Yan Hong and his entourage arrived at Andingmen and went to check on the murderous mansion first. Due to the long history of the homicide, the place has long been covered with dust, with rows of rat footprints on the dust, and cobwebs hanging from the corners of the house, showing the complete collapse of the original small home. However, the house was turned upside down, and it seemed that it had been carefully searched.

Yan Hong frowned: "This doesn't look like a murder, it looks like a thief entered the door." ”

Liu Lian said: "Sir Yan, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division dug three feet of ground here that day, and later our brothers from Jinyiwei came to pick it again, so ......"

Yan Hong said in his heart, most of the soldiers and horses of the five cities were ordered to find something important. But I don't know what it is. He looked left and right, but he couldn't see any fame, so he walked out: "If there is a famous hall in this place, it has already been copied away." Let's ask your neighbor for a confession. ”

At this time, the hundred households in charge of inspecting the local Jinyi Wei had already been ordered to gather all the people in the neighborhood and bring them to a courtyard at the mouth of the alley.

Yan Hong saw the dozens of ordinary people in the vicinity huddled together in fear, and couldn't help but feel that he was a little more angry, jumped on a table, and said majestically: "Everyone, I have been ordered by the imperial court today to investigate the murder case of Feng Jiansheng's family. As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. If you want to know any clues, report them. If you don't report it, you will be guilty of the same crime as the murderer! Why did this Feng Jiansheng kill his wife, you all tell me a charter! ”

After the lecture, Yan Hong sat in the side room specially vacated and brought those people in one by one for questioning. This time, I asked for more than an hour. For some people, Yan Hong asked more carefully, and the questions asked were different from others; For some people, just ask a few words and let them go.

It's easy for everyone to ask. Yan Hong called the local hundreds: "These people, they can go." ”

Baihu asked, "What else does the chief command?" ”

Yan Hong stared into his eyes and said, "The Feng family's neighborhoods are really all here?" ”

Baihu said: "Chief Mingjian." There really is one who is not there. ”

Yan Hongdao: "Which one is it?" How many people are there? ”

Baihu said: "Back to the chief, it is a splashy man named Wu Lezi." He was not here earlier, this summer the lonely old man next door to Feng Jiansheng Lao Zhou died of illness, no relatives and no reason, but this Wu leper is Lao Zhou's distant nephew, so he came to inherit the house, and it has only been less than two months since he moved in. ”

Yan Hong's eyebrows raised: "What a splash." Where is this person now? ”

Baihu said: "Since the murder, this person has disappeared. ”

Yan Hong slapped the table: "Damn! Such a splash is obviously the most suspicious, but you let him go, what are you going to do! ”

Baihu only bowed his head and said: "Sir, the previous case has always been received by the Dongcheng Soldiers and Horses. Later, after our Jinyiwei took over the case, his subordinates had already written an excerpt about the matter, but ......"

The hundred households were still chattering, and Wang Ting on the side first glanced at Yan Hong. Yan Hong comprehended, coughed and said, "Okay, since that's the case, you can arrange people to find out the whereabouts of this Wu leper." In this official's opinion, this person must have a lot to do with the homigre. ”

Hundred households were ordered to retreat. Yan Hong turned to Wang Ting: "Brother, do you have any advice?" ”

Wang Ting said softly: "Back to Chief Yan's words, this Wu leper has actually been captured by my brother Jinyiwei. ”

Yan Hong almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, in total, you are colluding to tease me. He also asked Wang Ting softly: "How did you catch it?" Where is this person now? ”

Wang Ting said: "This person wanted to steal out of the north gate at night on the day of the crime, and was caught by the wrestlers patrolling my brocade guard at the gate. Just because I didn't know the details for a while, I was temporarily detained in the outpost. Later, Governor Lu Dadu took over the case and took this person to the barracks of Yamen for special detention. For many days, there was no arraignment. ”

Yan Hong felt that this matter was getting more and more interesting. Lu Da's spy arrested this highly suspicious Wu Lezi, but he didn't interrogate or ask, what kind of game is this playing? He immediately got up and said, "In that case, I'll go and ask this Wu leper for a while!" ”

So Yan Hong and the others went to the barracks near the yamen, and then put Wu Lezi in prison.

Hao Sijiao saw that this little king of Yama had come back three times in one day, and he thought that he was worthy of being the eldest grandson of Yan Ge Lao, and the efficiency of handling cases was high. It didn't take long for three prisoners to be arrested, even Feng Sheng had a total of four, not to mention a case of killing his wife, a few more, and he didn't have to worry about finding someone to top the tank.

Yan Hong deduced from common sense that this Wu leper was not a murderer, and he must be an eyewitness to the murder. Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence, but at this juncture, he escaped. And the Five Cities Terracotta Division ignored Wu Lezi, and didn't even know that he was missing, but instead caught Feng Sheng and beat him to death, which just shows that there must be ghosts among them.

Yan Hong relied on a little experience in his previous life to know people, and estimated that for this kind of person, if he was kind and pleasant, I am afraid that it would be useless. As long as you scare hard, you can probably succeed. Seeing that the matter is confidential today, he doesn't want to edict the executioner in prison. Even the fifteen brocade captains who followed were only told to stand outside.

He only ordered the torture instruments to be laid out in the torture room, and Shao An went to escort Wu Lezi in. Wang Ting and Liu Lian on the side, each took off their shirts, revealing their bare shoulders with muscles, and then glared and gritted their teeth to make a vicious face, which really looked like even a ghost could be scared to death.

That Wu Lezi is about thirty years old, with a yellow face and thin muscles, short stature, and no flesh on his body, when he saw Yan Hong, he pounced, fell to the ground, kowtowed like pounding garlic: "Sir, sir, the people are wronged!" ”

Yan Hong couldn't help but laugh in his stomach. This scoundrel looks like a boneless one, too easy to deal with. His eyes widened, and he patted the case: "Bold murderer, tell me, how did you wrong!" ”

Wu Lezi said repeatedly: "Sir Mingjian, Xiaomin just secretly entered the Feng family's house, and I really didn't kill the prison lady!" ”

Yan Hong thought, you don't recruit yourself, who will you land if you don't land? He slapped the table again: "Nonsense! The evidence is conclusive, who else can kill if you don't kill it? Come, punish me! Wang Ting and Liu Lian shouted, and then made a gesture to get the torture instrument.

The Wu leper was so frightened that his crotch was wet, and he shouted with a crying voice: "It's not me, it's the young man who often comes!" ”

This sound only stunned a few people in the hall. Yan Hong was the first to react: "Wu Lezi, since you said that there is another real murderer, then this set of punishments will be recorded for you for the time being." Tell me about the situation. If there is half a truth, the official will skin you alive! ”

Wu Lezi nodded as if pecking rice: "The small ones can be saved, the small ones can be saved." He said something as he spoke.

This Wu leper has not been doing his job since he was a child, and he fools around the streets and alleys. Two months ago, relying on the inheritance of my distant uncle, I finally lived in this house in Andingmen, and I had a place to live. He wanted to find out the situation of the people around him, so that he could make a living by stealing chickens and dogs. With this thought in mind, naturally day and night, the thief's eyes will look at a few nearby families to see how many people these families have, whether they are rich or poor, and what their work and rest rules are, so as to start.

Who knew that after coming and going, he found that at the house of Feng Jiansheng next door, after the prisoners went to school, a young man came from time to time. What kind of person is this Wu leper, male thieves and female prostitutes have seen a lot, and instinctively feel that there may be fraud in this. Although the boy who came to see him was not easy to mess with. But the more face-saving I think, the more afraid I am of the scandal. If I can really hold your handle, I am not afraid that you will not obediently give me the money.

After making up his mind, Wu Lezi always paid attention to the movements of the family, and he could be regarded as having figured out the rules. On this day, I saw the young man coming, and the prison lady opened the courtyard door and let him in. Wu Lezi waited for this opportunity, how could he miss it, and immediately took a dagger and quietly passed.

The door was naturally bolted, but how could this stop Wu Lezi? With a dagger, he reached through the crack in the door, and with a slight pick, he opened the latch. Then he slowly pushed open the courtyard door and went around to the bedroom door. He thought, later, when this pair of dogs and men undressed and undressed and doing good deeds, they suddenly jumped out and caught rape and caught the two, and he was afraid that the boy would not give a thousand children and eight hundred silver to cover his ugliness? Maybe it's the slippery little lady, who can also dip it herself and open the meat.

Who knew that what came from the bedroom was a fierce quarrel. Wu Lezi didn't quite understand what they were saying, it seemed that the woman wanted the man to marry her, but the man refused. The more they talked, the more stiff they became, and the more noisy they became. Suddenly, the woman's scolding stopped abruptly, but there was a sizzling sound of being choked by the throat, mixed with a struggle. Wu Lezi had the courage to stretch out his head to look at it, and his face turned blue with fright. I saw that the boy was pressing the prisoner on the bed, and his hands were tightly choked by his throat. And the prison lady just twitched weakly with her hands and feet, and it seemed that she was about to die.

Although Wu Lezi was used to drinking and fighting, at this time, his legs were also so frightened that his legs were weak, and he quickly retracted his head. In a moment, I heard the sound of footsteps coming towards the door, and I was so frightened that I quickly dodged away, and saw that the boy ran out of the courtyard in a panic. Wu Lezi mustered up his courage and tiptoed into the bedroom to look, the prison lady's eyes bulged out, her tongue stretched out, and she was already lying on the bed and breathing.

Wu Lezi, a low-level ruffian, when has he seen this kind of terrifying scene, he was almost paralyzed to the ground in fright, struggling to run out. When he was discharged from the hospital, the shadow of the boy was long gone.

When Yan Hong heard this, he slapped the table again: "Rogue fanatics, a bunch of nonsense!" If you have witnessed a murder, you should have reported it to the police, but how did you abscond instead? This is clearly a murder case, absconding for fear of crime, but still wanting to make up a story and blame others! ”

Wu Lezi was so frightened by this drink that he knocked his head twice, and said in a trembling voice: "The old man is on top, although the poor little one is mixed in the street, he has never seen a dead person, and he was frightened at that time." I thought that I carried a dagger into the door of the house, this prison lady died in bed, I jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it. After a while, I heard Feng Jiansheng shouting outside. After a while, another officer and soldier came. I was so deluded that I was afraid that I would be caught, so I closed the door and ran. Who knew that when he ran to the north gate, he was still caught by the old man in brocade. Big man, the little one really didn't kill anyone! ”