Black Lotus Concubine's Case-solving Notes

"Four members of the Wang family in Shicheng were killed last night, and the entire Wang family was buried in the sea of ​​fire. I heard that you were fostered in the Wang family when you were a baby, and today is exactly thirteen years. You were also at home on the day of the crime, so why are you the only one alive?"

The woman in the hall remained silent, her eyes dull.

The gavel rose and the judge shouted, "Xie Lanzhao, if you don't want to tell me, I will tell you. You are the daughter of the prime minister's family. Because your horoscope is incompatible with your mother's, you were sent to live in the countryside. The Wang family treated you harshly and tortured you. You wanted revenge, so you set the fire and even didn't let go of the Wang family's daughter-in-law who was seven months pregnant. Am I right?"

Feng Jia's dry lips finally moved. She slowly raised her eyes and what caught her eye was the prefect in red official uniform. Two rows of yamen runners were lined up in a row, looking stern and majestic. Behind them were onlookers pointing at her. However, the voices and movements of those people began to slow down and become lighter at this moment, and time seemed to be infinitely stretched at this moment.

A voice suddenly appeared in my mind.

[Congratulations to the host for binding the card drawing system. 】

【The memory related to the case has been unlocked. 】

[Dead Wang family, thirteen years ago you were sent to Shicheng Wang family by Xie family, where you were treated harshly. Yesterday, villagers found a fire at Wang family, and four members of Wang family died. Only you were found unconscious by a pond not far away, and you are a major suspect in this case.]

[Main mission: Solve the case, current progress 0%]

[Survival time: three hours]

[Complete the task within three hours to get a reward, otherwise you will die. ]

[The countdown begins... Please solve the case as soon as possible! ]

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Is she really reborn?

She was also reincarnated as the concubine's daughter of the enemy Xie family, her former cousin?

"You entered this government office. I took into consideration your young age and therefore did not use severe punishment. But you are so ignorant! Now that the evidence is irrefutable, you cannot deny it! Come, punish her!"

Feng Jia felt someone push her from behind, and when she looked again, the prison officers who rushed over had already pressed her to the ground. Feng Jia woke up instantly.

"you dare!"

This earth-shattering sound not only stunned the prison officer who came up to execute the sentence, but even the prefect was stunned: "What did you say?"

"I said you dare!" Feng Jia struggled to get up. Perhaps because his words were too weighty, the prison officers looked at each other and did not dare to stop him.

Feng Jia stood up and said slowly, "According to Article 130 of the Dali Law, those under the age of fifteen cannot be punished. But the prefect wants to torture me in public. Are you trying to force me to confess? Shicheng is far away from the capital, not under the feet of the emperor. How dare you do this!"

"This..." The prefect hesitated and looked at the blue-robed lawyer beside him, "...Is there such a provision in the Dali Law?"

The lawyer flipped through the law and said, "Indeed, there is this article..."

The prefect said: "I didn't expect that you are so familiar with the law at such a young age."

More than being familiar with it, she followed her father to the Dali Temple to handle cases when she was a child. The Dali Law was the creed of her life, and she had copied it countless times over thousands of days and nights.

Feng Jia sarcastically said, "I didn't expect that the prefect was not familiar with the Dali Law at all!"

"You!" The prefect's face turned pale, but due to her status as a concubine of the Xie family, she still endured and said, "In that case, I will not torture you! Come, arrest this criminal!"

"This case has not been concluded yet, and I have not pleaded guilty. What reason does the prefect have to detain me?"

"You are the only one who could have committed the crime! The evidence is irrefutable!" The prefect pounded the table vigorously, "How dare you quibble!"

Feng Jia said, "The prefect said I committed a crime, so I have a few questions for you. First, the confession said that the four members of the Wang family had swallowed poison before they were burned to death, and poison residue was found in the family's food. It was arsenic, and the amount of poison was astonishing. Since I gave such a large dose of poison, this family was obviously doomed to die, so why did I go to such lengths to set the fire?"

The prefect snorted coldly: "You are afraid that the poison may slip through the food! It would be better to burn it all up!"

Feng Jia did not answer and continued, "Second, the confession said that the Wang family caught fire at noon today. Let me ask you, if I wanted to set the fire, why did I choose to do it in the daytime? Wouldn't it be better if I chose to do it at night when the neighbors were asleep? Setting the fire in the daytime seems to let everyone know."

"This..." The prefect was stumped by the question. This is also a major doubt in this case.

"Third, if I was really the murderer, why didn't I run away? I fainted by the small pond not far from the Wang residence and was caught by the soldiers who came over. Did I fall into their trap?"

"This, this, this..." The prefect was unable to answer and could only say, "Perhaps you committed such a crime and were terrified. You were so panicked that you tripped over a stone on the road and fell asleep, and happened to meet the investigating officers and soldiers..."

Feng Jia did not argue, as she already had some confidence in the case.

"One last point," Feng Jia said, "since the prefect said that I poisoned the victim first and then set the fire, where did the arsenic come from? The herbal medicine shop must have records of such a large dose of arsenic. If you want to force a confession from me, you might as well start with the poison."

"You don't need to say anything! I sent people to investigate various pharmacies when the case happened," the prefect looked at the sky and said, "by this time, they should be back soon... Then we'll see what you have to say!"

Soon, the yamen runner led an old man in plain clothes into the court. The old man was timid, his legs trembling, and before the prefect could ask any questions, he knelt down beside Feng Jia with a thud, knocking his head against his head.

"My Lord, the Prefect! My Lord! I am Du Chunsheng, the manager of Du's Herbal Medicine Shop! I...I didn't know that the medicine was used to kill people! It was because the buyer said it was used to kill rats that I dared to sell it to him! I really didn't know that it was used to kill people! If I had known, I would not have dared to sell it even if I had ten times the courage!"

The prefect slammed the gavel and said, "Let me ask you, to whom did you sell this poison?"

"It's the Wang family from the west end of the village..."

"Okay, okay," the prefect finally raised his eyebrows, "Xie Lanzhao, we have the witnesses and evidence, you can't deny it anymore!"

Feng Jia's face remained calm as she said, "Sir, he only said he would sell it to the Wang family. Although I was raised in the Wang family, he didn't say he would definitely sell it to me."

"This is ridiculous! If he doesn't sell it to you, then he is selling it to a dead person in the Wang family!" The lawyer on the side couldn't stand it anymore and said.

"I think this Manager Du was indeed sold to a dead person," Feng Jia said in a calm but intimidating voice, "He was sold to the son of the Wang family, Wang Da."

These words shocked everyone, and even the noisy onlookers fell silent.

Du Chunsheng kowtowed even louder at this time: "My Lord, the Prefect! Just as this young lady said, it was Wang Da who bought a large dose of arsenic from me. Wang Da is a hunter! He told me that there were a lot of plague rats in the mountains these days, and he bought it to kill the rats. I didn't doubt it! So I sold it to him! My Lord, you are very insightful!"

What! It turned out that it was Wang Da who bought the medicine!

Was this medicine bought by a dead person?

Could it be that this family was so depressed that they committed suicide?

Everyone was talking about it, and the prefect was overwhelmed. The evidence was clear, but suddenly the case turned around and became confusing. He slammed the table in annoyance: "Silence! Silence! Du Chunsheng, you said it was Wang Da who bought the medicine, can you...can you see it clearly? I see that you are old, are your eyes blurry and you saw it wrong?"

"Your Excellency! I am sure it was Wang Da. I remember clearly that he bought such a large dose. On March 12, three days ago, he went to our pharmacy to get the medicine. The shop assistants saw it!"

This case was a difficult one. The prefect refused to believe that this poisoning was actually a suicide.

"I heard that although the Wang family is not wealthy, Wang Da is a hunter and has saved some money over the years. Did he encounter some desperate situation that forced him to poison his entire family and then commit suicide?" The prefect thought about it and couldn't figure it out, so he said, "Or did Wang Da just want to commit suicide at first, but you, Xie Lanzhao, found out, so you took advantage of the situation and put the poison into the food of the other Wang family members?"

"What are the grounds for you to insist that I am the murderer? Is it just because I am the only survivor of this case?" Feng Jia looked directly at the prefect, his face was silent and calm, and his voice was slow but firm, "But if I say that there is more than one survivor in this case, Wang Da... is still alive?"

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【ding dong】

[Congratulations to the host for solving the case, the current progress is 30%]

[You discovered that you are not the only survivor in this case. Wang Da, the son of the Wang family, is still alive. Where did Wang Da go? Who is the extra body? Who is the murderer? Please solve the case as soon as possible. ]

[Survival countdown: two hours. ]