This incident quickly spread throughout the town, and many people came to see the excitement - this is also the habit of Chinese people, no matter who has a news, it is as if it is their own family.

Among them, the most nervous was the honest man Li Yang, who had heard from the descendants of the Sun family that the two coats on the horse that he had returned from had been missing. And Cheng Qi also found that there were two bullet holes in the horse's chest, and it was obvious that the bullet entered from one end and flew out from the other end. Thanks to this, the poor animal did not die on the spot.

"Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, who is so cruel! In broad daylight, there will be people robbing the imperial city of Gyeonggi with guns? Although Li Yang's statement has not been supported by any direct evidence for a while, judging from the expressions of other neighbors, it is obvious that his statement has been recognized by most people.

"Let's go and report it to the police immediately. Along the way, he still searched for his uncle's whereabouts. Gong Dingxin proposed, so in this way, the enthusiastic neighbors all led their own cattle and searched for them along the road in groups of three or five.

Among them, Li Yang is naturally unwilling to be behind, but he doesn't seem to be willing to get too close to Gong Dingxi, as if there has been some dislike between the two. Cheng Qi is also a newcomer, and he doesn't know anyone except a few people from the Sun family, so he has to watch these people from afar.

Gong Dingyu had little experience in how to search and find people, but fortunately, there was a hunter surnamed Wang in the neighborhood, who took out two rabbit hounds from his yard and told them to sniff the gauze that had wiped the horse's wound, and then sniffed one of Mr. Sun's old shoes. Then, under their leadership, they ran to the main road to the east.

Led by the hounds, people found traces of a fight in a pond six miles away from the town, because it was early spring, there was not much water in the pond, everyone found the landlord here, drained the pond with a pump, and found a vest in the mud - the pocket of the vest contained some broken stones and rotten bricks, apparently someone did it on purpose.

After the identification of the housekeeper of the Sun family, this dirty and bloodstained vest was worn by the old man Sun, and a neighbor of the village testified that he was wearing this waistcoat when he saw the old man Sun go out of the city in the morning.

People began to look for it with this as the center, and now the most ugly face is probably Li Yang, it is conceivable that he is deeply favored by Sun Laoyuanwai, if Sun Laoyuanwai really suffers any misfortune, I am afraid that the most painful is this friend.

As the sun was about to set, the Hound made a new discovery in a field of weeds, a rare hunting knife with a carved tooth handle in the Eastern Roman style. After identifying it, the housekeeper of the Sun Mansion only said that it was not an item outside of Old Man Sun, but when asked who it was, he was hesitant and difficult to say.

Seeing his words flickering, everyone couldn't help but gather around, and Li Yang, as a close friend of Old Sun outside of the old man, was even more angry: "Sun Fu! You are the first-class trusted person around Mr. Sun, and you know his things best, and this thing is not Mr. Sun's. But why are you so stumbling? If you haven't seen it before, you can say it clearly, and if you have seen it, you can say the name of the owner clearly. If you are like this, do you still have to do it when you go to the government? ”

Sun Fu is a little old man in his fifties, he has been with Sun Lao since he was a teenager, and his neighbors in the village know best, and there are people on the side: "Isn't there anything embarrassing about Steward Sun?" ”

Everyone said babblingly: "Steward Sun will say whatever he knows." When you go to the official mansion, you will be misunderstood by the officials. ”

After everyone coaxed and frightened, Steward Sun finally couldn't help but say, "This...... This thing, in my opinion, seems to be from Gong Daguan. ”

Gong Dingxiao's face was really ugly, how ugly it was, several neighbors and young men had already surrounded him, and everyone was watching him, asking him to tell him what was going on. Of course, Gong Daguan denied all this, but no matter how he defended himself, the big guy still sent him to the nearest public security prosecutor's yamen.

After listening to the villagers' descriptions of Gong Dingxiao's private life, he immediately made a bold speculation: this guy is amorous and nameless, morally corrupt, and exterminating, and committed the murder of his cousin to seize the family property (don't forget, the neighbors unanimously testified that if Sun Laoyuan was really unfortunately killed, then Gong Daguan is the only legitimate heir) is flawless in terms of motives, and there is physical evidence here, if Gong Dingyu can't explain the whereabouts of this hunting knife, Then it is clear that he is the suspect in the first order.

"The person who gains the most is the biggest suspect." Cheng Qi bit his ear at Huang Yang: "This logic can't be wrong, should we invite Li Xi back and let him defend him." ”

Huang Yang shook his head: "Do you think he is the murderer?" I don't think so. ”

It was getting late that day, and the prosecutor first ordered Gong Daguan to be imprisoned, while sending officers to the scene to fix the evidence and find the body. Everyone also dispersed in a hurry, only Li Yang still followed the official errand, and kept saying that he must find his best friend - he wants to see people in life and corpses in death - he will not give up until there is no whereabouts outside Old Man Sun.

Watching Li Yang follow the officials back to the drained pond, Cheng Qi asked Huang Yang in a low voice: "Do you think this good friend is the most suspicious?" That's right, I heard that he had a quarrel with Gong Daguan. ”

"What does that mean?" Guo Shan followed up and asked.

Cheng Qi said: "I heard what Steward Sun said, two days ago, Gong Daguan drank too much and quarreled with Li Yang over something...... It seems that Li Yang persuaded him to clean himself up, and not to mess with flowers and grass, and to drink all day long and other clichés. ”

Back at Sun's Mansion, Gu Mei saw that only the three strangers and Steward Sun had returned, so she asked where her husband had gone. The three strangers were also divided, and Steward Sun also cried: "Madam...... This could be a big deal! ”

Huang Yang hurriedly stepped forward to support Gu Mei, stroked her chest and back, and said, "Madame, don't be impatient, Gong Daguan is just involved in the turmoil, what is the situation, it has not yet ended." In my opinion, the fake can't be real, the real can't be fake. Gong Daguan and Ji people have their own natural appearance. ”

Although Gu Mei is a woman, she has also experienced many ups and downs, and after calming down a little, she talked about the case with the three strangers, saying that there were quite a lot of doubts in it, and before she knew it, it was another night.

On the second day, the prosecutor brought Gong Dingyu and led a team of people to the town to borrow a Guandi temple to try the case.

The surrounding neighbors, adults and children, girls holding dogs, women with children, and merchants doing small business, all surrounded three people inside and outside. Cheng Qi and the others swaggered in with the Confucian crown, only to see that although Gong Dingyu's spirit was slightly worse, he didn't seem to suffer from flesh and skin, and he didn't wear handcuffs and anklets when he stood in the hall. Gong Dingyu, what is your relationship with Mr. Sun, and when did you arrive in the local area? ”

Gong Dingyu answered them one by one, and the prosecutor asked, "Where were you before sunrise to noon yesterday?" ”

Gong Dingyu said calmly: "I went out hunting. ”

The prosecutor did not expect him to admit it so happily, and hurriedly asked, "How do you hunt?" What kind of equipment do you bring? And where did you hunt? ”

Gong Dingyu confessed that he was just after seven o'clock in the morning (he had a pocket watch given by a friend of Liao, so he was used to using a 24-hour timekeeping), and after drinking white rice porridge, he took a shotgun and went out to hunt, and the hunting place was in a wooded area about seven or eight miles east of the town to the south—there were more than a mile or two away from the main road, and there were hills and undulating bushes, so Gong Dingyu insisted that he knew nothing about what was happening near the pond.

After listening to his confession, the prosecutor sent the local security guard and asked him to tell him how the people went out to search yesterday afternoon, how they found the old man's vest in the pond, and found Gong Dingyu's hunting knife not far away.

Then the local security officer later appeared in court to testify, Sun Fu, the housekeeper of the Sun family. The prosecutor asked him why the old man had to go out with two bags of money and not ask a servant to follow.

Sun Fu replied: "Originally, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, but thinking that the old master treats me like a mountain, if I conceal it ignorantly, it will make the old master unable to show the snow is even more sinful - my lord, the night before yesterday, the old master summoned me and said to me - Gong Daguan is his only relative in the world, if the old man is not good, all his inheritance should belong to Gong Daguan. However, the old man thought that Gong Daguan was a prodigal and could not keep this family business, so he decided to use this family business for charity in the future, and the floating wealth would be used to donate to the widows, widows, loneliness, and diseases in the town, and the real estate could collect land rent, which could be used for long-term purposes. He clicked on the silver tickets and silver ingots at home, and found that there were about one or two hundred taels in total, and he was worried that such a large number would not be safe at home, so he prepared to send it to the ticket number for memory. ”

After listening to the old housekeeper's explanation, the prosecutor nodded with emotion: "It's hard for the old man to think about the friendship of Sangzi, if what you said is true, then after the old man is really unlucky, this big family business should really be taken care of by someone, so that the town will support the orphans and the elderly in the future and help the poor." ”

The fathers and elders who listened around also praised the old man's immeasurable merits, and he was really a living bodhisattva in the world. When the prosecutor looked at Gong Dingyu again, he also felt that it was infuriating. "What else do you have to say!" ”

Gong Dingyu naturally had nothing to say in the midst of the reprimand. At this time, he came to report that the injured mount outside the old man was also seriously injured, and after dissecting it, he found a lead bullet in the neck of the horse, and the prosecutor ordered Gong Dingyu to be detained in the Guandi Temple, while ordering him to go and the ground to collect all the shotguns in the town and compare them one by one.

The result of this comparison is obvious, of course, it is exactly the same as the shotgun used by Gong Dingyu. At this point, the three strangers exchanged glances, and it was obvious that they all had their own answers in their hearts.