Wu Mingzi's sickle that killed people attracted flies.County magistrate Hu concluded the murder case based on this.

evidence at mealtime
One day, the old man Zhang Sheng and his daughter Yinfeng came to the Bailian River to cast a net for fishing.The old man Zhang Sheng was so happy that he collected a net full of fish just now, and Yinfeng's beautiful face also smiled into a lotus flower.

Suddenly, a vicious voice came from the front: "Get out of the way, get out of the way, I have already occupied this place."

The old man Zhang Sheng and Yin Feng looked up and saw a large fishing boat in front of them, and the man who had just shouted was standing on the bow.There are a few villains standing behind him.The old man Zhang Sheng knew this man. He was a villain from a neighboring village, named Liu Daxing, who often committed crimes on the river.

The old man Zhang Sheng said angrily: "Liu Daxing, everyone said that you have changed from evil to good, so why did you come to dominate the river again?"

At this time, Liu Daxing also recognized the old man Zhang Sheng, so he rolled his eyes and said, "I'm not being overbearing. I chose this place last night. If you don't believe me, ask them."

"That's right, we all agreed to go fishing here last night." The people behind Liu Daxing echoed.

"Hmph, seeing that you're still young, I'll let you go this time!" The old man Zhang Sheng turned his head to greet Yinfeng: "Go, let's not have the same knowledge as him!"

"Wait!" Liu Daxing stretched out his hand, and said eccentrically, "It's not okay to go this way, you have to keep the fish!"

"What? You..." Zhang Sheng was too angry to speak.

"What's the fire? If you hadn't brought these fish up, they would have entered my cabin long ago." Liu Daxing said and waved his hand: "Come closer, fill me with fish!"

The big ship quickly approached the small boat.The old man Zhang Sheng has a stubborn temper. Seeing that they were about to board the boat to snatch fish, he held the oar with both hands horizontally, stood on the bow of the boat and said, "Liu Daxing, I wanted to forgive you this time, but you made an inch of it. Now you leave here It's not too late, if not..."

"Damn, who are you afraid of, sir? I think you don't want to live anymore!" Liu Daxing said, pulled out a waist knife from his body, raised it, and chopped at the old man Zhang Sheng.

The old man Zhang Sheng blocked the knife with a big scull.Liu Daxing was not willing to give up, he called out, and all his subordinates rushed up and surrounded the old man Zhang Sheng.Taking advantage of the old man Zhang Sheng's inattention, Liu Daxing chopped off the old man with a knife. The old man Zhang Sheng let out an "ouch" and was chopped down on the boat.

Yinfeng saw her father being chopped down.Rushing forward desperately.Liu Daxing didn't dodge, and took the opportunity to hug Yinfeng.

"Hahaha, this water duck is really wild. You know, you have never seen a girl like your grandpa Liu! Haha..."

Yinfeng trembled with hatred and bit Liu Daxing's arm.

"Ouch!" Liu Daxing wailed and let go.

Yinfeng took the opportunity to jump to the bow.

At this time, more than a dozen fishing boats surrounded him not far away. Seeing that something was wrong, Liu Daxing ran away in a hurry.

After hearing Yinfeng's cry, the fishermen persuaded Yinfeng to go to the yamen to sue Liu Daxing. Yinfeng wiped away her tears, and accompanied by fellow villagers, she carried the old man Zhang Sheng's body to the county yamen to beat drums and sue.

After hearing Yinfeng's complaint, the county magistrate began to inspect the body, and seeing that the fatal wound of the old man Zhang Sheng was on his right rib, he immediately ordered the yamen servant to summon Liu Daxing and others to the hall.

"Did you kill the old man Zhang Sheng?" the county magistrate asked.

"Responding to my lord's words, the villain has changed from evil to good, so how could he do such a murderous thing? You must not trust that little girl's words!" Liu Daxing said, looking flatteringly at the county magistrate.

"No. We all saw that you led people to commit crimes." A young fisherman stepped forward and said.

"Yes, we all saw it." All the fishermen testified in unison.

The county magistrate looked at Liu Daxing and asked, "What's going on here?"

"I..." Liu Daxing rolled his eyes twice, and said again: "Old man Zhang Sheng was killed by people on my ship, but not me." After finishing speaking, he stared closely at his subordinates .

The county magistrate thought about it.Then he asked the fishermen, "Who did you see kill the old man Zhang Sheng?"

All the fishermen look at me and I look at you, but no one can answer.

"You didn't see it, so how can I stop? Go down and wait." The county magistrate sat on a chair and closed his eyes to rest his mind after speaking.

After an unknown amount of time, the county magistrate opened his eyes and said to the yamen servant, "Bring some food and share it with them!"

After a while, the guards shared the rice with them.

After eating, the county magistrate called Liu Daxing out and said to him, "This county magistrate has found out that the murderer is you!"

In the face of strong evidence, Liu Daxing had to bow his head and plead guilty.

How did the county magistrate determine the murderer?
When the county magistrate inspected the wound of the deceased, he found that the fatal wound was on the right rib, so he knew that the murderer must be left-handed.So the county magistrate asked them to eat, and found that several of Liu Daxing's men held chopsticks with their right hands, but only Liu Daxing used their left.Therefore, it is concluded that Liu Daxing is the murderer.

head evidence

One day, a farmer named Qi Yeqiang was walking on a dirt road in the country under the scorching sun.When he came to a fork in the road, he took off the towel around his head and wiped the sweat off his face.He only felt very thirsty, so he subconsciously licked his chapped lips, thinking, how nice it would be if he had some water to drink!
At this time, a young monk happened to catch up from behind.

Qi Yeqiang saw a water hyacinth hanging from the young monk's waist, and begged, "Little master, I'm too thirsty after walking, can I give you some water?"

This little monk is kind-hearted.Seeing that it was a passer-by begging for water, he quickly took off the water hyacinth from his waist, handed it over and said, "Drink, let's go on our way when we are full."

After Qi Yeqiang heard this, he hurriedly took the water hyacinth and drank it "gulu gulu".In a blink of an eye, he drank up a gourd of water.After drinking the water, Qi Yeqiang wiped off the drops of water from the corner of his mouth, and seemed to regain his spirits all of a sudden: "That's great, what a joy!"

The little monk hung an empty water hyacinth on his waist, and was about to continue on his way, but was stopped by Qi Yeqiang.Qi Ye forced a smile on his face and asked, "Little master, what are you doing here?"

The little monk replied: "I have been a monk for three years, and I have just been recognized by the government and issued a diploma (that is, a diploma). I am going to Jiangning County for alms."

Hearing the little monk's words, Qi Yeqiang rolled his eyes, and suddenly came up with a vicious idea.He thought, farming is too hard, why not become a monk, kill this little monk, pretend to be him and go to Jiangning County for alms, wouldn't it be fun!Therefore, Qi Yeqiang smiled and said to the young monk: "I am also going to Jiangning County, let's go together!"

The little monk was very happy to hear that, and the two went on the road together.However, before he had gone far, Qi Yeqiang took advantage of the young monk's unguardedness, drew out his hatchet, and hacked the young monk to death.Qi also forcibly took the young monk's certificate, and when passing by a village, he asked someone to shave his head and pretended to be a monk.

Qi Yeqiang went all the way for alms, and unknowingly came to Jiangning County.On this day, he came to the county government office, handed over the certificate to the magistrate Zhang Yong, and applied for a certificate to beg for alms in Jiangning County.Zhang Yong looked at the paper too much, and just as he was about to get a visa, his eyes suddenly stopped on Qi Yeqiang's head.

"How many years have you been a monk?"

"A full 10 years."

At this time, Zhang Yong yelled: "Well, you murderer, you have thrown yourself into a trap! Come here, tie him up for me!"

Qi Yeqiang was tied up by the yamen servants and put on death row.

How did Zhang Yong deduce that Qi Yeqiang was the murderer?
Zhang Yong had received a report a long time ago, saying that a young monk had been killed by someone on the side of the road.Coincidentally, not a few days later, Qi Yeqiang came here for alms.Zhang Yong checked the document and found nothing suspicious, but found that there were traces of a turban on Qi Yeqiang's head.Monks never wear headscarves.Zhang Yong recognized the murderer in this way.

County Magistrate
Once upon a time, there was a villain named Hu Kun who often caused troubles without incident, fighting and doing evil, even the county magistrate didn't dare to control him.

(End of this chapter)