The official position of county magistrate is only the most inconspicuous among the many official positions in a dynasty.

The official position of nine grades, Yulu is a month of 20 stones, this is still a good year, if there is a famine year, or if the supervision is not good, I am afraid that I will not even be able to get a month of 20 stones.

With such an official position, it is almost impossible to check the old cases in Beijing.

However, at this time, on the desk in Liu Yingyi's study, there was a file on the case of the loss of the tribute that year.

Liu Yingyi asked for the file two days ago, and the capital immediately sent people to send things over non-stop.

He looked at the yellowed old file and immediately couldn't wait to open it, wanting to see what connection this headless case from many years ago had to do with the current serial murder case.

"In July of the second year of Ding, the birthday of the first emperor, the whole world celebrated.

The five counties and thirteen counties jointly prepared generous gifts for the emperor, using forty-two taels of gold and five hundred taels of silver, and asked the craftsmen of the Wu family to carefully create tributes into Beijing.

On July 29, the tribute was robbed while passing through Lan County. All the thirty-seven people who escorted the tribute were killed, and in more than half a month, a total of eleven craftsmen of the Wu family were destroyed, and the murderer has not been identified so far. ”

Liu Yingyi read the file back and forth twice, and when he put it down, two questions crossed his mind.

1. Escorting tribute is a secret event, how could the murderer know the itinerary and time of the escort team, and the murder and robbery of goods were smooth, could it be that there was something else hidden back then, and someone in the escort leaked the news?

Second, there is no need to kill people after the murderer succeeds, why do you want to destroy the Wu family's craftsmen after grabbing the tribute? Could it be that there is some secret in this tribute?

Liu Yingyi feels that the doubts and difficulties in the headless case of the year are no less than the three murder cases in Dongzi County now, does the case of the year really have anything to do with the current case?

I thought I could find a clue from the case back then, but now it seems that the whole case is even more confusing.

"Has Qin Zhutou come to the Yamen?" Liu Yingyi drank a glass of water irritably, saw a catcher passing by, and asked the catcher standing outside the door.

"Nope."

Liu Yingyi sent Qin Zhutou to check on the outsiders who had just come to the town recently two days ago, but he didn't get a result, and the Qin Zhutou who was sent to do business was gone.

This Lord Qin is really unreliable.

Liu Yingyi wants to be a good county magistrate who is diligent and loves the people, Dongzi County was originally a small county that was so poor that he couldn't even afford to drink porridge, but in recent years, under Liu Yingyi's governance, the people have been able to have enough food and clothing.

However, there is a specialization in the art industry, and Liu Yingyi has a hand in governing the county, but when it comes to things like investigating and solving cases, special people are still needed to handle it.

For many years, Dongzi County has been peaceful and peaceful, and there has never been such a vicious murder case, but now the case is confusing, and the head catcher in the yamen is missing again, Liu Yingyi suddenly feels a little anxious.

"My lord, the water girl asks to see you." The man outside the door said.

Suddenly, Liu Yingyi's eyes lit up: "Please come to the study." ”

In the past few days, the county magistrate and the night pot girl in the town have come closer, everyone has seen it, although I don't know what ability this night pot sister has to make the county magistrate favored, but the county magistrate fancy the person, naturally the attitude should be polite.

Shui Qingxiang followed her subordinates to the study, and saw that Liu Yingyi's face was a little tired, but her carefully crafted facial features still looked so handsome, especially the pair of fox eyes After seeing Shui Qingxiang, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she took out the file of the year very neatly: "Are you here?" Take a look at this. ”

When she first came into contact with Liu Yingyi, Shui Qingxiang felt that this young county magistrate was more special, although she had long heard that this county magistrate was diligent and loving, and approachable, but after seeing it with her own eyes, she found that the rumors of the people were not false.

Talk about the case, talk about the case, there is no condescension, as long as you are reasonable, even if you are a ridiculous night pot girl, you will listen to you a few words.

Shui Qingxiang took the file handed over by Liu Yingyi and read it carefully, although there were not many words on the file, but for Shui Qingxiang, the amount of information in it was huge.

Dongzi County is just a small county town with a small name, Lord Liu is just a petty official of the ninth grade, but he is qualified to see the old case files in the capital, even if Liu Yingyi has a way in the capital, but to be able to see such a secret file within a day or two, this seemingly temperamental county magistrate does not seem to be as simple as it seems.

"Have you read the dossier? What do you think? The expression on Liu Yingyi's face was a little anxious, obviously wanting to know what Shui Qingxiang could see from the file of this old case.

"My lord, after reading the cases of the past, I am even more sure that the murder cases today are very related to the original case of the disappearance of tribute."

Liu Yingyi's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, "How can you see it?" ”

There are three reasons for this:

First, the county where the accident occurred that year was Yulan County, which is less than 20 miles away from our Dongzi County. The file says that after the murderer killed and robbed the tribute, he was missing, and I think it is very likely that he was hiding in Dongzi County;

Second, the Wu craftsman family who made the tribute was also wiped out half a month after the theft of the tribute, and the Wu family lived in Yulan County, and the murderer was nowhere to be found after the murder.

In addition to being relatively close to our Dongzi County, there is only one remote road that can lead to the capital. The murderer dared to commit such a big case, it was definitely not done by one person, and the three deceased knew martial arts, they all came to Dongzi County in the year of the theft of the tribute, even if they were not murderers, they must know part of the inside story.

Thirdly, I don't know if the adults have noticed, but that day the old bustard wrapped the jewelry, there is a gold object that is a little special, neither a hairpin nor a bracelet, I thought it was a little strange at the time, but now that I think about it, it seems to have been removed from some kind of gold. ”

Shui Qingxiang's words immediately aroused Liu Yingyi's interest, and he immediately stood up and ordered to the catcher outside the door: "Quickly bring the old bustard's package." ”

After half a pillar of incense, the package that was originally left at the scene of the crime reappeared in front of Liu Yingyi and Shui Qingxiang.

Liu Yingyi opened the package and saw that among the gold and silver jewelry that the old bustard was carrying, there was indeed a gold jewelry that was particularly strange.

It is said that it is like a hairpin and not like a hairpin, if it is a bracelet and can not be worn on the hand, the arc-shaped linear gold of pure gold, which is also carved with a delicate bat pattern, at first I only felt that this gold ware is exquisitely made, and it must be worth a lot.

Now that I think about it, it's clear that this is a large piece of gold.

Liu Yingyi's brows were tied in a dead knot, but he didn't expect that these serial murder cases were really related to the theft of tribute back then.