1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 32: Resourceful strategy (12)
One day, he beat a man named Liu Sheng again.Liu Sheng reported to the county government.It just so happened that the former county magistrate was dismissed for corruption, and the new magistrate Li Nangong accepted the case.After he found out the situation, he sent someone to arrest Hu Kun to the county government, punished him severely with 40 taels of silver, and fined him to give Liu Sheng 20 taels of silver as compensation.

After Hu Kun returned home, he was so angry that he couldn't eat for a few days.He had never been so angry, and he was determined to take revenge.

On this day, he called his confidant Shen Hui to him to discuss how to get revenge.Shen Hui has a lot of ghost ideas, but seeing his mouse eyes roll a few times, he came up with a bad idea.As soon as he told Hu Kun, a sinister smile appeared on Hu Kun's face.

A few days later, Hu Kun found fault again and beat Liu Sheng.This time, the beating was heavier than last time. Liu Sheng's body was covered with bruises and purple patches, and he was in excruciating pain.He was supported by others and went to the county government to file a complaint.

Li Nangong couldn't help being furious after hearing Liu Sheng's crying about being beaten, and ordered Hu Kun to be arrested immediately.

After a while, Hu Kun came, but he was not arrested, but carried.I saw him groaning and rolling around in pain on the stretcher.

Li Nangong stepped forward to take a look, and couldn't help being startled.I saw Hu Kun's injuries were worse than Liu Sheng's, his whole body was covered with bruises and purple patches, and there was almost no good spot.

What's going on here?Li Nangong pondered for a while, and finally came up with a solution.He walked up to Liu Sheng, touched the wound lightly, walked up to Hu Kun, touched the wound lightly, and said:

"Bold Hu Kun, doing evil today is not counted, and you still want to deceive this official, and fight me for another 40 boards."

Thus, Hu Kun received another 40 boards.After the beating, Li Nangong asked again: "I haven't really recruited it yet."

"I said, I said..." Hu Kun was afraid of being beaten again, so he had to truthfully explain the process of making the scars.

It turns out that there is a willow tree in the south. If you rub the leaves of this tree on your skin, your skin will turn blue and red, especially like the scars of being beaten.If you peel off the bark and put it on your body, and then scald the skin with fire, the same marks as stick wounds will appear.These fake scars are very similar to the real ones, and they can't be washed off even with water.That day, Shen gave Hu Kun this idea.After they wounded Willow, they hurried home and used willow leaves and bark to fake the wound.

How did Li Nangong detect Hu Kun's fake scars?
Because of the beating wounds, the blood gathered, so the wounds were hard; while the camouflaged scars were as soft as good skin.Li Nangong verified whether it was a real injury or a fake injury based on this common sense.

The land deed torn in half
Once upon a time, there was a small official named Hong Zuoren in a certain county, who was very treacherous.One day, he came to his field to check the seedlings, and found that the crops in the field next to him grew better than those in his own field.Then greedy lust burst out of his eyes, and he was determined to get the land.

One day, he found Liu Qing, the owner of the land, and said to him, "I see that your family is not prosperous, and I want to give you a good idea to save your family from official posts."

"Great, tell me quickly, what's your idea?" Liu Qing urged happily when he heard that there was a way to avoid official posts.

"Don't worry." Hong Zuoren said deliberately slowly, "This matter is easy to handle, as long as you listen to me, it will be done."

"Speak quickly, I listen to you!"

"Well, you just need to hand over the land tax to me, so you don't suffer a loss, and you don't have to pay everyone."

"It's easy to handle. I'll send you the land tax after the grain was harvested last autumn. Don't break your promise."

"Although this official's position is not very high, when is it not for the sake of the common people, you can rest assured!"

Three years later, Hong Zuoren embezzled Liu Qing's land tax for two years.However, he was not satisfied. His goal was not to just need the land tax, but to get the Liu family's land.In order to achieve this goal, he forged a land deed by virtue of his own power.After Tian Deed was written, he soaked it in tea.A day later, when he took Tian Qi out of the tea, a smirk appeared on his face.The forged land deed had turned grayish yellow, as if it had become old after several years.

After everything was ready, Hong Zuoren came to Liu's house that day, put the forged land deed in front of Liu Qing and said:
"This land deed clearly states that you sold the land to me three years ago, and from today onwards, that land is mine."

"What?" Liu Qing looked at the forged land deed after hearing this, and trembled with anger: "That land was left by my ancestors, and I have paid taxes every year until now. Can the torn paper be yours?"

"Hey, pay the tax? Who did you pay it to?"

"give it to you!"

"I Never Collected Your Taxes"

"What? You..." Only then did Liu Qing understand the real purpose of Hong Zuoren's kindness three years ago.He gritted his teeth.Pulling Hong Zuoren up will go to the county government to file a lawsuit.

"I'm going, it's clearly written in black and white, I'm afraid I won't be able to beat you!" Because of the forged land deed, Hong Zuoren spoke very hard.

On the same day, the two came to the county government office.After the county magistrate Jiang Pingsong questioned the two people, he opened the forged land deed and looked at it a few times. He saw that it was clearly written and there was nothing suspicious about it.Suddenly, Jiang Pingsong picked up the land deed, tore it in two with a "hiss", and said with a smile:
"Hong Zuoren, you forged the land deed and wanted to occupy other people's land, what should you do?"

Hong Zuoren knelt on the ground with a "plop" and shouted for injustice.

"Look at it carefully." Jiang Pingsong said, throwing the torn forged land deed in front of Hong Zuoren.

Hong Zuoren knew that the trick had been exposed, so he had to plead guilty.

How did Jiang Pingsong identify that it was a fake deed?
If the land deed has become old over time, the gaps revealed after tearing it apart should be yellow on the outside and white on the inside; but when Jiang Pingsong tore up the forged land deed, it was the same on the outside and inside, so he knew it must be a fake deed.

evidence in hand

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a prosperous inn in a certain county, and people called it "Xinglong store".On this day, a blind fortune-teller came to Xinglong's store to stay overnight.

The shopkeeper arranged him into a double room, and there was another guest in the room who was doing small business.

"My name is Wang Banxian, and I am the best at fortune-telling. Dare I ask my brother's name?" The blind fortune-teller reported his name and enthusiastically wanted to do a fortune-telling for the small businessman.

The small businessman sat up wearily and said, "My name is Liu Ren. I've traveled a little bit today and I'm really tired. I'll ask my brother for advice tomorrow." After Liu Ren finished speaking, he fell on the kang again. He fell asleep.

The next day, Liu Ren had to go on his way, so he got up early to find the shopkeeper to pay the bill.But when he touched the purse, it was empty.Immediately, he was so anxious that he repeatedly cried out.When he came, there were five pennies in his purse.At that time, copper coins were in circulation, and one thousand copper coins was a consistent amount, and five coins were quite a lot.

Wang Banxian was awakened by Liu Ren's crying, and taught Liu Ren in the tone of an elder: "Be extra careful when you go out, how can you be so careless! Just pay more attention in the future."

When Wang Banxian said this, Liu Ren suddenly saw the money bag on Wang Banxian's kang, and felt strange: My money bag was deflated, but his money bag was bulging.I remember that when he came last night, he didn't have so much money in his purse!What's going on here?I have to ask him.

"Brother, did you put money from my purse into your purse?" Liu Ren asked, looking at Wang Banxian's sunken eye sockets.

Wang Banxian's eyesight is not good, but his ears are very sharp. Before Liu Ren finished speaking, he stood up angrily: "You will lose your life if you say this, and I, a blind man, can steal your money? I've been sleeping till now, but you woke me up just now by bluffing!"

"No, you stole my money. It's okay to give it to me. If you don't pay me back, I will drag you to the county government to punish you!" Liu Ren thought that Wang Banxian would be able to pay him back the money after such a fright.But Wang Banxian said: "Go away, I won't do it if you spit blood!"

So, the two dragged each other to the county government office.

The county magistrate Shengtang asked the case, and after listening carefully to Liu Ren and Wang Banxian's respective narratives, he shook his head and said, "This case is easy to handle. Is your money marked?"

Liu Ren became anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly replied: "Master, the money is used to buy things. If you enter today and leave tomorrow, where will there be any marks?"

The county magistrate frowned, and asked Wang Banxian, "Is your money marked?"

Wang Banxian smiled and said, "My lord, his money is not marked, but mine is. It's not easy for us blind people to earn some money. How can we not be more thoughtful and let it be lost? After every few pennies I earn, Then put them back to back word by word, if you don’t believe me, all my money is threaded back to back with thread, please verify clearly.”

Wang Banxian said, and handed over the money bag.

The magistrate opened the money bag and saw that the seven copper coins inside were indeed worn word for word and back to back.He thought to himself, it seems that Liu Ren must have falsely accused Wang Banxian.Just as he was about to award the money to Wang Banxian, he suddenly saw Wang Banxian's withered and wrinkled hands, and he understood immediately.He said loudly: "Wang Banxian, you stole Liu Ren's money, and you still want to deceive me, so you stretched out your hand..."

After hearing what the magistrate said, Wang Banxian had to bow his head and plead guilty.

How did the county magistrate deduce that it was Wang Banxian who stole the money?
The magistrate thought that if Wang Banxian wore them after earning a few pennies a day, there would be no copper rust on his hands; Must leave a heavy patina.So the magistrate asked Wang Banxian to stretch out his hand to have a look, and sure enough, dark green copper rust was left on the thumb, middle finger and index finger of his right hand.The clever county magistrate thus concluded the theft case.

Fake Thunder Murder
One night in June of the tenth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, there was loud thunder and torrential rain.A large hole was blasted into the house of a resident in Xianxian County, Hebei Province. The owner, Liu Liang, was blown to pieces.The news of the lightning strike quickly spread in the city, with different opinions.But in the final analysis, what people say is nothing more than that Liu Liang or his ancestors offended Lei Shen, which is the retribution of Lei Shen's anger.

However, some people had doubts about the lightning strike and reported the matter to Li Mingcheng, the county magistrate.Li Mingcheng personally brought people to investigate the crime scene in the west of the city.Liu Liang's wife, Qi Ping, cried to Li Mingcheng about her husband's unfortunate death by lightning.After Li Mingcheng inspected the scene carefully, Qi Ping said: "People are already dead, there is no use crying. It's midsummer, so let's bury the dead earlier!"

Just as Qi Ping was about to answer, she saw Li Mingcheng staring at her, hurriedly lowered her head, and wiped away her tears again.

Seeing this, Li Mingcheng said again: "Thunder God must never be offended, maybe there will be even bigger disasters to come! I think you should worship Thor more, so as not to cause another disaster."

Hearing this, Qi Ping raised her head in fear and said, "My lord, thank you for your care. If I escape the disaster this time, I will never forget your great kindness in the future!"

"Go and fix the coffin!" Li Mingcheng told Qi Ping again.Then he left the west of the city with the yamen servants and returned to the county yamen.

In the middle of the night, Li Mingcheng was pacing in the courtyard alone, thinking: When lightning strikes people, there will be no exploding earth pits on the ground, but only burn marks.Besides, lightning strikes people from top to bottom. How could the grass and beams on the kang in the deceased's house explode upwards?And he also found that the surface of the bombed pit seemed to have been lifted from the bottom.Based on these circumstances, Li Mingcheng concluded that this was a murder case.The scene where Liu Liang was struck to death by lightning was faked.So who was the murderer who killed Liu Liang?Li Mingcheng learned that his wife Qi Ping had gone back to her natal home the night Liu Liang was killed in the bombing.Therefore, Li Mingcheng further deduced that Qi Ping was probably an accomplice.

However, Li Mingcheng did not arrest Qi Ping immediately, but decided to arrest the co-accused first.He quickly came up with a way to solve the case, and within a few days, Shi Yi, the real culprit who faked the lightning disaster and murdered people, was arrested and brought to justice.During interrogation, Shi Yi confessed.

It turned out that Shi Yi was also from Chengxi, a distant relative of Liu Liang.He is idle, bullying men and women, and doing all kinds of evil.Qi Ping is a skittish woman.The two often flirted with each other, and later hooked up.But although Liu Liang is honest, as long as he is alive, it will hinder Shi Yi and Qi Ping's friendship.Therefore, the two secretly plotted a poisonous plan and killed Liu Liang with a thunderstorm on that thunderstorm night.

How did Li Mingcheng capture Shi Yi?

Li Mingcheng knew that it was impossible to fake a thunderstorm without tens of catties of gunpowder, and to make gunpowder must be mixed with a lot of sulfur.It was midsummer at that time, and it was not a lunar year, so there were no firecrackers, so few people bought sulfur.Li Mingcheng sent his servants to check the sulfur shop, and learned that a gunpowder craftsman bought a lot of sulfur recently.Li Mingcheng sent someone to find the gunpowder maker, who said that he had created a huge thunderstorm for Shi Yi.The case was thus settled.

cow eating vegetables
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, in a small county in the south of the Yangtze River.One day, two farmers, one tall and one short, came to the county government office to file a complaint.The county magistrate promoted the case to trial and questioned them separately.

The tall farmer said: "I'm from Pingyuan Village. I planted a vegetable field behind the house, and the cows have eaten it all over the past few days. He must have released his own cows secretly, because our cows never Eat vegetables."

The short farmer said: "My cow ran into his vegetable field, but my cow never eats vegetables. Why did he hurt my cow?"

After hearing what the two farmers said, the county magistrate said, "Let's go, I'll find out when I visit your place."

Along the way, the county magistrate has already figured out a way to settle the case.After arriving in Pingyuan Village, he asked both the tall and short farmers to pull out their cattle.He saw that the tall one belonged to a yellow ox, and the one belonging to the short farmer's family was a buffalo.Afterwards, he came to the vegetable field of the tall farmer and observed it carefully. Since there were hoofprints of cattle and buffalo in the vegetable field, it was still unclear whose cattle ate it. dishes.

The county magistrate thought for a while, and asked the guards to pull two green vegetables from the vegetable field of the tall farmer's house, and handed them to the scalper's mouth. The scalper only smelled it, but did not eat it.

The tall farmer said to the short farmer: "How about it, my cows don't eat vegetables!"

The county magistrate asked the guards to put the green vegetables near the mouth of the buffalo. The buffalo also smelled it, shook his head and walked away.

The short farmer said to the tall one again: "How about it, my cows don't eat vegetables, do they?"

Buffaloes and cattle do not eat green vegetables. Could it be that other cattle eat them?The tall peasant looked at the magistrate suspiciously.The little farmer had a victorious smile on his face.The county magistrate walked around the vegetable field again, and stopped beside a cesspit, contemplating deeply.

After a while, the county magistrate said to them: "I have already found out the truth of this matter, but today is too late. I will announce the result tomorrow."

After the county magistrate finished speaking, he got on the sedan chair and returned to the city.The tall farmer and the short farmer had to be patient and go home and wait for another night.

As soon as the county magistrate returned to the city, he immediately found a strong guard and said to him, "Go to Pingyuan Village again tonight and catch the cow that stole the vegetables on the spot."

"Yes!" The guard took the order and left.

That night, as expected, a cow came to the tall farmer's vegetable field to steal vegetables, and was caught by the guards on the spot.When people heard the sound and rushed here, they found that it was the buffalo raised by the short farmer who was stealing the vegetables.

The officer reported the case to the county magistrate, who was very happy.He summoned the short farmer to the county government and punished him for compensating the tall farmer for the vegetables he lost.

Although the case was solved, people didn't understand: Why didn't the buffalo eat green vegetables during the day, but went to steal green vegetables at night?How did the county magistrate solve the case?

Anyone who has farmed and raised cattle knows that cattle like to lick and eat urine, but water buffalo like to eat clean things, so the vegetables that cattle have smelled have a foul smell, but water buffalo never eat them.That day, the county magistrate walked to the cesspit and smelled the disgusting smell of dung, and he thought that buffaloes like to eat clean food, and they don't want to eat things that smelly yellow cattle have smelled.Therefore, he decided that it might be the buffalo who stole the vegetables.They sent people to arrest them at night, and it was true.

IOU of the second year of Xuantong
Xia Chunhai is the county magistrate of Meixian County. One day, as soon as he sat in the lobby, the yamen servant handed him a complaint. He opened the complaint and saw that the accuser was Wang Fu, who accused Weng Ziming of defaulting on the debt. Attached is an IOU, which reads:

"On June 500, the second year of Xuantong, I borrowed [-] taels of silver from Wang Fu. Weng Ziming."

Xia Chunhai immediately sent someone to pass Wang Fu and Weng Ziming to the hall.He examined the two of them, and asked Wang Fu:

"Is it true that Weng Ziming borrowed 500 taels of silver and did not repay it?"

"The villain dare not lie, he did lend Weng Ziming 500 taels of silver!"

Xia Chunhai asked Weng Ziming again: "You look like a gentleman, why don't you pay back your debts?"

Weng Ziming tried his best to argue: "The villain has never borrowed money from him, please be aware of it."

"Shut up, how dare you deny it!" Xia Chunhai roared sharply, "Look, here is an IOU as proof."

Xia Chunhai brought the IOU to Weng Ziming for him to look at it carefully.Weng Ziming glanced left and right, and shouted: "I'm wronged, the villain never wrote such an IOU, it's fake!"

"Fake?" Xia Chunhai looked at Weng Ziming contemptuously, and said, "You don't cry when you see the coffin! Well, I will let you write a proof yourself. If the handwriting is the same, I see what else you can say." Yes." After Xia Chunhai finished speaking, he took the pen and paper, read a sentence by himself, and asked Weng Ziming to write a sentence.

"On June [-], the second year of Xuantong..."

After Xia Chunhai finished reading, Weng Ziming finished writing.Xia Chunhai took the written note and compared the words on the IOU, and the handwriting was exactly the same.

Weng Ziming complained incessantly to himself, feeling that it would be useless to argue any longer, so he had to admit his fault and promised to repay the owed silver immediately.

That Wang Fu standing aside was so happy that he almost burst out laughing.He laughed secretly: "Meeting such a foolish official, it's my Wang Fu who should make a fortune..."

However, Wang Fu was overjoyed. Just when Xia Chunhai was about to conclude the case, Duke Yang, the Taishi, suddenly came to the county yamen.He saw that Xia Chunhai was holding a petition and was about to pronounce a sentence, so he was about to come to file the petition, wanting to see what happened.After reading it, he raised his head and said to Xia Chunhai: "This IOU is fake!" Xia Chunhai was very surprised, and quickly asked: "How do you know this IOU is fake?"

(End of this chapter)