Chapter 176 Criminal Psychology
They wanted to find something to hold against other members of the Lin family and wipe out the entire Lin family, which led to the Lin family's "robbery of the execution ground."
In order to make this happen, the Lin family must not be locked up.
This is exactly why the imperial edict did not deprive the Lin family of their freedom.
If you want the Lin family to be convicted of robbing the execution ground, you have to set them free and let them rob the execution ground.
This is the purpose of the royal family.
Lin Zhiqing's goal was to make the royal family think that they were going to rescue the execution ground and give them freedom.
Only with freedom can she do what comes next.
Because there are always unexpected things, Lin Zhiqing was afraid that the royal family would not take the bait, so he prepared two plans in advance.
But now that her goal has been achieved, there is naturally no need to choose the more troublesome plan.
Before her fourth uncle was beheaded, she was free and could personally join the game, push forward the next plan, and make a final effort.
"Oh, I understand!" Lin Yangyang clapped her hands.
"No wonder you told us to act completely hopeless and calm after reading the imperial edict."
"Are you trying to make those crooked officials think we've given up hope and pinned all our hopes on the execution ground? That's why you're expressionless?"
"Smart." Lin Zhiqing snapped his fingers.
People always try to guess the meaning behind other people's expressions and states based on their subjective judgment.
What Lin Zhiqing did was to use psychological suggestion in advance to plant the idea in the minds of the officials of the Dali Temple that he was going to rob the execution ground.
At certain times, as long as the Lin family members had the wrong expressions, the officials would use this psychological suggestion to convince themselves:
That’s right, the reason they were so calm was that they felt there was still a glimmer of hope after robbing the execution ground.
So, they just want to rob the execution ground!
This logic formed a closed loop in those people's minds, so they were unwilling to miss this opportunity to uproot the Lin family in one fell swoop.
And when they had this idea, Lin Zhiqing succeeded.
That's the beauty of psychology.
Compared to Liu Mang's reliance on various senses and objects to create a hypnotic environment, Lin Zhiqing's method of psychological suggestion is more sophisticated.
The advantage of it is that the target person himself may not even realize that he has been psychologically suggested.
Because the development of things follows the logic in his own mind.
In other words, this is no different from hypnotizing yourself.
Lin Zhiqing explained these things to Lin Yangyang in detail.
The others also listened attentively, and in the process, they understood a lot of knowledge related to the study of psychology.
Lin Yangyang nodded thoughtfully: "Sister Qing, if someone else were to explain these things to me, I definitely wouldn't understand."
"But why do those things that make people sleepy become interesting to me when you say them?"
"I'm impressed by Xiao Qing'er's words. If I go to buy herbs next time, I will definitely bring you with me to bargain." Lu Nanyue couldn't help but admire.
Lin Zhiqing shook his head: "It's not as exaggerated as you say. This is just the first step."
"What is the second step? Sister Qing, please tell me again, I forgot."
"Oh, Lin Yangyang, you're so stupid. Xiao Qing'er has already told me this several times."
Lin Shian looked at the three people fighting and quarreling, and his heart calmed down a lot, because the melancholy shrouded by the imperial edict seemed to have dissipated a lot.
He was just about to join the discussion, but in the blink of an eye, he happened to see Jiang Liuyun and Lu Huai opposite him looking at Lin Zhiqing with very admiring eyes.
No!
Not appreciation!
That look was clearly...admiration.
The moment this thought came to his mind, Lin Shian was stunned.
How did he know that it was love?
Just as he was distracted, Lin Zhiqing pointed at the table and said, "Cousin, do you remember the arrangement we discussed during the day?"
"I remember, I remember." Lin Shian came back to his senses and nodded quickly.
"What about you?" Lin Zhiqing looked at Lu Huai and Jiang Liuyun.
The two said in unison: "Remember."
"Then I feel relieved. Uncle, you need to pay more attention on the day of Fourth Uncle's execution to see which officials are present." Lin Zhiqing looked at Lin Congli.
Lin Congli nodded slightly.
Now he is obviously more convinced of Lin Zhiqing.
Lin Yangyang and Lin Congli, the father and daughter, do have one thing in common: they believe in Lin Zhiqing wholeheartedly.
No matter what Lin Zhiqing said, they would not ask "why" until it was done, they would just nod and do it.
The reason why Lin Zhiqing gave this extra reminder was because she suspected that Fourth Uncle's affairs were not entirely Liu Mang's doing.
Or to put it another way, there is probably a big shot behind Liu Mang.
This was not something Lin Zhiqing imagined out of thin air.
She had this suspicion ever since she got the evidence at Liu Mang's house.
Because most people will destroy the evidence as soon as they do something bad.
But Liu Mang was different. He put the evidence in a place he thought was safe.
Of course, ordinary people really have no way to escape from the hypnosis circle, and escape from the hands of the white-haired man with superb martial arts skills.
Putting aside the fact that Lin Zhiqing knows psychology, there are only a handful of people in this world who can obtain evidence.
This brings up the first point of doubt: why did he keep the evidence?
Lin Zhiqing thought about it and, judging from several other letters that recorded the secrets of certain court officials, she could only think of one explanation that was more likely.
That is, Liu Mang wanted to use the evidence as leverage to his own advantage, which he could use at a critical moment.
Of course, it is not enough to infer that there is a big shot behind Liu Mang based solely on this point.
The most difficult thing to explain is that Liu Mang took action after obtaining the evidence.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the evidence in Lin Zhiqing's hands was related to Liu Mang.
But neither the Dali Temple nor the royal family had any intention of taking action against him or investigating him.
Even though they wanted to uproot the Lin family, according to the emperor's tactics, a person who was so cunning as to frame his colleagues and cause chaos in the court should be warned, even if he was not punished.
But according to Lin Zhiqing's observations over the past few days, nothing happened on Liu Mang's side.
From this, Lin Zhiqing had two guesses in his mind.
First, the people behind Liu Mang were very powerful, so they were able to remove him from the royal family's sight.
Second, Liu Mang was helping the royal family to plot against the Lin family, so no matter what he did, the royal family would ignore him.
Lin Zhiqing couldn't be sure for a while which situation Liu Mang belonged to.
Therefore, he wanted to start from the people who were present on the day his fourth uncle was executed to see if he could find any clues.
From the perspective of criminal psychology, some murderers do go to the scene to admire their own masterpiece.
The first is to confirm whether there is any remaining evidence, and the second is to satisfy psychological pleasure.
Even though this possibility is very small, Lin Zhiqing doesn't want to ignore it.
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