Dali Temple Small Dining Room 2

Chapter 27 Noodles with Scallion Oil ([-])

It turned out that he wanted to ask about the case of the Pingxi County King.

Liu Yuan said "Oh", greeted Lin Fei and went back to the lobby. After a while, he came back with a scroll.

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

There are many cases in Dali Temple. If you really want to mark each case in detail, there are countless secret room murder cases with similar techniques. Therefore, they secretly selected an easy-to-understand case according to the characteristics of each case. name.

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

After the beginning of spring, the nobles in Chang'an City, who have been holding back a winter day, will naturally start to go outing in the mountains and rivers in spring.

Searching boats for fishing and recreational activities on the banks of the Weishui River are favored by many rich and powerful children.

Not long after the beginning of spring, when an old man was fishing by the Weishui River, the hook was hooked. He thought he had caught a big fish, but when he pulled hard, the hook broke. Fish" pulled closer.In the end, it turned out that what was caught was not a fish, it was clearly a person!The old man was frightened to death, scolded him and ran to the Chang'an government office to report to the officials.

What happened was the son of a wealthy businessman from other places.

Originally, the Chang'an government office took over the case directly, so it would not have been reported to Dali Temple.

However, this is just the beginning.

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

So far, three corpses have appeared in the Weishui River.

A few days ago, a fourth one appeared.However, unlike the previous three bodies found in the river, this one appeared directly in the bathtub on the boat.

The boat was a private boat, which belonged to Yushi Zhongcheng Yansan, and the one who died in the bathtub was also Yushi Zhongcheng Yansan himself.

At that time, all the servants and maidservants on Yan San's private boat were absent, except Li Yuan, the prince of Pingxi, who had passed out, and his servants were happy with each other.

Seeing the corpses appearing one after another, the identities of the dead people became more and more "amazing" each time, and even now a Yushi Zhongcheng died directly.How can the governor of Chang'an handle such a case?Immediately report to Dali Temple and let Dali Temple take over.

It was Lin Fei who took over the case in Dali Temple.After walking around with the people, Dang even took Li Yuan, the king of Pingxi County who had gone home to rest, and his servant Shuangxi back to Dali Temple and detained them.

In all fairness, this approach is not bad at all.Yan San died on his private boat, and there was no one on board except Li Yuantong Shuangxi.

According to the usual case-handling process, these two people should be immediately detained as the biggest suspects.However, Li Yuan has a special status, if he wants to leave, how can the Governor of Chang'an stop him?
But even though he didn't dare to offend Li Yuan face to face, the Governor of Chang'an just looked at him like this before he was so confused.As soon as Li Yuan left, he reported to Dali Temple on his back, and Dali Temple stopped him.

In fact, the first three corpses all appeared in the river, and the last one of Yan San died in the bathtub. It seems that it doesn't matter much.

What's more, the age of the first three deceased was still young, all of them were fifteen or sixteen years old, while Yan San was in his thirties, so he looked even less like the first three.

However, the governor of Chang'an obviously didn't want to take this hot potato, so he made up a reason to group several cases together and sent them to Dali Temple.

"Two days before the first corpse appeared, people on the banks of the Weishui River were offering sacrifices to the river god," Liu Yuan said. "In Chang'an, there is this place every spring, and some people made it themselves."

Because it is not a big festival, it has never been recognized by the court, and many local people in Chang'an don't know about it.

"Something went wrong when offering sacrifices to the river god this year. The gift-giver who carried the sacrificial offerings into the river drowned when he floated up." Liu Yuan said, "Fortunately, there were many people at that time, so we pulled him together. come up."

The gift-giver who was selected to deliver the sacrificial offering into the river was a master of water skills.It is not unusual for such a person to drown.

"After pulling the man up, he saw knotted water plants wrapped around the man's feet. I asked the people who offer sacrifices to the River God every year, and they said that this year the River God went to visit the Dragon Lord and was not at home. No The river god was in charge, so the water ghost ran out and wanted to find someone to take the place of the dead ghost." Liu Yuan said, "Several people died in a row, and the people living by the Weishui River thought it was the water ghost who caused the trouble. I looked at this The name is special enough and easy to remember, so I use it!"

The reason why the governor of Chang'an pushed over was also because of "water ghosts".

Of course, as officials of Dali Temple, they don't believe that this is some kind of water ghost looking for a substitute for the dead ghost.People kill people, not ghosts.

Lin Fei never interrupted Liu Yuan's words until Liu Yuan finished speaking, and he didn't mention the water ghost. He just asked Liu Yuan: "How is the investigation at Wu Zuo's place?"

Liu Yuan hurriedly said "Oh", and said: "I told the author what Lin Shaoqing said, and I really found something."

As he spoke, he opened the scroll, pointed to the record written by Wu, and said, "Schisandra chinensis and other kidney-tonifying medicines were found in the stomachs of the deceased."

Speaking of this, Liu Yuan had a subtle look on his face: "I really can't imagine that Yan Zhongcheng, who looks gentle on weekdays, would also... and those fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys, how old are they? At such a young age, it is... tsk tsk!"

Really, the longer you stay in Dali Temple, the more you can discover the people and things in this world. It's really wonderful!

Lin Fei's reaction was still calm when he heard the words, he responded lightly, and said again: "What else?"

Liu Yuan quickly accepted his emotion, and continued: "Besides, no algae in the river was found in the stomachs of the first three deceased. According to a preliminary judgment, they should not have drowned in the river, but were drowned somewhere else. Someone got it in the river."

Lin Fei nodded, and said to Liu Yuan: "You extract the medicinal materials contained in the medicated bath containing Schisandra chinensis that Yan San soaked, and find someone to go to the pharmacy to ask. People around the first three deceased or he himself may have bought this Kind of medicinal bath pack."

Liu Yuan, who was feeling emotional when he heard a sentence, suddenly became excited, and suddenly understood: "Lin Shaoqing said that the three people in front were also drowned in the same medicated tub like Yan Zhongcheng?"

Lin Fei gave a faint "Yes", and said: "Although the governor of Chang'an was eager to get rid of it and put the deaths of several people together, it seems that he was fooled right now."

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

But the difference is that the corpses of the first three were transferred to the Weishui River, while Yan San obviously had no time to transfer them in the future.As for why it was too late to transfer, I thought of Li Yuan who brought his servant Shuangxi to kill Yan San on board because of the collision.

This, he thought, was probably the reason.

(End of this chapter)