Wei Xiancheng, the second in command of the county government, and Ge Xianwei, the fourth in command, both recognized Liu Yanchun and Chen Yuan. Those who might have been resentful and dissatisfied just now did not dare to say a word.

Zhou Dian, who revealed that Chen Yuan was a mute in front of the adults, wanted to dig a hole and escape in time. He felt guilty and felt that he could not stay in Weiyu County for a long time, for fear that the mute girl would take revenge on him in the future when she became a widower.

Li Delong wanted to go up and have a chat with the two adults, but the two adults came to Yizhuang on official business and there was no way they could chat with other people.

More government officials brought by the two men surrounded and separated the irrelevant people.

In the mourning hall, under the supervision of Wei Xian Cheng, Lieutenant Ge Xian served as the coroner, and Zeng Wuzuo re-executed Chen Yuan's autopsy process.

The Criminal Code of Nanli Country is relatively complete. Even with the results of Chen Yuan's autopsy, it would have to be done again according to official procedures.

Chen Yuan, as an apprentice recognized by the county government, and Liu Yanchun, as a personal apprentice of Zeng Zuo, both had the opportunity to "study" nearby.

Chen Yuan understood very well that technology was one thing, but she also had to learn the Nanli Country's Criminal and Prison Code. Only autopsy examinations done in accordance with the rules and procedures would be officially recognized and have legal effect.

While performing the autopsy and singing the newspaper, Zeng Wu did not forget to observe the performance of the two apprentices and was very satisfied with Chen Yuan's humble and studious attitude.

As for Liu Yanchun.

Anyway, there won't be any loss if you take him in. The rest depends on your own fate.

This serious autopsy examination became irrefutable evidence for the interrogation of the Ma family and Widow Huang.

The murder case of Douzi and Qiao Niang was soon opened for questioning in the county government hall of Weiyu County.

On the day of the interrogation, there were many onlookers at the gate of the county government office.

The results of the interrogation did not deviate from the judgment Liu Yanchun made on that day based on the results of Chen Yuan's autopsy. Although there were differences, they were not far from each other.

Ma Tao and Qiao Niang have been married for two years, and Ma Tao has recently become addicted to gambling. Qiao Niang cried, made trouble, and hanged herself just to force him to change his ways and live a good life.

On that day, she threatened Ma Tao not to take away the money that supported the family, but Ma Tao didn't care about her life or death, and took away the wages she earned from washing clothes and ran away.

Qiao Niang was rescued by her parents-in-law, but she was already on the verge of death, incontinent of urine and feces, and had injured her neck.

But her parents-in-law did not find a doctor to treat her, nor did they clean her dirty body. They also scolded her for being unworthy. What's wrong with a man playing with some money? We are all a family, and the money she earns is the Ma family's money.

A woman only needs to wait for a man to turn around, how can she risk life and death at every turn?

The two parents-in-law just put the injured Qiao Niang back on the bed and left.

Unexpectedly, not long after Qiao Niang lay down, Ma Tao, who ran out to gamble, met a creditor on the way and all his money was robbed.

Ma Tao, who was out of money, turned back halfway and went back to the house to rummage through the cabinets and look for the money that Qiao Niang had hidden everywhere.

The man's mouse-like behavior made Qiao Niang completely despair.

Finally, Ma Tao found two taels of broken silver in the bed frame under his pillow. Qiao Niang tried her best to get the silver back, grabbing Ma Tao's clothes and not letting go. Ma Tao was so angry that she covered Qiao Niang to death.

Even though Ma Tao's parents were old and deaf, they heard such a loud noise.

The old couple rushed over to check, and after helping their son clean up the mess made by rummaging through boxes and cabinets, they simply agreed that Qiao Niang had committed suicide by drowning herself.

Household registration has been standardized in Nanli. Under the household registration system, any household that has a new member or dies must go to the county government office to register for household registration and deregistration.

The family went to the county government office to close Qiao Niang's account according to the theory that Qiao Niang committed suicide.

Because Zeng Wuzuo wanted to take the exam to become an imperial doctor, the Ma family thought their little plan was successful, and they were complacent for several days.

Unexpectedly, their clever tricks were seen through by Zuo from the very beginning.

It's a pity that Qiao Niang's body is still cold, and her parents-in-law are already looking for a shady matchmaker to go to other counties to help Ma Tao find a capable woman who can take care of the house.

In this case, the onlookers cursed Ma Tao for gambling on dogs, but it did not destroy the people's outlook.

What they couldn't accept was the death of Douzi, who was killed by his own mother and his adulterer.

Such a human tragedy is unacceptable to the people.

The law of Nanli country allows widows to remarry, so the widow Huang and Liu Ming can get married openly and openly.

However, if Widow Huang remarries, she, a person with a foreign surname, cannot take away the property and house belonging to Douzi Daddy as a dowry, and must return it to the Zhen family.

Liu Ming was an Orion and had no land or real estate. Widow Huang did not want to be an Orion's wife and suffer in the mountains, and Liu Ming did not want to marry into his wife, so the two secretly communicated with each other.

But he didn’t want Douzi to break up the adultery.

If this matter was known to the Zhen family, Widow Huang was worried that Shen Lu would be punished by the clan rules, and in order to keep her property, she was so panicked that the two of them covered their beans to death.

Now is the busy farming season, and there are many people in the fields during the day.

There were also people harvesting rice with torches at night, and people guarding the rice piles made it inconvenient to dump the bodies.

Thinking that Douzi loved water in summer, Huang and Liu Ming wanted to pretend that Douzi accidentally drowned while playing in the river.

There was no place at home to hide the body, and he hid it under the bed and was afraid that mice would chew the body and someone would find out about it, so he hid Beanzi's body in a large stone-cut water tank in the kitchen of his home.

After two days of waiting, the rice harvesting in the field outside the house was completed, and there were not that many people in the field. Liu Mingcai used a wooden cart to pretend to pull straw, pulled out the beans that had been soaked for two days, and threw them into the river.

The adulterer and Mr. Huang worked together, acting out a scene of a bean playing in water and drowning.

The evidence in these two cases was solid, and the murderers also confessed under the irrefutable evidence.

The criminal code of Nanli State is relatively simple. If you kill someone, you should pay with your life.

Ma Tao was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to death. He is only awaiting trial by the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will participate in the review, and the Dali Temple trial will be completed. He will be beheaded next year.

Ma Tao's parents protected Ma Tao, fabricated the scene, gave false evidence, and were sentenced to 2 years in prison.

Two years seemed like a light sentence, but after Chen Yuan visited the county jail, he didn't think so.

In ancient times, there was no emphasis on human rights. Prisoners in prisons did not have bed boards or quilts at all. A layer of straw was laid on the damp ground to serve as beds. It was not normal to have rheumatism.

There are often snakes, insects, rats and ants crawling around.

In ancient times, productivity was low. The imperial court had so much food to feed prisoners, so most of them had to sell water to feed prisoners.

For the 50-year-old Ma family, it is still unclear whether they can survive the past two years.

Compared to ordinary prisoners, conditions for death row prisoners are better.

Because the files of death row prisoners have to go through three divisions, in order to ensure that the death row prisoners can wait until the time of questioning and execution in the autumn, they will also be fed and the straw will be replaced with dry ones.

In the Douzi case, Huang and his adulterer Liu Ming were also sentenced to death.

The files of these two cases were submitted together.

After watching the trials of two murder cases in one day, the onlookers all sighed for the deceased and wished they could beat up the murderer.
Chapter completed!