Chen Jitao replied loudly outside the door: "Yes, my lord, it was the boat that Xue Hao and his wife were sitting on caught fire and had an accident!" The adults didn't know, and the lower officials waited for the couple to arrange for them to ...... after dark."

"Chen Juncheng, Madame is sleeping, it is inconvenient to disturb," Guo Ye interrupted Chen Jitao's speech in time, and whispered through the door, "You wait for me, I will dress and come out with you to the wharf, ferry and riverside." ”

Chen Jitao hummed, stopped and waited to stop talking.

Guo Ye returned to the bed, and after putting on his clothes and boots, he leaned over to Wu Xiuxiu's ear and whispered: "Xiuxiu, Xianggong, I have official business to do, you can sleep first." ”

Wu Xiuxiu didn't have time to pay attention to Guo Ye, and muttered lazily, and continued to fall asleep in a daze, obviously tired enough just now.

Guo Ye tucked the quilt for her, then turned around and walked out of the bedroom.

When he came to the outside of the house, Chen Jitao was not allowed to say in detail, he grabbed the other party's arm and said, "This is not the place to talk, take me to the riverside to see what happened." Let's talk about the details as we go! ”

Chen Jitao snorted, walked out of the mansion with Guo Ye, and took the carriage that had already been prepared and rushed towards the direction of the Dongmen Wharf ferry.

On the way, the cause and effect of the incident were explained in detail.

The city is only five miles away from the Dongmen Wharf ferry, and the horse-drawn carriage will soon arrive at the place.

As soon as he got off the carriage at the place, Liu Zhenxuan had already led a group of government soldiers to surround him and reported to Guo Ye: "Master Hou, you are here." ”

Guo Ye saw that Liu Zhenxuan was also here in the middle of the night, thinking that he should know more in detail than Chen Jitao.

Immediately, he asked, "Zhenxuan, where is the location where the river boat caught fire?" What time did the fire ignite? Can you find out the cause of the ship's fire? ”

Obviously, Liu Zhenxuan did a full investigation before Guo Ye came, and replied in a clear manner: "Master Hou, the river boat is in the middle of the river about eight miles away from the ferry, and you interrogated the nearby fishermen before you came, and the time of the fire was probably at the beginning of the year. However, because it was too late and the night was blank, and the river boat was too far from the shore, it was difficult to find out the cause of the river boat fire. However, it cannot be ruled out that the cause of arson was deliberately carried out. ”

After Guo Ye listened, he looked in the direction of the center of the river, at this time, although the river boat had already been burned and sunk to the bottom of the river, the wreckage of the boat floating on the river could be vaguely seen.

After looking at it, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he said with a cold face: "The river boat only caught fire and sank when it reached the center of the river, like a natural disaster, more like a man-made disaster!" It's such a coincidence, there was no fire before the offshore, and there was no fire after the offshore, so it had to be driven so far away from the center of the river to catch fire, this is too coincidental, right? Obviously, there is only one purpose, that is, to make it impossible for the people on the ship to escape, let alone be saved. ”

Liu Zhenxuan was shocked: "What does Master Hou mean, is this someone deliberately setting fire to the murder?" The purpose is to take the lives of Xue Hao and his wife? ”

Guo Ye nodded heavily, and said categorically: "Not bad, otherwise do you think there are other possibilities?" ”

Liu Zhenxuan shook his head and said, "Master Hou, I don't dare to disagree, you are too arbitrary, right?" What if it's really a coincidence? Or was the ship's lights accidentally blown to the ground by the wind and set the ship on fire? ”

Guo Ye smiled and asked rhetorically: "Zhenxuan, unless there is a strong wind, the candles on the ship can be blown off, and the burning speed of the ship can be accelerated, but you ask the fishermen who live nearby, is there a strong wind tonight?" ”

Liu Zhenxuan said yes and asked a government soldier next to him to ask.

Soon, the government soldiers brought back the answer, there were frequent ordinary river winds tonight, but there was no strong wind.

Liu Zhenxuan's face was stunned when he heard this, as Guo Ye said, if there was no strong wind, the speed of the river boat would not be so fast, and it would not be possible to sink to the bottom of the river so quickly.

However, he still felt that Guo Ye's words were a little too arbitrary, and shook his head a little resistantly.

Guo Ye said: "There is another big reason why the fire started in the center of the river, that is, it is dark and the night is dark, and it is far from the shore, and it is not easy for the fishermen on the riverside to find the whereabouts of the murderer. ”

As soon as these words came out, Chen Jitao, who had not spoken since getting out of the carriage, suddenly exclaimed: "My lord, are you saying that the murderer who burned the boat and murdered Xue Hao and his wife is ......."

"Wait!"

Guo Ye suddenly raised his hand to stop Chen Jitao's speculation, and said: "It's a bit too early to say who the murderer is. However, Xue Hao and his wife have no enemies in Yangzhou except for someone. It is reasonable to say that he took revenge on Xue Hao and Miss Yuru afterwards. However, it is still very early for us to say this, and only by waiting for the bodies of Xue Hao and his wife to be salvaged can we support some judgments. Of course, it would be more convincing if we could find the witness of someone who saw the scene of the riverboat fire at that time. ”

Chen Jitao sighed, and Shengsheng choked the conversation and stopped talking.

Liu Zhenxuan also nodded in agreement with Guo Ye's statement, and said: "Master Hou is right, our people have already started to salvage the body on Jiang Xin's side, as for the people who saw the scene of the incident, they haven't found one yet." Alas, it was already late at night, and the nearby fishermen were sleeping, and no one drove the boat to the vicinity of the river. ”

At this time, several wet government soldiers suddenly ran in, one of them came to Liu Zhenxuan's side, and shouted: "Lord Duwei, the vicinity of the sunken ship has been salvaged, except for the body of the ship boss who has not been found, the bodies of the others have been found." The three guys on the boat, as well as a man and a woman, were none other than Xue Hao and Miss Yuru. Now the government office is doing an autopsy there. ”

Liu Zhenxuan nodded, looked at Guo Ye and said, "Master Hou, do you want to go over and have a look?" ”

Guo Ye nodded and said, "Of course I want to see, I would like to know whether Xue Hao and his wife drowned in the shipwreck, or if they lost their lives on the ship." Let's go, lead the way ahead, and take me to the place where the mortuary is located. ”

After saying that, he suddenly turned his head to look at Chen Jitao again, and asked inexplicably: "Chen Juncheng, do you know the boss of this ship you hired?" Or, do you know the boss of the ship? ”

Chen Jitao was confused by Guo Ye's question for a while, and asked puzzledly: "Sir, do you mean that there is a problem with the ship boss?" ”

Guo Ye suddenly shook his head again and said, "I can't say for sure, the investigation of the case is supposed to act with an attitude of suspicion." Let's go, let's go and see the bodies of Xue Hao and his wife before making a decision. ”

As he spoke, under the leadership of several government soldiers, the group came to a clearing near the river.

When he came to the place, he just finished checking the corpse, and when he saw Lord Thorn Shi coming, he immediately stepped forward and said, "I have seen Lord Thorn Shi, five corpses, four men and one woman, and none of them survived." As for the specific cause of death, the subordinates still dare not make a conclusion, and they will take the body back to the house and re-examine it. ”

Guo Ye nodded, and then asked, "Zuo, this official asked you, did you find that these corpses had surface wounds after a round of inspection just now?" Or is it not drowning at all? ”

"Huh?"

He exclaimed, looked at Guo Ye as if he was a ghost, and shouted incredulously, "Lord Thorn Shi, how do you know?" ”

Guo Ye secretly said in his heart, as I expected, it was weird everywhere.

Immediately, he prevaricated: "How can these guys on the boat run the boat all day long, how can they easily drown?" It is possible to sink the ship, but you say that they were drowned in a short time, and I will not believe you if you say that the sky is broken. Tell me about what you found in the first round. ”

He wiped his hands with a quick-drying cloth, pointed to the bodies of the three guys, and said, "My lord, these three people did not drown, they all died with knives in the back, piercing the heart and lungs with a knife. Apparently all of them were killed in one hit. As for this man and woman......"

He gestured to Xue Hao and Yuru and said, "This woman should have drowned alive, but this man was not, this man was stabbed in the lower abdomen, and he was also stabbed in the left ribs, but this is not a fatal wound." His fatal wound was in the position of the laryngeal bone, which had been cut by force. Judging from the several fist bruises on his body, he also fought with people before his death. Moreover, the subordinates also found this thing. Adults, please look at ......"

As he spoke, he took out something from the cloth bag around his waist and respectfully handed it to Guo Ye.

Guo Ye took the thing and didn't look at it carefully, Chen Jitao next to him shouted loudly: "This, this thing has been seen by the officials, yes, yes, it's the boss of the ship!" ”

PS: There is indeed something wrong with the body, suspected hypothyroidism, and it is only one step away from hyperthyroidism. But tomorrow's plus will try to remain the same. I know, without more, it is difficult to ask for a monthly pass and reward on the 1st of tomorrow, and I appeal to you here, I take my life in the code word, this is my sincerity to readers!