"How could she leave the maid school? At that time, she was not yet a student waiting to be assigned. It was impossible to ask for leave."
"There's no need to ask for leave. She always has clever ideas," Yang Jihong said. "She hid a ladder outside the wall. Everyone thought the bamboo forest there was impassable - but it's actually possible."
After dark, Lin Xiaoya would sneak out. The routine check of the shop in the evening was just to take a look at the door of the room. Her roommate was covering for her, so she could easily get through.
Mu Min gasped, it would be a scandal if this was spread out! The maid training class that was thought to be airtight actually had such a secret passage that could be entered and exited at any time. What's more important is that Yang Jihong had other dormitory students.
People have obviously known about this for a long time, but never reported it.
"Besides the people in your dormitory, how many people know that she has a secret passage?"
"I don't know. There may be others. She hasn't told us." Yang Jihong shook his head.
Comrade Zhao Manxiong, what are you doing with your so-called all-pervasive "ten-man group" that you haven't discovered such a serious security loophole! Mu Min thought, either you knew about it but didn't tell it on purpose - with ulterior motives!
"What is the name of the naturalized citizen you correspond with? Where does he work?"
Yang Jihong mentioned his name, but she wasn't sure where he worked, but Lin Xiaoya did say that he worked as a clerk in the Lingao County Office.
The next story was the same as Mu Min thought. Lin Xiaoya got the letter back, but lied that the letter had been destroyed and they couldn't contact each other anyway. There was no proof. When she saw that Yang Jihong was reluctant to help her, she said
He showed his trump card.
Forced to do nothing, Yang Jihong had no choice but to agree to continue "helping", and Lin Xiaoya agreed. As long as she could get Yang Xinwu to sponsor her living expenses and tuition, she would return the letter to her.
"...But that night, she wasn't sure. She said that since I was pregnant, I would definitely be more successful in the future..."
"What?" Mu Min interrupted her, "Are you pregnant?"
Yang Jihong hesitated for a moment: "I haven't been here for two months..."
"Does Elder Yang know?"
"I don't know yet - I originally wanted to wait until the doctor took a pulse and had a definite signal before I told him."
"Go on."
"... She said she was afraid that I would forget her as a poor friend in the future, and she wanted to keep these letters to remind me when the time comes..."
"So you killed her?"
Yang Jihong shook his head heavily: "I didn't think about it at first - until later she said: If I don't listen to her, she will give the letter to the chief, saying that the child in my belly is a 'bastard'..."
When she said this, she couldn't help but cover her face and cry bitterly. After a while, she sobbed. "So I-"
Mu Min sighed secretly. In the maid's view, the bloodline of giving birth to children for the elders is the only value of their existence. If they are considered "bastards", not only can they not expect the mother to be more valuable based on the child, they will not even be able to maintain their current life.
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Lin Xiaoya used this as a blackmail. It could be said that she was ruthless, and she could be said to have seized the opponent's Achilles' heel. No wonder Yang Jihong's backlash was so violent.
"Where's the letter?"
"I'm burned."
"In this case, why should I believe what you say? Maybe you just made it up to excuse yourself?" Mu Min is not someone who can be easily impressed by a few words from a suspect. There are many movie kings and queens in the world.
, compassion belongs to compassion, evidence is evidence.
Yang Jihong looked bleak: "She only has one letter on her - there should be several more. I just don't know where she is hiding it."
"We will continue to search. But even so, killing is always wrong."
Yang Jihong stopped talking and just cried bitterly.
Mu Min asked someone to take her down - Yang Jihong was the elder's life secretary, and she might be pregnant. Naturally, she could not be detained at will, so she was temporarily placed under house arrest in the Second Guest House of the General Office, with someone specially monitoring her. In addition, Liu San was allowed to
Take your pulse to check if you are indeed pregnant.
Then she issued a detention warrant and rang the bell to call the attendant: "Send a few people to secretly arrest this person from the Lingao County Office and hand him over to the pre-trial department. Except for the director of the County Office, Chief Xiong, no one else
Don't be alarmed"
Then she ordered people to send all the confiscated personal belongings of Lin Xiaoya, and did another inspection. Then she sent Wu Xiang to the maid school to conduct a thorough search of Lin Xiaoya's dormitory and the place where she climbed over the wall.
Finally, these letters were found in an envelope hidden by Lin Xiaoya under the bed in the dormitory.
Wu Xiang's forehead was sweating: "This girl is so weird. She used glue to stick the envelope on the back of the bed, and then put a layer of kraft paper on it. If the bed hadn't been dismantled and inspected, it wouldn't have been visible at all if she climbed in and took a look.
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Mu Min checked these letters. According to modern people's opinions, several of the letters written by Yang Jihong can be called "clear soup and little water". They can be posted on the street for people to read casually, let alone "you and me".
Neither of them call each other brother or sister.
"Kill someone just for this!" Mu Min lamented.
In this time and space, not to mention that Yang Jihong is now the "little wife" of a senator, even if she is just married to a naturalized citizen or aboriginal - as long as the socio-economic conditions are slightly better, it is already a matter for the wife to write letters to another man before marriage.
This is a serious crime. Although the poor are not particular about it, it is because they are unable to be particular about it.
Not to mention China in the 17th century, Mu Min remembered reading a similar story in Sherlock Holmes when she was studying. A few notes could ruin a noble woman's reputation - that was the British Empire at the end of the 19th century!
"No wonder she wants to kill people! Feudal ideas kill people." Mu Min couldn't help but sympathize with this poor girl, "Women are so pitiful!"
Although she was a murderer on the spur of the moment, no matter what laws of time and space, she could not be punished with death - not to mention that she might still be pregnant. This situation has always exempted her from death in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, but Yang Jihong's situation in the "new society"
Her personal future is over. Mu Min is very aware that the mainstream judicial philosophy of the Senate is very harsh. Once convicted, she will face a long and severe sentence. Even if she is released after serving her sentence, she will be relegated to another book and can only be regarded as an ordinary person in the future.
The labor force existed in the world of the Senate.
And she will inevitably lose the right to raise her own children - the Senate will not let a child with the blood of a senator grow up as the child of a prisoner. The most ardent hope of the maids that mother is more important than son is completely shattered.
However, sympathy cannot change the reality of murder. The only thing she feels lucky is that the case did not involve the elders. It finally gave her a positive evaluation of the elders' declining moral values, and more importantly, it freed her from the guilt of conscience.
torture.
Mu Min began to sort out the case files. According to the normal process, after the investigation of the case is completed, the case will be transferred to the arbitration tribunal for judicial proceedings. However, this case is a little special. Ma Jia has clearly instructed her to send the materials to the tribunal after the investigation is completed.
The general office gave it to Xiao Zishan in order to "discuss the case."
Xiao Zishan raised his head from the case file and looked at the vest sitting opposite:
"What do you think would be a better way to handle this case?"
The waistcoat is wearing a black cotton tunic made by Lingao, which is ironed very smoothly. There is a hero pen in the jacket pocket. He has carefully studied the materials in the case file, and he will be confident.
"There is nothing to say about the case itself. As far as the facts of the case are concerned, it is not considered intentional murder, and there is a reason for the incident. The crime is not punishable by death. I think it can be convicted as intentional injury resulting in death. The penalty for this crime in our recently promulgated Criminal Law
The lower limit is ten years in prison. She is still pregnant, so even the Ming Dynasty Law will not impose the death penalty."
"It's not that I care about this, but is this case going to be a public trial or a secret trial? Do you want it to be reported to the newspaper? You don't know that Ding Ding from the Propaganda Department has been talking nonsense with me, saying that this matter has seriously affected their relationship as husband and wife."
"Maybe Pan Pan didn't allow him to go to bed. Hahaha." Ma Jia laughed, "Actually, since the facts of the case are completely clear and there is nothing that will affect the image of the Senate, I think it can completely enter the normal judicial process. Proper public reporting.
it is also fine."
Xiao Zishan frowned: "After all, the elders are involved..."
The case involves a veteran, which is bound to arouse the curiosity of the masses. This is similar to the "Secrets of Zhongnanhai" that was sold on street stalls in the past. Even though they know that there are a lot of nonsense, everyone still rushes to see it. It will inevitably become a topic of conversation after dinner.
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"The Senate must have a sense of mystery, but it cannot be too mysterious. The trial can be held in public, but it should not be reported beforehand, but will be reported afterward."
Xiao Zishan nodded thoughtfully.
He knows several courts of the arbitration tribunal. Except for the simple magistrate court in Dongmen City, which has a lot of people "watching the trial" because it is located in a prosperous place, most of the courts have very few people who come to observe when they are in session -
- Firstly, there are very few idle people here in Lingao, and everyone is busy making money to make a living. Secondly, when the Australian yamen hears cases, there is no pomp and show of shouting "Huwei", and there is no variety of slaps, spankings, and sticks.
In the finger-pinching torture scene, there were only a few people reading articles and talking to each other. After the initial excitement, everyone felt that the trial was dull and boring.
If there is no report or publicity in advance, few people will watch the interrogation. As for newspaper reports, it can be appropriately reduced. Some things can be avoided to minimize the impact.
"Will the executive committee hold a meeting to discuss this?" Ma Jia asked.
"So far, no one has made a motion. Do you want to make a motion?"
"Since no one has made a motion, I think this case should be transferred directly to the arbitral tribunal. I don't think it is necessary to exaggerate the importance of this case. If it is too grand, it will arouse some people's thoughts." (Unfinished)