Daqing Criminal Division

Because the real murderer, Guan Peng, pleaded guilty in court and had already pressed the signature book, the Stone Bodhisattva murder case can finally be officially closed here.

He will be temporarily detained in Songyang County Jail for the crime of murdering two lives.

Three days later, he was handed over to the other end of Songjiang Mansion, and a second interrogation was held for a separate conviction.

As for the sentencing, because it involves malicious homicide and seeking wealth, the situation on the magistrate Ma's side is not suitable for a direct decision.

Right now, Guan Peng, a bricklayer in Songyang County, killed two people in a row, which can be regarded as a major case.

Of course, Songjiang Mansion should be informed first, and then Jiahui, the prefect, will report to the capital for a decision. The magistrate will send a special person to come here in a few days.

Because this dynasty has had a custom since the early years of Sejong.

All major local cases, the situation is extremely bad.

They need to be imprisoned in various prefectures first, and then they will be determined according to the instructions from above, and above the six departments, there is another one in charge of this kind, that is the famous Shangyu Spare Office.

The Shangyu Reserve Office is neither an ordinary government office for investigating cases, nor is it one of the six departments.

Since it was built many years ago, it has been in charge of power alone. It can be regarded as outside the court. It is very domineering and arrogant in criminal name filing. It is a mysterious place that no one dares to provoke easily.

The person standing behind it is the current emperor.

As for the position a little lower, that is the position of the subordinate officer of Shang Yu's backup department.

It is said that this place, which can easily judge the world's life and death with a single word, and try unsolved cases, has been vacant for three or four years before this.

Who was the subordinate official who was in power before and could order everyone in the backup office to follow his orders.

Duan Xiao didn't know either, but I heard that he was quite a legendary figure.

To be honest, this person can't be regarded as an official, but he has all the real power in his body that is greater than that of ordinary officials.

But since he left office and disappeared, this person has never appeared in the capital, but has been said to have disappeared since then. Because of this, even Duan Xiao has never seen his true face about the person behind the subordinate officer of Shangyu's backup department back then. .

As for the wealth that Wang Pin was kidnapped and killed, Duan Xiao, who had handed over most of the material evidence of the case, pointed out a clue to the government and Zha Keshan before Guan Peng himself confessed in prison.

Because it was at the end that Duan Xiao thought of this.

But it has to be said that the twists and turns of this case are rare in his life. Now, others can no longer guess what Ruiqiong thought in the end.

But since the person is dead, the murder case has also been solved.

It's just that Guan Peng's last words revealed many ordinary things.

People live in the world, and they can't stand the eyes of the outside world. Those who care about it can't break free for a long time, as if being tortured by someone strangling the neck with a rope, but it's never wrong to want to wear a man's skin and live like a woman.

Human beings are inherently too complex.

Once the mental illness with a lot of incentives is involved, all the resulting psychological crimes are shrouded in a layer of mystery that requires careful exploration to distinguish.

There must be many other people like Guan Peng in this world.

It is completely unknown when they will explode, and whether they will become the next Guan Peng because of this. They can harm people's lives, but after all, they must obey the law, no matter what the reasons are.

It was also thinking in this way that Duan Xiao, who was standing outside the yamen that day and put the durian earring into the evidence bag at the end, said so.

"Stomach."

"Stomach? What stomach?"

Hearing this at first, Zakshan was puzzled.

"The cow's stomach, the earrings that Rui Qiong swallowed before he died, actually also hinted at this point."

"Wang Pin's family's previous wealth has not been used by him for many years. After the incident, his body was poured with cement in the stone bodhisattva. Have you ever thought about what was originally contained in the bodhisattva?"

"Humans swallow gold, cows swallow gold, gold and silver are in the human stomach, that is to say, in the cow's stomach, because cows have four stomachs, any food that is difficult to digest will be returned to the mouth through the mouth after a period of time. It is common in cattle and sheep."

"You searched Guan Peng's house before, but you didn't find any property. It seems that the gold, silver and jewels were hidden in the cow's stomach. Now you go to feed the cow in his sister's house some coarser fodder, and have a look. After an hour or two, will the cow spit out something from its stomach?"

These words became a prophecy.

Zha Keshan's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he led the people to the cowshed of Wang Guan's family again. This time, he found some fodder as Duan Xiao said, and fed it to the cow.

But within an hour, the cow's front knee really knelt down and did not move.

A circle of officials surrounded and watched.

There seemed to be gastric juice regurgitating in the throat of the cow in the shed, and the sound of chewing teeth, and the servant next to him put his arm in a cloth cover to touch the sticky thing.

Sure enough, a large bag of gold, silver and jewelry wrapped in oilcloth was pulled out.

Everyone exclaimed when they saw this, and only then did they know where the money Guan Peng and Ruiqiong had robbed from the initial murder was.

It's a rare thing that I haven't seen once in ten years, but it's a street news that spreads in two days.

Teahouses and wine shops in Songyang County were spreading rumors about the bizarre twists and turns of the Stone Bodhisattva case, and how amazing it was.

Duan Xiao didn't say anything about it.

After that, Zha Keshan came to thank him for his help last time, and wanted to invite him to dinner again.

But this time, it was no longer the original Yangchun noodles that had no oil or water, but a serious official banquet.

A lot of people went there tonight, and they must be on top of the bustling Juxian Restaurant.

Ma County Magistrate has rewarded everyone with a table of good food and wine with money in private. The other Yamen servants in Songyang County Yamen who solved the case and received rewards, as well as Liu Cen, the chief policeman whom I met last time, also went.

But obviously when this kind of people happened to be celebrating, when Duan Xiao heard about it, on the contrary, he rejected it straight away.

"Duan Xiao, tonight is Ma County Magistrate's treat, are you really not going?"

"Well, I only stay in Yizhuang at night."

Duan Xiao didn't mind being treated as a eccentric Yizhuang weirdo by others, but Duan Xiao responded simply.

He is a person who doesn't like to make friends with people in private, so it is natural to avoid that kind of place.

But when Zha Keshan heard this, his headache became even worse. Seeing that he would rather stay in this dark Yizhuang than go, he just shook his head and began to mutter,

"Hey, I said, why are you like Fuchaerji? This is obviously a good thing. Ma County Magistrate spent a lot of money on a special trip to reward you, but he also told me that he didn't want to go. He would rather hide in his own place all day long, where no one recognizes him, no ghosts, no ghosts, drinking and sleeping..."

"..."

What Zac Shan said was quite puzzling.

It seems that they don't understand why these two people fight against each other as soon as they meet, and their relationship is also very bad, but why they "hit it off" like two confidants who have known each other for many years in terms of rejecting people thousands of miles away.

When Duan Xiao heard this, he didn't comment on the fact that he compared himself with that one.

But about the man Fuchardhi.

In fact, he himself vaguely remembered that there was one thing that was left unfinished.

This matter still has to go back to when he came to Songyang County from Yanzhou at the beginning, the things that the old man who asked him to help and promised to pay him in the future are still in him. body.

Before that, Duan Xiao had never found a chance to take this thing out again.

It was also because of this that Duan Xiao said that he wanted to find an opportunity to come out with someone and settle the matter thoroughly.

But for several days, even Zha Keshan couldn't find out where the other person was hiding, it was ridiculous.

It was also after the court that day, two days later, when the government took the initiative to find the two of them and said that there was an urgent matter for them to come, he remembered this again.

On the [-]th, the rain in Songyang stopped.

When they received a sudden message from Zha Keshan, saying that Duan Xiao, who was looking for them, magistrate ma, appeared in the government office, another person finally appeared.

Counting the two of them, it has been four or five days since they bumped into each other.

But the two are not familiar with each other, and they are not considered friends, so even if they are both in Songyang, it seems that there is no need to get involved.

Fuchardhi looked the same as usual.

He was dressed in soap and slovenly, as if he had spent the night with people in a wine shop and gambling shop, dressed poorly, and sat lazily, looking like a hooligan in the city.

As soon as he saw him coming, the other party who seemed to be drunk last night opened his eyes and glanced at him, then avoided his eyes in a sloppy and perfunctory manner without making a sound.

Just at this time, Zhao Fuzi from the yamen helped to bring up the tea, and it was also in this dry and strange atmosphere that the two had a word.

Fucharzi: Do you drink tea? "

Duan Xiao: "Don't drink."

Fucharzi: "..."

Duan Xiao: "..."

History is always surprisingly similar.

The two people who had nothing more to say sat blankly in the government office for a while, with a look of impatience on each face.

Seeing that they finally came, Zha Keshan, who said that Ma County Magistrate was looking for the two of them for something, came out. When asked by the two people together why they were going to come to the government today.

Zakshan, a tall and burly man, was obviously hesitant to speak.

However, after being invited to the inner hall and presenting a document to each of them, Magistrate Ma appeared and asked a strange question in front of them.

"Fuchaerji, Duan Xiao, I came to you today to ask you something. Do you each have half of the land deeds belonging to Liu Tongtian and Yan's?"

Liu Tongtian was the dead owner of the coffin shop that Duan Xiao was looking for when he arrived in Songyang County.

As for the Yan family, it was the name of the old man who first asked Duan Xiao to help.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

So upon hearing this, Fucharzi also asked a question.

"Then do you know that this complete land deed was registered at the government that day, and there is also an official deed signed by the Songyang County government on it?"

Forget about Fucharzi.

Even Duan Xiao had never heard of it. Immediately, the two finally realized that something was wrong, and narrowed their eyes with strange expressions.

Because it is common for the two parties to be identified by the government with the help of the government, but it has never been said, and there is a rule that the owner of the existing government lease should come to the government for questioning.

Ke Ma County Magistrate was not in a hurry, he opened the file and glanced at the two of them before speaking slowly,

"Three days ago, I received a message from the yamen servants from Yanzhou, saying that Mrs. Yan had died of illness at home because he couldn't wait for a reply. Before he died, he said, who owns his official deed? Who does this half of the official deed belong to from now on, Duan Wuzuo was an official in Yanzhou before and agreed to Yan's matter, then this half of the land deed will belong to you from now on."

"But according to the land contract agreement left by Liu Tongtian and the Yan family, this house, which is the building under the name of Fuchaerji, actually belongs to the relatives, parents or..."

"Or what?"

Standing at the bottom with folded hands, Fucharzi, who seemed to be a little hangover, frowned and asked inexplicably.

"Or, become a relative."

The Ma county magistrate shook his head and shook his fingers, and explained the laws of the Qing Dynasty to the two of them seriously.

"This is called shared property. The half of the contract that you both have now is the shared property of both of you."

"So, according to the law of my court, this means that you who are holding Liu Tongtian and Yan's half of the contract before his death have agreed to form a contract. Although you didn't know about this relationship before, But here is the law, you must not violate it, and those who violate it will be guilty of violating the law and will be sent to prison.”

"Then, by analogy, from now on, the two names Fuchaerji and Duan Xiao have already entered into a contract and have a joint property relationship under their name. That's why I hereby invite you to tell me today. Really congratulations There are two."

Fucharzi: "..."

Duan Xiao: "..."