Chapter 52: An Unexpected Murderer
In the Fusi Mansion in Weinan Town, Tsing Yi, Jiang Cheng was writing and painting there, while Li Qingfu, Li Donghu and others were watching, and soon, Jiang Cheng put up the plank.
"We held a case meeting, and now according to the information we have investigated, the identities of the four deceased have been confirmed, namely Shi Dewen, Shi Yuanhai and his son, as well as the Shi family's daughter-in-law Yao Xiaodie, and scholar Fang Yan."
"According to what the Shi family father and son told Yao Lin Baihu, it should be that the scholar Fang Yan and Yao Xiaodie had an adultery, and the relationship was broken by the Shi family father and son, the Shi family father and son killed Fang Yan, and then Yao Xiaodie committed suicide in shame, but this is wrong, because according to our investigation, Fang Yan has been in Xicheng, and the number of times he has come to Dongcheng and Nancheng is very small, and he doesn't know Yao Xiaodie at all, and the evidence of adultery is insufficient, and the death of Shi family's father and son cannot be explained, so there must be a murderer who has not surfaced."
"Today is getting late, and the focus of tomorrow's investigation will be Fang Yan, to find out their family's income."
"Jiang Cheng, why do you want to check their income?"
"Because Fang Yan's mother told me that Fang Yan is a posthumous son, and his father died very early, but Fang Yan is still a scholar, he can afford to read, look at Fang Yan and his mother's clothes, although they are not rich and expensive, but they are also a Chinese family, what is the reason for this, we need to find out"
"Makes sense, write it down, and check it tomorrow"
"Yes, my lord, I wrote it down."
"The second is the problem of the historian's father and son, we believe that Yao Xiaodie's adultery is not established, then Yao Xiaodie's death must be strange, so check their interpersonal relationships, who is close, and the key is someone with official status"
"Jiang Cheng, why is he an official?"
"There is a problem with Yao Xiaodie's death, then the father and son of the Shi family must have deceived Yao Lin Baihu, why did the two of them deceive, it can't be that someone pointed out, the people in the government know more about our investigation of the case, and there are also problems with those footprints at the scene of the crime."
"What's the problem?"
"The footprints are too messy"
"Isn't it normal for the Shi family to be stolen and the footprints are messed up?"
"It's normal, but it's not normal either, I suspect someone is deliberately vandalizing the scene"
"Ahh
"I don't understand, what about you?"
"I don't understand either"
"Jiang Cheng, explain"
"There should be evidence left in the family of the Shi family, such as the murder weapon, or something else, the person may have left in a hurry after killing someone, and then thought of something, so he went back to destroy it, but it's just my guess, I want to confirm it's simple, send someone to check the thieves on the street in front of the door, no accident, someone should have deliberately released the news and instructed them to go"
"Okay, write it down and look it up together"
Li Qingfu nodded, he trusted Jiang Cheng very much now, because they were still confused in their minds, even if Jiang Cheng had already said it very clearly.
Jiang Cheng has nothing to say, let them write it down and let everyone get off work, Tsing Yiwei is not happy, it is not a very serious matter, everyone is not willing to work overtime, Jiang Cheng is not willing, he has a lot of things.
After getting off work, Jiang Cheng went to Wansheng Building and saw Chen Chengyuan, who was in pain, and he was lazy in the corner of the back kitchen.
"Follow me"
Jiang Cheng said to Chen Chengyuan, there is Jiang Cheng's own office in the backyard, and after entering, Jiang Cheng closed the door.
"Tired these days?"
"I'm so tired"
"What's the catch"
"No, I sleep at night, if you want to talk about the harvest, then this is the only one"
"You have a grudge in your heart"
"yes, I think you're playing tricks on me"
Chen Chengyuan replied that he felt that Jiang Cheng was just treating him as a tool for not wanting money, and he was playing tricks on him.
"Then I will teach you the first lesson today, the rebellion needs soldiers, how to come to the soldiers, whether they are forcibly recruited, how to ensure the morale of these soldiers, and how to make them willing to work for you"
"Please sir teach me"
When Chen Chengyuan heard this, he immediately became serious and bowed to Jiang Cheng.
"If you want people to sell their lives, you have to give something to others first, money is not the only thing, because money you can attract outlaws, not loyal men, and you can spend money to invite people, and you can be invited away by others.
So you have to be clear about what those who are willing to rebel with you need, if they are peasants, what do you have to give to make them work hard, if they are workers, merchants, scholars, officials, their needs are different, and to give them something, you have to understand them first. ”
"So what does this have to do with me being a little girl?"
"I ask you, if you raise an army, which group is most likely to follow you"
"Those who can't survive, those who are forced by officials to rebel against the people"
"Yes, these people have a unified name, called the poor, the restaurant is also poor, to understand a group, you have to go deep into that group, or even become that group, so the small guy is just your first lesson, in the future you will go to be a worker, a businessman, a farmer"
"I see, I'll be a good guy"
"Okay, starting tomorrow, you can write a report to me every seven days, and tell me what you feel during this time."
Jiang Cheng nodded, he was fooled, and next year he would almost be able to go outside the city and let him go farming.
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"Lord Jiang, Lord Jiang"
"What's the matter?"
"There's a new discovery over there, let me inform Lord Jiang and let you go quickly."
"Did you make any discoveries?"
"No, it's just that I told the adults to hurry up, he's in Yizhuang"
"Okay, I'll go"
Jiang Cheng nodded, put the official document away, and then left, heading to Yizhuang.
"Old horse, what did you find?"
Jiang Cheng came to Yizhuang, shouted loudly, and called him Ma, and they all called him Lao Ma.
However, when Jiang Cheng opened the door, he saw the old horse lying on the ground, and then a yin wind hit behind him, Jiang Cheng subconsciously dodged to the side, his shoulder hurt, and when he looked back, a crossbow arrow shot at his shoulder.
"Broken, armor crossbow, it's you, Zhang Feng"
Jiang Cheng was shocked, the person who attacked him was none other than the Tsing Yi Wei who had just asked him to come to Yizhuang, and what he was holding in his hand was a broken and armored crossbow that was specially used to deal with martial arts masters, otherwise he would not have been able to break his iron cloth shirt at all.
"Master Jiang, you can't blame me Lao Zhang, your father is also my eldest brother, but why don't you close the case?"
"You killed the Shi family's father and son?"
"That's right, I killed it"
"I can't figure it out, why is the murderer you"
Jiang Cheng shook his head, he really couldn't figure out why the murderer was their Tsing Yi Wei, and he was an old man, this Zhang Feng was his father's old acquaintance.
"When you die, I'll tell you"
"Just because you can kill me?"
"Hmph, just give it a try."
Zhang Feng sneered, Jiang Cheng was just a waste, he only knew the waste hiding in the case vault before, and in recent months, he didn't know what shit luck he had taken, he became smart, he became a detective, and he could make a lot of money, but people can suddenly become smart, but martial arts can't suddenly become powerful, he has a strong crossbow in his hand, he has no reason to think that Jiang Cheng can escape.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh"
The strong crossbow in Zhang Feng's hand was fired, and it was fired in bursts, and the three crossbow arrows rushed towards Jiang Cheng.
"Smack"
Jiang Cheng hooked up a table with one kick and lay it in front of him, and the crossbow arrow pierced the tabletop, but when the table fell, Jiang Cheng was nowhere to be seen.
"I'm here"
The next moment, a voice sounded in Zhang Feng's ears, which made him extremely frightened, and he was about to turn around, but found that he had fallen to the ground uncontrollably.
"Snap"
Jiang Cheng pressed Zhang Feng to the ground, and then removed all his hands, feet and jaw joints, Zhang Feng looked at Jiang Cheng in horror and confusion, he couldn't figure out how Jiang Cheng did it.
"I was careless, I almost capsized in the gutter"
Jiang Cheng looked at the crossbow arrow behind his back, hoping that this guy was not quenched, otherwise his secret of being an innate martial artist would be exposed.
"Someone, help"
Jiang Cheng took a deep breath, ruffled his hair, and then rushed out of Yizhuang, roaring loudly.
Half an hour later, dozens of Tsing Yi guards appeared in Yizhuang, led by Jiang Cheng's eldest brother Jiang Wu, and Jiang Cheng's crossbow arrows were also pulled out, and a doctor healed Jiang Cheng's injuries.
"The old horse died, a knife killed, from the back through the chest, Zhang Feng killed him because the old horse found that the clothes in Stewin's nails came from the Tsing Yi guard uniform"
Jiang Wu said to Jiang Cheng that Lao Ma wrote the discovery in an official document and asked Zhang Feng to pass it on to Jiang Cheng, but Zhang Feng found out and then killed Lao Ma.
"People are not dead, right?"
"If you don't die, you have removed your hands, feet and chin, how can you die"
"I was careless, I almost capsized in the gutter"
"Be careful next time"
"Well, by the way, find an inner armor for me, I'm afraid of death"
Jiang Cheng nodded, in the future, the inner armor will be worn at any time, after all, there is only one life.
"Good"
"Back to Tsing Yiwei and interrogated Zhang Feng, I want to know, why is he the murderer"
"I asked when I came, Zhang Feng knows the historian, and the relationship is okay"
"How did they meet?"
"It should be Yao Lin's relationship, the Shi family and Yao Lin got married, and Zhang Feng was unwilling in Nancheng, probably because he wanted to use the Shi family to climb Yao Lin's relationship"
Jiang Wu replied, in the past half an hour, he has already inquired clearly, Zhang Feng has a good ability in Tsing Yiwei, but he lacks a backer, and Jiang Yong's sworn worship is the same as playing, Jiang Yong has so many sworn brothers, it is impossible to give Zhang Feng a head, he has not been promoted for many years.
"I still can't explain why he killed"
"I'll know after the arraignment, let's go, it's okay"
"It's okay, I can go"
Jiang Cheng replied, he didn't have anything to do with this injury, he just wanted to keep the secret of the innate martial artist, so he had to pretend.
When Jiang Cheng and the others returned to Tsing Yi Wei, all the high-level officials of the Fu Division in Nancheng Town were dispatched, and Zhou Fengxian was there, because the small flag officer of Tsing Yi Wei assassinated the chief flag officer for the first time in history, which was very bad.
"Erlang, are you okay?"
Jiang Yong walked over and said to Jiang Cheng covered in blood, rubbing his hands constantly, and he knew that Zhang Feng had suffered without asking.
"Dad, I'm fine, Zhang Feng is not dead"
"Don't worry, you won't let him die so easily, his crime, to say the least, is also a Ling Chi sin"
Jiang Yong sneered, Zhang Feng killed three people, including Lao Ma, a petty official of the Tsing Yi Guard, plus the assassination of Jiang Cheng, Ling Chi was the least.
"Jiang Cheng, let's start, I'll give you an explanation for this matter"
Li Qingfu said to Jiang Cheng that he almost died in order to help him investigate the case, and Zhang Feng was his person, so he had to explain this matter to Jiang Cheng.