Lu Tong hurriedly smiled and said, "Let this be lowly and go, right?" ”

Governor Liao shook his head and said, "It's not appropriate! This case is very important, I heard that it is the first supervision case after the establishment of the trial court, if it is messed up, everyone's face will not look good. It's better to go in person in this house. ”

The next day, Leng Yi arrived at the prefect's yamen torture room early in the morning, and the secretary had already prepared the files of the two cases. In addition, a separate room was prepared for Leng Yi to show him. This kind of thing is for them to ask Leng Yi, so naturally they will not shirk it.

There are still a lot of files, especially the murder of the young master of the Su family, which is a case supervised by the trial court, so the investigation is very detailed, and almost everyone in the village asked. Of course, the vast majority of the interrogation transcripts are nothing useful and have nothing to do with the case.

Leng Yi focused on the corpse grid, that is, the ancient autopsy report, as well as the scene investigation records and scene diagrams. These are objective things that are very revealing.

The focus is on the murder of the eldest young master of the Su family, and the fatal murder weapon was a bowl-sized pebble found at the scene. The murder weapon was recorded, so it was extracted and placed in the evidence room of the yamen.

Leng Yi immediately asked the scribe of the torture room to bring the pebble.

After the stone came, Leng Yi looked at it and was very disappointed, because although there were blood stains sticking to the stone, and there was even a little hair, there were no blood fingerprints. And there is no way to extract sweat fingerprints because there is no corresponding extraction tool. It seems that it is impossible to find clues from the stones.

In the case of the murder of villager Hao Wei's wife, the wound on the deceased's body was very strange, it was a triangle with two pointed heads opposite, located in many places on the skull. I haven't seen this kind of stabbing Leng Yi yet, and I don't know what kind of murder weapon caused it.

He continued to read the dossier, and by the time he finished reading it, it was already noon.

Governor Liao invited Leng Yi to dine in his yamen, and after he was done, they rushed to Erjin Village together.

These two villages belong to the direct jurisdiction of Bazhou, only less than thirty miles away from Bazhou, the two of them rode horses, took the officials to arrest quickly, and Xing Tongzhi and Lu Tongju, who were in charge of the criminal name, took an hour to arrive in the village.

The village is located on a flat dam between two mountains, and dozens of families are scattered among the large and small paddy fields of the flat dam. There has already been a notification to the chief of the village that the chief here is a big fat man, and he took the squire of the village to greet him at the entrance of the village.

Governor Liao smiled at Chang Lichang and said, "Today, this mansion has invited a master to solve the case!" It is Lord Leng of Yinling County, he is the one who solved the boat gang case a few days ago, and this time, he will definitely be able to solve this case! ――By the way, why didn't Old Man Su come? ”

Master Su is the retired Beijing official. The last time the Liao prefect came to investigate the case, he brought his son and grandson to greet him. I didn't expect to come this time, not only a little depressed.

Chang Li said: "The old lady has not solved the case for a long time because of the murder of the grandson of the long house, and she has fallen ill and has been bedridden for several days. The family members are waiting at the bed, so they didn't come to greet them, and I ask for the forgiveness of a few adults. ”

Liao Zhifu said: "If you are sick, you will naturally not use it." Later, we will visit the door, and Lord Leng may have something to investigate to ask them. - Right? Lord Leng? ”

Leng Yi nodded hurriedly and said: "Exactly, now, let's go to the scene of the crime first, there are a few important witnesses I have to re-interrogate." If you can, of course, you should go to the victim's house to inquire about the situation. ”

Accompanied by Chang Lichang, they came to the scene of the crime.

Although it is a flat dam in the mountains, it is only relatively speaking, and there are still high and low. The crime occurred in a low-lying paddy field. Along the ridge, there was a path, and the man who followed pointed to the location of the body at that time, which was on the grass of the ridge.

Where Leng Yi stood, he found that because it was a low-lying land, except for the mountain, other flat dams could not be seen here.

After asking, I learned that it was noon, and it was a few children playing in the village who first discovered it. The back of the head was smashed by a stone and the skull was shattered, and the brains flowed out. When the adults came to inspect it, they were out of breath. However, when they arrived to report the case, the body had already been carried to the Su family's compound. The location of the corpse during the investigation was based on the child who found the corpse and the people who came to inspect it from the Su family.

Leng Yi said: "The children who found the bodies first, can I ask them again?" ”

Governor Liao said: "Of course you can, as long as Lord Leng wants to inquire about anyone, you can ask casually." "This time, Governor Liao did not say anything about this and that as he did last time he investigated the murder of the wife of the Tu gang leader, he said that he didn't need to do this. Because Leng Yi said last time that he would investigate the case and re-investigate it as needed. And now in this case, solving the case is the king, as long as the case can be solved, nothing is a problem. ”

Chang Li immediately sent someone to hurry up, and the children who found the body that day called in.

Among these children, the eldest is only ** years old, although the youngest is only four or five years old. Leng Yi left the eldest child and let the others leave first and come back later.

Leng Yi said to the child, "Can you tell me what happened when you saw the corpse?" ”

The boy nodded and said, "That day, a few of us went to the ditch in front of us to fish, the water was too cold, we didn't touch it, we came back, just walked here, I saw a person lying there, the skull was full of blood, just lying on the ground like this, the snow around the skull was red, so afraid of people." We all stood and didn't dare to go over to look, and finally I came, after I looked, I found that it was Brother Su, and the braincase was rotten, so we went around the ridge and ran back from there, all the way we were shouting "Brother Su is dead!" "I ran all the way to the gate of Su's courtyard, and after saying that, the people of their family followed to see, and then carried the person home. Let's go and call the chief. That's it. ”

Leng Yi said: "When did you find the body?" ”

"It's almost lunch."

Liao Zhifu said: "It's around noon, this is what the Su family said, they have lunch at noon every day." Every day. That day, Young Master Su went out, and he hadn't come back just now that it was time to eat, and he was about to ask someone to look for him, when he heard these children running to say that they saw Young Master Su die on the road. From here, it is only a cup of tea time to run to Su's house. So around that time. ”

Leng Yi asked the kid again, "You didn't touch the corpse at that time?" ”

"No, who dares to touch it, it's so scary, the skull is broken!"

"Who was the first to touch the corpse?"

"It should be a servant of the Su family. We called them over, and they hugged Brother Su and cried. Then the body was carried back. ”

Leng Yi said: "When you found the body, did you see that there was anyone else next to you?" ”

"Yes, Brother Dazhu, Brother Oil Bottle, Brother Flat Brain, Brother Niu Gu, Sister Peach Blossom, Sister Shuilian, they are all working in the field! When they heard me call, they all came over to see it and told me to call someone. ”

"Oh? Where were they then? ”

The boy pointed to several places, all hundreds of paces away, some far and some near.

Leng Yi said to Chang Li: "Can you call these people?" ”

Chang Li hurriedly asked people to call. Soon, all of them came. Before this, Leng Yi asked the children again, and the statement was similar to what the older child said before.

Leng Yi asked Dazhu and them to go to their own location at the time, and took a look, some of the seats were different from what the kid said just now, and called the child to ask, and he said that he didn't pay attention to it at that time, just the approximate location.

Leng Yi called the nearest pillar over and asked, "At that time, did you see Young Master Su passing by?" ”

Dazhu shook his head: "At that time, I was turning the soil in the field, and I didn't pay attention to when he passed, and then I heard the shouting, so I ran over to see it, and I knew that something was wrong." ”

"Do you see anyone else passing by here?"

"I didn't see it."

Leng Yi looked into his eyes and said, "At noon that day, you didn't come here yourself?" ”

Dazhu was stunned for a moment and said, "No!" ”

"Really?"

"Of course not!" Da Zhu replied affirmatively, looking at Leng Yi, his gaze did not dodge.

Leng Yi said: "You have a good memory, you really didn't come here at that time?" ”

Dazhu said: "I really haven't been here, I've been turning over the ground, and they can testify to the oil bottle and the cow." Please take a look. ”

"I'll look into it." Leng Yi said.

He called the man nicknamed the oil bottle again and inquired, and sure enough, it confirmed Dazhu's statement, they had been in the field, and they were still talking to each other.

Leng Yi interrogated these people separately, and as a result, they were in the field all morning, and they could prove to each other and found no clues.

Leng Yi said to Liao Zhifu: "The deceased was hit on the back of the head with a pebble many times and died, I looked at the corpse, and there were no resistance injuries on the deceased's body, indicating that the murderer suddenly attacked and did not beat each other for some reason." At the same time, they didn't hear any unusual sounds from the nearby pillars. I didn't see anyone else passing by. Moreover, the jade pendant and money bag on the deceased's waist were not stolen, which can rule out murder for money, and it is likely to be a premeditated murder. Therefore, the direction of detection should be the enemy of the dead! ”

"That's right!" Governor Liao exclaimed: "The analysis is very reasonable. ”

Leng Yi said: "If you want to investigate his enemies, you can only go to the Su family." ”

When they came to the Su family, the eldest and third of the Su family and several grandchildren finally came to the door to greet them. Because the second child of the Su family was an official in the capital, he did not come back.

The Su family house is very luxurious, there are two plaques hanging on the lintel, the top is the Su Mansion, and the lower one is a plaque, which is written "one door and two jinshi" several gilt characters.

Welcoming the guests and hosts in the living room, Su Da arched his hand and said: "My father is old, sad that my grandson was killed, and I can't afford to be sick. Please forgive me for not being able to come out to greet you in person. ”

Liao Zhifu said: "This time, Leng Zhi County from Yinling County was invited to come specially for this case, and Leng Zhi County's ability to solve the case is very good." ”

Su Da said lightly: "We don't care if we can solve the case, what I care about is who killed my son." ”

Leng Yi said: "I also want to know the answer to this." In order to know this answer, I must conduct an investigation on the Imperial Palace, and I hope that you will cooperate. ”

"Yes!" Su Da just said simply.

(To be continued)