Parrot Case (Folk Tale)

During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, on this day, Li Kang of Changshan Zhi County was reading official documents in the county, when suddenly, Ya Gong came to report that a cui family on the outskirts of the city had committed a life case, and Cui Tongshun, the brother of the deceased Cui Tongren, came to report the case. Li Kang put down his pen, covered his long beard, sighed, and said, "Prepare the car!" ”

When he was young, Li Kang and his party were led by Cui Tong to the Cui family. At this time, the Cui family was already crying, and seeing the arrival of Lord Zhixian, the prince Cui Lin "pounced" and knelt on the ground, letting Li Kang avenge his father.

Li Kang picked up Cui Lin and ordered him to lead the way to the scene of the crime. Cui Lin led Li Kang to a study in the backyard, where the body of the deceased Cui Tongren had not yet moved. Cui Lin said, "My lord, my father died in this study, the murderer is too cruel!" He pointed his finger at his father's forehead.

At a glance, Li Kang saw that Cui Tongren had a bamboo skewer nailed to his forehead, which had already disappeared into most of his temples. Detective Li Kang gently pulled out the bamboo skewer, only to see that the bamboo skewer had a sink, and it seemed that the murderer had done it carefully. Li Kang looked up and down the study, hoping to find clues. The study was small and tidy, and the doors and windows were closed so that there was no sign of anyone entering or leaving. There are several landscape paintings hanging on the walls, all of which are famous inks. Some of the pen and ink are treasures that have been lost for many years, but they have fallen into a layer of dust.

Li Kang paced to the landscape painting, wiped the dust with a handkerchief, and then picked it up to look closely, and then he pushed the wall and found that it was a room with good upper and lower closure.

Suddenly, Li Kang's eyes fell on the door, only to see that there was a new life on the door. Although it was not very serious, the new marks were obvious, so he called Cui Lin for careful interrogation. Cui Lin replied, "This is the little man's broken, last night I overheard my father screaming in the study, and my heart was shocked, so I rushed over." But the father had already bolted the door, and in a hurry, the little man had to pull the door open with a knife. As a result, it leaves traces of damage. ”

Li Kang nodded. At this time, I only saw a middle-aged woman who was about fifty years old and had a bit of a posture come in, and it turned out that this was Cui Tongren's wife Qian Shi. Qian Shi looked very strong, although there was a sad voice, but there was no sadness.

Li Kang asked, "Did Old Mr. Cui ever have a grudge with someone before he died?" ”

Qian Shi pointed to Cui Tongren's leg and said, "My husband was disabled when he was young, and he shut himself in a house all year round to study calligraphy and painting, never going out. ”

Li Kang fixed his eyes on it, and sure enough, he saw that Cui Tongren only had one leg, and there was a crutch next to him. Li Kang asked Cui Lin how he was usually. Qian Shi praised his son well. Li Kang saw that he could not ask any important clues, so he ordered the servants to conduct another careful investigation to avoid flaws, and then ordered the body to be carried away and buried in the ground.

Li Kang left the deceased's study, just walked to the door, only to hear a strange sound coming from the distance, and listened carefully to hear that it was a mynah, constantly shouting the incomprehensible "One Two Three". Li Kang felt funny, and Cui Lin came up to explain: "Adults don't know, little people usually love to play gambling with their families, but their hands are extremely poor, and when they roll the dice, they are always two or three, so angry that I hang these words in my mouth, who knows how to let this bird learn." Li Kang smiled, shook his head, and left.

Back at the county court, it was late afternoon. Li Kang could not calm down for a long time, and he could not figure out for a moment how the murderer entered the deceased's study. He took the handkerchief from his bag and sniffed it, falling into deep thought.

Early the next morning, Li Kang was still thinking about the cause of Cui Tongren's death. At this time, the master came in and said excitedly: "Lord, there are a few people on the street who are running and selling art, and they are juggling, do you want to go and see, or relax your mood, maybe there are unexpected gains." Li Kang waved his hand and let Master Ye look at it alone. After Shi Ye left, Li Kang took out the murder weapon that killed Cui Tongren, the blood groove bamboo stick. After watching for a long time, Li Kang's eyes suddenly lit up. Contacting the strange behavior of the Cui family, Li Kang suddenly realized that he would call Master Ye again, and the person had already gone out.

Li Kang took ya gong straight to the Cui family, just passing by the juggling venue, only to see the master stretch his neck long, like a goose looking into the field.

Li Kang went up and patted him on the shoulder, and The master reluctantly walked with Li Kang, telling ya all the way about the performance of the starling badge.

Arrived at the Cui family, Li Kang just got out of the car, who knew that his mind was too focused, he even fell down, Ya Gong did not dare to laugh, only the master was still smart, quickly helped Li Kang up, Li Kang laughed at himself: "It seems that I am really old." Saying that several people had entered the courtyard of the Cui family, Cui Lin saw Li Kang coming and immediately asked about the progress of the murder. Li Kang did not say it directly, but said: "Why don't you take this county to the Lingzun Shuzhai first, and we will say what we say while tasting tea?" ”

Cui Lin did not dare to be idle, and quickly led the way to Cui Tongren's study, except that Cui Tongren's body had been removed, and there was no change in the interior furnishings. Li Kang sat uncharacteristically on the bamboo chair where Cui Tongren died, closed his eyes, and imagined the scene when the murderer killed, Cui Tongren was reading, at this time a dark weapon flew in, impartial, and was piercing into Cui Tongren's temple. Suddenly, Li Kang was clever, as if his temple had been stabbed, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a hook hanging from a birdcage hanging from the shed not far to the left. Cui Lin looked at Li Kang, not knowing what kind of fame he was doing, Li Kang stared at Cui Lin's eyes widely, staring at Cui Lin's scalp with a tingle. In the middle of the night, Li Kangcai said, "The murderer found out, it is the starling raised by your house."

Cui Lin couldn't believe it, so he said, "Lord, this is too outrageous to say that the starlings kill people, right?" ”

Li Kang nodded and said, "It's this bird, birds are best not to raise this thing, if they are not raised well, they will kill people." Don't say that Cui Lin couldn't think straight, even the master who came with him was shocked, thinking that the adult was old. Li Kang looked at Master And asked, "What did you just do?" ”

The master was shocked, and said that the adults would punish me and did not need to be here, so he replied, "Lord, I will go out to watch juggling." But you have agreed. ”

Li Kang saw that Master Had misunderstood, so he said, "I was asking what I saw when you watched juggling?" Only then did the master put his mind at ease, and he said the performance of the starling title card with great interest. Li Kang said, "Brother Pug is something that can kill people." Such a man, he trained a myna, but instead of training it to call cards by smell, he taught it a password and let it manipulate a mechanism. When the time is ripe, the person will recite the order, such as '幺二三,'幺二三,'The mynah will hear the password and will activate the mechanism, and the mechanism will shoot out a hidden weapon, such as a bamboo stick with a blood groove, so that the target will be killed on the spot.' ”

Li Kang spoke without hurry, but he had already frightened Cui Lin. Unconsciously, the body has sunk. Master Ye saw it at a glance and shouted loudly, letting Cui Lin take the initiative to do the Fa. Cui Lin had originally been a thief with a weak heart, and he confessed all this time, but he didn't understand how Li Kang saw it.

Li Kang said, "The bamboo stick that killed the person was originally a hidden weapon, and it must be manipulated by someone to send it out." But the whole study was very tightly closed, and there was no trace of anyone entering or leaving. Therefore, the prefecture speculates that the organ should be indoors. As for who manipulated it for a while, I still don't understand. Just as I was leaving the room, I asked my wife, and she said that Cui Lin never participated in gambling, which only showed that Cui Lin was lying, and when I heard that the master was going to see the juggling, I was inspired, it turned out that the mynah thing could be trained, so that it could find one from a stack of cards, and of course it could manipulate a well-designed mechanism. So the second time I came to Cui's house, when I got out of the car, I accidentally found a delicate sink, which was the mechanism for firing bamboo sticks. ”

After Li Kang finished speaking, he took out the sink, and sure enough, he hid the mystery, and everyone was surprised to see it. Only then did Master understand that the adult had just deliberately fallen, not because he was old. At this time, I could only hear a sad cry outside the house: "Lord Li, I killed people, and it is not my son's business." ”

Li Kang was shocked, it turned out to be Cui Tongren's wife Qian Shi. Li Kang smiled slightly and said, "Madam, Presumably you also have grievances, so why don't you face them?" ”

Qian Shi knelt on the ground, crying and complaining.

It turned out that Cui Tongren was a mountain bandit when he was young. That year, the Qian family passed through a mountain forest and was plundered by Cui Tongren and his gang. Cui Tongren not only snatched the goods, but also killed Qian's husband, and occupied the Qian clan with some posture and made him a lady of the press. At this time, Qian Shi was pregnant, and she could only bear the humiliation and burden for the sake of the child. One year, two groups of bandits were in flames, and Cui Tongren was beaten off his leg, afraid of being hunted down and killed, so he fled and came here. In order not to arouse the suspicion of others, he disguised himself as an art dealer and often sold some calligraphy and paintings that were stolen early to hide his eyes. After Cui Lin grew up, Qian told his son what happened to the family. Who knew that the son was eager to avenge his father, and he thought of this decision, which made a big mistake.

Li Kang couldn't help but burst into tears after listening to it. The master over there couldn't see this kind of grievance, so he let Li Kang be extrajudicial and let go of the mother and son who were suffering.

Li Kang shook his head and said, "The matter of extra-legal grace does not work for me here, but your mother and son are innocent people." The people were very puzzled in their hearts, and they didn't know what Li Kang actually meant, could it be that the real murderer was someone else? The master on the side asked incomprehensibly, "Lord, how do you conclude that Cui Tongren was dead before the assassination?" ”

Li Kang picked up the blood tank bamboo stick and said: "This is a bamboo stick specially made by Cui Lin, with a sink on it, in order to let Cui Tongren die as soon as possible, but no blood was found during the inspection of the scene, and it can be seen that no blood flowed out of the sink." This shows that Cui Tongren was already dead before Cui Lin started. So how were they killed? I noticed the calligraphy and paintings in the study, which, from the surface, seemed to be covered with dust, but in fact, it was arsenic. And those celebrity calligraphy paintings are even more valuable. Although Cui Tongren was a mountain bandit, he also knew that it was a valuable thing, so he put it at the bottom of the box. However, after a long time, it will get wet, so I take it out and dry it indoors. He turned the painting with his hand, and his hand was to be wet with saliva, so it was naturally difficult to survive. When Cui Tongren died a long time ago, Cui Lin happened to pass by here, through the crack of the door saw Cui Tongren lying on the case, thinking that the opportunity was rare, he read The Second Three outside the door, the starling heard the password and pecked at the float in the sink, touched the mechanism, and made up a knife for the dead Cui Tongren. Then, Cui Lin planned to burn down the bird cage and the sink, but was used by the real murderer, who secretly retrieved the sink from the fire and deliberately left it at the door for me to pick up. ”

Li Kang said with a finger to the sink, and sure enough, there were traces of being burned on it.

After listening to Li Kang's detailed description, everyone wanted to know who the real culprit really was. Li Kang slowly turned his body around, just in time to see the original reporter Cui Tongshun, Li Kang broke off the drink: "Cui Tongshun, do you know the crime?" ”

Cui Tongshun on the side trembled with fright, but quickly regained his composure and said sarcastically: "Lord Li, if you want to say that the starlings killed people, it is still reasonable, to say that I killed people, or my brothers, is it a bit absurd, right?" You have to come up with plenty of evidence. ”

Li Kang smiled and said, "Of course, there is evidence, or the starling told this county." Yesterday, when I walked out of the study, I overheard the call of the starling, but only the last sentence of "one two three" was said by the mynah, and the first few sentences were your seductive words. If the county can't even distinguish between human voices and birds, it is old and confused. In fact, you already know about Cui Lin's training of the starlings, but the killing of the starlings requires conditions, that is, the person must have very little activity, otherwise, the hit rate is very low. So you took the opportunity of Cui Tongren's painting and applied arsenic cream on it. After Cui Tongren died, you learned from him to scream and lead Cui Lin out. When the county came to investigate the case, you planted a bad heart, so you secretly lured the starlings to speak, so that Cui Lin could be exposed as soon as possible, right? ”

Cui Tongshun was speechless when he heard this, and his defense line completely collapsed, and he had to admit to the killing of his brother.

It turned out that Cui Tongshun had already taken a fancy to his brother's property, so he came up with a plan of killing two birds with one stone, killing Cui Tongren, and then deliberately planting stolen goods for Cui Lin, so that the Cui family's property was all his. But the legal net can be restored, and the omission is not leaked. Cui Tongshun was eventually put in chains.

At this point, the truth of the case was revealed, and when Li Kang and his party returned to the county court, the juggling that The master had seen was not over, and this time it was Li Kang's turn to be interested, and he had to go to see it. Only to see the starling suddenly fly to Li Kang's hat and shout: "Qingguan, Qingguan, Qingguan!" It made everyone laugh.