In one morning’s time, the Jingnan County Yamen drums sounded five times, all three months ago the theft case.
So many owners piled up to complain, to say that there is nothing fishy in it, and how can it be. By observing the looks of the people in the hall, seeing that Zhang County Minister and others were not surprised, and even gloatingly peered at himself many times, Zhu Pingan knew that all of this must be Zhang County Minister and others behind the ghost.
However, Zhu Pingan checked the records of the case and court hearing at that time, and confirmed that these owners had indeed come to the Yamen three months ago to report a theft. This is a serial theft case, no clues, no witnesses, at that time belonged to no hope of solving the headless case, not to mention now the file are “lost”.
The day before yesterday, they forced the prisoners to take a holiday; today, Zhang County Minister and others deliberately chose such a serial theft case, encouraging these owners to come to the grievance …….This is them striking back.
This is trying to make themselves grey and embarrassed and make a fool of themselves.
Interesting.
Zhu Pingan slightly hooked up the corner of his lips, Fighting with the sky, it’s fun; Fighting with the earth, it’s fun; Fighting with people, it’s fun ……
Although there is no dossier, but the trial transcript is still there, Zhu Pingan made the clerk will be the day of the trial transcript to read through, through the trial transcript, Zhu Pingan also has a more detailed understanding of this serial theft case.
Of course, in order to prevent the case of “lost” files happen again, Zhu Pingan made the criminal room official Zhang Dainian submit the file registration archive, to grasp the file archive situation. Well, coincidentally, one of the pages of the archive submitted by Zhang Dainian was torn out, and looking at the date, it happened to be the time when the serial thefts occurred.
Zhu Pingan stretched out his fingers and pinched the remnants of the missing page of the archive book, looking up and down, very fresh tear marks, he could not help but hook the corner of his lips to look at Zhang Dainian playfully. Zhang Dainian lowered his head, not daring to meet Zhu Pingan’s eyes, sweating profusely, but thinking of the promise made by County Magistrate Zhang, Zhang Dainian forced himself to straighten his back again and meet Zhu Pingan’s eyes.
“Magistrate Zhang, please explain to me what’s going on?”Zhu Pingan fiddled with the residual pages with his fingers and asked with narrowed eyes.
“This, this ……This one is because all the case files on this page were kept by the previous governor, so the previous governor tore this page out.”Zhang Dainian answered Zhu Pingan’s question with very little courage, stumbling over his answer and his eyes wandered from side to side, not daring to meet Zhu Pingan’s eyes.
“The former governor tore it away?”Zhu Pingan sniffed and couldn’t help but laugh, “Such a fresh tear ……”
“Your Excellency, the tear marks look fresh, but they are actually a long time old. The main reason why they look fresh is because we kept the archive book well.”Zhang Dainian swelled his face and explained in a raw manner.
“Well kept?”
Zhu Pingan laughed breathlessly, reached out and flipped through the archive book, inside it was wrinkled and torn, where could it be related to good storage.
“Your Excellency, you are not suspecting that I deliberately tore up the archive book, right? I have been in the county office for ten years, there is not a single day that I have not been conscientious and diligent, I dare to use my head to guarantee that this page was really torn away by the former governor, and it was not done by me at all. Please county honourable sir to be clear about it.”Zhang Dainian’s lie was exposed face to face, face instantly as red as pig liver, but the whole person is acting like suffered a life can not bear the great injustice, emotionally excited to raise his voice, swore to his head to swear, righteous indignation.
When the liar, the lie is broken, often like to use the voice, with hysteria to table cover, and this behaviour, often will make a mistake, but will show his lie more clearly and more fully.
Zhang Dainian was like that.
Zhu Pingan’s mouth hooked with a touch of arc, like watching a play like watching Zhang Dainian’s exaggerated performance, and then smiled and opened his mouth to say, ”The original Zhang Dainian has come to the county government office for ten years ah, every single day is ‘conscientious and diligent’, it is not easy ah, then you should also rest, in a few days I will give you a ‘long holiday’, and I will give you a ‘long holiday’, and I will give you a ‘long holiday’.’long holiday’……”
“Many thanks to Your Excellency the Prefecture for your love ……”When Zhang Dainian heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and straightened his back even more.
Hmph, it’s true as Zhang county minister and Yao master book said, this little county honourable is an outsider, remotely want to sit in a stable position, where can he get away from us locals, leave us, he is a bare-knuckle county honourable, what the hell ah. Don’t look at him as a county honourable, as long as we hug together, he will have to be soft. Just like today, he just can see so what, still have to swallow this breath, even have to use the holiday to cage me.
“Punishment? Heh, how dare he? Let me tell you, the Prefectural Governor didn’t even dare to mention it, and he’s going to give me a holiday.”After Zhang Dainian returned to the punishment room, he went around bragging to the people about his heroic deed of playing head-to-head with Zhu Pingan.
The people were encouraged and had more confidence in driving out Zhu Pingan.
While Zhang Dainian and the others were in cahoots, Zhu Pingan had already taken Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou, and the other six to visit and investigate the place where the serial thefts occurred. Because the trial transcript records are limited, according to which it is impossible to solve the case, otherwise this serial theft case will not be shelved so far, must go to the field to investigate and visit, find clues to solve the case.
Zhu Pingan with Liu Mu and other people visited the five stolen in turn, carefully understand the situation, view the scene of the crime. Through the visit found five stolen although located in two villages, but the distance is not far, and are located on both sides of the road through the two villages.
However, because of time, most of the crime scenes have been destroyed, and got few clues.
Zhu Pingan also visited the stolen person’s right and left neighbourhood, asked the day of the crime and a few days before can have seen suspicious people and so on.
“To say what is suspicious, is my family’s dog is more suspicious, usually see a stranger, my family’s dog bite can be happy, but that night is very strange, the family’s dog did not bite.”
“The village head of Zhang Ma Zi is very suspicious, usually buttoned up like what, there are a few days also buy on buy meat to eat.”
“Suspicious? Those days a travelling merchant came to my house to beg for water to drink, and also praised my family’s cattle for raising water ……”
“Zhang San so honest people, that night and his daughter-in-law quarrel, we all went to persuade the fight, back to the sheep lost ……”
“That night, confused I heard the sound of a passing car on the road behind me, and did not take it seriously, and woke up to hear Old Liu say the donkey was stolen. We went to see, the road behind the village has rut marks, all the way to the village head.”
“Nothing suspicious ah, it’s been a long time, can’t remember much ……”
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Zhu Pingan got a lot of news from his visit, and there were quite a few useful clues, but they were rather messy.
Taking into account the stolen goods for cattle, sheep and donkeys and other living things, the target is relatively large, difficult to hide privately, the thieves stole, in order to avoid being found, will certainly sell the stolen goods as soon as possible. To this end, Zhu Pingan visited the villagers, butchers, township livestock market, carefully asked to understand the cattle, sheep and donkeys during the sale, to further find clues.
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A day down, legs are fast running broken, but the good thing is that the harvest is not small.
Zhu Pingan listed, analysed and ruled out one by one, and finally sorted out twelve suspects. However, because too much time had passed, many of the clues and evidence had been destroyed, and based on the existing clues and evidence, it was impossible to continue to rule them out further down the line.
