Three Kingdoms King of the North

Hearing what Cheng Buer said, Han Zhan knew in his heart that Huahu tortured the prisoner must be true.But at the moment, he is not interested in entangled in these small issues, but asked: "Cheng Buer, you said your brother was wronged, what is going on?"

Regardless of the fact that Han Zhan had served as a state-related order for a period of time, in fact he didn't have much experience in handling cases, and many things at that time were handed over to Xun Yu.Now that the case is being handled independently, the questions he asks seem to be lacking in nutrition.

Cheng Buer hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Five days ago, my little brother went out to weed with Wang Xiaoqi from the same village. Unexpectedly, just after noon, Li Zheng came to look for me, saying that my little brother had killed someone. In a panic, Xiao hurriedly followed Li Zheng to the scene of the crime, and saw Xiao's younger brother sitting on the ridge of the field, and next to him lay the dead body of Wang Xiaoqi."

"Report to my lord." After Cheng Buer finished the case, Huahu cupped his hands and said to Han Zhan: "When my subordinates rushed to the scene, they saw Wang Xiaoqi lying on the ground with his head in a different place. Apart from Cheng Xiaosan, there is no one else around, let me ask, it wasn't Cheng Xiaosan who killed Wang Xiaoqi, could it be that Wang Xiaoqi killed himself?"

After listening to Hua Hu's narration, Han Zhan did not express his opinion immediately, but tapped lightly on the table in front of him with his fingers, wondering what was going on in his mind.After a while, he turned his head to look at Huahu and said, "Magistrate Hua, bring Cheng Xiaosan here, the Marquis wants to ask what's going on?"

When Hua Hu heard Han Zhan's order, he didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly ordered one of his subordinates: "You go to the prison and bring Cheng Xiaosan here."

Chapter 349 Reversal

Hua Hu said blankly: "My lord, I heard that there were snakes on the ground, and I happened to have a water and fire stick in my hand, so I went straight to beat someone. But, does this have anything to do with Cheng Xiaosan's murder?"

"Magistrate Hua, you really disappointed me." Looking at his subordinates who were still confused at the moment, Han Zhan felt rather disappointed.He turned his head and looked at Guo Jia, who was watching the excitement from the sidelines, "Feng Xiao, please explain to Magistrate Hua."

At first, Guo Jia didn't understand why Han Zhan kept asking about the snake. When he saw Han Zhan handing the water and fire stick to Huahu and scaring the snake under his feet, the doubts in his heart were immediately solved.At this moment, when Han Zhan asked him to explain to Hua Hu, he took a step forward, smiled and said to Hua Hu: "Magistrate Hua, just now when you heard a snake under your feet, you instinctively hit the snake with the water and fire stick in your hand, right? "

"That's right." For Guo Jia's statement, Hua Hu nodded and gave an affirmative answer: "Not only Hua, I am afraid that when everyone hears that there is a snake under their feet, they will use the things in their hands to go to the snake. Hit the snake."

"Magistrate Hua, I don't know if you have thought about it." Guo Jia continued: "If what you held in your hand was not a water and fire stick, but a long-handled sickle, think about it, what would happen?"

"Long-handled sickle?" Hearing Guo Jia mentioned the murder weapon that killed Wang Xiaoqi, Huahu was taken aback for a moment, and then showed an expression of disbelief on his face: "Mr. Guo, do you mean that Wang Xiaoqi saw There was a snake on the ground, he instinctively hit the snake with the sickle in his hand, and accidentally cut off his head?"

Seeing that Huahu finally guessed what he wanted to express, Han Zhan nodded with a smile, and jokingly said, "You can teach a child. It seems that Cheng Xiaosan is the murderer in this case. After carefully observing the scene, Ben Hou Then I found out that Wang Xiaoqi killed himself. Come and see."

Han Zhan pointed to the side of the bloodstain, and said to Hua Hu: "Magistrate Hua, take a closer look, are the circular dents on the soil formed when the scythe was chopping the ground?"

Huahu learned to be smart this time, and instead of expressing his opinion immediately, he shouted to the yamen servant next to him: "Come here, bring the sickle that killed Wang Xiaoqi."

Following the shout, the yamen servant standing aside quickly handed over the bloody sickle.Huahu carefully compared the handle of the sickle with the dent on the ground, and then carefully checked the distance between the blade of the sickle and the neck, and found that everything was exactly in line with what Han Sui said.

After returning the sickle to the yamen servant, he gave a deep salute to Han Zhan, and said convincingly, "The lord is really perceptive. If the lord hadn't personally tried the case, the subordinate almost killed a good man by mistake."

"Magistrate Hua, since you know that Cheng Xiaosan was wronged, what should I do next, don't I need Ben to teach you?"

"Your subordinates understand!" After Huahu finished speaking, he turned around and walked to the surrounding villagers, and said loudly to them: "Villagers, after my lord's investigation, I found that Wang Xiaoqi was not killed by Cheng Xiaosan, but by him. When he found a snake on the ground, he stomped the snake with a long-handled sickle, and was accidentally injured by his own sickle. Wang Xiaoqi's death had nothing to do with Cheng Xiaosan. This official announces that Cheng Xiaosan was not guilty and released."

When Cheng Xiaosan was escorted to the scene, he thought it was just a formality. Standing beside Wang Xiaoqi, he didn't know how Wang Xiaoqi died. , to determine the cause of Wang Xiaoqi's death?

Unexpectedly, the development of things was far beyond my expectations.Fu Jun, who thought it impossible to solve the case, actually realized the problem in a moment and solved the mystery of Wang Xiaoqi's death.When he heard Huahu publicly announce that he was acquitted, he thought he was dreaming.

Until the yamen servant came over and opened his handcuffs and leg shackles, he said to him: "Cheng Xiaosan, you are really lucky, the governor personally cleared up your grievances. It's all right now, you can go home early."

When Cheng Buer heard that his brother was acquitted, he was taken aback for a moment, and then burst into tears with excitement.He dragged Cheng Xiaosan to Han Zhan and knelt down in front of Han Zhan, kowtowed repeatedly, and said, "Thank you, Fujun, thank you Fujun. For the great kindness of Fujun, I will be a cow and a horse in the next life to repay you!"

"Cheng Buer, your brotherhood is deep, and this Marquis is nothing more than a little effort." Han Zhan leaned over to help Cheng Buer, and said to him: "There is no need to be so polite, get up quickly!"

Afterwards, Han Zhan reached out to help Cheng Xiaosan again, and said to him: "Cheng Xiaosan, you have been wronged. The truth of this case has been revealed now, you can go home with your brother quickly."

Han Zhan originally thought that when he said this, the brothers of the Cheng family would thank him and leave with each other.Unexpectedly, Cheng Xiaosan had just stood halfway up, and then knelt down again: "Cheng Xiaosan has nothing to repay the lord's great kindness, and is willing to follow the lord's side for the rest of his life, please grant the lord." Finished, lying on the ground without moving.

Han Zhan didn't care about Cheng Xiaosan's request.In any case, he is now the captain of Sili and the shepherd of Jizhou, and there are countless people who want to follow him. A small commoner does not attract Han Zhan's interest at all.So he said politely: "Cheng Xiaosan, I appreciate your kindness. You should go home with your elder brother."

After Han Zhan finished speaking, not only Cheng Xiaosan didn't get up, Cheng Buer also knelt down: "Fujun, please take my two brothers in. My two brothers have no other skills, but they have a bit of brute force. If the Fujun has any order, even if you go up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of ​​fire, my two brothers will not frown."

Seeing that their attitudes were so firm, and that Han Zhan really lacked people around him recently, he nodded, "Well, if this Marquis refuses again, it will chill the hearts of the two of you brothers. Rob," he turned his head and said Rob standing behind said, "From today onwards, the Cheng family brothers will be under your command."

When Rob heard Han Zhan's arrangement, he didn't dare to go against his will, and hurriedly replied, "I obey!"

The surrounding villagers saw that after Cheng Xiaosan was acquitted, he went to Han Zhan with his second brother, with envious expressions on their faces.Han Zhan had just walked a few steps, and accidentally saw the expressions of the surrounding villagers, so he stopped and said to the brothers of the Cheng family, "Benhou will give you a day to go home and clean up, and then come to the county government to find Benhou." The brothers of the Cheng family, who were following Han Zhan, didn't dare to disobey his order when they heard what Han Zhan said, so they stopped quickly and agreed at the same time.

Since Han Zhan successfully rehabilitated Cheng Xiaosan, his interest in solving cases increased greatly. On the way back to the county government, Han Zhan asked Hua Hu proudly: "I don't know if there are any serious unsolved cases in the county, and they will all be handed over to this county government office." Hou will deal with it?"

Hearing what Han Zhan said, Hua Hu thought for a moment, and then said: "Returning to the lord, my subordinates took a husband-killing case a few days ago, and it hasn't had time to try it. If the lord is interested, the subordinates are willing to jury .”

"Husband murder case?" Hearing what Hua Hu said, a scene immediately appeared in Han Zhan's mind: a beautiful young woman lifted an ugly and short man from the hospital bed, and at the same time put The medicine bowl held in the other hand was passed in front of him, and he said affectionately: "Da Lang, it's time to drink the medicine."

Thinking of the female criminal in the murder case, who was as beautiful as Pan Jinlian, Han Zhan couldn't help but be moved, and he quickly said: "This case is good, so I will choose this case."

Guo Jia, who was following the case, couldn't help showing a surprised expression on Han Zhan's eagerness to try the case.However, in order not to dampen Han Zhan's enthusiasm, he wisely chose to remain silent. He thought to himself: If there is any serious case in Sheguo County, let the lord go there to have fun, and if he can't handle it, then help him out Not too late.

After returning to the county government office, Han Zhan sat down in the middle of the lobby, and hurriedly told Hua Hu: "Magistrate Hua, what are you still doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and bring the criminal here."

The yamen servants standing in the hall were originally Han Zhan's old department.They saw that Han Zhan had overturned an unjust case in just a moment, and they all admired the former county magistrate.So when they heard that Han Zhan had asked him to take the prisoner, without waiting for Hua Hu's order, two yamen servants left the lobby and went to the prison to pick up the prisoner.

After a stick of incense, the criminal who killed her husband was brought.In addition to the two criminals, a man and a woman, there was also a middle-aged man who seemed to belong to the plaintiff.

Seeing a man with a haggard look, Han Zhan couldn't help but turned his head and asked Hua Hu curiously: "Magistrate Hua, are the people on the plaintiff's side also imprisoned?"

"Responding to my lord," Hua Hu quickly replied respectfully, "The plaintiff, defendant, and witnesses are locked up in the prison. It's not just today, but it's always been a practice."

Hearing Hua Hu's explanation, Han Zhan frowned slightly, and then said to Hua Hu: "Magistrate Hua, starting from today, the plaintiff and witnesses no longer need to be imprisoned, and it's not too late to call them when the case is pending. "

"My lord," Hua Hu said with some embarrassment to Han Zhan's order, "it's reasonable for the plaintiff not to go to prison. But if the witnesses are not sent to prison, once they escape, the case will not be tried."

"We'll discuss this matter later, and try the case first!" Han Zhan asked the kneeling people in the hall, "Who is the plaintiff and who is the defendant?"

The middle-aged man hastily took a few steps forward, and said, "For Mr. Huifu, the younger one is the plaintiff, and the younger one is the plaintiff."

Han Zhan waited for the other party to finish speaking, and asked in an official tone, "What are you suing?"

The middle-aged man pointed at the young woman kneeling next to him, and said viciously, "The young one is Lizheng Shida of Chengnan Village, who sued his sister-in-law, Shi Huang, for disobeying women's morals, colluding with outsiders, and killing his younger brother." Stone. Please, the Lord of the House, be aware of the details and avenge the villain's brother."

Han Zhan carefully looked at the young woman kneeling in the hall. Although she was dressed plainly and looked particularly haggard because of being locked up in the prison for several days, she still couldn't conceal her beauty. "It's really a goblin that harmed the country and the people." After a few words of emotion in his heart, Han Zhan continued to ask: "Shi Da, you said that the Shi Huang family collude with outsiders and killed your brother. Is there any real evidence?"

Shi Da pointed at the man and said: "This man is called Bai Cheng. Long before Shi Huang married into my family, he had hooked up with Shi Huang. The two often met privately outside the village, and everyone in the village knew about it. Recently, they have intensified their actions, and after being found out by my brother, they beat him to death. Please take charge of the villain and avenge my brother!" After finishing speaking, he actually burst into tears stand up.

Han Zhan stared at the man named Bai Cheng, and asked, "Bai Cheng, is what Shi Da said true?" After asking this sentence, Han Zhan couldn't help complaining secretly, what names were given in this era, Formal names sound like nicknames.

Bai Cheng turned his head and glanced at Shi Huang who was kneeling beside him, and said resolutely: "Your Majesty, it's all the villain's fault. If you want to kill or cut, you will do as you please. Please also show your noble hand and let Sister Doudou go." Well, she is also a miserable person."

Han Zhan stared at the man named Bai Cheng in a daze, and thought to himself: This man seems quite honest, how could he murder someone else's husband for a woman?But after thinking about it, for such a young and beautiful woman, if I was asked to murder his own husband, maybe I would not refuse.

Guo Jia, who was sitting on the side, looked at Han Zhan who was sitting in the middle, and stared at the three people kneeling in the hall in silence, but there was a weird smile on his face.When he was about to remind the other party not to lose his temper, he heard Han Zhan asking the woman: "Shi Huang, your uncle accused you of colluding with Bai Cheng and murdering your husband, but is it true?"

"My lord, the little girl is wronged." Shi Huang looked up at Han Zhan and said, "The little girl grew up with Brother Bai Cheng since she was a child, and she loves brothers and sisters. Although she married into Chengnan Village, Brother Bai Cheng often Come and see me. We're just talking outside the village, so what's the matter?

Besides, my husband has been weak and sick since he was a child, and has been bedridden all the time.Last year, Shi Da married me to make his brother happy.After the little girl entered the door, she has been abiding by women's morals, serving her husband wholeheartedly, and she thinks that she has done nothing wrong. "

After listening to Shi Huang's self-defense, Han Zhan thought to himself: Maybe this is another unjust case.Thinking of this, he went on to ask: "But your uncle just said that when you and Bai Cheng were having an affair at home, your husband found out, and then Bai Cheng jumped over the wall in a hurry and beat your husband to death. What is going on? thing?"

"I'm wronged, I'm wronged!" As soon as Han Zhan's voice fell, Shi Huang's family began to cry again: "My father was seriously ill that day, so I asked Brother Bai Cheng to come over and inform me. Brother Bai Cheng didn't see me outside the village, so he directly Look for me at home. When we were talking in the main room, the husband lying on the bed inside heard us talking, maybe to check something, and accidentally fell off the couch. When the little girl heard the movement and went in to check, she found the husband Already died of anger. But at this time, the uncle came to visit and saw her husband died of anger, so he insisted that the little girl and Brother Bai Cheng killed him, and turned us to the official."

"You're talking nonsense." Upon hearing this, Shi Da interrupted and shouted: "My lord, when the young one entered, she and this Bai Cheng were disheveled, and she looked like she had just done something wrong. You must not Be blinded by her."

"Fujun!" Hearing Shi Da's bloody mouth, Shi Huang was anxious: "The little girl is still a perfect body, how can others make things up, please pay attention to the Fujun!"