After that, there was nothing big about the Yingzhou Mansion, and they spent a few days together without incident, Yingzhou is a small place, and the location is not remote. The transportation is also quite developed, but because it is not a place where people in the rivers and lakes are easy to gather and pass by, and there are no rivers and lakes established locally, it is too few, and there are people in the rivers and lakes who will gather in them. So there's nothing chaotic going on weekdays. Yingzhou City is so big, a person who comes and goes, has lived for decades, is older, often meets in the city and has a familiar face, come and go on weekdays on the street are also familiar people, naturally there will be no friction and contradictions, theft and robbery do not often happen.

They thought that they would be able to spend their days in office in Yingzhou Mansion without worry, but they did not expect that soon after his new official took office, he ushered in the first major case in Yingzhou.

It's been a little too long, and they can't remember it clearly. I only remember that when it was just dawn in the early morning, some people went outside the public court to beat the drum of injustice.

The group rubbed their sleepy eyes, changed into official uniforms, got up and went to the court, thinking that it was another trivial matter such as neighborly quarrels and stealing chickens and dogs, but they didn't expect that when they did it before the attack and defense, they saw the person who beat the drum of injustice, kneeling under the court in a panic, his hands stained with blood.

Seeing the scarlet blood on the man's hands, the sleepy insects of the group were immediately scared away.

"Who is kneeling in the hall, and why are their hands covered with blood?" Duan Lang can be regarded as a person who has experienced strong winds and waves, and he can still stabilize his mind at this moment and ask as usual.

"Back to my lord. The grass man is Zhang Zisheng, who lives in the straw shoe shop in the west of the city, and suddenly got up early this morning to find that the grass man's wife died in the kitchen of the house, and there was a hand on his chest that seemed to be artificially killed. ”

Zhang Zisheng, who was kneeling in the hall, told them about the incident. It turned out that this Zhang Zisheng couple was not very wealthy, and they made a living by weaving and selling straw shoes on weekdays. Especially in recent days, when there is a lot of rain, there are often people who go up the mountain to pick and know people who need to buy straw sandals, so Zhang Zisheng and his wife often get up early to weave straw sandals and then bring them to the shop to sell.

Early yesterday morning, when the two of them brought their straw sandals to the shop to sell, a man in a white coat suddenly came. He booked ten pairs of straw sandals from Zhang Zisheng and his wife, agreed to go to the store early this morning to pick up, ten pairs of straw shoes can be regarded as a big business, Zhang Zisheng and his wife are also very cautious, first received two pairs of straw shoes silver two as a deposit, after receiving the deposit, they will be at ease to make straw shoes, Zhang Zisheng and his wife are well-known honest plantain people, and the straw shoes are also the best quality in ten miles and eight towns, even if the guest ordered ten pairs of straw shoes yesterday, they did not dare to be sloppy, ready to rush out the running shoes overnight.

Last night, Zhang Zisheng and his wife rushed to make straw shoes overnight, and when all ten pairs of straw shoes were finished, it was not early, and the two fell asleep in a hurry, because they slept too late last night, so Zhang Zisheng slept very deeply. He didn't wake up when his wife got up early in the morning to cook, and when he woke up, he found his wife dead at home.

A few people didn't ask any more questions, and hurriedly set off. went to Zhang Zisheng's home to inspect the scene of the crime.

Zhang Zisheng's home is a small courtyard, and when you enter the yard, there is a place to dry straw sandals, on the right hand side is a small firewood room, which is used to accumulate the firewood they cook on weekdays, and on the left hand side is a small kitchen.

This kitchen should be the scene of the crime.

They walked into the kitchen, the kitchen was simply furnished, there was only one stove, and it seemed that something was still boiling in the table, boiling hot, and Zhang Zisheng's wife was lying next to the stove. There was blood all under her body, and next to it was the firewood she was going to use for cooking.

Lu Li put on his special sincerity gloves and began to check the body of Zhang Zisheng's wife.

The corpse was still warm, not cold, touching the skin, the muscles were still soft, and there was still some reddish blood on the cheeks, which did not completely recede the vitality of the living, it seemed that he had just died, not for long.

Looking at the angle and direction of the dagger into the abdomen, it didn't look like suicide, nor did it look like someone was directly stabbing the dagger into the abdomen and the dead person She frowned and took a closer look, feeling that such an angle and the direction of the piercing into the abdomen were like the murderer grabbed the dagger in the hands of the deceased and stabbed into the abdomen of the deceased with the help of the deceased's hand.

Lu Li opened Zhang Zisheng's wife's eyelids, her pupils dilated, and there was a look of horror in her eyes, she should have struggled before, but the murderer's movements were too fast, and she was stabbed to death by the murderer before she could react.

In this way, the murderer should have killed people directly after entering the door, without too much hesitation, so it seems that the murderer's intention to kill was firm, and he didn't even have time to hesitate, which shows that he made up his mind to kill.

"Have you two provoked any enemies lately?"

"There is no business between our husband and wife has always been honest, the customers who come to buy our straw shoes on weekdays, none of them say that our straw shoes are not good, most people will come back to buy back after buying straw shoes, our husband and wife have lived in Yingzhou City for more than ten years, and the nearby villagers are very familiar with each other, how can they have a feud?" Zhang Zisheng watched his wife fall to the ground, losing her life, feeling sad, anxious, and a little scared.

His wife, who has been with him for so many years, died tragically at home like this, or when he was asleep, he didn't even know who killed his wife, if the murderer wanted to do it, he would probably not be alive at the moment.

Duan Lang was not good at inspecting corpses, so he took a closer look at the furnishings in the kitchen.

He also wanted to come and look down at the fire in the stove, the firewood used by Zhang Zisheng's family to burn the fire should be branches picked up from the mountains, but it seems that the branches of their family are particularly burning, and now the bottom of the stove is still red.

But he turned his head and glanced at the firewood next to Zhang Zisheng's wife, all of which were small branches that were easy to burn, and it had been a moment since Zhang Zisheng reported the case, and it stands to reason that these branches burning under the stove should have been extinguished.

Could it be that it's not a branch that's burning under this stove, it's something else?

"Do you know the guy who asked you to order ten pairs of straw sandals?"