Chapter 206: by surprise
Chapter 206 Surprise
After the criminal Sun Wuji was brought into the hall, the county magistrate Kang Mingyuan asked Lin Jinxiao and Hu Maoxi for instructions, and began to try the case.
He pressed his hands firmly on the gavel, tried his best to restrain his habitual roaring movements, and asked gently but majesticly: "Sinner Sun Wuji, I am accusing you of murdering Zhu Yue, the county court official and county magistrate." , murdered him in his own house by cruel means, and threw his body into the canal of Sunjia Village, are you guilty?"
Sun Wuji glanced at his wife, daughter and Chu Nanzhi erratically, and then replied firmly and calmly: "Caomin did not kill the county magistrate, please ask the county magistrate to investigate."
"Hey."
Kang Mingyuan was about to raise his hand, but put it down again in a hurry, and said in a gentle voice: "Master Tan, please read the closing document for me."
"The next official takes orders."
Tan Miao picked up the document in a calm manner, and read loudly: "The sinner, Sun Wuji, met Zhu Yue, the magistrate of Haikang County, on the evening of June 24, 22nd year of the Ming Dynasty, because of the matter of going to sea and being cited by officials. There was a dispute at home, and he was killed and thrown into the canal of Sunjia Village. He was salvaged five days later.
According to the post-mortem examination conducted by the county magistrate, the deceased had a knife wound on his neck and four fatal bruises all over his body. After interrogation, the criminal Sun Wuji confessed to the fact of the murder and confessed the murder weapon, which was found to be consistent with the wound of the deceased. . "
After reading, Tan Miao rolled up the paperwork and walked slowly towards Chu Nanzhi, and said with a meaningful smile: "Madam Chu, please take a look."
As soon as Chu Nanzhi took over the document, he heard Sun Wuji shouting for injustice: "The grass people are wronged. During the interrogation that day, the county magistrate threatened the three members of my family as accomplices in the crime and forced the grass people to confess their guilt. As for the so-called murder weapon, it was indeed the grass people It was found at home, but Cao Min didn't know why it was consistent with the wound on the neck of the county magistrate."
"The evidence is solid, and you still dare to argue."
Kang Mingyuan tapped the gavel at the right time, and said sharply: "Sun Wuji, Zhu Yue's body was salvaged from the ditch behind your house, and the last place he visited before his disappearance was your house. There are both motives and murder weapons. , Who else would you have?"
The eloquent questioning made Sun Wuji look painful and unable to refute.
Chu Nanzhi held the document and didn't look it up, so the seemingly perfect completed document no longer needs to be checked, and if she just relied on the hearsay in Broken Dragon Mountain, she could almost believe that the document was true and reasonable sex.
But based on the two days' visits and inquiries, coupled with Lin Jinxiao's inspiration, she already had some new ideas.
If he went to confront Tan Miao step by step, I am afraid that he has already thought through all the possible points on the document, and he will not be able to take advantage of it.
So, she decided to take a risky move and start interrogating each other from unexpected places, which can not only disrupt their positions, but also make up for the incomplete clues in their minds.
Putting aside all the previous inferences, she looked directly at Sun Wuji, and asked meaningfully: "Sun Wuji, you kept saying that you did not kill Zhu Xiancheng, so before Zhu Xiancheng's body was salvaged, you did not kill him." Don’t you know that the corpse is hidden in the canal?”
Sun Wuji shook his head blankly: "Caomin really doesn't know."
"Then did you reveal anything before the government arrested you?"
Chu Nanzhi asked suspiciously.
Sun Wuji suddenly looked ashamed: "Speaking of it, I am ashamed. The next day Zhu Xiancheng disappeared, someone from the county government came to inquire. The insider repeatedly told me not to talk too much. If it wasn't for the emergency in the court that day, I almost ignorant of my conscience and hid the quarrel with Zhu Xiancheng in my heart."
"You are quite honest."
Chu Nanzhi couldn't help laughing, then looked around at the crowd, his eyes full of ridicule: "I heard that Zhu Xiancheng has no wife and children, and he has no relatives in this county, and the colleagues in the county government are very concerned about him. Ah, but after not returning overnight, someone came to ask, is it possible that the county magistrate has never been away overnight?"
"Not really."
Kang Mingyuan replied very relaxed: "Master Tan heard that Zhu Xiancheng has been ill recently. After all, he is a colleague. I also heard that Yi Cheng reported that he had not returned all night, so he sent someone to inquire. There are still official documents in the county. Waiting for him to deal with it."
Tan Miao immediately followed suit and said: "Since Zhu Xiancheng came to this county, he has devoted himself to his tenure. He has been traveling around day and night, working very hard, so his body is a little weak at a young age, and he has lost a lot of hair. Those of us who are colleagues can’t persuade him, so we can only pay more attention to him.”
"The two adults have a heart."
This point is indeed consistent with what Ma Laifu said, Chu Nanzhi frowned and nodded: "If that's the case, then let's get back to the topic."
Looking at Kang Mingyuan with scorching eyes, Chu Nanzhi continued to ask back in a slow tone:
"Just now Sun Wuji said that he didn't know that Zhu Xiancheng was killed, so how did the county magistrate know that Zhu Xiancheng's body was hidden in the canal of Sunjia Village? Could it be that the Lord knew in advance that Sun Wuji killed the murderer? And throw the corpse in the ditch?"
Paused, a wicked smile curled up on the corner of her mouth: "The woman went to see the canal in Sunjia Village. Although the water is not muddy, if the body sinks in it, it won't be noticeable for a while."
Hearing this, Kang Mingyuan's originally relaxed and calm face suddenly became terrified: "Miss Chu, don't make false accusations, how could this officer know in advance that Sun Wuji was thrown into the ditch."
Tan Miao also quickly explained: "Zhu Xiancheng has been missing for many days, and the last place he went to was Sun Wuji's house. We naturally think of being killed by him."
"Even if you are killed, there are many ways to hide the body, such as digging and burying the body, and there are so many fish ponds in the Sun family. The government servants who searched and arrested that day only looked at the fish ponds in various places and then went straight to the water channel. Then the two Why is your lord so sure that Zhu Xiancheng's body sank in the canal?"
Chu Nanzhi stared at the two, and suddenly smiled sinisterly: "Furthermore, I heard from the patriarch of the Sun family village that even the people in the village don't know that Zhu Xiancheng has been to Sun Wuji's house, and there is no servant around him. Along with it, even if all the adults learn about his whereabouts from Yi Cheng, how can you be sure that the place he went to last is the Sun family and not other places?"
After all, there are no cameras in this era.
In this way, without realizing it, the spearhead has gradually been drawn out of focus.
"This"
The question is a bit tricky.
Kang Mingyuan hesitated and didn't know how to answer.
In recent years, the whole county has questioned him a lot, and felt that the deaths of several county magistrates were related to him, so they managed to divert the blame, but they did not expect to be lured back by this woman.
Tan Miao also looked annoyed.
This woman didn't play her cards according to common sense at all. She thought she would use the document of the case to commit the murder weapon, the verbal dispute between Zhu and Sun, the inference of the scene when the crime was committed, and even the dispute with her about the fact that there was no witness. This woman actually led the finger to the salvage of the body and the issue of Zhu Yue's whereabouts.
The dispute between Zhu and Sun was confessed by the criminal himself, and the murder weapon did match the wound of the deceased. The four bruises on Zhu Yue's body can also be explained as Sun Wuji injured Zhu Yue first and then brutally killed him.
It all makes sense.
Who would have thought that this woman would interrogate him on some trivial matters, which was really unexpected.
This can be a headache.
(end of this chapter)