Chapter 399: A New Case Arises
Lin Haoran had a good dream, in the dream, the tiger girl beat the drum of injustice, but he lifted it up and spanked her, the tiger girl trembled with fright, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, saying that she would never dare to knock again.
It was the time of triumph that the beautiful picture was blown away by a poisonous current. He felt an itch in his ears, and the itch made him wake up from his dream immediately, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the tiger girl half-squatting in front of the bed, with a cute face that was ignorant.
Seeing that this girl dared to trick herself, Lin Haoran immediately wanted to hold up her brother's majesty, and wanted to beat this girl to kneel and beg for mercy like in a dream, but Hu Niu only said a word, and he was like a deflated balloon, covering his head into the warm quilt.
"Brother, don't sleep anymore, get up quickly! Pai Ya is going to be late! Tiger Girl tugged at the quilt with her brute force, urging him to get up.
"Tiger girl, let me sleep a little longer!" Lin Haoran hid in the quilt and protested reluctantly.
People are inert, and once a certain habit of laziness is formed, it is difficult to correct it easily. After a period of leisurely days, Lin Haoran had to get up every day to line up the office, and suddenly he couldn't stand it.
He really wanted to emulate Jiajing's "not going to court every day", but he knew that it would be very troublesome to do so, and he would inevitably be impeached by officials, and even take off his black gauze hat because of this.
Under the urging of the tiger girl, the special quilt was torn off by her, and Lin Haoran got up from the bed with difficulty, feeling the coolness of late autumn and the difficulty of local officials in the Ming Dynasty.
In later generations, it was 9 to 5, but now it is the time of Mao Shi, and primary school students have not yet gone to school.
Because he got up late, he didn't have time to eat breakfast, so he went directly to the second hall to order the office. It is worth mentioning that on not major days, the location of the row will be carried out in the second hall.
Everything was proceeding in order, and the subordinates, officials, and messengers of the government were already waiting at the bottom of the hall.
After the order, he originally planned to go back to the room and continue to sleep, but after being blown by the cool breeze of the early morning, the person suddenly had a spirit and no sleepiness at all.
After eating breakfast, Lin Haoran arrived at the signing room, and then took a sip of hot tea, and a messenger suddenly hurriedly came in to report: There was a murder in Leizhou City, and the deceased was Shen Wu.
Since Lin Haoran decided to overturn the three cases, he sent someone to retrieve Shen Wu this morning. The yacha who received the order didn't know whether he was lazy or cautious, so he first ran to Shen Wu's house to look for someone, and as a result, he found Shen Wu's body.
Although there is no discrimination against people in this profession, many people are reluctant to associate with such people because they often deal with corpses. Shen Wu is still an outsider, and he rarely interacts with people in Leizhou City.
It is exactly like this, even if Shen Wu has been dead for many days, the neighbors do not know. If it weren't for Lin Haoran suddenly helping the three women overturn the case, I'm afraid that the time to find the body would have to be delayed for a few days.
When he heard about this murder, Lin Haoran's first thought was not that there was another trouble, but that he suddenly smelled the smell of conspiracy.
He just felt that there was something wrong with Shen Wu for this pretend, but it turned out that the person was already dead, how could he not think about it too much? According to his inference, Shen Wuji may have helped someone commit perjury, so he was silenced.
"I'll take a look!" Lin Haoran immediately made a decision and immediately planned to go to the scene of the crime.
According to his way of being an official who seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, this murder case should be handed over to the Haikang County Government to handle, but he vaguely felt that this case was not simple, so he decided to be handled by the government office.
Shen Wu lived near the east gate of the city, not too far from the palace.
Lin Haoran overestimated his ability to tolerate corpses and corpse odors, and after arriving there, he actually just walked through the motions, and quickly glanced at the corpse, and didn't dare to take a second look.
Shen Wu was killed by a sharp weapon with a throat cut, and this was still said by the head catcher next to him, because he didn't see Shen Wu's neck clearly at all, let alone the scars on his neck.
Obviously, this is undoubtedly a murderer case, and the most suspicious object is naturally Shen Liu, who lives with Shen Wu.
It's just that the yacha confirmed that Shen Wu personally said that Shen Liu had returned to his hometown, so Shen Liu's suspicion could be washed away. However, Lin Haoran still sent someone to find Shen Liu, always feeling that this person might know some important clues.
When I returned to the door of the mansion, I happened to meet the tiger girl who came out in a hurry. When asked where she was going, she said she was going to see an autopsy, so she jumped into the carriage and drove away.
Lin Haoran really wanted to stop the tiger girl from running in vain, his brother didn't even dare to take a second look at the corpse, this autopsy was so bloody and terrifying, how could she stand it.
But then I thought about it, it was a good thing for this girl to leave, maybe she beat the drum of injustice on a whim, and then she would not be at peace again.
Entering the gate of the mansion, he went directly back to the signing room, asked Sun Jixiang to find the file, and checked it carefully.
If he hadn't guessed, Shen Wu must have helped others commit perjury in a case he handled, otherwise he would not have been killed at all.
He found that after Shen Liu left, the cases that were personally autopsied by Shen Wu were only three cases in which Hu Niu avenged the three women.
If you commit perjury, you must be shielding the murderer for the benefit of the perpetrator. The answer is soon to come out, Zhang's poisoning of her husband and Chen's murder of her husband are both accidental deaths, there is no "shielding the murderer", only the "diner choking to death case" is more consistent.
Diners are supposed to have beaten the assailant to the point of serious injury, and then died of his injuries while eating.
It's just that there is also a problem with this case, the perpetrator doesn't seem to have to deliberately shift the responsibility to Su Niang, even if he spends money to make a wrong autopsy report, he doesn't need to kill him.
"Am I wrong?"
Lin Haoran rummaged through the three files, but couldn't find a reason to be killed with Shen Wu, and couldn't help but doubt himself in his heart.
By late evening, the autopsy report was in.
The three cases were all unjust, Liu Xing was indeed killed by snake venom, and the latter two were also conjectured by them, and the causes of death reported by the previous autopsy were all wrong.
The servant did a small experiment to find some river sand from the deceased's nasal cavity, and was able to determine that he had drowned in the river and was not murdered.
At the same time, some local villagers also came to report the incident. He claimed to have returned to his hometown with the deceased, but when he passed through Changpingling, he was looted by a group of bandits, and the deceased chose to continue to go home, while he chose to return to Xuwen County.
The three cases came to light, and the people of Leizhou City talked about it, and there were not a few people who applauded, and their favorability towards the new prefect skyrocketed.
It's just that Lin Haoran knows that the matter is far from over. In particular, there is no clue about the two major cases, and the woodcutter is like evaporating from the world, and no matter how many officers and soldiers are dispatched, they can't find anyone.