188. Chapter 188 Dark clouds first opened
Seeing the pale face of the county magistrate Wan, Chen Hao couldn't help but smile jokingly: "According to the file of this case, Zhen died of the murderer's attempt to molest, which made him suffocate and died. He then hung his body on the beam of the house. He wanted to set up a confusion for this reason, so that we thought Zhen died of hanging himself. When the murderer was about to clean up the house, but he didn't expect that things would change. Meng Huo suddenly returned. So the murderer wanted to escape without having time to cover up, but Meng Huo hit her brother in front of him..."
"What the lord said is very true. The officials in this case also based on the clues in Meng Huo's family, and finally solved the intention of the murderer Zhang Luo to commit the crime..." The county magistrate Wan said with confidence, and his words made people feel unquestionable.
Chen Hao flipped through the file and raised his eyebrows with interest and jokingly said, "Is that true? However, I do not agree with Lord Wan's opinion..."
As soon as this said, Wan Baoshan felt a stern in his heart, and then he calmed down and bowed, "Sister attentively!"
"Maybe when Zhang Luo entered Meng Huo's house, Zhen had already been killed by the real murderer, and Zhang Luo was just a coincidence..." Chen Hao expressed his opinion at this moment.
"But Meng Huo really saw Zhang Luo fleeing from the room in a hurry. What explanation would the Lord give..." The magistrate Wan County asked Chen Hao.
Chen Hao snorted lightly, then raised the file record in his hand and said: "According to the documentary recorded, there were some shoe prints on the Hu bench on the scene. It can be seen that the murderer was standing on the Hu bench and passing the rope through the beam. However, Lord Wan and you all, please look at the kneeling Zhang Luo. Although he was pretty, he was short. According to my calculations, it was not easy for Zhang Luo to stand on the Hu bench to cross the beam..."
"Maybe it's not clear that Zhang Luo is standing on another high place..." Meng Huo said in a word at this time.
"Even so, I compared Zhang Luo's feet with him, which was obviously much smaller! Even Meng Huo, you may not have such big feet..." Chen Hao said as he showed the boots that Zhang Luo wore to everyone.
Then Chen Hao continued: "It can be seen that something we had never known about when the incident happened that day. As for what happened, I already knew it..."
When Chen Hao said this, he deliberately paused. Seeing that the people in the hall looked different, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart, and then said, "Take Meng Zhihuan to the court to ask!"
After a while, Meng Zhihuan came to the court and after seeing the ceremony, she stood aside and waited for the hearing. At this time, Chen Hao slapped the agglomeration and shouted loudly: "Bold Meng Zhihuan, how dare you take human life? Do you know that you are guilty?"
hiss……
Chen Hao's sudden shout frightened everyone, and all turned his attention to Meng Zhihuan who had just arrived in the court. At this moment, Meng Zhihuan was the most frightened. At first, when he heard the summons, he just thought he would help the court solve the case, but he didn't expect that he would give up his warning when he entered the court.
"Please forgive the students for being unreasonable. I hope that the adults will not wrongly accuse the students!" Meng Zhihuan quickly calmed down after panic.
Seeing that Meng Zhihuan calmed down in a short time, Chen Hao was quite amazed. However, he said coldly: "Not accused? Mr. Meng, don't tell me that you have never been to Meng Huo's house that day?"
"This..." Meng Zhihuan's heart was shocked and her eyes were flickering, and she was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to answer.
"Sir, the Meng family has passed the imperial examination for several generations, and now Mr. Meng is also a juren. How could he do things that harm the heavens and reason in the servant's house for no reason?" Wan Baoshan stood up and said in resentment.
After hearing the words of the magistrate Wan County, Chen Hao couldn't help but tilt his head and asked with interest: "Did I ever say that Mr. Meng committed the crime? Master Wan was so unstable, so he might as well go to the back hall to rest for a while..."
Forehead……
Wan Baoshan also felt that he was too unstable at this moment, and apologized awkwardly: "It's the official who is abrupt!"
Chen Hao ignored the apology of County Magistrate Wan, but looked directly at Meng Zhihuan: "Young Master Meng, there is no need to deny it. I have compared the size of your foot boots with the shoe prints on the scene of the crime that day, but the result is completely consistent!"
Meng Zhihuan looked at Chen Hao with wide eyes, and then seemed to think of something: "Yesterday..."
"Yes, yesterday, the Japanese official summoned you to ask Meng Huo for nothing, but in fact he wanted to take off your boots for comparison..." Chen Hao responded calmly without denying.
Yesterday, Meng Zhihuan took off her wet boots and put them in the back hall. Finally, she packed the boots back when she went back. In fact, when Meng Zhihuan put on Chen Hao's special boots together, Chen Hao began to doubt Meng Zhihuan because the boots were made from the size of the boot print.
During this period, Chen Hao asked someone to put Meng Zhihuan's wet boots in ten pairs of wet boots. Then he pulled out the yellow dog that had been following him, letting the yellow dog wander among a row of boots. In the end, the yellow dog fell in love with Meng Zhihuan's boots with a special liking. This further confirmed that the case was related to Meng Zhihuan.
"My lord, even so, then... it is impossible to conclude that the student had stayed at Meng Huo's house..." Meng Zhihuan was a little nervous and evasive at this moment, with a hint of panic in his words.
As soon as Meng Zhihuan finished speaking, Meng Huo on the side also said, "Sir, what the young master said is reasonable. I didn't see my young master on the way home that day!"
Seeing that Meng Huo was still helping his young master to argue at this moment, Chen Hao said to Meng Huo: "What a servant who protects the master, but I will not make any guesses. I might as well let you see the things in your home!"
As he said that, he ordered someone to take out the yellow dog. When the yellow dog came to the court, he saw Meng Huo also in the hall, so he revolved around the male owner intimately. Meng Huo was extremely happy to see Dahuang who had not returned home for a long time, so he couldn't help but go forward to touch him. But at this moment, Dahuang suddenly changed his gentle appearance and suddenly looked at Meng Zhihuan and Wanbaoshan not far away with fierceness.
Meng Zhihuan, who was closest, naturally felt the hostility of Dahuang. He seemed to be very afraid of Dahuang. He was about to hide but did not expect Dahuang to have already locked him in his arms. For a moment, a strange scene of dog chasing people appeared in the court, which made many people watching the case laugh.
In the end, Wan Baoshan was also very frightened, so he hurriedly asked Chen Hao for help. Chen Hao looked at the chase in the field. After a long silence, he did not let the yamen run away. Instead, he said to Da Huang in a deep voice: "Da Huang, if I want my official to be wronged for your heroine, I must obey my official's orders!"
Wan Baoshan couldn't help laughing when he heard Chen Hao's words, and thought to himself that Lord Chen was crazy, saying something to a dog. Not only Wan Baoshan, even Meng Huo and others, he also felt that Chen Hao's words and deeds just now were ridiculous.
Just when everyone thought that Chen Hao's words were just a joke, a surprising scene was once again staged in the court. However, after hearing Chen Hao's words, Dahuang actually stopped and lay on the ground without moving.
hiss……
This scene made everyone gasp. Even Meng Zhihuan, who was chased and bitten just now, couldn't help but be stunned on the spot. At this moment, he forgot the bites on his legs, and was thinking in his heart how this yellow dog understood people's words.
Just when everyone was surprised, Chen Hao nodded when he saw Dahuang being so obedient, and said, "Wait patiently, I will bring the murderer to justice!"
Plop!
This time, Dahuang's actions completely shocked everyone's chins. However, after hearing Chen Hao's words, Dahuang slowly stood up and stretched his neck and pointed three points. Finally, he fell to the ground and his forelimbs were bent in a kneeling manner.
The series of performances of Dahuang have been positioned in everyone's hearts, that is, this dog is not comparable to ordinary domestic dogs. At this time, when everyone looked at Meng Zhihuan again, there were a few more doubts in their eyes.
It would be fine if ordinary domestic dogs bite people everywhere, but everyone just laughed it off. However, today they have let everyone see the spiritual dog that is well-versed in human language, and the one that this spiritual dog is chasing and biting Meng Zhihuan. After combining what Chen Hao said before, everyone even more suspected that Meng Zhihuan was the murderer.
Meng Zhihuan felt very uncomfortable, so he stepped forward to salute Chen Hao and said, "Sir, just by the size of the shoe print, you have to say that the student is the murderer. Is it too arbitrary? If the adult has nothing to do, the student will leave if he is unwell!"
"Mr. Meng said so much, but I have witnessed it!" Chen Hao said and ordered the summons of witnesses.
When he came to the hall, a woodcutter named Wang San was said to have returned from the city and passed by Meng Huo's house that day, but he saw Chong Chong hurriedly walked out of Meng Huo's house. When Chen Hao asked about the two people who could see Wang San's house, Wang San carefully identified and confirmed that one of them was Meng Zhihuan.
Chen Hao was afraid that Meng Zhihuan would refuse to plead guilty, so he continued to add: "Mr. Meng may still need to argue: Even if he arrives at Meng Huo's house, Zhen's death may not be yours..."
Seeing that Chen Hao said what he wanted to say, Meng Zhihuan bowed and said in a deep voice: "That's it!"
"No matter whether Mr. Meng is tall, he can stand on the Hu bench and have a fixed rope that is right in place. However, the three scars on your left wrist alone are enough to make you unable to escape the blame!" Chen Hao expected Meng Zhihuan to withdraw, so he blocked his retreat at this moment.
"You are..." Meng Zhihuan asked in surprise, and involuntarily put his left arm behind.
Chen Hao ordered the yamen runners to uniform Meng Zhihuan and pulled his left arm out of his wide sleeve. He raised it high and everyone saw three blood marks on his left wrist.
"When the Japanese official opened the coffin and examined the autopsy, he found three residues of flesh between Zhen's right fingernail. When the Japanese official speculated, Zhen must have struggled under the violent force of the murderer, and his right hand also left the remaining objects when he cut the murderer's left hand. Therefore, this official concluded that the murderer must have three blood marks on his left hand..."
Meng Zhihuan asked very unwillingly: "How did the adults know that there will be blood marks on the left hand of the student?" He always thought that he had been covering up well, and deliberately wore long-sleeved clothes to better cover up.
Chapter completed!