Criminal investigation in ancient times

In the palace, Zhou Yin was reading a book of Miscellaneous Notes of Kyushu, when the candles on the table trembled suddenly as gusts of cold wind blew.

Zhou Yin: "How did things go wrong?"

Zhan Qing came out from the dark and knelt on one knee, clasped his fists and said, "It has been found out. Mrs. Qiu has been dead for almost half a year, but Yang Jiu has been hiding it from the outside world."

Zhou Yin put down the book in his hand and said, "How did you make the housekeeper open his mouth?"

Zhan Qing said with a smile: "I tied him to the ruined temple in the suburbs of Beijing. Before I could scare him, he already told what he knew, and begged me not to kill him."

Zhou Yin: "Then what else did the butler say?"

Zhan Qing: "Mrs. Qiu was killed by Yang Jiu."

Zhou Yin squinted his eyes and murmured: "Yang Jiu? So the relationship between the two of them is not good." Zhou Yin knocked himself on the head. "It's messed up, talk to Zhang Rui tomorrow, I can't think of the relationship now."

I learned about Mrs. Qiu from Zhan Qing early in the morning. "What?! Mrs. Qiu is dead?! Sure enough..." Zhang Rui sat in a chair in a daze after listening.

Seeing him, Zhou Yin said: "Oh, if this case really can't be solved, forget it. I'll go talk to Brother Huang tomorrow, and he won't..."

"No! Wrong, wrong! Wrong from the beginning!" Zhang Rui stood up and ran to get the file.

Zhou Yin was taken aback by him, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Rui flipped through the case file and found a page...in April of the third year of Longxing...Yang Jiu went to the Qiu Mansion and dismissed one of his concubines...this concubine had been by his side since he was a child Girl, what about after dismissal?Zhang Rui held the case file in a daze.

Zhou Yin: "What did you find?" Zhang Rui reached out his hand to stop him from speaking.

Zhou Yin closed his mouth and stared at him with burning eyes. This person... the brilliance radiating from his body at this time may not even be known to him, it is enough to make people addicted to it, and for a moment Zhou Yin wanted to hide him , strangling him, you can only see it yourself, own it...

"My lord, there is a man outside Dali Temple who claims to be surnamed Han and said he has something important to tell Young Master Zhang."

Zhang Rui raised his head and said, "Uncle Han? Let him in quickly."

It was the first time for Uncle Han to come to Dali Temple, and he was so frightened by the solemn and solemn atmosphere that he didn't dare to breathe. He wondered in his heart that his son was a child who couldn't even kill chickens. ?I also like to stay in this kind of place.

Uncle Han was taken aback when he saw Zhou Yin when he came in, not knowing how to address him.

Seeing Uncle Han's embarrassment, Zhang Rui comforted him: "This is the Twelve Princes, Uncle Han need not be afraid."

It was fine if he didn't say anything, but when he finished speaking, Uncle Han knelt down in fright and said, "Caomin...give me twelve...my lord please greet me."

Zhou Yin said: "There is no need to be polite, don't you have something to talk to Zhang Rui?"

Uncle Han stabilized his mind and said: "Master, the person you asked me to investigate, the old slave did not disgrace his life, and I have already found out. The concubine who was sent away was not the maid who served Master Yang since childhood, but a daughter of a scholarly family. "

Zhang Rui frowned: "Daughter?! Or a scholarly family?!"

Uncle Han said: "Listen to me first, this prostitute's name is Xianghe, and she was engaged to Master Yang before. The two married for less than a month. Because of Qiu's relationship, she was demoted to be a concubine... This is Xianghe. The woman's family is ruined, and she cannot seek justice for her. What is even more infuriating is that the Qiu family did not allow her to be a concubine, and asked Yang Jiu to send him home. Xianghe never showed up after being sent home. Not long after She just disappeared from home, and no one in his family saw Xianghe again, some said she committed suicide, others said she twisted her hair and became a sister-in-law, but I didn't find out."

The main wife, the prostitute, the concubine, the concubine abandoned...all the clues are connected together.Zhang Rui touched his earlobe, and the smile on the corner of his mouth grew stronger.After a long time, Zhang Rui finally smiled and said, "Brother Zhou, now we can go to the Yang Mansion to catch the murderer."

Zhou Yin stared at that face and nodded, his eyes flickering. He would never forget the eye-catching smile on his face even after many years.

Yang Jiu was brought to Dali Temple in the afternoon, Zhang Yaozhi presided over the trial, and Zhou Yin listened.The entire Dali Temple seemed to have truly returned to that serious and cold atmosphere, and everyone was serious.

Yang Jiu knelt in the hall, swearing to the death that he killed his son-in-law.

Master Jiang said angrily: "Yang Jiu, since Dali Temple can arrest you today, there must be evidence that you killed your son-in-law!"

Yang Jiu snorted and said, "I don't know how your Dali Temple did the investigation, but you actually said that I killed my own son, it's just nonsense!"

Zhou Yin took a sip from his teacup and said, "Master Yang, do you know a woman named Xianghe?"

After hearing this, Yang Jiu's face turned pale and said, "I...I don't know a woman named Xianghe."

Zhou Yin smiled: "Oh? Really? I found out that I didn't see Mrs. Zun when I went to your house. Why don't you call Mrs. Zun here, and I will tell her about Xianghe."

Cold sweat flowed down Yang Jiu's forehead, Yang Jiu wiped his sleeves and said: "Zhuo Jing is not feeling well, she has been bedridden for a long time, I'm afraid I won't be able to come."

Zhou Yin: "It's okay to be sick in bed, how about I send someone to bring him here? By the way, bring your eldest son back, and let him know how his father killed his adoptive mother and younger brother!"

Yang Jiu's eyes widened in shock, and after a long time he closed his eyes and sighed, finally let go of the last bit of resistance, slumped on the ground and said, "It's me...it's me who killed Xingbao..."

Everyone in the lobby gasped, Zhang Yaozhi slapped the gavel and said, "Tiger poison doesn't eat children, how did you poison your son-in-law to death, tell me the truth!"

Yang Jiu opened his eyes and said: "Don't blame me, don't blame me! It's all because of Qiu Shi! Nothing would have happened without her! Without this vicious woman, how could my Xianghe die tragically! There will be more than a hundred times"

Zhang Rui stood by the side all the time, listening to the words in the lobby. Sure enough, as he had expected at the beginning, the Qiu family was no longer alive, and Yang Xingbao... was poisoned to death by his own father.

The story began in the second year of Xinglong, when Yang Jiu was just a small soldier, because there were constant wars at that time, he made a meritorious service on the battlefield, and was promoted to the off-duty only Ying of ten households, similar to the modern squad leader.

After returning home, Master Yang told him about their marriage. This woman is Xianghe, and Xianghe's ancestors were also considered to be a scholarly family. In her generation, the family has long been dilapidated, and being able to marry Yang Jiu is considered a climb.

Yang Jiu really loves Xianghe to the bottom of his heart. Not long after the young couple got married, once Yang Jiu went to his boss to have a banquet, and accidentally bumped into Qiu Shi who was still in her boudoir at that time. Seeing her love, she swears that she will not marry if she is not a king.Because Qiu's father was Zhongwei Lang of the sixth grade, after knowing this, he asked someone to ask Yang Jiu.

Yang Jiu is naturally unwilling, he only loves Xianghe in his heart, but Master Yang thinks this is an opportunity for his son, and wants to divorce Xianghe and marry Qiu Shi.When Yang Jiu found out, he begged Master Yang bitterly. In the end, Master Yang only agreed to demote Xianghe to a concubine, and the main wife must be the Qiu family.

Yang Jiu didn't think too much about it when she was young at the time, she just thought that even if Qiu Shi married and he didn't love Qiu Shi, just continue to pamper Xianghe.

But the Qiu family knew about Xianghe from nowhere, and the Qiu family wanted to divorce Xianghe. In the end, Master Yang had no choice but to send Xianghe back home, and then married the Qiu family, but at this time Xianghe was already married. Two months pregnant.

After marrying into the Qiu family, the Yue family really kept promoting Yang Jiu, from a low-level employee to Xiu Wulang all the way up to the eighth rank.

But Yang Jiu has never been happy, and has been thinking about his little wife who was abandoned.He didn't like Qiu Shi from the bottom of his heart, not only because Qiu Shi forced him to divorce his wife, but also because Qiu Shi used this matter to suppress Yang Jiu because of his father's high official position.

Yang Jiu secretly asked someone to find his divorced wife, and spent money to get him to a Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Kyoto to raise a baby. He went there several times a month. Although the two were bitter, they were sweet.The more Yang Jiu loves Xianghe, the more he hates Qiu Shi.

Later, Qiu Shi was also pregnant, so Yang Jiu thought of a method of exchanging a civet cat for the crown prince, exchanging himself and Xianghe's child with Qiu Shi's child. He didn't want the child born to his favorite woman to be nameless. share.

When Xianghe conceived in October and gave birth, Qiu was just over seven months pregnant. Yang Jiu asked the housekeeper to add oxytocin to Qiu's anti-fetal medicine. As a result, Qiu had a miscarriage at seven and a half months and gave birth to a stillborn baby. He brought He's child and deceived Qiu Shi, saying that the child was born by her.

Qiu Shi didn't get out of bed until three or four months due to physical weakness, and when he recovered, he had long regarded Xianghe's child as his own.A few years later, a second son, Yang Xingbao, was born. Because of Qiu's physical weakness, Yang Xingbao suffered from insufficiency from birth.But Qiu Shi still thinks that she is the happiest person in the world, her husband dotes on him, and she has given birth to two sons beside her...

Originally, Yang Jiu thought that things would develop in the direction he had arranged, but what he never expected was that Qiu Shi knew about him once he stayed in Xianghe. After some investigation, people found out that the woman was the concubine who was divorced back then. Yang Jiu not only did not dislike her all these years, but also had a very close relationship with her.

Qiu Shi, who always thought that she was the only favorite, felt that she was cheated, so she sent someone to secretly tie up Xianghe from Zhuangzi and sell it to Yuehualou. Hit a pillar.

It took Yang Jiu half a month to find out. At that time, everyone was going crazy, and almost killed Qiu Shi with a sword, but he thought that his son was still raised by Qiu Shi's side. Will not forgive him.

Afterwards, he began to arrange for Qiu Shi's death. First, he gave Qiu Shi weak medicine, and then used chronic poison to wear down her body bit by bit. Because Qiu Shi was ill in bed for a long time, Yang Jiu directly ordered everyone She was not allowed to go to Qiu's yard to disturb her recovery, so she was imprisoned like this.

When Qiu was dying, he realized that he had worked so hard to raise children for others, and he was so angry that his eyes were ferocious, and he did not want to die.

Originally, Qiu's death, one life is worth one life, this matter is considered over.But what he never expected was that the Qiu family actually left a suicide note and handed it to a little girl who served her, asking her to give the letter to Yang Xingbao, and revealed that Yang Xingyu was not the son of the Yang family, she would not die Let that person's child inherit the Yang Mansion.

The little girl had received Qiu's kindness, and quietly gave the letter to Yang Xingbao. As a result, Yang Xingbao, the idiot, ran to his father after reading the letter and asked him if it was true.

At that time, Yang Jiu was so frightened that she was so stupid, she got angry and dealt with that maid, and then lied to Yang Xingbao that everything was made up by this maid.Yang Xingbao was dubious about going to see his mother, but Yang Jiu had no choice but to continue to lie that Qiu's health was not good, and let him go to see his mother after a while.

In the days that followed, Yang Jiu was anxious all day long, afraid that Yang Xingbao would find out that Qiu Shi had been killed by him, and even more afraid that the eldest son was not the son of his regular wife... In the end, he gave birth to a healthy child born to a woman he loved the most, and a woman who did not love her. Yang Xingbao's life was ended in the choice of a frail child...

After listening to Yang Jiu's story, everyone didn't know what to say. Maybe Yang Jiu regretted it, otherwise he wouldn't cry so sad in Dali Temple that day. After all, he was his son, even if his mother Damn, half of his own blood is flowing in his body, and he poisoned his own child to death with his own hands. In conscience, he can't pass his own test.

The case finally became clear. When Yang Xingbao came out of the house that day, Yang Jiu gave him two hibiscus cakes. On weekdays, Yang Xingbao suffered from asthma due to his obesity. The doctor told him not to eat sweets, but his father made an exception and gave him his favorite food Yang Xingbao took the hibiscus cake with a smile, and before leaving, he kissed his father's face and said, "Daddy, don't forget to pick me up for Muxiu that day..."

But that silly boy didn't know that he would never go back. He probably didn't know until his death that his favorite father and his favorite hibiscus cake would turn into poison and kill him.

In the end, Yang Jiu was sentenced to be executed by Qiu Hou Wen for murdering his wife and son.

After hearing this, Zhou Yin lowered his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking. The silent atmosphere seemed to freeze around him, with a strong sadness that could not be resolved.