Chapter 15 The county hall debates and sits on words

Jian Dingyong closed his eyes and recuperated in a posture, Li Mi knew that he was waiting, waiting for him Li Mi to make a choice, whether to give up the case or continue to investigate.

Li Mi is not a person who gives up easily, God has given him this opportunity to start over, and he will never be decadent and confused again!

He tried to recall the professional knowledge he had learned, but in the end he had only one thought, and that was to hate the book when it was used.

Fortunately, he finally remembered that he had watched a legal program earlier, which introduced handwriting identification in criminal investigation techniques.

After organizing the language, Li Mi finally spoke.

"Mingfu, there is a saying that the word is like its person, presumably Mingfu should be no stranger, the so-called straight person is not stubborn, the ruthless person is not stubborn, the reserved person is constrained, the lonely person is drowning in stagnation, the contemptible person has seen Chen Shi, his person is loyal and introverted, not good at words, his words should be restrained and restrained, but the words on the suicide note and IOU are as tall as a gun, angry as a sword, more like the words of the martial arts of the rivers and lakes..."

"Has the Ming Mansion ever sent someone to check the details of this truth? I'm afraid that this person is not as simple as it seems, and the handwriting comparison and identification is not a skill on the surface, and it is also necessary to pay attention to its content, can the Ming Mansion notice that these IOUs are often tens of hundreds of taels, and I would like to ask a grass farmer how dare to let go of such a big hand to gamble? ”

As soon as Li Mi opened his mouth like this, Jian Dingyong's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he leaned forward slightly and said, "Have you read the Book Book?" ”

When Li Mi heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, he couldn't remember the above sentences well, but only a very small part of them, he couldn't memorize the tirade, and the rest of these sentences were still vague according to the general idea, but he didn't expect this Jian Dingyong to be able to tell its source.

In fact, it is also rare and strange for Li Mi, starting from the Song Dynasty, the first checkpoint of the imperial examination is the candidate's handwriting, the word is well written, it is a very plus, there are serious officials in the officialdom, even if they are not calligraphy, the words will not be difficult to see, after all, this is the basic skill of scholars.

Jian Dingyong is an official from the imperial examination, and naturally has a lot of research on calligraphy, so it is not surprising that he can tell the source of Li Mi's remarks.

But this time, it was Li Mi's turn to be a little embarrassed, because he only vaguely remembered these few sentences and understood a general meaning, and now he could only talk about him left and right, and said to Jian Dingyong.

"Ming Mansion, contemptible means that this Chen Shi's suicide note is obviously inhuman, if you can continue to investigate, maybe you can find a new breakthrough..."

Li Mi also knew that according to the ancient case-handling regulations, this suicide note alone was enough to settle the case, so if he wanted to overturn the case, he could only prove that the suicide note was forged, or that Chen Shi was coerced to write this suicide note.

The latter verification is too difficult, and Li Mi's focus is on handwriting identification.

Jian Dingyong couldn't help but feel a little annoyed when he saw Li Mi pulling back the case again, and waved his hand at him.

"You have also seen it, this is such a situation, it is not easy to find out, this handwriting comparison is a method, but there is no law in the name of the pen, whether this handwriting is forged or not, who has the final say? I say it's fake, it's fake? Or do you have what it takes? ”

Jian Dingyong is also honest enough, which shows that he is not uninterested in this case, but he suffers from no obvious results.

Li Mi was also suddenly, it turned out that although Daming already had a precedent for handwriting comparison for criminal investigation, there was no specific implementation standard, that is, without the ability of judicial appraisal, who was the authority, who could determine that the suicide note was forged, and whose words were the most credible?

This pokes at Li Mi's difficulty, he is not familiar with life, how to find such an authority on calligraphy appraisal?

Jian Dingyong saw that Li Mi was in trouble, so he just snorted noncommittally, and said to Li Mi: "In this way, as long as you can prove that this suicide note is forged, or that Chen Shi was coerced, and this suicide note is not his original intention, then the official will restart this case, if you can't do it, you can only stop here, and you don't want to be entangled indiscriminately in the future." ”

"It's just the Ming Mansion... The contemptible people have left their homes and are not familiar with people... Can the Ming Mansion give you some guidance? Li Mi still wanted to fight for it, but Jian Dingyong waved his hand and ordered to the official outside the door.

"Come on, send Li Mi out of the county office!"

As soon as Jian Dingyong said this, the officials who were already impatient walked in quickly, and sent Li Mi outside, not giving Li Mi a chance to speak again.

When they arrived in front of the county yamen, the officials pushed Li Mi and turned back, and Li Mi was a little helpless.

Now that Lu Chongning has led the corpse of the Zhang family back, he must be handling the funeral, and it is not easy for him to return to the Lu family.

Li Mi bought some bone-setting medicine powder halfway, originally wanting to treat Qingque'er's injuries, but he didn't expect that these children, who were as tenacious as mice, had already collected fresh herbs and dressed Qingque'er's wounds.

Seeing Li Mi coming, many children began to laugh and laugh for a while, and Li Mi's dull mood was also soothed.

Lu Chongning hired him as a guest, helped the Lu family investigate the case, and also gave him some silver, so Li Mi sent nine buckets out to buy some hard dishes such as cooked chicken sauce and duck elbows, and ate a hard meal with these children.

These children have backbone, they did not accept Lu Xiucai's alms, but they were never soft on Li Mi, the wronged leader, for them, no matter how much gold and silver they had, it was not as good as such a large meal of meat, and their good impression of Li Mi was simply doubled.

Li Mi took the opportunity to talk about his difficulties and asked these children to help the staff, after all, they are the mountain fox society rats in Suzhou City, and they know the customs of Suzhou City best, and if they find someone who can identify the handwriting, it is not certain.

However, Li Mi was disappointed in the end, because these children were only interested in the sideways, and such a high-level profession as handwriting identification was only a figure in the upper class, and these children could not reach it at all.

Since the road of identifying the suicide note could not be followed, Li Mi could only turn the direction to Zhang's side.

Zhang is a person who stays at home, at least on the surface, Lu Chongning and the girl in the room have also proved this, if Zhang is not a psychopathic murderer, he will never deliberately hang up the sign with the victim's surname hidden.

These are the criminal minds of serial murderers, showing off the spoils of war, and they can get psychological satisfaction to do such things.

Therefore, Li Mi believes that these signs were not hung up after the fact, but hung up in advance to inform the executor!

That is to say, Zhang's selection of the target, and then the target information is hidden in the proverbs of the sign, and the executor interprets it through the sign, and then assassinates, if this is the case, Zhang's is very likely to be a gang!

It's just that what the motives of this gang are, through Zhang's I'm afraid that it will be difficult to find out, and only by investigating the background of those victims can we see a thing or two.

And what is going on with the Zhang family and the gang behind it, it is very likely that she was implicated in her killing.

This is Li Mi's general investigation idea, and at present, Chen Shi's suicide note cannot be followed, so he can only investigate the victim on the bamboo stick.

There is also a relatively obscure information here, which is enough to show that there is an organized gang behind Zhang's family, that is, in Zhang's bamboo stick, only the surname is written but not the name.

In other words, the Zhang family and the gang behind it actually have a big list, so she only needs to write down her surname, and the gang can confirm which one the target is!

Jian Dingyong was reluctant to even find someone to identify his handwriting, and wanted him to agree to Li Mi to check the files of previous years, which was impossible.

After thinking about it, Li Mi felt that this matter would eventually fall on these children.

The children don't know much about high society and don't have reliable candidates to identify handwriting, but it is possible to say that they let Li Mi infiltrate the county government and peek at the files.

After Li Mi said his thoughts, he thought that these children would be afraid, after all, it was a county office, and they were all thieves with a criminal record.

However, Li Mi also knows very well that these children have never had a good impression of the government, they are the most rebellious and passionate and impulsive age, lawless, what dare not do anything?

Sure enough, even Qingque'er didn't hesitate too much this time, so she agreed to Li Mi's request, and the children were scattered everywhere early to prepare for tonight's infiltration.

Suzhou is a rich place, dragons and snakes are mixed, all kinds of people come and go, maintaining law and order requires a lot of manpower, and the Japanese often harass the coast, and now it has gone deep inland, because the government of Suzhou City is also relatively vigilant, and the county government should be very vigilant.

At least this is Li Mi's cognition, but when he followed Jiu Bucket and Qingque'er and others to climb over the wall from the backyard of the county government, he had another experience.

The county government is a closed building complex, and there is no thief as bold as a thief in Pingsuli, who dares to steal to the county office, but Jiu Bucket and others are like rats, as long as they dare to do it, there is nothing that cannot be done.

The officials have long dispersed and returned to the officials to rest, and some have purchased a residence outside, and they usually sneak out to spend the night at night, after all, the county government is not a Taoist temple, and the officials can not keep the hardship.

Li Mi came once during the day, and he was also very familiar with the layout of the torture room, and soon came to the outside of the signing room.

Li Mi smoothly entered the torture room, covered the curtains, and then lit the lamp and candle and entered the file room.

The dossier room is not big, but it is full of sweat, exuding a damp musty smell, which can't help but make people's nose itch.

Li Mi took out a piece of paper from his arms, which was the note he wrote when he and the girl in the room decrypted the sign, which recorded the surname of the suspected victim and the date of the sign.

The so-called flowing county officials are beaten by iron, and the county officials only control the overall situation, and the specific details of government affairs are actually done by the officials, the canonical history and the master, so the management of the archives by the scribes in the torture room is still very in place.

Li Mi searched for the case according to the map, and searched for the case according to the date, about half an hour, and sure enough, he found five or six cases!

The victims of these cases have the same surname as the signature, and the nature of the cases is also extremely bad, either missing or dead, and the piles are all unsolved headless cases!

It can be seen that Zhang's is by no means an ordinary woman, and behind her murder, there is an extremely important inside story!

Li Mi put these files on the table and was about to study them carefully, when there was a cry of a night owl outside the door, which was the secret signal of Qingque'er, indicating that someone was coming!