late Qing Dynasty arrest

Yamen servant Zhang Haojie bought breakfast, pancakes and bean curd, everyone had them, some people in the Wei residence started to eat, some suppressed their hunger and refused to eat.Dozens of people gathered outside Wei's mansion. They talked about it early in the morning. Li Guolou stood behind the door and eavesdropped. He never imagined that people's imaginations would be so rich. There is an answer.

After listening for a while, Li Guolou had the answer. It turned out that even he was not a good person.Some people saw Xiao Lizi lift a [-]-jin living person, and others saw Xiao Lizi climb out of a high wall.

Li Guolou really wanted to rush out the door to argue with Big Mouth, but Ai Hai patted him on the shoulder.

Ai Hai smiled and said: "The suspect should not try to escape, you are not a good person, the people who hang out on the streets in the middle of the night are all snitches and flower pickers, don't tell me that you are a watchman, I can expose this right away you."

Li Guolou smiled wryly, and said: "Is it easy for me? I didn't sleep all night, and I had to get the waist card today, but now I'm fine, staying with the family of the dead. If you can't leave, if you can't do it, we will do it." Are you not allowed to touch anything?"

Ai Hai looked at Li Guolou's attire, curled his lips, and said, "You ran to the Yamen like this, we thought it was a fake foreign devil. Tell me the truth, you really went abroad and studied. Or I made some money as a coolie in Nanyang, and came back to be a petty official. Look at your virtue, let you go to collect protection fees, and come back after being knocked out."

Li Guolou said: "To be honest, I don't like wearing a silk mandarin jacket. I can't move it around and it will get dirty. As for the green coat you are wearing, it looks very dignified, but I haven't got one. This hat, I I really don’t like it, it’s always an eyesore when it’s wobbly when walking.”

Ai Hai replied: "I don't like this hat either, but it comes in handy when it rains. You don't have to worry about it when it rains, that is to say, us. Hey;;;;;;Little Lizi, you are quite good at turning around , I asked you a question, but you didn’t answer a single word, but put on my words instead. I’ll give you a piece of advice, give Mr. Wu a meeting gift when you arrive at the Yamen, and he sent you all your outfits, if you want to wear them, they won’t get moldy If you don’t have a hat with a hole in it, you will be filial to the officer. Our officer Bao has ten masters, each of whom is in charge of a different territory. Some of them are not to be offended, and others are ignored. If you give red envelopes indiscriminately, there will be trouble in the future. . Got it?"

Li Guolou looked at Ai Hai's outstretched hand, and knew that the old man wanted to teach him to be a man, and of course the first step was to give a red envelope.Li Guolou caught cheaters last night and distributed some broken money, which is just in time for him.He handed over a piece of broken silver, but there was no response, Ai Hai's palm was still open, Li Guolou added another piece, and his right hand held Ai Hai's hand tightly.Tell Ai Hai not to be greedy, no matter how greedy he is, it will hurt the brotherhood.

He sighed and said, "Brother Ai, you will have a long time to come. Give the officer some face. I heard that the officer is here, and he is honored by his subordinates. Why did you make a mistake in the rules?"

Ai Hai chuckled, stretched his hand back, and said, "That's right, if you were my officer, I would pay you respect. But the rules of entering the door cannot be broken. If you want to know the rules, you must abide by them. Everyone reciprocates, Be a man of duty and be kind, this is Master Bao’s favorite saying. We can’t make a lot of money in this job, and we can’t starve to death. Compared with other yamen in the capital, it’s pretty easy. This time The Wei family is about to suffer. They are a rich family. Mr. Bao is going to get rich. I have worked hard all night, and I have done my duty. Then Mr. Bao will not treat us badly. Do you understand this? Your broken silver It pays off."

Li Guolou exclaimed: "Ah! The Wei family has to lose money after the death of the head of the family. Where did this come from? It's unreasonable."

"Shhhhhhhhhhh;;;;;" Ai Hai rolled his eyes and glared angrily: "Little Lizi, please speak softly, what kind of business is not relying on the mountain to eat the mountain, and it is not us who let the Wei family be ruined. We caught the murderer If you commit a crime, the Wei family is comforted, so don't express it. Otherwise, Mr. Bao will not be able to judge this official matter, and it will still be in doubt until next autumn. If there are some changes in the emperor's family, if there is a big release, the Wei family will get nothing If it doesn’t, there will be endless troubles. There are rules, Master Wu will talk to grandma when he comes out, and we just need to do our own work well.”

Li Guolou asked: "Brother Ai, what if someone from the Wei family colludes with Man Youli?"

Ai Haidao: "We are not robbers, we will make people ruin and die. There are rules for everything, and we will not mess around. Could it be that if we swallow Zhenbaoxuan, who will come to the government in the future? It's like collecting protection money , who would not be able to afford this small amount of money. This is the root of the imperial city, and there are no major embezzlers. If the great eunuch An Dehai is gossiping with the emperor, wouldn’t we, Mr. Bao, seek death by ourselves? , Got it? A mallet."

Li Guolou asked: "According to what you say, the Ax Gang also wants to give gifts?"

Ai Hai was dissatisfied and said: "You say that your stick is a stick. If the word "axe bang" is written in the pen, and the people above see it, who will benefit? Han Dazhang is afraid that he has already gone to the yamen to inquire about the news. Yao made a mistake. I'm praising you as a lucky star in my stomach. Not only did he catch cheaters for him, but he also made him a fortune. He will take you with him in future cases. As for who you offended, I won't talk about you being so smart. "

Ai Hai laughed a few times, walked away, and went to meet a carriage at the door. Wan Wuzuo jumped off the carriage with two apprentices. Wan Nianqing, who was over 50 years old, moved vigorously. The first thing he saw was to look at Li Guolou. When people meet for the first time in their lives, they don't like each other.

In the yard, Ai Hai told Wan Nianqing about the case, but Wan Nianqing just nodded and listened without saying much.

After Ai Hai finished speaking, Wan Nianqing asked, "Has anyone seen the crime scene?"

Ai Haidao: "Ma Dequan and I looked at the corpse, but we didn't come close. This newcomer Li Guolou, he has seen the scene, but he didn't touch the corpse, and Xu Xiaohu, the deputy director of the Wei Mansion, picked up the dead man Wei Wen Little pulse, others said they had never been near the corpse."

Wan Nianqing ignored Li Guolou, glanced at Li Guolou's face, put on gloves and a mask, carried the tools on his back and stepped into the south room, followed by two apprentices, one of whom held his hand With a pen in his hand, he is a person who makes a pen case.

Li Guolou didn't want to be shy, no matter how many gangsters turned on him, he also followed Nanfang.Another apprentice shouted: "You! Don't get close to the scene."

Li Guolou nodded and bowed, and said with a smile, "I'll just take a look in the living room and make sure I don't touch any footprints. You're busy with your work, so I won't bother you."

Wu Zuofang is happy in his early 20s. He used to be a grave digger in the cemetery. He regards his current job as sacred. He stares at Li Guolou fiercely and hates Li Guolou for destroying the scene. It was superfluous people who made the scene into a mess, and it was Li Guolou who didn't know the severity and stepped on the ground one by one with bloody footprints.

Seeing Fang Kaixin rubbing the bloody footprints on the ground with rice paper, Li Guolou said awkwardly, "Brother Fang, these are my footprints."

Fang Kaixin didn't raise his head, and said in an angry way, "I know that, so you don't need to talk too much."

Li Guolou stretched his neck and looked towards the door of the bedroom, but he heard Wan Nianqing shout angrily: "Who moved the corpse. Which plague god lied, tell me the truth."

Under everyone's gaze, Li Guolou said frankly: "I moved a little bit, I didn't touch the knife, that's how it was inserted to the end, don't care about my business."

Wan Nianqing cast a sideways glance at Li Guolou, and said, "You are dishonest, very dishonest, I remember you, be careful, anyone who has trouble with me, I will stink him forever."

Ma Dequan approached, and said in a low voice: "Little Li, don't offend Wan Nianqing, he will put the smell of corpses on you, where are you going to take a bath in broad daylight?"

Li Guolou shuddered and looked at the three masters in horror.Didn't expect him to commit a taboo, meddling in other people's business like a dog and a mouse, it's like murdering one's parents, before these two feet set foot in the yamen, there are enemies.He wanted to learn to inspect the scene, but he didn't expect that in the yamen, there was a clear division of labor and each performed its duties.He was not praised for what he did, and Wan Nianqing didn't ask him a word, and already regarded him as air.

Li Guolou could only pretend to be a grandson, bow his head and put on a hippie smile. He is naturally thick-skinned, and he can turn a blind eye to people showing him bad looks.As the saying goes, reach out and don't hit a smiling face.Wan Nianqing's complexion improved a lot, and he glanced at Li Guolou with blank eyes, no longer embarrassing Li Guolou's ignorance.

Li Guolou winked at Ai Hai, and Ai Hai understood, and said, "Master Wan, what did you find?"

Wan Nianqing still lowered his head to inspect the corpse, and said: "From the scene, it seems that the deceased was stabbed into the heart with a sharp knife, and there were no other wounds. The deceased did not resist with his hands at such a short distance. One is that he did not expect that this person would kill him with a fatal knife. The murderer was very powerful, and he was ruthless and did not leave many traces at the scene, but these bloody footprints should be left by the murderer. The other few It was the footprints left by Xiao Lizi, and there are several suspicious footprints. It should be the bloody footprints stepped on by someone in Wei's mansion. As for the murderers, it is hard to say, and it is possible to leave bloody footprints , not left by the murderer."

Ai Hai asked: "Master Wan, why is this?"

Wan Nianqing pointed to the knife pulled out from the corpse, and said: "Because the murderer didn't pull out the murder weapon, he stabbed hard into the chest of the deceased, and immediately pulled away. But Niu'er's sharp knife had a blood blade, and the knife stabbed into it The body of the deceased was bloody from the blade. The murderer must have blood on his hands and body. So the footprints are secondary. The real evidence is the hands and clothes. You beat Man Baye until his face was covered with blood, and his clothes were covered in blood , his clothes were covered in blood, I don't even know how to write that report? This case can be made into an iron case, and no one can break it. As for whether Man Baye had any accomplices, judging from the scene, it's hard to see It's because the body hasn't moved since the moment it was killed, only Little Li turned it over once, and it's still intact."

The question that Li Guolou was most concerned about was not touched. He couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Master Wan, how long do you think the deceased has been dead?"

Wan Nianqing skillfully looked at the eyelids of the deceased and touched the body of the deceased, tossing and tossing for a long time, and finally said: "I can guarantee that the time of death of the deceased will not exceed three hours, that is, six hours. This time, Xiao Li, you are a dog Shit luck, the murderer was caught. How much oil and water can we squeeze out of the eight suspects outside? It depends on Mr. Bao's methods."

Seeing several police officers and Zuo Zuo sniggering together.Li Guolou knew in his heart that what Wan Nianqing meant was to bring all the eight members of the Wei family back to the yamen, interrogate them again, let them suffer for a day, and then let them go.