The man in mourning did not answer, but his eyes looked a little flustered.
Zhang Ren stood up and rubbed his butt. Taking advantage of the man wearing sackcloth and mourning being unable to move, he stepped forward and took off the white cloth covering his face. As he expected, the person wearing hemp and wearing filial piety was Sun Ping, the dog trainer of Pingliang Hou Mansion.
Zhang Ren was quite proud of being able to guess the true identity of the criminal. He grinned and said to Sun Ping: "I heard that the Marquis of Pingliang and his wife did a lot of immoral things, and he is planning to kill me today. Look, I am indeed unhappy with him, but let’s talk about your problem first today!”
When talking about the case, Zhang Ren immediately put on a serious expression. After all, human lives were involved. Zhang Ren continued: "You killed Mrs. Pingliang Hou! You also killed the maid Xiu He! Two lives are like this I lost my life at your hands, and now you want to kill Marquis Pingliang, do you know what the crime is?"
Sun Ping, however, looked disdainful and said: "There is no need to blame others. I really wanted to kill Marquis Pingliang, but I did not kill Madam and Xiuhe." Murder requires a life, but at least there is a penalty for attempted murder. There is a chance to survive. Now Sun Ping is not afraid of death, but he is unwilling to die, so he doesn't want to die yet.
Zhang Ren curled his lips and said, "You think I can't do anything to you if you don't plead guilty? Although I don't understand your motive for killing, judging from the evidence currently available, you are the murderer. This is unmistakable!"
Sun Ping looked dissatisfied and said: "Evidence? Where is the evidence? Couldn't it be all guessed by a boy like you who doesn't even have hair?"
Zhang Ren shook his head, frowned, and followed Conan's example and pushed up his glasses... Well, he didn't have glasses. Zhang Ren pointed at Sun Ping with his finger and pretended to be: "Of course I didn't guess it! Because there is only one true meaning in the matter!"
It's a pity that there is no Detective Conan in Ming Dynasty, so neither Sun Ping nor Gao Haiyong can understand the jokes.
"First of all, let's talk about the death of Mrs. Pinglianghou. Wu Zuo said that the body of Mrs. Pinglianghou was very much caused by the bite of wild beasts. There are no wild beasts in Yingtian Mansion, but there are hounds. As a dog trainer, you are naturally very suspicious. Moreover, on the night when Mrs. Pinglianghou died, no one in the whole house heard the screams or calls for help. Did you cover up Mrs. Pinglianghou that night? As far as the modus operandi of the crime is concerned, it is very similar to today’s! That’s right This makes your suspicion even more serious. Tell me, who were you with on the night when Mrs. Pingliang Hou died? Do you have an alibi? "
Gao Haiyong on the side nodded. Zhang Ren's analysis could not find any faults. Maybe this was nothing to a case investigator, but Zhang Ren was only a teenager, and it was not easy for him to have such careful thinking.
Sun Ping replied: "On weekdays, I live alone in the service room next to the kennel."
Zhang Ren said: "So there is no alibi? Let's talk about Xiuhe's death..."
Before Zhang Ren finished speaking, he was interrupted by Sun Ping, who said with disdain: "When the fire broke out in Xiuhe's room, I was escorted by Gao Qianhu. I didn't have time to run to Xiuhe's room. set fire."
At this point, Gao Haiyong also pricked up his ears and listened. If the fire had not happened, he would have believed that Sun Ping was the murderer, but Sun Ping did have alibi when the fire broke out.
Zhang Ren nodded and said seriously: "When Xiuhe's body was found, Xiuhe was lying on his bed without any signs of painful struggle, so Xiuhe's death time should be about the same as Mrs. Pinglianghou. This fire was just deliberately created by you to cover up others’ eyes and create an alibi.”
Zhang Ren paid attention to Sun Ping's facial expression as he spoke. Seeing Sun Ping frown slightly, he continued: "There is a detail when we were fighting the fire during the day. I saw you picked up a transparent object at the fire scene and put it in your arms. You were very careful in your actions. No one noticed because you had just put out the fire, but I saw it inadvertently. At first, I thought you had taken advantage of the chaos to steal something from the house, but then I remembered that you What you put back in your arms should be a magnifying glass, right? Or a convex lens? As long as you focus under the sun, the heat will be gathered together, causing a fire. You must have put a lot of thought into this fire. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. , you should have experimented many times before finding a good angle and arranging it."
Gao Haiyong stepped forward, fumbled around in Sun Ping's arms, and found a magnifying glass. Holding the magnifying glass in his hand, Gao Haiyong turned to Zhang Ren and asked, "This thing can really set fire?"
Zhang Ren nodded and affirmed: "Of course it can. When the sun comes out, I will demonstrate it to Gao Qianhu. But Gao Qianhu, you have great martial arts skills, but you must also study harder. Read more books on weekdays." There's nothing wrong with me, otherwise if I go out in the future, everyone will say that Jin Yiwei is illiterate and Jin Yiwei is uneducated. This is so embarrassing."
Zhang Ren's words were quite sincere, which made Gao Haiyong feel helpless. He thought that he was already in his forties, and no one preached to him in this way, either in the court or in the world. Today, he was preached by a young man.
But then came Gao Haiyong's doubts about himself. Is it really what Mr. Jiang and Jiang said? Force can only intimidate for a moment, but subduing the enemy without fighting is the best option? Is it really what Zhang Ren said? Should I read more?
Thinking of this, Gao Haiyong felt quite embarrassed. He was a dignified and well-dressed guard of thousands of households, and he stomped his feet casually. All the ministers of the Ming Dynasty were shocked. Today, his thoughts were influenced by this young man Zhang Ren...
In order to cover up his embarrassment, Gao Haiyong shook the magnifying glass in front of Sun Ping and asked loudly: "Now that physical evidence has been found on you, what else do you have to say?"
In fact, judging from the current situation, the evidence is still not sufficient. Everything is just Zhang Ren's conjecture, but Sun Ping knows that he is finished. Jinyiwei usually does not need evidence at all to handle cases. He can just list the charges for others. Today, he has the physical evidence, and even more. It is enough to convict someone. Even if he resists death and refuses to admit it, even if he is not afraid of death, he will never be able to survive the hundreds of tortures of Jin Yiwei, because the torture of Jin Yiwei is enough to make life worse than death.
Seeing that Sun Ping did not speak, Zhang Ren asked: "Actually, I want to ask you, what is your motive for killing? I know that the Marquis of Pingliang and his wife have done a lot of things that are worthy of beheading, but I really want to know, Why did you want to kill someone?"
Why kill? Sun Ping's thoughts fell into memories...
Seeing that Sun Ping didn't answer, Gao Haiyong said: "It doesn't matter whether you say it or not now. When we get to Jinyiwei, I will have 10,000 ways to get you to speak."
Sun Ping looked up at Gao Haiyong, then at Zhang Ren, and asked: "Do you also think that the Marquis of Pingliang and his wife are worthy of beheading?"
Zhang Ren nodded and said seriously: "Of course, occupying fertile land, reselling ordnance, embezzling military pay, and the most hateful thing is human trafficking. These are enough to kill the couple eight times. Today, I just used your case to bring down the Marquis of Pingliang in one fell swoop. "
