[Seventy-five] King of Xiangyang is super fierce

Chapter 15

The king of Xiangyang ran in a hurry, and because he was greatly stimulated, it took him a long time to explain clearly to Bao Zheng that Jiang Zhi'er was found dismembered in the courtyard of Zheng Butcher's house.

Bao Zheng's black face sank when he heard the words, he turned around and walked to the front of the hall, took two sticks and threw them in front of Butcher Zheng, who was being tied up by the guards, and shouted: "What a wicked butcher! You kill yourself, and you also want to blame him!" Others! You are such a good lady, but you are so cruel that you can hide people's corpses!"

"Call me!"

The butcher was surprised when he heard that the body was found in his own yard, and said, "Did I kill someone? How could I kill someone?"

After he finished speaking, he stared at his hands, looked at them over and over again, then put his hands on his head in disbelief, and muttered: "I didn't kill people, how could I kill people!!"

Seeing his strange expression, Gongsun Ce suspected that this person had epilepsy, so he pleaded with Bao Zheng, "My lord, the student didn't seem to know that he had killed someone, so to prevent wrong judgment, the student asked to take him down for a diagnosis and treatment before interrogation! "

Could it be that someone put the blame on the butcher?

The King of Xiangyang also began to hesitate. Seeing Gongsun Ce take the man down, he told Bao Zheng his thoughts: "Master Bao, I think the murderer is very likely to be this butcher."

"Although it is possible that someone else put the blame on him, think about it, my lord. There are thousands of ways to set the blame on him. Why did the murderer have to chop up the corpse and hide it in Zheng Butcher's house? Even if he just threw the corpse in his backyard , can also achieve the purpose of setting blame."

"Besides, the king and the guard Zhan have seen the corpse at his house, and the corpse does not look as simple as being decomposed, it is simply chopped to pieces!"

"Let me ask, apart from Zheng Tuhu, who sells meat and chops meat all the year round, who can have such strong arms?"

"In addition to the rush of time, we found Jiang Zhi'er's head the night she died. Why did the murderer choose such a thankless way of blaming her?"

Bao Zheng nodded frequently when he heard it, and there was a burst of coldness on his overly dark face, "According to what the prince said, it is very likely that this person is pretending to be crazy and trying to escape punishment."

"Pretending to be crazy is not necessarily..." King Xiangyang thought thoughtfully, "What I doubt the most is his reaction, he pretends to be crazy, why does he seem to have amnesia, and he doesn't remember what he has done at all? "

"What does the prince mean?"

King Xiangyang was a little nervous when he saw that Bao Zheng didn't dislike his inference at all.

After all, he was also reasoning casually, without any evidence at all.

King Xiangyang touched his nose and said slowly: "We can only see Mr. Gongsun's diagnosis first."

As soon as the words were finished, Gongsun Ce came out of the inner hall, his face full of puzzlement, and he said to Bao Zheng: "My lord, the students found that this person is not insane, but just lost control of his emotions for a while."

Sure enough, I am not crazy...

The King of Xiangyang wanted to hear Bao Zheng's thoughts, but before he could ask, a government servant brought Ye Qian, who had been locked up all this time, out of the prison, and planned to release him.

Wei Shiliang's case was closed, Ye Qian was only guilty of a petty theft, Bao Zheng didn't bother to care about him anymore, thinking that he had meritorious testimony, he simply let him be released today.

Seeing Ye Qian's wretched and gloomy posture, the King of Xiangyang still had lingering fears, and couldn't help but recall the scene when he nearly killed him that day.

But just after he thought for a while, he suddenly thought of something crucial, and immediately said to the yamen servant who was untying Ye Qian: "Wait! Don't let him go!"

When Bao Zheng heard this, he also raised his hand to signal the guards to stop, and asked, "What did the lord remember?"

"That beggar!! When I first followed him, he was spying on Butcher Zheng's house!"

Bao Zheng narrowed his eyes: "Tell me more in detail!"

"That day, Jiang Wan made a big fuss in the yamen, and the cooks in the inn also went to watch the excitement. This king was going out to find a place to eat, so he went into the wonton shop in the old alley next to Zheng Butcher's house."

"I remember clearly that the place I was sitting was facing the beggar, and he was squatting in the corner, looking at Butcher Zheng's shop motionlessly. I didn't want to follow him until I finished eating the wontons and saw him leave. look!"

"I remembered, I originally followed Zheng Tuhu's case, but I didn't expect to be involved in the Baifu case, so I forgot!"

King Xiangyang was so angry that he patted himself on the head, "How could I have forgotten such an important clue?!"

But Bao Zheng said: "No problem, it's not too late to think about it now, this case is thanks to the prince."

Ye Qian saw that he was doing well, and was about to be released after serving his sentence to welcome a better tomorrow, but he was arrested again suddenly, and said with a mournful face: "I really don't know if Butcher Zheng killed the villain. Masters, please spare the villain." !"

"Since you don't know about Butcher Zheng, why are you sneaking around at his door!" King Xiangyang walked up to Ye Qian and questioned him.

Ye Qian rolled his eyes several times, and after thinking for a long time, he finally said: "The villain is squatting at the door of his house. It's not that time when the villain squatted at his door. The villain has been squatting on him for many days!"

Bao Zheng: "Squat him for many days?"

"This... I'm ashamed to say..."

"The villain does this shady business. Although he can occasionally earn a couple of dollars, his mother is seriously ill, and the little money he gets basically goes to the pharmacy."

"One night, the villain was going to get some valuables from the family next door to Butcher Zheng's house, but unexpectedly, he found that Butcher Zheng took his own pork out to feed the wild dogs!"

"It's strange to feed the dog in the middle of the night? The villain was also very curious. After he left, the villain checked the meat and found that it was not bad meat, but freshly chopped, top-quality meat!"

"Isn't that the villain? After observing him for several days, I found that he feeds the meat every night, so I developed the habit of squatting, and guarding there at that time every day, grabbing some food from the wild dogs to fill my stomach."

King Xiangyang seemed to understand something, and immediately asked: "Have you seen his expression clearly? Are his eyes closed?"

"Hey, yes, yes!" Ye Qianyi patted his thigh: "My lord, how do you know? The villain is also wondering, why is Butcher Zheng closed his eyes so tightly, and he can still see the road? What strange martial arts!"

"I see." King Xiangyang is a modern person, so he can naturally guess that Butcher Zheng may suffer from severe sleepwalking based on Ye Qian's description.

Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce didn't know, Bao Zheng saw that he seemed to have an answer, so he asked, "My lord knows what's going on?"

"Hmm..." King Xiangyang scratched the back of his head, thinking that he couldn't tell them directly, so he could only babble casually: "This disease is called sleepwalking, and it was told to me by my friend in Miaojiang."

"I didn't expect the lord to know the Miao people." Bao Zheng seemed to be thinking, and his gaze towards the King of Xiangyang was quite dark.

King Xiangyang laughed and didn't delve into this topic, diverting their attention and said: "This disease occurs after a person loses consciousness after a deep sleep, and after the onset, his behavior is the same as usual. Know where the door is, how to open it, and how to get out."

"It's just that when he wakes up the next morning, the patient has no memory of what happened the night before."

Listening to his explanation, Bao Zheng felt that all of Zheng Butcher's weird behaviors could be justified.

Bao Zheng thought about it carefully, but there was still something wrong, "If Butcher Zheng really has this disease, why has he been locked up in the yamen for so long, but he didn't hear the yamen servant mention his strange behavior? Could it be that there is an incentive for this disease to occur?"

"There is no incentive," the King of Xiangyang said firmly, "If you have this disease, you will have it every night unless you recover. Otherwise, Ye Qian wouldn't be able to watch him every night."

"Just my guess...."

"It should be that Tuhu Zheng has had trouble sleeping and eating in the yamen these days, and he has not slept soundly, so he didn't get sick. The disease will only happen after he really sleeps."

Now they figured out how Butcher Zheng killed people, but they couldn't get Butcher Zheng to tell the truth.

He didn't even know that he had killed someone, so how could he be convicted?

The King of Xiangyang couldn't help but sighed leisurely: "How should we judge this case now? Only we know, even Butcher Zheng himself doesn't know."

At this time, Bao Zheng already had a general idea in his mind, and when he saw this, he smiled and said slowly: "I feel that he doesn't know everything about Jiang Zhi'er."

King Xiangyang: "????"

"Master Bao is saying that he didn't know he killed her, but he remembered her??"

"That's right." Now it's Bao Zheng's turn to ask King Xiangyang: "Your Majesty, can you see traces of struggle and fighting at Zheng Tuhu's house?"

"That's not true..." King Xiangyang thought about it.

These clues were first discovered by Zhan Zhao and the others when they went to Zheng Butcher's house, so Bao Zheng didn't fully suspect Zheng Butcher from the beginning, because Zheng Butcher's house was too peaceful, without even a trace of struggle.

Zhan Zhao immediately rushed from the inn to the butcher's house to arrest people after discovering Wen's family. It stands to reason that he didn't have the time to handle the scene so perfectly.

So Bao Zheng felt that it was very likely that an acquaintance committed the crime.

Xiangyang Wangdao: "But it doesn't make sense for an acquaintance to commit a crime... Jiang Zhi'er is a prefect's daughter, and she can't get out of the door. How could she know a butcher in a small town?"

Bao Zheng reminded him: "My lord, do you remember why Jiang Zhi'er came to Sanxing Town?"

"Because..." Xiangyang Wang was enlightened, "Because she escaped from marriage, someone was chasing her? So you panicked and hid in Zheng Tuhu's house?"

"That's right!" Bao Zheng's eyes froze, "Our government guessed that Butcher Zheng took her in kindly at first, but he didn't expect to kill her after falling asleep and falling ill!"

When the King of Xiangyang thought of Jiang Zhier's tragic death, he also felt a little regretful: "I don't know why, since I have always had this disease, I never saw him kill others, but he was bumped into by such a poor girl like Jiang Zhier."

Bao Zheng said: "My lord saw that Butcher Zheng, how old do you think this person is?"

"It should be more than forty!" Xiangyang King didn't react at first.

Bao Zheng said again: "Forty years old but not married, no wife and no children..."

King Xiangyang thought about Bao Zheng's words, and couldn't help exclaiming: "Could they all be killed by him?!"

"Not necessarily." Bao Zheng pondered for a moment, "It's also possible that he actually knows that he has this disease."