Lei Song shook his head, "What I mean by tricky is something else, but this murder case is obviously premeditated, the other party did it cleanly and neatly, leaving no trace at all, if it weren't for Li Wenyou jumping into the water to escape, I'm afraid he would have sunk to the bottom of the river, no one knows what happened?" ”

Hearing the word 'premeditated', Li Yanqing's heart twitched heavily, but he had already calmed down from the initial anger, he was just because he had a deep prejudice against Li Wengui, so he had a preconceived idea that it was Li Wengui who plotted to kill his brother. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, when he calmed down and considered various possibilities, he had to admit that it was not necessarily Li Wengui's doing, it was also possible that the patriarch was targeted in Zhending Mansion, and the other party was murdered for money.

As for Li Wengui's choice to close the case, it should be that he wants to transport his brother's body back to his hometown as soon as possible and put it in peace, and he has no hope that the government will solve the case.

Li Yanqing really couldn't think of any motive for Li Wengui to murder his own brother, the wealth division between their brothers was clear, and their status in the clan was also clear, and in the past five years, each other's well water has not interfered with river water.

If Li Wengui has any dissatisfaction with his brother, it is that Li Wenyou founded Li's grain store without telling him, but the capital is Li Wenyou's own money, and it does not infringe on Li Wengui's interests, at most it breaks the boundary between the wealth distribution of the two brothers, but it will not make Li Wengui have the idea of killing.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Li Yanqing temporarily ruled out Li Wengui's murder suspicion, and now he suspects that he was murdered for money.

"Lei Catcher, is there really no clue at all?" Li Yanqing asked again.

Lei Song pondered for a moment and said: "If there are no clues at all, then we are a bunch of wine bags and rice bags that we don't have, in fact, we still found a little clue, but we can't say it to the outside world, I can tell the little official, please be sure to keep it secret for us." ”

"Please catch the head and give me advice, I will keep it a secret."

Lei Song nodded and said: "In fact, there are witnesses, that is, the ship that saved Li Wenyou, it is also a cargo ship, moored on the shore, a crew member got up to urinate at night, just witnessed the case, he said that there were about four murderers, the method was extremely fierce, the boat boss knelt down and begged for mercy, and was also killed by them with a knife, Li Wenyou jumped into the water and fled after being stabbed a few times, several murderers had infighting over whether to chase and kill Li Wenyou, there was a very strong fat man who tried to chase and kill to the end, but the other three people objected, scolding, Almost killed the fat man. ”

Li Yanqing immediately sketched the image of a wild boar in his heart, isn't this Liu Chenghong? He had already ruled out Li Wengui, but now he was shaken again.

Lei Song glanced at him and continued: "Actually, we have already roughly guessed who the murderer is? ”

"Who is it?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

"It should be the three water bandits who are active in Xiangzhou and the Yongji Canal of the Daimyo Mansion, the three brothers of the Bai family, Bai Ming, Bai Liang, and Bai Guang, known as the three heroes of the Bai family, they have been active on the Yongji Canal for five or six years, killing people and robbing money, ruthless, there are no less than dozens of merchants who have died in their hands, and they have escaped several roundups in Xiangzhou and the Daimyo Mansion, and several brothers have died."

"But just now you said that there are more than three murderers."

"This is the crux of the matter, the Bai brothers not only robbed their own money, but also accepted the commission of others to do things, we felt that this time it was entrusted to kill, so there was almost infighting."

Speaking of this, Lei Song sighed regretfully and said: "This case is simple and simple, you can solve the case by catching the three Bai brothers, but Xiangzhou and the Daimyo Mansion have turned against each other in order to arrest the three Bai brothers in recent years, we know that the murderer is in the Daimyo Mansion, but we can't cross the border to handle the case, so I said that this case is very tricky." ”

Li Yanqing nodded silently, at least he knew the direction of chasing the murderer.

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Xiangzhou is not big, and then fifty miles to the east will enter the boundary of the Daimyofu, because there is no official road along the river on both sides of the Yongji Canal in this area, Li Yanqing deposited the horses in Anyang County, and he carefully searched the eastward along the Yongji Canal.

Lei Zhutou told him that Xiangzhou and the Daimyo Mansion turned against each other in order to round up the Bai brothers, and the two governments did not buy each other, and since the three Bai brothers committed crimes in Xiangzhou, then they would definitely flee to the Daimyo Mansion.

But the Yongji Canal is hundreds of miles long in the territory of the Daimyo's Mansion, there are countless branches of various small rivers, and the banks are covered with reeds and water, so how easy is it to find the boat?

Li Yanqing inquired all the way, but there were no clues, three days passed in a blink of an eye, and Li Yanqing's journey to chase the murderer was still clueless, which made Li Yanqing a little desperate, he had to admit that he thought about the problem too simply, and the government had no clues for several years, but he thought that he could chase the murderer for revenge, which was a bit taken for granted.

Early this morning, he came to Beihuan Town, which was about fifty miles away from the famous city, the town was close to the Yongji Canal, and two miles to the west was the official road, Li Yanqing was hungry and thirsty, and saw that there was a small tea shed outside the town, so he walked over quickly.

In the tea shed, an old couple is busy boiling water and cooking, the two are old, the old man is leaning on his back, blowing fire into the stove with a bamboo tube, the old woman has a kind face, wearing a coarse cloth dress, serving tea and sending food to the guests, at this time, there are already a few coolies sitting in the tea shed, while drinking herbal tea, while gnawing on wheat cakes.

"Little official, come and rest for a while!" The old woman smiled and beckoned to Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing walked into the tea shed and asked with a smile, "Is there anything to eat?" ”

"Absolutely!"

The old woman smiled and said, "The little official will sit down and drink tea first, and then take a good rest before hurrying." ”

Li Yanqing found an empty table and sat down, put the small package on the table, he looked around, a dozen steps away from the tea shed is a small wharf, moored more than a dozen ships of all sizes, although it is just dawn now, but the boats on the river come and go, quite busy.

The old woman brought him a pot of tea and a few white-flour buns, and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, we have a small profit, we don't have meatloaf, and we have a little egg, if the little official needs it, let's boil a few more eggs." ”

"Then boil three more eggs!"

The old woman instructed her wife to boil eggs, and brought a plate of pickled vegetables to Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing nibbled a few bites of wheat buns, then took out the pattern in his arms, and smiled at the old woman: "I'm looking for a boat, this is the same as the boat on the pattern, I don't know if the eldest lady has seen it?" ”

The stolen ship is more distinctive, the bow is carved with a sitting tiger, and it is a thousand-stone ship, it is a kind of large cargo ship, it is rare on the Yongji Canal, as long as you have the heart must remember.

The old woman looked at it for a moment, then picked up the pattern and asked the old man, "Daddy Shunzi, do you see that this ship is the same one yesterday morning?" ”

Li Yanqing looked at the old man nervously, the old man who was boiling water looked at it for a while, nodded, and the old woman came back and said, "This tiger-headed boat passed by here yesterday morning, and a few crew members were still eating in our tea shed and bought all the bread. ”

Li Yanqing was suddenly surprised and delighted, he searched for three whole days, there was no clue at all, just when he was about to give up, he finally got a clue, he hurriedly asked: "Does the eldest lady know where the ship went?" ”

The old woman shook her head and said, "I don't know where I went, but I seem to have heard one of them suggest that I find a place to rest for a few days nearby, and I guess I should be anchored nearby." ”

This is called stepping on iron shoes and finding nowhere to go, and it takes no effort to get it, he searched for three whole days without any news, and finally got a clue at a small stall selling tea.

Li Yanqing no longer went north, but searched carefully near Beihuan Town, and at dusk, Li Yanqing finally found his target in a small river.