Leng Yi said: "The last time you left, it was for this?" ”

Cheng Luojie said: "Yes." The jade was pawned by a beggar. The local yamen had already controlled the beggar, and after interrogation, it was confirmed that a stranger had lost this thing on the side of the road, and the beggar had picked it up, but because it was dark at the time, the beggar could not recognize the person's appearance, only that it was a man, of medium height. We immediately searched the whole city, but we couldn't find the man. I continued to expand the search for a long time, but I didn't find it. At this time, we received news that one of the stolen palace treasures had appeared in Bazhou, and we immediately returned to Bazhou to investigate. At the same time, Empress Kaibao also promoted you to be the general judge of Bazhou and presided over the investigation of the case. That's it. ”

Leng Yi nodded: "I understand, you go on." ”

Yin Eagle said: "After the Bazhou pawnshop found out that this jade Ruyi was what the imperial court had drawn and visited, while stabilizing the scholar, he immediately quietly sent someone to report to the yamen. After the people of the Yamen arrived, after inspecting it, it was indeed one of the treasures stolen by the royal family. So the scholar was arrested and interrogated. Subsequently, the remaining part of the stolen treasure was recovered from the scholar's house. However, the whereabouts of the fellow villager who entrusted him with his belongings are unknown. After repeated interrogations, all the methods that could be used were used, but there was no progress, and the person who entrusted the scholar to keep the things was only his fellow villager, and the relationship between the two was average, and he didn't even know the specific address of that person, but because he had the same accent, he recognized him as a fellow villager. The two have not known each other for a long time. That's all I know, and nothing more. ”

Cheng Luojie added: "We have pursued this client. But there is no news at the moment. ”

Leng Yi said: "That is to say." All the clues have been broken? ”

"Yes."

"Since there is no clue, then I can't do it."

Yin Eagle said: "We guess that Empress Kaibao also knows that this case is difficult, so instead of asking you to assist in the investigation of the case, we will directly promote you to the general judgment of Bazhou, just to take this difficulty into account, so that the eldest master can keep abreast of the progress at any time." In order to investigate the case. ”

"Hmm." Leng Yi thought for a while and said, "However, the clue didn't fall from the sky. When there are no clues, you can take the initiative to look for clues. Since none of your six doors have been able to find more clues from that scholar, it can only mean that that scholar really doesn't know much. ”

Yin Vulture nodded. "How should I find clues?" ”

Leng Yi said: "Start with the people around the scholar, especially his relatives and friends. ”

Cheng Luojie was a little puzzled, and said, "What are his relatives and friends doing?" Even the person he had deposited his belongings with that person was not familiar with, and his relatives and friends were only afraid that they were even more unfamiliar. I'm afraid it's useless to check it. ”

Leng Yi said: "Think about it the other way, since the person who deposited the things is not familiar with the scholar, why did he deposit such a valuable thing with this friend?" There's definitely a reason for that! ”

Cheng Luojie said: "We inquired, and the scholar said that the accent was very similar to his, so he recognized the fellow." He didn't know why the sustenance had deposited such a valuable thing with them all at once. ”

"Finding out why this person is storing things in this scholar's house will help us solve the case. And in the case that the scholar could not explain, his peripheral personnel were investigated. Perhaps new discoveries will be made. ”

Cheng Luojie nodded and said, "Okay!" Then we will immediately visit the relevant personnel of the scholar. ”

Leng Yi said: "All relatives and friends must be checked, including the friends of these friends." ——In the current situation that there is no clue to the person, we can't sit and wait empty-handed, so we can only go out to find clues. It's better than doing nothing and waiting for clues. ”

Yin Eagle and the other three all nodded in agreement. Start your investigation today.

At the same time, Cheng Luojie took out the drawing of the stolen palace treasures for Leng Yi to see. Leng Yi looked at it carefully and remembered them one by one.

Yin Vulture's investigation was accompanied by forced confessions, and the scholar's family screamed from time to time, which made Leng Yi regret letting Yin Vulture be the head of the six-door investigation of the scholar's family.

However, he did not have time to stop it, on the day of the investigation of the scholar's family. There has been a major breakthrough in the case!

This breakthrough did not come from the scholar's family, but from the mysterious man. He finally appeared, but in the form of a corpse.

On this day, Leng Yi was working in the yamen, and Cheng Luojie rushed in and arched his hand: "My lord, the corpse found by the river in the city, after we identified it according to the portrait, it was determined that it was one of the eunuchs who stole treasures from the palace!" At the same time, it is also the person who stored things in the scholar's house that we fished. He was stabbed in the upper abdomen and died. ”

Leng Yi suddenly became excited and found one of the eunuchs who stole the royal treasure, which means that the stolen royal treasure is likely to be nearby!

Leng Yi hurriedly said, "What about the corpse? ”

"Still by the river, my subordinates have ordered to stop the onlookers. Wait for the adults to go to investigate. ”

Leng Yi hurriedly ordered the sedan chair to be set up and set off for the river.

This Ba River runs through the city and is the main water transportation artery in Bazhou. Due to the heavy rain, the river swelled sharply, and the turbid waves were surging, which seemed to be very turbulent.

The corpse lay quietly on the grass by the river, about a few steps away from the rising water. The whole body was drenched in rain.

took off his clothes and conducted an autopsy on the spot, and found that his lower body was indeed castrated, and he was a eunuch.

After examining Zhou's back, it was found that there was a deep wound in the upper abdomen of the corpse. The wound wall is smooth, there is no intertissue bridge in the wound cavity, the wound angle at both ends is sharp, and one end is dragged away, forming a transverse diamond-shaped wound parallel to the shoulders.

No murder weapon was found at the scene. How did such a wound come about?

Leng Yi reached in and groped, and felt that the flat wound inside was up and down, but the triangular wound at the entrance was indeed diamond-shaped, and the corner on the left side of the transverse was stretched out.

He observed it for a long time, and felt that this wound was very strange, because the elongated corner of the triangular wound was parallel to the shoulders, and the inside was indeed flat up and down, and there were almost no transverse wounds.

In other words, the entrance is a diamond shape that drags one side, and when it penetrates into the body, it is indeed a zigzag shape in the up-and-down direction. Such a murder weapon, Leng Yi couldn't think of what it was.

Leng Yi told his doubts to Yin Ying and Cheng Luojie.

Yin Vulture pondered for a moment and said, "To cause such an injury, unless the murderer pierces the sword vertically with the blade, and then pulls it out, turns the blade, and drags the sword out flat, such an injury can be formed." ”

Cheng Luojie shook her head and said: "This is not reasonable, if he wants to cause big damage, after he stabs in, he will immediately drag the sword out and expand the wound, instead of dragging the sword after the sword is about to come out." ”

Cheng Luoyan also said: "Exactly, and since it is pierced vertically into the upper abdomen, it can be disemboweled." Isn't it simply? If you turn the blade and drag the sword horizontally, it will immediately hit one side of the rib, but the wound will not be widened. ”

Yin Yinggan laughed twice and said, "What you said is also reasonable, I also think that this person's use of a sword is really strange and not very reasonable." ”

Leng Yi listened to their analysis, but still had no more clue, so he continued to examine the corpse.

Judging from the degree of stiffness, corpse spots, and the temperature of the corpse, the murder occurred in the evening of the previous night.

After examining the body, the search for the scene began.

Soon, next to a large stone not far from the corpse, they found an empty brocade box, which Yin Vulture inspected and determined to be one of the royal items they were tracking.

Leng Yi immediately said to Yin Ying: "It is very likely that the things have been snatched away by the people who killed him, and immediately set up cards in four doors and conduct an investigation!" At the same time, keep the progress of the case up secret! ”

Yin Eagle and Cheng Luojie hurriedly agreed and immediately made arrangements.

What made Leng Yi feel relieved was that although it was cloudy in Bazhou in the past two days, there was no rain, and the continuous rain a few days ago had soaked the river beach very softly, which was likely to leave a mark.

Sure enough, after Leng Yi carefully searched the riverside, he found several shoe prints on the sand by the river. And it's messy. After Leng Yi carefully observed these footprints, he said: "The murderers who besieged and killed this person were three people, and one of them was a cripple with his right foot outward. There is also a tall one, a head taller than the average person. The other third person is a big fat man. ”

Cheng Luojie and the others all looked at him in surprise: "How did the eldest master know?" ”

"From the footprints!" Leng Yi said: "Carefully observing the footprints can help us hint a lot of useful information." - It's in the middle of nowhere, and there's no road to pass through it. And the body appeared here again, and there were some footprints on the sand around it, indicating that it was probably left by the murderer. Because the soles of our shoes are hand-sewn, the colors cannot be exactly the same, and after comparing the footprints, I found a total of three different footprints. Explain that there may be three people present. And I noticed that one of the footprints was strangely tilted outward. It is impossible for a normal person to have such footprints, which means that the person's feet are disabled and crippled. ”

Cheng Luojie squatted down to check the footprints, nodded and said, "That's right, it's very strange." - And the other two, how do you know that they are tall and fat? ”

"From the length of the footprints, we can infer the height of a person, this has a certain law, I am based on this law, through the observation of this footprint, I deduce that this person is very tall, a head taller than ordinary people. On the other hand, the fat man, the calculation is simpler, you only need to observe the footprints next to this footprint, you can know that this footprint is deeper, the reason is very simple, people with heavy bodies, the footprints left in the same sand are deeper. From the comparison of the depth of the footprints, I judged that this person's weight was much heavier than that of ordinary people, because the length of the footprints was similar to that of ordinary people, indicating that he was not tall. That can only mean that he is a big fat man. ”

(To be continued)