Forensic lady champion husband

Chapter 67

The gate of Li's house on the back street of the temple was crowded with onlookers. A new short man entered without knowing it. He put his head in his sleeves and looked in.

"Squeeze what!"

The newcomer laughed and said, "It's nothing, just see what happened first, what do those two lines of words on the wall that are neither red nor black mean, I can't read, can you read for me?"

The person in front sneered, "Heh, do you know this family?"

The newcomer smiled and said: "Li Weiyong is so rich, he can be regarded as a famous name in Bianliang. Look at my rags, do you seem to have friendship with him?"

The person in front looked at him a few times, his straight body was patched, it looked like he had been wearing it for at least five or six years, the uppers were also mended, his eyebrows were mouse-eyed, and his face was disheveled. Exasperated, he said: "No matter how much money Li Weiyong has, he will have no life to enjoy it. This morning, his head was hanging at the door of his house, and it has been taken down by the government. But look at the pool of blood on the ground, it is still severed. dripping from the head."

Following his fingers, he saw that there was indeed a patch of reddish-brown under the water-white jade steps in front of the door engraved with reliefs of sea water patterns, which spread out in a spattering shape. If it wasn't blood, he would have thought it was a stain.

Just as he was watching, the dark green brass-bound door opened, and all of them came out with a servant in soap and a steward in green, and the two servants of the Li family all wore filial piety on their heads.

Seeing someone coming out, the onlookers rushed forward to watch the fun.

Dutou's surname is Cheng, tall and burly, five big and three thick, with a Sichuan character between his eyebrows, and his eyes are piercing. He looks like a practitioner. At this time, he is looking at the chaotic crowd with his hips on his hips, his brows are furrowed more tightly, and he is very angry He told his servants: "Stay there, don't let idlers get close!"

The yamen servants responded, and immediately dispersed the nearby crowd, blocking them outside the corner of the street, not allowing them to disturb the scene.

Cheng Du turned to the soap-clothed servant beside him and said, "Now I can explain what happened this morning properly!"

It turned out that the soap-clothed servant was Li San who found the head. He was frightened, so he glanced at the steward first, and seeing the grey-bearded steward Li Zhong nodded, then he retreated to the door, made the gesture of opening the door, and replayed the incident. again.

"It's two quarters past five drums, I get up and open the door—"

"Two quarters after five drums, the sun hasn't risen yet, why do you open the door so early!" Cheng Du pinched his chin in thought, and directly asked his own question.

Li San was at a loss, and Li Zhong, the steward, explained: "The host's family is in business, and the whole family is up before dawn. The upper shop in the upper shop, the order invoice. Earn the family business."

Cheng Du nodded and signaled Li San to continue the demonstration.

"I pushed open the door like this. It was still dark outside, and I couldn't see clearly. I felt something shaking on my head. When I looked up, it was a blood thorn in my head. It was very disgusting!" Halfway through, I suddenly remembered that this head belonged to my owner Li Weiyong, so I hurriedly shut up and said, "Anyway...it was scary, so I fell outside the door, and then I saw these two lines of writing on the wall."

Cheng Du said, "When you saw the human head, how did it hang?"

The steward said: "Hanging under the plaque in Li's house, the hemp rope I showed you just now is used to tie the bun on the head." He said, and the steward asked someone to bring the blood-stained hair that was two fingers thick. Cheng Du looked over the hemp rope.

Cheng Du glanced at the steward who answered the conversation without authorization, ordered the yamen servant to take the hemp rope, glanced at it, and circled around the gate again, leaned over to observe the blood on the ground, raised his head and said to Li San: "How do you know that the head is Your master's?"

The steward wanted to do it for him, but was stopped by Cheng Dutou: "Shut up, I'm asking him!"

Li San looked at the steward timidly, and said in a low voice, "I... didn't know it was our master, but the people in the house surrounded him, and after putting down the head, the steward recognized it..."

"It's the steward again, Li Zhong, you have a lot of power in this family." Cheng Du murmured with his head behind his back, looking at the glaring blood on the snow-white courtyard wall, "Eliminate profiteers, practice the way of heaven, murderers, Xue Hanliang— — Li Zhong, since you know all the details, who is this Xue Hanliang? Has he ever had an enmity with your master?"

The steward shook his head and said, "I'll head back on the way back. I don't remember such a person. Maybe Madam knows. Why don't you ask me face to face?"

Cheng Dutou glared angrily, and said: "She is a new widow, how unbecoming it is you to ask me to see her!" After that, only two servant girls came, also dressed in linen and plain skirts, their eyes were red from crying, and they claimed to be from the madam's room. Yes, you can pass on the message.

Cheng Dutou first asked about Li Weiyong's whereabouts last night, and the servant girl passed on a message: "For a business, we are socializing with shopkeeper He Da in Hangzhou. Who would have thought that this morning..."

She also asked if there were any enemies, especially if she had provoked someone surnamed Xue recently, Madam Li just shook her head and passed on a message: "I don't know, my husband is kind and kind, stays one step ahead in everything, doesn't make enemies with others, and I don't know Xue Hanliang."

Cheng Du saw that there were no clues, so he ordered the servants to protect the scene, and he mounted his steed and galloped away.

Li Weiyong is a wealthy businessman in the capital, specializing in jewelry business, pearls from the South China Sea, amber from southern Yunnan, and even water spirits and sessers from the Western Regions. For anything that can be called a name, you can find high-quality goods from Li Weiyong. The largest jewelry store in Beijing is him. industry.

In order to claim credit, Master Jing Zhaoyin Feng boasted that the case would be solved within five days. He mentioned it casually, but it was hard to break Cheng Dutou. God knows what the "Xue Hanliang" who left his name is!Whether the murderer's real name is Xue Hanliang is another matter.Even if it was true, would he have written his name on his face and stood in the middle of the street waiting to be caught?

Years of experience in solving cases told Cheng Dutou that Xue Hanliang's claim to "do justice for the heavens" was definitely because he had a feud with Li Weiyong.

Cheng Dutou rushed to Li's shop at this time, and was going there to interrogate him. Whether the five days would be long or short, he could only take a gamble.

But two days later, in the early morning, Cheng Dutou sat in front of the lamp all night, and when he was at a loss for what to do about the case, he heard a report from the yamen that Liang Kuan, a wealthy rice businessman in Tongle Street, was killed and his head was hung by his door. In front of it, a line of blood was also left beside it.

Eliminate profiteers, practice the way of heaven, murderer, Xue Hanliang.

"That killer named Xue Hanliang is very popular recently!" In Yan's Mansion in Taipingfang, Ming Shu is standing in front of the rose frame and tending flowers and plants, cutting off unnecessary branches and leaves from time to time. "Scenery.

There are two small benches behind her. Luo Qiyu, who is wearing light yellow trousers, and Du He, who is wearing a strong suit, are sitting on the benches. Surprisingly tacit understanding.

"Du Lang, do you know this person?" Luo Qiyu asked.

Du He raised his eyebrows and said, "Should I know him?"

Luo Qiyu said: "Don't you like to make friends with the rangers in the capital? Have you heard of Xue Hanliang?"

Du He shook his head and said: "It's not that any cat or dog can fall into my eyes, I don't like even...even killers like this!"

Ming Shu couldn't help laughing and said, "It's a serial killer!"

Du He repeatedly said: "Yes, it's a serial killer. Hmph, he still left behind the nonsense of 'eliminating profiteers and practicing the way of heaven' after the murder. In my opinion, this person is not too old, and he always fantasizes that he is saving the world. The peerless hero of all things, dreams of robbing the rich and helping the poor, and fighting injustice, so he did such a naive and cruel thing!"

Mingshu thought to herself, isn't this the so-called severe secondary illness? Seeing that Du He justly reprimanded the legendary Xue Hanliang, she said with a smile, "Do you dare to say that you have never had the idea of ​​doing justice for the sky since you were a child?"

Du He poked his head and said, "Thinking and realizing are two different things. I'm not as extreme as him."

Just as he was talking, he saw the corner door of the garden opened, and it was Qu Mingheng, who was a guest, who was half pulled and half hugged by Wang Anshi, and walked in.Wang Yi has already entrusted a colleague who works in Jinling to bring his son back to him in May. According to this calculation, the remaining time between Wang Anshi and his master and wife is only two months. Suddenly, he remembered Qu Mingheng who had been ignored by him. , I felt very sorry, so I often begged my teacher to bring my younger brother, so that I could play with Mingheng for a while, which was regarded as compensation.

Although Wang Anshi has been playing for a long time, he can't help but feel headaches for Ming Heng, who is only four years old and immature and active, but he still doesn't want to part with him when he thinks of the imminent parting.

"Master, there's a Mr. Cheng in the front yard asking to see Master." Wang Anshi said sternly while pulling away Qu Mingheng who was rubbing his face.

Mingshu looked at the sky, the sun had not set yet.

"Your master hasn't come back yet," she said.

Wang Anshi said: "Mr. Cheng said that he had been to Dali Temple and heard that the master had left, so he went to wait at the mansion."

Everyone in Mingshu looked at me and I looked at you, and they were surprised that this Mr. Cheng moved so quickly, and he arrived here before Yan Ziqin.

"He is in such a hurry, I'm afraid there is something urgent, let him wait for a while, but I don't know who it is and what it is doing." Ming Shu thought.

Du He said: "I'll go and have a look first, don't worry, I won't talk too much, I won't jump up and down to embarrass my benefactor."

But Yan Ziqin believed that the horse had returned home from the rein, and when he got off the horse, he heard Xu An say that there was a visitor at home, and the second young master Du had already gone to greet him. Yan Ziqin thought it was Fan Zhongyan, but when he asked who it was, he said it was a stranger surnamed Cheng.

When he came to the front hall, he saw Du He was gesticulating and discussing martial arts with a middle-aged man who was three points familiar. The two suddenly showed their fists, as if they were about to compete on the spot.

Yan Ziqin coughed lightly in time, and Ming Shu's favorite Ru kiln azure-glazed flower vase was placed on the flat-headed table between the two of them, and it would be dangerous to move his hands.

It was the middle-aged man who recognized Yan Ziqin first—who wouldn't recognize him? At such a young age, it is extremely rare to wear a fourth-grade vermilion official uniform.

So he suddenly bowed his front legs and straightened his back legs, and bowed down in front of Yan Ziqin. As soon as he opened his mouth, his voice was like a bell, "I have seen Lord Yan!"

Yan Ziqin was puzzled and was thinking about who this person was, but he heard him say: "I am a Dutou from Jingzhao Mansion, and the brothers in the yamen call me Cheng Dutou."

So it was so, Yan Ziqin recalled that he had met this person once in Jingzhao Mansion, when Cheng Dutou was busy with other errands, he went back to the yamen by chance and had a face-to-face meeting with him, Yan Ziqin just listened to the yamen servant We chatted, talking about this person is a bit serious, but he is well-known for his work.

Immediately helping Cheng Dutou up, Yan Ziqin said, "What is the reason for Dutou's visit?"

Cheng Du looked ashamed and said, "Master Yan must have heard about the two recent murders that happened in succession - Li Weiyong and Liang Kuan were killed one after another. The methods are exactly the same, and the same handwriting was left on the scene."

Du He added: "Brother Cheng is talking about Xue Hanliang who specializes in killing wealthy businessmen."

Yan Ziqin said: "I have indeed heard about it."

Cheng Dutou said: "Your Excellency must also know that Liang Kuan is not an ordinary merchant. His family members control one-third of the rice and grain business on the Eighteenth Road of the Song Dynasty, and also deliver grain and grass to the officers and soldiers stationed in the north. He is a merchant, and his identity is no less important than a courtier."

Yan Ziqin said: "I also know something about Mr. Liang, you mean..."

Cheng Dutou knelt down again, and said sincerely: "This is a serious matter, I think this is unusual, and there may be a third murder case! I implore Master Yan to assist me in tracking down the real culprit and prevent it from happening!"

(End of this chapter)