As soon as Wei Jiu's words came out, he suddenly remembered that Miss Pei's father was Pei Qifang, and the matter was the result of their secret investigation, and I don't know if Miss Pei took the initiative to mention it to His Highness, if not, wouldn't it expose that His Highness had secretly investigated Miss Pei?

Wei Jiu here was up and down in his heart, for fear that Pei Xia would be angry, but Pei Xia didn't take this matter to heart at all. It was normal for Mu Changan to investigate her, and besides, she deliberately let Mu Changan find out.

It was Wei Jiu's proposal that made her eyes light up. Oh yes, how did you forget about it!

Thinking of going back, Pei Xia couldn't sit still, and after sending Wei Jiu and Yun'er away, she didn't pack her things, and went out directly to hire a carriage and go to Daomi County.

When Pei Xia arrived at Pei Qifang's courtyard, Pei Qifang was not at home, and the dumb uncle gestured that Pei Qifang went to play chess with Master Qi.

Pei Xia went to the county government again, and the officials of the county government of Daomi County were very familiar with Pei Xia, so they let Pei Xia in without informing. Pei Xia found the backyard of the county government, and sure enough, he found Pei Qifang and Qi Hong here.

"Oops! Isn't this Pei girl! Why did you come back suddenly, and you didn't send someone to report it first. "It was Qiu Niang who first discovered Pei Xia, she was originally sitting next to Qi Hong, and when she saw Pei Xia, she immediately greeted her happily.

As soon as Qi Hong heard that Pei Xia was coming, he hurriedly got up and saluted: "Miss Pei." ”

No matter what others do, in Qi Hong's heart, Pei Xia is still the noble princess, and the etiquette cannot be abolished. However, Pei Xia didn't think so anymore, every time Qi Hong saluted, she turned sideways to avoid it, and then saw Qi Hong as a junior.

"You two don't make all these polite things." Qiu Niang took Pei Xia's hand and sat down and asked, "How are you in Qiuzhou?" Is it hard over there? Is that Lord Cao easy to get along with? Can someone in your colleagues bully you? ”

"You have too many questions, how can Miss Pei answer you? She's just come back, and you're going to give the family a good rest. Qi Hong looked at his wife helplessly.

"I don't care yet, ask what's wrong!" Qiu Niang glanced at Qi Hong unhappily, and Qi Hong immediately shut up.

Pei Xia replied with a smile: "It's okay, it's not too hard." Master Cao is a good official, and his colleagues are also very good. ”

The three of them were talking about the excitement here, and Pei Qifang was not happy.

In addition to investigating cases in his life, his only hobby is playing chess, but after playing for many years, his chess skills are still very bad. In the past, he served as the secretary of Dali Temple in Beijing, on the one hand, he was very busy, and on the other hand, Master Pei also wanted some face, so he rarely played against others. After running away from Beijing, he had no baggage, and finally found an opponent on a par with him in Daomi County, so Pei Qifang came to Qi Hong to play chess as soon as he saw that the county government was fine.

Qi Hong is honest, Pei Qifang came to him, and he didn't know how to find a reason to hide, and he accompanied him with a bitter face every time. Pei Xia sometimes even wondered if Pei Qifang asked her to go to the county government to help in the first place so that Qi Hong could solve the case quickly and have time to play chess with him.

The rare opportunity was interrupted like this, Pei Qifang cleared his throat in displeasure, and reminded the three people present that when he saw Qi Hong pick up the chess piece again, his face looked a little better.

"Master."

Pei Xia saluted, Pei Qifang said "um", and asked while playing chess, "Why are you coming back?" If I'm not mistaken, it's probably not time to visit my family on vacation, right? ”

"I met a case, I can't make up my mind...... Pei Xia started from the initial discovery of Liu Wu's body and became suspicious, and talked about a series of experiences such as returning from Laoshu Village for bone examination and searching for people, and finally said: "It's been many days and there is still no progress, I'm worried about whether I got the wrong direction, I was wrong from Liu Wu at the beginning, maybe everything was accidental......"

Pei Qifang didn't raise his eyelids, and said: "Do you know how many unsolved cases Dali Temple can receive across the country every year? The case that happened in the village had to go through the prefect, the prefect and the local prison department, one or two were rice buckets, and everyone could still be rice buckets? ”

Pei Xia didn't understand what Pei Qifang meant, Pei Qifang continued: "I once saw a case that happened in the suburbs of Beijing, the time of the crime was late at night, and there were no eyewitnesses. After the incident, it rained heavily, and after the body was found in the morning, nearby villagers rushed to watch. When the officials of Jingzhao Mansion arrived at the scene, the traces of the scene were completely destroyed, and the murder weapon could not be found. The officials can't do it, they want to start with the motive for committing the crime, but all the people with the motive don't have the time to commit the crime. ”

Pei Xia listened curiously and asked, "Then how did you catch someone in the end?" ”

Pei Qifang snorted: "Where can I catch someone, the case has not been solved for several years, until once a rich businessman got drunk and said at the wine table that he had a dream when he was down, and the Bodhisattva guided him to get up and go out now, and kill the first person he met to make him prosperous." This man didn't know the deceased at all, so the officials never found out about him. ”

"How can it be ...... like this" This simply subverted Pei Xia's perception of the investigation of the case, in her past experience, the murderer was always in contact with the deceased, and they had a motive and logic when committing the crime. If it's all messing around like this, then how can you investigate the case? If this person doesn't say it, won't he get away with it for the rest of his life?

"There are indeed accidental homicides, and if the offender is cunning enough, it will be very difficult to investigate, and it is not unusual to not solve the case, and there is nothing unacceptable. But can you just stop looking it up because of that? Chance is just one of a million possibilities, and this one alone makes you so depressed that you don't even want to look into other possibilities? How long have you been chasing this case? Are you sure you tell me that you haven't missed even the slightest clue? ”

Pei Xia lowered her head, she didn't know how to answer, she did visit many people in the past few days, but if she really didn't miss a single one, she didn't dare to pack a ticket.

Pei Qifang knew it when he saw Pei Xia's expression, so he said more sternly: "Sometimes it is true that you need to rely on a little luck to investigate a case, the so-called doing your best and obeying the destiny of heaven." You don't even have enough personnel, so you want to put all the responsibility on the destiny? ”

After listening to Pei Qifang's words, Pei Xia suddenly became enlightened. Instead of speculating there that this case may not be solved at all, and therefore being terrified and restless all day long, it is better to sort out the clues well, firmly and thoroughly investigate every suspicious point, check all the places that can be investigated, and ask all the people who can ask.

With a decision, Pei Xia didn't plan to stay longer, and immediately said goodbye to Pei Qifang and Qi Hong. Qiu Niang wanted to send her off, Pei Xia half-hugged Qiu Niang and stopped her and said that she didn't have to bother, she had to pick up Qiu Niang to play another day.

"This kid, don't eat a meal before leaving!" After Pei Xia left, Qiu Niang said angrily, she nudged Qi Hong, "Hey, do you think that Pei Yatou seems to be much more cheerful when she comes back this time than before." ”

"Uh......" Qi Hong knew that he was relatively sluggish in this regard, although he didn't feel it, but since Madame said it was so, it must be so! Compared with this, he was more curious about the case that Pei Qifang said before: "Brother Pei, is the case you said true?" Qiu Niang also wanted to know this question, and the couple looked at Pei Qifang together.

Pei Qifang glanced at Qi Hong and his wife, and said, "You should also take it seriously if you coax the child." The man killed someone, got blood on his body, and the neighbor's dog sniffed and barked, and he was arrested that night. ”

Qi Hong and Qiu Niang: "......"Heh! It's a shame that Pei Xia trusts you so much.

Taking advantage of Qi Hong's distraction, Pei Qifang decided to win or lose, and he was in a good mood. The reason why he told Pei Xia like this was because he felt that Pei Xia's inference was not a big problem as a hypothesis, but it just needed to be further verified. This girl just lost her self-confidence for a while after being hit by a little blow, and the apprentice she taught by herself, he had confidence in her.

Back in Qiuzhou City, Pei Xia redrew a simple map, on which he marked the route of Liu Wu before his death. She decided not to think about Fan Xi and Yunsheng's son first, so she started with the initial case.

According to Kong Xian's investigation, the last time Liu Wu returned to Liujia Village was on the eighth day of the first month of last month, he stayed in Liujia Village for two days, and then went to the next village to have a funeral banquet, and then he came to Qiuzhou City to borrow money from his cousin. Liu Wu didn't borrow money from his cousin once or twice, and his cousin was very annoying to him, but he couldn't hide from it, and he couldn't be entangled, so he lent him a few dollars every time.

After getting the money, Liu Wu went to a gambling house, and his fingers were cut off because he owed money for gambling, but he forgot the pain when he got the scars, and he wanted to play as soon as he had money. On this day, he still came to play a few games, and according to the people in the gambling house, he won a small amount of money.

Strange, a gambler, won money and left? Pei Xia has seen those gambling addicts in the gambling house, like Liu Wu, who can't even quit cutting off his fingers, as long as he has money in his hands, he will never leave if he doesn't lose.

Pei Xia put a question mark in the gambling house.

Coming out of the casino, Liu Wu went to a jewelry shop, here Pei Xia went to inquire before, Liu Wu only came in and walked around, left without buying anything, and then he went out of the city to Yutian County, but no one in Yutian County saw him, probably did not enter the county and went back to Liujia Village directly, but no one in Liujia Village saw him, and Liu Wu disappeared like this.

Liu Wu is a bachelor, and he doesn't have a good look, why should he go to a jewelry shop? This is the question that Pei Xia has been thinking about before she fell into self-doubt and depression.

He obviously wanted to buy something, otherwise he wouldn't have kept the money, this matter was very important to him, so important that he could temporarily restrain his desire to continue gambling. When he came out of the gambling house, he had no more money on him, just enough money to buy a hairpin or bracelet of a simple style, but he didn't buy it, so he went home......

It's still very strange, if he changed his mind and didn't buy it temporarily, why didn't he go back and continue gambling?

Pei Xia also put a question mark next to the jewelry shop and decided to go to these two places to inquire again.