Three days later, the local constables were finally able to determine who the two burnt corpses belonged to. While Director Ling had asked us to assist with the case, there was nothing we could do to help. The constables were busy questioning the neighbours to search for suspects and the magistrate and his steward personally questioned all the people who worked in the Ministry of Rites.
All this questioning and searching proved to be useless since none of the neighbours had heard or spotted anything suspicious the day the ministry was burned. Furthermore, all the people who could get jobs in the Ministry of Rites are rich and arrogant people who only mingled with people in their social circles.
These people will not have any enemies who would aim for their lives since they all grew up in a family where they are taught that there are no eternal friends or eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
This is the difference between the rich and the poor. The poor will fight and kill for a dime and expect their friends to stab their enemies for them, but the rich will not expect anyone to fight for him and even plan for their friends to fight against them. Furthermore, once the fight is over, the rich can still eat and drink together with their enemies happily while the poor would have created someone who hates them to the core.
On the third day, it was Director Ling who started drumming the drum outside the yamen to report a case of murder. When the drum outside of the yamen is drummed, it means that a person is formally lodging a complaint or report to the magistrate office and the magistrate office will take over the case.
Naturally, all of us went to watch the show in the yamen and the magistrate had already prepared seats for us judges, but the guards would have to join the ranks of the constables.
Inside the yamen, Director Ling walked in with swagger as the court started announcing his arrival. Unlike the previous case I presided over in Xin Cheng village, the director did not bow or kneel when the magistrate entered, instead he stood straight up like an arrow and just watched the entire process of the constables announcing the magistrate's entrance.
Once the magistrate was seated, he looked at Director Ling and asked: "What is your complaint?"
"I am here to report the murder of Ling Yi Sha and Zhang Yang. They should be the two bodies that were found in the Ministry of Rites." Director Ling said loudly and angrily and once he finished talking, the loud chattering of the townsfolk who are watching the open court could be heard.
"It's that adulterous pair!" one of the many voices said out while another voice said "it's that husband killer!" numerous people could be heard saying "it's karma, she deserved it!"
I found the name familiar but could not recall so I looked at Judge Tang and Judge Cui and they looked at me as if I should be familiar with the name.
"It's the woman who the Ku brothers were talking about in the market." Judge Tang said softly to remind me.
"There's no need to be worry so much about not remembering things, your memory will get better as your cultivation increases. Eventually, you'll even find it hard to forget the bad parts of life and wish your memory was not so good." Judge Cui said with a soft chuckle.
Three days later, the local constables were finally able to determine who the two burnt corpses belonged to. While Director Ling had asked us to assist with the case, there was nothing we could do to help. The constables were busy questioning the neighbours to search for suspects and the magistrate and his steward personally questioned all the people who worked in the Ministry of Rites.
All this questioning and searching proved to be useless since none of the neighbours had heard or spotted anything suspicious the day the ministry was burned. Furthermore, all the people who could get jobs in the Ministry of Rites are rich and arrogant people who only mingled with people in their social circles.
These people will not have any enemies who would aim for their lives since they all grew up in a family where they are taught that there are no eternal friends or eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
This is the difference between the rich and the poor. The poor will fight and kill for a dime and expect their friends to stab their enemies for them, but the rich will not expect anyone to fight for him and even plan for their friends to fight against them. Furthermore, once the fight is over, the rich can still eat and drink together with their enemies happily while the poor would have created someone who hates them to the core.
On the third day, it was Director Ling who started drumming the drum outside the yamen to report a case of murder. When the drum outside of the yamen is drummed, it means that a person is formally lodging a complaint or report to the magistrate office and the magistrate office will take over the case.
Naturally, all of us went to watch the show in the yamen and the magistrate had already prepared seats for us judges, but the guards would have to join the ranks of the constables.
Inside the yamen, Director Ling walked in with swagger as the court started announcing his arrival. Unlike the previous case I presided over in Xin Cheng village, the director did not bow or kneel when the magistrate entered, instead he stood straight up like an arrow and just watched the entire process of the constables announcing the magistrate's entrance.
Once the magistrate was seated, he looked at Director Ling and asked: "What is your complaint?"
"I am here to report the murder of Ling Yi Sha and Zhang Yang. They should be the two bodies that were found in the Ministry of Rites." Director Ling said loudly and angrily and once he finished talking, the loud chattering of the townsfolk who are watching the open court could be heard.
"It's that adulterous pair!" one of the many voices said out while another voice said "it's that husband killer!" numerous people could be heard saying "it's karma, she deserved it!"
I found the name familiar but could not recall so I looked at Judge Tang and Judge Cui and they looked at me as if I should be familiar with the name.
"It's the woman who the Ku brothers were talking about in the market." Judge Tang said softly to remind me.
"There's no need to be worry so much about not remembering things, your memory will get better as your cultivation increases. Eventually, you'll even find it hard to forget the bad parts of life and wish your memory was not so good." Judge Cui said with a soft chuckle.
