Placid Chang'an

At first, Su Cen felt that sorting out the case was a very boring thing, but after a few days of copying it, she could get a glimpse of the mystery.All of these piles are broken by the wisdom of the ancestors, and the subtleties reveal the truth. The truth is often covered with a cloak of lies, and someone will take off that cloak, and the truth will be revealed.

During the reign of Wude, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the criminal and prison regulations were not perfect. Fortunately, the whole country was busy restoring the country and rectifying the rivers and mountains that had been drifting in the wind and rain for many years, but there were no major cases.In the reign of Yonglong, Emperor Taizong Li Yu conquered the Datong, and punished a large number of elders of the previous dynasty at the beginning of his ascension.At that time, there were rumors that Li Yu's throne came in a wrong way. Emperor Taizu originally intended to pass the throne to the gentle prince. However, when Emperor Taizu was critically ill, the prince suddenly fell ill and even died before Emperor Taizu. After receiving the news, he didn't come up in one breath and went directly to Longyu Bintian.It is rumored that Li Yu, who was the king of Yu at that time, imprisoned all the members of the royal family in the Sanqing Palace. When they came out, Li Yu had already ascended the throne.

Such a big commotion is naturally unavoidable, but Li Yu is not an ordinary person. In the early days of Yonglong, prisons flourished, and many people were sentenced to death because of an inappropriate sentence. The good ministers died, and some became official. Only the veteran minister of the four dynasties survived to this day.

Although Emperor Taizong was ruthless, he was also a majestic and powerful emperor through the ages. He has been in power for 23 years.Although there were countless massacres during his reign, a large number of talents who could help the country and the country emerged.

Chen Guanglu, the former Minister of Dali Temple, was one of them.

During the reign of Yonglong, the large-scale criminal prisons also gradually improved the laws and regulations. Chen Guanglu, who was the Shaoqing of Dali Temple at that time, presided over the compilation of the "Great Zhou Law", which was regarded as the standard for later generations. On the basis of the previous dynasty, he abolished, revised, Establishment is a reference standard for sentencing, and it has truly achieved "the punishment of the world is light and the world is heavy, but it is not equal, and there is morality and respect."

During Chen Guanglu's reign, he handled more than one hundred cases. He saw that he knew the details clearly, and he did not have a single unjust, false or wrong case. Later generations compiled his deeds into the "Chen's Criminal Law".

Su Cen was copying a case about a ghost baby in Yonglong's 18th year, "the deceased's face was swollen, his eyeballs protruded, the tip of his tongue protruded, his chest and abdomen were swollen, and the fetus was born after death, and the dead baby was squeezed out for the purpose of choking", while tsk tsk I admire that Mr. Chen is really powerful. Some people committed crimes under the name of Guiying. Mr. Chen insisted on opening the coffin for an autopsy one month after the death. In midsummer, the corpse was highly decomposed. Mr. Chen personally lowered the coffin and pointed to the green corpse fluid People explain the origin of dead babies.

Su Cen was concentrating on the rotten smell in the room, and suddenly someone pushed the door open, and the sun hit him head-on, but Su Cen was startled.

Raising his head, he saw clearly that it was the young grandson from the front office. The supervisor was carrying tea and water to run errands in the front office, and rarely came to the back hall.

"what happened?"

Xiao Sun gasped: "Master Song asked you to go to the front office."

"Me?" Su Cen frowned. Song Jiancheng was a fifth-rank temple official, his immediate boss, and he didn't wait to see him since the first day he entered the temple. Maybe he got some people's instructions. Only then did he send him to the apse to sort out the files.

"Hurry up, the previous case is under trial."

Su Cen frowned and closed the booklet, then got up unhurriedly, and followed Xiao Sun to the front office.

When we got to the front, we saw a woman kneeling in front of the hall, with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes. There was another woman lying beside her, covered in blood. She seemed to be out of breath.

Su Cen hadn't figured out why he was called for this murder case, but Song Jiancheng yelled in the hall: "Kneel down!"

Su Cen was taken aback, and glanced at the menacing yamen guards holding killing sticks on both sides, thinking that a good man would not suffer the loss in front of him, and knelt down resentfully.

Song Jiancheng then asked, "Do you recognize this woman?"

Su Cen looked aside. Although the woman's makeup was messy, she could see that there was some charm in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, and there were bloodstains on her belt. Seeing him looking over, she grinned at him: "I am Mrs. Zhuangyuan. "

Su Cen: "..."

The woman lowered her head before, but he didn't see that there was still some problem with this person's mind.

Su Cen: "I don't know her."

Song Jiancheng slapped the gavel, "She kept saying she was your wife, so what can you argue?"

Su Cen asked back, "Have you checked out this person's identity and background?"

Song Jiancheng was taken aback for a moment, only to see the people kneeling in the hall looking at him without squinting, their eyes were as clear as a crescent moon, and they said in a straight voice: "If I guessed correctly, this woman should be a girl from Hongxiaofang. The same day I ran away with the person who went to Beijing to rush for the exam, but was sent back and was severely beaten. At that time, I went crazy and kept saying that I was the wife of the number one scholar. Said," with a final smile, "This story has been spread all over the streets and alleys, teahouses and restaurants, your lord doesn't know?"

Song Jiancheng had no face at the time. He originally planned to call people up to kill his temper, but he didn't expect that stealing chickens would not make a fortune.

Song Jiancheng cleared his throat unnaturally, and said, "Of course these officials know, but they just asked you to come over to assist in the investigation."

"Oh?" Su Cen raised her eyebrows, "Then can I get up?"

Song Jiancheng could only wave his hands.

After Su Cen got up, she didn't intend to leave. She cupped her hands respectfully, "Since I'm assisting in the investigation, can I have a look at the corpse?"

Song Jiancheng gritted his teeth in his mouth, and in the end he could only swallow the blood, turning a blind eye to Su Cen, and told the clerk beside him, "Go on."

Su Cen didn't care either, and squatted down to look at the corpse.

The scribe on the side read: "The deceased Lu Liang, a Huzhou native, 28 years old, was a Juren in the eight years of Tianshou, and he came to Beijing this time to participate in this year's general examination. On the eighth day of April—that is, he died last night in the alley behind Hongxiaofang in Dongshi, and was found this morning, with the girl Xiuniang from Hongxiaofang beside him."

Su Cen carefully examined the corpse while listening. Jingyang County is only a hundred miles away from Chang'an City, and it is considered an important place in the capital. More than ten days have passed since the end of the announcement of the list, and those who have positions have already gone to take up their posts. I don't know why Lu Liang is still staying in Beijing.

Su Cen stood up after the injury examination, "The mouth and eyes of the corpse were open, the hands were loose, and the mouth smelled of alcohol. There were numerous stab wounds all over the body, but none of them were fatal. There was a stab wound on the right side of the neck, three minutes deep and two inches long. Blood vessels are for fatal wounds, the knife edge is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, deep at the top and shallow at the bottom."

The scribe looked at the autopsy records made by Wu below, and there was no difference.

Su Cen then walked up to the embroiderer, and squatted down: "What did you see last night?"

The demented woman raised her head in a daze, stared at Su Cen for a while, then suddenly screamed and jumped up, "It's a ghost, it's an evil ghost! The evil ghost has killed! The evil ghost has killed!"

Su Cen: "..."

"Presumptuous!" Song Jiancheng yelled in the hall, and immediately a yamen servant stepped forward and pressed Xiu Niang to the ground, who still shouted that the evil spirit had killed someone, shrank himself into a ball shyly.

Su Cen frowned, walked to the front of the hall and bowed his hands to Song Jiancheng, "I'd like to borrow a teacup from your lord." Before Song Jiancheng could respond, Su Cen had already picked up Song Jiancheng's teacup and walked up to the embroiderer, handing it over, "Don't I'm afraid, this is a yamen, there are no evil spirits, drink saliva to calm the shock."

Xiu Niang shrank and looked at him, and finally took it carefully, and grinned at him: "I am the wife of the champion."

"This crazy woman must have gone mad and killed someone. There's no need to interrogate her. Let's put it down." Song Jiancheng frowned and waved his hands. Everyone is happy if the crime is blamed on her.

"She didn't kill people." Su Cen suddenly stood up and said.

"What?!" Song Jiancheng was about to leave the hall, but was interrupted by Su Cen, with an expression of eating a fly.

"She didn't kill people." Su Cen said again, pointing at Xiu Niang, "Judging from the blood stains on her clothes, she was being crushed by Lu Liang when Lu Liang was attacked, that's why there is such a chest-length scarf. There are splatter-type bloodstains and then only dipped bloodstains."

"Even if she is suppressed, she can still kill!"

"Being crushed can kill people," Su Cen smiled, "but the fatal wound is on the right side of the neck. She can only have such a wound if she is left-handed, and I have experienced it just now—"

Everyone followed Su Cen to look back, and saw Xiu Niang smiling at everyone with a teacup in her right hand.

"The wound is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, deep at the top and shallow at the bottom. It is obvious that the wound was pierced from the front of the neck first and then pulled back. If the person who is under pressure commits an attack," Su Cen clenched his fist in a gesture, "For convenience, the force must be directed towards the wound." Pulling it in her own direction can also prove that she didn't kill the person. And is there someone who will kill someone and wait for you to catch it? She is crazy and cannot defend herself, but you can't let you judge the deer as a horse!"

Song Jiancheng was smacked in public, his complexion turned black, he stared at Su Cen fiercely and said, "She didn't kill the man, so who do you think the murderer is?"

Su Cen looked back at Xiu Niang, "I'm afraid only she knows who the murderer is."

"Put him in prison for one night first, and see if we can ask anything." Su Cen returned the empty teacup, and walked to the back hall on his own, leaving everyone in the hall to look at a mad woman.