"Two masters, the last person to inquire has returned, and these are the news they have gathered." Just when Zhao Xin was stunned, the head of the county government capture class walked into the room quickly, holding a stack of papers in his hand.

The reason why the people of the county government capture class were all touched was not only to bring back those florists, but also to have another important thing, that is, to collect the past deeds of those florists from childhood to adulthood in the local area, so as to understand the personalities of those florists.

Originally, according to the usual routine, the government wanted to understand how a person's temperament would first start from the surrounding neighborhood and listen to the comments of the neighbors.

However, Li Hongyu did not do that, in his opinion, people's evaluation is highly subjective, so it is better to start from the things that those people have done, so that their personalities can be analyzed, because of the time is pressing, Li Hongyu can only use this way to get the information he wants.

Because the gardeners did not live in the same place, the catchers who went to collect news from the county government did not come back together, but rushed back to the county seat one after another.

Li Hongyu has already discussed with Yang He, and when the soldiers who delivered the news come back in the evening, the soldiers on duty at the city gate will open the city gate for them, after all, Li Hongyu only has five days to solve the case, and he must act against time.

To be honest, for more than a year, the city gate of the county seat of Qingyuan County has never been opened at night, and Yang He has set a precedent for investigating the case this time.

"Put it down!" Li Hongyu didn't notice Zhao Xin's abnormality because he was thinking about the case in his heart, and said quietly to the head of the arrest team when he heard the words.

Hearing this, the head of the capture shift put the tray on the table on the side, and then bowed down and retreated, Li Hongyu was so anxious to let people send those news overnight, obviously in a hurry to check the news.

Waiting for the head of the fishing team to leave, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin took the papers and looked at them intently, which recorded the deeds of those florists from childhood to adulthood.

"Meng Shi?" After a long time, Li Hongyu put a few pieces of paper in his hand on the table, and slowly said a name in his mouth, after checking the information of those gardeners, he felt that one of the young florists named Meng Shi was the most suspicious, and what he held in his hand was Meng Shi's information.

Meng Shi is a person from a village outside the county, twenty-five or sixteen, because his family is poor and has not yet married, he is loyal, honest and helpful from the data, and his reputation in the village is very good.

Although the content of those materials is almost all praise for Meng Shi, it does not mean that no one has a good impression of him, and someone told the investigating county official that he once saw Meng Shi eat a pound of bloody beef raw in order to win the bet, and then got a gamble of 200 wen, thinking that Meng Shi's selfish desires were too heavy.

"According to the information provided by the yamen officer, Meng Shi was looking at melons in his watermelon field at the time of the incident, and there were neighbors who could testify to him." Seeing that Li Hongyu mentioned Meng Shi, Zhao Xin pondered for a while and then said, "Could it be that those neighbors are lying?" ”

"No, they can't hide it for Meng Shi." Li Hongyu groaned for a moment when he heard this, shook his head and said, "But if they are deceived by Meng Shi, then they will unknowingly become Meng Shi's cover." ”

"But how did Meng Shi take advantage of them?" Zhao Xin was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and looked at Li Hongyu with some puzzlement, knowing that it is not easy to make others lie without knowing it.

"As long as someone is found to pretend to be him in the shack of the melon field, then others will not suspect it, and no one will enter the melon shed for no reason." Li Hongyu smiled slightly and said to Zhao Xin, "The so-called love to the limit is hate, it seems that this Meng Shi is the one who picks up hairpins!" ”

"Brother Li is right, Meng Shi is the person Hong'er said." Zhao Xin nodded, smiled and took out the confession written by Hong'er and handed it to Li Hongyu.

"It seems that we are going to meet this Meng Shi." Li Hongyu looked at Hong'er's confession, put it down and said to Zhao Xin, wanting to see how Meng Shi would react when facing him.

Although Li Hongyu is still not sure that Meng Shi is the murderer, from the current information, he is the most suspicious one, so Li Hongyu is ready to use Meng Shi as a breakthrough to investigate this case.

Of course, Li Hongyu will not only see Meng Shi, in that case, it is easy to misunderstand the outside world, after all, Meng Shi is just a suspect now, otherwise it will make Yang He make a wrong judgment.

Therefore, Li Hongyu was ready to interrogate the gardeners one by one, and the focus was naturally on Meng Shi, who believed that with his experience and eyesight, he could tell whether those gardeners had lied to him.

The backyard of the county government.

"My lord, Li Xie Yuan and Zhao Yayuan have already begun to interrogate those gardeners." Yang He was frowning and pacing back and forth in the study when a clerk walked in quickly and bowed down to report.

"Tell me to go down, I want to know what Li Xie Yuan and Zhao Yayuan asked as soon as possible." Yang He stopped when he heard this, and said in a deep voice.

"My lord, Li Xie Yuan and Zhao Yayuan drove all our people out, and there were only them and those florists on the scene." The official couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, and replied.

"This Li Xie Yuan and Zhao Yayuan are so cautious." Yang He was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing, it seems that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin are really investigating this case, could it be that the murderer is one of those florists?

Then, Yang He's brows suddenly frowned, to be honest, he didn't expect that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin would use those gardeners as a breakthrough to investigate the case after learning about the case, in his opinion, the suspicion of those bad ruffians in the city is much greater.

But then again, those gardeners have been working in Zhang's house for a month, and they should be familiar with the terrain of Zhang's house, and if one of them is a murderer, it will be easier to convince the public.

Therefore, Yang He's heart couldn't help but have some expectations, wanting to see if Li Hongyu could find the murderer from those gardeners.

Torture chamber.

"Master Xie Yuan, Master Yayuan, and the gardener Meng Shi brought it." Several jailers brought in a simplely dressed and burly young man, bowed to Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, and retreated.

"I've seen two old men." This young man was Meng Shi, the last gardener Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin had seen, kneeling there with his head bowed and saluting the two.

"Look up." Li Hongyu noticed that Meng Shi's hands were bigger than ordinary people, and there were clear green tendons on the backs of his hands, and it seemed that he usually did a lot of physical work, so he said quietly.

"Master Xie Yuan, what do you command?" Meng Shi raised his head when he heard this, and asked respectfully.

"Have you seen the golden hairpin that Miss Zhang lost?" Li Hongyu stared at Meng Shi and asked expressionlessly, he had already asked the other gardeners this question.

"Golden hairpins?" The expression on Meng Shi's face changed slightly when he heard this, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, and then he nodded to Li Hongyu, "I've seen Miss Zhang wear it before." ”

Hearing this, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin's eyes couldn't help but light up, Meng Shi's answer was different from the previous florists, and the previous florists all replied that they had never seen it, after all, they were just working people, how could they notice the details of Miss Zhang's clothes, and even if they did, it was difficult to see Miss Zhang, who lived in a simple place.

As for the lost golden hairpin, several other gardeners only saw the drawings on the official notices later, and they simply noticed whether Miss Zhang had worn them.

Most importantly, both Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin were keenly aware of the panic that flashed in Meng Shi's eyes, which several other florists did not have.

The corners of Li Hongyu's mouth couldn't help but show a hint of imperceptible smile, it seems that Meng Shi is quite cautious, and his answer can be described as well-founded, after all, he once picked up the golden hairpin If he didn't know it, it would probably cause him trouble, but he couldn't deliberately mention the matter, so he replied ambiguously, so it was convenient to deal with the government's investigation of the golden hairpin.

However, Meng Shi would never have thought that he would be smart but mistaken by cleverness when he did this, which made Li Hongyu even more suspicious of him.

"Meng Shi, did you have any dealings with Miss Zhang when you were working in Zhang's Mansion?" Li Hongyu didn't dwell too much on the matter of the golden hairpin, and then asked the second question in an orderly manner.

It is worth mentioning that Li Hongyu asked the same questions to the florists, so that Meng Shi's suspicion would not be aroused, and Meng Shi would let his guard down.

"Back to Master Yuan, the little one is doing odd jobs, and Miss Zhang is a golden branch and jade leaf, how can she have any relationship with the little one." Meng Shi shook his head when he heard this, denying that he had anything to do with Miss Zhang, how could he know that Li Hongyu was testing his golden hairpin again.

It stands to reason that Miss Zhang gave Meng Shi a box of ginseng, and Meng Shi should have said it if he didn't have a ghost in his heart, but he concealed it, obviously because he was worried that the matter of the golden hairpin would be known.

However, Meng Shi's answer didn't sound like a problem, Miss Zhang and him had a huge disparity in status, so how could there be any intersection between the two? As for the box of ginseng, he can interpret it as a reward for his subordinates, and it is not evidence of intercourse.

"Where were you on the night of the crime? What are you doing? Li Hongyu bowed slightly when he heard this, as if he didn't think there was anything wrong with Meng Shi's answer, and then asked the third question in a deep voice.

Although the yamen had already conducted an investigation on this matter, Li Hongyu still had to listen to Meng Shi face to face, and the purpose was naturally to take the opportunity to observe the change in Meng Shi's expression when answering, so as to judge whether there was a hidden secret.

"Back to the old man, the little one was watching melons in the melon field at home at that time, and there were neighbors in the adjacent fields who could testify." Meng Shi bowed to Li Hongyu when he heard this, and replied seriously.

Although Meng Shi behaved very naturally, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, who were closely watching him, were keenly aware that his eyes seemed a little flickering.

After all, people who are not professionally trained will have an unnatural look reaction when lying, which is significantly different from the nervous behavior of the previous gardeners.

Li Hongyu's eyes suddenly lit up when he saw this, it seems that Meng Shi's alibi proof is really problematic, if he didn't guess wrong, Meng Shi must have lied about this matter, there is definitely something hidden in this.

"Brother Li, it seems that we are going to Meng Shi's house." Not long after, Li Hongyu ended his interrogation of Meng Shi, and when Meng Shi was taken away by the jailers, Zhao Xin smiled and said to him, "I want to see how this Meng Shi has hidden from the county seat that others have infiltrated!" ”

"That's what I mean." Li Hongyu smiled when he heard this, then got up and stretched lazily, he had been busy for so long, and now the case finally had a clue.

At this moment, Meng Shi, who thought that he had perfectly coped with this interrogation, would never have imagined that he was already the prey of Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, and had become the most important suspect in the case of Miss Zhang's rape and murder.