Chapter 0424 [Searching for Old Cases and Searching for Demons]

Duan Fei called to open the city gate with the Jinyi Wei token, and rode his horse straight into the county office.

When the county magistrate Tan Bin heard the news, he hurriedly greeted him, and when he saw Duan Fei, he couldn't help but be stunned, and said, "Lord Duan, how are you ...... Xia Guan greeted Lord Duan. ”

Duan Fei waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite, this official came back in disguise, please Lord Tan warn everyone not to spread the news that I came to Lushan County." ”

Tan Bin nodded in agreement and welcomed Duan Fei into the flower hall, and Duan Fei ordered, "Go and call Hua Ming." ”

Tan Bin sent someone to go, and then asked cautiously: "Lord Duan, you came to Lushan County in the starry night, could it be that the circumstances of the case have changed?" ”

Duan Fei replied: "There are some changes, but this change is a good thing, the official has found the murderer's lair, and burned his pretending to be a ghost, and has now reduced the murderer's age and livelihood, so he specially rushed to Lushan County to preside, hoping to arrest the murderer as soon as possible." ”

Tan Bin was stunned, and after a while, Duan Fei asked, "Master Tan, how did you do what I asked you to do?" ”

Tan Bin replied: "Xiaguan has already checked the files of the reported missing population and unsolved homicide cases in the past hundred years, and sure enough, he has found several suspicious cases. ”

Tan Bin left quickly, and after a while he took back a stack of case files, and Hua Ming also hurried over.

Hua Ming saluted Duan Fei and said: "My lord, according to the instructions of the lord, I have sent people to guard the passes, but the four city gates of Lushan County have not been sent to guard them, and there are only two hundred brocade guards left in the city, waiting for the dispatch of the lord at any time." ”

Duan Fei said: "Well, you sit down first, and I'll take a look at the case files selected by Lord Tan." ”

Duan Fei opened the case file and looked at it, Tan Bin explained on the side, Lushan County from 50 years ago to the present day, a total of three families are related to this case, two of them are from other places, come to Lushan County to work and do business, after a long time in Lushan County settled down, they disappeared on the way home, the other family is from Kaifeng to Xiangyang to visit relatives and friends, after Lushan County disappeared, if it is not for their family to find out that they missed the east and west sent the family to Nanzhao all the way to find that the person is gone, only to find out that there is a problem in Lushan.

The three families have all reported to the official, but after many years, the three cases have not been associated with the government, and they have no clue and are put on the shelf.

Duan Fei looked very carefully, but unfortunately the three cases were handled in a daze, leaving no clues, only knowing that the three cases occurred fifty-two, thirty-seven, and twenty-four years ago, respectively, and the people who disappeared in the three cases were a couple and a boy, but there were two other families in the Kaifeng family who disappeared together.

Duan Fei memorized the key information of the three case files, and then opened the other case files.

These cases include unsolved murder cases, family abuse cases, suspicious self-hanging cases, etc., Tan Bin felt that there might be some connection with this case, so he picked them all out.

Duan Fei analyzed the key clues of the case, and quickly ruled out most of the cases, but left two equally old cases, and carefully distinguished, one of these two cases was a self-hanging case, and the other was an unsolved homicide case.

The reason why the self-hanging case is strange is that most of the deceased who hanged themselves in their own homes or nearby trees hanged themselves, but the deceased in this case hanged himself at the gate of Lushan County, the rope was hung high on the battlement, and the deceased was covered with scars, which is very similar to the current case, and the deceased left a handwritten letter saying that he did not want to live, but everyone suspected that it was forced to write.

There was a suspect in this case, that was a monkey who ran the rivers and lakes, and the deceased had a quarrel before his death, and it was not enough to be scolded by the deceased to be bloody, and he was beaten violently, and the beater hanged himself that night, and the person who was humiliated and beaten was naturally very suspicious, but the Jianghu artist surnamed You was not at the scene because someone testified, and the case became an unsolved case.

Another murder case is also related to the Jianghu artist surnamed You, but this time he became a victim, his wife was beaten to death in the broken temple with a stick, and the jewelry and valuable things on her body were robbed, You Hong took his son back to the broken temple where he lived only to find that his wife was dead, so he reported to the official, and the government couldn't find out, and the case became an unsolved case.

This is a case from decades ago, the self-hanging case happened 60 years ago, when You Hong was still a hairy boy in his teens and twenties, and the murder happened 40 years ago, You was about 40 years old, and his son was more than two years old at that time, and his wife was ......

Duan Fei rummaged through and didn't find what his wife's original name was, and only You's name was written on the case file, but his witness in the self-hanging case left a name, which was Ding Jiayi, a woman from Dingjia Village in the south of the county.

Duan Fei took the case and shouted: "Lord Tan, you immediately send two messengers to Dingjia Village in the south of the city to find a woman named Ding Jiayi, if you can't find her, you can find someone who understands her family affairs and knows her husband, and bring it back immediately after finding it." ”

Tan Bin also read the case file, and he said, "The adult suspects that this surnamed You is the murderer?" ”

Duan Fei replied: "It is very likely, if it is confirmed that this woman surnamed Ding is the wife who was killed by him twenty years later, there is no doubt that he is the murderer." ”

Tan Bin hurriedly sent people out of the city to find someone, and when he came back, Duan Fei said to him and Hua Ming: "The city gate is open today, but you have to send people to the city gate to strictly investigate, the officials are clearly inspected, Huaming, you can disguise and supervise, those who come in can be ignored, and those who go out must be strictly investigated, especially when they find men in their forties and boys in their teens, their identities must be clarified, and they can only be let out when they have absolutely nothing to do with this case." ”

Tan Bin hesitated: "My lord, how can you prove that they have absolutely nothing to do with this case?" ”

Duan Fei said: "The residents of the city, ask them to go back to Lijia to prove their identity, whether they have children or not, and what to do when they go out of the city." Those who live outside the city or those who wander the rivers and lakes will be temporarily detained, and the official will give them food to eat, if they really can't decide, then come and ask the official again. ”

"Humble (subordinate officials) obey orders!" Hua Ming and Tan Bin agreed.

Duan Fei said: "Okay, you all prepare to go, this official wants to take a rest now, if the people sent to the surrounding counties have news to come back, immediately notify the official, prepare some local clothes for the official, and tomorrow morning the official will go to the street for a secret visit." ”

Tan Bin hurriedly arranged a place for Duan Fei and Shi Bin to sleep, Duan Fei woke up and received news from the nearby Baofeng, Yexian, Nanzhao and other counties, and after checking the old cases, the three counties found something, but some cases were stamped with the four-level seal of the county, government, province, and criminal department, indicating that the case had been closed, and Duan Fei frowned when he saw the transferred case file, these cases were simply messy, and there were no corpses and murder weapons, so they convicted and beheaded people indiscriminately, and these officials were too ...... In contrast, the two confused county commanders in Lushan County at least did not unjustly kill people.

Duan Fei copied these related cases on paper, according to the list of years, now there are twelve years in the table to fill in the location, each county just happened to have three cases, each case is between thirteen to fifteen years, Duan Fei simply suspects that the murderer also has such a table in his hand, otherwise it is inevitable that he will make mistakes after a long time, although the county order of the Ming Dynasty stipulates that it will be changed every three years, but it is common to stay in any one or two terms for some reasons, if the murderer commits crimes in one place a little more frequently, maybe it will be detected, As for the state capital and the judicial level, there are more people missing every year in these years, and it doesn't matter if you don't see a family for a year, as long as there is no bitter master desperately pursuing it, this kind of disappearance case is basically no one cares about.

Duan Fei took the form into his arms, strode out, and shouted: "Get up, get up, eat enough and go shopping......"

In the middle of the hour, Duan Fei had already brought people to the street, for a small county town with a population of 20,000 or 30,000, it was too early for Chenshi, there were few ghosts on the street, and there were very few shops open, Duan Fei had to find a teahouse, and slowly drink tea and grind time.

Lushan is a county with a long history, there are many celebrities and monuments, and there are a lot of people and inkmen, so this teahouse will not go out of business, and there are more and more tea customers in the teahouse, and the boss who was found by Duan Fei to chat took the time to leave, Duan Fei paid five dollars of silver for tea, and walked downstairs with Shi Bin and a few of their 'family members' step by step.

The street was already lively, selling everything, Duan Fei followed Tan Bin's instructions and walked all the way to the City God Temple in the south.

In front of the City God Temple is a T-shaped intersection, the road is wide, and the acrobats who set up stalls gather here, and the people come and go very lively.

"This boy is so good-looking...... "The fortune teller on the side of the road said loudly, "It's a pity that ......"

Duan Fei's eyes looked over, and he saw a tattered cloth sign with the words Banri Immortal written on it, the table and chair under the move were all in tatters, and where was a Taoist priest sitting in a sloppy Taoist robe with his hair tied in a bun, with a slightly chubby figure and a round face, at this moment he was opening a pair of fish bubble eyes and looking at Duan Fei with a smile.

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