As soon as Qin Linfu resigned, there was no one to replace the officials of the yamen in Nanjing, coupled with the actions of Xu Bangrui, the Duke of Wei, all the officials finally understood that this inconspicuous Jinyi Wei Qianhu was really an indispensable core figure in the investigation of serial murders.

Liu Yiru and Geng Xiang knew that they were powerless, so they threw down their sleeves and left on their own with the officials of the Imperial History of the City and the Criminal Department.

Geng Xiang looked worried, and the same party Wang Bengu was beaten by Qin Lin but did not dare to complain, which made him very worried.

"Brother Geng doesn't have to be frustrated, how can Liu Mouliang Qin Lin'er dare to fight against the ministers of the court? It's just a clever trick to solve the case, so that all colleagues can't do without him! Liu Yiru comforted his old friend, paused, and said coldly: "Liu Mou expected that this case was committed by the demon bandits of the White Lotus Sect, and the six gate servants of the Criminal Department and the Imperial History of the Guiyamen all followed this road to investigate, hum, when the time comes, we will solve the case first, and make Wang Shizhen and Qin Lin look good!" ”

Right! Geng Xiang gritted his teeth, "At that time, not only will I have to participate in Wang Shizhen and Qin Lin's dereliction of duty, but also sue him for appeasement and annihilation, and leniency for the White Lotus Sect demon bandits - it is said that he handled the case of the White Lotus Sect's rebellion in Yangzhou, and there are not many demon bandits who have been caught and killed in the Cao Gang's 100,000 gangs, who knows if there are any thieves here who shout to catch thieves?" ”

The imperial history has the power to hear about things, if Qin Lin can't catch the murderer as soon as possible this time, Geng Xiangxiang and Liu Yiru will crush him to death with snowflakes.

Glancing at each other, the two old guys laughed.

After Liu Yiru and Geng Xiang left, the eunuchs guarding the town, Dali Siqing and other officials also said goodbye one after another, they just came to do their duty of condolences to Du Shilang, and they had no idea about the case itself.

Xu Bangrui also blew his beard at his daughter who was snickering: "What, don't you go back home with your father?" Crazy girl, the third watch is still running outside in the middle of the night, and I will come to see who will marry you and enter the door! ”

When he said this, this Wei Guogong's face seemed to be smiling, and he glanced at Qin Lin intentionally or unintentionally, but it was a pity that Qin Lin was frowning and thinking about the case, and asked Xu Bangrui to show the blind man.

Xu Xinyi pouted, shook his father's arm lightly, and said with some anger: "Alas, daddy is so annoying, so anxious to drive his daughter out?" My daughter doesn't marry anyone, and she will accompany your old man for the rest of her life, okay? ”

This silly girl! Xu Bangrui shook his head with a smile, wanting to take his daughter back.

But Xu Xinyi had to stay to assist in the case, saying that he wanted to capture the real culprit and avenge the tragic death of Miss Yin and Miss Du.

Naturally, other Confucian civil officials would never allow the third watch, who had not left the cabinet, to be "messing around" outside in the middle of the night, but Xu Bangrui didn't take off his youthful surname no matter how old he was, but just smiled and ordered the newly promoted deputy Qianhu [***] sharpshooter Ma Siping to stay to protect Miss, and let Zhou Jinzhong, Wu Guangxiao, Zheng Siren, and Wang Shouyi lead the elite soldiers of the Beijing Guard to assist Ying Tianfu and Jinyiwei in handling the case.

The five military attaches immediately knelt down on one knee and led in unison, Xu Bang Rui's face was tigerish, his hand was in his sleeve and pointed at Xu Xinyi, after thinking about it, he pointed at Qin Lin again, and all the military attaches understood it in their hearts - the so-called assistance in handling the case is actually to protect the eldest lady and Qin Lin, well, or Aunt Qin?

smiling at his daughter, until Xu Xinyi's honey-colored face turned red with shame, Xu Bangrui left with a hippie smile, looking at him like that, where is he like the grandfather of the country who served as the garrison of Nanjing, was in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, and commanded the army of more than 100,000 troops in the 49th Guard, 118th Institute?

The four commanders first arched their hands towards Xu Xinyi, and then bowed deeply to Qin Lin: "Grandpa Guo has an order, and the soldiers and horses under the command of Chief Qin are all obeyed!" ”

Yes, the four commanders of the three-rank martial arts Jingwei called the deputy Qianhu from the five-rank Jinyi Guard, and in and around Nanjing in recent decades, Qin Lin is also a scorpion-the only one.

Wang Shizhen and Bai Hao also said: "Tianfu should be arrested and sent quickly, but the order of Chief Qin is obeyed." ”

Gonggong Huang and Huo Chonglou glanced at each other, and smiled with a lovely smile: "Our family has only listened to Chief Qin since the case of King Jingfu, Chief Qin is a young hero praised by the Empress Dowager Cisheng and Gonggong Feng and his old man, what else can our family not believe?" ”

"Huang Gonggong said so, does Lei dare to put on a shelf? General Qin was originally a good man of our Jinyi Guard! Lei Gongteng had already come out with a hard head just now, ready to admit to Liu Yiru and Geng Xiang that he was guilty of dereliction of duty, but Qin Lin took it over for him, and he was really grateful.

Among the officials present were the eunuchs from the palace, the secretary of Dongchang, Ying Tianfu Yin, the commander of Jingwei and Nanjing Jinyiwei, almost all of them had higher official positions and greater power than Qin Lin, but now they were surrounded like stars holding the moon, just waiting for him to give orders.

If it is peaceful, Qin Lin must be humble, so as not to be too sharp, but now that the serious case is in front, it is time to give up on me, he first smiled and waved at the officials, and when he raised his head, his expression became extremely serious, and his voice was calm and powerful:

"Gonggong Huang and Brother Huo, you two were sent by Jingshi, and you are not familiar with Nanjing, so it is better to sit in charge of Qincha, so as not to let Liu Shilang drill the tip of the horn in a hurry and waste his strength in vain."

The two of them smiled when they heard this, but in fact, Qin Lin asked them to keep an eye on Liu Yiru, so as not to make harm behind the old guy's back.

"Mr. Bai, please immediately lead the Tianfu Hunt to investigate which carriage among the people who participated in the Yanziji Poetry Club during the time of the crime, and whether there are any witnesses who have found that they have been around here!"

Qin Lin paused, his eyes were clear, and his thinking was extremely organized: "In the murder case of Miss Yin and Miss Du, the scene of the two crimes was not the first scene, and the murderer would never have committed atrocities in the courtyard where the victim lived, so in order to transfer the body and cover people's eyes, it was necessary to have tools such as carriages, and this official expected that this would open up the situation." ”

Bai Hao was full of admiration, Qin Lin's inference coincided with his thoughts, and resisting Liu Yiru's pressure and carrying out the investigation work in full swing was really for the sake of solving the case.

"Chief Lei," Qin Lin arched his hand towards Lei Gongteng, after all, he was the top boss, he put his attitude as low as possible: "You are seriously ill, you shouldn't be too tired, but now that the case is serious, you have to persist despite your illness, please lead the brothers of the thousands of households to carry out a high-intensity investigation, and go to the Qinglou Courtyard to interrogate the sons of the various families who have participated in the Yanziji Poetry Society, who has a special hobby in that area - only ask the participants of the Yanziji Poetry Society, and no one else cares." ”

Lei Gongteng shook his head again and again, Qin Lin deduced that the general scope of the perpetrator was extremely helpful to solve the case, compared to the first large-scale investigation, this time the scope was narrowed down to the participants of the Yanziji Poetry Society, and the details of the investigation would inevitably increase.

"By the way, it is entirely possible that the perpetrator has a female surname, and this line cannot be let go," Qin Lin's eyes swept through the crowd, and finally fell on Xu Xinyi: "Please Miss Xu, among these young ladies and wealthy ladies in Nanjing, have they been neglected or widowed by their husbands, have suffered major blows such as divorce, and their surnames are particularly paranoid and narrow-minded and jealous, list their names and basic information to me, and find a way to investigate their whereabouts tonight!" ”

Xu Xinyi happily accepted and avenged Miss Yin and Miss Du, which was within her duty with a strong sense of justice.

"Zhou, Wu, Zheng, and Wang, please lead your elite troops to block the gates of Nanjing," Qin Lin stretched out his hand and said sharply: "Be sure to make the criminal a turtle in the urn, trapped in the city of Nanjing, and when we have the results of internal investigation and external investigation, he can only be arrested!" ”

Qin Lin issued orders one after another, and all the officials were ordered to act, and the investigation of the case continued in an orderly manner.

In fact, in the early stage of the investigation of most cases, the suspect cannot be determined, such as the detection of the novel in the stupid stay at the scene in vain to try to get away with the criminals in reality are not many, the detective must determine the scope of suspicion through a thorough, large-scale internal investigation and external investigation, and then screen out the key suspects for further investigation, and finally find out the real culprit from a number of suspects.

Qin Lin's current approach seems to have not been able to find out the real murderer on the surface, but the scope of suspicion is shrinking step by step, he has laid a net for the vicious criminal hidden in the shadows, and with the efforts of thousands of fast arresters, government officials, and Jinyi captains, the net is gradually being closed, leaving less and less space for criminals...... The various yamen responsible for the case in Nanjing City operated with unprecedented efficiency, and the captains of the Catcher and Jinyi stayed up all night, investigating the case through a sieve and collecting relevant clues.

Qin Lin and Xu Xinyi also didn't sleep all night, returned to the study of Qin Lin's house, and lay on the huge desk together, Xu Xinyi marked the household red dots of those key suspects with strange surnames on the map of Nanjing, and Qin Lin drew various possible driving routes between the red dots and the scene of the three crimes, pointing out the direction for finding witnesses.

As soon as he had a new idea, Qin Lin ordered Han Feilian to lead all the brothers out to investigate.

Before you know it, the east has revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly.

"Ah~~" Xu Xinyi yawned loudly.

As if yawning can also be contagious, Qin Lin also yawned, and the two laughed at the same time.

Although the case has not yet been revealed, the intensive investigation work is advancing, the net is being tightened step by step, and the dawn of victory is coming.

Some strange thought has been haunting Qin Lin's mind since the day of the crash, lingering, but if you think about it carefully, the inspired elf ran away with a smile, unable to see or touch...... After a hasty breakfast, Qin Lin took Xu Xinyi, Lu Yuanzhi and others to Yingtianfu, among the participants of the Yanziji Poetry Club, some of the gentlemen and daughters were more estranged from Xu Xinyi, Qin Lin thought of a few new clues, and felt that it was more appropriate to ask Wang Shiqi carefully.

Wang Shizhen, Wang Shiqi and his son met them in the study, and the people on both sides looked at each other and laughed: Qin Lin and Xu Xinyi had dark circles under their eyes, and the Wang father and son also had swollen eyes, and they all stayed awake all night!

The two sides exchanged views on the case, and Qin Lin's head was a little groggy after not sleeping all night, but his inspiration seemed to be particularly strong, and he was in some indescribable wonderful state.

He casually glanced at the study, and suddenly his eyes stopped on the book thrown in the corner and turned a few pages, his eyes narrowed suddenly, and his voice, which had always remained calm, was unprecedentedly a little fluttering: "This, what is this?" ”

Wang Shizhen's old face turned red, and he picked up the manuscript, and the cover was inscribed with the words "Golden Bottle", and he said embarrassedly: "It is a very boring game of this official, it is really unsightly, and it makes Chief Qin laugh." ”

(To be continued)