Xiao Moer pointed the dagger in his hand at the yamen runner's chest, "Sir, please look. With my height, if I wanted to kill someone, the best and most convenient spot would be Master Li's chest."
Everyone saw that with Xiao Moer's height, standing next to the yamen runner, if they wanted to kill someone, it would be most convenient to stab him in the heart, while stabbing him in the abdomen would be inconvenient.
"If you want to kill someone, you can kill them with one strike to the heart, but not necessarily to the abdomen."
Master Li's son, seeing that everyone believed him, cried out anxiously, "You probably killed my father while he was standing. After killing him, he placed him on a chair. With your height, it would be perfect to stab him in the abdomen, as you can't reach the chest, which is inconvenient."
Lord Zhang nodded, asked the yamen runner to stand up, and asked Xiao Moer to use the dagger to mark, and sure enough, the position on the abdomen was just right.
Xiao Moer said calmly, "Next is the second point where I can prove my innocence. This is also the point that the murderer overlooked when he tried to frame me."
"Oh. What is it?"
"If I had killed the Master while he was standing, and I had intended to stab him because of my height, then the wound would have been cut from the bottom up. You can see from the wound on the Master's abdomen that the stab went from the upper right side down. This shows that the person who killed the Master must have been much taller than him."
The coroner hurried forward to examine the wound. "My Lord, it's just as he said. The cut was from top to bottom."
The people outside the court were stunned when they heard this. They all looked intently at the little person in the court, their eyes full of admiration.
Master Li's son's eyes were red, and he was also a little bit unconvinced. "My father found the thread of your clothes under his fingernail, how do you explain it?"
Xiao Moer held his head high and spoke solemnly, "What I'm going to tell you next is the murderer's most foolish act in this case. To frame me, he deliberately slipped a thread from my clothes between Master Li's fingernails, making everyone think the evidence was irrefutable, but it wasn't."
"He was very thoughtful. With this evidence, no matter what the students said, they couldn't prove their innocence. But he forgot one thing."
"What's up?"
Everyone is waiting for his explanation.
"The student was wearing his own clothes at the time, but the clothes he used to frame him were winter clothes. The murderer probably forgot this when he was trying to frame him. It was the student's clothes that Master Li was tearing, not an unworn garment."
"The murderer meticulously forged and inserted silk thread between Master Li's fingernails. This clearly shows they planned this long ago and wanted to frame me. I beg you to clear my name."
Little Moer bowed and saluted respectfully to Lord Zhang.
"Good! Well said!"
Suddenly, there was a cheer outside the court, and everyone followed suit.
"We must find the murderer."
"This kid is amazing."
"No wonder he passed the imperial examination at such a young age. He's truly a child prodigy."
"I don't know which black-hearted person would frame a child."
"That's right. It's truly abominable."
…
Daixiang looked at Xiao Moer in the court excitedly.
"Master Mo'er is fine."
Xue Qian was also very excited.
Before, when they presented piece after piece of ironclad evidence, they thought Xiao Moer was doomed, but they didn't expect that with just a few words from him, all their evidence became full of loopholes.
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