The news reported by the officers and soldiers who came with the Han Governor caught Huang Nanming off guard.
The other people who had witnessed Huang Nanming injuring the escorting officer with a riding whip looked at each other in disbelief.
Who would have thought that just one whip could kill someone alive? !
When Governor Han heard that there were plainclothes government officials, he took the first look at Huang Nanming. When he saw Huang Nanming's performance, he didn't know that he didn't need to ask Chief Xu anymore.
The plainclothes government official was not from Shang County, but from Ping County.
"Bring the body up, and you can all identify it to see whose colleague it is."
As soon as Governor Han finished speaking, two people came up carrying a wooden board with a corpse on it.
The corpse appeared directly in front of everyone. Those with sharp eyes immediately recognized this person.
"Isn't this person with us just now? Is he standing to your left, Brother Zhang?"
"What you said seems to have impressed me. He came with the yamen officials who said they wanted to search him, but he wasn't wearing yamen clothes. I thought he was some unknown student."
"He came with the government officials who wanted to search. Isn't that the government officials from Ping County?"
Everyone's eyes were also focused on Huang Nanming.
Huang Nanming suddenly had one head and two heads.
The scapegoat he prepared turned out to be a dead ghost. What should he do next?
At this time, the two officers and soldiers responsible for carrying the body had already placed the body in front of the Ping County government officials.
"Hurry up and see who knows this person, and don't say anything, otherwise the crime will be increased!"
The people who follow Governor Han are very good at observing words and expressions.
Seeing the eyes of these government officials twinkling and listening to the commotion around them, although they could not guess why this person was injured, they also thought of the origin of this government servant.
The tied up Pingxian County government officials naturally recognized the guarding government officials who had conveyed the message to them.
Especially those who saw with their own eyes that the escort was injured by the county magistrate's whip, they were extremely confused at this time.
Don't tell me.
Guilty plus one.
Say it.
If the county magistrate is still saved, he will definitely settle the score later.
This is a real dilemma.
"Lord Governor, this corpse is my bodyguard and belongs to the Pingxian County Government. However, I don't know who has colluded with it recently to falsely pass orders in my name. I don't know about the search last night. I just went to Zhang Mansion. , received Zhang’s father’s request for help and helped search for the thief who kidnapped Zhang Zhida, but did not let this betrayed guard search for Xizuo.”
At the beginning, Huang Nanming was worried that others would ask for details, so he deliberately found an excuse to search carefully.
Just in time to use it now.
Seeing Huang Nanming reveal the identity of the guard personally, he also put all the blame on the guard's officer.
All the veterans in the Ping County government office were like human beings, and they suddenly understood what to do.
They also followed suit.
"Lord Governor, what our county magistrate said is true. We did come to check after hearing Huang Qiu say that he wanted to search carefully, and it was also he who said that he wanted to seize a car of perfume and take it back for careful search. There is no such thing as him. How can we dare to make the decision privately to impound the car under the leader’s order?”
"Not only was he the one who detained the perfume for inspection, but he was also the one who said it was the county magistrate who had impounded the goods before. Registration and random inspections were required. As a result, we sent it to the county government and ended up missing. "
"This Huang Qiu must have known that he couldn't hide the matter any more, so he just bumped into a tree and died. He committed suicide out of fear of guilt! That must be the case!"
When a person is alive, people may still worry about his refutation.
But after a person dies, he can be judged by others whether he is black or white, good or evil.
Huang Nanming expressed great satisfaction with the current situation.
Pingxian County Government is united, and this time, it is very likely that the situation will turn against the wind.
Before Governor Han could ask the officials one by one, Huang Nanming expressed his position: "Master Governor, it was the lax discipline of the subordinate officials that allowed Huang Qiu to commit such a serious crime that cannot be tolerated by nature. Now that he has committed suicide in fear of crime, it can be regarded as a crime." Let me give you an explanation. I believe that Huang Qiu’s personal property must be strictly investigated, but he seems to have been involved in gambling recently. I don’t know how much fines can be recovered, alas!”
The last heavy sigh was like a heavy hammer hitting the hearts of the merchants who came to testify, which made people's blood surge.
But Ping County and the county government have formed an iron plate of interests from top to bottom that is difficult to break. Even if there is evidence, they will put the blame on a dead man.
Compensation is out of the question, and testifying at this time will offend this group of officials who are on the verge of escaping their guilt. Do they still need to stand up?
Before the merchants could speak, a horse whinnyed suddenly.
Everyone looked around, only to see Ning Wuyan, who had been lying on the horse stool just now, stood up at some point, holding his waist with one hand, and holding the whip he took out from the horseback bag in the other, limping towards him. Huang Nanming, Han Governor and others came over.
"Everyone, please see, this is the riding whip I took out from Mr. Huang's night riding bag. This riding whip is stained with blood. It has obviously injured someone..."
"So what?"
Huang Nanming eagerly interrupted Ning Wuyan's words, and was about to rush to grab the riding whip, but Governor Han stretched out his arm to stop him, and smiled to comfort him.
"Don't worry, Magistrate Huang. Even if this riding whip is stained with blood, you can't tell whether it is horse blood or human blood. Even if it is human blood, is there any way to tell whether it belongs to Huang Qiu or to you, Magistrate Huang?" ?According to the "Daxing Law Order", false accusations will be punished."
The governor is right!
Huang Nanming was in a daze for a while. After thinking about it carefully, he thought that Governor Han knew that the case of goods seizure in Ping County would be settled with Huang Qiu's death. He was unwilling to offend him, an official of the Jin Dynasty, so he deliberately defended him.
But to Ning Wuyan's ears, it was a reminder to himself that he should not talk nonsense if he was not completely sure.
If Huang Nanming cannot be bitten and is bitten in return, the crime of beating someone to death will fall on him.
"Master Governor, County Magistrate Huang, you only know that I, Ning Wuyi, am famous as a poet, but you have overlooked that my mother is a famous doctor in Jinling, and there are many strange prescriptions spread in the family. With the art of making ice from saltpeter, to verify whether the blood on the horsewhip is consistent with that of the deceased Huang Qiu, you only need to take a bowl of water and blend the two bloods into one."
Ning Wuyang handed the riding whip to Huang Nanming confidently.
"Magistrate Huang, in order to prevent you from saying that I did something in the water and don't agree with the result, I will return the riding whip to you. You can test this method yourself, okay?"
What's the point of a group of people bullying a dead person who can't speak.
If you have the ability, try it with peace of mind.
"By the way, before the examination, I have to remind Magistrate Huang that if the blood on the whip really matches the deceased, it means that the deceased died due to your serious injuries and did not commit suicide out of fear of guilt. Then, you and all the government officials in Ping County, It’s just not reporting the knowledge and deliberately concealing the murder. This murder case is different from the seizure of goods case, especially since you are still in the government, knowing the law and breaking the law, the crime will be increased by one degree, plus you deliberately framed it..."
Ning Wuyang counted on his fingers, and showed a kind smile in the frightened eyes of the government officials.
"...Almost every yamen officer can stop him and go to the vegetable market and behead him three times. Unless you make up for your mistakes, I think the governor should give you a chance to reduce your punishment. Isn't that right, sir?"
