After the peasant woman sat down, Yang Qiuchi glanced at the villagers who were watching the excitement not far away, and ordered those villagers to be driven away and not allowed to observe.

On-site investigations, autopsies, and investigative visits are all taboo for other unrelated persons to observe, and it is not uncommon in judicial practice to leak information due to ignoring the observance of other unrelated persons.

In modern society, Yang Qiuchi encountered this kind of thing when he just graduated from college and joined the criminal police team, a murderer killed a taxi driver, and later it took a lot of effort to catch the murderer. He also heard the investigators talking about the case, so he avoided many investigations. Since then, Yang Qiuchi has paid special attention to the secrecy work during the investigation stage.

After the villagers are gone. Yang Qiuchi looked at the sobbing Wu clan and said, "Don't cry first, the official has something to ask you." ”

Na Su Li Zheng also hurriedly whispered comfort. Only then did the Wu family hold back their sobs.

Yang Qiuchi asked, "What's your husband's name?" ”

"Li Shiyin."

"Did he have a feud with anyone during his lifetime?"

Speaking of her husband, Wu was born from sorrow, and couldn't help crying again, shaking her head and saying, "My husband...... Honest farmer, woo...... How...... Will you make enemies with others...... When people beat him and scolded him, he ...... Grinning...... Don't be angry, woo woo woo ......"

Yang Qiuchi waited patiently for her to cry for a while, and gradually stopped her grief, and then continued to ask: "Then think about it, has anyone ever said that he would beat your husband, or said that he would make your husband look good?" ”

Wu sobbed and shook his head: "I've never been ......, I have been married to him for so many years, and I haven't seen him...... I've had a fight with someone. ”

Yang Qiuchi turned his head and asked Su Lizheng next to him: "Is this the case?" ”

Na Suri was hunched and replied, "Yes, Li Hanbao is such a good old man." ”

"Li Hanbao?" Yang Qiuchi asked curiously.

"It's this Wu family's husband, Li Shiyin, who is very honest and a little stupid, so everyone calls him Hanbao."

From this point of view, the death of Li Hanbao can basically rule out vendettas. Is it love killing? Yang Qiuchi lowered his head and took a closer look at this Wu family, and saw that she was in her thirties, with thick feet and rough hands, although her facial features were quite upright, but she had been working in the fields for many years, and her face was already dusty. For such a woman, the probability of red apricot going out of the wall cannot be said to be absolutely none, but it is not big.

Could it be that Li Hanbao is cheating outside? It's not very similar, since this Li Hanbao is simple-minded, he has to rely on his appearance to seduce girls, I'm afraid the level is not enough, what about money? It's not like, looking at the coarse cloth dress worn by the Wu family, you know that their family background should not be good, how can they have the money to raise a child outside?

Since the possible surnames of vendetta and love murder are not big, it is likely to be murdered for money, Li Hanbao went to sell cattle, and he must have money on him. Yang Qiuchi continued to ask, "What are you selling cattle for?" Isn't it a matter of cattle to plough the pear field? The cattle have been sold, what will they take to plough the land? ”

"The cow is old, and the pear fields are not easy to cultivate, so as soon as I discussed with my husband, I wanted to sell the cow, plus the little money we saved, and buy a new one. Therefore, my husband drove the cattle to sell them in Bazhou City, but he didn't expect ,...... Woo woo woo" Thinking of her husband's tragic death, Wu cried again.

"And how much can this old cow sell for?"

"I don't know." Wu said with tears in his eyes.

Yang Qiuchi turned his head to look at Su Lizheng. Su Li thought for a while: "Their old cow, according to me, is estimated to be able to sell for 3,000 copper coins." ”

"Three taels of silver, that's a lot." Yang Qiuchi nodded, three thousand copper coins, equivalent to three thousand yuan now. It's not a lot of money, but it's not a lot of money.

Killing people for 3,000 yuan, this may be completely true, let alone 3,000, many of those who rob taxi drivers and kill people are just for two or three hundred yuan or even less. Murderers who treat the lives of others as if they were a waste will not compare human lives with the money they have robbed.

The deceased had sold a cow worth 3,000 copper coins before his death, but during the autopsy, except for this sweat towel, no copper coins were found on the deceased's body, and even a money bag was found.

Who will kill for money? There are six miles of road from Bazhou City to this village, and they came along the way, and saw that this road was relatively secluded, and they wanted to kill people for money, and they could do almost nothing.

However, he carefully observed along the way, and did not find anything abnormal, and from Bazhou City to here, there are no other villages along the way, this is the first village in this direction in Bazhou, so to speak, if it is not a crime committed by wandering, except for the people who know that he sold cattle and have money in Bazhou City, the people in this village should be relatively suspicious.

How can we find this suspect? Where are the clues? Yang Qiuchi pondered hard. The deceased had blunt force injuries to the back of his head similar to those caused by a diamond-shaped wooden stick blow. No, this is too ordinary, anyone can have this kind of stick, the clues are too scattered, see if there is a more suitable one.

Of course, the detection should start from the smallest area and the most likely place to find the criminal. Think about it, what clues are there in the deceased to search for the murderer?

Thinking of this, Yang Qiuchi's mind suddenly lit up with a bang - the iron chain around his neck!

During the autopsy on the riverbank, Yang Qiuchi had carefully observed the thin iron chain around the neck of the deceased, which was not common. The killer hit the deceased on the back of the head with a diamond-shaped wooden stick to cause him to fall unconscious, and then tied a stone with an iron chain to push the victim into the river.

If someone from Niuyang Market in Bazhou saw that the deceased was selling cattle for money, and secretly followed the murderer to steal money, he generally would not specifically take an iron chain and a wooden stick to follow him, because this is not necessary, and the target is too big, it is easy to attract the attention of others, and it is generally enough to bring a knife. Therefore, it is not very reasonable to follow the Lime Kiln in Liuli Village from Bazhou City with iron chains and diamond-shaped wooden sticks to kill people, and it may not be a big surname.

It can be seen from this that the most likely murderer is the people of Liuli Village, who knew that the deceased had money to sell cattle and came back, so they temporarily intended to kill, or premeditated to prepare tools to kill people on the roadside near the lime kiln.

Therefore, Yang Qiuchi decided to focus on the investigation first in this Liuli Village.

The chain prepared by the murderer was used to sink the corpse, and clues should be found from this chain first. Yang Qiuchi frowned and said to himself, "Iron chain...... What are chains used for? ”

Song Yun'er saw Yang Qiuchi sitting there pondering while shaking the folding fan, knowing that he was thinking about the problem in his head, he didn't dare to disturb, and now he suddenly heard him babble about what the iron chain was used for, so she replied: "Iron chain? Of course, the chain is used to lock people! ”

Yang Qiuchi folded the fan, turned around and glared at Song Yun'er: "Lock people? How can such a thin chain lock people? ”

"Thin chains? What thin iron chain? Song Yun'er asked puzzled.

"Alas, it's the thin iron chain found on the neck of the drowned Li Hanbao!"

"Oh~!" Song Yun'er suddenly realized, recalled carefully, and said: "This iron chain is a little thinner, and it is used to lock people, if the strength is relatively large, it is indeed ...... Hey, I can't lock it. ”

"Shine!" Yang Qiuchi folded his fan and slapped his palm, "Then what is this iron chain used for?" ”

Song Yun'er was dumbfounded, she knew about practicing kung fu all day long, and she had never paid attention to such details.

Shuang'er interjected: "Master, in our Miao Village, thin iron chains are generally used to tie up the dogs, because if you use ordinary hemp rope, the dog will bite off the hemp rope, and only with iron chains can it be tethered." ”

Yang Qiuchi's eyes lit up: "Really? That's great! With a bang, he opened the folding fan in his hand, fanned Shuang'er, and said, "Shuang'er is so smart!" Master, I'll fan you, reward! ”

Shuang'er grinned and waved her hand again and again: "Don't you dare to be a slave, lest Aunt Song see it, and you should say that I don't follow the rules." ”

Yang Qiuchi snorted: "This mud doll will make trouble, what are you doing with these stinky rules." Sooner or later I'll have to abolish it! ”

"Don't!" Shuang'er said hurriedly, "This rule is something that Mrs. Tai nodded and agreed, if I knew that the abolition of the rules started from me, then I wouldn't be able to eat and walk around." ”

Speaking of Mother Yang, Yang Qiuchi lost his temper, no matter how bold he was, he didn't dare to take Mother Yang's words seriously.

Yang Qiuchi sighed, folded the fan, turned to Su Lizheng and said, "How many people in this village have dogs?" I mean, the kind of guard dog that is kept on a chain? ”

Su Li was a little embarrassed: "This ...... I can't count this, there are hundreds of households in the village, and there are many dogs, so there must be twenty or thirty households. ”

Yang Qiuchi didn't bring the chain this time, but he had carefully observed the chain, and he remembered the characteristics of the chain very clearly, so he wasn't too worried, and it was rare to run back to get the chain to compare it one by one, so he said, "Let's go!" Let's look at it one by one. ”

Nasuri led the way, going from house to house to observe the chains of the dogs of those who had them.

After only observing a small half, he was a little dumbfounded. The chaining of dogs in this village is literally out of a mold. The size, thickness and color are about the same, and when I inquired, I found out that they were all bought from the same blacksmith shop in Bazhou, where the chains were the cheapest.

After checking for a while, Yang Qiuchi's eyes were dazzled, and he couldn't find any results if he checked it like this, what should I do?

(To be continued)