Rebirth: Don't Be the Best

After hearing the confessions of the two of them, the county magistrate asked, "Is the food you ate in the morning still there? Let's test it."

The second aunt replied, "Also, there are a lot of things left today, you can send someone to fetch them."

After the county magistrate sent someone there, Ding Si continued, "Everything we ate is in my brother's stomach, this..."

He looked embarrassed, feeling a little lucky.

"Needless to say, the post-mortem is enough." The magistrate of the county said it was nothing. The previous court published a famous work and wrote a book about his experience. This book was regarded as a treasure by all the works. , to solve the case more quickly.

"This..." Ding Si was in a hurry. He was about to say something when the magistrate gave him a look, and he lowered his head.

The yamen servants carried Sancunding's body to Wu Zuo's place. Since the autopsy could not be so fast, the county magistrate said, "Put the plaintiff and the defendant in prison first, and try again when the results come out tomorrow."

When Zhang Shu and the others arrived, there was no one in the courtroom.

After they inquired about the news, they rushed to the prison without stopping, and spent money to go in to see the second aunt.

The second aunt sat in the prison, surrounded by female prisoners, and none of them were particularly old. As soon as the second aunt entered, she chatted with them, and finally found that these women were not vicious people, but because they were persecuted. Only when there is no way to resist, the method is a little more violent than others.

When Zhang Shu and the others came in, they saw the second aunt sitting in the crowd and talking, telling these poor women about her life experience and other things.

The second aunt smiled when she saw them, as if she was not in a prison, but visiting someone else's house.Seeing the things they carried in their hands, they said, "It's fine when people come. Why do you still use things? My old lady is sitting upright, and she is not afraid of them at all. When the results come out tomorrow, I can go back. I don't have to waste things. "

Zhang Shu felt a little guilty, "Second Aunt, you should have told me at that time, I am the owner of Zhang's small shop."

"What do you mean, is the second aunt Ganqing like this? We manage the things in the store with our own hands. How can we be affectionate when we are making money, and turn our faces and deny people immediately when something happens?"

The second aunt still had that aggressive look, and she didn't show any timidity when she spoke.

Zhang Shu didn't know what to say, and the others didn't mean to blame him.But the things they brought still had to be put in. The clerk opened the cell door, and Wu Yang, his wife, and Wu Hai went in to help her make her bed and tidy up her things. Even if it was only for one day, it couldn't be casual. Where is the cell?It's dirty and damp, if you just sleep here for one night, you will definitely get sick the next day.

The second uncle and the eldest uncle didn't know about it yet, and they went back to the village to collect firewood.Looking at everyone's appearance, Zhang Shu felt a little uncomfortable. He didn't know why such a thing happened, and it was logically impossible.However, the Qing is self-clearing, and they will be fine when the results come out tomorrow.

After leaving the cell, Zhang Shu and others returned to Zhang's small shop. Even if they can prove their innocence, the business of the small shop will not be very good in the future.

"You tell me this matter completely, and it's best not to miss any details." Zhang Shu always felt a little strange.

Wu Jiang and Wu Hai were a little depressed. They looked at each other and said, "Those two guests came together, because they ordered everything, so we are very impressed with them."

"The tall man is very picky about eating. He rummages through everything before eating, but he doesn't eat most of it, and gives it to the short man to eat."

"We didn't notice the dwarf when he came to pay the bill, and we didn't realize he had fallen until everyone yelled."

"Yes, at that time the tall one ran over in a hurry, hugged him and started crying, saying that he was dead, and we didn't know he was dead."

"Then my mother stood up, and the man insisted that he wanted to find someone surnamed Zhang."

Wu Jiang and Wu Hai talked a lot, and Zhang Shu really found a few things that were not normal.

First, when everyone treats food, they usually pick it up with chopsticks to have a look. Why does he use his hands to pick it up?He also gave another person to eat the one he had been playing with for a long time.

Second, when he saw the man fall down, he hugged him and cried that he was dead. How could he be so sure that he was dead?What if he just passed out?

Third, this person is afraid that he is coming for him.Generally, there is someone in charge in a shop, who cares whether you are the boss or the shopkeeper, but this person must find someone surnamed Zhang, either he has a grudge against him, or someone sent him to frame him.

However, the short man is really dead, the cost of this harm is a bit high, right?

Zhang Shu expressed all his doubts, and others also felt that this matter was really strange.

When I went to the hall the next day, the work and the corpse also stopped in the middle of the hall.

After everyone arrived, the county magistrate asked Wu Zuo to explain the results of yesterday's autopsy.

Wu Zuo saluted, and then said, "Yesterday, the villain inspected and found no obvious wounds on the deceased's body. It can be seen that the deceased was not injured by external force, nor did he have any symptoms of illness, indicating that he did not die due to a sudden illness. So the villain and his apprentice opened up the stomach of the deceased again, and found that the food in his stomach was the same as what was presented yesterday, it was all food from Zhang’s small shop, and there was nothing else.”

Ding Siyi was excited when he heard this, and immediately shouted, "My lord, did you hear that? My brother didn't eat anything, but ate something from Zhang's shop. He must have been killed by the Zhang's shop!"

"Silence!" The county magistrate disliked people rushing to talk. "Is there anything in the food that can kill people? Did you check the food provided by Zhang's shop yesterday?"

Wu Zuo shook his head, "The villain used silver needles to test the poison, and there was no toxin. However, it seems that some tonic medicines were found in the stomach of the deceased, but Zhang's family did not."

They were hustlers, and their noses were usually very sensitive. When checking the contents of the deceased's stomach, he suddenly smelled astragalus, angelica, and some medicine.These are all tonics. After he discovered this, he went to check the nasal cavity and skull of the deceased, and found blood stasis inside, which is a symptom of tonics.

People generally think that tonics are very good, but there is a certain type of people, when tonics are in their mouths, it is almost like a drug.

After eating dried plums, Sancunding has had diarrhea for two days in a row, and his whole body is about to collapse, and his feet are also very soft.At this time, he suddenly ate a great tonic, one can imagine how powerful it was to him.

But Wu Zuo didn't know about his situation before his death, so he only mentioned a little bit, and didn't say any more.

The magistrate of the county didn't think there was anything wrong with the tonic. From this point of view, maybe the food from Zhang's shop really ruined him, but why are other people okay after eating it?

Ding Si knelt down and saw the magistrate's expression was loose, so he said, "Master County, it must be something from Zhang's shop that killed my poor brother, please give us justice!"

"Master County, that doesn't prove that this is a problem in our store! How could it be possible to eat it alone?" The second aunt also yelled.

"It's just my brother's bad luck, he happened to have unclean food, how else would you say how he died?" Ding Si immediately retorted upon hearing this.

Seeing his triumphant and confident expression, Zhang Shu stood directly in the hall and shouted, "Master! The villain has something to say!"

The magistrate nodded and asked someone to open the fence to let him in.

Zhang Shu said, "My lord, when the incident happened that day, the villain had a few questions. When I went back and thought about it carefully, the villain felt that the deceased should be killed by this person!"

The county magistrate was surprised, "Who are you?" The deceased showed no signs of man-made murder, and he insisted that it was this man who killed him.

"The villain's name is Zhang Shu, and he is the owner of Zhang's small shop. Knowing that something happened in the shop, the villain hurried over yesterday and asked the store clerk what happened. There were still many people present yesterday. If we lie If so, please fellow villagers point it out.”

"Speak out about your doubts."

"First, the two of them went to eat at the same time. They ordered a portion of all the food in my store, but nine out of ten were eaten by the deceased. This person didn't eat, but touched every kind of food with his hands. I just handed it to the deceased after playing it carefully, I want to know why he did this?"

Ding Si sneered and laughed, "I said earlier that I had a stomach upset that day, so I ate less. As for the jokes you said, that's even more nonsense. I just picked it up to see what your things are doing. It's not clean, and it can be linked to my poisoning, why should I kill my brother?"

Zhang Shu glanced at him, his expression unchanged, "Second question, when the deceased fell to the ground, did you rush to hold him and cry bitterly?"

Ding Si said impatiently, "That's for sure, why not? Stand by and watch?"

Zhang Shu smiled slightly, then suddenly closed his eyes, and fell to the side.

All the people present were frightened by him, and the magistrate was also frightened, so he hurriedly sent someone to check on his situation.Wu Zuo ran over in a hurry, stretched out his hand to check his breathing, and then heaved a sigh of relief, "Master, the man is not dead."

The magistrate sat back in his seat, and then Zhang Shu also opened his eyes and got up from the ground.

"You disturb the court like this! This judge can punish you!"

"Excuse me, the magistrate. I want to ask everyone to take a look at the first reaction of others after the person falls to the ground."

Zhang Shu bowed to the county magistrate and said.

The magistrate of the county linked his words with the previous question. Seeing Ding Si's expression was a bit intriguing, and the others gradually reacted, and the discussion gradually became louder.

"Yeah, how does he know that the person is dead?"

"If you don't even try it, there must be ghosts!"

"Silence!" The magistrate patted the gavel again, and then asked Ding Si who was kneeling on the ground, "How are you sure your brother is dead?"

Ding Si was speechless, "I... I saw his pale face... and I knew he was dead."

"Generally, only when you are very sure that people will die will you try or not try. Moreover, he kept saying that they are brothers." Zhang Shu cupped his hands at the county magistrate again, "Minister county, I still want to know whether these two are brothers. , They have no similarities in appearance, I wonder if they can show us their household registration certificates."

The imperial court encouraged business, and on the basis of the previous dynasty, it abolished the provision that guides must be issued wherever they went, but generally speaking, they would have a household registration certificate of their hometown.

If you don't have this, you can also apply for it again, but you must have three people who have local household registration certificates as guarantees for you before you can make it up.

Naturally, the two of them couldn't get it out.

Ding Si's expression became fierce, "You said so much just to clear yourself of the crime! Instead of questioning the suspect, you persecuted the sufferer. Isn't it because you are a local and have a good relationship with the county magistrate! I don’t want to sue, just treat my brother as dead in vain!”

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the magistrate of the county naturally couldn't do anything to him, otherwise it would be exactly what he said about a local.

The scene fell into a stalemate for a while, no matter what the county magistrate said, he said that the government and business colluded, even if the county magistrate said that he wanted to serve him, he was not afraid at all, but it made others feel that he still had a bit of blood, that kind of straight temper man.

Going forward, the magistrate of the county will definitely let people do it directly. You don't have to be polite to such troublesome people, but the imperial envoy is about to patrol here. This time, the imperial envoy has a lot of background. When a person goes out and talks nonsense, he is either right or wrong.

At this moment, the sound of drumming came from the hall again, and the magistrate frowned, asking people to bring him up.

The clerk ran out to take a look, and then ran in very frightened, "My... my lord, he told you to go out."

The magistrate was angry when he heard it, and then seemed to remember something, immediately straightened his clothes, and strode out of the main hall.

Beside the big drum in front of the county yamen, a pale man was beating the big drum again and again with his mouth tightly pressed.

Next to him was a man who looked handsome, but there was a hidden brilliance in his eyes.Behind him were two men who looked like guards, dressed in strong clothes, holding swords in their hands and saying nothing.

The county magistrate wanted to kneel down, but was stopped, and he said with trepidation, "I didn't know that His Royal Highness the King of Cheng was here, but the official was far away to welcome me, and I deserve death."

"Those who don't know are not guilty. However, there is one thing that you need to investigate carefully. This person is called Ji Yuanshan. A few days ago, he came to the county to do business. When passing by the river, he encountered water bandits and almost died. Fortunately, he met my boat. I heard from the water bandits that he has already done five or six cases, and he only picks out single guests. Why, you didn’t know about this?”

The county magistrate immediately confessed, "I really don't know that there are such vicious and vicious water bandits in our county, and there are no sufferers who come to report the case. The officials are confused."

Generally, it is common for people who do business to go home late. Who would have thought that something happened to him?

"Then now that someone has come to report the case, let's deal with it." Cheng Wang said.

"Here, this officer is handling another case..."

"It's okay, let's deal with it together."

When they were talking outside, Ding Si inside knelt on the ground with a proud expression on his face. His life was given by his boss, and he would fuck whoever the boss asked him to do, even if he died, he would have no complaints.He thought that the county magistrate would torture him when he was angry, but he didn't expect that he didn't dare at all. Anyway, as long as he insisted that they colluded with officials and businessmen, it would be fine!

The people waiting inside saw that the county magistrate had gone out for a while and then came back. There was an extra chair in the hall, and they all looked at the man sitting in the hall curiously, not knowing who he was.

Zhang Shu stared at the man above, he always felt that he looked familiar, who is it?If you haven't seen it in this life, then you have seen it in your previous life, but there is only a faint sense of familiarity.King Cheng felt the probing eyes, so he looked over expressionlessly, and Zhang Shu bowed his head quickly.

When Ji Yuanshan was brought up, everyone was puzzled. They didn't know why there was an extra plaintiff. After he presented the case, everyone's expressions were a little strange. Why was there still a case?So which case are they looking at?

"...The person the villain wants to sue is the deceased in the hall!" As soon as this sentence came out, the audience was in an uproar. What's going on?Someone wants to sue the deceased!

The county magistrate was also taken aback, no wonder King Cheng said it was all right, it seems that he knew about it a long time ago.

"What evidence do you have to prove that the deceased is the person who stabbed you into the water on the boat that day?"

"When the villain was fighting with him that day, he bit his left wrist and was kicked into the river by him."

The county magistrate ordered Wu Zuo to check, and it turned out that he really found a bite mark on his left wrist, which had faded away. It can be seen that Ji Yuanshan actually didn't have the strength to bite people that day, because he was stabbed at the beginning.

Now that the three-inch nails can be identified as water bandits, then his so-called elder brother must be his accomplice!

People don't understand why the development of the situation is like this. It was obviously a case of eating and dying before, but now it turns out that the dead is a water bandit on the river, who has robbed and killed many people. What a reincarnation!

The magistrate of the county sent people to search the place where they lived, and found several packages, which also contained some things like household registration certificates. These people all died tragically in the hands of these three-inch nails.

Seeing that the evidence was solid, Ding Si had to bow his head and plead guilty.He originally wanted to keep his mouth shut, but when the splint was on, he had no choice but to tell the story of how he and Sancun Nail framed Zhang's shop.

When Ji Yuanshan knew that he was killed by Ding Si because he had eaten his own dried plums, there was only one sentence in his mind, the cycle of heaven and retribution was not good.

This dried plum is for his pregnant husband, who has been suffering from constipation since he was pregnant. After asking the doctor, the doctor specially added some laxative powder to the dried plum, and told him to remember , Only give Husband three pills a day, don't eat too much, it will hurt your health.I didn't expect these three-inch nails to be eaten so much, what evil comes with evil!

Zhang's shop was cleared of charges, and the second aunt was released on the spot.Ji Yuanshan also complained about his grievances, but he remembered that the person who wanted to kill him said that there were four brothers, so how about two more?

The county magistrate immediately frowned when he heard that there were still two people on the run. After thinking for a while, he ordered the police officers to enforce martial law throughout the county, and to check all people who entered and left the city gates, and took away those who did not have a household registration certificate.

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The second aunt gave all the things in the prison to the group of women, and then went home with everyone. The whole family packed two cars and went home happily.

The family has prepared a brazier and grapefruit leaf water for her to go to get rid of bad luck. Although she said it was not very good, she spent the night in prison after all.There are many injustices in places like prisons, and if you don't do it well, you will be entangled in injustice, and you will be in bad luck for a while.