Touring the Ming Dynasty

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Seeing Duan Fei's surprised look, Yan Butou turned around and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, as long as we finish this case first and do it steadily, the people in Dongchang will have no excuses, and at most we will spend some money. Don't be too nervous."

Duan Fei regained his composure and said, "Then we have to hurry up. In addition to finding the murder scene today, we also found a clue. It is said that in the evening of the [-]th, Tan, the chef of Helai Tower, once lost a set. The knife is very likely to be the murder weapon. No matter what, bring him and his new knife back first. For a famous chef, even if the knife you are used to is replaced, it will be similar to the original one. It should be usable for cooking. Compared."

The two discussed a few words, Yan Butou went to Helai Tower to arrest Chef Tan, while Duan Fei walked to the mortuary, just in time to see Shi Bin coming out of the official house, and shouted to him: "Brother Fei!" , haven’t you eaten yet?”

Duan Fei nodded and said: "Well, I didn't feel hungry. By the way, I saw the black monkey earlier. He said some strange things to me. Did he say anything to me before I fell into a coma? I can tell you mentioned?"

Shi Bin said: "I don't think so, but Hei Hou'er had a fight with you last month, after he and his uncle came back from other places, but neither of you told us why. You just... Well, when you mentioned it, I remembered one thing. Just now, when Botou Yan and I were looking for someone to inquire, the second son came to me and said that the **** will call everyone to decide on a big event tonight. He asked me and Brother Fei if you want to go, and asked him he couldn't tell what it was, but I refused at that time, we should all be arrested quickly, it's better not to get involved in those rivers and lakes..."

"You're right, I guess it's not a good thing, don't worry about them, where are you going now? Come with me to the mortuary?" Duan Fei asked.

Shi Bin faltered and slipped away, the mortuary was unlucky, who would go there all the time if he had nothing to do.

As soon as Duan Fei walked into the small courtyard of the mortuary, Yang Sen greeted him happily and said, "Brother Duan, has the case been solved? I have made a great contribution."

Duan Fei snorted, and went to inspect the dead pig. Yang Sen sensed something was wrong, and asked cautiously, "Brother Duan, what happened? Did I do something wrong?"

Duan Fei said lightly: "It's not wrong to be wrong, it's just that someone used the little evidence obtained from you to convict a person and tortured a person in court to extract a confession."

"Master Xu?" Yang Sen rolled his eyes and said annoyedly, "It's all my fault, you shouldn't just talk nonsense."

"Forget it, you can't help but answer when he asks, what's the matter with this fist mark? There was no record during the autopsy that day." Duan Fei asked.

Yang Sen said: "Well, I just found out this morning. I was going to tell you, but you had already left, but I didn't want to bump into Mr. Xu. Grandpa said that the fist print was shallow, and it didn't show up at that time. Last night I washed the corpse with water and it came out slowly."

Duan Fei nodded suddenly. In the 21st century, after the forensic autopsy, the corpse needs to be washed with special liquid medicine, so that some bruises and wounds that were not visible before can be found. Unexpectedly, the ancients in China have already used this trick.

Duan Fei encouraged: "You did a good job. Do you know when the fist seal was printed? How long before Lu Lan died? Or was he beaten at the time of death? Can you tell?"

Yang Sen said: "Well, grandpa said that the fist mark was made two hours before his death. Lu Lan was a bit fat, and the punch was relatively weak. At most, he fell down, so there was no obvious bruise. It only showed up this morning after applying medicinal wine, and the color is very light, which means that before death, the congestion has almost dissipated, at least two hours later."

This was an answer that Duan Fei didn't expect. No wonder Yang Sen proudly said that his grandfather was the number one writer in the south of the Yangtze River.

Leaving the mortuary, Duan Fei came to the prison of the county government. There was no crowd crying for grievances. Even Song Chi and Liu Qian, who were sent in by Duan Fei, just gave him a cold look and just caught lice on their bodies. went.

The prison guards brought Duan Fei to Lu Da's cell, and Duan Fei said to the man curled up on the haystack through the cage: "Lu Da, let me ask you, when did you knock down Lu Lan and steal the silver?" ?”

Lu Da opened his eyes and looked at Duan Fei lightly, then closed his eyes again.

Even if Lu Da did not kill anyone, but he hurt people and robbed property, which is a felony in Daming, let alone that person is his master, this problem is even more serious, beheading is considered light, a person who has no future will naturally mention everything Not interested.

Duan Fei was not angry either, he turned his head and asked the jailer: "According to the law of the Great Ming Dynasty, what punishment should a servant give for injuring his master and robbing him of his money?"

The prison boss said: "It depends on the situation. If the sentence is light, you may be punished with a staff of one hundred and exiled for thousands of miles. If you are sentenced, you may be strangled and beheaded."

Lu Da snorted, turned over and ignored it, Duan Fei said: "Lu Da, I know there is a reason for you to do this, if you can provide clues to help us catch the murderer who killed your master, if you have performed meritorious service, then In addition, you surrendered yourself, Master Min will give you a light sentence at his discretion, maybe you don’t need to be exiled, if you know about it and don’t report it, I’m afraid Master Min will not be happy if we can’t solve the case, then you will suffer a lot .”

Lu Da seemed to be persuaded, he turned over, slowly opened his eyes, and said, "Why should I trust you?"

Duan Fei said leisurely: "Believe it or not, you have no choice now. Do you feel ashamed of the master? Let me tell you another news. This case may involve a cult. When Dongchang intervenes, you will wait to follow Mrs. Lu." Together in the streets to be killed in public."

Duan Fei was threatening with empty words, but the name of Dongchang was definitely not a joke, "What!" Lu Da jumped up in shock, the heavy shackles on his body seemed to have no effect, but he immediately fell to his knees with a painful groan. The punishment of the splint still brought him great harm.

Duan Fei looked at him coldly, this guy deserved to suffer, who told him to be obsessed with money?

Lu Da knelt and crawled in front of the wooden fence, leaning on the fence with both hands and shouting: "I didn't kill anyone, and the mistress didn't do anything wrong, why did you implicate her?"

Duan Fei said lightly: "I can reason with you, but the people in Dongchang can't. Your master Lu Lan was tortured three times and six times while burning yellow paper to worship ghosts and gods. Die, this is a typical cult style, if you don’t tell me the truth, you don’t have to say it again in the future.”

"No!" Lu Da miserably hissed, "My lord, you died so badly..."

Duan Fei looked at him coldly, Lu Da cried for a while, then suddenly came to his senses, and shouted at Duan Fei: "Master, Lord, I didn't kill anyone. I just borrowed some money from the master that day, and the master won't allow it." , I knocked down the master for a while, stole his money and left. It was at the end of the You Dynasty, just after passing the Tonghai Bridge, and before I reached the roadside of Beimenwai Street, someone saw it at that time, sir, you sent them away. They can testify for me, I snatched the silver and ran not far away until I watched the master enter the city from a distance."

"Oh, you're still a little loyal... Lu Lan raised you and treated you well, why did you rob him of his money?" Duan Fei asked casually, thinking secretly in his heart. The sky at the beginning of the month was already a little dark, maybe someone followed Lu Lan into the city, or saw Lu Lan in the city and became murderous, but Lu Lan should go directly south along the road and then go west to go home. Could it be that the murderer is not at the gate of the city? Hijacked him to the east of the city in the street?

At this time, Lu Da replied: "It's all my fault for being a gambler. The master has already lent me a lot of money and advised me many times, but I couldn't help it... that day I asked the master to borrow money again, but the master refused immediately." He also said that if I go to gamble again, I will be driven away, I... I was confused for a while..."

Duan Fei left Lu Da, who blamed himself, and left the prison. Lu Da said that he regretted after hurting the master, but the pressure of the casino forced him to hesitate, and hid at a friend's house until someone told him today Lu Lan died, so he went back to the Lu family desperately to plead guilty, but it was too late.

"Who can snatch a living person away on the street without attracting attention? Relatives and friends? Officials? Or..." Duan Fei was thinking hard, when Yan Butou tied his stride with an iron chain Walking towards the cell, Duan Fei stopped in astonishment, Yan Butou said to Duan Fei: "A Fei, this is Tan Mao, the cook of Helai Tower."