Lu Jinping then said: "Your analysis just now is correct, but it is only one aspect. Novel Chinese. Before this, I suspected that something was wrong with this farmer who visited relatives, because when the peddler was killed, the hunter proved that he slept with the farmer and woke the farmer up after hearing the scream. The hunter proved that the farmer was by him who woke him up late at night, but the farmer refused to testify for the hunter, saying that the hunter was there after waking up. This is not very reasonable, because in theory, if they prove each other, they can only strengthen their absent-on-site evidence and will not have any impact on him. But he refused to testify for the other party and pushed the other party to the position of the suspect, which just made me feel a little strange. But at this time, I didn't have any doubts about him, and it was the second time I died."

"The second time, when the local rich man died, he asked the witness. At that time, the farmer said that he was in the lobby with the porter and the others. This was another situation where he could get rid of the crime by witnessing each other. As long as the farmer agreed with the porter's statement, both of them could be escaped from the suspicion, but the farmer was still unwilling to testify with the porter. He said that he was asleep at that time and did not know that he was asleep. This was even more unreasonable, because, usually, he could not fall asleep immediately after several people were murdered and always had such a miserable situation. So I suspected that the farmer was lying. Based on the situation where he was unwilling to testify for others twice and pushed others to the suspect, he wanted to muddle the water and let us fight in the trap, so that he could kill us."

"Of course, I finally made sure that he was an accomplice. He was what you said just now, and he invited others to drink bone soup before leaving. Just now, the old woman made bone soup, and I have already explained that this store is a black store, but he had no doubts about inviting everyone to drink bone soup made by the old woman. Wouldn't he be afraid that the murderer would add poison to it? Based on the judgment I came to the previous one, he was an accomplice."

"In the end, I decided to use the matter of drinking soup to squeeze him out. In fact, I can't confirm whether there is poison in the bone soup, but judging from the situation that the farmer refused to drink just now, I can conclude that the soup should have been poisoned."

Hearing this, the farmer, the old woman and the young woman finally lowered their heads.

At this time, the first ray of sunlight also shone on the window frame.

The Spring Festival is coming soon.

This was the first Spring Festival that Lu Jinping had to spend after the Tang Dynasty, so he attached great importance to it. Now he is the local judicial chief, with a seventh rank, and there are nineteen servants assigned to him by the court. He has enough personnel to prepare for the New Year, and now his money is enough to allow him to have a relatively abundant Spring Festival.

Ye Qingqing took the initiative to take on the commander-in-chief of the Spring Festival preparations, because Lu Jinping did not hire a housekeeper, and the servants assigned by the court did not have this job. It is not necessary for his current family wealth to hire a special housekeeper to be responsible for this work, so Ye Qingqing was temporarily in charge.

With Ye Qingqing's help, Lu Jinping became much more relaxed and didn't need to worry at all. He focused his energy on the trial of the case.

It is gratifying that as the years approach, there is peace and peace. Not only does there not have any major murders such as murder, but even ordinary criminal crimes have almost never occurred. It seems that those evil people who do evil also need a peaceful environment to spend their Spring Festival. This is what the ancient saying says, "Beggars also have New Year's Eve."

The Spring Festival in the Tang Dynasty was ten days, five days before the New Year, and five days after the New Year. Now it is close to the Spring Festival. Some people in the yamen have already started to ask for leave and go back to prepare New Year's goods. But Lu Jinping didn't want to ask for leave so early. Although he believed that if he asked for leave from Governor Feng, with his recent contribution to solving major cases, the governor would not make things difficult for him, and he would definitely allow him to go home early. But with Ye Qingqing helping to prepare. Even if he asked for leave, there was actually no place for him to worry about helping. So he stayed in the yamen to handle official affairs. Although there was no murder case or major criminal case, he still had many things to deal with, such as prison execution.

In ancient times, there were generally two ways to execute the death penalty. One was to ask for the death penalty after the autumn, that is, no matter when the death penalty was sentenced to the end of the year, even if the emperor had issued an order to approve the death penalty, he had to wait until the execution was organized uniformly after the autumn. The other was to be executed immediately, that is, once the emperor issued an order to approve the death penalty and the imperial edict was delivered, the local government had to organize the execution of the criminal law on the death penalty within three days, without waiting until the autumn was executed. Such cases were generally extremely evil. At this time, the court and rulers valued more the execution of the execution as quickly as possible to deter such crimes, rather than using the unified execution of the death penalty after the autumn to reflect the emperor's grace. This is a different value orientation.

However, for the officials below, this is not a good thing, because after the emperor's imperial edict approved the death penalty, it must be organized and implemented. This time is approaching the Spring Festival. Before the grandest festival of the year is about to be celebrated, a criminal will be executed. Even if the crime is extremely evil, it is not a pleasant thing.

This is how Lu Jinping feels now.

A case of death sentence and death sentence has been approved by the emperor and the imperial edict has been approved. As the judicial officer in charge of the criminal prison in Tongzhou, he is responsible for the organization of the execution and supervision of the execution ground. The governor does not care about this.

This is a murder case. The death row prisoner was a butcher. He used a bone-cutting axe to split an old man's forehead, and then stabbed the old man's temple with a pig-killing knife. What's worse is that before that, he had attempted to sexually assault the old man's daughter-in-law, which caused the woman to be humiliated and committed suicide by hanging herself. His reputation among neighbors was not good, his personality was very violent, he was short of weight, bullying and dominating the market, forcing him to buy and sell. Moreover, he was very unfilial. My mother was in her seventies and was alone in the countryside. He did not take her to filial piety, and he was sentenced to beheading and executed. The locals applauded.

Therefore, although Lu Jinping was frustrated with the fact that the Spring Festival was about to celebrate, he still did a job as an executioner, he also had to carry out this very pleasing thing, and he could not pretend to be others.

At this moment, he was listening to the report from the chief officer of the torture room, Shasifang, on the inquiry about the interrogation of the death row prisoner before the execution.

Shasifang is a person in charge who was recently promoted from the punishment room after Lu Jinping came to power. He is equivalent to the head of the criminal court in a modern court. His surname is Sha. He is a gray-haired old man. He has a deep understanding of Tang Lu. Lu Jinping is not very familiar with Tang Lu and often asks him for advice. He knows that he is familiar with Tang Lu, so he promoted him to the prison room.

The last interrogation was required before the execution of the Tang Dynasty. The main content was whether the other party had any last words, or what was unfinished, and who would hand over his bones to deal with. If there were no descendants to help collect the corpse, then the yamen would do what to do. These should be notified to him. If the requirements of the death row prisoner comply with the etiquette, the yamen would generally agree and help him handle it. This is because the criminal law of the execution of the ruling and execution seems too strict before the autumn. In order to make up for it, this slightly humane provision was made.

The sauce room reported to Lu Jinping after completing this matter.

Lu Jinping sat behind a few long cases, looking at the grey-colored salmon room standing beside him, he wanted to sit down, but now he understood that everything was ruled in the Tang Dynasty, especially the high and low levels in the officialdom. Although he could do this, if he really wanted to do this, it might bring a series of consequences. He would even be referred to by the Censor, thinking that he was not good at being an official, which would be bad, so he had to get used to the strict hierarchy order of the Tang Dynasty.

Shasifang himself did not think that a young man in Lu Jinping sat behind the warm room with a big sword and a golden horse. He listened to an old man standing there reporting the situation. He looked respectful on his face, and he lowered his hands and smiled, "Sir, I have asked about it, this butcher is still calling for injustice..."

Lu Jinping smiled and said, "There is no way to do this. We are not responsible for reviewing his crimes now. Regardless of whether it is wronged or not, the criminal law is too heavy. Because the procedure for his case has been completed and the emperor has approved it. All we need to do is to execute his death penalty, not to listen to his complaints about whether he is wronged."

The Shasifang smiled and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, no matter how right the Lord said, it is useless. Bei Zhi explained it to him, so he did not listen to how he said he was wronged. Bei Zhi asked him if he had any last words or something that our yamen could do for him. If he kept calling for justice and did not do the serious business, then I would leave. Just pretend that he had no requirements in this regard and he had no wife and children. At that time, his body would be executed and the court would be buried in a straw mat and buried directly in the grave. He heard what I said, the butcher panicked and hurriedly said a request. Bei Zhi felt that it was reasonable, so he came to report to the Lord, if he had done it for him?"

"Oh? He has any requests, let's hear it."
Chapter completed!