Chapter 170 designation
"here we go."
In the early morning, Li Ang, together with many Chang'an citizens, stood outside Dali Temple and looked inside.
He came to see the trial process of this case, partly because of Wu Shiqi's plea,
On the one hand, it is because of the changes in the lotus in the previous hardship.
In Yu State, Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment both have the power to administer justice.
Dali Temple is equivalent to the highest judicial organ, which is responsible for the crimes committed by imperial officials and the cases of imprisonment and above in Chang'an.
The Ministry of Punishment is responsible for dealing with ordinary prisoners, and reviewing cases above the level of imprisonment and exile in Dali Temple.
If there is a major case involving politics and unjust cases, then Yushitai will also be involved, and the minister of Dali Temple, Shangshu Jiashilang of the Ministry of Punishment, and Yushi Zhongcheng will jointly try it.
Yu State divided the cases into five classes, corresponding to the five punishments, namely whipping, cane, fixed-term imprisonment, exile, and death penalty.
Because of the death of a person in this case, it is almost certain to start with a fixed-term prison sentence and end up with the death penalty. In other words, it must be reviewed by the Ministry of Punishment.
Originally, according to Yu Chu's rules, if it is a death penalty case, it needs to be submitted to the emperor for review, so as to show Yu State's prudence on the death penalty and concern for human rights.
However, over the past few hundred years, the population of Yu State has continued to expand, and there have been more and more death penalty cases, which the emperor could not handle alone. This rule gradually no one mentioned.
Even if it is the death penalty, it will end in three joint trials. The emperor will not easily intervene or interfere with the direction of the case.
Pata.
Two tall and burly guards from Dali Temple dragged Nie Shilei, who was wearing prison clothes, along the aisle.
They pinched Nie Shilei's shoulders and pressed them hard, forcing him to kneel on the solid stone bricks.
"Behead! Behead his head!"
"kill him!"
"This beast is not as good as pigs and dogs!"
"****, ***, ***!"
Outside the Dali Temple, there was a loud scolding sound, and all kinds of obscene words and sentences came out of the mouths of the majority of Chang'an citizens, wishing to turn words into sharp swords and pierce through Nie Shilei who was kneeling there.
Even some good-looking old ladies bowed their heads in sadness, "What a beautiful girl, I heard that she was only fifteen years old, and she was ruined by this fool."
"What do the government servants in Wannian County, Chang'an do for food? Do you usually let this idiot walk in the streets?"
"I heard that his father took him out on the Dragon Boat Festival."
"Then why don't you arrest his father, maybe his father ordered it. Even if it has nothing to do with his father, it is his fault to let the fool go out!"
It has been a while since such a bad case happened in Chang'an City. The citizens outside the temple were excited and their voices became louder and louder.
Ling Yunhanchi, Qing Yunhanchi of Dali Temple who sat high in the hall, frowned imperceptibly, and slapped the dragon-shaped gavel, suppressing the noise outside the temple.
"let's start."
Yun Hanchi took a deep breath, and asked Nie Shilei who was confused in the audience: "Are you Nie Shilei?"
".yes."
Nie Shilei slowly raised his head, his eyes drifted and blurred, and it took a long time for his eyes to fix on Yun Hanchi's face.
"Xuzheng, who has been in the Dragon Boat Festival for four years, where are you and what are you doing at the beginning of Haichu?"
".ah?"
Yun Hanchi pursed his lower lips, and asked again patiently, "Half a month ago, on the night of the Dragon Boat Festival, when Xu Zheng reached the beginning of Hai, where were you and what were you doing?"
"I, I am accompanying Aye and my younger sister, selling bamboo baskets."
Nie Shilei's speech is similar to that of a child. He often speaks upside down and doesn't match his words.
Behavior in this way did not arouse the sympathy of the people outside the temple. Instead, they believed that he had gone mad and killed Meng Ying, and tried to get away with this clumsy lie conceived by such a fool.
boom!
Li Ang turned his head to look, and saw in the corner, a middle-aged man in luxurious clothes, with red eyes, punching heavily on the stone wall.
The middle-aged man gritted his teeth tightly, his body trembling slightly due to intense grief and anger, and blood dripped down his fingers.
There was a circle of people around him, and among them, Jin Wusuan, the richest businessman in Yu State, who was familiar to Li Ang, sighed and patted him on the shoulder lightly.
That should be the father of the deceased Meng Ying, Meng Chengye, the steward of Liuguang Bank in Chang'an County.
Li Ang withdrew his gaze and turned to look inside Dali Temple.
"Bring your ID card up here."
Maybe feeling that talking to Nie Shilei was too laborious, Dali Temple Qing Yun Hanchi waved his hand.
The guards on the side brought a group of people from the side courtyard to the front of the hall. Among them were girls from rich families, guards from Chang'an Wannian County, and soldiers from the Zhenfu Division.
"Um?"
Li Ang raised his eyebrows, and saw the little girl who was smashed with vegetable leaves the day before yesterday in the crowd.
Yun Hanchi questioned the crowd one by one, and sorted out the case.
"According to the testimony of multiple witnesses, at noon of the Dragon Boat Festival, Meng Ying and her friends went to Qujiang Pond to play.
At the beginning of the afternoon, the suspect Nie Shilei, his father Nie Gao, and his sister Nie Yuhuan carried bamboo baskets and other commodities to the west side of Dongshi to set up a stall.
At the beginning of the Hai Dynasty, Meng Ying and his friends returned from Qujiang Pond and headed for Dongshi. At a quarter of an hour in the first day of the lunar calendar, I got separated from my friends at the east entrance of Dongshi.
At about two quarters of an hour in the first half of the year, Nie Gao, who was located at the west entrance of Dongshi, left the booth due to abdominal pain, and asked his daughter Nie Yuhuan to be optimistic about Nie Shilei.
Nie Yuhuan was attracted by the float, and after telling Nie Shilei to stay there not to move around, he went to the side of the float and bought candies for two. Nie Shilei had disappeared when he returned.
Half an hour into the middle of the day, Meng Ying's friends came to the west side of the East City to look for them. Together with Nie Gao and Nie Yuhuan, they found Nie Shilei who was acting suspiciously in the alley, and Meng Ying who was dead with his face scratched. "
Yun Hanchi said in a deep voice: "Is this the case.
After you left the booth, you were attracted by Meng Ying who appeared on the street, followed her into the alley, and encountered resistance and scolding. You smashed her head against the wall to do something wrong, and then out of fear, you scratched her face with the hosta on her head. In the end, it was too late to escape, and everyone got all the stolen goods. "
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Nie Shilei didn't seem to be listening to what Dali Temple Minister was saying, he just looked at Nie Gao and Nie Yuhuan not far away, and kept crying—his father Nie Gao had a bruised nose and swollen face, apparently he was beaten by someone in Chang'an City during this period.
"Do you still have the face to shed tears?"
A rich girl who seemed to be Meng Ying's friend was extremely angry. She rushed forward from among the witnesses, kicked Nie Shilei on the shoulder, kicked him to the ground, and shouted loudly: "You know when Meng Ying died How painful and hopeless? Her nails fell off because of the struggle, her"
Dali Temple Minister Yun Hanchi frowned, needless to say, the guards at the side pulled the rich girl back.
He cleared his throat, "If there is no objection."
"no."
This time, Nie Shilei finally took the initiative to speak, his voice seemed to come from far away, "I didn't kill her."
"Um?"
Yun Hanchi frowned, and saw that Nie Shilei's eyes gradually stabilized, he stopped looking around, and his voice became much more stable and orderly, "It's someone else."
"who?"
"he."
Amid the uproar, Nie Shilei waved his arm and pointed outside the gate of Dali Temple.
A tall and strong man's complexion changed suddenly, and he was about to back away without a sound, but his arm was grabbed by others.
"Where do you want to go?"
Li Ang said with a smile, pulling and shaking him slightly, pushing him forward and coming to the front of the hall.
(end of this chapter)