"Yikes!" Xu Xinyi screamed in shock, and his tightly stuffed eyes were indeed bruised, like beaten panda eyes.

Qin Lin glanced down, didn't seem to be interested in this obvious trauma, and reached out and pushed Xu Xinyi, asking her to go back first.

The eldest lady's lips pursed, whether she agreed or not, she couldn't stand Qingdai and Zhu Yaoyuan and was unwilling to stay at the scene of the murder.

"Wife, do you really think I can cover the sky with one hand? Later, the imperial court will send someone over, if you recognize the eldest princess, what will we say? Qin Lin coaxed Xu Xinyi, stretched out his hand and scratched her little waist: "It's a big deal to go back and tell you the facts of the case, okay." ”

Miss Xu was happy at this time, the sun was shining on her honey-colored face, and she pulled the snickering Qingdai and Zhu Yaoyuan away.

Only then did Qin Lin methodically command the investigation work.

At the bottom of the Yongan Wanshou Tower, there is a large open land surrounded by a wall, the line of sight is not blocked, the space is relatively closed, when Qin Lin ran over, there was no one else under the tower except the corpse, and when the monks, pilgrims, and Mongolians ran down from the tower, the Jinyi official school under his command had sealed off this place, and did not leave a chance for the suspect to escape from the chaos.

Qin Lin first sent his subordinates to notify the relevant yamen, and then assigned Lu Yuanzhi to conduct a detailed physical examination of the corpse, Niu Dali led a group of Jinyi official schools to carefully search the ground near the place where the corpse fell, Diao Shigui led another group of official schools to climb the Yongan Wanshou Pagoda to search for the place where the deceased fell, and the remaining Jinyi official schools controlled all the people involved in the case who came out of the tower.

The Mongolian nobles were noisy and shouted under the instigation of Huang Taiji, and they must stare at the corpse of Sai Yan with their own eyes, saying that the bruised eye circles were ironclad evidence thrown from the tower after being beaten, and Qin Lin must not be allowed to do anything.

Qin Lin just sneered, Huang Taiji wanted to see it, so let him see it, can you still see a flower? But they are not allowed to come near, and they must stand a few feet away.

The Mongolian nobles saw that there were many people in the Jinyi official school on Qin Lin's side, and it was the Han land in the Central Plains, and they knew that the heroes would not suffer the losses in front of them, so they did not come hard with the Jinyi official schools, and although they stood a few feet away, they all stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks to look at this side, like geese whose necks were lifted.

Hmph, don't think that we can't see clearly if we stand far away, Mongolian warriors grew up on the steppe, hunting wolves at the age of seven and shooting eagles at the age of ten, these eyes are very good, and you are not allowed to rub the sand!

Starting from Huang Taiji and Bahechi, all the Mongolian nobles stared at Qin Lin and Lu Yuanzhi who was fiddling with the corpse of Saiyan without blinking, and never gave them any chance.

It didn't take long for the officials of the Yamen involved in this matter to come one after another, Wanping County Commander Huang Jiashan was the fastest, galloping on horseback, and smiled bitterly at Qin Lin when he met, a Mongolian tribute envoy died in his jurisdiction, this is definitely a tricky matter.

"It should be the old brother Zhang Gongyu next, right?" Qin Lin thought of Zhang Gongyu patting the sedan bar and urging the sedan driver to run wildly, and he felt very funny.

Unexpectedly, the second one who arrived was not the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace, but an eight-rank civil official wearing a green robe and a yellow oriole uniform, running fast on horseback, the horseback was bumpy, and the black gauze hat on the official's head was crooked to the side.

Huang Jiashan saw that Qin Lin was a little puzzled, so he smiled and said: "This person is Zhao Shizhen, the master of Honglu Temple, who writes beautifully, and enters the official career by calligraphy. ”

That's not it, Qin Lin seems to have a narrow forehead, high cheekbones, and a mouth that is a little overwhelmed, so he knows that what Huang Jiashan said is true.

Honglu Temple is in charge of the court, guests, auspicious and evil ceremonies, responsible for receiving foreign tributary envoys, teaching them Hajj etiquette, the main book is just an eight-grade petty official, such a major event as the accidental death of the tribute envoy, in fact, he does not have much responsibility, but Zhao Shizhen ran faster than anyone else, in a bunch of mediocre and mediocre officials, it can really be regarded as extremely responsible.

Qin Lin didn't know Zhao Shizhen, but Zhao Shizhen recognized General Qin who was rescued by Gexiang, he jumped off the horse, helped the black gauze hat, ran over with a roar, and quickly made a gesture: "Xia Guan has seen General Qin and Huang County Order, I don't know who killed the Mongolian tribute envoy?" ”

Well, that's getting straight to the point.

Huang Jiashan's face was scornful, and he said in his heart, Lao Zhao, you are too bad at being a man, with Chief Qin in charge, what are you anxious about?

Qin Lin didn't mind at all: "Master Zhao, right?" The official has assigned his subordinate official schools to carry out an investigation, and there is no definite conclusion yet, and you say that it is too early to be 'killed', because it cannot be ruled out that the possible surname of falling and jumping into the tower cannot be ruled out. ”

"Fart, fart!" Huang Taiji jumped to his feet and scolded, pointing at the dark circles under the deceased's eyes: "Look, our people's eyes are swollen, and jumping from the tower will make the eye sockets blue?" It's clear that he was beaten first and then thrown down! ”

Zhao Shizhen saw that the deceased's head was basically intact, and the face part was not injured, and only the two eye sockets were dark blue and purple, and they were indeed beaten into panda eyes before his death.

He raised his eyebrows, and looked directly at Qin Lin with blazing eyes: "General Qin, the deceased's face was not bruised, but his eyes were swollen and purple, wasn't this something that was injured before he was born?" ”

"Not necessarily!" Qin Lin smiled noncommittally.

Zhao Shizhen's face sank, and he looked anxious: "How did General Qin reverse black and white?" Xiaguan ......"

Well, isn't this coming? Huang Jiashan sighed secretly, and said in his heart Zhao Shizhen, don't think about going up for 10,000 years, either quarrel with Shangguan or fight against the minister, a character like you in the Ming officialdom with thorns on your head and smoke on the soles of your feet can't get along, do you think you are Chief Qin?

Huang Jiashan pulled Zhao Shizhen along: "Brother Zhao, don't be impatient, General Qin's famous eyes are like electricity, he must have a plan." ”

"Anyway, we must find out the truth, although this official is a lowly position, he must not be bullied!" Zhao Shizhen [***] put down a sentence and went to look around.

Huang Jiashan smiled at Qin Lin apologetically, Qin Lin waved his hand and said that it didn't matter, on the contrary, he still felt that this Zhao Shizhen was a little interesting.

The third one who came was Zhang Gongyu, and just as Qin Lin imagined, the old man of the Imperial History of the Imperial Capital patted the sedan chair bar, urging the sedan chair man one by one, and the four sedan chair men were sweating profusely, and the steam was rising above their heads, as if they had just been fished out of the bathhouse.

Then Liu Shouyou, the governor of Jinyi, and Xu Jue, the head of the East Factory, also arrived, and Zhang Whale also insisted on brushing the dust and sitting in a sedan chair.

"Your Majesty is really uneasy when he heard that the Mongolian tribute envoy was killed, and sent our family to see what was going on," Zhang Whale dragged a sharp and piercing long voice, and exchanged a look with Liu Shouyou as he spoke.

Liu Shouyou immediately jumped out and pretended to be distressed: "Alas, General Qin, General Qin, you sent the Beizhen Fusi Official School to strictly protect the Mongolian tribute envoys all day long, why did you make a fuss?" ”

Zhang Whaleyin said with a smile: "As the saying goes, if you don't have hair on your mouth, you can't do things well, let's see, General Qin made a mess this time, but don't cause trouble." ”

Xu Jue didn't speak, his own Feng Dugong and Qin Lin were neither enemies nor friends, like enemies and friends, if they usually didn't mind falling into the well, but Zhang Whale and Liu Shou were not good at it, so why bother to help them get rid of the fire?

Zhang Gongyu is now the imperial history of the capital, and he is famous in the clear stream, and he is also qualified to speak in front of Zhang Whale and Liu Shouyou, so he hurriedly helped Qin Lin: "Although General Qin sent someone to protect the tribute envoy, after all, the Mongols are alive, he wants to jump off the tower, how can others manage it?" Zi said that there are friends from afar who are happy, and unfortunate happiness is sad, which is also impossible. ”

Not only Zhang Whale and Liu Shouyou, but also Huang Jiashan and Zhao Shizhen, after listening to Zhang Gongyu's incoherent nonsense, they all frowned and didn't bother to refute him.

"Ha, ha, ha!" Qin Lin, who was in the center of the whirlpool, didn't speak, and suddenly laughed three times, and when everyone looked at him in surprise, he said unhurriedly: "It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous, I didn't even know the cause of death, I didn't know if it was suicide or he killed me, so I began to accuse the official, Gonggong Zhang, Liu Dudu, don't you two say it too early?" ”

Hey, is there any doubt that he killed this deceased?

Don't say that Zhang Whale and Liu Shouyou's faces are almost rotten with a smile, even Huang Jiashan, who witnessed Qin Lin solving the case like a god, didn't think so in his heart, after all, the dark circles under the eyes of the deceased can't be explained, since he was injured in the eye before his death, it means that he had a fight with someone, so isn't it logical to be thrown off the tower and fall to his death?

Huang Taiji saw the Tao, knowing that Zhang Whale, Liu Shouyou and Qin Lin were not dealing with each other, and shouted loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, this prince was invited by your emperor to participate in the Hajj, and now he is dying here in an unknown way, please give me justice!" ”

Some people sing red faces, some people sing white faces, pull out a section of the scimitar on his waist, and say menacingly: "If you don't give an explanation, let's go back and light up the sword soldiers and start the war again!" ”

Oh, how can this Mongolian be so sensible? Zhang Whale and Liu Shou have two hearts, which is called a joy, this matter involves whether the Ming and Mongolian sides are fighting or peace, and indirectly affects the politically correct surname of Zhang Juzheng who presided over the tribute in the new year, and the big trouble is that Wanli and Zhang Juzheng can't keep Qin Lin...... Qin Lin smiled slightly, he didn't look a little anxious at all, and raised a finger confidently: "Don't be impatient, you know that some people want this official to be responsible for the death of the tribute envoy, and they want this official to lose their official and leave their posts......

"Where, where," Liu Shouyou said with a fake smile: "General Qin's young hero, it's just a little less grinding, but the governor of Pontus is very optimistic about you, haha." ”

Qin Lin glanced at him and continued: "However, if you want this official to be responsible, you have to investigate the case first, right?" When the time comes, will the Beizhen Fusi not protect him effectively, or will the official harm him, hehe, it will naturally come out when the time comes. ”

When Liu Shouyou and Zhang Whale heard this, they felt that this made sense, it was impossible that they didn't find out anything, so they went to expose Qin Lin, right? His holy favor Youlong is not something that can be easily defeated.

Moreover, there are so many pairs of eyes staring here, and most of the people under Liu Shouyou and Xu Jue are experts in solving cases, but they are not afraid of Qin Lin's ghosts.

Qin Lin had already assigned various groups of government schools to investigate, and at this time, there were responses one after another.

The first was Niu Dali, who put on silk gloves according to Qin Lin's instructions, held seven yellow and clear copper bells in the palm of his fan, and pinched the handle of the ox ear knife in his other hand: "Report to the chief, my subordinates have found a total of seven copper bells on the ground nearby, as well as this knife." ”

"Did you carry this knife with you?" Qin Lin asked Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji looked at Bahechi, who hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Yes, he hung it on his waist." ”

Zhang Whale said smartly: "It turned out that he drew his sword with the intention of resisting, but he was still pushed off the tower." ”

Qin Lin sneered in his stomach, and just asked, "Old Niu, when you and your brothers picked up the knife, the blade was still pulled out in the sheath?" ”

Niu Dali and several lieutenants said in unison: "It's inserted in the sheath." ”

Not only did Niu Dali and his brothers see it, but when they picked up the knife, several Mongolian nobles saw it, so they had nothing to say.

Qin Lin motioned to Niu to pull out the knife vigorously, the unsheath process was very smooth and smooth, and then stuffed the deceased tightly around his waist, and the cowhide rope where the knife was hung had a fresh tear.

"Maybe he was torn off by himself before he could get out of the sheath?" Zhang Whale Dead Duck has a hard mouth.

At this time, even the stalls of Xu Jue's Dongchang looked at him like an idiot.

Liu Shouyou's face turned red and pulled Zhang Whale: "Father-in-law Zhang, this knife is smooth out of the sheath, how can anyone pull out the knife and not come out, but tear off the hanging knife leather rope?" I guess it was somewhere when I fell. ”

Zhang Whale made a big red face, pouted his mouth, and said in his heart that he was not completely sure, so he had better stop talking, otherwise it would be really boring to make others laugh.

Qin Lin smiled and said nothing, Liu Dudu is a little smarter than Gonggong Zhang, isn't it, there is an obvious friction mark on the scabbard, which is obviously hit somewhere in the tower body when it fell, tore off the leather rope, and fell to the side.

As for the seven copper bells, it is better to explain, there are many bells hanging under the eaves of each layer of this Yongan Wanshou Tower, and there are more than 3,000 copper bells in the whole tower.

Instructed Niu Dali to put the copper bell and the ox ear sharp knife into a clean kraft paper bag, Qin Lin then interrogated Diao Shigui, who went to the tower to search.

Diao Shigui said: "The lower officials went up to check, outside the window on the east side of the twelfth floor of the pagoda, several copper bells fell, and the cornices on the lower floor also had traces of rubbing by clothes, and the deceased should have fallen from there." ”

"I'm afraid that it may not be," Zhao Shizhen shook his head and said to himself: "The corpse is obviously lying on the north side of the tower, how could it fall from the east window?" Did someone move the body, or were the marks on it faked? ”

Huang Taiji and Bahe Chi were stunned for a moment, and then they showed joy on their faces, and said in unison: "Yes, yes, yes, it must have been troubled, we all came down just now, only these brocade clothes official schools went up to follow, it was they who did it!" ”

Be your head! Qin Lin couldn't wait to slap them, and said angrily: "Let go of your fart!" Master Zhao doesn't know the extenuating circumstances, you still have to pretend to be stupid and naïve on the tower? Your ears are not deaf, and when the plug fell, did you hear all the bells of this tower ringing? ”

(To be continued)