Everyone returned to the lobby of the Criminal Department and continued to interrogate the case. As the truth was revealed step by step, the three young masters could no longer laugh. They knelt down in a dignified manner, with layers of sweat on their foreheads.

Shen Qin continued.

"I found a small pit near the outer wall that looked like a ladder, and some messy footprints around the inner wall. I made rubbings of these footprints for comparison."

Li Yi retorted, "With so many people coming and going at the crime scene, how do you know those footprints are those of the murderer?"

Shen Qin replied,

"Since they climbed over the wall with a ladder and jumped off, the footprints left when jumping from a high altitude must be deeper than the ordinary footprints on the ground. In addition, I also found that the door bolts showed signs of violent damage, which is consistent with what Zhang Tian said , which is consistent with the situation that they climbed into the courtyard and kicked in the door."

Li Yi bit the bullet and continued to compete.

"But you said these can only be used as supporting evidence, not direct evidence!"

Shen Qin said calmly and calmly.

"If the murderer was a kid from a rich family, he probably wouldn't have carried the ladder all this way. They must have borrowed it from the neighbor's house next to him. I asked Zhang Tian's neighbors one by one. Although they did not dare to speak due to the murderer's power, , but finally asked, Zhang Tian’s neighbor Lin Er lost a long ladder that night, and now I am applying for Lin Er to come to court to testify!”

Zhang Tian's neighbors had been threatened and intimidated, and they did not dare to tell the truth. Fortunately, Lin Er was very poor, so they relaxed after promising to give money to testify.

The Shaoqing of Dali Temple shouted,

"Declarator Lin Er comes to court to testify!"

After a while, an old man over fifty years old came up and knelt down in front of King Xi.

Lin Er looked a little nervous and said while grabbing his clothes.

"Lao Chan is very lucky. When the fire broke out, Lao Chan evacuated in time and was not burned. Lao Chan's yard is a fence wall. Not long ago, someone else's pig dug a big hole in it. There was no money to repair it, so he put a hole in the yard. The wooden ladder and some sundries. On the night of the incident, Lao Chan saw three people swaggering into the yard and stole Lao Chan's ladder from the window. Lao Chan was alone at the time. He was a little scared and didn't dare to ask them back directly. So I followed them quietly, and finally found that the three of them climbed into Zhang Tian's house using a ladder. When the old man saw that they were gone, he took the opportunity to take the ladder back."

The young minister of Dali Temple asked,

"Then can you see their true faces?"

Lin Er replied,

"It was getting late at that time, so I didn't see their true faces clearly, but judging from their clothes, they must be rich people. I also heard their conversation, which was full of filthy words. One of them spoke the loudest, and the others went to His name is Brother Wang, and there is another one named Brother Liu."

This is completely consistent with Zhang Tian's description.

Li Yi looked at Shen Qin and continued to criticize.

"Then how can you prove that what he said is true?"

Shen Qin smiled lightly.

"I still have physical evidence. Fortunately, although Lin Er's house was burned down, the ladder was placed in a place surrounded by dirt and was not burned down."

As he spoke, Si Cheng had already sent someone to bring in the wooden ladder.

As Shen Qin said, although the wooden ladder was blackened by smoke, it was not burned.

Shen Qin took out another scroll from the bag and unfolded it with both hands.

There are two irregular circular patterns painted on the scroll.

"This is a rubbing made by me based on the two small pits outside the wall."

He then aligned the pattern on the paper with the base of the ladder and said.

"As you can see, both the width and size are completely consistent, indicating that this ladder is the ladder used by the murderer at the time of the crime!"

If this was true, everyone was in an uproar.

In the face of such irrefutable evidence, Li Yi had to admit it, but he still questioned it unyieldingly.

"Well, even if a murderer really breaks in and rapes and kills Liang Jing, we cannot conclude that these three young masters are the murderers just based on Zhang Tian's witness statement, because Zhang Tian himself is suspected of committing the crime. "

When Li Jinghui heard this, he hurriedly defended,

"What an injustice! I have never been to Zhang Tian's house, let alone met Liang Jing. I was resting at home when the crime occurred. The whole family can testify."

Shen Qin sneered disapprovingly.

"Never seen it? You have to ask the clothing store owner."

Li Jinghui suddenly panicked and his face turned pale. The other two young masters were not much better either. Facing such a powerful "guppet", their teeth were trembling with fear.

Soon, the owner of the clothing store came to court and testified, proving that he saw Li Jinghui molesting a beautiful woman in his store that day, and Zhang Tian came to the rescue.

Li Yi's face became increasingly ugly, but he still held on.

"Even so, it doesn't prove that Li Jinghui committed the crime."

Shen Qin said lightly,

"Although I don't have any physical evidence that he has been to the crime scene, I do have someone else's. Please bring those white boots to Si Cheng!"

Si Cheng took out a pair of white boots from a cloth bag. One of the white boots had two white cloth patches sewn on it.

The boots were finely made, embroidered with cloud patterns, and made of precious silk, but the white patch was just burlap, which looked very incongruous.

When Liu Yu, the son of the minister of the Ministry of Industry, saw these boots, his face changed.

Shen Qin explained,

"According to the description of the three people who came to the minister's house to pretend to claim Zhang Tian, ​​the masked men who hired them were wearing ordinary burlap clothes, but they were wearing a pair of very conspicuous embroidered white silk boots. The boots looked like It is an expensive item, but it has patches sewn on it, which is a bit contradictory, so they were very impressed. I ask you to allow those three people to come to the court and identify these boots."

After getting approval, Shen Qin asked the woman and two men who pretended to be Zhang Tian to come up and identify the boots. They insisted that they were the boots they saw that day.

Li Yunxi stared at the white boots and smiled.

"It's so ugly to have such a patch on such a good pair of boots, I can't even look down on it."

Shen Qin understood, "I will take them down right now."

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