Cheng Ling snorted heavily, and said angrily: "This case, Dali Temple has already been tried, and the Criminal Department has also been tried, so there is no need to interrogate again from beginning to end, if Yang Langzhong is interrogated like this, will this three-division trial have to be tried until the Year of the Monkey and Ma Yue?"
Yang Fan spread his hands and said: "According to Cheng Temple, then we don't need to mention the prisoner to the court, just you and I each take out the interrogation records of this yamen, and everyone can take a look."
Cheng Ling said angrily: "This official is saying that it is important to choose it" Yang Fan said in a loud voice: "This official thinks that this is very important" Imperial Envoy Zhao of the Imperial Envoy Terrace hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, since Yang Langzhong thinks it is necessary to ask again, then it will be interrogated again." ” Cheng Ling said with disgust: "In this way, your imperial envoy is going to stand on the side of the criminal department."
Zhao Jiulong said angrily: "How can this reason be that the official is saying that since one of the two thinks it is necessary and the other thinks it is unnecessary, then it will take some effort to try it again, but according to your Cheng Temple's straight opinion, if the prisoner is not allowed to make a statement, Yang Langzhong has to say that you are a sloppy case, and the two sides are weighed, of course, it is appropriate to try it again, how can it be called my imperial envoy and the criminal department stand together."
Yang Fan hurriedly explained: "Don't get angry, both of you."
Why did the three divisions come to ask the three divisions to review together, and finally unify their opinions, so in the end, our three divisions must all stand on the side, so why argue about it?"
Cheng Ling and Zhao Jiulong snorted coldly at the same time, and with a flick of their sleeves, their heads twisted to the side.
Yang Fan coughed and said to Chang Zhiyuan: "Chang Zhiyuan, you say slowly, don't worry, don't miss a place." ” Chang Zhiyuan saw that his face was kind, and he became a little more courageous, and he agreed to explain in detail.
Until this moment, Chang Zhiyuan didn't recognize this Yang Fan as the official of the Criminal Department who rescued his mother that night, so he just told him how he met Pan Junyi when he was shopping with his mother, and Pan Junyi teased his mother.
Halfway through hearing this, Zhao Jiulong suddenly said: "Wait a minute, you said that there was a criminal officer who broke the siege for your mother at that time, who is this person?"
Cheng Ling also said: "Yes Yang Langzhong, do you have such a personal official in the Criminal Department who suspects that nothing happened on the night of Qixi Festival, and it is likely that the Chang family owes people money and is unable to pay it back, so they bite back."
Hmph, Diao Min, I can't use any means to repay debts."
Yang Fan said solemnly: "What Chang Zhiyuan said is true, on that day, it was the official and his wife who traveled to Dingding Long Street together and saved their mother and son. ” Chang Zhiyuan couldn't help but be shocked when he heard it, and after taking a closer look, he vaguely felt that this person was indeed somewhat similar to the person who helped him that night.
Yang Fan sighed: "The official saved their mother and son on the side of the Tianjin Bridge that night, although the sky was dark and the lights on the bridge were not bright enough, but I can still remember the appearance of this child. ” Cheng Ling and Zhao Jiulong didn't expect that the witness was actually at the scene, and this question could no longer be raised.
After asking for confirmation, I had to listen to Chang Zhiyuan and continue to speak.
Yang Fan insisted on starting from the night of Qixi Festival, of course, in order to confirm Pan Junyi's bad intentions, otherwise the cause of this case would have become a tragedy caused by simply asking for debts, and his moral basis for the judgment of the two related cases would be gone.
When Dali Temple first asked about the case, it was deliberately biased in favor of the Pan family, so they did not seriously investigate the relevant criminal department officials, and they deliberately focused on "debt collection and killing", not wanting to involve too much.
I never thought that the witness who came out that night was actually the chief judge of this case, and he and the Chang family were neither related nor related, this witness could do a lot.
Cheng Ling had no choice but to cheer up and try to find something beneficial to him in the next case.
But when he listened to Chang Zhiyuan's statement, the more he listened, the more his brows wrinkled.
Chang Zhiyuan spoke very carefully, such as Pan Junyi forcing the Chang family to repay gambling debts, how his father was sad and angry, how there was a quarrel, how Pan Junyi choked his father's throat during the fight, his father's face was red and almost suffocated, when he stepped forward to save his father, he was thrown away by Pan Junyi and hit the coffin, how he grabbed the spiritual position and rushed forward to hit, after hitting indiscriminately, if he found that Pan Junyi fell to the ground, there was blood Cheng in the back of his head, the more he listened, the more wrong it was, this case was tried by him when he was in Dali Temple.
At that time, the confessions of the father and son were not different from now, but they were very different.
He said that it was the same because things were exactly the same, and that it was different because he was talking too much about it now When he was in Dali Temple, Chang Zhiyuan's confession was very simple, that is, Pan Junyi came to collect debts, he and his father were burning paper for his deceased mother, and his father had a quarrel with Pan Junyi in anger, the two fought, he was shocked and scared, and stepped forward to pull the fight, because he was young and frail, and was thrown away by Pan Junyi, so he picked up the process that he said now is no different, but added some descriptive words, such as his father was "choked by the throat," "his face was red and almost suffocated", he was thrown on the coffin, "easily" grabbed the spirit card, and hit a few times "indiscriminately". , After Pan Junyi fell to the ground, he "suddenly discovered" that there was blood in the back of his head and just added a few adjectives, giving people the feeling that his father was going to be strangled to death by Pan Junyi in the fight, and he stepped forward to persuade but was powerless to stop it, and in a panic he picked up the spirit card, just to stop Pan Junyi from committing murder Cheng Ling Of course he knew what these key words meant at the time of the verdict, and he immediately questioned these details repeatedly and sensitively, although he looked solemn and even more terrifying when he raised his face, Chang Zhiyuan was so shocked that his little face turned pale and trembled, but there has been no change in the words of these statements.
Cheng Ling's repeated confirmation made these small details more obvious in the confession transcript.
Yang Fan didn't teach this Chang family kid to make a false confession, this kind of honest and young child with little knowledge, if you teach him some false confessions, there is no need to use punishment at all, those experienced judicial officials only need to use a little interrogation skills, and they can find out the truth and truth.
Yang Fan just made a little inspiration for him.
The father and son of the Chang family are clumsy people, or, with their quality, they don't know what to say and what to say when they confess.
In addition, the scene at that time was too intense, and as insiders, they would definitely ignore some things, so when they confessed, they could only talk about a rough process dryly, and this time, others could make a big fuss about the details.
Yang Fan interrogated the father and son in the second hall a few days ago, going back and forth, upside down, in fact, he only did one thing: inducing excavation Yang Fan excavated all the details that his father and son had overlooked, and helped them perfect the blank parts that his father and son could no longer remember in their inquiries, prompts, hypotheses, and speculations.
The details that were excavated by Yang Fan were originally their experience, but they were negligent, or they didn't feel the need to confess, but now that they think about it and say it, of course they won't change their words.
According to the process of their confession, Yang Fan helped them add things to the blank area of their memory in the prompts, hypotheses, and speculations, and naturally became their memories, and they were convinced that it was undoubtedly what they saw and heard with their own eyes, and even if you held a lie detector, you would never want to prove that they were lying.
Cheng Ling was a little unsteady, but Chang Zhiyuan's confession did not conflict with his confession in Dali Temple, it was just more detailed, what doubts could he raise, questioning why Chang Zhiyuan's confession in the Criminal Department was more detailed than in Dali Temple, then he could only draw a conclusion that the Criminal Department was cautious in handling the case and Dali Temple was hasty in asking about the case What's more, it is impossible for the Imperial Embassy to help him stand on his feet, and the Imperial Embassy advocates a light sentence.
Therefore, Zhao Jiulong's action must have been at the time of sentencing, and at that time, he and the Criminal Department would give a light sentence and be exempted from the sentence, and he would never pull Yang Fan's hind legs at present.
Thinking of this, Cheng Ling had to hold back, and when Chang Zhiyuan retreated and took Chang Lin to the court, the same problem as Chang Zhiyuan appeared, and his testimony became more delicate and perfect.
When he confessed in Dali Temple, he only said that he was addicted to gambling, but when he gambled with Pan Junyi, he owed a huge debt and could not repay it, so Pan Junyi proposed to ask his wife to stay with him to pay off the debt.
Under Yang Fan's repeated inquiries and prompts, some of the points that Chang Lin ignored that would help him reduce his son's sentence were excavated one by one.
For example, Chang Lin specifically mentioned that he had never met Pan Junyi when he was gambling before; He also mentioned that because he was poor, the amount of gambling was not large, but this generous Kuo Langjun was willing to gamble with him, and repeatedly lent him money to make him gamble; For another example, when Pan Junyi failed to ask him to use his wife to pay off the debt, he asked the other party how he knew the beauty of his wife, and the other party once replied that he had seen it on the streets of Dingding and Tianjin Bridge, and Chang Lin's answer confirmed Pan Junyi's previous charges of molesting Cheng's lady on the street and setting up a game to cheat gambling by his wife.
Cheng Ling became anxious in his heart, but at this moment, it was a trial by the three divisions, and it was impossible for him to torture Chang Lin.
Cheng Ling's eyes rolled, and he thought in his heart: "Yang Fan is scheming, naturally in order to exonerate Chang Zhiyuan.
However, even if Pan Junyi flirted with the lady of the Cheng clan and set up a game to lure Chang Lin to gamble for money, he was just obsessed with lust and misbehaved.
Chang Zhiyuan's murder is always a fact, and now it seems that only in sentencing is fought according to the law" Thinking of this, Cheng Ling simply gave up the idea of entanglement in confession, he listened to Chang Lin's testimony with his eyes half-closed and half-closed, and the relevant laws slowly passed through his sea of knowledge, and his mind settled down again.
Zhao Jiulong on the other side has long been recuperating, so far, all the evidence is favorable to the commutation, of course he will not raise any questions, because the imperial envoy he represents is the one who proposed the commutation, and what he is waiting for now is the moment when the sentencing is discussed.
"Take Chang Lin down" Yang Fan finished commanding, and arched his hand to the left and right: "Two brothers" "Ahh Zhao Jiulong perked up and said, "Let's start discussing sentencing now?"
Yang Fan said with a smile: "It's already halfway through, let's have lunch first."
To be continued: