Concubine

Chapter 498 The Case of the Headless Female Corpse

Originally, Yang Tashan, a small headhunter, would not be able to invite the majestic fourth-rank magistrate at all, and he is new here, let alone the magistrate, even those assistant officials such as Tongzhi, Tongju, etc., probably would not give him such face.However, Yang Tashan had just retrieved the official seal for the prefect of Han, and the prefect of Han was grateful for his contribution, not only came to congratulate him in person, but also brought his wife along.

Now that the magistrates and elders have gone, who would dare to stay still among those assistant officials?So those who posted the post, all of them came, crowded Yang Tashan's small courtyard to the brim, and it was very lively.

The chairperson of the banquet was set in the living room, and Yang Tashan accompanied Zhifu Han and other high-quality officials to sit. Although Tian Nizi helped a lot, women in ancient times were generally not allowed to attend the banquet, but Yang Tashan missed her Taking such good care of himself, he arranged for her to sit with his cousin Hou Wei and the others.But Tian Nizi didn't sit down at all, and took her maid and Xing'er busy to greet the guests.

Since it was a housewarming event, the guests who came here naturally all brought congratulatory gifts. Yang Tashan spent a total of five or six taels of silver on the banquet for more than 30 people. There are some more messy things.

The drink lasted until the lights came on, and Zhifu Han took his wife drunk and staggered to bid farewell to Yang Tashan.Immediately afterwards, all the guests also bid farewell and went back.

Tian Nizi and Xing'er were busy helping Zhang Luo all the time, after the guests left, they were free.Yang Tashan was very grateful to Tian Nizi, he had been greeting the magistrate and the others just now, now all the guests had left, only Cheng Ziqin, Shouhou, Luo Yi and Ma Liang were left to drink with Yang Tashan.The guys from Qingyang Restaurant are cleaning up the mess in the yard.

Yang Tashan greeted Tian Nizi, Xing'er and Tian Nizi's little maid, Xiao Lian, to sit down and have a glass of wine together.

Tian Nizi was overwhelmed with alcohol, so she quickly drank Xiafei, her face was full of red. Hearing Yang Tashan's continuous thanks, she took advantage of the wine and said, "Brother Yang, are you really grateful to me?"

"Of course!" Yang Tashan said with a smile, "You have helped me so much, I am grateful from the bottom of my heart."

Tian Nizi's eyes moved, and she said in a tired voice: "Then I still mentioned the topic last time. I have always wanted to recognize you as a godbrother. Now I will mention it again. You call me sister, is it right?"

Yang Tashan was already grateful, but the reason why he refused last time was because he was afraid that Long Wang would be overwhelmed, seeing his vigilant look, he felt angry, this time he was able to enter the yamen as a police officer, Tian Nizi still helped a lot The big ones are busy, but they really want to help, and they don't ask for anything from themselves, so Yang Tashan is still really grateful, and now that he is a headhunter, this Qingyang mansion is considered a person of all sizes, and he recognizes it. Tian Nizi is not considered high-ranking as a god-sister, not to mention that she has drunk seven or eight cents of the wine.

So, relying on the strength of the wine, he stood up, bowed and clasped his fists and said: "Since the elder sister values ​​the younger brother so much, the younger brother should be respectful rather than obedient. My sister, please accept the younger brother's gift."

Tian Nizi was overjoyed, and hurriedly got up and gave a blessing: "I have you as a brother, I am really happy to the death."

Shouhou, Cheng Ziqin and others applauded and cheered, Yang Tashan brought a glass of wine, drank a glass of kinship wine with Tian Nizi, and drank a glass with everyone.

The few people drank until the second watch, and then they parted happily.

Yang Tashan was already drunk, Xing'er helped him into the master bedroom to lie down, helped him take off his clothes, and when he washed him, Yang Tashan was already sound asleep.

Early the next morning, Yang Tashan came to the yamen and was officially on duty.

The work of the yamen police officers mainly includes two parts, criminal investigation and public security. The criminal investigation actually includes some work of the judicial police, such as summoning defendants and witnesses.In terms of law and order, that is, patrolling, it is equivalent to 110 patrolling police officers. Of course, patrolling the streets is not the main responsibility of the police.

The Qingyang Mansion police officers were divided into three groups. If there were no homicides or serious crimes, two groups of people would be sent out to patrol the streets in turn every day, and the other group would wait in the shift room.Once a major case is discovered, two groups of people are usually sent to be responsible for the detection. If the case is particularly urgent and serious, then all three groups of police officers will be involved in the detection.

Yang Tashan is the vice president's chief arrester, and the job of patrolling the streets is usually not assigned to his head, and Shouhou and the others will do it.

The first job that Cheng Ziqin assigned to Yang Tashan was a large pile of case files. These were unsolved cases that occurred in Qingyang Mansion recently. There were about twenty or thirty cases, most of which were theft, and there were no such cases as homicide. Major cases are not because there are no homicides, but because such cases must be solved, otherwise it will affect political performance, so if they cannot be solved, they will find prisoners to take the blame.

The records in these case files are very simple, they are all the statements of the owners, and the stolen items are all small things like rice and noodles. In the largest case, the value of the stolen items did not exceed three taels.

The records of these cases are simple, separated by a long time and without clues, and there is no way to investigate them.Besides, Yang Tashan had no interest in these petty theft cases at all, so he flipped through them dully, then threw them aside, and said wryly that they couldn't solve them.

Cheng Ziqin also understood Yang Tashan's psychology, and said, "Since you don't want to solve the case, then go patrol the streets."

Yang Tashan thought in his stomach, I'd rather be bored and wander around the streets than worry about these clueless trivial cases.He smiled and said, "Okay!" He pressed the handle of the knife with his hand, and walked away.

Cheng Ziqin hurriedly said, "Wait, I'll go with you."

"Huh? You want to patrol the streets too?"

"Originally, I didn't need to go in person, but you, the deputy chief arrester, have been patrolling the streets, so it's okay if I don't go. We both have a companion when we go together."

"Okay! The so-called matching of men and women, isn't it tiring to work?" Yang Tashan said with a smile.

The two walked out of the yamen side by side, and walked along the main street to the west city.

There is a demarcated area for the arresters to patrol the streets, and each has their own responsibilities, but Cheng Ziqin and Yang Tashan are the chief arresters, and their street patrols are equivalent to inspection work.The catchers in the area were surprised to see the two head catchers going on patrol in person, and even a little moved, busy nodding and bowing to say hello.

The two went all the way to the Town God's Temple in Xicheng. Yang Tashan remembered that when he first arrived in Qingyang Mansion, he had lived here with Xing'er, and now he has become the Ziyi catcher of Qingyang Mansion. Things change really fast enough.

When Yang Tashan was feeling emotional, he suddenly heard someone behind him shout: "Boss arrest! Chief arrest~!"

The two hurriedly turned around to look around, only to see the thin monkey catcher with rabbit teeth running over panting.The thin monkey bent over to take a few breaths, and then said: "You two captors, the prefect tells you to go back quickly!"

The two were startled and asked what was wrong.

The thin monkey said: "A naked and headless female corpse was found in Pingtougou outside the southern city!"

ah?The two were taken aback, there was a murder!This is not a good thing.

Yang Tashan asked Cheng Ziqin to go back to the yamen first, and went back to get his forensic evidence investigation box before rushing to the yamen.Because of the murder, both groups of police officers have assembled.

Prefect Han was fully dressed and was ready to go. When he saw the two captors coming back, he ordered the sedan chair to be picked up. Gongs were played in front of Zaoli to clear the way.

The place where the body was found was next to a stinking ditch, and Luo Yi, the leader of the police team, had arrived early with Min Zhuang to set up vigilance.

After the magistrate’s official sedan chair arrived, it stopped far under a willow tree. The magistrate got out of the sedan chair, and a porter carried a grand master’s chair and placed it under the willow tree. Hand over the tea.

The prefect of Han called Cheng Ziqin and Yang Tashan over, told them to investigate carefully, and then began to drink tea to enjoy the coolness there.

Being an official is good, this kind of thing only needs to be directed from the sidelines and listen to the report. According to the situation of the case, a limit is set.

Cheng Ziqin, Yang Tashan and other arresters walked towards the corpse. An old woman was standing beside Luo Yi, her face was already pale and trembling with fright, and beside her was a basket with half a basket of weeds in it.This woman was the first to discover the body.

Cheng Ziqin asked: "Old man, where are you from? Please tell me how you found the body."

The old woman nodded: "Ms. Zhao is from Qiantou Pingtougou Village. This morning, I went out to hunt pigweed, and it was almost done. I thought of this small river ditch to wash the pigweed. I washed it. I always felt that the neighborhood was smelly, but it wasn't the smell of the ditch, so I stood up and looked around. This look almost scared me to death. In the grass not far in front of me, there was a It was a dead body with no head and covered with maggots, I was terrified, so I ran back and reported it to Rizheng."

"Very good!" Cheng Ziqin nodded, "You haven't moved this corpse, have you?"

"No...no... Lizheng asked me and a few villagers to stay here. When they went to report to the police, we watched from a distance and didn't move."

"That's good!" Cheng Ziqin and Yang Tashan walked carefully to the side of the corpse, only to see a ditch that was not wide. The ditch was covered with messy water plants twice, and the shore was knee-high thatch. From the thatched grass two or three steps away, there was a buzzing sound, and blowflies flew up from time to time and landed on their hair and shoulders.

Cheng Ziqin waved away the flies in disgust. This time, it was probably not the first time she was at the scene of a murder case, because she didn't have the nervousness and excitement of a novice.

At a place five or six steps away from the buzzing sound, Cheng Ziqin asked the others to wait in place, and only led Yang Tashan and the two to approach the corpse carefully, observing possible traces on the ground along the way.

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PS: As the New Year approaches, I have to be busy with special things, such as official and personal matters, which are annoying to death.Therefore, Mu Mu didn't have time to add updates, otherwise, the only remaining manuscripts would be gone. Now that the case has been solved, there would be no quality if there were no manuscripts.

However, Wood is not going to return to one change per day of [-], and decided to guarantee two changes per day in the future, with no change of less than [-] words, a total of [-] words per day (plus the number of free words, it should be about [-] words. )
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