Chapter IV: Clues
Liu Le Fang,
Li Wuzhen reorganized his thinking.
The bruises are no longer visible, and as for the official uniform, it is meaningless.
He stood for a moment,
"Si Lao Bustard, what's the matter with this locked door?"
Li Wuzhen turned to look at Si Laobu, who was already paralyzed on the ground.
"Don't hide it, my lord, when the women got up to check this morning, they saw that there was a place buried here, but out of trouble, they couldn't clean it in time, so I asked the handyman to lock the door temporarily, and wait for the guests to leave before cleaning."
Si Lao Bustard gave it all out.
"You know this official uniform!"
Li Wuzhen then asked.
Si Lao Bustard came back to his senses, and he actually scolded in his heart.
He immediately replied:
"Xu is that other officials forgot to take it, there are more officials in my Liu Le Fang, as for whose it is, the old woman really doesn't know!"
Li Wuzhen was speechless for a moment.
"Master Guo, let's ...... go"
"Master Li, this is?" Guo He's brain circuits were not enough for a while.
Li Wuzhen immediately led the guards out of Liule Fang.
After Li Wuzhen left, Si Lao Bustard breathed a sigh of relief.
walked to the wine table in the locked room, picked up the white porcelain blue and white teapot on the table, poured himself a cup of tea, and swallowed it.
Looking at the undried bruises on the ground, the oiled paper windows swaying in the wind beside the wine table...... Funny and infuriating.
"Muddy boy, the movement is so big, I almost let the old lady out."
Si Lao Bustard couldn't help but complain.
"Come on, clean up!"
A few servants were then summoned to rearrange the messy room.
"Girls...... Come out and pick up customers! ”
Si Lao Bustard shouted into the house.
"What a disappointment!"
The girls of Liu Le Fang vied with each other and complained.
Great summer Kyoto, on Chohei Street.
"My lord, are you going back?"
Guo He asked Li Wuzhen, who was worried.
"This official has found nothing on this trip, continue to investigate, and the saint asks, how can I explain?"
Li Wuzhen sighed helplessly.
"At the moment, we should still go back to the saint, and then we have to investigate, not to mention finding out the reason, delaying the heavenly sacrifice, and the saint is to blame, you and me...... It's hard to get away with it. ”
Guo He agreed.
Indeed, after all, Li Wuzhen, who was pinned on by the saint, was in the third grade of the official residence, but he couldn't even deal with a demon, what would the saint think, and the self-proclaimed big countryman, must have been waiting to see his jokes.
"Adults don't have to be so frustrated! Don't we have a general idea of where the evil goes? If it is really an immortal cultivator, or if it is done by a master, then the evil is completely eliminated, which should be a happy event! ”
Guo analyzed for a moment, it seemed reasonable, but it was short of two catties.
This official of the Hanlin Academy has been obsessed with strategy all year round, and he only knows one thing about officialdom, but he doesn't know the other.
Li Wuzhen feels that if he is not finished, he is not finished, although this does not mean that he is charged with dereliction of duty, but the feeling of inferiority is always very uncomfortable.
On the other hand, that Lord Guo is obviously not a brain circuit.
"Since there is no trace of the demon, it can be regarded as self-defeating by the official! Go back and let the heavenly masters strengthen the defense of Kyoto, the heavenly sacrifice is coming, and the monsters must not be allowed to breed trouble again. ”
Guo felt that there seemed to be something greasy in it! I don't know ...... Master Li? ”
Without waiting for Guo He to finish speaking, Li Wuzhen brushed his sleeves away and disappeared into the crowd.
Azure Dart Bureau, Practice Ground.
"Wait, that's not right!"
Xu Changshou looked at the ink-stained deed in his hand. The name signed at the bottom of the deed is not the master of the Song family. It's a name he'd never heard before.
"Qin Yueying?"
"Shopkeeper Han, is this the woman's signature?"
Xu Changshou handed the bill to the shopkeeper Han.
Shopkeeper Han was stunned.
"Longevity, if you don't say it, I really forgot about it. The name signed on the deed is indeed not Master Song, let alone the housekeeper Zhang Qi, but the Song family's wife Qin! ”
Xu Changshou was surprised, since Master Song sent his housekeeper to discuss the cooperation of rice and grain escort, why didn't he leave his signature, even if he didn't leave his signature, he should have left the housekeeper's name.
In the memory of the original owner, although the Great Xia Dynasty was prosperous, it was still the same as most dynasties...... It was a feudal society in which men were inferior to women, or in other words, women were excluded from power.
There is a lot of suspicion in this point, but until now, Xu Changshou still has no strong evidence to explain the fact that the Song family wronged the Tianqing Dart Bureau for killing people and taking money.
This matter is definitely not as simple as imagined, Xu Changshou knows that with a high degree of credibility, it is impossible for the Azure Dart Bureau to make money and kill for a few bags of rice grain! Although I am often owed monthly money!
"If you want to prove the innocence of the leader, you can only find a breakthrough in the case in many trivialities. I can't hang myself from a tree and think of something else. ”
Xu Changshou realized that there was a problem, and the clues were many, and it might not be wise to limit himself to one focus.
"Why is this related to Mrs. Song again?"
Xu Darttou said silently.
Xu Darttou's words made everyone completely fall into the bottomless abyss, and they all fell into contemplation......
presently
"Alas! Longevity, don't think about it, tomorrow the county master will be interrogated, if you want to save people at this juncture, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky, everyone still divides the things and finds some way out as soon as possible, which can be regarded as an explanation to the boss. ”
Shopkeeper Han shouted vigorously to disperse.
"Your second senior brother, right?"
For a while, Xu Changshou seemed to have cut off the last clue.
The dart masters gradually dissipated in disappointment and went their own way.
"There is one more day, no, less than one day, the final result will be announced tomorrow, according to the laws of Great Xia, killing people and taking money is already a serious crime, and the chief, as the main party, is very likely to pay for his life, that is, the death penalty."
"At the same time, the Azure Dart Bureau will also take out a large amount of property to compensate for the loss, and it is no wonder that Shopkeeper Han is shouting and breaking up."
The brothers of the dart are accomplices, and the death penalty can be avoided but the living crime cannot be escaped, and it is a foregone conclusion that they will be reduced to slavery.
Although Xu Changshou had prepared for the worst, that is, to rob the suspect at a critical moment.
Wu Xiu's ninth grade, although it is the tail of the crane, he has this strength.
But immortal cultivators also have to pay attention to the rules!
If the suspect is only kidnapped in order to avoid accountability, it will not be able to completely prove the innocence of the group, and the result will not be as simple as losing one's job, but will harm others and oneself, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Even if the suspect is successfully robbed, it is not a long-term plan to be wanted by the government.
"Do you really want to watch your colleagues be wronged and helpless?"
Xu Changshou breathed a long sigh of relief.
It's night, it's night.
It was Xu Changshou's turn to be on duty all night, so he didn't return to his aunt's house so early tonight.
In addition to helping the shopkeeper Han take care of the daily accounts and deal with the dart affairs of the dart board, the second is that he needs a quiet environment to think about the ins and outs of the whole case.
Azure Dart Bureau, in a dark room.
Xu Changshou sat on a bench, his hands leaning on a wooden table, on which a set of blue and white porcelain tea sets and a looming candle lamp were displayed.
There were a few pieces of rice paper on the wooden table, and the inkstone was inked, Xu Changshou sometimes sorted out the accounts, sometimes forgot to write with a pen, and remembered the name that appeared on the Song family deed today:
"Mrs. Song, Qin Yueying."
He sketched on rice paper, circled suspicious points from time to time.
I am a security guard, not a policeman, and I have no professional criminal investigation methods, so I have no way to start with force.
Fortunately, when I was a community security guard in my previous life, I had nothing to do, and I was lucky enough to read some newspapers and books about case investigation.
More or less the facts of the case are dealt with rather than a blank slate.
"That's not right! Could it be that something is wrong with my line of thinking? Or rather, from the very beginning, the direction of the counter-targeting has already gone wrong. ”
Xu Changshou realized a problem, he did not combine all the factors of the case, but grabbed a clue and ran wildly.
It's like a series circuit, if there is a problem with one interface, the whole circuit will be disconnected.
Suddenly, he seemed to realize something.
"Corpses! That's right, it's the corpse, and a series of speculations have not connected the corpse. ”
The corpse implies the identity of the deceased, and it is impossible for the murderer to hide a person's past.
"The corpse may be the breakthrough, find out the identity of the owner of the corpse, find the cause of death of the deceased, and maybe the whole case will be solved."
"Tomorrow is the trial, and I must clear my grievances and win the case before the final result is out. It seems that the only way to start with the corpse is to try. ”
Xu Changshou felt that his brain was much clearer, like a long drought and a rainstorm.
After dealing with the affairs of the dart bureau, Xu Changshou left the Azure Dart Bureau and walked on Changping Street.
It is late autumn, and the sky is slightly cool.
Nagahira Street has fallen into peace, and although night markets are popular in Kyoto, there is also a habit of closing.
Xu Changshou whistled, rode a fast horse, and walked alone on Changping Street.
Listening to the whispers of the wind in my ears, I was forced to spit out a few puffs of mist from time to time.
In the dark and vague alley, there were a few cries......
The strange cry hits the soul of the person, tactfully and poignantly......
"Who's there?"
Xu Changshou was stunned for a moment, and then he didn't see anyone, then dismounted and walked to the alley where the cry came from.
"No one? What's the matter with that cry? ”
Xu Changshou couldn't help but wonder, and then saw a figure flashing on Changping Street, and before he could see it clearly, the figure disappeared into the darkness, accompanied by a strange cry.
Xu Changshou was a little apprehensive, and when he swept around, there was nothing unusual. He paced back and forth in the dark depths.
Suddenly I felt like I was stepping on something.
Lean down, pick it up, and then place it in the open light so that you can see it clearly.
"A rag?"
At first, he only thought it was a rag for ordinary people's homes.
But when you look closely, although the rag is worn, it even looks sloppy, and it has a few holes, but the material is different, this cloth is different from ordinary rags, and it feels more delicate than ordinary cloth, and it is a little light fragrance.
"Silk?"
As one of the fabrics, silk is a very precious silk fabric, the material is delicate and skin-friendly, so it is loved by many ladies and ladies of dignitaries, and has become a rare luxury in the fabric of the feudal era.
Such luxuries were used to make handkerchiefs and carry them around.
"Could it be that the figure that just flashed was dropped?"
Xu Changshou glanced around speculatively.
But he is also aware of the problem of who will throw something on the ground, most likely someone else accidentally dropped it.
Another possibility is that the owner of this handkerchief did it on purpose.
But what about the woman's cry?
With a series of questions, Xu Changshou returned to the palace.
As the night wore on, my aunt and cousin were already asleep. Xu Changshou climbed over the courtyard wall and returned to his wing.
After a busy day, he was very anxious, and he lay flat on the bed and gradually fell into a dream.
It's night,
Yongle County Ya, prison.
The sleeping prisoners are awakened by nightmares.
Enduring the bite of insects, trying to drive away but unable to do so, with cold chains on his hands, his eyes seem to have lost his soul, and he looks sloppy and sluggish.
The cells surrounded by stone walls were not heard by the sound of the birds, but were shrouded in terror and forgotten.
Rats and cockroaches scurry around unscrupulously, sometimes making strange sounds of gnawing and gnawing.
In the dark corner, there sat a man in his twenties...... Li Moran, the owner of the Azure Dart Bureau.
Zeng Shijunxiu's face was blurred, he was dressed in dirty prison clothes, leaning against the cold stone wall, his hair scattered made his eyes faint, and his eyes were full of haggardness. The clothes on his body have also been eaten by rats and insects beyond recognition.
The moonlight shone through the prison window, shining on the man's haggard face, and as the cold autumn approached, he took a deep breath, and the mist rose and dissipated into the darkness for a moment......
Open your lips, like a powerful shout, but like a lament.
After the crows chirped, the sleeping prisoners were forced to endure the loneliness of the night.