After Huang Wen entered the yamen, he gently comforted the questionees, fearing that they would be too sad or nervous to forget anything important. Wang Jue, the main observer, sat on one side, ready to listen to the people's accounts and check the confessions they had given.

The first to be called out was the family of the first deceased, Jiang Yu. Since his widowed mother was sick, only his daughter-in-law came with her half-grown child. The boy looked only four or five years old, and many people felt compassion when they looked at his ignorance.

Huang Wen, who was about to become a father, was also deeply touched, the child must not know what death is, and he can't imagine how sad he will be after understanding the meaning of death. Thinking that there was still a bedridden mother, Huang Wen decided to quickly ask the woman to leave with the child.

"Let's talk about whether Jiang Yu behaved abnormally before and recently, even if you don't think it's anything special, as long as it's different from his past actions, you have to say it. In his heart, Huang Wen was afraid that the child would ask questions about where his father was, so he used the word "missing, not dead".

Hearing Huang Wen mention her deceased husband, the woman wiped her tears and said, "Jiang Yu never mentioned whether he had made new friends recently, and his routine was the same as before. If anything, he seemed to be in a good mood for the first few days of his disappearance. But I thought it might be because I received a job of writing a letter one day, and the other party gave me a reward. ”

Zhuge Ke interjected and asked, "How much reward money was given?"

The woman paused, saw Huang Wen's head, and replied, "I was surprised when I heard about it, but my husband said that it was because there was a happy event in that family." The money is at home, and I haven't touched it since my husband brought it back. ”

If there is a happy event, write a letter to the usual money? If it is a generous person, it is also possible, but most of such people don't need to go out to find someone to write a letter on their behalf, right? Huang Wen realized that there might be a problem with this consistent money, and quickly ordered the official to follow the woman to get it.

After the woman left, Huang Wen said solemnly to the rest of the witnesses in the yamen: "See, the woman didn't say anything about money last time. Just like this, you think that ordinary little things may be the key to solving the case, everyone hurry up and think about whether there is any omission in the answer that day. ”

There is such an example in front of everyone, and everyone who has been making a draft in their hearts for a long time thinks about it again. It was quiet inside and outside the yamen, and everyone tacitly agreed not to make a sound to disturb their thoughts. At this time, the boy who was left behind by the woman suddenly cried, "I want my mother, I want my father!"

Because it was inconvenient for the woman to move with the child, she handed over the child to the official to take care of, and the official who had not yet married was instantly at a loss. Wang Jue didn't know what to say, she couldn't say the so-called white lie that your father would come back soon.

At this time, a woman who was also a witness came out, she hugged the boy and coaxed: "Don't cry, don't cry, your mother will be back later!"

Daddy said he'd come back later, and when he came back, he bought me a big house, and he didn't come back!"

Big house?!

Everyone in the Baijia faction looked at each other in surprise, and everyone who has a baby at home knows that children have a good memory, and it is best not to promise what they can't do. If Jiang Yu can't tell his family what he is doing in secret, but he can't help but leak something with his son, it is also possible, after all, adults will not be wary of their little baby.

When you think about it, the money may have nothing to do with writing letters. The evidence has been in Jiang Yu's house for several days, and how much information you can get from the evidence depends entirely on luck.

Lu Hui got Wang Jue's instructions, she walked over and squatted down to look at the little baby, "Did Daddy say anything before he left, besides saying that he would buy you a big house?"

"Big house, send me to Chang'an to study in the future, my father said that I will become a very powerful person after studying. ”

Don't look at Wang Jue's ruthlessness in slashing people with a knife, she is most afraid of encountering such a heart-wrenching incident, and she can't control the indescribable sadness in her heart. The disciples all knew their teacher better, and seeing that her eyes were a little red, Huang Wen hurriedly changed the topic: "What about Jiang Yu's friends?" ”

A red-faced and white-toothed, scholar-dressed Lang Jun walked out, "Brother Jiang is relatively withdrawn, so he has a good relationship with me." On weekdays, he mainly ghostwrites letters or studies at home to prepare for the imperial examination, and his life is very simple. If there's anything else to do, it's that I occasionally come to my house for one night to discuss learning. However, I didn't see him in the days he went missing, and I didn't know what happened until his family thought he was at my house. As for where I was the day before he disappeared, I happened to go to another friend's house to study, and my friend can testify, as I said last time. ”

After the scholar finished speaking, another scholar with handsome eyebrows came over and said, "That's right, let's talk together for three days, and my family can testify." ”

Since it was not the first time to ask these questions, the best time to observe the reactions of these people had been missed, so their dynamics and linguistic logic were not a good reference as long as they were not obviously problematic.

The answers of the two scholars sounded fine, but Wang Jue wrote down some contents. Looking at Wang Jue's writing, the people thought that after the woman answered the question, Wang Jue didn't remember anything, whether there was anything wrong with these two people.

At this time, people like Li Chengqian, who was so smart and deeply taught by Wang Jue, carefully observed how the two reacted when they met the suspicious eyes of others. After the observation, several people also picked up their pens and began to write down something.

Although Huang Wen had been away for a while, he still had a tacit understanding with the people in the school, and when he saw that everyone had stopped writing and asked the relatives and friends of the second deceased to come forward and speak.

The population of Li Chun's family is also relatively simple, stronger than the situation where only orphans and widows are left in the family of the first deceased, and Li Chun also has an eldest brother who can take care of his parents. When it came to the youngest son who passed away, the two elders couldn't cry, so they had to be replied by Li Chun's eldest brother.

"My brother never sleeps out overnight, and there was a murder that happened before, so we went to my brother's friend's house to find it to no avail, and immediately went to the yamen to report the case. I'm ashamed to say that because of the big age gap between me and my brother, he is mostly with friends when he salvags seafood. It's all because I ignore him so much, and I don't notice any difference in the days before he disappeared. ”

After Li Chun's eldest brother answered, his father and mother also cried and said that they didn't find the difference, and then they also said that they regretted ignoring the child. The young man who had been following Li Chun's father and mother to comfort him saw that after they finished speaking, he quickly stood up and said: "The last time I saw him was the day before the body was found. We also salvaged the sea together that day, but we didn't go home together, he said he made an appointment. Blame me, if I ask more, maybe I will know who harmed him. I don't know what happened in the days before his accident, but I was sick and stayed at home for those days. ”

Wang Jue was stunned when he heard this, if the matter really had something to do with money, maybe the young man's illness made him pick up his life.

The third deceased, Han Wei, was a bit special, he was originally from Chang'an to run a business, and Huang Wen had already asked the people in the same caravan to inform his relatives of the matter. It's just that the distance is far away, and people haven't arrived yet, and they can't give any useful news even if they want to come.

The reason why the yamen was a little crowded was because the caravan was coming, and looking at the number of people, I knew that it was a big project to record a confession for them.

Huang Wen frowned and asked, "Is this caravan formed freely or is it hired by the dead?"

A young man with an ordinary appearance and a fairly elegant demeanor stood up, "We have been hired by the deceased for two years. I was a friend of the deceased, and because I knew a few words, I kept accounts mainly in the caravan. Han Wei was robbing people at the beach all day long, and I stayed in the caravan to keep accounts and take care of the goods by the way, so I didn't know what happened to him outside, and I didn't pay special attention to him a few days ago. After speaking, he looked back at the people in the caravan, "Let's ask them." ”

Huang Wen looked at the rest of the people, "But does anyone have something to say?" Do any of you have an alibi for the last person to see the deceased?"

The rest of the people shook their heads in unison, and they all said without noticing any difference in the deceased. Then the young man from before said again: "Since we are outsiders, Han Wei is very afraid that someone will cause trouble in Lianshui County, so he has to make sure that everyone is back every night." He was the only one who did not return at the appointed time that day, and since there had already been two murders, we quickly reported the case after searching for it to no avail. ”

If you suspect the two scholars before, when you see the caravan people replying, the masters and apprentices of the Hundred Schools are also recording them, and everyone thinks that they are just recording the words of the person being questioned. The two scholars, who had been looked at with suspicion, saw that everyone finally stopped looking at them that way, and their tense bodies relaxed.

The people related to the three deceased had already finished asking, and Huang Wen said to the people outside, "But can anyone provide any information?"

A young man who had been secretly paying attention to Wang Jue walked into the yamen, and he said a little nervously: "I don't know Li Chun and Han Wei, after seeing the portraits released by the yamen, I think the two are familiar, but I can't remember where I have seen them." I remembered it yesterday, but I wasn't sure, so I didn't dare to talk nonsense. ”

Huang Wen smiled at the young man and said, "It's okay, if you remember wrong, I don't blame you, the official will tell." ”

After hearing this, the young man took a deep breath and said as if he had made up his mind: "One day I was sleeping behind the reef, and I was woken up by the sound of an argument when I was in a daze, I stretched out my head and looked at it as if it was Li Chun and Han Wei, but I was not sure when I just woke up. I only heard their last conversation, Li Chun said believe you again, Han Wei said that listening to him is right. ”

Wang Jue asked, "What day did it happen?"

The young man replied tremblingly: "The second day when Jiang Yu's body was found." ”

If this is true, then Li Chun and Han Wei are acquaintances, but their acquaintance is not known by each other's relatives and friends, and there must be some secrets in between. I just don't know if they've known each other for a long time, or if something has happened recently that connects them.

Huang Wen asked again if anyone could give some clues, and seeing that the people inside and outside the yamen shook their heads, he said disappointedly: "The yamen will post the portraits of the three people to show the people again, and if you still have any clues, even if you are not sure, come and talk about it." ”

At this time, Jiang Yu's daughter-in-law took the money with the servant, and Huang Wen said to the woman: "This consistent money is left by the official to use it to find clues, and I will give you the consistent money, can I make it?"

The woman bowed, "Naturally, I just want the county order to solve the case earlier." ”

"Rest assured, I will do my best to find the culprit. Until then, you inform each other not to go out alone and not to come home too late. 166 Reading Network