Head, oh no, another corpse was found. ”

The Yamen side had just finished the trial, and Li An was about to ask about the second uncle, when the second uncle was about to do so.

The fourth brother was sweating profusely and ran over panting.

"What, another death!"

Du Yuan's right eyelid jumped wildly, and he secretly scolded his mother in his heart.

It's fucking unlucky, I went out for one night, how did so much happen.

Li An, who was standing on the side, also pretended to be curious.

"Fourth brother, who died?"

Du Yuan looked at the fourth brother nervously, hoping to tell from the other party that it was just a beggar who died.

"Tang Xiucai of the Tang family!"

"Fuck it!"

Du Yuan scolded in a low voice, and shouted to the officials who had not yet dispersed: "Stay on duty, and the others will follow me." ”

Soon, a group of hundreds of people hurriedly dodged and pointed at the people, and slaughtered towards the deserted mansion.

Entering the courtyard, Du Yuan saw at a glance a corpse with a severed head and a chopped off lower body in the collapsed lobby.

Several of the officials who had seen this scene for the first time rushed to the wall with their mouths covered and retched.

Ang Lee also pretended to vomit.

According to memory, this was the first time he had seen such a scene.

You can't be too detached from the masses.

In fact, don't talk about Li An and the others, even Du Yuan, who has experienced a hundred battles, also subconsciously frowned.

Reaching out and taking out a silk handkerchief to cover his nose, Du Yuan carefully bypassed the blood stains on the ground and began to examine the corpse carefully.

After taking a look and understanding the situation, Du Yuan got up and wiped his hands and asked the fourth brother.

"Who found the body? Is the time of death estimated? ”

"It was discovered by a beggar."

The fourth brother pointed to the beggar squatting in the corner outside the door, and then took out a confession from his arms and handed it to Du Yuan.

"According to the inquiry of the person we sent over, he left home after dark yesterday, and originally planned to go to the Spring Moon Tower, but he died here."

After speaking, the fourth brother added in a low voice.

"He, like the 11 scholars, is a person who writes novels and biographies, and he is the most famous among them, and he wrote the rainy night spring, which has been selling very well recently."

Du Yuan, who was looking at the corpse, glanced at the fourth brother when he heard the words, and said in a deep voice: "You mean to say that the person who killed him and the murderer who killed the 11 scholars are the same person." ”

The fourth brother nodded.

"That's exactly what I thought, because there are so many coincidences. They were all killed at about the same time, and their identities were similar, which had to remind me of them. ”

Du Yuan fell into deep thought, and after a while, he took an iron ruler next to him and handed it to Li An, who was standing next to him looking at the corpse.

"I've also taught you a lot of experience in investigating the scene, you can see what you can see first."

Li An nodded, knowing that this was an opportunity for the second uncle to give him meritorious service, but fortunately, when he was promoted in the future, he would have a reason to say the past.

Taking the iron ruler in the second uncle's hand, Li An squatted down and slowly checked and watched.

He killed this man, but now he has to look at things from a different angle.

Ang Lee wants to put aside the identity of the killer and stand in the perspective of the official to find the answer that the corpse told him.

In the future, his main occupation is to be an official errand, and it is impossible for him to commit all murders, so he must learn to find answers on corpses, and use these clues to find the murderer.

After looking carefully, Li An took the rag handed over by a servant next to him, and said his observations while wiping the filth on the iron ruler.

"I took a look at the body, and there were probably four wounds, one in the back of the head, one in the neck, one in the waist, and one in the lower body.

According to the surrounding blood splatter, it should have been cut off first, then beheaded to death, and finally brutally beheaded by the murderer. ”

Du Yuan nodded secretly when he heard this, Li An's analysis was similar to what he observed, and then motioned for Li An to continue.

"According to the current situation of the corpse, it is enough to prove that the murderer has a grudge against him, and it is very likely that the two know each other.

Coupled with the clues of the fourth brother just now, I guess that between the two, there may be a conflict of interest in this industry, which caused this brutal murder.

Coupled with the other eleven scholars who died, I concluded that the murderer must have been someone who was engaged in the writing industry, and that he was still in competition with these dozen or so people.

Of course, it may also be okay, the murderer is just simply envious, jealous and hateful.

After all, they are all doing a line, watching others make a lot of money, going to the Qinglou every day to live a life of drunken dreams and death, they can only eat dry steamed buns, pickles, and even these can't be eaten, they will definitely be unbalanced, once they are envious and jealous, it is possible to do some crazy things. ”

Du Yuan and a few catchers glanced at each other, and their eyes showed appreciation.

"Anything else?"

Du Yuan wanted to see Ang Li, what else could he say.

Li An nodded, observed the room, walked to a corner, looked at some footprints, and said, "There are some messy footprints here, and there are traces of clothes stacked, which should be the place where the murderer changed his clothes after killing people." ”

Stretching out his hand to measure the footprints, Li An picked up a wooden stick and wrote and drew on the mud floor under the puzzled expressions of the group.

"Head, what is Anzi writing here? Why can't I read it? ”

Du Yuan, who was also confused, didn't know how to answer, but he couldn't say that he didn't know in front of his subordinates, so he pretended to be suddenly enlightened and said: "Anzi should be calculating the scene at that time." ”

The fourth brother scratched his head, "Extrapolating the scene, what kind of technique is this?" Head, if you can read it, you should be able to, tell us about it, maybe we can use it in the future. ”

Du Yuan's expression froze, he glanced at the few arrests on his face, coughed dryly, and pretended to be profound: "This is a very profound technique, ordinary people can't master it at all, and you don't have decades of criminal investigation experience, even if I say it, you are still listening to heaven." ”

After speaking, under the adoring eyes of the fourth brother, he walked towards Li An without blushing or panting.

He was actually very curious in his heart, what was Ang Lee doing when he was writing and painting?

"Any clues?"

Walking to Ang Lee's side, Du Yuan squatted down, looked at Ang Lee writing and drawing with a wooden stick, a lot of unintelligible symbols, and asked Ang Lee softly what he found.

Throwing away the wooden stick in his hand, Li An looked at the footprints in front of him, touched his chin, closed his eyes and estimated for a moment:

"The murderer should be seven feet tall and three, a man, the weight should be about 100 catties, (16 taels per catty) The traces of the left foot are a little shallower than the right foot, there should be foot diseases, when checking, pay more attention to this type of person."

The fourth brother caught several fast, listening to Ang Li's analysis, his eyes widened.

They looked at the footprints suspiciously, and then looked at Li An, they couldn't figure it out, just based on this messy pile of footprints, Li An could judge the approximate size of the murderer, as well as the condition of suffering from foot disease.

"Very good, if you catch the murderer in the future, you will be the first to act."

The others were shocked and suspicious, but the second uncle Du Yuan laughed heartily, patted Li An's shoulder with satisfaction, and made a promise of the first achievement.

Li An smiled shyly and stepped aside.

Du Yuan glanced at the corpse with some smell, and said quickly to an old catcher

"Lao Yu, you go to various bookstores, check what books have been selling well recently, focus on the books that are in competition with the deceased, and see if the owners of those books meet the characteristics that Xiao An just said, once you find out about the situation, don't act rashly, come back and inform me first."

"Yes, head."

A middle-aged catcher quickly answered, and left quickly with a few servants.

After the middle-aged catcher left, Du Yuan called another catcher.

"Orange, ask the people you brought around to ask if there are any strange people around in the past few days, especially those who walk and dodge, and their legs and feet are not good. This murderer is here to kill, and he will definitely be the first to step on the plate, and there must be people around him who have seen him. ”

"Okay, head."

The orange catcher answered quickly, and was about to leave with a few people.

Du Yuan suddenly thought of something again and called out to him.

"Remember, have a better attitude, you are here to find out the news, not to arrest people."

Subsequently, Du Yuan sent two more arresters and asked them to ask the families of more than a dozen deceased people again whether the deceased had any conflicts with others recently.

"Head, the adults' side has already been decided, isn't it okay for us to investigate like this?"

After Du Yuan finished giving the order, the fourth brother hesitated for a moment, and said with some unease.

Du Yuan glanced at him, chuckled, and said lightly: "Our adults think too simply, more than a dozen scholars, eight of whom have a reputation for showing off their talents, were assassinated inexplicably, and they want to fool the past, it's not that simple."

Now that the township test is imminent, once the news spreads, it will definitely cause the vibration of the literati students in Fucheng.

In order not to affect the exam, the Fucheng side will definitely send someone to investigate, and even directly send someone to take over the case, investigate the entire case, and give an explanation to those literati students. ”

"What, Fucheng will make a move."

The fourth brother shouted in surprise, and then said a little nervously: "Head, then if Fucheng makes a move, won't the matter of our collection of money be revealed?" ”

The second uncle chuckled and patted the fourth brother's shoulder.

"It's not us, it's you, the 30 taels that Xiao An and I have, I gave them back when I passed on the certificate just now."

Fourth Brother: (●—●)

Seeing the fourth brother's dumbfounded appearance, Du Yuan sighed, turned around and walked out, and said in his mouth as he walked out:

"Little four, how many times have I told you, when you take money, you have to distinguish what the situation is, what money should be taken and what money should not be taken, you must have a number in your heart."

Second Uncle Du Yuan stopped when he walked to the door, and glanced back at the fourth brother meaningfully.

"Otherwise, the money you collect is the money to buy your life, the money to buy your life!"