Shi is really dead.

Chen Wangmo stayed with Huang Gonggong, Qin Lin, and Huo Chonglou for lunch, and just after eating five or six minutes full, Qin Lin was still thinking about how to find Shi Jiang's flaws later, and a Chinese officer came to report in a panic:

"Uncle, it's not good, Shi has committed suicide with injustice!"

What the! Chen Wangmo stood up suddenly, his eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it: It's been a few days since the crime, and Shi has always been living well, why did he suddenly commit suicide?

Qin Lin's heart also sank suddenly, the reason why he secretly visited was to prevent the White Lotus Sect from killing the insider, because Chen Wangmo's Caoyun Governor Xingyuan could not make a secret visit, and he thought that the army was tightly guarded, and it was unlikely that something would happen, so he showed his identity.

But I didn't expect that just after the arraignment in the morning, Mr. Shi committed suicide at noon.

Even if Chen Wangmo thought that he was acting as a substitute, he couldn't take care of it, Qin Lin hurriedly asked: "The few personal soldiers under General Shi were also in the cabin that night, and they are important insiders, have you ever been a good guard?" ”

The Chinese officer looked at Qin Lin with great sadness and indignation, and his voice was obviously hostile: "General Qin, go and see, no matter how you wait for the punishment in the future, they will not cry out for wrongdoing!" ”

"Don't be rude!" Chen Wangmo reprimanded the Chinese officer, but he didn't look very good at Qin Lin's face anymore, he walked in front with his sleeves flicked up, and hurried to the prison cell with a meteor.

In the cell, the strong smell of blood made people vomit, the walls and the ground were full of splattered blood, and Shi Jiangzong and his four personal soldiers were already dead on the spot.

Qin Lin squatted down to inspect and found that everyone had an open wound on their neck, coupled with a large splattery of blood on the ground and walls, and the tragic scene of carotid artery blood spraying like a fountain under the pressure of the heart pump at the time of death was already vivid.

Everyone held a small hand-relief knife in their hands, which was originally used to repair sails and prepare cables, but became a murder weapon for suicide.

From the perspective of blood splash marks, knife edge direction, and transportation capacity, Qin Lin did not hesitate to determine that these five people all died by suicide, and there was no possibility that outsiders would commit murder.

Five corpses, five cuts that are almost as deep as the throat bone, there is no knife on the body of the person who committed suicide with a knife, the common "trial cutting wound" formed because of the tentative surname cutting, it is completely conceivable that the decision of these people when they died, suddenly made Qin Lin recall that when he was in Qizhou, those White Lotus Sect dead soldiers were ruthless and decisive, whether it was to others or to themselves, they were very good.

Shi Jiang's face, which had always become stiff because of death, pulled a strange arc at the corner of his mouth, which reminded Qin Lin of his incomprehensible smile during the arraignment, not knowing whether it was relief or mockery.

In short, he did put obstacles in the way of Qin Lin's detection work, but the price he paid was extremely high: his own lives and the lives of four cronies.

"Hey, what is this?" The middle-aged scribe beside Chen Wangmo, who knew his surname Bai just now, was Chen Wangmo's guest, pointed to the little silk horn that appeared in Shi Wangmo's arms.

The middle officer wanted to pull it, but Qin Lin stopped him and instructed Lu Fatzi to take the suede gloves and put them on, and then took them out of Shi Zong's arms.

This is a silk hand towel, and the sixteen bloody words on it are shocking: "Cool officials are forced to fight each other, grievances are difficult to snow, there is no way out, only death is clear."

Death is the greatest, since Shi General always complains about his grievances with death, Chen Wangmo and others can't help but believe a little, and those middle officers and flag officers all glared angrily at Qin Lin, feeling that it was his intention to arbitrarily interrogate and torture him in the public court to force this Shi General to death.

These White Lotus disciples are really insidious, and they have to splash sewage on people when they are dying, Qin Lin is not angry but laughs, and secretly determined to solve the whole case, so that you can see Lao Tzu's methods.

He arched his hand towards Chen Wangmo: "Uncle, please call the other three generals, the lower officials have something to ask them." ”

Master Bai took a step forward, "I have already forced Mr. Shi to death, do you still have to force He, Lu, and Zhang to die?" ”

All the flags and captains are Cao Jun, seeing that Shi Jiang and the four personal soldiers died tragically, they all have the heart of sadness for the death of rabbits and foxes, and although they are afraid of military law, they can't help but whisper sarcastic, saying that Qin Lin has no public heart in handling the case, and blindly intimidates and extorts confessions.

Chen Wangmohu was skeptical.

Master Bai said again: "Dong Weng Mingjian, these Cao Jun brothers under his command are all the imperial court's economic army, and they are loyal to the emperor, how can they do such a rebellious thing?" However, the Cao Gang is mixed with the three sects and nine streams, and maybe they have already been laid a secret stake by the White Lotus Sect. In the humble opinion of the students, Dong Weng wants to recover Caoyin, and he has to fall on the head of the Cao Gang. ”

For him, the chief military officer of Caoyun, the top priority is not to punish the criminals, but to recover the stolen 500,000 taels of silver.

It's nothing if the criminals are not caught, the White Lotus Sect has been making trouble since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, when has it been arrested by the government? But if Caoyin can't be found, the treasury of the capital division is empty, and the soldiers of the nine sides are scarce, the imperial court will inevitably be furious.

Even if it was really the silver that Shi always stole from, now that he is dead, it is in vain that the silver cannot be recovered; Only by planting it on the side of the Cao Gang and forcing it to make up for the silver can it make up for such a huge deficit.

Chen Wang Molian claimed that he was, and while continuing to torture Cao Gong, he asked people to call the head of the Cao Gang, Jia Tian Qiye, and he was a little ignorant of Qin Lin.

Qin Lin gestured with his eyes, and Gonggong Huang, who had been silent, finally spoke: "The lieutenant is the deputy envoy of the Qin Mission, so he can always interrogate the military attache involved in the case, right?" Uncle Chen, you can't even trust the lieutenant? ”

Although Huang Gonggong's grade is low, it is rumored in the palace that he has recently gotten very close to the celebrant and the eunuch Zhang Cheng, and Chen Wangmo and other nobles have small ears to spread the news, so he hesitated for a while, but finally agreed.

He, Lu, and Zhang already knew that Shi was "forced to commit suicide", so when they came in, they kowtowed indiscriminately, and they were wronged.

"This official only asks two things, and according to the truth, you will be innocent," Qin Lin said first, and waited for the three of them to calm down a little before asking: "First, who is guarding the secret cabin in the Zhenjiang Mansion Treasury Silver Shipment?" Second, before the departure from Zhenjiang Mansion to the time when Shi took over, who checked the cash box and what was the situation? ”

The three of them looked at each other, and the head of He handed over his hand: "Back to the general's words, let's take turns on duty, and when we go to Zhenjiang Mansion to load the treasury silver, it is this Shi general who is guarding in the secret cabin." After that, Lu, Zhang and Xia Guan have taken over, and it was the turn of Shi to have an accident in Sanwan, and we counted the number of boxes every time we handed over, and then chose a box to see the treasury silver inside, and then resealed. ”

Hearing this, the fat man immediately shouted: "There is a ghost over there in Zhenjiang...... yes, no, after Zhenjiang set off, the three generals all checked the silver, fuck, what the hell is going on? ”

Qin Lin frowned, and suddenly asked, "How did you check it?" ”

He always smiled: "A lot of big silver, you can know it at a glance, open the lid of the box and take a look, do you still have to bite one ingot at a time?" ”

At this time, biting teeth is a simple way to identify the authenticity of silver, of course he is joking when he says this, 10,000 ingots of silver, when will it be bitten?

All the Cao military captains laughed, feeling that Qin Lin was really ignorant.

Who knew that Qin Lin suddenly stood up, "Fat Lu, Han Feilian, Niu Dali, let's go!" On the Zhenjiang side, if it is not bad as expected......"

(To be continued)