Chapter 20: In Search of the Thief
"Didn't you suspect that there was something wrong with the rice wine before you drank it? Did someone advise you not to drink it? ”
"Nope. No one ever persuaded us. But I just suspected. Is rice wine really poisonous? The guy who replied looked suspicious, "But I saw with my own eyes that the two wine sellers also drank it." If it was poisonous, would the two of them drink poisoned wine themselves? ”
Good fellow, it's terrible if this man is uneducated! Chao Gai outwitted the Birth Gang, such a famous joke this guy has never heard of! Hu Fei was shocked by the paralysis of the gang. Well, one last question, "Have you seen those two?" ”
"I haven't seen it!" Dude said yes.
Then Hu Fei asked three more people, and one of them said that he was suspicious at the time, but he couldn't stand everyone else drinking, so he also drank. That Uncle Li Hu Fei also saw it, and this person's body is not as good as those young guys. After the young man woke up, he could speak, but Uncle Li was still lying there, except for the occasional movement of his eyes, which was basically like a dead man.
The two rice wine sellers spoke the local dialect, so it was certain that they lived nearby. This was the last piece of useful information Hu Fei got, and when he asked later, the gang began to try to shirk their responsibilities.
Of course, the issue of accountability has nothing to do with Hu Fei, and that is what the shopkeeper of the Sitong Commercial Bank has to worry about. Hu Fei's most important task at present is to get the ten carts of Western medicine back and transport them to Zhengzhou safely.
Seeing that he couldn't ask anything more useful, Hu Fei announced that the inquiry was over, and the next step was to investigate the scene. There is no need to look at the scene in the courtyard, in order to treat these poor people who have been poisoned, the entire backyard of the White Horse Temple has been made a mess, and even a little useful trace can not be found.
Gou Tianxiao, the head outside the temple, also checked it, but also found nothing. Hu Fei stood at the gate of the temple and carefully observed the surrounding ground, and sure enough, it was flat and tidy, without a trace of abnormality. But the more there is no situation, the more suspicious it is, it is ten big cars, not ten kittens can carry it.
Ten carts pulled by cattle were loaded with medicinal herbs, and they disappeared when they said they were missing, and they didn't even leave a rut mark? Is this possible? Not to mention that there are ordinary dirt roads around here, even if it is an iron road, you have to leave some car reel marks when you pass ten large cars.
I can't see any traces like this, I can only say that the traces have been cleaned up by professionals, it's as simple as that. Hu Fei has done this work in the past. Gou Tianxiao should also know, but he doesn't understand why he didn't see it. Hu Fei said his conjecture to Gou Tianxiao and Ji Jinbiao, and these two suddenly realized, isn't it! Why didn't they remember it just now?
With ideas, things are easy to do. Gou Tianxiao and the others took thirty cavalry to find around the temple, looking for the flat ground that could pass the cart and directly find it out for five miles, and if they didn't find it, they turned around and looked for it again from the other direction. It's a bit stupid, but it's a good antidope.
Sure enough, two hours later, a cavalry found a clue. When Hu Fei heard the news, he took the guards to watch, and saw rut marks in the northeast of the White Horse Temple, that is, at a distance of two miles. I checked the number, and after analyzing it, it was really ten big cars!
Gather your troops and pursue! Now that clues have been found, there is no doubt that they will be pursued according to the clues. Ji Jinbiao and Gou Tianxiao, who thought that they hadn't done a good job, ran the fastest with the thirty cavalry, and almost rushed to the bottom of a hill, and there was a big stone on the hill, which looked a bit like an abstract bull's head, which was Niutouling.
Go up the mountain, don't care if he's a bandit's den or not, find the ten carts of Western medicine first! Ji Jinbiao shouted, and ran up the mountain road with the cavalry.
There is a dilapidated mountain temple on the halfway of Niutou Mountain, and many of the ten carts are placed at the gate of the temple, but none of the animals pulling the carts are gone. There is no shadow of Western medicine on the car, and the empty carriage board can be seen at a glance. Ji Jinbiao jumped off his horse, picked up his gun and rushed into the mountain temple. As a result, when I looked inside, there was no one in the empty temple, and the temple was already empty!
It's a step too late again! Ji Jin smashed his fist on the temple door angrily, and the wooden door that had fallen into disrepair creaked twice, and he suddenly separated from the door frame that had been guarded together for decades. The desolation of the scene is truly unbearable to witness.
When Hu Fei arrived, what he saw was this dilapidated mountain temple, and the soldiers brought out some tables, chairs, and benches from the temple, piled up haphazardly, and were preparing to light a fire. These things are ironclad proof that there are bandits on Niutou Mountain! If no one lives here often, would these tables, chairs and benches be so shiny to sit on?
"Don't burn it yet!" Hu Fei raised his hand to stop the ignition, "The weather is dry and dry, and it is easy to cause a fire if you set it on fire." The brothers moved the furniture back to its original location so that they would have a place to rest when people passed by. ”
Move in again? Let's move, the official has spoken, can the soldier still oppose it? As a result, the tables, chairs and benches that had just been moved out were moved back to the temple.
"Why move in? It doesn't seem like anyone will pass by here, right? I don't know when Zhang Yayi and Feng Yi have surrounded Hu Fei left and right, Zhang Nuxia tilted her head and watched curiously as the soldiers moved furniture to the temple.
"Cut, don't even understand this? There are tables, chairs and benches here, and the thieves may come back. If you burn the furniture, they will not come when they see it from afar. Put the furniture back in its original position, let's wait next to it, and when the thief comes back, we can just catch it alive! ”
I have to say that Feng Yi's brain is really good. Hu Fei just saw that the soldier was going to burn his house, and he faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart, so he stopped it, but in fact, he didn't have any specific ideas. Now listening to Feng Yi's words, a set of systematic methods for solving the case was immediately formed in his heart.
"What if the thief doesn't come back? Didn't we just wait in vain? Although her wit and eloquence are not as good as Feng Yi's, Zhang Yayi seems to be very happy to fight with Feng Yi. As long as Feng Yi said it, she would inevitably oppose it, and as long as it was Feng Yi's idea, she would inevitably pick on it.
"Wait? White waits are better than no idea. If you don't want to wait in vain, then you can tell me a way to catch the thief without waiting? Feng Yi rolled her eyes, and the two women began to stare at each other.
Hu Fei didn't care about the fight between these two women, and when things took a turn for the better, he had to act quickly!
"Jin Sheng, you take fifty people to ambush over there; Blind man, thou hast led fifty thy brothers and hid thyself; Leopard, you pick ten brothers to go into the temple and ambush them! Tianxiao, you should take the brothers of the reconnaissance battalion down the mountain now, and inquire about the whereabouts of this batch of goods within a radius of ten miles! Ten carts of Western medicine, it's not half a catty of tobacco, you can hide it if you want to! Find it for me! I don't believe that those thieves can still give me ten carts of Western medicine! ”