Guobei County is a small county town, less than three zhang high city wall, dilapidated, short, you can also see many broken bricks scattered under the city wall, the city wall still leaves many traces of swords, as if after the baptism of war.

At the gates of the city walls stood guard by a few lazy soldiers, interrogating passers-by.

At this time, a man with an obscene face, a small braid on his head, and blood all over his body, staggered over, and saw the three blurred big characters "Guobei County" on the city wall, his heart breathed a sigh of relief, and his consciousness was suddenly blurred, and he fell down suddenly.

"Hey! Yikes! Dead. An ordinary citizen exclaimed.

A group of people immediately ran over to see the excitement.

"Huh! This lewd fat man seems to have seen it somewhere. A pockmarked-faced man wondered.

……

"Let it go, what's the point? It's all around here. One of the soldiers shouted.

The crowd immediately parted and watched from a distance.

At this moment, a guard at the city gate, dressed in cracked leather armor and carrying a steel knife at his waist, walked over and saw a fat man lying on the ground, covered in blood.

A soldier came over and whispered, "Captain, we can take this opportunity to make a ,......"

The captain of the guard understood, rolled his eyes, and asked, "Who killed this?" ”

As if trained, everyone took a few steps back neatly and shook their heads in unison: "No." ”

The captain of the guard saw that everyone reacted so quickly, and underestimated in his heart: "Damn, they are all so shrewd and react so quickly, so that Lao Tzu can't get oil and water." ”

Looking around, there was a figure standing there in a daze, as if it didn't know what was going on.

This is a scholar in a white shirt, with a delicate face and a weak body, carrying a book frame on his back, standing there in a daze, unaware of what is happening, and the crowd that was originally gathered together is all dispersed.

"What's your name?" The captain of the guard shouted.

"Call me!" The scholar was slightly stunned, and pointed to himself in confusion.

"Don't call you anyone! Don't you see this is you standing here alone? The captain of the guard said angrily.

"Oh! Xiaosheng Ning Caichen. The scholar bowed slightly, turned around and saw that many people had taken a dozen steps back.

"Ning Caichen, is it your ......?" The captain of the guard had a serious face, an iron-faced, selfless, and businesslike appearance, and interrogated.

"It's me." Ning Caichen replied seriously.

The captain of the guard showed a sly smile on his face: "It's good for you to confess, the human and physical evidence are there, and you confess to kill the fat man lying on the ground."

Someone! ”

"Yes." One soldier immediately responded.

"Pull this scholar into the yamen, I didn't expect that you are a weak scholar on the surface, but in fact you are a murderer who kills blood." The captain of the guard pointed to the fat man lying on the ground and said.

Ning Caichen looked at the fat man lying on the ground covered in blood, and then he reacted and exclaimed, "Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding! I'm not a murderer, Xiaosheng just came from a neighboring county ~ Gunan County. ”

"Oh!" The captain of the guard waved his hand and let go of Ning Caichen.

"Xiaosheng is here to collect the debt." Ning Caichen pinched his sore arm and replied.

The guard captain's eyes flashed with a gleam: "Collector, do you have any evidence?" ”

Ning Caichen hurriedly took out a yellowed ledger from the frame of the endorsement and said, "This is the account book of Daliang Rice Bank, which records in detail the silver taels owed by many inns. ”

The captain of the guard casually flipped through a few pages, and they were densely packed with ledgers with Liang Mi Xing written on them. The tone questioned: "But just now you have admitted that you are a murderer!" ”

Ning Caichen was slightly stunned: "When did Xiao Sheng say that he was a murderer." ”

The captain of the guard sneered: "When I pointed to the corpse lying on the ground just now, I asked you, is it ...... you?"

By your own admission, yes. ”

Ning Caichen felt inexplicable, and was very aggrieved in his heart: "Xiao Sheng just understood the wrong adult's meaning. You thought you were asking me for my name? ”

"Hey! Hey! Comprehend the wrong meaning, I'm afraid it's a confession! I still have evidence that you are the murderer, and there are your fingerprints and palm prints on the corpse. The captain of the guard snorted coldly.

At this time, Ning Caichen was even more inexplicable, he didn't know the dead fat man lying on the ground, and he had no grievances with him, and he had no contact, how could he have fingerprints and palm prints to prove that he was a murderer.

"Come and see."

Ning Caichen looked carefully at the fat man covered in blood: "Huh! He doesn't seem to be ...... yet."

The captain of the guard lightningly put Ning Caichen's handprint on the blood-stained clothes: "Don't you have your fingerprints and palm prints on your chest. ”

Ning Caichen looked at his hands stained with blood with a frightened face, and kept shaking his hands: "Ah! Yes! There's blood! There's blood! ”

……

There were two reincarnators standing in the crowd who happened to see this scene.

Qiu Yan's face turned red with anger: "This is simply ridiculous, how can there be such an investigation." ”

Qingfeng, who was standing next to him, was even more speechless and said: "It's a ridiculous way to investigate the case, and what's even more ridiculous is that the fat man lying on the ground didn't die, but just bled too much and passed out."

Qiu Yan, you pay attention to the eyes of the captain of the soldier guard, and keep observing the frame of the book on Ning Caichen's back, it is estimated that it is extortion of money. ”

"Qingfeng, let's not help Ning Caichen."

"No, Ning Caichen is the protagonist and won't die for the time being, I really want to see what the next plot development looks like." Qingfeng said lightly.

……

The captain of the guard said impatiently: "Now that there are human witnesses and physical evidence, what are you going to do?" Is it going to stay in prison for the rest of your life, or is it private? ”

Ning Caichen's face was stunned, looking at the blood on his palms, and then seeing the captain of the guard smiling wickedly, he understood in his heart that what was done to solve the case and catch the murderer was fake, and it was all for extortion of silver taels.

His face was bitter: "Xiaosheng, there is no silver." ”

"No, how is that possible?" The captain of the guard said with an unpleasant face.

"What's in that endorsement frame?"

"The book frame is full of Confucius and Mencius books and account books, and nothing else." Ning Caichen explained.

"Boom! Syllable! ”

"Captain, there's really nothing else." A soldier reported.

The captain of the guard had an ugly face, he didn't gain anything from acting for half a day, and looked at Ning Caichen's eyes with a fierce light: "Someone!" Let's bring the murder suspect into the yamen first. ”

"Hey! Feed! There is something to discuss, and when I collect the account, there will be two silver taels. Ning Caichen hurriedly explained that he couldn't go to the yamen cell, otherwise even if he was innocent, he wouldn't be able to wash it for the rest of his life.

"Ahem! Cough! ”

A violent cough was heard.