"What's the news?" Duan Fei asked.

Wang Zuo came to Duan Fei, waved at him, and said: "My lord, I was ordered to take people to the alley to check the households, and now I have found two witnesses, proving that when King Rixing was dropped, there was a wheelbarrow in the alley next to the root of the wall of Piji, and there was a person lying on the side of the car who was sleeping soundly, and two witnesses have been brought by me, they are Jiang Chao of the second family in the alley and Aunt Yan of the third family. ”

Wang Zuo's body stepped aside and introduced a man and a woman to Duan Fei, Duan Fei looked at them, only to see Jiang Chao in his early thirties, and Aunt Yan in his forties, both of whom looked a little apprehensive, Duan Fei said in a gentle tone: "You don't have to be afraid, I brought you here just to ask a few words, and you can go back after asking." ”

Aunt Yan calmed down a little and replied, "My lord, just ask." ”

Duan Fei nodded and said approvingly, "Aunt Yan, when did you see something in the alley the day before yesterday?" Please tell me more about each of them. ”

Aunt Yan was flattered and said: "Yes, yes, at the beginning of noon the day before yesterday, I was returning from shopping for vegetables on the street, and I saw a wheelbarrow parked under the wall of the backyard of the bun shop in the alley, and there was a bulging sack on the car, but no one was guarding the car, so I asked at the time: 'Whose thing is this?' As soon as he finished speaking, someone outside the alley replied: 'It's mine, don't touch my things!' I looked back and saw a man hurrying out of the door, looking like a coolie like a porter, and there was a smell of alcohol on his body, and I told him that no things were allowed to be parked in this alley, let alone that there was no one to guard it, he just smirked, and in a panic he pushed the car away, and when he was about to turn around, the sack on the car almost rolled down. ”

Duan Fei nodded and asked, "Aunt Yan said very clearly, this person should be the drunkard who had an argument with Mu Jiang in the bun shop, he completed the task of warning and delaying, and all that was left was to transport the sack containing the person away." ”

"What? And the sack is filled with people? Aunt Yan asked in horror.

Duan Fei bowed his head and said, "Well, yes, Aunt Yan, the person you met was one of a group of kidnappers, do you remember any clues about that kidnapper?" ”

"This ......" Aunt Yan thought for a while and said, "That person's appearance is too ordinary, and he can't find it anymore after the first stop on the construction site in the south of Wangcheng, huh...... By the way, when the sack almost rolled out of the car, the man reached out and helped him, and I saw a scar on his left hand, which didn't look like a knife cut, but like a ...... It is cut by scissors, just like the edge of scissors. ”

Duan Fei stretched out his index finger and middle finger, compared a V-shape, and said, "Is this what it looks like?" ”

"Yes, yes, that's it." Aunt Yan said.

Duan Fei said: "Aunt Yan, you have done a good job, ten taels of silver, if you think of any new clues, you are welcome to report at any time, Jiang Chao, what about you?" Do you have anything to add? ”

Seeing that Aunt Yan got the silver of the white flowers, Jiang Chao was obviously encouraged, and he hurriedly replied: "Back to the adult, Aunt Yan saw a coolie, but the villain saw a person who looked like a scholar, at the end of the time, the villain came home from outside, and saw such a person and a car in the alley, when I stepped forward to ask, the person who looked like a scholar was leaning on the car and napping, I stepped forward to wake him up and asked him what he was doing there, the scholar was a very young man, he replied that he was waiting for someone, and he would leave in a while, I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, I just remembered that there was a roll of hemp rope in his car, and I thought that he was here for a while, and he would leave when his family bought things and put them in the car. ”

Aunt Yan hurriedly replied: "I will never be mistaken, that person is clearly a coolie, his back is a little bent at a young age, he will definitely be a Luo pot when he is old in the future, it is right to be young, the coolie is regarded as a scholar, you must have been wrong, Second Brother Jiang, you must have seen it wrong." ”

Jiang Chao retorted: "It's your fault if you want to be wrong, I don't have presbyopia, how can I be wrong?" My lord, that person is clearly a scholar, and the fluff on his mouth has not yet receded. ”

Aunt Yan was worried that the silver she had just gotten would fly, so she hurriedly replied: "You are talking nonsense, although that poor man is young, the slag on his face is enough to pierce the cowhide, my lord, that man is really a poor coolie." ”

The two of them quarreled in front of Duan Fei, Duan Fei said: "Okay, okay, you are all right, the scholar's transformation into a poor man is the key to this case, and now the official has almost a good understanding of this bag drop case, Wang Zuo, take ten taels of silver to Jiang Chao and send them home." ”

After Wang Zuo sent the people out, Princess Yongfu asked, "Lord Duan, how did my brother get dropped?" ”

Duan Fei replied: "This case is actually very simple to explain, the real difficulty lies in the grasp of the timing, Hu Jie is undoubtedly premeditated, and knows the habits of the eldest prince well, this can seem simple and easy, but in fact, it is difficult to quietly give the eldest prince away." ”

After satisfying everyone's appetite, Duan Fei continued: "The situation of the day should be like this, Hu Jie and his accomplices have a total of three people, among them, the coolies who pretend to be drunkards are monitoring others in the bun shop, and interfering in a timely manner, people who enter the bun shop to eat buns rarely need to go to the toilet, Hu Jie must have thought of some way to calculate the time, or the eldest prince is used to going to the toilet in this bun shop, in short, Hu Jie was calculated. ”

"When the eldest prince went to the toilet, Hu Jie sent out a signal, and the fake scholar who was waiting outside the wall threw the rope from outside the wall, and quickly climbed up the wall with the help of Hu Jie, at this time the eldest prince finished going to the toilet, but was fainted by Hu Jie's plot, the fake stripped off the clothes on the eldest prince's body and put it on, and Hu Jie joined forces or Hu Jie climbed the wall alone, and hung the sack containing the eldest prince with hemp rope and put it on the wheelbarrow, there were few pedestrians in the alley, which also gave them great convenience, Hu Jie and the fake eldest prince continued to shop, went to Taibai Mansion to drink and pretend to be drunk, and the poor man came out of the bun shop and pushed the wheelbarrow to send the eldest prince elsewhere......"

After Duan Fei's analysis, many people finally realized that they understood why King Xing, such a big living person, was dropped out of thin air.

Princess Yongfu sighed lightly: "Lord Duan, now that you have learned about the incident, what should you do next?" ”

Duan Fei said: "First of all, continue to search for Hu Jie and his two accomplices, Lu Bing, since you are good at calligraphy and painting, draw the faces of the three of them on paper, and let people copy hundreds of copies and distribute them, although the Shuntian Mansion is large, as long as they do not escape from the capital, no matter how well they hide, they will be able to dig them out sooner or later." ”

"Yes, my lord, I have already drawn the appearance of that drunkard, please take a look." Lu Bing respectfully held a piece of paper and handed it to Duan Fei, Duan Fei took it and looked at it, this person was really as Aunt Yan said, he had no characteristics, as long as he threw it into the pile, he would never be able to find it again.

Duan Fei handed back the drawing paper and said, "This person has a scissor-shaped scar on the inside of his left forearm, you can mark it and let people take it to copy." ”

Lu Bing agreed, went back and continued to paint people, Duan Fei hesitated, turned to Princess Yongfu and said, "Master Zhu, this official plans to take Luo An and Mu Jiang to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, you better go home first." ”

"No, I'm going too." Princess Yongfu said firmly: "I know that the adults want to confirm the identity of the deceased, I will not interfere with the adults, I just want to know the answer at the first time." ”

Duan Fei said: "Okay, have you eaten enough?" When you're full, you're ready to leave, Shi Bin, you pay for the buns first. ”

Pi Yi hurriedly said: "It is the honor of the small shop that adults can come to taste the buns of the small shop, how dare you charge the money for the buns of the adults again?" ”

Duan Fei said: "If you eat something, you have to give money, this is a matter of course, this official is to set an example today, if anyone in the Jinyi Guard eats and drinks but does not give money in the future, you can come to complain to the official at any time, and after verification, the official will pay a hundred times the compensation out of his own pocket, everyone will remember it for me." ”

The Jinyi guards led by Wang Zuo replied in unison: "Yes!" My lord, we will obey it, and we will not dare to disobey it! ”

Duan Feilang laughed loudly: "Since the official took office, the salary he has given you is ten times more than in the past, if you are still greedy for this cheapness, you can't help but say it, okay, everyone, don't delay Boss Pi to make steamed buns, let's go." ”

Duan Fei walked out of the bun shop, and heard someone in the crowd shouting: "Lord Duan, we support you!" ”

Duan Fei happily waved his hand in the direction where the voice came, took the jade unicorn and turned over the horse vigorously, and after Princess Yongfu also got on the jade lion, under the opening of the Jinyi Wei, everyone left the Piji bun shop, walked north, crossed Chaoyangmen Street to Dongzhimen Street and turned west, and after a while, they came to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion.

The official at the gate of the Shuntian Mansion reported in the morning, and when Duan Fei and the others entered the door and were shaking the snowflakes on their bodies, the Shuntian Governor Si Gongcheng hurriedly greeted him, Duan Fei and Si Gongcheng said hello and said: "Lord Si, this official is here to verify the identity of that person, and I don't want to alarm Lord Si." ”

Si Gongcheng smiled bitterly: "Where did Lord Duan come from?" If this case is not clear, how can I have the heart to celebrate the New Year? Mr. Duan, please ...... This is ...... Hey? ”

Si Gongcheng recognized that the little scholar beside Duan Fei was actually a woman dressed as a man, and then he recognized Princess Yongfu, Duan Fei coughed and said, "Master Si, this is Master Zhu, Lord Si quickly lead the way." ”

Si Gongcheng nodded again and again, turned around and left without saying a word, very slippery.

The group soon came to the front of the house, and Si Gongcheng whispered: "Lord Duan, the servant you brought is still inside, I don't know what he's messing with." ”

Duan Fei's heart tightened, Yang Sen's kid had always wanted to conduct a thorough autopsy and disembowel the corpse, but at this juncture, he didn't want to dismantle the corpse that was very likely to be King Xing.

The house is a place of bad luck, Duan Fei didn't dare to risk letting the princess in, he asked the princess to stay outside the door, and took Luo An and Mu Jiang in, in front of the morgue, Duan Fei coughed and said, "Ah Sen, I brought someone to identify the body, are you ready?" ”

Yang Sen said: "It's already done, I have been lying next to the corpse and sleeping for a mile, you can come in." ”

Everyone was secretly speechless, and the pretense was really weird, even if he killed a hairy ghost, Duan Fei pushed the door in, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the people on the morgue, the corpse's face was still scorched and terrifying, but it was finally not disemboweled.

Luo An and Mu Jiang came to the morgue with trepidation, the deceased's head and face could no longer see the original appearance, so they could only find clues from his body, Duan Fei motioned to Shi Bin to lift the white cloth, Luo An only glanced at his legs and fell weak, knelt down in front of the morgue, tears flowed down, Luo An choked and was speechless, Duan Fei asked: "Luo An, are you sure that this is your master?" ”

Luo An nodded, and said sadly: "There is a small mole on the chest of the little prince, it is red, it is next to the left breast, I will never be mistaken, little prince, you died a miserable death......"

Duan Fei looked at Mu Jiang, Mu Jiang shook his head, and said: "It looks very similar in terms of body shape, but the little prince never shows his chest and abdomen, even if he is soaked all over his body after practicing, he refuses to take off his clothes, I have a rough temperament, and I really don't know what marks the little prince has on his body." ”

Duan Fei took a closer look at the corpse, and there was indeed a small bright red mole on the white skin of the corpse's left chest, Duan Fei shook his head helplessly, asked Yang Sen to cover the corpse again with a white cloth, and said: "Since Luo An, you are so sure, it seems that he is undoubtedly King Xing, alas, how can I explain to the emperor and the princess?" ”

Si Gongcheng also sighed and said, "I can't escape the blame for such a case in my office, Lord Duan, when do you plan to report to the emperor?" At that time, please help the lower officials to help with a few words, so as not to ask for my life under the anger of the emperor. ”

Duan Fei said: "Si Daren, please rest assured, Si Da is not at fault in this case, if it weren't for Si Da Si who found the suspicion and personally went to Jinyiwei to persuade the official, I am afraid that I am still searching for the whereabouts of King Xing all over the city, which will inevitably delay the investigation, and this official plans to immediately go to the leopard room with Princess Yongfu to report to the emperor, Si Daren might as well go with us." ”

Si Gongcheng nodded again and again, Duan Fei glanced back at the corpse again, and said, "Is it a blessing or a curse, it is a disaster that can't be avoided, Master Si, the corpse should not be allowed to be taken away for the time being." ”

Si Gongcheng replied: "Yes, you can only get it back when the case is officially closed, so as not to destroy the evidence." ”

Duan Fei said: "Okay, Ah Sen, you continue to guard the corpse, Luo An, you go back to the house first to find some clothes for King Xing and hand them to Yang Sen, and Master Si and I will accompany the princess to the leopard room to see the emperor first, alas......"

Duan Fei sighed deeply, shook his head and walked out, Princess Yongfu stood outside the door of the room, looking up at the sky, although there were many brocade guards around to protect her, and Xiao Qian to accompany her, but she was still so lonely, as if she was standing alone in the ice and snow, and no one could help her.

Duan Fei walked up to her and bowed, Princess Yongfu lowered her head and asked softly, "Is my brother really dead?" ”

Duan Fei replied in a low voice: "Your Royal Highness Princess, according to Luo An's confirmation, the deceased should be His Royal Highness King Xing. ”