Shi Deren said: "Yesterday I learned from an old man in the village that the tofu guy has not caught fish in a dry pond for 10 consecutive years. ”

"Maybe he wants to raise the fish a little bigger, so that he can catch the fish in the pond and sell them for a big price." Su Jinwang was still not fully convinced, and found a reason to say.

"The problem is not so simple, but there is a mystery in it." Shi Deren's eyes patrolled over Su Jinwang's face, "Actually, I walked into the tofu workshop yesterday and found a major suspicion after careful observation. The color of the stone mill at his house is relatively gray, and compared with the slightly darker lower plate, it can be seen that it was later matched. ”

After Shi Deren's prompt, Su Jinwang squinted his eyes and thought for a while, nodded and said, "Deren, after you said this, I remembered that his family's stone mill is indeed relatively new. But I still don't understand, what does this have to do with the old and new on the stone mill? If it's damaged, replace it with a new one! ”

"The upper plate of the stone mill is not damaged, but sunk into the pond......" Shi Deren said his reasoning.

Su Jinwang suddenly realized: "Ah, Deren, it turns out that you know so much folk common sense, but I didn't realize these superficial common sense. ”

Shi Deren said with great understanding: "The case handler is like a teacher, and the more he understands all kinds of common sense in society, the better." ”

"That's too." Su Jinwang gasped, "The tofu guy was really thoughtful after killing people, and all the small links were taken into account. I didn't expect you to crack them one by one. If this is indeed the case after verification, I will worship you as a god. ”

"Don't hold me too high." Shi Deren waved his hand and humbly said, "This is just an answer to that ancient admonition." ”

Su Jinwang blinked: "What ancient precepts?" ”

Shi Deren said loudly: "The sky net is magnificent, negligent but not leaky. ”

Su Jinwang stretched out his thumb to Shi Deren and praised: "Deren, you are right!" ”

"It's all my subjective speculation. In the end, it is necessary to be based on facts, murder and bloody cases are not child's play, we cannot wronged a good person, nor can we let a bad person go. Shi Deren said seriously.

Su Jinwang's face looked serious and cold: "What should we do now?"

"Let's knock on the mountain and shake the tiger." Shi Deren made a gesture and slowed down the pace of his speech, "Tomorrow, we will contact the owner of the village and ask him to deliberately release the wind in the village, so that that the tofu guy Ding Niu knows that his fish pond has not been dried for 10 years, and now he wants to catch fish in the dry pond." We secretly watched his movements. ”

"We let out the rumors that if the tofu guy has a ghost in his heart, he will do everything possible to find an excuse not to let the dry pond or escape. If he is really as we speculate, his suspicion of murder is confirmed. Su Jinwang analyzed.

"Yes, Brother Jin Wang, we have to find ways to prevent him from finding an excuse to escape." Shi Deren said with a serious face.

"I will secretly arrange the monitoring of Tofu Guy Ding Niu, Deren, don't worry." Su Jinwang patted his chest and said.

After making up his mind, Shi Deren flew back to the governor's palace overnight, and reported the situation to the governor Guan Zhenjiang in person and asked for instructions.

The next day, Guan Zhenjiang immediately organized people to come to Mawangzhai in Shangsha Town, to drain all the water in Ding Niu's fish pond and find out the truth.

On this day, the weather was clear, the sun was high, and the sky was cloudless.

The fact that Ding Yuli has been missing for 10 years for no reason has made the villagers in the villages near Shangsha Town panic, worried that the same bad luck will befall them one day.

Now, I heard that the government wants to find the corpse in the dry pond of Mawangzhai, and the people of the four towns and eight neighbors who love to see the bustle are pouring like a tide, and the fish pond is surrounded by water, and you can see what it is.

Shi Deren and Su Jinwang stood by the bushes at the corner of the fish pond, watching the progress of the situation intently.

Shi Deren's trick of "knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger" really worked.

When Ding Niu, the tofu guy, saw that the government was going to kill the fish pond in his backyard, and knew that it was coming at him, he filled a basket with a basket of tofu and walked out of the village, but was stopped by the yacha waiting at the entrance of the village.

Ding Niu pretended to say: "Brother Cha, please do well, let me out of the village, Li Mushui from the neighboring village ordered my tofu, and I will send it to him now." ”

The yacha said: "There is an order from above, during the dry pond period, no one can get out of this stockade." ”

Ding Niu pleaded: "Brother Cha, you don't let me out of the village, time is delayed, my tofu will taste bad." ”

Yacha had a calm face and said with a tough attitude: "I don't care if your tofu will taste bad or not, I'm just carrying out the orders from above." ”

Ding Niu saw that he couldn't escape with this method, and knew that a catastrophe was coming. But I couldn't get out for a while, so I had to turn around and return to the tofu workshop to find a way.

Seeing that the water in the fish pond was getting less and less, Ding Niu wanted to escape from the small hill behind the village.

But he was stopped by the yacha who was waiting there.

As time passed, the water level in the fish pond became lower and lower, and the necks of the onlookers grew longer.

The shallower the water in the fish pond became, and Su Jinwang's curiosity intensified.

He looked at Shi Deren a little uneasily, and said, "Deren, I'm really worried that if the fish pond is dry but nothing is found, then the boss will blame us for working hard and losing money." ”

Shi Deren said confidently: "Brother Jin Wang, please don't worry, the end is coming soon, let's wait and see." With so much evidence to back it up, I am confident that our judgment will not be wrong. ”

From the morning to the evening, when the sunset in the West Mountain was about to be exhausted, the water in the fish pond was finally drained.

At this time, the crowd of onlookers on the edge of the fish pond invariably exclaimed: "Ah, there is a stone mill in the pond!" ”

Sure enough, in the mire in the center of the fish pond, a stone mill upper plate was found, a complete skeleton of Bai Sensen, tied to the stone mill upper plate with ropes.

The yacha untied the ropes tied to the stone mill, carried it to the tofu Lao Ding Niu tofu workshop, and put it on the old stone mill plate, no matter from the degree of the old and new, or the size of the match, the two are very compatible.

The evidence is ironclad and cannot be denied!

Although Ding Niu had exhausted all the organs, in the face of ironclad evidence, he could only bow his head and confess the whole process of the crime-

Ten years ago, in the summer, the afternoon heat wave was pressing, and the banana leaves, wildflowers, and weeds by the fish pond were so sunburned that their heads were lowered.

Ding Yuli is a playful girl, that day she went to her aunt's place to play with her cousin, came back and passed through Mawang Village, heard the noise of gongs and drums in the village, and loved to see the lively Ding Yuli, so she walked into the village.

After walking for most of the day, Ding Yuli felt a little thirsty, and smelled the fragrance of tofu flowers wafting from the tofu workshop on the other side of the fish pond, so she walked over to buy a bowl of tofu flowers to eat to quench her thirst.

Ding Niu was born ugly and short-tempered because of his appearance, and he couldn't marry a wife at the age of thirty.

When he saw a young woman coming in, he immediately became lustful, and took advantage of Ding Yuli's opportunity to eat tofu flowers, hugged her, and tore her skirt.

Of course, Ding Yuli didn't comply, struggling desperately and shouting loudly.

But the gongs and drums in the village were noisy, and people were attracted by the performance of the golden dragon dance in the square, and no one heard Ding Yuli's cry for help.

Ding Niu saw Ding Yuli shouting loudly and covered her mouth vigorously.

Ding Yuli struggled desperately, and Ding Niu's hand tightened.

It didn't take long for Ding Yuli to be silent.

Ding Niu saw that Ding Yuli's eyes were closed tightly, her face was pale, and when he reached out and touched her nostrils, she was already breathless.

Ding Niu knew that Ding Yuli was killed by his own wrong hand, so he hurriedly closed the door and put her on the bed in the back room.

Ding Niu, who lost his mind, untied Ding Yuli's clothes with his hands, and saw that the dead Ding Yuli was still beautiful and moving, and suddenly became animalistic and carried out the evil act of raping the corpse.

After venting, Ding Niu faced Ding Yuli, who was full of jade, knowing that he had committed a great crime, and he would fill his life if he was discovered.

After some thought, Ding Niu hid Ding Yuli's body, and when it was dark, he tied Ding Yuli's body with ropes to the stone mill plate and pushed it down into the fish pond.

But he was still not at ease, worried that the body was too close to the edge of the pond and would be easy to be discovered, so he went down to the pond and moved the stone grinding plate to the center of the fish pond, so he was a little relieved.

Ding Niu lay in bed and couldn't sleep all night.

He thought that in such a hot weather, Ding Yuli's body would decompose and float from the fish pond in a few days.

After thinking about it, he thought of the trick of white eels that like to eat rotten meat such as dead pigs and dead chickens to "destroy corpses and destroy traces".

Early the next morning, he hurried to the market to buy a sack of eel fry and put it in the fish pond, so that the white eel could devour Ding Yuli's carrion and die.

Poor Ding Yuli, a young woman, died in Huangquan because she accidentally entered Ding Niu's tofu workshop for a while.

Ding Niu thought that he had done a seamless job of destroying the corpse, and the government had sent people many times to find no clues, thinking that he was safe and well, and he could sit back and relax.

But he never dreamed that after 10 years, this case of murder and rape and destruction of corpses would be solved by Shi Deren from outside.

The final ending, of course, is to fill one life with one life, and the tofu guy Ding Niu was sentenced to death by the government.

After solving this historical unsolved case with Shi Deren this time, Su Jinwang made a special trip to a banquet for Shi Deren.

After three rounds of drinking, Su Jinwang's face turned red, but his attitude was very sincere: "Deren, when I took over this case, to be honest, I looked down on you, a hillbilly from other places. Later, every time I went to visit with you, I couldn't find any clues, but you were able to peel back the cocoon and find clues. ”

Shi Deren waved his hand and said, "The same thing, if you look at it horizontally, it will be a peak on the side of the ridge, and different angles will give different results." ”

Su Jinwang nodded again and again.

"Especially to solve the case, we must think carefully about everything, from the surface to the inside, from the shallow to the deep, in order to peel off the cocoon from the surface, dig deep, and find an opportunity for breakthroughs." Shi Deren talked eloquently.

"Deren, you really deserve to be a master, it's amazing!" Su Jinwang stretched out his thumb to Shi Deren and praised him sincerely, "This time is really a good opportunity from God, I am fortunate to be with you for more than a month, and I have visited and investigated the case privately, and finally solved the unsolved case that had been shelved for 10 years, so that the deceased can be wronged and the perpetrator will be severely punished." Your perseverance and in-depth and detailed analysis of problems have served me well throughout my life. ”

Guan Zhenjiang was promoted to prime minister by the imperial court because he solved this historical case.

Prime Minister Guan saw that Shi Deren was an outstanding talent in criminal investigation and a great talent, so he hired Shi Deren as the governor of Huzhou.

Su Jinwang was also reused and transferred to Shi Deren's command.

A week after the appointment was issued, Shi Deren was still not seen to take office.

When Guan Zhenjiang was wondering, Shi Derentuo sent a letter, and there was only one poem in the text:

Since ancient times, the sea has changed,

The world is up to me.

The master is also free and easy to solve the case,

Folk wandering is more leisurely.

Shi Deren, a generation of masters, is light on fame and fortune, does not do official work, travels among the people, fights lawsuits for others, solves major cases, has no worries about food and clothing, lives a free life, and envies many people in the officialdom. His life is full of stories of good and bad.