It turned out that I was going to ask about the case of the little county king of Pingxi.

Liu Yuan said "oh", said hello to Lin Fei and went back to the lobby, and came back with a scroll after a while.

In addition to this scroll, he also wrote two words with a pen - water ghost.

There are many cases in Dali Temple, and if you really want to mark each case in detail, there are many secret room murder cases with similar techniques, so they privately chose an easy-to-understand name according to the characteristics of each case.

The case of the king of Pingxi Xiaojun was called the water ghost case by them.

After the beginning of spring, the nobles who had been holding back for a winter in Chang'an City naturally began to travel in the mountains and rivers in spring again.

On the banks of the Weishui River, fishing and playing are favored by many children of the powerful.

Shortly after the beginning of spring, when there was an old man fishing on the bank of the Weishui River, the hook was hooked, and he thought he had caught a big fish, but he had to pull hard and broke the hook, and the "big fish" hooked by the hook was pulled closer. As a result, it turned out that what kind of fish was caught, it was clearly a person! Lao Su was scared half to death, and scolded him and ran to Chang'an Mansion to report to the official.

The accident happened to the son of a wealthy merchant from another country.

Originally, the Chang'an Mansion took over the case directly, and it was not reported to Dali Temple.

However, this is just the beginning.

Not long after, two more corpses appeared in the Weishui River, one was the son of a wealthy local merchant in Chang'an, and the other was the second son of Liu Beijia's family.

At this point, three bodies have appeared in the Weishui River.

A few days ago, a fourth appeared. However, unlike the first three bodies found in the river, this one appeared directly in the ship's tub.

The boat is a private ship, which belongs to Yan San in the imperial history, and it is Yan San himself who died in the bath barrel.

At that time, all the slaves and maids on Yan San's private ship were not there, except for Li Yuan, the king of Pingxi who had fainted, and his little servant were happy.

Seeing the corpses appear one after another, the identity of the deceased is becoming more and more "amazing" every time, and now he has directly died in the imperial history. How can Chang'an Mansion Yin hold such a case? Immediately reported to Dali Temple, let Dali Temple take over.

It was Lin Fei who took over the case from Dali Temple. After walking around with people, Li Yuan, the king of Pingxi Xiaojun, who had originally said hello to Yin of Chang'an Mansion and had gone home to rest, was brought back to Dali Temple with his little servant Shuangxi and imprisoned.

To be fair, that's not a bad idea. Yan San died on his own private boat, and there was no one on board except Li Yuantong Shuangxi.

According to the usual case-handling process, these two people were immediately detained as the biggest suspects. But Li Yuan's identity is special, he wants to leave, how can Yin of Chang'an Mansion stop him?

However, although he didn't dare to offend Li Yuan in person, Chang'an Mansion Yin was not so confused that he looked at it like this. As soon as Li Yuan walked on the front foot, he reported to Dali Temple on the back foot and asked Dali Temple to stop people.

In fact, the first three corpses appeared in the river on the bright side, and the last one Yan San, who died in the bathtub, seemed to have little to do with it.

Moreover, the first three deceased were still young, all of them were fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenagers, while Yan San was thirty and five, and he didn't look like the first three people.

However, Chang'an Mansion Yin obviously didn't want to take this hot potato, so he still arranged a reason to put several cases together and sent them to Dali Temple.

"Two days before the first corpse appeared, there were people worshipping the river god on the banks of the Weishui River," Liu Yuan said. ”

Because it is not a big festival, it has never been recognized by the imperial court, and many Chang'an locals do not know about it.

"This year, something went wrong during the worship of the river god, and the giver who carried the ritual into the river drowned when he floated up." Liu Yuan said, "Fortunately, there were many people at that time, and they pulled him up together." ”

The giver who was selected to send the ritual gift into the river is a first-class master of water. It is unusual for such a person to drown.

When he brought the man up, he saw a knotted weed wrapped around the man's feet. I asked the people who worship the river god every year, and they said that this is this year, the river god went to the dragon lord to sit as a guest, and he was not at home. Without the river god in charge, the water ghost ran out to find someone to replace the dead ghost. Liu Yuan said, "A few people died in a row, and those people who lived on the banks of the Weishui River said that the water ghost was the trouble, and I saw that this name was special enough and easy to remember, so I used it!" ”

The reason why Yin of Chang'an Mansion pushed over was also "water ghosts".

Of course, as officials of Dali Temple, they don't believe that this is a matter of water ghosts looking for dead ghosts. It's people who kill people, not ghosts.

Lin Fei never interrupted Liu Yuan's words until Liu Yuan finished speaking, and he didn't mention the matter of the water ghost, but just asked Liu Yuan: "How is the investigation there?" ”

Liu Yuan hurriedly let out an "oh" and said, "I told Lin Shaoqing's words with him, and I really made a discovery." ”

As he spoke, he opened the scroll, pointed to the records he had made, and said, "Several deceased people have found schisandra in their stomachs, which is a medicine that tonifies the kidneys. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Yuan had a subtle look on his face: "I really can't imagine that Yan Zhongcheng has a gentle look on his face, and he actually ...... There are also those fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys, how old are they, how young are they ...... Gee! ”

The longer you stay in Dali Temple, the more you can find that the people and things in this world are really wonderful!

Lin Fei's reaction when he heard this was still calm, he responded lightly, and said, "What else?" ”

Liu Yuan hurriedly accepted his sigh and continued: "In addition, no algae in the river was found in the stomachs of the first three deceased, and the preliminary judgment is that they should not have drowned in the river, but drowned somewhere else and were brought into the river. ”

Lin Fei nodded and said to Liu Yuan: "You can copy the medicinal materials contained in the medicinal bath containing schisandra that Yan Sansuo, and find someone to go to the pharmacy to ask, and the people around the first three deceased or themselves can go and buy this medicinal bath medicine bag." ”

Liu Yuan, who was sighing when he heard the sentence, suddenly had a thrill, and suddenly understood: "Lin Shaoqing is saying that the three people in front of him were also drowned in the same medicated bath barrel like Yan Zhongcheng?" ”

Lin Fei let out a faint "um" and said, "Although Yin of Chang'an Mansion is in a hurry to get rid of it, he will put the deaths of several people in one place. But now, it seems that he has been blinded by him. ”

Yan San's death is indeed very likely to be related to the previous three deceased.

However, the difference is that the bodies of the first three were transferred to the Weishui River, while Yan San obviously had not had time to transfer them. As for why it was too late to transfer, I thought of Li Yuan, who was violently killed on Yan San's boat with a small couple of double happiness because of the collision with the boat.

That's probably the reason, he thought.