In the dead of night, Chen Hao was searching for clues at Sun Ke's home. Although he decided that Liu Wanru was wronged, he had to pay attention to evidence in everything. After searching in the house for two hours, he did not gain much. Just when Chen Hao thought he had found nothing tonight, he unexpectedly found that there were some iron filings under the desk. The cinnabar used for painting on the table was also sprinkled in a corner, and it was in irregular shapes.

Seeing these, Chen Hao no longer thought about it and ordered everyone to act according to the instructions. Just wait for the case to be clarified the next day, so that he could resolve the last concern of Taihe County and easily enter Hexi to take office.

The next morning, the people in the city arrived at the county yamen early, because everyone knew that Chen Hao was going to overturn the case for Liu Wanru today. The people in Taihe County could recite Chen Hao's various deeds, so they were very excited about Chen Hao's solution today. At this moment, the court was silent, and two yamen runners stood in line in trains.

Wang Baichuan was slapped in the middle hall and shouted coldly, and ordered the yamen runners to take the prisoner Liu Wanru to the court. After Liu Wanru was shackles and knelt in the court with a haggard face, Chen Hao took the lead from the auditorium first, and then said in a deep voice: "Sun Liu, under the hall, today Chen was entrusted by your father to come to defend and seek justice for you. Therefore, if you have any questions in this moment, you must not hide anything!"

"yes!"

Liu Wanru looked at Chen Hao with gratitude, then nodded gently. Liu Wanru was worried about Chen Hao being able to help him today. If she had not been threatened, she had to provide perjury and accused Chen Hao, perhaps she would have been in harmony with Chen Hao today. However, the world was like a chess twists and turns, which made her ultimately miss Chen Hao.

Now that Chen Hao can come forward to seek justice for her without grudges, she is very satisfied. Although she still has some feelings in her heart, she knows that she is no longer worthy of Chen Hao. Because now she is already a wife and is about to become a mother.

Seeing that Chen Hao had finished giving orders, Wang Baichuan slapped the auspicious tree and summoned another witness Zhang Zhen to the hall. At this moment, everyone knew that the trial began immediately, so they held their breath and listened carefully. At this time, they came to the hall and bowed to Wang Baichuan and said, "Sir, Chen is the lawyer of Sun Liu, can he ask questions at this moment?"

It is reasonable for Chen Hao to bow to Wang Baichuan. Although Chen Hao is a Hanlin person, he is a person without a job. Therefore, it is reasonable for bowing to the local parents and officials. Wang Baichuan said in a deep voice with a serious face: "Of course, but I want to remind you that my Tang Dynasty law is not merciless to the law of the lawyers!"

Chen Hao responded very solemnly when he heard this, "Thank you, sir!" Of course, he knew the "laws of lawsuits" in the Tang Dynasty's comments, which clearly stipulated that if everything is written with others or defended by others, if it is not consistent with the final fact, he will be beaten with fifty cannons.

Then he turned around and gently waved the folding fan to Zhang Zhen and asked, "Zhang Zhen, can you tell me about the situation that day last time?"

Zhang Zhen said nervously: "The young man had never entered a private school since he was a child and could not read, so he often asked Sun Xiucai to help write letters. On that day, the young man wanted to find Sun Xiucai to write a letter, but he didn't want to be a young man to open the door, but he saw Sun Liu touching a bloody dagger in his hand. At first, although the young man was surprised, he just thought that the scholar had opened a meat dish today. Perhaps he had no sword to use it, so he used the dagger..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Zhen remembered the situation afterwards and couldn't help but fight a cold war: "Then the young man entered the courtyard. When he looked up, he found that Sun Xiucai was already lying in a pool of blood. However, Sun Liu looked at Xiao Man with a panic look. At that time, the young man lost his three souls and crawled to the county government to report the matter to his father-in-law (county magistrate)!"

After hearing this, Chen Hao nodded, and then Langsheng said: "Sir, you can draw two conclusions from Zhang Zhen's confession. One is not clear about how Sun Ke died, and the other is not clear about the real situation in the Sun family. However, how can you say that Sun Liu must be the murderer? Can't there be hidden mystery in this?"

"But the little one did see Sun Liu holding a weapon in his hand, and this matter was absolutely true!" Seeing that Chen Hao was intending to confess Liu Wanru, Zhang Zhen defended his words and made a righteous refutation.

Zhang Zhen's counterattack also made many people who were listening to this. Chen Hao smiled and said, "Everyone remembered Zhang Zhen's confession, but never remembered Sun Liu's previous defense statement, which seemed a bit unfair. Chen remembered that there was a record in the file. On that day, Sun Liu returned home from buying vegetables and saw that Sun Ke was injured and fell into a pool of blood. So he fell to the ground in fear, and happened to sit on the dagger...

That is why Zhang Zhen, who was also panicked, mistakenly thought that Sun Liu killed Sun Ke with a dagger! Just imagine, how could a woman who wants to be a mother let the child lose his father before he was born? If it were really Sun Liu who killed him, he would not have blood splattered five steps under the six swords, but he would definitely splash blood stains on his body. Why was there no blood stains on Sun Liu's collar?"

"Although this is reasonable, it is just a one-sided statement of the suspect. The lawyer, unless you have enough evidence to prove this matter, what you said just now is nonsense!" Wang Baichuan enforced the law impartially and did not favor any bias because of the relationship between the two.

Chen Hao smiled slightly, then bowed and said, "What the lord said is very true. Since Chen's assertion is so reasonable. At this moment, Chen asked Captain Hao to take someone with him, and he also asked him to be kind to you!"

"Oh? Well! As you wish!" Wang Baichuan never thought that Chen Hao really had a trick, which made him happy.

After a while, someone entered the county government lobby. This man was in his twenties and his beard had a bit of mighty force. After the person came to kneel in the court, Wang Baichuan asked him the origin of his name.

This person's name is Liu Tiedan, the son of Liu Blacksmith in the west of the city. Although Liu Blacksmith is a blacksmith, he is very good at meticulous craftsmanship. Liu Blacksmith is very skilled in creating gold and silver jewelry. This is amazing. He thought that a blacksmith actually started the work of a goldsmith. Not only that, Liu Blacksmith's craftsmanship far exceeds that of the goldsmith in the city, so many people often ask Liu Blacksmith to make jewelry.

Liu Tiedan has been learning to make a blacksmith with his father for more than ten years and has already mastered his skills. Unfortunately, this person is a man who is good at gambling but not doing his job properly. Although he does not bully men and women, he also keeps away from the people of the whole city. At this moment, everyone was puzzled by Chen Hao's summons Liu Tiedan to attend the ceremony.

Wang Baichuan was also puzzled by this, so he asked Chen Hao what was related to Liu Tiedan. Since Chen Hao brought Liu Tiedan to court, he naturally would not be aimless, so he told him about the clues seized from the Sun family.

Last night, Chen Hao found some iron filings under Sun Ke's desk. At that time, Chen Hao suspected that the iron thug had entered the room. The reason for this is that in Sun Ke's home, only Sun Ke and Liu Wanru live.

One is a scholar who studied hard in a long time, how could he get a piece of iron filing? Scholars are all kind of pride, and even the kitchen can stay away from iron filings from blacksmith shops. The other is a pregnant woman who naturally does not carry iron filings, nor will she keep it in the room. Now there are residual iron filings in the room, which means that Liu Wanru has not had time to take care of the room.

Because the Tang Dynasty had the control of the two national veins of salt and iron, the government departments. Therefore, the number of iron that can be seen among the people is the blacksmith shop. However, there are three blacksmith shops in Taihe County, which is the most suspicious. Chen Hao found the answer to this doubt in Sun Ke's palm.

When observing Sun Ke's corpse, he accidentally found a slightly black linear corpse mark in the palm of his hand. Most people would not find that somewhere in their body had been squeezed and severely injured. Only after the corpse was cold, various traces were slowly revealed. The corpse marks in Sun Ke's hand were traces left during his lifetime, but they were not discovered at that time.

Based on the shape and length of the black marks in Sun Ke's hand, Chen Hao judged that it was caused by a slender metal spoil. At that time, Chen Hao's guess was: when the murderer wanted to seize the metal spoil, Sun Ke refused to let go. So he clasped the metal spoil tightly. During the fight between the two, the palm of his hand was squeezed and strained due to excessive force.

Chen Hao was thinking at the time that if his guess was correct, then what could be worth Sun Ke and the murderer's desperate efforts. However, when he finally entered the cell to visit Liu Wanru, he suddenly thought of what the metal spoil was. Because he saw a wooden hairpin inserted in Liu Wanru's messy hairpin, it can be inferred that Sun Ke should have regained a hairpin.

With this idea, Chen Hao asked some questions in prison, which seemed unclear. When Liu Wanru said that it was her birthday that day, Chen Hao guessed that Sun Ke must have wanted to give his wife a silver hairpin or a gold hairpin. Although it was just a guess, it was considered a sign of a fancy. Later, based on the iron filings at Sun Ke’s home, Chen Hao finally targeted the Liu Iron Smith Shop in the west of the city.

In addition to Liu Tiejian and Liu Tiedan, there were other friends in the blacksmith shop, so it was very difficult to check it out. However, Chen Hao was already prepared, so he quickly locked Liu Tiedan from everyone. The reason why he was so sure was because of the irregular cinnabar water stains on the corner of Sun Ke's desk.

At that time, Chen Hao suspected that this was the cinnabar of the painting that was accidentally overturned when the two of them were fighting. Then the murderer accidentally stained the corners of his clothes. Because only when external objects were wiped, the cinnabar water stains would appear in that shape. At the same time, Chen Hao checked that Sun Ke's clothes were not stained with cinnabar. Not only did he find a golden hairpin in Liu Tiedan's bedroom, but he also found that there were many scratches on Liu Tiedan's back...
Chapter completed!