A month after returning home, Li Gongfu lived peacefully. In addition to going to the yamen on an errand every day, the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info discussed with Xu Jiaorong at home how to repair the house, which was ready for marriage soon. Every night, he insisted on cultivating the "Heavenly Punishment Formula".

This exercise is a bit like it was tailor-made for him, and it was easy to practice and extremely fast, so that he couldn't control the rapid growth of his strength every day, and often accidentally damaged the utensils in his home. It wasn't until he put some effort into the subtle control of his power that the situation improved.

On this day, Li Gongfu went to the yamen as usual to be on duty, and just accompanied Yang Xingzhi to the court, when he heard the sound of grievances and drums outside.

Yang Xingzhi was sitting high in the hall, thinking a little absentmindedly about the various wonders of his concubine in Xinna's room, and was so startled by this sudden drum beat that he almost jumped up from behind the public case. It was easy to come back to his senses, and he cursed in his heart, but he had to order him to bring the wronged person to the court.

The two officers went out in response, and after a short time they brought a middle-aged woman who was crying as she walked.

Li Gongfu looked at the woman a few times in the hall, and saw that she was in her thirties, but she still had a little bit of charm, but she was dressed in gold and silver.

After the woman went to the hall, under the guidance of the officer, she knelt down to Yang Xingzhi, who was sitting high in the hall, and cried bitterly: "The people's woman Qian Chen has seen the master of Qingtian, please be the master of the people's wife!"

Yang Xingzhi raised the shocked wood and slapped it heavily on the public case, and shouted: "Qian Chen, you can stop the sorrow for the time being." If there are any grievances, tell the county in detail. ”

Chen calmed down a little and tearfully told his own affairs. It turned out that she was the wife of a businessman in this county, Qiangui, and found out that her husband had been killed mysteriously this morning, so she hurried to Yamen to report the case.

Hearing that there was a homicide, Yang Xingzhi's brows furrowed, and his eyes unconsciously glanced at Li Gongfu who was standing below.

Li Gongfu understood, and arched his hand upwards and said: "My lord, since there is a murder case, please go to investigate first, and then come back to the adult to report the case, please give your attention to the opportunity to solve the case." ”

Yang Xingzhi secretly praised this eighteen-year-old boy who had eyes and could speak, and it was not in vain that he valued and promoted him, and immediately pretended to give a few commands, and then announced his retirement and returned to the gentle village of the new concubine in the back house.

Li Gongfu ordered someone to summon Wu Da, and ordered four messengers to accompany him, and took the Chen family to her house to investigate the case.

After arriving at the Qian family, Chen led Li Gongfu and the others to a lonely house in the backyard, and said with tears in his eyes: "Li Zhutou, my master died in this room, and the body has not been moved." ”

Li Gongfu looked at this house a little strange, the walls were completely made of large pieces of bluestone, the windows were not large, and a layer of thumb-thick iron railings was added, and the two doors that were still closed flashed with a dark and faint cold light, which were actually cast of iron.

"What is this room for?" Li Gongfu flicked his finger on the iron door and turned his head to ask.

Chan replied, "My grandfather is in the jewelry business, and this room was specially built by him to store valuable jewelry. ”

Li Gongfu said: "Open the door first, I want to survey the scene." ”

Chen Shi said with a difficult face: "Li Zhutou doesn't know, now this door is bolted from the inside, and it can't be opened from the outside." ”

Li Gongfu was stunned and said, "Then how do you know that Master Qian is dead?"

"Li Zhutou came with the women. Chen led Li Gongfu to a window on the left, "Last night the lord said that he wanted to stay in this room to take stock of the goods, and this morning someone came to serve him to get up and freshen up, but he couldn't call the door, so he looked inside from this window, but found that he had ...... the master."

Speaking of this, Chen couldn't stop crying.

Li Gongfu saw that the window sash was closed, but the window paper had been punctured with a big hole, so he stepped forward to look inside, but saw that on the chair behind a table inside, there was a headless corpse, and the head that should have grown on the neck had rolled down on the table. The skull happened to be facing the window, and a face with angry eyes full of fear was clearly visible, revealing an indescribable horror.

"Mrs. Qian, can't you open this door?"

Xu shook his head helplessly: "There are three iron latches behind this door, which can only be opened from the inside." I have sent a craftsman to cut the iron latch along the crack in the door. ”

Li Gongfu shook his head and said, "No need, I have my own way." ”

Then he came to the door again, and first observed the position and thickness of the three iron latches against the crack in the door, and then took a step back and pressed his right hand on the hilt of the saber at his waist.

The saber slowly came out of the box, but the blade forged from ordinary steel gradually brightened, and finally it was like a scorching cold flame.

With Li Gongfu's clear voice, the long knife turned into a streamer and drilled into the narrow crack of the door, and went all the way down along the crack of the door without hindrance.

Three slight metal clangs came from behind the door, and when the people behind came back to their senses, they saw that Li Gongfu had slowly put the knife into the sheath, and then raised his palm and gently pushed, and the two heavy iron doors opened.

"Li catches the head well!" Wu Da and the four servants cheered in unison.

Li Gongfu waved his hand, and then ordered two messengers to guard the door and not allow others to enter, and he took the servant and the other two messengers into the room.

Space was limited, and the survey of the site quickly yielded results. The man who had already filled in the corpse grid said to Li Gongfu: "Li Zhutou, the deceased was beheaded with a sharp weapon, judging from the wounds, the murderer was extremely powerful, and the murder weapon used was also extremely sharp. There was no trace of a fight at the scene, and the deceased was supposed to remain seated and beheaded by the murderer without resistance. The most strange thing is that the doors and windows of this room are locked, and the walls and roof are extremely strong, and I really don't know how the murderer came in and killed. ”

Li Gongfu said thoughtfully: "If you are an ordinary person, there is really no way to enter this secret room to kill people, but ......"

After the scene had been investigated, Li Gongfu ordered the messenger to let the people of his family come in to collect the corpses, and the Chen family would inevitably cry again and grab the ground.

After the corpse was collected and the secret visit was completed, Li Gongfu began to ask the people of the Qian family to see if they could find any clues from the deceased's previous grudges. It's just that although Qian Gui was stingy and greedy for money during his lifetime, he never had a deep hatred with others that was enough to attract death.

When he was distressed and couldn't figure out anything, a little servant of the Qian family stood up and said with some fear: "Li Zhutou, the villain knows something, but he doesn't know if it will help the investigation of the case." ”

Li Gongfu saw that the little guy was only fifteen or sixteen years old, so he smiled and said gently: "Whether it is related or not, I will judge for myself, you just need to tell what you know and hear." If it really helps to solve the case, then both the government and your master will definitely reward you. ”

When the little guy heard that there was a reward to take, he became a little bolder, and his voice was a little louder: "The villain thinks that if you want to know how the master was killed, you can ask Mr. Xiang Shiji, who is setting up a stall on West Street!"