Inside the Yamen of Jingzhili

Bai Changsheng was sitting on the chair with Wu Laosan at the moment, looking at the old man in front of him, and the old man really made Bai Changsheng envious:

People are clothes, horses are saddles, and the scenery of the West Lake is equipped with whips.

This is true for the old man Wang, the scholar's son's clothes, embroidered with a hundred birds and a phoenix, and Hebran's shoes lined with an eight-foot figure, how can he be called a romantic and suave man.

There is a god in his eyes, tiger eyes and thunder, and a long beard on his national face, this Wang is so magnificent.

"This matter can't be delayed, I will immediately report to the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses, you go to the Chen Mansion again, and secretly observe that they can't make them escape, and it will be some time for the people to come above, you are like this and this..."

Master Wang stroked his beard and paced in the house again and again, and finally finalized his plan.

In that courtyard before, all the hands of the people were scattered.

Wu Laosan had no choice but to take Bai Changsheng back to Beijing and Zhili Yamen first, and find Master Wang to return everything.

After hearing this, Master Wang sighed and made the two of them prepare like this.

Bai Changsheng looked at Master Wang's expression, and secretly paid attention to himself in his heart, why wasn't he surprised at all by the paper figures?

However, listening to Master Wang's tone, he also left a back hand on this master Chen Hua, in fact, if you want to convict him, there are nothing more than three fatal conditions:

One is the stolen silver, the second is the corpses, and the third is the bandit leader with an oily beard!

All the previous murders were issued by the master to Oilbeard, if this person can be made to confess, combined with those two evidences, I am not afraid that the master will not be able to subdue the law.

It's not impossible to say that the crime is punished now, but what I'm afraid of is that the thief will bite into the bone.

If the above makes a decision, there is no conclusive evidence, and Master Chen Hua is estimated to use the system of discussing the guilt to escape punishment. (Discussion of guilty silver: In the Qing Dynasty, according to the size of the regulations committed, the confiscation of silver was exempted from criminal responsibility.) ）

Bai Changsheng nodded secretly, this old man Wang is decisive and delicate, which is actually the true character of a parent official.

The two of them came out of the house according to the instructions, and Bai Changsheng went to his house with Wu Laosan to rest for a while, and the people really couldn't stand it for a few days.

When the two of them got up, it was already a turn of the day, and the first place they wanted to go to was the ghost crying grave.

It would be best if we could find the old man and come to the case together.

The two of them studied it like this, but when they arrived in front of the old man's house, they were stunned.

The wreckage of the house was supposed to have charred charcoal, but it had been razed to the ground, and there was no trace of any building on the entire Devil's Cry grave.

What's going on?

Wu Laosan's eyes widened, that day he clearly saw a raging fire burning in the house and burning into ruins, but how could there be no trace at all?

Bai Changsheng saw that something was wrong, standing on top of that corner of the wasteland, bent down and picked up a corner of paper ash, Bai Changsheng nodded, sure enough.

"This house has a history."

Wu Laosan looked at Bai Changsheng and said that he would like to hear about it.

"This house is made of paper, and after it was burned, it was cleared by the wind."

Wu Laosan gasped after hearing this, this is actually a paper house?

Hurriedly bent down with Bai Changsheng to check, and sure enough, they found a lot of confetti on the ground that had not been blown away.

Bai Changsheng knew such a saying from his old father, and he wanted to build a yin house for the unjustly killed in southern Xinjiang, and what he wanted was this paper house, which should be soft and made of paper.

Before the construction, the paper was sprayed with white wine, and finally sealed with wax, cardboard was used as a building, and then the whole house was painted with the candle mud of white candles.

Bai Changsheng thought of it when he heard Wu Laosan talk about the spontaneous combustion of this house that day, and now that he is here, he confirmed his thoughts.

Wu Laosan patted the ashes on his hands and smacked his mouth:

"This old man is too lacking in morality, it seems that he has been prepared for a long time to make such a paper house."

The two of them looked back and forth, and there was nothing suspicious about the entire ghost crying tomb, so they rushed to the Chen Mansion to visit the housekeeper Liu Ming.

At this time, in the house of Chen Hua, the master of the Jingzhili Yamen:

A strong man, fierce and vicious, with four flutes and tendons, big shoulders and a round waist.

There was a red silk silk pinned to his waist, and a treasure blade was hidden in the back, and he was talking to the master Chen Hua.

Master Chen Hua said with a vicious look:

"I have a spy to sue, saying that this old man Wang has long been worried about getting rid of me, and he can't bear it, this case is a reason, what to do, do you know?"

The man couldn't see his expression clearly, and only heard him snort coldly:

"All who know what's going on..."

Speaking of which, he stopped and gestured his neck with his hand.

"By the way, what about the two legs? Every time we come together, why can't we see each other this time? ”

The big man turned around and was about to leave, but when he heard the master ask himself, he didn't turn around, and turned his back to Chen Hua and said:

"Don't ask more, just prepare the silver, I have done what I should do, I think I should do it, and I have helped you do it, after this case is over, you take your Yangguan Road and I will take my single-plank bridge, and the two do not owe each other!"

After the big man finished speaking, he kicked open the door of the house and hurried away in the night.

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Halfway down the road, it was almost dark, and Bai Changsheng suddenly remembered the case of the two brothers, Wenyan and Wenwu, and said:

"Let's go to Wenyan Wenwu's house first, I think there are still some things you haven't found in their house."

Wu Laosan couldn't resist it, so he went to Wenwu's house with him first.

Fortunately, the two families and the Chen Mansion were not too far apart, and the two of them walked into the courtyard.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Bai Changsheng saw the tree in the courtyard that Wu Laosan said at a glance.

What should be buried under this tree is some incriminating evidence such as five hundred taels of silver.

dug out the tree again, and as soon as he opened it, there was a jewel inside, which really surprised Bai Changsheng.

These five hundred taels of silver can not only open up the relationship, but can also make a poor person kill!

After reading the silver, Bai Changsheng did not move immediately, but observed the scabbard box that Wu Laosan had also seen before.

Bai Changsheng picked up the box and looked at it to himself, Wu Laosan was a little puzzled on the side:

"Do you need to see this, the knife must have been taken."

Bai Changsheng didn't interrupt, he just took out a knife from his arms!

The knife is wide and the back is thick and the blade is thin, and the blood is not visible when killing, the purple is slight, the blue depression is low, the glow is ten thousand, and the color is thousand!

It's the sharp knife that the previous shopkeeper used to assassinate him!

At the beginning, Bai Changsheng saw that this knife and the sharp knife that Wen Yan used to assassinate him were from the same forging process.

I put it away carefully, took it out at this time, and put it in this box:

It's like a set.

Bai Changsheng nodded, and said in his heart that they were all raccoon dogs.

Wu Laosan was also secretly surprised that he hadn't found this tiny clue.

The two glanced at each other, put away this set of swords and weapons, and Bai Changsheng stood up:

"Let's go, Wen Yanjia."

The two of them got up and went straight to Wen Yan's house not far away.

As soon as I entered the house, I found that Wen Yan's wife was no longer there, and there was only one silk weaving machine in the entire courtyard.

When I stepped forward to take a look, I saw that the silk machine had been repaired by it, before Wu Laosan said that the equipment was broken, and when she came, Wen's wife was repairing it, and now I don't know where she went.

Bai Changsheng fiddled, nodded, and looked at the ground again.

Lined with the moonlight, I only saw a small pit under the silkworm machine on the ground, half a step deep, and I wouldn't pay attention to it if I didn't look closely.

Bai Changshen stretched out his foot and stepped on it, and found that the pit was just right to inlay the soles of his feet, which should be rubbed out by his feet.

Taking out the sharp knife again, Bai Changsheng bent down and gestured repeatedly.

Wu Laosan couldn't figure out what it meant while watching from the sidelines, so he asked what's wrong.

Bai Changsheng said slowly:

"If it weren't for the chance to come to this place tonight, when would the case of the two brothers Wenyan and Wenwu be revealed to the world?

Hey, the third child, you are confused, when you patronized to see the beauty, you didn't even find out where the crime occurred. ”

"What!"

Wu Laosan's eyes widened.

Bai Changsheng looked at Wu Laosan, took a deep breath and said:

"The case of the two brothers, Wenyan and Wenwu, I already know what happened to the case, do you want to know?"

Wu Laosan nodded hurriedly, Bai Changsheng looked at Wu Laosan carefully, and came up with a plan:

He took out the sharp knife from the wooden box, shook it, and tightened his grip on it.

"Wu Laosan, let's take my life."

Bai Changsheng's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he slashed at Wu Laosan with a sharp knife!