Chapter 0197 Mountain Villa
Oh no, everyone, hurry up!! ”
Li Mo exclaimed one by one, and the group ran over, only to find out when they got close that it was indeed the residence of Scribe Zheng that caught fire.........
The reason why Li Moyi didn't rest and rushed over to search for evidence non-stop was that he was worried that the people behind the scenes would destroy the evidence in advance, but he didn't expect to be a step too late!!
Fortunately, Zheng Shu's house is not remote, and there are two concubines and a lot of maids and maids at home, and they found it in a timely manner, and the surrounding neighbors are worried about affecting their own houses, and they are also very hard at fighting the fire.
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Looking at the ruined walls of the ruined house that was still smoking, the two concubines of the Zheng scribe cried with a disgraced face, and the servants waited carefully.
The two concubines were also completely panicked, and they were about to send their maids to the governor's mansion to inform the official Zheng, but when they saw that Li Mo was fighting the fire with an archer, they asked the official Zheng if he was on business in the governor's mansion.
As soon as Li Mo told the truth about the matter of Scribe Zheng, the two concubines were immediately dumbfounded, and immediately cried and shouted to go to the governor's mansion to reason, Li Moyi didn't bother to care about these, anyway, with Governor Li's disposal, he still concentrated on searching for evidence.
The Zheng scribe made a mistake, and Li Mo came with an archer to search for evidence, and the concubines and maids of the Zheng family did not dare to stop them.
Although the fire was extinguished, most of the house was also burned, especially the inner courtyard where the Zheng scribe lived, which was burned to the ground, which should have been the point of the fire.
Although Li Moyi has little experience in finding evidence in the fire, he will always leave some traces whenever he acts, and it depends on whether a discerning person can find it.
Because he was worried about ruining the scene, Li Moyi asked the archers to wait outside, and walked into the house alone.
The burned wooden beams and rubble were everywhere, and Li Moyi also focused on the residence of the Zheng scribe, with the cautious Bingzi of the Zheng scribe, he was able to deceive the people in the official residence, and the two concubines would definitely not know too much about it.
If these two concubines are insiders, then the mastermind behind the scenes will definitely kill them, the house is gone, but the two of them can still live in a good manner, which shows that they don't know anything about what Zheng Shuyi did.
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Li Moyi searched in Zheng Shuyi's house, and after briefly observing the burning degree of the scene and the surrounding objects, he quickly confirmed that this was the fire point.
If you continue to search this house, it won't make much sense, and Li Mo couldn't help but walk out with his head down.
When the two concubines saw Li Mo come out, they cautiously asked, "Since the search has been completed, can the concubines let people go in and clean up?"
Li Moyi knew that the two of them were going to pick up something valuable, the fire was concentrated in the room of Scribe Zheng, and the other places were not too badly burned, they probably saw Scribe Zheng in prison, and wanted to grab a good roll and leave......... Otherwise, they will take all the belongings back, so that they can fish out the Zheng scribes.
Li Moyi didn't let them in, but took the archers and searched the other places, and then allowed them to enter the house to clean up.
This search also made Li Moyi confirm a thing, these two concubines really didn't know anything about Scribe Zheng, and they couldn't help but be even more discouraged.
Li Mo frowned, thinking that he could only hope to pry open Scribe Zheng's mouth.
Just as he was about to leave, Li Moyi found an old mother walking out of the cleaning room with a large pile of clothes.
As soon as his mind moved, Li Mo stopped the old mother: "This aunt, are your master's clothes still there?" ”
The old mother was also in a bad mood, after all, if such a disaster happened, they might have to find a new owner and find another way to make a living, but they are all lowly subordinates, where do they dare to offend Li Moyi, plus Li Moyi is not overwhelmed, but is very cohesive and modest, so she also replied.
"Returning to the old man......... The cleanroom may have been a little damp and didn't cause much fire, and the clothes of the lord and the lady were still there, but they were just ......... It's just that I haven't had time to wash my clothes yesterday........."
"Didn't wash? Just right!! ”
Li Moyi also couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, this Zheng scribe changed his night clothes before going to the governor's mansion to assassinate Duo Niang, if the clothes he changed were not washed, he should be able to find some useful clues.........
"Bring all your master's clothes!!"
Li Mo instructed the old mother, but quickly changed her words and said, "No, don't touch those clothes, take me over, I'll see for myself!!"
The old mother was also puzzled, what could a big man's clothes look like, it can be seen that Li Moyi was like this, and he didn't dare to disobey anything, so he immediately took Li Moyi to the cleaning room.
Although it is a simple job, but the old mother is also used to doing it in a large family, and the clothes of the master and the wife are stored and washed separately, because this morning there was a fire in the house, and yesterday's clothes were stacked on wooden shelves.
Li Mo carefully checked and looked through Zheng Shushi's clothes, and then asked the old mother, "Where are the shoes, socks and hat scarf?"
The old woman pointed to a small bamboo basket in the corner and replied, "The old man's shoes are over there.........
Li Mo's eyes seemed to shine, he dropped his clothes and walked to the front of the bamboo basket, carefully lifted the shoes of the Zheng scribe, checked them carefully, and then asked the archers and the old mothers to go out, closed the door, and then looked at it carefully.........
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Although the fire had been extinguished, the ruins of Zheng Shu's house were still emitting wisps of smoke, the ground was black and muddy, and the archers were also sighing.
As soon as Li Mo came out of the cleaning room, the archers all gathered around, and Li Mo immediately ordered them to gather all the people in the Zheng scribe's house, and the archers did not dare to disobey, and immediately found more than a dozen people, including the two concubines.
Because he was busy fighting the fire, he gradually forgot the hour, and at this time, Li Moyi, who was hungry, found that it was close to noon, and the surrounding area was filthy, so he asked everyone to move to the north wing where there was no fire.
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This wing room was originally lived in by the people in the house, and it was a big shop, except for the personal rings of the two concubines, the other laundry and cooking miscellaneous maids slept in it, and the air was not very good.
As soon as Li Mo entered the room, he glanced around, asked someone to bring a table, and after sitting down, he asked the two concubines to come in.
Both of them were also eighteen or twenty years old, and they were looking nervous and very self-restrained, thinking that the Zheng scribe did not often take them to meet strange guests.
It is said that whether it is interrogation or investigation, it is best to choose only one object at a time, so as not to collude with each other, but many signs have shown that these two concubines basically don't know anything, just a cover used by Zheng Shuyi to hide people's ears, Li Moyi didn't think about knowing anything from the two of them, he is now concerned about another matter.
Li Moyi has been in contact with many murder scenes, and when he is interrogated at the moment, he naturally looks cautious and solemn, without a smile, he suddenly shows his majesty, and the two concubines don't know what kind of character Li Moyi is in the governor's mansion.
There were still several subordinates waiting outside, the archers came early in the morning, and they were in a hurry to put out the fire, and they were busy for most of the day, Li Mo didn't mention any nonsense, so he asked directly.
"Does Scrivener Zheng have any other mansions or properties outside?"
“……… Are there any other businesses that buy or sell them? ”
When the second concubine heard this, she immediately raised her head, there was some surprise in her eyes, she glanced at each other, and the older one replied in a chatter.
"My lord, my lord is in the official residence on weekdays on business, and he will come back in the evening......... Come back for the night, sometimes don't come back, either at the official residence or ......... It is to sleep outside in the wind and the moon......... As for whether there is any other place to live outside......... I really don't know ......... concubine."
Li Moyi seemed to have expected such an answer, but nodded slightly, these two people are afraid that the days of following Zheng Shuren will not be long, otherwise they should cry out for Zheng Shuren as soon as possible, or implore themselves to find out the murderer of arson.
But these two people didn't mention anything, and seemed to be ready to leave Zheng Shushu at any time, and it seemed that they also knew that Zheng Shuren had no intention of living with them, but just used them as a cover for the outside world.
"Do you have guests to visit Scribe Zheng on weekdays? Who are they? ”
"The lord usually receives guests in his own courtyard, and never lets us meet guests........."
As soon as Li Mo heard this, he suddenly remembered a detail he saw when he searched Zheng Shuzhi's house just now, there was a couch and a quilt in that room, and all the utensils were complete, so he asked.
"Scribe Zheng won't live with you?"
The concubine lowered her head, and Li Mo couldn't see what her expression was.
After hesitating for a moment, she still nodded, and the younger concubine seemed to be a little anxious, and said from the side: "After the master bought us back, he has been living alone in that single courtyard........."
As soon as Li Mo heard this, he also saw the thoughts of this little concubine, no wonder they were in a hurry to leave, it turned out that they were still big girls, no wonder she was in such a hurry to prove herself.........
Li Moyi also knew that he couldn't ask anything, and his focus was not on these two concubines, and even gathering everyone together was just a false cover-up, and when the two of them were sent out, he beckoned the archer in, whispered a few words, and the archer nodded and walked out.
After a while, two archers walked in with an old groom.
"My lord, the groom has brought it."
"Hmm."
Li Mo replied casually, and when he looked at it, this groom looked like he was in his early fifties, with dark skin, his beard was already a little gray, and his body was a little straight, as if he didn't dare to raise his head, looking like he was desperate.
"Look up!!"
Li Mo suddenly shouted, and the horseman was also shocked, and his legs and feet trembled immediately, although he raised his head, his eyes dodged, and he didn't dare to look at Li Moyi.
"Scrivener Zheng also has a mountain villa residence in another place, he wants to travel, and only you know, if you don't hurry up and truthfully recruit him, do you want to wait for the board!!"
It's a pity that there is no surprise, otherwise Li Mo will have to make a bad score.
The horseman was also taken aback by Li Moyi's drink, and immediately knelt down: "The villain is wronged, big man!" ”
The archers standing on both sides were also familiar with the way, seeing this, knowing that Li Mo was going to cheat this old groom, he immediately raised his stick and shouted loudly: "Bold, will my family frame you as a groom!!"
When the old groom saw that the archers were about to fight, his whole body trembled even more, but he only kept arguing in his mouth: "The old man really doesn't know anything.........
Li Mo squinted his eyes slightly, staring at the old groom, and then ordered the left and right archers: "Come on, take off his shoes for me!!"
The archer was also at a loss when he heard this, if he wanted to use torture, hitting the soles of his feet could indeed make people faint in pain, but this old groom was old, and with such a cruel criminal law, it was estimated that his feet would be discounted without two sticks.
But they didn't have to question anything, and when they took off the groom's broken shoes, a thick stench suddenly filled the room.
"Bring the shoes."
The archer saw that Li Mo did not change his color, and he was even more puzzled, as long as he pinched his nose with one hand, he gently put the smelly broken shoes on the table.
Li Mo grabbed the shoe, inspected it carefully, scraped off the mud on the sole of the shoe with a small wooden strip, and even picked up the knife that had been prepared, cut the upper of the shoe, and poured out all the mud and dirt in the shoe.
When the two archers saw this scene, they were even more puzzled, after fighting the fire, the courtyard was muddy, and whose shoes were not covered with black ash and black mud? What useful clues can be found by checking the shoes at this time?
However, Li Moyi carefully checked the mud spots and dirt on the table, and immediately nodded with satisfaction, and couldn't help laughing twice, and when he raised his head, he found that the left and right archers were looking at him like monsters, and Li Moyi stopped laughing.
Not wanting the two archer brothers to misunderstand anything, he beckoned to them and said, "Come and see, what is this?"
The two archers immediately came over, but they saw two small piles of dirt on the table, the one on the left was scraped from the soles of their shoes, dirty and sticky, both of them were fire ash mixed with mud and water on the ground of the yard, not much different from ordinary black soil and mud, and there was no clue to it.
On the right, there is only a small rub, which is poured out of the shoe after cutting the upper of the shoe, which is still dry, and you can vaguely see a few spherical mud dots, a bit like fine crushed charcoal slag.
The archer on the left was older, and he had been on an errand for a long time, and he knew that Li Mo couldn't be untargeted, so he pinched a small mud ball, twisted it and smelled it, and a smell of feces penetrated into his nostrils, and he immediately frowned.
"Phew!! It's unlucky, it's a little dung ball!! ”
Li Mo smiled and corrected: "To be exact, it's not a small dung ball, but flower fertilizer!!"
"Flower fertilizer? There is no garden in this house, where is the flower fertilizer? ”
The archer was puzzled, and then patted his head and said, "There is no garden here, this flower fertilizer must have been stained elsewhere, no wonder the lord asked him if he knew where Scr. Zheng lived in a mountain villa elsewhere!!"
Li Mo nodded with satisfaction, feeling that this archer was still a clear person, and immediately asked, "What's your name?"
The archer knew that his performance had entered this person's eyes, and remembered that this person was commensurate with the brother of the governor, and if he was appreciated by this person, he might be able to mix up a good errand in the future, so he immediately replied: "The villain's name is Li Mu."
When the other young archer heard this, his mind suddenly became lively, and he raised his stick and pumped it at the horseman: "Good you are a bad talent, even our adults dare to deceive, why don't you hurry up and recruit the truth!" ”
The groom ate a stick on his body, and immediately shrank to the ground, but he said in a chattering voice: "The villain is wronged, the villain is just a handlebar style for driving horses, let's do this business, walk around, don't say it's flower fertilizer, it's cow dung and dog shit, it can also be stained, how can adults be sure that this is in Master Zheng's villa, the villain is really wronged!!"
When the archer heard this, the stick he had just raised put down again, because what the old horseman said was indeed somewhat reasonable, and he couldn't help but cast a puzzled look at Li Mo.
Li Mo snorted coldly, threw something on the old groom's body, and then shook and said, "You dare to tell a lie!" This is the fast boot that Zheng Shuzhi changed yesterday, because he didn't have time to clean in the cleaning room, and the same flower fertilizer was stained on his head, what does it mean!! ”
Li Mu's eyes lit up, and he patted his thigh and said, "My lord is smart!" It must have been this old man who dragged Scrivener Zheng to the residence of the villa, so the same flower fertilizer was stained on his boots!! ”
When the old groom heard this, he suddenly became depressed, and sat down on the ground, and the young archer raised his club again to threaten him, saying, "Okay, you dog, why don't you hurry up and summon it truthfully!!"
The old groom sighed lightly, then knelt down and confessed to Li Mo, "My lord, spare my life......... The villains are all recruited......... All of them are recruited!! ”
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"Master Zheng has a villa on the edge of the city, he told the villain that he secretly raised a concubine, and the villain sent some oil, rice, vegetables and vegetables every few days, and Master Zheng usually goes at night, but he will not spend the night there, and the villain has never seen the female protagonist inside........."
"The big man can spare the villain, Master Zheng said, if you let others know, you will give the villain a good look, the old man, I am a subordinate who rolls on the ground, where do I dare to spit out half a word........."
When Li Mo heard this, he couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart, if Scrivener Zheng had another concubine in another house, it would not be an unsightly thing in these years, so why hide it, I am afraid that what is hidden in the villa is not the person secretly raised by Scrivener Zheng.........
As soon as Li Mu heard this, he immediately shouted angrily: "You are afraid of that Zheng scribe, how can you not be afraid of my grandfather!!"
The young archer raised his club and struck again, so frightened that the old groom covered his head and cried out for mercy.
Li Moyi didn't want to embarrass the old man too much, so he immediately waved his hand to stop him and said, "Okay, let him take us to the villa first."
As soon as Li Mo stood up, he subconsciously touched the two gold and bronze keys hidden on his body, thinking in his heart, and he didn't know if he could use them when the time came.
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After walking out of the house, Li Mo dismissed these people, led by the two concubines, and the people in the family began to pack up their things, which meant to break up the family.
Li Mo couldn't help but sigh for these people when he saw it in his eyes, thought about it, and said to Li Mu again: "I'm afraid that the villa is not in a hurry, and I bother Brother Li Mu to go back and talk to the head of the mansion, and send some more people to support."
This is the best clue that Li Moyi dug up from Zheng Shuzhi at present, Li Moyi also has strange expectations in his heart, maybe this villa can confirm all kinds of speculations in his heart, so he doesn't dare to be careless.
Li Mu also knew the seriousness of this matter, and was about to go back to call someone, but saw several people walking in.
"Hehe, so you're really here!!"
As soon as Li Mo heard the sound, he turned around and looked at the person.
It turned out that it was Ning Xuan and Xu Jiu, but it was Tanzhong who led the way, and Shu Bu Hunger brought a few cold-eyed followers.........
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