That night, Montenegro told Li Shiqi about the day's events, and several people discussed it! What to do with these people tomorrow.

The next day, it was almost noon. Meng Hao immediately led dozens of his subordinates and rushed into Gongzi Kang's mansion! Gongzikang's family didn't dare to move when they saw that the officials and soldiers were coming. Meng Hao took out the trembling Gongzi Kang in the study, and said, "The lieutenant's mansion has invited the official doctor to come over, and call a few of yesterday's minions, and bring the sword with you!" ”

No matter how bad Gongzi Kang was, he knew that he had fallen into a catastrophe, and when he thought of Qin Fa, who was not recognized by his six relatives, he almost urinated into the crotch of his pants.

Li Shiqi sat in the hall, and there was a scribe sitting next to him! There are soldiers standing on both sides, majestic! Gongzi Kang came to the hall, but he calmed down, thinking about how to deal with it!

Li Shiqi asked, "Your name, age, title, and where does your family live?" ”

"Ying Kang, twenty-five years old, the official doctor, lives in Xianyang South Street!" Childe Kang replied.

"Ying Kang, how did you get this sword, let's explain it yourself!" Li Shiqi asked.

"I was talking to the boss about business with the boss of the East Market Musical Instrument Auxiliary yesterday, and a lame man hit me with a sword in his arms, I discussed it with him, and bought it for a hundred dollars!" Gongzikang said.

"We questioned the current people, and three of them proved that it was your minions who pushed the man on you, and you pushed the man to the ground and kicked him, right?" Li Shiqi's face was expressionless, and he asked seriously.

"My lord, he hit me hard, I was very angry, I just pushed him lightly and he fell, I just kicked him lightly, and I definitely couldn't hurt him!" Childe Kang panicked.

"It's true that there are no injuries, and after you drew your sword, did you ask for the price? How much money did he say? Li Shiqi asked.

"I forgot to ask, I bid him a hundred! And he sold it to me! Childe Kang replied.

Three witnesses heard it, and they replied that they couldn't sell it. Why did you take the sword with you? Li Shiqi asked sharply.

"My lord, I gave him money at the time, took the sword and left, and he didn't object!" Gongzi Kang replied with a sad face.

"Yingkang, your subordinates pushed the first complaint on you, and you pushed the first one to the ground, and kicked the first one, and then snatched the sword from the first one's hand, and pulled it out to watch. Without asking the price, you paid a hundred dollars to buy a sword, and the other party did not agree, so you threw down the money and forcibly took the sword. Am I right? Yu Shiqi shouted.

Gongzikang immediately sat on the ground, not knowing how to answer!

Li Shiqi ordered him to be brought down, and several minions were brought up for interrogation, and finally confessed to the above facts.

Li Shiqi asked about Chu Xiangqing Restaurant again and asked them to draw a charge. ordered to be imprisoned, and summoned six other sons! In the end, they all pleaded guilty to the crime of knowing.

In half a day, it was all done. Li Shiqi ordered that a group of 12 criminals, along with their first accusations, testimonies, and confessions, be sent to Xianyang Facao for conviction by the judge.

Fa Cao first read the testimony and confession, there was no problem, and he sighed that the lieutenant's mansion was really neat this time! Look at these seven sons again, he knows them all! They all have their origins, and I thought, should it be another case without a tail!

Fa Cao called the first complaint, wanting to ask clearly, so that he could deal with the pressure of these seven families tomorrow!

Fa Cao saw a black slave dressed as a peasant, walking with a limp. asked casually: "Tell me, how was the sword forcibly bought?" ”

The black slave said loudly: "I am the commander-in-command of the general's short soldiers, and the general asked me to follow him with the sword given by the king of Qin to protect him." Because yesterday the sun was shining, I was a little dizzy, and I fell behind the general, and the sword was forcibly seized by these men. The general was very angry, and he was still angry just now! "There's no farmer like just now, and he's obviously a fierce general!

No matter how stupid Fa Cao is, he knows what the weight of the person who can get the sword from the King of Qin, and he also understands the position of the general's short soldier commander in the general's heart. He gently drew his sword and looked at it, and it was true. Immediately smiled and returned the sword to the black slave and said, "Please go back and tell the general that we will act impartially!" Absolutely no inquiry! ”

After the black slave left, Fa Cao immediately called his subordinates and explained: "Go back to the house immediately, inform the lady, the door of the house will be closed before I return, and no one will open the door." "After explaining, immediately go to Xianyang Ling. Xianyang Ling also asked people to go home and ordered the door to be closed, and the two of them decided not to go back that day! I'll wait until the case is done tomorrow.

The next day, Gongzi Kang sentenced the black face to exile to Beidi County, because there was a sixth-rank knight to confess, it became a year of penal service, and the other six sons were sentenced to three years of hard labor in the black face, and seven people were deprived of the status of the prince by the clan. All five minions went to hard labor.

Qin Law is like this, there are very few people who break the law, and once someone breaks the law, a large group of people will be immediately implicated.

When the merchants heard about it, they all celebrated.

Ten days after taking office, Montenegro decided to set up a plainclothes police team, so he reported to King Qin and his boss Guowei's office, saying that this team was only responsible for secretly supervising lawbreakers in the city, and it could deter criminals! Quickly with the consent of his superiors, King Qin did not use the name of the plainclothes policeman, but took another name: "Shadow Guard", and personally set the number at 2,000. It is said that they should protect Xianyang like a shadow in the night. So Hei carefully selected two thousand literate soldiers, asked them all to wear all kinds of civilian clothes, and handed them over to Meng Hao to command, and asked Shang Gongfang to make a delicate bronze medal for each person, with "Shadow Guard" on the front and name, age, and army name on the back.

After deciding on this matter, Montenegro felt a little more relieved, and in the future, it would be equivalent to having a lot of eyes among the people! Coming out of the Shang Workshop, Montenegro habitually walked to the Lieutenant's Mansion, and now many things are being done by Li Shi, but he is more on the street.

As soon as I entered the lieutenant's mansion, I saw an official patiently saying to an old man: "Our son's affairs have already been handed over to the Xianyang Order, and we are only in charge of public security and solving the case, so you should go and ask the Xianyang Mansion to arrest Cao!" They're in charge of it! ”

Black Mountain saw that the old man was covered in sweat, his face was full of sorrow, and he spoke a little bit from one sentence to the next, obviously hungry and tired.

"What's going on?" Montenegro asked.

"General, you're back! This old man asked the wrong place, his son's case has been transferred to Xianyang Mansion! The officer replied.

"What case am I asking?" Montenegro said.

"His son is also a soldier of our lieutenant's mansion! Died while patrolling half a year ago! Until now, there is no conclusion, and the case has been taken over by Xianyang Mansion! The official replied.

Montenegro probably found out and said to the official, "Arrange food for the old man first, and then take him to the guest house to stay." Then he turned his head to the old man and said, "Uncle, your son is from our Lieutenant's Mansion, and our Lieutenant's Mansion is in charge, you eat something first, I'll ask you about your son in detail, and then I'll talk to you!" ”

"Thank you, sir! You are my benefactor! I'm kowtowing to you! "The old man was in tears, and he was about to kowtow to the ground.

Montenegro hurriedly helped him and said to the official just now, "Why are you still stunned?" Help the old man to eat! ”

"No!" And the official helped the old man to go!

"Who knows the details of this case? Talk to me. Montenegro asked.

"General, I know this case better, I was responsible for asking it at that time, and I also handed it over to Xianyang Mansion!" A middle-aged scribe surnamed Wang next to him said.

"Then you can tell me in detail!" Montenegro sat down and took a sip of the tea handed by the official servant!

Wang Shuzhi did not dare to slack off, and said to Montenegro in detail: "The old man's son is called Wang Kai, one night half a year ago, he patrolled with Li Qiang and Zhao Si and was walking back, according to Li Qiang and Zhao Si, when the three of them arrived at Zhuque South Street, he was in a hurry, went to squat pit, and when he came out, he didn't see Wang Kai!" The two of them thought that Wang Kai went back first, and they didn't care, so they went back to sleep. The next morning, Wang Kai was found dead in the alley not far from where the three broke up. After receiving the report, I went to the scene to check, Wang Kai fell to the ground with his head on his back, his head resting on a stone, the whole stone was bloody, and he was just injured in the back of his head! When he moved the body, he found that he had a money bag pressed against his waist, and there were thirty-two and a half taels in it. A large footprint of one foot three inches and two was found on the ground. No more clues! The Lieutenant's Mansion sent people to search around, but they found nothing. ”

"Are there any eyewitnesses?" Montenegro asked.

"It happened in the second half of the night without any eyewitnesses. Wang Xiaoer, who lives in an inn at the entrance of Zhu Cuinan Street, got up in the middle of the night to urinate, saying that he heard a woman calling for help. When I asked him, he couldn't tell the time or direction. Before that time, three women disappeared one after another. Many people are nervous about a woman's voice. The king scribe said.

"You call Li Qiang and Zhao Si to come, let's go to the scene for a walk." Montenegro said.

"The two of them were sentenced to hard labor because of dereliction of duty, and they were sentenced to serve their sentences in Lishan, so they can't come!" The king scribe said.

"Then you can take me around!" Montenegro said.

Wang Shuren took Montenegro and a few short soldiers to the intersection where Wang Kai broke up with the two, it was daytime, and people came and went here. Fifty steps south of the intersection, there is a brick and wood house, and the wall is written "Jingxiao", which is the name of the public toilet in this era. The two turned left and entered the alley at the end of the road, not far in, pointed to the place where Wang Kai died, and said, "It's here that you died!" ”

Montenegro looked at it, and it was one hundred and fifty steps away from the place where the three of them broke up, and it was twenty steps to turn right at the entrance of the second lane. "How many people live in this alley?" Montenegro asked.

"This alley is five miles long, and there are a lot of people, almost all of them are warehouses rented and bought by merchants from the six countries or the residences of men, and this is the case on both sides." The king scribe said!

"You go to Xianyang Mansion first and transfer the case back! There are also materials about the three missing women, so that the person who gave Wang Kai the autopsy also came over. Montenegro said.

"General, it's too late for everyone to push away such a case, and it's been more than half a year!" The king scribe said.

"General Ben's order, I never want to say it a second time! If you hear it clearly, you will make a promise, understand? Montenegro said solemnly.

"No! I'll do it right away! "The king scribe went at once!

Montenegro and a few short-handed soldiers came to the inn at the intersection. "Which one is Wang Xiaoer? Come here! The soldier next to him shouted.

"Guest, you're looking for me! Is it to eat or to stay? A man in his twenties came running over briskly and greeted him warmly.

"We are from the Lieutenant's Mansion, I have something to ask you!" Montenegro said.

"A few of them are officials! You sit down inside, I'll pour a pot of tea, and you ask while drinking. Wang Xiaoer said.

Montenegro didn't move, and asked directly: "What did you hear on the night when Lieutenant Officer Wang Kai died half a year ago?" Tell me the truth! ”

Wang Xiaoer thought for a while and said: "I remember that day, it was the second half of the night of December 16, the weather was very cold, the moon was very bright, I walked to squat in the pit, and I heard two female shouts for help in a daze!" As soon as I heard this voice, I woke up, I listened carefully, and thought that if I heard it again, I would report it to the police, and before that, three women had disappeared in a row, and people were panicked. But I couldn't hear it anymore, I thought I heard it wrong, and when I went back to the house and lay on the bed, I heard two men shouting Wang Kai and shouting a few times. Then I fell asleep! The next day, I heard that an officer named Wang Kai died in that alley! Wang Xiaoer said.

"Take me to the place where you heard the shouts for help and the place where you slept!" Montenegro said.

Wang Xiaoer said: "That kind of dirty place, the official should not go!" Wang Xiaoer saw that Heishan and the others had serious faces, so he went to the front to lead the way, pointed to the small house on the east side of the inn and said, "That's it." Then he pointed to the house by the gate and said, "I will sleep here." ”

Montenegro carefully looked at the position of the squatting pit and the sleeping position, and asked his soldiers to use a measuring rope to measure the distance between each position, and also carefully drew a map and marked the distance! before leaving.

Back at the Lieutenant's Mansion, Uncle Wang was already full and was waiting there! When you see Montenegro coming back, you have to kowtow! Black hurriedly stopped. Help him sit down, and sit down by the long case. After letting the official maid serve two bowls of tea, he asked, "Uncle Wang, where are you from?" What else is there in the family! Tell me about your son's situation at home. Montenegro motioned to the scribe beside him to write it down.

"I am a member of the Tongguan Wang's family, I have three sons, the eldest son Wang Kai is a soldier, the other two younger brothers are farmers at home, and the other has just gone to Sanchuan County to be a soldier. The eldest daughter-in-law just gave birth to a grandson last year, and she washes her face with tears all day long! There is no explanation for Wang Kai's death until now, one moment it is said that he was killed, and the other time it is said that he fell to his death when he stole the money bag and escaped! Our family is honest and honest, and we never greed for anyone! If you die in battle, I'm not sad, which old Qin family didn't die on the battlefield! But the government has no explanation, and until now, the bones have not been put into the ground, the wives and children have not been able to get pensions, and they have to listen to other people's gossip, I can't stand it! I come here once a month, just to find out! After speaking, the old tears were rampant.

Although Montenegro also rolled out of the mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he also heard it sadly, and said: "Your son is good, I can tell you for sure that he died on the way to catch thieves, and he is a hero who died in battle!" You can stay here for a few days, and I will soon catch the murderer and give your son justice. ”

"Thank you! General, you are a good person, I will go back and set up an immortal card for you! You are the benefactor of my family! Uncle Wang said movingly.

"Take him to the inn! Eat well! Montenegro said to the officials beside him.

"No!" The officials immediately took Uncle Wang away.

Montenegro turned to another scribe and said, "You should go to Wang's house immediately and find Li Zheng to confirm Uncle Wang's words." When I came back, I made a detour to Lishan and brought Li Qiang and Zhao Si back! ”

"No!" And the scribe went!

Not long after, the king scribe had a large chest and several scrolls bring. And bring an official!

Montenegro called his cronies and said, "You have to listen carefully and watch carefully, General Ben will teach you to investigate the case today." ”

Montenegro checked the sealing mud of the box and confirmed that it was in good condition before letting people open it, which contained many wooden slips and a piece of black bloodstone, a silk money bag, and a piece of clothing for officers and soldiers.

"Let's talk about Wang Kai's injuries!" Montenegro said to him while looking at the wooden scumbag.

"The deceased was lying on his back on the ground at the time of his death, and his right shoe was loose by a third. The blood stains on the back collar were splattered, and most of the blood flowed directly on the stones and ground behind the head. Hands hang naturally and show no signs of struggle. Only the fracture wound on the back of the head was smashed by a blunt object, and it cannot be ruled out that he fell and hit the head on the stone and died. He said.

Montenegro is like a teacher teaching everyone criminal investigation cases, saying: "I have been to the scene of the deceased! The surrounding wall is made of bricks, the ground is earth, and this kind of stone cannot be found next to it, so it can be assumed that this stone was taken by the murderer! Blood flowed directly from the back of the head onto the stone, and only some blood was splashed on the back collar, proving that the deceased was lying on the ground, stoned to death, and then turned over and lay on his back. The right foot is separated from one-third, and there is no struggle with both hands naturally, which proves that the deceased was knocked unconscious and unconscious somewhere else, and was brought to the scene and then stoned to death! There were several suspicious footprints at the scene, one foot three inches and two inches long. Have you checked? Montenegro asked.

"Checked, this kind of heel is ordinary, as long as it is decent, everyone wears such shoes, but no one in the surrounding area wears such big shoes." Answered.

"Judging from the footprints, the suspect was between nine feet two and nine feet three, and mine was nine feet tall. There aren't many people taller than me, have you checked? ”

"I'm only responsible for the autopsy, I don't know if they checked." He said.

Montenegro looked at the money bag and said, "The money bag with such exquisite workmanship still has thirty-two and a half taels in it." It must have been the murderer who accidentally fell, and when he turned over the dead man, he pressed him down. The money bag in his arms could not fall under the back of his body. Besides, when everyone falls, they will subconsciously protect their heads with their hands, so the hands will hurt the most.

"To summarize the conclusion of the analysis of the corpse just now, Wang Kai should have been knocked unconscious by a big man with a height of nine feet two inches to three inches, and then moved the person to the death scene and stoned to death with this stone. The murderer's money bag accidentally fell to the ground and was crushed under the body when the scene was faked. Montenegro analyzed.

"Now let's start analyzing the scene," said Montenegro, "the place where Li Qiang and Zhao Si squatted was fifty steps away from Wang Kai, and the place where Wang Xiaoer was squatting was twenty steps away from Wang Kai on the other side." Assuming that the shopkeeper and Wang Kai both heard the woman's cry for help, but Li Qiang and Zhao Si didn't hear it, where did the cry for help come from? It's definitely in the alley in the other direction. A woman's cry for help in the dead of night can be heard by the surrounding 300 paces! Li Qiang and Zhao Si didn't hear it, but Wang Xiaoer and Wang Kai heard it, proving that the woman's call for help was between 250 and 300 steps away from Wang Kai in the alley at the end of the road. ”

"Now let's analyze the cases of the three missing women." Montenegro looked at the information of the missing persons, and the three were all ordinary women in the city, twenty, twenty-five, and thirty-two years old. "The information is very simple, and it is clear that there is no importance attached to disappearances. Taken together, it's interesting! All three were married, all disappeared within the same month, all three had children who were a few months old, all lived in Xianyang City, and they were all women from ordinary families. Finally, the case became clearer: "Scribe Wang, record my words." After Li Qiang and Zhao Si went to the squatting pit, Wang Kai also heard the woman's cry for help, and judged that it was somewhere in the alley at the end of the road, so he went over to check, and was knocked unconscious by the murderer who was nine feet two tall, and when he moved to the place of death, he heard the voice of Li Qiang and Zhao Si shouting Wang Kai, so he hurriedly stoned Wang Kai to death, and faked the scene of the fall! Accidentally dropped the wallet, leaving footprints. No missing woman was found the next day, proving that the person calling for help was likely to be the woman who had disappeared before. ”

Black Mountain said: "The shadow guard is responsible for keeping an eye on both ends of the alley, keeping an eye on the tall people!" Find two more breastfeeding women. ”

"No!" The crowd went away.

Only one day, the shadow guard came to report: "There are many people over nine feet tall found in the alley at the end of the road, most of them are slaves sold from the Western Regions. ”

Before dawn the next day, Montenegro asked his men to surround the alleys at the end of the road and forbid anyone to enter or leave. Bring Xiao Hei from the house, bring the money bag, and let his subordinates take the stones, and come to the end of the road!

"Xiao Hei, look at the performance today! You must find the owner of the money bag, you are a great hero who chased Shan Yu on a snowy day, climbed mountains and mountains to catch cattle thieves, and captured more than 20 assassins! After saying that, Montenegro touched Xiao Hei's fat head and gave it a sniff of the money bag.

Starting from the first one at the entrance of the alley, focus on searching every house within 500 steps, and no one is allowed to wander around.

It was already dawn, and many of the merchants, helpers, and slaves who lived in the alley began to get up, and those who got up early had already opened the gate and were ready to go out, and as soon as they opened the door, they saw that the alley was full of soldiers, and they were not allowed to move.

Montenegro took Xiao Hei, from the outside to the inside, one by one! Take away every one who is over nine feet tall! The first five or six houses are mainly warehouses, and there are not many people living there, and none of them are tall! When we reached the seventh house, it was full of people, three or four hundred, all of them in the prime of life between twenty and forty years old! All of them are coarse cloth and many clothes. When I asked, I learned that this house was bought by a Chu merchant, who ran a timber business, and the Qin State did not allow indiscriminate felling of trees, and there was a lot of demand. The Chu merchants cut down a large number of timbers from Han and Wei and loaded them on ships, and transported them west along the Weishui to Xianyang, these people were porters and slender men! Most of them were slaves from the Western Regions who were bought from the Zhao Kingdom in the north! There is no shortage of tall people.

It was definitely not these people who could have silk money bags, but Montenegro still gathered more than a dozen people over nine feet tall and prepared to bring them back!

Seeing that Xiao Hei had not reacted, Montenegro asked a steward beside him and said, "Are all your people here?" Did you not come back last night! Have you left in the past six months? ”

The steward said respectfully, "The men and the slaves who live here have returned!" There have also been more than a dozen people who have left in the past six months. ”

"Do all of you merchants live in this place?" Montenegro asked again.

"There are more than a dozen people next door, all of them are leaders!" The steward replied.