Yao Guangqi didn't bother to talk nonsense with the mustachioed servant, he didn't even have to look at the servant directly, took out a waist card from his arms, threw it to the servant casually, and walked towards the corpse regardless of the servant who surrounded him.

The mustachioed servant took the waist card and looked at it, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, his two eyes immediately widened, and he stammered and said: "You, you are old, your lord, what do you call you?" ”

Yao Guangqi looked down at the corpse and didn't raise his head: "My name is not something you should know, do you see this brand clearly?" ”

The mustachioed official didn't dare to ask again, and led a small step to Yao Guangqi's back, and he didn't dare to come out, and whispered: "See clearly, you ......"

Yao Guangqi suddenly turned around and looked at the mustache, looked at the mustache with a thrill, and involuntarily took two steps back, seeing this situation, Yao Guangqi said disdainfully: "It's good to see clearly, now you go and call the county order, come immediately, I'll wait for him here." ”

The mustache was pardoned, and he turned around and was about to run, but he heard Yao Guangqi shouting behind him: "Get back." ”

The mustache's head buzzed, he stood in place and didn't dare to move, then turned around slowly and looked at Yao Guangqi with an embarrassed expression. Yao Guangqi stretched out his hand: "Give me the brand." ”

The officials walked away, and Murong Qing came up and asked with a smile, "What brand are you holding that powerful?" Scared of them? ”

Yao Guangqi didn't answer, continued to look down at the corpse, and said to himself: "He only said ink before he died, what does ink mean?" Is it the ink that is going to be given to us? ”

Murong Qing also shifted her attention to the corpse, looked at it for a while, she was suddenly stunned, quickly took out a small bag from her arms, took out two silver needles and a white thread, and then put on a pair of leather gloves, the two silver needles were inserted into the corpse's ears and the top of the head respectively, and then put the white thread into the corpse's mouth, after a while, the silver needle and white thread were taken out, looked carefully in the sun, and then sniffed again.

Yao Guangqi didn't understand what Murong Qing was doing, but he looked at Murong Qing and believed that she had found a clue. Sure enough, Murong Qing showed a mysterious expression on his face: "I thought that someone killed him with a secret weapon, but now it seems that I was wrong, it must be Baihuafang, it is a strange poison, colorless and tasteless, and it will be fine for a few hours after taking it, but during this period, this poison will flow all over the body with blood, and once the whole body is full, it will attack immediately." This poison also has a characteristic, after a person dies, the poison is immediately resolved, and ordinary people can't see that it is poisoned to death. ”

Yao Guangqi scratched his ears, squinted his eyes and said, "In other words, he was poisoned before he came?" ”

The two were talking, and they saw a group of people in the distance hurriedly running over, led by a seven-grade civil official, who came to the front, huffed his waist and panted, and forced out a smile: "The next official is the county order of this county, I don't know that the adults are coming, I miss the welcome, forgive the sins." What is your official position and what kind of business do you have in this county? ”

Yao Guangqi didn't stand up, raised his head and squinted his eyes and glanced at the county order: "What do you call your county?" ”

The county commander was very thin, but his face looked very fat, and he looked a little uncoordinated, he gasped twice, and then breathed a sigh of relief before saying, "Xiaguan He Shengzhi." ”

Yao Guangqi stood up at this time, walked around He County Order, looked his eyes up and down, and said coldly: "He County Order, you are really good at governing the county, in broad daylight, on the street in full view of everyone, there was a major murder case, you are a county magistrate, it can be regarded as a great achievement, the performance appraisal of the officials, you must take the first class." ”

He Shengzhi's face was pale and his expression was embarrassed, thinking in his heart, this fucking murder has something to do with me, and you fucking people from the capital will deduct their hats, but they scolded in their hearts, and they had to deal with it cautiously: "There is such a murder case under the rule of the lower officials, and the lower officials must strictly investigate and prevent the murderer from going unpunished." The adults asked the county government to rest, and the lower officials arranged for people to investigate. ”

"I don't know how the county order plans to track it down?" Yao Guangqi asked coldly again.

He Shengzhi was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that he didn't know what your origin was, did I report it to you, but I was afraid that this person was ordered to inspect the Qincha, so he still didn't dare to slack off, so he had to say: "Well, generally speaking, an autopsy is done to confirm the cause of death, if it is a homicide, the people who have dealt with this person in the near future will be interrogated one by one, and some clues can always be found." ”

Yao Guangqi patted the county magistrate's shoulder: "I can tell you that this person died of poisoning, but for the time being, follow your path to check first." Then he approached the ear of the county commander and whispered: "Please note that the county commander please note that I was ordered to do a secret business trip this time, and it is not appropriate to show off, and the county commander should restrain the people below and don't go around announcing that I am coming." ”

He Xianling scolded secretly in his heart, I don't even know who you are, how can you publicize it? What to preach? And you're on a secret business, and you're going to make a murder when you come, is there such a secret that it's made public? But he didn't dare to offend Yao Guangqi, so he had to say with a wry smile: "The lower official understands, I don't know if you can make it clear, the official title of the honorable driver, in case of a letter from above, the lower official will also know that he is looking for you." ”

Yao Guangqi waved his hand, "If you want to find me from above, you will naturally send an official letter to the Political Secretary, and you will not receive a letter." ”

As soon as He Shengzhi heard that this level was not something I could get from this county order, he sighed secretly, forget it, don't ask, there will be a lot of trouble if you ask more.

Work is like this, the leader urges ruthlessly, the following people will work hard and work hard to do it quickly, not only hard, but also seriously, if the leader does not urge or rarely urge, then the following people have little motivation to do, or even do not do, throughout the ages, all the power departments and functional departments, the first core element that determines the level of efficiency, in the final analysis, there is only one point: the leader is not ruthless.

It should be said that for the case of Mo Pintang, He Shengzhi, the county commander of She County, is still very concerned, and it can even be said that he is particularly concerned, as a magistrate of the Hongwu Dynasty, He Shengzhi knows that Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang is not soft on the officials who are lazy and political, at this time there is an unknown person living in his county but it is very likely to be a Qincha, if he does not have a snack, then his fate may not be as good as the ink maker who was killed on the street. Therefore, He Shengzhi dispatched all the criminal investigation forces and devoted all his energy to this case.

"My lord, the lower official has something to report." Just after lunch on the third day after the incident, He Shengzhi hurriedly came to Yao Guangqi.

Yao Guangqi was ready, if the officials couldn't find any valuable clues today, he would have to find them himself, and at this moment he even regretted it a little, if he had personally investigated it himself at the beginning, instead of pretending to be those officials who were not sure whether it would work, he might have found it now. "I hope your lead won't disappoint."

Although He Shengzhi was a little embarrassed, he still smiled bitterly and said, "Big-eyed donkey, you can report to the adults." ”

The official known as the big-eyed donkey took a step forward, bowed his head and said: "My lord, the dead inksmith is called Hu Jiaofen, he started to do apprenticeship ink making at the age of fourteen, and has been working for more than 30 years. ”

"So you didn't find any useful clues?" Yao Guangqi asked calmly.

"I'm not sure." The big-eyed donkey had a wry smile, his waist had been bent all the time, a little sore, and he straightened his waist slightly.

Yao Guangqi pointed to the chair next to him, "Sit down and talk." ”

The big-eyed donkey looked at the county order on the side, and saw that the county order was also standing, and he wanted to sit but didn't dare to sit, so he continued to stand and said: "Hu Jiaofen has been widowed for many years, and has two sons under his knees, the eldest son inherited his craft, and now he is also a famous inkmaker, and the younger son is idle all day long, and has a bad reputation in the township. Hu Jiaofen took a concubine Wang two years ago, is the daughter of a farmer in a neighboring village, young and beautiful, according to the villagers, this concubine is not very conservative women, often interacts with strange men, it is said that the youngest son of Hu Jiao is not innocent, Hu Jiao has beaten the Wang family many times in this matter, and this little concubine Wang often cries and cries. According to the eldest son, on the day Hu Jiao went to the county seat to see you, he got up in the morning and ate the food cooked by this little concubine, and on the night of Hu Jiao's death, the little concubine Wang and the younger son were gone. ”

Yao Guangqi listened and nodded: "In other words, the Wang family is suspicious, and the youngest son surnamed Hu may have had an affair with his mother?" ”

The big-eyed donkey nodded: "Now the Wang family is the most suspicious, and a few days before the crime, Hu Jiaofen had no contact with any suspicious people." ”

Yao Guangqi felt that this big-eyed donkey was doing things properly, and he checked them carefully: "Can you catch these two people?" ”

The big-eyed donkey touched his head: "This little one didn't dare to pack the ticket, but the little one had already asked clearly, and Wang's own private money was taken away, but her private money was not much." The family usually doesn't have much cash, and the incoming and outgoing accounts of their workshop are all managed by the eldest son, and there is nothing missing, except that some dry food and sauce meat are missing. The most important thing is that Wang's feet are entangled and he can't walk fast. So the little one felt that these two people couldn't run far, and the little one had already ordered someone to go to Wang's maiden house to find it, and greeted the chief of the grain in several surrounding townships, and several docks in the county that could get on the boat also explained, if they were still in that area, or there were traces, the little one would definitely know their news. ”

Yao Guangqi appreciated the big-eyed donkey very much, and praised it sincerely: "You are doing things very properly." It's a talent. ”

was praised by Yao Guangqi, and the big-eyed donkey smiled, smiling brightly, revealing a mouthful of yellowed teeth.

The reason why Yao Guangqi didn't check it in person was because his thinking had been a little messy these days, he wanted to be quiet and sort it out, and he was racking his brains to write a letter, this letter was tangled and uncomfortable, written and torn, torn and written, and wrote dozens of times, no matter how he wrote, he was not satisfied, and finally simply made a long story short, and only wrote one sentence: "If you see the words like faces, after receiving this letter, quickly bring the two books that were previously entrusted to the south to Hangzhou, don't don't, come quickly." ”