Du Wenhao immediately rushed to Carpenter Zhao's house in Tongluo Village with Hong Zhutou and repeatedly asked Carpenter Zhao where he went, but they all said that he didn't know, because Carpenter Zhao often went to the village to do carpenter work everywhere, and he went wherever there was work, and there was no fixed place.

Du Wenhao extracted some fingerprints from Carpenter Zhao's residence, and after comparing them with his family, it was determined that several of them were likely to belong to Carpenter Zhao, but after comparing them with the fingerprints on the silk scarf, the results were not the same. It is proved that the fingerprints on the silk scarf are not Zhao Carpenter's.

Is this a coincidence? The person who stole the hoe wasn't actually the murderer? Is there a break in the thread?

Du Wenhao is not a person who gives up easily, this clue cannot be given up, he immediately decided to let Huang Zhizhou send a number of plainclothes soap and arrest fast, secretly look for Zhao Carpenter in the city and neighboring villages, once found, immediately arrest and come back for interrogation.

This news provides an important message that it is likely to be a gang crime!

After returning to Hengzhou City, the county lieutenant Sun reported that he had sent an investigation to buy saws and oilcloth paper and found nothing.

Du Wenhao was not surprised, he originally thought that the saw was temporarily purchased by the murderer to divide the body, but now according to the information provided by the old village woman, it is likely that there is a carpenter among the murderers, and for the carpenter, the saw is a necessary tool, of course, he will not buy it temporarily. And oilcloth paper is even more common, with no personality characteristics.

He is now pinning his main hopes on fingerprints. The scope of suspects has been delineated, and the fingerprints of the murderer have been extracted, and he is confident that the murderer can be found quickly.

As expected, the next day, Huang Zhizhou extracted the fingerprints of the person who bought the narcotics within five days after the disappearance of the shopkeeper Han according to the registration book provided by Du Wenhao for the purchase of narcotics.

Du Wenhao was like a treasure, locked himself in the house and compared his fingerprints. It only took an hour for Du Wenhao to rush out, immediately called Huang Zhizhou, and handed him a fingerprint: "This person is one of the murderers who killed Shopkeeper Han and Aunt Tan, he also has accomplices, immediately arrest this person and interrogate him strictly!" ”

Huang Zhizhou took a look, this person was a village langzhong in a mountain village more than ten miles away from the city. At that time, I had attended a training class, and according to the official letter from the village, I had purchased anesthetics. Hearing Du Wenhao say that this person was the real murderer, he didn't dare to ask Du Wenhao how he knew, so he immediately agreed, hurried out with the list, and personally took Sun County Lieutenant, Hong Zhutou and others to hurry out of the city to arrest people.

Du Wenhao sat firmly in the military tent, and after waiting for less than an hour, Huang Zhizhou and the others came back, escorting three people.

Huang Zhizhou wanted Du Wenhao to report: "Lord Torture, you are really like a god, if this person really committed a crime and killed Shopkeeper Han and Aunt Tan!" ”

Du Wenhao smiled: "They confessed? ”

"Admit it, when they arrived at this Lang Zhong's house, they were planning to rob and kill the next target! From the house, Tan's shopkeeper's jade pendant and other belongings, as well as Aunt Tan's jewelry and necklace, etc., were searched, and the three of them confessed before they even ordered the execution. ”

Du Wenhao said: "Bring them over, and the official will interrogate them personally." ”

Huang Zhizhou hurriedly ordered Hong to arrest the head and escorted the three suspects over, knelt down and kowtowed. In addition to Lang Zhong and the carpenter, these three also had an accomplice who was a guy from a shop in the city, and after their separate interrogations, the three confessed to the same.

It turned out that this village man listened to Du Wenhao's lecture and witnessed Du Wenhao's demonstration of numbing a big fat pig with anesthetics, and he had the idea of stealing with anesthetics. He was friends with the carpenter and the shopkeeper, and when he told the other two about the plan, they both thought it was feasible, and the three of them hit it off.

The three of them agreed that the shop guys would find a target to attack. The carpenter came forward to rent Aunt Tan's two rooms. The guy knew when the shopkeeper Han came to the store to settle the bill, and decided to start that day. Waiting on the road that Shopkeeper Han must pass, after seeing Shopkeeper Han, he told Shopkeeper Han that the shopkeeper was waiting for him somewhere, tricked Shopkeeper Tan and his buddies into the Aunt Tan's house they rented, added anesthetics to the tea, and numbed the two of them.

Unexpectedly, they dismembered and dismembered their bodies in the backyard patio, and although they were carefully rinsed with water, Aunt Tan still smelled blood, thinking that they were slaughtering poultry in the house to drive them out. Worried that they would not find a better place to commit the crime, they gave Aunt Tan the jade wrench of the shopkeeper in exchange for permission to slaughter poultry in the patio in the future.

Because the target of the bodies of the shopkeeper Han and the two men was too large, the three of them did not dare to transport them out of the city for burial at one time, so they dismembered and transported them out of the burial separately. When they dismembered the corpse of the guy, Aunt Tan smelled the smell of blood, came to check, saw them dismembering the body, and ran back to the room in fright. The three of them chased into the room, and after restraining Aunt Tan in order to kill people, they ** them, and afterwards Lang Zhong stuffed her with a silk scarf into her mouth and suffocated her to death, leaving fingerprints.

The three of them first dismembered and transported the man's body out of the city and buried it in another place. When he returned to the city, he found that the city gate officials had begun to strictly check the people who went out of the city. The three of them didn't know that Mrs. Han paid the city gate official to visit her husband, and thought that their crime was exposed, so they didn't dare to enter the city, turned around and fled, and hid in the mountains for more than ten days.

Two days before they were arrested, no one came to arrest them, so when they came back from the mountains and were about to kill them in the next round of fortune killings, they were caught.

The three confessed to the location where they buried Han's shopkeeper's men after dismembering their bodies. According to the confession, the burial site was found and the body parts of the guy were exhumed.

After the case was solved, Du Wenhao decided to continue his trip.

In order to thank Du Wenhao for his magnanimity, Huang Zhizhou held a feast for Du Wenhao to practice. Mei'er was grateful to Du Wenhao for commuting her sentence, dragging her hand of scolding fifty with a cane and a hand of torture, and sang a song for Du Wenhao, and sure enough, her singing voice was as graceful as heaven.

After leaving Hengzhou, Du Wenhao traveled all the way south.

On this day, they came to the boundary of Jingjiang Mansion, which is the best in the world of Guilin's mountains and rivers. By this time, it was already late autumn.

I thought that there should be no good scenery in this season, who would have thought that there would still be green mountains and green waters along the way, and the scenery was pleasant. Pang Yuqin and the others were relaxed and happy, there was a place with excellent scenery not far from Jingjiang, and Ke Yao suggested staying here for two days. Anyway, he was not in a hurry, so Du Wenhao agreed and stayed at an inn in a small town.

In the next two days, they went out early and returned late, enjoying the boundless beauty, fishing by the river, and boating in the river, which was very comfortable.

This morning, Du Wenhao had breakfast at the inn, and was about to set off from the inn, when the innkeeper hurriedly went upstairs to find Du Wenhao, saying that there were many people downstairs, and they were the officials of the government, and they said that they were here to ask for the punishment of the master.

Du ...... Master Du, if the grass people knew that you were the old man who was punished, the grass people would never dare to accept your money. The shopkeeper was an honest middle-aged man, who stood in front of Du Wenhao with a trembling look, and said humbly.

Du Wenhao thought to himself, no one knew his whereabouts, could it be that the prefect of Hengzhou sent someone to inform the prefect of Jingjiang Mansion in advance, or there was no reason why so many officials from the government would suddenly appear at the door of the inn to welcome him. Du Wenhao said with a smile: "It's not in the way, it's natural to give money for eating in a hotel, and there is no need to give money if there is an official." ”

Du Wenhao went downstairs to the door, only to see several teams of people standing neatly at the door, the first old man, wearing the prefect's official robe, saw him come out, quickly smiled and walked forward quickly, bowed down: "Liao Guibing, the prefect of Jingjiang Mansion, saw Lord Du, and he didn't know that the adult was coming, and he missed the welcome, so please forgive me." ”

Du Wenhao returned the salute and said strangely: "How did Lord Liao know that I was the criminal officer?" And how did you know I was staying here? ”

Liao Guibing: "It's not a secret, I left someone on the road that the adult must pass through to raise the punishment, and I found out that the adult had already entered the country, so I hurried here." ”

Du Wenhao smiled: "My lord is really well-intentioned. ”

"Where, this is what a lowly position should be, in addition, the seven counties under the jurisdiction of the contempt government are all waiting outside Jingjiang City, because there are more people coming, there are people's villages along the way, and the noise of cars and horses is afraid to disturb the people, so they don't have to come over."

Du Wenhao approvingly: "It's still Lord Liao's thoughtfulness, then let's go, so as not to make them wait for a long time." ”

Liao Guibing: "Yes, that humble position will lead the way in front." After Du Wenhao and the others got into the car, he took a few steps back, then got into the carriage and drove ahead of the road.

The carriage followed, and Ke Yao said with a smile: "It seems that this prefect is still an official who loves the people and cherishes the people, and I am afraid that others will not be able to think of it so carefully." ”

Pang Yuqin said: "I think so." ”

Du Wenhao smiled and nodded.

This Jingjiang Mansion is a rich land in Guangxi, when I was in the capital before, I heard the emperor and the queen mother often mention this place, so Du Wenhao had the heart to come and take a look, Jingjiang Mansion seven counties, twenty-three townships, fifty-seven villages, is not a small place, the first time I saw this Lord Liao, Du Wenhao felt that this person looked very real, not publicity, not impetuous.

The carriage traveled on the road for an hour, saw a boundary monument, not far away a group of people and horses stopped, heard the sound of horses' hooves, originally sitting on the side of the road to rest or sleep people quickly stood up and tidied up their clothes, and when Du Wenhao and their carriage arrived, Liao Guibing, who arrived first, had already led a group of local officials to stand neatly on both sides of the road and wait.

Pang Yuqin sat in the car, saw Du Wenhao get out of the car, lifted the curtain of the car window and looked out, and whispered to Lin Qingdai on the side: "It seems that I have been waiting for a long time, and everyone has a tired look on their faces, I don't like to disturb the people, so it is really unnecessary to gather the county orders of the seven counties to wait here." ”

Ke Yao: "Look at it, my brother will definitely teach the Liao Governor a lesson." ”

Sure enough, after listening to the introduction, Du Wenhao said lightly to Governor Liao: "Let so many people wait here, this idea must have been thought up by Lord Liao, right?" ”

Before Liao Guibing could speak, a short and fat magistrate on the side hurriedly explained: "Lord Du, you misunderstood, before Lord Liao said that you must not like us to do this, so you didn't let the seven of us come, it just so happened that when the prefect of Hengzhou asked people to send a letter, the prefects of our seven counties all reported to Lord Liao every quarter of the situation of each county, so this is why I strongly asked to come, do you say so?" ”

Everyone else nodded yes.

Du Wenhao's face softened slightly: "Don't be like this in the future, you will mobilize the people like this, and let the people know that it is not good." ”

Liao Guibing arched his hand and said: "Humble duty is punished, this kind of thing is originally disagreed, but after thinking about it, I understand everyone's feelings, so I reluctantly agreed, Lord Du rest assured, the humble position will not be like this in the future." ”

Du Wenhao snorted and said, "Okay, then let's go into the city." ”

Liao Guibing hurriedly said: "Master Du, there is a reluctant request for the humble position. ”

"Say it."

Liao Guibing said: "I should have invited my lord to enter the city from the south gate, but today is the big gathering every fifteenth, and the people in the city have to rush to the market on this day, so there are a lot of people, and we have so many cars and horses, so we are worried about our duties...... So...... Can I enter through the north gate? ”

Du Wenhao nodded approvingly and smiled: "It's naturally a good thing to be able to think about the people, just listen to you, and we will enter the city from the north gate." ”

Liao Guibing hurriedly thanked: "Lord Du loves the people like a son, and he humbly thanked Lord Du for the people of Jingjiang Mansion." ”

Du Wenhao got back into the car, and Ke Yao whispered: "Brother, did you say that this Lord Liao was deliberately pretending to show you?" ”

Du Wenhao: "Hehe, you, there are few good people in your eyes?" ”

Lin Qingdai joked: "Ke Yao's eyes are discerning, otherwise Lord Liao wouldn't have dared to face us Ke Yao just now." ”

Ke Yao said angrily: "My sister will laugh at me!" I'm not coming! ”

Pang Yuqin also smiled: "Yes, I see that this Liao Prefect Mansion is still very good, whether it is sincere or pretentious, at least it can be for the sake of the people, and the people will get benefits, which is very good." ”

Li'er also said: "I look at this Lord Liao is also very kind, and there is no official arrogance." ”

Xue Fei'er smiled: "What kind of official can he put in front of my brother?" ”

Du Wenhao said: "Actually, the prefect of the rank is not lower than the criminal officer. ”

Lin Qingdai said: "Your criminal officer is different from others, you are a criminal officer from all walks of life, how can the prefect of his house be compared!" ”

Du Wenhao smiled and said, "Hehe, it's rare to see you so interested, what's wrong today?" ”

Ke Yao said: "Probably because we are really too idle and need to find something for us to do." ”

"That's good, whatever you want to do when you get to Jingjiang Mansion, I support it."

When Ke Yao heard this, he was immediately interested, tilted his little head and thought about it, and said, "Why don't we open a five-flavor hall in Jingjiang Mansion too?" ”

Lin Qingdai said: "Do you really want to stay permanently?" ”

Ke Yao pouted: "No, I just don't think it's interesting to do nothing all day." ”

Pang Yuqin also said: "What Ke Yao said is the same, I think so too, always find something to do." ”

Du Wenhao: "Then you should think about it again, and you won't be in a hurry to leave anyway." ”

That night, Liao Guibing held a banquet in his mansion to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Du Wenhao and his entourage, accompanied by the magistrate of the seven counties.

Du Wenhao found that the dishes at the banquet were exquisite but not extravagant, but they were all some common poultry, except for a few mountain delicacies that were some seasonal vegetables, Liao Zhifu lived in the inner house of the Yamen, and did not buy his own real estate, and the buildings in the house were relatively old, it seems that this Liao Guibing is quite honest as an official.

Du Wenhao originally thought that Liao Guibing would arrange them in the big inn and restaurant, but he didn't expect to arrange them in the mansion of Yamen Tongzhi next to his inner house, because Tongzhi was a local and had his own real estate, so it was vacant. The place is quite wide.

Du Wenhao nodded secretly, and the group lived in the inner house of Tongzhi.

There is everything in the inner house, and there is no need to buy anything at all. So at dusk, Ke Yao shouted that he wanted to go out shopping, and pulled Du Wenhao to ask him to accompany him, Pang Yuqin saw that Ke Yao had nothing wrong with this way, and his vigilance slowly let go, and when he heard her coquettishness, he smiled and agreed, and asked Du Wenhao to accompany her to go out for a walk, and they cleaned up their accommodation. Du Wenhao changed into civilian clothes and walked out of the inner house with Ke Yao through the back door.

As soon as I got out of the alley, I saw the housekeeper of Liao Mansion coming over: "Master Du, are you going out?" The butler asked respectfully.

Ke Yao hurriedly said, "My brother and I want to go out for a walk." ”

"Why don't I call the master, after all, if you are not familiar with life, it is better to have someone to lead the way."

Du Wenhao: "Don't be so polite, we're just walking, wherever we go, Lord Liao is also tired today, so I don't need to accompany you." ”

The housekeeper didn't insist, he gave a few words, said some attractions in the city, and then watched Du Wenhao and Ke Yao go away.

Ke Yao walked around the street for a while, and felt that it was not as fun as the wilderness, so he pulled Du Wenhao out of the city and walked along the path to the river.

Ke Yao held a dog's tail in his hand and swayed: "Brother, it's the first time I've seen someone like Governor Liao as an official, and he arranged for Shangguan to live in the yamen, and he was reluctant to let us live in a high-end inn." ”

Du Wenhao: "The reception of Shangguan is to pay for it, the yamen does not have this expense, and when I learned that the government pays for it itself, I am afraid that his family is not very well-off, and his family and subordinates are also dressed very plainly." Don't be reluctant to do so. ”

"We can pay for it ourselves. Just like along the way. ”

"Everyone has arranged it, and if we move out to live again, won't it be a loss of face?"

"Oh. - Huh? What is that? Ke Yao looked at a paddy field not far away, the clear water was secluded, but there were no crops, there was some grass growing sparsely, and there was a wooden sign still inserted in the field, and he ran over to take a look, and there were a few big words written on the wooden card: "This place is for sale." ”

Ke Yao was puzzled: "Brother, why is this land so barren?" ”

Du Wenhao was also very puzzled, just when a woman came over with a cow, Ke Yao hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Eldest sister, why are your fields abandoned and not planted?" ”

The woman stared at Ke Yao and Du Wenhao vigilantly and did not speak.

Ke Yao hurriedly said: "We are passing by, but we see that these fields are deserted, which is a little strange, so we just ask casually." ”

The woman looked at them, turned her head, and muttered, "What do you plant if there is a drought and no rain at all?" ”

Du Wenhao: "No, isn't there rain in this field?" ”

"......," the farmer hesitated for a moment, then muttered again, "that was last month." ”

Ke Yao said: "Then there is no need to sell land?" The land is gone, what will you eat in the coming year? ”

The woman said angrily, "I ......, I don't know, it's better for you to ask someone else!" After saying that, he hurried away with the ox.