"What's the catch?" Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin arrived at a clean and tidy room in the prison courtyard, where Yang He was drinking tea, and when he saw this, he hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand and asked.

"Lord Zhixian, the case of Miss Zhang's murder is complicated, and it is difficult for students to judge whether Shen Shaoqiang is the real murderer now, and I want to check the file of this case at night."

Li Hongyu groaned for a moment when he heard this, and after bowing his hand to Yang Heyi, he said that because there were too few clues at present, he could not rashly conclude whether Shen Shaoqiang was guilty or not.

In Li Hongyu's opinion, if you want to prove Shen Shaoqiang's innocence, then you must find out the real murderer who killed Miss Zhang's family, otherwise Shen Shaoqiang's murder charge will be convicted.

"Li Jieyuan rest assured, the official has already ordered him to go down, and the people of the county government will be dispatched by Li Jieyuan at that time."

Yang He couldn't help but show a look of disappointment on his face when he heard this, but after thinking about it, he also felt a little relieved in his heart, Li Hongyu's rigorous attitude meant that he was not coping with things, so he said with a smile.

Because it was late, Yang He then set up a banquet for Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin to catch the wind, and the atmosphere was very light and warm during the banquet.

Considering that the case was still being investigated in the past few days, it was naturally impossible for Yang He to drink Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, so when the three of them drank, it could be said that they stopped drinking.

In fact, even if Yang He wanted to do this, he was afraid that he would "bring humiliation upon himself" in the end, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, the two wine baskets, were enough to put down those people he found to accompany the wine.

After all, the person who could be found by Yang He to accompany the wine was naturally the leading figure in Qingyuan County, which meant that the number of people would not be too many, and they would definitely not be able to pose any threat to Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin.

After the banquet, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin said goodbye to Yang He and rushed to the county government execution room to check the file of Miss Zhang's case, which recorded the investigation of the county government officials and the testimony of the people involved in the case after the incident.

Because it was suspected that people inside the Zhang family had an affair with this case, several members of the Zhang family who were in the age of young and middle-aged were unlucky and were caught in prison by the county government's servants and beaten violently, but unfortunately there was no gain, and those family members did not know anything about the case.

During this period, a family member once couldn't survive the torture in the prison and admitted that he killed Miss Zhang's family against his will, but after Yang He's in-depth investigation, it was found that the other party had no time to commit the crime, and he couldn't find the blonde hairpin, so he had to give up in the end.

Although Li Hongyu did not agree with the behavior of the servants in the yamen who often tortured the people involved in the case to extract confessions, he was helpless.

After all, there is no such systematic and perfect trial process as in later generations, and there is no condition to check the authenticity of criminal evidence, so it is the most direct and effective way to obtain a confession by means of a major punishment.

People like Li Hongyu who patiently collect clues to expose lies and break the opponent's psychological defense line are very rare, and they require extraordinary city government, careful thinking and keen touch, and ordinary people are powerless even if they want to do this.

"Brother Zhao, Yang Zhixian has already arrested all the people who should be tried for trial, and judging from the case file, there is nothing suspicious about those people, it seems that we must find another way to find out about this case."

After Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin went through the file at hand, it was already morning, Li Hongyu stretched lazily and said to Zhao Xin, who was sitting across the desk.

"Where does Brother Li plan to start?" After Zhao Xin covered his mouth with his hand and yawned a lot, he asked with a smile, since Li Hongyu wanted to find another way, it meant that he already had a direction to trace.

"Brother Zhao thinks this case should be investigated?" Li Hongyu felt that Zhao Xin must have some clues about the case now, so he said with a smile, "I don't think it's as good as this, let's write the results on paper and see if we think of one." ”

"That's a brilliant idea." Zhao Xin nodded with a smile when he heard this, and wrote on a piece of paper with Li Hongyu.

Subsequently, the two put the paper in their hands together, only to see that Zhao Xin's paper said "flower", and Li Hongyu's paper said "flower garden".

"Haha......"

Seeing this situation, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin couldn't help but look at each other and smile, it seems that the two of them really thought of each other this time, and they both planned to start with the two flower beds in the yard to investigate the case.

Early the next morning, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin rushed to Zhang's house to check the account books of the people who have been working in and out of Zhang's house in recent years.

Master Zhang was very surprised by the arrival of Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin this time, and asked the housekeeper to take the account books of the past three years with some doubts, which recorded the names of the people who entered the mansion to work, the reasons and the time spent in the mansion.

Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin paid attention to the young and middle-aged men who had entered and exited the Zhang family in the account book in the past three years, and arranged their information in chronological order, with the focus naturally on the men who entered the small courtyard where Miss Zhang lived, especially those who pruned and maintained the flower beds.

In the eyes of the two, since Yang He has eliminated all the suspicious people in the Zhang family, the biggest possibility is that those men who have worked in the Zhang family, because only they can come into contact with Miss Zhang, who lives in a simple house, and is familiar with the terrain of the Zhang family.

If it weren't for the fact that Yang He had tortured all the suspicious people in the Zhang family to confess and eliminated suspicion one by one, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin's primary targets would definitely be those within the Zhang family.

Since it is impossible for those subordinates of the Zhang family to commit crimes, Li Hongyu and Yang He can only put the breakthrough point on those who have entered the Zhang family.

In fact, Yang He also conducted a simple investigation of the men who had worked in Zhang's house half a year before the crime, and found that those people were either outside the city or had alibi certificates at the time of the crime, after all, these workers went wherever they had work, and many of them were people from towns and villages outside the city, so it was impossible to stay in the county seat all the time.

Due to the urgency of the case, and Yang He did not think that those who entered the Zhang family to work were suspicious, so the investigation of those people ended quickly, and did not even form any written materials, focusing on the subordinates of the Zhang family and the ruffians in the city, in his opinion, these people had the greatest suspicion.

"Brother Li, half a year ago, the Zhang family invited a few florists to rest the flowers and plants in the house and renovated the flower beds in Miss Zhang's yard."

In an elegant wing room of the Zhang family, Zhao Xin pointed to the contents recorded in an account book and said to Li Hongyu in a deep voice, "These gardeners have been busy for more than ten days in order to renovate the flower beds in Miss Zhang's courtyard, and they are most likely to come into contact with Miss Zhang during this period. ”

"According to the report of the servants in the yamen, these gardeners all have alibi certificates, and they are either helpers from other large families in the county or outside the city, so they can get rid of suspicion." Li Hongyu looked at the names of the people in the account book, his brows furrowed slightly, it was obvious that Yang He also checked these gardeners but found nothing.

"Could anyone have lied?" Zhao Xin pondered for a moment, looked at Li Hongyu with a serious expression and said, the other party was able to calmly put on Miss Zhang's clothes after the killing, which shows that she has a very good psychological quality.

"If it were me, I would definitely have left a way out in advance." Li Hongyu nodded when he heard this, thinking that what Zhao Xin said was reasonable, ordinary people must be scared to death after killing someone and wanted to leave early, but the murderer did not do so, which shows that his psychological quality is far beyond ordinary people.

"Let's take them as a breakthrough, I looked at the records of entering and leaving the Zhang family in the past three years, and the only people who have been in contact with Miss Zhang for the longest time and can understand the terrain of the house are these few florists."

Zhao Xin couldn't help but flash a smile at the corner of her mouth when she saw that Li Hongyu agreed with her, she knew that Li Hongyu must have thought the same as her, and those few florists undoubtedly had the most serious suspicions in her opinion.

This is not Zhao Xin's decision based on feelings alone, but a result obtained after synthesizing the information obtained, since the murderer sneaked into Miss Zhang's boudoir after Shen Shaoqiang and Miss Zhang's tryst and killed her, then it is obvious that he knows the private relationship between the two, otherwise he will not be patient to wait in the dark.

Considering that Shen Shaoqiang and Miss Zhang started their private meeting after the New Year, the time period of the private meeting coincided with the time when those florists entered Zhang's mansion, so those florists were the most suspicious.

Li Hongyu bowed slightly to Zhao Xin when he heard this, so Zhao Xin called in the head of the county government arrest team who was guarding outside, and asked him to assign people to bring those gardeners to the county office, and investigate in detail the situation of several young and middle-aged men when Miss Zhang was killed.

"Remember, they were invited to be questioned by the government, don't be too rude, and don't make any extraneous complications, so as not to mistake the magistrate's affairs!"

When the head of the fishing squad walked to the door, Li Hongyu remembered something, so he told in a deep voice, he knew very well the virtues of the gang of errands in the county government, and when he encountered this kind of going to the countryside, he usually used chicken feathers as arrows, tossing the countryside to the point that chickens and dogs jumped, and he was not at peace.

The officers in the county government are miscellaneous servants, so they have no salary, but they also have to support the old and young in the family, so in order to make money, they often do extortion, which can be described as a harm in the county.

But then again, this kind of thing of letting the horses run and not giving the horses grazing is unjustifiable, and the county government can't do without those errand servants, otherwise it will stop operating, so as long as those errand servants are not too much, the officials of the county government will turn a blind eye and get by.

"Don't worry, Master Xie Yuan, the little ones can tell the weight of the matter." The head of the squad naturally knew what Li Hongyu meant, and solemnly bowed to Li Hongyu and left, he knew that Yang He was disturbed by Miss Zhang's case, so he would not cause trouble at this time, otherwise he would kill himself.

Looking at the departing figure of the head of the capture team, Li Hongyu's brows couldn't help frowning, if it weren't for the urgency of time, he would definitely personally conduct a secret investigation on those gardeners, but unfortunately time did not allow him to do this, so he had to arrest the people back first and then find a way to find clues.

In other words, Li Hongyu decided to take a gamble after analyzing the case, believing that the murderer was one of those gardeners, otherwise it would be impossible to find out the case in five days, and I don't know what his luck was this time.