Early the next morning, Zhang Zixuan went to find the two brothers, and Qin Lin took Lu Yuanzhi and others to the deputy envoy of the Qin Mission, and met with Huang Gonggong and Huo Chonglou.

Knowing that Qin Lin had a clue, the two were overjoyed and immediately accompanied him to the camp where Chen Wangmo, the chief military officer of Caoyun, was stationed outside the city.

The military camp was set up in a very large village, and the original owner was a Cao businessman, because the two Cao Yun ministers were in Huai'an to open a mansion, and this time they came to Yangzhou to handle the case and borrowed his village to live temporarily.

The prestige of the chief military officer of Caoyun is not small, in addition to the original building of the Zhuangyuan, there are also layers of camp tents, it seems that there are at least more than 1,000 soldiers who are stationed in the tun, there are banners and drums in front of the gate, and the flag officer and the captain officer are set up in the middle, and the chief military officer is erected in the middle of one zhang and two feet high.

Gonggong Huang had been here twice, and the officials knew that the commander was very polite to him, so when he saw him coming, a Chinese officer flew in to spread the word.

After a while, three cannons rang out from Yuanmen, and Pingjiang Bo Chen Wangmo personally greeted him. He was a middle-aged man with a slightly dark complexion, wearing a large scarlet flower robe, a green jade belt tied around his waist, and a stretched hemp on his head, walking in all directions, and his one-foot-two-inch hat trembled with his footsteps.

"Father-in-law Huang is early? What's the progress of your investigation? Chen Wangmo shouted from afar.

For this uncle who is in charge of military power, Huang Gonggong didn't dare to take it big, he lowered his waist slightly, and said with a smile: "Although the lieutenant has not made progress, he has invited a genius for the uncle who is called Yang Breaking and Yin at night. ”

Oh? Chen Wangmo frowned, looked at Qin Lin in a flying fish suit, and suddenly smiled happily: "Could it be that this little brother is General Qin who is like a god in the case of Lao Liu Tang?" ”

Qin Lin is a general of martial arts, so Chen Wangmo is commensurate with a general, and the old Liu in his mouth is Liu Shouyou, the guard in the brocade clothes.

Qin Lin smiled slightly, and said, "Uncle praises." The lower officials can't talk about judging cases like gods, but they are a little quick, just to expose the crimes of the jackals, so that the ghosts and spirits have nothing to hide. ”

Lu Yuanzhi and the others were used to seeing Qin Lin dealing with King Jing, Shizi, Little Grandpa, and Little Marquis, but they didn't care, but Huang Gonggong and Huo Chonglou were taken aback, and secretly said Who is Chen Wangmo? The earl is a superb, Qin Lin is afraid that he is too full of words, in case he is unhappy...... Those lieutenant officers, flag officers, and lieutenant officers were staring at each other: if they dared to talk to their uncle like this, if they hadn't come with Huang Gonggong, the deputy envoy of the lieutenant officer, they would have shouted and cheered a long time ago; Uncle has been angry a lot these days, just waiting for him to give an order, he will beat this brocade-clothed official out of the door.

Chen Wangmo was indeed slightly stunned, feeling that although Qin Lin's attitude was humble, his tone was very confident. Since the case happened, no one has ever dared to say so surely, at first, seeing that Qin Lin was still young, he still seemed to believe it or not, but now he is more sure that he has some ability, otherwise he would not dare to be so confident!

"Good! Sure enough, he is the first young hero in the Jinyi pro-army! Chen Wangmo gave his thumb up: "Today, the official will abdicate and make way for Xian, please ask General Qin to preside over the trial!" After ascertaining the facts of the case, the official will definitely go to the book and ask for credit for General Qin. ”

Qin Lin deliberately stabbed Chen Wangmo with big words, that is, to bluff him to obtain the right to preside over the trial, or to provoke him to be angry, and then proposed to gamble on the case, both of which had the same result.

So Qin Lin proposed to go to the Cao boat where the crime occurred.

It was a first-class ship, with a secret compartment in the middle of the hull, and it was dimly lit.

Qin Lin checked carefully and found that there were only two small windows open on the bulkhead, and sure enough, there were dust and cobwebs on them, and the iron bars were tightened, and there were no traces of movement.

Look at the lagoon hole where sewage is discharged, and at the bilge position, there is a pipe made of large bamboo, and an iron hoop is attached to the cabin.

The two ends of the secret cabin world, the front and back, the left and right walls, are all made of solid wood, Qin Lin asked Lu Yuanzhi and Niu to shine a big butter candle to illuminate it, and he carefully inspected the wooden seams on his stomach, and there was no trace of prying.

Chen Wangmo was quite impressed when he saw this, the officials under him, as well as the people of Yangzhou Jinyiwei, had come in to inspect more than once, but there had never been an official as serious and careful as Qin Lin, just like a big girl embroidering.

Seeing Qin Lin withdraw his hand and look at the cave thoughtfully, Chen Wangmo told him that the iron hoop and the iron bar at the window of the cave were all cast by the whole iron plate, and there was only a little iron hoop and iron bar from the outside, but in fact, the entire iron plate was buried in the bulkhead, which was specially built to escort the silver, which was impregnable.

"So, the only way the silver ingots can get out of the cabin is the gate?" Qin Lin asked.

Chen Wangmo nodded without hesitation.

"So, the cao worker who can't enter the inner cabin at all should be innocent, right?" Qin Lin persuaded Chen Wangmo to release the innocent laborers.

But this time, Ping Jiangbo was not very happy, and he was hesitant, meaning that he would wait until the case was solved.

Qin Lin smiled and didn't say anything, in his opinion, it was not difficult to solve this case, and the workers couldn't wait too long.

Immediately return to the camp to interrogate the four generals.

The two younger generals are always directly affiliated to Jiangnan, one surnamed He and the other surnamed Lu, both of whom are commanders; The two generals in Jiangnan, the surname Shi is a thousand households, and the surname Zhang is also a commander.

As soon as it was mentioned in the lobby, the four generals knelt down and shouted grievances: "Ask the uncle to be clear, the small one is very wronged, and it is really a disaster......

Chen Wangmo, who was sitting behind the public seat, pointed at Qin Lin: "Today is the presiding judge of this General Qin, it is better to be lenient than to say that this official is lenient, so if you are interested, you can do it honestly!" ”

Only then did the four of them notice that a position was set up diagonally next to the public seat, and a deputy Qianhu of the brocade guard wearing a flying fish suit sat high, looking at him too young to speak, but his eyes were really sharp, and his gaze was as sharp as a knife, and it hurt faintly when he stabbed on people.

Knowing that there are most cool officials in the brocade guards, this person is young and can do a deputy thousand households, I am afraid that he must be a leader, and the four generals are always scared, crying and biting each other.

"General Qin Mingjian! The two of us are the general managers of Jiangnan, and Zhang has already ordered the box the morning before, and the silver is intact, and our affairs are handed over, how can you bite the two of us? "Jiangnan's He and Lu shouted injustice.

Mr. Zhang also jumped to his feet and shouted injustice: "God is pitiful, the criminal officer locked the door and went back to sleep, the key was tied to the waistband of his trousers, and Shi someone was still sleeping in the secret cabin, how could it be a case made by the criminal officer?" ”

Na Shi was still unconvinced: "The door is closed, and the size of the silver cannot go out of the window, of course which of you quietly opened the door to steal the silver." ”

Hearing this, Qin Lin smiled slightly, as if he had made up his mind.

Lu Fatzi, who was standing next to him, had his eyes lit up and asked in a low voice, "Brother Qin, do you know how they stole the silver?" ”

"I don't know," Qin Lin's expression was unwavering.

Lu Fatzi was choked up, "Hey, I thought it was ......"

"But do you really have to understand the modus operandi in order to lock down the criminals?" Qin Lin laughed.

In fact, most of the so-called "closed room murder cases" that are said to be reasoning are meaningless and virtual, and they rarely occur in reality.

Because the real solution to the case is confirmed by whether there is a motive, the time of the crime, and the evidence at the scene, it is meaningless for the criminal to set up a secret room to hide the means of committing the crime. Delineate the circle of suspects according to the motive and time of the crime, as long as the evidence such as footprints, fingerprints, and hair is extracted at the scene, or subtle blood splatters are found on the criminal's shoes and clothes, if it is a poison murder case to find the way for the criminal to obtain poison, this is enough to conclusively determine the case, what do I care about your bullshit room?

Detection is not an intellectual game played by the investigators and criminals, no matter how elaborate the secret room, even Sherlock Holmes is helpless, and as a result, the investigators found the victim's blood stains in the seams of the criminal's coats, and everything in front of them is meaningless.

In reality, such as murder without motive and crime on the go, the difficulty of solving the crime is far greater than that of seemingly ingenious secret room killing, because you can't lock the scope of the suspect, and it is not easy to find a needle in a haystack in the vast sea of people.

And now that Qin Lin has a general scope for this case, no matter what kind of fog the criminal sets up, it is the most feasible way for the black tiger to dig out the heart and find out the criminal directly.

"Fatty, which of them do you think has the most suspicious confession?" Qin Lin asked with a smile.

Lu Yuanzhi touched his head and thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "Mr. Shi!" ”

Qin Lin nodded, others said that they had not committed the crime for various reasons, but he used the technical surname question of 'silver cannot get out of the cabin' to induce the questioning officer to go astray.

For example, in a murder case, I knew through the bloodstained evidence that the criminal had killed someone, so why did I have to know what knife the criminal used, how many slashes he made, and whether he swung it from the left or from the right? These are the confessions of the criminal during the interrogation!

Back to this case, the silver disappeared that night, no matter how it disappeared, because others couldn't get in - even if Zhang took the key to open the door, he couldn't help but wake up the people inside, so Shi Jian in the cabin was always the only person who could commit the crime!

Qin Lin made a secret visit and ruled out all possible surnames, leaving the only possible surname on Mr. Shi.

"Come on, the surname Shi's words are not true, give me a big punishment to wait!" Qin Lin threw the fire pick down.

Mr. Shi was taken aback and howled and cried out.

Chen Wangmo also hesitated, in his opinion, Qin Lin was too cool, how could he be directly executed without even asking about the case? Could it be that this person is just a cruel cool official?

A scribe in a square scarf and Confucian clothes walked out of the back hall and whispered a few words in Chen Wangmo's ear, and this Pingjiang Bo smiled and said to Qin Lin: "General Qin, now that the case is unknown, I am afraid that if you rashly move the punishment, I am afraid that it will be a trick!" ”

Qin Lin smiled and told Chen Wangmo his analysis, since it was indeed a lot lighter that night in Sanwan, and all the silver boxes were empty, and it was impossible for others to empty 500,000 taels of silver without alarming Shi Zong, then he must have something to do with this crime.

As for what fish jumped over the dragon gate, and how the money was taken away, just ask, why should I think clearly for him in advance about the content of the criminal's confession?

Unexpectedly, Chen Wangmo whispered a few words to the middle-aged scribe, shook his head again and again, and said: "Although you can't believe in the things of the gods and monsters, you can't disbelieve it, Shi Jiang always has great ability, and you can't turn the silver from the cabin, and the heavy punishment is heavy and beaten into a trick, but it ......."

Qin Lin frowned when he heard this, and he laughed and laughed, he was pretending to be a ghost in Qizhou, but he didn't know that he had encountered a god and a monster in Yangzhou.

Later generations do not believe in this, the disappearance of the silver can only fall on Shi Zong, but this generation still has the theory of gods and monsters, it can be a strange thing to take away the silver, before finding out the means of committing the crime, you can't blindly torture Shi Zong!

It seems that he still has to figure out what method he uses, Qin Lin looked at Mr. Shi with a sly smile on the corner of his mouth, and tapped his fingers: You are dead!

(To be continued)