Quan Shufang must have wanted to make meritorious contributions, and when he got closer, he shouted: "Brother Li, you are also here, what a coincidence!" ”

Li Rizhi sighed and said, "Yes, there is a river next to it, there are corpses in the river, there is me on the bank, and my whole brother, oops, it's too coincidental!" ”

Quan Shufang laughed and said, "Brother Li, this corpse is not necessarily killed by someone, it is not necessarily a case, so if there is anything good, remember to divide the little brother a little!" ”

He said that his words didn't make sense logically, but Li Rizhi understood what he meant, anyway, in the final analysis, he just wanted to get some benefits, so that he could find someone to cast a roll or something, this little favor, he was still willing to help, and it could be regarded as a fellow villager.

Li Rizhi nodded and said: "Brother Quan, I know the county magistrate of Chang'an County, I am his junior, if he comes to see the scene, then if I talk to him first, then he will take my opinion as the mainstay, I want to inform my brother, it is not that my opinion is higher than yours, but the relationship between relatives and distances!" ”

He said this quite politely, and the original intention was that if Peng Ji came and took my opinion, but not yours, it was because I had a good relationship with him, not because your opinion was bad!

But Quan Shufang misunderstood, he was very confident in his analysis, and after listening to Li Rizhi's words, he said: "Then, why don't you Brother Li introduce me to Peng County, and then you will talk about the analysis of this case first, what do you think?" ”

Li Rizhi smiled, nodded and said, "Cheng, just follow the whole brother!" ”

He is very helpful in this way, if you change someone else, you may not be able to help the whole bundle, I don't help you because I'm afraid that you owe me a favor, and I'm afraid you can't afford to pay it back if you owe too much, so I don't help you, don't add a burden to you!

At this time, Ding Hotou saw the two of them talking, and said: "You two, you still want to see the county commander, I will go to the county commander, you wait, take care of the corpse, if you lose it, only you ...... I have to ask you! ”

After that, Ding Hoe ran and knelt on his knees, running very fast, not at all like he hadn't slept all night.

Li Rizhi sighed, he originally wanted to ask Ding Hotou a few more words, but Quan Shufang came, and there was a third person on the scene, so if he asked Ding Hoe again, Ding Hoe might not necessarily tell the truth, and he would not even be provoked.

Ding hoe trotted all the way, entered the city gate, and flew to Chang'an County, and met Peng Ji after Tongyu, because it was a fatal case, so Peng Ji decided to deal with it himself, however, he did not rush out of the city, but asked the scribe to take a record, to find out if there was a report of missing people in recent days.

There are a lot of cases of missing people, Chang'an is so big, there are countless good people, and there are really a lot of bad people, especially the existence of slaves allowed in Datang, so missing people happen almost every day, but most of the missing people are women and children, adult men are very few, adult men are not easy to deceive, and it is even more difficult to use force, so there are very few people who report the disappearance of adult men.

Very little, not nothing, and just three days ago, a person named Rong Shuxiang came to report the case, saying that his brother was missing and had not returned home for several days, and left the address, Peng Ji immediately asked people to find Rong Shuxiang.

The official went out to find someone, for a long time, Rong Shuxiang arrived, he thought he had found his brother, but his brother did not go home directly, but the government sent someone to find him, he was scared, when he walked, he felt that his legs were weak.

Peng Ji asked Rong Shuxiang, "Your brother has been missing for a few days, has it been more than five days?" ”

Rong Shuxiang thought for a moment and said: "Yes, it's definitely been more than five days, but he is out of the city to do things, and it takes time to do things, I don't know if there are any missing villains at that time, but more than five days is certain, if you go out of the city, you will be missing, and it will be seven or eight days!" ”

"Out of town, where did he go?" Peng Ji asked.

Rong Shu said: "I went to a Taoist temple, said to find my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law begged for a child, I heard that there is a Taoist temple outside the city called Jidouguan, asking for a son is particularly effective, so she often goes, however, five days ago she came back by herself, the villain's brother did not come back, sister-in-law said she did not see the villain's brother, so the villain was anxious, so he came to report to the official. ”

Rong Shuxiang nodded and said: "You have to calm down, don't be anxious, the official wants to tell you one thing, outside the city, there is a corpse found there, maybe it is your brother, the official is going to check it now, do you want to go together!" ”

When Rong Shuxiang heard this, his face changed greatly, his body shook, and he finally stood firmly, and then said: "The villain is willing to go out of the city with the county commander, go out of the city to see." ”

Peng Ji saw that he agreed, so he immediately went out of the office, rode a horse and rushed out of the city, don't look at him as a civil official, but the riding skills are very exquisite, that Rong Shuxiang is not bad, he also rode a horse, brought a hoe, the two of them rode together, followed by Peng Ji and a group of officials, and rushed to Jidouguan.

When he arrived at Jidouguan, it was already afternoon, the sun was too big, Li Rizhi went back to the room to rest, he didn't sleep well last night, and when Peng Ji didn't come, he went to make up for sleep.

Quan Shufang has been waiting by the river, he refuses to leave, he has too few opportunities in Chang'an, even if it is the first in Zhengzhou's state exam, there are hundreds of scholars in Chang'an, and there are too many firsts, so it is not unusual, so he must seize this opportunity and talk to Peng Ji.

Ding hoe took Peng Ji and the others to the river, and said, "Here it is, the body is hanging from the branches, and it is still in the river!" ”

Peng Ji got off his horse and walked to the river, at this time Quan Shufang stepped forward and saluted Peng Ji, saying: "Student Zhengzhou Quanshu Fang, I have seen the county honor, and the student has been waiting here to ensure that the body is not washed away by the river." ”

Peng Ji nodded at him and said, "Thank you for your help, you are borrowing a scholar who lives in the monastery and waiting to participate in the scientific examination?" ”

Quan Shu Fang was overjoyed, and finally someone asked him this, he hurriedly said: "Yes, the student is the student who is staying here, and now he sees that there is trouble in the temple, so he specially came out to help!" ”

Peng Ji said: "You are a good person, now there are fewer and fewer kind-hearted people like you, the world is declining, everyone only thinks about themselves and less trouble, how can they help others!" ”

As he spoke, Peng Ji walked to the river, looked at the corpse, although the corpse was by the river, he still couldn't see anything clearly, beckoned to Rong Shuxiang, and asked, "You come to identify and see if this corpse is your brother!" ”

Rong Shuxiang was covered with sweat, he walked to the bank, looked at the corpse in the river, stared at it with wide eyes, and only then did he say: "I really can't see clearly, I don't dare to recognize it, my clothes are already tattered, and I can't tell if it's my brother's clothes, so the villain ...... I really can't admit it! ”

Rong Shuxiang had a nervous expression on his face, it seemed that he was afraid to recognize the corpse in the river as his brother, and it was normal for him to have a deep brotherhood.

Peng Ji stood up and said to the officials behind him, "Fish up the corpse!" ”

The officials immediately took action, the corpse was not very easy to fish, it was easy to say, but it was very difficult to do, Peng Ji walked to the side, and Quan Shufang followed Peng Ji to the side.

Quan Shufang stabilized his mind, swallowed his saliva, and arched his hand: "County Zun, the student saw this corpse yesterday, and found that the corpse was in tatters, and it should have been soaked in the water for more than five days, so the student saw that this corpse could have drifted down from the upstream?" ”

He just wanted to analyze the analysis that he analyzed yesterday and told Li Rizhi to listen to, and told Peng Ji as well, he felt that his analysis was correct, as long as he measured how far the body drifted in five days, then he could determine the location of the crime, it is very likely that it is not in Chang'an County, if the specific location is analyzed, the magistrate there can solve the case, isn't this equivalent to reducing the trouble for the county order of Chang'an County!

But before Quan Shufang could ask and answer himself, Peng Ji waved his hand very disinterestedly, and said loudly: "How can it be that it was drifted down from the upstream, not to mention anything else, just talking about the clothes on the corpse, if it has been drifting for five days, how can it still be put on him, he would have been naked a long time ago, and besides, this is the land of Gyeonggi, densely populated, a village is a few miles, not to mention that the corpse has been drifting for five days, even if it is five hours, someone has already found it!" ”

Quan Shufang was stunned for a moment, he just thought that the body was floating in the river, but he forgot to analyze that this was a densely populated place, he was not completely analyzed, he didn't care about his head, how could he only analyze the part of the water and ignore the other part on the shore!

The sound of footsteps came, Li Rizhi strode over, Fu Guibao and they all followed, and when they learned that Peng Ji had arrived, they immediately rushed over.

Li Ri knew: "Peng Shibo, the little nephew has seen Peng Shibo, yesterday the little nephew came to visit a friend, but he didn't think about it, but he ran into this incident, so he didn't leave, I wanted to wait for Peng Shibo to come, watch Peng Shibo solve the case, and the little nephew can learn from it!" ”

Quan Shufang was listening, and his heart was stunned, no wonder he had no way to invest in the bank, it turned out that he couldn't speak, what did he just say, the student had a little shallow opinion, and what Li Rizhi said, following the experience of others, these two words, he is far behind, no wonder Li Rizhi mixes well, and he is like a fish in water in Chang'an.

In fact, Li Rizhi is really not like a fish in water, because when he heard Peng Ji's words, he knew what he thought of in his heart, maybe Peng Ji also thought of it.

When Peng Ji saw Li Rizhi, a smile appeared on his face, and he said, "Nephew Li Xian, you are also here, okay, then the official will come to test you, where did you say this corpse floated from?" ”

In fact, this question is quite easy to answer, after all, Peng Ji has analyzed it just now, if he changes the whole beam square, he will definitely say that it is drifting from nearby, if he is ruthless, he will simply say that this corpse has always been here, maybe it is the monk in the temple who killed him!

Saying that the corpse was always nearby is actually a relatively good answer.

However, Li Rizhi went to check it yesterday, so he didn't need to just vaguely say that there was a neighborhood, the neighborhood was big, he said: "Peng Shibo, the little nephew thinks that it floated from the Jidouguan not far away, and the little nephew went to see it with his friends yesterday, and the Jidouguan side leads the river water into the park, and there is a sluice gate in the back wall, and there is a gap in the sluice, and the corpse can be floated out from the view." ”

As soon as he said this, not only was Quan Fang stunned, in addition to being ashamed, he was only ashamed, he found that he was not only inferior to Li Rizhi, but also not as diligent, yesterday Li Rizhi and they went to check the Jidou Temple, but until now, he didn't even have the idea of going to investigate, which is too far worse than Li Rizhi, and he can't accept it.

Peng Ji was also stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that Li Rizhi would investigate the case, even if it was him, he wouldn't necessarily go down the river to find it immediately, but he would find someone to ask first, for example, ask the land protection Ding hoe here.

Peng Ji said: "Floated out of the bean view? That's a Taoist temple, right? Although this view is in the jurisdiction of this county, the official has never been there, not far from here? ”

Li Ri knew: "Passing through this small wood, it's not far at all." ”

"Then how did you see that the corpse was drifted out of the Taoist temple?" Peng Ji frowned and asked.

Quan Shufang also looked at Li Rizhi, a corpse floated out of the Taoist temple, and then drifted to the backyard of the monk's temple, why is this?

Li Rizhi thought about it, his expression was serious, and he said solemnly: "Guess!" ”