"No, no! The grass people didn't dare. The hunter knelt on the ground with a grunt, kowtowed, and said: "That's the case, the grass people are in their thirties, and they haven't started a family yet, and they know that there is a cook in this post station, named Lu Siniang, who is a widow, and has never started a family, so the grass people want to ......, they want to ......, but the grass people are stupid and don't dare to speak, so they can only find some reasons to get close to her." Every time I hunted, I lived at the inn, so that I could help in the kitchen, which was almost as good as she said. The eldest lord can inquire, and everyone at the post station knows about it. ”

Cheng Luoyan originally felt very strange because the hunter lived in the post station, so she suspected that he was the murderer who tried to assassinate Leng Yi, but she didn't expect the hunter to say such a reason, and she denied her reasoning, and felt a little embarrassed.

Leng Yi said: "This county will naturally inquire clearly, and you can't just listen to what you say." Even if you are at the post station to please Lu Siniang in the kitchen, you have to explain what you did last night. ”

"Yesterday, the grass people came to the post station after hunting at noon. And then he has been helping in the kitchen, and everyone in this kitchen can testify. In the afternoon, they came to arrange accommodation or something, I didn't go, but I heard that many people came to live in the station. In the evening, I heard that Uncle Kuai had beaten a big bear, and Siniang and I went to see it. Sure enough, it's a big one. Speaking of this, the hunter turned his head to look at Cheng Luoyan and said, "Later, this girl said, everyone barbecues together, and everyone has a share, we are very happy, so we all come to help, and since then, we have been busy." Until the house collapsed. ”

Leng Yi said: "You haven't gone out alone halfway?" ”

"No ......, no ah!"

"You're lying!" Leng Yi said coldly: "When the barbecue, the cook lady was by our side, helping to barbecue, there was about a meal, the county didn't see you, that is, shortly after dark, you went to the kitchen, Lu Siniang was barbecuing in front, what are you doing in the kitchen?" It's time to go for a meal! ”

The hunter was stunned: "You ......, how do you know?" ”

Unexpectedly, Leng Yi, as a magistrate, would notice the movements of his little hunter. He didn't know that Leng Yi was a criminal policeman, and it was his professional habit to observe the people around him at any time. Especially after knowing that someone was going to murder him, although on the surface he was careless, in fact, he was always paying attention to everything around him, paying attention to everyone who came close to him. He paid close attention to how many people there were in this station, what characteristics each person had, and what they were doing. Of course he would be careful about someone like a hunter living in a caravanserai abruptly. So, accurately said the hole in the hunter's words.

Leng Yi looked at him coldly and did not speak.

The hunter wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "I, I'm going to see Siniang's daughter." She, she was alone in the kitchen, she didn't eat, Siniang asked me to get some barbecue to eat for her......"

"Siniang's daughter?" Leng Yi was obviously a little surprised.

"Yes, the daughter left by Siniang's ex-husband is only seven years old, and she is lame, she went to work in the field with his father, and she met the thieves of the Liufang Station who absconded, and gave her daughter ......, and the girl broke free and escaped, fell off a big rock, broke her brain, and collapsed on the bed. Therefore, they can't come out to meet people. Siniang asked me to secretly get him some food. Siniang wants to give the eldest man a barbecue, so let me go. ”

Cheng Luojie's eyes were moist when she heard this, and when she heard the back, she suddenly felt that something was wrong, and said, "Is it worth a meal to send food to a child?" ”

"I fed her and came back when she was done."

"Hey her? Seven-year-olds still need to be fed? ”

The hunter's expression was gloomy, and he said, "She has a broken brain, she doesn't know how to eat, she is stupid." If you don't feed her, she won't know what to eat. ”

Cheng Luojie sighed: "You have a good heart, this cook has such a child, and you are still willing to marry her." ”

Leng Yi said: "Except for Lu Siniang, a stupid child, who else can prove that you were in her room at the time?" ”

The hunter was a little flustered, lowered his head and thought for a long time before saying, "No one." ”

Leng Yi interrogated repeatedly, but he still insisted that there was no one else.

Leng Yi asked Cheng Luojie to take the hunter out and find a house to stay there temporarily. At the same time, he called the post man and asked the post man to bring two men to guard the people who had already been questioned, so as not to collude with the confession.

Leng Yi asked Cheng Luojie to call the cook and her daughter again, and asked the cook, and sure enough, as the hunter said, seeing the cook's daughter, she was indeed a paralyzed person who couldn't take care of herself.

Cheng Luojie said: "What the hunter said is right, can he rule it out?" ”

Leng Yi said: "No, since the cook's daughter is paralyzed, it can't be proved that the hunter was with her at that time, so the hunter still has no alibi." He also knows how to shoot arrows, so he is currently the only key suspect in the crime. ”

"He's so sympathetic, he should be a good person, the murderer can't be him, right?"

Leng Yi looked at her strangely: "What you said is not what a head catcher should say." ”

Cheng Luojie smiled and said, "I just think he's quite pitiful." ”

"Personal feelings must not be added to the investigation of the case, otherwise it will affect the judgment. There are many such lessons. ”

Leng Yi said this, but in fact, he also sighed in his heart, it is really difficult to do this. Not long ago, he and Zhuo Qiaoniang temporarily lived in the Yinling Temple in a snowstorm, where there was also a poor little monk Mingkong. In the end, it turned out that this poor little monk was the murderer, and he wanted to kill all the people in the temple, including their husband and wife. At that time, I initially thought that he was pitiful and would not be a murderer. Therefore, it is actually very difficult to solve a case without any emotion.

Leng Yi asked Cheng Luojie to call the military academy that delivered the letter in. As soon as the military academy came in, he complained: "Master, we are really not murderers, we still have official business, and we want to deliver urgent military information to the capital, but we can't delay, you let us go first." Anyway, our army number is also said, and it will be easy for you to find us. ”

Leng Yi said: "You are sending emergency military information? ”

"Yes, you can't delay!"

Cheng Luojie said: "That's not right! You're lying! If it is an emergency military situation, it will definitely change horses and people all the way non-stop and send it forward, and there will never be time to stay and have time to eat barbecue. ”

The Messenger was speechless. He sneered: "Even if it's not an urgent business, it can't be delayed!" ”

Leng Yi said: "I can't delay you for long, this case is already a bit eyebrow in this county." Besides, now that it is a homicide case, since you have encountered it, and you are suspected of committing a crime and have the obligation to assist the government in investigating the case. ”

The Great Song Dynasty was heavy on civil affairs over military force, and the status of military generals was originally lower than that of civilian officials, not to mention that this was just an ordinary herald captain. How can it be compared with the county. I had to agree with a bitter face.

Leng Yi asked, "When did you stay in the post station?" ”

"It's similar to you, and I moved in yesterday afternoon."

"What did you do when you moved in? Who can testify? ”

"It's very cold, we are in the room to bake the fire, in addition to the three of us, there is also a post station guy Li Liang, he is my fellow countryman, I often take this line to deliver letters, so we know each other and talk together. Until you came back with the bears, we went out to see, and then we had a barbecue, and after that, we were in the yard and never left, and everybody saw it. ”

Leng Yi did see the military academy and his two entourages barbecuing in the courtyard until the house collapsed. Leng Yi asked Cheng Luojie to take the military academy out, and called his two entourages and the post man named Li Liang in.